This Case Study Research analyses the changing process from the 'varietals' Controlled Origin Denominations (Doc),'Conegliano Valdobbiadene' and 'Colli Asolani', and from a Typical Geographic Indication (Igt) to the 'territorial' Controlled Origin Denominations and Guaranteed (Docg) 'Conegliano Valdobbiadene – Prosecco' and 'Colli Asolani' Docg, and to Doc 'Prosecco'.
In this context, starting from the methodologic arrangement of the relationship between the organization structure and the business structure, and considering the relational scheme Structure – Conduct – Performance (SCP), a methodological approach was specifically developed for the Conegliano Valdobbiadene firms, following the pattern of the relationships inside the company.
The results of the marketing research confirm the positive trend as regards both supply and demand and the growing success of the Prosecco Doc on the national and international markets. Those evidences serve as confirmation of the potential of the product among consumers and of the effectiveness of the efforts made in the marketing field. Great improvements can be underlined particulary on both the Doc total production (+ 45.5%) and the sparkling wine (+52.1%) volumes. In this context, during the six year span which has been analysed, a growth of the total consumption-value can be estimated, from 250 million euros in 2003 to over 370 million euros, with an increase of 48%.
From the analysis conducted following the theoretic relational model Structure – Conduct - Performance (SCP), the effectiveness of this investigation tool in the theoretical approach applied to the Conegliano Valdobbiadene firms has been proved. In general, the conducted research analysis has drawn an evidence of company structure and its conducts and behaviour in the market and the relative economic performance and results. This evidence-based outcome of this particular research has validated the initial hypothesis and assumptions correlated to the companies dimension and productive scale.
The Prosecco issue has been dealt with and solved, with a political-legislative approach by the public and vine – oenological institutions of the Italian North – Eastern area, under the guidance of the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali - MIPAF), the coordination of Veneto Region, the contribution of the Treviso Province and the support of the Treviso Chamber of Commerce, with the decisive contribution of some of the wine sector professionals.
A trend evaluation of the productive dimension can be drawn from the supply evolution, with an incremental scenario from over 170 million bottles estimated in 2008 to a production calculated between 219 e 263 million of bottles (Docg and Doc) in the near future. These evaluations would point out, if confirmed, a supply increase, between a +34.8% and a +51%, in relative terms, with an annual growth rates higher than the previous increase (between +12% and +17%, if a three year period is considered).
From a theoretical point of view, the Prosecco issue or question has been resolve by means of two approaches, the enforcement approach and the Club Theory, both representing exit strategies that provide an economical resolutions, which can overcome supply surplus risks and market inefficiencies.
In the enforcement instance a district agreement of rules, normally unanimously or majority shared by the district operators (i.e. from vineyard production to cellar production, up to the technical aspects of the marketing and distibution of the product) would be created. In this picture an outside or external actor is allowed to step in, in order to enforce the products quality requirements without the agreeement of the single producer, with the allowance of the external interventions principally aiming to prevent possible supply surplus risks and market inefficiency (i.e. reducing the vineyard yield and increasing the vineyard renewal tax).
The application of the strategy referring to the Club Theory is relatively more favourable than a strategy based on the Origin Denominations (Docg and Doc), in terms of an optimal assessment of Club size (number of producers), as pointed out by Samuelson in the Pareto's way, as a function of the Club constraints and under the control of the productive dimension by means of concessions (i.e. yields per hectare, vineyards renewal rate, ex ante discretional programming of the vine potential, discretion toward the vine-grower in subtracting vine potential), when the demand dimension is known.


The triple Ⅰ method is a new kind of fuzzy reasoning method with respect to FMP and FMT reasoning models.The idea of fuzzy reasoning based on parametric implication operator is given.The theories of α-reverse triple Ⅰ method with sustention degree are presented by using the implication operator θp in every step of the fuzzy reasoning.The corresponding formulae of-reverse triple Ⅰ method with sustention degree are obtained.This is a great help in raising the soundness of fuzzy reasoning.


Sri Lanka's economy was already showing signs of weakness before the COVID-19 pandemic. Growth and poverty reduction had slowed down in the last five years. A restrictive trade regime, weak investment climate, episodes of loose monetary policy and an administered exchange rate had contributed to external imbalances. Sustained fiscal disparities, driven primarily by low revenue collections, combined with tax cuts in 2019, has contributed to high fiscal deficits, large gross financing needs, and a rapid growth in unsustainable debt .
The Sri Lankan economic crisis is an ongoing crisis in the island country of Sri Lanka that started in 2019. It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities


The design of better catalytic materials is crucial to the advancement of several energy and environmental technologies. However, determining how a catalyst's properties are related to its structure is not trivial. Catalysts are known to evolve during reaction, and the features of these dynamical structures must be identified to establish robust structure-property correlation. Probing electrocatalysts for electrochemical conversion reactions is especially difficult due to the limited tools we have for studying materials in a liquid at high spatial resolution. In this case, electrochemical liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (EC-TEM) [1] has the potential to greatly improve our understanding of the catalyst morphologies that exist in a liquid electrolyte and under applied potential. However, simply imaging these dynamical structures is not enough. We also need to relate these structures to their associated properties that are obtained from bulk electrochemical and reaction product measurements, which is also not straightforward. Here, we address this challenge by focusing on catalyst synthesis strategies that generate model catalysts (1) highly tunable in terms of catalyst surface facet, size and loading and (2) broadly applicable to different support geometries such that we can have near identical electrocatalysts in both EC-TEM and benchtop setups. We illustrate this concept in an example reaction where we studied Cu-based electrocatalysts for the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO 2 RR), an important chemical conversion reaction for the revalorization of CO 2 . The catalysts (Cu 2 O cubes) were synthesized by electrodeposition [2] and by tuning the electrodeposition parameters, we were able to control both size and loading of the cubes. Our series of EC-TEM


The Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) training program requires the reallocation of multiple fully operational UAS from the operational environment to facilitate training. The UAS Project Management Office (PM UAS) is concerned that this practice lacks efficiency. This study sought to: (1) conduct a comprehensive analysis for resource optimization with respect to achieving essential training tasks across multiple UAS, (2) conduct comprehensive cost-benefit analysis to assess the value of allocating a full-time and Gray Eagle platforms to accomplish training versus part-task trainers, and (3) define and quantify measures of performance and effectiveness. To achieve these objectives, this study implemented a tradespace analysis methodology to produce a discrete-event simulation model and a resource optimization tool. The impacts of this project will result in substantial cost savings per fiscal year, allow the client to forecast the resource needs of the organization effectively, and allow for the proper allocation of these resources.


Elastic properties of the ceramic 0.7SrTiO3-0.3BiScO3 sample with relaxor ferroelectric properties were studied in the vicinity of the Burns temperature Td = 550 К. It was found that for the sample under study an anomalous decreasing of the Young's modulus takes place just below the temperature Td. This elastic softening is assumed to be due to electrostriction relationship between spontaneous polarization of polar nanoclusters and strain of the sample.


The main goal of our project is to estimate the frequency at which an object is oscillating in a silent video. Extracting such a property can lead to applications in non-invasive respiratory rate estimation [6], human blood flow detection [1], and sound extraction from vibrating objects [3]. Our project while inspired by [3] takes a more intuitive and simpler approach. By modeling the movement of tracked features (e.g. corners) on a video we can infer some important behavior of a rhythmic object, e.g, the frequency of a tuning fork or the respiratory rate of a sleeping person. We started our project with frequency estimation of a tuning fork from a mute video and its audio retrieval and then extended the concept to respiratory rate and heart rate estimation. For this project, we had to record most of the videos in our own data set and we took advantage of the slow-motion and timelapse features of our cellphones camera.


India is a signatory to the United Nations' programs, accepting to implement the Millennium Development Goals and their successor, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While progress on universal primary education has been made since 2000, attaining equitable education for all (SDG4), remains a challenge in rural India. With an estimated 200 million children under the age of fourteen, enrolment in commencing primary education has improved. However, progress beyond year V (primary education in India covers school years I to VIII) is inadequate. One third of children in rural areas drop out of school by that time and this increases to almost half by year VIII. Given India's large diaspora, this article analyses the impact of a new model of educational support through the work of a non-resident expatriate association, India Rural Education and Development Inc. (IREAD). It uses a 2011–2019 longitudinal case study of a government school in the village of Lakhnu, Uttar Pradesh. Data from the activities of IREAD, researcher observations, interviews, photographs and infrastructure evidence, are analysed. A grounded theory emanating from the data is proposed and areas of improvement are suggested. The research concludes that a major shift is difficult to achieve but IREAD's contribution delivers small steps in the right direction to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for rural children in India.


Introduction and Background 1. Origins Precursors: including plantation music, ragtime, blues, brass bands Classic Jazz: New Orleans, Chicago in the 1920s, ODJB, Keppard, Oliver, Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke Piano Jazz: ragtime to stride, swing, boogie woogie The Move to Larger Bands: Whiteman, Goldkette, Henderson, Ellington, Russell, Goodman, Shaw, Basie, Dorseys Interlude 1: International Jazz up to World War II 2. From Swing to Bop Small Groups in Transition: John Kirby, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, 52nd St Birth of Bebop: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford How Bebop Developed: soloists, rhythm sections Larger Bands from Gillespie to Kenton and Herman Interlude 2: Dissemination: Summary of Recording and Broadcasting from 78s to Digital Technology 3. Consolidation of Bop Early Miles Davis, from Birth of the Cool to Kind of Blue Rollins, early Coltrane Hard Bop and Soul Jazz: Silver, Blakey, Morgan, Byrd, Henderson Cool Jazz and the West Coast Movement: Evans, Mulligan, Baker, MJQ, Konitz, Tristano, Lighthouse Large Bands: From Thornhill through to the Basie New Testament Band Interlude 3: Jazz Singing to 1950 4. New Jazz Free Jazz: Ornette Coleman, The New Thing (Ayler, Shepp) Cecil Taylor Coltrane and Mingus Politicisation: BAG, AACM, Braxton, Tapscott Interlude 4: New Orleans, Revival and Mainstream Jazz, Including JATP 5. Jazz as World Music Out of Africa: Jazz Epistles, Ibrahim, Masekela, McGregor, Pukwana, Pops Mahomen, Moses Molelekwa Latin Jazz: Afro-Cuban Jazz Brazilian Jazz Europe: Scandinavia, France, Germany, UK, Holland Interlude 5: Jazz Singing from 1950 6. Postmodern Jazz Jazz Fusions Big Band Renaissance: Akiyoshi, Russell, Ecans, Carla Bley, David Murray Jazz Repertory, Education and Neo-Classicism Urban Movements: From M-Base to hip-hop, rap and funk Columbia Records CD Tie-In A New History of Jazz includes boxed inserts with detailed discussions of each of the following performances which feature on the two-CD set Jazz the Definitive Performances, Columbia Records (Sony Music), Columbia J2K 65807. A sticker on each CD will refer to Alyn Shipton's book: Indiana: Original Dixieland Jazz Band* St Louis Blues: Bessie Smith* Dippermouth Blues: King Oliver* Stampede: Fletcher Henderson* Wild Cat Blues: Sidney Bechet/Clarence Williams* Singin the Blues: Frank Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke* West End Blues: Louis Armstrong* Tiger Rag: Art Tatum* God Bless the Child: Billie Holiday* Lester Leaps In: Count Basie* Flying Home: Benny Goodman* I Can't Get Started: Dizzie Gillespie* It Don't Mean a Thing: Duke Ellington* 9:30 Special: Coleman Hawkins/Basie* Let Me Off Uptown: Roy Eldridge/Gene Krupa* Tain't What'Cha Do: Jimmie Lunceford* Four Brothers: Woody Herman* Nica's Dream: Art Blakey/Horace Silver + Jazz Messengers* So What: Miles Davis/Coltrane/Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans* Goodbye Pork Pie Hat: Mingus* Take Five: Dave Brubeck* It's All Right With Me: Erroll Garner* Straight No Chaser: Thelonious Monk* Searching: Duke Ellington* Sanctuary: Miles Davis* Meeting of the Spirits: John McLaughlin/Mahavishnu* Watermelon Man: Herbie Hancock* Birdland: Weather Report* Artist in America: Ornette Coleman* Round Midnight: Dexter Gordon* Steppin Out With My Baby: Tony Bennett* A Thousand Autumns: Branford Marsalis* Freedom is in the Trying: Wynton Marsalis


WD40‐repeat proteins are abundant and play important roles in forming protein complexes. The domain usually has seven WD40 repeats, which folds into a seven β‐sheet propeller with each β‐sheet in a four‐strand structure. An analysis of 20 available WD40‐repeat proteins in Protein Data Bank reveals that each protein has at least one Asp‐His‐Ser/Thr‐Trp (D‐H‐S/T‐W) hydrogen‐bonded tetrad, and some proteins have up to six or seven such tetrads. The relative positions of the four residues in the tetrads are also found to be conserved. A sequence alignment analysis of 560 WD40‐repeat protein sequences in human reveals very similar features, indicating that such tetrad may be a general feature of WD40‐repeat proteins. We carried out density functional theory and found that these tetrads can lead to significant stabilization including hydrogen‐bonding cooperativity. The hydrogen bond involving Trp is significant. These results lead us to propose that the tetrads may be critical to the stability and the mechanism of folding of these proteins. Proteins 2010. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Educational institutions are important parts of our society and playing a vital role for growth and development of nation. In earlier days the information flow in education field was relatively simple and the application of technology was limited. However, as we progress into a more integrated world where technology has become an integral part of the business processes, the process of transfer of information has become more complicated. Today, one of the biggest challenges that educational institutions face the explosive growth of educational data and to use this data to improve the quality of managerial decisions. Data mining techniques are analytical tools that can be used to extract meaningful knowledge from large data sets. In this paper the applications of data mining in educational institution to extract useful information from the huge data sets and providing analytical tool to view and use this information for decision making processes by taking real life examples.


—Two occurrences are described in which a Polistes paper wasp of one species took up residence on a nest built by and containing the brood of a different Polistes species. These observations are placed in the context of previous reports of shared nesting, intraspecific and interspecific nest usurpation, and intraspecific and interspecific adoption of orphaned nests. These observations suggest a scenario for the possible origin of social parasitism in Polistes. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Roy Snelling's first publication (Snelling 1952) reports observations that apparently were made in the nesting season of 1950 and in non-nesting seasons that could have been even earlier. His short note is given here in its entirety. NOTES ON NESTING AND HIBERNATION OF POLISTES (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Robert [sic] Snelling


This document itemizes the potential values for IPv4 subnets. Additional information is provided for Hex and Decmial values, classfull equivalents, and number of addresses available within the indicated block. We appreciate inputs from Bruce Pinsky (cisco) and Daniel Karrenberg (RIPE).


Based on the analysis theory and technology of English learning and mobile learning, this paper designs and develops an English mobile learning platform, this platform uses J2EE structure and the factory mode, considering the characteristics of the user and mobile terminal equipments fully. So, the system has a friendly interface, strong interactivity, easy use, cross-browser, timely resources and good scalability. At last, this system provides the learners a good learning platform.


Ugarit belongs to the world of the Near East by virtue of its language, its cultural and technical traditions, and its history. But because of its geographical position, which influences climate, vegetation, and cultivation, the coastal plain of Ugarit belongs as well to the same Mediterranean world as the shores of Cyprus or Greece. Yet Ugaritic epigraphy only mentions one actual location to the west, the Island of Alashiya, or Cyprus. No written documentation exists with which to gauge clearly trade and relations with other islands of the eastern Mediterranean and beyond with mainland Greece.


The stochastic version of the non-linear model of population growth in a region is considered. The analysts of the model is carried out in terms of the Fokker-Planck equation under the assumption that the time scale of environmental fluctuations is much shorter than that of the macroscopic variables of the system. In a special case, explicit time dependence of the model is obtained. The role played by environmental stochasticity in determining the threshold conditions is thereby elucidated.


The present study tried to compare the academic performance and behavioral abnormalities among viewers and non-viewers of satellite programs in girl conservatory schools located at district 1 of Bandar Abbas city. The methodology for this study was of ex-post-facto type. Our study sample consisted of 400 students who were randomly selected. The instrument used in this study was behavioral abnormalities questionnaire designed by the researcher. Furthermore, last year GPA and the final average in first term of school year represented the educational status of students. The results showed that there was a difference between academic performance (last year GPA and final average in first term) of girl students who had viewed satellite programs and girl students who had not viewed those programs. However, there was no difference among the academic performance (continuous performance GPA) of girl students who had viewed satellite programs and girl students who had not viewed those programs. Also, there was a significant difference between the behavioral abnormalities and its related dimensions among girl students who had viewed satellite programs and gir l students who had not viewed those programs.


Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) was chosen to isolate secondary natural compounds from Nonea pulmonarioides. MAE is an efficient approach compared to maceration. In our study of N. pulmonarioides, the Folin–Ciocalteu and trichloroaluminum techniques were used to determine the total phenolic and flavonoid contents. Antioxidant activity was determined by the β-carotene/linoleic acid test. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was measured using the microwell dilution assay method. Overall, MAE may represent a substantially faster extraction system (5 min) with an even greater extraction yield than maceration extraction (24 h). Phytochemical screening indicated the existence of classes of several secondary metabolites. The methanol extract had a high total phenolic content (TPC) of 113.33 ± 1.06 μg of gallic acid equivalents (GAE)/mg of dry plant weight, while the total flavonoid content (TFC) in the acetone extract was 44.26 ± 0.88 μg of quercetin equivalent (QE)/mg of the dry plant. The antioxidant activity data correlated well with the acetone extract (32.41 ± 0.93, I%) compared to the other extracts. The antimicrobial assay (MIC) results showed high activity of the extract against Candida albicans for the petroleum ether extract, which was significantly higher than against other microorganisms. The quantitative gas chromatography-mass spectrophotometry (GC-MS) analysis of the extracts confirmed that the most abundant compound in the methanol extract was ethyl tridecanoate (45.94%), while nonadecane was the predominant compound in the acetone (35.7%) and the petroleum ether (18.34%) extracts.


The purpose of this article is to examine male consumers' functional expectations, aesthetic expectations and socio-psychological expectations of the fit of ready-to-wear business apparel as potential antecedents of the purchase decision among a sample of male consumers in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Data were collected from 216 respondents using anonymously completed online questionnaires. Research scales were operationalized based on previous work, and modifications were made to match the current research context and purpose. 'Functional expectations', 'aesthetic expectations' and 'socio-psychological expectations' all used eight-item scale measures. All the measurement items were on a five-point Likert scale anchored by 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = undecided, 4 = agree and 5 = strongly agree to express the degree of agreement. The three posited hypotheses were empirically tested. The results significantly supported all the hypotheses, except for H1. The study findings indicate that a robust relationship exists between socio-psychological expectations and purchase decisions, suggesting that socio-psychological expectations can have a strong, direct influence on male consumers' decision to purchase business apparel. This could be indicative that when consumers evaluate garments, they do not only consider styles that fit comfortably, but also its aesthetic and cognitive impact. Both practitioners and academics may benefit from the implications of this study. A significant contribution is made to the fashion apparel marketing literature by systematically exploring South African male consumers' functional expectations, aesthetic expectations and socio-psychological expectations of ready-to-wear business apparel, and its effect on their purchase decision. Empirically, an understanding of consumers' motivation to purchase ready-to-wear business apparel can assist retailers in developing more effective marketing strategies. While existing literature claims male consumers focus on the functional expectations of apparel, this study found that socio-psychological and aesthetic expectations have a significantly greater impact on South African male consumers' business apparel purchase decisions. Overall, the current study's findings support the proposition that there is a need to acknowledge aesthetic and socio-psychological expectations of business apparel as significant antecedents of male consumers' purchase decisions in South Africa. This study, therefore, stands to contribute new knowledge to the existing body of consumer decision-making literature and male apparel shopping behaviour.


Conditions in the Arctic today differ from those prevailing during the 1990s in ways that have far-reaching implications for the architecture of Arctic governance. What was once a peripheral region regarded as a zone of peace has turned into ground zero for climate change on a global scale and a scene of geopolitical maneuvering in which Russia is flexing its muscles as a resurgent great power, China is launching economic initiatives, and the United States is reacting defensively as an embattled but still potent hegemon. This article explores the consequences of these developments for Arctic governance and specifically for the role of the Arctic Council. The article canvasses options for adjusting the council's membership and its substantive remit. It pays particular attention to opportunities for the council to play a role in managing the increasingly complex Arctic regime complex.


Explaining the rationale and main objectives for his motif system; Stith Thompson declared that it emulates what "the scientists have done with the worldwide phenomena of biology" (Thompson 1955, I, p. 10). In this respect; the underlying principles for motif identification and indexing are comparable to those devised by anthropologists at Yale for "categorizing" culture materials into 78 macro-units and 629 subdivisions thereof used to establish "The Human Relations Area Files" (HRAF). By comparison, 23 divisions (chapters) make up the spectrum of sociocultural materials covered in Thompson's Motif-Index system. Thompson's cardinal themes are divided into 1730 subdivisions permitting more specificity of identification (El-Shamy 1995, I, xiii). Historically; the disciplines of "anthropology" and of "folklore" targeted different categories of the human population; with "folklore" assigned to populations stratified into "social classes" (Dorson 1972, pp. 4–5: For details, see El-Shamy: "Folk Groups" (1997b, pp. 318–322, in: T.A Green, gen. ed. 1997c, p. 321); El-Shamy 1980, p. li; compare El-Shamy (1997a), p. 233 ("African hunter"). The limitations Thompson placed on the goals of his motif system (along with its tale-type companion) were triggered by the fact that "folklore" was; then; primarily interested in literature (prose and verse). The sociocultural milieu surrounding the creation of the literary forms occupied minor roles. Considering that a folktale is a "description of life and/or living" including all five universal culture institutions; the relevance of the contents of folktales are of primary significance for understanding the community in which they were born and maintained (El-Shamy 1995, I, p. xiii). Consequently; for the present writer; a folktale is considered a sixth (universal) culture institution. Also; because Thompson's Motif-Index sought global coverage; many regions and national entities didn't receive adequate attention: significant fields of human experience are missing or sketchily presented. This article offers two cases as examples of: (1) How editors of folklore publications ignore novel ideas incompatible with established trends; and (2) Samples of the spectrum of current psychosocial issues addressed in an expanded Thompson's System (with more than 26,000 new motifs and 630 tale-types added).


Through the single factor and multiple factors experiments,the effect of processing procedure including striping off the skin,lixiviating the fragrance,roasting or deep-frying,coating sugar and casing on the quality of leisure food of walnut kernel were studied. The results showed that the walnut kernel immerged in the boiled solution of 0.30% NaCO3 could get good peeling purpose. The infusion which contained flavorings was heated in 6min,at 80℃ could make walnut kernel crisp,sweet-scent and taste of little acerbity. The crisp-fragrant walnut kernel was roasted at 180℃ in 35min and the sweet one was deep-fried at 150℃ in 6min. Sugar was decocted in 4min,and then put the walnut kernel in it to coat. The product which was vacuum-packed could keep characters and prolong shelf life.


The paper analyzes the current situation of the demand for ASEAN-oriented logistics personnel and proposes a higher vocational education based training mode.


Raman spectroscopy and atomic-force microscopy were applied to study the morphology of nanoislands grown on strained Si1−xGex sublayers. It was shown that the growth of nanoislands on strained Si1−xGex sublayer not only induces the effect of their spatial ordering but also enhances the role of interdiffusion processes. Unusual high island volume increase during the epitaxy is explained by anomalous strong material diffusion from the sublayer into the islands, induced by nonuniform field of elastic strains.


DiMLex is a lexicon of German connectives that can be used for various language understanding purposes. We enhanced the coverage to 275 connectives, which we regard as covering all known German discourse connectives in current use. In this paper, we consider the task of adding the semantic relations that can be expressed by each connective. After discussing different approaches to retrieving semantic information, we settle on annotating each connective with senses from the new PDTB 3.0 sense hierarchy. We describe our new implementation in the extended DiMLex, which will be available for research purposes.


Introduction: Wolf crater is an irregularly shaped, approximately 25 km depression in the south-central portion of Mare Nubium on the lunar nearside, centered at 16.573°W and 22.904°S. Although not previously identified as a lunar "red spot" [e.g. 1,2], Wolf crater was identified as a Th anomaly by Lawrence and coworkers [3], Figure 1. We use data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to determine that the area surrounding Wolf crater has a composition more similar to highly evolved, non-mare volcanic structures than typical lunar crustal rocks. In this presentation, we investigate the geomorphology and composition of the Wolf crater, and discuss implications for the origin of the anomalous terrain. Geology and Morphology: This investigation uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, Wide Angle Camera (WAC) and Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) imagery to provide both detailed and context perspectives of the geomorphology. Wolf crater is the largest crater in an overall complex, which includes numerous craters and dome-like features on an approximately 50 km bright-toned massif that is elevated relative to the generally flat Mare Nubium (Figures 2-3). The south-southeastern portion of the Wolf crater's rim has been obliterated by the approximately 15 km Wolf B crater. Both Wolf and Wolf B have been filled with mare basalts. Wolf G is an approximately 6 km crater that has heavily modified the northwestern portion of Wolf crater's rim. Composition: This investigation uses LRO Diviner Lunar Radiometer (Diviner) thermal infrared, multispectral images to provide constraints on silicate composition. Diviner has three narrowband spectral channels centered at 7.81, 8.28, and 8.55 μm designed to characterize the shape and position of the Christiansen Feature (CF), a mid-infrared compositional indicator [4]. Previous work [5-8] has demonstrated the utility of Diviner-derived data products, especially the concavity index (CI), to identify unusual compositions consistent with the high silica contents of granitic or rhyolitic lavas. Ongoing laboratory studies seek to produce more quantitative constraints on these compositions [9]. The Wolf crater complex shows two thermal infrared spectral characteristics common amongst high silica non-mare volcanism sites [e.g. 5-8] but not pure plagioclase sites [e.g. 10]. First, as shown in Figure 4, maps of the Wolf crater have significant areas (darkest blue) with photometrically corrected CF values below Figure 1: Pixon deconvolved Th abundances indicate Wolf crater as an Th anomaly (figure from [3]).


At present, domestic cruise tourism is still an emerging tourism industry. Although all regions have great enthusiasm for the development of cruise tourism, some bottlenecks have appeared due to the lack of relevant planning. In terms of cruise manufacturing, such as large-scale fin stabilizers and low-speed design of engine, crankshaft, and propeller. To solve the above problems, it is very important to optimize the design of cruise travel routes based on wireless communication networks and genetic algorithms and research on economic development. This paper proposes the use of wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture and genetic algorithms in intelligent bionic algorithms to design cruise travel route optimization. Based on the research on the basic theory of the cruise industry, this article expounds the construction and operation of world-famous home ports and my country's cruise home ports. Through the analysis and evaluation of the characteristics and development status of my country's tourism and tourism resources, the possible impact of the construction of cruise home ports on the development of my country's tourism industry under the new situation is discussed. The results of the study show that a cruise ship carrying 2010 tourists and 952 crew members will spend about 323,700 US dollars on shore tourists and crew every time it stops at its home port city. The average consumption is approximately US$273,000.


The enrolling pattern of vocational colleges and vocational credentials system have a deep effect on our Chinese whole vocational quality.We should reform the enrolling pattern of vocational colleges,stick to mainly examining the technical abilities geared to the needs of the whole Chinese,build the appraising system of vocational and technical certificates meeting the demands and needs of enterprises and standardize the vocational credentials management to promote the wholesome development of vocational education and the improvement of Chinese vocational qualities.


This communication presents studies of algal diversity sampled from Baraila lake Salim Ali Jubba Sahni Bird Sanctuary, a protected area located in Vaishali district of Bihar. It is the first time that wetlands of Bihar are explored for asscessing of the algal diversity. A total of 36 algal taxa belonging to 27 genera and 9 classes were identified and documented. Out of these, 4 taxa are recorded as new distributional records for India, i.e. Sphaerellocystis ellipsoidea Ettl, Oedogonium pratense Transeau f. minus Mrozi?ska-Webb, Oedogonium undulatum A. Braun ex Hirn var. incisum Hansgirg and Chara muscosa J. Groves & Boll.-Webst.


PURPOSE: A mask structure is provided to improve a resolution of patterns during photo lithographic process. CONSTITUTION: The mask structure comprises: a mask substrate(10) composed of quartz and light transmittance materials; a chrome pattern layer(20) of light blocking material having a pattern information and formed at a portion of the mask substrate(10); and a light transmittance material(30) to cover the mask substrate(10) not formed the chrome pattern layer(10) and having higher refractive index compared to a light refractive index of an air.


Smart grids typically incorporate a communication networking layer onto the electric power grid to exchange the data and the information between the intelligent electronic devices and the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). The smart grid monitoring and control requires the acquisition and the transmission of a large volume of data over such communication networks. This process sets new requirements for the existing data communication networks within the smart grid regarding the network transmission capacity and the data storage. Data compression is an effective mean to compress the power quality (PQ) data and hence saving the cost of data storage while meeting the communication network transmission capacity limits. The previous work on PQ data compression uses wavelets multiresolution signal decomposition into various decomposition levels. Thresholding is then applied on each wavelet decomposition level to capture the features needed for signal reconstruction. The goodness of compression is significantly affected by the choice of the wavelet basic function as well as the choice of the number of decomposition levels. This paper looks into identifying the most suitable wavelet basic function and the suitable number of wavelet decomposition level to achieve high compression of PQ disturbances. The study considered 80 wavelets and 4 categories of PQ disturbances such as sag, swell, interruption and notches. The results have been presented and the conclusions were drawn.


Preface -Part I Eroding Paradigms Chapter 1 Introduction - The nature and nurture of stigma The origins and meaning of stigma Consequences of stigma for people with a mental illness Consequences for family members Consequences of stigma for mental health systems and societies Anti-stigma initiatives are growing Chapter 2 Paradigm 1: Developed countries have eradicated systemic discrimination on the grounds of mental illness Mental health development Employment inequity NIMBYISM, homelessness, and the inverse care law Media depictions and public tolerance Chapter 3 Paradigm 2: In developing countries, people with mental illnesses are not stigmatized Exploding the myth Stigma in other cultures Islamic cultures Chinese culture Indian culture Chapter 4 Paradigm 3: The fight against stigma must be based on well-developed long term specific and comprehensive plans A case for enlightened opportunism Networks of practice Network governance and leadership General principles, rather than specific plans guide anti-stigma activities Chapter 5 Paradigm 4: Scientific evidence will best define the targets of anti-stigma work Evidence-based advocacy Evidence is in the eye of the beholder To be successful, programs must target local needs To be successful programs must build better practices Chapter 6 Paradigm 5: Mental health professionals should lead anti-stigma programs Mental health professionals are worthy targets of anti-stigma programs Stigma in general health care settings Mental health systems as agents of social control What can mental health professionals do differently? Chapter 7 Paradigm 6: Improving knowledge about mental illnesses will reduce stigma and discrimination The nature of prejudice Can prejudice respond to nuggets of knowledge? What about mental health literacy? Anti-stigma programs as purveyors of medical knowledge Chapter 8 Paradigm 7: An anti-stigma program is successful if it changes attitudes The knowledge-attitude-behaviour continuum 'What we dont know about prejudice reduction How much change is change? When are anti-stigma programs successful? Environments are not just containers Chapter 9 Paradigm 8: Community care for the mentally ill will destigmatize mental illness and psychiatry Stigma as a consequence of institutionalization Stigma as a consequence of community care Stigma as a social barrier to recovery Chapter 10 Paradigm 9: Campaigns are an excellent way of reducing stigma The cause de jour Can social inclusion be sold like soap? Chapter 11 Paradigm 10: Anti-stigma programs should be built on the premise that mental illness is like any other illness Forced confinement and treatment Anti-psychiatry sentiments Violence and unpredictability An illness like any other? Chapter 12 Paradigm 11: The stigma of mental illness is too deeply ingrained to prevent or reduce it The importance of fighting back -Overcoming NIMBYISMthe Not in My Backyard Syndrome Changing the way emergency departments do business Connecting with teachers and students Engaging the police Engaging the media Can community projects make a population difference? -Chapter 13 Summary of Part 1 -Implications for anti-stigma programming paradigms lost -Part II Building Programs Against Stigma and its Consequences Chapter 14 - Getting going Introduction Developing a program committee Creating an advisory committee Setting clear goals Creating interes Acquiring and monitoring resources Writing a successful funding application Chapter summary and chapter checklist Chapter 15 - Identifying program priorities Identifying program priorities through qualitative investigation Focus groups Steps in conducting a focus group Troubleshooting in focus groups Analysis of focus group data Identifying program priorities using semi-structured interviews Identifying program priorities using surveys Chapter summary and chapter checklist Chapter 16 - Program development Picking target groups Journalists Youth Health professionals Members of community neighbourhoods Police Policy makers and legislators Choosing a program approach Creating a program logic model Including people who have experienced a mental illness in program delivery Families Using media wisely Working with external media experts Working with television Working with radio Working with the arts Pilot testing Chapter summary and chapter checklist Chapter 17 - Program monitoring and evaluation Using qualitative data to monitor program implementation Assessing change Specification of program outcomes Setting performance targets Devising and implementing a data collection plan Data management and analysis Identifying lessons learned Ethical issues in evaluation Communicating results Chapter summary and chapter checklist Bibliography and Suggested Readings The Nature of Stigma Evaluation Methods Works Cited Appendix: Inventories of Stigma Experiences Personal Experiences with the Stigma of Mental Illness Family Experiences with the Stigma of Mental Illness Appendix Index


One of the most common reasons that the community's rejection of same-sex marriage is that the same-sex marriage violated the "ethics". In this paper, general "moral prejudice" in modern society was led from the biggest difference between same-sex marriage and heterosexual marriage: that the same-sex marriage can not have fertility ability. Based on the research results of sociology and the principles of the judgment of ethics, value analysis was made on gay marriage motives and results, demonstrated that the same-sex marriage was morally "goodness" and that the moral judgment that "same-sex marriage is immoral" was a prejudice lack of theory itself, thus call for society to give more tolerance for the gay and lesbian community in order to clear the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage.


The influence of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ concentration on Ca2+ sparks and spontaneous transient outward currents in single smooth muscle cells" (1999).


Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia (EDTA-DP) occurs rarely, with an incidence rate of 0.09%-0.21%. EDTA-DP may lead to misdiagnosis since low platelet count may determine by outomated blood counter in which EDTA as anticoagulant is used [1,2]. It is diagnosed via microscopic detection of platelet aggregates in a peripheral blood smear. Additionally, in vitro clumping of the platelets occurs due to autoantibodies that develop against platelet surface antigens [1]. Although automatic blood analyzers are widely used, peripheral blood smear is the hematological gold standard for definitive diagnosis. When the thrombocyte number is low the morphology and appearance of platelets must be confirmed via a peripheral blood smear. As such, laboratory errors and excessive expenditure of time can be avoided. A 7-year old boy was referred to our hospital due to thrombocytopenia The patient's platelet count was determined by a different laboratory to be between 10x109/L and 15 x109/L. History of familial or acquired hemorrhagic disorders, lymphadenopathy, drug intake, blood transfusion, systemic disease, and recent viral infection was negative. Physical examination was normal. Laboratory findings were as follows: platelet count: 13 x109/L; hemoglobin: 12.2 g/dL; white blood cell count: 14,8 x109/L; mean platelet volume: 8.8 fL. Aggregation of platelets was observed via microscopic examination of the peripheral blood smear (Figure 1A and 1B). Direct Coombs' test, and cold agglutinin, serum immunoglobulins, antinuclear antibody, total protein, and lipid levels were normal. Using sodium citrate, the patient's platelet count was 249 x109/L (Figure 2).


Objective assessment of noise ("noise quality") can be thought of as a three‐step process including data recording, signal analysis, and psychoacoustic evaluation. Standard measurement instrumentation may be used for recording and analysis, resulting in data suitable for a variety of present and future psychoacoustic relations. The discrete Fourier transform in its usual implementation, the short‐time Fourier transform, and the variable‐window Fourier transform can all be used for analysis of noise signals, However, these techniques have some limitations, such as linear frequency resolution, assumption of a locally stationary signal, and consequences of analysis windows. Real‐time digital filtering is frequently more appropriate for the analysis of nonstationary noise signals, because it can provide logarithmic frequency resolution, inherently real‐time analysis, and well‐defined analysis windows. These two classes of methods will be compared. Analysis parameters of an objective analysis system using real...


Rock-soil aggregate, as a specific geomaterial, exhibits complicated mechanical behavior. The rock-soil aggregate sampled from the deep layer of sliding mass at Jinpingzi area of Wudongde hydropower plant on Yangtze River is investigated to understand its mechanical behavior. Large-scale laboratory triaxial tests are conducted considering different gradations, stone contents and confining pressures. The results show that variation of stone content and gradation considerably affects the mechanical characteristics of rock-soil aggregate. Further, the influences of stone content, and gradation variation on stress-strain curve, Mohr-Coulomb criterion based shear strength parameters, Duncan-Chang model based deformation parameters, and internal friction angle are analyzed. A modified Rowe's stress-dilatancy equation describing the mechanical response of rock-soil aggregate is then suggested.


Dynamic engineering-economic models for real-time energy market was proposed. Dynamic connection between profit, price and energy power was shown. Power generator in the proposed model oriented for received of profit and its maximization.


A similarity classifier based on Bonferroni mean based operators is introduced. The new Bonferroni mean based variant of the similarity classifier is also extended to cover a new Bonferroni-OWA variant. The new Bonferroni-OWA based similarity classifier raises the question of how to accomplish the weighting needed and for this reason we also examine a number of linguistic quantifiers for weight generation. The new proposed similarity classifier variants are tested on four real world medical research related data sets. The results are compared with results from two previously presented similarity classifiers, one based on the generalized mean and another based on an arithmetic mean operator. The results show that comparatively better classification accuracy can be reached with the proposed new similarity classifier variants.


The dilemma in the July issue concerned a dog owner who presented a litter of 15-week-old puppies, all of which had collapsed with severe diarrhoea, and you suspected parvovirus was the cause. The puppies had previously been taken to a neighbouring practice where they were vaccinated using a homeopathic nosode vaccine. The client had now come to you because of a subsequent loss of faith in the other surgeon (In Practice, June 2012, volume 34, pages 366-367). Discussing legal and ethical elements, Martin Whiting commented that the concepts of evidence-based medicine and informed consent were central to this scenario. The first veterinary surgeon was unlikely to have been acting outside the RCVS Code of Professional Conduct, provided that the client was fully informed of the risks and benefits of homeopathic and conventional vaccinations, they acted within their area of competence (including training in homeopathy) and did not compromise the welfare of the animal. However, evidence-based medicine should remain the foundation of veterinary work and some found it hard to reconcile the use of remedies with unknown efficacies, mechanisms and side-effects over conventional therapies where these factors were known or demonstrable. The risk to animal welfare was unknown when details of homeopathic remedies were unspecified, and this could compromise the vet's ability to inform the client sufficiently, as required for consent. It also diminished the vet's ability to robustly defend the therapeutic choice. Only with evidence could competency be measured and protocols audited to ensure that the profession's endeavours to safeguard the welfare of animals was realised.


Synthesis of 7-methoxy-2-methyl-3,5,8-isoquinolinetrione from either 7- or 8-isoquinolinol is described. 3,5,8-Isoquinolinetrione is a novel heteroeyelic quinune which constitutes the aromatic carbon skeleton of mimosamycin.


We contribute this year work performed by two distinct sites (INRIA Meije, and INRIA Ep-Atr). Work at INRIA Meije focused on Compositional Reduction of Boolean Equation Systems. It was in fact the major contribution of this site to the whole project this year. Work at INRIA Ep-Atr focused both on automata abstractions using Implicit Labelled Transition Systems and synbolic techniques, and on controller synthesis and the Supervisory Control problem, again solved with symbolic techniques. We describe all these activities conducted this year in the sequel. Approach Large program development is handled everywhere by modular division. In the case of Esterel this module structure is attened prior to compilation by expanding the submodule instances into their actual bodies. On the other hand due to the nature of the language the compilation process induces complex translations and interpretations, into a software representation form of synchronous circuits at gate level, or even further into explicit Mealy FSM descriptions. Important steps in the compilation process are constructive causality analysis, logical and sequential optimization, and sometimes symbolic reachable state space construction. The algorithms at work can be very expensive when applied globally, an extreme example being those which include symbolic RSS construction. Modular compilation is therefore a highly desirable goal. Still, formal semantics must be preserved to the point of allowing processed submodules to be linked back instead of their former counterpart sinto larger modules. The purpose is to relax complexity bottlenecks, as induced for instance by global netlist optimization or symbolic reachable state space computation. The main diiculty is that submodule transformations should be semantically sound and preserve whatever is needed to link submodules back into a larger program. In our case this means clear separation between initial instant and other behaviours, so that optimization of the (code of) later instants has to be done in the context of whatever states the initial instant may lead to. This information in fact proved utterly important to reach some signiicant amount of reduction, and make the modular optimization eecient both in intermediate size and in time complexity. Results achieved this year We developped translators from SC format (the proprietary representation format in Es-terel for netlists descriptions as Boolean Equations Systems) to Blif format (an entry point to powerful hardware logical synthesis tools), and back. The translators must be carefully designed to allow proper split between surface (as we shall call the part of the equation system …


This paper analyzes vehicle clutch theoretically and sets up a math model of start slipping frictional power for vehicle clutch It simulates the start slipping frictional power of clutch of special vehicle and the affect of temperature rise It also analyzes the cause of clutch failure at early stage The improved clutch meets the need of vehicle operation


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: The aim of the research is to identify the prevailing behavior and dietary habits of the preparatory year female students at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, and to achieve this, the study was conducted on a sample of (290) students of the preparatory year female students at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University. Behavior questionnaire was applied to them to identify their prevailing behavior and dietary habits. The results of the study indicated that the general nutritional level of the respondent mean (3.30) and standard deviation (403). In addition, there were no statistically significant differences attributed to the college variable (Humanity, Scientific).


Chlorophyll a (Chl a) in hydrocarbon solution with a small amount of dioxane or water shows red-shifted absorption bands at 686 nm and at 700 nm (dioxane) and at 745 nm (water), indicative of self-organized aggregate structures in solution. To study the relationship between the structure and spectral properties of the aggregates, several one-dimensional model structures of Chl a−dioxane and Chl a−water aggregates were computed by the molecular mechanics method. Three overall structures ranging from stick to a ring shape were energetically favored for the dioxane system. All these structures contain structural heterogeneity that consists of repeating dimers that further form tetramer substructures. For the Chl a−water system a one-dimensional homogenous helical structure was obtained. By using the model structures, the transition energies and fluorescence excitation polarizations were computed. Exciton theory with dipole−dipole interaction approximation and semiempirical quantum mechanical CI calculations ...


Abstract : Transforming growth factor-Beta (TGF-Beta) potently inhibits cell proliferation by causing cell cycle arrest at the Gl phase. Smad proteins mediate the TGF-Beta antiproliferative responses by regulating the expression of several cell cycle components. We have recently discovered that Smad3, a key Smad protein for the TGF-Beta antiproliferative responses, is a major physiological substrate for cyclin-dependent kinases CDK4 and cDK2. Except for the Rb family members, Smad3 is the only cDK4 substrate demonstrated so far. CDK phosphorylation of Smad3 inhibits its transcriptional activity and antiproliferative function. Since cyclin Dl that activates CDK4 and the related cDK6 is amplified or overexpressed in a high percentage of human breast cancers, we examined whether Smad3 is highly phosphorylated by CDK in breast cancers. Using primary human breast cancer tissue microarrays and a phosphopeptide antibody against a CDK phosphorylation site in Smad3, we have found that overexpression of cyclin Dl in primary human breast cancer is strongly associated with immunohistochemical staining on the CDK phosphorylation site in Smad3. Thus, diminishing Smad3 activity by CDK phosphorylation may be an important mechanism for resistance to the growth-inhibitory effects of TGF-Beta in breast cancers.


Collaborative learning means instructional arrangement involves two or more learners working together on a share learning goals. Learners are encouraged to ask question, give elaborated explanations, exchange arguments, formulated new ideas and problem solution during teaching and learning activities. The aim of this study was to know the significant comparation on learner's EFL mastery by implementing collaborative method at classroom teaching learning. The research has been analyzed forward experimental research design; The purposes were formulated; to examined the impact of Collaborative Learning on Learner's EFL Mastery by conducting a quasi-experimental method; it qualitatively investigated learners' perceptions of Collaborative Learning. The data exhibited that Collaborative learning had significant impact on leaner's EFL mastery. Subsequently, the data result of independent sample t-test, there was significant difference in post-test result between experimental class and control class (p=0.000≤0.05), actually post-test of the experimental class means (M=10.81) and post-test of the control class means (M=8.45). Collaborative Learning led learners to accept differences and to make those differences comparative sources in order to be more knowledgeable as well as wiser while dealing with a problem at reading material of EFL learning during the class activities. .  The result of study depicts that collaborative learning is contributive to learners' emotional awareness, learning motivation, cognitive development, and broad-mindedness.


System Modeling Language (SysML) is a standardized profile of Object Management Group (OMG) and it is used for the purpose of graphical modeling a system engineering application. The embedded system is graphically modeled using an internal block diagram of SysML. For formal verification of graphical model, a methodology is proposed which maps the SysML's internal block diagram to input language of PRISM model checker using CTMC (Continuous Time Markov Chain) model for developing more reliable real-time application. The functionality of the system is graphically modeled using an internal block diagram of SysML that is further translated to input language of PRISM. The user requirements are specified using CSL (Continuous Stochastic Logic) which are further verified against the functionality of the system. The timed and untimed properties are presented and verified against the CTMC model. The timed properties involve continuous time as it is critical in embedded system and its verification is necessary. We demonstrate our methodology by applying it on a case study of liquid fertilizer mixing plant and the methodology presents more accurate results.


This essay highlights the significance of the landgrant charters of the Maitraka dynasty in the process of regional state formation in early medieval Gujarat. The theme of regional state formation needs to be explored, particularly since the dominant historiography on early medieval India has highlighted political decentralization and fragmentation in the post-Gupta period.' The concepts of 'Indian Feudalism' and the 'Segmentary State'2 negate the phenomenon of regional state formation in the post-Gupta period. Hermann Kulke questions the very basis of the model of political decentralization in the post-Gupta period: he argues that this model fails to explain the growth of important regional kingdoms and their long duration. Kulke observes that a structural interpretation of the post-Gupta era reveals that this period of decentralization in north India coincided with a very intensive process of state formation at the local, sub-regional, and regional levels in some parts of southern India.3 B.D. Chattopadhyaya, who has discussed the processes of political and


Salmonella infections of human beings are still the most frequent form of foodborne diseases. In order to reduce time of analysis, molecular biological techniques are being increasingly applied with food analysis. This is also valid for Salmonella detection in foods. Thereby real-time PCR has been approved to be an appropriate method for the examination of big sample sizes. In the context of the validation studies several molecular biological detection methods have been tested including DNA extraction and reduction of the concentration process. During validation samples were examined both microbiologically and molecular biologically. With the molecular biological tests no sample proved false negative. This molecular biological technique for Salmonella detection fits well into the sequence of laboratory operations.


A theory has been developed for the transition from mild to steep slope. The theory leads to a prediction of the course of the water surface on the transition stretch. It has been necessary in an approximate manner to take the curvature of the water surface into consideration, but the influence of the friction loss has been neglected on the short transition stretch. Experiments have been carried out. and there is a fine agreement between theory and experimental investigations.


The invention relates to a power water tap. The water tap comprises a washing pipe and a central pipe communicated with the washing pipe and capable of rotating relative to the washing pipe. The power water tap also comprises a variable pump, a hydraulic motor, a first reversing valve, a second reversing valve and a container, wherein the hydraulic motor is used for driving the central pipe to rotate; the first end of the variable pump is connected with a port P of the first reversing valve and a port T of the second reversing valve; the second end of the variable pump is connected with a port T of the first reversing valve; a port P of the second reversing valve is connected to the container; a port A is connected with a control port X1 of the first reversing valve; a port B is connected with a control port X2 of the first reversing valve; the port A and the port B of the first reversing valve are connected with the hydraulic motor; and a port Y is connected with the container. The power water tap is driven by a hydraulic system and the output volume of the variable pump can be adjusted continuously, so that stepless speed regulation of the power water tap can be realized.


After analyzing the complexity of comprehensive benefits of soil and water conservation by using the theory of system science, the fundamental character and content of soil and water conservation economics are discussed from practical mechamism, theoretical basis, and technical mechanism. The discussion will contribute to a scientific understanding of the branch.


The funding of the FE (Further Education) sector in England and Wales has undergone a major transformation since the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. Newly incorporated colleges are now funded on a national basis through the FEFC using a common formula. This article explores the explicit, if not always articulated, aims of the originators of the methodology. It discusses the many unintended consequences which have resulted. It concludes that many colleges, faced with a business-orientated culture purveyed through the new funding methodology, are finding themselves unable to make the required adjustments.


The article is devoted to new lexemes of Polish origin in the Belarusian language in the beginning of the 21st century and the experience of its lexicographic description. The process of borrowing lexemes from the Polish language and through its mediation is a characteristic feature of the modern Belarusian language which is being actualized in it. Normally, new and actualized borrowings from the Polish language are doublets of standard Belarusian lexemes. Despite the ambiguous attitude of the Belarusian language native speakers and linguists to them, they begin to be fixed in normative monolingual and bilingual dictionaries.


The present paper provides a reliability assessment of scour protections applicable to both the static and dynamic stability design. As a case study, Horns Rev 3 hindcast data is used to simulate different failure criteria for an exemplary scour protection suitable for an offshore monopile foundation. The results show that the probability of failure is influenced by several factors, namely the wave friction factor, the definition of the acceptable damage number or the formulations used to calculate the bed shear-stress. The reliability assessment also indicates that annual probabilities of failure, associated to each criterion, might be comparable with the values presented in reliability standards for marine structures. Based on the results, this paper highlights future recommendations to improve the reliability-based design and analysis of scour protections for offshore foundations.


The Supply of Public School Teachers in the United States: A Study in Human Capital Theory by Andrew W. Bacdayan, Doctor of Philosophy Utah State University, 1973 Major Professor: Dr. Kenneth S. Lyon Department: Economics viii This study uses the principles of human capital theory to develop and test a theory of a supply of a class of educated manpower services with special reference to school teachers. In the theory formulation, the determinants of the existing stock of teacher education capital are first identified. These are : (a) the price per man-year of teaching service, WTS, (b) the rate of interest, r, (c) the price of the human capital already embodied in the individual working for a college degree in teacher education, WCS, and (d) private costs of education such as foregone earnings and tuition fees, FERTN. The stock function is then expressed in terms of a partial adjustment model and then finally transformed into a supply function for s flow of teacher services by assuming a constant rate of flow of services from each unit of education stock. Finally, the model is made logically complete by specifying s demand function for teachers by the nation's public school systems. This function which is derived by the application of traditional factor demand theory to the production of public


China's impressive and historically unprecedented growth performance has been the envy of developing and developed nations alike. Yet, it is now widely recognised that China's growth has come at great and growing environmental and social costs and cannot be sustained in the long run. Moreover, how China chooses to manage its economic growth has far reaching consequences for global environmental assets. Indeed China's increasing demand for energy, commodities, and raw materials is already affecting world prices and stocks, and China has become a leading contributor to global emissions of CO2 and SO2. The sheer scale and pace of economic development means that China has taken the world into uncharted territory.


Face identification is an essential application in recent times as it has several applications like surveillance, criminal identification, etc. Many face recognition methods are still facing various challenges by researchers in real-time applications because of multiple rotational angles of faces and different expressions. To overcome this issue, we come up with the novel approach of Global Generative Adversarial Networks (G-GAN) to convert various expressions and side images into frontal images and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to recognize the face in quick time with low cost, high accuracy and with use of less memory. The unique error loss algorithm is introduced in G-GAN during training which preserves identical features of profile images and photo-realistic good resolution front image. The single ground truth frontal image of an individual and G-GAN converted frontal pictures of individuals are considered, and PCA is applied to obtain features. The features are compared using Euclidean Distance (ED) to recognize an individual. The module used publicly available datasets like Indian male and female, ORL, and Multi PIE and achieved good results with a high recognition rate. Keywords: Biometrics, Face Recognition, GAN, Face Profile Images, PCA


ABSTRACT:Trust is the most crucial factor for online shopping. Those organizations interested in enhancing their business channel with internet shopping need to understand the influence of consumers' trust, and how it depends on other independent variables. Additionally, they need to understand the cause of unreliability, how to eliminate it, and what functions have to be improved and maintained in order to attract consumers. This will allow organizations to understand the existing internet shopping environment and the consumers' decision to repurchase. This study investigates the factors influencing consumer trust in internet shopping in Thailand. Based on various previous empirical studies, a conceptual framework was developed to examine the relationship between six factors which influence trust in Internet shopping. The data was analyzed by using structural equation modeling (SEM) to test all hypotheses. The results of this study show that perceived integrity and perceived ease of use have a positive relationship with trust toward Internet shopping in Thailand. Recommendations are provided for Internet sellers to enable them to increase consumer trust.Chanidapa PrompongsatomNattapong SakthongSinon ChaipoopimtanaHoward CombsINTRODUCTIONSince the mid 1990s the Internet has grown tremendously and created countless applications in virtually every aspect of modem human life. The Internet continues to make the world smaller. It benefits the people around the world by enabling communication and transactions. Moreover, consumers are able to quickly search for the information they need. There are now over 1.7 billion Internet users in the world with the largest number being in Asia. In 2012, 28 percent of the world's population is online with the percentage online in Asia now 22 percent. According to a global survey conducted by the Nielsen Company, 85% of the world's online population has used the Internet to make a purchase, a 40% increase over the last two years. Online shoppers tend to exhibit repeat visits to the same online site based on the level tmst (Global online shopping report by Nielsen, 2008).Online tmst plays a major role in determining the success of ecommerce web sites (Koufaris and Hamptopn-Sosa, 2004). A high degree of tmst will create high expectations of satisfaction and increase the degree of purchase intention but reduce uncertainty in most online transactions (McKnight and Chervany, 2002; Pavlou, 2003; Gefen and Straub, 2003; Jarvenpaa et al, 2000). Also, tmst is a psychological state comprising the intention to accept vulnerability based on positive expectations of the intentions or behaviors of another. Intrinsically, trust implies a willingness to accept vulnerability, but with an expectation or confidence that one can rely on the other party. In the marketing literature, trust has been studied primarily in the context of relationship marketing (Doney and Cannon 1997). In studies of buyer-seller relationships, trust in a sales agent evolves over time and is based on a buyer's observation of a sales representative's honesty, reliability, consistency, and trustworthiness.To the extent that a consumer has positive impressions about a site and accepts vulnerability, she/he develops trust with that site. A consumer's perception of a site's competence to perform the required functions, and perception of the good intention of the firm behind the online storefront, contributes to his/her perception of trust in that site. Online trust thus includes consumer perceptions of how the site would deliver on customers' expectations, how believable the site's information is, and the level of confidence in the site. Therefore, trust is an important factor to facilitate online transactions.Acquiring customer trust depends on various factors. Many researchers have investigated how consumers develop trust. Based on many empirical previous studies, Tang (2005) found that perceived ease of use and usefulness are major significant affect on trust in online shopping. …


Modulating the orbital configuration of ferromagnetic metal (FM)/metal‐oxide (MO) interfaces is crucial for obtaining a controllable interfacial magnetism for constructing energy‐efficient magnetic memory and logic devices. The traditional works of orbital regulation depend on external fields, such as electric field, temperature field, and stress field. This work proposes a novel orbital modulation strategy by modifying the coordination environment of FM/MO interface with nitrogen (N) incorporation. By preparing a Fe/MgO bilayer at a N2 atmosphere, N atoms occupy the interstitial sites of the Fe lattice, which induces a charge redistribution at the Fe/MgO interface and toggles a prominent orbital reconstruction of Fe with an increment of out‐of‐plane orbital occupancy. Therefore, the orbital magnetism is tuned effectively, which remarkably strengthens the interfacial magnetic anisotropy energy by 0.6 erg cm−2 and enables a broad magnetic anisotropy tunability from in‐plane to perpendicular direction. Besides, the Fe thickness for maintaining perpendicular magnetic anisotropy extends from less than 1 to 3 nm, which is favorable for improving the signal‐to‐noise ratio and stability of devices in nanoscale. These findings provide an external‐field‐independent strategy of orbital engineering for tailoring obit‐controlled performance at FM/MO heterointerfaces, which practically advances the magnetic storage and logic devices.


OBJECTIVE I examine the nature and expression of the null hypothesis often used in spatial surveillance. I also show an example of how incorrect specification of the null can lead to excess signals without interesting outbreaks, and argue that this may be a cause of excess signals when using spatial surveillance in public health applications. BACKGROUND The tendency of syndromic surveillance systems to generate many outbreak signals is well known. A recent review noted a general state of "relatively low specificity and positive predictive value, with a considerable burden of false alarms." [1] Reasons excess signals may occur include differentially missing or delayed data and poor control for predictable noise. Other problems may be specific to particular cluster detection algorithms. For example, spatial cluster detection requires more complex specification in return for its promise of greater sensitivity and general utility.


Six strains of thermopile cellulose-decomposing bacteria were isolated from composting of cow manure composts,using the filter paper or the carboxymethyl cellulose-Na(CMC-Na)as sole carbon resource.The strains were observed in simple staining and Gram′s stain.All of the strains could grow rapidly on the CMC-congo red medium,and the speed of the clear zone formation reached 8-10 mm·d-1.A-3 had the highest enzyme activity and reached 1.21 mg·mL-1(30 min)at 16 h after inoculation.Some of the strains could degradate the filter paper completely within 3 days.For confirming the classification of A-3,physiological and biochemical characterization were applied and PCR was carried out to measure the gene sequence of 16S rDNA.The 16S rDNA of A-3 was compared with those in GenBank and the phylogenetic tree was constructed with related bacterias.Based on the above results,the strain A-3 was identified as Bacillus subtilis.Overall,with the high capacity to decompose the cellulase and adaptability to environment,the strains isolated will have a great potential to be applied in controlling the pollution of cellulosic.


A coal combustion apparatus capable of improving NOx reduction to a large extent is provided, which apparatus comprises a pulverized coal-feeding pipe (abbreviated to coal pipe) inserted into a burner throat on the lateral wall of a combustion furnace and for feeding the coal and air into the furnace; a means for feeding the coal and air into the coal pipe; a secondary air passageway formed between the coal pipe and a secondary air-feeding pipe provided on the outer pe ripheral side of the coal pipe; a ternary air passageway formed on the outer peripheral side of the secondary air-feeding pipe; a means for feeding air or an oxygen containing gas into the secondary air passageway and that into the ternary air passageway; and a bluff body having a cross-section of a L-letter form provided at the tip end of the coal pipe.


The integration of renewable generation and energy storage in the power system has significant potential to mitigate undesirable characteristics of the power output such as intermittency and variability, as well as to increase total profits. However, since each generation part and the energy storage owner typically optimize the planning capacity based on their individual gains, it's challenging to get the system's optimal planning decision. This paper proposes a cooperative game based model to size shared energy storage for centralized wind and solar generation. We define the value of energy coalitions as the additional profits and allocate the profits of each player according to nucleous of the cooperative game. An iterative method is put forward to calculate the optimal robust capacity of each participant when the objection is to find the highest value of Rate of Return (RoR), considering uncertainty sets of wind speed. Finally, numerical results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method and the optimal robust capacities of the generators and the energy storage in this cooperative game based model are also obtained.


Due to the increased use of human health and ecological risk assessments to evaluate the risks posed by hazardous waste combustion facilities, EPA has published two draft guidance documents that describe how these assessments should be prepared. The first guidance document, entitled Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities, was released in July 1998. A second companion document, entitled Screening Level Ecological Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities (EPA-530-D-99-001A), which was issued in August 1999, is discussed in this article.


Teaching law in Europe and many other parts of the world is primarily and traditionally conducted in an ex-cathedra style of transferring knowledge. The emergence of law clinics and their integration into the law schools and the general curriculum of law students pose the constant question of what specifically defines a law clinic in contrast to other programmes. The authors therefore set out to answer the question of what is essential for a programme to call itself a law clinic as they deem it important for the further development of specific concepts and on a more general note for the general acceptance and movement of law clinics. For this, the article investigates the history of law clinics and the initial motivation of providing social justice as the reason of their formation. With that in mind and their basic understanding of a clinic as an institution that helps clients with specific problems, the authors take the position that a "law clinic" must render legal aid to people in need and therefore work with life-client cases. As the possibility of working on live-client cases with law students is thus defined a prerequisite of operating a law clinic, this must be checked for feasibility. In the following, the article compares different European national legal regimes on rendering legal aid and concludes that the proposed work with live-client cases isn't only desirable but also viable.


Collaborative innovation as a new university idea can improve the education quality through the way of sharing,cooperation,integration.The normal colleges and universities was the responsibility for cultivating teachers.It is to implement new ways to cultivate quality teachers under the idea of collaborative,innovation to training talent mode reform.Some reform measures have been taken in the curriculum system,teaching methods,training mode in the classes of outstanding teachers of Zhanjiang normal university.It has certain referential significance for service in the basic education.


This paper reviews the literature on financial stability and financial inclusion—two broad objectives of financial policy that may be mutually dependent. The review suggests the possible co-dependence of stability and inclusion. We build on this theoretical motivation by exploring stylized facts (correlations) obtained from data sets that have been widely used in the literature on financial inclusion and stability. The empirical correlations suggest that, on average, financial inclusion and stability correlate negatively, but the correlations vary systematically across individuals, firms, and country contexts. Depending on the financial instrument and stability measure, positive correlations are also likely. These associations reflect some findings in the existing literature, but also point to knowledge gaps that can be addressed by future research.


We theoretically investigate a double-{\Lambda} electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) system. The property of the double-{\Lambda} medium with a closed-loop configuration depends on the relative phase of the applied laser fields. This phase-dependent mechanism differentiates the double-{\Lambda} medium from the conventional Kerr-based nonlinear medium, e.g., EIT-based nonlinear medium discussed by Harris and Hau [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4611 (1999)], which depends only on the intensities of the applied laser fields. Steady-state analytical solutions for the phase-dependent system are obtained by solving the Maxwell-Bloch equations. In addition, we discuss efficient all-optical phase modulation and coherent light amplification based on the proposed double-{\Lambda} EIT scheme.


In a code division multiple access communication system (100), a method and an accompanying apparatus provide for an efficient control of a gain level of a communication channel at various mobility levels. A rate of change of a carrier to interference ratio (C/I) of a communication channel received at a receiver (400) is determined. The gain level of the communication channel may be based on the rate of change of the C/I of the communication channel. A mobility level of the communication channel may be compared to a low mobility threshold corresponding to a low mobility level. If the mobility level meets the low mobility threshold, the gain level of the communication channel may be based on the rate of change of the C/I of the communication channel.


Introduction: HCV infection is a major public health problem with global prevalence of 3%.An estimated 5-20% of infected patients develop cirrhosis annually and 1-4% of these develop hepatocellular carcinoma.HCV infection is a significant problem in hemodialysis patients which poses difficulty in the management of the patients in the renal dialysis units. Material and Methods: This retrospective hospital record based study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital in Faridkot (Punjab), India for a period of 2 years (January 2013 to December 2014).Clinical, demographic and geographical data was collected from the patients. They were tested for anti HCV antibodies by 4th Generation HCV TRIDOT ELISA (J. Mitra & Co. Pvt. Ltd.). Results: Out of the total 262 patients, 88(33.5%) were found to be positive for HCV infection. Out of these 88 HCV positive patients, 59 were males and 29 were females. The highest prevalence was found in the age group of 41-60 years (43.18%) and lowest prevalence was observed in the age group of 80years(1.17%).There was a predominant rural distribution(70.4%) as compared to urban(29.5%).Among the districts of Punjab, the highest frequency distribution of HCV positivity was found in Faridkot(32.9%) followed by Ferozepur(23.8%), thereafter Moga(19.3%) and lowest was observed in Zira district(1.13%). Conclusion: High prevalence of HCV infection in patients on hemodialysis emphasise the fact that chronic renal failure patients are highly exposed to HCV infection.These patients are also continuously increasing the source/ reservoir of HCV infection in our population.


PurposeThe goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between two different sets of practices, lean startup and business planning, and their relation to entrepreneurial performance.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected data from 120 entrepreneurs across the US about a variety of new venture formation activities within the categories of lean startup or business planning. They use hierarchical regression to examine the relationship between these activities and new venture performance using both a subjective and objective measure of performance.FindingsThe results show that talking to customers, collecting preorders and pivoting based on customer feedback are lean startup activities correlated with performance; writing a business plan is the sole business planning activity correlated with performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis research lays the foundation for understanding the components of both lean startup and business planning. Moreover, these results demonstrate that the separation of lean startup and business planning represents a false dichotomy.Practical implicationsThese findings suggest that entrepreneurs should engage in some lean startup activities and still write a business plan.Originality/valueThis article offers the first quantitative, empirical comparison of lean startup activities and business planning. Furthermore, it provides support for the relationship between specific lean startup activities and firm performance.


Contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE‐MRI) of the breast is highly sensitive for breast cancer detection. Multichannel coils and 3T scanners can increase signal, spatial, and temporal resolution. In addition, the T1‐reduction effect of a gadolinium‐based contrast agent (GBCA) is higher at 3T. Thus, it might be possible to reduce the dose of GBCA at 3T without losing diagnostic information.


Listening emphasis has long been placed on news broadcast teaching.Reflective teaching and its propelling and stimulating functions on news broadcast teaching are in detail analyzed in order to improve students' efficacy on listening ability.And the reflective teaching also becomes an effective pattern to stimulate foreign language teachers' practical creative capabilities.The purpose of this study is to set up a carrier in listening teaching.A thorough research and analysis shows that the reflective teaching can be put into good use in the teaching of English listening.


It could be say that each university has two major roles, including the role of education and research. Research is related to other variables such as knowledge management and organizational learning. Therefore, the present study investigated the relationship between knowledge management and organizational learning, faculty research performance, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences in educational year 2013.Methods the study was correlational study. 105 faculty members, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences were selected classification random sampling as sample of this research. Tools for data collection in this study included: a demographic questionnaire, the questionnaire of knowledge management (Lawson), Organizational Learning Inventory and the inventory of Geravand's Research Performance. The results showed that the dimensions of knowledge management variables were entered into the regression results showed that only three dimensions of knowledge creation, knowledge capture and dissemination of knowledge, significant predictors of research performance. When the dimensions of organizational learning variables were entered into the regression results showed that only two dimensions, significant predictors of research performance. In totally when dimensions of knowledge management and organizational learning were entered into the regression equation, the result showed, only two dimensions of knowledge creation, knowledge capture were predictor of research performance. In general it could be say that the knowledge management and organizational learning have a crucial role in the performance of faculty research. Thus, strategies for knowledge management and organizational learning, can significantly improve the professional faculty and the University to create a science competition.


Three young female doctors have jumped to their deaths from the 33-storey apartment building across from Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital in New York City in the past two years. Their colleagues [told reporters][1] that the hospital has done little to investigate or help them cope with the deaths.


Engineering education is evolving in a global context. Projects activities allow students structuring and applying the knowledge learned while facing problems. But, when taking into account MultiDisciplinary Optimisation (MDO), it is necessary to model and to exploit the all context and technical constraints. Two elements lead such approach. First of all, roadmaps give structured processes for the resolution of project objectives. Then, MDO allows solving local problems. The collaborative engineering needs to achieve the final choices based on the indications of strategic inputs, roadmaps and MDO results. This paper relates concrete experiences and proposes some progress for future engineering education.


Upholding the stand and taking the new point of view of the "Three-Representation" thought, this thesis looks closely back at the 80 years' struggling course of the Chinese Communist Party followed by the Chinese people, emphatically discloses the Party's historical essence-having combined the principles of Marxism-Leninism with the reality of China, selected a unique road, and established firm foundations of socialist modernization of China. It also strongly shows the "Three-Representation" character of the Party, reappears the greatness、glory and the correctness of the Party.


The Aircraft Classification Number-Pavement Classification Number method is the main approach for evaluating the structure of the airport pavement. However, the weakness of exiting methods lies in the difficulty of obtaining the exact PCN of the airport from the Airports Authority. This paper investigated the attenuation behaviors of the pavement structure under the envrionment of aircraft operation, and then the improved evaluation method for airport pavement was presented. The improved method could provide the technical support for accurately judging the bearing capacity of the exiting pavement structure and supply the decision-making reference to the Airports Authority.


Aims Natural N abundance provides integrated information about nitrogen (N) input, transformation and output, indirectly reflecting N cycling traits within terrestrial ecosystems. However, relationships between natural N abundance and N cycling processes are poorly understood in China. Here, our primary objectives were to (i) examine the effects of grazing at varying levels of intensity on dN of soils and plants in a semi-arid grassland; (ii) detect the relationships between dN of soils and four major N cycling processes (i.e. mineralization, nitrification, denitrification and ammonia volatilization); and (iii) determine whether dN of soils can be used as an indicator of N cycling in this semi-arid grassland. Methods The field experiment was conducted within the long-term (17-year) grazing enclosures in a semi-arid grassland in Inner Mongolia. Five grazing intensities (0.00, 1.33, 2.67, 4.00 and 5.33 sheep ha ) were designed. dN values of topsoils (0–10 cm), surface soils (0–2 cm) and plants were measured in 2006. Differences in dN of soils and plants between the five grazing intensities were examined. Rates of four soil N cycling processes were measured periodically during the 2005 and 2006 growing seasons. The dN values of topsoils were linked to the four N cycling processes to investigate their relationships. Important Findings The dN values of topsoils (5.20–5.96&) were substantially higher than the dN values of plants (2.51–2.93&) and surface soils (1.44–2.92&) regardless of grazing intensities. The N-depleted N losses during microbial decomposition of organic matter in concert with the downward movement of residual substrate over time are the possible causes of higher dN values in topsoils than in surface soils. In addition, the dN values of topsoils were positively correlated with the dN values of both plants and surface soils. Grazing, especially the high-intensity grazing (5.33 sheep ha ), resulted in a significant decrease in dN of surface soils. However, no statistically significant variations in dN of topsoils and plants were found in response to grazing. The dN values of topsoils exhibited significant dependence on the cumulative rates of NH3 volatilization, net nitrification and denitrification in 2005 but not in 2006.


A 70-year-old woman with hypertension presented to our clinic for evaluation of chest pain. A very rare anomaly, in which the right coronary artery originated from the left anterior descending artery, was incidentally found on coronary angiography. The acute angle made by the anomalous right coronary artery may have reduced the flow velocity and led to signs of myocardial ischemia.


The present invention provides compositions containing micronized tanaproget, desirably provides pharmaceutical compositions. The compositions can also contain microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, include anhydrous lactose and magnesium stearate, or crystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, sodium lauryl sulfate, may include povidone and magnesium stearate. The composition, contraception and hormone replacement therapy, and myometrial fibroids, benign prostatic hyperplasia, neoplastic diseases of benign and malignant, dysfunctional bleeding, uterine smooth muscle species, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, and pituitary, endometrium, kidney, ovary, breast, colon and prostate cancers and adenocarcinomas, and treatment and / or prophylaxis of other hormone-dependent tumors, and for the preparation of a medicament useful for them it is useful. Additional applications include stimulation of food intake.


A study to determine whether the Tarrant County Free Library is meeting the recreational readying needs of elementary school students.


In this paper, two approximation models are proposed for restoring divider. In the first design, approximation is performed at circuit level, where exact restoring divider cells are replaced by approximate restoring divider cells by simplifying the logic equations. In the second model, restoring divider is analysed strategically and number of restoring divider cells are reduced by finding the portions of divisor and dividend with significant information. An approximation factor p is used in both designs. In model 1, the design with p = 8 has a 75% reduction in both area and power consumption compared to exact design, with a Q-MRED of 1.909 × 10-2 and Q-NMED of 0.449 × 10-2. The second model with an approximation factor p = 4 has 52% area savings and 61% power savings compared to exact design. The proposed models are found to have better error metrics compared to existing approximate designs, with better area and power savings at similar error values. A change detection image processing application is used for real time assessment of proposed and existing approximate dividers and one of the models achieves a PSNR of 54.27 dB.


The increasing number of internet users is directly in line with the increasing number of data on the internet that is available for analysis, especially data in text form. The availability of this text data encourages a lot of sentiment analysis research. However, it turns out that the availability of abundant text data is also one of the challenges in sentiment analysis research. Datasets that consist of long and complex text documents require a different approach. In this study, LSTM was chosen to be used as a sentiment classification method. This research uses a movie review dataset that consists of 25,000 review documents, with an average length per review is 233 words. The research uses CBOW and Skip-Gram methods on word2vec to form a vector representation of each word (word vector) in the corpus data. Several dimensions of the word vector was used in this research, there are 50, 60, 100, 150, 200, and 500, this tuning parameter is used to determine their effect on the resulting accuracy. The best accuracy around 88.17% is obtained at the word vector 100 dimension and the lowest accuracy is 85.86% at the word vector 500 dimension.


Abstract: In today legal framework, sport is qualified as a human right. This has implications for the understanding of what is permissible in sport practice to ameliorate sport performance and selection of athletes. Genetic talent identification is highly questionable when framed within the human rights approach to sport, including elite sport. As a matter of fact, the qualification of sport as a human right makes it part of a bundle of interconnected rights among which the right to freely construct one's personality is at center stage. How far can science go in identifying talents without violating fundamental rights? What kind of regulation should be provided in order to put scientific advances in this field on a human rights footing?


There is weak institutional capacity to address air pollution in an integrated manner, because there is little in the way of an organized knowledge base that may help support pollution control planning. In this paper, we present a repository of resource links with information directly relevant for energy, emissions, and pollution analysis in India covering (1) Official national and state level portals; guidelines, acts, and rules documents (2) Ambient air quality monitoring (3) Satellite retrievals and tools (4) Global and regional health impact analysis and tools (5) Compiled statistics, maps, and other geo-spatial databases (6) Compiled databases on energy, emissions, meteorology, and reanalysis fields (7) Compiled statistics on Indian energy sectors. The resource links in the paper were last accessed in January 2021.


Education aimed at improving the quality of the educated such as knowledge,ability and quality and so on.From different perspective in the transfer of knowledge,the improve of capacity and practice of quality to study Confucius thought and practice of education,The performance of its many features of modem and quality education similar to the basic requirements.Among them,an official for the purpose of the book re-light the practice mode of education is the inevitable limitations of the times.