We are entering a new era in health care that will challenge conventional models of interventions and services for persons with serious mental illness (SMI) that were largely developed and tested in younger adults. The next two decades will witness an unprecedented change in the demographic characteristics of the population. By the year 2030 the number of Americans age 65 and older will more than double and more than one in five citizens will be over the age of 65 (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1996). At the same time, the fastest growing group of individuals with SMI are those age 50 and older (Jeste et al., 1999). Despite decades of remarkable progress in the development and testing of psychosocial interventions for persons with SMI, the specific needs of older adults have been largely neglected. This lack of attention to rehabilitation interventions is especially critical because impaired psychosocial functioning is strongly associated with greater overall costs, premature institutionalization in nursing homes, and poor outcomes in older adults with SMI (Bartels, Clark, Peacock, Dums, & Pratt, 2003; Bartels, Miles, Dums, & Levine, 2003; Bartels, Mueser, & Miles, 1997; Gilmer et al., 2003; Jeste et al., 2003;


The invention relates to an energy consumption monitoring system for a building. The system attracts the attention of people by an alarm mode, and adjustment or system upgrading is performed. Data required by field research is provided conveniently and quickly, time and labor are saved for national research, and the data authenticity and timeliness are optimized. According to the technical scheme, the energy acquiring, monitoring, analyzing and alarming system for independent rooms in an office building comprises metering devices, acquisition devices, a monitoring center and alarming devices; the metering devices are used for metering power consumption real-time data of all users; the acquisition devices are connected with the metering devices at all tail ends through a network, and transmit the obtained real-time data to the monitoring center through a wireless network; the monitoring center is used for storing and analyzing real-time data; and according to the alarm devices, three stages of alarming systems are used for alarming, a first-stage alarming system is connected with the metering devices, a second-stage alarming system is connected with the acquisition devices; and a third-stage alarming system is connected with the monitoring system. The energy acquiring, monitoring, analyzing and alarming system for the independent rooms in the office building is mainly applied to monitoring of the energy consumption of buildings.


Aiming at the problem of sequential waveform design for radar target recognition with imprecise prior knowledge, a kernel based sequential waveform design algorithm inspired by power transformed correlation kernel is proposed. Numerical results show the superiority of the proposed algorithm.


Social cohesion can be viewed in terms of common projects and networks of
social relations that characterize families, communities and society. In the past
decades, the basis for family cohesion has shifted from organic to mechanical or from breadwinner to collaborative model. As in many Western countries, data on family change in Canada point to a greater flexibility in the entry and exit from relationships, a delay in the timing of family events, and a diversity of family forms. After looking at changes in families and in the family setting of
individuals, the paper considers both intra-family cohesion and families as basis for social cohesion. Implications are raised for adults, children and public
policy.


It is well known that strong pressure fluctuation will occur in the draft tube of a Francis turbine operated under part-load operation. The pressure fluctuation is usually due to the vortex rope as well as cavitation. However, the vortical flow and pressure field are dependent on the geometry of draft tube of Francis turbine. In this study, hydraulic performance and pressure fluctuation have been tested for a model Francis turbine. The internal flow for the turbine is investigated numerically. It is confirmed that the numerical results predict reasonably the hydraulic performance and the pressure fluctuation due to vortex rope at part-load operation. For a better understanding of the vortical flow in the model turbine, a conical draft tube is used instead of the conventional elbow draft tube. The vorticity transport equation is applied to analyze the vortex evolution inside Francis turbine based on the unsteady flow simulation. The flow mechanism of the vortex rope and pressure fluctuation with different draft tubes is discussed. It is shown that both cavitation and the bending structure influence the vortex rope, which will cause a significant difference in the distribution of pressure fluctuation.


Objective
To explore the influence of active volume reduction surgery on intra-abdominal hypertension and prognosis in giant abdominal wall hernia repair.

Methods
The clinical data of 40 patients with giant abdominal wall hernia treated in Guangyuan central hospital from January 2015 to August 2017 were retrospectively analyzed, all patients underwent giant abdominal wall hernia repair combined with active volume reduction surgery. The perioperative and postoperative recovery related indicator, complications and recurrence were recorded, the changes of intravesical pressure before and after surgery were compared.

Results
All patients underwent surgery successfully, and the length of the intestine removed were (243.34±33.40) cm, the surgical incision healed up after the suture removal. The total postoperative complication rate was 30.00%, the recurrence rate of hernia was 5.13% during 9~12 months of follow-up. Compared with index of preoperative, postoperative intravesical pressure significantly reduced [(11.19±1.84) cm H2O vs (19.78±2.32) cm H2O, P<0.05].

Conclusion
Giant abdominal wall hernia repair combined with active volume reduction surgery to remove some of the omentum/intestinal tube and other organs, can significantly reduce the intra-abdominal hypertension and improve the prognosis of patients.

Key words:
Giant abdominal wall hernia repair; Active volume reduction surgery; Intra-abdominal hypertension; Prognosis


The hydraulic structures of the proposed site C hydroelectric project in northeastern British Columbia would require deep excavations in Lower Cretaceous Shaftesbury shales. A significant stress relief would occur over most of the area to be occupied by the structures. Concerns about the magnitude and rate of time-dependent rebound and their impacts on project design, construction, and operation have been addressed. A review was made of several important case histories of other major projects constructed on Prairie shales. The properties of those shales were compared with the Shaftesbury shales. Long-term testing to establish the shale swelling characteristics was performed. Analyses were then made to evaluate potential elastic and time-dependent rebounds of the project area. A procedure for computing stress changes and time-dependent deformations due to the unloading effect of excavation followed by structural loading was developed. The procedure is useful in determining differential rebound that would o...


As human leishmaniasis becomes more popular in suburban areas and the AIDS pandemic simultaneously spreads to rural areas,HIV and leishmania coinfection has emerged as a serious threat in countries where both pathogenic agents are widespread.However,this complicated phenomenon isn't paid attention to in China yet.Thus,advances in pathogenesis,clinical aspect,diagnosis,treatment and prophylaxis of Leishmania/HIV coinfection are reviewed here in order to attract the attention of our country.


10012 Background: The prognostic significance of response to induction therapy for rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) by anatomic imaging (computerized tomographic [CT] or magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] scan) is controversial. We previously reported no relationship between early response and failure-free survival (FFS) for patients on IRS-IV. We repeated the same analysis using an independent cohort of patients with non-metastatic, initially unresected RMS treated on a more recent clinical trial. Methods: A total of 338 patients enrolled in Children's Oncology Group study D9803 met the following inclusion criteria for this analysis: 1) non-metastatic, initially unresected (Group III); 2) embryonal (ERMS) or alveolar (ARMS) histology; 3) documented response to induction chemotherapy (excluding progressive disease) based on anatomic imaging; and 4) documented therapy beyond week 12. Response at week 12 was determined by the treating institution as complete response (CR, complete resolution), partial response (PR, dec...


Objective To investigate the clinical features,diagnosis and treatment of otogenic intracranial complications. Methods Data of 21 patients with otogenic intracranial complications hospitalized from 2003 to 2010 were analyzed retrospectively. These patients included 9 cases with otogenic brain abscess,5 with otogenic meningitis,4 with otogenic sinus thrombophlebitis and 3 with otogenic epidural abscess. Fourteen patients occurred secondary to cholesteatoma otitis media,3 to bone abscess otitis media,2 to masked mastoiditis and 2 to Modini deformity. All patients accepted CT scan examination of the ear and the brain. Six of them accepted MRI examination for the final diagnosis. Simple mastoidectomy was performed in 8 cases,radical mastoidectomy with brain abscess drainage in 6 cases, radical mastoidectomy and cranial drill of brain abscess drainage in 1 case,mastoidectomy with brain abscess resection in 1 case,radical mastoidectomy with sinus incision and abscess thrombosis removal in 1 case and perilymph leak repairment in 2 cases. Results All patients were followed up for 1 to 2 years. Twenty cases were cured,one patient died. Nineteen of the 20 cured cases got dry ear and one case suffered a little secretion in the surgical cavity. No recurrence was observed. Conclusions Cholesteatoma and bone abscess otitis media were the most common causes of otogenic intracranial complications. Early surgical treatment should be advocate for these two dangerous otitis. Cases with negative CT scan but with high suspicion of intracranial complications required further MRI examination. Furthermore,mastoidectomy approach was minimally invasive compared with craniotomy.


Addison's disease, or chronic adrenocortical insufficiency, is the overproduction of adrenocorticotropic hormone, ACTH, by the pituitary gland as a compensatory mechanism for decreased cortisol production by the adrenal glands. Classically, patients affected with Addison's disease develop weakness, anorexia, electrolyte imbalances: decreased sodium and chloride with increased serum potassium resulting in hypotension, and hyperpigmentation of the skin and mucous membranes. We report an undiagnosed localized hyperpigmented primary autoimmune Addison's disease as extra digestive manifestation of Helicobacter pylori infection in a 43 years old male patient, teacher, who presented with localized Palmar dark pigmentation, for 7 months duration. The case was diagnosed and confirmed by ACTH stimulating test and cortisol blood level, and is considered to be the first case (reported in Sudan) associated with H. pylori and it responded to triple therapy.


We examine auditor business risk by analyzing the relation between excess cash holdings and auditor pricing behavior. Prior research links excess cash holdings to risks associated with manager opportunism and external monitoring. Our analyses provide evidence of a positive relationship between excess cash and audit fees. The economic magnitude of the increase in total audit fees due to an increase in excess cash holdings is approximately 5% greater for firms in the top quartile of excess cash holdings versus those in the bottom quartile. We also find that the strength of shareholder rights reduces the positive relationship between excess cash and audit fees, and excess cash holdings are assigned lower audit fees among firms that follow an investment-intensive strategy than those that tend to hold on to their cash. Our article contributes to the literature by examining auditor pricing of excess cash holdings, including factors that affect auditors' risk perceptions, and ultimately provides unique insights into how auditors view agency conflicts indicated by excess cash holdings.


Many backdoor removal techniques in machine learning models require clean in-distribution data, which may not always be available due to proprietary datasets. Model inversion techniques, often considered privacy threats, can reconstruct realistic training samples, potentially eliminating the need for in-distribution data. Prior attempts to combine backdoor removal and model inversion yielded limited results. Our work is the first to provide a thorough understanding of leveraging model inversion for effective backdoor removal by addressing key questions about reconstructed samples' properties, perceptual similarity, and the potential presence of backdoor triggers. We establish that relying solely on perceptual similarity is insufficient for robust defenses, and the stability of model predictions in response to input and parameter perturbations is also crucial. To tackle this, we introduce a novel bi-level optimization-based framework for model inversion, promoting stability and visual quality. Interestingly, we discover that reconstructed samples from a pre-trained generator's latent space are backdoor-free, even when utilizing signals from a backdoored model. We provide a theoretical analysis to support this finding. Our evaluation demonstrates that our stabilized model inversion technique achieves state-of-the-art backdoor removal performance without clean in-distribution data, matching or surpassing performance using the same amount of clean samples.


Hybrids of Agropyron sericeu?iz Hitchc. and Elymus sibiriczis L. first observed in southcentral Alaska in 1949 have become increasingly abundant and cornmon and now can be found along the highway system toward the interior of Alaska. A mass collection taker1 from a large mixed population in which XAgroely7nus palwzerensis Lepage outnumbered its parents was analyzed for evidence of introgression and the establish~nent of a fertile intermediate. The individuals analyzed were completely sterile and n~orphologically distinct from their parents. Tlie evidence suggests that the extensive hybrid populations result from a high frequency of interspecific hybridization and that p rather complete barrier exists to the transfer of germplasm through back crossing.


The development of modern business technology provides an opportunity for future virtual entrepreneurs to start-up a product and build their very own empires at a very low cost and no border interactivity with the consumer because the information is easily accessible. The generation with the most potential to become future virtual entrepreneurs is the Nexus generation. This paper aims to present reviews of Nexus generation behaviour and analyze the reasons why the Nexus generation has the potential to become virtual entrepreneurs. Today is the era of technological advancement. Many researchers in the Social Sciences claim that Nexus is the first generation of this era of technological growth. They are well educated, confident, achievers who take advantage of opportunities and are highly technologically savvy. The stumbling blocks are the unemployment rate among the Nexus generation and the lack of opportunities to become entrepreneurs. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the entrepreneurial potential of the present Nexus generation graduate and to determine the qualities which contribute to them becoming virtual entrepreneurs. This study is significant because it will contribute to the development of Malaysia's growth in line with the National Strategic 2015 set by the Government


Cultivating college students' mechanical innovation ability is urgent requirements for mechanical engineering education in today's society. In this paper, we put forward improving the students' ability of knowledge application and mechanical innovation design through virtual assembly technology based on institutional innovation in the comprehensive practice teaching. The practice results of teaching reform show that the teaching based on virtual simulation and assembly technology of engineering helps students apply what they have learned, stimulate their interest in learning, and cultivate their mechanical innovation design ability, which verifies the validity of the teaching reform..


Synopsis: An apparatus forthemeasurementofthetotal hemispherical emissivity ofstranded conductor isdescribed. A measurement ismadeby suspending the specimen inthecenter ofan evacuated chamber, heating thespecimen, andtaking acooling curve.Newstranded aluminum conductors haveemissivity values ofabout 20to25%;old, weathered conductors may haveemissivities of90% orhigher. Data tending toconfirm thevalues ofemissivity obtained arepresented intheformofactual temperature rises ofseveral sizes ofstranded conductor undercontrolled conditions. It isshownthatthevalues ofconvected heat lossobtained by subtracting calculated radiated heatlossfromthemeasured I2R input totheconductor checkveryclosely forbothnewandblackened conductors.


We investigate high brightness pumping of a multi-kW Yb fiber amplifier in a bi-directional pumping configuration. Each pump outputs 2 kW in a 200 µm, 0.2 NA multi-mode fiber. Gold-coated specialty gain fibers, with 17 µm MFD and 5-dB/meter pump absorption, have been developed. The maximum fiber amplifier output power is 3.1 kW, limited by multi-mode instability, with 90% O-O efficiency 12 GHz Linewidth and M2 < 1.15.


Key points of using non-invasive methods for evaluating myocardial ischemia (exercise electrocardiogram, stress echocardiography, single photon emission computed tomography and myocardial perfusion imaging with stress-test) in clinical practice to determine the functional significance of intermediate coronary artery stenoses (50-70% of the vascular lumen) are discussed in the review.


Surface polarization effect was identified as an important factor that impairs the energy performance of photovoltaic crystalline-Si modules. Such an effect has been experimentally analysed by monitoring a monocrystalline Si-modules based power plant. It has been revealed that the surface polarization effect can reduce the photovoltaic power plant production up to 50 % respect to the expected value. Polarization effects in monocristalline Si-modules are generally caused by an incorrect grounding of the photovoltaic power plant on the DC side. In the present paper such degradation process has been investigated both on the whole plant and on modules. By analysing the I-V characteristics of selected modules, it has been revealed that the degradation rate depends on their position in the string. Finally, different recovery approaches have been experimentally tested on sampled modules and on the whole photovoltaic power plant. The results of the characterization carried out during recovery process are presented.


In this work we introduce the class of weakly c-contractive mappings. We establish that these mappings necessarily have unique fixed points in complete metric spaces. We support our result by an example. Our result also generalises an existing result in metric


Let us study about the ophthalmology in the developing area of the environment of the aerospace. After the launch of Naroho (KSLV-l) , Korean people are interested in the development of the technology and environment of the aerospace. It is important to the people who are engaged in the lields of the aerospace that the vision is affected by the environment of the aerospace so much. lt can be hypoxia due to high altitude, blurred vision and lowering of the color sense due to mydriasis, disturbance of the light sense due to acceleration and vibration. But thanks to the development of relractive surgery, people can be an applicant lor a pilot just 1 year after the surgery. The environment of the aerospace is also special to the area of the ophthalmology. There must be lurther study about the environment of the aerospace.


This study is an investigation in anthroponomy of a Yemeni community which mayreflect the naming practices followed in some tribal regions of Yemen neighboring SaudiArabia. The study aims at investigating personal names, particularly female names, asthey look very striking to a person who does not know much about the culture of thoseregions. Almost 300 personal female names are collected by the researcher usingquestionnaire as the tool for data collection. The names are, then, classified into differentcategories on the basis of their sources. For instance, Saadah and the adjacentgovernorates (in Yemen) are famous for different weapons business, so, you can hearnames like tomateek, canadah: types of gun or qunbulah: grenade). Such selection ofnames is indicative of the attitudes of the parents of the family and of the way they areassociated with the nature and the atmosphere around them as suggested by the responsesto the questionnaire. However, the changing social, political and linguistic influences onthe land and the people of Saadah and the neighboring places (in Yemen) have left theirimpact on naming patterns. As a result, naming practices are changing. This study is apreliminary investigation in anthroponomy of the Yemeni community, to be precise inthe north and north west part of the country. It is an attempt toward understandinganthroponomy as a branch of the science of Onomastics in the region in relation tosociolinguistics.


PBT/organic montmorillonite (MMT) nanocomposites were prepared via melt intercalation and their nanostructure was characterized by means of X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. Nanocomposite formation requires sufficiently hydrophobic organically modified layered silicates, as well as the presence of polar interactions between silicate and polymer. Three different alkylammonium surfactants were used to modify MMT. In addition, epoxy resin was added as a third component, and the effects on the intercalation and exfoliation behavior of the PBT nanocomposites were investigated.


SUMMARY The sources of inoculum of Eutypa dieback of grapevines, caused by Eutypa lata, are not fully understood. Ascospores are thought to be the main source, but in populations with low disease incidence conidia may be important. Earlier studies of this disease in Italy and Germany did not report sexual structures (perithecia) of E. lata on grapevines, leaving open the possibility that populations of this fungus are clonal in some areas. However, we found perithecia in 24% and 43% of symptomatic vines in vineyards in Italy and Germany, respectively. Spatial patterns of symptomatic vines in the German vineyard were significantly aggregated but the aggregation was not strong, as might be expected if the fungus dispersed by conidia or mycelium on pruning tools. In contrast, vines with stromata and perithecia were not significantly aggregated in space. Vegetative compatibility (vc) types segregated among ascospore progeny in all perithecia sampled from both vineyards, indicating that this fungus consistently outcrosses in these populations. Finally, we found a high diversity of vc types in both vineyards, where isolates from different vines (with one exception) had unique vc types. These results reject the hypothesis that clonal reproduction of E. lata is epidemiologically significant, and strongly suggests that ascospores of E. lata are an important source of inoculum. Furthermore, E. lata's mating system is characterized by outcrossing in nature.


UNIPOL polyethylene device in the production of high density polyethylene was usually the subject to some restrictions and can not be high load and stable production,resulting in the production of high density polyethylene with high energy and material consumption,serious impact on the production efficiency.In order to meet the need of cleaner production,reduce production cost,adjusting the parameters into the condensation state operation,controlling the formation of oligomers and reducing the content of fine powder,stable operation of production of high load was ensured.


For the overload of Buses on the highways, this paper has designed an overload control system which can figure out the exact number of passengers through the infrared emission germinate transistors, then the number will be analyzed by the central processing unit made from single-chip to find whether the coach is overloaded or not. If overloaded, the speakers alarm will issue the warning, and the relay control circuit will lock the automobile engine to prevent an accident.


Supported Liquid Membranes (SLMs) have been widely studied as feasible alternative to traditional processes for separation and purification of various chemicals both from aqueous and organic matrices. This technique offers various advantages like active transport, possibility to use expensive extractants, high selectivity, low energy requirements and minimization of chemical additives. SLMs are not yet used at large scale in industrial applications, because of the low stability. In the present paper, after a brief overview of the state of the art of SLM technology the facilitated transport mechanisms of SLM based separation is described, also introducing the small and the big carrousel models, which are employed for transport modeling. The main operating parameters (selectivity, flux and permeability) are introduced. The problems related to system stabilization are also discussed, giving particular attention to the influence of membrane materials (solid membrane support and organic liquid membrane (LM) phase). Various approaches proposed in literature to enhance SLM stability are also reviewed. Modification of the solid membrane support, creating an additional layer on membrane surface, which acts as a barrier to LM phase loss, increases system stability, but the membrane permeability, and then the flux, decrease. Stagnant Sandwich Liquid Membrane (SSwLM), an implementation of the SLM system, results in both high flux and stability compared to SLM. Finally, possible large scale applications of SLMs are also reviewed, evidencing that if the LM separation process is opportunely carried out (no production of byproducts), it can be considered as a green process.


Inexpensive countermeasures against breaking of wire and momentary service interruption without using any ZnO device for reduction of the cost of lightning countermeasure for aerial lines are taken. A lightning arrester body (14) for an aerial line constituted of a insulated wire is formed of a double-folded insulated wire insulated to the same extent as that of a power cable. The conductor-exposed side (15) of the lightning arrestor body (14) is connected to the insulator earthing side (13), and the insulating cover side (16) is disposed on the discharge electrode (4) side provided to an aerial line (1). The insulating cover of the aerial line (1) on the insulating cover side (16) is through-broken in advance by means of a needle electrode of the discharge electrode (4). Thus a creeping discharge lightning arrestor is provided. If the aerial line is a bare wire, the conductor-exposed side of the arrestor body is connected to the insulator-earthing side, and the insulator cover side is disposed to the aerial line.


N ABSTRACT Inclusive cross sections in the triple-Regge region are calculateg using a version of the ABFST multiperipheral model that amounts to an extension of the Deck model. Even though almost no parameters are available for 'adjustment, presently available moderate-energy data are described in a qualitatively satisfactory manner. Predictions are made for future experiments at higher energies, and the various triple-Regge couplings are extracted from the model. It is found that vertices corresponding to high-lying trajectories are suppressed. In particular the dimensionless parameter TJpPP that characterizes the triple-Pomeranch?n vertex turns out to be ~ 10- 3 •


Objective
To investigate the effect of axial load test in Taylor spatial frame treatment of external fixation for tibia and fibula fractures.

Methods
A retrospective case-control study was conducted to analyze the clinical data of 36 patients with open fracture of tibia and fibula admitted to Tianjin Hospital from March 2015 to June 2017. There were 22 males and 14 females, aged 21-71 years [(46.1±14.2)years]. All patients received Taylor spatial frame external fixation for tibia and fibula fracture within 1 week after injury. After operation, 18 patients received axial load test (experiment group), and the other 18 did not (control group). When the value of axial load test was less than 5% in experiment group, the Taylor spatial frame was removed. The control group used traditional method to remove the Taylor spatial frame. Comparisons were made between the two groups in terms of treatment duration, total cost, re-fracture after Taylor spatial frame removal and incidence of stent-tract infection.

Results
All patients were followed up for 3-14 months with an average of 8.6 months. Compared with control group, the treatment duration [(36.17±11.44)weeks vs. (44.50±9.16)weeks] and total cost [(93.7±7.9)thousand yuan vs. (120.1±10.6)thousand yuan] of experiment group were significantly lower (P 0.05).

Conclusions
After Taylor spatial frame external fixation for tibia and fibula fractures, regular axial load test can safely and timely guide the removal of Taylor spatial frame. It can reduce the treatment duration and cost compared with the traditional removal method, being safe and reliable.

Key words:
Tibial fractures; Fibula; External fixators; Axial loading


Not substantially inhibit NADPH oxidase activity in white blood cells, and medicaments comprising an inhibitor and its excessive action of NAD (P) H oxidase containing a compound that inhibits NAD (P) H oxidase activity in tissues other than leukocytes Composition.


Chemical looping partial oxidation of CH4 is a promising method for producing syngas with a suitable H2/CO ratio and avoiding the risk of explosion and use of an expensive air separation plant. How...


With the deepening of the reform of collective forest right system,the farmers' concept of market economy has improved,the amount of forest right transactions significantly has increased and forest right assessment has been paid more attention.On the basis of the basic analysis of the forest right transformation and forest right assessment,the importance of evaluation of forest right transfer has been elaborated,and some problems in the forest transfer assessment process were pointed out.Then new ways are put forward to address these issues and the key points to address these issues after the reform of collective forest right system.


Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is one of the newer methods of manufacturing. The basic difference to other types of production is that the material is added in the form of layers. There are many types of technologies in 3D printing, but the most common is fused deposition modeling. This technology uses different types of thermoplastic materials to build an object. This paper will present the tribological characteristics and surface roughness measurement of samples printed on a low-cost 3D printer using thermoplastic materials ABS.


This paper describes the kinds of talk that children in three different preschools typically experience during storybook read-alouds and other interactions with print. The paper situates these experiences within everyday classroom life and describes the ways these contrasting experiences may be related to the development of literacy and literary understandings by discussing the story telling and story writing of three precocious children from low-income families. Despite support at home with resources, limitPd classroom resources (in terms of the number and varieties of books and limited opportunities to participate in literate activities) impoverish the storyworlds of the students. Three figures of children's drawings and writings are included. Contains 24 references. (RS) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************


We report the identification of cyclical changes in the orbital period of the eclipsing dwarf nova Z Cha. We used times of mid-eclipse collected from the literature and our new eclipse timings to construct an observed-minus-calculated diagram covering 30 yr of observations (1972-2002). The data present cyclical variations that can be fitted by a linear plus sinusoidal function with period 28 ′ 2 yr and amplitude 1.0 ′ 0.2 min. The statistical significance of this period by an F-test is larger than 99.9 per cent. The derived fractional period change, ΔP/P = 4.4 x 10 - 7 , is comparable to that of other short-period cataclysmic variables (CVs), but is one order of magnitude smaller than those of the long-period CVs. Separate fits to the first and second halves of the data lead to ephemerides with quite different cycle periods and amplitudes, indicating that the variation is not sinusoidal or, most probably, is not strictly periodic. The observed cyclical period change is possibly caused by a solar-type magnetic activity cycle in the secondary star. An incremental variation in the Roche lobe of the secondary star of ΔR L 2 /R L 2 ≃ 1.7 x 10 - 4 is required in order to explain both the observed period change and the modulation of the quiescent brightness previously reported by Ak, Ozkan & Mattei.


A circuit for gas tube applications is described by means of which it is possible selectively to reverse the polarity of pulses entering a given set of input terminals so as to obtain monopolar output pulses for bipolar input signals; this is accomplished without a serious time delay difference through the network for input signals of either polarity.


Weakening cohesion as a security challenge for the European Union: the CEEs in f ocus One of the f undamental goals of European integration is t o provide opportunities to less-developed Member States for both convergence and the strengthening of the economic and social cohesion. Prior to the 2008 global financial crisis, the c onvergence process across the EU had spectacular results. The aft ermath of the cri sis, however, threatens the prospects of convergence in the EU. In other words, the EU's cohesion policy, which could mitigate the crisis' impact, has not received a pr ominent status in the f orthcoming programming period and in the 20 14-2020 mul- tiannual financial framework (MFF). As a result, in the medium term, economic and social cohesion in the EU's periphery is thr eatened, thus generating a number of security challenges for the Southern as well as f or the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEs) members of the EU. Nora Vanaga Is Russia still a thr eat to Latvia? An analysis of Latvia's security strategy This paper examines the security strategies of small states and against this backdrop investigates what kind of se- curi ty strategy Latvia is implementing. In order to understand the thr eats and risks that are relevant to Latvia today, its security environment is briefly analysed. The security strategy of Latvia is discussed. It is argued that Russia is still perceived in Latvia as a real threat both at the political and the social levels. It is also emphasized that the prevalence of a cooperative security strategy, rather than a more defensive approach, in Latvia's take on its security, is conditioned by Latvia's limited resources.


For over four decades now there has been global concerns emerging from environmental considerations. Sustainability was introduced subsequently as a concept to reconcile these environmental dynamics with other 'pillars' of sustainable development (social and economic). These global concerns of the environment indicate the importance of green operations management towards optimal utilisation of organisational resources and sustainable management of the entirety of the systems. To this end, this chapter is aimed at providing a review and discussions on relevant historical literature on sustainability and green operations management.


Minor crime occurrence trend of younger age,to the legal practice and social governance inChina has brought new challenges,appropriate to introduce "malicious complement Age",make up the "ageof criminal responsibility system" in China,to deal with minor crime in the judicial practice carried out prob-lem is of great significance. Criminal responsibility age system,adapted for principle and the social securityfunction and protection function of criminal law of the unified coordination,is "malicious complement Age" supplement to adapt to the theoretical basis. In our country,added in "age of criminal responsibility system" for "malicious complement Age",the realistic feasibility. In practice,we should clear up age "malice" in crim-inal law,juvenile justice system in the position of independent,establish the social support of professional in-stitutions,to set up the appropriate adult participation system and other aspects.


The reconstruction and extension project of the first class highway-Shenyang-Qipan Mountain highway are introduced in detail,and the design experience is also stated.


The present study was aimed to examine whether the expression of renin is associated with that of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in the kidney. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were made two-kidney, one clip (2K1C) or deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive, to stimulate or to inhibit the endogenous renin-angiotensin system, respectively. The expression of renin and COX-2 mRNA was determined in the cortex of the kidney by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. 2K1C hypertensive rats showed an increased expression of renin as well as of COX-2 in the clipped kidney. The expression of renin was decreased in parallel with that of COX-2 in the contralateral non-clipped kidney. Removal of the renal arterial clip reversed the expression of both genes, along with the blood pressure, to the control level. On the other hand, DOCA-salt hypertension was associated with parallel decreases of renin and COX-2 expression. These results indicate that renin and COX-2 genes are coordinately expressed in the kidney.


CNN showing a clip of the landing of the U.S. Airways Flight 1549 minutes after the pilot reported hitting birds and losing power in both engines, and calmly telling an air traffic controller the plane would ditch into the Hudson River.


Infrared spectral observations of sunspots from 1998 to 2011 have shown that on average sunspots changed, the magnetic fields weakened, and the temperatures rose. The data also show that sunspots or dark pores can only form at the solar surface if the magnetic field strength exceeds about 1500 G. Sunspots appear at the solar surface with a variety of field strengths, and during the period from 1998 to 2002 a histogram of the sunspot magnetic fields shows a normal distribution with a mean of 2436 ± 26 G and a width of 323 ± 20 G. During this observing period the mean of the magnetic field distribution decreased by 46 ± 6 G per year, and we assume that as the 1500 G threshold was approached, magnetic fields appeared at the solar surface which could not form dark sunspots or pores. With this assumption we propose a quantity called the sunspot formation fraction and give an analytical form derived from the magnetic field distribution. We show that this fraction can quantitatively explain the changing relationship between sunspot number and solar radio flux measured at 10.7 cm wavelengths.


The current state of the art object recognition systems work reasonably well for limited data sets. In the case of feature based methods, apart from being object specific the amount of features in the database also grows linearly with the number of objects. Similarly, in patch based methods if the number of patches are kept constant irrespective of the number of objects to be recognized, the performance drops. This paper presents a novel approach towards sharing features between objects of the same class to create a dictionary of shared features for that class. It uses a combination of the feature & patch based approaches to enable creation of Shared SIFT features & also recognition of other objects of the same class using these Shared SIFT features.


I. INTRODUCTION The competitiveness of the U.S. capital markets in attracting foreign issuers(1) to offer publicly and to list their securities for public trading in the United States is immensely important. The U.S. public market continues to be one of the world's most attractive markets for capital raising for a number of reasons: the depth and breadth of the issuer and investor base; the sophistication of the market professionals who have demonstrated an enormous capacity to produce innovative financial products and to respond to changing market needs; the efficiencies of the public trading market as well as clearance and settlement systems; and, importantly, confidence in the fundamental integrity and fairness of the U.S. public market. In some senses, this last factor, confidence in the fundamental integrity and fairness of the U.S. public market, may provide the foundation and encourage development of the issuer and investor base, innovation in financial product development, and growth in the public trading market as well as clearance and settlement systems. By providing a framework, based on full disclosure of material information, U.S. federal securities regulation plays an important role in fostering confidence in the fundamental integrity and fairness of the public market. Securities regulation, in itself, is not necessarily a benefit to the market. Moreover, greater amounts of regulation do not necessarily translate into a greater sense of confidence in the integrity and fairness of the market among market participants. Regulation should result from an assessment of costs and benefits; the degree of regulation imposed should not exceed the benefits intended to be derived from the regulation. In addition, when weighing the costs and benefits, regulators should ensure that the intended goals and benefits underlying their regulatory mandate are given full consideration, while at the same time ensuring that their considerations do not extend beyond that mandate. In Barriers to Foreign Issuer Entry Into U.S. Markets, Roberta Karmel and Mary Head argue that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) has been unresponsive to the genuine needs of foreign issuers and that regulatory and other action taken by the Commission in the international area has been minimal and ineffectual.(2) Karmel and Head's primary criticism focuses on the Commission's current position that foreign issuers accessing the U.S. public market by listing their securities on national securities exchanges(3) comply with disclosure requirements, particularly the requirement to reconcile their financial statements to U.S. GAAP.(4) Karmel and Head assert that the requirement to reconcile financial statements to U.S. GAAP places an undue burden upon foreign issuers and has deterred them from accessing the U.S. public market.(5) Karmel and Head argue that foreign issuers are unwilling to enter the U.S. public market, which makes the major U.S. stock exchanges, particularly the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), uncompetitive compared to non-U.S. stock exchanges in attracting foreign issuer listings.(6) At a minimum, Karmel and Head propose that the reconciliation requirement be eliminated for large foreign issuers traded in major foreign public markets.(7) In contrast to the criticisms aired by Karmel and Head in Barriers to Foreign Issuer Entry Into U.S. Markets, the facts relating to foreign issuer participation in the U.S. public market support several very different conclusions. Over the last several years, foreign issuer activity in both the private and public markets has been significant and has grown year-to-year, indicating that foreign issuers are attracted to U.S. markets and that the Commission's rules are not a significant barrier to foreign issuers' use of those markets.(8) In addition, the Commission has repeatedly simplified its rules, to the extent possible, and has promulgated new rules that have had significant impact in attracting foreign issuers to U. …


In a recent RQ column, Sharon L. Baker reviewed the profession's literature in the area of readers' advisory services. She found that very little research existed in the area of readers' advisory services. The research that does exist is focused on "passive" readers' advisory strategies. Baker is a leader in this area and her articles on overload and browsing, the use of displays, and genre classification are essential to understanding the adult fiction reader and ways in which libraries can assist these individuals in locating new authors and titles of interest.


There has been tremendous interest in the exploration and production activities of readily available alternatives to conventional oil. Oil seeps observed in Ijebu-Imushin, Ogun State, south-western Nigeria, served as an indication of the occurrence of oil sands – a non-conventional hydrocarbon resource – in the area. Electrical and ground magnetic geophysical survey techniques were thus employed to map the occurrence of the oil sand deposits in the study area as well as to determine the depth to the basement in order to obtain information on the subsurface for exploitation activities. Three vertical electrical soundings and 2-D electrical imaging along a single profile were carried out using the Schlumberger and Werner configurations, respectively. Modelling the likely subsurface structures from the measured magnetic profiles indicates a likely maximum depth to basement of 300m across the study area. The constructed strata from the electrical methods revealed that oil sands deposit are likely to be present and substantial in the south-western part of the study area. The deposit appears to commence from a depth of about 2 m, extending to a depth of approximately 40 m in this part of the study area.


This paper examined the probabilistic load analysis for the tailplane during pitching maneuvering in the conceptual aircraft design phase. The flight load analysis based on the probabilistic distribution of design variables are compared with the results of the deterministic analysis. Two forms of variable distribution are used in this paper. One is standard normal distribution, the other distribution is calculated from the results of short-period longitudinal equation of aircraft motion. The influence of the distribution parameter on the probabilistic load analysis was investigated and the significant design variables that have an impact on the mean and variance of probabilistic load were identified. The comparison indicates that probabilistic load analysis provides more reliable probabilistic load distribution for the structural design than the traditional deterministic analysis.


Steven L. Bindeman, Ph.D., until his retirement in Dec. 2010, was professor of philosophy and department chairperson at Strayer University, Arlington campus. His teaching experience reflects not only his interest in philosophy and psychology, but in film and media studies, science fiction, world music, and comparative religion. He has been elected into Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. He has published articles on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Levinas, the creative process, and postmodernism, alongside numerous book reviews. His book, Heidegger and Wittgenstein: The Poetics of Silence (Lanham: University Press of America, 1981) is currently listed as a recommended text under the listing "Heidegger" in the Encyclopedia Britannica. His book, The Antiphilosophers, was recently published by Peter Lang (2015). He has also just completed a book under the title Silence and Postmodernism, currently under consideration for publication. Email: email@example.com


The invention discloses high weather-proof acrylic amino stoving varnish comprising 50 to 60 percent of hydroxy acrylic resin, 10 to 15 percent of methylated amino resin, 0.1 to 1 percent of a hydroxyl-containing fluorosilicone assistant, 15 to 25 percent of a pigment, 20 to 30 percent of a solvent and 0.2 to 1 percent of an enclosed type acid catalyst, wherein the hydroxy containing fluorosilicone assistant is generated from the reaction of hydroxyl-fluoro silicone oil, nine fluorine hexyl siloxane, dimethyl siloxane and hexamethyldisiloxane under the catalysis of potassium silicon alkoxide. The high weather-proof acrylic amino stoving varnish has the advantages of self-cleaning characteristic, good weather resistance and excellent outdoor light and color retention.


In the operation of the shearer in thin coal seam, because the cable follows the shearer back and forth for many times, it is easy to make the cable bend and superposition, which affects the service life of the cable and the life safety of the staff. The PID algorithm based on particle swarm optimization is adopted, and the PID control based on the speed and position is adopted. Combination of tension and torque parameters adjustment makes towing device control system can automatically adjust the parameters of the towing device, cable always maintain suitable tension state safety, improve the service life of machine cable, ensure the normal operation of the coal mining process, promote the fully mechanized working face less humanization, unmanned process, improve the degree of fully mechanized working face intelligent.


Electric buses have many significant advantages, such as zero emissions and low noise and energy consumption, making them play an important role in saving the operation cost of bus companies and reducing urban traffic pollution emissions. Therefore, in recent years, many cities in the world dedicate to promoting the electrification of public transport vehicles. Whereas due to the limitation of on-board battery capacity, the driving range of electric buses is relatively short. The accurate estimation of energy consumption on the electric bus routes is the premise of conducting bus scheduling and optimizing the layout of charging facilities. This study collected the actual operation data of three electric bus routes in Meihekou City, China, and established the support vector machine regression (SVR) model by taking the state of charge (SOC), trip travel time, mean environment temperature and air-conditioning operation time as the independent variables; while the energy consumptions of the route operations served as the dependent variables. Furthermore, the grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm was adopted to select the optimal parameters of the proposed model. Finally, a support vector machine regression model based on the grey wolf optimization algorithm (GWO-SVR) is proposed. Three real bus lines were taken as examples to validate the model. The results show that the mean average percentage error is 14.47% and the mean average error is 0.7776. In addition, the estimation accuracy and training time of the proposed model are superior to the genetic algorithm-back propagation neural network model and grid-search support vector machine regression model.


The combination of NAA and 6_BA was better for the callus induction of Saussurea involucrata than single NAA,6_BA,and 2,4_D.MS medium was most effective for callus induction from leaves;6,7_V medium was most effective for adventitious buds induction from callus;90% of the adventitious buds rooted well after they were planted on the 1/2 MS containing 0.5mg\5L~(_1) NAA for 28 days.


Although a large number of studies have been conducted to evaluate the success of farmer groups, a comprehensive evaluations starting from group formation process has not been carried out much.  This research rates the success of farmer groups as a vehicle to improve the livelihoods of farmers in the area of Management Unit of Production Forest (KPHP) of Puncak Ngengas-Batu Lanteh, Sumbawa. The success was measured by evaluating three roles of farmer groups namely,  a) class for learning, b) forum for collaboration, and c) unit for production. This research was conducted in two periods, i.e. on April 2016 and April 2017. The sample consisted of 20 forest farmers selected purposively, the data were collected through interviews and focus group discussion techniques and analysed descriptively. This study revealed that the roles scale of farmer groups as class for learning and as a forum for collaboration were categorized as low level, while as a unit for production was categorized as moderate level. These categories show that in general the farmer group had not succeeded in carrying out its function as a class for learning, and as a vehicle for collaboration, except as a unit for production. This weak condition was utilized by middlemen to take advantages from marketing activity by controlling forest product prices.  The Kanada farmer group was categorized in the beginner group which needs 75 % intervention from outsider such as continual mentoring by counsellors to grow the attitude from working alone to working together in a group.


Bandwidth enhancement and response flattening of wavelength conversion based on single-pass and double-pass cascaded second harmonic generation and difference frequency generation were investigated in segmented quasi-phase matched (QPM) gratings. It is shown that the signal and pump bandwidths are both efficiently widened by increasing the segment number of the QPM grating and optimising the poling period of each segment. The ripple on the matching response is also very small. The conversion bandwidth in a 3-cm-long three-segment waveguide reaches 150–160 nm, which is over the whole conventional band and long-wavelength band. Larger signal bandwidth can be obtained with a little response flatness penalty and conversion efficiency penalty, which can be compensated by increasing the input pump power. Compared with a sinusoidally chirped optical superlattice device, a wavelength converter based on the segmented gratings has higher conversion efficiency, broader bandwidth and better pump-wavelength tolerance, and is easier to fabricate in practice.


Cotton is a versatile eco-friendly fibre accepted largely for its comfortable properties among consumers. Natural Colour Cotton fabrics are historical products that have regained their importance because of their ecofriendly nature. Synthetic dyes and chemicals used in wet processing of textiles are hazardous and are known to be carcinogenic on prolonged use. Dark Brown and Green hirsutum genotypes were processed to fabric and the fabrics were subjected to various laundering agents viz., soaps, detergents and non-ionic agents to study the impact of the same on the colour parameters of the fabrics. Results revealed that the there is a significant difference in the colouir of the fabrics with first wash with an alkaline detergent. However, neutral/ non-ionic soaps and detergents used for subsequent washings shall aid in prolonged retainment of colour of the fabrics. However, such eco-friendly products are precious and require eco-friendly surfactants for better performance. Eco-friendly surfactants need to be designed for such uses in the eco- industry.


Objective POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin lesions) is a paraneoplastic disorder resulting in severe neurologic disability. Understanding the clinical, laboratory, neurophysiologic, and histopathologic features as well as treatment responses of POEMS will assist in more accurate and timely diagnosis, risk stratification, and effective management. Methods This was a retrospective longitudinal cohort study from 1998 to March 2019, with 7,184 person-months of follow-up time. Hospital databases were used to collate presenting features, investigations, therapies, and response. Results One hundred patients were included with a median follow-up time of 59 months (range, 1–252). Mean symptom onset to diagnosis was 15 months (range, 1–77), with 54% of patients initially misdiagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Median number of multisystem features at diagnosis was 7. Ninety-six (96%) presented with neuropathy, which was length-dependent in 93 (93%) and painful in 75 (75%). At diagnosis, 35% of patients were wheelchair or bedbound, with median Overall Neuropathy Limitation Score of 6, improving to 3 following treatment (p < 0.05). Five-year survival was 90% and 82% at 10 years, with 5- and 10-year progression-free survival of 65% and 53%. Nontreatment with autologous stem cell transplantation, nonhematologic response, and non–vascular endothelial growth factor response are significant risk factors in multivariate analysis to predict progression or death. Risk factors are incorporated to develop a risk score enabling stratification of high- and low-risk cases. Conclusions POEMS syndrome is a rare multisystem condition with delayed diagnosis and poor neurologic function at presentation. Therapy has favorable outcomes. Patients at high risk of death or progression can be identified, which may allow for more active monitoring and influence management.


This was a case report which described the background, method, and test results of the effect of 3 wavelength lasers transmeatal irradiation treatment on motion sickness, using combined lasers with an output of 2.5 mW @ 532 nm 10.0 mW @ 808 nm 2.0 mW @ 1064 nm for transmeatal irradiation treatment. 10 patients aged 50 ± 25 were treated with MWLLLTI at a dose of 104 Joule in total for both ears per day for 15 consecutive days. It was found that MWLLLTI stimulation was effective in motion sickness treatment.


BACKGROUND
The construction industry is heavily affected by occupational accidents, and it is important to investigate how leadership behaviors promoting safety on construction sites are fostered among construction-site managers.

OBJECTIVE
The overall aim of this study was to investigate how safety-leadership behaviors can be developed in the construction industry, specifically focusing on managerial role modeling.

METHODS
A two-wave longitudinal cohort study with approximately four months between measurement occasions was conducted among construction-site supervisors in Sweden (n = 51). Supervisors' ratings of their site managers' and their own generic and safety-specific contingent reward (CR) leadership behaviors were obtained by means of questionnaires. Cross-lagged panel models were tested within a path model framework to test the hypothesis that site managers' leadership behaviors prospectively influence supervisors' leadership behaviors.

RESULTS
Site managers' CR behaviors prospectively influenced supervisors' CR behaviors, both generic CR behaviors (β= 0.29, p = 0.01) and safety-specific CR behaviors (β= 0.22, p = 0.04). For safety-specific CR behaviors, a reversed effect (β= 0.26, p = 0.03) was also found, implying that supervisors' behaviors prospectively influenced site managers' behaviors.

CONCLUSION
Site managers act as role models for supervisors when it comes to developing safety-leadership behaviors on construction sites. The results also indicate that site managers are influenced by their subordinate supervisors' safety-leadership behaviors. Hence, there seems to be reciprocal interaction between site managers and supervisors in which they influence each other and together shape safety-leadership practices at their construction sites.


Purpose: We achieved high resolution MR imaging and spectra of human skin in vitro with using a 14.1 T MRI/MRS system, and evaluated the hydration effect of various cosmetic products by measuring the skin's. moisture concentration. Materials and Methods: We used the Bruker 14.1 T MRI/MRS system with a vertical standard bore that was equipped with a DMX spectrometer gradient system (200 G/cm at a maximum 40 A), RF resonators (2, 5 and 10 mm) and Para Vision software. Spin echo and fast spin echo pulse sequences were employed for obtaining the high resolution MR images. The 3D-localized point resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) method was used to acquire the MR spectra. Results: The high resolution MR images and spectra of human skin in vitro were successfully obtained on a 14.1 T system. The water concentration of human skin after applying a moisturizer was higher than that before applying a moisturizer. Conclusions: The present study demonstrated that the high-resolution MR images and spectra of human skin from a high field NMR instrument could be applicable to evaluating the hydration state of the stratum corneum.


This article briefly introduced the theory of the parallel inverters and several commonly used control methods, described the two control programs based on distributed parallel system now commonly used in detial,active power and reactive power control scheme and the average instantaneous current control program, analyzed these two principles of the controlling party program, summaride the characteristics of various control programs.


AIM
To assess the safety of lornoxicam with particular focus on gastrointestinal (GI) events.

METHODS
Data on adverse drug reactions (ADRs) were pooled from 60 comparative studies of lornoxicam.

RESULTS
A total of 6420 patients received lornoxicam, 1192 received placebo and 3770 received a comparator analgesic. ADRs were reported by 21% of lornoxicam-treated patients, with GI events the most frequent (14 vs 8% with placebo). Across 15 studies that compared lornoxicam (n = 1287) with another NSAID (n = 1010), there was a reduced risk of a GI ADR with lornoxicam (0.78 [95% CI: 0.64-0.96]; p = 0.017).

CONCLUSION
Lornoxicam was well tolerated with the type of GI events observed consistent with the known safety profile of NSAIDs.


Background: Early detection and reliable diagnosis of breast cancer could lead to improved cure rates and reduce mortality and management costs. Objectives: To explore the potential of texture analysis based on run-length matrix features for classifying benign and malignant breast tumors in ultrasound imaging. Methods: A total of 70 breast tumors (38 benign and 32 malignant) have used in the proposed computer-aided diagnosis system. Twentyrun-lengthmatrixfeatureshaveextractedfortextureanalysisinthreenormalizations(default,3sigma,and1% -99%). Linear discriminant analysis and principal component analysis have employed to transform raw data to lower-dimensional spaces and increase discriminative power. The features have classified by the first nearest neighbor classifier. Results: The features under 3sigma normalization have designed via Linear discriminant analysis indicated high performance in classifying benign and malignant breast tumors with a sensitivity of 96.87%, specificity of 100%, accuracy of 98.57%, positive predictive value of 100%, and negative predictive value of 97.43%. The area under receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.992. Conclusions: Run-lengthmatrixfeatureshadahighpotentialtocharacterizeandcouldhelpradiologisttodiagnosisbreasttumors.


Cesare Pautasso: Let's open the discussion on the business level. Generally speaking, blockchains promise to fundamentally transform processes and accelerate the digital transformation, but what is the killer application for the blockchain?


According to Fuzhou City,urban residential space evolution of the price and timing changes,the use of correlation analysis,entropy and the principal component analysis to determine the stability evaluation index.Based on spatial characteristics of the urban housing price impact factor for the correlation study,the urban housing price selection,the weight and other issues were studied.Conclusions:(1)economic conditions factor is the price of commodity residential house city decision factors;(2)social condition factor is an important commodity residential house prices important factors;(3)the institutional factors influence factor is the city of a commodity residential house price can not be ignored.


Analyses of a 1:6-scale reinforced concrete containment model that will be tested to failure at Sandia National Laboratories in the spring of 1987 were conducted by the following organizations in the United States and Europe: Sandia National Laboratories (USA), Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Electric Power Research Institute (USA), Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique (France), HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (UK), Comitato Nazionale per la ricerca e per lo sviluppo dell'Energia Nucleare e delle Energie Alternative (Italy), UK Atomic Energy Authority, Safety and Reliability Directorate (UK), Gesellschaft fuer Reaktorsicherheit (FRG), Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), and Central Electricity Generating Board (UK). Each organization was supplied with a standard information package, which included construction drawings and actual material properties for most of the materials used in the model. Each organization worked independently using their own analytical methods. This report includes descriptions of the various analytical approaches and pretest predictions submitted by each organization. Significant milestones that occur with increasing pressure, such as damage to the concrete (cracking and crushing) and yielding of the steel components, and the failure pressure (capacity) and failure mechanism are described. Analytical predictions for pressure histories of strain in the liner and rebar and displacements are compared at locations where experimental more » results will be available after the test. Thus, these predictions can be compared to one another and to experimental results after the test. « less


ABSTRACT This article analyses Italian author Laura Pariani's novel Dio non ama i bambini (2007), which draws attention to the ethnic diversity present in Argentina at the turn of the twentieth century. By re-ethnicizing Italians and other immigrants, Pariani complicates the dominant narrative of easy and rapid Italian assimilation into Argentine culture, while also highlighting the instability of national identity and the influence of Italians in defining the borders of Argentine identity. This book is one example of a growing interest (in both countries) in examining past migrations from perspectives that emphasize heterogeneity and difference.


Taking heuristic as total thought,under the instruction of basic teaching principles,puts forward classroom teaching means of English in post-secondary institute: practice mean to simulate task;analysis mean by emanative pervasion;communication mean for unknown information;talent revelation——simultaneous interpretation mean.


Our objective was to study the feasibility of extending the Dienst protocol to enable a multi-discipline, multi-format digital library. We implemented two new technologies: cluster functionality and publishing buckets. We have designed a possible implementation of clusters and buckets, and have prototyped some aspects of the resultant digital library. Currently, digital libraries are segregated by the disciplines they serve (computer science, aeronautics, etc.), and by the format of their holdings (reports, software, datasets, etc.). NCSTRL+ is a multi-discipline, multi-format digital library (DL) prototype created to explore the feasibility of the design and implementation issues involved with created a unified, canonical scientific and technical information (STI) DL. NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL), a World Wide Web (WWW) accessible DL that provides access to over 80 university departments and laboratories. We have extended the Dienst protocol (version 4.1.8), the protocol underlying NCSTRL, to provide the ability to cluster independent collections into a logically centralized DL based upon subject category classification, type of organization, and genre of material. The concept of buckets provides a mechanism for publishing and managing logically linked entities with multiple data formats.


Shear peak statistics has gained a lot of attention recently as a practical alternative to the two-point statistics for constraining cosmological parameters. We perform a shear peak statistics analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification (SV) data, using weak gravitational lensing measurements from a 139 deg² field. We measure the abundance of peaks identified in aperture mass maps, as a function of their signal-to-noise ratio, in the signal-to-noise range 0 4 would require significant corrections, which is why we do not include them in our analysis. We compare our results to the cosmological constraints from the two-point analysis on the SV field and find them to be in good agreement in both the central value and its uncertainty. We discuss prospects for future peak statistics analysis with upcoming DES data.


Hydrocarbons meet more than 50% of world wide demand for industries and main transportation means. Unfortunately, the use of this energetic matrix in large scale is the frequent cause of contamination of soil and groundwater, scenarios that present risks to human health and limit the use of natural resources. Geophysical methods constitute an important tool for the evaluation of these cases, as they offer relevant information in an indirect and comprehensive manner, with low relative cost, guiding remediation efforts in contaminated areas. In this work a geophysical study was performed in Electro DC Resistivity and Induced Polarization in a sandy tropical soil contaminated by a 58,000l diesel spilling a railway accident, and aimed to diagnose the contamination scenario after more than seven years from the incident. 11 lines of electrical imaging were performed with generation of resistivity and charge ability models integrated in 3D view blocks. The results indicated the punctual occurrence of shallow zones of low resistivity close to the place of contaminants infiltration, associated to the action of natural attenuation processes. The model presented zones of high chargeability associated to the probable presence of metallic minerals formed during and after the action of biodegradation processes. The results set pointed to a general scenario of an advanced stage of decontamination in the area, with effective natural attenuation processes.


Higher education in our country appears the appropriate surpassing development state at present, and most of colleges exist to be in debt condition, and assume the rising tendency. In order to be on guard in the risk brought by obligation and ensure the orderly and quick development of colleges and universities, we should set up the index system on guard the obligation risk in colleges and universities.


A new Entoloma species with disttinctive metuloid cystidia, Entotloma mettuloideum, was described and illustrated in this paper, and a new subgenus Mettuloidoentotloma was created. Type specimens were collected from Nanling Natitonal Nature Reserve of Guangdong Province and deposited in the Herbarium of Microbiology Institute of Guangdong Province (HMIGD).


The utility model relates to the field of agricultural machinery, in particular to a beet top cutting device which comprises a single-side cutter moving portion device composed of a cutter group, a cutter shaft, a cutter driving motor, a cutter propulsion motor, a fixed slipway, a movable slipway and a cutter propulsion screw, and further consists of a conveying device composed of a conveying chain, a beet tray, a conveying chain wheel, a conveying driving shaft, a conveying stepping motor, a conveying shaft bearing and a conveying driven shaft, and a color sensor. The beet top cutting device is mainly used for cutting green tops of beets in the mode of cutting one by one in harvest season of beets, reduces yield loss caused by the once flat cutting, and satisfies the requirements of top cutting of sugar-making enterprises.


limitations. First, the study population is limited to U.S. ICUs, and the coding algorithms may not generalize internationally. Second, the study was performed in an era of ICD-9 reporting and could not evaluate the performance of ICD-10 codes. However, all claims-based ICU studies are still using ICD-9 codes. Although we would not expect the ICD-10 crosswalk to yield different results, future studies are needed to address this issue. On the basis of these findings, we recommend that researchers can use ICD-9 procedure codes for mechanical ventilation alone to identify populations of mechanically ventilated patients in administrative data, with the understanding that the population captured will not represent the entire population of mechanically ventilated patients. These data suggest that researchers can be confident that identified patients will have truly been ventilated and will help characterize the patients who may have been missed by ICD-9 procedure codes. n


Patent Application Early in the career of every good product development researcher an important lesson is learned. This lesson centers on the rule of law that "a new patentable product must not be offered or sold in commerce until the patent application is filed." The basis for this rule is known as Section 102 of the Patent Act. The rule precludes an inventor from obtaining a patent if the invention was on sale or offered for sale in the United States more than one year before a patent application is filed. The justification for '102 is the premise that prompt and widespread disclosure is basic to the concept of granting a monopoly. The time provided the inventor is deemed to be adequate and reasonable for determining whether seeking a patent is worthwhile. The problem arises in defining the specifics of the "on-sale bar." Is one offer of sale sufficient? Does the sale of an experimental sample start the clock? Does showing a sample and discussing eventual production constitute an offering? In a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, more concrete guidelines have been provided for precisely determining when the one-year clock is started. This decision [Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc.; 119 S. Ct 304 (1998)] outlined a new test for determining when an application must be filed if the concept is to be patented. The previous ruling was that a concept must be "substantially complete" at the moment that the one-year period begins. Again, this standard can be subject to a great deal of uncertainty. As a result, the Court ruled that (1) the invention must be complete, as indicated by the fact that the invention if ready for patenting; (2) the invention must be the subject of a commercial offer for sale. Establishing that the invention is ready for patenting depends on one of two potential tests: • Reduction to practice, as indicated by a physical embodiment of the invention, • Showing that more than one year before filing a patent application the inventor had prepared drawings and other description of the invention that were sufficiently specific to enable a person skilled in the art to practice the invention. The Court also stated that an inventor is entitled to perfect the invention through experimentation without loss of the right to obtain a patent. If an activity was actually experimental rather than commercial, a patent can be sought. As usual, carefully documented and timely records that establish the progression of the experimental stage are very important to obtaining the protection of the ruling. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office requires disclosure of any information that may be deemed material to the patentability of the invention. If this is not fully carried out, a patent may be unenforceable on the grounds that all relevant material information was not disclosed to the PTO. This is a case where you must testify against yourself if there was anything that can be construed as a commercial offering. Consequently, to build a strong patent estate a company and the inventor must pay close attention to the following guidelines: • File the application as early as posNONWOVEN PATENT REVIEW INJ DEPARTMENTS


The concept and methodology of artificial neural networks is introduced. Like pattern recognition, the techniques can be classified as supervised (requiring a priori knowledge of class membership) and unsupervised (making no assumptions about class membership). An unsupervised neural network method, Kohonen Topology-Preserving Mapping, is applied to a wide matrix of physicochemical property data for a set of antifilarial antimycin analogues containing structural outliers. Principal component analysis failed to give a good 2D representation of the data set as a whole due to linear constraints in the model which gave undue influence to the outliers. Kohonen mapping compared favourably with non-linear unsupervised statistical pattern recognition methods for 2D representation of compound similarity and for classification based on antifilarial activity. It may prove a valuable technique for QSAR in situations where a linear method does not model the data well and a high throughput of test compounds is indicated.


Pellet injection is required to fuel high-Q ITER plasmas [1] and is also one of the methods foreseen to mitigate the intermittent heat fluxes caused by edge localized modes (ELMs) in ITER [2]. Optimizing the characteristics of pellet injection such as injection geometry, velocity and pellet size for both missions is essential since the total fuel throughput in ITER is limited due to the associated tritium re-processing needs. Hence, experimental and modelling studies have been carried out in tokamaks to optimize fueling and ELM triggering such as in the DIII-D tokamak [3]. These have been accompanied by numerical simulations with non-linear magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) codes to understand the physics behind those experiments [4]. However, the transport models in such studies are simple (e.g. anomalous diffusion coefficients are used to represent turbulent transport) and kinetic simulations are required since pellet ablation and redistribution creates steep gradients along (in the initial ablation process) and across the field that can have a significant impact on plasma transport. To study this phenomenology we have developed a pellet source model for the global total-f gyrokinetic particle-in-cell suite of codes XGC [5]. To test this pellet source model, we have used the axisymmetric, neoclassical version of XGC on a circular geometry. In these simulations, we have found that geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are induced in the plasma by the radially/poloidally localized pellet source. We thus conjecture that interactions between such GAM oscillations and plasma turbulence might be responsible for enhancing the radial transport after pellet injection in accordance with the post-pellet particle transport enhancement seen in experiments [6]. To prove this conjecture, we have implemented this pellet source model within the non-axisymmetric version of XGC so that we can investigate the effects of plasma turbulence on the post-pellet plasma redistribution processes including radial, poloidal and toroidal pellet source localization effects. In the work presented here, the code is applied to typical DIII-D plasma conditions where pellet injection was previously explored (e.g. shot no. 131498) to consider realistic plasma and boundary conditions and to enable comparison with previously published experimental and modelling studies [3, 4]. Figure 1 shows the result of a pellet-injection simulation in DIII-D using the axisymmetric, neoclassical version of XGC. A 1.3 mm pellet, which is assumed to be surrounded by a cloud of deuterons and with a poloidal radius of ac = 25 mm, is put at (R, Z) = (2.188 m, 0) which corresponds to the normalized poloidal flux of ψN ~ 0.9. Figure 1 (left) shows the time evolution of the flux-surface averaged electron density ne. The initial conditions correspond to the arrival of the pellet in neoclassically relaxed stationary plasma conditions. The ensuing density perturbation causes GAM oscillations in the radial electric field Eψ as shown in Fig. 1 (right). The frequency of these GAM oscillations is found to be 48-56 kHz which agrees with the values found by an eigenvalue solver [7]. Despite these GAM oscillations, Fig. 1 (left) indicates that radial particle transport is limited due to the absence of plasma turbulence. In this paper, the results of a pellet-injection simulation using the non-axisymmetric version of XGC including turbulence will be also presented.


A system of linear equations is called sparse if only a relatively small number of its matrix elements a ij are nonzero. It is wasteful to use general methods of linear algebra on such problems, because most of the O(N 3) arithmetic operations devoted to solving the set of equations or inverting the matrix involve zero operands. Furthermore, you might wish to work problems so large as to tax your available memory space, and it is wasteful to reserve storage for unfruitful zero elements. Note that there are two distinct (and not always compatible) goals for any sparse matrix method: saving time and/or saving space. We have already considered one archetypal sparse form in §2.4, the band diagonal matrix. In the tridiagonal case, e.g., we saw that it was possible to save both time (order N instead of N 3) and space (order N instead of N 2). The method of solution was not different in principle from the general method of LU decomposition; it was just applied cleverly, and with due attention to the bookkeeping of zero elements. Many practical schemes for dealing with sparse problems have this same character. They are fundamentally decomposition schemes, or else elimination schemes akin to Gauss-Jordan, but carefully optimized so as to minimize the number of so-called fill-ins, initially zero elements which must become nonzero during the solution process, and for which storage must be reserved. Direct methods for solving sparse equations, then, depend crucially on the precise pattern of sparsity of the matrix. Patterns that occur frequently, or that are useful as way-stations in the reduction of more general forms, already have special names and special methods of solution. We do not have space here for any detailed review of these. References listed at the end of this section will furnish you with an " in " to the specialized literature, and the following list of buzz words (and Figure 2.7.1) will at least let you hold your own at cocktail parties: • tridiagonal • band diagonal (or banded) with bandwidth M • band triangular • block diagonal • block tridiagonal • block triangular • cyclic banded • singly (or doubly) bordered block diagonal • singly (or doubly) bordered block triangular • singly (or doubly) bordered band diagonal • singly (or doubly) bordered band triangular • other (!) You should also be aware of some of the special sparse forms that occur …


The present invention relates to a fingerprint based file encryption signature system. It can be used for application of network with several users, and can utilize identity identification of fingerprint to implement file encryption and decryption operation, at the same time of encryption is can define several decryption persons, and at the same time of encryption it can implement the function of identifying signature. Said invention includes the fingerprint identification server mounted in the system and customer machine matched with fingerprint collector. Besides, said invention also provides the concrete steps of implementing said invention method.


The aim of this paper is to evaluate a summation formula based on half argument allied with Hypergeometric function and involving recurrence relation and Gauss summation theorem.


We have performed a detailed characterization of the magnetic properties of Ni nanoparticles embedded in a SiO2 amorphous matrix. A modified sol-gel method was employed which resulted in Ni particles with average radius ;3 nm, as inferred by TEM analysis. Above the blocking temperature TB'20 K for the most diluted sample, magnetization data show the expected scaling of the M/ MS vs H/T curves for superparamagnetic particles. The hysteresis loops were found to be symmetric about zero field axis with no shift via exchange bias, suggesting that Ni particles are free from an oxide layer. For T,TB the magnetic behavior of these Ni nanoparticles is in excellent agreement with the predictions of randomly oriented and noninteracting magnetic particles, as suggested by the temperature dependence of the coercivity field that obeys the relation HC(T)5HC0@12(T/TB) 1/2 # below TB with HC0;780 Oe. The obtained values of HC0, considering the temperature dependence of the magnetic anisotropy constant, are discussed within the scenario of isolated randomly oriented and noninteracting single-domain particles.


IntroductionIn our current society, the study of problems of demonstrating individual creativity has determined the necessity of creating new forms of management in personality development. To determine boundaries between personal success, effectiveness and efficiency, new leaders have emerged, whose activity can be beneficial and harmful to themselves and society. The prospect of psychological trends in character research is attributed to the identification of youth's value-motivational aspects of behavior and activities. Additionally, effective implementation of sociopsychological activity control technologies for the socio-economic development of society is involved as well.Russian and foreign scientists have indicated common psychological activities of an individual as idiosyncrasy markers (Golichenko, 2004). The success of self-fulfillment is determined by a set of personal qualities that enable a person to achieve effective results. The phenomenon of self-fulfillment, including educational and professional activities, is inextricably linked to self-development and the active management of personal resources. One of the markers that characterize the social performance of self-fulfillment is the innovativeness of a personality.An outstanding psychologist, Nebylitsin, defines a general mental individual activity as a psychological idiosyncrasy characteristic: "Mass action means a bundle of personality traits that predetermine primary individual needs in effective factuality acquisition. Such a drive state can be presented either in mental, motor (including speech ability) or social (communication) contexts. Accordingly, a number of mass action types can be singled out" (Nebylitsyn, 1976, p. 251). Each activity type has a "rather complicated multifactorial structure and various forms of psychological manifestations" (Nebylitsin, 1976, p. 241). According to Nebylitsin's findings, the most current personality analysis trends are as follows: 1) the activity is considered to be an act of "self-expression" and an arrangement of initiation and self-actualization; 2) the activity is regarded to be an arrangement of the effective acquisition and reality transformation (i.e., it is viewed in a close mutual connection with the productivity of cooperation with the environment); 3) the activity comprises a dynamic procedural aspect; 4) the activity represents a personal aspect, which is determined by relationships and motivations of the individual, who manages its direction, quality and level; and 5) the qualitative features of individual activity are determined by its dominant view and expressed in a definite form (Krupnov, 1996).Consequently, contemporary personality psychology regards mental activity as a human activity characteristic. The activity can be viewed as a valuable way of modeling, structuring and actualizing communication and conduct by a personality. The activity is a characteristic of performance with an independent immediate power. It is expressed in free, conscious, internally necessary work. A bundle of socio-psychological traits and qualities determine activity and lets a personality manage it by means of values and motives. Consequently, socially oriented value-motivational creative activity can be considered (Mikhailova, 2010).Social and personal values stand out as a human activity mark that allows for estimating and using activity in relation to reality. The dualities of truth and lying, admissible and forbidden, and fair and unfair play an important role in a person's construction of demands and motives, idiosyncrasies and activities. The individual does not always apprehend values and does not lose the regulatory influence on personal enhancement (Zinchenko, 2010).The system of values constructs individual values and motives. Value-objective norms and mindsets influence the development of the motives that predetermine individual effectiveness.Innovative conduct is substantially predetermined by the peculiarities of values and motives, the structure of which has not yet been studied. …


By means of light microscope and scanning electron microscope to do failure analysis on the internal combustion engines-casting aluminum piston,which to find the reason of top cracking. According to test chemical composition, macrofractography and observation of microstructure of failure piston,finding some important questions in the workpiece. Analysis that there are evident microstructure defects of ill modification, elongated Fe inclusions and fish-bone Fe inclusions,and lead to earlier failure of workpiece.


Linear concentrators for the production of solar thermal electricity (STE) are currently commercially available in the form of parabolic trough (PT) collectors.1 In addition, PT plants can be used to achieve several hours of energy delivery at nominal power, making STE truly deliverable. This important feature is realized by operating the plants at just below 400C, as well as by using thermal oil as the heat-transfer fluid and molten salts as the heat-storage fluid. To bring the electricity production costs down, however, it is necessary for linear concentrator technology to reach the next logical step. In other words, increased concentration is required to enable operation at higher temperatures (high-temperature operation allows heat to be converted to electricity with greater thermodynamic efficiency). A high concentration level also brings the advantage of reducing the number of rows in the concentrator field, which in turn provides cost benefits (i.e., related to the reductions in receiver length, receiver volume, pipe length, number of thermal loop components, and thermal/parasitic losses associated with the loop). PT concentrators are currently being designed to achieve higher concentration values.2, 3 These conventional PT concentrators are essentially focusing optics solutions, however, and the concentration levels that can be achieved are thus far worse than the potential limits set by nonimaging optics.4, 5 Although conventional PT optics can be designed to accommodate a second-stage concentrator (or a parabolic-like primary concentrator can be designed with a secondary concentrator for a given receiver) to provide a much higher concentration, the resulting optics can become too large (i.e., impractical for manufacturing, transportation, installation, and operation purposes). This is because the use of evacuated tubular receivers is generally Figure 1. Schematic illustrations of the linear Fresnel dual asymmetric compound elliptical concentrator (CEC). An overview of the concentrator is shown in (a) and a detailed view of the second-stage concentrator mirror is shown in (b). L: Length. h: Height.


Extensive recent media focus has been directed towards the dark side of intelligent systems, how algorithms can influence society negatively. Often, transparency is proposed as a solution or step in the right direction. Unfortunately, research is mixed on the impact of transparency on the user experience. We examine transparency in the context an interactive system that predicts positive/negative emotion from a users' written text. We unify seemingly this contradictory research under a single model. We show that transparency can negatively affect accuracy perceptions for users whose expectations were not violated by the system's prediction; however, transparency also limits the damage done when users' expectations are violated by system predictions.


Conventional logging-while-drilling tools acquire measurements close to the wellbore. Recent development of deep and ultra-deep resistivity technology has enabled measurements more than 100 ft from the wellbore. Far-field petrophysics in simple carbonate lithology is possible since saturation is dependent on resistivity and porosity. Hence, combining deep and ultra-deep resistivity measurements with data from offset wells can provide reasonable saturation mapping. However, in clastics the evaluation is more complicated since resistivity is more dependent on lithology.
 In most cases, the main challenge in carbonates is permeability identification. Far-field carbonate petrophysics can be derived from mapped resistivity utilizing deep or ultra-deep resistivity and offset logs. Evaluation of far-field petrophysics away from the wellbore in clastics is more complicated as it requires lithology identification to be incorporated into the petrophysical model. A workflow has been developed integrating near-wellbore measurements with ultra-deep resistivity and anisotropy derived from 3D inversion. The workflow provides a qualitative indication of the lithology, allowing saturation in porous sand to be derived based on inverted resistivity.
 An innovative workflow has been developed based on the available data and combining multiple sources of data from near wellbore, offset logs to inverted resistivity data. 3D inversion plays a critical role in this workflow as it provides a lithology indication far away from the wellbore, differentiating between shale and sand. The identification of shale members at a distance also provides critical information for models of reservoir connectivity and potential barriers to water influx. The combination of far-field petrophysics with lithology gives better evaluation on a reservoir scale for critical decisions in terms of completion and reservoir performance.
 The new workflow has been successfully tested on several wells and different reservoirs. The workflow has been used for far field petrophysics and saturation mapping based on real-time logging-while-drilling (LWD) data and offset data analysis combining shallow and deep measurements with the 3D inversion from ultra-deep resistivity. There are several benefits from this innovative workflow, including optimizing well placement, improving understanding of fluid distribution, and optimizing completions design and reservoir management strategies.


The particle laden flow over backward facing step is a typical flow for fluid machines. In order to simulating the two-phase flow in the flow, an anisotropic PDF model of particle proposed by author was employed. The standard k-e model was solved to gain the gas flow with finite volume method, and the anisotropic PDF model was calculated by a Finite Analytic/Monte Carlo Method. It is shown that the new PDF model is better to predict the two-phase flow and the Finite Analytic/Monte Carlo Method can be use d to simulate the particle flow successfully.


The impact of an Education for Sustainability (EfS) course for science and technology junior high school teachers on the intentional and actual environmental behaviour of participants was studied by researching the EfS implementation of 13 science and technology teachers within their family, community, and work environment. The research was qualitative in nature, where science and technology teachers' insights on the EfS course were determined by means of an open-ended questionnaire and intensive interviews. Results indicated that the course clearly influenced the vast majority of the participants, who claimed that their environmental awareness had increased and they were capable of acting responsibly. All participants acted in favour of the environment among family, community, and at work. Yet, 2 years later, implementation seemed to be undermined by various internal and external barriers, such as the unavailability of convenient resources, or resistance on the part of family. The study suggests that course designers must include reference to potential difficulties and barriers in order to circumvent future obstacles. In addition, the implementation of post-course support would encourage overcoming the gap between willingness to act and actual practice.


This article puts forward the useful rules for simple sentences translating from the aspects of the choice of morphology,context and the translation of simple sentences.