The present invention relates to a human body communication system and method using a limited passband. The present invention provides a transmitter in a human body communication system, using the scrambled data data information including user identification information (ID), an orthogonal code generated according to the user identification information (ID), the body and symbol mapping means for symbolizing the transmission frame generating means for human body communications for generating a communication transmission frame, a transmission frame for human body communications said generated by a predetermined modulation scheme is outputted from the symbol mapping unit that the diffusion means for diffusing the symbols to data spread in the spreading means, a waveform generating means for generating a baseband signal whose band is limited to a predetermined range, the baseband signal, the human body intermediate for but modulating the passband signal limited to a frequency range that can minimize the effects of interference while maintaining the characteristics of the waveguide A frequency transmission means comprises.


Nitrate could not induce NR activity for the first 20 h during the early phase of wheat embryo germination, in spite of considerable accumulation of nitrate inside the tissue. Nitrate, however, induced NR without a lag phase in seeds germinated in water for 24, 32 and 48 h. NiR induction by NO- 3 was found to be independent of NR induction, since NiR activity was observed during the lag phase of NR synthesis and in the presence of tungstate-an inhibitor of NR synthesis. Studies with inhibitors of transcription and translation suggest that nitrate acts at the translation level for the induction of NiR during early germination of wheat embryos.


Operation variables involved in the management of given irrigation systems are the irrigation time and the inlet head, when sprinkling or drip methods are applied, or the time of cutoff and the size of flow, for surface methods. The effects of those variables on irrigation performance are evaluated. Concepts receiving some attention are coefficients evaluating field irrigation efficiency, in order not to waste too much water, and water deficit, in order to grow crops adequately. Irrigation criteria have been developed in order to select operation variables which may optimize irrigation performance. Diagrams are presented which can help managing irrigation systems.


Marriage is a sacred institution that must be well prepared for. Failure to plan before entering the union is planning to fail after entering the union. Every wedlock is bound either succeed of fail depending on the attitudes and inputs of the spouses involved. Marriage failure is a common feature in the Nigerian society and worldwide. Using Benin City, as the central focus, Copies of questionnaire were used to elicit data from a sample comprising 60 married respondents in the metropolis for the purpose of analysis and arriving at logical conclusions. From the research some factors associated with marriage failure are infidelity, witchcraft, unfriendliness, keeping secrets, poverty and in-laws' intrusion, repeated quarrellings, unemployment, barrenness, spouse beating, religious ethnic differences and sickness. The manner in which partners in a union handle these critical issue signals matrimonial success or failure on the interim of eventually. The way forward cannot be detached from the role of the stakeholders; parents, in-laws, the government for a better counselling arrangement and most importantly the married partners themselves who must put up necessary adjustment to prevent marital failure and to cure matrimonial failure if it has already occurred in wedlock.


This article analyzes sociodemographic processes in rural districts of Russia's Near North, primarily Kostroma oblast, which is representative of the region. Attention is focused on analyzing the mechanisms and assessing the scale of depopulation processes, in which high mortality among the working-age population, migration of the young and middle-aged to cities, and an imbalance in the age and sex composition—a predominantly elderly population and a small proportion of children—all prove to be contributing factors. The authors identify significant differences in demographic indicators across administrative units in Kostroma oblast and emphasize the importance of sociodemographic studies at the primary (municipal and more local) level.


The expansive territories of our country have caused the inability to measure the extent of Uyghur culture. The Uyghurs are known to have produced plastic arts as well as the advances in culture, arts and science, and geographic researches. The Uygurian style of painting and arts is divided into the following categories: Kandihar, Knights with Long Swords, Ancient Turks, and Turkish Islam style. The Uyghurs have also influences on print, literature, economics, and writing. Though their borders cannot be measured, the influence of the Uyghurs still retains its importance.


Recent explosive growth in nanophotonics, ignited by the rapidly developing nanotechnologies, has demonstrated that light exhibits extraordinary light – matter interactions with subwavelength-scale structures. Such exotic light behaviors not only manifest the importance of searching for unprecedented optics but also suggest the possibility of real-world applications in the visible range. Indeed, recent progress in nanophotonics has revealed that nanophotonic-based devices and applications can be powerful candidates for replacing the conventional bulky optical components in a compact manner. The International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, and Plasmonics (META) is an annual conference for nanophotonics research. It especially covers a variety of research in metamaterials, photonic crystals, plasmonics, and nanophotonic devices and applications. The latest conference, META ' 21, was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic (July 20 – 23, 2021), where the latest developments in nanophotonics, metamaterials, and related topics were livestreamed across the world. This special issue " The latest trends in nanophotonics " introduces a collection of invited and selected research and review articles from the conference.


El sagaz Estacio, marido examinado; La sabia Flor, malsabidilla; and El cortesano descortés. Salas issued these works in 1620–21, but probably wrote them between 1613 and 1619. Examining the three in series, García Santo-Tomás finds a steadily increasing disenchantment toward marriage, surmising that Salas may himself have led an essentially celibate life. Here again, critical engagement with Salas's oeuvre requires coming to terms with the exclusionary impulses that drove his satires. Responding to this book's call to restore Salas to the literary canon will require scholars address the misogyny and hostility to nonwhites that are leitmotivs in the madrileño's corpus. As García Santo-Tomás notes at the outset, the recent cases of the restoration of neglected writers to the center of literary studies have been María de Zayas and Ana Caro, whose attraction to scholars and publishers has, in significant measure, reflected the desire to recapture women's voices that had long been silenced. Thinking in optimistic terms, the misogyny and racial anxieties that recur in Salas could spark fresh scrutiny about how a seemingly rigid adherence to homosocial, elite bonds may indicate other impulses at work beneath the surface. This book—rooted in Spanish traditions of philology yet so open to new theoretical approaches that have driven literary studies in North America—does an admirable job of charting the terrain for new studies of this important prose stylist. One hopes García Santo-Tomás or others inspired by this book will follow with some specific case studies that delve into the issues that arise in Salas's vexed reflections on early modernity.


MPLS VPN over multipoint GRE supports the flexibility that point-to-multi point MPLS VPN over IP technique offers, while clarifying network operations to a great extent. This feature simplifies management, configuration and reduce expenses for having best quality of service of any service provider. As mGRE is a point-to-multipoint model, fully meshed GRE tunnels are not required to interconnect MPLS VPN provider edge devices and thus, MPLS VPN over mGRE solves the time consuming complex configurations of service providers for connecting hundreds of sites which are spread over different locations, requiring a full-mesh of connectivity and the IGP and LDP needed to run over them. In this paper, we have implemented the idea over a service provider's core network using Graphical Network Simulator (GNS3). When the MPLS VPN over mGRE feature is enabled, it allows one to provision the L3 VPN services without using Label-Switched Path (LSP), Carrier Supporting Carrier (CsC), or a Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). MPLS VPN over mGRE feature uses IPv4-based mGRE tunnels to encapsulate VPNv4/v6 labeled packets between customer edge devices, over the IP transport. In the new era of service provider's network, this design will be the solution many complex situations and open a new door to meet up customer's increasing in a scalable way.


From the cultural perspective,in-depth analysis of the effects of culture on tourist destination were conducted.The existing problems in tourism development in Luanchuan were found out.Through the dynamic analysis of county tourism culture in Luanchuan County,the model for tourism development in Luanchuan was established,combining with the stage characteristics of tourism development in Luanchuan.


To verify the condensation of higher-order harmonics of the soft mode in incommensurate phase, group-theoretical consideration and detailed structure analysis have been made of the incommensurate phase of thiourea. The group-theoretical consideration shows that extinction rules observed by neutron diffraction imply condensation of even-order harmonics. An analysis based on a four-dimensional space group also confirms the condensation of the second-order harmonics.


Shoreline and in-land sites are evaluated with respect to their ability to estimate wet annual deposition of sulfur and nitrogen to the Great Lakes over the years 1984-1986. It is seen that estimates to the lakes are within 10% whereas estimates to the basins are within 20%. The effect of computational methodology on the estimates is evaluated for 1986 data. It is seen that, with the exception of Lake Huron, estimates based on deposition are within 10% irrespective of the methodology whereas estimates based on concentration are within 13%.


It is well known that German utterance-initial lenis stops are voiceless but that German intervocalic (or intersonorant) lenis stops are sometimes produced with voicing. This variable voicing can be understood as passive voicing, voicing that results because of the voiced context, rather than from active voicing gestures by speakers. Thus, speakers are not actively aiming to voice intervocalic stops, just as they are not actively aiming to voice utterance-initial stops (Jessen & Ringen 2002, Jessen 2004). If this is correct, the variable voicing that occurs in aspirating languages should be different from the voicing that occurs in true voice languages (such as Russian), in which speakers are actively aiming to voice both initial and intervocalic lenis stops. Since there is little data on the relative amount of intervocalic voicing in true voice languages, however, it has been difficult to evaluate this prediction. The purpose of this paper is to compare data on the voicing of intervocalic stops in German and English with data on the voicing of intervocalic stops in true voice languages. We find that the differences are substantial, supporting the claim that aspirating languages are not like true voice languages, in which the feature of contrast is [voice].


This paper presents an iterative estimation procedure that estimates and corrects for serial correlation of the disturbances in short panels. Controlling for error autocorrelation is a prerequisite for consistent estimation in mod- els with lagged dependent variables. In addition it allows to discern between dierent behavioural mechanisms underlying state persistence. The basic phi- losophy of iterative estimation is to assume some information on the basis of which the parameters of the postulated structural model are easily estimated. These estimates subsequently allow to update the assumed information and the complete cycle is repeated until convergence. The unobserved or latent variables considered here are the residuals from previous periods. While the main result is valid for models that allow for the explicit cal- culation of Cox and Snell's (1968) generally dened residuals, which in turn are allowed to exhibit a very general temporal dependence structure, attention is subsequently restricted to AR correlated disturbances, since an MA error process would require strong assumptions on the initial values for consistency when N ! 1, with T xed. The method is nally applied to short panel data models with xed eects and lagged dependent variables as well.


EVolutionary change can result from a variety of processes, including natural selection, gene flow, random genetic drift, and mutation. The potential importance ofthese processes became clear with the development of mathematical population genetics beginning in the early 19005 (for a historical account, see Provine 1971). Examples demonstrating the effectiveness of these processes in promoting evolutionary change ha vc since accumulated. However, such examples often emphasize a single pro(;ess, most frequently natural selection (Endler 1986 l; only in a few examples of microevolutionary change afe the simultaneous effects of multiple processes well understood (e.g., NlcNeilly 1968, Riechert 1993, Rass and Keller 1995). 1vlode of inheritance of a trait (number ofloci, degree of dominance, and epistatic and pleiotropic effects) and population history (changes in distribution and abundance) can also influence evolutionary change, but again, only in a few examples of microevolutionary change are the effects of mode of inheritance and population historv \vell understood. The Lake Erie w~ter snake N erodia sipedon insularum is an example of such a rare case: Calor pattern variation in


This paper gives the design of optimized semicircular 2 way equal power divider particularly for GNSS applications. The designed power divider is derived from the basic Wilkinson configuration using the quarter wave Transformers with the novel optimized geometry. The 2 way equal power divider is implemented at a center frequency of 1175 MHz- L5 Band of Global Navigation Satellite System. The power division results shows a efficient Insertion Loss (S21 & S31) values as −3.016dB, −3.018 at ports 2 and 3 respectively. The Return Loss S11 at all three ports is more than −30dB. The significant Isolation between the ports 2 and 3 is −30dB. The results are specifically confined to the applications of Satellite communication.


Data of Large White (LW), Landrace (LD) and Duroc (DU) swine were used to estimate the genetic trends for adjusted weight at 70-days old (AW70) in kg, average daily gain (ADG) in g and backfat thickness (BT) in cm. The genetic trends were estimated by regression of the averages of trait genetic values in function of the animal birth year. The estimates of the genetic trend for AW70 (LW = -0.22; LD = -0.24; DU = -0.57) were negative, possibly due to a greater emphasis given in the selection process for ADG and BT and to the correlations between these traits. The estimates of the genetic trend for ADG (LW = 14.11; LD = 9.81; DU = 2.75) and BT (LW = -0.07; LD = -0.05; DU = -0.04) are in accordance with the objectives of the genetic program and with the existing correlation between these traits as well.


The dual-material gate and asymmetrical halo structure is used in surrounding gate MOSFET to improve the performance. By treating the device as three surrounding-gate MOSFETs connecting in series and maintaining current continuity, a comprehensive drain current model is developed for it. It is concluded that the device also exhibits increased current drivability and improved hot carrier reliability. The derived analytical model is verified with numerical simulation.


By using of fixed point index theory,we investigate the existence of positive solutions for a sigular boundary value systems with p-Laplacian.An example is given to show the applications of our result.


Part of the state-owned Economy's withdrawal should get a definite limit,but can't be limited absolutely. All of the state sectors of the economy can't withdrow from the competitive trades and just engaged in the key ones which are connected with national plans and the people's life. All of them can't withdrow from traditional industry and just in new high technology ones,and not from middle and small enterprises, just in charge of large and the most large ones.


The hypnotic state is an altered state of consciousness intermediate between alertness and sleep, it is caused by suggestions, physical or mechanical action, or hypnotic drugs. The so hypnosis is neither sleep nor relaxation is a state of altered consciousness in which the patient remains conscious, hears and understands everything. In fact the hypnotic state is a natural state that occurs naturally in a subject focused elsewhere, the hypnotherapist acts as a protective guide during a hypnosis session, its role is to help the person concerned to enter and out calmly of this universe that belongs to it.


Since my last report in January 2007, I have had good news and bad news. The good news is that I have secured ethics approval for my study. The bad news is that I must apply for local research and development approval before I can go ahead.


An infinite projected entangled-pair state (iPEPS) is a powerful variational tensor network ansatz for two-dimensional ground states in the thermodynamic limit, and can be seen as a natural generalization of a matrix-product state to two dimensions. One of the main challenges in iPEPS simulations is the optimization of the tensors, i.e., finding the optimal variational parameters, in order to have the best representation of the ground state of a given Hamiltonian. The author presents a variational optimization scheme, in which the energy is minimized in an iterative way by sweeping over all the tensors in the ansatz, in a similar spirit as done in the density-matrix renormalization group method. Benchmark results for challenging problems are presented that show that the variational scheme yields considerably more accurate results than the previously best imaginary-time evolution algorithm, with a similar computational cost and with a faster convergence towards the ground state.


Research on teacher attitudes toward language and cultural differences has revealed that teachers form negative stereotypes of students with non-standard dialects (Munstermann, 1989). They consider dialect differences as deficiency in language learning, or sloppy pronunciation. Teacher's attitude toward the students is important in that it creates the classroom atmosphere and affects the way language is taught to the students. The immediate goal of the present study is to investigate EFL teachers' attitude toward dialect differences in Iran. It further investigates the roles that the variables like teachers' gender, teachers' years of teaching experience, school location and the students' ethnic background play in forming the teachers' attitude toward dialect variations. To this end, forty Iranian EFL teachers were randomly selected from nine different public high schools. To collect data, modified version of Hoover et al. (1996) Questionnaire was administered. The data were analyzed using simple frequency and percentages. The findings revealed that %71 of the teachers were sensitive toward varieties in dialect and considered them as forms of language and only %14 viewed them as language learning deficiency. The study has some implications for language teaching and material development.


To the Editor: —In the foreign letter from London (The Journal, February 14, p. 527), under the caption "Sir James Mackenzie," is found the following: "With the help of a local watchmaker, he devised a new instrument, the polygraph, which in his hands revolutionized our knowledge of cardiac disease, by enabling a complete record to be made for the first time of the action of the heart." It is not my wish in any way to detract from any of the accomplishments of this great cardiologist, but only to keep the records clear and give credit where credit is due. The first polygraph was designed by E. J. Marey; in fact he coined the word polygraph. The results of the experiments on the graphic determination of the pulse and heartbeat by Marey and Chauveau were first published in an article, "Physiologie medicale de la circulation du sang," Paris, 1863. Marey


There has been a notable surge in the number of studies exploring different aspects of the intersection between Islam/Muslims and education in western universities and in the Muslim world. Researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds are increasingly interested in examining educational issues within the context of historical and contemporary Muslim majority and minority societies. However, there is an ongoing, and often confused, debate within western academia over how best to frame the research on these multi-layered, intersecting themes around education, Islam and Muslims. An equally daunting challenge is how to classify and assess the plethora of literature on these themes produced by researchers working within diverse disciplines and academic units/departments spread across the Social Sciences and Humanities. Most of this literature appears to be produced in conventional Islamic Studies centres which are often located in Middle/Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies and occasionally Theology departments or in the few remaining Orientalist institutes. Some newly-established academic outlets offer a variation of Islamic Studies by focusing, for example, on the study of British Islam/Muslims or European Islam. They mostly adopt an ethnographically-informed sociological, political approach to analyse the presence of 'Islam and Muslims' within secular public space including issues around migration, race relations, social integration, religious radicalisation and education policy.


This paper addresses the problem of local navigation for an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) in a structured environment that contains static and dynamic obstacles. Information about the environment is obtained via a CCD camera. The problem is formulated as a dynamic feedback control problem in which speed and steering decisions are made on the fly while the AGV is moving. A decision element (DE) that uses local information is proposed. The DE guides the vehicle in the environment by producing appropriate navigation decisions. Dynamic models of a three-wheeled vehicle for driving and steering mechanisms are derived. The interaction between them is performed via the local feedback DE. A controller, based on fuzzy logic, is designed to drive the vehicle safely in an intelligent and human-like manner. The effectiveness of the navigation and control strategies in driving the AGV is illustrated and evaluated.


Introduces the equipment in the system of ground antenna, the position of ground antenna about how to receive from satellite, How to adjust the antenna, How to receive the program of satellite and some problems.


This paper will show how, in the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the laboratory hours could be continued, without the physical presence of the students in the classrooms. The present paper deals with an electricity market software package developed for educational purposes. The discussion will be carried out for Electricity Market applications, but the principles have been applied for other disciplines, such as Energy Optimization Techniques. The central element of this approach is represented by the provision to the students for the remote work of packages of specialized software tools created for their training.


Vehicle compatibility combines aspects of both self and partner protection. Self protection involves a vehicle's compartment strength and occupant protection systems. Partner protection involves vehicle design attributes that work towards providing occupant crash protection of a vehicle's collision partner. Research has suggested that good engagement of the front structures and high compartment strength could be effective components for improving compatibility between passenger cars and other vehicles. Studies have shown, however, that incompatible force distributions and greater relative front end stiffness are prevalent in the fleet. To research this issue, the Progressive Deformable Barrier (PDB) was evaluated for its ability to assess the compatibility between the front end force of vehicles equipped with and without compatibility countermeasures. The paper investigates self protection and partner protection in the offset frontal crash test configuration using the data produced by a joint research program in France and the USA. The program was initiated to investigate whether barrier deformation using the PDB, intrusion, and dummy injury measures could differentiate compatibility performances between vehicles with and without advanced frontal structures designed specifically to address vehicle compatibility. The full text of this paper may be found at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv21/09-0329.pdf For the covering abstract see ITRD E145407.


The purpose of this research was to ascertain the types of books read by Head Start families to their children, conditions for reading aloud at home, perceived benefits of reading aloud, and children's responses to books. Data were collected from parent interviews and reading logs. Participants included 14 children and families from four Head Start classrooms located in two states. Researchers conducted content analysis and frequency counts of the data. Researchers used qualitative research methods to explore the ways books were used at home and children's responses to reading aloud. Systematic review of both parent reading logs and parent interviews led to common patterns and frequencies of responses. Findings indicate that Head Start families read to their children mostly in the bedroom at night. Mothers were the primary readers, sharing mainly books that were not challenging in terms of language and concepts. Children responded to the books by relating them to their own experiences, noticing details in pictures, asking questions, labeling, reading emergently, and enacting stories. Recommendations include encouraging families to read many times during the day, supporting a variety of responses, and accessing high-quality children's literature.


CELL BIOLOGY Correction for "Phosphatases control PKA-dependent functional microdomains at the outer mitochondrial membrane," by Alex Burdyga, Nicoletta C. Surdo, Stefania Monterisi, Giulietta Di Benedetto, Francesca Grisan, Elisa Penna, Luca Pellegrini, Mario Bortolozzi, Pawel Swietach, Tullio Pozzan, and Konstantinos Lefkimmiatis, which was first published June 25, 2018; 10.1073/ pnas.1806318115 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115:E6497–E6506). The authors note that Manuela Zaccolo should be added to the author list between Luca Pellegrini and Mario Bortolozzi. Manuela Zaccolo should be credited with contributing new reagents/analytic tools. The corrected author line, affiliation line, and author contributions appear below; they have been corrected in the online version. The authors also note that the following statement should be added to the Acknowledgments: "Work done in the M.Z. laboratory was supported by the British Heart Foundation (RG/12/3/ 29423 and PG/15/5/31110)."


The utility model belongs to a household appliance in the daily life, in particular to a digital high-quality energy-saving drinking water machine controlled by a single-chip microcomputer. The utility model is mainly composed of a vacuum insulating bottle, a controlling system circuit, a solenoid valve, a thermocouple, a liquid level switch and a power circuit. The controlling system circuit comprises a central processing circuit 1 taking the single-chip microcomputer as a processing key , a digital display and key controlling circuit (2) connected with a central processor, a real-time clock circuit (3), an inlet and outlet water controlling circuit (4), a temperature collecting circuit (5), a liquid level monitoring circuit (6), a heat controlling circuit (7), an alarming circuit (8) and a power circuit (9). The household appliance has the advantages that the structure is simple, the cost is cheap, the household appliance is energy saved and environment protective, the practibility is strong, the stability of the system self is good, the anti-interference ability is strong, the utility model not only can realize accurate control, and the setting function is relatively simple, and the utility model is easy to be operated.


THIS is a short discourse of an historical nature on the search for Truth, or, as we more conveniently term it, Research, a comprehensive word not to be used in a narrow sense, but as defined in the dictioniary: "A diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles, continued search after Truth." I have said that my discourse will be of an historical nature: I do not propose to sketch out the History of Research, for that would be the history of our profession from the earliest ages till now, but merely to touch upon the historical aspect of the subject, as illustrated by the lives of some of the greatest champions of Truth who have ever adorned our profession. I have chosen as my central figure Vesalius, whose biography has been written and rewritten, and of whose life the main facts are beyond dispute. He appeals to us, moreover, as an outstanding figure of the great Renaissance, a period in the history of Europe most attractive to the student; the sunrise after the long night of of the Dark Ages, the revival of letters and the beginning of emancipation for scientists, till then fast bound by the bonds of authority. Andreas Vesalius was born in Brussels in 1514. (His placenta and caul were preserved by his mother.) His family history was remarkable for the fact that his great-great-grandfather, Peter Vesalius, was a medical author, his great-grandfather was physician to Mary of Burgundy, and a teacher of Medicine in the University of Louvain; his grandfather Eberhard was physician to the same great lady, and wrote commentaries upon the aphorisms of Hippocrates; his father was apothecary to the grea1t Emperor Charles V, and accompanied him upon his expeditions-so that Vesalius had the rare distinction of having his four immediate progenitors medical men. Of his youth little is known save that he was educated at the famous University of Louvain, where he acquired a very thorough knowledge of ancient classics; in his youth he tried to learn anatomy from the works of the schoolmen, but soon discovered that dissection, not books, was the only road to a knowledge of anatomy. In 1533, at the age of 19, he went t9 Paris to obtain a medical education-Paris being at that time the Mecca of the medical world. Here he came under the influence and teaching of one of the most remarkable men …


In this paper, a practical method of ordered binary comparison determined by weight vector is proposed, as based on correlative concepts of the dualistic relative comparative method in fuzzy mathematics. By taking advantage of the proposed method, subordinated degree of evaluation indicators can be defined, such as weightiness and the degree of importance of ecological restoration of river courses, and a mathematical model can be established. The proposed mathematical model is clear in its physical conception and offers convenient calculations, and provides a theoretical foundation for the ecological restoration of river courses. This paper employs "standard values" of the evaluation index system (EIS) of ecological river networks as derived by previous literature [1] as the theoretical basis for the ecological restoration river courses.


...............................................................................................i Acknowledgments....................................................................................ii Chapter one. Introduction......................................................................... 1 1.1. Research Objectives............................................................................. 1 1.2. Research Rationale.............................................................................. 2 1.3. Organization of the paper...................................................................... 2 1.4. Situating the Faraqasa pilgrimage center.................................................... 3 Chapter two. Fieldwork: Preparation, methodologies, and working in the field........11 2.1. Returning home..................................................................................11 2.2. Methodologies employed.......................................................................13 2.2.1. Participant observation...................................................................14 2.2.2. Interviews..................................................................................15 2.2.3. Archival studies...........................................................................15 2.2.4. Library works...............................................................................16 2.2.5. Taking still pictures........................................................................16 2.3. Methodological challenges and solutions......................................................16 Chapter three. The study of pilgrimage in Ethiopia..........................................20 3.1. Definition of pilgrimage.........................................................................20 3.2. Characteristics of pilgrimage....................................................................20 3.3. Motives for pilgrimage...........................................................................22 3.4. Types of pilgrimages in Ethiopia...............................................................24 3.5. Studies of pilgrimages in Ethiopia..............................................................28 Chapter four. The Faraqasa indigenous pilgrimage center: background.................30 Introduction.............................................................................................30 4.1. Ayyo Momina: origin, early life, and career...................................................31 4.2. The advent of Ayyo Momina to Arsi: two different perspectives...........................35 4.3. The establishment of Faraqasa as the main pilgrimage center...............................38 4.4. Spiritual successors of Ayyo Momina...........................................................43


ulfonated syndiotactic polystyrene ionomers (SsPS) with 1.8 mol% degree of sulfonation have been studied.SWAXD shows that the crystallinity of SsPS ionomers was decreased with increasing diameter size of the counter ions and sPS > SsPS-H > SsPS-K > SsPS-Zn. Moreover, SsPS ionomers only have α crystal form, while original sPS has two crystal forms: α and β crystal form. TGA shows that the thermal stability of SsPS ionomers is higher than that of the original sPS and SsPS-Zn > SsPS-K > SsPS-H. DSC shows that all the glass transition temperatures (Tg) of SsPS ionomers are higher than that of the neat sPS and SsPS-Zn > SsPS-Na > SsPS-K > SsPS-H. However, the melting temperature (Tm) and crystallization peak temperature (Tp) of SsPS ionomers are lower and SsPS-H > SsPS-Zn > SsPS-K > SsPS-Na, while the crystallinity (Xc) of SsPS-Zn is the lowest. Nonisothermal crystallization kinetics shows that the Avrami index of sPS and SsPS-H are both about 4, suggesting the nucleation growth of SsPS-H with lower degree of sulfonation still keeps its threedimension form. FTIR spectra of SsPS ionomers show a splitting absorption band for asymmetric stretching vibration of sulfonation group. The CH in-plane bending vibration of benzene ring shifted to higher wavenumber and the symmetric stretching vibration of sulfonation group changed slightly with different counter ion neutralized SsPS ionomers.


One of the most important factors influencing pavement quality is hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavement density. In Korea, measuring core sample bulk density is generally used to determine pavement density. Non-destructive pavement density testing device use is the more convenient way to measure pavement density in the field. These devices have recently used dielectric pavement properties. An inherent advantage that dielectric-type pavement density testing devices have over nuclear density gauges and core measurements is that coring and extra security precautions are not required. The literature shows that there is variation of material density and air voids among dielectric constants. Until recently, however, in Korea there has not been testing and evaluation of the dielectric constants of asphalt materials. Asphalt concrete dielectric constants and air voids were evaluated in this study. One type of aggregate and two types of asphalt binder were used to prepare two types of asphalt concrete specimens: PG 64-16 and PG 82-22. A gyratory compactor was used to compact asphalt mixtures at 0 to 20% of air voids, then cut to the size of 25mm in thickness and 150mm in diameter. To measure the dielectric constants of asphalt concrete specimens parallel plate methods were used using a low frequency (100KHz to 50MHz) impedance analyzer. Test results showed that as frequency increased, asphalt concrete specimen dielectric constants linearly decreased. The PG 82-22 specimen dielectric constant change rate was higher than that of the PG 64-16. Due to the resonant nature of the test, at 20MHz of frequency the dielectric constants rapidly increased. Test results also showed that as air voids increased, there was a linear decrease in dielectric constants of asphalt concrete specimens. Linear regression suggested correlation models between asphalt concrete dielectric constants and air voids.


Reed Solomon RS(n, k) codes are Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) ideal codes that can be put into a systematic form, which makes them well suited to many situations. In this work we consider use-cases that rely on a software RS codec and for which the code is not fixed. This means that the application potentially uses a different RS(n, k) code each time, and this code needs to be built dynamically. A lightweight code creation scheme is therefore highly desirable, otherwise this stage would negatively impact the encoding and decoding times. Constructing such an RS code is equivalent to constructing its systematic generator matrix. Using the classic Vandermonde matrix approach to that purpose is feasible but adds significant complexity. In this paper we propose an alternative solution, based on Hankel matrices as the base matrix. We prove theoretically and experimentally that the code construction time and the number of operations performed to build the target RS code are largely in favor of the Hankel approach, which can be between 3.5 to 157 times faster than the Vandermonde approach, depending on the (n, k) parameters.


In recent years, many persons, in many different walks of life, have been pointing out that the form of government known as democracy, whatever its presumed merits might be, is not a particularly efficient or quick-moving one. One statement illustrating this point, generally attributed to Winston Churchill, has him saying, &dquo;Democracy is the worst form of government possible, except for all those other forms of government.&dquo; &dquo;


Fergany's article "On the Human Survivorship Function and Life Table Construction" (Demography, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 331-334) presents itself as a challenge to the earlier works of Reed and Merrell (1939) and of Greville (1943). Fergany is surprised that these earlier methods "went unquestioned by demographers for more than thirty years." In fact, however, his criticisms are unjust, his results are well known, his assumptions are questionable. Fergany points out that Reed and Merrell's assumption of ln p (x) = a + ,3x within a given interval can also generate his equation (5). If Reed and Merrell's assumptions are subject to criticism, Fergany has an even more serious problem with his assumption of constancy of the force of mortality within the interval, particularly when the interval is large. If simplicity is the main issue why not settle for the still simpler formula generated by the assumption that p (x) is a linear function of x, for which not even the tables of exponential functions are necessary. Fergany may wish to compare the results shown in his Table A with that obtained by the linear assumption, and he will find little difference between them. Reed and Merrell modified their formula with the help of empirical data. Greville showed that his general formula (which does not depend on any assumption)


Purpose of reviewThis review describes recently published studies evaluating the association between microalbuminuria and the development of cardiovascular disease events either in the presence of diabetes or hypertension, or in the population as a whole.Recent findingsProspective studies confirm th


This paper briefly discusses the work principle of the virtual harmonic instrument and the main point of the program design.The functions of the virtual harmonic instrument have been simulated by LabWindows/CVI software with windowed interpolation fast fourier algorithm(FFT).The analyzer has a high accuracy,stable,strong anti-interference characteristics.


This paper mainly discusses the connotations of knowledge management, the features of knowledge management as the new model of enterprise management, and the requirements for the implementation of knowledge management in enterprises.


A new type of passive electric field sensor concept that measures extremely low frequency (ELF) electric fields shows promise for detecting low-flying aircraft near, for example, airport runways or national borders. Because different types of aircraft (jets, airplanes, and helicopters) exhibit different signature characteristics, this type of sensor allows basic target classification. Additionally, helicopters generate ELF electric fields with strong spectral lines corresponding to the rotation of the main and tail rotors, so that the sensor can perform passive, noncooperative helicopter identification. Arrays of these sensors can be used to estimate aircraft speed, direction and height above the ground. We developed detailed 3-D models of an electrically charged helicopter and ground-based sensors, and simulated both target fields and sensor responses. We designed and built prototype sensors, which we used to collect data for various aircraft in the field; the collected signatures compare favorably with the simulated date. Our investigations to date indicate that these sensors naturally complement both fixed radars and distributed acoustic sensors; such a sensor could also be used alone as a low-cost and rugged alternative. This paper outlines the ELF sensor concept, the models, and the sensor hardware we used, and compares simulated and collected signatures.


Adults and larvae of the family Philopotamidae from Zhejiang Province, China, were examined and mtCOI gene sequences were extracted and analyzed, males and larvae of 3 species were successfully associated. The larvae of Chimarra sadayu Malicky 1993, Dolophilodes bellatula Sun Malicky 2002, Wormaldia unispina Sun 1998 are described in detail and their diagnostic photographs and illustrations are presented. Diagnostic characters for genera and species are discussed.


A BOOK of seventy-six pages, with eight supplementary pages of highly instructive statistical diagrams, contains the English translation of a volume published by Mr. J. C. Van Marken on the occasion of the Paris Exposition. It describes, with numerous half-tone illustrations, a social experiment, or group of experiments, on a relatively minute scale, to be sure; but the theory that has inspired them, and the degree of success which they have attained, make them well worth attention. The industrial companies of Hof van Delft consist of:


We present photoluminescence and electroluminescence studies of bilayers and blends formed from poly(vinyl carbazole) (PVK) and poly(pyridyl vinylene phenylene vinylene) (PPyVPV) copolymer derivatives. Bilayers of PVK and the PPyVPV copolymers have a photoluminescence emission which cannot be assigned to either the photoluminescence of PVK or the PPyVPV layer. The blends of the two polymers show a similar new photoluminescence emission for a large range of concentrations. Absorption and photoluminescence excitation spectra confirm that the additional feature is an excited state species which results from an exciplex at the polymer/polymer interface. Bilayer light-emitting devices utilizing the PPyVPV copolymers show an electroluminescence spectrum consistent with emission from the exciplex. The efficiency of the bilayer devices as compared to single layer devices increases by over three orders of magnitude due to the exciplex formation and the elimination of exciton formation near the luminescence quenchi...


The title compound has been obtained from acetylacetone, AgClCO4 and either π-C5H5TiCl3 or TiCl4. An X-ray structure analysis (R = 0.068) shows the cation to be octahedrally coordinated. The average values of the Ti-O distances and of the endocyclic O-Ti-O angles are 1.94 Å and 84.3°, respectively


"Objective – What are the work-related issues which contribute to police constables stress? How do police constables get rid of their stress? Because stress and copings are the two most important factors that influence work-related wellbeing. This paper aims to understand the theoretical framework of police stress and coping procedures. The ideas that make up this system can be used in the appraisal, intervention, and assessment of the police stress reaction and the coping forms utilised after stressful situations. Methodology/Technique – 492 Tamil Nadu state police constables were chosen randomly. Information was gathered utilising two self-report questionnaires which include questionnaire related to police stress and coping strategies. Researcher measured the reliability and validity of the multiple-item research scales by analysing the measurement model using confirmatory factor analysis. Correlation analysis investigative the relationship between police stress and coping strategies, it found that it was positive and significant. Further, the researcher used the SEM approach to testing the relationship between police stress and coping strategies. Findings – SEM approach concludes that overall police stress influences self-supported emotional focused coping strategies positively and that overall police stressors have a positive impact on social supported emotional focused coping strategies. Furthermore, there is a positive impact on overall stress and problem-focused coping and avoidant coping strategies. Novelty – The outcomes can be utilised to help researchers and policy makers foresee police work execution and aid government consider police's identity attributes."


The low-temperature hydrothermal process of rock alteration of the Kzyl- Ompul massif is accompanied by a supply of uranium and thorium, the hydrothermal solutions with a heightened uranium concentration probably genetically being connected with leucocratic granites and the solutions with a heightened thorium content with syenites. (auth)


Previous chapter have dealt largely with atmospheric effects on radio-wave propagation, the exception being Sec. 5.3 which considers effects of vegetation. Terrestrial telecommunication links and earth-space transmissions, especially at small elevation angles or between satellites and mobile systems, however, may also be influenced by the electrical properties of the Earth's surface and by features of terrain: This section deals with ground waves and obstruction or shadowing by terrain or structures. Section 6.2 treats the physical phenomena of specular reflection and diffuse scatter by the Earth's surface, and Sec. 6.3 relates these phenomena to system design considerations. Sections 6.4, 6.5, and 6.6 give attention to land-mobile, marine-mobile, and aeronauticalmobile systems, and the final Sec. 6.7 describes the Global Positioning System (GPS). All of the major propagation effects on satellite mobile systems (not only the effects of terrain) are given at least brief mention in Sees. 6.4-6.7.


The aim of this paper is twofold: The first concentrates on the very recent development performance of two country groups, namely Middle Eastern and North African countries, and the second focuses on Turkey in an attempt to determine the position of the country in the context of human development.To reach the above mentioned aims, very simple methods are followed: Descriptive statistical analysis is used and existing data is assessed in a comparative way to be more specific about the position of Turkey in her path of human development. The analysis period is restricted with the last five years. The main argument to be tested throughout the current study can be formulated in the following way: Although Westernization and secularization attempts of the country have prevailed since the establishment of the Republican period, recent human development outcome of the Turkish economy seems to coincide with those of Middle Eastern and North African countries where Arab and Islamic cultures dominate socio-economic life rather than highly developed European countries. To put differently, one may suggest that the development path of Turkey considerably deviates from the European trends not only in terms of economic performance but also with respect to societal, cultural and in particular with gender-based developments.An additional argument can be associated with the fact that certain resource-rich but relatively underdeveloped countries included in the sample of the current study provides us an appropriate ground to understand better the need to construct human development index in considering development level of the countries not via solely relying on the indicators biasing the material well-being of the countries such as absolute level of income or per capita GDP and ignoring the rest but also through concerning with the humanitarian aspect of development like looking at the achievements associated with education, healthcare, gender equality, social participation and so on. In the light of this preliminary information, the organization of the paper can be stated as follows: Next section reviews the origins and the emergence of the human development index. Third section deals with descriptive statistical analysis of the main human development indicators of the Middle Eastern and North African countries especially focusing on the position of Turkey, and final section evaluates the findings alongside with the main arguments of the paper.


DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5915/26-2-16757 Reprint permission is granted by Administrative Radiology Journal; reprinted from April 1993, Vol. 12, No.4. Surgical excisional biopsy is currcntly the most common type of breast biopsy performed to determine the benign or malignant nature of mammographically detected abnormalities. Approximately 80% to 85% of these lesions prove to be benign by open surgical biopsy. Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of breast lesions bas been advocated to reduce the number of unnecessary surgical procedures. The drawbacks of FNAB include insufficient tissue for diagnosis in 6% to 47% of cases, 1% to 31% false negative results, limited ability to make a definite benign diagnosis and difficulty in precise classification of malignant disease. Stereotactic large core biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions overcomes many of these drawbacks of FNAB. The accuracy of stereotactic large core biopsy is comparable to open surgical biopsy. The advantages of stereotactic core biopsy over surgical biopsy are that it is less invasive, takes less time and costs less. This article describes the technique of stereotactic large core biopsy of breast lesions and our experience with more than 100 patients.


Abstract One of the congenital factors that affect the transmission of dengue disease is blood type. This study mainly aims to consider blood type O in humans and uses a differential equations system formulation to analyse the dynamical system. The basic reproduction number is determined as the threshold for dengue disease transmission model. This model has been applied to the data from weekly data dengue cases occurring in Bandung in the year 2013. When it is supported by actual data which provides the parameters and values for the variables, this model can be implemented and thus used to describe the dynamical system of dengue disease transmission with respect to O blood type in humans. It can be concluded that blood type O is an important factor to be considered when formulating strategies for prevention and treatment. This study provides a significant improvement to the knowledge of dengue transmission dynamics and should be beneficial in aiding control of the transmission of dengue disease.


This paper aims to analyze the impoliteness strategies performed by the main female character (Nadine) and her male interlocutors in the Edge of Seventeen movie. Taking Nadine's impolite utterances and her male interlocutors as the data, this study found a thought-provoking fact that women who have been stereotyped as "powerless" language users also have the potential to use impoliteness strategies as a way of negotiating and constructing their identity. While both genders could use impoliteness strategies to negotiate and construct their power and identity in interactions, there were differences in the use of the strategies. Women prefer to use positive impoliteness while men use negative impoliteness strategies. The use of positive impoliteness among women is influenced by their empathetic nature to social relations. Any sensitive topic to social relations is considered effective as a face-threatening act. On the other hand, men use negative impoliteness to force their interlocutors to submit to their will, a trait of male dominance. By suppressing the freedom of choice of the interlocutor, the negative face is threatened. From these findings, it can be concluded that impoliteness can be used, by men and women, as a tool to exercise their power and construct their gender identity.


List of Plates List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introductory Essay: Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Byzantine Studies Liz James 1. Sacred and Profane Love: Thoughts on Byzantine Gender Averil Cameron 2. Women and Icons, and Women in Icons Robin Cormack 3. Memories of Helena: Patterns in Imperial Female Matronage in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Leslie Brubaker 4. Imperial Women and the Ideology of Womanhood in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Barbara Hill 5. Gender and Orientalism in Georgia in the Age of Queen Tamar Antony Eastmond 6. Salome's Sisters. The Rhetoric and Realities of Dance in Late Antiquity and Byzantium Ruth Webb 7. Women as Outsiders Dion C. Smythe 8. Byzantine Eunuchs: An Overview, with Special Reference to their Creation and Origin Shaun F. Tougher 9. Homo Byzantinus? Charles Barber Select Bibliography Index


The aim of this chapter is to describe quality assurance mechanisms at the Translation Service of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU (GSC). The first part will put the GSC's translation activity into a more general framework of the workings of the whole institution. Furthermore, the GSC's approach to translation quality will be explained, and tools and procedures that are used and help translators achieve the required quality of their products will be described. The next part will focus on the ex-post quality monitoring that was introduced a few years ago to systematically monitor both the quality of translations that leave the Translation Service and the individual performance of translators. The final part will be dedicated to a recently-adopted special procedure to ensure the best quality of the GSC Translation Service's hallmark product – the European Council conclusions. The chapter is descriptively oriented and draws on everyday practice of a GSC's translator and the quality policy coordinator. Hopefully, it will raise awareness of the activities of the GSC's Translation Service, provide inspiration for other translation departments and practitioners and offer topics for further research for academia.

With approximately 600 translators and 300 other management and support staff, the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU's Translation Service is a little smaller than the European Parliament's Directorate-General for Translation and about half the size of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation, but still large by most standards. Each year the Council's service translates around 15,000 documents, which represent roughly 110,000 pages of source material and a yearly translation output, expressed as a sum of all target languages, in the range of 1.2 million pages (Council 2016a, Council 2017). However, quality rather than quantity has always been the primary focus of the Council's Translation Service, and the aim of this chapter is to describe the quality assurance mechanisms that are used at the Council's Translation Service to ensure the required quality of its products.


This paper presents the design and evaluation of a high efficiency power amplifier with high voltage capability. And power amplifier based on two-stage topology at frequency of 2.4 GHz ISM band. The optimization of source and load impedance for the proposed power amplifier is determined using smith chart or tuning system. Power output spectrum is designed including harmonic resonators up to 3rd harmonic. This power amplifier provides a excellent performance. In which we use the two-stage topology. The simulated power amplifier achieved maximum power added efficiency (PAE) of 34 %. The total Gain (S21) is 23.4 dB. And input return loss and output return loss is 13dB and 11 dB respectively. The proposed method is addressed to optimize power efficiency while maintaining good input and output matching. The design simulation process is using Advance Design System (ADS) software.


Selection shadow has been the conventional theory of evolution of ageing for decades. I argue that selection shadow is merely a phenomenon by which deleterious mutation will be inevitably passed on if they manifest only after mating. However, to explain prevalence of ageing, the authors of the conventional theory erroneously equated passing on and persistence by interpreting selection shadow as if "selection pressure is decreased after mating" and for the same reason assumed that ageing is deleterious1,2. In their conventional framework, although ageing is assumed to be deleterious, it is immune to natural selection, due to happening after mating i.e. being in the selection shadow. In reality selection pressure still remains after mating in form of the need to feed offspring and so also in form of inter- and intraspecies competition and predation avoidance etc. I show that the conventional selection shadow theory is therefore inconsistent, since shadowed counteracting "positive" mutations will inevitably pass with "negative" mutations, resulting in individuals that do not age. And so, since ageing is assumed to be deleterious in this conventional framework, inevitable non-ageing individuals will outcompete ageing ones in intra- and interspecies competition for similar ecological niches. This way the inconsistency of the conventional theory of selection shadow predicts that non-ageing organisms will prevail, which is not what we observe. Recently, some articles incline towards adaptive theory of ageing i.e. ageing as an advantageous mechanism. However, the ground of such inclination has mostly been reduced competition for food and space between parents and offsprings3,4. I show that ageing allows for increased reproduction rate, while maintaining optimal population size. As a result of promoted reproduction rate, rate of introduced germline mutations is increased, which means faster adaptation. Faster adapting ageing individuals outcompete non-ageing slower adapting individuals that occupy similar ecological niches, inter and intraspecies. Therefore, since ageing is obviously advantageous, this means that all experimental evidence that supported selection shadow theory of ageing5–9, also support the proposed adaptive theory of faster adaptation, the difference is interpretation: investigated pleiotropic muta-tions are not antagonistic after all, and mutation accumulation actually accumulates positive germline ageing mutations. Based on genome analysis10 of the longest living mammal – bowhead whale, I also propose that mutations in DNA repair proteins are a mechanism to tune ageing by natural selection when optimal population size is changed by long lasting shifts in ecosystem, such as new food source. I suggest that DNA repair complexes are purposely of lowered fidelity to allow for somatic mutations to accumulate and so to increase deathrate by ageing leading to faster adaptation.


Educational traditionalism with its emphasis  on rote learning, memorization of facts, accumulation of subject matter, etc, and its pedagogical strategy that demands learners to sit down and listen attentively during delivery of instructions is to blame for production of graduates who are serially unemployed in Nigeria.  In constructivist model, learners are actively involved in the learning process and lessons are adequately presented in democratic, interactive, collaborative environments enabling learners to be creative and constructive. This makes it possible for learners to apply what they have learnt to their future daily lives. In the end individuals become self-reliant and poised to eke out their living independent of government paid jobs. This goes a long way to boost the nation's economy since rate of production would be high. This paper is of the opinion that economic recession could be mitigated in Nigeria if teaching methods are consistent with constructivist model.


Five inhibitors—Zn/Mg/Al‐CO3 layered double hydroxides (LDHs), thermosensitive hydrogel (P(NIPA‐co‐SA)), diammonium phosphate ((NH4)2HPO4), sodium phosphate (Na3PO4), and magnesium chloride (MgCl2)—commonly used to forestall the spontaneous combustion of anthracite and coke coal were investigated in this study, and the inhibition effects were quantified. According to the results of thermogravimetry, differential scanning calorimetry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and kinetic analysis, Zn/Mg/Al‐CO3‐LDHs, P(NIPA‐co‐SA), and (NH4)2HPO4 all exert substantial inhibiting effects on anthracite and coke coal. Specifically, P(NIPA‐co‐SA) was altered during the liquid‐to‐gel phase, which isolated the oxygen from the coal surface and produced an endothermic reaction that decreased the environmental temperature; this reaction further inhibited spontaneous combustion. Conversely, MgCl2 promoted a combustion reaction and reduced the apparent activation energy of coal, increasing the risk of spontaneous combustion. This study provides a reference for selecting suitable inhibitors to prevent the spontaneous combustion of coal.


Governments around the world are forced to react to disasters caused by weather. The agricultural sector is particularly susceptible to weather extremes and adverse climate conditions. In the US, agricultural disaster payments account for a significant part of total agricultural subsidies. The payments, and their distribution, are more important in the areas most affected by disastrous weather events, usually coinciding with areas of pronounced impact of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). In this article, the impact of weather and climate, as well as some economic variables, on disaster payments is analysed using county level data from four states in the southeastern United States. The results suggest that weather and climate variables explain most of the crop disaster payments at the county level while socioeconomic variables do not, suggesting that advancements in weather and climate forecasts could be helpful in planning for disaster compensation.


The objective of this exploratory research was to investigate the interplay among emotion, risk perception, and situation awareness as potential risk factors within the health care domain. To accomplish this objective, a two-phase study approach was employed. In Phase I, a proof-of-concept testbed of the emotional interface concept, namely Wearable Avatar Risk Display (WARD), was tested as the primary communication medium to explore participants' emotional responses and risk choices under the influence of the validated International Affective Picture System (IAPS). Based on the lessons learned, a limited prototype of WARD was further refined and then implemented in a formative evaluation. The formative evaluation employed two medical students from the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) to investigate their emotional response, risk perception, and situation awareness using the MicroSim InHospital under the influence of the validated film-based Mood Induction Procedures (MIPs). In Phase II, 32 new medical students from VCOM participated in 2 (intervention) x 2 (film) between-subjects study for addressing three research questions. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed. Results from Phase I indicated the need for MIPs, as well as shed light on the feasibility of employing anthropomorphic computer characters as intervention devices. Participants found anthropomorphic computer characters to be meaningful as virtual assistants in a team environment. The Facial Expression Coding System also indicated that participants experienced high levels of happiness/amusement when a happy and credible anthropomorphic computer character was introduced under angry emotional induction via MIPs. Physiological states results confirmed that participants' heart rate variability was affected significantly after the use of anthropomorphic computer characters, verifying that their utilization was potentially effective. The lessons I learned from the Phase I results led me to refine procedures and training/evaluation techniques, and to introduce anthropomorphic computer characters with minimal intrusiveness during the Phase II study.


We describe an enhanced rotation sensor involving an active helium-neon (HeNe) ring laser coupled to a passive enhancement resonator, which has been named a fast-light-enhanced HeNe ring-laser gyroscope (RLG). Theoretical rotation sensitivity enhancements as large as two orders of magnitude are presented. The physical effect responsible for the increased rotational sensitivity is the anomalous dispersion of the enhancement resonator, which produces a larger beat frequency as compared to a standard HeNe ring-laser gyroscope (RLG) as the laser cavity is rotated. We present the layout of the fast-light enhanced HeNe RLG, and we provide the theoretical modeling of the enhanced rotational sensitivity. A design is presented for the red HeNe (632.8 nm). The beat frequency is calculated with respect to rotation rate, which defines the useful range of operation for this highly sensitive RLG. Considerations for practical issues including laser-mirror reflectivity precision, unsaturated laser gain, and cavity-length stability are discussed.


In health care setting nursing practices depends on knowledge. Knowledgeable nurses express their expertise in critical care units. Specialty in critical care units required respiratory knowledge regarding physical assessment. Furthermore nursing profession has been viewed central point for client care. The rapid changes in healthcare setting that increased demand of trained, experienced nurses in health care setting. The knowledge about anatomy and physiology regarding respiratory assessment necessary in the field of auscultating expertise like respiratory system that gives the chance of early diagnosis, assess the clients need and client health problem to implement the nursing process. Study Design: Descriptive Cross Sectional Study design was applied. Settings: Data was collected through convenient sampling method from ICU department of tertiary Hospital Lahore. Study Participants: 36 female nurses within the age range 24 to 39 years were included in this research. Results: The knowledge of ICU Nurses regarding anatomy of respiratory above 50% but knowledge regarding physical assessment less than 50%. Furthermore less knowledge among nurses about respiratory physical assessment in clinical practices. Keywords: Physical Assessment, Nurses application, Respiratory Knowledge, Practices


The present status of emergency medical care was examined to identify areas in which specific contributions by human factors specialists are needed. The field of equipment design was considered the most potentially fruitful, and the cardiac defibraillator was selected as an example of complex emergency medical equipment. Some human factors aspects of the cardiac defibrillator were explored and it was concluded that this device is one of many medical devices which could be improved by the application of human factors techniques. /Author/


In the present study, it is aimed to deal with children's songs within the scope of audio-visual texts and to briefly explain the strategy of domestication in translation. It is also aimed to present the domestication translation with examples from the target text or target songs. Apart from this, the study aims to reveal the importance of the translation strategy chosen because children's songs are appeal text type and the audience consists of children. The Turkish translations of two German children's songs are handled in the article and it is determined that the translator aims at translation for the recipient, and the translator achieves her goal because Turkish culture and norms and the needs of Turkish children are highlighted. The translator's use of the German figure Augustin with the Turkish figure Keloglan and the German proper name "Hanschen" (Hanscik-Kucuk Hans) with the Turkish personal name "Can" and removing foreign elements from the target songs reveal the reason behind her achievement of her goal.


Abstract In the next generation mobile communication systems, high speed data services are demanded. However, unacceptable large transmit power may be required. Cooperative relay is known as one of the solutions for such a transmit power problem. In this paper, direct/cooperative relay switching is considered for single carrier-frequency multiple access (SC-FDMA) using spectrum division & adaptive subcarrier allocation. In the direct/cooperative relay switching, we switch between the direct communication and the cooperative relay based on the user's channel condition. We investigate the channel capacity of the direct/cooperative relay switching for SC-FDMA using spectrum division & adaptive subcarrier allocation and evaluate the transmit power reduction effect to meet the allowable outage capacity. Keyword direct/cooperative relay switching, spectrum division & adaptive subcarrier allocation


Packaging design should have its artistic content which should be higher than commercial value and rooted in packaging culture.The generation and development of green packaging culture was an ecological idea established upon the relation between individual and group consciousness.It was emphasized that both the ecology and culture should be consider to realize green design.


In this work we calculate interaction and stabilization energies of the the Watson-Crick H-bonded base pairs Guanine-Cytosine and Adenine-Thymine at the GGA level of DFT using the SIESTA method. Structural optimizations are performed by conjugate gradients without geometrical constraints, allowing both nonzero propeller twist angle between nucleobases and pyramidalization of amino groups. Comparison of the obtained geometries with results from the best ones reported in literature (correlated MP2 level) shows differences of the order of 1% in the intramolecular base distances. On the other hand, proportion between stabilization energies under pair formation is found to have approximately the same value as the reported results, while absolute stabilizations energies are different than the reported ones.


PURPOSE
Identify and evaluate the perception of Intensivist Nurses in a University Hospital in Londrina, of dysthanasia in terminal patients at the Intensive Care Unit.

METHODS
Qualitative study. Data were collected by semi-structured recorded interview involving nine nurses working in a university hospital intensive care units, during January 2009. A thematic analysis was used to evaluate subjects' speech and identify discussion categories.

RESULTS
Five categories were identified, discussed based on the authors' experience and literature, namely: measures prolonging life of patients with no chance of cure in the intensive care unit; nurses' actions/reactions when facing dysthanasia; reasons leading to prolonging life of patients with no chance of cure; nurses' feelings about dysthanasia and life prolongation; care measures as opposed to dysthanasia.

CONCLUSION
Experiencing of nurses when facing dysthanasia actions was shown to be complex, a factor of suffering, frustration and discomfort for these professionals. In the nurses' view, lack of communication stands out as an important factor for dysthanasia, and measures to replace dysthanasia are those relieving suffering.


Abstract The modern‐day review article is an exquisite attempt to demonstrate the extreme therapeutic potential of tamarind fruit (Tamarindus indica), particularly its pulp, seed, and leaf extract, against lifestyle‐related chronic disorders. The rapid transition in the diet patterns and also the varying lifestyle of the people has made its way forth, a momentous upsurge in a number of chronic as well as degenerative diseases. An excess of foods having functional and nutraceutical significance has come into view recently. These foods have emerged as effective therapeutical remedies against these disorders owing to their natural phytochemical constituents present in them, in abundance. Tamarindus indica serves as a proverbial herbal medicine in each and every part of the world that is known to mankind. Also, the tamarind kernel powder (TKP) is of immense commercial significance in some of the major, leading industries of the World. The derivation of an important gel‐forming substance (polysaccharide), named as "jellose," from the decorticated seed kernels of tamarind fruit has led to the manufacture of pectin. It is used in industrial scale in the preparation of various products like jams, jellies, and most important in the preparation of cheese. It plays an evident role as a stabilizer of commercial significance, and it has also been greatly recommend by the scientists to be used as a potent ingredient in a range of pharmaceutical products. The leaves of tamarind plant are also used as part of the daily diet in several countries where they are readily consumed in fresh form and especially during drought season.


A liquid crystal display panel substrate alignment method of liquid crystal display panel substrate and the liquid crystal display panel. The alignment method for a substrate comprising: providing a substrate provided with a plurality of devices arranged in an array on said substrate; film provided with an upper layer of the plurality of devices; using a friction roller in a direction of the substrate with the rubbing the film with to form the trenches with the film; and the angle between the substrate side alignment direction of the device is greater than or equal to 0 degrees and less than 45 degrees. The present invention reduces the incidence of adverse reverse twist domain, avoiding the dark state light leakage pixel / gray states, and reduce production costs, reduce the time alignment film was prepared.


Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is associated to Diabetes mellitus (DM) but not clearly demonstrated to Prediabetes (PD). Objective: Determine prevalence of PD and risk factors in CTS. Methods: A cross-sectional study including 115 idiopathic CTS patients and 115 age-, genderand body mass index (BMI)-matched controls was performed. Clinical, laboratorial and neurophysiological evaluations were performed in all subjects to confirm CTS diagnosis and severity according to CTS classification. PD was defined using strict criteria. Results: Prevalence of PD was similar in CTS and control groups (27% vs. 21.7%, P=0.44). Nocturnal symptoms (91.3%) and moderate classification of CTS (58.3%) were most frequently observed in CTS patients. CTS with PD had a significant higher mean age compared to CTS without PD (53.8 ± 10.2 vs. 49.5 ± 8.6 years, P=0.027). A trend of higher mean BMI (30.6 ± 4.1 vs. 28.7 ± 4.8 kg/m2, P=0.059) and duration of symptoms (21.5 ± 29.6 vs. 14.8 ± 20.6 months, P=0.062) and lower female gender frequency (80.6% vs. 92.9%, P=0.057) were observed in CTS with PD. Frequencies of CTS with PD patients with age > 60 years (29.0% vs. 8.3%, P=0.04) and BMI > 30 kg/m2 (64.5% vs. 33.3%, P=0.03) were significantly higher than CTS without PD. No significant differences were observed in both groups regarding each symptoms (P>0.05) and neurophysiological classification of CTS (P>0.05). Conclusions: Our findings strongly supports the notion that CTS is not associated with PD but is closely linked to age and overweight.


Care of elderly in India has become an important concern of researchers, policymakers, clinicians and social activists. The condition of the elderly differs across region, culture, class gender, and status. The advocates of the issues of elderly have been very active and effective in India and the National Policy for the Older Persons is a result of concerted efforts of the activists/ researchers and the realisation of commitment by the government. An overview of the policy document instantly indicates that it has given due recognition to various labels and slogans, which are prevalent in the social and academic market. How will this policy be implemented and whether we will be able to reach out to elderly crosscutting the regional cultural, class, gender and status boundary remains to be seen.


The paper proposes a control method of an index finger prosthesis by using two electromyographic signals measured on skin surfaces of two muscles (flexor digitorum superficialis and the extensor indicis) in a lower arm. We assume that the mass of the human index finger is sufficiently small for its dynamic effect to be neglected and the initial burst part of electromyographic signal generated by human intention precedes the onset of actual displacement of the index finger. In order to make the control input for the index finger prosthesis, the root mean squaring operation is applied firstly to the measured electromyographic signal, the thresholding operation is secondly utilized to extract the initial burst part, the synergistic signal is thirdly constructed by using the difference between two processed electromyographic signals, and then the desired displacement is derived from the scaled synergistic signal and numerical integration. Physical limits of the utilized actuator such as displacement and speed limits are considered for practical control use. Finally we show the effectiveness of the proposed control method through experimental result.


The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA, 2008) states that, 'in this digital age, young people need to be highly skilled in the use of ICT' (p. 5) enabling them to become 'creative and productive users of technology' (p. 8). We argue that creating learning experiences that harness the synergies across the mathematics and digital technologies learning areas, where children experience computational thinking skills and higher order thinking through digital programming activities in the early years, provides a strong foundation for developing productive technology users and thinkers of the future. Additionally, these pedagogies enable young children to engage with their learning in meaningful and interesting ways.

Computational thinking can be defined as 'solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior, by drawing on the concepts fundamental to computer science' (Wing, 2006, p. 33). There are strong links between computational thinking associated with coding and mathematical thinking (Wing, 2006). The digital technologies curriculum promotes children's use of 'computational thinking and information systems to define, design and implement digital solutions' (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2018a, np). Similarly, a significant aspect of developing computational thinking involves young children developing their knowledge and skills in 'conceptualising algorithms as a sequence of steps for carrying out instructions' (np), as a foundation for the development of later coding skills. The algorithm we focus on in this article is the coding sequence.

While schools and teachers are responsible for implementing the digital technologies curriculum, it is well documented in research literature (Blundell, Lee, & Nykvist, 2016; Ertmer, Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Sadik, Sendurur, & Sendurur, 2012) that teacher practice during curriculum implementation can be influenced by many factors. This article explores the intrinsic factors that are 'internal to the teacher', or 'second-order barriers', such as teachers' beliefs about how children learn, teachers' confidence with digital technologies, and their perceptions of the pedagogical value of digital technologies for learning (Ertmer et al., 2012, p. 423). When managing these factors, for example, teacher confidence, it is useful to embed digital technology skills into other learning areas, in this case, mathematics. Given that Digital Technologies is a newer curriculum intervention in Australian schools, this enables teachers to operate within a familiar content area (mathematics), and extend to include digital technology skills, an area they may be less confident in. This approach utilises the common elements from both learning areas and integrates them in a meaningful manner and prioritises the general capabilities of the Australian Curriculum (see ACARA, 2018a; 2018b).


ABSTRACT Model theorists have made use of low-dimensional continuous cohomology of infinite permutation groups on profinite modules, see Ahlbrandt and Ziegler (1991), Evans (1997b), Evans et al. (1997), and Hodges and Pillay (1994), for example. We expand the module category in order to widen the cohomological toolkit. For an important class of groups we use these tools to establish criteria for finiteness of cohomology.


A concise total synthesis of the four stereoisomers of (–)-pochonicine was undertaken. The key steps of the synthesis involved chemoselective debenzylation of the primary benzyloxy group and an unprecedented Na–Hg-mediated concomitant N-detosylative intramolecular epoxide ring-opening reaction. Notably, additional steps for the protection of other functional groups were not required. Glycosidase inhibition studies revealed that these compounds are inhibitors of β-N-acetylglucosaminidase with IC50 values in the sub-millimolar range.


In its broadest sense the "environment" component of environmental education spans such diverse areas as dietary habits, in vitro fertilisation, religious beliefs, occupational health, desertification, the changing nature of work, arms control and over-population. At its best contemporary environmental scholarship highlights the degree to which all these issues are intimately related. At its worst and narrowest, the process of environmental educational consists of firstly identifying the basic features of an ecosetting for example, a rainforest, a reef or an urban waterway; and studying environmental change in that setting through identifying the goodies and baddies in relation to impacts upon that environment. An experience I had recently teaching about North Stradbroke Island highlighted the dominance that the narrow view of environmental education has attained. In discussion prior to the study, students indicated that for them, the term "environment" was basically an alternative label for flora and fauna or the "green"/natural elements of the island. They could not comment very easily then about the place of humans in this picture of environment nor could they outline in any detail the range of social, economic or political factors affecting that island's environment. Such factors were incidental to that environment.Also students' ideas about "environmental conflict" and the island seemed to be centred on examples of actions taken by one or other of the conflicting groups, through protest meetings or demonstrations, classifying the main contenders Into two camps - those for and those against the bridge.


Virginia A. Jacko, Jin Ho Choi, Audrey Carballo, Brian Charlson, and J. Elton Moore Employment opportunities for persons who are severely visually impaired (that is, those who are blind or have severe low vision) are often extremely limited (Crudden, Sansing, & Butler, 2005; Moore, Wolffe, & McDonnall, 2010). Music and music-related careers have served as viable employment for many persons who are visually impaired (Jacko, Cobo, Cobo, Fleming, & Moore, 2010). Given the wide array of issues facing students with visual impairments who want to pursue careers in music and the expansion of online distance education programs, there is an ongoing need to enhance the training curricula that is used for such programs. Instruction in music is no longer as common as it once was because of limited budgets and other issues. Students who are blind, because of the lack of support for braille instruction, have been even more seriously affected by the erosion of music instruction. At a time when even the most basic braille instruction is becoming more elusive and evanescent, students who complete the braille music course have expressed their delight at being able to access the same information their sighted peers do from sheet music. The core curriculum for students who are visually impaired (that is those who are blind or have low vision) tends to strongly focus on functional skills, orientation and mobility, independent living, and career skills (Hatlen, 1996). Although music is undeniably one of the fine arts, music instruction is approached as a career skill by Miami Lighthouse. Alumni of the Miami Lighthouse Better Chance Music Production Program have gone on to careers in a variety of positions in the mainstream music industry and to higher education at music schools such as the Berklee College of Music and the New World School of the Arts. In order to offer its comprehensive braille music course to a wider audience not limited by geography, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, in collaboration with The Carroll Center for the Blind (CCB) in Newton, Massachusetts, began offering an online distance learning braille music curriculum in the summer of 2013. This first-of-itskind online instruction for braille music was developed over a two-year period by a Miami Lighthouse instructor. This report describes how the new distance learning braille music program prepares students for further study and careers in the mainstream music industry.


Computers and the internet are the two main communication tools used today to link the entire world together as one virtual space. So we can easily exchange lots of information within seconds of time, but the confidential data that needs to be transferred should be kept confidential. Thus, in order to aid this, we have proposed a new encryption technique by combining Image steganography (LSB) with the cryptographic RSA algorithm for providing more security to our data as well as imperceptibility. The expected outcome would be a properly secure combination of encryption models that uses steganography to hide the message content in a cover image, and also encrypts the message using the cryptographic algorithm, as an additional security layer, in case the content was retrieved from the cover image.


Sara dice (2010) by Fabio Rubiano presents a society where violence does not exist. Possible reflection of Colombian society, this dystopian fiction questions the modalities of a peace as complex as desired in this country.


The purpose of the present invention is to provide a transparent screen capable of clearly displaying a projected image without degradation of transmission visibility, and a method for manufacturing the transparent screen. The transparent screen according to the preset invention has a thin film (4) applied thereto, the thin film having multiple identical openings (3) formed in a web-like regular hexagonal shape in a transparent sheet. The regular hexagonal openings are segmented by a web-like line (6) formed connectively with a uniform width by the sides (5, 5) of mutually adjacent regular hexagonal openings. The ratio of w to d (w / d) is within the range of 7 / 80 - 7 / 50, where d represents the length of a diagonal line that divides the regular hexagonal opening into two parts, and w represents the width of the web-like line. Thus, image light projected from a projector is reflected from the web-like line and displayed on the transparent screen, while a user can view the background on the rear surface side of the transparent screen through the regular hexagonal openings. A transparent screen which is capable of creating the best balance between transparence visibility and image visibility can be provided.


This third volume in the series assesses European contributions to dynamic assessment in a series of essays highlighting topics such as trends in learning potential assessment, the validity of learning tests and historical perspectives of the area of dynamic assessment.


In this paper, to solve a broad class of complex symmetric linear systems, we recast the complex system in a real formulation and apply the generalized successive overrelaxation (GSOR) iterative method to the equivalent real system. We then investigate its convergence properties and determine its optimal iteration parameter as well as its corresponding optimal convergence factor. In addition, the resulting GSOR preconditioner is used to precondition Krylov subspace methods such as the generalized minimal residual method for solving the real equivalent formulation of the system. Finally, we give some numerical experiments to validate the theoretical results and compare the performance of the GSOR method with the modified Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting iteration.


The effects of physical and chemical aging have been investigated on two cold-curing epoxy adhesives. One of the two has been physically aged at different temperatures below its glass transition (i.e. 10, 23, 30 and 40°C) and then subjected to enthalpy relaxation measurements in a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). According to recent literature, DSC studies have suggested that enthalpy relaxation gradually increases with aging time to a limiting value, depending on the temperature, until structural equilibrium is reached. Specimens of both adhesives, previously cured at room temperature for 10 days, have been aged in a dry-dark atmosphere or in a freezer (-20°C) for a prolonged time, measuring Tg and enthalpy relaxation at different time spans. When the structural equilibrium is reached, the samples aged in the dark-dry atmosphere exhibit Tg and relaxation peak values similar to those found in the earlier analysis for samples isothermally cured at 23°C. Samples aged at -20°C, the curing time suggested by suppliers, which was not sufficient to cure the adhesives completely, have glass transition temperatures that are always lower. The cured adhesives have also been exposed to natural weather for up to 36 months. Some samples, taken at different periods of time, have been analyzed in DSC. Other samples have been subjected to a de-aging procedure (24 hours at 50°C) before the thermal analysis. The natural exposition, regarded as chemical aging, determines a cycling change of Tg of both adhesives around average values slightly lower than the initial ones. This behavior cannot be erased by the de-aging procedure, which is able to delete only the effects due to physical aging. Enthalpy relaxation peaks, characteristics of physical aging, are observed only for exposed samples not subjected to de-aging procedure. These samples, finally, are subjected during the natural exposition to aging and de-aging processes taking place in non-isothermal conditions and, therefore, not predictable. The presented study must be regarded as a qualitative analysis of the aging phenomena taking place in cold curing epoxy resins.


SUMMARYWilliams, A.J. 1981. The clutch size of Macaroni and Rockhopper Penguins. Emu 81: 87–90.Published claims that Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus and Rockhopper Penguins E. chrysocome lay clutches of one or three eggs are reviewed in the light of current knowledge of the breeding biology of these and other species of penguins. It is concluded that the clutch size of these Eudyptes penguins is invariably two eggs, that one-egg clutches are usually reported because the loss of the A egg was not noticed and that most three-egg clutches are the result of adoption of eggs.


Drought combined with improper land use may lead to the risk of desertification, also known as land degradation. In dry areas, 70% of the land is degraded. This phenomenon results in declining agricultural productivity, frequently driving people to migrate; in the past it has contributed to the collapse of some ancient civilizations.The yield reductions consequent to land degradation are sometimes apparently balanced by improved technologies in agriculture that thus provide a false sense of security.This text presents online teaching tools downloadable for free, that might be useful to teachers interested in teaching about desertification, its prevention and remediation. They consist of text, images, videos, animations and a comic book that could be used to interest students about this subject.Such educational resources are all in English, and any teacher can use them according to the method felt as most appropriate. The teaching unit may cut across several disciplines, of course, depending on whether colleagues have an interest in it.


Hyperspectral unmixing methods often use a conventional least squares based lasso which assumes that the data follows the Gaussian distribution. The normality assumption is an approximation which is generally invalid for real imagery data. We consider a robust (non-Gaussian) approach to sparse spectral unmixing of remotely sensed imagery which reduces the sensitivity of the estimator to outliers and relaxes the linearity assumption. The method consists of several appropriate penalties. We propose to use an ℓp norm with 0 < p < 1 in the sparse regression problem, which induces more sparsity in the results, but makes the problem non-convex. On the other hand, the problem, though non-convex, can be solved quite straightforwardly with an extensible algorithm based on iteratively reweighted least squares. To deal with the huge size of modern spectral libraries we introduce a library reduction step, similar to the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) array processing algorithm, which not only speeds up unmixing but also yields superior results. In the hyperspectral setting we extend the traditional least squares method to the robust heavy-tailed case and propose a generalised M-lasso solution. M-estimation replaces the Gaussian likelihood with a fixed function ρ(e) that restrains outliers. The M-estimate function reduces the effect of errors with large amplitudes or even assigns the outliers zero weights. Our experimental results on real hyperspectral data show that noise with large amplitudes (outliers) often exists in the data. This ability to mitigate the influence of such outliers can therefore offer greater robustness. Qualitative hyperspectral unmixing results on real hyperspectral image data corroborate the efficacy of the proposed method.


The invention precast relates to a paving method using a concrete panel, and its object is the road using a precast concrete panel so as to sequentially disposed in the plurality of manufacturing a pre-cast concrete panels on a road so as to improve the workability of the road It is a packaging method to provide. Which of a plurality, including the panel body made of concrete, the connecting member protruding from the at least one entire surface of the outer peripheral surface to be coupled to another panel body which is adjacent to the panel body and / or filling slot which mortar is supplied in communication with the slot grout ports road paving precast step of making by using a concrete panel mold, and a step for the road paving precast concrete panels made in said flat surface treatment of the base layer in order to install a new road, the flatness in advance over the processes wherein the base layer by using of said road produced multiple packaging precast connect the concrete panel member and the filling slot inject mortar through the slot grout port of the road paving pre-cast concrete panels and the step of providing and sequentially connected to, cross-linked filled slots the connecting bond in It has been made by the process of grouting material so as to secure the. Body panel, the connecting member, the fill slot, flatness, grouting


Based on the revelation that color design is aimed at the actual need of product modeling,color emotions,color psychology and color theory are applied in product color design.This paper analyzes the differentiation between artistic effects of product color design and consumer perception.It mainly illustrates the human factors affecting color design and color selection.On this basis,it proposes taking color design of portable electric means of transport as an experimental subject.


A notable development in the U.S. banking system following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the rapid and sustained growth in aggregate bank deposits. Total deposits at domestic commercial banks rose by more than 35 percent since the end of 2019 and stood at around $18 trillion as of the fourth quarter of 2021.