In this paper we have presented a novel idea to optimize the performance of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) Codes by using selective encoding and decoding approach. We have also proposed a new simplified form of parity check matrix, h named as beacon matrix which is useful for the efficient implementation of the proposed scheme. The proposed scheme is more suitable for real time applications like voice and video where bandwidth and delay are important considerations. The simulation results validate that bit error rate (BER) performance of LDPC codes is improved significantly by using the proposed scheme.


The ambient PM2.5 particles were sampled synchronously at two sites,Xujiahui (a commercial center in Shanghai) and Lin'an background atmospheric monitoring station (in Zhejiang Province) in April 2008.The microscopic image of the particles were characterized by using of FESEM/EDS, while their chemical elements composition and the valence of zinc in the samples were investigated by using synchrotron radiation fluorescence technique. The average mass concentrations of PM2.5 in Xujiahui and Lin'an were (131.6±65.2), (83.5±22.9)μg/m3, respectively. The Xujiahui PM2.5 was primarily consisted by soots, flying ash and mineral particles, while the Lin'an PM2.5 was mainly composed by irregular shaped fine particles. Mass concentrations of the 19 elements (P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Br, Rb, Sr, Pb) were almost higher in Xujiahui PM2.5 than in Lin'an PM2.5. The result of synchrotron radiation XANES indicated that the valence of zinc was mainly in the form of zinc sulfate at the both sites. Enrichment factor analysis demonstrated all the elements except K, Ca was more enriched in Shanghai PM2.5 than in Lin'an PM2.5.


Objectives: Atrial dysfunction and impaired ventricular filling have been described in patients with right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) dysfunction. While the effect of percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) on ventricular properties has been described, its effect on atrial dimensions and function is less well characterized. We thought to assess left and right atrial volume and function in patients with RVOT dysfunction and to study the impact of PPVI on atrial remodelling.


SUMMARY Based on the marginal likelihood approach, we develop a model selection criterion, MIC, for regression models with the general variance structure. These include weighted regression models, regression models with ARMA errors, growth curve models, and spatial correlation models. We show that MIC is a consistent criterion. For regression models with either constant or non-constant variance, simulation studies indicate that MIC not only provides better model order choices than the asymptotic eecient criteria AIC, AICC, FPE and C p , but is also superior to the consistent criteria BIC and FIC in both small and large sample sizes. These results also hold for regression models with AR(1) errors, except that BIC performs slightly better than MIC in the large sample size case. Finally, Monte Carlo studies show that the eeectiveness of model selection criteria decreases as the degree of heterogeneity (or the rst order autocorrelation) increases.


The HBO television series Random Acts of Flyness (2018) created, written and directed by Terence Nance along with a collective of young black filmmakers reconfigures tropes of the variety sketch comedy genre to critique dominant representations of blackness. This article examines how Nance and his team adopt novel and creative approaches to decentring the white gaze in order to hone in on the nuances and multi-faceted nature of blackness, thus challenging essentialist notions of fixed identities. I argue the show's anti-essentialist approach can be understood through what José Muñoz (1999) conceptualizes as a performed disidentification on screen. In particular, Random Acts works on, with, and against the hegemonic representational economies and discourses of corporate media as a creative tactic of disidentifying with racist forms of misrecognition such as blackface minstrelsy as well as received ideas about heteronormative black masculinity and gender. Finally, I examine how the show employs intersectional politics and a black counter-gaze to challenge neoliberal and co-opted models of diversity within the television industry that fail to seriously engage with the subjugated knowledges and lived experiences of racialized groups.


Regulators in many countries are currently considering ways to impose domestic systemic importance-based capital requirements on banks. Aiming to assist these considerations, this article discusses a number of issues concerning the calculation of a bank's systemic importance to the domestic banking sector, such as the choice of indicators used and the pros and cons of focusing on an individual or consolidated level. Also, the "equal expected impact" procedure for determining adequate additional capital requirements is presented in detail and some of its properties are discussed. As an illustrative example of the practical use of the procedures presented, systemic importance scores and implied capital buffers are calculated for banks in the Czech Republic. The article also stresses the crucial role of public communication of the motivation for the buffers: regulators should make every effort to explain that the imposition of a non-zero systemic importance-based capital buffer on a bank is not to be interpreted by the markets as a signal that the bank is too big to fail and would therefore be guaranteed a public bail-out if it got into difficulties


This final theses deals with the issue of truancy of high school students. The theoretical part describes physical, psychical and social factors influencing the period of adolescence; defines the term adolescence, characterizes truancy itself and tries to describe assumptions and factors that may have an impact on truancy. In addition, the theoretical part deals with legislation regarding truancy and outlines the possible prevention of it. The research part is focused on the evaluation of research questions and testing of hypotheses. An established questionnaire was chosen as the research method. This part of the theses presents, compares and evaluates data obtained during the research on students of a grammar school and a nursing school.


Recent unprecedented advances in digital technologies and their concomitant affordances in education seem to be a great opportunity to adequately address burgeoning demand for high quality higher education (HE) and the changing educational preferences. It is increasingly being recognised that using new technology effectively in HE is essential to prepare students for its increasing demand. E-learning is an integral component of the University of Botswana's teaching and learning culture, however, teachers who are from a traditional educational system are often ill-prepared to change their role from the all-knowing "sage on the stage†who operated under the "transmission†model, to the "guide on the side†which adopts new technologies effectively for student learning. Therefore, this paper argues that one of the ways to achieve substantial pedagogical innovations is to bring a significant change in the understanding of the processes of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). This paper explores new directions for conducting scholarly activities at the University of Botswana (UB) to address the needs of today's students, concluding with a call for a collaborative approach to teaching, research, and publishing to enhance student learning experience in diversified and socially rich collaborative learning contexts.


Ever-changing spatial divisions of labour have led to an altered integration of many developing countries into global production networks (GPNs), leading to new spaces of territorial development in these countries. Against this background, this paper examines the role of local institutional actors in co-shaping territorial development driven by global industrial relocation. Drawing on the case of Bekasi District, Indonesia, this paper nuances the notion of 'strategic coupling' in specific national and local settings of developing countries. Drawing on empirical material obtained through a series of in-depth interviews conducted between 2012 and 2016, our analysis reveals that although local institutional actors have participated in Bekasi District's territorial development processes they sometimes exhibit a hesitant and less-than-creative attitude in this participation. Meanwhile, non-local actors, most notably private developers and central government agencies, tend to have a more significant leverage in these development processes at the local level, suggesting complex institutional arrangements in tying Bekasi District's assets with GPNs.


Adult morphology, seedling morphology and leaf volatile oil composition are described for a peppermint eucalypt (Eucalyptus aff. willisin restricted to the Grampians, Victoria. Populations were compared with E. willisii collected from Mt Richmond and Wilson's Promontory and the ash, E. pauciflora, collected from the Grampians. Three data sets were independently analysed by using multivariate classification and ordination techniques in order to test the hypothesis that introgression has occurred between E. willisii and E. pauciflora in the Grampians. The hypothesis of introgression was not supported. The Grampians peppermint is a uniform and distinct entity which is not overall intermediate between E. willisii and E. pauciflora. It is typified by large obconical fruit; adult leaves with low oil gland density and a distinctive leaf volatile oil composition; and seedlings which display early intranode development, petiole formation and twisting, and leaves with tapering bases. The Grampians peppermint has probably evolved from a small founder population of E. willisii (or a common ancestor) that has diverged in isolation. The presence of a few 'ash' characters in the Grampians peppermint is here considered to be due to convergent evolution, in the direction of E. pauciflora. The Grampians peppermint is described as a new subspecies.


According to the operation of automotive supply chain and the features of various simulation methods, we create and simulate a automotive supply chain network model with the core enterprise of two vehicle manufacturers, consisting of several parts suppliers, vehicle distributors and logistics service providers. On this basis of a conceptual model including the establishment of enterprise layer, business layer and operation layer, we establish a detailed model of the network system according to the network structure of automotive supply chain, the operation process and the internal business process of core enterprises; then we use System Dynamics (SD), Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and Agent Based Modeling (ABM) to describe the operating state of each node in the network model. We execute and analyze the simulation model of the whole network system described by Anylogic, using the results of the distributors' inventory, inventory cost and customer's satisfaction to prove the effectiveness of the model


Let $X_1,\dots,X_\ell$ be degenerate subvarieties of $\mathbb{P}^n$ contained in generic linear subspaces of dimensions $h_1,\dots,h_\ell$, and set $N=(h_1+1)\cdots(h_\ell+1)-1$. When $n\geq N$ we prove that the Hadamard product $X_1\star\cdots\star X_\ell$ and the product variety $X_1\times\cdots\times X_\ell$ are projectively equivalent as subvarieties of $\mathbb{P}^n$. In particular, we determine the dimension, the degree and the Hilbert function of $X_1\star\cdots\star X_\ell$ in terms of the same invariants of $X_1,\dots,X_\ell$. Moreover, if the varieties $X_i$ are smooth, their Hadamard product is smooth too. When $n< N$ we restrict our attention to generic parameterized varieties. We show that the dimension and the degree formulas still hold, even if the Hilbert function is no longer the product of the Hilbert functions. In this case the Hadamard product may be singular even if the varieties $X_i$ are smooth: we give numerical conditions both for smoothness and for the existence of singular points.


The invention relates to a moldavica dragonhead extract, a moldavica dragonhead dropping pill and a production method thereof, wherein, the moldavica dragonhead extract contains higher total flavonoids and luteolin and the production method of the moldavica dragonhead extract is simply operated. Pharmacodynamics test result indicates that the moldavica dragonhead dropping pill acquired from the invention has excellent curative effect to rat ischemia myocardial injury; each dose group of the moldavica dragonhead dropping pill has varying degrees of protection; Composite salviae dropping pill has similar effect with the middle-dose group of moldavica dragonhead dropping pill; all dose groups of the moldavica dragonhead dropping pill have better curative effect than Yixing Badiranjibuya Keli at ischemia myocardial; dosages of middle-dose group of moldavica dragonhead dropping pill and low-dose group of moldavica dragonhead dropping pill are only 50 percent and 25 percent of the dosage of Yixing Badiranjibuya Keli respectively, thereby greatly improving the compliance of sufferers. The moldavica dragonhead dropping pill acquired from the invention is a novel preparation of convenient use and good compliance, thus bringing into play better clinical curative effect of the moldavica dragonhead, an age-old Uighur medicinal material. The production method of the moldavica dragonhead dropping pill can be carried out easily.


In the process of using optical phase conjugation to compensate for the aberration of laser propagation in the atmosphere, the method of active beacon light is used in the case of uncooperative target. Based on the analysts of the close loop process of laser propagation, it is demonstrated that the reflective area of target can be larger than a point in the case of a distant moving target. The effectiveness of this method has been proved by experiment.


The deliverables of this assignment are your EA implementation with separate user manual in .ZIP or tar ball format and an accompanying report in PDF or Word format. The user manual should specify how to compile, execute and configure your EA. This is an individual assignment. You must implement your EA from scratch in a procedural programming language of your choice. You are free to use libraries/toolboxes/etc, except EA specific ones such as Matlab's EA toolbox, C++/Java EA libraries, etc. Your report must be written and typeset in a professional manner (LTEX is recommended but not required). The deadline for submitting via Blackboard your implementation with user manual to be graded is Friday 24 October 2008, and report to be graded is Sunday 2 November 2008.


This work presents an extension to the existing multilingualization work (ml7n) which allows people to collaborate on Squeak Etoy projects across different natural languages. Squeak etoys support several languages, both ISO-Latin based ones (erg., English, German, French), and nonISO languages (e.g., Japanese). Switching between languages for the Etoy tiles is fairly easy to support as the tiles provide a predefined set of words and phrases, which only need to be translated once. There are two areas where we need to go beyond the predefined and pretranslated set of phrases: user supplied names and communication between collaborators. This work presents an approach based on online translation services. We demonstrate a working prototype and a first analysis of the feasibility of this approach.


In this paper we describe our work on the formulation of a document-oriented paradigm for improving the construction and maintenance of content-intensive applications (i.e. applications that make intensive use of the information provided by the experts in a given domain: the contents). According to this paradigm, the development of a content-intensive application must be the result of close collaboration between two kinds of actors: domain experts and developers. The goal of this collaboration is the authoring of (i) a set of documents describing the most relevant aspects of the application (i.e. the contents and other relevant customizable features); (ii) a grammar describing a domain-specific markup language that will be used to make the structure and the data in these documents explicit and (iii) a suitable processor for this language. The final running application will be automatically produced by processing the marked documents with this processor. The use of this paradigm in the development of content-intensive applications can increase the initial cost of application production, but in the long run it can substantially improve maintenance and portability, and promote information and software reuse as well. We have successfully applied this paradigm to the development of educational and hypermedia applications, and knowledge-based systems. From these experiences, we have found that the feasibility of the paradigm depends to a great extent on having mechanisms that enable the incremental definition of the markup languages and the incremental construction of their processors. This has led us to the formulation of a document-oriented approach for the development of content-intensive applications tightly coupled with these principles of incremental formulation and operationalization of domain-specific markup languages.


The clinical pathology of various human malignancies is supported by tropomyosin receptor kinase (Trk) B TrkB which is a specific binding receptor of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).TrkB and TrkB fusion proteins have been observed to be over-expressed in many cancer patients. Moreover, they were observed in multiple types of cells. A few signaling pathways can be modulated by the abnormal activation of the BDNF/TrkB pathway. These signaling pathways in-clude PI3K/Akt pathway, transactivation of EGFR, phospholipase C-gamma(PLCγ) pathway, Ras-Raf-MEK-ERK path-way, Jak/STAT pathway, and nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-kB) pathway.The BDNF/TrkB pathway, when over expressed in tumors, is correlated with reduced clinical prognosis and short survival time of patients. Targeting the BDNF/TrkB pathway and the use of Trk inhibitors, such as entrectinib, larotrectinib., are promising methods for targeted therapy of tumors. The present review provides an overview of the role of the TrkB pathway in the pathogenesis of cancer and its value as a potential therapeutic target.


Recently, highly shear-thinning gas injection for materials in dredging pipeline is generally used for head loss reduction. However the rationalistic efficiency prospect is not clear yet. In this paper, we selected a model for gas-liquid slug flow and theoretical expressions by the visualization in a dredging pipe.


Telemarketing is an interactive direct marketing system in which telemarketers encourage customers to leverage the resources by notifying, imparting knowledge of online products, latest business offers via direct interaction or through a telephone call. In the contemporary global pandemic spell telemarketing has become dominant backbone to increase the online banking business to withstand for the reducing retail business. It has gained prominance in the banking and financial sector with the enormous adoption and availability of cellular connections amongst customers. The contemporary work has scrutinized conventional classification as well as data mining methods have a problem of ill-fitting with multiple features and are prone to data leakage during re-training of the machine learning model. A local Indian bank were designated, contemplating the current economic slowdown and crisis. A discussion on three machine learning (ML) models is performed along with the Hybrid ML model, Logistic Regression ML model (LR), Naive Bayes ML model (NB), Decision Trees ML model (DTs). The three ML models were tested and analysed with proposed Hybrid ML model on an evaluation set, the data is partitioned as training, validation and test set. The hybrid model first identifies important features of subscribed customers and predicts response for a potential customer, both existing and new who will eventually subscribe again through the direct marketing campaign. The hybrid model is trained to predict the response of new customer who will subscribe to the product or service offered via a direct marketing campaign through transfer learning. The hybrid model API shows new customer response on the front-end screen. To overcome the problem of ill-fitting and data leakage, the model is trained on a large dataset and tuned on a validation set. The proposed hybrid machine learning technique presented the best results (Accuracy 98.69%). Python language is used to develop the model. Financial institutions and organizations can use the hybrid model for predictions of product direct marketing response with customer transaction information.


A Ga x In1−x P/Ga0.51In0.49P multiple‐quantum‐wire heterostructure was formed in situ through a strain induced lateral layer ordering process occurring spontaneously when (GaP)2/(InP)2 short period superlattices were grown on (100)‐oriented on‐axis GaAs substrates. Cross‐sectional transmission electron microscopy estimated average quantum wire cross sections of ∼50 A×100 A leading to a high linear density of ∼100 wires/μm. The existence of the multiple‐quantum wires is also supported by the strong anisotropy for two orthogonal polarizations in polarized photoluminescence measurements.


Background: Depression is a prevalent mood condition that has an impact on daily functioning. Globally, depression affects 264 million people. The current pharmacotherapy of depression has a lot of shortcomings. Therefore, there is a need to explore newer therapy that alleviate the symptoms of depression. Metformin was found to possess antioxidant potential and hypothesized to decrease the levels of branched-chain amino-acids essential for tryptophan uptake (precursor for serotonin synthesis). The study was designed to validate the efficacy of metformin as an anti-depressant in conditioned defeat model in male golden Syrian hamsters using open field test (OFT), forced swim test (FST) and Serum serotonin levels.
Methods: After obtaining IAEC approval, the study was carried out using eight golden Syrian hamsters that were randomly assigned to four groups. The disease control group received 1mL normal saline, positive control was given fluoxetine 12 mg/kg, two groups of metformin 240 mg/kg given pre-insult and post-insult. The variables assessed on every third day included OFT and FST. Following the behavioral tests, serotonin-ELISA was done. To analyse the outcomes, appropriate statistical tests were applied.
Results: On standardization, the model was established to a 16-day model. Further, results highlighted a significant difference in OFT, FST and serotonin levels with the metformin group and fluoxetine compared to disease control (p<0.001). However, no significant difference was observed between the fluoxetine and metformin groups (p>0.05), signifying the comparable results.
Conclusions: Metformin (240 mg/kg) alleviated the depressive symptoms by modulating both behavioral and serotonin levels.


Continuous remote-sensing monitoring of sand in desert areas and the exploration of the spatio–temporal evolution characteristics of soil–wind erosion has an important scientific value for desertification prevention and ecological restoration. In this study, the Kubuqi Desert was selected as the study area, and the Landsat series satellite remote sensing data, supplemented by satellite remote sensing data such as GE images, SPOT-5, ZY-3, GF-1/2/6, etc., integrated object-oriented, decision tree, and auxiliary human–computer interaction interpretation methods, developed the Kubuqi Desert area dataset from 1990 to 2020, and established a soil erosion intensity database of the past 30 years based on the soil–wind erosion correction equation. The results show that the application of the training samples obtained by a high-score collaborative ground sampling to land use/cover classification in desert areas can effectively improve the efficiency of remote-sensing mapping of sand changes and the accuracy of change information identification, and the overall accuracy of the classification results is 95%. In general, the sandy area of the Kubuqi Desert area has decreased year by year, during which the mobile sand in the hinterland of the desert has expanded in a scattered distribution. The overall soil–wind erosion intensity showed a downward trend, especially since 2000; the ecological improvement trend after the implementation of desertification control projects is obvious. Changes in the sand type contributed the most to the reduction of soil–wind erosion intensity (contribution 81.14%), ecological restoration played a key role in reducing the soil–wind erosion intensity (contribution 14.42%), and the increase of forest and grass vegetation covers and agricultural oases played a positive role in solidifying the soil- and wind-proof sand fixation. The pattern of sandy land changes in desert areas is closely related to the national ecological civilization construction policy and the impact of climate change.


Most real-time MPEG-like encoders are designed to perform in a constant bit rate (CBR) mode, in which large deviations from a target rate are avoided at any time instant because of video buffer rules set at the decoder. A rate-control method at the encoder ensures that by intelligent selection of encoding parameters, the video buffer constraints are met, while at the same time a best possible video quality is achieved. Almost all reported rate-control methods model the rate and distortion in terms of the quantization step size. A recently suggested alternative is to use /spl rho/, the fraction of zeros among the quantized DCT coefficients (He, Z. and Mitra, S.K., IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.12, no.11, 2002). We address the problems associated with the /spl rho/-domain rate-control approaches in the literature. In addition, we propose a robust MPEG-2 rate-control algorithm that aims to minimize picture quality variations. Our extensive analysis with several video sequences and using the MPEG-2 codec indicates that the proposed algorithm can achieve a more uniform visual quality, and provides a PSNR gain that ranges from 0.5 dB at 2 Mbps to 0.9 dB at 6 Mbps over TM5 on the average.


Aims. The three-dimensional acceleration vector of the solar system barycenter was estimated from VLBI delay observations. We also provide a first physical explanation for this acceleration vector. Methods. Two methods for the acceleration estimation were developed in the analysis of the global astrometric/geodetic VLBI observations. One is to take the solar acceleration vector as a global parameter that is to be directly estimated. The second method is to obtain the acceleration by fitting the solar velocity variation time series produced from the VLBI data analysis. Results. The results of these two methods are consistent with each other within their uncertainties. The acceleration vector derived from the first method is (7.47 ± 0.46, 0.17 ± 0.57, 3.95 ± 0.47) mm s −1 yr −1 in the Galactic Cartesian coordinate system. Conclusions. The Galactocentric component of the solar acceleration we obtained agrees well with the predicted value from the rotation movement of the Sun and has a high accuracy. The detected strong vertical component perpendicular to the Galactic plane may be important for the research of the Milky Way.


This research was conducted with the aim of knowing and analyzing what could affect the loyalty of Shopee e-commerce users. With several variables contained in this study, namely, website quality, service quality, user satisfaction and loyalty. In this study, there is a population namely Shopee e-commerce users and customers. And sampled a number of 100 respondents who use and subscribe to Shopee e-commerce. In taking a sample in this study using a probability model sampling technique or random sampling. This technique is a sample return technique where each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected as a semple member. After processing the data with SPSS 20, this research shows that website quality and service quality have a positive effect on user satisfaction, and user satisfaction has a positive effect on loyalty. The results of these calculations show that the sig value is positive, therefore all variables are accepted because they have a positive influence.

Keywords : website quality, service quality, user satisfaction, loyalty


This paper investigates the notion of occupation as dynamic physical and multisensory relationships within architectural environments. Our study specifically focuses on the construction of myriad relationships between physical, visual and auditory articulations of space, and how these shape human activities and interactions. By drawing on literature from the areas of visual and acoustic ecology (Gibson, Truax, Schafer) we seek to frame the notion of human occupation as temporal interrelations between acoustic arenas, soundmarks, and sonic events, as well as their visual equivalents. Additionally, we use Brian Massumi's discussion of synaesthetic fusion, movement and sensation as a philosophical tool for interrogating these interrelations. For the design project we have nominated a site within RMIT University's city campus in Melbourne, Australia. The applied research methods include the auditory and visual capture of environmental data via video, still photography and stereo recording techniques. We subsequently produce a series of sound and video compositions, constructing new spatiotemporal and sensory relations from the material captured within Bowen Street. This approach serves as a technique for initiating a qualitative design proposition for the site that shifts modes of occupation through visual and auditory interventions. The paper concludes with speculations about the significance of interrelations
between visual and auditory spaces in designing environments for human occupation.


We review electron and complementary microscopical studies of nuclear tracks in solids (NTS) such as minerals, glasses, and polymers. Nuclear tracks were observed by electron (diffraction) contrast (TEM), using thickness contrast and C replica (TEM) and by light microscopy. A video image analysis system was used for an international intercomparison collaboration (1997/98). SEM application started a new field, trackology, for track etched membrane filters (TEMF). Today SPM (STM, AFM) provides super resolution of NTS. CLSM with optical slices provided 3D information of tracks. Scanning acoustic microscopy may also be used to image tracks. We introduce a soft X-ray radiography (SXR) method using a plasma focus device (PFD) constructed in the Institute of Physics. We show that the PFD can be used as a source of SX in microscopy (SXM). The nature of NTS detectors and their processing is the same for both detectors (photoresists or particle resists) of SXR and SXM.


Purpose: The purpose of this study was to define cost-countable perioperative nursing activities and to analyze the cost of each nursing activities based on the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS). Method: Researcher and 3 research assistants observed and documented the 83 operating patients...


State-based testing, a technique used for the validation of object-oriented programs with emphasis on the interaction between the features and the object's state, is described. Because of the nature of the technique, the random order in which features can be invoked is taken into account. The technique is complementary to other functional and structural approaches to validation. A suite of tools to support the state-based testing of object-oriented programs is also outlined. The adaptation of traditional validation techniques to the object-oriented programming model is also discussed.<<ETX>>


A flat car-roof antenna module for LTE, GPS and SDARS applications is proposed. The module consists of a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA), a square loop one and a circular loop one, for the LTE, GPS and SDARS operations, respectively. The three antennas are located in a same plane parallel to car roof and put close to each other so that the dimension of the module is only 70 × 70 mm2 in plane. Gap between the antenna plane and the car roof is only 20 mm. This low profile makes the module almost invisible when it is installed on a car roof.


Central banks currently perform inflation expectation surveys in order to better align their inflation expectations with that of the general public. However, surveys are time-consuming, complicated, expensive and not always accurate, thus compromising the credibility of these expectations. The complexity of inflation targeting and the difficulty of forecasting in real time can also cause policymakers to consider more basic models, which can lead to inexact forecasts. This article employs less complicated models, such as the seasonally adjusted autoregressive integrated moving average and Holt-Winters exponential smoothing models, to provide equally reliable forecasts. A more complex approach in the form of a non-linear autoregressive neural network process was also employed to model the strategic and rational manner in which the general public formulates their expectations. Overall, the forecast estimates provided by these models were superior when compared with the inflation expectations provided by the International Monetary Fund, South African Reserve Bank and Bureau for Economic Research.


Several bacteria such as Flavobacterium , Serratias , Chromobacterium and Streptomyces that produce different pigments are playing a significant role in various fields of sciences. Alternatively, current knowledge about bacterial pigments is limited to medical bacteriology, for instance their importance in virulence factors and protective features, however recently the investigators have revealed the supplementary consequence of pigments in food, textile and pharmaceutical aspects.


Food allergy is recognized as a common worldwide problem, and, like other atopic disorders, its incidence seems to increase. In the past years, investigations of allergic food proteins and related immunological responses have moved to the molecular level, and the newly-found knowledge might provide novel experimental strategies for the laboratory diagnosis and the immuno-modulatory control of food-induced allergic reactions. Approximately 20% of the population alters their diet for a perceived adverse reaction to food, but the application of double-blind placebo-controlled oral food challenge, the "gold standard" for diagnosis of food allergy, shows that questionnaire-based studies overestimate the prevalence of food allergies. The clinical disorders determined by adverse reactions to food can be classified on the basis of immunologic or no immunologic mechanisms and the organ system or systems affected. The true prevalence of food allergy is lower and seems to range from 1% to 4% of the general population and about 6% of the general population and about 6% of the paediatric population, but does occur in as much as 25% of children with eczema. Allergic hypersensitivity simply put, is an adverse immune reaction to a protein (or allergen) in our environment, which is normally harmless to the non-allergic person. It may present as mild itching of the skin, tissue swelling and wheezing or even progress to full-blown anaphylaxis and death.


The perylene diimide (PDI) chromophore is a classic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon that has been widely used in the field of organic electronics. A combination of strong visible light absorption and low-lying frontier molecular orbital (FMO) energy levels make PDI useful as a photoactive electron transporting material in organic solar cells. Indeed, PDI based molecules and polymers have been studied as so-called non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) for over 30 years. Recent advances in materials design has enabled solution processed organic solar cell devices based on PDI materials to reach power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) upwards of 12%. This perspective highlights recent PDI design strategies developed to enable such highly performing devices and covers recent work on N-annulated PDIs, which have the potential to deliver roll-to-roll compatible processed solar cells with high operating voltages.


A method of analysis of inverse gas chromatography (IGC) measurements on copolymers to calculate segmental interaction parameters was proposed. Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA), poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc), and dotriacontane (C32) were studied at 120°C with eight different probes of varying polarities by IGC. The value of the segmental interaction parameter between ethylene units and vinyl acetate units in EVA was found to be 1.18, which is consistent with the literature values. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 71: 693–698, 1999


This paper deals with the implementation of account ing information system in a Small Medium Enterprise s (SME) herb medicine manufacture from Indonesia. The manufacture is facing problems in system process costing, lack of supervision on inventory of raw ma terial and finished goods. For the analysis and des ign of accounting information system is done with Object-O riented Analysis and Design (OOAD) drawn using Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation and for th e cost calculation using weighted average method. Implementation accounting information system can he lp the company to do every activity of daily proces s costing and assist management in decision making.


Mastitis is an inflammatory disease of mammary gland, caused by bacterial intramammary infection. It accounts for huge economic loss to dairy industry. Detection of major pathogens in the udder during inflammation would help in saving the animal from clinical mastitis there by avoiding permanent damage to the udder. Hence there is a requirement for rapid, sensitive and specific detection of the pathogens causing mastitis at early stage of infection. Keeping this in mind we have standardized genus specific multiplex PCR to detect major pathogens i.e. Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus spp. and Escherichia coli directly from milk samples. Method of DNA extraction directly from milk was standardized and milk from suspected cases and from the animals apparently looked healthy was subjected for the test. Genus specific primers were designed for these three genera involved in mastitis and tested in multiplex PCR using total DNA isolated from milk. To account for efficiency of the DNA isolation method, we have included primers for one of the exon of the Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) gene as internal control. The sensitivity and specificity of the test was evaluated using standard cultures. The test was compared with the conventional method of isolation and found to have positive correlation. Of the total 147 samples tested 111 found to be positive for the presence of these pathogens. In our studies the test could detect the presence of a pathogen up to 1x10 5 1x10 7 CFU depending on the genus. Therefore the test may be considered as a rapid and efficient for diagnosis of bovine mastitis at subclinical level. The multiplex PCR test has several advantages like, avoids cumbersome and lengthy culturing steps, rapid, sensitive and specific and hence reliable for the detection of major pathogens causing bovine mastitis directly from milk. The results suggest that the assay could be used as an alternative method for routine detection of S. aureus, Streptococcus spp. and E. coli in milk samples in suspected cases of mastitis at subclinical level before taking up antibiotic therapy.


In the near future, many distributed power systems will be connected to the utility line in the local area, the demand of the control accuracy to the utility interactive inverter will also become strict more than the present ability. The utility interactive inverter required FRT capability in the case of utility voltage fluctuation. Deadbeat control and PLL control with quasi dq transformation based on a 1MHz sampling were applied to the utility interactive inverter using FPGA based hardware controller. The FRT characteristics were verified through simulations and experiments. The superior characteristics of the proposed method was verified. The FPGA based hardware controller for the 100kHz career PWM inverter was designed and evaluated with experiments.


Objective
To clone and efficiently express E6E7 proteins of human papilloma virus HPV33 in E. coli. The recombinant proteins were purified and immunized to mice, and polyclonal antibodies were purified.

Methods
E6 and E7 genes of HPV33 were amplified by PCR using HPV33 human papilloma virus as template, and were sub-cloned into pET28a and pCDNA3.1 / His C vectors. The recombinant plasmids pET28a-HPV33 E6 and pET28a-HPV33 E7 were transformed into Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) strain.We purified the recombinant proteins and immunized mice for preparing antibodies, and the polyclonal antibodies were purified. Moreover the plasmids pCDNA3.1 / His C-HPV33 E6 and pCDNA3.1 / His C-HPV33 E7 were transfected into 293 cells.The cells were used in immunofluorescence and Western-Blot to detect antibody specificity.

Results
The recombinant proteins were successfully obtained, and the polyclonal antibody was prepared, which had good specificity.

Conclusion
The recombinant proteins and antibodies may be used in the clinical detection and pathogenesis research of HPV33 type human papilloma disease.

Key words:
Cervix neoplasms; Human papillomavirus type 33(HPV33); E6, E7 proteins; Polyclonal antibody


On the frame 6 of a pneumatic seeder in each case at least one double disc coulter 7, 8 and a depth control wheel 9 is arranged. This depth guide roller 9 is viewed in the direction of travel between the two disc coulters 7, 8, wherein the two disc coulters 7, 8 and 9, the depth guide roller to exert a rotational movement in the same direction.


The number of files is subject to the Family Welfare Visitors (FWV) initiative. None of the files are used for employee evaluation. The official correspondence file is maintained at each Subcenter clinic. The field program file or working program keeps information on bi-weekly programs and are found at each subcenter clinic. At the Matlab Station the immunization file is kept and at the Subcenter Clinic this information may be recorded in a special register. Other files at the Subcenter Clinics are: the consent file; the family planning clinical record file; the diarrhea surveillance file; the referral file; the training program file; the administrative leave file; the instrument and furniture file; the attendance of boatman file; and the division of the working unit file. The referral file contains completed referral forms by the CHWs and are found at each Subcenter Clinic. The training program file includes a list of programs given to CHWs during their bi-weekly meetings and is prepared once a year. The administrative leave file contains written leave requests by CHWs. The file on division of the working unit contains information recorded under the name of each CHW.


The aim of this study was the assessment of the microbial marine water quality in bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) farm. Microbial parameters (heterotrophic bacteria, Vibrio, coliforms, Escherichia coli and enterococci) were examined during normal and reduced feeding regimes. The major impact of tuna farm activity on marine water quality identified in this study was the enrichment of faecal bacteria in water column during tuna fattening (total coliforms: 20-17, 153 CFU/100 mL ; E. coli: 9-531 CFU/100 mL ; enterococci: 10-312 CFU/100 mL), whereas the bacterial concentrations significantly decreased during reduced feeding (total coliforms: 10-327 CFU/100 mL ; E. coli: 10-69 CFU/100 mL ; enterococci: 1-2.6 CFU/100 mL). Faecal water contamination was probably a direct consequence of abundant nutrition with fresh and defrosted fishes, which resulted in an overload of fish debris in the marine water on the farm, and attracted colonies of seagulls. The results gathered during this study revealed the presence of environmental problems associated with tuna aquaculture and pointed to necessity for development of sustainable approaches to deal with these problems.


In the framework of the popular internal shock model, paired forward and reverse shocks are generated simultaneously by collisions among relativistic shells. If the Lorentz factors of these two types of shocks are very different, the synchrotron emissions produced by them could peak at two different energy bands. We show that such a two‐component synchrotron scenario can account for the prompt optical and MeV γ‐ray emissions of GRB 080319B. The same dynamical origin of the forward and reverse shocks is consistent with the temporal coincidence between the prompt γ‐ray and optical emission components.


Introduction to the review of psychiatry series. Foreword. Current issues in nicotine dependence and treatment. Alcohol dependence: women, biology and pharmacotherapy. Opiate dependence and current treatments. Substance abuse and HIV diseases: entwined and intimate entities. Contemporary issues in dual diagnosis. Afterword.


According to the ISO-IEC 9126-1 standard [5], interoperability is a software functionality sub-characteristic defined as "the capability of the software product to interact with one or more specified systems". In order to interact with other systems a DLBS must conform to the standard input formats and must be able to perform standard inference services. In our setting, the standard input format is the OWL 2 language. We evaluate the standard inference services:


Due to the successful implementation of intelligent data-driven approaches, these methods are gaining remarkable attention in predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) problems. Within this scope, transfer learning approaches are exploited to transfer the obtained knowledge from the source domain data to the target domain data. Due to the different working regimes and operating conditions, there exists a discrepancy between the data distribution of source and target domain datasets. Domain adaptation techniques are deployed to tackle the data distribution discrepancy. In most prognostic problems, it is assumed that the complete life-cycle run-to-failure information for the target domain dataset is available. However, in real-practical scenarios, providing complete life-cycle data is not straightforward. To solve this issue, this article proposed a transfer learning approach for RUL prediction using a consistency-based regularization. In the proposed deep learning framework, a consistency-based regularization term is added to the objective function to remove the negative effect of missing information in the incomplete target domain dataset. In order to further validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a comprehensive experimental analysis has been done on two different aerospace and bearing datasets.


The direct acquisition algorithm of GPS P-code under low-SNR and large Doppler frequency is studied and analyzed in this paper. Direct average method, matched filtering method and partial correlated method based on FFT are all simulated and compared with each other according to the performance and realization of the acquisition. Through the contrast we can see that, partial correlated method based on FFT transform 2-D to 1-D. It has the ability of anti-noise and faster acquisition time, so more suitable for engineering.


Research track.- Identity and Access Management for Remote Maintenance Services in Business Networks.- Elderly People and Emerging Threats of the Internet and New Media.- Biometric access control for athletic events.- An Analysis of Plug and Play Business Software.- Application of Electronic Currency on the Online Payment System like PayPal.- Architecture of an ERP System Supporting Project-Oriented Management.- Inter-organizational information systems in cooperative inter-organizational relationships: Study of the factors influencing to success.- The Management of Financial Supply Chains: From Adversarial to Co-operative Strategies.- Initiating e-Participation Through a Knowledge Working Network.- Understanding the B2B E-Market in China.- Personalization Beyond Recommender Systems.- Multidisciplinary models and guidelines for eProcurement projects: the eReadiness phase.- The Adoption of RFID-based Self-Check-Out-Systems at the Point-of-Sale.- Application of Text Mining into Auto Answering System and Improvement of Mining Performance.- Who should take care of the personalization?.- Methodology for IT Governance Assessment and Design.- The E-Government: A Jigsaw View.- TAM Derived Construct of Perceived Customer Value and Online Purchase Behavior: An Empirical Exploration.- P2P Users: Important dimensions for changing to legal online music stores.- Users' Benefit and Provider's Revenue of Content Delivery Services with Priority Control.- Business Model Scenarios for Remote Management.- Electronic Activity Interchange EAI - a new way of B2B cooperation.- Modelling Value-based Inter-Organizational Controls in Healthcare Regulations.- Extending Traditional Wiki Systems with Geographical Content.- Integrated Search Based on Image Contents.- An Empirical Study on Business-to- Government Data Exchange Strategies to Reduce the Administrative Costs for Businesses.- Internet Services for the underprivileged.- Combining Critical Success Factors and Life Cycle Model to Enable Evaluation of e-business models.- A Secure e-Ordering Web Service.- "Liquid" Electronic Marketplaces.- Rethinking e-Government Research: The 'ideology-artefact complex'.- Looking into the future: scenarios for e-government in 2020.- Analyzing Strategic Gaps of Digital Divide Projects Based on the Balanced Scorecard.- Development of the GEA within the G-to-G system of the Iranian e-government: Views, experiences, and visions.- Industrial and administration track.- Some critical factors in Local e-Government: the case of Lombardy.


Objective To observe the influence of velocity on isokinetic eccentric torque of hamstrings and quadriceps.Method20normal males were tested by BIODEX is okinetic test and their peak torque(PT),peak torque to body weight (PT /BW)and F /E value were analyzed.Results It was found that PT and PT /BW were obviously influenced by velocity but th ere is no significant influence on F /E value.Conclusion Velocity must be considered during i sokinetic eccentric test.


PURPOSE: A method and a device for lighting a high voltage discharge lamp, a high voltage discharge lamp device, and a projection image display device are provided to shorten light rise time without causing damage to electrodes. CONSTITUTION: A method comprises a first step of supplying a lamp current larger than a predetermined current value, in the entire or partial first lighting section from a lighting start to a lamp voltage for starting continuous formation of arc spot in at least one electrode of a high discharge lamp; a second step of supplying a lamp current lower than the predetermined current value, in the entire of partial second lighting section, until conversion to the constant power control after elapse of the first lighting section.


Dental hypersensitivity is a common problem, which is important as it is pathology that most people have it. (Cummins, 2010, p. 22, parr. 2). It comes "clinically as a tooth exaggerated painful reaction to a sensory stimulus harmless". (Spanish Society of Periodontology and Osseointegration, 2009, p. 64) The selection of an appropriate treatment is based on the magnitude and duration of the desensitizing effect. By which it has studied the properties of Bifluorid 12 as an effective treatment that disrupts the neurological pulp response by tubular occlusion thereby helping the patients with dental hypersensitivity. (Brahmbhatt et. al., 2011)...


There is a problem of repeated development in China' Hi-tech Industry Development Areas (HIDAs) because of local government's support and the rent-seek phenomenon in the market.Through the development of market competition and resource sharingmechanism,China' HIDAs can avoid blind competition and resource waste in its development process,form a positive profit relation,and make centralized effect come into being.After the first stage of industry centralization process is finished in China' HIDAs,local governmentshould reduce its preferential supportto HIDAs' special industries,and transferthe rightof allocatingcontrolled resources to research institution and research people.


In Bangladesh, over 500 000 treadle pumps are in operation. Cleverly designed and cheap to make, this technology has proved a marketing triumph; but would the Khmer farmers of the southern Cambodian district of Prey Veng respond as enthusiastically to the introduction, by Northern NGOs, of a pump which was new to them?


The Bamianshan deposit located in Changshan county,Zhejiang province is a new type of fluorite deposit and firstly discovered in Zhejiang province.Ore body ⅩⅣ of Gaowushan ore domain is a typical representative of layered ore body with big thickness,high grade and large mineral resources volume.Study on its geological characteristics and ore-controlling factors show that it is jointly controlled by intrusion,wall rock and structure.The ore is dominated by filling and acompanied by replacement.The ore materials are mainly derived from the post-magma hydrothermal fluid rather than the Cambrian carbonate rocks.Then direct and indirect prospecting indicators are put forward.


Despite an increasing use of medicinal plants in diabetes mellitus therapy, their use is usually based on empirical knowledge. This work aims to evaluate the effects of decoctions prepared from Arctium minus Bernh. on glycaemic control of goto-kakizaki (GK) rats, a type 2 diabetes mellitus animal model, and access the potential toxicity of A. minus decoctions, using liver mitochondrial preparations. GK rats were drinking ad libitum A. minus root decoction for an interval of 4 weeks. During this time, food and beverage ingested and weight increase were controlled. Occasional glycaemias were also evaluated twice a week. Intraperitoneal glucose tolerance was determined at the beginning and at the end of the experiment. Four weeks later, GK rats liver mitochondria were isolated and respiratory parameters evaluated. A. minus root decoctions did not significantly affect the glycaemic control and long-lasting treatments induced noxious effects, considering that the liver mitochondria isolated from A. minus treated GK rats presented a significant decrease in mitochondrial respiratory parameters (RCR and FCCP stimulated respiration). This study showed that long lasting treatments with A. minus tea induced deleterious effects on cellular metabolism and, thus, should be avoided in type 2 diabetes long-term therapy.


The synthesis of lithium(I) complexes of the neutral and anionic salts of a tridentate aminobis(N-heterocyclic carbene) ligand, L, are reported (L = N{CH2CH2(1-C[NCHCHNMes])}2), along with the X-ray diffraction determined molecular structure of the imidazolium proligand [H2N{CH2CH2(1-HC[NCHCHNMes])}2][Br]3 (H4LBr3). The transamination reaction between the lithium chloride adduct of HL and Y[N{SiMe3}2]3 affords yttrium amidocarbene complexes, while the transamination reaction between the imidazolium proligand and Ti(NMe2)4 or Zr(NMe2)4 affords a titanium or zirconium amidocarbene complex, respectively. The molecular structure of one of the yttrium products, Y(L)(N{SiMe3}2)Cl, is reported. The reactivity of a selection of the complexes with phosphine oxides is compared.


In this paper, we proposed the learning resource ontology(LRO) models to formally describe learning content and learning context, respectively. In addition to utilizing the models to formally describe content, we also derived ontological relation between the content and context at semantic level. Furthermore, we have built a semantic similarity algorithm to measure the similarity between ontologies. Based on the similarity measure, the process of LRO retrieval is presented.


This Statement, prepared by the Health Effects Institute, summarizes a research project funded by HEI and conducted by Dr. Morton Lippmann at New York University Medical Center, Tuxedo, NY, and colleagues. The complete report, National Particle Component Toxicity (NPACT) Initiative: Integrated Epidemiologic and Toxicologic Studies of the Health Effects of Particulate Matter Components (© 2013 Health Effects Institute), can be obtained from HEI or our Web site (see last page). LIPPMANN 177 BACKGROUND Extensive epidemiologic evidence, as well as toxicologic evidence, supports an association between air pollution exposure and adverse health effects, in particular cardiovascular disease (CVD). In order to gain an insight as to whether certain components of the particulate matter (PM) mixture may be responsible for its toxicity and human health effects, HEI funded the National Particle Component Toxicity (NPACT) Initiative. The Initiative consisted of coordinated epidemiologic and toxicologic studies to evaluate the relative toxicity of various chemical and physical properties of PM and selected gaseous copollutants. The lead investigators were Drs. Morton Lippmann (this report) and Sverre Vedal (HEI Research Report 178). Given the well documented associations between ambient PM concentrations and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity, the NPACT studies focused primarily on health outcomes and biologic markers related to CVD.


Devoted to overcoming the unreliability of conventional PID control, the paper introduces a Fuzzy controller designed for a substitute for conventional forward feedback control, depending on the principle of Fuzzy logic and based on research direct current motor so that definite nonlinearity is made possible. The Fuzzy method is distinguished by a greater adaptation, a less dependence on target models, a more reliable dynamic performance, and a better control effect.


Abstract A randomly selected and nationally representative sample of 11,315 Norwegian adolescents (aged 13 to 20) was surveyed for eating problems, as measured by a brief version of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT). The adolescents' EAT scores showed only minor variations according to social class, and none according to urbanization and region. Adolescent girls involved in aesthetic sports dieted marginally more than other sporting girls. Non-Western immigrant adolescents had higher scores on EAT as compared to other immigrating adolescents and Norwegian adolescents.


The paper is devoted to the estimation of energy efficiency of wells equipped with ESP at different operating conditions in Western Siberia. As a measure of energy efficiency, the overall efficiency of the wells equipped with ESPs was used. The ESP efficiency can be defined as the ratio of the useful hydraulic power developed by ESP to electric power consumed by the ESP on the surface. Corporate production monitoring systems have evolved significantly in recent years in Gaspromneft [1]. Large amount of production data has been gathered and processed, including well operation and energy consumption data. It allows to analyze ESP's energy efficiency for each well. This analysis has been focused on comparison of different ESP operating modes – continuously operating mode (COM) – standard ESP working mode and periodic short-term activation (PSA) mode [2]. ESP in PSA mode starts and stops frequently – an average start stop period less that one hour.
 The analysis showed that at the current time the information gathered during the monitoring of wells is sufficient to conduct energy audit of the equipment at the level of ESP efficiency evaluation. It makes it possible to identify the dependencies between equipment operation parameters and evaluate the operation efficiency under various operating conditions. Energy efficiency estimation can be used to make decisions for the well stock efficiency improvement. For example, in the course of the analysis, a number of results were revealed: the efficiency in the operation of a well in a periodic short-term activation mode (PSA) in comparison with a continuously operating mode (COM) on a low rate wells is higher by an average of 20%; With the increase in water cut, the EPS's energy efficiency is increasing, both in terms of PSA and COM; The average EPS's energy efficiency decreases with increasing rotating frequency; with an increase in run life, the efficiency of the ESP system is smoothly reduced by an average of 5% in three years, after a gain of 1,300 days, the rate of decrease in efficiency is significantly increased; on COM wells with a motor load of less than 40% efficiency is dramatically reduced, so it is recommended to transfer this fund to the PSA; there is a potential for increasing efficiency and oil production at a low rate wells by using ESP with larger nominal rate in PSA mode and reduced the ratio of operation and accumulation periods. Finally, the efficiency analysis can be used to rank ESP manufacturer by energy efficiency in specific conditions.


Testing is the most important and critical task in software development life cycle. Whenever software testing execution fails its test scripts is analyzed so that the point where fault occurred can be detected and the expected result can be achieved. Detecting fault in software is called as fault localization. Manually fault localization can be a cumbersome job so providing automated technique to do the same without human intervention is the demand from long time. In this paper, a brief overview of some important fault localization technique using soft computing techniques is carried out. Based on the identified points, it is identified that better result may be generated using machine learning technique along with time reduction. Prime objective of this paper is to made and attempt for identifying the fault localization techniques in combination with soft computing approaches to minimize the time and space complexities, so that the better results may be achieved in context of usability and effectiveness.


Tests of lepton-universality as rate ratios in b → s(cid:96)(cid:96) transitions can be predicted very accurately in the Standard Model. The deficits with respect to expectations reported by the LHCb experiment in muon-to-electron ratios of the B → K ( ∗ ) (cid:96)(cid:96) decay rates thus point to genuine manifestations of lepton non-universal new physics. In this paper, we analyse these measurements in the context of effective field theory. First, we discuss the interplay of the different operators in R K and R K ∗ and provide predictions for R K ∗ in the Standard Model and in new-physics scenarios that can explain R K . We also provide approximate numerical formulas for these observables in bins of interest as functions of the relevant Wilson coefficients. Secondly, we perform frequentist fits to R K and R K ∗ . The SM disagrees with these measurements at 3 . 7 σ significance. We find excellent fits in scenarios with combinations of O (cid:96) 9(10) = ¯ sγ µ b L (cid:96)γ µ ( γ 5 ) (cid:96) operators, with pulls relative to the Standard Model in the region of 4 σ . An important conclusion of our analysis is that a lepton-specific contribution to O 10 is essential to understand the data. Under the hypothesis that new-physics couples selectively to the muons, we also present fits to other b → sµµ data with a conservative error assessment, and comment on more general scenarios. Finally, we discuss new lepton universality ratios that, if new physics is the origin of the observed discrepancy, should contribute to the statistically significant discovery of new physics in the near future.


1. When it comes to maximizing allograft function, the recipient is just as important as the liver graft itself. 2. Donor age, donation after cardiac death status, cold ischemia time, and macrovesicular steatosis are key drivers of posttransplant outcomes. 3. There is a negative synergistic effect between lower donor quality and recipient Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score on posttransplant outcomes. 4. Liver donor quality should impact the decision to proceed with liver transplantation for the very sick patient.


Industrial structure plays a vital role in social and economic progress, as well as the core in the domain of industrial economics. This paper reviewed the coordination of industrial structure and employment rate in primary, secondary, and tertiary industry, respectively by looking at its coordination coefficient. More importantly, this paper examined the relationship between industrial structure and economic growth using panel data from 2011 to 2019 and constructing a GMM model to measure the effects. Our findings indicate that the acceleration in economic growth, to a large extent, can be credited to an enhanced contribution from the service sector.


A proposed 120° helical jump observed in the α-crystalline form of isotactic polypropylene is analyzed by quasi-static methods of molecular modeling. Two competiting mechanisms for describing the chain jump process, denoted as the concerted-helix transition and the defect-translation transition are examined in terms of energetic stability and barriers to activation.


The present disclosure relates to a wearable article including a wearable article body, a light collector, and a light source. The wearable article body is formed by weaving a plurality of textile threads with a plurality of light-guiding filaments, and provided with a light-collecting region. The light collector is provided at the light-collecting region, and is provided with a light source placement region. Light-guiding entrances of the plurality of light-guiding filaments being grouped together at the light collector to respectively transmit light received by the light collector. The light source is detachably placed in the light source placement region. An intellectual wearable device is also disclosed.


Objective: Despite reduced systemic toxicity compared to other medicines, hydroxychloroquine is a widely used immunosuppressive agent for the treatment of different autoimmune disorders. It may induce serious retinal impairment and blindness. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the early OCT results in preclinical retinopathy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Patients and procedures: This cross-sectional comparative study has taken place in ophthalmology and rheumatology clinics in Benha university hospitals; twenty eyes of rheumatic HCQ patients for over two years and 20 eyes of ordinary gender patients have been examined and imaged fully with spectrum optic coherence tomography (SD-OCT). The whole research group had a normal look of a fundus. Results: For more than two years of usage with still normal fundus, external retinal dilation as central foveal and parafoveal dilution was observed with SD-OCT in individuals with chronic HCQ. In just 2 rheumatic individuals the IS/OS junction was disrupted (10 percent ). Only three rheumatic patients suffered from colour vision (15 percent ). Conclusion: Preclinical HCQ retinopathy may be detected in the screening of SD-OCT rheumatic patients, particularly with the increasing availability of SD-OCT machinery in most visual centres.


SINCE the first use of radio for communication purposes, the radio has been largely applied as an instrument of safety. In the past this has been chiefly in connection with the safety of ships at sea, but recently other applications have become of increasing importance. The importance of a means of communication for ships at sea is apparent. Radio is the only means of communication by which a ship can continually keep in contact with other ships or with stations on shore.


This document discusses the advantages of the design of the 2,000 HP diesel locomotive as used by the German Federal Railways. The power transmission unit, cooling system, and engine are described and illustrated. The maintenance requirements are given.


The comprehensive promotion of seismic safety of coastal engineering in Qingdao is not only a key scientific program but also a systematic engineering construction, and is of great importance to the sustainable development of Qingdao′s economy. In this paper, the present situation of seismic safety of coastal engineering in Qingdao and the measures taken for promoting its seismic safety are preliminarily discussed.


This chapter focuses on the potential of metamaterials in EMC applications. It is organized as follows. In section 4.2, a short overview of electromagnetic compatibility is given. To highlight the relevance of metamaterials in EMC problems, current trends in industrial applications as well as the consequent challenges arising in EMC are described. The cases of transport and telecommunications industries are considered. The two main applications foresighted are filtering and shielding. Section 4.3 focuses on electromagnetic shielding. The performance of shields depends on both their geometric and electrical parameters, and on the characteristics of the incident EM field. Figures of merit to evaluate these performances are given. Examples of three published one-dimensional metamaterial shields based on reflection or absorption are given. In section 4.4, a detailed analysis of a three-dimensional metamaterial cavity is proposed. The contribution of metamaterials highlighted in the concept of subwavelength cavities. The design steps of an appropriate metamaterial for this particular application are given. Finally, the metamaterial designed are applied to the walls of a regular reverberation chamber generally used for EMC tests.


The posterior communicating (PComA) and anterior choroidal arteries (AChA) are the two major branches of the supraclinoid internal carotid artery. Thorough knowledge of the anatomy and awareness of the variations and anomalies of these arteries are of clinical and scientific importance in dealing with lesions involving these arteries and their branches. This article briefly reviews surgical and angiographic anatomy of the PComA and AChA.


Objective To investigate whether ferulic acid can protect HaCaT cells against oxidative damage from UVB irradiation and its possible mechanisms.Methods The cultured HaCaT cells were divided into the control,ferulic acid,UVB irradiated,UVB irradiated + ferulic acid groups.HaCaT cells were treated by 30 mJ/cm2 and 60 mJ/cm2 UVB irradiation.The viability of cell proliferation was detected by MTT method.The activity of superoxide dismutase(SOD),glutathione peroxidase(GSH-Px),hydrogen peroxidase(CAT),and the level of malondialdehyde(MDA) were detected with colorimetric methods.Results Under UVB irradiation,HaCaT cell viability,the activities of SOD,GSH-Px,CAT in HaCaT cells decreased,and the content of MDA was ascensive(P0.05).But in ferulic acid treated groups,HaCaT cell viability,the activities of SOD,GSH-Px,CAT in HaCaT cells increased,the content of MDA also decreased(P0.05).Conclusion Ferulic acid can relieve the oxidation damaged from UVB irradiation to HaCaT cells by strengthening antioxidation and decreasing oxygen radicals.


In the era of convergence, in the so-called participatory culture we are all living in, it is assumed that we all have equal access to the world collective knowledge and, as a result, our core social skills are based on the capacity to participate in social networks. However, digital media take for granted able-bodied users forgetting people with a variety of disabilities, who are restricted to its general access and use. Participatory culture cannot be truly egalitarian if it excludes certain people and privileges others; what is more, by doing so it simply reproduces and affirms the existing power structures and the dominant ideologies. This is one of the main arguments of Elizabeth Ellcessor's Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation. The author presents a number of compelling examples of how difficult Internet access is:


Elastomeric bearings are widely used in bridge supports to accommodate thermal and other movements. The study presented in this paper extends an earlier investigation of two-dimensional bearing performance to three dimensions. Large-deformation rubber hyperelasticity is reviewed and a theoretical model is described with the steel-reinforced bearing subjected to compression in the direction through the thickness followed by shear in various lateral directions, including bridge longitudinal and transverse directions. Computations are carried out using the general-purpose, finite-element analysis computer program, ABAQUS. Conclusions are drawn regarding the effects of shear direction on bearing behavior.


DAVID BROMWICH HAS REMARKED HOW THINKERS AT THE TURN OF THE eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--specifically, Burke and Wordsworth--made the discovery that autonomy and sociability could never be completely reconciled. (1) Richard Rorty agrees, seeing this as the central problem of western political philosophy, and perhaps of western culture itself, in the last two centuries. Rorty locates the origins of this impasse in the erosion of the Enlightenment idea of a universal human nature, maintaining that since the romantics, we have become more aware of the contingency of each self, and that as there is no common human nature, there can be no single way in which the individual's desire for personal fulfillment can be found peacefully to coincide with that of others. (2) This essay explores the contours of this romantic and post-romantic problematic as they appear in Godwin's writings of the decade between his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and his lesser known Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (1803). (3) Political Justice famously proposed an anarchist utopia based on the free expression of humanity's rational nature. (4) This essay shows how Godwin exchanges an Enlightenment universalism and essentialism, heavily tinctured with Calvinist stoicism and immaterialism, for a more skeptical romanticism which foregrounds the contingency and corporeality of human nature and which profoundly affects his interpretation, practice and deployment of history. Recent scholarship has drawn belated attention to Godwin's indebtedness to the culture of Rational Dissent, particularly in his insistence on the right and duty of private judgment as the essence of both personal and social felicity. (5) Moreover, Godwin's Dissenting background is evident in the strong Manichaean elements in his ethics and epistemology. As Scott J. Juengel reminds us, Godwin is given to "privileging the active, rational, and autonomous consciousness over such "involuntary" sensations as physical desire, pain, and corporeal sentience." Consequently, his "political program necessarily and systematically attempts to attenuate the role of corporeality in human behavior." (6) For Godwin, the vital, defining human essence is immaterial, as revealed in instances where physical pain "has been contemned and defied by the energies of intellectual resolution" (PJ 1: 78-79). Such complete dissociation from sensuality is obviously an ideal case. But invariably it is, for Godwin, the ideal which reveals the true essence and potential of humankind. For if one person can thus resist the promptings of the senses, it is possible that "in a widely different state of society," "the whole species" can do likewise (PJ 1: 74). And it is possible because it is mind which, potentially at least, has the decisive, controlling role in human action. Indeed, a person "engaged in the progressive voluptuousness of the most sensual scene" can be drawn from it instantaneously by a "mere proposition": "Tell him at this moment that his father is dead ... and his whole passion shall be instantly annihilated ..." (PJ 1: 73). This capacity to be motivated solely by intellect owes much to the tradition of rational intuitionism which also figured prominently in the Puritan and Nonconformist culture in which Godwin had been reared. Moreover, rational intuitionism asserted that, as rational beings, human responses to true propositions were as inevitable as their responses to physical stimuli (PJ 1: 382). (7) On this basis, Godwin asserted that "Truth is omnipotent ... [and] Man is perfectible" (PJ 1: 86). Yet crucially, this automatic perception of truth and the moral action it engenders is conditional upon our attaining that "perfectly voluntary state" of consciousness which evidences "the perfection of the human character" (PJ 1: 68). For moral truths to be thus both self-evident and automatically animating, our actions must be based on "judgements extant to . …


Background: Ultrasound has shown promise as visual feedback in remediation of /ɹ/.Aims: To compare treatment for /ɹ/ with and without ultrasound.Methods & Procedures: A Canadian English‐speaking adolescent participated in a case study with a no treatment baseline, alternating treatment blocks with and without ultrasound and a final no treatment period.Outcomes & Results: Formant values and trained listener ratings of speech samples indicated improvement in /ɹ/ production, particularly after the introduction of ultrasound.Conclusions: Ultrasound appeared to facilitate the acquisition of /ɹ/ for the participant. Large‐scale studies are needed to evaluate ultrasound further.


The simple, straightforward 1H NMR spectrum of the neutron capture therapy drug, L-p-boronophenylalanine (L-p-BPA), in D2O changes to a more complex one in DMSO-d6 in which the ratio of new species observed is highly concentration dependent. The new species detected can only be explained by an additional stereocenter being formed at the boron center by intermolecular chelation of the amino acid of another molecule of L-p-BPA. This gives rise to the presence of an oligomeric species as well as another whose aromatic protons appear as a pair of sharp AB quartets centered further upfield at 6.66 and 6.84. Due to these shifts and couplings observed between the benzylic protons and the proton at the stereocenter of the amino acid, it is proposed that this species is a paracyclophane dimer of L-p-BPA in which one molecule of L-p-BPA chelates head-to-tail with another. This cyclophane dimer predominates in low concentrations ( 90 mM) concentrations. The formation of these two species is completely reversible, the addition of D2O completely regenerating L-p-BPA. Variable temperature 1H NMR found that the two pairs of aromatic protons of the cyclophane dimer coalesce at Tc = 141 °C, corresponding to a ΔG‡ = 20.6 kcal mol−1.


Abstract. We propose a visible light positioning system based on four-quadrant photodetector and improved genetic algorithm, where single light-emitting diode lamp and four-quadrant photodetector are adopted as light source transmitter and receiver. The improved genetic algorithm and the illuminance values received by the light source receiver are employed to accurately locate the position of measured points. The improved genetic algorithm has a better performance in accuracy and convergence speed. The experimental results indicate that the average positioning error of the proposed scheme is 4.0230 cm. Compared with the indoor visible light positioning system using standard genetic algorithm, the proposed scheme can obtain higher positioning accuracy and robustness under the condition of shorter average positioning time.


In view of the nonlinear characteristic of Magnetic levitation system,applying port-controlled Hamiltonian systems and passivity-based control theory,the modeling and control of Magnetic levitation system is presented.Magnetic levitation was viewed as an energy-transformation device.From the energy-balance relation,the Port Controlled Hamiltonian model of single-degree-freedom Magnetic levitation system was established.Based on the Hamiltonian structure,the passive controller of Magnetic levitation system was designed using the method of interconnection and damping assignment.In the design,the Hamiltonian function was used directly as the storage function,which can assure the precise mathematical form,and the system can achieve the required performance and can bring more definite physical meaning on the condition of satisfying passivity.The simulation results show that the system has rapid response,and strong disturbance attenuation to the variance of load.


The zone modulus is a conformally invariant functional over the space of two-component links embedded in R3 or S3. It is a positive real number and its lower bound is 1. Its main property is that the zone modulus of a non-split link is greater than (1 + p 2)2. In this paper, we will show that the only non-split links with modulus equal to (1+ p 2)2 are the Clifford links, that is, the conformal images of the standard geometric Hopf link.


music construction--(a) melodic (the single unaccompanied melody); (b) contrapuntal or harmonic (the simultaneous combination of single melodies); (c) gross-formal (the sequential combination, or enchainment, of melodies); (d) architectonic (the combination of all three preceding types). It must be defined in terms both of sound and of time, and, possibly, in terms of progressions rather than in terms of points departed from and arrived at (a dynamic or functional, rather than a structural approach). It will distinguish a small number of elementary forms, the extent of whose generalization and the methodicalness of whose transformation will determine the degree to which music logic may be perceived in any particular composition, group of compositions, or style. It is suggested that, for a preliminary survey, six elementary musiclogical forms, each with its contrary, be distinguished. (If the cancrizans is admitted this number would be five.) These are easily defined in terms of pitch and dynamics, tempo and proportion. It is more difficult to define them in terms of tone-quality and accent; but it is hoped that this can eventually be done. Whether defintion is carried to additional sonal and rhythmic functions (or resources) is considered beyond the scope of this paper.


This article corrects: Diana P. prata, Richard A. Kanaan, Gareth J. Barker, Sukhwinder Shergill, James Woolley, Lyudmila Georgieva, Marco M. Picchioni, Eugenia Kravariti, Muriel Walshe, Matt Allin, Timothea Toulopoulou, Elvira Bramon, Colm McDonald, Vincent Giampietro, Robin M. Murray, Michael Brammer, Michael O'Donovan, and Philip McGuire (2013): Risk Variant of Oligodendrocyte Lineage Transcription Factor 2 Is Associated With Reduced White Matter Integrity. Human Brain Mapping, 34:2025–2031. There was an oversight on acknowledging funding from the ERC, which was a contractual obligation for the funding. Therefore, the authors would like to acknowledge that Professor Sukhi Shergill was funded by an ERC Consolidated Award. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24676


The book gives a turgid discussion of some contemporary theories of legal logic from this specifically positivistic point of view — a stance which may be irritating to some readers. Many technical terms and contentions are neither well explained nor properly developed. These deserve more lucid treatment in future works. (Eg: legal confirmation, rule-skepticism, the application of deontic logic, the role of theoretical terms from "psychosociology", as well as the nonexistent inductive support alluded to above.) The many quotations, all given in English, are ably referenced and indexed, making this a useful presentation.


The ratio of maximum radial field to maximum axial field has been calculated numerically for axisymmetric solenoids of rectangular cross section and constant current density over a wide range of coil configurations. It is also shown that for a certain range of coil shapes the maximum modulus of the magnetic field occurs on the end faces of the windings. These considerations are pertinent in the design of superconducting magnets for two reasons: (i) Many superconductors have lower critical current in a field normal to the wide surface than in a field parallel to the surface, and (ii) large radial fields can cause catastrophic flux jumps.


The 1980s spawned a revolution in the world of computing-a move away from central mainframe-based computing to distributed networks of workstations. Today workstation servers are fast achieving the levels of CPU performance, memory capacity-and I/O bandwidth once available only in mainframes, at a cost orders of magnitude below that of a mainframe. Workstations are now being increasingly used to solve computationally intensive problems in science and engineering that once belonged exclusively to the domain of supercomputers. With the increasing power of workstations comes the intriguing possibility of using a network of these worksrations to solve computationally difficult problems. Such a distributed network can potentially provide the processing power of a supercomputer at a small fraction of the cost. Realization of this potcntial, however, requires advances on a number of fronts, from high-spccd communication networks and interfaces to programming languages and tools. The IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Disfributed Computing was established in 1992 to address the growing need for a forum where researchers working on each of these enabling technologies can meet and exchange ideas. By addressing all the key technologies for high-performance distributed computing in a single forum, it is hoped that the conference will foster interaction among researchers and encourage them to work towards the common goal of realizing the potentid of distributed computing systems. The topics covered by the symposium include high-speed network technologies and interfaces, high-speed communication protocols, distributed algorithms, operating systems, programming tools and paradigms, and applications. This special issue consists of a selection of papers presented at the First International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-1) sponsored by IEEE Computer Socicty and Syracuse University at Syracuse in September 1992. Together, they provide a glimpse into the range of problcms that arise in the application of distributed computing systems to computationally intensive problems.


A one-dimensional and unsteady model for the gasification/combustion of thick wood is developed and coupled with a two-dimensional CFD model for the gaseous phase processes, solved by the commercial code CFX4.4. Simulations of the combustion of single wood logs, as obtained with the coupled solid- and gas-phase models and with a solid-phase model alone, are compared with experimental measurements. Acceptable agreement is obtained in the first case, whereas the solid-phase model alone highly underestimates the conversion time and overestimates the mean mass loss rates. A two-dimensional formulation of the equations for the solid-phase does not affect significantly the global parameters.


TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Activities to Improve the Quality of Child Care Subtitle A: Child Care Quality Improvement Incentive Program Subtitle B: Increased Enforcement of State Health and Safety Standards Subtitle C: Distribution of Information about Quality Child Care Title II: Expanding Professional Development Opportunities Title III: Expanding Youth Development Opportunities During Non-School Hours Title IV: Expanding Child Care Subsidy for Low-Income Families Creating Healthy Opportunities and Improving Child Education and Support Act - CHOICES Act - Title I: Activities to Improve the Quality of Child Care - Subtitle A: Child Care Quality Improvement Incentive Program - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretary) to establish a program to award grants to States to help fund activities to improve the quality of child care. (Sec. 103) Allocates funds to the States (tribal organizations, and U.S. territories and possessions) based on a specified formula, and a minimum allocation for small States. (Sec. 104) Requires States, as a condition of receiving such grant funds, to: (1) certify that, since 1995, they have not reduced the scope of State child care standards requirements, or further limited State licensing requirements with respect to the types of child care providers required to be licensed, or otherwise restricted the application of such licensing requirements; (2) comply with the provisions of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (CCDBGA); (3) expend at least 80 percent of the funds allocated to the State for child care matching funds under the Social Security Act program of temporary assistance to needy families (TANF); and (4) make a ten percent non-Federal matching fund contribution from State or local public sources or private donations. (Sec. 105) Sets forth various auth


In her new series, Anna Stroud uses children's real-life experiences outside the setting as a theme for practical activities linked to problem-solving. This month, you are invited to the seaside!


Macrodynamic models with finite lifetime and selfish individuals are compatible with (dynamically) inefficient equilibria, while models with infinite lifetime and altruistic individuals are not. It suggests strong intergenerational altruism and long lifetime expectancies prevent from inefficient equilibria. Allowing for a rich demographic structure, this paper demonstrates this intuition is false: parental altruism and lifetime expectancy actually favour overaccumulation. Theoretical results are illustrated by a (broad) calibration from US demographic data. The main conclusion of our numerical exercises is that the US economy is likely to be dynamically inefficient provided one is willing to assume a low pure rate of time preference, and strong altruistic links within families. J.E.L. classification: D61; D90.


In this paper using results taken directly from linear matrix algebra we shall present a survey of the new results on controllability for linear both continuous-time and discrete-time switched dynamical systems with unconstrained admissible controls. Controllability problems for different types of dynamical systems require the application of numerous mathematical concepts and methods taken directly from differential geometry, functional analysis, topology, matrix analysis and theory of ordinary and partial differential equations and theory of difference equations. In the paper we will use mainly statespace models of dynamical systems, which provide a robust and universal method for studying controllability of various classes of systems.


Dipole moments of LC polyester poly(pentamethylene-2,4-(2,2,4,4-tetramethyl)silyl-3-oxyfumaroyl-bis-4-oxybenzoate) (FUB-Si) and of its low-molecular-mass analog didecyl-fumaroyl- bis-4-oxybenzoate (FUB-10) were measured in dilute toluene solutions at 20-80°C. Conformational analysis, treating the linear polyester as a regular copolymer with several polar components, was performed. The mesogenic fragment A was shown to give rise to a set of flat cis- and trans- conformations separated by an energy barrier of ∼2.5 kJ/mol. The temperature dependence calculated for the dipole moment of the mesogen agreed well with the experimental plot for FUB-10


We study classically and quantum mechanically the Euclidean geometries compatible with an open inflationary universe of a Lorentzian geometry. The Lorentzian geometry of the open universe with an ordinary matter state matches either an open or a closed Euclidean geometry at the cosmological singularity. With an exotic matter state it matches only the open Euclidean geometry and describes a genuine instanton regular at the boundary of a finite radius. The wave functions are found that describe the quantum creation of the open inflationary universe.


Start-up companies nowadays face main problems in managing a large amount of data, currently called "Big data" [1]. It is possible to say that most crucial data appear in email contents. As a result, email is considered as a valuable database. In order to obtain information from email messages, one possible preprocess is categorizing emails based on their contents. The research proposes a mechanism to classify email based on their contents. In order to evaluate the proposed mechanism, a 10-fold cross-validation method is applied. The empirical results demonstrate that the accuracy of email classification is approximately 61.89%, while the standard deviation is 2.77. The accuracy rate does not meet the research expectation perhaps because of the variance in word frequency in each category. Therefore, future work could weight each word to improve prediction performance.


This paper proposes a contractual solution to the problem of financing decentralised renewable energy production. The reorganisation of energy production, esp. the transition from fossil to renewable energy sources ("Energy Transition") is currently acknowledged as a permanent and evolving process. Recognized as one of the main problems in this transition is enabling finance mechanisms that would cover these renewable energy projects in an uncertain and oligopolistic market. This raises the question of whether citizen's co-ownership in RES that emerged over the past 25 years in some countries is a transitory phenomenon or a condition for the "Energy Transition" and if the latter is the case, how to further develop financial participation mechanisms in the RES sector. Our analysis is based on the theories of property rights, transaction costs and incomplete contracts, which provide a rationale for decentralised energy production. According to standard literature, the traditional market for energy production based on fossils, which generally requires great sums of capital, has allocated property rights in the form of very large organisations, which benefit from economies of scale and are efficiently recouping this capital. That is, large organisations have formed through vertical integration based on transaction costs efficiency and second-best investment incentives. Thus, it is assumed that these technologies are and will be the most economically efficient. However, this interpretation of the energy market assumes that the development of technology is independent from the allocation of property rights. To improve this standard view and to account for the path dependency of organisations becoming inefficient under changed circumstances and the inability of potentially competitive forms of organisation to emerge it is necessary to include technology as an endogenous factor. Consequently, technology runs a two-way causality with property rights. That is, if new forms of property rights are to be enabled (i.e., ownership and control of decentralised production) this would, in turn, enable alternative forms of technology (i.e., renewables). Key to facilitate this reallocation of property rights is the design of new finance contracts. We use the example of the "Consumer Stock Ownership Plan" (CSOP) as the necessary contract providing a financing mechanism. We focus on wind and photovoltaic power which have two pronounced structural differences to fossils: (1) they depend on weather and thus are volatile in their power production scheme and (2) they have a marginal cost of production close to zero. CSOPs enable consumers of energy utilities without savings or access to capital credit to acquire productive property, i.e., renewable energy plants while at the same time creating a system of incentives for asset formation. Responding to supply flexibility they tap the potential for demand-side flexibility facilitating smart grids. We analyse how CSOPs can contribute to financing renewable technologies and what particular advantages their dispersed ownership structure has. As a result we show the economic viability of CSOPs contributing to the reorganisation of energy production. * This working paper prepared for the 2nd WINIR Conference on Sept. 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the result of a collaborative effort involving apart from the presenting authors Özgür Yildiz.


In this work, we show the experience of the driver rehabilitation process in the Republic of Serbia, with the analysis of the rehabilitation process and the changing of the drivers' attitudes. Before performing the analysis, we define the basic hypothesis (implementation of the sustainability model of E learning for the driver rehabilitation process will impact the driver attitude and minimize the mistakes). In the analysis, we take the most recognized mistakes in the process of education. Implementation of this model is exclusive for a group of candidates who finished the driver rehabilitation process. Using the database of drivers who made mistakes, we made the electronic database (video material with comments) and subsequently implemented the driver education model to assess who made mistakes in the rehabilitation process. In the test process, we used the two groups of candidates (age 18–30 and 31–40), before and after the implementation of this e-learning model. In order to process the data, taking into account the small number of observations further in the research, correlation analysis was used, which determines whether there is a correlation between the amount of alcohol in blood (expressed in g/kg) and the reaction time (in seconds) of a driver. In the second part of the work, correlation analysis was performed with the aim to examine which type of relation exists between the candidates who participated in the driver rehabilitation program and candidates that participated in the program of the proposed e-learning model. The results of this study offer a direction in which learning takes place by itself and affects the effective environment of e-learning, multimedia teaching, virtual practical content, and learning under the instruction of the lecturer in this target group of participants in the rehabilitation program. How many times have we believed that we have an ability and overestimated our-selves in that? You can be convinced in traffic only if you have to prove that ability. The results of the application of this model make it possible to prove that ability and change the opinion about the stated mistakes. The key goal of this work is to make the sustainability e-learning model based on mistakes, which will eliminate the same mistakes made by drivers. The result would be top training and high-quality performance in traffic.