Low and free nickel austenitic stainless steel alloys were developed successfully and proposed to be used as a liquid sodium coolant fast reactor pressure vessel cladding. A standard austenitic stainless steel SS316L (AISI 316L) was produced as a reference sample. The nickel content was partially or totally replaced by manganese and nitrogen. The microstructure of the produced stainless steel alloys was investigated using Schaeffler diagram, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction patterns (XRD). Mechanical properties of the developed stainless steel grads were investigated using Vickers hardness, impact and tensile tests at room temperature. Sodium chloride was used to study the corrosion rate of the investigated alloys by open circuit potential technique. Slow and total slow neutrons removal cross sections were measured using 241 Am-Be neutron source and highly calibrated He-3 detector. Eight gamma ray lines which emitted from 60 Co and 232 Th radioactive sources and HPGe detector were used to study the attenuation parameters of the produced alloys. Metallography, Schaeffler diagram and XRD results showed that all the produced stainless steels are mainly of austenite phase with a small ferrite phase. The developed manganese-nitrogen stainless steels showed higher hardness, yield and ultimate tensile strength than SS316L. The elongation of developed stainless steels is relatively lower than the standard SS316L. The impact toughness was reduced with replacement of Ni by Mn. The developed manganese stainless steels have a higher total slow removal cross section than SS316L. On the other hand, the slow neutron and gamma rays have nearly the same behavior for all studied stainless steels.


Variational iteration method (VIM) is applied to solve linear and nonlinear boundary value problems with particular significance in structural engineering and fluid mechanics. These problems are used as mathematical models in viscoelastic and inelastic flows, deformation of beams, and plate deflection theory. Comparison is made between the exact solutions and the results of the variational iteration method (VIM). The results reveal that this method is very effective and simple, and that it yields the exact solutions. It was shown that this method can be used effectively for solving linear and nonlinear boundary value problems.


Affective disorders in association with the psychologic aspects of cardiac disease may require pharmacologic treatment for severe depression. A small number of these patients continues to be treated with monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI). It is likely that there will be an increase in the number of patients being treated with MAOI. Patients may routinely receive MA01 for postelectroconvulsive maintenance therapy. In addition, elderly patients who do not respond to tricyclic antidepressants may respond to MAOI. Phenelzine (60 mg/day) has been shown to be as effective as 150 mg of amitriptyline (1). Phenelzine has also been shown to be superior to imipramine in patients with atypical depression (1). Studies indicate that MA01 may also be useful as therapy for regulation of weight and appetite, posttraumatic stress disorders, and endogenous depression (1). When these patients present for emergency cardiac surgery, the anesthesiologist is confronted with a clinical dilemma, because the normal practice of discontinuing this class of drugs two to three weeks before operation is precluded (2). We report two patients who underwent cardiac operation in whom this period of withdrawal of MA01 therapy was not feasible.


The dynamic cure kinetics of 5428 bismaleimide resin system was studied by differential scanning calorimetry(DSC).The dynamic cure kinetic equation was established based on autocatalytic kinetic model.By simulating practical temperature procedure of curing,the dynamic cure kinetic equation was verified by means of determining the residual heat of reaction of samples with different cure degrees.The results showed that the dynamic cure kinetic equation agreed well with the experimental results.


Since the discovery of pathotypes of the potato cyst nematode (Heterodera rostochiensis Wollenweber, 1923), surveys on the distribution of these pathotypes have been carried out in different European countries. Test varieties of potato were selected according to findings resulting in the present situation of varying distinctive host-plants and of diverging programs for breeding potatoes resistant to the potato cyst nematode.

With respect to rational selection and use of resistant potato varieties, there is a great need for standardization in pathotype identification (nomenclature), maintenance and supply of appropriate genotypes of Solanum species and methods for testing resistance in new potato varieties.

Anticipating a cross-experiment with pathotypes and test varieties from Great Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands in 1974, a preliminary test with all recognized or presumed pathotypes from these countries, but with only part of the potential differential host-plants was carried out by the Plant Protection Service at Wageningen. The results of this experiment are discussed.


Noting that low-income children are at risk for early school difficulties and that social and emotional competencies are hypothesized to be crucial for early school success, this study use naturalistic observations to provide descriptive information about low-income children's emotional and social competence in school settings. The specific goals of the study were to assess children's emotional and social behavior in the classroom and to examine associations among observed behavior, socialcognitive skills, and teacher-rated child functioning. Participating in the study were three Head Start preschoolers who were observed in their classrooms; emotion displays and social engagement states were coded in real time using handheld computers. Observations were conducted twice during free play for 10 minutes each. Children were also interviewed to assess emotion understanding, and given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test verbal skills; teachers reported on children's social skills, emotional regulation, problem behaviors, and early classroom adjustment. Findings revealed that children's observed emotion displays were related to observed social engagement (such as conflict or prosocial behavicir), and emotion displays and social engagement were related to social-cognitive skills such as emotion knowledge and verbal abilities. Teacher reports of child functioning were also related to observed behavior. (Contains 31 references.) (KB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Observational Methods Running Head: OBSERVATIONAL METHODS Children's Social and Emotional Competence in Head Start Classrooms: Observational Methods Alison L. Miller Bradley Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine Kathleen K. Gouley NYU Child Study Center, NYU School of Medicine Ann Shields The University of Michigan Ronald Seifer, Susan Dickstein, Christina Fox, and Heather Radtke E.P. Bradley Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) XThis document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. 227 COPY AVAIIIABRE PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY


This paper presents that the joint torque control capability can be enhanced by adding physical damper to a series elastic actuator (SEA). Joint torque tracking of standard SEA has known limitations that the torque dynamics has an relative order of two, and, as a consequence, the torque controller often requires acceleration feedback when the desired torque is defined by a function of velocity (for example, compliance control). This limitation can be removed by introducing physical damping, reducing the relative degree of torque dynamics by one. Based on this observation, we design a robust controller using the disturbance observer technique. The resulting control law is given by a feed-forward term combined with PI control. The proposed controller is verified in simulation and experiment.


Let us denote the common pixel domain of the images byD ⊂ Z. Binary images are denoted by x ∈ B, where B denotes the set {0, 1}. The value of the image x in pixel i ∈ D is denoted by xi. The probability distribution for images is parametrised by a binary shape s ∈ B (with values si in pixels i ∈ D) and a pair of (natural) parameters η = (η0, η1) for Bernoulli distributions. Recall that the Bernoulli distribution pb(z; η) for z ∈ B is given by log pb(z) = ηz − log(1 + e). (1) The probability distribution for a binary image x parametrised by the shape s and the tuple η = (η0, η1) is


Experimental results are reported concerning the dependence of initial charge on the formation temperature and the polarizing electric field strength of polymethyl methacrylate electrets. The data are compared with the temperature dependence of the dielectric parameters.


Situated within a historical materialist problematic of social transformation that deploys many of the insights of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, a crucial break emerged, in the 1980s, in the work of Robert Cox from mainstream International Relations (IR) approaches to hegemony. This article provides a comprehensive 'state-of-the-discipline' overview of this critical theory route to hegemony, world order and historical change. It does so by outlining the historical context within which various diverse but related neo-Gramscian perspectives emerged. Attention subsequently turns to highlight how conditions of capitalist economic crisis and structural change in the 1970s have been conceptualised, which inform contemporary debates about globalisation. Significantly, the discussion is also responsive to the various controversies and criticisms that surround the neo-Gramscian perspectives whilst, in conclusion, directions along which future research might proceed are elaborated. Hence providing a thorough survey of this historical materialist critical theory of hegemony and thus forms of social power through which conditions of capitalism are reproduced, mediated and contested.


The anhydride (II) of 4-carboxy-1,5-diphenylpyrazole-3-acetic acid (I) has been prepared. The reactions of II with primary amines resulted in the formation of the monoamides IIIa–c. 2,3-Diphenylpyrazolo[4,3-c]pyridine-(5H,7H)-4,6-dione (VIIa), has been obtained by heating the ammonium salt of I in a vacuum at 220 °C. The ring closure of IIIc with acetyl chloride in benzene afforded VIIb. Compound VIIb was coupled with benzenediazonium chloride to give the 7-phenylazo derivative (XII) and also condensed with aromatic aldehydes giving 7-arylidene derivatives (XV).


Objective
To investigate the expression of N-myc downstream regulated gene-2(NDRG2)on renal fibrosis in unilateral ureteral obstruction(UUO)rat model and the mechanism of renal fibrosis.

Methods
Forty-eight male Wistar rats(120-150g)were randomly divided into two groups: the sham-operation group(n=24)underwent the left ureteral dissection, the UUO group(n=24)underwent the left ureteral ligation.At the 3, 7, 14, 21day after the operation, 6 rats from each of the group were sacrificed and the obstructive kidneys were collected.The histopathological changes were observed through HE and Masson staining.E-cadherin and α-SMA were detected by Western blot and immunohistochemistry.NDRG2 were detected by Western blot, immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR.

Results
There is not diffenrence in the sham group at anytime.Compared with the sham-group, the fibrosis was obvious in UUO group.The protein of E-cadherin decreased(P<0.05)and α-SMA increased(P<0.05). The expression of NDRG2 in UUO group was lower than that in the sham group.The OD of immunohistochemistry was detected by ImagePro Plus 6.0.OD of NDRG2 was the lowest[(14.33±2.45)×10-3] in 21d group.The western blot showed that the ratio of NDRG2 to β-actin was the lowest(0.03±0.01) in 21d group.The mRNA of NDRG2 decreased obverously in UUO group(P<0.05).

Conclusion
NDRG2 decreases in UUO group and NDRG2 might be involved in the pathologic process of renal fibrosis.

Key words:
Tubulointerstitial fibrosis; Ureteral obstruction; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; N-myc downstream regulated gene-2


The legal policy of the village government in information technology-based public services, in general, is currently not running optimally. Even though technological developments must be utilized by all elements of society including the village government, several programs can be carried out include such as E-Village, village fund information, village websites, and being able to develop applications that can be used to provide public services to village communities and so on. The research aims to find out whether information technology-based integrated criminal justice system policies can become an instrument for eradicating corruption. The research method used is normative legal research with statutory approaches, theoretical approaches, and comparative and conceptual approaches. The findings in this study are that first, the village government law as stipulated in Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages, cannot be fully explained by village officials, including utilizing technological advances in maximizing public services for the community, so that the community gets information and services that are easy. Second, developing an internet-based rural information network by building village websites with the desa.id domain, encouraging technology-independent villages, improving public services with the village partner application, and managing resources based on village profiles with resource surveys and geospatial data with the village granary application. see mitra.or.id) and build villages with interconnected systems and regulations that support villages to take development initiatives.


The mechanism of the reaction between HOSO and NO was investigated at the B3LYP/6-311 ++ G(d,p) level of theory.The geometries of the reactants,intermediates,transition states,and products were optimized.The intrinsic reaction coordinates (IRC) were traced and the connecting relationship between the transition states and the reactants,products were confirmed.The single point energies of the species were corrected at the CCSD(T)/6-311 ++ G(d,p) level of theory.The reaction rate constants were calculated over a temperature range of 200-3000 K using classical transition state theory (TST) and canonical vibration transition state theory (CVT) combined with a small-curvature tunneling (SCT) correction.The results showed that the HOSO+NO reaction occurs in both the singlet and triplet reaction channels.The singlet reaction channel is dominant,and HNO and SO2 are the main products.The chemical bond changes in the main reaction channel were analyzed by a topological analysis of the electron density.


This paper contains a description of the data-sets, systems and fusion alternatives developed by the Speech Technology Group (GTH) for the Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation for the 4 conditions: plenty-closed condition (core), plenty-open, empty-closed, and empty-open. In all cases, the primary system is the fusion of three different i-vector based systems: one acoustic system, a phonotactic system using trigrams of phone-posteriorgram counts, and another acoustic system based on RPLP features instead of the traditional MFCC features. For each plenty condition, a contrastive system was also included where the RPLP features or MFCC features where replaced by a different system based on using glottal source features. We provide results for the plenty conditions using the proposed metrics for the evaluation (i.e. Fact, Fdis, and Fcal), as well the known Cavg metric used on NIST evaluations.


This short note presents a procedure to estimate effective rate of protection coefficient using an input-output approach. In the first section, the procedure to estimate nominal rate of protection on input and output will be quickly discussed. The section 2 points out two options in treating indirect taxes on output. Finally, in the last two sections, a procedure to decompose non tradeable sectors into tradeable parts and value added parts will be discussed.


3552 Background: The EGFR pathway is implicated in lung tumorigenesis by aberrantly regulating cell proliferation, apoptosis, and invasion. Maximal blockade of the EGFR can be achieved by dually in...


Much emphasis is currently being placed in LMFBR design on reducing both the capital cost and the fuel cycle cost of an LMFBR to insure its economic competativeness without a rapid increase in the uranium prices. In this study the relationship between two core design options, their neutronic consequences, and their effect on fuel cycle cost are analyzed. The two design options are the selection of pin diameter and the degree of heterogeneity. In the case of a heterogeneous core, with a low sodium void reactivity worth this ratio of fertile internal blanket to driver assemblies is generally about 0.40. However, some advantages of cores with heterogeneity of 0.08 to 0.2 for a fixed pin diameter have been reported.


This paper describes a new and fast method for reconstructing a 3D computerized model from a cloud of points sampled from the object's surface. The proposed method aggregates very large scale 3D scanning data into a Hierarchical Space Decomposition Model (HSDM), realized by the Octree data structure. This model can represent both the boundary surface and the interior volume of an object. Based on the proposed volumetric model, the boundary reconstruction process becomes more robust and stable with respect to sampling noise. The hierarchical structure of the proposed volumetric model enables data reduction, while preserving critical geometrical features and object topology. As a result of data reduction, the execution time of the reconstruction process is significantly reduced. Moreover, the proposed model naturally allows multiresolution boundary extraction, represented by a mesh with regular properties. The proposed surface reconstruction approach is based on Connectivity Graph extraction from HSDM, and facet reconstruction. This method's feasibility will be presented on a number of complex objects.


The magnetic resonance sounding (MRS) method is used for noninvasive one-dimensional assessment of aquifer structures, i.e., for estimating the vertical water content and hydraulic conductivity distributions in the saturated zone. So far, MRS interpretation schemes for estimating the hydraulic conductivity as a function of the saturation degree in the vadose zone have not been developed. In this study we developed a new inversion scheme for MRS to estimate the relative hydraulic conductivity Krel , which is the ratio of the unsaturated and saturated conductivities. The new approach is based on the Brooks-Corey parameterization (BCP) of the capillary fringe; that is, the water content distribution of the capillary fringe is considered to be equivalent to the water retention curve in equilibrium state. The BCP inversion directly provides estimates of Brooks-Corey parameters from MRS data, which allows for the calculation of Krel as a function of the saturation degree. In doing so, the water table must be gi...


This article examines the trends and conditions for the effective implementation of professionally-oriented technologies for teaching foreign languages in the system of higher technical education. Currently, the most well-known and promising professionally-oriented technologies of teaching foreign languages are communicative, contextual learning, modular, and information technologies. Distance education is designed to meet the individual educational needs of each student, to provide an opportunity for students to use cyber-libraries, to solve special tasks related to the development of the creative component of education. Information professionally-oriented technology is aimed at creating a personalized educational product, has an interactive character and involves all the curricula of educational activity in the process of learning and using a foreign language. Advantages of distance learning are lack of geographical restrictions, adaptability, ability to access various sources of information, ability to obtain information of various volumes and contents. It saves time and material costs.


Summary Turnover rate of free fatty acids was studied during rest and exercise in 8 normals and 28 diabetics using carboxyl labeled palmitate C-14. Conditions during exercise do not satisfy the criteria for steady state dynamics. During rest the turnover rate of free fatty acids does not differ in normals and diabetics. At both higher and lower levels of blood glucose the turnover rate is increased.


. We propose a z-coordinate algorithm for ocean models which, thanks to the insertion and removal of surface layers, can deal with an arbitrarily large tidal oscillation independently of the vertical resolution. The algorithm is based on a classical two steps procedure used in numerical simulations with moving boundaries (grid movement followed by a grid topology change, that is insertion/removal of surface layers) which leads to a stable and accurate numerical discretization. With ad-hoc treatment of advection terms at non-conformal edges that may appear due to insertion/removal operations, mass conservation 5 and tracer constancy are preserved. This algorithm, called z-surface-adaptive, can be reverted, as a particular case when all layers are moving, to other z-surface-following coordinates, such as z-star or quasi-z. With simple analysis and realistic numerical experiments, we compare the surface-adaptive-z coordinate against z-star and we show that it can be used to simulate effectively coastal flows with wetting and drying.


Microwave pretreatment and dyeing process of wool fabric was carried out.Influences on K/S value of microwave fixation time and batching time before fixation were analyzed.In addition,this paper also discussed the effects of microwave pretreatment in water and urea on area shrinkage,K/S value and surface microstructure of wool fabric.Fixation,levelness,penetrating property,dyeing fastness,breaking strength and breaking extension of wool fabric were compared among batching fixation,microwave fixation and microwave fixation after pretreatment.


We use a numerical algorithm on the Lie group of rotation matrices to obtain rotated constellations for Rayleigh fading channels. Our approach minimizes the union bound for the pairwise error probability to produce rotations optimized for a given signal-to-noise ratio. This approach circumvents explicit parametrization of rotation matrices, which has previously prevented robust numerical methods from being applied to constellation rotation. Our algorithm is applicable to arbitrary finite constellations in arbitrary dimensions, and one can thus apply our method to non-uniform constellations, which are of interest for practical concerns due to their ability to increase bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) capacity. We show how our rotations can improve the codeword error performance of non-uniform constellations, and we also apply our method to reproduce and improve rotations given by ideal lattices in cyclotomic fields.


The ability to detect very low RF signals can be used to wake-up a sensor node only when needed to sense or transmit data, reducing the sensor node power consumption. A passive voltage transforming stage from the antenna to a nano-watt receiver can be useful to reduce the minimum detectable RF signal. At high RF frequencies, the transformer is harder to implement owing to the low impedance of load capacitive loads. We demonstrate a gigahertz frequency range passive voltage transformer, using a mechanically tunable strip-line resonator at 1-2 GHz. The transformer exhibited a 19.5dB gain at 1.007 GHz and achieved gains over 19dB with load capacitances of 0.8-2.4pF. A piezoelectric AlN GHz transducer was also used to measure the gain of the resonator. An RF waveguide model has been developed which matches experiments well for both frequency and gain responses.


A pot culture experiment was conducted to study leaf growth and photosynthetic characteristics of Rauvolfia vomitoria plants under different light intensities (15%,40%,and 70% of full sunlight) and nitrogen levels (15,30,and 60 g/per plant).Results showed that the net photosynthesis rate (Pn),stomatal conductance (Gs),water utilization efficiency (WUE),chlorophyll contents (Chl),specific leaf area (SLA),and leaf mass ratio (LMR) were significantly influenced by light intensity and nitrogen level (p0.01).The Pn and Gs increased with the increase in light intensity and nitrogen level.In addition,the values of Pn and Gs under 70% light intensity were much higher than those under 15% and 40% light intensity.Conclusively,low light intensity is more beneficial to the synthesis of chlorophyll.The combination of low light and high nitrogen level favored SLA and leaf biomass allocation.As for the fluorescence parameter,Fv/Fm did not differ significantly according to light intensity and nitrogen level.Light intensity and nitrogen levels also had significant interaction on the Pn,Gs,and WUE (p0.05).


A process for processing a water-soluble vegetable fiber from a water-insoluble vegetable fiber containing a protein in a high yield with only a reduced extent of contamination with the protein and amino acids formed by the hydrolysis thereof, which comprises hydrolyzing the water-insoluble fiber below 130 DEG C under an acidic condition near the isoelectric point of the protein.


Two popular commercial titanium alloys, Ti‐6Al‐4V and Ti‐6Al‐2Sn‐4Zr‐2Mo‐0.08Si, were used for in situ high temperature microscopy study. The experiments were performed on an optical microscope equipped with high temperature stage using both normal and florescence lights. Two kinds of experiments were performed, at continuous heating/cooling with different rates and in isothermal conditions at different temperatures. The changes taking place on the sample surface during the experiments were monitored. The morphology of the α⇒β⇒α phase transformation was recorded at different heat treatment conditions using the effect of thermal etching. An effect of sample surface oxidation and deoxidation was observed during continuous heating. The appearance and disappearance of ordered titanium oxides Ti3O and Ti2O are discussed based on the phase equilibrium diagram. The kinetics of the surface oxidation was monitored in both isothermal and continuous cooling conditions.


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In order to study the Hamiltonian cycles of connected graphs,the relationship between the local property and the whole property might be considered.Based on the restriction of the conditions for the neighborhood union and neighborhood intersection,the following theorem was proven: if G is connected and the arbitrary pair of nonadjacent vertices(x,y),such that 1≤N(x)∩N(y)≤α-1,satisfies the condition N(x)∪N(y)≥n-δ-1,then G is traceable(α stands for the independent sets of G).A sufficient condition for the connected graphs was proposed according to the results.The sufficient condition,the inference of the theorem indicates that the above theorem,is the most possible in some sense.


Increasing internal combustion engine efficiency continues being one of the main goals of engine research. To achieve this objective, different engine strategies are being developed continuously. However, the assessment of these techniques is not straightforward due to their influence on various intermediate phenomena inherent to the combustion process, which finally result in indicated efficiency trade-offs. During this work, a new methodology to assess these intermediate imperfections on gross indicated efficiency using a zero-dimensional model is developed. This methodology is applied to a swirl parametric study, where it has been concluded that the heat transfer and the rate of heat release are the single relevant changing phenomena. Results show that heat transfer always increases with swirl affecting negatively gross indicated efficiency (around −0.5%), while the impact of combustion velocity is not monotonous. It is enhanced up to a certain swirl ratio (it changes with engine speed) at low engine speed (resulting in an increment of +1.7% in gross indicated efficiency), but it is slowed down at high engine speed with the consequent worsening of gross indicated efficiency (−0.8%).


In this letter we present photoluminescence results on β‐FeSi2/Si using excitation energies above and below the silicon band gap. These results show that the luminescence emission observed at 1.5 μm can be firmly attributed to band edge related emission from the β‐FeSi2. This result confirms the potential of β‐FeSi2 as a strong contender for a silicon compatible optoelectronics technology that matches the conventional optical fiber transmission wavelength at 1.5 μm.


The Cu atom in the title compound, [Cu(C6H6N2O)2(H2O)4](C6H2N3O7)2, exists in an all trans-O4N2Cu octahedron; the anion interacts indirectly with the cation through the coordinated water molecules. Hydrogen bonds link the cations and anions into a three-dimensional network.


Several recent developments in ink-jet printing have motivated numerous scientists to investigate the details of the breakup process of liquid jets emanating from nozzles. The entire January 1977 issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development was devoted to ink-jet printing technology, and several of the papers were concerned with drop formation. The main concern is the control of the relatively small drops called "spherules" by Rayleigh (1896, p. 366) and "satellite drops" in the recent literature. These small drops form when thin ligaments separate from the main drops at both ends (see Figure 1). In the ink-jet printer the main drops are supplied with a predetermined electrical charge as they detach from the liquid column. They are then deflected to a desired location by appropriately charged downstream capacitor plates. When the satellite drops occur they receive a relatively large charge-to-mass ratio and their resulting large deflection causes printer malfunctions. The understanding of the drop-formation process is crucial to the control and elimination of the satellite-drop problem. This article is primarily restricted to a review of those investigations that bear on this rather narrow but very difficult aspect of jet breakup. For a detailed description of the classical work on the linear capillary instability of jets the reader is referred to Rayleigh (1896, §361) and Chandrasekhar (1961, §111). A more recent review can be found in McCarthy & Molloy (1974). Only a brief summary of this classical work, as is required for background, is presented here. The early experiments ofSavart(1833) and Magnus (1855) demonstrated that a liquid jet emanating from a circular nozzle could be made to breakup in a regular manner by supplying a steady vibration to the source tank or nozzle. Rayleigh (1879) studied the linear stability of an infinitely


Familial juvenile polyposis coli (JPC) is an uncommon autosomal dominant trait characterized by the occurrence of numerous polypoid hamartomas in the colorectum. The condition usually occurs in childhood with high malignant potential. Rectal bleeding, anemia and rectal prolapse are the most common clinical presentations. Two young sisters with presentations of intermittent rectal bleeding, rectal prolapse and severe anemia revealed hamatomatous colonic polyposis. They were treated by transrectal polypectomy and blood transfusion initially, but the symptoms relapsed frequently. They received restorative proctocolectomy finally. The patients recovered uneventfully after operation and remained well during three years of follow up.


.................................................................................................................................. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................. viii LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................... xiii LIST OF TABLES ....................................................................................................................... xiv ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................................................................................... xv CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 1 1.


Plinabulin is a small molecule with tumor-inhibiting and immune-enhancing effects. Plinabulin induces dendritic cell maturation and cytokines interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-6, and IL-12 production, all of which are important in neutrophil survival. In preclinical studies, plinabulin prevented docetaxel- or cyclophosphamide-induced neutropenia via a mechanism of action different from that of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) analogues. In phase 1 and 2 solid tumor trials of plinabulin, which included >140 patients, routine safety laboratory assessments revealed an unexpected protective effect against neutropenia. In the phase 2 clinical trial, patients were randomized to receive docetaxel 75 mg/m2 alone (n=73) or docetaxel 75 mg/m2 followed by plinabulin (NPI-2358-101) at 30 mg/m2 (n=50) or at 20 mg/m2 (n=40), repeated every 3 weeks (clinicaltrials.gov NCT00630110). Plinabulin was given by a 30-minute intravenous (IV) infusion, starting 1 hour after administration of docetaxel. The primary efficacy endpoint was median overall survival. Secondary endpoints included safety assessments, such as complete blood count measurements, on Days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle. Compared to docetaxel treatment alone, the addition of plinabulin to docetaxel significantly (p Docetaxel (n=65) vs plinabulin 20 mg/m2 (n=39): p = 0.00026 Docetaxel (n=65) vs plinabulin 30 mg/m2 (n=47): p = 0.00018 Plinabulin 20 mg/m2 (n=39) vs plinabulin 30 mg/m2 (n=47): p = 0.68 Plinabulin is a novel small molecule that is being developed for the mitigation of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. Administered by IV infusion on the same day of (approximately 1 h after) chemotherapy, plinabulin will be given in a single dose of 20 mg/m2 per cycle. Plinabulin has the potential to be an effective, safe (with much less bone pain), cost-effective, and convenient alternative to G-CSF for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. Disclosures Blayney:BeyondSpring: Other: Travel and lodging to develop clinical trial protocol. Lloyd:BeyondSpring: Consultancy. Huang:BeyondSpring: Employment. Mohanlal:BeyondSpring: Employment.


Integrated nutrient supply has been found to be beneficial in improving the yield of several vegetable crops (Narayanamma et al., 2005; Maurya et al., 2008). However, the studies relating to the impact of integrated nutrition on the residual soil fertility are lacking. Most of works reported on the use of organic sources of nutrition are based on the single crop studies, which needs to be extended to the whole cropping system for more practical utility. With this view, the present investigation was undertaken in the brinjal-pea-okra cropping system in which integrated nutritional treatments were applied in brinjal and their effect on the residual soil fertility was monitored after the harvest of all the 3 crops.


The invention discloses a method adopted by an electric car time-sharing renting system to maintain fees via charging piles. The method comprises the steps that after a user finishes renting a car, a server computes the car rental, then communicates with charging piles and selects the charging pile matched with the car returned by the user to carry out the payment process with a user side, the user communicates with the charging pile by swiping an RFID card of the user side to carry out fee payment, and finally the server judges whether the car rental is charged successfully, if so, the server judges that the user succeeds in payment, thus completing one-time car renting behavior. The method has the beneficial effects that the fee is automatically computed and told to the client and is reasonably computed by a scientific charge mode, thus greatly improving the car renting efficiency; the flexibility of payment selected by the client is improved through selection of various modes of payment.


Aims  Individuals with Type 2 diabetes are at high risk for coronary heart disease, and may benefit from aggressive lifestyle modification. We evaluated the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, in a Greek adult population, in relation to physical activity and dietary habits.


Hypothesis / aims of study Patients with Multiple Sclerosis often suffer with both storage and voiding lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). In case of persistent detrusor sphincter dyssynergia with important retention and untreatable detrusor over activity, a supra-pubic indwelling catheter (SPC) can be a treatment option. There are guidelines available regarding the management of SPC. However, we do not have any specific data regarding the impact of the management of blocked catheters on the life of a catheter. The aim of this study is to compare the result of standard catheter management with saline versus Uro-Tainer® Suby-G irrigation in patients with MS in a real-time clinical setting.


Background: This study aimed to compare the neurophysiological responses to sound in adults with hypersensitivity compared to adults without hypersensitivity, and correlate the daily-life experiences to the neurophysiological manifestations. Material and Methods: The Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile (AASP) was administered to 27 adults, separated by their cut-off scores. Differences in neurophysiological responses were measured by N1-P2 Event-Related Potentials (ERP) in response to auditory changes in frequency and intensity. Reactions to daily sounds were measured by the hyperacusis questionnaire. Correlations between AASP, hyperacusis questionnaire, and ERP were measured. Results: The basic ability to detect a change in stimuli manifested in N1 waveform was not significantly different. However, participants with hypersensitivity presented a stronger P2 response and a higher hyperacusis score. Daily expressions of auditory hypersensitivity correlated (p = 0.05 - p = 0.01) with larger ERP responses. Conclusions: Auditory hypersensitivity as reflected in daily scenarios is evident in neurophysiological manifestations measured by ERPs. Understanding the relationship between the neural mechanisms of auditory hyper-ensitivity and its daily expressions, may optimize participation and wellbeing for people with hypersensitivity.


The essential of competitive sport is competition,and the common traits in Olympic competitive sports events are competitiveness that can reflect the difference of sport events and groups.It can benefit for revealing the traits and item groups' characters through the view of competition.In this paper,the classification of sports events in Olympic based on the standard of competitive nature and characteristics was studied.The method of classification by the standard of competitive nature and form was proposed.The authors also made systematic analysis according to the characteristics of item groups,and found the characters of different sport event groups.


How does one define water quality? Current interpretations of the term 'water quality', and methods for evaluating water quality were the focus of a two day conference, organized by Dr Philip Boon and the Research and Advisory Services Directorate of the Scottish Natural Heritage. Consisting of 21 invited papers and 60 poster presentations, the conference attracted over 280 delegates from four continents, representing government, private enterprise, and academia.


The touring problem aims to find an "interesting" (round) trip of a given length. Here, what is considered interesting depends on the type of the desired route, e.g., a user may be looking for an off-road cycling trip or fast running route. This problem can be modeled as an optimization problem on a graph and has various algorithmic solutions. We provide a framework that allows for simple integration of different algorithms for the touring problem. In this demonstration we have included four algorithms based on greedy selection, shortest paths, local search, and an integer linear programming formulation. The generated tours can be explored in an easy-to-use web interface.


In the early Koryo, Naebongsung functioned as Daegwan, Naeuisung as Gangwan. Daegwan was lower-level official of Naebongsung. As Golpum system disorganized, the power of the king and government officials extended. So Gungye made Daegwan to restrain the government officials. Wanggun raised higher the position of Naebongsung, but the status and function of Daegwan was still limited. The politics of Kyoungjong times showed that the politics collapsed when the power of official didn't limit. So Daegwan needed to strengthen and king Sungjong established Eosadae. In the early Koryo, Naesasain was instituted one of the officials of Naebongsung. It meaned that Gangwan was systematized. Gungye showed that it was difficult to restrain sovereign power when the control system was absent. So Koryo officals made system to control the sovereign power. But as Gangwan was not many, it didn't work its meaningful role. For example, when Gwangjong established a dictatorship, Gangwan didn't play its part. So Gangwan needed to reinforce and king Sungjong established Jungseomunwhasung.


Chromium pillared montmorillonite and vermiculite catalysts have been prepared by intercalation with hydrolyzed metal ion solution. Pillaring solutions with different chromium concentrations were prepared by varying the base to chromium ratio. The catalysts were characterized by nitrogen adsorption, XRD, and IR studies. The nature of the acid sites was characterized by means of IR spectra data on pyridine adsorbed chromium pillared catalysts. The acidity of the samples was determined by butylamine titration. DSC has been used in the present study to probe the nature of the surface acidity, its heterogeneity, acid strength, and density of acidic sites. Cumene cracking was carried out as a test reaction of Bronsted acidity. Both the density and strength of Bronsted acid sites were found to influence the cracking activity.


Pre-Carboniferous rocks of the western Cobequid Hills outcrop north of the Cobequid Fault, are cut by several major east-west faults, and are onlapped unconformably to the north by the Late Carboniferous Cumberland Group. The oldest rocks comprise the Late Hadrynian Jeffers Formation. In the south, this unit consists of mafic and felsic volcanic rocks, interbedded with mudstones and carbonates, that are overlain by turbidites. To the north, the Jeffers Formation consists of a thick sequence of felsic volcanogenic turbidites. This stratigraphic succession of volcanic rocks passing up into turbidites differs from some other Late Hadrynian Avalonian sequences in the predominance of sedimentary rocks, but does resemble the Georgeville Group of the Antigonish Highlands.


The farming industry in the United Kingdom faces considerable challenges in playing a proportionate role in meeting increasing global food needs whilst minimising the environmental, social and economic impacts of production agriculture. To do so effectively requires the generation, promotion and uptake of new knowledge, skills and technologies. This article discusses the significant changes that are needed in order to meet these goals.


The biocontrol potential of many fungi against plant-parasitic nematodes has been demonstrated.The objective of this study was to evaluate the toxicity of fungal culture filtrates of 6 Beauveria bassiana strains and 7 accompanying fungi strains to four target nematodes by fermentation filtrate immersion method.Results showed that only B.bassiana Snef2598 strain and its accompanying fungi Snef5 strain were caused more than 80% the corrected mortality of second-stage juveniles(J2) of Meloidogyne incognita and Heterodera glycines after 24 h immersion treatment.The filtrate of all strains had lower activity against Aphelenchoides besseyi,and only one strain of B.bassiana caused more than 40% corrected mortality after 24 h immersion.There were 4 strains of B.bassiana and 5 strains of accompanying fungi which caused the corrected mortality above 90% against J2 of M.incognita after 48 h immersion treatment,and also the same as 3 strains of B.bassiana and one strain of accompany fungi against J2 of H.glycines.The strains had lower activity against A.besseyi,and only 3 isolates of B.bassiana and 2 isolates of accompanying fungi caused more than 60% corrected mortalities after 48 h immersion.Almost all of the strains had higher activity against Caenorhabditis sp.after both of 24 h and 48 h treatment,and the corrected mortality was above 97%.To varying degrees,both the body wall and inside substance of the dead nematode body had been dissolved.In comparison,the two strains B.bassiana Snef2598 and the accompanying fungus Snef5 had high activity against plant parasitic nematode.The potential new bio-control fungal resources for controlling the plant nematode diseases are valuable to be researched furthermore.


Over the two year course of this grant a study was conducted to explore the implications of composition measurements of heavy cosmic rays made by the Third High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO-3). To interpret these and other measurements this study combined for the first time new laboratory measurements of the fragmentation cross sections of heavy nuclei, a new semi-empirical cross section formula, and the latest in cosmic ray propagation and solar modulation models. These models were used to interpret abundance measurements from six recent satellite experiments, including, in particular, two from HEAO-3. The principal results of the study were: (1) an improved interpretation of the Mn-54 clock in cosmic rays, including predictions of the isotopic abundances of Mn for comparison with future isotope measurements; (2) the first realization of the effect of Mn-54 decay on studies of the source abundances of Fe isotopes; (3) improved source abundances of the elements Ar, Ca, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Ni in the cosmic ray source material; (4) an improved fit to the abundances of Fe secondaries in cosmic rays; and (5) additional evidence that supports the validity of the leaky-box model of cosmic ray propagation in the galaxy. This final report summarizes these new results, the new tools that were developed to obtain them, and presents a bibliography of talks and publications that resulted from this work.


Psoriasis is a chronic dermatologic condition that appears in red, scaly, and itchy patches. It can be seen on the scalp, elbows, knees, and/or the trunk. This condition occurs in more than 3 million patients per year in the United States. The etiology of psoriasis is that it stems from a possible immunologic disorder. About 30% patients with psoriasis experience further problems such as inflammatory arthritis, cardiometabolic ailments, and mental health illnesses. Topical therapies remain the foundation for treating mild psoriasis; for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, various kinds of biologics that inhibit tumor necrosis factor– a, p40IL-12/23, interleukin (IL)–17, and p19IL-23 could be considered for treatments. In our clinical services, the psoriasis acupuncture point choices include LI 4 (Hegu), LI 11 (Quchi), SP 10 (Xuehai), GV 14 (DaiZhui), and SP 9 (Yinlingquan). This is based upon classical Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) principles in which the temporal solution is to disperse the Wind. Furthermore, Blood is nourished to dissipate the patient's Blood Stasis and reduce the patient's Heat. We provide acupuncture treatment once per week for 6 sessions of treatment. Clinical improvement can be seen after the third treatment. We continue once per month acupuncture treatment to achieve longerlasting effects. Utilizing acupuncture therapy in patients with psoriasis, can achieve clinically and statistically significant improvements. Acupuncture-related techniques could be considered as short-term adjuvant therapy for patients with psoriasis. Acupuncture treatment for psoriasis is uncomplicated, convenient, and effective, with long-lasting therapeutic effects as well as minimal side-effects. We advise Indigo naturalis, which is a TCM herb wellknown as a topical therapy for psoriasis. A controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of I. naturalis in patients with refractory plaque-type psoriasis was conducted. Significant reductions in scaling, erythema, and induration scores were noted with topical application of I. naturalis ointment. In this study, 74% of patients reported clearance or near-clearance of their psoriasis in their indigo ointmenttreated lesions. For plaque-type psoriasis, topical I. naturalis ointment was considered to be a safe, and effective therapy. In another study, a significant improvement in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index scores from baseline were observed in I. naturalis-treated patients, compared with patients who were given a placebo. I. naturalis treatment resulted in downregulation of the IL-17 pathway. Based upon an in vitro keratinocyte assay, tryptanthrin, a component of I. naturalis exerted an IL-17-inhibitory effect.


A previously developed model-based controller of torque and nitrogen oxides emissions has been implemented and assessed on a heavy-duty 11 L FPT prototype Cursor 11 diesel engine. The implementation has been realized by means of a rapid prototyping device, which has allowed the standard functions of the engine control unit to be by-passed. The activity was carried out within the IMPERIUM H2020 EU Project, which is aimed at reducing the consumption of fuel and urea in heavy-duty trucks up to 20%, while maintaining the compliance with the legal emission limits. In particular, the developed controller is able to achieve desired targets of brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) (or brake torque) and engine-out nitrogen oxides emissions. To this aim, the controller adjusts the fuel quantity and the start of injection of the main pulse in real-time. The controller is based on a previously developed low-throughput combustion model, which estimates the heat release rate, the in-cylinder pressure, the BMEP (or torque) and the engine-out nitrogen oxide emissions. The controller has been assessed at both steady-state and transient operations, through rapid prototyping tests at the engine test bench and on the road.


Sixty (60) West African Dwarf sheep managed semi intensively and grazing on natural pastures were used in a study to determine the performance and grazing pattern to seasonal forage supply and quality. The animals were allowed to graze for about 6 hours daily for four months each in the dry and wet seasons, respectively. Results showed that field grazing time and active grazing time significantly increased (P Keywords: Sheep, grazing pattern, performance, forage quality, season


Abstract – Introducing competition in the railway passenger market is still a complex problem, especially with certain, insufficiently addressed aspects of PSO contract management. Considering this have a significant influence on the performance of the rail traffic, this paper reviews the practice in relevant EU countries and the Republic of Serbia in terms of PSO contract management. Keywords – PSO, contract management, passenger traffic.


The present invention belongs to the screening of microbial strains. Starting from modification of strain properties, its purpose is to obtain productive strains of an adequate constituent proportion of gentamicin by a simple method of screening mutant strains similar to antimethonine structures. We use mutagens to induce mutagneic gentamicin productive bacteria, in order to screen similar structures of antimethionine (for example, ethionine) contained in the culture medium, and three mutants of micromonospora purpurea A2 are obtained. The proportion of gentamicins C1, C1a and C2 is measured by ferment liquid paper chromatography and by method of biological development, the results obtained are favourable and meet the needs of pharmacopoeia.


The article presents the results of a study on how the professional journalists of El Pais use the social networking service Twitter, the role this tool plays in their information-communication work, and the value they afford to it. The authors conclude the professionals in question see Twitter as being useful in their daily work and believe it has journalistic value and professional validity.


Although the GPT natural language model has evolved rapidly in recent years, it still faced challenges. With the introduction of GPT-3 and its evolution to ChatGPT, a turning point was presented in the development of natural language models for the generation of more advanced dialog responses oriented to contextual and semantic details of the conversation that emulate quite well the human understanding.


Sonochemistry is a significant contributor to green science as it includes: (i) the use of less toxic compounds and environmentally safe solvents, (ii) improvement of reaction conditions and selectivity, (iii) no toxic sludge generation, (iv) reduction in the energy use for chemical transformations, (v) reusability of materials. In water and wastewater treatment, ultrasound is used as an advanced oxidation process to eliminate refractory pollutants. Ultrasound is also used as a very effective sludge pretreatment technology in wastewater treatment plants to facilitate biogas production. Moreover, sonochemical synthesis of nanoparticles has recently attracted great attention as a greener protocol. This paper presents the main applications of ultrasound in environmental remediation and protection. The study also introduces mechanism for the degradation of pollutants from water via sonication in aqueous media and the principle factors affecting the cavitational effect.


Webcharts is a JavaScript library built on top of D3.js that creates reusable, flexible, interactive charts that are highly customizable. Webcharts provides a method for creating commonly-used charts, including bar charts, scatterplots, and timelines, through a simple configuration scheme. Charts created with Webcharts allow users to dynamically manipulate chart data, appearance, and behavior both through callback functions and input elements that are tied to chart objects. This approach allows users to create reusable charts that range from simple static graphics to complex interactive data exploration tools with custom user interfaces, all using the same library.


The chemical oxidation of aniline to form polyaniline (PANI) films and powder samples was made using Fenton reagent as an oxidizing agent in aqueous sulfuric acid medium. The PANI films were monitored by using the quartz crystal microbalance and the electronic absorption techniques. The optimum concentration was determined and the results were justified by measuring the UV–vis absorption spectra for the in situ PANI films. The conductivity for the PANI films and powder samples, prepared in different conditions, was measured. Also, the IR spectra, X-ray and the thermogravimetric analysis for the PANI powder formed in the bulk were measured and compared with the polymer prepared using ammonium peroxydisulfate. A preliminary investigation to the dielectric properties of the polymer powder was measured and discussed. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008


Recently, one of the most outstanding technological characteristics of aerial survey is an application of Direct Georeferencing, which is based on the integration of main sensing sensors such as aerial camera or Lidar with positioning sensors GPS and IMU. In addition, a variety of digital aerial mapping cameras is developed and supplied with the verification of their technical superiority and applicability. In accordance with this requirement, the development of a multi-looking aerial photographing system is just making 3-D information acquisition and texture mapping possible for the dead areas arising from building side and high terrain variation where the use of traditional phptogrammetry is not valid. However, the development of a multi-looking camera integrating different sensors and multi-camera array causes some problems to conduct time synchronization among sensors and their geometric and radiometric calibration. The establishment of a test field for aerial sensor calibration is absolutely necessary to solve this problem. Therefore, this paper describes investigations for photogrammetric Test Field of foreign countries and suggest an establishment scheme for domestic test field.


This predictive correlative study was designed to investigate the relationship between the entry placement-test scores of community college students as measured by the ACT COMPASS placement exams and the students' successful completion of a degree or certificate program at a technical (community) college in South Carolina. The study was of importance, for it was designed to determine if ACT COMPASS placement test scores can predict graduation from a degree or certificate program in the subject college's programs of study. The study will utilize archival data available in the college's retention-management system. The selected college is a mid-sized institution that enrolls approximately 5,000 students each fall. A diverse population of approximately 600 students participated in the study. The major theory guiding this study was Tinto's persistence theory with its emphasis on the importance of understanding what causes students to not persist academically. The statistic used to determine the relationship between the criterion variable (graduation) and the combination of predictor variables (math, reading, and writing placement-test scores) for community college students who initially enrolled in the college in one of two fall semesters (2013-2014) was binary logistic regression.


Background : Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is an enzyme that promotes proliferation of tumor cells. HuR is a member of the family of embryonic lethal abnormal vision-like proteins. Recent studies show that cytoplasmic HuR stabilizes the mRNA of COX-2 and regulates the expression of COX-2. Moreover, cytoplasmic HuR expression is associated with a poorer prognosis for patients with some cancers. The aim of this study was to investigate the expression patterns of and the relationship between COX-2 and HuR in gallbladder carcinoma. Methods : We analyzed COX-2 and HuR expression by immunohistochemical staining of 108 gallbladder carcinomas. Results : COX-2 expression and nuclear and cytoplasmic HuR expression were seen in, respectively, 61 (56.5%), 77 (71.3%), and 4 (3.7%) cases. COX-2 and nuclear HuR were simultaneously expressed in 44 of the 108 samples without any quantitative association between the levels of each. COX-2 expression correlated with tumor stage, differentiation (based on histology), lymph node metastasis, perineural invasion, and survival. Nuclear and cytological expression of HuR did not correlate with any clinical parameters. Conclusions : COX-2 expression but not HuR may play an important role in the prognosis of patients with gallbladder carcinoma.


The dynamic three-dimensional nanowetting behavior of nanodroplets of three kinds of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ionic liquids (ILs) with radii between 10 and 30 A is probed by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation on a solid silicon surface at temperatures ranging from 300 to 500 K. The simulation results show that contact angles change greatly and then tend to be saturated from 45° to 75° as the droplet radius of ILs varied from 10 to 20 A and further to >20 A. The values of the contact angle are anisotropic and could be 39.5° and 48.7° in the x and y directions of the droplets spreading on the solid silicon surface when the radius of the IL droplet is 10 A, and increasing the radius of the droplets can weaken the anisotropy of the contact angle. Further analysis of the interaction among cations, anions, and silicon suggests that the van der Waals (VDW) interaction of ions and silicon substrate varies from −56.5 to −53.5 kJ/mol per ion pair and silicon, and the Coulombic interaction of cations and anions v...


The purpose of this study was to verify the effect of team process and affect state on members' organizational commitment. To this end, a valid questionnaire was received from 241 employees working at a company, and the collected questionnaire analyzed the relationship through regression analysis. As a result, we found that all of the team process factors the conversion process, the execution process, and the interpersonal process had a meaningful positive effect on organizational commitment. The conversion process had a positive effect on positive-activity and positive-inactivity which is the types of the members' affect state. The interpersonal process had a positive effect on positive-activity and positive-inactivity, and negative effect on negative-inactivity and negative-activity. And the positive-activity had an intermediation effect on the relationship between team process and organizational commitment. Through this study, the significance of this study can be found in that it suggested the importance of building and managing the team process in order to maximize the efficiency of human resource management in the organization and improve the team effectiveness. ■ keyword :∣Team Process∣Affect State∣Organizational Commitment∣Team Effectiveness∣ 접수일자 : 2020년 09월 04일 수정일자 : 2020년 10월 05일 심사완료일 : 2020년 10월 05일 교신저자 : 정기수, e-mail : firstname.lastname@example.com 팀프로세스가 조직몰입에 미치는 영향: 구성원의 정서상태 매개효과를 중심으로 147


In underground excavations, the shape of the opening is of main concern due to its impact on the stress distribution around the opening. However, because of the complex and non-linear behaviour of soil only a few works have dealt with this problem. In this paper an evolutionary structure optimization (ESO) procedure is used for optimizing the shape of underground excavations in a cohesive frictional material obeying Mohr-Coulomb material model. The presented examples show the capability of ESO method in tackling such problems.


Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a common complex disease that is caused by interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Accumulating evidence indicates that foam cells in the atherosclerotic plaques exhibit the characteristics of lysosomal storage diseases, namely lysosomal accumulation of indigested materials. In patients with lysosomal storage diseases, lysosomal accumulation of lipids and cholesterols in atherosclerotic plaque cells has been observed. However, the roles of lysosomal hydrolases and proteins in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and CAD remain unclear.


The NSW Office of Water, within the Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services is developing water quality guidelines for regions within New South Wales as part of the state's implementation of the National Water Quality Management Strategy (NWQMS). The new guidelines will be tailored more closely to specific catchments and regions than the current default guidelines in NSW, the Australian Water quality Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Waters, National Water Quality Management Strategy (ANZECC & ARMCANZ, 2000). They will also be used to inform various national and state natural resource management targets. Water quality guidelines typically include reference values that indicate what the "best case" water quality values are for a region: these reference values are usually derived from reference sites, which have been purposefully chosen because they provide the best example of undisturbed conditions within a catchment. Reference sites were not available for this project, hence the Office of Water has used a predictive modeling approach to underpin the development of water quality guidelines by developing statistical estimates of reference condition. The predictive models have drawn on the last 10 years of water quality and in-stream flow records, and associated geospatial information from catchments across NSW. The project has concentrated on building predictive models for five common water quality variables: turbidity, electrical conductivity, water temperature, total nitrogen and total phosphorus. Water quality is affected by both natural and anthropogenic factors. That is, rainfall and any landscape features not influenced by human behavior versus all land use types, distance to upstream dams and all variables related to vegetation type or cover. Flow variables were categorised separately because they are influenced by both natural and anthropogenic activities. It is possible that current targets for some sites may never be able to be met due to the impact of natural factors. One of the aims of this research is to identify if that is ever possible and, if so, under what conditions. This research will also assist in determining which regions will most benefit by targeted activities to reduce the impact of human behavior on waterways. An earlier pilot study established that natural and discrete groupings could be formed based on different water quality characteristics alone and that sets of geospatial factors associated with a water quality monitoring station's drainage can be used to explain the water quality characteristics of that station. The current research has built on the pilot study, refining quality control procedures and increasing the scope and number of monitoring stations, whilst the water quality variables of interest remain as total nitrogen, turbidity, total phosphorus, electrical conductivity and water temperature. The range of geospatial variables, although fine-tuned, has still remained a significant number, viz. 72. This paper will discuss the approach taken to reduce the possible number of geospatial predictors to a number acceptable for a robust prediction of a data series, how the time series of each water quality variable at each water quality monitoring station was summarised to allow investigation of the impact of the geospatial predictor variables, how these predictors were then used to build separate models to predict each of the water quality variables at each water quality monitoring station based on the subset of important geospatial predictors for the corresponding water quality variable and how the models were validated. The resulting predictive models and the estimation of undisturbed water quality values are not discussed in this paper, but will be addressed in future publications.


We develop a new finite volume method using unstructured mesh-vertex grids for coupled systems modeling shallow water flows and solute transport over complex bottom topography. Novel well-balanced positivity preserving discretization techniques are proposed for the water surface elevation and the concentration of the pollutant. For the hydrodynamic system, the proposed scheme preserves the steady state of a lake at rest and the positivity of the water depth. For the scalar transport equation, the proposed method guarantees the positivity and a perfect balance of the scalar concentration. The constant-concentration states are preserved in space and time for any hydrodynamic field and complex topography in the absence of source terms of the passive pollutant. Importantly and this is one of the main features of our approach is that the novel reconstruction techniques proposed for the water surface elevation and concentration satisfy the discrete maximum-minimum principle for the solute concentration. We demonstrate, in a series of numerical tests, the well-balanced and positivity properties of the proposed method and the accuracy of our techniques and their potential advantages in predicting the solutions of the shallow water-transport model.


In the knowledge economy and information society,it has become the main objective of educational reform to develop the practical skills and innovative spirit of university students.The practical teaching is an important way to cultivate the innovative applied talents.By exploring the construction of practical teaching system of liberal-arts specialties in university based on "cycle-interaction" concept,it will help improve the level and quality of practical teaching in liberal-arts specialties.


The present invention relates to a wind turbine drive train components, a nacelle system and a corresponding method. Specifically, a wind turbine (1), having a drive unit (3) and the generator assembly (7; 19) connected to a drive train (13). Said generator assembly (7; 19) comprises a first stator having a first generator (9) and the first rotor (11) (7) and at least one second generator (19), the first rotor (11) is directly connected to the drive train (13), said second generator indirectly coupled to the drive train (13) via a gearbox (15). The present invention also provides a drive train assembly (4), the wind turbine nacelle system (29) for rotation on the energy into electrical energy, the construction of a nacelle (5) and a method of re-equipment of a wind turbine (1) .


This retrospective study was conducted over 2,476 death victims brought to the mortuary of Gauhati Medical College during the year 2010, to know the pattern, trend, causes and other aspects relating to death. The highest incidence, i.e. 32.16% of death occurred in road traffic incidents, followed by hanging (13.68%). The male and female ratios were 3:1. The urban victims outnumbered the rural with a ratio of 1.7:1 A very few cases (3.99%) opined as a negative autopsies. The age group, 21–30 years topped the list of involved cases in all section followed by 30- 40 years. Head injury was the single most common injury that ultimately led to coma resulting in death in RTA section. Based on the outcome from this study, preventive measures can be formulated for better management of the cases and homogenous social sustenance, etc. However a thorough multi-disciplinary study is much needed, relating to each section for an excellent outcome.


Rabeprazole is a substituted Benzimidazole is a proton pump inhibitor. PPIs block gastric acid secretion from the gastric parietal cells. The subsequent rise in gastric pH relieves symptoms and aids healing in GORD and peptic ulcer disease. Rabeprazole sodium is acid labile and formulated as an enteric coated tablet. Absorption occurs rapidly after the tablet leaves the stomach.In this present study an attempt was made to formulate and evaluate Rabeprazole as enteric coated mucoadhesive tablet. Delayed release tablets of Rabeprazole were prepared by wet granulation method using HPMC, HPMC-P, Xanthan gum and Carbapol as polymer, Avicel PH 102 (MCC) as filler and starch as binder. The prepared tablets were evaluated for hardness, weight variation, friability and drug content uniformity and it was found that the results comply with official standards.The prepared tablets were coated using enteric coating polymer such as Hydroxypropyal methyl cellulose-Phthalate by spray dried method. The in vitro release was studied using pH 1.2 acidic buffer and pH 7.2 phosphate buffer. The in vitro release study revealed that the prepared tablets were able to sustain release drug in to the intestine.The Rabeprazole sodium enteric coated formulations F9 at a dose of 10 mg/kg body weight showed a protection index of 100%.


A study of Paul's παρρσία promises to relate his letters to a key concept shared by ancient politics, rhetoric, and philosophy. By the time of the Pauline epistles, the nature of free speech was a controversial matter. Philosophers took the position that the basis of free speech was moral, not civic, freedom. Epictetus and Dio Chrysostom rejected the Cynic view that self-confidence is sufficient authority for bold speech. Friendship was a presupposition for the administration of παρρσία in Epicurean groups. Philodemus exhorted the older members to teach the duties of friendship to recent converts. The second proof of Paul's confidence consists of two examples, one negative (3:13-15) and the other positive. Apologies customarily employed both positive and negative examples as proofs. After Paul's defense of his ministry in 2: 17-4:6, there is decreasing emphasis on legitimation and greater attention given to friendship and reconciliation. Keywords: Dio Chrysostom; Epictetus; friendship; Pauline epistles; Philodemus


ALBA is a 3rd generation Synchrotron Light Source that is located in Cerdanyola, near Barcelona, Spain. To produce the synchrotron light, three accelerators are needed: a LINAC, to extract the electrons from a cathode and accelerate then to en energy of 100 MeV. At this energy, the electrons are injected into a Booster, which increase the energy of the electrons up to 3 GeV, at this energy the electrons are transferred to the Storage Ring, where the Synchrotron Ligth is produced. The Storage Ring has been designed for a maximum current of 400 mA. Since May 2012 ALBA is open to users. At this moment the seven beamlines of phase I are working 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Beam current has been continously increased and we reached 200 mA in multi-bunch filling pattern. 8.37 7.38 Dipole field (T.m) 18.18 11.42 Vertical tune Qy 4.3 9 150 Horizontal tune Qx 4.3 9 150 Hor. Emittance (nm.rad) 15 60 200 Rms bunch length (ps) 2 2 2-218 Bunch spacing (ns) 268 249 Circunference (m) 3 0.1-3 0.1 Energy [GeV] Storage ring Booster Linac


In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the impacts of Kerr effect and fiber dispersion on longrange Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) systems. The results show that the self-phase modulation (SPM, Kerr effect) can induce considerable continuum spectral broadening on a Gaussian pump pulse at a relative low power for both normal and anomalous dispersion fibers; with the cooperative effect of SPM and anomalous dispersion, the modulation instability can cause discrete spectral broadening on a square pump pulse at a relative high power. The detrimental effect of pump pulse spectral broadening could reduce the performance and sensing-range.


Instructor-leadership is defined as a process whereby instructors exert intentional influence over students to guide, structure, and facilitate activities and relationships. This dissertation focuses on instructor-leadership specifically in the context of higher education module/classroom interactions. In this context, research focused on the dominant theory of transformational leadership. This dissertation seeks to offer a balanced perspective on instructor-leadership by examining both transformational and destructive leadership. In so doing, this dissertation takes the first step towards unpicking leadership behaviours in a module by developing context-sensitive measures of both transformational and destructive instructor-leadership. These measures were specifically adapted to the unique situation of instructors in higher education institutions. For the transformational instructor-leadership measure, an education-based secondary dataset of over 2,700 students across the UK was used. The findings indicated three potential quasi-transformational instructor-leadership dimensions. In an additional independent study, these three dimensions showed weak incremental validity, and failed to tap into charisma. Therefore, this educationally-developed measure was used to enhance the context-sensitivity of an already established organizational behaviour measure of transformational leadership. This enhanced measure captured four dimensions of transformational instructor-leadership including idealized influence, consideration, intellectual stimulation, and direction and congruence. Direction and congruence substituted for inspirational motivation or vision in the higher education module context. In the final study, the items derived from the secondary dataset were reworded to reflect personal transformational instructor-leadership, and there was good support for the combined measure's factor structure as well as its validity. For the destructive instructor-leadership measure, 13 in-depth semi-structured student interviews were conducted in order to determine how students' perceive destructive leadership in the unique higher education module context. The results of a thematic analysis indicated that destructive instructor-leadership may be conceptualized as consisting of three dimensions, including callous communication, chaotic carelessness, and irresponsibility. The final quantitative study partially confirmed these three dimensions showing that chaotic carelessness slightly overlaps with callous communication and irresponsibility, and another dimension labelled victimization also emerged from the data. Using both of the context-sensitive leadership measures, the final study examined student engagement and burnout as mechanisms that mediated the relationship between (a) transformational instructor-leadership and student achievement, and (b) destructive instructor-leadership and student achievement. The results partially supported the hypothesized relationships. Theoretical and practical implications, along with limitations and suggestions for future research, were discussed.


Purpose: Several case reports of transient drug-induced myopia have been reported, mainly due to sulfa drugs. We present a case of a sudden and significant increase in myopia associated with initiation of Sulfasalazine for long-standing ulcerative colitis in an adult Caucasian female. Case report: Our patient presented to the emergency room with acute bilateral visual loss. Ocular examination was normal, except for myopia of −4 Diopters (D) in both eyes (BE). The patient was advised to stop the medication, and her vision improved within 4 days to best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 6/7.5 with a refractive correction of −0.75 D in her right eye (RE) and BCVA of 6/6 with a refractive correction of −0.50 D in her left eye (LE). Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, this is the second reported case of transient Sulfasalazine-induced myopia.


1 Abstract. The effect of different combinations of chemical scarification, soaking and substrates (ex vitro and in vitro) on seed germination of Polaskia chichipe (Goss.) Backeberg and Echinocactus platyacanthus Link & Otto fa. grandis (Rose) Bravo- Hollis, collected in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico, were studied. The P chichipe seeds did not require either chemical scarification or soaking, whereas E platyacanthus required chemical scarification with strong acids. Growth and maintenance of the seedlings was evaluated in two different concentrations of Murashige-Skoog me- dium (50% and 100% of their components). It was found that MS 50% stimulated germination in both species and promoted seedling growth.


A Successful Case Study of Small Business Energy Efficiency and Demand Response with Communicating Thermostats Karen Herter, Heschong Mahone Group Seth Wayland, Heschong Mahone Group Josh Rasin, Heschong Mahone Group August 2009


Self-assembled magnetic nanohead-FeSi nanowire (NW) epitaxial heterojunctions by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) are reported. Free-standing FeSi NWs, ∼30 nm in diameter and several micrometers long, were grown by reduction of Fe2O3 in a H2 atmosphere on a heated silicon substrate at 750 °C. These NWs shows very uniform dimensions, which is thought to be due to a higher diffusion activation energy for the nanostructure. A magnetic Fe3O4 head with a diameter of ∼30 nm was observed on each FeSi NW. The epitaxial relationship of these junctions is Si[001]//Fe3O4[201], Si(001)//Fe3O4(102). Ferromagnetic behavior of the nanoheads was identified, and the coercivity was characterized as ∼220 Oe at 10 K. This one-step CVD approach for self-assembling epitaxially magnetic heads could enable device integration for spintronics and sensors. Particularly, such FeSi nanowires with highly localized magnetic nanoheads are ideal for high resolution magnetic force microscopy (MFM).


As marine research becomes increasingly multidisciplinary in its approach there has been a
corresponding rise in the demand for large quantities of high quality interoperable data. A number
of regional initiatives are already addressing this requirement through the establishment of infrastructures
to improve the discovery and access of marine data. Projects such as Geo-Seas
and SeaDataNet in Europe, Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) in the USA and IMOS in Australia
have implemented local infrastructures to facilitate the exchange of standardised marine datasets.
However, so far each of these regional initiatives has been developed to address their own
requirements and independently of other regions. To establish a common framework for marine
data management on a global scale these is a need to develop interoperability solutions that can
be implemented across these initiatives.
Through a series of workshops attended by the relevant domain specialists, the Ocean Data
Interoperability Platform (ODIP) project will identify areas of commonality between these regional
infrastructures and use these as the foundation for the development of a number of prototypes to
demonstrate interoperability between existing e-infrastructures. These prototypes will be used to
underpin the development of a common approach to the management of marine data which can
be promoted to the wider marine research community with a view to expanding this framework
to include other regional marine data infrastructures.
ODIP is a community lead project that is currently focussed on regional initiatives in Europe,
the USA and Australia. It is supported by parallel funding from the responsible agencies from
each region. The European component of ODIP includes 10 partners from 6 European countries
and is funded by the EU Framework 7 programme. The US participation in the project is being
supported through a supplement from the NSF for the R2R project, and the Australian contribution
is being sponsored by the Australian government.
Further project details are available on the ODIP website: http://www.odip.org


Paracetamol with Promethazine HCl is most popular over the counter drug which is used as antipyretic and antiemetic. A novel, simple, precise, less time consuming, economical and accurate reverse phase HPLC method has been developed for their estimation using water, methanol and acetic acid in 79:20:1 v/v/v ratio as eluting phase on Kromasil Silica column keeping flow rate at 1ml/min and detection at 249 nm. Both drugs observed linearity between 10-50μg/ml and successfully resolved within 6 minutes (3.565 and 5.641 minutes for paracetamol and promethazine respectively) with percent recovery between 98-101%. Tailing factor is within the range and number of theoretical plates is more than 2500. Method was validated as per ICH guidelines and the results indicate that these drugs could be quantified simultaneously without excipient interference and thus suitable for routine analysis of drugs in combination.


that inspired Jacob's project has demonstrated. It would have been interesting to see her elaborate further on the relevance of these more general contributions of the book to the field of socio-legal studies – or interdisciplinary legal studies more generally, but much of this will have been apparent to the reader from the rest of the chapters, and overall, the book is exemplary of a type of scholarship that provokes much reflection not only on what legality is, and how it matters, but also of how we can go about studying it. Throughout, Jacob makes a very clear case for the importance of the routinised, and the day-to-day, to the constitution of legality, and of the relevance of ethnographic methods to bring to light these aspects of the law that are so central to its mechanisms, and to the constitution of social relationships to law. For this reason in particular, the book will be of real interest to interdisciplinary legal scholars concerned with such methodological reflections. The data and the stories told, meanwhile, are fascinating in their own right.


Chase, P.G., 1999. Symbolism as reference and symbolism as culture, in The Evolution of Culture, eds. R. Dunbar, C. Knight & C. Power. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 34–49. Chase, P.G., 2001. Multilevel information processing, archaeology, and evolution, in In the Mind's Eye: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition, ed. A. Nowell. Ann Arbor (MI): International Monographs in Prehistory, 121–37.


This article presents the development of a new concept for an assistive robotic device that can help people as needed, considering their residual physical and cognitive abilities, and, at the same time, increase their cognitive and physical abilities in activities of daily living (ADLs), such as drinking, cooking, eating, personal hygiene, and grooming.


Absolute calibrations of radioactive neutron source strength Q n/s have so far been conventionally carried out by means of the so-called water-bath or MnSO4-bath technique using a water moderator. Here, we present the method and results of a new technique for the absolute calibration of Q by elaborately integrating the spatial distributions of thermal neutron flux inside and on the surface of the high-purity graphite moderator with dimension of 2.5 ×1.9 ×1.9 m3. The combined standard uncertainty for absolute Q obtained from the presented technique was ±2.0%, which is comparable to those of the conventional methods.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the emplotment of organizational grand-narratives of a leading international organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The paper includes the reconstruction of the OECD's inclusion approach as a prototype grand-narrative. Moreover, the main goal of this paper is understanding the reciprocal relationship between the organizational narratives and other organizational domains.

Design/methodology/approach
To study the structural process of emploting grand-narratives, which combines reciprocal dependencies across organizational domains, I have used process tracing, content analysis and interviews methodologies, for each domain. These methodologies were monitored by quantitative and qualitative analyses of the interactions among these domains. These methods allowed me to explore the interdependencies in the discursive and non-discursive ordering of institutional memory as a means for identifying the development of organizational narratives.

Findings
The findings of this paper confirm the reciprocal dynamics among and within three core organizational domains, narratives, organizational-epistemological settings and organizational products. These domains evolve constantly and concurrently in a three-phased process where a former organizational constellation is challenged, a consolidation takes place, and a new narrative is institutionalized. The context I chose to demonstrate this dynamic is the OECD evolving interactions between innerorganizational units and the organizational products (i.e. its activation policy recommendations), of the OECD post-Cold War inclusive approach (1989–2002).

Research limitations/implications
The importance and complexity of the OECD as a global trendsetting organization, and the findings of this single case study are significant for their implications on trends and processes found in other complex grand-narratives. The transferability of these results would require further analysis.

Originality/value
The originality of this paper is using a transnational dynamic organization such as the OECD as the organizational model for understanding how organizations undergo emplotment processes. Moreover, this article's analytical framework provides a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between the constraining structures and micro-level interactions.


In a recent effort to improve our assessment of the Comparative seakeeping performance of existing U.S. Navy ships, a seakeeping questionnaire was distributed to the Commanding Officers of U.S. Navy frigates, destroyers, and cruisers. The objectives were to determine, (1) the operational availability of existing weapons and sensors in relation to a ship's seakeeping performance, (2) the availability of ships to make full speed and to conduct sonar, helicopter, and replenishment-at-sea operations, (3) effects of a ship's seakeeping limitations on task force and convoy operation, and (4) realistic seakeeping design crteria for use in the design of new ships. The responses to the questionnaire indicated that frigates are severely limited in their availability to conduct ASW task force and convoy operations in the North Atlantic during the winter season because of seakeeping limitations on speed, hull sonar performance, and helicopter operations. The findings suggest that in the design of future ships we need to place emphasis on improving the seakeeping performance of ships in rough water, instead of just their speed and range in calm water. They indicate that the ASW capability of U.S. ships in high sea states would be enhanced by a towed acoustic sensor; an extended range ASW missile; active fin roll stabilizers; and a helicopter recovery assistance, securing and traverse (RAST) system. They also suggest that the question of the interaction of a ship's size and seakeeping characteristics with the choice of weapons and sensors requires careful attention in the design of future U.S. Navy ships.


Social learning refers to the process by which networked strategic agents learn an unknown state of the world by observing state-related private signals as well as other agents' actions. In the classic study of social learning by Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, and Welch, it was shown that in this setting, information cascades occur, in which agents blindly imitate others' behavior and as a result learning stops for the whole community. Several proposals have been forwarded to mitigate this detrimental phenomenon.In this paper we consider the introduction of an information coordinator to mitigate information cascades. The coordinator commits to a contract and agents choose to enter the mechanism or not. If they enter they pay a fee and inform the coordinator of their private information (not necessarily truthfully). The coordinator, in turn, suggests an action to the agents based on his cumulative knowledge. We study a class of mechanisms that possess properties such as individual rationality for agents (i.e., agents want to enter the mechanism), truth telling, and profit maximization for the coordinator. We show the existence of such a mechanism which strictly improves social welfare, and results in strictly positive profit for the coordinator, so that agents and the coordinator are willing to adopt this approach. Furthermore, we analyze the performance of this mechanism and show significant gains on both aforementioned metrics.


1. A radiological study of the acromio-humcral interval in sixty normal shoulders and in fifty-nine shoulders with known tears of the rotator cuff is reported. 2. The normal acromio-humeral interval was found to be seven to fourteen millimetres, a range that is consistent with previous observations. 3. Narrowing of this interval is a frequent concomitant of a tear of the rotator cuff. 4. An interval of five millimetres or less should be considered compatible with a tear of the rotator cuff until proven otherwise. 5. An explanation of the pathomechanics of the observation has been proposed.


[Objective]To explore the effect of trinitrotoluene( TNT) on health of workers.[Methods]The occupational health examination was conducted among 285 workers exposed to TNT in a chemical factory of Linyi City,and the results were analyzed.[Results]The detection rate of lens opacity,hepatomegaly,increased alanine aminotransferase activity and HBsAg was 6. 67%,11. 93%,15. 44% and 16. 14%,respectively. The abnormal electrocardiographic patterns were mainly sinus bradycardia and sinus arrhythmia. There were significant differences in these indexes between exposure group and the control group( P 0. 05).[Conclusion]The main health damages of workers exposed to TNT include lens opacity,arrhythmia and liver injury.


In this paper, we developed a mathematical model of image formation that allows a predictive hyperspectral image to be generated. The model takes into account the formation of an optical image using a matrix photodetector. The paper presents a numerical modeling of hyperspectral image formation and gives estimates of spatial and spectral resolution, as well as analyzing the adequacy of the results.


Meanwhile, a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed the rates of drivers found with THC in their systems after fatal car crashes from 2013 to 2016. The researchers then compared the patterns of THC-positive drivers in Colorado and Washington during that time period to those in other states. In a summary of their results, the authors write, "We find the synthetic control groups saw similar changes in marijuana related, alcohol-related and overall traffic fatality rates despite not legalizing recreational marijuana."


Controlled induction motor drives without mechanical sensor at the motor shaft at low speed down to zero fundamental frequency can so far only be achieved by evaluating inherent saliencies of the induction machine. Similar to other sensorless methods based on signal injection, the resulting control signals of the indirect flux detection method by on-line reactance measurement is influenced, for example, by the saturation based saliency, the slotting saliency, and the anisotropy saliency as well as by load and flux level. Since these influences are extremely dependant on the machine design, they can hardly be calculated in advance and removed by filtering or digital signal processing. However the possibility of utilizing a neural network for learning the individual dependencies and removing the unwanted influences can provide a very satisfactory result. Since the easy implementation of a neural network does only use a small amount of calculation power, the algorithm can be implemented even in low-cost signal processors. Measurements on mechanical sensorless controlled induction machines present adequate results up to about rated load.


From Introduction: "This report presents data for 60 compounds, 54 experimental and 6 calculated patterns. This compilation is the sixteenth of the series of "Standard X-ray Diffraction Powder Patterns."


Domain name generation algorithms are widely used in malware, such as botnet binaries, to generate large sequences of domain names of which some are registered by cybercriminals. Accurate detection of malicious domains can effectively defend against cyber attacks. The detection of such malicious domain names by the use of traditional machine learning algorithms has been explored by many researchers, but still is not perfect. To further improve on this, we propose a novel parallel detection model named N-Trans that is based on the N-gram algorithm with the Transformer model. First, we add flag bits to the first and last positions of the domain name for the parallel combination of the N-gram algorithm and Transformer framework to detect a domain name. The model can effectively extract the letter combination features and capture the position features of letters in the domain name. It can capture features such as the first and last letters in the domain name and the position relationship between letters. In addition, it can accurately distinguish between legitimate and malicious domain names. In the experiment, the dataset is the legal domain name of Alexa and the malicious domain name collected by the 360 Security Lab. The experimental results show that the parallel detection model based on N-gram and Transformer achieves 96.97% accuracy for DGA malicious domain name detection. It can effectively and accurately identify malicious domain names and outperforms the mainstream malicious domain name detection algorithms.


Trafficking in children is particularly severe form of exploitation and breach of the children rights, while security and welfare of children that are exposed to trafficking are obligations of state authorities, services and organizations of civil society. System of protection and support to children victims of trafficking should contain following: criteria for proper identification of child-victim of trafficking, mechanisms for immediate referring of a child to specialized services, procedures for appointing a guardian who will secure that procedures and decisions are in accordance with the best interest of child, measures for regulating of residential status, assistance with reparation and reintegration as well as measures for protection of children witnesses and victims of trafficking. Finally, it should include a proper access to justice. In the article, recommendations are proposed for improvement of identification system, proper evaluation of needs and planning services and protection measures as well as measures and activities which should secure long term solutions in accordance with rights of the child and her/his best interests.