This study it had as objective to investigate if the Wartegg Test is an instrument capable to assess the creativity in personnel selection. A construct validity has been verified through correlation studies between creativity indicators in the protocols of the Wartegg Test and those of the Figural Form of the Torrance Test. Sixty eight candidates for selective processes, 47.0% men and 52.7% women, were involved in this research, ranging from 18 to 41 years of age. Evidences of trustworthiness in the Wartegg Test had been observed correlating items of categories which were assumed to be related with the basic function imagination creativity, flexibility, conventional vision and rigidity with its totals. The best Wartegg indicator found to investigate creativity is the sum of creativity plus flexibility. Moreover, a direct correlation was verified between field 5 of the Wartegg and the figural creativity index of the Torrance (ICF 1 e ICF 2). Despite the study presents some evidence of validity, new studies are required. Finally, it is evident the objective of the Wartegg, as much for rapport as for the theoretical construction, is more directed to understanding of ampler questions of personality than to investigation of a specific basic function. However, the correlation between basic functions and tests which investigate the same construct may be the only way to validate the instrument, due the difficulty in finding a test that evaluates conditions of personality in so ampler way.


Discussing the correlation between the large earthquakes (Ms≥7) in Taiwan area and the moderate-strong earthquakes in Jiangsu-south Yellow Sea area, the paper points out that there exists the risk of earthquakes with magnitude 5~6 in 2000~2003 after the Taiwan Ms 7.6 earthquake in 1999. Having tested the seismic data from 1905 to 1999 in this area, we found most Ms≥4.7 earthquakes possess outstanding characteristics of the multiplied nine days. By applying commensurable model and the leading earthquake, analysis and prediction have been made in detail. The results indicate that this method can be used for the short term earthquake prediction in this area.


Taking Chinese A-share new energy listed companies from 2008 to 2020 as a sample, study the impact of green technology innovation on earnings sustainability, and the role of the development of green finance in its impact mechanism. The following conclusions were drawn: 1) The green technology innovation of new energy companies and earnings sustainability are significantly positively related, strengthening green technology innovation is an important way to improve the earnings sustainability of new energy companies. 2) The green finance development has a significant external adjustment effect, the higher the level of green finance development, the stronger the role of new energy companies' green technology innovation on earnings sustainability. 3) Compared with the sustainability of the cash flow surplus, the green technology innovation of new energy companies plays a more significant role in improving the sustainability of the accrued surplus. Based on the findings of the study, relevant recommendations are put forward.


Private enforcement of antitrust law has recently become an important issue in Europe. Most obviously, Europe and its businesses and citizens would profit from a stronger competition culture. It can be assumed that an appropriate degree of private enforcement can promote this. In the Courage the ECJ expressed its support of private enforcement, indicating that ''the existence of such a right strengthens the working of the Community competition rules... [and] make[s] a significant contribution to the maintenance of effective competition in the Community''Courage v. Crehan, Case C-453/99 [2001] ECR I-6297, para 57. . Therefore, in the light of current work of the European Commission in facilitating private enforcement actions for the breach of the EC competition law, it is interesting to follow the way of ongoing findings and producing binding measures at Community level. This process is going with the Commission's collaboration with the market undertakings, government representatives and academics of both European and international dimensions. One of the most controversial issues in relation to private enforcement is the passing-on defense and a right of an indirect purchaser to sue the infringer. These issues are the most vexed question in European private competition law litigation and they will be central of the whole paper. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the consumer-welfare orientated combination of the passing-on defense and indirect purchaser standing which would protect at most, the European consumer. Furthermore, the paper gives an insight into the legal background of the substantive right on bringing private actions for damages in the EU, the characteristics of US private litigation system as well as the American indirect purchaser rule. The defenders of a certain combination of passing-on defense and indirect purchaser standing and their opponents raise arguments within a particular circle of issues. The central idea, however, which unites all arguments of defendants and opponents is the orientation of the EU competition policy on the welfare society.


Numerous innovations based on the data center TCP support the rapid development of data center. However, with changes in topology, scale and traffic patterns, the new requirements of data center on transport protocol are more agile and more reliable. Improving transport performance by patching TCP seems to be facing a bottleneck. We explored the possibility of applying QUIC inside the datacenter networking. This paper proposes a new data center transport scheme based on QUIC, called data center QUIC (DCQUIC). We especially proposed an proactive connection migration mechanism suitable for datacenter networking. Like the efficiency of UDP and the reliability of TCP, DCQUIC exhibits exciting performance and scalability, and may become a potential transport technology to support the development and innovation of data centers in the future.


British Columbia seems an unlikely birthplace for a radical new form of environmentalism. However, by the late 1960s, a series of events--many of them distant and having no direct connection to life in British Columbia--had helped prepare a small patch of ground that gave root to a new movement combining ecology, radical pacifism, and non-violent direct action. Zelko details the founding of Greenpeace, one of the earliest, most long-lived, and influential direct action environmental organization, and examines the location from which many of Greenpeace's ideas--and several of its founders--emerged.


In a recent study of potential applications for electric propulsion, it was determined that ion propulsion can provide North-South stationkeeping (NSSK) for communication satellites in geosynchronous orbit with appreciably less mass than chemical propulsion. While this finding is not new, the margin of benefit over advanced chemical propulsion technology depends strongly on the ion propulsion system specifications. Full advantage must be taken of the under-utilized stored energy available from the communication satellite's batteries. This paper describes a methodology for evaluating the benefits obtained in using ion propulsion for NSSK, both in terms of the mass reduction and its economic value.


The results of BETA -ray spectrometer studies and scintillation spectrometer studies of Ba/sup 133/ are presented. A new level in Cs/sup 133/ at 160 kev has been found. The gamma rays of energies 56, 79, 160, 224, 277, 302, 358, 383, and 437 kev have been detected. The conversion coefficients of some of the gamma rays have been estimated. It has been found by a combination of the summing technique and the conventional coincidence technique that Ba/sup 133/ decays with an energy of (53 plus or minus 2) kev to the 437 kev state of Cs/ sup133/ by K-electron captures (46%) and L-electron captures (54%). A decay scheme is suggested. (auth)


A survey conducted by the Indonesian Ministry of Health shows that the obesity level of Indonesian citizens is increasing after time significant lately. In the modern era, Health factors and body weight maintenance becoming a high priority for professional people to perform and look better in public. Another survey also shows that Indonesia is having two nutrition problems, malnutrition, and obesity (overnutrition). To overcome obesity, many industries and companies have competed to release nutritional healthy product to maintain body weight. These products could be in the form of food or drinks. in the form of drinks, some popular products are powder or liquid milk. One company focusing on this industry is Herbalife Inc. Herbalife product sales through their official online and offline stores, and also through nutrition house club to easily getting closer to their customer needs. This research will focus on one nutrition house club called Fresh Club to develop a Herbalife product recommendation by predicting customer health. Some parameters used to predict customer health and these parameters are taken from Tanita Herbalife's body measures. All the parameters will be calculated and used to decide which product suits their need. the recommender system proposed will implement Mamdani Fuzzy logic. Some parameters/criteria used to recommend Herbalife product are age, water, fat, bone mass, stomach fat, and body posture. The experiment shows that the recommender system in Fresh Club using Mamdani Fuzzy Logic achieves 88.3% recommendation accuracy compare with the expert recommendation.


The electron spin resonance spectrum of polystyrene that has been γ-irradiated at −196°C. changes gradually with time from a broad three-peaked structure with outer derivative peaks at ±46 gauss to a much narrower structure with poorly separated outer derivative peaks at ±21–24 gauss. The deuterated polystyrenes behave likewise in general. The aged radicals of α,β,β-trideuterostyrene and β,β-dideuterostyrene exhibit only a single peak with derivative maxima at ±7 or 8 gauss from center. The aged spectra are all consistent with the hypothesis of major hyperfine interaction with β hydrogens. During the aging about 80% of the original radicals are lost, but the remainder are very long-lived. Poorly evacuated samples or those with added benzene decay much more rapidly.


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Health Supervision of Law Enforcement Detachment , Chengdu 610016 , China

OBJECTIVE
To identify dietary factors associated with glycolipid metabolism disorder and hyperuricemia in middle-aged and elderly people.

METHODS
183 visitors to a community health service center for physical examinations and 241 respiratory patients admitted to a hospital ward were randomly selected. The prevalence of hyperuricemia and dyslipidemic diabetics in the two groups of participants was investigated. Dietary information was collected using a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. RESULTS (1) Male participants had a higher level of prevalence of hyperuricemia than female (P < 0.01). (2) Hypoglycemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and excessive intake of meat, poultry, alcohol, energy and fat were risk factors of hyperuricemia (P < 0.05); whereas, moderate intake of vegetables and fruits were protective factors (P < 0.01).

CONCLUSION
Hyperuricemia is associated with glycolipid metabolism disorder and dietary factors. Early monitoring of glucose and lipid metabolism and dietary interventions in high risk population may play an important role in the prevention of hyperuricemia.


Probiotics are 'nonpathogenic' live microbial, mono or mixed culture preparations, which, when applied to humans or animals in high enough doses, benecitially affect the host by improving the intestinal microbial balance and it's properties. The most widely used bacteria considered as probiotics are lactobacillus and bifidobacterium. In present study a total of 14 Lactobacillus isolates were isolated from milk, curd and fecal sample of newborn baby. The strains were characterized as Lactobacilli on the bases of their morphological and physiological characteristics. Probiotic properties were examined including tolerance to acid and bile, antibiotic resistance etc. In probiotic properties, these strains were resistant to both acid and bile. Antimicrobial activity of the probiotic Lactobacillus was determined by well diffusion method. It was concluded that out of 14 Lactobacillus strains 5 showed the potential probiotic value.


--We studied the dispersion, habitat use, hunting behavior, vocalizations, and conservation status of the New Guinea Harpy Eagle (Harpyopsis novaeguineae) from December 1998-October 1999 in Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area (CMWMA), Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Based on territory mapping, we estimated that the mean home range size was 13.0 + 3.9 km 2 (+SD, N = 5). One pair we followed for 42 d over a 4 mo period used an area of only 0.25 km '•. We followed the male hunting in this area for 6 d (510 min). A small sample of prey items included ground-dwelling species such as forest wallaby (Dorcapsulus sp.), juvenile Dwarf Cassowary (Casuarius bennett,), New Guinea Megapode (Megapodius decollatus), and an arboreal marsupial. Eagles called mainly during daylight hours, mostly near sunup. Spectrogram analysis indicated there were two main calls. A continuous, low frequency, far-carrying call that was used to advertise territories and for contact between mates over distances <2 km and a higher frequency, chicken4ike call that was used in interactions between individuals that were close to each other and during hunting, perhaps as a stimulus or lure for prey. In contrast to the rest of the Highlands, eagles were protected inside CMWMA under agreements between villagers and international conservation organizations.


Text in video can provide an important supplemental source of index semantic information. In this paper, a segmentation algorithm based on edge information and LH for segmenting text from video frames is presented. This algorithm consists of several steps: edge intensity detection, edge density detection, convex detection based LH, post-processing and text locating. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm can detect text region simply and effectively.


Based on the characteristic of CO 2 arc welding,a kind of wave control inverter arc welding power source is developed.The power source which make use of singlechips controlling and the negative feedback of voltage and current real time sampling insure that the short circuits current is controlled in nicety.At the beginning of the short circuit,the output current could be kept at a low level,then it will rise according to index rule,in which the rising speed of short circuit current could be adjusted.Before arc period,the output current could be reduced again.During the arc period,changing rate of arc current could be adjusted,which ensures the output power of the arc is big enough.So that the aim of reducing spatter and improve formation of weld is realized.


A coupled rotor/fuselage helicopter analysis with the important effects of blade torsional flexibility, unsteady aerodynamics, and forward flight is presented. Using this mathematical model, a nominal configuration is selected that experiences an air resonance instability throughout most of its flight envelope. A simple multivariable compensator using conventional swashplate inputs and a single body roll rate measurement is then designed. The controller design is based on a linear estimator in conjunction with optimal feedback gains, and the design is done in the frequency domain using the Loop Transfer Recovery method. The controller is shown to suppress the air resonance instability throughout wide range helicopter loading conditions and forward flight speeds.


Retreat and progradation of microtidal sandy beaches, are mainly related with the dynamic among the available amount and type of the sedimentary supply, wave energy and relative changes of the sea-level. Results of a study based in a temporal analysis (1975-1997) along coastline (630 km) of the Rio Grande do Sul state (southern Brazil) identified 442 km of beach in state retreat, while, 173 km are in progradation and 6 km without significant modification. The presence of these three expressions, exemplifies the complexity of the physical interactions related with the evolution of the coastline in the area. Palavras chave: erosão costeira, zona costeira, linha de costa. Retração e Progradação da Zona Costeira do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul


vitreoretinal surgical system comprising a flow control system (10) for operatively providing a first and second fluid to an infusion cannula (904) of the vitreoretinal surgical system, the flow control (10) comprising: fluid; a source for the flow of a first fluid; a source for the flow of a second fluid; means for switching between said flow of said first fluid and said flow of said second a first conduit (902) for said flow of said first fluid, said first conduit (902) an infusion line for a flow of liquid; a second conduit (906) for said flow of said second fluid, said second conduit (906) a gas duct for a gas flow; and a connecting member (300, 500) comprising: a first entry portal for said first conduit (902); a second portal of entry for said second conduit (904); an exit portal for said first fluid or said second fluid for operably alternatively coupling the first fluid or the second fluid to the infusion cannula (904); valve normally closed backflow prevention (20, 320, 520), said backflow prevention valve capable of opening when said switching means switches said flow of said first fluid to said flow of said second fluid being; and a receptacle (400, 501) having an inner surface (402, 503) closely matches an outer surface (404, 505) of said valve backflow prevention to minimize functionally bubbles of air or gas the first fluid during flow of said first fluid to said infusion cannula (904).


A new type of potentially helical ligand is represented by 1. The twist of the molecule's chain required to form double helical complexes by self-organization occurs at the C-C bonds between the arene rings. Ligand 1 forms double helical complexes with Cu+, Ag+, and Ni2+ salts. A crystal structure analysis of the complex [Ni2(OAc)2(1b)2](PF6)2 revealed neither intermetallic interactions nor stacking interactions between almost coplanar rings.


AbstractThis paper presents a new approach called Kinematics Differential Evolution (kDE) to model flexible biological molecules of different type and size through the rapid identification of low-energy molecular conformations. One of the main benefits of our proposed methodology is that a population of low-energy solutions is provided for each tested molecular structure compared with a single low-energy solution usually obtained by traditional molecular modeling approaches. This population includes a number of different molecular conformations that attain similar low energy values and hence correspond to an energetic state with high probability of occurrence. Results show that the kDE model provides a set of molecular structures comparable to those obtained by traditional molecular dynamics.


A study was conducted in four districts i.e. Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand and Bhilwara from breeding tract of Sonadi sheep. The data on flock statistics of 6979 registered Sonadi sheep maintained by 147 shepherds of eight tehsils from four districts of Sonadi breeding tract were recorded. The overall mortality according to season was highest during summer (57.0%) as compared to winter (15.7%) and rainy (27.3%) seasons. In the age group of 1-3 month, 3-6month and adult, the frequency of mortality was highest during summer while during rainy in the age group of above 6 months. The maximum proportion of animal sold in the month of July in Udaipur while in the month of May in Chittorgarh districts. As far as higher proportion of animals were sold during summer as compared to winter and rainy seasons. While the animals having age group of 1-3 months, 3-6 months and adult were sold during summer season. It was observed that young family head kept significantly lower cattle holding as compared to old family head. The buffalo, cattle, Sonadi sheep, total sheep and large ruminant holding was significantly higher for shepherds of OBC castes as compared to other castes. The overall literacy rate had significant effect on all the parameters of land holding as well as buffalo, goat, total sheep, large ruminant, small ruminant and total livestock holding. Total livestock holding increases as literacy rate increases from 0 to 30%, the above parameters of livestock holding reduced as compared to literacy rate group of 21-30%. The positive and significant association was observed between age of family head and total cattle, total other than Sonadi sheep and large ruminant population. The correlation of literacy rate with buffalo, goat, large ruminant and total livestock was found to be positive and significant. The land holding in terms of total cultivated and uncultivated was positive and significantly associated with large ruminant (Buffalo and cattle) and total livestock population. The positive and significant association was observed between goat holding with total and cultivated land holding. The population of other than Sonadi sheep breeds had also positive and significant association with total and uncultivated land holding.


In this paper we give a type of a compact linear operator associated with a given boundary value problem which can generate a Banach frame for the underlying space.


The stability of nearly–integrable systems can be studied over different time scales and with different techniques. In this paper we review some classical methods, like the averaging technique, the classical perturbation theory, KAM theorem and Nekhoroshev's stability for exponential times. We investigate also conformally symplectic systems, in particular nearly–integrable systems with dissipation, and we present some results about KAM and exponential stability in the dissipative context.


This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises. It establishes a link between the equity capital of the corporate sector and the risk-free interest rate. When equity capital falls, the risk-free interest rate declines because bonds become riskier and investors seek safer assets. If the fall in equity capital is too large, the risk-free interest rate drops to its lower bound creating a liquidity trap. The model suggests that bailout programs injecting capital into the corporate sector may help pushing the economy out of the trap.


The study aims to empirically explore the relationship between exchange-rate rigidity and output volatility for Macedonia, building on the flaws of the existing, though scarce literature on the topic. Specifically, it carefully constructs the output volatility regression; considers the measure of output volatility; and accounts for the endogeneity bias doubted to be present in the respective literature. Moreover, it utilizes a Hodrick-Prescott definition of volatility, to avoid persistent series which are obtained by using rolling standard deviations. The empirical investigation covers the period 1998:Q1 - 2009:Q2 and uses a GMM estimator. We find that, in general, a TOT shock opts to increase output volatility, but under a more flexible regime, it starts to affect the output fluctuations negatively, implying a role of a buffer. Quite the contrary, when nominal shocks (monetary and/or fiscal) hit the economy, a more rigid alternative of the exchange rate is preferable.


The durability of infection-induced SARS-CoV-2 immunity has major implications for public health mitigation and vaccine development. Animal studies and the scarcity of confirmed re-infection suggests immune protection is likely, although the durability of this protection is debated. Lasting immunity following acute viral infection requires maintenance of both serum antibody and antigen-specific memory B and T lymphocytes and is notoriously pathogen specific, ranging from life-long for smallpox or measles4, to highly transient for common cold coronaviruses (CCC). Neutralising antibody responses are a likely correlate of protective immunity and exclusively recognise the viral spike (S) protein, predominantly targeting the receptor binding domain (RBD) within the S1 sub-domain. Multiple reports describe waning of S-specific antibodies in the first 2-3 months following infection. However, extrapolation of early linear trends in decay might be overly pessimistic, with several groups reporting that serum neutralisation is stable over time in a proportion of convalescent subjects. While SARS-CoV-2 specific B and T cell responses are readily induced by infection, the longitudinal dynamics of these key memory populations remains poorly resolved. Here we comprehensively profiled antibody, B and T cell dynamics over time in a cohort recovered from mild-moderate COVID-19. We find that binding and neutralising antibody responses, together with individual serum clonotypes, decay over the first 4 months post-infection, as expected, with a similar decline in S-specific CD4+ and circulating T follicular helper (cTFH) frequencies. In contrast, S-specific IgG+ memory B cells (MBC) consistently accumulate over time, eventually comprising a significant fraction of circulating MBC. Modelling of the concomitant immune kinetics predicts maintenance of serological neutralising activity above a titre of 1:40 in 50% of convalescent subjects to 74 days, with probable additive protection from B and T cells. Overall, our study suggests SARS-CoV-2 immunity after infection is likely t 66 o be transiently protective at a population level. SARS-CoV-2 vaccines may require greater immunogenicity and durability than natural infection to drive long-term protection.


The solubility of water in methylene chloride and I: 2-dichloro-ethane over the temperature range - 20° to 40° and 80° respectively has been determined. The vapour pressures of the solvents, alone and in admixture, have been measured, and the composition of the varour phases of the mixed solvents determined at 10° intervals. over the range 20-50°. Evidence of the formation of azeotropes with water is given; boiling point: composition and vapour pressure: boiling point relationships are derived. Mixtures of the two solvents are found closely to obey Raoult's law. The results are discussed in the light of Hildebrand's theory of liquids.


Background: Before 1997, Aeromonas spp. were responsible from many diarrhea cases in Istanbul. After that time, this gram-negative bacteria was encountered in seldom cases. We investigated the change in frequency of Aeromonas-associated diarrhea and its possible causes. Material and Methods: Between 1994 and 1997 and between 2003 and 2008, fecal samples of 553 and 736 consecutive patients with acute diarrhea, respectively, belonging to different age groups were retrospectively investigated for the presence of Aeromonas spp. Results: Aeromonas spp. were isolated as the causative bacteria in 35 cases (35/147, 26.5%) from 1994 to 1997 and in 2 cases (2/205, 0.97%) from 2003 to 2008. Conclusions: We conclude that the decrease in acute diarrhea caused by Aeromonas spp. most probably was the result of the Health Minister's ban in 1997 of open drinking water sales depots, which were delivering inadequately sanitized drinking water to residential areas


In improving warhead survivability study,insensitive warhead is a new type of warhead,which is not easy to detonate under the worst situation. The traditional conventional ammunition casing material is steel,and difficult to resist the jet initiation,but no standards or references can be used to choice shell material to improve sensitivity of ammunition. Thus,the jet initiation criterions of shell material parameters were deduced to propose that the shell with high density and yield stress can lower the warhead sensitivity. In order to respectively obtain the processed of shaped charge jet initiation warhead with POLYCARB,AL7039,STEEL 45 and TUNG. ALLOY shells,dynamics analysis software AUTODYD program was used. The results indicate that the TUNG. ALLOY shell covered explosive was most difficult to initiation,which increases by 37. 7% than 45 # steel,and increases by 60% than AL7039. It is proved that the warhead with higher density and strength material shell can improve insensitivity obviously.


The viscoelastic property of an isolated canine left ventricle is identified by a curve fit technique. The left ventricle is well modelled by using three kinds of mass-damper-spring systems with the six degrees of freedom, that is, Voigt, Maxwell and three element models. The experimental data of the transfer function were obtained by applying a sinusoidal excitation to a point of the exicordium and detecting the output displacement at the contralateral position. The transfer function of a normal ventricle has a single peak configuration during 30 and 80 Hz, while that of the ventricle with a regional ischemia has a double peak pattern. It is found that the values of damping coefficients and spring constants depend on the state of the myocardium.


Disclosed herein are superior reproductive performance of animals, for example, genetic markers litter size and litter weaning weight, the method of marking and identifying such screening animals to determine whether the animal is more likely superior reproductive performance, as well as for future breeding purposes preference animals method. This marker is based on the gene of porcine reproductive, retinol binding protein 4 in the presence or absence of a certain polymorphism.


We examined the influence of 2 natural nutritional environments on the development and survivorship of  Narnia femorata in a greenhouse setting.  Narnia femorata raised on cactus with fruits developed faster than those raised on cactus without fruits, yet no significant difference in survivorship was found between the 2 treatments. View this article in BioOne


For those physicians faced with the choice between seeing patients and reading all day, Neuro-ophthalmology: Volume 1/1980 is a welcome addition to the literature. This book contains a series of 26 articles that review recent work in this discipline. Each review was written by an authority in the subject covered, and the coverage is nearly comprehensive. The bibliographies are extensive. The material is about as current as it can be in this format, and the editors plan future volumes at 18-month intervals. Several chapters are outstanding. The series of articles on the ocular motor system is superb. The chapter on contrast sensitivity is an excellent clinical introduction to this topic. However, some articles in the book are poorly written; some subjects (eg, evoked responses and computer-assisted perimetry) are incompletely covered; and typographical errors are too frequent. This volume is highly recommended for all physicians interested in neuro-ophthalmology. It is not


This paper aimed to suggest a new model of fusion furniture design which fits with our surroundings of today. This was performed by grasp and evaluation of recent trend of fusion culture in Korea in order to apply it to the furniture design of fusion style. Fusion furniture design was tried and applied to the table showing unique characteristics of Korea traditional small dining table with modem touch. The result of this paper could also contribute to distribute the unique characteristics and beauty of Korean traditional furniture in the World.


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8505 Background: Routine surveillance imaging (RSI) for patients in complete remission from classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is common practice. RSI offers the theoretical benefit of detecting asym...


The invention discloses a recommended content display method and device. The recommended content display method comprises the following steps: receiving a query word input by a user and obtaining candidate query results corresponding to the query word; selecting a set number of candidate query results from the candidate query results as recommendation results and displaying the recommendation results on a search result page; receiving a first instruction and obtaining attribute information of the user, wherein the first instruction is an instruction, input on the search result page by the user, indicating obtaining an information flow; obtaining an information flow result corresponding to the attribute information of the user, and controlling the search result page to skip to an information flow page so as to display the information flow result on the information flow page. Through the method and device disclosed in the invention, the search experience of the users can be effectively enhanced.


The aim of the study — to develop a system for evaluation of treatment outcomes important for patients with pectoralis major ruptures. The system should include the outcome criteria that meet the patients' expectations, and should allow the long-term outcomes evaluation. Material and Methods . The paper presents the long-term results of surgical treatment of 40 consecutive patients with pectoralis major ruptures. The results were evaluated in 65.3±17.5 months after surgery. Since pectoralis major rupture occurs mainly in people going in for sports at a quite high level (37 out of 40 people in our study), a new questionnaire was created for the results evaluation. In our opinion, the new set of questions takes into account the specific expectations for such category of patients and covers the important for them areas of treatment results. The already existing scales and questionnaires have been focused on assessing joint functions in patients with upper limb pathology in daily living conditions. Among the main areas of important results we identified the following items: restoration of sports activities, recovery of strength, absence of pain and discomfort, aesthetic results. Results . All the patients reported a complete absence of strength deficiency during everyday living activities. In 33 cases out of 37 the patients continued to go in for sports: at the same level — 18, with reduced load — 6, with improved results — 9. A subjective strength assessment in the patients continued exercising was in total 8.21±0.96. The outcomes in the group "improved results" (8.8±0.78) were better than in the group "at the same level" (8.1±0.96, p = 0.046) and in the group "reduced load" (7, 5±0.54, p = 0.0023). There were no differences between "improved results" and "reduced load" groups ( p = 0.157). The reasons for the dynamics of sports results, which could be caused not only by the consequences of injury, were analyzed separately. The complete symmetry of the pectoralis muscles was achieved in 10 patients (25%), including 3 bodybuilders. In other cases, there remained a some degree asymmetry. The patients could notice it or ignore. We do not exclude the latent dissatisfaction of the patients with asymmetry, even when they report that it does not matter to them. Conclusion . The surgical treatment of pectoralis major tendon rupture allows the compete restoration of daily living activities. Although to that matter, these activities are practically preserved after the conservative treatment as well. The significance of the surgical treatment is in its ability to bring some additional benefits satisfying the patient's other priorities: return to sport, maximum recovery of strength, aesthetic results. Our questionnaire don't have a final point gradation, but allows to reflect the patient's expectations, results and fears.


Non‐canonical G‐protein signaling has been shown to regulate intracellular transport and secretion. G‐protein beta‐gamma localizes to the trans‐Golgi network and activates Protein Kinase D (PKD), resulting in fission of vesicles destined for the plasma membrane. While basolaterally‐targeted (BL) or secretory vesicle release is known to be downstream of PKD activation, apically‐targeted (AP) vesicle release from the Golgi occurs via a PKD‐independent pathway. A similar cargo selectivity for beta‐gamma has not been tested. Here, we generate GRK2ct variants that inhibit beta‐gamma in a spatial or temporal manner. We test regulation of AP and BL cargo trafficking via a temperature shift immunofluorescence transport assay, as well as trafficking of other AP and BL candidate cargoes. We find that lipid‐association of the GRK2ct is critical for its inhibitory function on beta‐gamma. We also generate an inducible system of recruitment of GRK2ct variants to distinct subcellular locations, towards the goal of inhibiting solely Golgi‐localized beta‐gamma signaling. Our system can also be used to inhibit beta‐gamma signaling at other endomembrane locations. The results indicate that beta‐gamma is an upstream regulator of vesicle transport from the Golgi to the cell surface.


To enhance the reliability of distribution transformers in service and to reduce the cost of maintaining and replacing these, the condition and life of those insulating system should be evaluated accurately and the time to replace should be determined economically. Since the transformer failures related to insulation failure indicates that the primary cause is normally mechanical failure of integrity due to loss of mechanical strength as a result of degradation, the tensile strength characteristics of paper during ageing under accelerated conditions in insulating oil and research trends for assessing the life of insulating paper were investigated.


During B lymphopoiesis, IL-7 induces survival, proliferation, and differentiation signals that are important during the pro-B to preB cell transition. We showed that murine small pre-B stage cells do not signal or proliferate in response to IL-7, yet they maintain IL-7R surface expression. Loss of proliferative responsiveness to IL-7 is mediated by suppressor of cytokine signaling protein 1 (SOCS-1), the expression of which is regulated during B lymphopoiesis, with the highest levels observed in small pre-B cells. SOCS-1 inhibits IL-7 responses in pre-B cell lines and ex vivo B lineage cells. SOCS-1 expression and, thus, responsiveness to IL-7, can be regulated by IL-7 itself, as well as IFN- g and IL-21. Additionally, the transcriptional repressor Gfi-1b enhances the proliferative responsiveness of B cell lines to IL-7. We demonstrated that these molecules act together to form a SOCS-mediated "rheostat" that controls the level of IL-7R signaling in developing murine B lineage cells. The Journal of Immunology , 2011, 187: 3499–3510. is a regulated process during which B cell progenitors undergo rearrangement of their Ig loci, leading to the eventual expression of a functional BCR and other critical proteins that mediate a response to Ag. During development, committed B cell progenitors (pro-B cells) proliferate in response to IL-7 and begin recombination of their m H chain proteins ( m HCs). m HCs associate with surrogate L chain (LC) proteins V preB and l 5 to form the pre-BCR, which is expressed on the surface of newly formed pre-B cells. Successful expression and signaling of the pre-BCR activates survival, proliferation, and differentiation


INTRODUCTION The unethical drug practices are common phenomenon worldwide but it is more severe in developing countries. Unethical drug practices have two dimensions. One is drug related, and other is drug promotion related. Extensive researches on drug related unethical practices have been carried out internationally. However, there is a dearth of literature on unethical drug promotion practices. Parmar and Jalees (2004) observed that pharmaceutical industry spends a substantial portion of its budget on market research but do not carry out the research on how to curb the unethical drug promotion practices.


Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) are increasingly being used to quantify the sustainability of technological solutions in decision-making contexts, for product and waste management systems. Uncertainty in LCAs is widespread, from modelling decisions (methodological uncertainties) and data quality and appropriateness (technical uncertainty) to model representativeness of the system being studied (epistemic uncertainty). However, even if practitioners are primarily aware of uncertain inputs in their models and critical modelling choices, results are rarely accompanied with uncertainty quantifications (Laurent 2014b, Lloyd and Ries).


Chemical looping can be used in a variety of forms to enable the separation of carbon dioxide emissions in a pure form suitable for sequestration or re-use, principally from combustion, reforming or the production of hydrogen. Chemical looping processes are generally second generation or novel technologies that are currently at lower levels of technological readiness than other options such as post combustion capture using amine solvents. A number are at the point where the next stage would be a demonstration plant. These processes use either a metal oxide or calcium carbonate as chemical intermediates since they are able to undergo reversible reactions with oxygen or carbon dioxide respectively. All chemical looping processes for carbon capture are high temperature processes, enabling them to be more energy efficient than low temperature processes such as amine scrubbing. With the exception of calcium looping for post-combustion capture, the capture of carbon dioxide emissions is also an inherent part of the process, rather than an additional step, downstream of the main process.


The microwave oscillators represent the basic microwave energy sources for all microwave communication systems.The design of a low phase noise(8.95 GHz) parallel feedback GaAs FET dielectric resonator oscillator(DRO) is studied.In order to magnify the output power and enhance the load pulling,a buffer amplifier is designed after the DRO,whose output power is +13.33 dBm.The DRO was measured.The result proves an oscillation at 8.95 GHz with a phase noise of-116.49 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz,and-91.74 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz.


Objective To explore the protective effects and potential mechanisms of 1α,25 (OH)2D3 (VitD3 ) on pancreatic β-cells.Methods The apoptosis of NIT-1 cells was induced by interleukin-1 β(IL-1 β ) and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) in vitro.Then the apoptotic rate of NIT-1 cells was determined by Hoechest33342 staining and Annexin V-FITC/PI flow cytometry.The insulin secretion level of NIT-1 cells was measured by ELISA.The NIT-1 cells were treated with VitD3 at the final concentrations of 10-8 mol/L or underwent transient transfection with vitamin D receptor (VDR)-SiRNA.Results After the treatment of VitD3,the apoptotic rate of NIT-1 cells decreased to 39.7%.There were significant differences in apoptotic rate between the VitD3 treatment and IL-1 β/IFN-γ groups (68.4%) ( P < 0.01 ).Similarly impaired glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) of NIT-1 cells recovered ( (7.34 ± 0.21 ) ng/ml ) after the treatment of VitD3 as compared with the IL-1 β/IFN-γ group ( ( 4.88 ± 0.32 ) ng/ml,P < 0.01 ).Moreover,most of the protective effects of VitD3 on pancreatic β-cells could be blocked by the transfection of VDR-SiRNA.Conclusion VitD3 may protect pancreatic β-cells from cytokine-induced apoptosis and impaired insulin secretion through its conjugation with VDR.


A possible extension of the Standard Model of elementary particles is Gauge-Higgs unification, where the Higgs field is identified with (some of) the extra dimensional components of a five-dimensional gauge field. In this scenario there is evidence for the potential and the mass of the Higgs field to be finite. Here we show the behavior of the static potential of a five-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory with orbifold boundary conditions. The potentials are computed within the mean-field approximation including first order corrections.


Bat flies (Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) have been used to study co-evolutionary patterns between ectoparasites and bats. In the world, Nycteribiidae and Streblidae are represent - ed by approximately 276 and 237 species, respectively. In regions such as the Orinoquia located in the north of South America (Colombia and Venezuela), the richness of bats is high (more than 100 documented species), but studies on Nycteribiidae and Streblidae are scarce and discontinuous. To contribute to the knowledge of ectoparasitic flies in the Orinoquia, records of flies and their interactions with bats were reviewed, including new records and associations using interaction networks. We documented 124 species of Stre - blidae and only 12 of Nycteribiidae for the Orinoquia in approximately 102 bat species reported in Colombia and Venezuela. New records for six species of bat flies in Colom - bia were found ( Mastoptera guimaraesi , Noctiliostrebla maai , Paradyschiria parvuloides , Trichobius jubatus , Trichobius parasiticus , and Basilia ferrisi ) associated with six species of bats ( Cynomops planirostris , Desmodus rotundus , Myotis handleyi , Molossus rufus , Noctilio albiventris , and Phyllostomus hastatus ). The bat-ectoparasite interaction networks in the Orinoquia revealed a pattern of antagonistic relationships, with high specialization, modu - larity, and low connectivity and nesting. The identified networks are between bat fly species belonging to different ecomorphological groups with unique host species. This supports the idea of ecological niche partitioning among ectoparasitic bat flies and hosts. Our study expanded the knowledge of the distribution of some fly species and the associations with bat hosts in Colombia, by presenting morphological descriptions and new observations, which are key to understanding the ecology, diversity, and distribution of these species.


The vast majority of the Eurytomidae are parasitic, but phytophagy appears in at least two of the tribes. The Isosomini are primarily addicted to various species of grasses while within the Eurytomini the relatively few phytophagous species show a more varied choice of plant hosts (host data, Gahan 1922 and Bugbee 1936). In the latter tribe some twelve or more species are recorded from seeds, among them Eurytoma rhois Crosby (1909) from the seeds of Rhus typhina L. (staghorn sumac). Since the original description appeared it has been mentioned only twice in the literature (Gahan 1922 and Bridwell 1923).


To the Editor:— When investigators criticize a successful treatment which has saved hundreds of infants (Group O Rh negative blood in exchange transfusion for erythroblastosis fetalis), the evidence adduced should be very convincing ( JAMA 183 :523 [Feb 16] 1963). What is their evidence? (1) A statistical study performed by the authors showed no difference in mortality when Group O blood was used for Group O babies as compared with Group O blood used for Group A, B, and AB babies. (2) In vitro studies confirmed the findings of Landsteiner, which are familiar to all, that persons of Group O have anti-A and anti-B antibodies in their blood. (3) In a comparison of two infants, one given group-specific blood in exchange transfusion did better than one given O blood. This is a quite small series for comparison. One notes also that the authors exchange transfused infants with ABO incompatibility at serum


The paper examines the impact of working capital management on corporate profitability through the periods of 2008 to 2012. The total of seven firms listed on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange was studied, using secondary data generated from annual reports and accounts of the sampled companies and the Nigerian Stock Exchange Fact book. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and GLS regression analysis using STATA 11. The study finds a positive relationship among Average Collection Period (ACP), Current Ratio (CR) and the size of the firm (LOGSIZE) with Profitability and a negative relationship with Inventory Turnover Period (ITP), Average Payment Period (APP). The paper therefore recommends that cash collected should be re-invested into short-term investment to generate profits and fund left idle in the cash or excessive liquidity is costly and do not lead to profitability.


A part of the general program of study of the destructive root-rot disease caused by Phynmatotrichum omnivoritrn (Shear) Duggar has been a consideration of the nutritive relations of the fungus. The phenomenally wide range of host plants on which the root-rot fungus is an aggressive parasite suggests that knowledge of its nutritive requirements may add to our general concept of the parasitis.m of fungi, as well as increase our fundamental knowledge about this particular organism. Phynmtotrichum omnivorum has been grown in artificial culture at various times since ATKINSON (1) first isolated the fungus in 1892. He grew the fungus on sterilized sweet potato, cotton roots, apple roots, and manure. Later DUGGAR (3), TAUBENHAUS and KILLOUGH (17), and KING and LOOMIS (8, 9) described growth of the fungus on a wide variety of sterilized roots, stems, seeds, and fruits, and on agars prepared from such natural materials. The present work has been carried on concurrently with studies on the growth of the fungus in plant juices (6), and phases of the present work have been summarized previously (5).


Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) can be used to obtain interphase surface areas of a system, such as a supported-metal catalyst, composed of internally homogeneous phases with sharp interphase boundaries. Measurements of SAXS for samples of porous silica, alumina, platinum on silica, and platinum on alumina are reported. A variety of models and forms for the correlation function, the Fourier transform of which gives the X-ray scattering, are considered, and theoretical and measured intensities are compared. A criterion of fit for comparing models with different numbers of parameters is proposed. For the two-phase (unmetallized) systems the `Debye-random' model must be rejected. Modifications of the Debye (exponential) correlation function are also not particularly good compared to an exponential-plus-Gaussian form, not derivable from a physical model, and forms based on Voronoi cell models. Since intensities can be fit to experimental error with a five-parameter correlation function, it seems incorrect to ascribe significance to the result of fitting a function with six or more parameters. It is shown that values for the single interphase surface area can be obtained independently of a model. However, fitting intensities using a model-based correlation function gives information about the structure of the system. The two-cell-size Voronoi and the correlated Voronoi cell models are useful in this regard. For the systems containing metal, five-parameter correlation functions again suffice to fit intensities. However, for three-phase systems a model or physical assumption is necessary to obtain values for the three surface areas from X-ray scattering intensities. The area of the surface between support and void is quite insensitive to the assumptions employed and the metal-support surface area somewhat less so, but values for the metal-void surface area S23 are consistent only to one significant figure from model to model. If the support in the three-phase catalyst is known to be unchanged from support in the absence of metal, a `support-subtraction' model can be used to obtain reliable values for S23. In the present systems, the assumption does not seem to be borne out.


A review on the progress of application of different kinds of nano-materials to the direct electrochemical of protein during the years from 1991 to 2008 was presented,relating mainly on topics of metallic nano-particles,inorganic nano-materials,carbon nano-materials and etc(58 ref.cited.).


It is a great try to construct a new mode,which is based on the cooperation between college and enterprise,in graduation design of tourism management major in higher vocational education.The new mode of graduation design is supported by 'quaternary' practical teaching system and the mechanism of "staff exchange and school and enterprise's mutual benefit".It tries to realize the diversification in the time arrangement for the graduation project,topic selection,guide and evaluation,thus highlighting the practicality and applicability of the graduation project,which improves the personnel training system of tourism management major in higher vocational education.


The new supramolecular compound [H2bpp][{Cu(Hbpy)2}{α-HP2W18O62}]·4H2O (1) (bpy = 4,4′-bipyridine, bpp = 1,3-bis(4-pyridyl)propane) was synthesized hydrothermally and characterized byelemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In compound 1, the cationic fragment [Cu(Hbpy)2]+ connects to the Dawson anion through a coordinating CuO bond, and the copper atom is coordinated by another polyoxoanion through a weak covalent bond with a Cu1–O26 distance of 2.879(2) A, forming a polymeric chain. The bpy ligand in [Cu(Hbpy)2]+ adopts a monodentate coordination mode, the other nitrogen atom of the bpy ligand is protonated. The protonated Hbpy+ acts as hydrogen-bond donor and constructs a two-dimensional double-sheet supramolecular network involving the one-dimensional chains through the hydrogen bonds. The H2bpp2+ ion connects twoα-HP2W18O626– clusters from two supramolecular networks through hydrogen bonds and creates a three-dimensional supramolecular architecture. The thermal decomposition of 1 happens over a wide temperature range (450–800 °C), which indicates that it might include complicated oxidation–reduction processes.


In the actual operation of a heat storage steam boiler heat exchanger, an internal threaded tube is used as a heat exchange element. Usually, the heat exchanger volume is large and there are many consumables because of the complex composition of flue gas in the pipe so the internal threaded tube in the actual long operation process will suffer from ash accumulation and serious wear phenomenon. In this paper, the heat transfer process of internally threaded tubes is taken as the main research object, and the convection-enhanced heat transfer of internally threaded tubes at a high Reynolds number is deeply studied. For gas under the condition of high Reynolds number, the strengthening of turbulent flow inside of inner grooved tubes convective heat transfer process of deduction and analysis is derived. A fluid calculation model which is more in line with the heat transfer mechanism of threaded pipe is proposed, which provides a reference for the subsequent theoretical studies of heat transfer enhancement of threaded pipe.


The aim of this research is to adapt the Distress Tolerance Scale to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 548 university students. Results of confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that this scale yielded four factors ( tolerance, absorption, appraisal, and regulation) , as original form and that the model was well fit (x²=316.43, df=84, p=0.00, RMSEA=.071, NFI=.94, CFI=.95, IFI=.95, RFI=.92, GFI=.93 and SRMR=.053). Internal consistency coefficients of four subscales were .62 for tolerance subscale, .66 for absorption subscale, .71 for appraisal subscale and .61 for regulation subscale. The overall internal consistency coefficient of the scale was .82. The test-retest reliability coefficients were found as .63 for overall scale and as .60 for tolerance subscale, .62 for absorption subscale, .64 for appraisal subscale and .58 for regulation subscale. The corrected item-total correlations of DTS ranged from .25 to .59. Overall results demonstrated that this scale can be used as a valid and reliable instrument in education and psychology.


We established a life cycle cost(LCC) model by considering investment cost which was remedied by macro economics,operation cost which contained line and ground wire cost,maintenance cost which contained estimation equation,and fault cost which was estimated based on ratios of output value to unit electric energy consumption,and put forward an estimation equation for disposal cost and the target function for AC transmission line conductors selection.This model could analyze conductors of different cross-section and multiple bundled conductors and was utilized in the conductor selection of a UHVDC transmission line.Moreover,we comparatively analyzed the five conductors under different maximum power loss hour and transmission capacity when 6×JL/G3A-900/40 was selected as candidate.The implementation reveals the feasibility of the method.


The increasing gap between design productivity and chip complexity, and emerging systems-on-a-chip (SoC) have led to the wide utilization of reusable intellectual property (IP) cores. Educators' responsibility is to provide future generations of SoC architects with knowledge necessary for successful design and use of IP cores, and to offer them a system perspective including both hardware and software. One way to accomplish this goal is through projects focused on soft CPU cores development. In this paper, we show the design flow and give the details of one such project aimed to develop a Microchip's PIC18 microcontroller core and implement it on an FPGA.


Introduction:
 During heart failure, levels and activity of G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2) increase. GRK2 is canonically studied in the phosphorylation of GPCRs and β-adrenergic desensitization. Noncanonical activities of GRK2 are being uncovered, however. Our lab has recently discovered that in cardiac myocytes, GRK2 translocates to the mitochondria (
 mtGRK2
 ) following injury and is associated with negative effects on metabolism and cell survival.

 Hypothesis:
 GRK2 plays a role in regulating mitochondrial function following cardiac stress and contributes to HF pathogenesis in a novel manner, by interacting with a novel group of mitochondrial proteins involved in pro-death signaling, bioenergetics and substrate utilization.

 Methods:
 Mitochondrial translocation of GRK2 was validated with either protein kinase C inhibitor (chelerythine) administration or hypoxia/reoxygenation stress in primary neonatal rat ventricular myocytes or a cardiac-like cell line. Immunoprecipitation of the GRK2 interactome basally and under stress conditions was conducted endogenously
 in vitro, in vivo
 , and with purified recombinant GRK2 peptides. Proteins were separated via SDS-PAGE and potential binding partners were identified by mass spectroscopy (LCMS) and proteomics analysis conducted with Ingenuity Pathway (IPA; Qiagen) software to determine which partners in the GRK2 interactome were potentially involved in mitochondrial dysfunction.

 Results:
 Subunits of Complexes I, II, IV and V of the electron transport chain were identified as potential mtGRK2 interacting partners. Several mtGRK2-ETC interactions were increased following oxidative stress-induced translocation of GRK2. Finally, mtGRK2 appears to phosphorylate some of the interactome partners identified in mitochondrial dysfunction.

 Conclusions:
 The phosphorylation of subunits of the ATP synthesis machinery by mtGRK2, or other mechanisms of interaction between these proteins, may be regulating some of the phenotypic effects of HF previously observed by our lab, such as increased ROS production and reduced fatty acid metabolism. Further research is essential to elucidate the novel role of GRK2 in regulating mitochondrial bioenergetics and cell death in failing hearts.


— The purpose of this study is to identify the potential of wheat germs as a coagulant to treat batik wastewater. Dyestuffs present in textile industry wastewater are hardly to degrade by biological means and many synthetic dyes are toxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic. Dye can be removed from wastewater by chemical and physical methods such as adsorption, coagulation and flocculation, oxidation, filtration and electrochemical methods. However, coagulation is one of the most common processes in the water and wastewater treatment. An organic polymer Polyaluminium Chloride (PAC) and inorganic salt Aluminium Sulphate (Alum) are the most widely used coagulant in water treatment. In order to reduces the harmful of chemical coagulants toward environment, the naturally sources coagulants that are easily available and abundantly left without significant usage has been investigated and discovered. For this study, wheat germs will use as the natural coagulant. The newly invented plant based coagulant, wheat germs are the abundantly available agricultural in Malaysia and cheap. Besides that, wheat is categorized in cereal group which is well known as the food that has the ability to absorb cholesterol in blood. Jar Test method was used to conduct the coagulation process for dye wastewater from textiles industries. It is discovered that the wheat germ has successfully removed 66% of COD, 87% of turbidity and 86.5% of color of the dye wastewater through coagulation process. Based on this fact, wheat germs have a big potential to become as a natural coagulant to treat textiles wastewater.


Proteomic patterns from an ordered cDNA library of mouse fetal thymus origin of an overall complexity of 1536 clones are described. Patterns have been analyzed at 96, 12, or 8 clones in a mixture, or as individual clones. Clones yield in some instances a single spot, in other cases a complex cluster or family of spots is formed. The determination of the clonal address (a six‐digit number, indicating the interception of three pooling dimensions) by inspection of pools of 8, 12 or 16 clones is a reliable approach; nevertheless a complete proof consists in retrieving the clone and then submitting to transcription, translation and proteomic analysis. The spot clusters are meaningful clone identifiers; cluster components (families of polypeptides) are characteristic of individual clones and are independent of clones coexisting (and being co‐expressed) in a given pool. A 'cluster' originates from a single cloned message and might be due to post‐translational modification (offered by the reticuleocyte machinery) or as a result of programmed degradation. Thirteen clones or families of clonal products are shown, and the heterogeneity of the 'appearance' of clones is documented. In about half, the assignment of a clonal polypeptide product to a storage well position has failed; this might be due to a variety of considerations elaborated herein. The arguments are presented, that analysis of abundant proteins of a cell (activated lymphocyte) comprises 'classical proteomics', but for the analysis of the rare molecular species of proteins, Poissonian approaches of replicable material have to be used.


Chapter 1 Harry Potter and the Study of World Politics Part 2 I Globalization Chapter 3 Producing Harry Potter: Why the Medium Is Still the Message Chapter 4 Global Hero: Harry Potter Abroad Chapter 5 Foreign Yet Familiar: International Politics and the Reception of Potter in Turkey and Sweden Chapter 6 Children's Crusade: The Religious Politics of Harry Potter Part 7 II Conflict and Warfare Chapter 8 Conflict and the Nation-State: Magical Mirrors of Mugglesand Refracted Images Chapter 9 Quidditch, Imperialism, and the Sport-War Intertext Part 10 III Geography and Myth Chapter 11 Naturalizing Geography: Harry Potter and the Realms of Muggles, Magic Folks, and Giants Chapter 12 The Fantasy of Realism, or Mythology as Methodology Part 13 IV Pedagogy Chapter 14 Dumbledore's Pedagogy: Knowledge and Virtue at Hogwarts


Red cells incubated with N‐acetylcysteine or D‐penicillamine in appropriate concentrations become sensitive to lysis by acidified normal human serum, i.e. become PNH‐like cells and give a positive Ham test. At the same time the cells lose some of their acetylcholinesterase activity. Substances active in this way share a common chemical grouping:


Lipid profile and anthropometric parameters of women with arterial hypertension from the hypertension is most common and most serious, risk factors leading to the development of certain cardiovascular disease, particularly ischemic heart disease, atherosclerosis, stroke, and cardiac arrhythmias. In the Slovak Republic 40% of the population suffer from hypertension. Hypertension increases with age. The exogenous factors causing the initiation of arterial hypertension are: lifestyle – particularly drinking alcohol, smoking, being overweight, and the environment. The endogenous factors include age and inheritance. The model research was attended by 40 women aged 30-75 years who reside in Eastern Slovakia. Two groups were set up - control (CG, n = 20 females, mean age = 42.65 years), and experimental (EG, n = 20 females, mean age = 57.85 years) diagnosed with arterial hypertension. We have studied the association between age, BMI, WHR, blood pressure and lipid profile (total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL, HDL) of women with arterial hypertension and the control sample. The analysis of the lipid profile was done on automatic biochemical analyzer ADVIA 1800 and AU600 IVD-Beckman. Individual parameters in different groups were compared by the Shapiro-Wilk test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and parametric unpaired t-test. Statistically significant differences (p˂0,01) were found in diameters of somatic indicators in addition to body size. Considerable significant differences were confirmed by average variables - systole (CG = 119.2 mmHg; EG = 139.8 mmHg), diastole (CG = 74.5; EG = 86.4) and total cholesterol (CG = 4.55 mmol/l; EG = 5.67 mmol/ l) between the control and the experimental group (p˂0,01).


Four methods that can be used to approximate the distribution function (DF) of a sum of independent lognormal random variables (RVs) are investigated and compared. The aim is to determine the best method to compute the DF considering both accuracy and computational effort. The investigation focuses on values of the dB spread, /spl sigma/, valid for practical problems in wireless transmission (6 dB/spl les//spl sigma//spl les/12 dB). Similarly, we emphasize values of the DF which represent practical values of outage for current and future wireless systems. Contrary to some previous reports, our results show that the simpler Wilkinson's approach gives a more accurate estimate, in some cases of interest, than Schwartz and Yeh's (1982) approach. Overall, it is found that the Schleher's (1977) cumulants matching approach is a good method for small to medium dB spreads (/spl sigma/=6 dB), and Farley's approach is a good method for large dB spreads (/spl sigma/=12 dB).<<ETX>>


Abstract:This paper explores the ways the "civil" society of Post-Crisis, neoliberal South Korea is constituted by a type of militarized masculinity that normalizes and even legitimates sexual violence. When the movie version of the best selling novel, The Crucible, written by Gong, Ji-Young, was released in the fall of 2011, it created a public outcry against the case of sexual molestation of handicapped children by their teachers and school administrators. On September 24 of the same year, a sexual assault inflicted upon a female high school student by a US soldier ignited a mass protest against what many perceive to be an insult against Korea's national sovereignty. By exploring these two moments of cultural crises, I argue that in a militarized society like South Korea, 1) violence is routinized and normalized (while exoticized and sensationalized at the same time) when it is imagined in sexual terms, 2) sexual violence is naturalized when it is folded into masculine and militarized power, 3) militarism justifies its absolute power to adjudicate who to kill and to let live by resorting to the idealized form of masculinity that is based on the conflation of brutality with immortality, and finally, 4) a public outrage against sexual brutality can be easily co-opted into the reformist rhetoric that argues for a more benevolent form of patriarchy or neocolonial domination unless such outrage is accompanied by a thorough rejection of domination (and brutality) as an idealized form of political power and life itself.


The paper demonstrates that vibration sustained by electronic packages while their operation or tests cannot be characterized by vibration measured either on their supporting base or on the shaker transmitting this vibration. The theoretical model of the oscillating system representing electronic unit installed on the support subjected to vibration is described. Vibration transmission from the shaker to the tested electronic unit is explained as the complex problem to solve. The experimental measurement of vibration conducted inside of tested electronic units verified significant difference in amplitude of vibrations transmitted inside the units and external vibrations that units are exposed to.


In recent years, the use of renewable energy resources (RESs) has been increasing widely. In microgrids, to supply the consumers demand energy, RESs such as photovoltaic systems and fuel cells are utilized in addition to conventional power generation sources as generation units. DC microgrids have many advantages such as increasing power transmission capacity, reducing fuel costs by using RES units, and improving power quality and energy efficiency. Also, energy storage systems (ESSs) such as, battery storages, supercapacitors and etc. have DC output. In this paper, a DC microgrid including a PV as a RES, flywheel and battery as ESS is used to stabilize frequency fluctuations and regulate DC bus voltage. Also, an electric vehicle (EV) charging station is considered with hierarchical control. The performance of the studied system is examined in MATLAB/Simulink software. It is concluded that using the proposed control method in the DC microgrid maintains the voltage balance in presence of the unbalanced load condition. Therefore, the flexibility and reliability of the DC microgrid will be achieved.


A mathematical model is presented that describes the particle-gas interactions that occur when a shock wave propagates through a particle-laden gas. In most of the previous work in this field, thermal radiation was neglected when solving the energy conservation equation throughout the shock relaxation zone. The present study represents an extension of the previous analyses to include thermal radiation in the governing conservation equations. The present analysis focuses on the dynamic and thermodynamic events taking place within the domain of the relaxation zone, as well as the coupling of the relaxation zone and the preheat zone. Viewed in a shock-fixed coordinate system, the preheating and relaxation zones each have a constant length (steady-state assumption) for specified conditions and, for convenience, all properties within each zone can be referenced to the distance from the shock front. The results presented show the influence of thermal radiation on shock wave structure, and predict the distance ahead of the shock front that thermal radiation penetrates the particle-laden gas, thereby providing preshock heating to both the particles and the gas.


We exploit a previously unused dataset of around a quarter of a million survey points that allows us both to derive estimates of residential land on a per capita basis for 27 EU countries, and to model its supply. There is a fairly strong negative correlation between residential land per capita and population density, despite the fact that residential shares are typically very low. In the national data there is also a striking lack of correlation between residential land and per capita consumption, but with no indication that this reflects any true economic scarcity value. We model the spatial distribution of residential land assuming that planning policy restricts land supply to match its price to its perceived marginal social cost, allowing both for spatial correlation and the impact on land supply of a consumption externality from nearby housing. Our econometric results provide qualitative support for the model; but it is very hard to match our results to plausible structural parameters unless we assume a social planner who both gives a far greater weight to the impact of the externality than to the welfare gains from new housing, and perceives population density to be far larger then it actually is. JEL Classification: C21, D62, R31, R52


This paper considers the exponential admissibility and stabilization of switched linear singular systems.Based on the approach of common Lyapunov function,two sufficient conditions of exponential admissibility under arbitrary switching and common Lyapunov functions are given for switched systems with continuous-time or discrete-time singular subsystems.By designing state feedback matrices,stabilization controls are given to ensure the exponential admissibility under arbitrary switching of the closed-loop systems.Finally,two numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the conclusions.


Further data from observations made in a coal-mine are reported. The 20% discrepancy between the intensity at moderate depths underground and that deduced from the sea-level muon spectrum, already indicated by other work, has been confirmed. The possibilities of modifying the spectrum or the ionization-loss expression are discussed.Observations of the angular distribution strengthen the view that the exponent is rather higher than expected. This appears to imply that the K/π ratio must be quite high for muons of a few hundred GeV.The various reports of pairs and groups of muons at different depths underground are reviewed. Regarded as a cosmic-ray component muon pairs are less strongly attenuated underground than any other phenomenon (except neutrinos). The experimental results are discussed in terms of Greisen's semiempirical expression for the intensity of muons in extensive air showers.


When is a book not just a book? When the book in question is The Digital Musician by Professor Andrew Hugill. As a standalone text it is as fine an example of an approachable academic book aimed at technologically literate students as one could want. However, Hugill's text, in keeping with his subject – the digitally networked, culturally savvy musician – reaches beyond the mere printed page through the inclusion of copious and wide-ranging listening examples, recommended further reading and creative projects. As many of these are embedded at key points in the text, rather than at the end of each chapter in a bibliography, the book reads more like an extended website with a multitude of hyperlinks extending in a number of cultural, technological and historical directions. In addition, there is also a digital resource located at http://www.digital musician.org that allows the reader to follow up in detail references mentioned in the book itself, as well as linking to Hugill's MusiMoo – an online interactive educational environment. So this book ticks all of the educational boxes replete with a wealth of resources to satisfy both the student and educator alike. But is it any good beyond this novel organisation and hyperlinkheavy online site? Well, the answer is a resounding yes. It is the author's fascination with music in the digital (or post-digital) age rather than the micro-genres of digital music per se that makes this book so interesting. The Digital Musician is by no means a 'how to' book. The author himself clearly states that this was never his intention. Rather the book tackles the often ignored questions of 'why?' and 'what?' These questions are not only applicable to students of technology and composition, but are those that any sound artist or musician who creates anything worthwhile is continually asking himself or herself. As such, Hugill's book is a manifesto against myopic musicians. It is a call for its readers to wake up and to interact with culture in a creative and meaningful way. This credo is evident in many of the author's examples that come from literature, art, and music of many diverse cultures, as well as in the plethora of excellent projects included at the end of the book. Hugill's approach is exemplified in the very opening of the book, which comprises a brief discussion of the cover – Paul Gauguin's masterpiece Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? of 1897. Hugill extrapolates from this the core themes of his book – the assimilation of diverse cultural influences, what it means to be a musician in the digital age, and how these technologies have changed how we create, distribute and indeed listen to the music we now make. Such analogies and references illustrate how the author's own ideas are informed and embedded within these rhizomatic cultural associations. The book is essentially in three parts. The first provides a technical overview of the properties of sound, methods of sound synthesis, sound processing, recording and how we actually listen to sound. All of these subjects are illustrated with well-chosen musical examples, making what otherwise could have been another dry technical account more relevant and immediate to the reader. Perhaps the best example of this is Chapter 4, which is concerned with the organisation of sound. Here, Hugill not only discusses acoustics and the behaviour of sound in space through filters and FFTs, but also sound diffusion, surround sound, time and duration in composition, sound transformations through time, spectromorpology, Xenakis' UPIC system and glitch music. Each of these elements could be a chapter in its own right. However, one of the major strengths of this book is the author's lateral thinking and his almost virtuosic ability to draw together a wealth of technical and aesthetic ideas in order to illustrate his points. The second section, and perhaps the most interesting, is an extended discussion of what it actually means to be a digital musician. This section includes not only a critique of the 'performer' and notions of 'musicianship' through such concepts as networked performance, what it means to be 'live' and interactivity, but also a discussion of how the digital musician is situated culturally. This last section could potentially be a theoretical quagmire. However, Hugill deftly manages to distil the essential arguments behind modernism, postmodernism, structuralism and deconstruction as well as semiotics into a mere twenty-four pages. Forget your 'Idiots Guide


Processes are everywhere. We can find processes in hospital, companies, universities, institutions and so on. Therefore, it is no surprise that the usage of information systems and enterprise resource planning tools has been rapidly growing in organizations and companies worldwide, of all kinds and sizes. The sequences (traces) of actions that have been completed at an organization is usually stored in the so-called event log. Event logs constitute a very rich source of experiential knowledge, fundamental to support different tasks, like, e.g., mining a process model, or retriev-ing similar traces, in order to make predictions on the currently running process instance. In the Business Process Management (BPM) field, it is widely recognized that these activities are very important, and can be used to improve process execution and performance. However, all the works in the literature treat these activities separately, applying different theoretical and methodological approaches to each of them. Instead, in my PhD thesis I propose a comprehensive approach, aiming at integrating the construction of the process model and its analysis.


The survival of Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences (HFR) was repeatedly questioned politically in the mid-1990 s. This had nothing to do with the fact that well-trained forestry academics were no longer needed, but had been triggered by fiscal policy savings. The applied Universities with forestry programs (five) and forestry faculties (four) in Germany are rather small and had no strong lobby like the forestry itself. Unlike some competitors, in this precarious situation, the universities did not opt for a change in their clear forestry profile, but for a broader, future-oriented understanding of modern forestry. For this purpose, they are orientated on the experience from their own past and the discipline, analyse the developments in the industries and sectors that are close to forestry and specifically sought strategic partnerships in order to be able to expand their own field of competence. Thus, the conviction for their own development process originated, that the forestry science has come in its history from the practice, passing a period influenced by knowledge of the general sciences. After that, the universities joined a phase of the development of forestry disciplines, and now they must turn back to the practice again. In this sense, a circle seems to close here and the universities have an additional, important task to deal with: more than before, in addition to teaching and research, the transfer of research results must also be put into practice. At the same time, the process of teaching has to be designed in such a way that it also provides continuous offers for job oriented training. Therefore, the universities must be the melting pot for all relevant influences from other sciences, which are and will be important for the forestry practice. This does not create a new profile, but a broader one. As a result, we are no longer training largely equal graduates, but forestry graduates with very individual strengths, attains, and profiles who fit like different keys into the various locks of practical challenges. This path helped the HFR to safeguard its future, to meet high demand among young students and to be recognized as the "smallest university of excellence" in Germany.


The beam diagnostics system of ALPI-PIAVE accelerators has been recently upgraded by migrating the control software to EPICS[1][2]. One of the greatest improvement coming from the assumption of EPICS as main control system framework is the creation of a distributed environment where every sub-system is integrated and interconnected with others. Because of diagnostics system is going to be part of a complex architecture composed by many different subsystems (magnets system, steerer system, network support services, etc.), operators and scientists will have an easier and more direct control to the entire line. This system was the first one involved into this renovation's operation because it is a critical task for managing the accelerator complex and it is the first stage where scientists and operators understand machine status and behaviour. The ALPI-PIAVE control system is also a test bench test for the new beam diagnostics under development for the SPES facility, whose installation is foreseen in middle 2015[3,4].


Background: Role (Work) stress impact not only on doctor's health but also their ability to cope with their job demands or patient care. Organizational Role Stress (ORS), is the stress explained by the persons because of their role (job) in the organization. It has 10 dimension scores. Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the level organizational role stress, its associated factors and underline role stressors among all non-specialistmedical officers working in the Teaching Hospital Peradeniya (THP). Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The data was collected by using self-administered questionnaire, which includes Organizational Role Stress (ORS) Scale.All non-specialist medical officers (n=138) working in THP were considered as potential study participants. Results: The study includes 76 respondents (out of 138 doctors) from the different wards and units at THP. The majority were male (n-41,53.9%) and married (n-59,77.6%). Mean ORS score was 65.5 (SD-32.04). The majority (n-39, 51.3%) of the doctors were having low-medium role stress (ORS score 51-100) and 35.5% had low role stress (ORS score 0-50). But 11.8% (n-9) and 1.3% (n-1) had high medium role stress (ORS score 101-150) and very high role stress level (ORS score 151-200). ORS levels were found to have, statistically significant relationships with marital statuses, age, years of experience and management level but not with the sex. Conclusions: Findings of this study revealed that doctors working at THP were suffering from medium to high levels of ORS and Inter Role Distance (IRD), Role Stagnation (RS), Role Overload (RO) and Personal Inadequacy (PI) were reported as the major role related problems among them. Role Ambiguity (RA) is found to be the least problematic role stressor among doctors. The finding of this study demands the attention of administrators and policymakers, to provide an attractive working climate in order to decrease the side effects and consequences of role stress and increase the productivity of the doctors.


With the rapid development of information science and technology,the Multimedia Data-base technology has become a research hot in the information processing field.Multimedia Data-base can improve the information processing capabilities,and provide a strong guarantee for solving multimedia data resources.This paper analyzes the hierarchy of Multimedia Data-base,introduces several common application instances,and gives the key technology to the realization of Multimedia Data-base.


The need to detect a broader range of pesticides and to develop more quantitative analyses has grown as the repatriation of Aboriginal objects has become more frequent and commonplace. This paper summarizes information from literature surveys and object testing that shows the extent and type of pesticide contamination on museum objects. Global objectives for assessing pesticide-contaminated cultural objects are outlined. The most recent developments in X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (a common methodology for detecting inorganic pesticide residues) and the detection of organic pesticide residues such as naphthalene, para-dichlorobenzene, and DDT amongst others are presented. Future steps include developing collaborations that can lead to providing meaningful toxicological assessments of the artifacts to the users along with handling guidelines or recommendations. Mitigation is currently being studied, but not by these authors, and remains an area for future research.


Although particles and defects must be avoided at all stages of semiconductor manufacture, defects on the masks (reticles) used to photographically pattern the structures are especially destructive because they affect many chips. High-resolution reticleplane inspection (RPI) has historically been an effective and efficient means of finding important reticle defects. These defects include small reticle defects in regions that are very sensitive to errors (high mask-error-enhancement-factor (MEEF) regions). In addition, small defects associated with mask-manufacturingprocess issues provide an early warning for future yield-limiting defects. Wafer-plane inspection (WPI) technology meets the needs of advanced-mask manufacturers to identify lithographically significant defects while ignoring other, lithographically unimportant defects.1, 2 WPI detects defects based on a model of how mask features would actually print on the photoresist. The ability to ignore non-printing defects and to effectively increase sensitivity in high-MEEF areas enables development for advanced technology nodes that feature smaller critical dimensions. In addition, the modeling allows the inclusion of important polarization effects that occur in the resist for high-NA (numerical aperture) operation. Finally, the simulation easily allows users to utilize unique or custom scanner-illumination profiles. This allows the more precise modeling of profiles without inspectionsystem-hardware modification or risk to company intellectual property. WPI has been shown to meet chip makers' critical 32nm-generation defect-sensitivity and inspectability requirements and has been adopted by a leading US-based chip maker. WPI combines the inherently high sensitivity of highresolution imaging with sophisticated modeling to find all of the relevant defects and to display those that are most interesting. The process has three main components, as shown in Figure 1. The first and most critical step is mask-pattern recovery (MPR). A new computational-lithography algorithm converts the transmittedand reflected-light images from the inspection system into a modeled representation of the actual mask pattern, including pattern defects on the mask. Aerial-image modeling is then performed from the recovered mask pattern, using a model of the imaging process of the 193nm scanner to generate an 'aerial' image of the mask as it appears just above the wafer. This unique modeling method provides a high degree of control and flexibility in the formation of the aerial image, including the ability to use both arbitrary source illumination profiles and actual, measured, scanner-illumination profiles, instead of idealized profiles. Wafer-plane modeling then translates the aerial image into a resistor wafer-plane image by calculating where the resist is exposed. Only after the system creates full-mask images in the wafer plane is defect detection performed, because only on the resist plane is there a linear relationship between the defect signal and the wafer critical-dimension error for all geometries. With this system, a full-process-window inspection across a broad range of focus and exposure points can be accomplished with a single inspection scan. Accuracy is critical for a reticle inspector to properly match a wafer print line. To achieve accuracy for hyper-


Delusional parasitosis, also known as delusional infestation or Ekbom syndrome, is a somatic type of delusional disorder, usually mono‑symptomatic, in which patients are convinced they are being infested with animal parasites while no objective evidence to support their belief exists. Complaints are usually about skin infestation, but involvement of the gastrointestinal tract has also been described. We describe a case of a 59‑year‑old woman with delusional parasitosis claiming to be infected with Strongyloides stercoralis.


This study aims to find out how the implementation of the project to strengthen the Pancasila student profile through the Muhammadiyah/Keaisyiyahan program at TK Aisyiyah Bustanul Athfal VI Manggala, Makassar City. This research was carried out at Aisyiyah Bustanul Athfal V1 Manggala Kindergarten, Makassar City. The informants in this study were school principals and teachers in group B1 Aisyiyah Kindergarten Bustanul Athfal V1 Manggala Makassar City. The method of data collection in this study is qualitative data collection, namely observation, interviews, and documentation as well as data analysis techniques are descriptive qualitative. The results showed that the implementation of the project to strengthen the profile of Pancasila students through the Kemuhammadiyahan/keaisyiyahan program at TK Aisyiyah Bustanul Athfal VI Manggala Makassar City is in accordance with the dimensions of the Pancasila student profile, one of which is faith, piety to the One and Only God and has noble character which is carried out with habit. perform dhuha prayers, recite the Koran, and pray every day before starting learning or after the end of learning. So, after the implementation of the project to strengthen the profile of Pancasila students in Muhammadiyah/Aisyiyah activities, the implementation is still the same as before the project was implemented to strengthen the profile of Pancasila students.


The evolution of object oriented software involves addition, deletion, and replacement of classes. Maintenance of classes requires detect and resolve inconsistency between classes. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is becoming the de facto standard modeling language. We present a UML based model of class interrelations for evolving object oriented software. The model is based on notions contract and protocol. A contract can be used by a class designer to express services and requirements of the class, a protocol to register cooperations between classes. Founded on the UML extension mechanisms, we present an infrastructure for class designers to express contracts and register protocols. The infrastructure lays the foundation for class designers, implementers, and maintainers to validate class changes in software evolution. It makes automated validation possible.


This dissertation describes a distributed artificial intelligence system developed to solve organic spectroscopy problems. The distributed artificial intelligence system is implemented as distributed agents using a blackboard agent as a mechanism for communication between the agents. The blackboard agent assigns tasks to individual agents, dynamically monitors and balances the workload of each agent, accumulates and assimilates information from the agent nodes and prioritizes the results.
This program has developed over several years and as a result, different phases of development occurred on different hardware and software. The program is written in C and OPS5 with UNIX as the operating system. The initial work was done on an NCUBE hypercube. It was transferred to an Intel Paragon computer. The latest version is running on a series of Dec workstations using PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) as the interface between the computers.
The input to the system is spectrophotometric data (IR, HNMR, CNMR, and MS) and the output is a list of the most likely structures consistent with the data.


The statistical atom model is used for ab initio calculations of the atom binding energy in crystals. The original calculations by the above method of atomization energy at T = 0 K of the A1 modification crystals of IB elements group of the Periodic System are consistent with the experimental data. The atomization energy estimates of the A2, A3 modifications are made.


A critical and historical study of Chinese painting has long suffered from the lack of an acceptable method for dating paintings by style. Mr, Li Lin-ts'an of the National Central Museum in Taiwan has published a series of three articles dealing with this problem. In "Rules fen-Dating Chinese Painting," Mr. Li lists the study of material, technique, period style, personal style, signature and colophon, and catalogue description as "six methods for dating." In "The Dating of Ink-bamboo Painting," he samples eighty-eight bamboo paintings attributed to famous masters, from the tenth through the eighteenth centuries, and attempts diagrams illustrating the technical development of the bamboo stalks and leaves. These diagrams show, for instance, "ring joint technique," "plain joint technique," "dotted joint technique," "natural leaves," "star-shaped leaves," "feathered-shaped leaves," etc.


Purpose To present a new numerical model for geometric nonlinear analysis of thin shell structures based on a combined finite-discrete element method. Design/methodology/approach The model uses rotation-free three node triangular finite elements with exact formulation for large rotations, large displacements in conjunction with small strains. Findings The presented numerical results related to behaviour of arbitrary shaped thin shell structures under large rotations and large displacement are in a good agreement with reference solutions. Originality/value This paper presents new computationally efficient numerical model for geometric nonlinear analysis and prediction of the behaviour of thin shell structures based on combined finite-discrete element method. The model has been implemented into the open source FDEM package 'Yfdem', and has been tested on simple benchmark problems.


Waste is one of the serious problems in Makassar. It causes many problems of waste that is directly related to the lifestyle and culture of the people. Makassar is one of the cities that has high population and economic growth, thus triggering an increase in service, industry, business and so on. This research aims to examine the factors that cause waste problems in Makassar. In relation to fires in landfill of Antang based on existing legal regulatory perspectives, government policies are to handle waste and cultural issues related to social patterns of life public.


Porous Fe hollow nanospheres (HNs) were fabricated successfully through hydrogen thermal reduction on solvothermal synthesized Fe3O4 HNs. The electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorption performances of the porous Fe3O4 and Fe HNs were investigated in 2.0–18.0 GHz. Owing to an optimized matching from the modulated permittivity and increased permeability, the porous Fe HNs exhibited remarkably enhanced EMW absorption than porous Fe3O4 HNs as well as previously reported Fe-based absorbers. The minimum reflection loss (RL) for porous Fe HNs reached −47.1 dB at 15.2 GHz, and the matching thickness was as thin as 1.69 mm. The effective bandwidth (RL < −10 dB) from 13.2 to 18.0 GHz at 1.69 mm almost covered the whole Ku band. Our results provided a highly efficient and ultrathin EMW absorber with easy preparation, strong absorption, broad bandwidth, and lightweight.


Soil respiration is an important process for carbon geochemical cycling. Based on our five long‐term fertilizer experiments, soil respiration was measured using pot experiments with or without planting soybean. Soil respiration rates and soybean root biomass were determined at different observation times. Soil respiration rates due to soil microbial activity could be estimated by extrapolating a newly derived regressive equation at zero root biomass. Soil microbial respiration rates in the control were also observed directly, ranging from 16.0 to 42.7 mg carbon (C) m−2 h−1. Average soil microbial respiration rates from the regression analyses and direct observations were 32.9 and 27.8 mg C m−2 h−1, respectively. The average proportions of soil respiration rates due to the soybean growth were 63.0% using the regressive equation and 69.8% from direct observation. Therefore, the application of these two methods could provide new insight for separating plant root respiration from soil microbial respiration, which is important for estimating their individual contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide.