THE Ministry of Overseas Development has recently agreed to assist in the financing of a research project entitled ' Agricultural Entrepreneurship of Upper Income Employees in West Africa ' which will involve field-work in Nigeria and Ghana between 1971-3. Experience in introducing agricultural change through direct government assistance to peasant farmers has not yet shown any substantial break-through in West Africa in spite of very considerable investment in settlement schemes, plantation developments, research farms, and extension services. At the same time, however, there have been many individual examples of highly successful agricultural innovation and development and frequently these have involved upper-income employees whose primary occupation is outside the agricultural sector. Thus the looked-for response has come not from the peasant but from his educated sons and daughters who established themselves, initially, outside the rural environment. In Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Nigeria such developments are most easily observed in the growth of poultry and pig farming in which a great deal of investment has been made by persons who are mainly involved in salaried work, for example, university lecturers, teachers, government officials, and other professional personnel. Investment by such persons in other agricultural activities is also noticeable, but less obvious, e.g. in marketing of foodstuffs, especially in transport, in oil-palm plantations, in vegetable farming near to urban centres, etc. Their involvement in agriculture is usually as a weekend or part-time occupation. They often operate farms in rural areas from which they or their family originated, and draw labour from the extended family or clan. Such entrepreneurs bring to agriculture certain inputs which are not easily accessible or cannot be easily performed by the peasant farmer on his own, notably:


This concluding paper reflects on the role that scholarly networks and relationships play in the creation and mobilisation of knowledge in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). More specifically, it focuses on how inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral and international relationships interconnect and the role that physical mobility (co-presence) plays in these processes.
The paper reflects on the kinds of knowledge combinations evident within the POCARIM sample and the innovation potential that these represent. Most importantly, it enhances our understanding of the contribution that SSH researchers make in the mobilisation of knowledge in response to key societal challenges.


In this creative practice work, designer Alice Payne examines the history of twentieth century Queensland fashion icon Paula Stafford, and interprets her story into an illustrated narrative and textile print. Paula Stafford was a swimwear designer operating in the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia 1940s to 1980s, and is credited with bringing the bikini to Australia.

This project was commissioned by The Fashion Archives as part of their series Remember or Revive, in which the curators partnered designers with museums to reinterpret historical costume for a contemporary fashion audience.

To develop the project, Payne visited The Gold Coast and Hinterland Historical Society to view Paula Stafford's swimwear, resortwear, photographs, newspaper articles, fabric swatches and other artefacts relating to Stafford's practice. Through examining Stafford's work and history, Payne developed a series of designs based on the story and the experience of viewing and handling the garments.

Research statement

Fashion history is often experienced via static museum displays of garments and photographs from the period, and this research examines other means through which the archive and the fashion museum collection may be reinterpreted and made fresh. It does this in two ways: first, the work interprets a story from fashion history for a contemporary audience. Second, the project illuminates the fashion design process by demonstrating how garments from the past may be reinterpreted to inspire contemporary textile prints.

The Paula Stafford collection at The Gold Coast and Hinterland Historical Society has a number of garments and photographs on display, however these only show a partial picture of the richness of Stafford's work and legacy. Undertaking a practice-led methodology, in the course of developing the work, Payne examined the archive in order to interpret Stafford's contribution to Queensland fashion through photography, narrative, and illustration. The work contributes to research into historical fashion curation and interpretation.

The work appeared in Issue 11, March 2014 of the The Fashion Archives, an online publication by fashion curators Nadia Buick and Madeline King. The Fashion Archives has received funding from Arts Queensland, State Library Queensland and Creative Partnerships Australia and has published over 200 articles and projects related to Queensland Style. The Fashion Archives is the first project to examine in depth Queensland fashion history. As Paula Stafford is one of Queensland's most iconic designers, this project is significant in being the first to examine her legacy through creative practice. The Fashion Archives was established in 2013 and involvement is by invitation from the curators.


Abstract.
 Leptin, a protein hormone produced principally in adipose tissue, plays a major role in the regulation of food intake, hunger, satiety and metabolism. Most obesity is likely the result of the body's resistance to leptin. The purpose of this experiment was to model leptin receptor insensitivity by comparing how the lack of leptin or the leptin receptor in mutant mice would affect body weight, basal metabolism, body temperature and feeding behaviors. Eighteen mice were used: 6 controls, 6 mutant ob/ob (defective for the expression of leptin), and 6 mutant db/db (defective for the expression of the leptin receptor). After 24 weeks of free access to food and water, the ob/ob mice weighed more than the control and db/db mice (P=0.0012). Both the ob/ob and db/db mice had lower metabolic rates (P = 0.0194) and body temperatures (P < 0.0001). As expected, the db/db mice had the greatest water intake (P=0.0060) and cage waste (P=0.0499) reflective of their diabetic state. The normal mice ate more than the other mice, but the increases were not significant; the ob/ob mice had much less food debris. These results indicate that mutations in the leptin protein or receptor interrupt normal metabolism in a manner similar to what may be experienced by individuals resistant to leptin. If a chronic intake of excessive calories results in increased adipose depositions, then over a lifetime, cell signaling activities may act to protect the leptin receptor from over bombardment by leptin, attenuate leptin's regulatory function, and promote obesity.


Background: Mood disturbance represents the most frequent from of maternal psychiatric morbidity in the postpartum period. Maternal sadness affects approximately 50-80% of women in the puerperal period with about 20% of those women developing postpartum depression. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of postpartum depression among postnatal mothers. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of postpartum depression among postnatal mothers. 2. To associate the prevalence of postpartum depression among postnatal mothers with their selected socio demographic variables. Methodology: 100 postnatal mothers living in Venkatachalam Village, Nellore were selected by using Non-probability convenience sampling method. Results: Regarding the prevalence of postpartum depression, among 100 samples, 52(52%) had no depression, 30 (30%) had mild depression and 18 (18%) had moderate depression and no one had severe depression.


We present the theoretical concept of communicating over non-coherent block fading channel using Layered Unitary Space Time Codes (LUSTC), where efficient algorithms exist for decoding as compared to the exponentially complex decoding of Unitary Space Time Codes (USTC). In this paper, we focus on the designing the LUSTC signals. A successive design technique is applied to leverage the problem of optimizing over too many parameters. In case when even the successive design is to complex to use, an alternative heuristic design approach is provided to construct the signal constellations with less effort.


Six traits of bread wheat in 15 F2 generation of crosses from 6×6 diallel mating system with their parents were studied. The relative efficiency over grain yield from selection based on several indices were calculated . The results indicated that there was an increase in efficiency of selection for yield from 12.986 to 122.372% in various indices, which indicated that a selection index based on combination of traits, including number of spikes , spike length, 100 grains weight and number of grains per spike was superior to all selection indices, therefore the selection based on these four traits is recommended. INTRODUCTION A breeder is always concerned with the selection of superior genotypes which performance is dependent on the phenotypic expression. Often selection based on phenotypic performance does not lead to expected genetic advance mainly due to the presence of genotype-environment interactions as well as due to undesirable association between the component traits at the genotypic level .Thus a knowledge of correlation between complex traits like grain yield in wheat and its component traits, which show susceptibility to environmental conditions, therefore, capable of being measured with great precision, can obviously be of considerable use for a rational approach to the improvement of grain yield .So correlated response which reflect the expected change in yield resulting from selection for other components was reported by Smocek (1977), Whan et al. (1982) and May and van-Sanford (1992) in wheat and by Yousif (2004) in barley furthermore discriminant function, development by Fisher 1936and first applied by Smith 1936 for plant improvement (Sharma et al., 1973), offers an effective method for the simultaneous improvement of two or more traits by selection . This has been adopted in wheat by Simlote (1947),Sikka and Jain (1958), Ahmad and Hamdo (2000) and Ahmad (2003). The present investigation was undertaken to analyze the nature and degree of interrelationship between different traits and also to test the suitability of various selection indices to find a simple and useful in wheat breeding. MATERIALS AND METHODS The genetic materials used in this study were fifteen F2 populations derived from a set of diallel crosses, involving six bread wheat parents, namely, Gemeney, Saberbeg, Pandas, 69-S3, 35-S6 and Kvz / cgn. The parents and their F2 hybrid seeds were grown at Research Station, College of Education, Mosul University during the growing season (2002-2003), under natural dry farming condition. Mesopotamia J. of Agric. (ISSN 1815-316X) Vol.(35) No.(3)2007 Received 25/9/2006 accepted 4 / 4 / 2007 . The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design with four replications. One row were allotted to each parent and F2 per replication. The sowing were done by dibbling the seed at a distance of 15 cm. in the rows of 3 m length with a row to row spacing of 30 cm. Recommended cultural practices were followed to raise a good crop. Fifteen effective plants of each row in each replication, were selected at random for recording data on: grain yield per plant (g), number of spikes per plant, spike length (mm), 100 grain weight (g) and number of grains per spike. The estimates of phenotypic and genotypic variances and co-variances were obtained from the analysis of variance and co-variance diallel tables from the row means. The additive genotypic and phenotypic correlations were worked as per procedure proposed by Al-Rawi and Ahmed (1984). Heritability in narrow sense for each trait was calculated using the Bhatia et al. (1978) equations which depend on the general and specific combining ability estimates according to method-2 model-1 of Griffing (1956) . The genetic advance, correlated response and relative selection efficiency were worked out using the procedures suggested by Searle (1965). Fifty eight different indices were computed by Miller et al.(1958) method and compared in this study, thirty three of them included yield and the remainder excluded it, the expected genetic advance of these indices were expressed as percent of genetic advance expected from selection on the bases of grain yield alone. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The estimates of additive genotypic and phenotypic correlations between the studied characters in wheat are shown in Table (1).In general, the correlation at the genotypic and phenotypic level shown the same trend and genotypic correlations were of greater magnitude.The phenotypic and genotypic correlation coeffient of yield was positive and significant with spike length , 100 grains weight and number of grains per spike and negative and significant with plant height , this indicates that the effect of genes on grain yield with spike length , 100 grains weight and number of grains per spike are synergistic , but the effect of genes on grain yield with plant height are Antagonistic. The estimates of narrow sense heritability and expected genetic advance with respect to the character used as the criterion of selection are given in Table (2). In general, narrow sense heritability estimates were high for all characters. The results showed high values of genetic advance for grain yield , short plant height and spike length and moderate values for other traits. Table(3) was shown that the correlation response for grain yield if selection were for spike length, at a selection intensity 5%, would be 3.635 grains which represent a change of 15.494% of the original mean. Selection for number of grains per spike result a change of 10.083% of the original mean.This indirect selection is very important when the primary traits is difficult to evaluate, and the secondary traits has a high heritability and genetically highly correlated with the desired character. Selection indices for grain yield were constructed and different combinations were Mesopotamia J. of Agric. (ISSN 1815-316X) Vol.(35) No.(3)2007 examined in an attempt to identify those character which may be of help during selection .The result of Table (4) indicate that:out of two Fifty eight possible function only six are considered since they indicate superiority. In indices based on two characters combination the increase in efficiency was of the order of 13-74%,93-102% in three characters combination and 122%with four character combination .spike length is common attributes in all indices indicating its influence on yield .Plant height and number of grains per spike are also important Table(1): Values of additive genotypic (upper right) and phenotypic (lower left) correlations between all pairs of studied traits in wheat X1;X2;X3;X4;X5 and X6 are grain yield per plant (g);plant height (cm); number of spike per plant; spike length (mm); 100 grains weight(g) and number of grains per spike respectively. *,**significant at 5% and 1% level, respectively. Table (2):Estimates of narrow sense heritability (h2),expected genetic advance (∆G)and expected genetic advance in percent of the mean(∆G%) for studied characters of wheat. ∆G% ∆G h2 Mean Characters 30.748 7.214 0.517 23.46 X1 8.519 6.554 0.516 76.93 X2 13.763 2.086 0.533 15.16 X3 8.533 7.117 0.723 83.40 X4 36.653 1.539 0.583 4.20 X5 7.136 2.711 0.533 37.99 ْ◌ X6 Table (3): Expected charge in yield resulting from selection for other character as percentage of the mean yield. Expected change in % mean of yield Expected change character selected -25.055 -5.878 X2 X6 X5 X4 X3 X2 X1 Traits ** O.886 ** 0.442 ** 0604 ** 0.395 ** 0.896 X1 ** 0.601 ** 0.833 ** 0.497 0.301 ** -0.540 X2 ** 0.698 ** -0.728 ** 0.385 0.212 0.131 X3 ** 0.710 ** -0.576 0.276 ** 0.426 ** 0.515 X4 0.297 ** 0.443 ** -0.522 ** 0.672 ** 0.473 X5 -0.212 ** 0.630 ** -0.564 * 0.391 ** 0.715 X6 Mesopotamia J. of Agric. (ISSN 1815-316X) Vol.(35) No.(3)2007


The diffuse use of software for the calculation of reinforced concrete structures is becoming more and more important, so the need to verify the decisions made by them becomes indispensable, however, so that there is adequate verification by the user it is necessary to be familiar with the fundamental software configurations and calculation models used. The objective of this theses is to evaluate the performance of the scaffold sizing carried out by the cypecad structural calculation software, demonstrating the obtaining of the pillar reinforcement in its essence in a manual way with the calculation efforts taken from the program through a systematic sample of populations of corner, end and center pillars. In order to obtain the efforts a work was inserted and all the configurations referring to norms, materials and actions in the structure that are necessary so that the software in question can calculate, without any intervention in the final dimensioning. Given the results achieved, some inconsistencies between manual and software design were found. One of them is the second order moment, where the software considers it in an extreme section of the pillar and not in an intermediate section as it is in fact the characteristic of this phenomenon. It was observed with the development of the study that it is necessary for the user to make certain modifications in the final sizing obtained by software. In conclusion, some of the manually-sized pillars resulted in larger areas of armor. However, these results are precise, as these researchers performed the pillar-to-pillar comparison, that is, making statistical comparisons using methods that use groupings of the samples, the software result can be considered without difference for a given quantile.


A cover (1) for vehicles (5) with opening vehicle roof (3) with at least a central part (7) and two adjustable between a covering position and a stowed side parts (9), wherein the side portions (9) (in its covering position, together with the middle part 7) form a flat cover, wherein each side portion (9) is associated with a pivot bearing (35) with a pivot axis (25), wherein the side portions (9) along the pivot axes (25) between the covering position and the storage position can be pivoted, characterized in that in that the pivot axes (25) parallel and directly adjacent to the central surface area of the cover sheet extend, and that the side parts (9) each one about the pivot axes (25) pivotable swivel levers (23) are associated, and that the pivot lever (23) respectively a base plate (29) having the pivot bearing (35) are associated, and that the side parts (9) in each case a drive (43) for pivoting the side parts (9) are associated, and that the base plates (29), the drives (43).


Significance How are specific host-symbiont mutualisms stabilized without vertical transmission? This is one of the fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. To ensure specificity, animals and plants have evolved sophisticated sorting mechanisms. Theoretical studies proposed another mechanism, so-called "competition-based selection," where hosts provide a specific environment to selectively cultivate favorable symbionts and maintain symbiont quality. Although this mechanism is thought to be powerful in open systems, such as gut symbiosis where contaminants regularly invade, until now little experimental evidence has supported its importance in the evolution of symbioses. Through the inoculation of an insect host with a large panel of symbiotic and nonsymbiotic bacteria, we demonstrate that microbial competition is critical to maintain the specificity in an insect gut symbiosis. Despite the omnipresence of specific host–symbiont associations with acquisition of the microbial symbiont from the environment, little is known about how the specificity of the interaction evolved and is maintained. The bean bug Riptortus pedestris acquires a specific bacterial symbiont of the genus Burkholderia from environmental soil and harbors it in midgut crypts. The genus Burkholderia consists of over 100 species, showing ecologically diverse lifestyles, and including serious human pathogens, plant pathogens, and nodule-forming plant mutualists, as well as insect mutualists. Through infection tests of 34 Burkholderia species and 18 taxonomically diverse bacterial species, we demonstrate here that nonsymbiotic Burkholderia and even its outgroup Pandoraea could stably colonize the gut symbiotic organ and provide beneficial effects to the bean bug when inoculated on aposymbiotic hosts. However, coinoculation revealed that the native symbiont always outcompeted the nonnative bacteria inside the gut symbiotic organ, explaining the predominance of the native Burkholderia symbiont in natural bean bug populations. Hence, the abilities for colonization and cooperation, usually thought of as specific traits of mutualists, are not unique to the native Burkholderia symbiont but, to the contrary, competitiveness inside the gut is a derived trait of the native symbiont lineage only and was thus critical in the evolution of the insect gut symbiont.


To provide updated estimates of life expectancy at birth for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018; to quantify the contributions of changes in life years lost to disease‐specific causes of death to overall changes in life expectancy.


The paper introduces the process algebra based modeling language and its powerful standard model-checking tools for trusted software architectures, which deals with incompatibility between two components due to a single interaction or the combination of several interactions and with the lack of interoperability among a set of components through architectural compatibility check and interoperability check relying on standard observational equivalences.


Thermal issues become serious bottlenecks for high-end and mobile ICs as well. To analyse the temperature dependent behaviour, functional-thermal co-simulation can be performed. We are developing a framework called LogiTherm which can be used to perform such simulation of digital and mixed signal circuits on different abstraction levels. The framework utilizes the so-called simulator coupling technique to connect the thermal and functional domain. Multiple thermal simulator engines are integrated into our system (e.g. 3D-ICE, HotSpot, SUNRED), but their implementation is not efficient on modern computer architectures, thus the simulation speed can be limited. In this paper, we describe a new thermal model and a simulator engine designed for multicore processors and GPUs to enable more detailed simulation. A new, adaptive co-simulation strategy is also described, which can further reduce the computational overhead of the thermal simulations.


This study proposes a 3D geometrical model for biaxial weft knitted fabrics based on rib structure. Using modification of 3D plain loop to simplify the connection of back and face loops, unit-cell of a 1x1 rib structure is obtained. The warp and weft yarns can be drawn through this structure using Python scripting in Abaqus software. To verify the proposed geometrical model, the biaxial weft knitted fabric based on rib structure has been produced from polyester yarn on a modern flat knitting machine. Fabric is subjected to tensile loading in warp, weft and bias directions according to standard methods. Using a FEM software, tensile behavior of fabrics is numerically simulated. The results show that the geometrical model can successfully predict the tensile behavior of the biaxial weft knitted fabric.


Seattle's transfer of development rights (TDR) system, an innovative land use device, has so far avoided many of the problems that have plagued other TDR systems. Although the system's voluntary participation avoids a takings challenge, it is still vulnerable to attack on due process grounds. In addition, two U.S. Supreme Court cases held that conditions in land use regulations must closely mirror the harms sought to be prevented, suggesting new constitutional problems for Seattle's TDR system. This Comment describes Seattle's current TDR system and examines its vulnerability to constitutional challenges. This paper concludes that while Seattle's TDR system will probably avoid the pitfalls of past TDR systems, proposed changes would increase its vulnerability to due process challenges. The past thirty years have witnessed a trend in land use planning toward local systems that compensate owners of low-income housing and historic landmarks in exchange for a promise to forgo further development of their land.! Transferable Development Rights (TDR) systems allow landowners to transfer a parcel's unused development potential to other sites either by moving the rights to the landowner's other properties or by selling the rights to other developers. The landowner of the site receiving the development rights can then build to a greater height and density than otherwise allowed by local zoning regulations.2 By providing monetary incentive to landowners to retain low-income housing and historic landmark theaters, an innovative TDR system in Seattle, Washington, has already been successful in saving several of these structures.3 Past legal challenges to TDR systems focused on whether the regulation that provides TDR in exchange for a restriction creates either a taking under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution or a violation of due process.4 Seattle's TDR system sidesteps the takings challenge by making landowner participation in the program voluntary.5 Landowners who prefer to tear down their low-income housing are free 1. See infra note 27 and accompanying text. 2. See infra note 19 and accompanying text. 3. See infra Part LB.2. 4. See infra notesl06-16 and accompanying text. 5. See infra note 160 and accompanying text Washington Law Review to do so.6 Many landowners, however, choose to sell their rights because of their high value. High demand and a strong market for development rights are essential to ensure the success of a voluntary TDR system.7 Past experience indicates that owners of low-density, low-incomeproducing buildings will not choose to limit their ability to develop their land without significant compensation Although Seattle's program will probably avoid a successful takings challenge, it is vulnerable to a due process challenge under two separate theories. First, the system may violate due process by jeopardizing citizens' health and safety. Municipalities establish zoning limits to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens. Theoretically, transferring development rights that allow developers to build beyond the zoning limit compromises citizens' health, safety, and welfare; therefore a program authorizing such transfers may be vulnerable to a due process challenge.' The second due process theory rests on the assumption that the zoning limits have been set too low and buildings in excess of the zoning limitations will not jeopardize citizens' health, safety, or welfare. Developers could make a due process argument that they should not be required to purchase development rights to build higher and at greater density.'0 Two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, Nollan v. California Coastal Commission" and Dolan v. City of Tigard,2 pose another constitutional challenge to Seattle's TDR system. In both decisions, the Court held that a regulatory restriction on development must have a close connection to the harm it proposes to prevent. 3 TDR systems allow developers to pay to save low-income housing (the condition) in exchange for the right to build larger buildings (the harm). Developers who buy rights to build at greater densities might argue that the harm of larger buildings is not connected to the condition of low-income housing. To pass this 6. See City of Seattle Dep't of Community Dev. & Downtown Hous. Advisory Task Force, Transfer Development Rights: TDR Bank Report C6 (1988) [hereinafter TDR Bank Report] (discussing survey indicating that landowners are not necessarily interested in participating in TDR program). 7. See id. 8. See John J. Costonis, Space Adrift: Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace 6, 9 (1974). 9. See infra notes 169, 171, and accompanying text. 10. See infra note 170 and accompanying text. 11. 483 U.S. 825 (1987). 12. 512 U.S. 374 (1994). 13. See infra notes 206-210, 218-224, and accompanying text. Vol. 74:825, 1999 Transferable Development Rights constitutional test, Seattle would have to show that the preservation of low-income housing and historic landmark theaters alleviates the harm of larger, denser downtown buildings. Part I of this Comment examines the property law basis for TDR systems. It also explores past TDR systems in New York, a proposed system for Chicago, and the sophisticated TDR system used by Seattle. Part II reviews past constitutional challenges to TDR systems including takings, due process attacks, and possible future challenges based on Nollan and Dolan. Finally, it discusses Seattle's vulnerability to these past and future constitutional challenges and concludes that although Seattle's current TDR system may avoid the pitfalls of past TDR systems, proposed changes will make it vulnerable to a due process challenge.


External male and female genitalic structures of three species under genus Cleora Curtis have been studied and illustrated in detail. Besides this, a new species has been described under this genus in this research paper. A key to the studied species has also been described.


Many naturally occurring surfaces have superhydrophobicity that fulfils their functional demands, which has inspired considerable interest to develop similar artificial superhydrophobic surfaces with a variety of functionalities. Graphene is an ideal candidate for functional superhydrophobic surfaces due to its exceptional physicochemical properties. The recent advances in this emerging field are summarized, including the wetting behavior of water on graphene and the formation of crumpling/nanoparticle/foam‐induced hierarchical structures, with emphasis on fundamental understanding for related processes. The potential applications in energy, environmental remediation, and thermal management are also discussed.


ABSTRACT In Australia, small and sour fruit can be a problem for growers of southern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) during the early season. A field experiment examined the impact of hand thinning and the foliar treatments, urea, ammonium thiosulphate (ATS), benzyladenine (BA) and ATS/BA combination on blueberry cultivar 'OB1' fruit quality for an entire season. Treatments were applied over four weeks from the first harvest. Urea (5%) and ATS (0.78%) were effective at desiccating open flowers. However, BA (0.015%) failed to thin fruit, applied alone or following ATS. Fruit size (berry weight and diameter), increased towards the end of the season without compromising yield for hand thinning, ATS, BA and ATS/BA. However, thinning had no effect on the concentration of total sugars or acids. Foliar urea, although an effective desiccant, had little effect on fruit size, and despite its use to reduce leaf senescence in autumn, it had no effect on the leaf canopy area. Future research should evaluate earlier applications of ATS and BA for increasing fruit size early in the season when fruit weight and diameter are most limited.


This project is carried out to identify damages of mechanical system via
changes in their vibration characteristics. Thus, the objective of this report is to
examine mechanical system using detection, location, and characterization damaged
via vibration monitoring technique besides utilize appropriate technique in measured
mechanical system. Vibration characteristics are closely related with vibration
monitoring analysis that classified under predictive maintenance that promised a lot
of advantages in industrials fields. To support this study, a real case study with
cooperation heavy industry is setup to apply hands on concept that is influence
UTeM to their student. Vibration Monitoring Analysis will be applied to implement
the objective of this study. The specimens of this study are selected among of the
machine at CIMA (Cement Industries of Malaysia Berhad) due to its operational
usage. The process starts by taking vibration reading using Micro log CMVA 60,
Portable Data Collector/FFT Analyzer and CSI 2130 FFT Analyzer. Then it will be
analyze using software PRISM4 and MHM. Before that, detail discussions of
vibration monitoring analysis are conduct such as parameter to select sensor,
transducers, or how to choose measurement location to make sure that this
experiment followed the standard of Monitoring analysis. Result data will be present
in single spectrum plot and overall value versus time trending. This study will go
deeper by analyzing the raw data depending to their own characteristic as a process
to determine the health and condition of the machine.


The coeliac axis compression syndrome has been recognized for 12 years. More recently an association between this syndrome and the occurrence of aneurysms on the collateral circulation has been described. A review of the coeliac axis compression syndrome is presented and the management of associated aneurysms discussed.


Aim:To observe the immune-regulating effect of the extracted compound of panax natogineseng and ganoderma lucidum spore powder.Methods:A total of 144 mice were allocated into 4 groups,The first 3 groups were given low-,mediate-,high-doses of the extracted compound and the remained group was given distiued water.After 30 days, the ratio of spleen-thymus/body weight, T lymphocyte proliferation of mouse spleen induced by ConA, the response of delayed hypersenitivity, the amount of hemolytic antibility in serum, antiboty-producing cell assay, phagocytic activity of macrophages and the ability of macrophages for carbon particle clearance and cytotoxicity of NK cells by LDH method.Results: The extracted compound of Panax Natogineseng and Ganoderma Lucidum Spores Poweder could increase the ability of T lymphocyte proliferation and the response of delayed hypersenitivity induced by SRBC in the dosage of 1.48 g/kg; the amount of antibody-producing cells was enhanced significantly in the dosage of 0.49 g/kg and 1.48 g/kg; significant difference was observed in the dosage of 1.48 g/kg in the amount of hemolytic antibody;significant difference was not observed in the ratio of spleen-thymus/body weight, phagocytic activity of macrophages and the ability of macrophages for carbon particle clearance.Conclusion: The result showed that the extracted compound of Panax Natogineseng and Ganoderma Lucidum Spores Poweder had a positive immune-regulating effects on normal mice.


This paper investigates the effects of opening and closing on transactions demand, volume, and volatility of options prices and their underlying assets. We use an extension of the models in Merton (1971) as in Brock and Kleidon (1992), who consider a similar issue with respect to equity markets. The transactions demand at open and close in the underlying assets markets are studied in the presence of information costs using the main concepts in Merton's (1987) model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information. As in other studies by Brock and Kleidon (1992), Smith and Webb (1994), Hong and Wang (2000), Bellalah and Zhen (2002), we show that periodic market closure leads to periodic changes in the demand for transaction services. We present some empirical work regarding the patterns in volume, volatility and spreads using a dataset for the Paris Bourse. The predictions of periodic demand with high volume at open and close in options markets and their underlying assets are consistent with other markets. They confirm also the more recent results in Hong and Wang (2000) and Bellalah and Zhen (2002).


Abstract Contact angle determinations were made to allow us to study the effect of the wavelength of illumination on the surface of hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films. The films were prepared by the PECVD technique from pure silane under conditions which give good quality material. Advancing and receding contact angles of water drops, on hydrofluoric acid etched and nonetched silicon surfaces, were measured as a function of drop volume. Large differences in the contact angles were observed depending on the wavelength of the incident light. The contact angles on the HF-treated silicon surface under violet light yielded the lowest values, while green light yielded the highest values. However, in the case of nontreated silicon surfaces, green light yielded the lowest contact angles and red light the highest values. These surface phenomena, related to the surface photovoltage effect, were seen to be completely reversible.


Written documents are the lifeblood of communication in organisations, with some professionals spending up to a third of their work time producing them.


Twenty-four college students viewed one of three videotapes of a mock police interrogation that ended in a confession. In one videotape the camera was focused primarily on the "suspect"; in a second the camera was focused primarily on the "detective"; and in the third the camera was focused on the suspect and detective equally. Subjects in the suspect-focus condition subsequently judged that the confession was elicited by means of a small degree of coercion; subjects in the equal-focus condition judged that it was elicited by means of a moderate degree of coercion; and subjects in the detective-focus condition judged that it was elicited by means of a large degree of coercion. It is argued that the effect of camera point of view on judgments of coercion is mediated by causal attributions. Consistent with this interpretation, camera point of view also had a significant effect on subjects' attributions for the suspect's behavior, with subjects in the suspect-focus condition making the most dispositional attributions and subjects in the detective-focus condition making the least dispositional attributions. Alternative explanations are considered and limitations of the present research are discussed. It is concluded that to the extent that interrogations are videotaped with the camera focused on the suspect, judges and/ or jurors may be biased to perceive a confession as voluntary.


Abstract Taking the concept of intersemiotic translation as its point of departure, this introduction to the special issue presents an overview of the various ways in which translation, cloth and textile intersect, as well as a brief outline of how the articles included here address these intersections. An inter-semiotic translation is that in which a verbal sign is interpreted into a non-verbal system of symbols, in this case cloth and textile. Indeed, cloth and textile are at the heart of some of the most interesting and productive conceptualisations of translation, and semioticians have also proposed that cloth and textile can be understood as languages that are always-already in translation. Moreover, tailoring and painting, where clothes and textiles feature largely, have been used as rich and fruitful metaphors for the act of translating. In addition, interpreters have sometimes adapted their dress, that is, translated it, to be able to better perform their roles, while fashion and haute couture designers have also been cast as cultural interpreters. The articles that comprise this special issue consider all these dimensions and more, dealing with topics that range from science and technology, to art, literature and illustration; fashion and consumption; and political activism in a broad range of geographical contexts including Europe, Asia and Latin America.


Maintenance of soil carbon (C) content is important because a relatively small percentage change in the global soil C store has the potential to cause a large change in atmospheric CO2 concentration. Losses of soil C can also lead to a decline in soil quality and its capacity to be productive and carry out other services such as the filtering of pollutants. Globally, research on soil C dynamics has largely focused on forests, croplands and natural grasslands, while intensively grazed pasture has received much less attention. In New Zealand, the dynamics of soil C content and C cycling in intensively grazed dairy systems are poorly understood but large losses of soil C (1 t C ha -1 yr -1 ) have recently been reported for grazed dairy pastures. The objective of this research was to build on current knowledge of the C balance of intensively grazed dairy farm systems. To achieve this objective, net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE) and water use efficiency (WUE) were measured over intensively grazed dairy pasture using eddy covariance from 15 December 2007 to 15 December 2009. Net ecosystem carbon balances (NECB) were then calculated for 2008 & 2009 from NEE measurements combined with measurements and estimates of C imports (feed) and C exports (milk, silage, methane). A further objective was to determine the impact of periodic cultivation of contrasting soils on the C balance of a dairy farm. To achieve this objective, measurements of soil CO2 emissions were made using the closed chamber technique following the cultivation of three paddocks of Horotiu soil (Typic Orthic Allophanic) and three paddocks of Te Kowhai soil (Typic Orthic Gley). Annual NEE of the farm was -1,212 ± 500 kg C ha -1 for 2008 and -2,280 ± 500 kg C ha -1 for 2009. Including imports and exports of C to the farm resulted in an annual NECB of -199 ± 500 kg C ha -1 and -1,014 ± 500 kg C ha -1 for 2008 and 2009, respectively. Applied uncertainty is at 90% confidence bound and derived from previous studies reported in the literature. The site was a net sink of C during both 2008 and 2009 in agreement with EC studies performed over grasslands in Europe. The large difference in NEE and NECB between years was due to a drought in 2008, when the site was a C source for the first four months of this year. Average daily water use efficiency (WUE) for 2008 (4 g C kg -1 H2O) and 2009 (4.2 g C kg -1 H2O) were not substantially different between years and agreed with international field and laboratory studies for pasture. Soil CO2 loss following cultivation was measured using the closed chamber technique. During the period of cultivation photosynthesis ceased, and potential C input (NEE) to pasture during this time was estimated at -750 kg C ha -1 from the adjacent EC study site. To calculate the maximum net soil CO2-C loss the potential C input from photosynthesis (NEE) must be added to measured CO2 emissions. Total soil C loss from the Te Kowhai was between 2,880 kg C ha -1 (CO2 flux only) and 3,742 kg C ha -1 (CO2 flux + NEE) while the Horotiu soil lost between 2,082 kg C ha -1 (CO2 flux only) and 2,944 kg C ha -1 (CO2 flux + NEE). The significant difference in C loss between the two soils was likely a result of their contrasting clay mineralogy and drainage. The Horotiu soil contains allophanic clays with a very high specific


The research aims were to find out the nutritional value of wheat flour and fermented orange sweet potato flour and the addition of baking powder and to identify the best formulation of dried choux pastry making. The research was using completely randomized design with two factors. i.e., the ratio of wheat flour with fermented orange sweet potato flour (T): T1 = 50:50, T2 = 60:40, T3 = 70:30, T4 = 80:30. The second factors is baking powder (B): B1 = 1%, B2 = 2%, B3 = 3%. The ratio of wheat flour with fermented orange sweet potato flour had a highly significant effect on moisture content, cake volume specific, colour hedonic values, texture hedonic values, and texture score values. The addition of baking powder had a highly significant effect on moisture content, cake volume specific, texture hedonic values, and texture score values. The interaction of the ratio of wheat flour with fermented orange sweet potato flour and the addition of baking powder had a highly effect on cake volume specific. The best-dried choux pastry composition is treatment T4B3 which the ratio of wheat flour with fermented orange sweet potato of 80:20 and 3% baking powder addition.


The genotypic differences of calcium uptake and accumulation of 16 pepper species and the physiological characteristics caused by the differences were studied through experiments of cultivation in arenaceous quartz. The results showed that the differences of calcium content in the pepper fruits were significant among the species when supplied with different levels of calcium. The 16 species were divided into 3 genotypes: 1) tolerant genotype (When supplied with low level of calcium, the calcium content in the pepper fruit decreased 10%. When supplied with high level of calcium, the calcium content in pepper fruit varied ±5%). 2) susceptible genotype (When supplied with low level of calcium, the calcium content in the pepper fruit decreased 10%. When supplied with high level of calcium, the calcium content in the pepper fruit decreased 10%). 3) genotype with potentiality to increase calcium content (The calcium content in the pepper fruit increased 10% with the increase of calcium supply). Comparison and discussion were made on the differences between typical species of the 3 genotypes in morphological characteristic of roots, transpiration rate of leaves and catlase activity. It was made clear that pepper's nutrients uptake, adaptability, transpiration rate, self-protection and rehabilitation of biomembrane were closely correlated with calcium nutrition genotype.


We study the general and connected stable ranks for C*-algebras. We estimate these ranks for pullbacks of C*-algebras, and for tensor products by commutative C*-algebras. Finally, we apply these results to determine these ranks for certain commutative C*-algebras, non-commutative CW-complexes, and certain continuous fields of Kirchberg algebras.


High-frequency electric circuit is the important communications and electronics specialty course,and the teaching practice is an important aspect.Based on the experimental teaching of high frequency electronics circuit,introduces the high frequency electronics technology experiment teaching reform,the reform of teaching methods,teaching method reform measures.


A new pyridinium alkaloid, montipyridine (1), has been isolated from the stony coral Montipora sp. The structure was established from spectroscopic data.


Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology. Brooke Larson and Olivia Harris. eds., with Enrique Tandeter. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995 428 pp.


Methods for estimating speech intelligibility are classified into two types. One is the full reference method that estimates the subjective evaluation values using both degraded speech that passed through the evaluation system and the original speech before degradation. The other is the non-reference method that estimates intelligibility from only degraded speech. In speech intelligibility estimation, it is assumed that the original speech cannot be obtained. Therefore, from the viewpoint of practicality, a non-reference method is required. In this research, we consider a method to apply the full reference method on degraded speech and original speech estimated from degraded speech. The model used here is an intelligibility estimation model using Deep Neural Network (DNN) which shows higher estimation accuracy than other methods such as logistic regression and random forests. In this paper, we compared the estimation accuracy between estimation using original speech and estimation using estimated speech. In the closed test, the correlation coefficient was 0.9721 and the RMSE was 0.0743, showing the same degree of accuracy as when the original speech was used. However, in the open test, the correlation coefficient and RMSE was 0.8307, 0.1839, respectively, indicating room for improvement.


This paper expatriated guiding principles of strength training arrangement of training plans,means and methods of training,features of time and load,combined effects of strength and endurance training etc..


Abstract

 Objectives: The purpose of this study is to assess and compare the knowledge about the neonatal care among the mothers in urban and rural area in district Ajmer province of Rajasthan

 Materials and methods: Comparative randomized descriptive study was conducted among mothers who willingly gave consent to participate in the study. A structured questionnaire were framed and mothers were interviewed, the answers were recorded. To judge the knowledge score of the mothers closed ended questions having four alternatives were also framed. One mark was allocated for correct response.

 Results: Among 5800 deliveries, 400 mothers (205 mothers were Urban and 195 mothers were from Rural area) were randomly selected. Mothers with Antenatal check-up had knowledge score of 61% compared to 24% who had no regular antenatal checkup. Knowledge about "Exclusive Breastfeeding" was 84.39% and 68.20% urban mothers and rural mothers and regarding adequacy was 73.17% in Urban and 44.61% in rural mothers. Knowledge about Hygiene was 89.75% and 53.33% in Urban and rural mothers. Skin care and baby bath was 28.29% and 18.46% in Urban and Rural mothers respectively. Knowledge about danger signs was 81.95% and 60% in Urban and Rural mothers respectively. Knowledge regarding immunization at birth was 70.7% and 35.89% in Urban and Rural mothers respectively.

 Conclusions: Main factors affecting the knowledge score of the mothers about neonatal care were Educational status and Antenatal checkup. Knowledge about adequacy of breastfeeding, Immunization at birth, Danger signs, Temperature maintenance and hygiene was less in rural mothers as compared to urban mothers.


Adapted housed in the module frame (27,34) in the display module (12), the display module (12) including front and rear substrates (13, 14). The display module (12) of the rear substrate (14) to provide an inner surface of the ledge (26), which makes the rear substrate (14) (17) extending along the main plane of which is exposed, so that the display module (12) can be obtained by fixed between the inner surface of the rear surface of the substrate (14) (17) and the module frame (27,34) is fastened in the module frame (27,34).


This major conference, devoted solely to the technology of brazing and soldering, is the place to come for ideas and answers to your questions.


Olefins aromatics substituted low molecular weight and high molecular weight or heteroaromatic compound, for example, aid in the intermediates for such cosmetic formulations, various fine chemicals, chemicals for the electronics industry, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries as tanning protectant as agents or additives, in the industry plays an important role. Such compounds organic semiconductor (e.g., organic or polymeric light-emitting diodes, organic solar cells, organic IC) This compound is also in the burgeoning field of has an outstanding significance. The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of olefin-substituted aromatics or heteroaromatics of this type, the method of reacting an olefin derivative which has at least one hydrogen atom monofunctional aryl-or heteroaryl compound with a double bond on. Simple presence in the palladium compound, the nitrogen-containing additive is optionally, in the presence of a base in solution, C-C bond formation and ant - of the hydrogen atoms of the Le or functional group heteroaryl derivative and olefin compound resulting in elimination. The present invention is characterized by the presence of at least one additive comprising a metal different from the palladium.


summary Posterior distribution over a countable set M of continuous data-sampling distributions piles up at L-projection of the true distribution r on M, provided that the L-projection is unique. If there are several L-projections of r on M, then the posterior probability splits among them equally.


Aiming at improving the energy efficiency of the battery electric vehicle, the hybrid energy system of the battery and super-capacitor is proposed. The bidirectional buck/boost DC/DC converter is designed for hybrid energy system. The electrical circuit and running principle are depicted in detail. Then the mathematical model is derived, based on the parameter perturbation. Combining the merits and defects of H2 optimal control and H∞ robust control, robust H2/H∞ controller is put forward to guarantee both the system performance and the robust stability. The experiments are carried out to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed scheme was endowed with good control performance. Furthermore, compared with the traditional single scale controller, the double scale control can recover more energy and improves the driving range by 7%.


The equations for the wave functions of a system of three unbound interacting nucleons are obtained in the interpolation model and a method for solving them is given. Then these wave functions are found by solving the equations numerically for various spin-isospin states of the three-nucleon system for square-well nucleon potentials which depend on the spin and isospin and for some typical values of the kinematical variables. Some properties of the wave functions are discussed.


Elderly people comprise a large and growing proportion of the global dialysis population. Regional differences in rates of dialysis in the elderly suggest multiple factors influence treatment decision‐making including beliefs about the relative benefits and harms of dialysis and supportive (non‐dialysis) care. We therefore systematically reviewed the literature reporting survival of elderly patients treated with either treatment pathway.


Context
Perioperative increases in adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol mimic results of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) stimulation testing. This phenomenon may help identify patients with residual adenoma after transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) for Cushing disease (CD).

Objective
To predict nonremission after TSS for CD.

Design
Retrospective case-control study of patients treated at a single center from December 2003 until July 2016. Early and medium-term remission were assessed at 10 days and 11 months.

Patients and Setting
Two hundred and ninety-one consecutive TSS cases from 257 patients with biochemical evidence of CD seen at a clinical center.

Interventions
Normalized early postoperative values (NEPVs) for cortisol and ACTH were calculated as immediate postoperative cortisol or ACTH levels minus preoperative post-CRH-stimulation test levels.

Main Outcome Measures
Prediction of early nonremission was evaluated using logistic regression. Prediction of medium-term remission was assessed using Cox regression. Predictive ability was quantified by area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC).

Results
NEPVs for cortisol and ACTH predicted early nonremission [adjusted odds ratio (OR): 1.1; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.0, 1.1; P = 0.016 and adjusted OR: 1.0; 95% CI: 1.0, 1.0; P = 0.048, respectively]. AUROC for NEPV of cortisol was 0.78 (95% CI: 0.61, 0.95); for NEPV of ACTH, it was 0.80 (95% CI: 0.61, 0.98). NEPVs for cortisol and ACTH predicted medium-term nonremission [hazard ratio (HR): 1.1; 95% CI: 1.0, 1.1; P = 0.023 and HR: 1.0; 95% CI: 1.0, 1.0; P = 0.025, respectively].

Conclusions
NEPVs for cortisol and ACTH predicted nonremission after TSS for CD.


The application of 2,4-D [(2,4-dichlorophenoxy) acetic acid], at 1.1 kg/ha to common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale Weber) resulted in 40% or less survival in lawn and hayfield habitats, in both spring and fall treatments. A significantly lower incidence of regeneration (12 to 20%) was attained independent of the season by shoot removal (spudding) combined with 2,4-D in the lawn, but not in the hayfield habitat. No measure of control was obtained by spudding alone, confirming the high capacity of common dandelion for root regeneration. Removal of leaves 2 weeks after application of 2,4-D diminished the effectiveness of control in both lawn and hayfield habitats, with 49 to 50% and 60 to 70% regeneration, respectively. Apparently, there is incomplete translocation of the herbicide within this interval. Significant mortality from spudding alone was observed only in plants less than 4 months old (64% survival). One-year-old plants responded to all treatments in the same manner as common dandelion populations as a whole. Optimum control of common dandelion in lawns was obtained by 2,4-D application in combination with spudding, during the spring.


This study explores interactions between computational thinking, gender and engineering identity among biomedical engineering undergraduate students. Biomedical engineering enjoys higher rates of women's enrollment than other engineering disciplines, but nevertheless has gender disparities in persistence within the field. Additionally, trends towards greater incorporation of computation into biomedical engineering have the potential to recreate the gender inequities seen in more computationally intensive engineering disciplines. Recently, 'engineering identity' has emerged as a powerful analytic lens to understand persistence in engineering, particularly for underrepresented groups such as women. However, there is limited work examining how experiences using computational methods influences engineering identity formation in undergraduate biomedical engineers. Further, it remains unclear to what extent gender differentially mediates the effects of computational practice on engineering identity formation. In order to explore the intersection of these issues, we study a thermodynamics course in the biomedical engineering department of a large Midwestern public research institution in the United States. The thermodynamics course includes in-class computational modeling group activities and has an enrollment of more than 120, primarily sophomore year, undergraduate students. We use a qualitative study approach that includes gathering data through classroom observation and detailed semi-structured interviews. We analyze classroom observation data to try to understand student experiences of learning and participation during in-class computational modeling exercises. Specifically, we look for evidence of gendered differences in task sorting and engagement with the exercise. Classroom data is complemented by semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews gains student's perspectives on how gender has influenced their learning experience and their identity as engineers.


Selection of parameters for a parametric acoustic receiver is complicated by the fact that the basic parameters are not independent. The parametric receiver is an active device; hence, there is a self‐noise contribution to the output which is a function of the selected parameter values. A systematic procedure has been developed for selecting optimum values of these parameters by minimizing the total self‐noise output of the parametric receiver. Equations were derived that define the impact on self‐noise of the basic parameters that are not independent. These equations were evaluated to obtain optimum parameter values for specified sets of boundary conditions. The results of this analysis and examples of the parameter selection procedures are presented and discussed.


We analyzed Nd1+xBa2−xCu3O7 (NdBCO) coated conductors grown at various substrate temperatures by using Raman spectroscopy. Epitaxial NdBCO films were deposited on ion beam assisted deposition yttrium stabilized zirconia (IBAD-YSZ) templates by pulsed laser deposition. Raman scattering spectroscopy shows that the NdBCO film grown at a relatively low substrate temperature of 750 °C contains some a-axis oriented grains as well as c-axis oriented grains and an excess cation disorder between Nd3+ ions and Ba2+ sites, which result in degradation of superconducting properties with critical temperature (Tc) of ∼83 K and critical current density (Jc) of less than 1 MA cm−2 at 77 K and self-field. The samples grown at higher temperatures ranging from 775 to 800 °C are found to have strong c-axis orientation with little cation disorder, and subsequently excellent superconducting properties with Tc of 88–90 K and Jc of 1.2–1.8 MA cm−2 at 77 K and self-field.


Tooth Contact Analysis (TCA) is an important tool directed to the determination of contact patterns, contact paths, and transmission errors in gear drives. In this work, a new general approach that is applicable to any kind of gear geometry is proposed. It is based on three main points: (i) the discretization of gear tooth contacting surfaces in triangular meshes, (ii) the implementation of algorithms to determine linear and angular distances between contacting meshes and (iii) the adaptive refinement of the contacting meshes to solve the contact problem and to compute the bearing contact for each position along the gearing cycle.


Bladder cancer is one of the highly heterogeneous disorders accompanied by a poor prognosis. This study aimed to construct a model based on pyroptosis‐related lncRNA to evaluate the potential prognostic application in bladder cancer. The mRNA expression profiles of bladder cancer patients and corresponding clinical data were downloaded from the public database from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Pyroptosis‐related lncRNAs were identified by utilizing a co-expression network of Pyroptosis‐related genes and lncRNAs. The lncRNA was further screened by univariate Cox regression analysis. Finally, 8 pyroptosis-related lncRNA markers were established using Lasso regression and multivariate Cox regression analysis. Patients were separated into high and low-risk groups based on the performance value of the median risk score. Patients in the high-risk group had significantly poorer overall survival (OS) than those in the low-risk group (p < 0.001), and In multivariate Cox regression analysis, the risk score was an independent predictive factor of OS ( HR>1, P<0.01). The area under the curve (AUC) of the 3and 5-year OS in the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve were 0.742 and 0.739 respectively. In conclusion, these 8 pyroptosis-related lncRNA and their markers may be potential molecular markers and therapeutic targets for bladder cancer patients.


Two novel quadrupolar D–π–D type two-photon absorption (2PA) luminophores PA2F4H8E8 and AnA2F4H8E8 were synthesized by Wittig–Horner reaction in high yields. By using distyrylbenzene as the π-bridge center, PA2F4H8E8 shows two-photon absorption aggregation-induced emission enhancement (2PA-AIEE) and exhibits exceptionally large 2PA and 2PA action cross-sections up to ∼6300 GM and ∼1400 GM at 800 nm in THF, respectively. A non-doped electroluminescent (EL) device of PA2F4H8E8 displays good performance with an extremely low turn-on voltage of 2.6 V and a high brightness of 9837 cd m−2.


Neural network has been one of the most useful techniques in the area of image analysis and speech recognition in recent years. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), a popular type of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), has widely been implemented on CPUs and GPUs. However, software implementation cannot offer large parallelism for the complicated computation of LSTM, and most of the LSTM hardware implementations proposed yet are intensive and non-configurable. In order to accelerate the computation and reduce the resources consumption, in this work, we present a compact and configurable LSTM neural network hardware architecture. To meet the requirements of different networks, we set a wide array of hardware parameters that can be configured to balance area, power and performance. And we adopt the second-order polynomial to approximate the activation functions in LSTM, which balances the computational accuracy and resource utilization, Implemented on XCZU6EG FPGA running at 238 MHz, our work has a performance of 7.64 GOP/s. Compared to the implementation on Intel Xeon E5-2620 CPU at 2.10 GHz, our parallel hardware architecture achieves $90\times$ speedup for a small network and 25 x speed-up for a large one. The total consumption of resources is 77% less than the state-of-the-art works', which implies the compactness of our work.


The articles in this special section focus on the deployment of heterojunction devices using graphene and other two-dimensional materials. This research momentum led to finding other layered materials systems, including transition metal di chalcogenides and a variety of new 2-D materials with an ability to tune their band gap based on the number of layers.


In this work, the regeneration of native horseradish peroxidase (HRP), following the consecutive reduction of oxo‐ferryl π‐cation (compound I) and oxo‐ferryl (compound II) forms, was observed by UV–visible spectrometry and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in the presence of methylene (MB+), in the dark and under irradiation. In the dark, MB+ did not affect the rate of HRP compound I and II reduction, compatible with hydrogen peroxide as the solely reducing species. Under irradiation, the dye promoted a significant increase in the native HRP regeneration rate in a pH‐dependent manner. Flash photolysis measurements revealed significant redshift of the MB+ triplet absorbance spectrum in the presence of native HRP. This result is compatible with the dye binding on the enzyme structure leading to the increase in the photogenerated MB˙ yield. In the presence of HRP compound II, the lifetime of the dye at 520 nm decreased ∼75% relative to the presence of native HRP that suggests MB˙ as the heme iron photochemical reducing agent. In argon and in air‐saturated media, photoactivated MB+ led to native HRP regeneration in a time‐ and concentration‐dependent manner. The apparent rate constant for photoactivated MB+‐promoted native HRP regeneration, in argon and in air‐saturated medium and measured as a function of MB+ concentration, exhibited saturation that is suggestive of dye binding on the HRP structure. The dissociation constant (KMB) observed for the binding of dye to HRP was 5.4 ± 0.6 μm and 0.57 ± 0.05 μm in argon and air‐saturated media, respectively. In argon‐saturated medium, the rate of the conversion of HRP compound II to native HRP was significantly higher, k2argon = (2.1 ± 0.1) × 10−2s−1, than that obtained in air‐equilibrated medium, k2air = (0.73 ± 0.02) × 10−2s−1. Under these conditions the efficiency of photoactivated MB+‐promoted native HRP regeneration was determined in argon and air‐equilibrated media as being, respectively: k2/KMB = 3.9 × 103 and 12.8 × 103 m−1 s−1.


This article aims to problematize, on the one hand, the relationship that people establishes with their homes in the daily dynamics. That is, how they occupy, decorate, use and organize the environments of the house. On the other hand, the objective is to know how this living is produced in relation to the locality where they live: Haedo. The material culture is appealed to in two senses: of the house and of the objects that compose the inhabitant. The data comes from the ethnography I made between 2015 and 2019 with the family of Gloria, a resident of Haedo.


Sand and gravel are mined world-wide and account for the largest volume of solid material extracted globally. Formed by erosive processes over thousands of years, they are now being extracted at a rate far greater than their renewal. Furthermore, the volume being extracted is having a major impact on rivers and deltas, results in loss of land through river, lowering of the water table and decreases in the amount of sediment supply. This emerging problem obliges contemporary material usage to balance the ecology. In this essence the abundant availability of sea sand can be utilized as an effective replacement for natural aggregate which will be beneficial for both circumstances. Hence this research project investigates the use of sea sand in concrete construction. This study proposed with hot water washed sea sand with various replacement in concrete from 10% to 100% with the increment of 10% resulted in higher mechanical properties in all the replacement.


This memorandum reviews the factors that constitute an Expert System Building Tool (ESBT) and evaluates current tools in terms of these factors. Evaluation of these tools is based on their structure and their alternative forms of knowledge representation, inference mechanisms and developer end-user interfaces. Next, functional capabilities, such as diagnosis and design, are related to alternative forms of mechanization. The characteristics and capabilities of existing commercial tools are then reviewed in terms of these criteria.


Foamed plastics are an effective material for pipe insulation. Among the advantages of this material include the ability to form heat-insulating coating with a given density distribution through the thickness, to obtain a so-called integral foams. This allows to increase the density and hence the strength of external insulation layers most exposed to external mechanical influences. This decreases the moisture permeability of the coating, which is important for underground laying underground pipeline. Insulation effect of the inner layers, and consequently the coating is enhanced through reduction of their density, since there is a direct correlation between the density of the insulation and its thermal conductivity. Achieved such a redistribution of density by influencing the technology of production of foam during the polymerization. In the presented work are given the solution of the heat conduction equation for a stationary case at the steady state temperatures at the inner and the outer surfaces of the insulation. The thermal conductivity of the insulation was considered as a variable depending on the density of the insulation, which is distributed in a certain way through the thickness of the coating. The formula allowing to calculate the equivalent thermal conductivity of the coating at any possible density distribution along its thickness. Taking into account the linear character of the dependence of the thermal conductivity of polyurethane foam is its density, obtained a modification of this formula for the case when the heat-insulating coating consists of two layers: the inner, fixed minimum allowable density, and external, where the density increases to the maximum value on the surface of the coating. A recommendation to determine the thickness of each layer at a known specific weight of foam per unit of pipe length. On the example of thermal insulation of polyurethane foam with an integral structure for medium diameter tubing shown the ability to reduce heat loss by nearly 14% compared with homogeneous insulation of the same specific gravity.


With the new Health Act the demand for nurses is going to increase. Rightly, the General Nursing Council has the ear of the Government. Does a similar liaison exist between the General Nursing Council and the medical staffs of hospitals who are interested in the supply of nurses-through, for example, the British Hospitals Association? Is this the opportune moment for the General Nursing Council to enforce its decision ?-I am, etc.,


"And the word became flesh". The Messiah as a bridge of dialogue between God and man The relationship of God and man was destroyed by sin. God does not leave people without hope. He promises help. Through ages he sent out his prophets to keep the hope of Messiah. Some of the first messianic prophecies seem to be especially interesting. We can see the longing for the lost safety, for paradise. They seem to be very human related. God's fulfillment of this promise does not omit people's desires and needs, it exceeds them. The goal of Messiah is not only to bring people the perfect relationship with God, it is to take it to a higher level. God, who became a human in the person of Messiah, is closer to man in as never before.


These abstracts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License. Go to http://iovs.arvojournals.org/ to access the versions of record. 472 Ocular regenerative medicine applications of stem cells and tissue engineering Wednesday, May 04, 2016 3:45 PM–5:30 PM Exhibit/Poster Hall Poster Session Program #/Board # Range: 5308–5329/A0235–A0256 Organizing Section: Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine Group


Pinch analysis has already been used to win impressive energy savings in industry. It finds that a similar approach is poised to make a big impact on wastewater minimisation


Elizabeth Gibson describes the latest undergraduate program changes at the University of Melbourne. The Melbourne Model is based on six broad undergraduate programs followed by a professional graduate degree, research higher degree or entry directly into employment.


Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in data traffic, driven primarily by the explosive growth of the Internet. Optical networking is believed as a key solution to keep up with the growth, thus, the most pressing issue is how to manage and control large optical networks. Currently, provisioning end-to-end connections across the transport network has involved the network operator, leading to long provisioning times in an era when customers are demanding shorter provisioning time. To address this critical issue, new control intelligence is being studied for use within optical networks to shorten provisioning time. Both the IETF and the ITU-T have been aggressively defining many aspects of a control plane for the next generation convergence transport network. Basically, they are based on the distributed control scheme. In this Paper, we suey the applicability of the centralized control scheme for the provisioning control of optical transport network to utilize its inherent advantages over the distributed control scheme. We discuss new central control architecture, and control procedure. Also, we examine the applicability of the existing IETF routing and signaling protocols to the new control concepts, and then, we propose the additional routing and signaling information elements.


Scene classification is emerging research areas in the field of computer vision, as it can be used in several applications such as surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics, and many more. Scene classification is to classify the scene as one of the categories predefined as a kitchen, coast, forest, living room, etc. This paper highlights the prevailing scene classification practices by summarizing the major categories of the scene classification available in the literature. Traditionally to classify the scene, researchers used local features such as Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) or the global features like GIST from the image and classify using supervised learning method like Support Vector Machine (SVM). Nowadays deep learning based approaches are widely used as the approaches do not have to manually extract the features and can learn automatically. This paper discusses various traditional and deep learning based approaches for indoor and outdoor scene classification with their challenges. We also present analysis of state-of-the-art methods with their advantages and disadvantages for scene classification.


Time—varying, nonlinear and multivariable coupling are characteristics of temperature. In the temperature control process, the detected temperature is often lags behind the regulation of temperature, which will cause the phenomenon such as the temperature of the controlling system overshoot and temperature oscillation. Temperature control is proposed based on incremental PID algorithm model in this paper, the system uses low-power STM32 as the main chip, DS18B20 digital temperature sensor and semiconductor temperature regulator. Experimental results show that the system can effectively maintain the temperature of the system constant.


Nowadays both companies and research & training institutes share a strong need to perform research and development activities in networks. Because of drastic changes in the competitive environment the amount of resources and knowledge needed in the development of new offerings has become overwhelming for a single organization. This is also the case in organizations developing new mobile services. This empirically grounded paper introduces a network view to new mobile service development and argues that more attention should be placed on collaborative actions in creating new mobile services. An information rich case study of this paper introduces a collaborative network developing a new mobile service for the supporters of a sports team. The case study is used to describe the development and operation of new service developing network.


Abstract Life writing is ubiquitous in John Kinsella's vast oeuvre. Kinsella's employment of the diversity of modes collected under the rubric of "life writing" is underpinned by a "poetics of dirt." Such a poetics is visible in the central role that material dirt (as both pollution and terrain) plays in Kinsella's work, as well as the more general concept of impurity, as seen in Kinsella's poetic trafficking in ideas concerning transgression, liminality, hybridity, and danger. In Purity and Danger (1966), the anthropologist Mary Douglas famously defined dirt as "matter out of place." In the poem "Dirt" (from Kinsella's 2014 collection Sack), dirt remains understandable as matter out of place, but it also becomes radically mobile, its material and symbolic weight subject to unexpected transformations. The eponymous dirt in Kinsella's poem is being carted from one place to another by the poet's near neighbour for "purposes unknown." This "shitload of dirt," dumped onto the dirt of the valley's floor, makes its way into the disturbingly porous bodies – both human and non-human – around it. It is "something you sense in arteries" and "the haze / that lights and encompasses us all." This poem can be taken as a metonym for Kinsella's entire literary oeuvre. Employing his "poetics of dirt," Kinsella attends to the dispossessed dirt of a post/colonial nation; the dirt of contemporary farming practices; the dirt of official and vernacular languages; and the dirt of personal secrets. This essay argues that Kinsella's "poetics of dirt" cannot be disambiguated from his activist poetics, and the profoundly auto/biographical nature of his writing. Attending to postcolonial theory and life-writing studies, this essay analyses how Kinsella thematises dirt as central to both life writing (in prose and poetry) and a life of writing. In doing so, it considers dirt as something not simply "out of place," but – in a postcolonial, post-sacred, and late-capitalist world – endlessly mobile, unstable, and transformative, moving between material and discursive realities in newly complex ways. By attending to dirt (both as matter and as pollutant) within the context of his various auto/biographical projects, Kinsella conspicuously draws attention to the relationship between the human and the material, profoundly questioning – in a way akin to a "new materialist" perspective – the consequences of a human-centred ontology. At its most radical, the "poetics of dirt" found in Kinsella's life writing posits a world in which human subjectivity is not the only agental force in the material world.


epigastric hernia, whichl was tender and rather tense. No abnormal signs were found in the chest, and the urine contained a trace of sugar. Her temperature was 100.40, the pulse 144, and tlle respirations 36. She was obviously suffering from severe shock, and an operationi was considerdd inadvisable. She died in the institutioln at 12.45 p.m. oni the day of admission. At the post-mortemw examination the epigastrie hernia was fdund to conitain omental fat, which was a little congested in tbe neck of the sac. The liver was very much enlarged and very yellow, especially in its right lobe. The gall bladder containied no stones, but it was atrophied, and its walls were very much ilifiltrated with fat. There was a marked fat necrosis in the omenitum, and especially at its attachment to the abdominial wall and in the mesocelon. There was only a little fat necrosis in the mesentery, and the pancreas was very much discoloured with haemorrhage. The stomach was dilated. Microscopical examination of the pancreas showed areas of free blood in the pancreatic substance. The spaces between the liver cells were very much infiltrated with fat, and the cells seemed to be few and far between. This infiltration was most marked around the area of the central vein. The kidney showed considerable cloudy swelling.


Eleocharis R. Br. achenes were examined employing scanning electron microscopy to ascertain the systematic potential of the achene wall. It was found that the epidermis has useful microscopic characters to assist in the systematic assessment of Eleocharis. Acid-treated achenes, with their cuticle and outer periclinal cell walls removed, revealed micromorphological differences in epidermal features among the 26 taxa studied. Characters of taxonomic interest include the configuration of the anticlinal cell walls, the contour of the cell lumens, in addition to the presence or absence of lumen pits, lumen depressions, and silica bodies. Such characters may be of value in assessing the infrageneric ranks of Svenson. Preliminary results support the Aciculares, Chaetarieae, Leiocarpeae, Multicaules, Ovatae, Palustres, Sulcatae, and Truncatae as natural taxa. In contrast, current data suggest that the Pauciflorae, Ocreatae, Rigidae, and Tenuissimae are unnatural entities. Key words: Cyperaceae, Eleocharis, SEM, a...


TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION 104I. BACKGROUND 108A. Piercing the Corporate Veil 108B. Enforcement of Foreign Judgment in the United States 109C. The Four Possible Scenarios 1111. Scenario 1 1112. Scenario 2 1113. Scenario 3 1124. Scenario 4 112D. Conflict Issues with Enforcement Piercing 1131. Choice-of-Law 113a. First Approach-FI Piercing Law 114b. Second Approach-Same Approach as First-Instance Piercing 114c. Third Approach - Lex Fori 1152. Personal Jurisdiction 1163. Subject Matter Jurisdiction 1194. Notice 1205. Res Judicata 1216. State Procedural Rule 122II. METHODOLOGY 123A. Survey Period 123B. Types of Cases 124C. Covered Jurisdiction 124D. Related Research.........125E. Limitation 125III. FINDINGS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH.........125A. Choice of Law 131B. Enforcement Limitations 1341. Personal Jurisdiction 1362. Subject Matter Jurisdiction 1363. Notice 1364. Res Judicata 1375. State Procedural Rule 1376. International Cases 1387. Tort v. Contract 139CONCLUSION 141INTRODUCTIONPiercing the corporate veil, a judicial process whereby the separate legal personality of a company is disregarded, has long attracted academic discussion due to its dramatic impacts on the liability of shareholders.1 Most of the time, a shareholder is sued for piercing the corporate veil in the same trial in which the defendant company is sued for the underlying cause of action (for example, the company's breach of contract).2 The piercing claim will be successful only if the plaintiff succeeds on both the underlying claim against the company and the piercing claim against the shareholder.1 Nonetheless, plaintiffs do not necessarily seek to pierce the corporate veil in the same trial as the underlying substantive cause of action.4 The plaintiff may eliminate the legal personality of the defendant company in the first trial and then pierce the corporate veil in a subsequent proceeding to enforce a judgment against the shareholder of the company.' Thus, discussions on piercing the corporate veil should consider both the substantive underlying liability in the original trial (first-instance piercing), and subsequent enforcement proceedings.'1 Enforcement of a judgment by piercing the corporate veil ("Enforcement Piercing") is rarely examined in detail by academics.7 Through an empirical study of Enforcement Piercing cases, this Article explores the various conflict-of-laws aspects that impact Enforcement Piercing cases as compared to standard first-instance piercing cases.Enforcement Piercing is not uncommon. It is often employed in cases where the plaintiff finds out only during or after the original trial that there exists a close relationship between the defendant company and the shareholder," or in cases where the defendant company's assets have been removed by the shareholder after the defendant company lost the case.4 However, Enforcement Piercing is a worthwhile topic to discuss not only because of its frequency,1" but also because of the potential advantages it could bring to the plaintiff in his or her piercing-the-corporate-veil claim. An illustration will be helpful.In Bank of Montreal v. SK Foods, LLC," the plaintiff bank first obtained a judgment against the defendant company for its liability as a guarantor of a default loan in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. …


With cloud computing growing in popularity, programming platform becomes quite important part for cloud computing. Hadoop is the most widely open source programming platform. In this chapter, we survey the Hadoop Platform and announce the Priority Based Weight Round Robin algorithm (PWBRR). According to the result of assuming experiment, we found that the PWBRR algorithm is more suitable than any other algorithms for Hadoop Platform. Keyword: cloud computing, PWBRR, Hadoop


Commercial spinning rotor gauges (SRGs) use a special linearization procedure to compensate for the pressure dependence of the rotor deceleration rate in the transition regime from 0.1 to 100 Pa. These procedures have been found to have large errors above 10 Pa [J. Setina and J. P. Looney, Vacuum 44, 577 (1993)], but can be significantly improved. An extensive set of experimental data of rotor deceleration rate versus gas pressure up to 130 Pa was acquired. A group of six SRGs and four gases (N2, Ar, He and H2) were used in the study. Temperature measurements were also included to account for heating effects. The data show that the differences between rotor/thimble combinations are large enough to cause differences of several percent if one uses the linearization functions currently in use without adjustable parameters. To get the best accuracy, one parameter is left in our linearization procedure to be determined by calibration. We call it the Knudsen length of the rotor/thimble assembly. This is the sec...


Plane geometric figures (PGFs) are essential diagrams that regularly appear in mathematics documents. To understand PGFs profoundly and intuitively, it is necessary to decompose them into visual elements rather than traditional line segments. In this paper, we present a method for detection and analysis of overlapped triangles on the basis of dominance rank. Overlapped triangles lead to a large quantity of redundant sub-triangles or incident triangles. The most important and representative triangles must be detected and adopted to reduce redundancy. Diverse types of relationships among potential triangles present at least three obstacles: (1) how to precisely detect all potential triangles, (2) how to select predominant triangles, and (3) how to verify that the combination of these predominant triangles can reconstruct the original figure. Based on Gestalt theory, we propose a method for selecting predominant triangles, including selection of the main convex triangle and composition of interior auxiliary triangles. Experiments show that our algorithm can detect most of the potential triangles and can present reasonable decomposition solutions using only few predominant elements.


Epidermoid cysts of the testis are rare benign lesions, without malignant potential, that can be managed conservatively with cyst enucleation and testis‐sparing surgery. Bilateral epidermoid cysts in the testes have been reported very infrequently. We report the sonographic and MRI findings in a patient who presented with a palpable nodule in only 1 testis, but in whom sonography showed bilateral lesions. On sonography, the cysts had an internal "onion‐ring" structure; color Doppler signals were absent. On MRI, the cysts had a laminated appearance, with alternating low‐ and high‐signal‐intensity areas on T2‐weighted images. These imaging findings and the negative results of laboratory tests for tumor markers suggested the correct diagnosis, and testis‐sparing surgery could be performed. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 32:370–372, 2004


Background- Stroke is sudden loss of neurological function caused by an interruption of the blood flow to the brain. The fine motor activities are also affected which leads to difficulty in writing, prehension and precision are also affected so patient is also not able to hold the or any object in the hand which required to performed in daily activities. Methods - This is an Observational study with a study duration was of 1 year. A total of 30 participants were recruited using the purposive sampling method from the Department of neuroscience, Vikhe Patil Memorial Hospital, Ahmednagar; Puntamba stroke center, Puntamba and Rahuri stroke center. Result - The study shows in jebson taylor hand function test, the most affected component is writing which requires more time followed by moving heavy objects and stimulated feeding, in addition requires less time for card turning, followed by small common object and checkers stacking and the least time required for performing moving light object in stroke patients. Conclusion- The study concludes that there is no relationship between duration of stroke and hand function recovery in patients with stroke. The jebson taylor hand function test shows that the most time required is for small dexterity movement like writing, stimulated feeding. The patients find difficulty in moving heavy objects. The less difficulty task is card turning, checkers stacking, moving light objects, which requires use of all the fingers.


Objective To explore the clinical effects of combining of total hemihepatic vascular exclusion with proper hepatic artery temporary exclusion.Methods From June 2001 to December 2006,the average bleeding volume during operation and liver function grade deterioration after operation were retrospectively analyzed in 35 cases subject to hemihepatic blood flow occlusion combined with proper hepatic artery temporary occlusion applied to hemihepatectomy(group A)vs 36 cases subject to hemihepatic blood flow occlusion alone applied to hemihepatectomy(group B).Results The average bleeding volume in group A and group B was (390±80)ml and (320±50)ml respectively with the difference being significant between them(P0.05).The occurrence of postoperative hepatic function deterioration in groups A and B was 17.1% and 16.6% respectively(P0.05).Conclusion Hemihepatic blood flow occlusion combined with proper hepatic artery temporary occlusion significantly reduces bleeding volume in hemihepatetomy and dose not increase hepatic function grade deterioration occurrence after hemihepatectomy.


The Intellectual Property can be an important source of incomes in the enterprises, such us, inventions, utility models, trademarks, know – how and industrial designs. The protection systems of them have different advantages and disadvantages, which must be considered at the moment of their choice in relation to the economic possibilities of the organization. This study is about the protection ways and their signification to the enterprise.


In order to develop a high-strength aluminum alloy, alumina dispersion strengthened aluminum alloy was prepared by high energy ball milling on 2024 aluminum alloy powder in ethanol. The microstructure, particle size and distribution of the Al2O3 particles in the alloy were analyzed by FE-SEM; the mechanical properties were investigated. Results showed that alumina dispersion strengthened aluminum alloy was prepared successfully by high energy ball milling, the Al2O3 particles of several tens of nm in diameter were homogeneously distributed in the matrix grain and the spatial distance between particles was about 50-100nm. The yield strength and elongation of alumina oxide dispersion strengthened aluminum alloy were 489MPa and 7.9%.


Identifying the origin of uranium ore concentrate (UOC) has become a research hotspot in nuclear forensics. In the present study, the feasibility of UOC attribution by rare-earth element (REE) signatures implied in uranium ores has been investigated with the help of iterative OPLS-DA. A database was established by published REE concentration data of 116 uranium ores from 10 countries. The data were transformed by two-step pretreatment so that they could show stronger geographical fingerprints. The efficiencies of different multidimensional statistics techniques (PCA, PLS-DA and OPLS-DA) in pattern recognition were compared and the results showed that OPLS-DA could reduce the impact of within-group variances to between-group variances. With the help of iterative OPLS-DA, samples from 10 different countries were totally distinguished within several iterations and the discrimination orders formed a decision tree, or attribution strategy. The results indicated that it was feasible to attribute the unknown UOC to its country by analyzing the common feature of REE patterns implied in uranium ores. Eventually, the study verifies that REE pattern is a powerful geographical fingerprint when identifying the origin of UOC, and the results show that iterative OLPS-DA has better potential in nuclear forensics studies comparing to PCA and PLS-DA.


Seasonal measurements of plant water status and environmental factors are made in two halophytes (Suaeda japonica and Salicornia herbacea) at the different sites such as Kunsan and Mokpo. Seasonal changes of environmental factors do not influence on the S. japonica community, but contents of soil water and chloride affect on the S. herbacea community. The seasonal changes in plant water components of S. japonica are similar to that those of S. herbacea. In both halophytes, lowering of plant water potential during the dry periods coupled with lowering of osmotic potential are observed. Since the reduction in osmotic potential roughly matched the reduction in water potential, turgor pressure is maintained through the season. With the maintenance of turgor in the field, growth and plant performance are continued. No significant differences in osmotic adjustment are observed between the two halophytes. The trends of the diurnal change in plant water potential of S. japonica is similar to those of S. herbacea, but the magnitude of change is very different. The magnitude of change is greater in S. japonica whereas that is less in S. herbacea. These studies demonstrate that there is active osmotic adjustment to salinity in S. japonica based on a lowering of osmotic potential. However there are presumably another mechanisms in addition to osmotic adjustment in S. herbacea.


Dry eye is a common disease that affects the tear film and the ocular surface causing a great variety of symptoms impairing the patient daily activities. The diagnosis of this disease requires a number of tests to evaluate different physiological characteristics. One of the tests captures the appearance of the tear film using the Doane interferometer, which generates images that can be categorized into five groups: strong fringes, coalescing strong fringes, line fringes, coalescing line fringes, and debris. The images can be manually classified by specialists into one of these five groups. The use of automatic systems for the diagnosis of dry eye can assist experts in the classification of these images, contributing to more accurate exams. Therefore, this work presents a method for automatic classification of images from the the lipid layer of the tear film using phylogenetic diversity indexes to extract texture features of the images. The proposed method presents promising results, reaching accuracy rates higher than 96%.


This study aims to determine the potential and efforts to utilize groundwater, the comparison of production result between irrigation and rainfed farmers and how the socio-economic life of farmers in Lise' village, Pancalautang sub district, Sidenreng Rappang district. This research is quantitative descriptive. Data collection is done through observation, questionnaires and documentation. With data processing techniques with descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistical analysis. The population in this study were 400 families, while the sample of this study was 80 families. Efforts to utilize ground water in Lise village for agricultural development have been carried out by the Ministry of PUPR through Groundwater Utilization (PAT) in the Central Pompengan-Jeneberang River Basin by drilling deep wells and shallow wells. The existence of groundwater irrigation in the village of Lise can help farmers to increase the yield of rice every year, where the comparison between the production of farmers in the irrigation group and rain fed groups with the difference in the difference is 0,8200 to 40,000. As for the socio-economic life of farmers in the village Lise 'can be said to be good. This is because most people choose to become farmers both cultivators and others. Farming experience for farmers affects land processing due to the amount of knowledge that has been applied. And affect the amount of production so that it can increase farmers' income.


Small intestinal GISTs have a wide variey of presentations and clinical associations which have previously made them difficult to diagnose. The development of newer small bowel imaging techniques in recent years has led to an increased awareness of GISTs as a cause of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.


Over the years, various ideas for the mechanical generation of palindromic sentences have been published in Word Ways. Of these, the simplest in concept may have been Dave Morice's Palindromic Slide Rule (August 1995). This device separates palindromic passages into paired segments comprised of single reversal words; by shifting the positions of columns of such words with respect to one another in s lide rule fashion , users can generate up to 10,000 different palindromic passages.