The electroweak sector of the Standard Model can be tested by precision measurements of its fundamental parameters, such as the W boson mass or the electroweak mixing angle. In this contribution we present the first measurement of the W boson mass, based on the 7 TeV data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1. With this data set the detector and physics modelling have been studied in great detail, leading to an overall uncertainty of 19 MeV. The ATLAS collaboration also performed a new precise triple differential Z/γ∗ Drell-Yan cross-section measurement as a function of the dilepton mass, the dilepton rapidity and cos θ∗ defined in the Collins-Soper frame. This measurement provides sensitivity to the PDFs and the Z forward-backward asymmetry, AFB, which is derived and will be presented. The latter builds the foundation for a possible future extraction of the weak-mixing angle. The production of jets in association with vector bosons is an important process to study perturbative QCD in a multi-scale environment. The ATLAS collaboration has performed new measurements of vector boson plus jets cross sections, differential in several kinematic variables, in proton-proton collision data, taken at center-of-mass energies of 8 TeV and 13 TeV. These measurements are presented and compared to state-of-the art theory predictions. They are sensitive to higher-order pQCD effects, and can be used to constrain the proton structure. In addition, we present a new measurement of the splitting scales of the kt jet-clustering algorithm for final states containing a Z-boson candidate at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV.


To a method and apparatus for using the information in the file store duplicate files and download it. How to store duplicate files by using the file information in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention having the step of receiving a check data for at least a portion of the first file from a client, the same check data with the received check data the step of retrieving the second file, if the second file is present, the step of comparing the first file from the client and the second file to extract the same parts as those of the different parts and the same portions of the first file includes the step of referring to said second file and stores only the different portion of the first file. Duplicate files, file servers, CRC, segment


The effects of storage on the oxidative deterioration of crude Pear Seeds Oil (PSO), obtained by soxhlet extraction, were studied. Oxidation was monitored after 6 months via several analytical techniques: peroxide value, iodine value, free fatty acids, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The slow detorioration of the oil was an indication that oxidation was strongly dependent on temperature, oxygen availability and the presence of Cu2+. The mass spectra from the GC-MS results reveal the formation of secondary oxidation products, thereby denoting a transformation of primary hydroxyperoxides. This assertion is further strengthen based on the increasing value of the total Saturated Fatty Acids (SFA) from 26.09 to 29.44 % and a corresponding decrease for Unsaturated Fatty Acid (UFA) from 71.28 to 68.80 %. Other physicochemical analysis, shows that an average Iodine value recorded a reduction from 40.377 to 39.193 at a rate of 2.9 %, free fatty acid also recorded an increase at 15.18 %. Furthermore, the acid value also recorded a 2.60 % reduction. An increase in the peroxide value from 6.243 to 7.452 at a rate of 16.22 %, is a confirmation of possible formation of secondary oxidation products as revealed by the GC-MS mass spectra. Therefore the need to pay close attention during production, transportation as well as the presence of possible Cu2+ is key to addressing slow oxidation that is capable of impairing the quality of the oil.


1. Introduction The fusion of IR and color imagery for face recognition was shown to increase significantly the recognition rates of currently deployed systems [1]. This improvement is due to the important amount of independent information available in these modalities. In this context, shortcomings of color imagery such as sensitivity to illumination changes can be compensated for by fusion with IR data. Furthermore, while color imagery provides information about the surface of the face, IR images show the blood vessel and heat emission patterns unique to every person. Another important application of IR-color fused images is the location of the eyes for recognition purposes. The main practical restriction on using hardware registered IR-color images is the elevated cost of cameras with special optics (more than $50k), which limits their large scale deployment in most real environments where face recognition is needed, such as in airports. In this research we investigate the task of registering images acquired separately by uncalibrated IR and color cameras. One of the few general purpose IR-visual registration approaches, proposed by Irani et al [2], defined a criterion based on local statistical correlation of feature maps along with global motion models and was mostly applied to outdoor man-made scenes. In our work we developed an efficient Gaussian criterion for point-sets registration under various motion models and applied it to edge maps extracted from the multimodal images. The criterion allows for easy optimization and straightforward recovery of parametric transformations and can be computed with linear complexity allowing for potential real-time implementation.


The Chinese sentence structure "Ba" presents challenges for Chinese to English translation. To provide more translation strategies, this paper establishes a Sentence Ba corpus based on Borden Town translated by Jeffrey C. Kinkley. The corpus is divided into two categories: disposal and double-object Sentence Ba. Translation strategies are discussed, and the results suggest that semantic and communicative translations are used to balance the reading experience of the target language readers with the reproduction of Chinese culture.


PVC plastic products are common combustible substances seen in fires, but their thermal degradation behavior under different oxygen concentrations has not been adequately studied. The thermal degradation behavior of PVC materials in atmospheres with different oxygen concentrations was analyzed via thermogravimetric–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (TG-FTIR). The TG results show that the thermal degradation process of PVC under a non-oxygenated atmosphere occurred in two stages, and the activation energies of the two stages were 130–175 KJ mol−1 and 230–320 KJ mol−1, respectively; under the oxygenated atmosphere, the thermal degradation process occurred in three stages. The activation energies of the three stages were 130–175 KJ mol−1, 145–510 KJ mol−1 and 75–190 KJ mol−1, respectively. And the reaction mechanism of the second stage of thermal degradation was changed from D-ZLT3 to En by the higher oxygen concentration. Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was used to analyze the pyrolysis process of PVC in the non-oxygenated atmosphere, and the eight major components were as follows, in descending order according to amount released: C-H stretching > HCl > C-Cl stretching > H2O > CO2 > C-H bending > C-H aliphatic bending > CH2. For the reaction of PVC at an oxygen concentration of 7%, the nine major components, in descending order according to amount released, were as follows: CO2 > HCl > H2O > CO > C-H stretching > C-Cl stretching > C-H aliphatic bending > C-H bending > CH2. For PVC reactions at oxygen concentrations of 14% and 21%, the five major components, in descending order according to amount released, were CO2 > HCl > CO > C-Cl stretching > H2O.


In order to improve the accuracy and speed of power forecasting in power SCADA system, a distributed real-time steaming forecasting model is designed based on K-means algorithm and Random Forest algorithm in the Spark machine learning library (MLlib). The model uses the sliding window mechanism to segment the incoming data stream. K-means Clustering is used to correct the abnormally data, and then the Random Forest Regression forecasting is performed. Model algorithms is implemented based on the Spark RDD, the performance of the algorithm is verified by sending the data through the daemon process which is a simulation of the message queue. The results show that the forecasting accuracy of the algorithm is superior to the traditional serial Random Forest forecasting and satisfies the real-time requirement. Keywords-component; spark; decision tree; random forest; kmenas


We investigated narcissism among undergraduate students and its effects on classroom performance and career expectations. Results indicate that today's students have significantly higher levels of ...


The measurement of an exoplanet's oblateness and obliquity provides insights into the planet's internal structure and formation history. Previous work using small differences in the shape of the transit light curve has been moderately successful, but was hampered by the small signal and extreme photometric precision required. The measurement of changes in transit depth, caused by the spin precession of an oblate planet, was proposed as an alternative method. Here, we present the first attempt to measure these changes. Using Kepler photometry, we examined the brown dwarf Kepler-39b and the warm Saturn Kepler-427b. We could not reliably constrain the oblateness of Kepler-39b. We find transit depth variations for Kepler-427b at significance ( ) consistent with a precession period of and an oblateness of . This oblateness is comparable to solar system gas giants and would raise questions about the dynamics and tidal synchronization of Kepler-427b.


Dry eye affects millions of individuals. In experimental models, dry eye disease is associated with T helper cell 17-mediated inflammation of the ocular surface that may cause persistent damage to the corneal epithelium. However, the initiating and perpetuating factors associated with chronic inflammation of the ocular surface remain unclear. The ocular microbiota alters ocular surface inflammation and may influence dry eye disease development and progression. Here, we collected serial samples of closed eye tears during a randomized clinical trial of a non-pharmaceutical dry eye therapy and used 16S rRNA metabarcoding to characterize the microbiome. We show the closed dry eye microbiome is distinct from the healthy closed eye microbiome. The ocular microbiome was described only recently, and this report implicates a distinct microbiome in ocular disease development. Our findings suggest an interplay between microbial commensals and inflammation on the ocular surface. This information may inform future studies of the pathophysiological mechanisms of dry eye disease.


This paper is a progress report. Its aim is to share our experience in a non-traditional area for instructors, teachers or graduates in Physical Education, Recreation and Sports. Until not long ago, physical therapy was an alien and distant area, far from our professional practice as physical educators. But a personal situation put us in direct contact with this reality and, while acting as a PE teacher, it provided us with the opportunity to work, experiment, explore, and research a particular process of rehabilitation. The objective of this research was to re-establish relevant and particularly significant motor functions of our subject, who suffers from hemiplegia caused by a cerebrovascular accident. He is a 70-year-old friend whom we have been accompanying and helping in his recovery for the past two years. The methodological design used was experimental and together we have accomplished a great deal in his rehabilitation. The neuroplasticity of the central nervous
system, the subject's motivation, and his athletic background seem to be our greatest allies.


Electric-field-induced magnetization (EIM) in small Pb(Zr,Ti)O3/terfenol-D bilayered composites was investigated by using double coils, which could conveniently detect the EIM behaviors representing the whole sample and compare the magnetoelectric coupling from different samples. The EIM characteristics with the driving electric field, bias magnetic field, thickness ratio between Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 and terfenol-D, and angle θ between the bias magnetic field and polarization direction were investigated in detail. Part characteristics about magnetic-field-induced electric polarization (MIEP) were studied for comparison. The magnetoelectric variations with the bias magnetic field exhibit hysteresis, forming magnetoelectric hysteresis loops. The EIM coefficients decrease with the thickness ratio, showing an inverse behavior with the MIEP. When the driving electric field frequency is near one of the integer magnetoelectric resonance frequencies, multiple EIM resonances can be inspired. Both MIEP and EIM have evident ...


The much debated allegation of the "return of religion" after secularization suggests that the religions had disappeared from the scenes of public debate. Modern Enlightened criticism would have outdated them as mythical worldviews, but then they suddenly came back, as a phenomenon that asks for an explanation. In reality things are more complicated than this simple sketch. To mention just a few observations: religions have always had a tradition of rational reflection that might grant them a position beyond the opposition of myth and Enlightenment; already half way the 20th century, philosophical critique stated that Enlightened rationality bears in itself the myth of a complete rational insight in and domination of reality1; ancient mythology is still reinterpreted again and again, showing insights in human life that can never be entirely explained by reason. On the other hand, enlightened critique actually has changed the role of religion in society, at least in Europe.


1. Thresholds 2. Dynamics of world-play between contexts, texts and participants: Diderot's Jacques le Fataliste 3. 'The novel' as we know it?: Balzac's Le Pere Goriot 4. The written artifact and the authority of absence: Flaubert's Madame Bovary 5. The doubly-authorised text. Personal responsibility and social roles: Zola's L'Assommoir 6. Self-assertion and the dynamics of power: Celine's Voyage au Bout de la Nuit 7. The novel as mediation: Sarraute's Portrait D'un Inconnu 8. Further dynamics of world-play: Perec's W ou le Souvenir D'Enfance Afterwoed: Genres, participants and territorial behaviour


The article deals with the composition of the introductions in Old Russian hagiographical tradition. The introductions to the lives of the Reverend Feodosy Pechersky, Metropolitan Petr of Moscow, the Reverend Sergy Radonezhsky and the Reverend Kirill Belozersky became materials for the research. The purpose of the article is to reveal typological features and differences in these texts.


Values of the inner scale of atmospheric turbulence can be obtained through measurements of either differential angle-of-arrival fluctuations or intensity fluctuations of laser radiation propagated through the atmosphere. Here we propose a method based on the measurement of correlation functions of wandering of beams that have propagated through the turbulent path. A theoretical analysis is developed for different models of the atmospheric turbulence. Some experimental results are also described.


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Block-copolymers (BCPs) self-assembling provides a unique tool for realizing large-area ordered metamaterials with desired optical properties due to the rich range of tunable nano-morphologies and to the chemical properties of the block polymers that can lead to the selective inclusion of functionalized nanoparticles (NPs) in specific nanodomains, generating periodic arrays of NPs according to the geometry of the BCP acting as template. In this work, we investigate nanostructured thin films of polystyrene-block-poly(methylmethacrylate) (PS-PMMA) BCP filled with functionalized metallic (Au) nanoparticles. The BCP is characterized by an hexagonal array of PS cylinders in the PMMA matrix and the Au NPs are selectively included in the PS cylindrical domains. The optical properties of such nano-structures are strongly affected by localized surface plasmons (LSPs) in the NPs. We theoretically demonstrate that the optical properties of such nano-structures can be tuned by varying the NPs loading concentration and the NPs radius. Then, we investigate the effects of the hexagonal geometry on the collective plasmonic oscillations. We fabricated the PS-PMMA/Au NPs composite and we experimentally demonstrate the existence of collective plasmonic resonances of gold nanoparticles after an electromagnetic stimulation, arising from the ordered arrangement of AuNPs in the periodic array of hexagonally packed cylinders created by BCP self-assembly. This approach allows a fine modulation of the NPs optical properties and can be used as an intriguing and versatile tool to build useful devices for Optics & Photonics applications, with significant benefits for both fundamental and applied investigations.


Abstract Introduction. This paper discusses the relationship between the technique implemented during competition and the end result including an attempt to evaluate the technical and tactical preparation of different nationality competitors in Greco- Roman wrestling. The research was conducted during the 2009 Junior World Cup in Turkey. Material and methods. The research material included a video recording posted by the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA) on their website. The material contained recordings of 240 matches. An analysis of 212 matches with competitors from 49 countries was conducted; each team selected one competitor in each weight category (up to 8 competitors in total). Results and conclusions. During the competition there was strong correlation between victory and the execution of the roll-through and the combat zone and result defence, also in the ground position. Competitors from Russia and Iran, who were most successful, winning 6 and 4 medals respectively, obtained an average of 3.18 technical points in each match. Among the sample analysed this was the lowest score, indicating the optimal use of technical and tactical skills by the competitors resulting in a victory.


The UNC-45 family serve as molecular myosin chaperones that have found to be essential for cell division. My colleague, friend, and mentor, the late Henry F. Epstein, MD, PhD, dedicated his career to the scientific investigation of its role in molecular chaperone regulation. Dr. Epstein's team of investigators demonstrated that UNC-45A mRNA and protein expression were elevated in human breast carcinomas and in cell lines that were derived from breast carcinoma metastases. Previously, Guo and Epstein examined the expression of UNC-45A in 54 human tissue arrays (BR1005) of ductal breast carcinomas of different grades obtained from US Biomax Inc. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) studies were performed using monoclonal anti-UNC-45A antibody (Ab) as primary Ab followed by BioModule IHC Staining for Tissues (Invitrogen Corp.) Enhanced IHC reactions of monoclonal anti-UNC-45A Ab were found to increase with increasing grades in these specific human tissue arrays of primary breast tumor samples. UNC45-A in mRNA and protein accumulation were evaluated in a battery of human cell lines using HMEC (Human Mammary Epithelial Cells) as control derived from immortalized breast epithelial cells. T47D, MCF7, and MDA-MB-231 were isolated from pleural effusions in patients with breast ductal carcinoma. The MDA-MB-231 cell line is experimentally metastatic and is negative for estrogen and progesterone receptors, whereas T47D and MCF-7 are positive for both receptors and require estrogen supplementation to show metastatic activity. Knockdown of UNC-45A by shRNA resulted in decreased proliferation and invasion rates of breast carcinoma cells. All three breast carcinoma cell lines had significantly elevated UNC-45A mRNAs by quantitative real-time PCR measurements when compared to the control HMEC cell line. Moreover, the most invasive cell line, MDA-MB-231 (ER-/PR-), showed significant elevation of the specific mRNA compared to the other breast carcinoma cell lines. All three carcinoma cell lines were significantly elevated over the HMEC control cells. The authors concluded that expression of the UNC-45A chaperone correlated with the severity of breast carcinoma progression in human breast tumor samples and cell lines derived from human breast carcinomas [1]. I had the opportunity to present our follow up study entitled "UNC 45-A expression correlates with progesterone receptor status in invasive ductal breast cancer" at the 14th St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference in Vienna, Austria on March 19, 2015. UNC45-A appears necessary for motor function of non-muscle myosin IIA, a protein essential to cell proliferation and invasion, and for transcriptional activity of the PR, a biomarker and therapeutic target in breast cancers. This study was performed using human breast cancer biopsies to establish if the levels of UNC-45A expression correlated with respect to steroid receptors, histological grade, proliferative rate, Her 2 neu status and patient age. IHC studies were performed on 33 paraffin sections of invasive ductal carcinomas using mouse monoclonal UNC-45-A Ab (Purified from Hybridoma cells –gift from Dr. David O. Toft). After deparaffinization/rehydration, Ag retrieval was performed by Vector kit H-3300. The slides were then treated with 3% H2O2 and washed. The non-specific streptavidin and biotin activities were blocked with Vector kit SP-2001. UNC-45-A primary Ab was dissolved in PBS containing 5% horse serum (10 μg/ml) and incubated at room temperature. The 2nd Ab (BA-2000 Vector) was prepared 1:250 in PBS containing 5% horse Serum. Peroxidase reaction performed using Vector VECTASTAIN ABC kit PK-6100 and Substrate kit SK-4105. Slides were counterstained with hematoxylin QS H-3404 (Vector), dehydrated/mounted with H-5000 (Vector). The expression of UNC-45-A was scored by a single breast pathologist as background compared to 1+ to 3+. The results were statistically evaluated using a Pearson Correlation coefficient matrix. We found that UNC-45-A protein expression was elevated in human breast carcinoma samples with measurable PR and negatively correlated with Her 2 neu at a significance of 0.05. No significance was demonstrated with correlation of UNC-45A expression with ER, The Elevated Expression of UNC-45A and its Relationship to Breast Cancer


This paper proposes a new approach to parallel applications development, showing high speed and low labour intensiveness of creating new parallel applications and parallelizing existing ones. The basic principles of the proposed technology are described. The possible ways of implementation of these principles are proposed. Usage of the technology is shown with a sample algorithm. The result of experiment is given to show high efficiency of proposed technology.


Use the filter residue before fermentation process in Euryale ferox wine as material,Euryale ferox vinegar is produced by submerged fermentation,inoculated with yeast and acetobacter.The optimum conditions are determined by orthogonal experiments.The results show that the optimal conditions for ethanol fermentation are:yeast inoculation amount 1.0%,pH 4.5,at 26 ℃fermented for 6days,and the alcoholicity could reach 7.0%.The optimal conditions for acetic fermentation are: acetobacter inoculation amount 10%,pH 4.0,at 28℃fermented for 6days,and the total acidity reaches up to 8.953g/dL.Euryale ferox vinegar with 3.5~5.0g/dL could be obtained after sterilization and disposal dilution.


Objective : to describe the successful surgical management of a reankylosis in a 9 years old girl. Case report : when the patient was 3 years old she underwent arthroplasty of the right temporal muscle but presented a relapse due to the lack of cooperation during physiotherapy. The oral exam revealed a severe limitation of mouth opening (0.0mm), low weight for her age (19kg-P10%), bad oral hygiene and difficulties in socializing. The child was submitted to excision of the ankylotic mass and resection of the condyle (condylectomy) and reconstruction with a costochondral graft followed by aggressive postsurgical physiotherapy. After 7 months of specialized and home physiotherapy, the patient presented a mouth opening of 25 mm, and had increased weight significantly. Conclusion : the correct follow up was essential for the success of the surgical intervention and improvement in the child's quality-of-life.


Based on a well-established micromechanical model of damage initiation in low-cycle fatigue (LCF) already developed in Abdul-Latif (1994), a new extension is proposed for describing the damage deactivation effect. With a small strain assumption, it is assumed that the local damage variables initiate at the crystallographic slip system level. It is considered that the damage is active only if micro-cracks (MC) are open, while damage affects differently the mechanical properties of polycrystals during its closure (inactive phase). The anisotropic damaged (activation and deactivation) behavior concept is adopted only at the macroscopic level. With a fourth-order damage tensor, the deactivation damage effect under multiaxial cyclic loadings is modeled describing the related phenomenon of the induced-oriented anisotropy. Several numerical simulations are conducted describing the overall damaged behavior of polycrystals in biaxial LCF. The responses of a given grains aggregate are recorded and then discussed. As a conclusion, the model describes fairly well the damage activation and deactivation effect in plastic fatigue, notably under multiaxial complex loading paths.


Abstract Why and how the Balkans came apart, and what the United States, Europe, the United Nations, and other international organizations did to put the region back together, is too important to be ignored. Doubts about the virtue of what was done abound, but the region is demonstrably in better shape today than it was in the 1990s. Understanding the Balkans can inform what we do elsewhere and help the region understand its own history, with a view to avoiding a future implosion. The Dayton agreements ended the war in Bosnia in 1995, the Kosovo War ended in 1999, and the armed conflict in Macedonia ended in 2001. It is time to take stock.


We fabricate a packaged microrod resonator with ultrahigh quality factor of 9.0 × 108. Based on the packaged microrod resonator, we demonstrate the four-wave mixing wavelength conversion with -4.81 dB conversion efficiency (CE) at 21 mW pump power and 3.43 μW signal power. To the best of our knowledge, a CE enhancement of about 8 dB is obtained compared with previous works realized in the WGM resonators.


The OmniTrax® leaky coaxial cable perimeter intrusion detection system was first introduced at the 2004 International Carnahan Conference [1]. This sensor evolved from the technology of "GUIDAR" pioneered in the 1970's to bring intrusion location to perimeter sensors. OmniTrax theory of operation, based on a unique application of new Ultra Wideband Radar was described, as well as its feature of allowing pinpoint location of intrusions along 800m of sensor cable using a single processor. This feature is fundamentally important to direct the response force, and also for rapid debug and maintenance of the installation. Since that first presentation the sensor has been fully realized as one of the most cost-effective ranging perimeter sensors with its own integrated power and communications network. It has also been evaluated for both detection and environmental performance at our own local test site (SITE), and at independent government sensor test agencies. Further components of the technology have been developed to enlarge the range of site applications. This paper provides an update on the technology and its application including some new applications for leaky coaxial cable technology. One such new application has been selected for more detailed discussion in the paper entitled "A Rapid Deployment Guided Radar Sensor" that also appears in these proceedings.


Carnival was the important factor in the artistic styles of Wang Meng's Series "Seasons".Bahktin's poetics of carnival was used to analyse Wang Meng's writing characteristics of carnival in the "Seasons" series,such as coronation,degradation,imitation,parody and linguistic carnival.


The uptake potential of upland vetiver grass (Vetiveria nemoralis) ecotype Kamphaeng Phet and lowland vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) ecotypes Ratchaburi and Surat Thani, for different heavy metals was evaluated. Varying amounts of manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu) cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) were applied to one-month old vetiver grass planted in pots. Vetiver grass plants were harvested at 60 and 120 days after the heavy metal application and the concentrations of the heavy metals in shoot and root parts were determined using atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The results indicated that at the concentrations tested, the heavy metals applied had no significant effect on growth of all vetiver grass ecotypes. Vetiver grass harvested at 120 days yielded more shoot dry matter than those harvested at 60 days. The Ratchaburi ecotype demonstrated significantly increased in root mass at the 120-day harvest. No obvious increase for Kamphaeng Phet and Surat Thani and no significant difference in root between these ecotypes mass were observed. For the three vetiver grass ecotypes tested, the uptake of heavy metals was proportional to the concentration of the applied heavy metals. The Ratchaburi ecotype had the highest concentration of the heavy metals in shoots, except at the 120-day harvest, Pb concentration was significantly lower than that of the Kamphaeng Phet ecotype. The concentration of heavy metals in vetiver grass shoots harvested at 120 days was lower than that of the 60-day harvest due to dilution effects. However, heavy metal concentration in roots was increased from 60- to 120- day harvest. This may be due to the spatial limitations of the pot or the restricted translocation of heavy metals from roots to shoots which resulted in an accumulation of the heavy metals in the roots. Therefore, when utilizing vetiver grass for the phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated soil, the above ground biomass should be regularly cut to stimulate regrowth and the translocation of heavy metals to shoots.


Since the 1970s, the so-called 'crisis of sociology' has sparked intellectual quests for a 'disenchanted' sociology. This is a sociology that acknowledges its incapacity to legislate 'objective' meaning on the basis of an alleged scientific insight in 'social reality as it really is'. One major outcome of these quests for intellectual reconstruction was the emergence of cultural sociology as a new field that takes the cultural understandings of those who are studied much more seriously than other types of sociology have traditionally done. Despite the field's vitality and popularity today, it displays two weaknesses that detract from its potential significance within sociology and beyond. The first is its tendency to confine itself thematically to the social aspects of art, popular culture and media and the second its excessive reliance on ethnographic and other¬ wise qualitative research methods. This article therefore pleads for the use of culturally enriched experimental research designs by cultural sociologists to convincingly demonstrate the causal consequences of culture to non-(cultural] sociologists. Two recent examples are given, one about intercultural communi¬cation and one about science communication, and promises of cultural-experimental research for fields like psychology and medical science are discussed.


This study concerns the distributions of flow in an air conditioning duct used for a marine and oil drilling ship. From the results of carrying out flow analysis and structural analysis of a ventilation duct applied to a marine structure, the following conclusion could be gained. The pressure tended to increase as the flow velocity at the inlet increased and the pressure at the inlet increased. It was recognized that the pressure decreased due to the influence of a corrugated tube when it entered and exited from the duct. As a result of structural analysis, a higher train was generated at the corrugated tube compared with the duct. In addition, in the case of the internal pressure of 0.7MPa, which was the designed load, it was found that there was almost no influence as it was within 0.1mm.


Today, tourism based on the exploitation of the Pantanal biodiversity and typical scenery is seen as a possible economic alternative for Pantanal-Mato Grosso. However, there are significant differences among the various perceptions and the several forms of knowledge about the Pantanal that raise questions about


The sediment deposition in a reservoir with sand-gravel mixture (of fine sand and coarse sediment) is studied in a steep channel with the formation of hydraulic jump, which divides a flow region into subcritical and a supercritical sections on building a small dam at the downstream end. Following the findings on experiments, the deposition profile consists of layers of fine particle and mixed particles and the concentration of sediment particles vary on the flow level. Both, bed and suspended load are analyzed and one-dimensional deposition configurations are simulated.


The paper analyses the features of wavelet analysis in the signal noise processing,and then researches the stable and unstable signals with one-dimensional wavelet,and comes to the realization of noise elimination based on wavelet domain through the simulation of Matlab software,to prove it effective.


A robust algorithm for source decoding of MPEG-2 video bitstreams not entirely free of transmission errors is presented. The proposed scheme does not assume any side information from a channel decoder to assist the detection and localization of errors, i.e. it only refers to the video bitstream. Different methods are used to act on errors detected during decoding of the block and macroblock layer, to localize corrupted image regions and to replace them by error concealment are described. They are compared by objective and subjective results of decoder simulations. Furthermore, the steps necessary for robust synchronization at the slice layer and for a reliable evaluation of higher layer headers and extensions are explained.


From the aspect of industry situation, scale and level of internationalization, business type and localization, application of information technology, the article makes an analysis on the gap between Sino-foreign retailers, and gives some countermeasures.


The invention discloses the base material and self-adhering water-proofing coiled material made with the base material. The base material is made by the modified PVC material, comprising PVC, polyester plasticity agent, modifier, filling agent, stabilizer, lubricating agent and antiaging agent. On the surface of base material add creep rubber bitumen self-adhering layer and non-stick coating to get self-adhering water-proofing coiled material. The self-adhering water-proofing coiled material has good physical-mechanical properties, thermal distortion property, elasticity, cold-resistant, flame-proof, abrasion-proof and resistance to chemical attack; it also has low volatility and long life.


This is a retrospective subanalysis of the IntrePED study, which has beenpreviously published (AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2015;36:108–15).Seven hundred ninety-three patients with 906 treated aneurysms were enrolled. Thirty-six (4.5%) patients had postoperative acute ischemic stroke, 21 of which occurred within 1 week of the procedure. There was no difference in the rate of acute stroke between the anterior and posterior circulations. Stroke rate was 3% in patients with 1 PED, and 7% in those with 2 PEDs. With multivariate analysis, the only variable independently associated with postoperative stroke was treatment of fusiform aneurysms. Among the patients with stroke, 10 (27.0%) died and 26 (73.0%) had major neurologic morbidity. The authors conclude that acute ischemic stroke following treatment of intracranial aneurysms with the PED is an uncommon but devastating complication, with 100% of patients having major morbidity or mortality. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Risk factors for acute ischemic stroke following flow-diverter treatment of intracranial aneurysms are poorly understood. Using the International Retrospective Study of Pipeline Embolization Device (IntrePED) registry, we studied demographic, aneurysm, and procedural characteristics associated with postoperative acute ischemic stroke following Pipeline Embolization Device (PED) treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We identified patients in the IntrePED registry with post-PED-treatment acute ischemic stroke. The rate of postoperative acute ischemic stroke was determined by demographics, comorbidities, aneurysm characteristics, and procedure characteristics (including anticoagulation use, platelet testing, number of devices used, sheaths, and so forth). Categoric variables were compared with χ2 testing, and continuous variables were compared with the Student t test. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were obtained by using univariate logistic regression. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine which factors were independently associated with postoperative stroke. RESULTS: Of 793 patients with 906 aneurysms, 36 (4.5%) patients had acute ischemic stroke. Twenty-six (72.2%) strokes occurred within 30 days of treatment (median, 3.5 days; range, 0–397 days). Ten patients died, and the remaining 26 had major neurologic morbidity. Variables associated with higher odds of acute ischemic stroke on univariate analysis included male sex, hypertension, treatment of MCA aneurysms, treatment of fusiform aneurysms, treatment of giant aneurysms, and use of multiple PEDs. However, on multivariate analysis, the only one of these variables independently associated with stroke was treatment of fusiform aneurysms (OR, 2.74; 95% CI, 1.11–6.75; P = .03). Fusiform aneurysms that were associated with stroke were significantly larger than those not associated with stroke (mean, 24.5 ± 12.5 mm versus 13.6 ± 6.8 mm; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: Ischemic stroke following PED treatment is an uncommon-but-devastating complication. Fusiform aneurysms were the only variable independently associated with postoperative stroke.


ABSTRACT Pasteurella multocida causes pneumonic pasteurellosis and hemorrhagic septicemia (HS) in large ruminants. In this study, we determined the complete genome sequence of P. multocida strain PMTB2.1 capsular serotype A isolated from buffaloes that died of septicemia.


Web 2.0 and social media has transformed users from passive audiences to active participants in new production and distribution. The change is particularly prominent in a few digital news portals that encourage users to register as news reporters. While the juxtaposition of users-generated news (UGN) and organization-generated news (OGN) has significantly affected news industry, scientific understanding of this phenomenon remains scant. To fill the research gap, this paper proposes an integrated model to investigate the difference between UGN and OGN in their linguistic feature and temporal pattern, and examine their subsequent effect on circulation performance. The research model will be tested with 450,514 news crawled from Jinritoutiao.com, a popular online news portal in China which embraces both UGN and OGN on its platform. This paper is expected to contribute to literature by revealing the strategic behavior of UGN in pursuit for circulation performance.


Recently, the fine needle aspiration biopsy (ordinary method) has been generally used for the cytologic diagnosis of tumors in various organs. However, the amount of specimens taken by the fine needle aspiration biopsy is occasionally not big enough for the cytologically correct diagnosis. For the improvement of this problem, the puncture cytology of an electrically rotative thorn needle (the new method) was devised and applied to various tumors. The results of cytodiagnosis using the new method were evaluated and discussed as follows. Instruments for the new method consist of a disposable rotative thorn needle (0.64mm in diameter) with its guide needle (1.0mm in outer diameter) and a handy motor.Following cell collection with the thorn needle, aspiration using the guide needle was done and the combined results of these two procedures were taken as the results of the new method. The results by the new method were compared with those by the ordinary one concerning the cytologic findings and the number of collected cells.During the period from 1977 to 1979, 30 mice with implanted tumor and 52 operatively removed tumors and 36 biopsied tumors in dlinical patients were studied. The new method resulted in finer cytologic findings and a larger number of collected cells than did the ordinary method. Especially for solid tumors with hard consistency and of a fibrotic nature, the new method was significantly superior to the ordinary one in the number of collected cells.No complications were experienced in application of the new method to clinical patients. It can be concluded that this new method has good indication for the cytologic diagnosis of the solid tumor with hard consistency and of a fibrotic nature, which is impossible to diagnose correctly by the ordinary fine needle aspiration biopsy because of the small amount of specimens it gives.


Amplitude-to-amplitude (AM-AM) and amplitude-to-phase (AM-PM) distortion are two significant effects in power amplifiers at high output power levels. Traditional measurement of amplitude and phase distortion in RF power amplifiers requires the use of expensive vector network analyzers (VNAs). This paper proposes a low cost and accurate test methodology for AM-AM and AM-PM measurement using distortion-to-amplitude conversion using simple load board test circuitry along with the use of hardware and software based difference generation and peak detection mechanisms. It is seen that both distortion effects can be measured with high accuracy while allowing significant reduction in test cost.


18F-FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose) PET (positron emission tomography)/CT (computed tomography) is a useful modality for identifying high-glucose-consuming cells, such as cancer cells, by the glucose metabolism of FDG. FDG is taken up by cancer and inflammatory cells, but occasionally there is also some FDG uptake by normal tissues as a result of their individual physiological characteristics. In particular, in fertile females, unusual FDG uptake in the breast changes according to the stages in the menstrual cycle, which can adversely affect a diagnosis. Therefore, this study examined the change in breast FDG uptake in the menstrual cycle on 18F-FDG PET/CT. One hundred and sixty females (34±3.5 years old), who had not undergone a gynecologic anamnesis and had a regular menstrual cycle over the previous 6 months, were examined from March 2010 to February 2011. The subjects were divided into the following four groups (each with 40 patients): flow phase, proliferative phase, ovulatory phase and secretory phase using Pregnancy Calculator Ver. 0.14 and history taking. Discovery Ste was used as the PET/CT. The standardized uptake values (SUVs) on the accumulated region on the breast were analyzed, and three nuclear medicine specialists performed a blind test. The SUVs on the breast were the flow phase (1.64±0.25), proliferative phase (0.93±0.28), ovulatory phase (1.66±0.26) and secretory phase (1.77±0.28). A high uptake value was observed in the secretory, flow and ovulatory phases. The FDG accumulation of the breast was divided into the following three grades compared with the lung and liver by gross analysis: the breast uptake was equal to the lung (Grade I), between the lung and liver (Grade II) and equal to or greater than the liver (Grade III). These results showed a high uptake value in the secretory, flow and ovulatory phases. In fertile females, the FDG uptake of the breast showed changes according to the menstrual cycle, which can be used to improve the diagnosis of breast disease. Therefore, the false-negative findings of breast disease can be reduced by performing an examination at the appropriate period through history taking and considering the individual menstrual cycle.


At the Cement and Concrete Laboratory in Malmo, Sweden, the influence of various air-entraining agents on the properties of concrete has been investigated. Four different preparations used with four different kinds of standard concrete were tested for the amount of water needed for a given air content, water separation and setting which is generally retarded gradually. It was found that different combinations of cement and admixtures can either decrease or increase the normal time strength.


To the authors' knowledge, national‐level population‐based data regarding prostate carcinoma incidence and detection currently are not available. The availability of such data could identify those regions with a disproportionately high cancer incidence as well as the population‐level association between prostate carcinoma detection and incidence.


This study aims to describe: (1) the characteristics of the formation of entrepreneurship through family education on poultry farmers Gemantar Jumantono In Karanganyar, (2)entrepreneurial values inculcated in children's entrepreneurial spirit Gemantar menumbukan Jumantono Karanganyar.A total of five poultry producers invited as resource person to be interviewed. The research is a qualitative ethnographic research design. Data collection technique used observation, interview and documentation. The results of this study indicate that (1) peternak birds start entrepreneurship based on the experience that has been owned by working in partnership on companies linked to the field of poultry, (2) poultry establish its business based on the knowledge gained during the child cages or employees in the chicken coop belonging to another person, ( 3) application of entrepreneurial values in children is appropriately carried out through family education profession especially supported by parents as a poultry farmer.


CONTEXT As of 7 December, there were 17,527 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in northwest Syria (NWS), including 8,334 recoveries and 221 fatalities.1 Reports from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicate that the majority of newly confirmed cases in NWS, 1618 (9.23%), were among health care workers, and 747 (9.63%) cases were among community health workers and other staff working in health facilities (4.26%). Moreover, 1,596 (9.63%) cases were reported from internally displaced person (IDP) camps.1


Summary form only given. Up to now, silicon LSls have been developed based on? the so called scaling principle, and established huge market in the IT business. However, due to physical and practical limitations, introduction of new architectures and new materials, i.e. the post scaling technology, is a must for the further progress in future LSI performance, in addition to the device miniaturization.


This study, focusing on the importance of encouraging outdoor activities for children, aims to propose and implement a Web-GIS based outdoor education program for elementary schools, which will then be evaluated by users. Specifically, for the purpose of improved outdoor activities in the elementary school education, the outdoor education program, with chiefly using the Web-GIS that provides a good information provision and sharing tool, is proposed and implemented before being evaluated by users. Conclusions of the study boil down to: (1) An eight-staged outdoor education program based on the Web-GIS was proposed for a "second school" of an elementary school that was then implemented before being evaluated by users (teachers, instructors, students, and their parents). (2) The program generally received a good evaluation, while a lot of students and their parents evaluated negatively for the degree of discovery and for the degree of interest, respectively, in the questionnaire survey of students and their parents conducted after the "second school". The surveys clearly show that an issue to be solved, from the viewpoint of teachers in particular, is the establishment of the GIS that will easily represent teaching materials developed by teachers and of Web-GIS, and improved significance of the use of GIS and Web-GIS for their widespread. Keywords—Elementary Schools, School Education, Outdoor education, Web-GIS


F inding elderly patients lying on the floor beside their beds despite the presence of elevated bedrails seems paradoxical: how can a patient fall out of bed when the bedrails are up? Surprisingly, this paradox constitutes one of the leading incidents plaguing hospitals in the United States today.' It exemplifies a much larger problem created, we believe, by the uncritical adoption of measures designed to enhance patient welfare, but which may in fact undermine it. This article documents our


While theatregoers are generally familiar with the names of such pioneers as George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, the names of their black counterparts - Will Marion Cook, George Walker and Bob Cole, among others - are virtually unknown today. Allen Woll aims to remedy that neglect in this book, offering a thoroughly researched account of the evolution of black musical theatre from the turn of the century to the present day. In his discussion of the careers of Ethel Walters, Eubie Blake and Lena Horne, to name just a few of the luminaries considered here and in his outlines and analyses of "A Trip to Coontown", "Shuffle Along", "Porgy and Bess", "Ain't Misbehavin'", "The Wiz", "Dreamgirls" and dozens of other shows, Woll brings the works vividly to life. "Black Musical Theatre" should become an essential reference and guide for anyone interested in theatre and African American history.


One of the purposes of an intelligent assistant for Mathematics is to support formal reasoning and e(cid:14)cient computation in mathematics and mathematicalapplications. Such an assistant requires to represent complex mathematical knowledge and to perform symbolic mathematicalcomputations in an environment which also provides sophisticated AI techniques. We describe and outline the advantages of an intelligent mathematical environment which combines automated theorem proving and symbolic mathematical computing.


Recent months have brought an ever-louder drumbeat in support of state-level participation in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), with a weaker chorus calling for states to participate in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). What would be gained if, in addition to the nation as a whole, individual states were to participate directly in these assessments by testing a much larger and more representative sample of students? Not as much as many advocates would have us believe, and probably not enough to justify the considerable cost. Despite the growing infatuation with international comparisons of student performance and the illuminating feedback they can provide on how young Americans are doing relative to students in other countries, current international assessments cannot generate a great deal of reliable policy advice. In other words, they're better at showing how our children's academic performance (in certain subjects) compares with that of their over-seas agemates than at guiding us toward stronger U.S. schools. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If states choose to spend a fortune on such tests, it's because their leaders believe, in the words of the National Governors Association (NGA), that doing so will lead to "policy solutions to U.S. education system shortcomings." This is the first of two justifications given for these efforts, which are widely referred to as "international benchmarking." The second purpose is the straightforward comparison of U.S. students and their peers in other countries. Here, the resulting "league tables" are the center of attention, and these results are often described, and almost as often decried, as a "horse race" or an "Olympics contest" with an attendant fixation on who's winning and who's losing. Absent is an acknowledgment that these assessments embody particular assumptions and beliefs about what should be measured. As states consider funding and administering international assessments for themselves, such facts must be kept in mind and key questions addressed. Among them are, what will states get as a result of participation? How much will it cost? Are there easier and cheaper ways of obtaining the desired information? We begin with a comparison of PISA and TIMSS, the two most prominent international assessments (see sidebar for additional information). PISA v. TIMSS PISA is a self-proclaimed "yield study" assessing the "literacy" of 15-year-olds and is not tied to any specific curricula. PISA claims to be assessing the skills young adults will need in the emerging global economy. Never modest, the report releasing the 2003 PISA results was titled "Learning for Tomorrow's World" and the 2006 PISA results "Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World." TIMSS is more grade- and curriculum-centered and far more modest in its claims. As described in the release of the 2007 data, "TIMSS is designed to align broadly with mathematics and science curricula in the participating countries. The results, therefore, suggest the degree to which students have learned mathematics and science concepts and skills likely to have been taught in school." PISA has not hesitated in making the most of these differences, and the high visibility of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has ensured that PISA is the most prominent of the international assessments. Indeed, while in public the NGA is careful to say that it is in favor of international benchmarking in general and not in favor of any particular test, in practice the organization has tended to favor PISA. For example, a background paper the NGA released in February 2008 concludes by promising that "the National Governors Association will work with states interested in state-level PISA administration to identify available resources and cost-savings options to support state participation." (In this three-page memo, TIMSS rated just one sentence. …


Background: Comprehensive understanding of the determinants of health service use (HSU) by older people with depression is essential for health service planning for an ageing global population. This study aimed to determine the extent to which depressive symptom severity and functioning are associated with HSU by older people with depression in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Methods: A cross-sectional analysis of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based surveys dataset. Participants (n = 4590) were those aged 65 or older, in the clinical range for depressive symptoms (defined as scoring four or more on the EURO-D), living in 13 urban and/or rural catchment areas in nine LMICs. Associations were calculated using Poisson regression and random-effects meta-analysis. Results: After adjustment for confounding variables, (EURO-D) depressive symptom severity was significantly associated with "any community HSU" (Pooled Prevalence Ratios = 1.02; 95% CI = 1.01–1.03) but not hospital admission. Conversely, after adjustment, (WHODAS-II) functioning was significantly associated with hospital admission (Pooled PR = 1.14; 95% CI = 1.02–1.26) but not "any community HSU". Conclusions: Depressive symptom severity does not explain a large proportion of the variance in HSU by older people with depression in LMICs. The association of functioning with this HSU is worthy of further investigation. In LMICs, variables related to accessibility may be more important correlates of HSU than variables directly related to health problems.


In this paper, we present multi-stream CNN based accented english automatic speech recognition system. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) task where the non-native En- glish speakers have various accents reduces the accuracy of ASR system. In order to solve this problem, we have made a lot of attempts. For DNN-HMM hybrid system, we tried several acoustic models (AM) and chose Multistream CNN. Then we explored various speaker/accent embeddings, for ex-ample, i-vector or x-vector, to further improve the accuracy of accented ASR systems. Experiments showed that using embeddings which capture the accent/speaker-relevant informa- tion as auxiliary inputs can significantly improve the accuracy of accented ASR system. Finally, we trained a TDNN- LSTM language model for lattice rescoring to get better results. Compared with our baseline system, we achieved rel- ative word error rate (WER) improvements of 40.6% and 35.6% on the development set and evaluation set respectively.


Refugee crisis and migration processes have presented new challenges to the global society and
raised the attention of the media, policy-makers, expert and academic communities worldwide. The
aim of this paper was to research experiences of refugee parents from departure from their home
countries to the challenges encountered in the receiving countries. Qualitative research project was
conducted in the summer of 2016 in Bulgaria, the country placed at the bottom of the scale of the
asylum recognition rate in Europe. In our research, the participants claimed that the hardships of the
journey represented the major challenge of the refugee experience, and particularly emphasized the
circumstances such as losing their family members, duration of the journey, weather conditions, lack
of food and water, as well as witnessing many difficult situations, including unprofessional treatment
by the police. The research demonstrated that refugee parents commonly experienced the perils of
journey in illegal attempts to reach European soil, as well as the unrelieved fear for the lives of their
children. One of the greatest challenges is reflected in the insufficient support from public
authorities, both in financial terms and in terms of social integration. Further investigation is needed
in order to understand the full extent of the resulting effects on the development and the
psychosocial state of children, along with a comparison of the outcomes of integration of the refugee
children in Bulgaria and in other countries that have more advanced integration programs. Finally,
there is need for well-structured formal support programs for social integration, closer
implementation of legal regulations, and the reunification of refugee children with their families in
exile. Although the refugee crisis assumed global proportions, the present research efforts are still
insufficient to offer a clear perspective of the challenges encountered by refugee parents in the
receiving countries. This research study revealed the full spectrum of issues and difficulties faced by
refugee parents in Bulgaria, as well as the necessity of proactive engagement on behalf of the
Bulgarian government as the responsible authority for the establishment of social integration
programs and the effective implementation of laws, conventions and international agreements.


Pharmacotherapy and psychotherapeutic approaches are still the mainstay first line of treatment for substance use disorder. However, the path to rehabilitation and cessation of dependence often proves uncertain and laborious, with risks of relapse being considerable despite exposure to current therapeutic modalities. For cases of treatment‐refractory addiction, deep brain stimulation (DBS) interventions can prove a more effective long term therapeutic solution for the patient.


An undergraduate course that considers intrafamily abuse across the life span is described, and methods of handling problems that may arise in teaching this course are suggested. The course format combines class discussions, lectures by the instructor, assigned readings, guest speakers, and an empirical research project. The content examines general issues relevant to all abuse; the prevalence, forms, causes, dynamics, short- and long-term effects of abuse; and characteristics of the abused and abusers at each developmental stage. The importance of developmental psychology for an understanding of abuse is emphasized. Potential problems concern class discussions and the sensitive nature of the material. Evaluations indicate that the course effectively meets its goals.


Concurrent measurements were made of edema volume and reaction threshold to pressure in the hind paws of rats at various times after subplantar injection of phlogistic agents. Changes in threshold did not parallel changes in foot volume ; hyperesthesia was seen after carrageenin and mustard, transient hypoesthesia followed by hyperesthesia after yeast, and only hypoesthesia after egg white, serotonin, or dextran in the concentrations used.

Indomethacin in oral doses up to 3 mg/ kg was administered after time had been allowed for development of edema. Under these circumstances, indomethacin did not change the edema volume, but it markedly raised the threshold in feet injected with yeast, mustard or carrageenin. In the hindpaws injected with serotonin, egg white or dextran, in which an elevated threshold was already present, indomethacin did not further increase it, nor did it raise the threshold in noninflamed feet.

The narcotic antagonists nalorphine, pentazocine, cyclazocine, N-cyclopropylmethylnor-morphine, and (-)-3-hydroxy-N-cyclopropyl-methylmorphinan raised the threshold in yeast-induced hyperesthesia, but did not affect threshold in the normal feet; (-)-3-hydroxy-N-cyclopropylmethylisomorphinan was inactive, while morphine and d -propoxyphene increased the thresholds in noninflamed as well as in inflamed feet. In their effects in this test, the narcotic antagonists resemble nonnarcotic analgesics.


This paper reviews the various ferritic microstructures produced by austenite decomposition in continuously cooled low-carbon and ultralow-carbon steels and irons. Various terminologies used to identify the different ferritic microstructures and presented and related to several classification systems which have been developed for bainitic and ferritic microstructures in steels. Microstructural aspects are emphasized and discussed relative to transformation kinetics and mechanisms of austenite transformation to various morphologies of ferrite.


Objective To identify,analyze the occupational hazards possibly existed in the expand construction project of the coal power plant,and evaluate hazard level,provide necessary suggestion and strategy of preventing occupational diseases.Methods Analogy and checklist methods was applied in the occupational risk factors with qualitative and quantitative analysis.Results The site selection,general layout,protective measures on occupational disease,personal protective equipment,the management of occupation hygiene and emergency rescue measures achieved the hygiene requirements.The main occupational hazards in the analogy project were coal dust,fly ash dust,ammonia,hydrazine,hydrochloric acid,carbon disulfide,noise,heat stress and power frequency electric field,the total dust concentrations of five types of work exposure and noise intensities of two types of work exposure(88.6 dB(A) and 91.1 dB(A))exceeded occupational exposure limits,CSTEL and CTWA for dust were 0.3-38.7 mg/m3 and 0.3-12.2 mg/m3.Other occupational hazards of all types of work were in accord with occupational exposure limits.Conclusion The project is a serious harm of occupational disease,occupational protective measures and additional measures adopted will satisfy occupational requirements.


This paper presents an approach to establish the analytical formula for the force acting on a non-magnetic disc plunged into a ferrofluid, due to the effect of a magnetic field gradient generated by the magnetic inductor of the actuator. The expression of the force acting on a magnetizable body placed in a magnetic field was used for the particular conditions imposed by the actuator configuration. The magnetic field distribution in the inductor core and in the ferrofluid was determined and the expressions of the force were obtained in the case of intense and moderate magnetic fields.


In this article, the authors consider issues of fiscal decentralization in the context of sustainable development of territories, justify the development trends of the world community in providing public goods for the population. The analysis of this issues is carried out in comparison of indicators for Russia and the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This allows assessing the current level of fiscal decentralization in the world community, in Russia, and also determining its prospects. The authors presented the results of the study, which contain the dynamics of subnational budgets of Russia and OECD countries, separately identified local budgets, the dynamics of financing of proactive budgeting, the typology of the main projects of proactive budgeting, examples of municipal-private partnership projects implemented in Russia. In addition, the article sets out new approaches to the financial support of local government activities in the country, based on the introduction of self-taxation, bond loans and other forms of financing at the municipal level.


It is well known that the dynamical evolution of the Brillouin precursor field in a single-resonance Lorentz model dielectric can be fully explained in terms of a pair of saddle points that evolve in a region of the complex -plane near the origin such that , where is the undamped resonance frequency of the dispersive medium. As time increases at a fixed propagation distance, these two near first-order saddle points first approach each other along the imaginary frequency axis, then coalesce into a second-order saddle point at the time , and finally separate from each other in the lower half-plane, one with an increasing real part and the other with a decreasing real part. The uniform asymptotic description of the Brillouin precursor provides an accurate description of the field evolution about the observation time , at which the saddle-point order changes discontinuously. However, previous approximate expressions for the phase behaviour in the region of the near saddle points have resulted in an inaccurate field evolution around . This inaccuracy is corrected in this paper. Numerical illustrations of the complete precursor evolution for the delta function pulse and the step function modulated signal are provided.


In this paper, the problem of fault-tolerant control is investigated for turbofan engines with actuator faults. The controller involvement has repressed the effects of actuator faults on the controlled outputs of turbofan engines, making fault-tolerant control difficult. To solve this problem, the internal gas-path data of turbofan engines is introduced to provide conducive fault information. Besides, the useful property of the convolution neural network (CNN) is explored and utilized in fault-tolerant control. Based on the analysis of actuator faults, by using the Lyapunov stability and $L_{2}$ -gain like theorems, a novel CNN-based intelligent fault-tolerant control system for turbofan engines is proposed, including a CNN-based fault diagnosis module and a nonlinear fault-tolerant control with corresponding reconfiguration unit. The CNN-based intelligent fault-tolerant control system has the advantages of reducing the accuracy requirements of the mathematical description of turbofan engines. Furthermore, the proposed system can diagnose actuator faults and reduce the adverse effects of actuator faults on turbofan engines. Finally, simulation results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the designed method.


The nonstoichiometric structural model for nickel electrode active mass is reviewed. The activated α/γ cycle and activated β/β cycle materials defined by Barnard et al. are members of a common, nonstoichiometric solid solution. The crystal structure is nonclose-packed. The latter activated materials are distinguished from the commonly defined β/β cycle of Bode et al. in which the discharged phase is close-packed. The nonstoichiometric, solid solution structural model allows the electrode properties to be related to the structure of the active mass. This model allows a more detailed, quantitative description of how the materials change during the formation process and during cycling.


Impurities are unavoidable during the preparation of graphene samples and play an important role in graphene's electronic properties when they are adsorbed on the graphene surface. In this work, we study the electronic structures and transport properties of a two-terminal zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) device whose scattering region is covered by various adsorbates within the framework of the tight-binding approximation, by taking into account the coupling strength $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ between adsorbates and carbon atoms, the adsorbate concentration ${n}_{i}$, and the on-site energy disorder of adsorbates. Our results indicate that when the scattering region is fully covered by homogeneous adsorbates, i.e., ${n}_{i}=1$, a transmission gap opens around the Dirac point and its width is almost proportional to ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{2}$. In particular, two conductance plateaus of $G=2{e}^{2}/h$ appear in the vicinity of the electron energy $E=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ensuremath{\gamma}$. When the scattering region is partially covered by homogeneous adsorbates ($0l{n}_{i}l1$), the transmission gap still survives around the Dirac point even at low ${n}_{i}$, and its width is firstly increased by ${n}_{i}$ and then declined by further increasing ${n}_{i}$; whereas the conductance decreases with ${n}_{i}$ in the regime of low ${n}_{i}$ and increases with ${n}_{i}$ in the regime of high ${n}_{i}$. While in the presence of disordered adsorbates whose on-site energies are random variables characterized by the disorder degree, the transmission gap disappears at low ${n}_{i}$ and reappears at relatively high ${n}_{i}$. Furthermore, the transmission ability of the ZGNR device can be enhanced by the adsorbate disorder when the disorder degree surpasses a critical value, contrary to the localization picture that the conduction of a nanowire becomes poorer with increasing the disorder degree. The physics underlying these transport characteristics is discussed. Our results are in good agreement with experiments and may help for engineering graphene devices.


The distribution,species,medicinal value,chemical constituents,pharmacological action and toxicity of Aconitum plants were reviewed,which will provide reference for development and utilization of Aconitum.


Twenty married couples whose ethnic origin was similar and 20 whose ethnic origin was different (i.e., 80 Ss) answered questionnaires designed to measure their F-scale scores and degree of prejudice toward the other ethnic group (oriental or western). It was found that Ss from heterogeneous couples were less authoritarian than Ss from homogeneous couples. On three measures of prejudice (social distance, characteristics' evaluation, and attitudes toward behavior expressing prejudice), it turned out that Ss from heterogeneous couples were less prejudiced than Ss from homogeneous couples. It was also found that Ss who scored high on the F-scale exhibited more prejudice than Ss whose F-score was low. These, and some other findings, are discussed in terms of the possible selective nature of the Ss of the heterogeneous couples and in terms of the effect interpersonal contact has on the reduction of prejudice.


As a unique method of interpersonal communication, non-verbal communication plays an important role in doctor-patient relationship. This paper analyzed the causes of intense doctor-patient relationship from the perspective of non-verbal communication based on two typical cases and put forward solutions and suggestions.


The increasing of teaching motivation and teacher work culture is influenced by many factors, both from one of them is self concept and from one of them is a teacher education qualification. This study aims to explain the results of field studies on (1) Qualifications of PAI teacher education in MAN Se-Kota and Kabupaten Mojokerto. (2) PAI teacher self concept. (3) teaching motivation. (4) Work culture. (5) The influence of educational qualifications on teaching motivation. (6) The influence of educational qualifications on work culture. (7) The influence of self-concept on teaching motivation. (8) Influence of self concept to work culture. (9) The influence of educational qualifications and self-concepts on teaching motivation. (10) Influence of educational qualification and self concept to work culture. This research is a type of correlational quantitative research because this study aims to determine the direction and magnitude of the influence between the variables studied. The subjects of the study were teachers of PAI MAN Se-Kota and Kabupaten Mojokerto as many as 35 respondents. Data collection using questionnaires, observation, interviews and documentation. The collected research data is then analyzed using descriptive analysis technique and inferential analysis. Hypothesis testing of research using simple regression analysis and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that: (1) Qualification of PAI teacher education in MAN in Kota and Kabupaten Mojokerto in high enough category. (2) The self concept of PAI teachers in positive and fairly high category. (3) The motivation to teach PAI teachers in the category is quite high. (4) The working culture of PAI teachers in the category is quite good. (5) There is no significant influence of educational qualification on teachers' teaching motivation PAI obtained Fhit Ftabel - 10,468> 4,14. (8) There is significant influence from self concept to teacher work culture obtained Fhit> Ftabel - 26,359> 4,14. (9) There is a significant influence of educational qualification and self-concept on teacher's motivation to obtain Fhit> Ftabel - 5,457> 3,29. (10) There is a significant influence of educational qualification and self-concept on teacher work culture obtained Fhit> Ftabel - 5,457> 3,29. Self concept variable that is intrinsic factor of teacher give higher contribution.


Civil morality,as a basic rule of public morality and the norms of behavior,which every citizen has to obey,is of public nature,universality,equality and dutifulness,etc,and therefore,is the embodiment of the essential request of the market economy,democracy and legality in the field of morality,which a large-scaled and complicated modern society can not be without and therein a relationship of mutual attachment exists.In the construction of civil morality in China,institutionalization is an indispensable and practical route.The institutionalized methods of the morality's construction are the innate requirement in a modern society.


The rapid-chase theory of response priming defines a set of behavioral criteria that indicate feedforward processing of visual stimulus features rather than recurrent processing. These feedforward criteria are strong predictions from a feedforward model that argues that sequentially presented prime and target stimuli lead to strictly sequential waves of visuomotor processing that can still be traced in continuous motor output, for instance, in pointing movements, muscle forces, or EEG readiness potentials. The feedforward criteria make it possible to evaluate whether some continuous motor output is consistent with feedforward processing, even though the neuronal processes themselves are not readily observable. This paper is intended as an auxiliary resource that states the criteria with some degree of formal precision.


Ever since the introduction of "performance" into the area of social sciences and the evolution from everyday word to the academic term for social theoretical study,its concept has attracted much attention from sociologists,anthropologists and folklorists.However,due to the interdisciplinary differences in academic traditions,different views on performance have been formed in sociology,anthropology and folklore.Therefore,it is of theoretical significance to conduct a comparative study of the views by Goffman,Turner and Bauman on performance and to gain new insights into the different views on performance and into the evolution of Performance Theory in each discipline.


:- The influence of globalization has resulted in today's young generation being more proud of foreign cultures than our own. Our culture has a very big role in developing the character of young people in Indonesia, especially the "SARUMA" culture. In developing the "SARUMA" culture in South Halmahera District High School to capture foreign culture, the attention of local and state governments. Therefore, the central and regional governments must work hard to increase the strengthening of character education at the central, provincial, and district/city levels. the moral South Regency, North being to reduce conflicts that often occur both at school and in the community. education of students based on the "SARUMA" culture which was developed at the High School of South Halmahera Regency.


The way that the consequences of the financial crisis of 2007-2009 have been propagated within the global economic system was a real shock for the mainstream economic theory advocating the efficiency of financial markets. The reactions of economic agents around the world and the pronounced character of the financial instability that moved very fast and deeply into the real economy have revealed that stock markets are not only subject to external fluctuations but behave like complex systems as documented in Kyrtsou and Terraza (2002, 2003, 2010), and Kyrtsou et al. (2004, 2009), Kyrtsou and Vorlow (2005, 2009) among others. As such, fluctuations invade the market even in the absence of external shocks. This complexity and its subsequent effect the non-linearity can lead to loss of information decreasing efficiency and affecting systematic risk estimations. Through the chain of tranching and distributing the risk, fundamental values and risk profiles of underlying assets became impossible to reconstruct, even for the most informed investors. There may be a deep paradox. In principle, financial innovation is meant to increase efficiency. But, in real financial markets, efficiency depends on the availability of information. And the nature of innovation that occurred has been able to destroy information.


CO/NO reactions have been studied over two catalysts, Pt/CeOx/Al2O3and Pt/Al2O3, under net reducing conditions. The Pt/Al2O3catalyst deactivated with time at 400°C whereas the Pt/CeOx/Al2O3catalyst showed oscillations in the reaction rate at this temperature. The oscillations had periods of 18 min. By using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, an attempt was made to reveal the species that inhibits the reaction over Pt. It is suggested that CeOxprovides dissociation centers for NO under conditions where NO dissociation is hindered by the inhibiting species on the Pt sites.


Precision farming or precision agriculture is an approach that applies appropriate management practice at the place and time where and when it is needed, adjusted to spatial and temporal variability of crop and environmental traits over farm areas and small-scale heterogeneity of soil conditions (Finger et al. 2019). It is a technology intensive practice assisted by GIS technologies, considering site-specific sensor information of nutrient status, soil moisture, and other soil properties (Roy and George 2020). Management practices include controlled traffic farming during tillage and harvest, adjusted site-specific application of inputs such as nitrogen and pesticides (Balafoutis et al. 2017), and precise seeding and irrigation. Precision farming is often combined with zero tillage systems on large farms (Finger et al. 2019).


A theoretical equation is derived for the time required to dissolve a static air bubble in a large tank of water. With certain simplifying approximations a similar expression was derived for the rate of solution of an air bubble in a long tube filled with water such as may be encountered in many types of soil mechanics tests. Confirming experimental data is also presented. The studies provide methods for estimating the time required to dissolve a small bubble inadvertently trapped in drain lines using a back pressure. These times may range from several hours to days for the sizes of tubes and bubbles often encountered in typical soil mechanics testing equipment. The effect of small trapped air bubbles on the pore pressure response of a triaxial test specimen is analyzed.


Practical utilitarism has brought about psychological mechanism of social personality. More attention is paid to intellect than physical training. Bookish educational concept has strong influence on the college physical training and knowledge of occupation of teachers. This knowledge value of outlook prevents teachers of physical training from keeping part harmony.


This article describes the methods used to train a severely disabled student. It concentrates on the writer's and student's feeling during the course of instruction.


We prove that there exists an absolute constant 6 > 0 such any binary code <tex>$C$</tex> ⊂ {0, 1}N tolerating (1/2 - δ) <tex>$N$</tex> adversarial deletions must satisfy| C| ≤ 2polylog<tex>$N$</tex> and thus have rate asymptotically approaching 0. This is the first constant fraction improvement over the trivial bound that codes tolerating <tex>$N$</tex> /2 adversarial deletions must have rate going to 0 asymptotically. Equivalently, we show that there exists absolute constants <tex>$A$</tex> and 6 > 0 such that any set <tex>$C$</tex> ⊂ {0, 1} of 2logA N binary strings must contain two strings <tex>$c$</tex> and c' whose longest common subsequence has length at least (1/2 + δ) N. As an immediate corollary, we show that q-ary codes tolerating a fraction 1 - (1 + 2δ) / <tex>$q$</tex> of adversarial deletions must also have rate approaching 0. Our techniques include string regularity arguments and a structural lemma that classifies binary strings by their oscillation patterns. Leveraging these tools, we find in any large code two strings with similar oscillation patterns, which is exploited to find a long common subsequence.


As indicated in the subtitle, this publication is the result of a symposium and contains papers by many different authors. Subsections on Nutritional, Metabolic and Toxic Conditions; Infectious Diseases; Parasitisms; Pathology Associated with Captivity; Developmental, Perinatal and Gerontological Diseases; Tumors; Clinical Pathology; and Zoo Pathology Data Systems, were edited by the organizers with the aid of four well-known investigators; viz. Drs. K. Benirshke, J. C. Harshbarger, F. M. Loew, and J. D. Strandberg. There are 88 papers contained in the 684 pages, but there is no index. This compendium must be considered a successful venture if for no other reason than it brings together a large number of reports, many of hitherto ill-described or unrecognized conditions. The anticipated variations in style, quality, and completeness of the papers are not as great as in many attempts of this type and, in fact, do not seriously interfere with the usefulness of the book. The most serious criticism is the lack of an index. The organizers suggest in the Foreword and Preface that zoo animals may be rich resources of models valuable for investigation of diseases of man and domestic animals. There is little reason to dispute this contention and, indeed, some noteworthy examples can be cited (hepatitis in marmosets and leprosy in armadillos are two of current interest). With this goal in mind, the editors and publisher should have invested the extra effort to index the papers carefully. In addition to the obvious aid to the user, some interesting coincidental data might have emerged! As an editor I can't help wincing over the frequent misuse of the word "pathology," but generally the text is clear and comprehensible. The quality of figures varies considerably but nearly all add to the value of the papers. The book is not illustrated profusely and the subjects are not treated exhaustively. The writers assumed their readers have considerable background in veterinary pathology, microbiology, and parasitology. Some papers are quite sophisticated, several go far beyond a simple report of a single spontaneous disease, and a few contain data on experimental disease. This book belongs on the shelf of any veterinarian concerned with the diagnosis of diseases of zoo and wild animals (including birds and reptiles). It will be valuable especially for veterinary pathologists and microbiologists and should be scanned by all who are interested in animal models of diseases. J. A. Shadduck


Bay 77488 ( O, O -diethyl phosphorothioate O -ester with phenylglyoxylonitrile oxime) technical, 50% emulsifiable concentrate, (EC) 20% wettable powder (wp) and Bay 78182 ( O, O -diethyl phosphorothioate O -ester with ( O -chlorophenyl)glyoxylonitrile oxime) technical, 25% EC and 50% WP were tested as residual contact insecticides against adults of the confused flour beetle, Tribotium confusum Jacquelin duVal; the merchant grain beetle, Oryzaephilus mercator (Fauvel); and larvae of Trogoderma para bile Beal. Bay 77488 20% wp was the most effect formulation against adults of T, confunsum and O. mercator , and Bay 78182 25% EC was the most effective against larvae of T. parabile . Larvae of T. parabile had higher LD30 values than adults of the other 2 species. However, the Bayer compounds were superior to malathion (the standard for comparison) against these larvae. Most of the formulations retained their effectiveness for at least 12 weeks.


The assumption the paper is based on is that in modern economy it is not enough to provide economic performances which will satisfy the owners of the companies and provide product and services which will satisfy customers, considering the relationship between costs and quality. Other two perspectives have to be included into the analysis, and they concern people-society issues and planet-environmental issues. This leads to the concept 3P that includes: Profit, People and Planet. According to this concept, one of the main challenges for the companies and supply chains they belong to will be to provide green product design, green lean processes and operations, as well as green supplying. For this reason, in this paper the authors analyse the green component of the sustainable competitiveness, with the objective to show the way from quality management (quality products and processes) and environmental protection through sustainable supply chain management with the accent on supply chain greening to economy competitiveness.


High performance airborne foliage penetrating radar requires an antenna design that is low-profile while providing ultra-wideband operation at lower frequencies (100s of MHz) while optimally offering unidirectional radiation. To achieve the desired unidirectional radiation, a ground plane must be implemented that can match the ultra-wideband operation of the antenna being implemented. The needed ground plane must meet these specifications while being low-profile to maintain an overall low-profile antenna design that will efficiently fit in the aircraft. This paper presents a novel ultra-wideband and low-profile hybrid ground plane design that implements ferrite absorbing material with a mushroom structure EBG design. The presented EBG/ferrite hybrid design offers an operational bandwidth exceeding 12:1 starting at 170 MHz


Cigarette smoking, a major risk behaviour adversely affecting public health, has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of the present study was to study the determinants of Smoking Habit among Medical Students. A cross sectional study among 300 randomly selected medical students (including 37 girl students), was carried out in a medical college during July-August 2008. Out of the 300 students, 117(39 %) were smokers. There was a significant association between the smoking habits of parents and their wards. There was a significant association between peer pressure and smoking behaviour.There was a highly significant correlation between alcohol and smoking behaviour. Measures such as advocacy and societal norms, addressing these factors rather than isolated health education on the ill effects of smoking, will check the rising trend of young smokers in developing countries.


Background—There has been no large-scale examination of the association between types of childhood abuse and personality disorders (PDs) in China using standardised assessment tools and the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. Hence, this study aimed to explore the relationship between retrospective reports of various types of childhood maltreatments and current DSM-IV PDs in a clinical population in China, Shanghai. Method—1402 subjects were randomly sampled from the Shanghai Psychological Counselling Centre. PDs were assessed using the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ4+). Participants were also interviewed using the Structured Clinical Interview (SCID-II). The Child Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) was used to assess childhood maltreatment in five domains (emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, and physical neglect). Results—According to Pearson's correlations, childhood maltreatment had a strong association with most PDs. Subsequently using partial correlations, significant relationships were also demonstrated between Cluster-B PDs and all the traumatic factors except physical neglect. A strongest positive correlation was found between Cluster-B PD and CTQ total scores (r=.312, p <. 01). Using the Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test, significant differences in 4 groups of subjects (Cluster-A PD, Cluster-B PD, Cluster-C PD and Non-PD) in terms of emotional abuse (χ2 = 34.864, p <.01), physical abuse (χ2 = 14.996, p <.05), sex abuse (χ2 = 9.211, p <.05), and emotional neglect (χ2 = 17.987, p <.01) were found. Stepwise regression analysis indicated that emotional abuse and emotional neglect were predictive for Cluster-A PD and Cluster-B PD, and sexual abuse was highly predictive for Cluster-B PD, only emotional neglect was predictive for Cluster-C PD. Conclusion—Early traumatic experiences are strongly related to the development of PDs. The effects of childhood maltreatment in the three clusters of PDs are different. Childhood trauma has the most significant impact on Cluster-B PD.


This evidence-based practice paper will discuss the effect of incorporating a National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges themed project into the Introduction to Engineering course on first year students' motivation, value, and perception of engineering. At Arizona State University, the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering have been incorporated into the 2-credit Introduction to Engineering course as the subject of a multidisciplinary hands-on team design project. The three Grand Challenges that were selected for inclusion in this project were make solar energy economical, provide access to clean water, and advance personalized learning; a real world problem was formulated for each of these three areas. In the design project, student teams work through the engineering design process to design a solution to the problem, build a functional prototype of their solution, and test their prototype to demonstrate the effectiveness of their solution. A custom survey instrument based on APPLES (academic pathways of people learning engineering), the engineering motivation survey, and the model of situational interest in classroom setting was administered to students at the start and end of the class to assess the impact of the Grand Challenges themed design project. Results showed that using the NAE Grand Challenges to provide real world context for the design project positively changed students' perception of engineers' roles and the impact of engineering solutions. Qualitative results indicate that as a result of the project, more students recognized that engineers' roles include promoting 'social good' in addition to designing and creating. Although no significant impact on students' motivation was observed, the project did have a positive impact on students' situational interest.


Aphasia may be defined as a disorder that causes problems in the language of a human, its loss the production of human or grasp of speech and the ability to write language or reading Language. your ability to write can be affected, expression of words and problems in both communication and written language. It is always happening due to the injury to the brain in the human mind it brings from stroke, particularly in order in a single person. Brain injuries are occurring from the tumor in the head, also from brain tumors caused in the brain or any type of infections. According to an all-country survey 2016 About 75 thousand strokes happen per year in the USA and there are at least two lakh fifty thousand people in Britain with aphasia disease.84.1% of people generally confuse stroke and injury caused in the brain that also causes problems in communication. 84.5 percentage of people don't know term Aphasia disease, 8.8 percentage of people nothing any idea about the disease aphasia disease and also think this disease as a disorder which is caused due to communication or written disorder and 34.7% of affected of Aphasia disease that are "aphasia aware" thinks it as indivisible that does. Aphasia disease treatment is caused by the speech-language pathologist (SLP) or a speech and language therapist. In this paper we presented the different use of machine learning Algorithms for Aphasia patient, types of Aphasia and present different types of treatment Approaches for aphasia.


The nanoparticle layer detachment during nucleate pool boiling and its influences on heat transfer surface properties were explored experimentally. The material of the heat transfer surface was copper and the nanoparticle layer was formed on the heat transfer surface by nucleate boiling in the water-based TiO2 nanofluid. It was found that the detachment of the nanoparticle layer during nucleate boiling in pure water is significant. In the present experiment, more than half of nanoparticles deposited on the heated surface were detached before the CHF condition was reached. The thickness and roughness decreased accordingly. However, the wettability and wickability that are the influential parameters on the CHF value were maintained even after the occurrence of nanoparticle layer detachment and deteriorated only after the CHF condition was reached. It is therefore considered that the onset of CHF brings qualitative change to the capillary suction performance of the layer of nanoparticles. In exploring the effect of the nanoparticle layer properties on the nucleate boiling heat transfer, sufficient attention should be paid to the variation of the nanoparticle layer properties during nucleate boiling.


Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is the most commonly used transmission technique in multicarrier systems in all types of modern communication technologies. Fading is a great dispute in wireless communication systems. A linear adaptive equalization filter at the receiver can be used to minimize frequency selective fading. In this paper, image transmission through OFDM system with IEEE 802.11 under the influence of Rayleigh fading channel with linear adaptive equalizers (LMS, NLMS, and RLS) is presented. The performance of these filters is evaluated in terms of BER performance, bit errors for different step sizes using LMS, NLMS filters and different forgetting factors for RLS filter in MATLAB simulation environment.


The adverb "Haosheng" is compounded of the adverb "Hao"(好) and the suffix "Sheng"(生).The direct motive of haosheng's generation is the drive of Chinese vocabulary's multi-syllablization.The adverb "Haosheng" engendered two usages one after the other,i.e.a modal adverb and a degree adverb.The two usages began to decline gradually for the poor compounding abilities or being unable to adapt to the new language components,and were replaced by their synonymous adverbs in the competition,becoming dialectic words at last.The reasons for the centralized demise of many adverbial suffixes in Middle Chinese and Old Mandarin need more in-depth studies.


In this paper, we propose a robust multi-label classification system based on deep spiking neural networks to handle multi-pitch estimation tasks. We employ constantQ transform spectrogram as a time-frequency representation. A keypoint detection technique is used for noise suppression and the extraction of relevant information. We also propose a novel biological spiking coding method that fits the expression of musical signals. This coding method can encode time, frequency, intensity information into spatiotemporal spike trains. And the spatio-temporal credit assignment (STCA) algorithm is used to train deep spiking neural networks. We perform the multipitch evaluation on the MAPS data set, and our work compares with the state-of-the-art methods by using the F1-score metric. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme has achieved better performance than other state-of-the-art methods and reveal the system's robustness to environmental noise.


Pimavanserin is a serotonin 2A receptor inverse agonist and antagonist used for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions in Parkinson's disease psychosis. Numerous studies support a modulatory role of serotonin in Tourette syndrome (TS).


Based on the meteorological data, the evapotranspiration of wheat has been estimated by using FAO-17 Penman revised equation and Penman-Monteith equation method respectively in Xinxiang, Henan province. The results showed that the total reference evapotranspiration estimated by Penman-Monteith equation had a good agreement with that estimated by FAO-17 Penman revised equation. Though there had much difference in radiation and aero-dynamics between those method,the total relative error was less than 10%. The evapotranspiration estimated by Penman-Monteith equation and FAO-17 Penman revised equation had much agreement with measured data in field experiments.