This paper presents a new detection method for unknown frequency hopping (FH) signal, this indirect method is base on multiple image features. We first process the time- frequency spectrum of the received signal, extract image features after image segmentation and filtering operations, then establish FH signal verification and joint parameters estimation (FHSV- JPE) mathematical model to describe the detection problem, we propose an optimal solution of the model, and analyze the performance of the algorithm at last. Simulations are carried out to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. I. INTRODUCTION Frequency hopping (FH) communication have received ever increasing attention over the past years as numerous applica- tions have adopted this scheme. With this increased use of FH communications, naturally, came the question of detection. This question has given rise to a considerable amount research focused on the detection of FH signals. Those researches can be classified into two kinds: searching detection methods and software detection methods. The former include methods in papers (1)(2)(3) . This kind of methods needs information of many FH parameters. The latter kind of methods includes ex- ponential averaging algorithm (4), algorithm based on wavelet transformation (5) and so on. The signal models in these methods are ideal without considering short-time burst signals in practical environments. This paper presents a new indirect detection method for FH signals. Compared with previous researches, this method has two new ideas. Firstly, it introduces image processing into FH signal detection, which makes the feature extraction more stable and credible. Secondly, it establishes the FH signal verification and joint parameters estimation (FHSV-JPE) model, which can be used to verify the existences of FH signals and analyze detection performance in theory. This paper is organized as follows. In Section II, we describe the receive signal model. The extraction of image features is proposed in Section III. Section IV establishes the FHSV- JPE model and gives out its solution. Performance analysis is presented in section V. The simulation results are illustrated in Section VI. The conclusions are given in the last section.


The invention discloses an interactive panoramic system which comprises a virtual scene, an image acquisition and processing system used for acquiring and processing the images in the virtual scene, and an interactive panoramic imaging system used for projecting projection images in the virtual scene, wherein the virtual scene comprises a background oil painting and a ground plastotype; the image acquisition and processing system comprises image acquisition equipment, an image processing module, an image analysis module, an information conversion module, an image generation module and an image output module which are sequentially connected; and the interactive panoramic imaging system comprises a main-control server, a lamplight control system, a special effect control system, an image playing system, lamplight, a sound box, a gas output device, a smog output device and projection equipment. The system provided by the invention has the advantages of novel design and high intelligent degree, can not only realistically react the painting theme, but also realize the interaction of the people and the figures or landscapes in the painting so as to allow people to have a super-strong immersion feeling and an audio-visual enjoyment, and is suitable for fields, such as museums, planning exhibition halls, digital cities and the like.


The urgency of the problem under investigation lies in the theoretical justification, development and experimental verification of the methodological foundations, forms, methods, means and ways of organizing the design training technology. The purpose of the study is to reveal the main features of the application of the project methodology in the institutions of professional (vocational) education by using: theoretical analysis methods (scientific literature, functional analysis) to determine the main approaches to modeling the analysis of the content and structure of technology projects, to study the current practice of applying and implementing this technologies; modeling for the development of a model and an integrated pedagogical system for the application of this technology in the teaching and production process of institutions of professional (vocational) education, generalizations for the formulation of conclusions and recommendations for ensuring the effectiveness of the application of technology projects. The result of the study is the introduction of design training technologies into practice. The work of the institutions of professional (vocational) education and the experimental verification of the results spine of their application. The level of problems studied the strategies and mechanisms for implementing the project, the form of presentation of the final results and the degree of its support by the teacher should correspond to the real capabilities of the students. The themes of students' projects should be closely related to the subject content, since visual-figurative thinking typical for a given age, curiosity, interest in the world around them push students to choose a topic based on the specific content of the subject, rather than on the basis of their experience and problems analysis.


Building materials selection is a critical process affected by many complicated factors. Due to the specific function of elements, alternatives to materials must be appropriately chosen as they differ in quality, performance, and cost. Implementing a Value Engineering (VE) process is challenging as it requires effort and several workshops. Thus, this study proposes a framework to automate the VE process of selecting building flooring material. The framework identified selected agreed criteria of flooring finishing materials measured based on agreed standard tests. The developed framework is distinguished from other current research using a combination of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Pairwise, and Function Analysis System Technique (FAST) methods to define the criteria ranking weight and include the building function. Furthermore, the framework is integrated with Building Information Modeling (BIM) that has been widely used in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry (AEC). Finally, a case study of a residential house in Saudi Arabia was used to demonstrate the framework. The proposed framework was verified by using two questioners and expert consultations.


Electric characteristic and power supply curve of 150 t ladle furnace of a certain plant were studied.The electrical characteristics curves of 150 t LF 10 MVA transformer in different levels of voltage were drawn,and based on this,the electrical operation circle diagram of LF was obtained.According to electrical operation constraint conditions of LF,the allowable current working points in different levels of voltage were obtained,the typical power supply curves of actual production process of LF was presented,and the reasonable power supply curve and argon-blowing flux in each operation phase of LF furnace were put forward.Finally,the reasonable power supply system for 150 t 10 MVA ladle furnace was established.


(3M Health Care) A hydrocolloid dressing consisting of polysaccharide powders, together with pectin and gelatin, dispersed in a polyisobutylene adhesive matrix (advanced formulation with and without a border). The border preparation has an outer covering of Tegaderm film extending beyond the hydrocolloid oval. The absorbent mass forms an island in the centre of the semitransparent film. It is used for moderate to heavily exuding wounds. A wound-measuring device is printed on every dressing wrapper. It is available in bordered oval and non-bordered square shapes.


Currently, there are more and more requirements not only to the quality of food, but also to the raw materials it is made from. This leads to the search for new, non-traditional products. One of these is chia seeds (Salvia hispanica). The article provides data on their useful properties. The high demand for chia seeds is due to their unique chemical composition. The main feature of the seeds of this crop is that they contain many chemical substances of high calorific and biological value, as compared with cereals and oilseeds traditionally grown in Ukraine. In chia seeds, there are 30–35% of fat, 25–41% of carbohydrates, and 20–22% of protein. Chia seeds are a valuable source of vitamin B, calcium, potassium, iron, zinc, and copper. The fatty acid composition of this crop indicates a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids. 63.3% of them is linolenic fatty acid, which belongs to ω-3 acids and is important for the brain function, growth, and development of a living organism. That is why it is so important to find optimal ways of preparing freshly harvested chia seeds so as to extend their shelf life. These ways must take into account the biological and chemical characteristics of this crop, and make it possible to preserve its consumer properties for further targeted processing. The article presents the results of studying the quality indicators and microbiological condition of chia seeds to establish how long they can be safely stored and to assess the sanitary safety of this crop. It has been shown that within the period of 6 months, the greatest changes in the quality of chia seed oil are observed at 25°C: there is a significant increase in the acid and peroxide values and a decrease in the iodine value (the latter indicates spoilage of chia seeds). Lowering the air temperature to 5°C slows down the enzymatic processes that take place in chia seeds, and inhibits the increase of the acid and peroxide values of fat, which ensures retention of the consumer properties of seeds. It has been established that the seeds of the crop under study can be stored, without any loss of their quality, for 6 months at 5–15°C and the relative humidity 60–70%. All the beneficial properties of chia seeds are due to their unique composition, so they are supposed to be widely used for specialised and functional nutrition


Abstract No Abstract Available. *Read before the Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists, Santa Barbara, California, March 24, 1947. †Orthodontic Division, College of Dentistry, University of Cali...


Based on the results of satellite measurements using OMI instrumentation (NASA, USA) at 354 nm in 2005-2020 (http://avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) over nine populated areas in Russia, after the exclusion of cases of the smoke and dust registration in the atmosphere, approximations were obtained for temporal variations in average long-term values of atmospheric aerosol optical depth (AOD) in April to September. The approximations obtained for four most spaced-apart areas made it possible to develop a spatiotemporal model of average long-term AOD in the ultraviolet band for the territory from 43° to 60° N and from 33° to 133° E for a warm season. A verification of the model using data for the other five areas that were not included in the model development and a comparison of the results with AERONET ground data confirmed a fairly good quality of the model. An analysis of the measurement data is indicative of significant negative annual linear trends in the mean April-September AOD for all analyzed areas.


This paper examines the effects of damped vibrational frequencies on the linear reduced dynamical stiffness and damping coefficients of tilting-pad journal bearings. The frequency ratio (damped frequency/running speed) can be used to judge the accuracy of employing synchronously reduced linear coefficients in rotordynamic stability analyses. The use of these coefficients can result in simpler formulations of the system dynamical equations of motion and solution techniques as well as reduced computational and analysis time. Results presented here indicate that synchronously reduced bearing dynamical coefficients are generally adequate for stability analyses with positively preloaded tilting-pad bearings. Plots of dynamic coefficients are included for a five-pad bearing. Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 10–13, 1982


This article considers Attorney-General v Tamil X, a recent New Zealand Supreme Court decision on refugee status determinations. Specifically, it considers the approach taken to art 1F of the Refugee Convention in decisions on the exclusion of claimants from refugee status. As claims are increasingly affected by art 1F considerations, it is imperative that the law in this complicated area is clear and just. This article traces Tamil X's advancement through the courts, and presents an analysis of the Supreme Court's judgment. The article also recommends some future developments for the jurisprudence on the exclusion clauses, specifically the adoption of a modified version of the ICTY jurisprudence on joint criminal enterprise.


Abstract We have used archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to study the Hα emission properties of main sequence (MS) stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. An accurate photometric measurement of their Hα equivalent width, allows us to identify objects with large Hα emission. We demonstrate that this method allows us to identify and characterise candidate cataclysmic variables (CVs) with high efficiency, reconciling observations with theoretical predictions on the number of dynamically formed CVs expected in a 47 Tucanae-like globular cluster.


Since the definition of public interest and the determination of compensation standard,the two major puzzles in city house requisition and demolition legislation,can be solved by public participation mechanism which is of the functions of public power restriction and private power protection,it will be helpful for working out the legislation dilemma to introduce into the New Regulations the hearing and negotiation mechanisms of public participation mechanism.


sometimes operates on a rehabilitative basis, but is more often used in a 'crime control' mode; it is likely to lead to more police, prisons, closed-circuit television and so on. Sometimes some of the work is done by private security firms, but the principle is the same. In many western countries the welfare state also provides assistance to all, including victims and exoffenders, on the basis of need; several countries and states also provide monetary compensation to victims of violent crime. The generosity of these schemes varies widely, and may be largely swallowed up in medical expenses in countries without a


This service record is an account of military actions during the American Civil War by veteran M. H. Dill, 1842-1910, dated from 1900.


This paper introduce the technology of peak demand reduction using automatic water tank pumping system on the apartment. That systems on the apartments installed water tank can control pumping(electricity) demand. Generally, system peak demand is occurred at the same time on workday and many water pumps consume electric power randomly. At this point, shift of operating time of water pump can reduce peak demand using automatic water tank pumping system. We were operating this system on some apartments for test of effect of peak demand reduction. and we represent result of demand shift. This result suggests that spread of the automatic water pumping system can contribute to reduce system peak demand and reduce system operation cost.


Manufacturing and Process Industries (glass, primary and secondary metals, etc.) account for a significant fraction of all energy consumed in the United States. Much of this energy is lost/discarded in the form of high temperature flue gas exhaust streams. A means of conserving valuable fuel reserves while reducing energy requirements is to recover and use industrial waste heat in an efficient, cost effective manner, by preheating the incoming process air supply. The Vortex Flow Direct Contact Heat Exchange Concept represents a new approach for high-grade heat recovery from high temperature (2500 F) industrial waste heat flue gas streams. In the vortex flow heat exchanger, the flow separation material wall of conventional metal or high temperature ceramic heat exchangers is replaced by a vortex induced fluid dynamic gas boundary which separates the tangetially rotating hot flue gas from a cool preheat combustion air flow. Small particles introduced into and entrained with the centrally located hot gas flow are centrifuged out through the surrounding cool gas and transfer heat between the flows by convective heat transfer as the particles proceed along their spiral trajectories through the cylindrical vortex volume. The particles are continuously collected and recirculated. This report describes the results ofmore » an analytic and experimental program to define a preliminary heat exchanger design.« less


As a result of widespread dissatisfaction with rising property tax burdens, state governments are being called on increasingly to provide property tax relief. Numerous tax reform proposals are being considered by the various states. The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical framework for evaluating the potential impacts of alternative approaches to property tax relief. Applicability of the fiscal model is demonstrated using three alternative tax relief proposals—increased state funding of elementary and secondary education, revenue transfers for a general reduction in property taxes, and a circuit breaker to ease excessive property tax burdens.


ABSTRACT We give a description of several representation varieties of the fundamental group of the complement of the figure eight knot in PGL (3, ℂ) or PSL (3, ℂ). We obtain a description of the projection of the representation variety into the character variety of the boundary torus into SL (3, ℂ).


and so to detour or queer what may otherwise be understood as simply scientific. That theatre has enjoyed such a long history of imbrication with medical education and practice has not been sufficiently absorbed in theatre and performance studies; what one discovers with Bouchard's careful excavation is a myriad set of sites of engagement with contemporary scopic regimes of truth and biopower. Not always neatly divided between "high" or "low" art, scientific or popular culture, these case studies in specimenhood demonstrate in different ways the enduring work (and play) of power on and through bodies and body parts, including at the microscopic level. From a child's hand conserved in liquid suspension within a jar held at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg, one among many anatomical specimens crafted in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century, to Gunther von Hagens's Körperwelten's (Body Worlds) involving plastination techniques that produce the appearance of motion in cadavers uncannily going about their exercises in the every day, fields of indeterminacy between life and death, subject and object, real and fake, reproduction and remainder make these specimens at once mimetic and singular, theatrical and performative, exemplary and uncannily obtuse. They present and represent a life that is quite dramatically gone; at the same time, they hold the promise of scientific futures.


Because coal auger working mechanism faces problems such as excessive vibration, serious deflection, and low drilling efficiency, a new five-bit coal auger working mechanism test model was established to explore the influence factor on vibration and deflection under different conditions. Additionally, a simulation model was built to further research the effect of partial load and stabilizer arrangement, the correctness of which was proved by experiments. The results show that the vibration and deflection increase with drilling depth in the direction, and they first increase and then gradually become stable in the direction. In addition, the vibration, deflection, and deflection force increase with the partial load. By arranging the stabilizer every five drill-rod section intervals, the vibration and deflection can be decreased by 30% and 40% in the direction and by 14.3% and 65.7% in direction, respectively.


Objective
To explore the effects of age on the use of lactate clearance rate (LCR) to predict prognosis in septic shock patients.

Methods
Septic shock patients who were admitted into the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University from January 2015 to August 2018, with complete clinical data, were selected for retrospective analysis. According to their ages, they were divided into a non-elderly group (aged 18-74 years) and an elderly group (≥75 years old). Moreover, according to the outcome of hospitalization, the patients were divided into a survival group and a death group. The level of arterial blood lactate (Lac) was measured when the patients were diagnosed with septic shock (0 h), and 12 h and 24 h after treatment, while the LCRs at 12 h and 24 h were calculated. The scores of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ) and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), the length of hospitalization stay and outcomes were recorded. The differences of above indicators in each group were analyzed.

Results
A total of 483 septic shock patients were collected, in which 286 patients met inclusion criteria, including 111 cases in the elderly group and 175 in the non-elderly group. There were 61 cases (55.0%) of death in the elderly group and 55 cases (31.4%) of death in the non-elderly group. The COX regression analysis and survival time curve showed that age was an independent risk factor for the prognosis of septic shock patients. The risk of death in the elderly group was 1.95 times higher than that in the non-elderly group. Patients in the death group in different age ranges presented higher APACHE Ⅱ scores, SOFA scores, and blood Lac levels as well as lower 24 h LCR than those in the survival group (P 0.05). APACHE Ⅱ score, SOFA score and blood Lac level were positively related with hospitalization mortality, but negatively related with LCR.

Conclusions
Age, APACHE Ⅱ score, SOFA score, Lac level and LCR are related factors of hospitalization outcome, where age is an independent risk factor for the prognosis of septic shock patients. LCR cannot be used to accurately evaluate the prognosis of elderly patients with septic shock.

Key words:
Septic shock; Lactate clearance rate; Prognosis; Age


Yb:YPxV1-xO4(x=0.02,0.06,0.10) single crystals were grown by Czochralski method .The analytic result of XRD indicates that the structure of crystal was remain tetragonal zircon-type structure and the lattice parameters were decreased linearly with increasing x.The measurement of ICP emission spectrum shows that the effective segregation coefficient Keff of P element in crystal is 1, but that of Yb3+ ion in crystal decreased when x increases. The absorption coefficient and cross-section increases then decreased when the concentration of P element increased. A two phonon-like behavior was shown in the Raman spectra of Yb:YPxV1-xO4 crystal, and a peak shifting to high-frenquecy with line broadening occurred when the x value increased.


Abstract The Tucumán parrot Amazona tucumana is restricted to the southern Yungas mountains, from south-eastern Bolivia to north-western Argentina, and has undergone intense capture for the pet trade. We provide updated information on the status of the Bolivian population of the species and past capture levels for the international pet trade. We surveyed 18 sites during the non-breeding season in 2006 and 2007 and recorded a total of 1,643 individuals. In the 1980s 5,400 Tucumán parrots were captured for the international pet trade before the species was listed on CITES Appendix I. Capture of the Tucumán parrot for local trade appears to continue but at a reduced scale. Available evidence from this study and from Argentina indicates a need to change the categorization of the species on the IUCN Red List from Near Threatened to Vulnerable.


Luis Antonio GONZÁLEZ MARÍN Departamento de Musicología, CSIC This paper attempts to update sorne hypothesis and evidences about instrumental composition and performance in seventeenth-century Spain, looking at both the different written documents and the extant musical sources. The existence of parallelisms between the different ecclesiastic, civil ant theatrical music traditions Jeads to an assimilation of related genres, and brings out sorne important consequences on performance practice.


We thank Drs. Burjek and colleagues for their thoughtful review of the Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial (PART) (1) (ref for Burjek et al .). We agree that strategies to reduce cognitive load during airway management are important and potentially beneficial. However, several points are worth clarification.


Understory management practices and stand density characteristics allow one to distinguish a cork oak traditional silvopastoral system (known as a montado) from a cork oak forest system. Although understanding the manner in which different management practices affect cork growth is imperative, there are still only a few outputs from experimental research that contribute to this knowledge. The effect of potential drivers on annual cork growth was analyzed using a linear mixed model approach. Two dimensions of drivers were considered: intraspecific competition, assessed by tree level distance-dependent indices; and interspecific competition, assessed by variables characterizing understory management. The present dataset was collected from an experimental trial established on a cork oak stand in Podzolic soil on the Tagus river basin, covering two different cork growth cycles over the period from 2003 to 2015. The adjusted models considered two understory management alternatives: spontaneous shrubs maintenance and forage application. In both models, annual precipitation displayed a positive effect on annual cork growth, as expected. However, no significant effect of intraspecific competition was found. Additionally, there was a positive effect on annual cork growth associated with the spontaneous shrubs growth and a negative effect associated with lupine presence; both effects linked to different cork ring ages' thresholds. The study main contributions are the following: (i) the introduction of the interaction between cork growth cycle stage and understory management practices, only possible with cork sample collections from different cork rotation cycles; (ii) the finding that there was no significant effect of intraspecific competition on cork growth.


The process for the synthesizing oryzalin was improved,such as potassium nitrate replaced by nitric acid to avoid of explosion danger,triphosgene instead of phosphorus oxychloride,ammonia solution replaced by liquid ammonia to decrease waste water.In this procedure,the purity of oryzalin detected by HPLC was above 98%.


With the rapid development of computer vision, the digitization of free-swimming fish has drawn increasing attention. Research on the digitization of fish has many important applications in aquaculture, such as length measurement and species recognition. The aim of digitization of free-swimming fish is acquiring three dimensional point cloud of free-swimming fish and carrying out three-dimension stereo-reconstruction. Calibration and stereo rectification are fulfilled before stereo matching to get intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of cameras and row-aligned image pairs. In order to reduce the effects of non-uniform illumination in the underwater environment, an improved non-local cost aggregation algorithm based on gradient magnitude and phase information is proposed to generate the disparity map in stereo matching step. Then the 3D point cloud of free-swimming fish can be obtained based on triangulation and parallax principle. At last a new way is presented to measure the length of fish by the 3D point cloud of the fish and the error is 5.1% compared with the real length.


X-ray diffraction method was used to characterise the phase composition and investigate the formation mechanism of the (Bi,Pb){sub 2}Sr{sub 2}Ca{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 10} phase from the precursor with (Bi,Pb){sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8} as the main phase. The reaction is found to be a two-dimensional nucleation (random)-growth type, ({minus}(ln(1{minus}F)){sup 1/2}) = kt, where F is the conversional fraction of (Bi,Pb){sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8} and t is the sintering time. The critical current of the tape is quantitatively related to the conversional fraction of (Bi,Pb){sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8} to (Bi,Pb){sub 2}Sr{sub 2}Ca{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 10} phase. In low fraction regime of (Bi,Pb){sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8} the critical current of a tape shows no clear dependence on remaining (Bi,Pb){sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8} phase, other factors such as grain alignment, colony size, contact between colonies, and fine nonsuperconducting particles become important in controlling the J{sub c}. Also, in this regime, the predominant weak links seems to be the colony boundaries rather than (Bi,Pb){sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8} phase.


The paper summarizes the developing trend of Wikipedia which is one of important Internet application using current revision data set. It models the process of mass collaboration in Wikipedia using power distribution, namely Pareto distribution. This model suggests that the majority of edits in Wikipedia is contributed by a small group of people, while most participants in Wikipedia only give minor contributions. Additionally, we use maximum likelihood to formulate an equation to predict future development trend of Wikipedia.


The lift tab/ramp interface in a hard-disk drive is investigated during load/unload. The von Mises stress on the ramp and the lift tab is determined as a function of the ramp profile, the friction coefficient, and the lateral motion of the lift tab. A step function like stress increase was observed, where the slope of the ramp changes discontinuously. A large reduction in stress can be obtained if the slope discontinuity is eliminated. Comparing simulation results with experimental wear results, we observe that maximum wear debris generation occurs at the location of largest maximum von Mises stress.


We consider certain functions meromorphic in the plane that are of bounded type in suitable half planes. Let Z j be a sequence in a half plane not satisfying a Blaschke condition there. We deduce that conditions of being positive semi-definite on matrices whose elements depend on z j and the values that such a function f takes at the z j, determine f uniquely. This can be used to study the properties of f further. In particular, we give a function theoretic derivation for the fact that a certain set of inequalities is equivalent to Riemann's hypothesis. We also comment on iteration theoretic methods for studying such problems.


This article analyzes body punishment, distinguished from that of physical abuse. An analysis on the issue in different countries is made in relation to the application of ways of punishment. The investigation shows that certain societies still(yet) use corporal punishment as one more form(way) to stop troublesome behaviors. This can lead us to thinking that it is not necessary to abandon the thesis that this strategy is rejected at present by all the sectors of the society, but we must be sensitive to the idea that certain professionals and families consider it as one instrument for the alteration of unacceptable behaviors.


Molecular simulations of a liquid crystal confined in slab geometry with homeotropic anchoring have been carried out. The application of an orientational perturbation has been used to calculate the surface extrapolation length λ = K 33/W θ, where W θ is the surface anchoring coefficient and K 33 is the bend elastic constant. Density functional theory in the Onsager approximation provides a reasonable description of the density and orientation profiles for this system, and of the magnitudes of the above quantities.


A review is provided of the research progress of the technology for desulfurization and denitrification of fire-coal flue gas.The advantages and disadvantages of current techniques for the desulfurization and denitrification of fire-coal flue gas are analyzed and compared.It is pointed out that study of the technology for the desulfurization and denitrification of fire-coal flue gas is one of the current hot spots concerning the study of fire-coal flue gas at home and abroad.Among various techniques for desulfurization and denitrification of fire-coal flue gas,the technique for the desulfurization and denitrification of fire-coal flue gas with activated coke is a novel technique with low investment and cost as well as good efficiency,and it may have promising application in engineering.


A novel water-fat separated MRF approach was proposed to minimize the known biases introduced by the B1+, B0 and water and fat partial volume. By incorporating the water-fat separation approach in the framework, the dictionary size could be greatly reduced with the known B0 and FF map. Multiple maps of parameters including B1+, B0, FF and T1 and T2* of water and fat can be acquired within 14s for one slice.


Language as a tool for logical thinking and planning is unavoidable in every developmental effort. Nigeria is among the countries that were not able to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among the reasons given for Nigeria's low performance level was communication barrier. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the government has planned a transition strategy and hopes that it would be people-centred. Hence, she hopes to leave no Nigerian behind. As a multilingual nation, many Nigerians cannot function in English language but rely only on their various indigenous languages. Accommodating them in the SDG plans would require communicating with them in the languages that they understand. This could enhance collaboration and minimise a repeat of the previous failure. Unfortunately, there is no language plan in the government's transition strategy. If development is about helping people to help themselves, then there must be collaboration among the planners of the SDGs and those for whom it is planned. But collaboration is only possible where there is a free flow of information. This paper is an attempt to reposition the indigenous languages at the hearts of all effort to achieve the 2030 agenda in Nigeria.


A strategy for the total synthesis of vinigrol is detailed withtwo key steps - oxidative dearomatization and intramolecular Diels-Aldercycloaddition - providing the CIS-decalincore. A novel and mild means for the formation of ORTHO-quinonemethides is also described.


Eye-tracking has been increasingly utilized in neuromarketing applications to quantitatively investigate consumers' subliminal attention and preferences. Eye-tracking technology in neuromarketing has been developed mainly using camera-based methods; however, camera-based eye-trackers are generally expensive for some customers, hindering widespread use of eye-tracking technology. Electrooculography (EOG)-based eye-tracking could be a promising alternative because it can be implemented at a relatively lower cost even less than 100 USD; however, EOG-based eye-tracking has not yet been employed in neuromarketing applications. In this study, we developed a method to estimate the absolute coordinates of eye gaze from EOG and investigated its reliability over time. The EOG signals were acquired in three separate experimental sessions: calibration, instructed eye-tracking test, and free eye-tracking test (FET) sessions. A linear regression model was constructed using the calibration data to estimate the absolute coordinates on the screen. The reconstructed eye-gaze results were visualized in the form of a heat map to be applied to practical neuromarketing scenarios. The results of the instructed eye-tracker test session revealed that the reliability of the eye-tracking results gradually decreased over time but did not drop drastically for up to 8 s. Moreover, the results of the neuromarketing test session analyzed with 6-s-EOG-data revealed clear gender differences among the heat maps of six advertisement pictures, coinciding with previous camera-based study results. Our results suggest that the proposed EOG-based eye-tracker has great potential to be utilized in practical neuromarketing applications.


Thermodynamic properties of materials above a few hundred KBars can normally be obtained only by dynamic techniques which have the associated difficulty (from the theoretical point of view) that the high pressure states are usually also at quite high temperatures. Thus, it is important to obtain accurate estimates of the thermal contribution to the thermodynamic functions. Within the pair potential model of solids, these thermal contributions may be determined by a self-consistent phonon approximation, but this is generally a very complicated calculation. Numerous approximate methods have thus been developed to estimate the thermal contribution to the thermodynamic functions [1].


The two researchers aims to build intelligence sports test in handball and to develop normative levels to the test and to identify the relationship between the intelligence of sports and psychological fitness. The two researchers have used the descriptive approach to the relevance of the nature of the objectives of thi s research, research sample included Handball female players consists of 62 players, data collection tools in the intelligence test of knowledge in handball and the measure of psychological fitness and found the results to improve social intelligence test is related to improve psychological fitness test and to improve the dynamic intelligence test is related to improve psychological fitness and to improve the intelligence test of language is related to improve psychological fitness, the two researchers recommend applying cognitive intelligence test on Handball players with the variables of their levels and ages and the application of the test on the players to know how to handle any type of intelligence is to deliver information easily and get the desired results with minimal effort and time.


Many design objectives drive airplane development. One main driver is the reduction of aircraft weight, while retaining safety, function and performance. As extensive measurement campaigns have revealed, weight can be saved, as the electrical network exhibits low utilisation of the given network capacities. This is driven by requirements to be met, coincidence effects, and unexpectedly low system power consumptions for systems with complex load dependences. Hence, firstly, this paper will elaborate on the benefits, which can be achieved by an aircraft electrical network sizing on operational power for the commercial loads on large modern civil aircraft as well as on single aisle aircraft. Secondly, the introduction of two decentralised network architectures on single aisle aircraft will be considered and compared to todays centralised architecture.


Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) is a member of the TNF superfamily that has been shown to induce angiogenesis, apoptosis in tumor cells, and NF-κB activation through binding to its receptor, fibroblast growth factor-inducible 14. We have identified TWEAK as an inducer of constitutive NF-κB activation by expression cloning, and we report here sequential regulation by TWEAK of two separate signaling cascades for NF-κB activation, the NF-κB essential modulator-dependent and -independent signaling pathways. Upon TWEAK stimulation, IκBα is rapidly phosphorylated, generating NF-κB DNA-binding complexes containing p50 and RelA in a manner dependent on the canonical IκB kinase complex. Unlike TNF-α, TWEAK stimulation results in prolonged NF-κB activation with a transition of the DNA-binding NF-κB components from RelA- to RelB-containing complexes by 8 h, and the latter remained active in binding at least until 24 h post-stimulation. This long lasting activation is accompanied by the proteasome-mediated processing of NF-κB2/p100, which does not depend on the NF-κB essential modulator but requires IκB kinase 1 and functional NF-κB-inducing kinase activity. Finally, we show that fibroblast growth factor-inducible 14 with a mutation at its TNF receptor-associated factor (TRAF)-binding site cannot activate NF-κB and that TWEAK fails to induce the p100 processing and IκBα phosphorylation in cells deficient for TRAF2 and TRAF5. Our results thus identify TWEAK as a novel physiological regulator of the non-canonical pathway for NF-κB activation.


Abstract We present a study of the morphologies and stellar content of the galaxies in the central ∼ 74"×64" region of the galaxy cluster Abell 2218 (see Fig. 1). The spectroscopic data were obtained with the integral field unit PMAS (Roth et al. 2005) in the PPAK mode (Verheijen et al. 2004; Kelz et al. 2006), at the 3.5 m telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory. The covered wavelength range was 4650–8000 Å, with a spectral resolution FWHM∼ 10Å. These data were combined with with deep HST/ACS F475W, F555W, F625W and F850LP imaging, and additional data from the literature. In Fig. 2 we show the rest-frame B-V vs. MV colour-magnitude diagram for the identified cluster members. The data are segregated according to an objective morphological classification based on the Sérsic index. Contrary to previous results (e.g. Ziegler et al. 2001; Smail et al. 2001) there is a clear indication that the cluster population is not dominated by early-type galaxies, and that there exists an almost parity between early- and late-type objects. In addition, the late-type galaxies spread over a wider range of colours and luminosities with respect to the early-types. This indicates that early-type objects are more massive and have older stellar populations, while late-type galaxies are less massive and exhibit a wider range of stellar population properties. The results agree with the two-steps scenario for the evolution of galaxies in clusters (e.g. Poggianti 2003), which explains the co-existence of a primordial population of early-type galaxies formed at early epochs, with an additional population of late-type galaxies that have been captured by the cluster, infalling, suffering a short enhancement of the star formation that is later quenched by the interaction with the environment, and that afterwards evolved passively, becoming redder and fainter. Finally, galaxy-galaxy interactions and dry merging processes were responsible for the building up of new massive spheroidal galaxies. Full details are given in Sánchez et al. (2007).


This thesis is addressing the authorization problem in healthgrid environments, which is still an obstacle in front of using grid computing for medical applications. Current grid authorization systems depend on the traditional access control approaches, in which users are granted static rights. These approaches were designed for closed systems, i.e. the computing system itself enforces the security policy. Grid computing is characterized as open computing system, which means there exist different authorities and multiple agents participating in the authorization process. Therefore, the adoption of classical access control models in a grid computing environment is not adequate. In this work, access control in grid computing is tackled from a new perspective. The authorization process is handled as a multi-player game and a new authorization model the Grid Usage Control (G-UCON) is developed as a solution outline for a suitable access control model for grid computing environments. G-UCON utilizes the notions of game theory, multi-agent systems, and open systems in the design of a new access control model. These are the minimal requirements for a basis access/usage control model for a grid computing environment. The Alternating-time Temporal Logic is used to write the G-UCON specifications because it is more suitable to capture the specifications of games over open systems. Various examples at the end of this work demonstrate how G-UCON can capture different complex situations which appear in healthgrid environments. Using G-UCON, special authorization requirements in the health applications can be modeled. Examples are: disclosure risk control and maintaining k-anonymity. Currently, there is no tool available which can validate the special grid delegation mechanism. Therefore, a formal validation of G-UCON is left for future work. Nevertheless, it is a common practice to supply new authorization models with examples until a formal validation and/or an implementation appears which normally happens some years later.


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In this study, the effectiveness of Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin (Deuteromycota: Hyphomycetes) isolates on Tetranychus urticae Koch, 1836 (Acari: Tetranychidae) was determined with Petri and pot experiments in laboratory and climate room conditions by applying spore suspension and culture filtrate in Isparta University of Applied Sciences of in 2022. In the Petri experiment, the spore suspensions (1x106, 1x107, and 1x108 spore/ml) and culture filtrates (1X, 5X, 10X) of BIM-001 and BY2 isolates of B. bassiana were sprayed in the form of mist for 10 seconds at a speed of 3 m/s onto leaf discs in Petri which included ten adult individuals. In the pot experiment, the same treatments were conducted with the same application method in the Petri experiment on single-leaf plants in pots. In the Petri and pot experiments, the difference between the mortality rates in the 108 spore/ml dose of BIM-001 and BY2 (64.00±4.52 and 42.00±2.49%, 58.00±2.91 and 41.00±2.77%, respectively) was significant on the 7th observation day. In the pure culture filtrate treatments, the mortality rates in the BIM-001 and BY2 were 73.00±2.13 - 68.00±3.59% and 60.00±3.65 -57.00±5.17% respectively in the Petri and pot experiments. BIM-001 and BY2 culture filtrate in both Petri and pot experiments (1X) applications were not statistically significant. The BIM-001 isolate of B. bassiana was more effective than the BY2 isolate treatment against adult females of T. urticae both in vivo and in vitro. In conclusion, it is thought that the culture filtrate of B. bassiana BIM-001 isolate is considered to have potential for the control of two-spotted spider mites.


Power estimation of behavioural hardware descriptions is a difficult task, as it entails inferring the hardware architecture on which the behavioural specification will be mapped through synthesis before the synthesis is actually performed. To cope with the uncertainties related to handling behavioural descriptions, the concept of statistical estimation is introduced and how a prototype statistical power estimator has been implemented within a high-level design exploration framework (the AspeCts environment) is presented. The experimental results, obtained on a set of C benchmarks, have shown the feasibility of the proposed approach, both in terms of the accuracy of the power estimates and of the reduction of the execution times.


The MOJAVE blazar sample consists of the 133 brightest, most compact radio-loud AGN in the northern sky, and is selected on the basis of VLBA 2 cm correlated flux density exceeding 1.5 Jy (2 Jy for declinations south of 0 degrees) at any epoch between 1994 and 2003. Since 1994 we have been gathering VLBA data on the sample to measure superluminal jet speeds and to better understand the parsec-scale kinematics of AGN jets. We have obtained 1.4 GHz VLA-A configuration data on 57 of these sources to investigate whether the extended luminosity of blazars is correlated with parsec-scale jet speed, and also to determine what other parsec-scale properties are related to extended morphology, such as optical emission line strength and gamma$ray emission. We present images and measurements of the kilo-parsec scale emission from the VLA data, which will be used in subsequent statistical studies of the MOJAVE sample.


Endophytic bacteria are a beneficial bacteria that live in plant tissue. Several studies have shown that certain endophytic bacteria can produce secondary metabolites that have health effects. The andaliman (Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC) have several properties, one of which is as antibacterial against pathogenic bacteria. The most common bacterial infections in humans are caused by commensal bacteria in the body such as Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. This study used a qualitative data collection method with the type of experimental laboratory research to isolate the endophytic bacteria andaliman which had been tested against the pathogenic bacteria Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The initial stage were isolation of endophytic bacteria and observation of colony characteristics, after obtaining isolates with different colony characteristics, a Gram stain test and a antagonist test for pathogenic bacteria were carried out. In this study, 252 colonies grew and there were 85 isolates with different colony characteristics. From all the isolates, there were two isolates that could inhibit the growth of Escherichia coli and seventeen isolates that could inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus.


This research intended to measure wetting front advancements (WFA) under various conditions using a physical model. Wetting front advance, along with its distribution in soils, is one of the important parameters in drip irrigation. It is influenced by many factors, including land slope, emitter discharge and soil texture. The effects of these factors were investigated by constructing a physical model with dimensions of 60 cm in width, 120 cm in height and 160 cm in length. The experiments were conducted using two heterogeneous soils, three land slopes (0, 10 and 20%), three emitter discharges (2, 4 and 8 L/h) and a constant volume of irrigation water (24 L). The results of the heterogeneous soils with three horizontal layers were also compared with those of three homogeneous soils (heavy, medium, and light textures). The results indicate that on sloping lands, the wetted area of the WFA downstream from the emitter was, on average, 20–62% greater than upstream from the emitter. With increases in land slope, the wetted depth under the emitter decreased by 3–18%. Also, when land slope changed from 0–10% and then again from 10–20%, the maximum radius of the wetting front increased, on average, by 32%, 44.8% and 77.5% for discharges of 2, 4 and 8 L/h, respectively.


Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) are gradually replacing DC motors in a wide range of drive applications, high performance control demands are being proposed. This paper investigates various vector control strategies of permanent magnet synchronous motor drives. It also elaborates the concept of its maximum torque control, analyses the relationships between its vector control and maximum torque control under different d and q axes parameters of PMSM, and carries out the operation and realization conditions of its maximum torque control. Some significant theoretical results are obtained.


It is important to know, for bitumens, the range of the existence of the different melting phases and to understand their reversibility in order to control the corresponding mechanical behavior. The thermodynamic behavior of four bitumens has been studied by both calorimetric and by thermobarometric analysis, to determine the range of existence of phases, to observe the dependence of phase transitions on the composition of bitumens, and to give the initial estimates of reversibility for further kinetic studies.


The subject of Lecture IV is attributions of attitude. In it, Davidson extends his theory of indirect quotation, which had appeared in 1968, to propositional attitude ascriptions more generally. He begins by criticizing rival accounts due to Quine, Scheffler, Church, and Frege. His positive proposal turns on the idea that the complementizer clauses embedded in ascriptions of attitude are not semantically a part of the embedding sentence. According to the paratactic account he favors, attributions of attitude involve demonstrative reference to an utterance of the speaker's, which is claimed to stand in some relation to some utterance or attitude of the ascribee.


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The title of this research is Character Analysis of Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen Chbosky's as the author represent the social problem that teenagers might face along their way in adulthood. Charlie, as the main character represents the teenage in real life with all the problems he has, but in the end he can get through all the bad things that happen to him, which spring up writer's curiosity. Therefore, the objective of this research is to figure out the characteristics of Charlie. Theory that helps writer in analyzing the characteristic of Charlie is come from Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs that showing the author's way in presenting the character in a novel. Research method that is used in this scientific research is qualitative method. Conclusion of this research is that the writer figures out that Charlie are curious, crybaby, diligent, emotional, obedient, observance, passive, smart, and thoughtful person.

Key words: Character Analysis, Charlie, Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs' theory of characterization.


By the High Performance Liquid Chromatography,employed by methanol and water as mobile phase,in progress gradient e- lufion,the compound of Ginsenoside_Re and Rg_1,which was abstracted from the stuff through preparative column.So adopted the method of recrystallization to separate the Re and Rg_1,and did many experiments to select the four influence factors.The volume ratio is 20:80;crystalling temperature is 20℃;crystalling time is 5 hours;solid-fiquid ratio is 1:6(g:mL).Under these crystalfing conditions, it was gained the white powder (Re91%),the yield is about 92%,Structure of the white powder was analyzed,compared with the lit- exature in the same condition,the refined white powder is Ginsenoside_Re,and the content is above 91%.


ABSTRACT In this work, based on structural and magnetic phase transition temperatures estimated theoretically from the first principles, the concentration phase diagram for FeAl ( at.%) was plotted. Structural phase transition temperatures for the experimentally observed crystal structures were obtained from the structural optimization. It is shown that for x = 28.125 at.% L1-like phase with slight distortions is energetically favorable. The ground state energy and magnetic moments of FeAl with different structures were calculated within GGA and GGA+U approaches. It is shown that in the case of GGA+U approximation, L1 phase becomes more stable compared with D0. The Curie temperatures were estimated from mean field approximation and Monte Carlo simulations using ab initio calculated exchange coupling constants. Both structural and magnetic phase transition temperatures are found in qualitative agreement with the experiment. Depending on Al concentration, five different sequences of phase transitions are observed in the phase diagram.


Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is used to track the deformation of a cantilever beam at a measurement-point located away from the loading-point. A baseline test is run using the assumption of a linear relationship between the measurement point and the loading point. A second test is run that introduces a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control based on the DIC measurements. This second method showed an improved ability to follow a cyclic command signal, with the X displacement improving from 14.1% to 6.1% error, the Y displacement from 3.8% to 1.25%, and the Z rotation from 3.2% to 2.0%.


This current practice sheet gives a list of a range of materials which can be used as an alternative to natural aggregates in concrete. All of the materials described here have been used experimentally and for under full-scale conditions, the degree of use varying from extremely limited to quite widespread. Relevant properties of the materials are tabulated, and reference is made to the appropriate British standards. Materials discussed are: lightweight aggregates, colliery waste, slate waste, peat, crushed brick and concrete, glass waste, incinerator ash, wood waste, granulated blast furnace slag and pulverized fuel ash. Additional copies of this current practice sheet are obtainable from: Publications Orders, Cement and Concrete Association, Wexham Springs, Slough S13 6 PL, England at a cost of 10p per sheet. /TRRL/


The retina of teleost fish, such as zebrafish (Danio rerio), exhibits remarkable capacity for continuous neurogenesis throughout life – unlike mammalian retina. Postembryonic retinogenesis in zebrafish is mainly contributed by active stem/progenitor cells in ciliary marginal zone (CMZ). Notch signaling has been reported to regulate embryonic retinogenesis and Notch pathway components are expressed in adult zebrafish CMZ. Here I address the functions of Notch signaling during postembryonic retinogenesis in zebrafish. My research revealed that: (1) Notch signaling is activated in the transition zone of CMZ and differentiated retina; (2) CMZ cells do not exhibit Notch activity and do not require Notch signaling for maintenance; and (3) Notch signaling is required and sufficient for proper differentiation of Müller glia, cone photoreceptor and bipolar cells. These studies demonstrate how different levels of Notch activity regulate retinal stem cell behavior and provide insight into how to reactivate mammalian adult retinal stem cells in vivo.


The morphologies and velocity of ionic wind induced by direct-current (DC) corona discharge were experimentally measured. DC voltage was applied to short air gaps of high-voltage electrode–needle electrode and grounding electrode–net electrode to generate coronas, so as to allow the generation of ionic wind induced by corona discharge. The purpose of the study is to optimise the multi-needle-to-net electrode structure to improve the velocity of the ionic wind and keep it in a relatively stable state. For this purpose, the influences of various parameters on the velocity of the ionic wind were explored. The research results showed that the side length of meshes and the distribution mode of needles significantly affected the velocity of the ionic wind. The maximum velocity of the ionic wind, when the side length of meshes was 0.85 mm was 3 and 1.28 times those when the side lengths of the meshes were 2 and 0.425 mm, respectively. This indicated that there was an optimal side length that can maximise the velocity of the ionic wind. Increasing the number of needles and optimising the distribution mode of needles can effectively improve the velocity, that is, the improvement of the number and distribution uniformity of needles was conducive to increase the velocity of the ionic wind. Increasing the voltage amplitude can increase the velocity of the ionic wind, however, it was possible that noise was significant and in this case, the corresponding voltage cannot be considered as the working voltage of the ionic wind generator.


The study of adapting and evolving autonomous agents should be based on a complex systems-theoretic framework which requires both self-organizing and symbolic dimensions. An inclusive framework based on the notions of semiotics and situated action is advanced to build models capable of representing, as well as evolving in their environments. Such undertaking is pursued by discussing the ways in which symbol and self-organization are irreducibly intertwined in evolutionary systems. This way, we re-think the notion of autonomy of evolving systems, and show that evolutionary systems are characterized by a particular type of syntactic autonomy. Developments in emergent computation in cellular automata are discussed as examples of the emergence of syntactic autonomy in computational environments. New results emphasizing this syntactic autonomy in cellular automata are presented.


Hoax information can be created and spread through digital media very easily. This widespread escalation of hoax information has adverse effect on society. So, detection of this hoax information on digital media has become one of emerging topic in today's research. In this paper, various characteristics of hoax information are reviewed as literature survey and also identifies various research gaps and imminent directions for hoax information detection on media platform. Authors also discussed about various data set; machine learning classification algorithms used in hoax information detection.


Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods have superior advantages over conventional manufacturing processes in terms of ability to produce intricate shapes with less time, effort and labor skills. Traditionally, AM methods are based on use of a single material. However, many applications require part production using multiple materials and multiple color grades. In addition to that, AM machines often require users to be attendant at the beginning and at the end of build process for controlling, monitoring and changing build beds. The work presented in this paper illustrates the design and development of a tele-operated multi-material and multi-color 3D printer system based on Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) technology. The work presented also includes the design, mathematical modelling and development of a robotic manipulator that is used in conjunction with the 3D printer to automatically replace the printing plate after part build is finished. The paper also includes illustration of the mechanical structure designs, components, tele-operation technique and electronic control circuity of the developed system. The developed 3D printer system has a building volume of 45×35×35 cm and a resolution up to 50 µm and is capable of printing parts using multiple material and color filaments in a completely autonomous manner both locally and via the Internet and WIFI technology.


In this paper, taking the first Member of the Canglangpu Formation of the Cambrian Terreneuvian in the northern central Sichuan Basin as an example, the diagenesis and its influence on porosity are systemically studied based on the observations and identifications of cores, casts and cathodoluminescence thin sections. The results show that the rock types of the first member of Canglangpu Formation are various, including mixed rocks, carbonate rocks and clastic rocks. The specific lithology is dominated by sand-bearing oolitic dolomite, sandy oolitic dolomite, sparry oolotic dolomite and fine-grained detrital sandstone. At the same time, the Cang 1 Member has experienced five types of diagenetic environments, including seawater, meteoric water, evaporative seawater, shallow burial, and medium-deep burial diagenetic environments. Moreover, the main diagenetic processes under different diagenetic environments include cementation, dissolution, compaction, chemical compaction, dolomitization and structural fractures. According to the analysis, fabric-selective dissolution in meteoric water diagenetic environment, dolomitization in evaporative seawater environment, and non-fabric-selective dissolution, dolomitization and structural fractures in buried diagenetic environment are beneficial to the development of pores. However, cementation, compaction and chemical compaction in medium and deep burial environments, are unfavorable for the development of pores.


Recent decade, ZnO nanostructures including nanorods, nanowires have been investigated for applying in photovoltaic devices, and piezoelectric generators, etc. One-dimensional arrays of ZnO nanostructures had been fabricated by physical and chemical methods. However, the synthesis method is still needed to be improved for real commercial application. Particularly, the ZnO nanostructures for flexible device are becoming much important. In this research, we fabricated well-ordered ZnO nanorods on flexible polyethylene naphtalate (PEN) substrate comparing to other AZO, ITO, quartz substrates by chemical bath deposition (CBD) method In CBD process substrates were immersed in a solution containing 25 mM Zn(NO3)2.6H2O and 12.5 mM hexamethylenetetramine (C6H12N4, HMTA) for 5 hours at 95 ͦ C. It was found that well-ordered ZnO nanorods were fabricated with self-catalysts obtained from as-deposited ZnO film on AZO, ITO, quartz as well as the flexible PEN substrates. The nanorods with length of 1 ̴ 1.5 μm and diameters 60 ̴ 200 nm were obtained, as shown in Fig . 1. The optical transmittance was 60% obtained from that ZnO nanorods on PEN substrate. The other optical and electrical properties will also be reported later.


In the new ultra-light helicopter, just now designed in the Institute of Aviation, a lightweight supercritical tail rotor drive shaft will be used. This paper presents a nonlinear dynamic model of such a shaft for the analysis of its flexural vibrations. The model assumes that the shaft has several deformable supports with elastic and damping elements and is loaded by external forces caused by its local unbalance. The equations of motion have been obtained making use of the finite element method and dividing the shaft into several elements between successive supports. In order to ensure easy crossing through a resonance region, a nonlinear dry friction damper has been applied in the shaft structure. Depending on the parameters of this damper, we can obtain various bending vibrations of the shaft under consideration. There can be regular or chaotic vibrations of the shaft.


In the thesis, the author views that establishing a regular company administrative structure is the key to success of the reform of state-run enterprises and gives a theoretical analysis on the company administrative structure and expounds profoundly the problems existing in Chinese company administrative structure and their reasons. Finally, he offers some counter-measures to solve them.


It is emphasized that now before the russian economy introduction of home designers activity results in manufacture and also formation of certain design culture among russians is actual. for this purpose construction of design educational system carrying out preparation of the specialized pedagogical staff-design teachers is considered to be necessary.


The present thesis work was carried out in order to comply with the previous requirement to choose the Degree in Accounting and Auditing Engineering, Public Accountant, at the National University of Loja. In addition, it was developed with the purpose of knowing and analyzing the economic and financial situation of the company, providing information for decision-making.

For the fulfillment of the objectives a methodology was used that helped to verify the economic and financial situation of the company, which consisted of gathering the information in order to restructure the Financial Statements, apply the vertical, horizontal analysis and the financial indicators, that allowed to determine the liquidity, indebtedness and profitability activity of the years evaluated to establish the situation in which said entity is located.

After carrying out the practical part of the financial analysis, the following conclusions were reached, highlighting that the company has economic solvency to face its obligations with third parties, in the same way, its structure reflects that it is liquid, since it has enough current assets to pay off your short-term debts.


Objective To examine the relation of ankle-brachial index(ABI) and the severity of coronary artery disease(CAD) in the patients with diabetes mellitus(DM).Methods A total 168 patients with diabetes mellitus were enrolled.The patients were divided into two groups according to the result of ABI measurement:group A had ABI value of at least 0.9;group B had ABI of less 0.9.All patients underwent coronary angiography examination and ABI measurement.Results There were noticeable difference in mean lesion numbers(1.5±0.8,2.2±1.0,P0.001) between the two groups.Moreover,group B contained a higher percentage of complex stenoses with B2 or C classification than in group A(60.3% versus 33.9%,P0.001).The sensitivity and specificity for predicting CAD and complex stenosens given ABI of less than 0.9 in the patients with DM were 52.5%,87.2% and 49.2%,90.6% respectively[OR 3.42].Conclusion ABI is a simple,inexpensive,useful noninvasive tool for predicting CAD in the patients with diabetes mellitus;ABI can predict the presence of complex morphology of CAD.


The process of stress −accumulation near earthquake faults during the aseismic period in between two major seismic events in seismically active regions has become a subject of research during the last few decades. A long strike-slip fault in a viscoelastic layer over a viscoelastic half space representing the lithosphere-asthenosphere system has been considered here. Stresses accumulate in the reg ion due to various tectonic processes, such as mantle convection and plate movements etc, which u ltimately leads to movements across the fault. In the present paper, a two-d imensional model of the system is considered and expressions for displacements, stresses and strains in the model have been obtained using suitable mathematical techniques developed for this purpose. A detailed study of these expressions may give some ideas about the nature of stress accumulation in the system, which in turn will be help ful in formu lat ing an effective earthquake prediction programme.


While the country is formulating and implementing the rural revitalisation strategy, China's territorial spatial planning system has been initially established, new opportunities for rural development and construction have emerged, and great changes and challenges have emerged in rural planning. Under the dual influence of the rural revitalization strategy and the construction of the territorial spatial planning system, the need for the preparation of rural planning has also changed. The article takes the planning of Baozi Village in Baihe Town as an example, analyzes the problems through the current situation from the perspective of "multi-regulation", and proposes corresponding solutions to explore some experiences for future practical village planning.


Epidemiological studies have shown that gastric cancer is the second most common cause of cancer related deaths on a worldwide basis. Moreover, the incidence is related to Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. Many animal models with H. pylori-induced gastric inflammation have been developed to confirm the association between H. pylori and gastric cancer. Rodent models were suitable for this study because of their small size and ease of H. pylori infection. Mongolian gerbil model is now only available model that is used for studying the association between H. pylori and gastric cancer because this model shows the development of gastric carcinoma with H. pylori infection alone, as well as with combination of chemical carcinogen, N-methyl-N-nitrosourea. H. pyloriinfected and carcinogen-treated in Mongolian gerbils has proven very useful for study the underlying processes. The infection causes many inflammatory mediators production in the stomach that support the hypothesis of chronic inflammation induced cancer in experimental models. Gastric Cancer: The Experimental Models Sintara K, Thong-Ngam D Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. INTRODUCTION Gastric cancer (also called stomach cancer) can develop in any part of the stomach. With poor prognosis, gastric cancer causes nearly one million deaths worldwide per year. Many risk factors are involved in the development of gastric cancer, but the major one is H. pylori infection. In 1994, the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified H. pylori as a class I carcinogen. Histologically, gastric cancer was divided into two subtypes: intestinaltype and diffuse-type gastric carcinoma(1). Intestinal-type gastric carcinoma is more common than the other. In addition, this subtype shows the progression of gastric cancer caused by H. pylori infection: normal gastric mucosa, H. pylori-induced gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia, and gastric carcinoma(2). Over recent years, a number of animal models have been developed, and the findings provided insights into the pathogenesis of gastric adenocarcinoma. It is important that mechanisms of H. pylori infection underlying the development of gastric cancer could help future cancer prevention. Therefore, the scope of this report is to focus on the epidemiology of gastric cancer and animal models that were developed gastric adenocarcinoma. Epidemiology of gastric cancer The most recent rate of the world-wide incidence of cancer shows that gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancerrelated death worldwide after lung cancer, with over 900,000 new cases diagnosed every year(3-5). In 2000, about 880,000 people were diagnosed with gastric cancer and approximately 650,000 died of the disease(6). By geographic variation throughout the world, gastric cancer incidence rates vary. Nearly two-thirds of stomach cancers occur in developing countries(6). China, Japan, and Korea have the highest gastric cancer rates in the TJPS Vol. 21 No. 1 Mar.-Aug. 2008 34 world, whereas Canada, USA, and UK have much lower rates. In addition, gastric cancer has been found in men more than in women. However, the factors leading to this variability among countries, races, and sex may be the genetic polymorphisms(7). In Thailand, gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers and makes for 1-2 percent of all incident cancer(8). Moreover, from the retrospectively reviewed, 119 patients with gastric cancer were recorded in King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital between January 1994 and December 1998(9). Recently, it is reported that annual incidence rate of gastric cancer in Thailand is 7.1 per 100,000 populations(10). Symptoms and diagnosis of gastric cancer Gastric cancer is often asymptomatic or causes only nonspecific symptoms in its early stages. By the time symptoms occur, the cancer has generally metastasized to other parts of the body. Therefore, gastric cancer remains a disease of poor prognosis and high mortality. However, stomach cancer can cause the following signs and symptoms. Dyspepsia or loss of appetite (especially for meat) may be occurred at early. However, these symptoms may not sufficient for gastric cancer classification. At late stage of disease, the most common symptoms observed were abdominal mass, ascites, upper GI bleeding, and dramatically weight loss. To find the cause of symptoms, stomach tissue seen in gastroscope examination will be biopsied. Then, histological examination was used to determine the presence of cancer cells(9,11). Experimental models for the study of gastric cancer Gastric cancer is an important public health problem. To identify pathological and molecular biochemical mechanisms, various experimental models have been established. Rodent models are useful model of gastric adenocarcinoma. Before the discovery of H. pylori in 1982(12), rats were studied gastric cancer development by carcinogen induction such as benzo[a]pyrene, 3-methylcholanthrene, and 2-acethylaminofluorene(13-15). However, the stomach cancer incidences of these experiments were low. In 1967, Sugimura and Fujimura(16) reported good yields of adenocarcinoma in the glandular stomachs of rats treated with N-methyl-N'-nitro-Nnitrosoguanidine (MNNG). After that MNNG was used for gastric cancer induction in many animal models such as dogs(17). In mouse model of gastric cancer, Tatematsu et al. reported induction of good yields of adenocarcinoma in the glandular stomach of BALB/c(18) and C3H(19) mice treated with N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU). Because of the power of murine transgenic and knockout techniques, the mouse model has become the interested model to explain the pathophysiology of gastric cancer. H. pylori is one of the most important factors for human stomach disorders, including gastric cancer. Many animals such as piglet(20), Beagle dog(21), and Japanese monkey(22) are successful H. pylori infection and used to study the pathologic background of H. pylori induced gastrointestinal diseases. However, none of these models infected with only H. pylori can develop gastric cancer. The first and successful animal model developed intestinal metaplasia and gastric cancer resemble lesions apparent in human was the Mongolian gerbils (MG), in which infected with H. pylori alone(23-25). The gastric cancer incidence was approximately 40% depending on study. In addition, the other factors were modified in the animal models. For example, a high-salt diet enhances the effects of H. pylori infection on stomach carcinogenesis, and these 2 factors act synergistically to promote the development of stomach cancers in the MG model(26). In 2006, Kato et al.(27) showed that gastric cancer incidence increase in a dose-dependent fashion of NaCl administration. It is possible that high salt diet upregulates the amount of surface mucous cell mucin, suitable for H. pylori colonization. Furthermore, H. pylori infection was found to increase the incidence of both MN-and MNNG-induced gastric adenocarcinoma in the MG(28-30). The MG infected with H. pylori and MNUor MNNG-induced gastric cancer has proved very useful for the analysis of stomach carcinogenesis. Therefore, the study of gastric cancer development is mostly used MG treated with the carcinogen in H. pylori-infected stomach. From the following studies, H. pylori infection promoted the MG become more susceptible to develop gastric adenocarcinoma. Shimizu et al.(31) reported that the incidence of gastric adenocarcinoma in MNU-administered MG with H. pylori infection (65%) was significantly higher than in MNU-administered MG that have H. pyGastric Cancer: The Experimental Models Sintara K, Thong-Ngam D 35 lori eradication (20%). Their results suggest that H. pylori eradication may prevent gastric carcinogenesis. In 2002, Cao et al.(32) designed an experiment to evaluate variation in susceptibility to stomach carcinogenesis in relation to age of acquisition of H. pylori infection. They used MG at the age of 4, 18, and 32 weeks for H. pylori inoculation followed by MNU treatment. 52 weeks after H. pylori inoculation, gastric cancer incidences in MG infected with H. pylori at the age of 4, 18, and 32 weeks were 60%, 18.4%, and 10%, respectively. Therefore, early infection of H. pylori significantly increases stomach cancer incidence, as compared to the case with later infection. It would be similar to human that childhood H. pylori infection enhances stomach cancer in adult life(33). Recently, Cao et al.(34) hypothesized that early inoculation and long-term colonization of H. pylori would result in more severe chronic active gastritis, and therefore a greater yield of gastric carcinomas. They used sevenweek-old male MG infected with H. pylori at experimental weeks 0, 12, or 18. At week 70, stomachs were then excised for histological examination 70, 58, or 52 weeks after H. pylori inoculation, respectively. The respective incidences of glandular stomach adenocarcinoma were 65%, 20%, and 23%. The levels of interleukin-1β (IL1β), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) mRNA were also examined by RTPCR technique. The results showed that long-term H. pylori infection increased the expression of inflammatory mediators mRNA in the stomachs. Therefore, long-term H. pylori infection induced severity of gastric inflammation, and chronic inflammation provide the stomach become more sensitive for gastric carcinogenesis.


The 'problem of time' remains an unresolved issue in all known physical descriptions of the Universe. One aspect of this problem is the conspicuous absence of time in the Wheeler-Dewitt equation, which is the analogue of the Schrodinger equation for the Universal wavefunction. Page and Wootters famously addressed this problem by providing a mechanism for effectively introducing time evolution. Their method, which is sometimes called the conditional probability interpretation (CPI), requires the identification of an internal clock system that is meant to keep time for the remainder of the Universe. Most investigations into this idea employ the idealized limit of a non-interacting clock system, the so-called ideal clock. However, by allowing for interactions, we have found the counter-intuitive result that a non-interacting clock is not necessarily the optimal choice, even if it is 'ideal'. In particular, the uncertainty that is associated with the physical measurement of an atomic clock is found to decrease monotonically as the interactions grow stronger. This observation, which is reinforced by a previous study using a semi-classical clock, paves the way to an independent argument that is based on the energy conservation of any isolated system. Our conclusion is that ideal clocks must be prohibited from the CPI, as interactions are necessary for describing time evolution as a strict matter of principle.


EHV transmission system consisting of long span transmission lines and towers is an integrity as a structure,in the process of design,the strength calculation of the conductor and the tower is independent,it is difficult to compute the longitudinal unbalanced tension of the tower.However,the unbalanced tension is one of the important factors impacting the safe running of transmission line,so it has important meaning to accurately compute the longitudinal unbalanced tension caused by span,height difference and uneven load of the transmission line.In this paper,the beam element is used to simulate the transmission tower,and the cable element is used to simulate the transmission line.In this way,the spatial finite element model of the system is established,which is used for structure analyses of the iced transmission system,and the unbalanced tension of the towers is calculated,the maximum compressive stress of the towers are analyzed along with the ice thickness.It is pointed out that great differences of span and angle of height are the main factors which cause unbalanced tension and make tower falling down,however,the tower located at the transmission line with a well-proportioned span and small angle of height difference would still be upright and stable even though the ice load is greater than the design value.The computation results of 500 kV Fusha lineⅠ show the finite element method is very effective.


Latitudinal Variation in Lifetime Survival and Reproduction in a Burying Beetle Clinton Thomas Laidlaw Department of Biology, BYU Master of Science Temperature variation experienced across a latitudinal range is tied to changes in lifespan and life history across multiple taxa. Two patterns of adaptation to latitudinal temperature variation have been documented – counter-gradient (or co-gradient) variation, and local adaptation. To determine how natural selection has shaped life history variation in a burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis, we quantified lifetime patterns of reproduction in two populations that represent the geographic and temperature extremes occupied by the species. Lifetime reproduction was quantified at two temperatures that represented conditions typical for each population. Burying beetles from different extremes of their geographic range show considerable variation in lifetime survival and reproduction at different temperatures. Patterns are generally consistent with the local adaptation hypothesis. However, at the higher temperature both populations have lower and equal numbers of offspring over a lifetime. High temperatures may create a constraint on offspring production because of the increased cost of maintaining the food source against bacterial decomposition. This temperature constraint on reproductive success may partially explain the absence of burying beetles from tropical environments, and may predict reductions in latitudinal range as global climate change proceeds.


The current paper presents a novel and unique scheme for biomedical image watermarking in wavelet domain by hiding multiple copies of the same data in the cover image using bit replacement in the horizontal (HL) and vertical (LH) resolution approximation image components. The proposed scheme uses an approach for recovering the hidden information from the damaged copies due to unauthorized alteration of the data by applying an algorithm to find the closest twin of the embedded information by bit majority algorithm. Experimental results of the proposed watermarking technique show much enhancement in the visual and statistical invisibility of hidden information after data recovery that supports the improvement in performance.


go far beyond the data expressible within standard syntactic and semantic theories. We also show that such phenomena cannot be handled without radically


John D. Bernard's project has larger significance than his subject, contemplative developments in Spenser ian pastoral, may at first suggest. He positions his inquiry in relation to trends in New Historicist criticism so as to expose some reductive tendencies of its practitioners. Not that Bernard opposes New Historicism per se. His critique depends theoretically on citing the recent work of Louis Adrian Montrose on the conditional latitude of the Elizabethan subject against the relative cultural determinisms of earlier Montrose and Stephen Greenblatt. Bernard thus joins the growing reaction against American New Historicist representations of power as a monolithic dominance that recuperates all gestures of difference and dissent. In this scenario, Renaissance pastoral has been reified as 'the pastoral of power,' reducing the literary poet-shephard to, in Bernard's phrase, a 'literal sheep.' He argues that a literary career 'amounted to more than a well-dissembled exercise in the pursuit of reflected power/ though that scarcely seems anticipated by some of the less subtle New Historicists. Despite their disdain of the 'old' historicism, certain failings of the putatively senescent forebear sometimes reappear in the new critical mode. Whereas literature had too often been set over against a simplistically conceived cultural 'background,' it can now appear in another Procrustean form delimited by the 'context' of hegemonic power. New Historicists tend to deride Tillyard's limited notions in The Elizabethan World Picture, without acknowledging that Foucault, in many ways patron of their enterprise, defines the dominant ideology of the period in just as absolute terms. In describing the Renaissance Episteme, Foucault ignores marginal alternatives such as Epicurean atomism. Bernard contributes to current historicist debate in showing how strategically important the contemplative aspect of Renaissance pastoral could be for its treatment of authority and power relations_ We have long known that the contemplative life, in a broad sense, was a main resource of pastoral thematics. Bernard argues that it provided some ethical and spiritual ground for the poet's


This fifth quarterly report covers the period of October through December of 1996. Results are presented of pyrite and HAP precursor removal from Kentucky No. 9 coal in shake flasks and from Indiana No. 5 coal in columns. With Kentucky coal, rates of pyrite oxidation were about 6% per day, and significant As, Co, Cd, Mn, and Ni were removed from the coal. These same five HAP precursors also were significantly removed from Indiana No. 5 coal. Additionally, test results are presented of pyrite and HAP precursor removal from Indiana No. 5 and Pittsburgh No. 8 coal using high initial concentrations of ferric ions. These tests showed faster depyritization of coal than in previous tests done with low initial ferric ion concentrations. In addition, faster and more extensive removal of Cd, Co, Mn, and Ni from Indiana No. 5 coal occurred under high ferric conditions. High solution ferric ion concentration are expected in any biodepyritization process due to progressive biooxidation of pyrite to ferric sulfate. Ferric ions are probably the primary oxidant of pyrite and many of the HAP precursors in coal. Analysis of HAP precursors in Stockton Coal, used by PETC in HAP precursor combustion-mass balance test, was donemore » and compared to PETC analytical data. The INEL slurry column reactor was operated in several shake down runs to prepare for complete HAP precursor removal-mass balance tests. Good separation of coal from ash-forming minerals was observed in these tests.« less


With the recuperation of the national railroad system in mind, a study of the pathological phenomena that occur in metallic railroad bridges was performed. These phenomena, such as: corrosion, fatigue cracks, loose connections and deformation and/or excessive displacement of the structural elements, are the principal factors responsible for bridge intervention and interdiction. This is a worldwide problem and involves high maintenance and recuperation costs for the damaged structural elements, especially when there is no periodical prevention. In various countries, research is being performed, where methods and procedures for the inspection and evaluation of old bridges are being proposed and applied. In Brazil, however, research has fallen behind and very little has been published on this subject. It was the objective of this study to register all the metallic railroad bridges found in the study area. These were cataloged according to the pathologies found in their structures. Also, an inspection method for metallic railroad bridges was elaborated, based on the methods used for railroad bridges built with reinforced concrete. Finally, a numerical analysis was performed for the bridges of this study. This way, it was possible to evaluate the structural integrity of each and the efficiency of the proposed structural reinforcement. For this to be feasible, in situ data was collected by means of performing a visual inspection, taking physical measurements and registering situations with photographs. Samples of the structural elements were also taken for chemical composition determination, mechanical strain resistance test performance, metalgraphic and corrosion analyses.


we found a tumor attached to the ileum and sacrum and tightly fixed within the pelvis. Preoperative nervous symptoms suggested that it had developed from the obturator nerve. Pathological tissue findings showed mixed Antoni A and B and immunostaining was positive for s - 100 protein, yielding a diagnosis of neurilemmoma. Although lower left leg numbness remained, the postoperative course was favorable and no recurrence ob-served in the 8 months postoperatively.


s: Study of Electronic Pen Commands for Interactive-Predictive Machine Translation Vicent Alabau (firstname.lastname@example.com) Francisco Casacuberta (email@example.com) Institut Tecnològic d'Informatica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 València, Spain Typically, the post-editing of a machine translation (MT) output consists in performing a series of editing operations (ie., replace, delete, insert or move pieces of text) in a specific text editor using the keyboard and occasionally the mouse. This approach has been proved to be efficient by the translation industry to the point that [1] proposes post-editing guidelines for translation agencies. However, the user needs to be in front of a desktop computer which imposes some restrictions regarding where and how the work is to be done. Laptop computers can also be used, although arguably performance could be diminished because of the use of uncomfortable laptop keyboards and track pads. In this work, we envision an alternative scenario in which the user can use a touch screen or an electronic pen (e-pen) to perform post-editing tasks. I Although e-pen interaction may sound impractical for texts that need a large amount of post-editing, there is a number of circumstances where it can be more comfortable. First, it can be well suited for post-editing sentences with few errors, as it is the case of sentences with high fuzzy matches, or the revision of human post-edited sentences. Second, it would allow to perform such tasks while commuting, traveling or sitting comfortably on the couch in the living room. There is already a 'de facto' standard for gestures for proof reading (cf. Figure 1) from which we have extracted the most promising gestures: substitutions, deletions, insertions and, transpositions. Furthermore, we have added a shift gesture to move phrases to specific places in the text (i.e., the user circles the phrase and draws an arrow to the final destination). Then, we have studied two e pen post-editing approaches. In the first one, we consider substitutions, deletions, insertions and, shifts. The number of these operations to obtain a reference can be computed with the translation error rate (TER) [2]. In the second approach, we assume that the user is working with an interactivepredictive MT system (IMT) [3]. In IMT, the user and the MT system collaborate to produce a high-quality output. The user locates the first error from left-to-right and amends it. Then, leveraging the recently validated text, the system reformulates (predicts) the continuation of the translation aiming to improve the previous hypothesis. In this case, we have also considered transpositions. To know what gestures could be more useful, we have conducted an experiment on the Xerox corpus [4]. The Xerox corpus consists of a collection of technical manuals. It consists of 56k sentences of training and a development and test sets of 1.1k sentences. Test perplexities for Spanish and English are 35 and 51, respectively. The summary of the edit rate results is displayed in Table 1. The edit rate is the number of edit operations needed to obtain the reference normalized by the number of words. We can see that the IMT system requires less interactions, especially for es en. Next, the number of times a particular edit operation has been applied is shown. We expect the gestures for deletion, insertion, shifting and transposition to be easy to tell apart for a machine learning algorithm. However, this will be the subject of future work. In addition, substitutions or insertions require the user to write the correct word, which can be done with a virtual keyboard or by handwriting [5]. The perplexities for these words is 336 for English and 242 for Spanish, whereas the errors rates for handwriting recognition are 7.4 for English and 8.9 for Spanish. References [1] TAUS in partnership with CNGL. Post-editing guidelines, 2011. [2] Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz, Linnea Micciulla, and John Makhoul. A study of translation edit rate with targeted human annotation. In In Proceedings of Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, pages 223–231, 2006. [3] Sergio Barrachina, Oliver Bender, Francisco Casacuberta, Jorge Civera, Elsa Cubel, Shahram Khadivi, Antonio L. Lagarda, Hermann Ney, Jesús Tomás, and Enrique Vidal. Statistical approaches to computer-assisted translation. Computational Linguistics, 35(1):3–28, 2009. [4] SchulmbergerSema S.A., Instituto Técnico de Informática, R.W.T.H. Aachen – Lehrstuhl für Informatik VI, R.A.L.I. Laboratory – University of Montreal, Celer Soluciones, Société Gamma, and Xerox Research Centre Europe. X.R.C.: TT2. TransType2 – Computer assisted translation. Project technical annex, 2001. [5] Vicent Alabau, Alberto Sanchis, and Francisco Casacuberta. Improving online handwritten recognition using translation models in multimodal interactive machine translation. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 389–394. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011. The CRITT database of TPR data Laura Winther Balling & Michael Carl Copenhagen Business School We introduce the CRITT database of translation process data which we are currently building as a publicly available database for translation process research (TPR). The database contains data from experiments conducted over the last five years at the CRITT centre at Copenhagen Business School and other places, and is used for Translation Process Research. The data is stored in a consistent format and includes both process and product data. The process data are data about keystrokes obtained with Translog or other process data collection devices as well as (where available) eye-tracking data. The product data include tokenized and aligned versions of the source and target texts and their annotations in the Treex format. Additionally, we include a whole range of characteristics of the texts, languages, translation settings, and translators, which may be used as predictors in large-scale statistical investigations of the translation process. The data has the potential to give us tremendous insight into the similarities and differences of translators' performance, within and between different languages and texts. In addition, a main objective is to be able to investigate different translation settings, comparing from-scratch translation with post-editing (where the source text is available) and editing (where the source text


The aim of this paper was to examine the influence of the electrostatic field
 on seeds of soybean (Glycine max L), vetch (Vicia spp. L.), pea (Pisum
 sativum L.), grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum
 L.) which were selected at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in
 Novi Sad. The DC voltage of 9V was used. The durations of seed treatment
 were 0 (control), 1, 2 and 3 minutes. The trial was set up as a randomized
 block design with four replications. 4x100 seeds of each variant and control
 (untreated seed) were treated. After treatment, seed quality was examined
 using a germination test (optimal temperature) and a cold test (low
 temperature). The results of the study showed that the effect of the
 electrostatic field on seed quality depended on the plant species, the time
 of seed treatment and the temperature conditions in which the seed
 germinated after treatment. The increase in germination energy ranged up to
 18.18% in vetch, and a decrease of up to 12% was observed in chickpea. The
 application of the electrostatic field had a significantly greater impact on
 seeds that were exposed to low temperatures in the germination process after
 treatment. The increase in seed germination ranged up to 82.35% in
 chickpeas, and the decrease amounted to 92.68% in peas. In addition, the
 obtained results indicate that it is not possible to talk about the
 universal application of a certain duration of seed treatment.