The view on simple life is one of Thoreau's core concepts. Thoreau absorbed some ecological wisdom from Confucian idea of simple life,and then put forward the ecological thought that has far-reaching influence. As the ecocrisis worsens today,the present age value of Thoreau's view on simple life is becoming more and more important. A simple life does not mean requiring all the present-day people to live a secluded life,beside lakes and ponds,or among the mountains. It just suggests that people simplify their material life as much as possible,keep their material wants and consumer demands within the ecological bearing capacity,so that they can have much more time to communicate with nature and protect nature; so that they can elevate their spiritual mentality and cultivate a taste for ecological aesthetics. This is the present age significance of Thoreau's view on simple life.


This paper investigates the benefits of intentionally adding noise to a Bayesian estimator, which comprises a linear combination of a number of individual Bayesian estimators that are perturbed by mutually independent noise sources and multiplied by a set of adjustable weighting coefficients. We prove that the Bayes risk for the mean square error (MSE) criterion is minimized when the same optimum weighting coefficients are assigned to the identical estimators in the combiner. This property leads to a simplified analysis of the noise benefit to the MSE of the combined Bayesian estimator even when the number of individual estimators tends to infinity. It is shown that, for a sufficiently large number of individual estimators, the MSE of the designed Bayesian estimator approaches a plateau for a wide range of added noise levels. This robust feature facilitates the incorporation of the added noise into the design of Bayesian estimators without tuning the noise level. For an easily implementable Bayesian estimator composed of quantizers, the benefit of the symmetric scale-family noise is demonstrated, and the optimal noise probability density function is approximated by solving a constrained nonlinear optimization problem. We further extend this potential Bayesian estimator to the nonlinear filter design. Finally, examples of the noise benefits in random parameter estimation and nonlinear filtering support the theoretical analyses.


Approximately one third of genes in the human genome (1) encode transmembrane (TM) proteins and form more than half of all drug targets (2). However, our understanding of how these proteins fold into their functional form, as well as how they may misfold into a disease-associated form, remains a difficult area of study. By observing the effects of single point mutations in the context of a native sequence, in addition to adding and mutating interhelical interaction motifs on a low complexity sequence background, we aim to elicit 'rules' of TM protein domain association.

For the single point mutation in the context of a native sequence, the TM domain of the sequence Neu, along with its oncogenic substitution V664E form Neu*, were selected. Using molecular dynamics (MD) a united atom model of each dimer in a model bilayer system was subjected to umbrella sampling along an interhelical reaction coordinate to yield a free energy profile of self-association. The lipid order, bilayer thickness, and peptide tilt angle were calculated from trajectories taken from three points along the reaction coordinate. Helical composition, solvent accessible surface area, and hydrogen bond analysis (for the V664E substitution) were performed at the free energy minimum.

Low complexity sequences of polyleucine and polyleucine-alanine heptad repeat sequences, with and without interaction motifs similar to those present in the Neu model, were ligated into PBLM100 plasmids. Transformed E. coli cells were subjected to semi-quantitative homo-interaction analysis using the GALLEX assay. The same TM sequences were modelled using a coarse grained (CG) forcefield. Umbrella sampling along an interhelical reaction coordinate was performed to yield a free energy profile of self-association. Single-linkage cluster analysis of peptides was performed at the global free energy minimum. A representative structure from each set was compared to an averaged structure from the clusters of an atomistic conformational search.

The results presented in this study, could contribute to what in theory would be a large database of motif-driven rules for TM helical domain oligomerisation. This may encourage further investigation into TM protein design for novel application.


By contrasting plating technologies,it was proved that sulfamate nickel plating technology can be performed at high current density and high speed.The bath formula and rational process parameters were given.The increase of nickel sulfamate concentration in plating bath increases the throwing power and decreases the grain size and internal stress of deposit.The current efficiency is decreased at nickel sulfamate concentration600 g/L.The content of nickel sulfamate should be controlled in 350~500 g/L.The presented sulfamate nickel plating technology was applied to the production of steel strips,guaranteeing the production rate.


This research is based on the writer's anxiety about student learning outcomes that are still under KKM. The purpose of this study to determine the effect of learning models bamboo dancing (bamboo dance) on the results of learning IPS class V SDN 1 Cipedes. Learning model of bamboo dancing (bamboo dance) and learning result are the variables studied. This research uses experimental method with quasi experimental design nonequevalent control group design that is two classes of experimental research (treated) and control (without treatment). After doing the calculations, the results of this study indicate an increase in learning outcomes IPS class V students by using learning models of bamboo dancing (bamboo dance), namely; (1) before being treated the average score of students' learning achievement of 53.49; (2) after being treated the mean value of student learning result of IPS is 82,06 and (3) the mean of posttest of experiment class is 82,06 and the mean of posttest of control class is 71,69. From the calculation result, the average value of the experimental class is better than the control class. So it can be concluded that the learning model of bamboo dancing (bamboo dance) improves the learning outcomes of IPS students of SDN 1.Cipedes.


The Jesuit missions in Japan and China during the 16 th -18 th centuries triggered important intellectual encounters between East and West, culminating in disputes concerning the Christian concept of God. Japanese Buddhists and Chinese Confucianists severely criticized not only Christian theism, but (static) European metaphysics as well. The disputes revealed that between East and West there are fundamentally different patterns of thinking and modes of inquiry, which are themselves based on their respective language structures. However, closer examination of this interreligious and crosscultural encounter reveals that on certain levels fruitful possibilities of mutual understanding (even commonality) exist. Thus, studies of this early encounter would clearly be relevant to contemporary discussions between Asian and Western religious thinkers.


IT is hardly possible to imagine that the first experimenter who obtained an electric spark sufficiently strong to produce a sensible sound should not at once have been struck by the fact that he was in the presence of thunder and lightning on a small scale. We find, indeed, in various writings from the early days of electrical machines a number of suggestions that the thunderstorm is an electrical phenomenon; but to Benjamin Franklin belongs the merit of having perceived that a direct experiment was needed to prove what so far was only a guess. In an article entitled "Opinions and Conjectures concerning the Properties and Effects of the Electrical Matter arising from Experiments and Observations made at Philadelphia, 1749," the following passage occurs:—


Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is considered a type of hematopoietic
stem cell disease that affects the bone marrow and blood.

This study aimed to investigate the possible role of the Periplaneta americana extract
CII-3 (PAE CII-3) in the aging of K562 cells.

The proliferation and cell cycle of K562 cells were determined using the
CCK-8 assay and the cell cycle assay, respectively. K562 cells were stained with SA-β-Gal to evaluate cell aging. The mitochondrial membrane potential of K562 cells was detected with the JC-1 mitochondrial membrane potential assay kit. Telomerase activity was verified using the PCR assay. The
transcription of silencing information regulator 2 related enzyme 1 (SIRT1), TSC2, and the mTOR
gene were evaluated with RT-PCR assay. The expression of SIRT1, p-TSC2, and p-mTOR was examined using a Western blot assay.

PAE CII-3 at all concentrations (5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 µg/mL) demonstrated obvious inhibitory effects on K562 cell proliferation, among which 80 µg/mL showed the highest inhibitory effect.
PAE CII-3 significantly blocked the cell cycle and reduced the colony-forming unit (CFU) of K562
cells compared to those in the Control group (p < 0.001). PAE CII-3 markedly increased positive
SA-β-Gal staining K562 cells compared to the Control group (p < 0.001). PAE CII-3 significantly
reduced mitochondrial membrane potential and decreased TERT gene transcription in K562 cells
compared to those of the Control group (p < 0.001). The transcription of the SIRT1 gene (p < 0.01)
and the TCS2 gene (p < 0.001) was markedly decreased, and the transcription of the mTOR gene (p
< 0.05) was significantly increased in K562 cells treated with PAE CII-3 compared to those of the
Control group. PAE CII-3 significantly decreased the expression of SIRT1 (p < 0.01) and p-TSC2 (p
< 0.001) and upregulated the expression of p-mTOR (p < 0.01) in K562 cells compared to those of
the Control group.

PAE CII-3 treatment could trigger aging in K562 cells by activating the
SIRT1/TSC2/mTOR signaling pathway. This study would provide a potential hypothesis of the
mechanism by which PAE CII-3 treatment induces the aging of chronic myeloid leukemia cells.


A large scale magnetic recording model (5000x) has been used to study writing and reading using a film ring head on a medium which can be configured in either a horizontal or vertical recording mode. Field measurements from the written transitions indicate that a narrower transition is written on the vertical medium configuration than on the horizontal.


To obtain the functional fusion protein of rhoptry protein 2, compound rhoptry protein2 and surface antigen 1 of Toxoplasma gondii, the ROP2 and P30 genes from genomic DNA of T. gondii RH strain were amplified by PCR, and were inserted into pMD18-T cloning vector. Then the ROP2 fragment was subcloned to pET-30a(+) plasmid digested by EcoRⅠ and Hind Ⅲ to construct plasmid pET-ROP2. Furthermore, the P30 fragment was subcloned into pET-ROP2 digested by BglⅡ and EcoRⅠ to create plasmid pET-ROP2-P30, the resulting recombinant plasmids, transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3), were induced with IPTG, and the proteins identified by SDS-PAGE were further purified and refolded. The biological activity was analyzed by Western blot with specific antibody. It was found that the sizes of ROP2 and ROP2-P30 were 1212 and 1896bp with corresponding molecular weight 50-kDa and 75-kDa, respectively. The recombinant protein ROP2 (50-kDa) could specifically react with rabbit-polyclonal antiserum, and complex fusion protein ROP2-P30 (75-kDa) could react with P30 monoclonal antibody.


Six Y chromosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci, DYS19, DYS388, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392 and DYS393 were analysed in a reference group of Estonian population consisting of 107 unrelated Estonians. The primers and conditions for PCR amplification were chosen according to the literature references. Detection of alleles was performed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, using silver staining for allele visualisation. Allelic ladders for each STR were used, to ensure correct typing of the alleles. Allele frequencies, haplotype frequencies and gene diversity values were calculated. Allelic frequencies of Estonian population sample were compared to those of some other populations.


Self Help Group (SHG) is a mechanism to extend mutual help and support through sharing ideas, experiences, information, other services and resources. The groups may be viewed as a process or an institution for socio-economic transformation leading to empowerment of the rural poor. It is worth to note that access to financial services is a basic objective of SHGs and may be a dominating one. However, they are basically credit plus groups. Credit plus implies that apart from credit facility, other activities related to economic business and social development are also undertaken with equal emphasis.


Currently, despite the use of the most modern means of saving the victims of accidents and disasters in the oceans and sea space quite often end in numerous casualties. One reason for this is the lack of a sufficient number of life-saving appliances or remove them from the disaster zone. Delivered by air rescue facilities at their landing in native mode, in spite of the chart landing site preparation, have a large enough spread and even carry-over from a given location for miles. There is a need for the development of life-saving appliances which are controlled descent in the area of accidents and disasters would be a little dependent on weather conditions.


The duty of accommodation has enabled great progress in Canadian human rights law for persons with disabilities, particularly in the workplace. However, persons with chronic pain disorders have faced greater challenges in accessing the accommodation duty's promise of equality, which is demonstrated through caselaw analysis. To assess the efficacy of the accommodation of persons with chronic pain disorders, we must answer three questions: (1) what is the theoretical understanding of disability and chronic pain disorders; (2) how are chronic pain disorders accommodated practically (using the workplace as our social illustration); and, (3) what happens after accommodation fails. A hierarchy of disabilities in terms of legitimacy and access to rights has developed, in which chronic pain disorders fall lower than "mainstream" disabilities, primarily due to a lack of medical legitimacy. Thus, persons with chronic pain disorders are subject to differential treatment on the basis of their disability, which is potentially discriminatory.


Objective To study the mechanism of the Compound Qinbai Granule (Granules composed of Scutellaria root and Phellodendron bark) in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in rats.Methods The rat models of radioactive dermatitis were established and randomized into three groups:Compound Qinbai Granule group (experimental group),dexamethasone ointment group (traditional group),and normal saline group (control group).The wound was treated with Compound Qinbai Granule spray,dexamethasone ointment external application,and normal saline spray respectively.By immunohistochemical staining and image analysis,the growth of granulation tissue in the wound area wound healing rate,and the expression of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in the wound tissues were determined on the second,sixth,tenth,eighteenth,and twenty-fourth day after injury.Results The average number of granulation tissue and wound healing rate in the experimental group on the sixth,tenth,eighteenth,and twenty-fourth day were all higher than those in the traditional group and control group with a significant difference (P0.01 or P0.05).The expression of bFGF in the experimental group on the sixth,tenth,eighteenth day was also higher than that in the control group and traditional group (P0.05).Conclusion Compound Qinbai Granule is effective for the radioactive dermatitis of rats,its mechanism may be related with the promotion of the bFGF expression in the wound area.


Article history: Received: May 25 2019 Received in revised format: June 21 2019 Accepted: July 21 2019 Available online: July 22 2019 The Health Care system is changing from the hospitalization to the home care, and the World Health Organization has announced that the rate of care-dependent elderly people in Europe will considerably increase within the next decades. Thus, scientific planning for this area is an essential factor to improve the community health. This paper aims to develop a mathematical modeling for Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem and to solve it by means of Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm considering real condition (staff vehicle traveling, conditions of patients and so forth). We permit interdependent services for patients in which they can order as many services as they want with any relation between them (Multiple Services) and supposed time window for each service. The mathematical formulation of the problem is coded in GMAS software, which is a well-known commercial software for solving optimization problems. In addition, for large-scale problems where GAMS is unable to solve, SA algorithm is applied to tackle the problems. Finally, sensitivity analysis on the most important parameters (number of services and number of patients with interdependent Multiple services) are conducted. The results reveal that when each patient can order infinite services with any relation between them, complexity of the problem increases, but SA algorithm can solve large instances with reasonable solution in the less computational time. Thus, SA algorithm shows a rational performance for large instances. Moreover, the most important factors that affect the objective value and the run time of the problems are number of patients, and number of patients with interdependent multiple services. © 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada.


Since the partition of British India, the dynamics of South Asia has been based on divergent threat perceptions between India and Pakistan, which has further undermined their bilateral relations due to increased mistrust, economic, military, and diplomatic asymmetries. In spite of India`s rise, it is still entangled with multiple disputes with its nuclear peers, including Pakistan and China. Particularly, it has complicated India-Pakistan bilateral relationship, created a `stability-instability paradox,` and consequently widened the expanse of military asymmetry, which is motivating them to crafting of more offensive conventional and nuclear posturing. This mutual animosity has generated a `fear of each other` that had clouded their mutual perceptions, and impacted their behavior. In essence, it has locked them into a perpetual cycle of `security dilemma,` On the other hand, notwithstanding Pakistan`s internal security issues, its geostrategic position would continue to endow it to play a pivotal role together with the regional, Western and Far Eastern countries including the United State (U.S.) and China. Pakistan is a tough and resilient country that possesses sufficient conventional and nuclear forces to make it impregnable for its rivals to surmount. The 21st century is expected t witness an intensification of rivalry between U.S. and China I the Asia-Pacific, and simultaneously flanked by China, India and U.S. in the Indian Ocean. In the context of foreign policy, Pakistan instead of bandwagoning would be better off to balance it in conformity with the changing dynamics of globalized world.


By the energy consumption analysis,environmental assessment and economic analysis of the surface water heat pump which applied in subway air-conditioning system,with the calculation in Nanchang subway lineⅠ,it concludes that using surface water source heat pump relative to the conventional cooling tower,more than 30% energy of the cooling water system is saved and the environmental impact around the subway station is decreased and operating costs are reduced.It has significant social and economic benefits,and will provide a reference to part of the cities which are building subway.


of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree ofM.Prof.Studs. FLOATING TRANSFER STATIONS A LOGISTICS OPTION FOR EXPORTING COAL


The browsers in virtual district can walk freely from different angle,which is established based on VRML.The traditional technology,passive 3D animation observation,is challenged by offering browsers the interactive experiences.


Elemental composition of oil acids extracted out of kerosene-gasoil fractions of Baku oils from offshore deposits has been studied. Their chloroanhydrides have been obtained through interaction of oil acids with 3-chlorine phosphorus. Transition into methyl ethers was necessitated by the release of oil acids from concomitant admixtures and determination of composition and properties of acids in the kerosene fraction.


Cermet double carbide coatings (WC-Cr3C2-Ni) were HVOF sprayed onto magnesium substrate. The variable parameter was spray distance (320, 360 and 400 mm). The microstructure of the coatings has been characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Additional, porosity and residual stress have been estimated. Phase composition of WC-Cr3C2-Ni cermet coatings consists of hexagonal WC carbide, as well as the Cr3C2 and Cr7C3 carbides. For the longest spray distance, minor presence of WC6O6 was detected, most likely as an effect of higher spraying distance, leading to partially oxidation of WC at powders particles boundaries. Comparing lattice parameters with model data it should be noted that no significant contribution of stress is present, due to minor changes in WC lattice parameters in comparison to ICDD data. It also should be noted that Cr7C3 carbide in WC-Cr3C2-Ni coating has different lattice parameters than ICDD data what shows its reactive nature. In obtained results it is clearly seen, that residual stress have the lowest values for coating sprayed from the shorter distance. This tendency is visible for both, linear and shear stress. The crystallite sizes are also the smallest for the shorter spray distance. Such fine structure shows a tendency to good redistribute of the thermal stress in the sprayed coating and also on the coating-substrate interface.


Thin amorphous chalcogenide films of Cu0.11Cd0.40S0.49 glasses were prepared by chemical bath deposition technique. Some samples were irradiated with continuous wave He-Ne 632.8 nm laser beam for 20 minutes and characterized. Results showed that the energy band gap decreased by 0.18 eV after irradiation. The dissipation factor, extinction coefficient, high frequency dielectric constant and the ratio of carrier concentration to effective interaction mass also varied after irradiation. These changes have been identified to be as a result of structural defects introduced on Cu-Cd-S chalcogenide systems, induced by intense laser irradiation.


Vietnamese Salad Recipe: Goi Ngo Sen (Lotus Stem Salad) Everyone hears about the freshness and interesting flavors that make Vietnamese food unique and ...


A hybrid technique is reported, which combines magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser ablation to produce plasma fluxes intersected on a substrate surface to form metal, ceramic and diamond‐like materials. Deposition of crystalline Ti, TixCy, TiCN, and amorphous diamond‐like carbon films at low temperatures by the new technique is discussed. The variation of laser pulse frequency is found to be a simple way to control film chemical composition. The technique can be used to prepare materials with transitional structure, as, for example, between metal carbides and diamond‐like carbon. A hybrid technique is reported, which combines magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser ablation to produce plasma fluxes intersected on a substrate surface to form metal, ceramic and diamond‐like materials. Deposition of crystalline Ti, TixCy, TiCN, and amorphous diamond‐like carbon films at low temperatures by the new technique is discussed. The variation of laser pulse frequency is found to be a simple way to control film chemical composition. The technique can be used to prepare materials with transitional structure, as, for example, between metal carbides and diamond‐like carbon.


This is an attempt to incite the different specialists to clarify the terms used for the wurmian oscillations. What we are intending to show out is the confusion caused by the numbering of Wurm and the numbering of loess, as well as the confusion araised by the use of the same terms for different periods. We have been highly particular about respecting the dates and correspondances proposed by the authors themselves, though we know how uncertain the correlations still are. We would like this table to be especially considered as a base for a discussion in establishing wurmian chronology.


Though composition studies has long sought to leverage new technologies of literacy to help students go public, we remain anxious about our ability to do so, as students commonly enter our classrooms already composing for diverse public audiences in a variety of digital contexts. Yet students, too, are often anxious about these new modes of composition, which circulate in a destabilized rhetorical environment where traditional understandings of authority, argument, and audience no longer hold. This article identifies five topoi of this new rhetorical landscape—presence, persistence, permeability, promiscuity, and power—describing the anxieties and affordances they present for student writers, the dispositions toward writing they foster, and the challenges and opportunities they pose for composition. This framework provides a critical vocabulary for compositionists seeking to help students negotiate emerging networked publics. Online writing makes us anxious. As three scholars and students of the digital{1} we ought to be more sanguine. Collectively, we have embraced a succession of online writing affordances—from HTML to blogs to wikis to Twitter Analytics—and sought to share them with our students. We belong to a field that has long been invested in leveraging new technologies of literacy to help students go public, an interest that has only intensified over the last decade, as new writing platforms have led to new writing ecologies in which members of highly social "networked publics" (boyd, "Social") write as a "mass daily experience" (Brandt 3) as part of an emerging "participatory culture" (Jenkins et al.). We should thus be ideally poised to help students navigate the affordances of this new terrain. Yet we often find our pedagogy inadequate, our vocabulary limited, and our students hesitant to participate in the very deliberative spaces new writing technologies ostensibly foster. We do not believe we are alone. Long-standing concerns in the field about the teaching of public writing—whether classrooms can serve as publics, assignments transfer to public settings, public writing spaces serve a democratic public sphere (Eberly; Ervin; Gogan; Wardle)—have only been exacerbated by the advent of new writing technologies, and scholars have expressed particular concern about the toxicity of online public discourse, corporate ownership of "public" writing spaces, and an increasingly privatized and neoliberal public sphere (Duffy; Giroux; Welch). Against these forces, students have often been treated as hapless, even willing victims (Bauerlein; Carr) by scholars expressing a grim technological determinism (Baym 27-44). Yet even generous readings of students' technoliteracy practices sometimes discount the deeply felt challenges students experience in negotiating the terrain of participatory culture, and it is our goal in this essay to call greater scholarly attention to these experiences and to further a pedagogical conversation in response. Our students are not naïve. But, like us, they are conflicted. On the one hand, they are immersed in emerging writing technologies and practicing public writing; not only do they enter our classrooms already composing for diverse public audiences in a variety of digital contexts, they often employ sophisticated strategies for doing so. At the same time, they are often anxious about these new modes of composition, which circulate in a destabilized rhetorical environment where traditional understandings of authority, argument, audience, and other classroom staples no longer hold. In the "habitus of the new" (Papacharissi and Easton), technological affordances we have long celebrated as a field can easily become liabilities; while networked publics allow for experimental revision, remediation, and remixing, they also require continual impression management. Moreover, the stakes for rhetorical failure are much higher than in the traditional writing classroom: writing that does not meet its mark is not simply a private matter between student and teacher—with an opportunity for revision—but a public affair that may forever define a writer by one inopportune moment. Surveys of teen and young adult social media users suggest an array of concerns from hostile responses (bullying, stalking, harassment, hate speech) to corporate and government surveillance to the loss of face or livelihood from private information becoming public (Allmer 122-48; Anderson and Jiang). It is no wonder then that students may be less inclined than we are to see connections between classroom and online writing spaces (Shepherd) or resist our attempts to bridge the two. To take advantage of emerging writing technologies to help students go public, it is critical that we understand the rhetorical practices that circulate in and shape the networked publics these technologies engender. Toward that end, we identify five critical topoi of this new rhetorical landscape: presence, persistence, permeability, promiscuity, and power. Drawing on recent scholarship in communication, media, and technology studies; participant feedback from our current research projects; and our own classroom attempts to help students go public, we describe the anxieties and affordances these topoi present, the dispositions toward writing they foster, and the challenges and opportunities they pose for composition pedagogy. We briefly define these topoi and the pedagogical questions they raise below, then explore each in depth. Presence: Students write in an environment in which audiences are less imagined entities than actual, oftenimmediate, and sometimes uninvited presences. How do we help them anticipate and respond to these present audiences, which can potentially silence as well as spark discourse? Persistence: Students write in an environment in which writing appears ephemeral, inviting experimentation, but in which every word is archived, inviting anxiety that youthful online participation will come back to haunt them. How do we help students to craft a purposeful digital presence that honors past experiences while allowing for evolving presentations of self? Permeability: Students write in an environment in which texts easily move from their original context to another, blurring the boundaries between public and private spheres and their associated discourse norms. How do we help students respond to the new rhetorical situations that may arise when their writing reaches unexpected audiences? Promiscuity: Digital environments reputedly encourage composing for mixed purposes and multiple publics on various platforms, yet students do not always take advantage of these affordances, fearing rhetorical failure. How do we leverage the rhetorical dexterity of students who do shift easily among contexts, and how do we help more cautious students find their voices in unfamiliar and potentially volatile writing environments? Power: Students write in an environment in which anyone can theoretically be an authority, a feature causing them as much concern as celebration. How do we help them negotiate ethos where traditional criteria for evaluating expertise seem inadequate and where uncertainty over how to present oneself in unfamiliar rhetorical situations may forestall public engagement? Over the past two years, the three of us have met regularly to discuss the challenges of teaching in this emerging rhetorical environment and to compare notes on our various research projects exploring how students negotiate the terrain between academic and public writing. As part of her dissertation research, Merideth conducted interviews during the spring of 2016 with twenty-four eleventh-grade students about their experiences composing with technology for social and academic purposes; the semi-structured interview protocol in this study asked participants to describe and reflect on their early and current experiences interacting on social media platforms and composing with technology for classroom assignments (Garcia). Anna, as part of her dissertation research, studied the writing practices of eight intersectional feminist college students at a large Midwestern research university, conducting four semi-structured interviews with each over the course of two years and collecting academic and social media writing samples during the 2016-17 academic year; her goal for this study was to learn how these students negotiated the relationship between their writing in academic and online domains (Knutson). David has recently been researching students' negotiation of gender dynamics online, collecting students' writing and reflections on their experiences in two women's rhetoric courses with a public writing component in 2016 and 2018 (Gold).{2} In our conversations, we have found similar patterns of response—and similar anxieties about going public—amongst our students and participants.{3} The framework we present here has emerged from these conversations, as we sought a common language to describe the pedagogical challenges we faced. Through this framework, we hope to both raise critical questions about what it means to go public in a digital age and provide guidance for writing instructors seeking to support students in doing so.


Recent advances in thin-fi lm engineering leads to a new type of mixed-phase system in BiFeO 3 (BFO) epitaxial fi lms driven by substrate strain. [ 1 ] Single-phase multiferroic BFO had attracted great interests due to its robust ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic orderings at room temperatures. [ 2–11 ] Under a strong compressive strain ( > 4%), the stable crystal structure of BFO transformed from the rhombohedral-like monoclinics (R) to tetragonal-like monoclinics (T), [ 12 , 13 ] and with suitable strain relaxation through thickness, the coexistence of R-BFO and T-BFO phases can be obtained in the same fi lm. [ 1 , 14–18 ]


Few aspects of Ukraine's post-Soviet transition have interested scholars as much as what most of them call nation building, and few aspects are as controversial. Disagreement over what is being "built," by what means, and with what result, is evident, in particular, in different treatments of Rogers Brubaker's popular concept of nationalizing state. While a number of authors studying ethno-national policies and identities in contemporary Ukraine embrace this concept as a valuable analytical instrument, others insist on its theoretical futility or inapplicability to the case of Ukraine. One obvious problem is that Brubaker's featuring of conflictual relations between the majority-dominated state and noncomplying minorities stands in sharp contrast with the mostly peaceful development of post-Soviet Ukraine, which has been accompanied, moreover, by the marginalization of ethnicity as a factor in policy making. This article, therefore, aims not only at providing an overview of Ukrainian state policies with regard to major ethnic and linguistic groups and their responses, but also at suggesting more appropriate categories and directions of analysis. While seeking to explain to what extent Ukraine can be called a "nationalizing state," I also hope to demonstrate the limited analytical capacity of this concept. Accordingly, I shall begin with a brief presentation of Brubaker's and his critics' main terms and arguments, and then discuss their relevance to the Ukrainian context.


She stood in the kitchen

overlooking the ocean

constant ocean

constant like time

beating against her chest

the way the waves do the shore

slow and heavy

mixing with the salty, fresh taste

of remembrance

She pulled the tray of golden biscuits

from the oven

the way someone might a photo

from an old album

The steaming smell of honey and oats

swirled with the memories

of anticipation

hurt

Of fingers smudged black from

running them across

newspaper columns

with names and dates and deaths

Of the breakfast set for one

Of the empty postbox

Of the perfectly straight sheets

and the silence she whispered into

"Goodnight, I love you,"

Her eyes

fell like darkness

across the harbor

that empty harbor

"Are you making ANZAC biscuits?"

her grandson bounces in

holding toy ships

wearing a sailors hat

grinning into the life

that lay ahead of him

mapped out

by the grandfather who

left

"Yes dear


As the protocol conformance testing has become a common phase during the development process, the TD_LTE wireless terminal tester must be designed in accordance with the protocol specifications. For this purpose, special programming languages, such as TTCN-3, as well as tools are available. This paper builds the corresponding test system based on the standard testing notation TTCN-3, and elaborates the conformance testing process.


Many authors have reported the use of deep learning techniques to model wind power forecasts. For shorter-term prediction horizons, the training and deployment of such models is hindered by their computational cost. Neuromorphic computing provides a new paradigm to overcome this barrier through the development of devices suited for applications where latency and low-energy consumption play a key role, as is the case in real-time short-term wind power forecasting. The use of biologically inspired algorithms adapted to the architecture of neuromorphic devices, such as spiking neural networks, is essential to maximize their potential. In this paper, we propose a short-term wind power forecasting model based on spiking neural networks adapted to the computational abilities of Loihi, a neuromorphic device developed by Intel. A case study is presented with real wind power generation data from Ireland to evaluate the ability of the proposed approach, reaching a normalised mean absolute error of 2.84 percent for one-step-ahead wind power forecasts. The study illustrates the plausibility of the development of neuromorphic devices aligned with the specific demands of the wind energy sector.


Author Institution: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; Gemini Observatory, Hilo, HI 96720; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218; Universitats-Sternwarte Munchen, Mu nchen Germany 81679


Four species assemblages of desmognathine salamanders are sympatric in and along many mountain streams of the southern Appalachians. The species, Leurognathus marmorata, Desmognathus quadramaculatus, D. monticola and D. ochrophaeus, span an aquatic to terrestrial habitat continuum ranging from totally aquatic (L. marmorata) to primarily terrestrial (D. ochrophaeus). Such a system afforded the opportunity of examining concepts of helminth parasite ecology within the context of several recent theoretical predictions. Parasite infracommuinities (populations of all helminth species within individual hosts) in salamanders are isolationist in character. That is, parasite prevalence (percentage of hosts infected with a given parasite species) and mean intensity (mean number of parasites of a given species within a species of host) are low, and as a consequence there is little potential for competitive interactions. Isolationist infracommunities in salamanders arise from factors including a simple enteric system, restricted vagility and ectothermic generalist insectivory. Salamanders have a broad prey base and they do not focus on any particular prey species. Transmission of helminths by intermediate hosts is unimportant and contributes to depauperate helminth faunas dominated by nematodes with direct life cycles. The least diverse infracommunities were associated with Leurognathus marmorata while Desmognathus quadramaculatus had the most diverse fauna. Patterns of prevalence and intensity of infection revealed that salamander helminths were, in general, not host specific. Rather, they are generalists and their distributions can be correlated with host size (age), diet and habitat preferences. INTRODUCTION A principal focus of community ecology is to interpret the effects of competition, predation, mutualism and parasitism, as well as abiotic factors, in determining community structure. Ecological theory has been largely derived from studies on free-living animals with little attention focused on specialist organisms such as parasites. Price (1980, 1984) emphasized that small, highly specialized organisms are very different in many aspects of their biology from larger, more generalized animals so that communities of specialists may be organized in fundamentally different ways from generalist communities. The current literature reveals a predominance of nonequilibrial communities in nature among specialists, in which biotic interactions play a minor role in maintaining community structure (Price, 1984). These are in marked contrast to the equilibrium communities, many of which conform to the predictions of classic competition-based theory (see Strong et al., 1984; Price et al., 1984, and references therein). As stated by Price (1984), "It is valuable to examine the extent to which specialist communities support or contradict the paradigms'" Despite their biological uniqueness and complexity, helminth parasites possess certain attributes which should permit them to contribute significantly to several basic concepts in community theory. First, helminth communities have unambiguous boundaries


Our nation has made greater efforts to fight against corruption in recent years,but there is still a trend of more and more corruptions.This paper analyses their reasons from different aspects.Based on the analysis,it proposes some countermeasures against corruption,which bears a special significance for anti-corruption work of our nation.


Procedures are given for efficiently generating the non-central distributions of (1) random matrices, (2) the characteristic roots of random matrices, and (3) the determinant of random matrices. In particular, procedures are given to generate matrices which have the Wp (n,V,M) distribution.


Explosive volcanic eruptions can loft ash, gases, and water into the stratosphere, which affects both human activities and the climate. Using geostationary satellite images of the 15 January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, we find that the volcanic plume produced by this volcano reached an altitude of 57 kilometers at its highest extent. This places the plume in the lower mesosphere and provides observational evidence of a volcanic eruption injecting material through the stratosphere and directly into the mesosphere. We then discuss potential implications of this injection and suggest that the altitude reached by plumes from previous eruptions, such as the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, may have been underestimated because of a lack of observational data. Description Reaching new heights Large, explosive volcanic eruptions can loft material such as ash, gases, and water all the way into the stratosphere, with measurable impacts on atmospheric composition and climate. Proud et al. used geostationary satellite images of the January 2022 Hunga-Tonga volcano eruption, one of the largest eruptions ever recorded, to show that its volcanic cloud reached an altitude of 57 kilometers, well past the stratosphere and into the mesosphere and higher than any volcanic plume previously recorded. This is the first time a plume has been seen to penetrate the stratopause. —HJS The Hunga-Tonga volcano eruption of January 2022 penetrated into the mesosphere.


Engineering education institutions often struggle with issues of enrollment and retention, despite ongoing educational transformation efforts. A Whole New Engineer, by David Goldberg and Mark Somerville, attempts to address this issue. A former tenured professor at the University of Illinois, David E. Goldberg is the president of Big Beacon, a nonprofit for the transformation of engineering education; and Mark Somerville is a professor of electrical engineering and physics at Olin College. Although the authors do not provide transformation and change methodologies, their arguments offer certain educational reform philosophies that can be valuable to the practitioner. The book recounts an unlikely and unusual journey of experimentation in educational change, and details events surrounding the founding of Olin College of Engineering, a small upstart in Massachusetts, iFoundry, an unfunded incubator pilot in educational change at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and an improbable partnership between the two. The authors narrate their direct experiences of the two separate initiatives and the Olin– iFoundry joint venture from conception to maturity, which yields objective lessons in engineering education transformation. The authors tie the motivation behind the founding of Olin, iFoundry, and the Olin–iFoundry partnership to the educational reform push considering historical events of the 20th century as well as technical, economic, political, and social drivers of change in engineering education. They mention how the educational system missed reform lessons from three key historical revolutions that modernized the technology industry. Next, the authors present Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Carol Dweck's mind-set theory, Daniel Pink's call for a whole new mind, and other influences to discuss the "six minds" of the Whole New Engineer: analytical mind, design mind, linguistic mind, people mind, body mind, and mindful mind. The six minds offer a combination of confidence and courage necessary for inspiring creativity and lifelong learning in the 21stcentury engineers. Their reflection on some key outcomes of an experimental activity among students of the Olin– iFoundry led to the articulation of the "five pillars" of a new educational structure: joy, trust, courage, openness, and connection. According to the authors, intrinsic motivation in students, coaching practices by faculty, organizational culture, and change management philosophy are key to transformation of engineering education. They believe that mainstream educational reform initiatives fail despite sophisticated planning and implementation due to the lack of these five pillars at the foundation of any change effort. The authors found that the five-pillars approach worked wonders for the corporate world and that highly successful private firms tend to thrive with restructured organizational cultures that emphasize the humanistic element of change focused on personal fulfillment, resourcefulness, and independence that results in a sustained culture of innovation. The authors raise some important concerns regarding the present state of engineering education in its inability to address the workforce and innovation needs of the industry. There is a need for courageous and creative engineers who do not conform to the obedience or fixed mindset expected of traditional engineers. To cultivate courageous engineers, there is a need to democratically shift the culture of educational institutions from that of control to a one that established trust among students, administrators, and the faculty. It is vital for educators to assume the role of coaches who exercise emotional intelligence in teaching and are compassionate about student educational needs. The authors contend that social psychology principles, such as coaching and positive psychology, along with organizational sciences (i.e., change management techniques and culture theory), have worked reliably for the private sector and can be applied to the educational reform efforts at universities and colleges. However, meaningful changes are inherently complex and, therefore, require effective collaboration among both the internal and the external stakeholders of academic institutions. Particularly, collaboration among educational institutions may be challenging due to 972053 JEXXXX10.1177/0022057420972053Journal of EducationBook Review book-review2020


Today's world has been changing drastically over few past years in aspect of telecommunication technology development. World has become a small village, connected via large variety of media and devices. With grow of telecommunication industry popularity a need of Internet-mobile-fixed convergence has grown to be a significant issue to be considered and implemented. The matter is important as combining latest trends in technology will result in maximalizing user experience. The intention of this article is to present IMS and its protocols possibility to provide efficient technology convergence. Different aspects of this unification are being considered. Not only is the IMS a key to network convergence but service and device convergence as well. A role of SIP and short over view of other protocols is also present in the paper.


The water release law in the condition of without seedlings was studied based on the variation of the soil water containing rate. The relations between the water release rate ,the validity of water content and environment factors of the solid water at different trial stages were got.Moreover, the solid water had an evident effection on the germination rate of the Caragana korshinkii seeds. The treatment of 0.75 kg solid water per pot had the best effect and the following was 1.0,0.5, 0.25 kg solid water per pot,the control has the least effect .The solid water can improve the solid water condition under the condition of simulative draught .The growth of seedlings can be maintained for more than 2 months at least by using the solid water.


Manipulators are machines which consist of degree of freedom from 1 to infinity depending upon the applications, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are the machines which can access certain typical location whereas ground vehicles can't access. In these work a dissicusion for proposal to employing an UAV with a hyper redundant manipulator, which results to have a mobile manipulating UAV. This proposal can help in structural and other repair, disaster and medical emergencies, cargo supply and resupply etc. Hosting a manipulator in an UAV has few challenges like manipulator movements and interaction with objects which may lead to negatively impact for the host platform stability. The control of the host platform of UAV has many aspects like motion capture system for position control, as compared with the control in a fixed objects host is poor. To overcome such issues the implementation of Hyper- Redundant Manipulator is necessary as it can reduce the negative impacts on the host platform as the ability to move in free space, the redundancy of the arm affords highly approachable workspace for the end effector i.e. allowing the end effector to work with the objects smoothly regardless host platform motions.


From an evolutionary perspective, the role of public policy extends far beyond the mere correction of market failures emphasised by neoclassical economics. Public policy may facilitate the market process. It may also guide the market process (in the case of multiple equilibria). The state can finally play a more creative role by allowing private agents to satisfy individually or collectively certain goals unattainable through market forces alone. However, this paper shows that although the scope of useful public policies is broader in an evolutionary approach than in neoclassical economics, the government's ability to direct the evolution of the economic system is highly limited. This paper also tries to formulate certain normative criteria which could act as public policy guidelines in an evolutionary perspective. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.


When translating psychological measures from their original language to another language, after translation an assumption is made that the measurement assesses the same construct(s) in the original language and for those in the group of the translated language. If this assumption is not met, a translation problem occured and then the measurements are not comparable across cultures because they are not assessing the same variables. This study investigated the quality and accuracy of select variable translations of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) for Saudi Arabian students. This study only focused on the quality of translation of three reading affective constructs (reading motivation, reading attitude, and reading confidence). In their translation and verification procedures, the IEA used the Expert Translation Method (ETM, Mullis et al., 2009); they did not use a common method (given citations here) known as Backward Translation Method (BTM, from English to Arabic and then from Arabic to English) as a step of translation validity from English to the Arabic language. This investigation conducted the Backward Translation Method as a step of validation to evaluate whether the final Arabic PIRLS affective scales version were the same for those three constructs. After comparing between the IEA ETM translation version and the BM translation version, the researcher found that certain items were translated by the IEA ETM for Saudi students were above their level of reading understanding and thus comprehension while other items were not semantically equivalent. Results of this study advise researchers to proceed with caution as some attitudinal affective items are not comparable across the two cultures and not within the Saudi culture.


I present recent results of the computation of NLO radiative corrections to the coe(cid:14)cient of the power suppressed term of chromomagnetic type for the inclusive semileptonic width of a heavy (cid:13)avor particle.


This article represents the results of studying students' goals for physical culture training during their schedule hours. Based on semantic analysis application the latent hierarchy of studied indices is designed.


This thesis represents the result of a graduation project for the Master Strategic Product Design at the Delft University of Technology carried out in collaboration with citizenM. citizenM is a Netherlands based hotel chain and offers an affordable luxury lifestyle in the big cities of the world. The aim of citizenM is to become the leading transformational hotel inspiring a new generation. To achieve this ambition, citizenM needs to innovate the customer experience.   Nowadays, we live in a world that gets more and more connected through customer innovations. Customers are transforming their behaviour from just consuming services and goods into being part of an experience. Customers prefer to feel that they belong to a company instead of being simply treated as customers. To become more customer-centric citizenM wanted to create a board of customers.   The customer need and the citizenM ambition led to the project aim to find out if implementing a customer board for repeat customers will create a next level of engagement and a sense of belonging to the citizenM brand. The intended result is fulfilling the customer need, a sense of belonging, by a next level of engagement. The challenge that followed was to design a unique platform, a customer board, where customers can give their opinions and advice, and to demonstrate how customer feedback is shaping company decisions.  The process consists of three phases; research, conceptualization and validation. The research phase included a literature review regarding customer co-creation, attitudinal loyalty and customer engagement. Next, an analysis of the competitors, customers, company and future trends was conducted. The research insights were the basis for the conceptualization. The presented solution, offering a sense of belonging to the guests by a next level of engagement, is called the citizen board. The citizen board is a digital co-creation platform integrated in the citizenM app called citizenship and will be an extension of the digital passport concept.  The final design proposition, a visualisation of the app user flows, illustrates an innovative process for citizenM guests to interact with citizenM. The citizen board is focussing on creating micro moments and a feedback loop for repeat customers who are interested and willing to share their suggestions. Besides creating a next level of engagement and a sense of belonging, the customer board is also there for customers to create enjoyment a fun, a social community and a feeling of being valuable and recognized. With a personalised experience citizenM is willing to invest in becoming an even more customer-centric organization. citizenM will differentiate themselves from their competitors and with the help of the citizen board citizenM will maintain a steady loyal customer base. During the validation phase the citizen board proposition was presented to twenty five citizenM guests and hotel ambassadors. The qualitative research method resulted in a validation moment of the design criteria. The thesis is concluded with recommendations for further developing the citizen board proposition.


The present invention relates to a shaped thrust vectoring nozzle so as to divide a main propulsion gas flow coming from at least one gas generator into a first and a second flow for an ejection into a first and a second half-nozzles (14, 16) and having at least one of the following two piloting means: the distribution of the main flow control means in each of the two half-nozzles and means of orienting the thrust vector produced by each of the two half-nozzles .L'invention applies in particular to the yaw control of an aircraft without vertical tail.


At commercial environments, the owners usually focus their attention and financial resources for satisfying the customers, putting aside "the backstage of the business". Given that, the purpose of this research is the evaluation of the environmental quality of a copier and binder, focused on employees, considering the importance of creating also a pleasant space for workers, preserving their health and improving productivity. With an investigative and qualitative character, the research adopts multimethods of the area of architecture and ergonomics. The results encompass the relationship of physical space and users, exposing several conflicts that may be developed for guidelines and project proposals in future projects or space adaptations.


In the U.S.A., annualized real GDP growth accelerated by a vigorous 3.3% in the second quarter of 2008 after having risen by 0.9% in the first quarter of 2008 and shrunk by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2007. Growth in the second quarter of 2008 was led primarily by net exports and higher consumer spending, which is largely attributable to the distribution of tax rebate checks. A rigorous rundown in inventories and flagging residential construction investment made a seriously negative contribution to growth. The latest U.S. economic indicators signal a significant slowdown of economic activity in the second half of 2008 and in 2009, with downside risks having markedly risen recently. In July 2008, U.S. leading indicators (Conference Board) clearly deteriorated having fallen in eight of the past 12 months. In August 2008, industrial production was down sharply, and capacity utilization shrank to its lowest level since


Received: June 15, 2005; Revised: September 20, 2005; Accepted: September 23, 2005. Corresponding author: Yung-Hsiao Chiang, Department of Neurological Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, 325, Cheng-Gong Road Section 2, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. Tel: +886-2-87927177; Fax: +886-2-87927178; Email: email@example.com Treatment of Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture by Percutaneous Vertebroplasty or Kyphoplasty


Taking an intergroup communication perspective, this study extends previous research into intergenerational communication. Firstly, we widen the respondent base, insofar as much previous research has tended to use college/university student respondents. Here, we asked young teenagers aged 12–16 years about their communication experiences with young adults aged 20–25 years and older adults aged 65–85 years as well as with their own peers. Secondly, we extend previous research on what constitutes 'good communication' from teenagers' perspectives with these particular target groups. Results revealed that against expectations, the teenagers were less likely to differentiate between these age groups in terms of how accommodative, overbearing, and non-communicative the groups were towards them. On these dimensions, the teenagers' evaluations were quite positive. Regarding how the teenagers themselves communicated with these groups, the teenagers reported that they made efforts to accommodate in various ways, although they did also report some discomfort in their communication with age outgroups. The teenagers reported that they were conscious of age along intergroup dimensions, but this affected their reported satisfaction with conversations with older people rather than with young adults. These findings are discussed in relation to previous research into teenagers' communication and into young adults' experiences with teenagers.


Ceramic culture as Chinese culture has a long history and is the Chinese people's spiritual home. The ceramic culture resource base contains a large number of images, videos, and other resources, so the collection of image category of data mining, as well as the finishing processing, is very critical. Thousands of years of ceramic data accumulation and impatient information demand have created a new point of contradiction for ceramic cultural resources. Therefore, in order to address this issue, we carried out a research study based on the concept of big data mining of ceramic cultural resource data, which is based on data fusion and feature extraction methods. We also considered semantic segmentation processing methods, which are used for data information management, scheduling, identification, collection, statistics, and aggregation of heterogeneous ceramic cultural big data. Further, a fine mining method for ceramic culture big data based on semantic segmentation is also proposed. As a result, the distributed storage of information and detection capability of ceramic cultural resource data are improved. The experimental results reveal that the proposed method performed better than the earlier approaches.


SABI recently recognised the top learners from the SABI Schools irrigation courses held at agricultural schools in the Western Cape last year. Our hearty congratulations to the winners - Matthys Mouton from Augsburg Landbou Gimnasium, Lian van Wyk from Boland Agricultural School and Franco van der Mescht from Oakdale Agricultural School. The schools course introduces learners at a young age to irrigation, cause for great optimism as it sows the seeds for the future for efficient use of water and excellence in water conservation in agriculture, turf and landscape.


.................................................................................................................... xv Chapter 1: Quantitative Studies of Substituent Effect on Phenolic Part of Benzoxazine in Its Polymerization ............................................................................. 1 1.


IntroductionI begin this paper with a reflection on an event in honor of a well-known, well-respected feminist scholar of color; one who has inspired my work and much of the work of my friends and colleagues. During the celebration of this scholar's contributions to the field of academic research, scholars, academics and researchers argued, publicly, over whether the honoree's contributions were in the form of theory (having enriched the scholarly canon with theoretical concepts and frameworks) or in speaking from her experience (from her location as a racialised woman, offering insightful gains for research in general). The room felt tense, divided, and very uncomfortable. That a woman of color's contributions to scholarship could be either theoretical or lived experience, but not both, angered quite a few attendees. That certain bodies in the room could even reduce her contributions to experience angered many others, who felt that the comments reflected the tendency of many western academics to pigeonhole women of color into experiential/emotional writers (Trinh, 1989). The assumption made (or inferred) by some was that the lived experience of a racialised woman in academia counted for something, but that it wasn't really "book knowledge" (hooks, 1994). Or, more to the point, that in speaking from her experiences, this scholar offered no other value than to occupy the role of the native informant (Khan, 2005) who "translates her culture for the researcher, the outsider" (p. 2023).I would like to note here that this reflection does not to disclaim or discredit the many white feminist researchers and scholars who might also have their scholarship be reduced to "experience;" nor for that matter to shadow what experience has meant (or not meant) to the field of research in general from any non-dominant group member. I simply want to trouble the multiple axes of power that for some, would reduce this racialised woman's scholarship merely to moments of experiential insight, as connected to and building upon what others before her have done and what others after her will continue to do. This analysis cannot be done independently of complicating the ontological and epistemological traditions that secure what is knowledge and what is not knowledge, or more accurately, who is a knower and who is not a knower.This paper seeks to examine the role of Eurocentrism, dominance, hegemony and colonialism in the production and re-production of "legitimate" knowledge and knowers in the western world. Using race-based epistemologies, I will argue that the subaltern body is socially, politically and racially marginalized so that they can never express their ways of knowing and reasoning without being "Othered," oppressed and repressed, across time and space. However, I also argue that, while the racialised Other is marginalized, s/he is also a necessary condition for the continuation of colonial and epistemic violence in mainstream institutions. The acknowledgement of this position is not meant to destabilize movements by racialised groups (or any other oppressed groups for that matter) to challenge the epistemic violence of imperialism that powerful groups continue to defend. Conversely, it is a matter of identifying an epistemologically sound space for racialised bodies in relation to dominance that secures these "alternative" ways of knowing; that allows for a "racialised Other" to speak. As such, the role and rigor of dominance is central to race-based epistemologies, and central to this paper. To begin however, we must link Eurocentric, western dominance to its historical and ontological roots, specifically to understand the nature of reality upon which racial classifications are based.Ontology of raceScholars argue that in order to challenge racism in social research, we must be vigilant about deconstructing the nature of truth and reality upon which epistemologies are generally based (Anzuldua, 1987; Bernal, 2002; Canella & Lincoln, 2004; Denzin, 2002; Hill Collins, 2000; Ladson-Billings, 2000, 2003; Pillow, 2000; and Soloranzo & Yosso, 2002). …


Розглянуто реалізацію символів часу у французькій поезії ХІХ століття. Охарактеризовано основні значення
символів світанок, сутінки, вечір та ніч у французьких поетичних текстах. Розкрито форми взаємодії різних типів
символів та образів. Акцентовано увагу на контамінації різних мовних засобів для реалізації символів у контексті.
(Some peculiarities of realization and verbalization of «time» symbols in the French poetry of XIX century are analyzed.
The article gives an expanded description of symbols of dawn, twilight, evening and night in French poetic texts. It figures out some important forms of interaction between different types of symbols and images. A symbol of dawn is prevailing in the poetry of XIX century. In the poetic context it's realized mostly by alliterations and personifications. A symbol of twilight that
is verbalized by the French lexeme «Crepuscule» isn't really widespread in the French poetry. But in most cases it symbolizes the end of an important period in the hero's life. A symbol of evening has got such meanings as autumn, tiredness and weariness and is realized by such metaphoric epithets as «incertain», «charmant» and «triste. A symbol of night is realized in the
context in the meaning of recollections and dreams by means of some stylistic techniques such as personification, comparison and metaphor.
A special attention in the article is drawn on the contamination of different linguistic means in order to implement some symbols in the context. In the poetry of XIX century the «time» symbols are realized by some phonetic means (alliteration, assonance), lexical means (synonyms, antonyms), graphic means (italics) and stylistic means (metaphors, personifications
and epithet).


In isolated rat diaphragm suspended in a buffer solution where Na+ had been exchanged for K+ or choline the basal phosphorylase a activity was reduced and the phosphorylase a activating effect of adrenaline and isoprenaline was blocked or reduced. The total phosphorylase activity and the level of high energy phosphate compounds were unchanged in high-K+ buffer but the former reduced in choline buffer. The basal phosphorylase a activity was reduced in a Ca++-free solution but the effect of adrenaline was unchanged. The phosphorylase a activating effect of the catecholamines is mediated by adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate (cyclic AMP). Addition of cyclic AMP to the buffer solution had a stimulating effect on the phosphorylase a activity of the rat diaphragm. This effect was blocked or reduced when Na+ in the buffer solution was exchanged for K+ or choline. It has been demonstrated that the stimulating effect of adrenaline on the cyclic AMP content in the diaphragm is unchanged in high-K+ media. We suggest that the blockade of the phosphorylase a activating effect of the catecholamines in high-K+ media was due to an inhibition of the action of cyclic AMP.


The COVID-19 pandemic created significant problems for everyone and every business, but a few enterprises thrived, and Amazon was at the top of the list. Through their AWS (Amazon Web Services), Amazon controls many companies' information flow and data of all sizes. But what the general public does not know is that Amazon has been working on several blockchain and AI initiatives for over a decade. This chapter will provide a detailed narrative about Amazon's activity, patents, databases, and services that will leverage blockchain technology. The many patents filed by Amazon will greatly benefit Amazon both now and in the future.


The presence of macroscopic flows in hot plasmas is of great importance in nuclear fusion experiments. For pedagogical purposes, the spontaneous appearance of the flow is studied using the Hasegawa–Mima equation (HME) driven by external noise. The noise is assumed to model a bath of microscopic-scale turbulence. If the noise has a parity-nonconserving element, it is shown that an advective term associated with a uniform flow is inherently generated in the HME. A renormalization-group approach up to the lowest order is taken in the analysis of the asymptotic state. Parity-conserving noise is shown to lead to the renormalizations of field and viscosity and the critical dimensions are obtained.


Research on forecast of manning quotas of public undertaking is very important to the science and specification of management of manning quotas,and to the harmonious development of public undertaking.Combination forecast was made based on the three forecast methods on the manning quotas of public undertaking:factor regression analysis,trend regression,and growth quantitative analysis.The forecast of manning quotas scale of Jiangxi Province's public undertaking will be better made.


Hamlet. Rylands' doublets, as it happens, are mainly not hendiadys (only 12 of his 27 make my Table A); Rylands does not use the word "hendiadys" until long after he has finished discussing his doublets (pp. 208, 236); and his two statements about hendiadys are distressingly vague ("The hendiadys uses of Hamlet have been considered ..." [p. 236; "They have?" is my astonished query]) or inadequately explanatory ("The metaphor is not used for hendiadys as in Hamlet [sic]," p. 208). He seems to think of hendiadys as the use of two terms not quite parallel either in sense or in style, but he never mentions Latin poetry and, beyond the description quoted by Loesch, which is not a description of hendiadys, he offers no analysis of how the figure works. Although Rylands is acute on some points of Shakespeare's style, on the matter of doublets Granville-Barker, who published his "Preface to Hamlet" in 1930, only two years after Rylands' book (which he may indeed have read), seems to me much more telling. Incidentally, Rylands' edition of Hamlet, though helpful in many ways, never mentions hendiadys anywhere—not in its lengthy Introduction, its Notes, its Select Literary Criticism, its Appendixes, or its footnote glosses. My own notes cite Rylands' two glosses mainly to show how editors make up meanings that miss the hendiadys in word pairs. With the exhumation of Rylands' study, we can rejoice that the lost has been found. But there is more at issue here than recovering one scholarly discussion of Shakespeare's style. The crucial question is whether we need to see Shakespeare's use of hendiadys within the larger context of his (and other writers') use of doublets. Loesch's letter gives me a welcome occasion to address briefly this important matter. About the time my article was published, I became aware that the history of hendiadys and its use in Shakespeare's plays may be only one chapter—but the most significant one for English poetry—in the larger history of the use of English word pairs. Reading Jerome Mitchell's Thomas Hoccleve: A Study in Early Fifteenth-Century English Poetic (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1968), I found that the device goes back to the ninth-century Alfredian translation of Bede, which frequently uses two Old English words to render one Latin word. Two words, especially if they are long and Latinate, confer gravity on a passage, even if the second adds no significant meaning to the first (see J. M. Hart, "Rhetoric in the Translation of Bede," in An English Miscellany: Presented to Dr. Furnivall in Honour of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday [Oxford: Clarendon, 1901], pp. 150-54). For centuries afterward, authors continued to couple their terms, and scholars have cited numerous examples from the prose of Caxton, Cranmer, Bokenham, and the Book of Common Prayer (Mitchell, p. 67). In poetry, too, word pairs abound—in Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and other fifteenth-century writers. The linked terms may be synonyms, or they may have "different, or even opposite meanings" (Mitchell, p. 68). But as far as I can judge from Mitchell's examples and from a cursory look through Hoccleve and others, the peculiar elusive character of hendiadys does not enter into these early word pairs. Apparently, however, it became standard practice to join one native English word with a foreign derivative, a polysyllable with a monosyllable, or an abstract with a concrete term— just the combinations mentioned by Rylands (though he gives no credit to Hart, as Granville-Barker gives none to him). Many of the examples in my tables show one or more of these kinds of imbalance (e.g., expectancy and rose, fantasy and trick, bell and burial, voice and precedent), along with the peculiarly hendiadic complexity of meaning that my essay tries to describe. One imagines that Shakespeare, familiar with the rhetorical advantages of using asymmetrical word pairs but, unlike most of his predecessors, also aware, from his study of Susenbrotus, of the Vergilian pattern of hendiadys, learned to fuse the two techniques—to write phrases in which the two conjoined terms would not only mix styles (English with foreign, long word with short, abstract with concrete) but would also convey a sense of structural uncertainty and problematical meaning. Rylands' insights, like those of Granville-Barker, like Hart's, like Mitchell's, like mine, are stages in the recognition of an important component of early English literary style, a component that perhaps will find one day a more complete historian than any of us.


The tumor suppressor p27, which is a member of the Cip/Kip family of Cyclin‐dependent kinase inhibitory proteins (CKIs), controls anti‐proliferative events. The post‐translational addition of O‐GlcNAc to p27 occurs in HEK293T and HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) cell lines, and we identified Ser2, Ser106, Ser110, Thr157, and Thr198 as the glycosylation sites of p27 based on the Q‐TOF spectrum. Here, immunoprecipitation analysis showed that Ser2 was O‐GlcNAcylated and that this modification was associated with the increased phosphorylation of p27 at Ser10, ultimately resulting in p27 accumulation in the cytoplasm and increased p27 ubiquitination. In addition, O‐GlcNAcylation at Ser2 suppressed Cyclin/CDK complex‐p27 interactions by promoting the nuclear export of p27, thus facilitating cell cycle progression. Cell proliferation was negatively regulated when Ser2 of p27 was replaced with Ala. Furthermore, western blot and immunohistochemical analyses of HCC tissues and their corresponding nontumorous tissues were performed, and we found that O‐GlcNAcylated p27 correlated with cell proliferation in HCC. Together, our results indicate that the dynamic interplay between O‐GlcNAcylation and p27 phosphorylation coordinates and regulates cell proliferation in hepatocellular carcinoma. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


The induction accelerator was conceived by N. C. Christofilos and first realized as the Astron accelerator that operated at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) from the early 1960s to the end of 1975. This accelerator generated electron beams at energies near 6 MeV with typical currents of 600 Amperes in 400-ns pulses. The Advanced Test Accelerator (ATA) built at Livermore's Site 300 produced 10,000-Ampere beams with pulse widths of 70 ns at energies approaching 50 MeV. Several other electron and ion induction accelerators have been fabricated at LLNL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). This paper reviews the principal diagnostics developed through efforts by scientists at both laboratories for measuring the current, position, energy, and emittance of beams generated by these high-current, short-pulse accelerators. Many of these diagnostics are closely related to those developed for other accelerators. However, the very fast and intense current pulses often require special diagnost...


Cellulose is the most abundant renewable natural resource on the earth.Termites are one of the most efficient cellulose decomposers in the nature.The important role of cellulase in development and utilization of cellulose was introduced,and the research progress on cellulases from termites was reviewed.


The thinking of earthquake research in China should be shifted from the viewpoint of fault to active block (MA Jin, 1999). ZHANG Pei-zhen et al. divide the active blocks in Chinese mainland and its adjacent area into two degrees: the first degree refers to active-block regions and the second degree refers to active blocks. The former contains 6 block regions, e.g. the Qingzang (Qinghai-Tibet) region, etc. and the latter contains more than 20 active blocks, e.g. the Lhasa block and so on. We attempt to analyze the characteristics of geological structure and focal mechanism of group strong earthquakes that occurred recently in Chinese mainland from the block viewpoint on the basis of the two-degree active blocks. The strong earthquakes (M≥7 in the west and M≥6 in the east) occurring in China of 1977—2003 can be roughly divided into 9 groups. In summary, the strong earthquakes occurring in the recent 10 years still have the grouping feature and most of them are located in the boundary zones between active-block regions or active blocks. Moreover, their focalmechanism solutions are quite similar to each other, except for the earthquakes in the 4th group (the earthquakes that occurred in the Beibu Gulf and the Taiwan Straits can be considered as an individual case) and in the 5th group (the earthquakes that occurred in Mandalay-Diannan block near the plate boundary are not regarded as intraplate earthquakes). Based on the study of horizontal strain field in Chinese mainland and its surroundings with GPS data, we point out in the paper that group strong earthquakes have their own genesis for the similar motion pattern and dynamic origin. From the above analysis, we conclude: (1) The rule of strong earthquake occurrences in groups is still effective after more than 10 years practice, and it is an applicable method for locating earthquakes in the medium and short-term earthquake predictions. (2) The regional characteristics of group strong earthquakes enable us to predict the location of earthquakes in a smaller range on the boundary zone between the second-degree blocks in a first-degree block region or between two first-degree block regions. (3) Except plate-margin area, the group strong earthquakes have consistent focalmechanism solutions. This indicates that they have similar kinetic mechanisms and dynamic processes, or perhaps, we can say, that they develop monolithically and occur successively.


This document defines a YANG data model for Deterministic Networking
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• Ties link notes of the same or equivalent letter name, as in ordinary music notation. • Stems designate notes which are considered structurally more important than those which are unstemmed – i.e., those which are considered closer to the long-range voiceleading that is the underlying structure of the piece. In the bass, stems are attached to those notes which are considered essential to the harmonic progression and are usually not reducible.


Coal Miners on Strike: The Transformation of Strike Demands and the Formation of a National Union This study employs previously unused data on strikes in American coal mines in order to analyze the development of the coal industry and the emergence of a national union of mine workers. The data we have used are drawn from the Third and Tenth Annual Reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Labor.1 These reports give detailed observations of virtually every strike which took place in all major U.S. industries between I88I and I894. The years for which the data are available span a particularly important period for the development of the coal industry and for the emergence of a national trade union organization among the miners. Two major approaches presently dominate strike analysis: that of the economist and that of the social historian.2 These con-


Relations between Russia and the Baltic States in the economic sphere today are at the higher level than the political dialogue. This state of affairs is not conducive to the promotion of regional interests of Russia. The necessity of searching new means to achieve the external political and economic goals is growing. The geo-economic analysis shows that the most important factor in the realization of Russian interests in the Baltic region may be the exploitation of the Baltic direction of German foreign policy. The aim of our study is to establish the correlation between German foreign policy doctrine in point of the Baltic States at the present stage and possibility of realization of Russian political, economic, social and humanitarian interests in the region.


Controlled environment sunlit plant growth chambers have been built because of a great interest in plant responses to environmental variables under light intensities approaching those of natural sunlight conditions. Individual research projects have designed sunlit chambers that differ in size, structure, material, and environmental control systems dependent on the goals of the projects. Most literature describes plant organism responses to environmental variables, whereas reports of system design and performance are few. The objective of this article is to present a review of the engineering aspects of the design, environmental control, and performance of sunlit growth chambers that have been described in the literature. Most controlled environment sunlit growth chambers have been constructed with experimental plants grown in either pots or soil bins. Although a few sunlit growth chambers were designed for field grown plants, precise environmental control was not available. Further progress in the development of precise controlled environment sunlit growth chambers should include portability (or movability) so these chambers can be used in multiple field sites for greater cost-effectiveness. Modifications for improvements in guidelines for the design and operation of controlled environment growth chamber studies are also proposed.


In this bachelor's work I occupy with the theme "Spa treatment as an important part of the treatment plan for children with asthma". This disease belongs to the most frequent diseases in childhood and its incidence in population constantly swells. The number of children with asthma is about 9,6 % in the Czech Republic (source: Malý M., 2014). The work has theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part asthma is described as a disease, its signs, diagnostics, treatment, spa treatment, spa procedures. Simultaneously is described a concrete treatment plan for children patients in the Lazně Luhacovice, a.s. company. The aim of the practical part is to discover if the children or their parents have lerned the new methods that help them to tackle with signs of this disease. There are interviews with respondents and the last aim is creation of an educative pamphlet for the patients.


A guide to organisations representing civil society, stakeholders and pressure groups and the process of lobbying at EU level, with hyperlinks to sources of information within European Sources Online and on external websites.


An experimental technique described by Eijkman and Vendrik ["Can a Sensory System be Specified by Its Internal Noise?," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 37, 1102–1109 (1965)] is applied to a binaural task involving the detection of simultaneous signals in both ears. In the first observation interval of a modfied 2AFC task, a tone burst Vo is presented to each ear. In the second interval, one of four random events occurs: (1) the tone burst Vo is present in each earphone, (2) Vo is in left, Vo+ΔV in right, (3) Vo+ΔV in left, Vo in right, or (4) Vo+ΔV presented in both phones. The observer is to report which of the four events occurred. Uncorrelated noise is continuously present in each earphone channel. Comparison conditions were run in monaural and Sm‐Nu versions of the binaural task. Analysis of the data includes consideration of the facilititative‐inhibitory interactions between the channels, and the computed between‐channel correlation. For example, hit and false‐alarm probabilities in each channel are examined i...


PPTA is a high-performance fibre with premium mechanical and heat-resistant properties. This study focused on developing cut-resistant gloves from recycled PPTA fibre. The cut resistance of knitted glove, from virgin and recycled PPTA fibre yarn with/without steel core, was evaluated to determine the performance of the glove. The fibre and yarn parameters were studied to understand the underlying factors which aided in premium cut-resistant properties of gloves manufactured from recycled fibres – higher than that of gloves manufactured from virgin PPTA fibres.


It is over ten years since the Court of Appeal confirmed the legitimacy of the public interest defence in copyright law in Ashdown v Telegraph Group Ltd. However, remarkably little is still known about the defence's function and scope. Indeed, acknowledgement of its unfathomability has become commonplace in copyright jurisprudence and scholarship. This situation contrasts sharply with the position in other related areas of law, such as breach of confidence and defamation, in which courts have made dramatic strides in recasting doctrine to protect "public interest" disclosures. Developments in EU copyright law have also plunged the defence into a renewed crisis of legitimacy. The time therefore seems ripe for a reconsideration of the role of the public interest defence in United Kingdom copyright law. In this article, an attempt is made to understand its implicit rationale and scope. It is argued that the existing jurisprudence reflects a persistent concern about copyright's potential to subvert policy outcomes generated by alternative regulatory systems and that the defence is to be viewed as a form of pre-emption doctrine, allowing courts to avoid the explicit rules established under the CDPA in circumstances in which their application would frustrate the outcomes of other more appropriate forms of regulation.


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Introduction: The cell functions involved in the action of insulin receptor binding enzyme and transporter activities are controlled by membrane properties, and the amount of dietary fat as well as the nature of fatty acids regulates various steps in the biosynthesis of membrane phospholipids. Objective: To investigate the effect of flaxseed oil on improving erythrocyte membrane components and insulin sensitivity in diabetic rats. Methods: Thirty two adult male albino rats were used in this study and classified into four groups control, flaxseed oil, diabetic and treated groups. Fasting blood glucose and plasma insulin were estimated. Total lipids in the red blood cells membrane were extracted with chloroform/methanol method. Erythrocyte membrane total lipids, total cholesterol and triglycerides were determined. Fatty acids and phospholipids fractions were measured by HPLC.


Buddhism has a long history in Cambodia, beginning with the arrival of Indian monks in the 4th century and continuing until the present day. This paper will provide a detailed overview of the development of Buddhism in Cambodia, beginning with its introduction in the 4th century, followed by its growth and spread during the Khmer Empire period, and its gradual decline during the French colonial period. It will also discuss the resurgence of Buddhism in the modern era and its current status in Cambodia. The paper will conclude with an analysis of the impact of Buddhism on Cambodian society and culture.


We discuss spin-S antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains with three-spin interactions, next-nearest-neighbor interactions, and bond alternation. First, we prove rigorously that there exist parameter regions of the exact dimerized ground state in this system. This is a generalization of the Majumdar-Ghosh model to arbitrary S. Next, we discuss the ground-state phase diagram of the models by introducing several effective field theories and the universality classes of the transitions are described by the level-2S SU(2) Wess-Zumino-Witten model and the Gaussian model. Finally, we determine the phase diagrams of S = 1 and S = 3/2 systems by using exact diagonalization and level spectroscopy.


The morphology structure and photosynthetic characteristics of summer maize(Suyu20 and Zhengdan958) were studied during different growth stages under different water stresses(drought stress,flooding stress and control environment) in potting experiment. The results showed that soil and plant analyzer development(SPAD) value,net photosynthetic rate(NPn),transpiration rate(Tr) and conductance to H 2 O( Gs) decreased,and the intercellular CO2 concentration(Ci) increased under water stresses. The sensitive degrees of two summer maize cultivars to water stresses at tasseling stage were higher than those at jointing stage,and they were further higher to flooding stress than those to drought stress. The drought resistance of Suyu20 was similar to Zhengdan958 at different growth stages,but the flooding resistance of Suyu20 was lower than Zhengdan958. The results provided a theoretical basis for maize water stress research in different regions.


A number of numerical methods for mildly nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems on general domains is presented. The discretization procedures considered are: a fourth-order FFT-type method, collocation using Hermite bicubic splines and Galerkin with linear triangular as well as quadratic quadrilateral isoparametric elements. The linearized collocation and Galerkin equations are solved by various direct methods available in the ELLPACK system. A comparative study of the above equation solvers is presented for different domain geometries and compilers. The evaluation of software for the general mildly nonlinear elliptic equations is performed over 36 instances from a population of 16 parametrized problems with 'real world' and 'mathematical' behaviour. The performance data suggests that collocation is an effective method for such general problems, while Galerkin with quadratic quadrilateral isoparametric elements is uniformly superior to the one with linear elements.


The jujube lycium berry juice is characterized by that 1000 kg of said product comprises 40-100 kg of jujube, 20-50 kg of lycium berry, 50-100 kg of white sugar, 400-1000 g of thickener, 500-800g of sour agent A, 500-800 g of sour agent B and preservative less than 0.5 g/kg (by concentration), and its preparation process includes the folloiwng steps: selecting fruit, soaking, cleaning, cooking, pulping, separating, blending, homogenizing, deaerating, sterilizing and filling.


The theory of electron transport in amorphous materials predicts multiple maxima in the energy dependence of the elastic reflection probability for certain solids and experimental geometries. In particular, two maxima are expected in the energy dependence of the intensity of the elastic peak measured in the geometry of the cylindrical mirror analyzer for medium atomic-number elements. This prediction is confirmed experimentally in the present work. It has been found that the energy dependence of the elastic peak height better agrees with the theoretical energy dependence of the backscattered intensity than does the area of the elastic peak. This observation can be explained in terms of the transmission properties of the analyzer used