SIP-server overload in next generation networks is a well-known issue, which motivates new research activities and gives rise to new models and designs of overload control mechanisms. In a number of recent papers in has been shown that the SIP overload problem can be addressed from queueing-theoretic point of view. This paper provides a numerical algorithm for performance analysis of queue-related stationary characteristics of finite-capacity MAP|PH|1 queueing system with bi-level hysteretic control of arrivals. This system models a SIP server with loss-based overload scheme, which implies the use of bi-level hysteretic control of arrivals to regulate the message arrival rate. Simple numerical example illustrating the performance of hysteretic control is given.


Objectives: This study is aimed to correlate the levels of prostatic fatty acids with the pathogenesis, progression and racial disparity of prostate cancer (PCa). Methods: Total fatty acids (TFA) and free fatty acids (FFA) were measured in 26 fresh frozen PCa tissues from 13 African American (AA) and 13 Caucasian American (CA) patients, and 21 benign prostatic tissues (BPT) from 12 AA and 9 CA men by gas chromatography with flame ionization detection and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, respectively. Results: In all populations, TFA in total was significantly higher in PCa than in ABP (1.8-fold, p=0.023). Saturated TFA (STFA) was 1.6-fold higher (p=0.024), mono-unsaturated TFA (MUTFA) was 1.9-fold higher (p=0.027), and poly-unsaturated TFA (PUTFA) was 2.1-fold higher (p=0.045) in PCa than in BPT. Six out of 16 individual TFA species were significantly higher in PCa than in BPT. Three out of 24 TFA parameters were significantly higher in high than in low grade PCa; and six out of 24 TFA parameters were significantly higher in high than low stage PCa. FFA in total was significantly higher in PCa than in BPT (1.3-fold, p=0.038). Saturated FFA (SFFA) in total was 1.2-fold higher (p=0.24), mono-unsaturated FFA (MUFFA) in total was 1.7-fold higher (p=0.027), and poly-unsaturated FFA (PUFFA) in total was 1.7-fold higher (p=0.045) in PCa than in BPT. Four out of 10 FFA species were significantly higher in PCa than in BPT. In stratified populations, the difference of TFA in total was not significant between AA PCa and AA BPT (p=0.71), but it was significantly higher in CA PCa than in CA BPT (2.7-fold, p=0.003). There were only 2 out of 16 TFA species in AA PCa significantly higher than in AA BPT, whereas 11 out of 16 TFA species in CA PCa significantly higher than in CA BPT. The differences in all groups of TFAs, including STFA, MSTFA, PUTFA, n-3, n-6 and n-9 TFA were not significant between AA PCa and AA BPT, however they were all significantly higher in CA PCa than in CA BPT. Out of 24 fatty acid parameters, two in AA population but 14 in CA population were significantly higher in high than low grade PCa, and one in AA population but 15 in CA population were significantly higher in high than low stage PCa. None of 14 FFA parameters were significantly different between AA PCa and AA BPT, but 10 of those were significantly higher in CA PCa than in CA BPT. Intriguingly, TFA in total, STFA, MUTFA, PUTFA, n-3TFA, n-6 TFA, n-9 TFA and ratio of n-6 to n-3 were all higher in AA BPT than CA BPT, but all lower in AA PCa than in CA PCa. Conclusion: This study suggests that increasing in majority of prostatic fatty acids (both TFA and FFA) is risk for pathogenesis and progression of PCa. Higher levels of prostatic fatty acids in BPT are greater risk for PCa pathogenesis in AA men, whereas higher levels of prostatic fatty acids contribute more to the progression of PCa in CA men. Citation Format: Xinchun Zhou, Jinghe Mao, Hao Mei, Timera Brown, Joshua Agee, Steven Bigler, Ruth Welti. Prostatic fatty acids correlate with the progression and racial disparity of prostate cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2235.


Monitoring the training load in football is an important strategy to improve athletic performance and an effective training periodization. The aim of this study was two-fold: (1) to quantify the weekly training load and recovery status variations performed by under-15, under-17 and under-19 sub-elite young football players; and (2) to analyze the influence of age, training day, weekly microcycle, training and playing position on the training load and recovery status. Twenty under-15, twenty under-17 and twenty under-19 players were monitored over a 2-week period during the first month of the 2019–2020 competitive season. Global positioning system technology (GPS) was used to collect external training loads: total distance covered, average speed, maximal running speed, relative high-speed running distance, high metabolic load distance, sprinting distance, dynamic stress load, accelerations and decelerations. Internal training load was monitored using ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) and session rating of perceived exertion (sRPE). Recovery status was obtained using the total quality recovery (TQR) scale. The results show an age-related influence for external training load (p ≤ 0.001; d = 0.29–0.86; moderate to strong effect), internal training load (p ≤ 0.001, d = 0.12–0.69; minimum to strong effect) and recovery status (p ≤ 0.001, d = 0.59; strong effect). The external training load presented differences between training days (p < 0.05, d = 0.26–0.95; moderate to strong effect). The playing position had a minimum effect on the weekly training load (p < 0.05; d = 0.06–0.18). The weekly microcycle had a moderate effect in the TD (p < 0.05, d = 0.39), RPE (p < 0.05; d = 0.35) and sRPE (p < 0.05, d = 0.35). Interaction effects were found between the four factors analyzed for deceleration (F = 2.819, p = 0.017) and between inter-day, inter-week and age for total covered distance (F = 8.342, p = 0.008). This study provided specific insights about sub-elite youth football training load and recovery status to monitor training environments and load variations. Future research should include a longer monitoring period to assess training load and recovery variations across different season phases.


This paper introduces the application and principle of Real -Time Detecting AndAlarming System Of The Thermal Engine Cleanou t,which takes AT89C55as its core.


Recently published literatures indicate that, a consistent and precise classification system of microarray data is very essential for the successful identification of genes responsible for a cancer subtype and early treatment of cancer. However, in common clinical practice, diagnostic assertion of malignancies mostly relies on the morphological examination of tissues and clinical tests. In spite of the recent progress of treatment that uses semiempirical approaches involving computation methods, there are still uncertainties in cancer identification and diagnosis. High density oligonucleotide chips and genomic microarray data are being used progressively more in cancer research by generating huge expression data for thousands of genes simultaneously that poses problem of mining specific genes responsible for characterization of a specific cancer subtype. In this backdrop, we briefly address the impact of various statistical methods and their relative performances for the identification of potential probes and Discriminant genes for the breast cancer. We used Fisher's Discriminant Ratio (FDR), two tailed T-Test and vector norm on raw expression data and for each of the probe generated from the difference data accounting for up and down regulation of expression for each probes for various samples. The result indicates the potential of these methods to identify genes responsible for manifestation of breast cancer which is also well supported by the published result of experiments. The success of this approach not only gives the benefit of identification of cancer specific genes but also may help building of efficient classifier on the basis of these genes for automatic diagnostics of cancer.


ABSTRACT Herder's 'Neger-Idyllen', Kleist's Die Verlobung in St. Domingo, and Caroline Auguste Fischer's William der Neger offer an exploration of the intersection between race and colonialism in the Atlantic World and in Europe around 1800. Teaching students to read depictions of race, violence, and struggles for emancipation does not only engage with the fraught legacies of the Enlightenment, but, practically speaking, it is also an exercise in suspicious reading. Herder's anti-imperialist and antislavery poems end with an uneasy negotiation of paternalism. Kleist's novella provides a racially biased narrator, who limits access to the thought processes of non-white characters. Fischer's short story moves towards upholding an ideal of emancipation, but recoils from its corollary of revolutionary violence, and crafts two images of its protagonist that cannot be reconciled: one of internalized self-hatred, based on racial identity, the other, of a Christ-like saviour for oppressed peoples.


This study aims to determine the marketing strategy used by ARENA futsal and to evaluate the success of its marketing strategy in effort to improve customer applied by ARENA Futsal, using the marketing mix (Marketing Mix) consisting of Place, Price, Product, Promotion, People, Process , and Phisycal Evidence (7P) and SWOT Analysis. And from the results of this research is that in applying the Marketing Mix, the company has implemented a good strategy with, among others: the price is relatively affordable for students and learners and to provide good quality services. However, there is one problem with the HR or the companys workforce that is less alert field officers in serving customers. While the SWOT analysis in mind that ARENA Futsal has greater strength with the threats that exist around them.


It has been three years since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon of September 11,2001. These horrific events, as well as the bombings sponsored by Al Qaeda that preceded and followed them, spurred many states and organizations to take more forceful measures to combat terrorism. The United Nations Security Council—because of its global reach and primary responsibility within the UN system for maintaining international peace and security, as well as its ability to impose obligations on all 191 UN member states—was expected to play a leading and unique role in the global effort to combat terrorism. These attributes pointed to the Security Council as offering the quickest route for globalizing the fight against terrorism. The Council's strategy to combat terrorism can be divided into four prongs: condemnation of discrete acts of terrorism, imposition of binding counterterrorism obligations on all states, capacity building, and imposition of sanctions. As for the first prong, although the Council had adopted a few resolutions condemning discrete acts of terrorism before 9/11 (e.g., regarding Pan Am Flight 103, the August 1998 embassy bombings), beginning with Resolution 1368 on September 12, 2001, the Council began the general practice of adopting resolutions following most major terrorist attacks (e.g., on Bali, Mombasa, Moscow, Casablanca, Bogota, Istanbul, and Madrid). These resolutions are purely political statements of condemnation, urging all states to cooperate in bringing those behind the particular attack to justice; they have no legal effect. As the second aspect of its post-9/11 strategy, the Security Council adopted Resolution 1373, which imposed a series of counterterrorism obligations on all states and established the CounterTerrorism Committee (CTC) to monitor states' efforts to implement them. Resolution 1373 requires all states, inter alia, to freeze terrorists' assets, criminalize the financing of terrorism, bring terrorists to justice, refrain from providing support to terrorists, and ensure that all terrorist acts are established as serious criminal offenses in domestic law. The diird prong is represented by die Security Council's CTC, which has been die main engine behind global efforts at enhancing states' counterterrorism capacity and counterterrorism coordination by the numerous intergovernmental organizations now involved in this effort. The committee has helped energize states and organizations around the world to pay more


Introduction Theoretical backgrounds: Scope and general definitions used in ecological modelling What are the general conditions, under which models can be applied? History of ecological modelling, and modern developments.- Modelling Techniques and Approaches Context assessment and Systems analysis Steady State Models of Ecological Systems Ordinary Differential Equations Partial Differential Equations Cellular Automata Leslie-Matrices Fuzzy Sets L-Systems, and Fractals Agent- and Individual-based Models Modelling landscape dynamics and Habitat Suitability Decision trees and data mining.- Application fields, case studies and examples Conceptual and theoretical models (Analysing Landscape Structure using Neutral Models) Case Studies: Application of ecological models in management (Coral-Algae-Interaction Stage-structured invasion models Trophic Cascades and Food Web Stability in Fish Communities of the Everglades) Case Studies: Model Coupling and Multi-scale issues (Bio-Physical Models: An Evolving Tool in Marine Ecological Research Potentials of GIS - Model Coupling Modelling the Everglades Ecosystem).- Strategies of model development Model validation, Parameter estimation, Sensitivity Analysis.


Scaling analysis based on structure function (q) computed using wavelet analysis and spectrum D(h) is used to study possible connection of ionospheric system with the solar and geomagnetic activity. Data from six ionospheric stations (critical frequency foF2), solar flux F10.7 and geomagnetic indices AE, Kp and Dst are used. Data of foF2 show scale invariance in the period range 2-32 day. Scaling properties of ionospheric data show strong dependence on geomagnetic latitude of the station. Similar distribution of values of scaling exponents h for ionospheric and geomagnetic activity AE and Kp suggests connection between these systems. Values of h for foF2 and F10.7 have dierent distribution which may suggest weak connection between these systems at chosen periods.


Pre-Cretaceous history of accretion of terranes west of the Guyana craton (northem Southamerican plate) is still poorly understood. Detailed geochronological and geochemical analysis in granulite-cored basement uplifts of Grenvill ian age in the northern Andes reveal an affinity with terranes of Mexico and the Central Andes (Restrepo-Pace et al., 1995 ; Cordani et al, in revision). According to recent proposais , fragmetation of these terranes from Laurentia took place during the opening of the lapetus ocean (early Paleozoic), but collisions between Laurentian-affinity blocks and Gondwana are still not cJear (Ordovician in Restrepo-Pace et al., 1995, or Devonian in Forero, 1990) . When and how these terranes collided and arrived to its present geographie position still needs further research. We present the results of a pioneer paleomagnetic and magnetic mineraJogy study carried out in Mesozoic rocks cropping out in severaJ terranes of the Eastern Cordillera and Magdalena Valley ofColombia (Fig. 1). The major goal was to characterize componets ofmagnetization and to determine which components may be used for structural and tectonis analysis of the northern Andes. ln addition, we integrate the results of previos paleomagnetic works in the northem Andes and cratonic South America in order to evaluate paleolatitudional translation of terranes and vertical-axis rotations of fault-bounded blocks during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformation. A total of 556 paleomagnetic samples collected in 58 sites were distributed in three major areas, which from north to south are: Bucaramanga (west of the Bucaramanga Fault, 16 sites), Floresta massif (15 sites), and northern Upper Magdalena Basin (27 sites, Fig. 1). Sites were located at different structural domains allowing the performance of the tilt test. Sampied stratigraphie units are Jurassic in age. Sites in unconformable upper (Cretaceous) or lower (Jurassic) units were collected in order to carry out the unconformity test. Contact and conglomerate tests were also carried out in order to establish the relative age of magnetization . The VGP (virtual geomagnetic pole) determined from characteristic component was later compared with the VGP for stable South American craton in order to infer tectonic implications. Thermal and AF demagnetization analysis were carried out in the Paleomagnetic laboratories of Ingeominas (Bogot à, Colombia), and in the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) . Termomagnetic curves and Lowrie experiments in a total of22 samples were carried out at the Universidad Simon Bolivar (Venezuela). Both low-tempertature/coercivities magnetic components carrying directions parallel to the present magnetic field and characteristic magnetic componets were isolated from Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks exposed in the three selected areas (Table 1). In Bucaramanga, tilt-corrected characteristic components from the Jordan Fm. (Lower-Middle Jurassic) and Giron-Los Santos Fms (Upper Jurassic-Berriasian) show negative and positive


Procesy metasomatyczne na kontakcie dolomitow kruszconośnych z wapieniami w zlozu rud cynku i olowiu kopalni Olkusz

The paper presents the preliminary results of microscopic examinations of contact-relationships between the ore-bearing dolomite and limestones in the Triassic of the Cracow-Silesian region. The alterations observed include: dissolution, recrystallization of limestones and dedolomitization of the ore-bearing dolomite. Such alterations represent incipient stages of the main sulfide mineralization in karst cavities and are explained in terms of interference between hot mineralizing solutions and cold meteoric waters.


There was no significant difference in digestible dry matter intake (6 14 v. 63 1 g/day), liveweight gain (1 33 v. 13 1 g/day) or nitrogen retention (9.6 v. 11.2 g N/kg digestible organic matter) of Merino lambs offered whole wheat or whole wheat supplemented with 1.5% urea. Supplementation of the wheat or wheat plus urea rations with 20% hay also had no significant effect on total dry matter intake or liveweight gain.


The development of material science and life science requires much high performance of computer. In condensed matter physics, the calculations of electronic structures of materials base on Density Functional Theory (DFT). In the view of the DFT and calculationsl technique, the main factors, which affect calculation speed and precision, are given: The calculation speed can be about 10 time's faster by increasing the main memory; and the convergence of calculation will be accelerated if variable's data bits increase, which reduces the calculational effort. According to the character of electronic structure calculation of protein macro-molecule, the requirements of high performance calculation on supercomputer are given. Such kind of supercomputers will have a good future in material science and life science.


Abstract Over the years, it has become obvious that simultaneous backfill grouting is of great significance to the design of the tunnel lining and process control of shield construction. It is essential to know the grout pressure distribution around the tunnel lining. The purpose of this study is to seek an alternative method to simulate the grout diffusion process and obtain pressure distribution of different time during simultaneous backfill grouting of tunnel construction. A lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) based free surface flow model is introduced and modified, and a Smagorinsky large-eddy simulation model serves to deal with the small-scale turbulent problem, which is a challenge for LBM to simulate the large-scale real-world engineering. The simulation results obtain the grout filling state with time and pressure distribution around the tunnel lining. Additionally, the grout pressures on site are measured at a ring in line 8 of Chengdu Rail tunnel, and the measurement results are also compared with ones taken from numerical simulation, it is showed that the numerical results are consistent with that of measurement on the whole. Through simulating different grouting strategies, it is concluded that for four-holes grouting schemes, the grouting pressures of upper holes are significant for the grout pressure distribution and should be paid most attention in construction.


Central bank theory occupies a very important position in modern monetary and economic theories,whereas the establishment of its branches is more of a practical issue.This paper reviews the development history and current evolutions of the British,U.S.and Euro-Zone central banks,and studies the successful ideas and practices of those central banks from three aspects of establishment modes,organizational orientation,functions and roles of their branches,so as to supply an instructive enlightenment to the reform of China's central bank system.


System and method of treating exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine using selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and adaptive control of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) injection. Adaptive control of DEF injection includes intentionally underdosing the injected DEF based on an amount of DEF determined by an electronic control unit as an amount needed to reduce nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to a compliance threshold. Since underdosing prevents ammonia (NH 3 ) slip from occurring due to low levels of DEF, a sensor accurately senses NO x present in the exhaust gas at an output of an SCR chamber. An electronic control unit increases the amount of injected DEF based on the sensor.


This paper presents the design and demonstration of redistribution layers directly on the surface of glass for highspeed 28 Gbps signaling applications. An unprecedented demand for bandwidth to support cloud and edge computing driven by online services is expected with the continued proliferation of connected devices including smartphones, Internet of Things, and autonomous electric vehicles. High performance systems supporting electrical signal speeds up to and beyond 28 Gbps are required, thus driving the development of advanced multi-chip architectures such as 2.5D interposers. Silicon interposers have been developed and manufactured, but are limited in performance and cost. High conductor and dielectric losses limit maximum data rate, while 300 mm wafer size and expensive damascene processes increase packaging costs. Glass interposers provide similar interconnect densities as silicon but at higher performance and lower cost. The smooth surface roughness (Ra <; 10 nm) and low total thickness variation of glass enables fine pitch panel lithography approaching back-end-of-line design rules, while the lower loss tangent of glass and thicker copper metallization reduces dielectric and conductor losses respectively. This work describes the design and demonstration of differential, high-speed traces on a two-metal layer glass interposer. These redistribution layers were fabricated using panel-scalable, semi-additive processes and characterized up to f = 40 GHz using on-panel calibration. Differential crosstalk below 30 dB up to f = 40 GHz was demonstrated without ground shielding at a differential pair spacing greater than 200 μm.


Abstract : Fatigue crack propagation rates in Ti-6Al-4V subjected to relatively high frequency low amplitude vibrations superimposed on higher amplitude low frequency major cycles are studied. It is concluded that the vibrations, or minor cycles, have negligible effect below their fatigue threshold value. Above this level the minor cycles will contribute to the total growth rate; their contribution, successfully predicted by the method of linear summation, is dependent on their relative number and size. In gas turbine and compressor discs and blades, components which experience large numbers of minor cycles per flight, the damage associated with active minor cycle is dominant. Consequently, the onset of minor cycle damage effectively determines the useful life of such components. (Author)


Objective: To understand pregnancy behavior of Pakistani women over their reproductive life span so as to generate baseline data on prevalence of pregnancy loss and to generate hypotheses for future research. Examination of events over the reproductive life span of a woman rather during a single pregnancy or child birth may be more useful in understanding the birth outcomes. Methods: Data of National Health Survey of Pakistan 1992-94 was used for this analysis as this is the only data available with information on diseases and exposures. Stata Version 9 for complex survey analysis was used with survey weights that reflected the over-sampling of urban areas and the three smaller provinces. Results: 2,947 reproductive age women reported 16,833 pregnancies. More urban (12.6%) than rural (9.2%) and high-middle income (11%) than low-income (9.2%) women reported abortions. Stillbirth rate was almost similar among rural (54/1000) and urban (53/1000) women. After adjusting, hypertension (AOR 1.33; 95% CI 1.02, 1.75) and BMI �23 kg/m 2 (AOR 1.46; 95% CI 1.18, 1.80) remained significantly associated with stillbirth, while middle income (AOR 1.28; 95% CI 1.01, 1.63) and women with BMI �23 kg/m 2 (AOR 1.50, 95% CI


This paper presents an efficient piggybacking based clock synchronization approach which is probabilistic and can guarantee a much smaller bound on the clock skew than most existing algorithms. The proposed algorithm is designed to impose low memory and computation overheads on MHs and low communication overheads on wireless channels.


Owing to advances in medicine, the number of elderly patients is growing, concurrently leading to an increasing incidence in osteopenic fractures that often require surgical management. Some of the most common anatomic areas include the proximal humerus, the distal humerus, femoral neck fractures, and periprosthetic fractures around a total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Here, surgical strategies for these challenging clinical scenarios are reviewed, offering poignant tips and tricks to avoid pitfalls and complications.


Accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger Dear Sir, Chlorambucil is an effective, well-tolerated agent that is mainly used in the treatment of patients with lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia as well as in the treatment of patients with nephrotic syndrome [1, 2]. Similar to other alkylating agents, myelosuppression is the major toxic effect, but other significant toxicity is rare. Seizures, as complications of chlorambucil treatment, seem to be found almost exclusively in children with nephrotic syndrome or adults taking high-dose chlorambucil or with a seizure history [1]. We report daily low-dose chlorambucil-induced seizure in an adult patient with nephrotic syndrome who had no history of seizure. A 39-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for persisting edema of the lower extremities despite treatment with steroids. He had been admitted 8 months earlier with the same complaint, and laboratory findings had revealed massive proteinuria, hyperlipidemia and hypoalbuminemia. A diagnosis of nephrotic syndrome with a renal biopsy consistent with membranous glomerulonephritis had been made. On this admission, a general physical examination revealed pitting edema involving the lower extremities. His blood pressure was 160/100 mm Hg and pulse rate was 82/min. There was no icterus or significant lymphadenopathy. He was afebrile and chest, CVS and CNS examinations were also essentially normal. Abdominal examination revealed no organomegaly. Routine investigations revealed a hemoglobin of 13.2 g/dl, normal blood counts and an ESR of 116 mm in the first hour. Urine examination revealed an acidic pH with evidence of massive proteinuria. No sugar or cells could be detected. His 24-hour urine protein loss was 15 g and creatinine clearance was 131 ml/min. Total serum protein level was 3.33 g/dl with an albumin level of 1.46 g/dl. His serum cholesterol was 495 mg/dl, and triglyceride was 320 mg/dl. Blood urea, sugar, serum calcium, creatinine, uric acid, electrolytes and uric acid were all within the normal range. He began receiving chlorambucil 30 mg daily (0.3 mg/kg/day). On day 8, a generalized tonic-clonic seizure was witnessed by medical personnel. Second and third seizures were also observed while examining the patient. They were controlled by a diazepam infusion. The patient had no history of seizures. Work-up including serum electrolytes and glucose was normal and there were no findings on CT scan of the head. An electroencephalogram performed the following day showed moderate generalized slowing consistent with a postictal recording. Chlorambucil treatment was stopped. Follow-up of 7 months revealed no recurrence of seizures. Chlorambucil-induced seizures are rare; a total 30 cases have been recorded [1, and MEDLINE up to June 1988]. Children receiving low-dose chlorambucil for the treatment of nephrotic syndrome constitute an important part, and the mechanism by which chlorambucil induces seizures is not clear [3]. Probable explanations are the enhanced sensitivity in children and altered pharmacokinetics due to a reduction in plasma proteins secondary to urinary losses which may result in a higher level of unbound chlorambucil [1]. On the other hand, seizures in adults are found almost exclusively after overdosage either for therapeutic purposes or accidentally and in patients with a history of seizure. Daily low-dose chlorambucil-induced seizure in an adult with a urinary protein loss of 15 g/day and serum albumin level of 1.46 mg/dl may support the latter.


Preparation and activation of partially purified pig prothrombin are described. The enzyme, after column chromatography in Amberlite IRC-50, showed alanine as the N-terminal residue and an of 1.50 at pH 7.0 and 280 nm.The amino acid composition of pig thrombin is reported and compared with that of bovine origin. Pig thrombin showed 1.0 mol of isoleucine to 0.6 mol of threonine as N-terminals.The effects of storage of pig prothrombin are discussed.


Homeschooling (HS) Lantaburo is one of the alternative schools in the city of Tangerang which has a target of fostering and developing life skills for Students with Special Needs (ABK) so they can meet the basic needs of Activity of Daily Living (ADL) so that one day they can be independent and empowered in society. In implementing the ADL program, there are obstacles, namely the difficulty of keeping up with advances in computer technology as a medium for supporting the learning of ABK students. Based on these problems, this community service aims to introduce ABK students to operating computers and teach them how to use Microsoft Word features that can be used to learn typing and others. The method used is hands-on training on basic introduction to computers and Microsoft Word applications. Of the 26 students with special needs at HS Lantaburo who were given the opportunity by the teacher to take part in the training, there were 3 students namely Autism, Dyslexia, and Down Syndrome (DS) due to limited computer equipment and training time. The context of the training is based on the participant's ability to answer every question posed in the training, starting from managing text, fonts, data storage, etc. Meanwhile, making tables still requires frequent practice. The results of the training were that Autism and Dyslexia student participants had the same range of intelligence so they could follow the training well compared to DS participants. This can be seen from the results of the evaluation carried out after the training activities. ABK students can improve their ability to operate computer equipment and Microsoft Word software, including the ability to type, edit, and format documents. Increase motivation to study, more confidence and independent in operating computers and MS Word applications.


When searching for robust optimal solutions in evolutionary optimization, a criterion for robustness estimation is needed. An expectation-based approach and a variance-based approach are highlighted in this paper. Experiments are conducted on a single-objective test function adopting three unequal values of dimension size, solved by an chaotic evolutionary algorithm. In both former low-dimensional cases, graphical results are given to make a visual comparison between the two robustness measures, which shows that their searching ability is complementary. Then a dominance mechanism similar to the definition of domination in multi-objective optimization is suggested, and integrated with chaotic evolutionary algorithm for selection of a survival between two individuals in single-objective evolutionary optimization. In the third high-dimensional case, solved by modified chaotic evolutionary algorithm with variance-based measure approach, good numerical results are reported.


The content of this article deals with the relationship between aesthetics and education. It shows the great value of the aesthetic aspects in obtaining a rich and well-rounded education. In order to do this, the author studies thoroughly the understanding of aesthetics as something linked to creativity and interpersonal relationships. He also projects his particular way of conceiving the aesthetic aspects on the education. Finally, he reveals the connection between aesthetics, as a formative value, and the personal interest when experiencing an art work.


The research identified the Rural Street Games (RSG) of the chosen Municipalities of Ilocos Norte, Philippines, and the Benefits of RSG in promoting Filipino rural identity. The design of this research is Descriptive Design. The six towns of Ilocos Norte, Bacarra, Dumalneg, Pasuquin, Banna, Marcos, and Solsona, were selected to conduct the study. The researchers employed informal interviews and focus group discussions. The research mainly identified rural street games played in Ilocos Norte, Philippines: hide and seek, line crossing game, cow jumping, onion base, and kick game. Playing enhances the intellectual domain, physical domain, and some Filipino values of the players. This research's importance may also reduce to its specific aim, which is exercising socialization. Better communication starts in a simple game. Therefore, playing rural street games carries with it the best practice on how we preserve, strengthen and exercise our traits as Filipinos.


To test the hypothesis that the independent measurement of the ideal-self concept and the social-self concept produces quite different results, adjective check lists were administered to two independent samples of students (n1 = 44; n2 = 47) under varying instructions; one set to measure the ideal-basic relationship and one for measuring the social-basic relationship. The first sample (n = 44) was administered two separate word lists with different instructions. The second sample, chosen to control for practice effect and the influence upon the results of the adjectives themselves, was administered only one of the adjective check lists, with the same instructions as those pertaining to the separate word lists administered to Sample 1. An ABBA design was used with the second sample. Results tended to confirm the hypothesis that significant distinctions exist between ideal-self and social-self perceptions.


In this paper, we describe the technique for deriving digital elevation models (DEM) from a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) stereo pair and apply it to an image pair over the Golf of Edremit in Western Turkey. The objective of this paper is to evaluate DEMs from RADARSAT fine beam mode images as a function of pixel sampling and also of the terrain relief. In addition, throughout the different processing steps the contribution of various effects into error budget (i.e. ground control point acquisition, stereo-model set, image matching and DEM editing) are taken into account.The study area overlaps four 1:25 000 scale maps, which is about 50 km by 50 km. The elevation ranges from 0 m to 1767 m. The land cover consists mainly of a mixture of urban areas, agricultural lands and clear-cut areas. The agricultural areas mostly lay in the flat areas and partially take place along the slopes up to 60°. In addition to small rivers, a few loose rivers are also found. The roads are at most dual carriageways surrounding the urban areas. Experiments were done with a stereo pair of RADARSAT-1 data. Two fine beam mode scenes with 6.25 m pixel spacing are acquired with a shallow look angle from descending orbits (F1 and F5) to generate a stereo configuration with a small intersection angle of 8°. The images are orbit oriented, and coded in 16 bits without any radiometric processing. The topographic data were obtained from the Turkish General Command of Mapping. The 10 m counter lines were used to create gray-scaled DEMs, which are then transferred into a 10 m grid file. A corner reflector was installed before the flight and used as a GCP.


The invention provides a figure scrambling method based on a 2D HuntKill labyrinth. A HuntKill labyrinth generation area is manually defined in advance so that the method can be applied to any manually-specified 2D closed communicated area, meanwhile, nodes in the set labyrinth area are each assigned with a unique serial number according to the labyrinth node updating sequence so that arrangement of all the nodes of the set labyrinth area can be generated, and on this basis, the node updating sequence and node updating sequence combination scrambling method based on the 2D HuntKill labyrinth is constructed so that all the nodes can be scrambled. The scrambling method has universality and flexibility, is free of any limitation in the use process, can be applied to scrambling of regular areas such as square areas and rectangular areas which a traditional scrambling method is specific to, and can also be applied to scrambling of any specified irregular 2D closed communicated area. The invention further provides an image scrambling method for pixel matrixes, R, G, B channel matrixes and bit planes.


Compared with T-ALL diagnosis samples, samples obtained at relapse or after xenograft into immunodeficient mice exhibit additional genomic lesions in oncogenes and/or tumor suppressor genes; these lesions contribute to leukemia-initiating activity.


This article discusses those aspects of myth, through which, the functions of social management and control are realized in primitive society. It considers evolution of the myth as a form of rationalization of control. It shows that manipulation is a form of management that is based on a myth methodology. It also proves that the management is a natural form of social activity, and manipulation is an artificial one.


The invention relates to a cracking agent C9 primary hydrotreated oil deodorising method and the method comprises the following steps: a. dissolving acidic activator in primary hydrotreated oil; b. using 3-5 times of water to prepare stabilized chlorine dioxide water solution; c. mixing the obtained solutions in step a and step b, stirring for 0.5-3h, precipitating for 0.1-2h, discharging the precipitate in reaction liquid; d. neutralizing the reaction liquid without precipitate with basic neutralizer to ensure the precipitate to be neutral; e. washing with water 1-2 times, discharging water and obtaining the finished product, wherein the content of the acidic activator is not more than 0.4% of the primary hydrotreated oil, the content of stabilized chlorine dioxide is 0.1-0.5% of primary hydrotreated oil and the above steps are performed at room temperature and normal pressure. The invention has simple process, low cost, no new pollution and good effect.


prompted research on the private costs and returns from the use of these chemicals. Headley uses 1963 state data to estimate a $4 return for each dollar of pesticide materials of all types (fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, etc.) used on U.S. farms. He indicates that this result helped explain the rapid increase in sales volume of pesticides. But during the 1960s producers were giving additional attention to pest control as more insect species became resistant to more chemical types. Many policy questions on the limitation of use and registration of insecticides require more detailed knowledge of the demand for specific compounds. Regulatory officials are concerned about the substitutability of other chemical and nonchemical pest controls (Davis et al.). Yet, no statistical estimates of insecticide demand are presently available. The importance of insecticide resistance in affecting demand for specific compounds and the long-run productivity of insecticides are investigated in this paper. Individual farm data from several cotton production regions and aggregate insecticide use data are used to test hypotheses of falling productivity of insecticides and substitutability between chemical types.


this paper the link between Graph colorability theory and the design of a distributed Command Governor (CG) strategy is investigated. The first link between distributed supervision of systems with constraints and colorability properties was highlighted in a previous work where the idea of Turnbased CG was introduced for dynamically decoupled systems subject to coupling constraints. In this paper we will extend such a scheme to the case of dynamically coupled systems and we will show that the problem of determining the the minimal number of turns along with maximization of the agents appearance in turns is equivalent to a particular graph coloring problem. Such a problem is presented in a formal way and its complexity properties deeply discussed. A final example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.


Abstract Nowakowski J.K., Chruściel J., Muś K.: Does mist-netting provide reliable data to determine the sex and age ratios of migrating birds? A case study involving the Great Tit (Parus major) and the Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus). Ekologia (Bratislava), Vol. 32, No. 2, p. 173-185 , 2013. Ringing results of tits caught at two stations on the Polish Baltic coast were used to check if mistnetting could be successfully used to analyse the composition of sex and age classes of migrating birds. Four hypotheses are discussed, describing the distribution of age and sex classes during migration, and the consequences these distributions might have for the catching results. We analysed records of 59 000 Blue Tits and more than 84 000 Great Tits that were caught and we found a similarity in the results of catches at stations 188 km apart, and a higher similarity among catching sites 0.5-16 km apart. These results proved that mist-netting provides reliable data on the sex and age structure of migrating flocks, and that these data can generally be interpreted as representative for at least the area in a radius of more than 10 km. The results also showed a migratory divide through the central part of the Polish Baltic coastline between irruptive Blue Tits in the west and regular partial migrants in the east. Great Tits showed no tendency for irruptions anywhere in the study area. A high correspondence in the age and sex ratio was found for Great Tits and Blue Tits, in particular where both species are regular migrants. We found that the ratios of females and immatures did not differ by more than 1% over many years of study in these areas.


Positive psychology is a new trend of psychology of present time.It advocates that psychology should study the positive traits of humans,including positive emotional experience,positive personality traits and positive social environment.Since the mental health education of college students has become a very important topic in psychological study in China,positive psychology should be introduced to the mental health education of college students,with a view to enhancing the positive psychological traits and improving their psychological quality.


The Nano Intravital Device, or NANIVID, is under development as an optically transparent, implantable tool to study the tumor microenvironment. Two etched glass substrates are sealed using a thin polymer membrane to create a reservoir with a single outlet. This reservoir is loaded with a hydrogel blend that contains growth factors or other chemicals to be delivered to the tumor microenvironment. When the device is implanted in the tumor, the hydrogel will swell and release these entrapped molecules, forming a gradient. Validation of the device has been performed in vitro using epidermal growth factor (EGF) and MenaINV, a highly invasive, rat mammary adenocarcinoma cell line. In both 2-D and 3-D environments, cells migrated toward the gradient of EGF released from the device. The chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) of White Leghorn chicken eggs is being utilized to grow xenograft tumors that will be used for ex vivo cell collection. Device optimization is being performed for in vivo use as a tool to collect the invasive cell population. Preliminary cell collection experiments in vivo were performed using a mouse model of breast cancer. As a second application, the device is being explored as a delivery vehicle for chemicals that induce controlled changes in the tumor microenvironment. H2O2 was loaded in the device and generated intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cells near the device outlet. In the future, other induction targets will be explored, including hypoglycemia and the manipulation of extracellular matrix stiffness.


A simple enantioselective synthesis of (+)epi-elenoic acid is reported and its transformation into (+)-elenoic acid is described. Well-established procedures transform these compounds into the antipodes of tetrahydroalstonine, aricine, and reserpinine.


We have again belabored the problem associated with the natural family planning modality of contraception because we feel there still is a significant number of women interested in this method who will not practice contraception otherwise. Many women have attempted to use the so-called "rhythm method" and have been frustrated with failures. We have attempted to introduce the concept that some type of steroid or nonsteroid compound can be used beneficially not necessarily to pinpoint ovulation but to reasonably assure a patient that ovulation will not occur prematurely early in the cycle or at a later time when coitus usually takes place. Our initial publication in the "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology" (97: 949 April 1 1967) included the control group of cycles (p. 950) displayed graphically. They were not included in the present publication because the same type of patient was utilized and we did not wish to lengthen the article with more graphs than was necessary for each compound used. The total population group utilized in this study consisted of referred patients from many sources as well as our own patients many of whom had failed previously with the rhythm method of family planning. I doubt if they represent the average rank-and-file type of patient. As stated in the article we did have some patients who dropped out because pregnancy ensued and for other reasons. Of the total group of approximately 338 patients 11 became pregnant primarily because they failed to follow instructions of abstinence from coitus. These failures should not detract from the concept of the study. Most contraceptive pills contain 2 estrogens namely mestranol and ethinyl estradiol. Ovulation is inhibited with their lowest microdose of .05 mg.; therefore we endeavored to demonstrate that ovulation was not inhibited with smaller doses of .02 mg of ethinyl estradiol or mestranol. We feel reasonably sure now that even smaller doses below .01 mg would be more effective than the dose utilized in the present study. This assumption is based on results obtained in our pituitary gonadotropin laboratory. We are quite aware of the fact that synthetic estrogens are more potent than conjugated estrogens on a milligram-for-milligram basis.(FULL TEXT)


The many of us today have a biological self, a psychological self and a digital self and a phenomenon that characterizes our times, and not only that which involves millennials, is the tendency to privilege the digital self over everything else. The digital self is so often perceived as even more relevant than the psychological self. The sense of identity and even psychological security is getting more and more digitalized: from cultural / ideological / family-based propagated and indoctrinated memes we entered the digital world of technological memes and the problem is that considering how the psychological self is in itself heavily conditioned by so many memetic factors that usually go unseen and unstudied, the digital self is actually even worse than that. Not because of the onset of social media, new technologies and AI development and its applications, but because of the dull and acritical relationship we have with such elements and with our own use of our thinking abilities; we are moving towards a society of entertainment and superficial thinking and this situation, which appears to be an actuality of our times, should show us what the urgency of implementing our thinking skills really is. Critical thinking should be combined with the understanding of memetics and the application of high order multilogical thinking skills.


We investigate the relation of the semigroup probability density of an infinite activity L\'{e}vy process to the corresponding L\'{e}vy density. For subordinators, we provide three methods to compute the former from the latter. The first method is based on approximating compound Poisson distributions, the second method uses convolution integrals of the upper tail integral of the L\'{e}vy measure and the third method uses the analytic continuation of the L\'{e}vy density to a complex cone and contour integration. As a by-product, we investigate the smoothness of the semigroup density in time. Several concrete examples illustrate the three methods and our results.


The electric grid is a highly complex, interconnected machine, and changing one part of the grid can have consequences elsewhere. Adding wind and solar affects the operation of the other power plants and adding high penetrations can induce cycling of fossil-fueled generators. Cycling leads to wear-and-tear costs and changes in emissions. Phase 2 of the Western Wind and Solar Integration Study (WWSIS-2) evaluated these costs and emissions and simulated grid operations for a year to investigate the detailed impact of wind and solar on the fossil-fueled fleet. This built on Phase 1, one of the largest wind and solar integration studies ever conducted, which examined operational impacts of high wind and solar penetrations in the West.


In this paper, a non-locally reacting liner is considered, consisting of helical wave-guides filled with porous material, and covered with a perforated plate. This "spiralling" liner has more degrees of freedom than a conventional locally reacting liner. Apart from the cavity depth of the liner and the impedance of the perforated plate, also the properties of the porous material and the advance ratio of the helical wave-guides can be varied. The spiralling liner may be useful particularly for the reduction of rotor alone noise. The advance ratio of the wave-guides can then be tuned to the typical direction of noise propagation. The major part of this paper is about the mathematical modelling of the spiralling liner, with emphasis on the eigenvalue problem of a lined duct segment and the problem of matching with hard wall duct segments. Further, a validation experiment is described, by which good agreement was found with computed results. Finally, the results of a parametric study are summarised, showing the potential of this type of liner. For a typical case, 3 dB more reduction of rotor alone noise is predicted than with a locally-reacting liner. Nationaal Luchten Ruimtevaartlaboratorium National Aerospace Laboratory NLR


The major problem of indoor localization is the imprecise ranging, which directly degrades the localization accuracy. The ordinary least-squares (OLS) estimator is able to handle unbiased and homoscedastic ranging errors, but incapable for the bias and heteroscedasticity as characterized by real-world ranging of indoor scenarios, especially the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) error. A potential improvement of LS is to weight each element related to the corresponding ranging error, known as the weighted LS (WLS). However, current weighting metrics are either impractical to get or still involve the NLOS error. We propose to weight each element in a linear LS (LLS) estimator by the difference between the measured ranges and Bounding-box results, named B-WLS. Compared with five LS type algorithms in simulations and a mobile target experiments, results demonstrate that B-WLS efficiently enables the LLS estimation to suppress to the NLOS error.


The rapid growth in urban population both in absolute figures and in its share of the total population is very significant in many count ries in the world. This growth is also ob served in Poland (Tab. 1), where at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries the share of urban population was 27% and reached 37% prior to the Second World War. The intensive development of the Polish econo my, especially industry, after the Second World War caused rapid urbanization. The fi rst post-war census of 1946 revealed that approximately 35% of the population lived in urban areas, although 50•`80% of the buildings in those areas were destroyed during the war. Towards the end of 1966 the proportion of urban and rural population was in equilibrium. The most recent census data (1980) indicates that 58.7% of the total


Subject. This article raises the urgent problem of developing and increasing Russia's innovation competitiveness by improving the management of human resources in conditions of uncertainty and instability of the external environment associated with the sanctions and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Objectives. The article aims to propose strategic areas for the development and improvement of Russia's innovation competitiveness, recommendations and a programme to improve human resources management.
Methods. For the study, I used the methods of analysis, information sampling and grouping.
Results. The article describes the relationship of human capital with traditional concepts that characterize human labor activity and offers certain recommendations for the development and improvement of Russia's innovation competitiveness and human resources management.
Conclusions. The provision of highly qualified labor power at all levels of management and categories of staff of organizations, the motivation and forms of work are the main factors in the advancement of the country's competitiveness.


An organization relies heavily on information technology (IT) to form business strategies, support operational activities, and increase business value and achieve good governance. The governance of information technology is needed along with the role of information technology which getting more important. Therefore, a framework is needed to measure that information technology has been managed appropriately, and that information technology resources are used responsibly. One framework that can be used is Control Objective for Information and Related Technology 5 (COBIT 5). The author conducted research at PT. Pertamina Geothermal Energy uses the COBIT 5 framework to assess the achievement of the capabilities of the information technology governance process in the company. Production data that is not integrated between applications causes problems in the company's business operations. This study uses qualitative data analysis and a reference to the pain point mapping provided in COBIT 5: Implementation to further measure the capability level. Processes that are relevant to the issues raised are EDM02, APO05, BAI01, BAI02, BAI04, and BAI07. The measurement results of the selected process produce an average value of 0.3 from a scale of 5. The results of this study are expected to help the management of PT. Pertamina Geothermal Energy to find out where the position of the capabilities of information technology governance and get input improvements procedures and policies to improve information technology governance.


The origins of the covid virus have not been empirically identified and different theories have since been proffered. One of these is the belief that the virus was a deliberate biological attack on China by the USA in order to scuttle China's economic domination of the Asian region and ultimately the whole international arena. This paper sought to analyse the validity of this theory. The paper evaluated both USA and China's national interests, and the means available towards their achievement under the auspices of the theory concerning the origins of the covid virus.


A modified new method for funnel chest correction using Zimmer osteosynthetic plates is reported. This operative method has great advantages in the treatment of asymmetric funnel chest in adolescents and adults. This techique offers the righd and cosmetic normal chest wall.


Re-W alloys were arc melted between tungsten electrodes, checked metallographically and their hardness was determined. Two intermetallic phases were found, one of which---a stgroa phase--having a broad homogeneity range (approximately from 40 to 60%) and a high hardness (1800 VPN/sub 300/). (auth)


The Tasmanian Government is ploughing ahead with the $33 million Three Capes Track (3CT ) proposal in Tasman NP near Port Arthur, despite flawed costings and a community backlash.


To compress the data during image digitalizeing, storage and transmission, We always use subsample method to sample the color channels in order to cut off data rate, Then use bilinearity method to reconstruct it. How to find the best way to reconstruct the color information lead us to study the principles of subsample problem. The Nayquest law limits the signal band width to half of sample rate. In subsample condition, this point will reduce sharpness of image and cause false color on image edges. This paper is focus on the problem of image reproduction under subsample condition. On study of the features of nature image and human eyes, We found there are similarities in details of image RGB color Channels. After analyse the subsample problem, We found it's possible to rebuild the subsample image if we have the information of image grade. Take consideration of this two points, we bring forth a new way to build the CCD color image, and found this way will improve the image sharpness remarkably.


Meet 3D in a different guise. If the job is Dangerous, Dirty or Demanding, it will in future more than likely be handed by a robot, says Shinsuke Sakakibara, President of the International Federation of Robotics. Rapid advancement in technology, including artificial intelligence, will see a lot of 3D tasks handled by an army of droids, moving beyond factories into restaurants, into customer relations, and even to the field of elderly care . . .


The images captured from visible light is limited by environment and illumination, which would make the result of salient object detection inaccurate. To solve the problem caused by this inherent property, thermal infrared image is introduced. Thermal infrared-captured images are able to be assistant of visible light images in detection due to their different imaging mechanism and factors of limitations, which make them complement each other. The paper proposes to combine the multisource image data of visible light and thermal infrared light images, and use the dual-channel convolutional neural network to fully extract the features of the two modalities. Additionally, the attention mechanism can prompt the neural network focus on essential parts, attention mechanism is introduced in the feature extraction part for improving accuracy.


Abstract The present study assessed the effectiveness of an RPE learning protocol for improving the validity of the Borg 6–20 RPE scale for self-regulating exercise intensity during Indoor Cycling (IC). 16 healthy adults performed 5 IC sessions. Heart rate (HR) was continuously monitored. In sessions 1 and 5, participants perceptually regulated exercise intensity to produce pre-determined RPE levels equivalent to estimated HR levels. Sessions 2, 3 and 4 focused on the RPE learning protocol. The RPE-measured HR correlation was 0.59 in session 1 and 0.67 in session 5 (both P<0.001). The intraclass correlation coefficient between measured HR and estimated HR was 0.85 in session 1 and 0.90 in session 5. There was bias in session 1 (3.69 bpm [SD=12.44]; P<0.001) but not in session 5 (0.99 bpm [SD=9.7]; P=0.178; mean HR difference session 5 vs. 1: −2.70 bpm [95% CI: −4.49 to −0.91]; P=0.003; Cohen's d=0.24). There was association between the HR difference and the magnitude of the measurement in session 1 (β=0.208; P<0.01) but not in session 5 (β=−0.072; P=0.34). These preliminary results suggested that an RPE learning protocol might slightly improve the validity of the Borg 6–20 RPE scale for exercise intensity self-regulation during IC sessions in healthy adults.


A drug-excipient interaction impurity associated with the degradation process of pramipexole was isolated. The impurity was detected during the stability study of pramipexole extended-release tablets. It was found at a relative retention time of 0.88 with respect to pramipexole, using the pramipexole gradient HPLC-UV detection method described in the USP. The structure of the impurity was identified and fully characterized using high resolution mass spectrometry, IR and NMR techniques, as presented herein. The degradation impurity was identified as (S)-N2-(methoxymethyl)-N6-propyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1,3-benzothiazole-2,6-diamine. The drug-excipient interaction mechanism of its formation was proposed. An efficient and straightforward synthetic approach was developed to prepare the degradation impurity to confirm its proposed degradation pathway and structure.


The invention provides an image forming apparatus, a ixing-section-holding mechanism, and a fixing device. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body in which an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material and a drive mechanism that generates a rotational driving force are provided; a fixing section that transports the recording material while receiving the rotational driving force and fixes the image on the recording material, the fixing section being held by the apparatus body at two axial ends thereof; and a transmission mechanism that is provided at one of the two axial ends of the fixing section and is connected to the drive mechanism, the transmission mechanism transmitting the rotational driving force from the drive mechanism to the fixing section. When a pulling force is applied to a recording material that is present in the fixing section, the drive mechanism and the transmission mechanism are disconnected from each other.


EOS7C is a TOUGH2 module for multicomponent gas mixtures in the systems methanecarbon dioxide (CH4-CO2) or methane-nitrogen (CH4-N2) with or without an aqueous phase and H2O vapor. EOS7C uses a cubic equation of state and an accurate solubility formulation along with a multiphase Darcy s Law to model flow and transport of gas and aqueous phase mixtures over a wide range of pressures and temperatures appropriate to subsurface geologic carbon sequestration sites and natural gas reservoirs. EOS7C models supercritical CO2 and subcritical CO2 as a non-condensible gas, hence EOS7C does not model the transition to liquid or solid CO2 conditions. The components modeled in EOS7C are water, brine, non-condensible gas, gas tracer, methane, and optional heat. The non-condensible gas (NCG) can be selected by the user to be CO2 or N2. The real gas properties module has options for Peng-Robinson, Redlich-Kwong, or Soave-Redlich-Kwong equations of state to calculate gas mixture density, enthalpy departure, and viscosity. Partitioning of the NCG and CH4 between the aqueous and gas phases is calculated using a very accurate chemical equilibrium approach. Transport of the gaseous and dissolved components is by advection and Fickian molecular diffusion. We present instructions for use and example problems to demonstrate the accuracy and practical application of EOS7C.


Propose a principle, membership-balanced principle, to standardize the form of fuzzy information. Based on its structure characteristics, any fuzzy number can be standardized to a triangular one with the aid of a membership-balanced operator. After analyzing the operational properties of a membership-balanced operator for triangularization, a model to solve a system of fuzzy linear equations is given, its effectiveness and usefulness are discussed with an example. All of these help to develop useful techniques to process synthesizedly fuzzy information


Dr. E.G. Silas (90) the doyen of Indian marine fisheries and mariculture research expired on 27-04-2018. He was my research guide and mentor under whom I worked for 20 years in Cochin from 1965 to 1985. I was his first Ph.D. student.
As a Tribute to him I reproduce below an extract from the article under the title "Golden Moments in My Research Career" written by me and published by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Kochi in one of its publications entitled "Down Memory Lane" published in 2007 during the Diamond Jubilee Year of the Institute.


Introduction: Sickle cell hemoglobinopathy is a frequent cause of morbidity mostly in terms of vaso-occlusive crises and osteomyelitis, treatment of which is demanding as there is no set protocol to date designed for this subset of patients.
Case Report: We report a case of a 14-year-old sickle cell boy who presented to us with chronic osteomyelitis involving the distal aspect of right radius and in whom the infection was successfully eradicated using multimodal treatment regimen which included a course of intravenous (IV) antibiotics along with surgical debridement and implantation of local antibiotic delivery system followed by appropriate course of oral antibiotics.
Conclusion: Complete eradication of chronic osteomyelitis infection in a sickle cell patient represents challenge due to the pathophysiology of the disease which is significantly different in the patients. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of such a combination therapy in pediatric sickle cell population in particular the usage of local antibiotic therapy in the form of cement beads which resulted in successful resolution of the osteomyelitis infection. Though this case alone does not provide sufficient proof but it does validate the concept of usage of multimodal therapy for treatment of similar infections in sickle cell population for further analytical studies.


Part 1 VLSI design: achievements in microelectronics VLSI design procedure self-testing VLSI chips. Part 2 VLSI testability design approaches: VLSI testability design feature storage element state scan technique level sensitive scan desing (LSSD) random access scan technique VLSI design by boundary scan technique. Part 3 Self-testing VLSI structured design: self-testing VLSI using scan path ring VLSI self-test use of general-purpose modules for self-test VLSI design self-testing microcomputers. Part 4 Pseudorandom test pattern generators: pseudorandom test pattern generators: pseudorandom sequences generators of uniformaly distributed pseudorandom test sequences pseudorandom test pattern generators. Part 5 Pseudorandom and related sequence generators: design of pseudorandom test sequence generator. Part 6 Random testing: probabilistic analysis techniques for digital circuits test sequence length calculation automatic search for optimum probability. Part 7 Pseudorandom testing: pseudorandom sequences as the test sequences of the circuit structured VLSI design with built-in random and pseudorandom tests. Part 8 Exhaustive testing: complexity of exhaustive test sequence generator design iterative algorithm for exhaustive test generation. Part 9 Signature analysis: signature analysis as a binary polynomial division algorithm multi-functional signature analyzer. Part 10 Signature analysis efficiency: estimation of signature analysis efficiency. Part 11 Evaluation techniques for regular binary sequence signatures: evaluation of regular sequence signatures a technique for calculating periodic sequence signatures. Part 12 Multi-line compression schemes: design of parallel signature analyzers state count testing. Part 13 Analysis of bilbo-PSA efficiency: equivalent PSA circuits with internal and external XOR gates PSA efficiency testing by software simulation. Part 14 PSA design for VLSI self test: an efficient parallel signature analyzer two-stage PSA design. Part 15 PSA with T-flip-flops design and analysis: parallel signature analyzer with T-flip-flops as storage elements. Part 16 Signature testability: signature as a function of multiple variables generalized condition for signature testability. Part 17 Evaluation of signatures: analytical evaluation of Boolean function signatures finding signatures for reciprocal polynomials. Part 18 Signature testability of VLSI chips: signature testability of faults at primary nodes of combinational circuit analytic approach to evaluating signatures and signature testability of faults by PSA.


As postponing action strategy, for the last moment the procrastination is one of the factors causing the problems in study. The objective of the study is identification of links between indicators of academic procrastination, stressors, responses to stressors and academic achievements. The research was implemented on the base of sample which amounted 435 from 17 to 25 years old (М age = 19,03). The comparative procrastination analysis among groups of students with different levels of academic performance has shown that student with low level of achievement are inclined to more often suffer from procrastination, be lazy impulsively make a decision during the establishing of their personal time, care frustration, stress and anger. The correlation analysis data allow for the conclusion that a high level of procrastination is related to stress and academic failure. The analyse of links between procrastinations and stressors, and also reactions on it among students has shown that the higher the social anxiety, failure avoidance, procrastination frequency, lazy, worse perfectionism and impulsive, the higher he values all stressors and impressive of reactions on it. In this way, academic procrastination impedes the effectiveness of student study, effects on performance, contributes to stress, that undoubtedly impacts on professional development of future specialists.


Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers are vulnerable to hostile interference threads, such as jamming and spoofing. A novel low-complexity scheme based on multistage wiener filter(MWF) based space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is proposed to suppress hybrid interference by using the cross spectral self-coherence property. An orthogonal complement space of spoofing signals is estimated to constructed auxiliary weight vector. Simultaneously, spoofing number is also estimated with minimum description length (MDL) criterion and spatial spectrum. The primary weight vector is built based on the relationship between both channels derived with minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion. Analytical results and some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in terms of beam pattern and the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR).


Blue Economic Zone in Shandong Peninsula is the most dynamic and fastest-developing area with many advantageous resources and relatively advanced infrastructure in East China Shandong Province. A new pattern of Shandong port development has been preliminarily formed after many years construction, centering Qingdao port between two wings–Yantai port to the northwest and Rizhao port to the southwest, with the Shandong Peninsula ports group serving as the base. This paper presents the planning and development goals of the integrated transportation system in Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone, conducts the prediction analysis on the development of this system and forwards suggestions on its development strategy.


This paper presents selected results gained from a research project which was utilised to study the educational situation of care leavers in Austria. The results clearly show that care leavers are disadvantaged in terms of formal education. A careful examination of various contextual influences upon the achieved level of education has revealed that, above all, peer support and the stability of the care arrangement are relevant for educational success. By reconstructing the educational biographies of care leavers, it was possible to identify the tension between "striving for socioemotional attention" and "striving for individual responsibility, autonomy


Organophosphine compounds form strong complexes with Au I I I . This behaviour has been studied as a function of different variables, such as hydrobromic acid concentration, reagent concentration and effect of temperature with Cyanex-921, 923, 925 and 471X in toluene from bromide media. The extraction is observed with Cyanex-921, 923 and 925 in toluene from 4.0 to 6.0 M HBr media, while with Cyanex-471X in toluene from 1.0 to 4.0 M HBr media. The extraction reaction with Cyanex 471X is endothermic, while that with Cyanex-921, 923 and 925 is exothermic in nature. The extraction phenomenon seems to depend upon the donor atom present in the extractant. The methods developed are successfully applied for analysis of gold in real samples.


The psychosis susceptibility gene ZNF804A is associated with less impaired 1 cognitive performance in schizophrenia. 2 3 James T.R. Walters MRCPsych, B.M., Aiden Corvin MRCPsych., Ph.D., Hywel Williams 4 Ph.D., Milan Dragovic Ph.D., Emma M Quinn M.Sc., Róisín Judge B.A., Daniel J. Smith 5 M.D. , Nadine Norton Ph.D., Ina Giegling Ph.D., Annette M. Hartmann Ph.D., Hans-Jürgen 6 Möller M.D., Pierandrea Muglia M.D., Valentina Moskvina Ph.D., Therese O'Donoghue 7 M.Sc., Bharti Morar Ph.D., Matthew Cooper M.Sc., David Chandler Ph.D., Assen 8 Jablensky M.D., Ph.D., Michael Gill MRCPsych., M.D. , Michael J. Owen FRCPsych, 9 Ph.D., Luba Kaladjieva M.D., Ph.D., Derek W. Morris Ph.D., Michael C. O'Donovan 10 FRCPsych, Ph.D., Dan Rujescu M.D., Gary Donohoe D.Clin.Psych, Ph.D. 11 12 Affiliations 13 1 MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Department of Psychological 14 Medicine and Neurology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK. 15 2 Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Dept of Psychiatry & Institute of Molecular 16 Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 17 3 Molecular and Clinical Neurobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. 18 4 Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. 19 5 Medical Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Verona, Italy. 20 6 Trinity Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin. 21 7 Centre for Medical Research/Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, The 22 University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. 23 8 Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, The University of Western Australia, Perth, 24 Australia. 25 9 Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Australia, Perth, 26 Australia. 27 28 29 30 Address for correspondence 31 Dr. Gary Donohoe. 32 Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, 33 Dept of Psychiatry, 34 Trinity Health Sciences Building, 35 St. James's Hospital, 36 Dublin 8. 37 Telephone 38 +353 1 896 2467 39 Fax 40 +353 1 896 3405 41 E-mail 42 email@example.com 43 44 Word count: 4699 45 Number of Tables: 3 Number of Figures: 1 46 47


The article deals with the phenomenon of foreign policy communication of states in the modern system of international relations. Foreign policy communication as a political and psychological phenomenon has not been sufficiently studied in the Russian-language scientific literature. The author provides theoretical and methodological grounds for the study of this phenomenon as well as describes the main technologies used in foreign policy communication. The studying foreign policy communication strategies is a matter of national security, of defending one's political interests and the basis of stability in the sphere of international relations.


ABSTRACT Angus × Hereford beef heifers and steers (n = 460; initial BW = 225 ± 35 kg) were randomly allocated to 1 of 3 ranch-of-origin weaning methods 28 d in duration: drylot weaning + dam separation (D), pasture weaning + fence-line contact with dams (PF), and pasture weaning + fence-line contact with dams + supplemental feed delivered in a bunk (PF+S). Calves assigned to D were fed a diet formulated to promote an ADG of 1 kg at a DMI of 2.5% of BW (17.7% CP and 0.93 Mcal of NE g /kg). The PF calves had access to native forage, and PF+S calves had access to native forage and received the diet fed to D at a rate of 1% of BW 3× weekly. After the 28-d weaning period, calves were transported 4 h to a feedlot, penned according to treatment (n = 6 pens per treatment), and fed a receiving diet (14.9% CP and 0.93 Mcal of NE g /kg) ad libitum for 60 d before transition to a finishing diet. During the first 6 d of receiving, the proportion of calves in each pen that approached the bunk and ate immediately following feed delivery at 0700 h was recorded by 2 trained observers. Weaning-phase ADG was greater ( P P = 0.08) in D than in PF or PF+S. Receiving ADG of D was greater ( P = 0.01) than of PF and PF+S. Fewer PF calves were observed at the bunk during the first 5 d of receiving (treatment × day; P P = 0.64) among treatments on d 6. Consequently, receiving DMI and G:F were greater ( P ≤ 0.01) for D than for PF calves. Steers assigned to D were heavier ( P P P ≤ 0.14) in days on feed or finishing period DMI; therefore, finishing G:F was greater ( P P ≥ 0.36) among treatments. Under the conditions of the current experiment, acclimating pasture-weaned calves to feed bunks during preconditioning had no effects on feedlot health and performance.


The utility model discloses a front plate system for the radiation of a cabinet server. The front plate system comprises more than one heat exchange front plate, a server cabinet, connecting ball valves, connecting hoses, a liquid inlet manifold, a gas outlet/water return manifold, an intermediate heat exchanger, a liquid storage device, a liquid storage device liquid inlet/outlet pipe, valves, connecting pipes, a fluorine pump, a water chilling unit, a water return pipe, a water outlet pipe, water pumps and a flow regulation valve, and is characterized in that the heat exchange front plates, the connecting ball valves, the connecting hoses, the liquid inlet manifold, the gas outlet/liquid return manifold, the valves, the intermediate heat exchanger, the liquid storage device, the liquid storage device liquid inlet/outlet pipe and the fluorine pump are connected in series to form a refrigerant circulation system; the intermediate heat exchanger, the valves, the water return pipe, the water chilling unit, the water outlet pipe and the water pumps are connected in series to form a chilled water chilling circulation system. According to the front plate system, the cold air supply distance of the cabinet is shortened, and air is accurately supplied, so that the problem of local overheating of a machine room is solved; in addition, the front plate system can run without power in the machine room, so that the system is consistent with the energy-saving concept of cooling on demand; the system has the characteristics of safety, reliability, no running noise, space saving and environment friendliness.


Objective: To evaluate the incidence and mortality of malignant tumor in 2014 in Hebei Province according to the malignant tumor data collected by Hebei Provincial Cancer Prevention and Control Office.  Methods: The registration data from 31 cancer registries in Hebei Province were evaluated according to the audit methods and quality control criteria formulated by National Cancer Registry Centre of China. Finally, the data from 23 registries were qualified as pooled data for final analysis. The incidence and mortality rates were stratified by area, gender, age and cancer site. The incidence and mortality of malignant tumors were estimated combining the population data in Hebei Province. Chinese standard population and Segi's world standard population in 2000 were used for the age-standardized incidence and mortality rates.  Results: Twenty-three cancer registry areas covered a population of 14 316 772. The morphological verification percentage (MV%) was accounted for 76.41%, the percentage of death certificate only cases (DCO%) was 2.05%, and the mortality to incidence ratio (M/I) was 0.65. It was estimated that there were 173.8 thousand new cancer cases and 112.1 thousand deaths in Hebei Province in 2014, respectively. The crude incidence rate in Hebei Province was 235.26/105 (male 257.34/105, female 212.42/105), the age-standardized incidence rates by Chinese standard population (ASIRC) and Segi's world standard population (ASIRW) were 190.53/105 and 188.92/105, respectively. The crude cancer incidence rate and ASIRC were 235.59/105 and 181.85/105 in Hebei urban regions, whereas they were 235.10/105 and 195.38/105 in rural regions. The crude mortality rate in Hebei Province was 151.82/105 (male 189.11/105, female 113.24/105), the age-standardized mortality rates by Chinese standard population (ASMRC) and Segi's world standard population (ASMRW) were 122.99/105 and 122.27/105, respectively. The crude mortality rate and ASMRC were 151.24/105 and 112.78/105 in Hebei urban regions, whereas they were 152.11/105 and 128.38/105 in rural regions. The most common cancer types in Hebei Province were lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, esophagus cancer and breast cancer. The leading causes of cancer deaths were lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, esophagus cancer and colorectal cancer in Hebei Province. Conclusion: Lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancer and breast cancer are the most common cancer in Hebei Province. The prevention and control of malignant tumor should be implemented based on practical situation. DOI:10.3781/j.issn.1000-7431.2018.22.846


In recent years, much research effort has been focused on the fundamental problem of the regulation of cell growth and in particular on describing the abnormal biochemical events that may trigger or permit the development of malignancy. Major target sites for many therapeutic agents are the biosynthesis of nucleic acids and the mitotic sequence. In skin where both benign and malignant hyperproliferative diseases occur frequently, the use of antimetabolites that inhibit new DNA biosynthesis is one important form of treatment. However, relatively little is known about the mechanism for the regulation of nucleic acid synthesis in skin, and treatment is, in many cases, empirical. In this report we will review the pathways for nucleic acid biosynthesis and degradation in skin,and attempt to point out key enzymatic control steps and aspects of nucleic acid metabolism that may provide a better basis for the use. of antimetabolite chemotherapy.


Production of a sterile species is studied within an effective model of active-sterile neutrino mixing in a medium in thermal equilibrium. The quantum kinetic equations for the distribution functions and coherences are obtained from two independent methods: the effective action and the quantum master equation. The decoherence time scale for active-sterile oscillations is tau(dec)=2/Gamma(aa), but the evolution of the distribution functions is determined by the two different time scales associated with the damping rates of the quasiparticle modes in the medium: Gamma(1)=Gamma(aa)cos^2theta(m); Gamma(2)=Gamma(aa)sin^2theta(m) where Gamma(aa) is the interaction rate of the active species in the absence of mixing and theta(m) the mixing angle in the medium. These two time scales are widely different away from Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein resonances and preclude the kinetic description of active-sterile production in terms of a simple rate equation. We give the complete set of quantum kinetic equations for the active and sterile populations and coherences and discuss in detail the various approximations. A generalization of the active-sterile transition probability in a medium is provided via the quantum master equation. We derive explicitly the usual quantum kinetic equations in terms of the polarization vector and show their equivalence to those obtained from the quantum master equation and effective action.


The number of old-aged people in the population is increasing in Japan, the problem of caring for bedridden patients will increasingly become a social problem. We are trying to solve this problem by developing a small mobile robot system for bedridden patients. The purpose of this system is to pick up and place a small object somewhere inside the room semi-automatically. This mobile robot consists of a manipulator, visual sensor unit and mobile unit. This system gives information about the surrounding to the patient through the camera and monitor. When the patient directs a target object on the monitor, the system measures the 3-dimensional location of it, the mobile unit then approaches the object and the manipulator picks it up and carries it back to the patient. This system is controlled by the image information and also by the human operator (the patient) through an image based interface.


This paper describes the implantation of a KA tool kit for use with sublanguage-specific corpora. The key idea of KA as an evolutionary process is discussed in detail. Special attention is paid to the system's attempt to avoid the pitfalls faced by purely statistical KA processes, The system relies on a set of interactively linked subprocesses and on a central knowledge base which stores all acquired knowledge.


We report galaxy MACS0416-Y3 behind the lensing cluster MACSJ0416.1--2403 as a tentative rotating disk at $z=8.34$ detected through its [OIII]$\lambda5007$ emission in JWST NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopic observations. The discovery is based on our new grism dynamical modeling methodology for JWST NIRCam slitless spectroscopy, using the data from ``Median-band Astrophysics with the Grism of NIRCam in Frontier Fields'' (MAGNIF), a JWST Cycle-2 program. The [OIII]$\lambda5007$ emission line morphology in grism data shows velocity offsets compared to the F480M direct imaging, suggestive of rotation. Assuming a geometrically thin disk model, we constrain the rotation velocity of $v_{\rm rot}=58^{+53}_{-35}$ km s$^{-1}$ via forward modeling of the two-dimensional (2D) spectrum. We obtain the kinematic ratio of $v_{\rm rot}/\sigma_v=1.6^{+1.9}_{-0.9}$, where $\sigma_v$ is the velocity dispersion, in line with a quasi-stable thin disk. The resulting dynamical mass is estimated to be $\log(M_{\rm dyn}/M_{\odot})=8.4^{+0.5}_{-0.7}$. If the rotation confirmed, our discovery suggests that rotating gaseous disks may have already existed within 600 million years after Big Bang.


LikoScale 350 is a convenient scale for weighing patients in Liko's mobile lifts or overhead lifts. The scale can handle patient weights of up to 350 kg, which means that it can be used for weighing bariatric patients in the mobile lift Viking XL, max. load 300 kg. Since it complies with Class III according to the requirements of the NAWI 90/384 EEC directive, LikoScale 350 is approved for the weighing of health care patients in connection with check-ups, diagnostics or treatment. In the small image LikoScale is equipped with Liko's Quick-release Hook System for quick installation/removal when needed.


Public relations evaluation is a complex issue because of the hierarchy of effects of public relations activity and the involvement of third parties such as the press and broadcast media. Evaluation can be either summative or formative, although the two are frequently confused. This article establishes principles of evaluation that can form a foundation for a more sophisticated "toolkit" approach.


Edward D. Miller Tomboys, Pretty Boys, and Outspoken Women: The Media Revolution of 1973. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. 217 pp.Narratives about the omnipresence of mediatized reality featuring "real" people instead of actors tend to offer simplistic accounts to explain the ubiquity of this phenomenon. From technologically deterministic tales of doom ("let's blame it on YouTube and social media") to demographic cohort perspectives eager to label and generalize (Generation Y or Millennials or Generation Next or the Echo Boomers . . . or whatever follows Generation X, if there is such a thing), these narratives often fail to consider that the overabundance of reality programs, faux documentaries, and usergenerated content today is not a result of spontaneous generation. In Tomboys, Pretty Boys, and Outspoken Women, Miller addresses the birth of mediatized reality, "this fixation on presenting episodes of reality," by pointing to the early 1970s, "when American media discovered the entertainment value of nonfiction. . . . With this discovery," writes Miller, "contemporary media culture began" (p. 1).It is impossible not to think of one of Tom Wolfe's most famous essays, "The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening," which first appeared in an August 1976 issue of New York magazine. In the frontal assault of narcissism on the social, cultural, and political spheres, according to Wolfe, "lies the explanation of certain grand puzzles of the 1970s, a period that will come to be known as the Me Decade." But Miller proposes to move beyond the indulgence of this "me decade," cautioning this perspective "diminishes the gains fought for and won by gays, lesbians, and feminist women and underplays the new forms of expressiveness and performance that make the beginning years of the decade so dynamic and influential" (p. 7). Instead, the author proposes to address the "especially transformative" first years of the 1970s, in an attempt to provide "a full understanding of the importance of the cultural experimentation that went on during the decade" (p. 7).Seen through the lens of fashion, argues Miller, "the early '70s emphasized individuality, sexuality, and a reluctance to adhere to gender conformity" (p. 11). As a result, according to the author, "fashion marks the shiftin American culture from the politics of mass protest to the culture of identity politics, a shiftthat produced new voices and startling new appearances" (p. 11). Each chapter of Tomboys, Pretty Boys, and Outspoken Women aims to provide "an example of this change in American popular media culture through a close reading of a particular cultural event, artifact, or person that portrays the new ways in which gender and sexuality were viewed" (p. …


Submitted for the MAR09 Meeting of The American Physical Society Impact of barrier height distribution on tunneling conductance and extracted barrier parameters DUSTIN BELYEA, CASEY MILLER, University of South Florida — The net tunneling conductance of metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions is modeled using a distribution of barrier heights consistent with distributions typical of state-of-the-art junctions. Fitting numerically generated conductance data that include height distributions with tunneling models that assume a single-height barrier allows us to determine the effective barrier height and width associated with a more realistic tunnel junction. Moderate distributions cause the net conductance to resemble that of a perfect barrier that is shorter, and slightly wider than the mean barrier. Dustin Belyea University of South Florida Date submitted: 21 Nov 2008 Electronic form version 1.4


Quantitative projections of climate extremes on local to regional scales are highly valuable for planners and decision makers and necessary for effective local climate change adaptation. However, in contrast to the model robustness of simulated extremes at the global scale, the robustness in simulating past and future extremes often diminishes over finer spatial scales. In this study we analyze heat waves simulated by state‐of‐the‐art global climate models over the Australian region. For the first time we present results explicitly detailing the model spread in simulated heat wave trends and climatology for this region for the recent past (1958–2005). As expected, large intermodel spread is observed at the local to regional scale for both heat wave trends and climatology. By analyzing multiple initial condition runs from individual models, we show that model internal variability strongly influences the spatial patterns of heat wave trends, while intermodel differences in heat wave climatology appear more influenced by model uncertainty. From a model evaluation perspective, cluster analysis is shown to be useful in characterizing robust spatial features of heat waves simulated by the models. In contrast to the multimodel mean, where uncorrelated spatial features tend to be averaged out, cluster composites preserve these features. Since previous examinations have tended to focus on the multimodel mean the extent of model spread may have been overlooked. Further examination of the processes that lead to model differences and biases is needed.


Abstract : Current stability operations in Iraq are in danger of failing due to political pressure at home and abroad. Security issues and a long-standing perception of illegitimacy for the entire operation continue to exacerbate the problem of fully and successfully transitioning to a democratic, friendly, Iraqi government. A significant portion of the U.S. population now desires a full military withdrawal from Iraq. This paper compares the successful occupation of Japan after World War II and ongoing stability operations in postwar Iraq. Specifically, it looks at the historical context of both operations, the operational structure of the respective occupation forces, and the major decisions made prior to and during the early days of both operations and their impacts. It answers the question of why both operations had significantly differing outcomes by examining their overall character. Finally, the paper draws conclusions from both case studies and makes recommendations for future stability operations.


In all recent missions our forces are faced with various types of asymmetric threads like snipers, IEDs, RPGs or MANPADS. 2nd and 3rd Gen IR technology is a backbone of modern force protection by providing situational awareness and accurate target engagement at day/night. 3rd Gen sensors are developed for thread warning capabilities by use of spectral or spatial information. The progress on a dual-color IR module is discussed in a separate paper [1]. A 1024x256 SWIR array with flexure bearing compressor and pulse tube cold finger provides > 50,000h lifetime for space or airborne hyperspectral imaging in pushbroom geometry with 256 spectral channels for improved change detection and remote sensing of IEDs or chemical agents. Similar concepts are pursued in the LWIR with either spectroscopic imaging or a system of LWIR FPA combined with a cooled tunable Laser to do spectroscopy with stimulated absorption of specific wavelengths. AIM introduced the RangIR sight to match the requirements of sniper teams, AGLs and weapon stations, extending the outstanding optronic performance of the fielded HuntIR with position data of a target by a laser range finder (LRF), a 3 axis digital magnetic compass (DMC) and a ballistic computer for accurate engagement of remote targets. A version with flexure bearing cooler with >30,000h life time is being developed for continuous operation in e.g. gunfire detection systems. This paper gives an overview of AIM's technologies for enhanced force protection.


A dual hole injection layer (d-HIL) composed of graphene oxide (GO) and transition metal oxide MoO3 is constructed and proven to be effectively promotes the radiance and external quantum efficiency (EQE) of ultraviolet organic light-emitting diode (UV OLED). The device with d-HIL behaves a maximum radiance of 4.7 mW/cm2 at 237.5 mA/cm2 and EQE of 1.36% at 3.75 mA/cm2, which have been enhanced by 27% and 19%, respectively, in comparison with the coun- terpart using conventional MoO3single HIL. The ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy elucidates that GO/MoO3 modification to the greatest extent enhances work function. The current-voltage characteristics and impedance spectroscopy of Hole-only devices clarify that GO/MoO3 d-HIL considerably promotes hole injection capacity. Our results indicate that the d-HIL of GO/MoO3 paves a way for constructing efficient UV OLED.


The stent is configured to be implanted in the vessel lumen. The stent includes a plurality of struts, and one of the resonant circuits taking tuning the resonant frequency of the magnetic resonance imaging system. Resonant circuit is comprised of at least one inductor and at least one capacitor. Inductor (10) is wound on at least one strut (15).


Fatty acid composition of Agastache rugosa (Fisch. et mey.) O. Ktze collected from Lijiang of China's Yunnan province was analyzed with HP 4890 GC (gas chromatography). The iodine valence of the seed oil was determined to be 201.7 (10~(-2)I g/g). Linoleic acid, α-linolenic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid accounted for 22.89%, 60.61%, 10.59%, 3.05% and 1.79%, respectively, of total fatty acids. In other words, 94.5% of total fatty acids of the plant were unsaturated fatty acids, a percentage higher than any other oil bearing plants ever reported.