again between the " scientific " method of doing nothing, thereby condemning the patient to lifelong incarceration, and the "6 empirical " method of leucotomy with its reasonable prospect of success. Surely Dr. Winnicott cannot defend many of his statements as being either " accurate " or " scientific "-e.g., " convulsion therapy inevitably leads away from the psychological approach to a biochemical and a neurological one." This I submit is a highly controversial statement. My own experience is that all these physical methods require for their correct use accurate case histories, precise observation of their effects, and a sound psychological insight into the patient's mentality both before and after treatment. To delegate these treatments to junior medical officers in a sort of hit-or-miss fashion is of course bad psychiatry, which no reputable psychiatrist would defend. Dr. Winnicott's greatest objection, however, appears to result from the implied threat such treatments have to his apparently belov5d " analytical " psychology. This is too big a subject to dilakte upon here, but I would ask Dr. Winnicott to consider whether he is not himself " unscientific" in assuming that the many amazing concepts of Freud (which, by the way, are outside the realm of scientific proof or disproof) are the only ones of value in the psychological approach? For example, modern child guidance, with its right insistence upon the emotional development of the early years and the importance of " security and affection," appears to derive nothing from Freudian theories but to be based upon the work of Adler (who rejected Freud's teachings) and of Cameron and others in England. Lastly, I am of the opinion that such misconceptions as are evident in Dr. Winnicott's paper must to a great extent be placed at the door of psychiatrists themselves. YVhen we as individuals become less " aloof " and " mysterious," and when we cordially invite all neighbouring practitioners and specialists to visit our hospitals at any time and to see their own or other patients undergoing such treatments, we shall hear very little of the "unconscious hate . . . that notoriously coloured the management of the insane up to recent times."-I am, etc.,


Melanoma, an aggressive disease with a rapidly rising incidence rate, presents the oncology field with some of its greatest challenges and opportunities. Long considered one of the most difficult diseases to treat with pharmacotherapy, drug development within melanoma has lagged behind that of many other cancers, culminating in decades of limited progress. Developments in molecular biology, however, have led to an increased understanding of the molecular heterogeneity of melanoma in recent years, which has resulted in new insights into the roles of oncogenes, signaling pathways, immune checkpoints, and tumor-promoting events, accelerating the rate of discovery of therapeutic targets.


The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by globalization-the integration of national economies and the development of technology and information technology-and by a new type of society-the knowledge-based society. Changes in society require changes in education, the mission of higher education institutions, and traditional ways of teaching. In this article, the author explores the implementation of open and distance education in Russia in the new economic and political environment. Historical background and a comparison of national policies and other character istics of distance education in Russia and the United States are provided.


The periods of sensitive physical abilities development among different contingents of school pupils at average age have been defined, the favorable periods of their development have been determined.


We show that there is a close connection between deterministic differential equations of the form dd~t = b(~t) + a(~t) · L (k(t)zk t k (where Zk = Xk + iyk are complex parameters) and Ito-Skorohod stochastic differential equations of the form where b0 , a<> denote the Wick versions of the functions b, a. The connection is provided by the Hermite transform 'H, which maps £ 2 stochastic processes Xt into (deterministic) analytic functions 'H( Xt )( z1 , z2 , • • ·) on c~ = {(z!, Z2, •• ·); Zk E c and 3M with Zj = 0 for j > M}, and by its inverse 1-{-1 , which can be given an explicit form.


this paper looks at the proposals for taxing property put forward by the political parties prior to the May 2011 Scottish election. It examines the effects on the overall Scottish budget and also the distributional impacts on all households and pensioner households. It finds that there are very large negative effects on local authority budgets arising from a council tax freeze and the proposals for discounts to pensioners have complicated interactions with the council tax benefit system.


When Streptococcus thermophilus was grown in basal medium with or without fermentable carbohydrate (lactose, glucose or sucrose at 2% level), antimicrobial activity was detected only in the cell-free medium and cells were free of any antimicrobial activity. Peanut milk, soymilk and basal medium with a fermentable sugar supported the production of antimicrobial compound(s) by S. thermophilus. Milk-based medium did not appear to be a necessity for such activity. When tested independently, the optimum temperature for maximum production of antimocrobial activity by S. thermophilus in whole milk was 50°C while the optimum time of incubation was 48 hr. An initial pH of 6.0 resulted in maximum antimicrobial activity in basal medium with 2% lactose.


Part 1 The traditional style: layout and design - structure, design principles, elements, layout traditional typograpy - background, choosing typefaces, typesetting test, display type, hierarchy examples and summary. Part 2 The modern style: background principles elements typography structure layout examples summary. Part 3 Workbook: construction basics constructing margins by spread constructing a golden rectangle constructing single page margins constructing positioning guides setting up a basic grid setting up a typographic grid layout variations on a grid using traditional structure one ad six ways modern graphic elements recreating a classic page making text more compact templates.


Metaphor,as an artistic technique of expression,usually makes the modern literature arts richer in structure and deeper in significance.By using metaphor,"A Rose For Emily" skillfully reflects the society on the wane through the expression of characters' tragedies and endows the heroine's destiny with strong emotion and insightful social meaning.


A duplex stainless steel consisting of a ferrite phase and an austenite phase is disclosed which is superior in the hot ductility, the high temperature oxidation resistance, the corrosion resistance and the impact toughness. The duplex stainless steel is applied to marine facility and the like. The duplex stainless steel which consists of a ferrite phase and an austenite phase is composed of in weight%: less than 0.03% of C, less than 1.0% of Si, less than 2.0% of Mn, less than 0.04% of P. less than 0.004% of S. less than 2.0% of Cu, 5.0-8.0% of Ni, 22-27% of Cr, 1.0-2.0% of Mo, 2.0-5.0% of W, and 0.13-0.30% of N. Or there are further added one or two elements selected from a group consisting of: less than 0.03% of Ca, less than 0.1% of Ce, less than 0.005% of B and 0.5% of Ti. Further, the ratio (Cr/Ni) of the Cr equivalent (Cr) to the Ni equivalent (Ni) is 2.2-3.0. Further, the weight ratio (W/Mo) of the W to Mo is 2.6–3.4. That is, the duplex stainless steel of the present invention satisfies the above condition, and the Ni and Cr are defined as follows: Ni–%Ni+30x%C+0.5x%Mn+0.33x %Cu+30x(%N-0.045), Cr=%Cr+Mo+1.5x96Si+0.73x %W.


Bio-based composites based on soybean oil thermoset resin were manufactured with vacuum injection molding technique. Methacrylated soybean oil (MMSO) was processed with vacuum injection molding tec ...


Radiologie studies of the bladder and urethra during micturition have been carried out since the beginning of this century. The first cystography was reported as early as 1904 (WULFF) , and the subsequent years brought reports of the first studies of the bladder during micturition (VOELCKER and LICHTENBERG 1906/1907). Biocystographic studies from 1909 with serial films during micturition (LICHTENBERG et coll.) are worthy of special mention. Their technique was cumbersome and the films were changed manually. In 1921 BOEMINGHAUS mentioned the possibility of cinematography of the bladder during micturition, referring to GROEDEL (1919) who had emphasized that numerous single exposures were necessary for the exact analysis of the flowing movement of micturition and for reproducing the individual phases correctly. BOEMINGHAUS examined his patients standing before the screen during the phase of filling as well as during micturition. During the same period others (BLUM et coll. 1920, EISLER 1922) published fluoroscopic studies of the bladder during micturition. Radiologie investigation of the urethra was started somewhat later; it is not mentioned in the literature until 1910 (CUNNINGHAM), and the first results of micturition urethrography were not published until 1921 (GLINGAR).


A unifying approach is presented between similarity, consimilarity, T congruence and *congruence of a matrix A to a symmetric, to a Hermitian or to a real matrix. Also studied are similarity consimilarity, T congruence and *congruence of a matrix A to A∗, AT , and A. Attempts are made to find special (con)similarities and congruences, as well as to find connections between these classes of maps. For example, it is shown that if AA is nonderogatory and nonsingular, then the consimilarities between A and AT are precisely the Hermitian similarities between AA and (AA)∗. Also, if A is nonsingular, then the coninvolutory T congruences between A and A∗ are in 1-to-1 correspondence with Hermitian similarities between A(A−1)T and (A(A−1)T )∗.


The separative preconcentration of trace Cr(VI) in a water sample was studied by a precipitate flotation technique. After Cr(III), Al, Mg, and organic materials were removed by the pre-flotation with Fe(OH)3, trace Cr(VI) in 1.0 L of water sample was coprecipitated by the precipitation of AgCl in the solution of pH 8~9 adjusted with NaHCO3. All precipitates were floated by adding mixed surfactants, 1:1 solution of 0.5% sodium oleate and 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate ehtanolic solutions, and bubbling nitrogen gas. The floats were quantitatively collected on a micropore glass filter by suction and dissolved with cone, ammonia solution. The solution was marked to 25.00 mL with distilled water. Cr(VI) was determined by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The results for seven determi nations of one sample showed relatively good reproducibility with relative standard deviation of 9.71%. Recoveries were 86.0 and 91.0% for sample solutions in which 0.5 and 1.0 ng/mL Cr(VI) were spiked, respectively. The detection lim辻 was improved about 20 times by this method.


Abstract. We evaluated the seasonal contribution of heterotrophic and autotrophic diazotrophy to the total dinitrogen (N2) fixation in a representative pelagic station in the northern Gulf of Aqaba in early spring when the water column was mixed and during summer under full thermal stratification. N2 fixation rates were low during the mixed period (∼ 0.1 nmol N L−1 d−1) and were significantly coupled with both primary and bacterial productivity. During the stratified period N2 fixation rates were four-fold higher (∼ 0.4 nmol N L−1 d−1) and were significantly correlated solely with bacterial productivity. Furthermore, while experimental enrichment of seawater by phosphorus (P) enhanced bacterial productivity and N2 fixation rates during both seasons primary productivity was stimulated by P only in the early spring. Metatranscriptomic analyses from the stratified period identified the major diazotrophic contributors as related to heterotrophic prokaryotes from the Euryarchaeota and Desulfobacterales (Deltaproteobacteria) or Chlorobiales (Chlorobia). Moreover, during this season, experimental amendments to seawater applying a combination of the photosynthetic inhibitor 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) and a mixture of amino acids increased both bacterial productivity and N2 fixation rates. Our findings from the northern Gulf of Aqaba indicate a~shift in the diazotrophic community from phototrophic and heterotrophic populations, including small blooms of the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium, in winter/early spring, to predominantly heterotrophic diazotrophs in summer that may be both P and carbon limited as the additions of P and amino acids illustrated.


Multi-device development is an important issue in current user interface development. In this work, we present a solution to multi-device user interface development that combines two languages. One language is XICL, a markup language to describe user interfaces and UI components. The other is IMML (Interactive Message Modeling Language), a user interface description language. IMML allows a model-based specification separating the functional, interaction and communication aspects of an interactive system. We develop a software tool that translates from an IMML specification to DHTML, using XICL as an intermediary language. Currently, our solution is limited to browser-based software.


2 Department of Mining, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering, University of the Philippines-Diliman, 1101 Quezon City, Philippines E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a promising semiconductor material for optoelectronic devices. Due to its wide range of useful properties, numerous devices from light-emitting diodes to gas sensors have been developed. ZnO can be grown by a variety of techniques such as hydrothermal method, chemical vapor deposition, and magnetron sputtering among others. However, these methods, in particular for nanostructured ZnO, involve reaction systems such as toxic reagents, elevated temperature, and costly equipment. The challenge now is to develop a simple and economical technique for the synthesis of ZnO nanostructures. In this work, we demonstrate the growth of ZnO nanostructures from a metallic Zn thin film at low temperatures using wet oxidation in water. Previous work on wet oxidation showed the effect of water vapor on ZnO formation [1]. Also, Tan et al. reported the influence of growth time on ZnO nanostructures using hot water oxidation of Zn foils [2]. Herein, the Zn thin film precursor was deposited on fluorine-doped tin oxide substrates by vacuum deposition. The substrates are then immersed in 90 o C water for 6h and 16h to investigate the effect of growth time on the resulting morphologies of ZnO nanostructures. The deposited Zn thin film initially looks metallic and has a reflective surface. After wet oxidation, the thin film becomes transparent. At this point, the Zn thin film is converted to ZnO. Figure 1(a) shows that the metallic Zn thin film is composed of hexagonal-like structures. ZnO nanoparticles having about 150 nm diameters are grown after wet oxidation for 6h. At a longer oxidation time of 16h, the zinc is converted into ZnO nanorods having about 180 nm diameters, as shown in Fig. 1(b). In some parts of the film, nanotube structures were obtained, as seen in Fig. 1(c). This simple method for a variety of nanostructured ZnO in transparent films at a low temperature process could pave the way to future flexible optoelectronic devices such as hybrid solar cells based on substrates with low thermal stability. References: [1] R. Chen, C. Zou, X. Yan, A. Alyamani, W. Gao, Thin Solid Films 519 (2011) 1837–1844 [2] Wai Kian Tan et al., Materials Letters, 91 (2013) 111–114 第76回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会 講演予稿集 (2015 名古屋国際会議場) 14a-1G-8


The research objective is to study the degree of influence of such psychological factors, as system of values, professional work stresses-factors, individually-psychological features, strategy and ways of overcoming the stressful situations, on professional health of managers. We used the psychodiagnostic techniques intended for studying cognitive, behavioural and emotional components of health, a technique of diagnostics of personal potentials of experts (regulatory, communicative, intellectual), and also author's techniques.


The lack of production and distribution of food in Venezuela brings with it scarcity and shortages in basic food products. Regulations on prices control over products to buy and excessive queues have affected the access and availability of these by the population. Faced with this reality, the Venezuelan government has defined policies, strategies and programs to guarantee access to food products, for which it has developed since 2000, food programs to solve the situation described above. Consequently the purpose of this research work is to characterize the process of food distribution of the Venezuelan State during the period 2000-2017. The methodology used is descriptive-analytical, under a documentary and qualitative approach. Specialized documents are reviewed, identifying relevant theoretical elements associated with the distribution process. The large investments made in this sector have not resulted in lasting benefits, social welfare and a greater and better quality of life of the population. The architecture of the distribution process, defined at the beginning (at the birth of the Mercal Network) elements, actors and clearly defined strategies, these were restructured over the years. Today, a house-to- house distribution system is assumed, with new actors and new strategies, but without the guarantee of a national supply of food products with a frequency that will continuously support the development of the food distribution process assumed by the national government.


As we begin a new year and new work with the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB), we are thrilled to see our PTR Year Two: Implementation Communities' teams get their project work up and running. Designed to transform student outcomes and share their innovations and successes with their colleagues across the state, these grassroots teams are using their data and evidence-based practices to introduce unique interventions. However, all of the projects have one thing in common: they are seeking to produce more equitable student outcomes, and to do so in a way that can be brought to scale at their own institution and beyond. Here are the five teams selected by the ICCB and OCCRL to implement their proposed PTR innovations:


X-ray analysis, covering a wide temperature range between 10 and 300 K, and the measurements of the thermoelectric power and specific heat are performed on a recently discovered high-Tc superconductor, (La1-xBax)2CuO4-y with x=0.075. A large positive thermoelectric power is observed above Tc. The Debye temperature is 385 K and no specificheat jump is detected across Tc.


structures may contain partially occupied sites or long-range ordering of vacancies, and some loose structures require proper description of weak interactions such as hydrogen bonding and dispersive forces. If structures and transformations are to be reliably predicted under different chemical conditions, each of these challenges must be overcome simultaneously while preserving a high level of numerical accuracy and physical sophistication. Here we present comparative studies of structure, magnetization, and elasticity properties of iron oxides and oxyhydroxides using density-functional-theory calculations with plane-wave (PW) and locally-confined-atomicorbital basis sets, which are implemented in VASP and SIESTA packages, respectively. We have selected hematite (α-Fe2O3), maghemite (γ-Fe2O3), goethite (α-FeOOH), lepidocrocite (γ-FeOOH), and magnetite (Fe3O4 )a s model systems from a total of 13 known iron oxides and oxyhydroxides, and we used the same convergence criteria and almost equivalent settings to make consistent comparisons. Our results show that both basis sets can reproduce the energetic stability and magnetic ordering, and are in agreement with experimental observations. There are advantages to choosing one basis set over the other, depending on the intended focus. In our case, we find the method using PW basis set the most appropriate, and we combine our results to construct the first phase diagram of iron oxides and oxyhydroxides in the space of competing chemical potentials, generated entirely from first principles.


Based on the combination of a staggered double vane slow wave structure(SWS) and round electron beam,a 200-W W-band traveling-wave tube(TWT) amplifier is studied in this paper.The main advantages of round beam operation over the sheet beam is that the round beam can be formed more easily and the focus requirement can be dramatically reduced.It operates in the fundamental mode at the first spatial harmonic.The geometric parameters are optimized and a transition structure for the slow wave circuit is designed which can well match the signal that enters into and goes out from the tube.Then a TWT model is established and the particle-in-cell(PIC) simulation results show that the tube can provide over 200-W output power in a frequency range of 88 GHz-103 GHz with a maximum power of 289 W at 95 GHz,on the assumption that the input power is 0.1 W and the beam power is 5.155 kW.The corresponding conversion efficiency and gain at 95 GHz are expected to be 5.6% and 34.6 dB,respectively.Such amplifiers can potentially be used in high power microwave-power-modules(MPM) and for other portable applications.


This paper proposes an improved sensorless matrix-converter IPMSM drive system using a high frequency injection method. By suitably choosing different virtual dc-bus voltages and compensating the duty cycle of the switching states, the estimated position error can be obviously reduced. A 32-bit digital signal processor, TMS-320LF-2407A, is used to execute the rotor position estimation and the whole control algorithm. Experimental results show that the estimated rotor position error is reduced from 10 to 5 electrical degrees when compared to the traditional sensorless matrix-converter. In addition, the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output currents is reduced near 2%. As a result, the low speed responses of the proposed sensorless drive system is obviously enhanced. The adjustable speed of the sensorless IPMSM drive is from 25 r/min to 1800 r/min.


A giant cell fibroblasloma (GCF) presented in the subcutis of the breast in a 13‐month‐old girl which recurred 6 years later as a dermal and subcutaneous neoplasm whose patterns were in part GCF and spindle cells with a storiform configuration resembling dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP). The issue remains unsettled as to whether GCF is the juvenile variant of DFSP, but an argument about this relationship is supported circumstantially by a case such as ours.


The small molecule-based supramolecular gels are a novel type of soft material and have attracted extensive research attention in the past decades, wherein the most challenging work is to look for ...


With this work, the authors try to make HIL simulation more realistic with the introduction of the Human driver in the loop. To succeed in this objective we develop a set of tools to connect easily a wide variety of real or virtual devices together : of course the driver but also racing gamer joystick, real engine, virtual drivetrain, virtual driver environment... The detailed approach represent a step forward before testing control strategy or new powertrain on a real vehicle. First results showed a good effectiveness and modularity of the tool.


Article history: Received 12 June 2015 Received in revised form 7 December 2015 Accepted 9 December 2015 Available online 15 December 2015


Antitrust has been impoverished as a discipline by systematically devaluing business discourse in favor of a nearly exclusive reliance on one form of economics as its guiding discipline. I have previously discussed elsewhere the historical reasons why antitrust has ignored the theories that motivate the very decision makers whose behavior antitrust seeks to motivate. See Spencer Weber Waller, The Language of Law and the Language of Business, 52 Case. W. L. Rev. 283 (2001), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=253732&high=%20spencer%20waller. In this paper, I discuss how business theory is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for antitrust analysis. I primarily analyze two recent cases. In the first case, Conwood Tobacco, a knowledge of modern marketing is necessary to understand the facts and legal liability at issue. In the second case, LePage's, business theory would have provided both plaintiffs and defendants in a controversial bundling case with better tools to argue their position. Finally, I conclude with a briefer look at a series of other cases where business theory issues have been raised and would have been a valuable addition to the standard tools of antitrust analysis.


We investigate the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a quasitopological term. Considering exponential couplings to a Maxwell term, to a quasitopological term, and to both terms, we obtain three sets of infinite scalarized charged black holes by taking into account tachyonic instability of a dyonic Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. Each set of infinite scalarized charged black holes is classified by the number of $n=0,1,2,\dots{}$, where $n=0$ is called the fundamental black hole and $n=1,2,\dots{}$ denote the $n$-excited black holes. All $n=0$ black holes are stable against the radial perturbation, while all $n=1$, 2 black holes are unstable.


When Marquette, Mich., was faced with having to filter its cold, clean source water for the first time, microfiltration was the technology of choice.


Common wisdom in international affairs is that when democratically elected leaders and governments make threats towards other states, these are credible; voters will punish leaders who do not follow through on their words. New research by Philip B. K. Potter and Matthew A. Baum argues however, that not all democracies are equal in the credibility of their threats of military action. By analyzing data on international military disputes over a 35-year period, they find that both an effective and widespread media, and a robust opposition are needed in order for voters to become aware of foreign policy blunders. Without either of these, leaders can avoid following through on their threats with little fear of being punished by voters.


This paper proposes a 4-Bit Arithmetic logic unit (ALU) using FinFET at 32nm technology. The CMOS has been used widely in current technology. But scaling the CMOS will cause the short channel effects such as DIBL, GIDL, Sub threshold swing, channel length modulation, mobility degradation etc. To change nanoscale CMOS, a multi gate device called FinFET is suggested. FinFET has its own advantages over the CMOS such as reduction in leakage power, operating power, leakage current and transistor gate delay, reduced threshold level and steeper subthreshold swing. The target of this paper is to reduce and calculate leakage power of 4-Bit ALU using FinFET.


The first observation of photorefractivity in ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) is reported here. Dopant chromophores chosen to optimize production of mobile ions and careful control of the wavevector and light polarization are believed to play a decisive role in the observed behavior. The Figure is a schematic illustration of the experimental geometry used.


The presence of heavy metals influences the efficiency of anaerobic fermentation and results in the variations of the relationships among the fermentation parameters. In this study, the impacts of elevated Cu2+ concentrations on relationships among biogas properties, process stability, substrate biodegradation, and enzyme activity were analysed by Pearson correlation analysis based on the experimental data of a mesophilic anaerobic co-fermentation with mixed acid pretreated Phragmites australis straw and raw cow dung as feedstocks. The results showed that in the absence of Cu2+, the cumulative biogas yields were positively related to pH values (0.780, p < 0.05) and negatively related to oxidation-reduction potential values (−0.909, p < 0.01) and cellulase activity (−0.937, p < 0.01). The coenzyme F420 activity was negatively related to volatile fatty acid (VFA) concentrations (−0.756, p < 0.05). In the presence of 30 mg/l Cu2+, correlation coefficients between the cumulative biogas yields and pH values, ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N), VFA, chemical oxygen demand, hemicellulose, and cellulose were higher than the control group, indicating the efficient hydrolysis, acidogenesis, and acetogenesis stages. High Cu2+ concentrations (500 mg/l) resulted in almost completely different impacts on these relationships from the low Cu2+ concentrations, especially on the hydrolysis stage.The presence of heavy metals influences the efficiency of anaerobic fermentation and results in the variations of the relationships among the fermentation parameters. In this study, the impacts of elevated Cu2+ concentrations on relationships among biogas properties, process stability, substrate biodegradation, and enzyme activity were analysed by Pearson correlation analysis based on the experimental data of a mesophilic anaerobic co-fermentation with mixed acid pretreated Phragmites australis straw and raw cow dung as feedstocks. The results showed that in the absence of Cu2+, the cumulative biogas yields were positively related to pH values (0.780, p < 0.05) and negatively related to oxidation-reduction potential values (−0.909, p < 0.01) and cellulase activity (−0.937, p < 0.01). The coenzyme F420 activity was negatively related to volatile fatty acid (VFA) concentrations (−0.756, p < 0.05). In the presence of 30 mg/l Cu2+, correlation coefficients between the cumulative biogas yields and pH values, a...


A dipolar interlayer can cause dramatic changes in the device characteristics of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) or photovoltaics. A shift in the threshold voltage, for example, has been observed in an OFET where the organic semiconductor active layer is deposited on SiO2 modified with a dipolar monolayer. Dipolar molecules can similarly be used to change the current-voltage characteristics of organic-inorganic heterojunctions. We have conducted a series of experiments in which different molecular linkages are placed between a pentacene thin film and a silicon substrate. Interface modifications with different linkages allow us to predict and examine the nature of tunneling through pentacene on modified Si surfaces with different dipole moment. The molecular-scale structure and the tunneling properties of pentacene thin films on modified Si (001) with nitrobenzene and styrene were examined using scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Electronic interfaces using organic surface dipoles can be used to control the band lineups of a semiconductor at organic/inorganic interfaces. Our results can provide insights into the charge transport characteristics of organic thin films at electronic interfaces.


Beam-envelope radius, envelope angle, and beam emittance can be derived from measurements of beam radius for at least three different transport conditions. We have used this technique to reconstruct exit parameters from the FXR injector and accelerator. We use a diamagnetic loop (DML) to measure the magnetic moment of the high current beam. With no assumptions about radial profile, we can derive the beam mean squire radius from the moment under certain easily met conditions. Since it is this parameter which is required for the reconstruction, it is evident that the DML is the ideal diagnostic for this technique. The simplest application of this technique requires at least three shots for a reconstruction but in reality requires averaging over many more shots because of shot to shot variation. Since DML measurements do not interfere with the beam, single shot time resolved measurements of the beam parameters appear feasible if one uses an array of at least three DMLs separated by known transport conditions.


Conti has proven to be one of the most virulent forms of ransomware. It has caused untold damage, and many organisations struggle to combat this kind of threat on their own. This is where a security partner, with an effective and experienced security operations centre (SOC), can play a key role.


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The article analyzes the interrelation of conclusion the Nerchinsky, Burinsky and Kyakhtinsky treaties between Russia and the Qing empire in the 17-18 centuries and the status of the Tibetan Buddhism practiced by the part of Transbaikalian Buryat-Mongols. The research is focused on the early period of the Russian state policy towards the Buddhist minority in Transbaikalia whose indispensible condition for adoption of the Russian citizenship was permission to practice their own religion. At the same time trans-boundary nature of the Buddhist community and mobility of its adherents was the subject of anxiety in authorities as the empire's administrative borders were on the paths of pilgrimage routes. The article considers the measures taken by the Russian officials for decreasing the political significance of the Tibetan Buddhism and establishing the Russian control over the Buddhist community in Transabaikalia and autocephaly of the Buddhist community Transabaikalia.


The formation of device-grade polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) films on standard glass at low temperature (i.e., below the softening point of the glass) using simple and fast processes is one of the major challenges for low-cost thin-film solar cells. In this paper, we report what is believed to be the first successful realisation of thick (/spl sim/5 /spl mu/m), large-grained (/spl sim/5 /spl mu/m), continuous poly-Si films on glass at T<650/spl deg/C. This technological breakthrough has been achieved by using ion-assisted deposition at 630/spl deg/C for epitaxially thickening a thin (/spl sim/0.4 /spl mu/m) seeding layer made on glass by aluminium-induced crystallisation.


For relatively low voltage dc sources such as photovoltaic arrays and fuel cell stacks to supply power to typical AC systems, using multilevel inverters is an approach with several advantages. In doing so, while it is possible to achieve optimal THD below 5% by staircase/block modulation of cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverters, this requires the use of several separate dc sources with different non-integer ratio values. This paper proposes having some of these source values be equal to each other to increase sub-system modularity, and replacing some H-bridge cells by a diode-clamped inverter to reduce the required number of separate dc sources, while still achieving near-optimal THD below 5%. In addition, a means of re-charging the diode-clamped inverter's inner capacitors is proposed Analytical, simulation and experimental results are presented for an example hybrid converter with four H-bridge cells in series with a 5-level diode-clamped inverter.


An overview of the benefits and applications of microinverters and DC power optimizers in residential systems. Some conclusions from this report are: (1) The impact of shade is greater than just the area of shade; (2) Additional mismatch losses include panel orientation, panel distribution, inverter voltage window, soiling; (3) Per-module devices can help increase performance, 4-12% or more depending on the system; (4) Value-added benefits (safety, monitoring, reduced design constraints) are helping their adoption; and (5) The residential market is growing rapidly. Efficiency increases, cost reductions are improving market acceptance. Panel integration will further reduce price and installation cost. Reliability remains an unknown.


"Know then thy-self, pressure not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is man."Alexander Pope, 2016."The idea of man, if it ever acquires a positive meaning, will be only a conjecture intended to establish connections between the disparate materials and will derive its probability only from its success."J. P. Satre, 1939, p. 3.INTRODUCTIONWe live in a world in which individual freedom and basic human rights are beset by the problems of prejudice and ideology and their overt manifestations, racism, fundamentalism, and nationalism. At another more subtle level even three areas in which progress has been made, homosexual rights, feminism and equal opportunity, and the rights of the child, are developing their own ideologies, replete with their own heroes and villains. It is what Western (2015) has called the New Authoritarians, the politically correct and the incorrect sharing enjoyment via aggression, idealised identities, and the search for a new authoritarian focus.Hitler's Nazi ideology proposed that the only law was that of the jungle, and rapaciousness its justified activity. A struggle for the riches of nature in which mercy has no place. Re-writing Genesis he saw the fall of mankind as the development of our capacity to think, and to therefore realise, that those who belong to other races could do the same, and were therefore recognisable as fellow humans (Snyder, 2015). The contrary position, which espoused the value of thought and ideas, was dismissed as weakness propagated by Jewish lies and Jewish swindle.Such views, justifying the de-humanisation of "the other" and espousing the legitimacy of expulsion or of murderous elimination, is by no means confined to one political ideology. Economic rationalism, for example, leads to a market where only the strongest and putatively the best, survive and is replete with "fall guys" and "suckers" one of whom is apparently born every minute. These ideas are anathema for humanitarianism and morality, for equality before the law, and for the rule of law, on which minorities depend (Browning, 2015).The concept and value of the denigrated "other" cannot be sustained in vacuo. Therefore, taking the phenomena linked to scapegoating as an example, my general hypothesis is that we will not be rid of the tendency to blame others, our sins identified in them, personal or organisational, nor to be rid of its manifestations, nationally or internationally, merely by wishing it to be so. Advocating a more humane and accepting attitude toward the "other" will be no more successful unless accompanied by an exploration and understanding of the psycho-social history of us all. I believe that evidence exists to suggest that this propensity may be manifest particularly in one personality grouping within society and that there are psychological explanations for this."I don't have to know you to hate you", might be a loose definition of racism. It would continue "But really knowing you doesn't matter when I have my imagination". The moral impotence of reason.Voltaire, in 1768, wrote that, "If God did not exist we would have to invent him". His point seems to have been, that the concept, the fantasy, the faith that God exists, is a necessary precursor to civilised existence. That it is necessary for civilised society to function. But, not content with this, we have had to invent Satan, a fallen angel, no doubt like mankind itself, who exists to contain all that is unacceptable in us. Although "real" to some, both of the concepts "God" and "Satan" exist only as matters of faith, that is, in our imaginations.In the same way it is my contention that if the scapegoat did not exist as a constant in society, we would have to, and in fact continually do, invent him. We need such a figure, enthroned as he has been, in myth and culture over the centuries.As I have written previously (Gold, 2015), the scapegoat has been with us as saviour, often literally, assuming responsibility, exile, and suffering for our sins, while we, nominally at least, free of guilt and responsibility, are able to continue our tolerable existence individually, organisationally, or nationally. …


The Janus-III system translates spoken languages in limited domains. The current re- search focus is on expanding beyond tasks involving a single limited semantic domain to significantly broader and richer domains. To achieve this goal, The MT components of our system have been engineered to build and manipulate multi-domain parse lattices that are based on modular grammars for multiple semantic domains. This approach yields solutions to several problems including multi- domain disambiguation, segmentation of spoken utterances into sentence units, modularity of system design, and re-use of earlier systems with incompatible output.


Abstract Ten microlichens growing on more or less moribund thalli of several terricolous Peltigera spp. are reported from Wyżyna Śląsko-Krakowska upland in southern Poland. The list includes: Absconditella delutula, Agonimia vouauxii, Bacidia pycnidiata (for the first time as a lichenicolous lichen), Bacidina chloroticula, Placynthiella dasea, Scutula sp., Steinia geophana, Thelocarpon epibolum, Vezdaea aestivalis and V. retigera. Notes on the taxonomy, ecology and distribution of each species are briefly provided and Polish samples discussed.


Objective To explore the autonomic nervous system change characteristics of generalized anxiety disorder(GAD) before and after treatment.Methods Selected 80 cases of patients with GAD,40 persons with healthy adults as control group,24 hours heart rate variability(24hHRV) time domain and frequency domain index methods,and use statistical software carries on the analysis comparison.Results All the indexes of HRV exist differences before and after the treatment in GAD patient group(P0.05),There was significant difference between GAD patients before treatment and the control group,especially rMSSD,PNN50 and SDNN significantly(P0.01).GAD patients before treatment group day and night HRV index has no significant difference(P0.05).Conclusions Patients with GAD to the vagus nerve tension decline,relatively sympathetic nervous tension hyperthyroidism is given priority to,HRV index can be used as monitoring GAD autonomic function in patients with a quantitative evaluation index.


system demonstrates fewer office visits and shorter treatment times compared to twin bracket systems with elastomeric ties. A study comparing two samples of consecutively started patients. In-Ovation, a self-ligation bracket system demonstrates fewer office visits and shorter treatment times compared to twin bracket systems with elastomeric ties. A study comparing two samples of consecutively started patients.


Background: Children suffer a significant burden of oral diseases which impacts their quality of life, and general health. Many epidemiological studies have looked at oral health status and treatment needs among children in urban and rural areas across different age groups. There was limited literature assessing the oral health status among children in tribal areas, which presents unique challenges in terms of: topo-graphy, availability of health services, and complex socio- cultural health practices. Methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted among 655 children across six schools between 12-15 years in Jawadhi Hills, Tamil Nadu, India. World Health Organization's, Oral Health Surveys were used for clinical and risk factor assessments. Clinical examination was conducted, and self-assessed ques-tionnaire was administered to the children to assess the risk factors to poor oral health. Since dental fluorosis was common, drinking water samples were collected to assess fluoride levels in the community. Results: Prevalence of dental caries and gingivitis (gum disease) was found to be 22.3% and 87.3% respectively. Dental Pain was reported by 57% of children as the most common reason to visit the dentist. Prevalence of dental fluorosis was found to be 53.6%. Multiple logistic regression showed: gender, dental fluorosis, diet, and maternal education significantly associated (p <0.005) with dental caries. Fluoride levels in water was found to be higher than permissible limits (>1.5ppm).


Previous studies by various researchers show the influence of material shape ofn apparent permeability at zero frequency and predict that this will still be valid at higher frequencies. In this paper we demonstrate the influence of shape demagnetizing effects for the attenuation of transverse electromagnetic waves in a stripline transmission line at frequencies where the material thickness is small compared to the free‐space wavelength in the frequency range 100–600 MHz.


The influence of economic ideas in parliamentary debates has attracted increasing attention in the analysis of the institutionalisation of political economy in the liberal age in the Western world. Within this framework, this paper explores a particular case: the relevance of economic ideas and the role of economists in the debates that took place in the Spanish Parliament in 1869 following the bill issued by the Minister of Finance Figuerola to establish a tax on personal incomes. Economic ideas and parliamentarian economists played a significant role in the design of the income tax as a key tool to modernise Spain's tax system, and in the subsequent parliamentary discussions.


Disclosed is an excellent method for production of an alkylene oxide adduct which, despite using a composite metal oxide catalyst which is a solid catalyst, does not need any step for filtrating the solid catalyst (a solid-liquid separation step), and which has improved production efficiency. Also disclosed is an alkylene oxide adduct containing a composite metal oxide catalyst having a very fine particle size. Further disclosed is a surfactant composition which contains the alkylene oxide adduct and is excellent in applicability. The method for production of an alkylene oxide adduct comprises reacting at least one of an organic compound having an active hydrogen and a fatty acid alkyl ester with an alkylene oxide in the presence of a composite metal oxide catalyst and a polyhydric alcohol. ® KIPO & WIPO 2009


A previous two-parameter model of a molecular fluid is extended to three parameters and applied to a fluid of hard ellipsoids with restricted orientations. The direct correlation function of the fluid is written as a linear combination of three basic functions derived from the geometry of two molecules and the coefficients determined from algebraic equations also satisfied by the Percus-Yevick (PY) solution of the problem. The theory yields the PY solution and PY equation of state in the special case of hard spheres. For ellipsoids the equation of state agrees better with the results of computer simulation than the two-parameter version although the discrepancy increases with increasing anisotropy of the molecules. According to the model the fluid makes a transition to a nematic state although the predicted densities at which the transition takes place are too low.


Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness, and elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) characteristic of glaucoma is caused by increased aqueous humor outflow resistance. Studies have localized the bulk of outflow resistance to particular regions along the outflow pathway — namely, the inner wall endothelium of Schlemm's canal and its underlying juxtacanalicular tissue (JCT) [1] — but the hydrodynamic details of how aqueous humor flows through these tissues and how these tissues generate outflow resistance are not well understood.Copyright © 2007 by ASME


To the Editor: I read with sincere interest and enthusiasm the article by Silveira, Morena, and Cavalcanti 2017) in the May issue of the Journal (2017). Seeing the article led me to recollect the original family that we reported on in the cited paper (Beemer et al., 1983). In 1980, the postmortem photographs and radiographs of a boy were sent to our Center by the pediatrician in charge for diagnosis. The main features were generalized hydrops, dysmorphic facial features with median cleft lip and cleft palate, very narrow thorax, protuberant abdomen and short, bowed limbs with ambiguous external genitals. Radiographs revealed very short horizontal ribs, high clavicles and broad, and flattened vertebrae. There was no polydactyly. The long tubular bones—with the exception of the tibiae were very short and bowed. The metaphyses of the long bones did not show the irregularities as described before in short ribpolydactyly syndrome (SRPS) Majewski-type. In a subsequent pregnancy ultrasound studies at 19 weeks revealed similar femoral and costal anomalies as in the elder sibling; the parents opted for termination of the pregnancy. The female fetus showed the same signs as described in the first child. What about the diagnosis? The clinical and radiological features looked like those of short ribpolydactyly (SRP) Majewski type. But a main feature of that syndrome, polydactyly, was not present in our cases. At that time most authors distinguished three types of SRP syndromes: Saldino–Noonan or type 1,Majewski type or type two, and Verma–Naumoff type or type 3. However other authors distinguished only two SRP types: Majewski type and non-Majewski type. But we thought that not all features fit into one of the types already known from literature. Neither was the case for asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia (Jeune syndrome) or with chondroectodermal dyplasia (Ellis–van Creveld syndrome). So we considered it to be a possibly "new" syndrome. Practicing clinical genetics—like other professions—is often a matter of cooperation and consultation, and that was certainly so in those days. In the pre-internet days, traveling moved things ahead and made discussions more easy. So I did present the data at various meetings, starting nationally of course. Preliminary conclusions: possibly "new". One of the first international meetings where I did present the data was the 1981 March of Dimes 14th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California (USA). At that and other meetings I could discuss the clinical and radiographic data with quite a number of experienced professionals, who all were very helpful. One of them was Dr. Leonard Langer who happened to know an almost identical patient. With contributions of several other authors, Dr. Langer and I wrote a paper on our cases and concluded that our data might constitute a "new" syndrome (Beemer et al., 1983) . It was at the time that a purely clinical paper could still be published and was in fact the only way to make newly recognized syndromes public. In a later year, I did visit Dr Langer at his office in Greenwood, South Carolina. I could also present our data at the 3rd Symposium on Clinical Genetics in Pediatrics (Klinische Genetik in der Paediatrie) in Kiel, Germany, organized by Drs. Tolksdorf and Spranger and discussed the data with the latter author. And of course I paid a visit to Dr. Majewski who in fact lived relatively nearby in Germany. This was the way things went in these "old" days: you tried to give an as extensive and precise as possible description of the clinical, radiographic, and other relevant features. Then you discussed these data with experts in the relevant fields and tried to meet them personally. For me at least that way of "delineating a syndrome" worked well, about 30 years ago: I liked meeting experts in person. Of course you hope someone will read the paper you and your coauthors wrote about it, remember and publish identical cases, and refer to yours. And, of course, attaches (amongst others) your name to that particular possibly "new" syndrome. And these days another, important, phase in the natural course of a syndrome has been reached: finding a causative gene. Congratulations!


This paper documents research on the effect that differential tax structures have in distorting the location of retail sales and employment along state borders. Increases in the state and local sales tax rate are found to reduce the level of retail activity on that side of the state border for two of the three moderately sized metropolitan areas which are studied. Employment and sales exhibited approximately the same responsiveness to tax rate changes. State income taxes are found to have minor influences on the location of retail activity and increases in selective sales tax rates generally create zero or very small effects on overall retail activity. The results indicate that consumers are more likely to change their consumption behavior in response to increases in the easily observable general sales tax than in other taxes that may indirectly raise business costs.


Antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in superconducting YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 6+{ital x}} have been studied using inelastic neutron scattering. In a crystal with {ital x}=0.5 and {ital T}{sub {ital c}}=50 K, we have observed spin fluctuations at 12 K having a cross section which increases with increasing excitation energy. The data are consistent with highly overdamped spin waves and a very short spin-spin correlation length.


In order to improve the security of bank network system,the tripartite network game model is presented which includes hackers,administrators and bank decisionmakers.Some basis are provided for strategy selecting of administrators and decisionmakers by analyzing the behaviors and interrelations between the three sides in the model.The sub-game model is adopted and analyzed to acquire the perfect Bayesian Nash equilibrium according to the characteristics of the tripartite model,and it makes the system administrator and the policy-making levels achieve the best strategy selection.


As part of an international cooperative research project between Communications Research Laboratory and Geophysical Institute of University of Alaska, we developed two all-sky imagers (CRL-ASI). We had conducted pilot observations in Japan, and developed some new observation techniques for atmospheric waves. We installed the CRL-ASI at Poker Flat (magnetic lat. 65.6N), Alaska, and started aurora/airglow observations from October 2000. CRL-ASI can be operated automatically, and controlled from CRL, Japan. Realtime summary data are opened to the public with WWW. Using these instruments, we successfully observed some new phenomena: simultaneous appearance of gravity waves and aurora, co-rotating aurora in the evening sector. These results show the advantage of sensitivity and spatial resolution of the CRL-ASI. Observation data by CRL-ASI will contribute to a study on the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling.


Statistics on the number of youth farmworkerinjuries and fatalities are not publicly available.However, work-related fatal injuries dispropor-tionally affect youths in agriculture. From1998 to2002, the US Department of Labor reported thatthe overall number of work fatalities declined forother age groups, yet fatal work injuries involvingyouths younger than16 years nearly doubled,with the majority of deaths occurring amongyouths employed as agricultural workers.


The spectroscopic, conformational, and reactivity characteristics of the T67R variant of sperm whale myoglobin have been studied to assess the effects of introducing an arginine residue into the distal side of this protein, as occurs in the active site of heme peroxidases. The overall circular dichroism (CD) and NMR spectroscopic properties of various derivatives of the protein are little affected by the mutation. The mutant contains a high‐spin ferric ion with a water molecule as the sixth ligand, which exhibits slightly enhanced acidity (pKa=8.43±0.03) with respect to the corresponding derivative of wild‐type myoglobin (pKa=8.60±0.04). The presence of the distal arginine increases the affinity of the FeIII center for azide (K=(6.0±0.5)×104 M−1) and decreases that for imidazole (K=12.0±0.2 M−1), with respect to the wild‐type protein (K=(5.0±0.1)×104 and 24.7±0.7 M−1, respectively). The peroxidase activity of T67R and wild‐type myoglobins has been studied with a group of phenolic substrates related to tyrosine. The mutant exhibits an increased rate of reaction with hydrogen peroxide (k=1550±10 versus 760±10 M−1 s−1) and a generally increased peroxidase activity with respect to wild‐type myoglobin. Relaxation measurements of proton nuclei of the phenolic substrates in the presence of either the T67R variant or the wild‐type protein show that binding of these molecules occurs at distances of 8–10 Å from the iron center, that is, close to the heme pocket, except for p‐cresol, which can approach the heme more closely and, therefore, probably enter into the distal cavity.


We introduce the development and deployment of ALIS for Humanitarian Demining. ALIS is a dual sensor, which combines EMI (Electromagnetic Induction) sensor and GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar). This is a hand held sensor, equipped with position tracking system, then ALIS can acquire the EMI and GPR signal together with its position information, while it is scanned on the ground surface by an operator by hand manually. Therefore, the data can be processed using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing (migration) and can reconstruct 3-D subsurface image. GPR of ALIS operates at 1-3GHz, and the penetration depth of the GPR is 20- 50cm. By deploying the ALIS in Cambodia since 2009, we found that ALIS is capable for imaging buried mines, and can reduce the false alarm ratio drastically. We have detected more than 80 buried land mines in Cambodia mine fields. In 2017 we completed the advanced ALIS system, which is compact and light weight which is less than 3.1 kg.


INTRODUCTIONThe division of household labor is a source of dissatisfaction in many marriages (Glass & Fujimoto 1994; Rosenfield 1992). If household arrangements are viewed as inequitable, wives report lower levels of marital and personal happiness (Pina & Bengtson 1993), increased marital discord (Rogers & Amato 2000) and higher rates of depression (Bird 1999). As women begin to allocate more time to labor force participation, they come to expect more spousal involvement in household labor than they are currently receiving (Pyke & Coltrane 1996). However, women, including those in dual-earner households, perform twice-as-much housework as do men (Baxter 1997; Bianchi et al., 2000; Bird 1999). Although most couples have an unequal division of labor, few women perceive this inequality as unfair (Bianchi et al., 2000; DeMaris & Longmore 1996; Lennon & Rosenfield 1994). Research has focused on this paradox for women living in countries with high female labor force participation rates (Baxter 2000; DeMaris & Longmore 1996; Lennon & Rosenfield 1994; Nordenmark & Nyman 2003 ; Sanchez 1 994). Little is known about fairness and housework in low female labor force countries where women are more likely to be financially dependent on their husbands and thus expect husbands to participate less in household chores (Lennon & Rosenfield 1994; Sanchez & Thomson 1997); more dependent wives report greater fairness (Lennon & Rosenfield 1994). Thus, including both high and low female labor force participation countries provides an important comparison.This paper examines perceptions of fairness on the division of household labor for married women living in three countries - Sweden, the Netherlands, and Hungary - where women's disproportionate involvement in housework has been documented (Nordenmark & Nyman 2003; Panayotova & Brayfield 1997; van der Lippe 1994). Sweden is a country with high female labor force participation rates (Spain & Bianchi 1996) and strong governmental support for managing conflicts between work and family with generous parental leave and child care policies (Evertsson & Nermo 2004). Lacking policies to reconcile work and family, The Netherlands is a conservative welfare state that is considered a "part-time society" because of its high rates of part-time employment (Treas & Widmer 2000) . Despite a socialist legacy of female employment, Hungary remains a conservative society regarding gender roles (Haller & Hoellinger 1994) and has been identified as a "motherhood centered" society based on attitudes favoring mothers to stay home with pre-school aged children (Treas & Widmer 2000). These three countries also vary in their overall levels of societal gender equality with Sweden and the Netherlands being high and Hungary being low (UNDP 2002). These three countries were chosen strategically on the basis of their differing patterns of female labor force participation and gender equality, two contextual variables argued to be important for judgments of fairness of domestic arrangements.This study is distinct in two important ways. First, most previous research examines wives' perceptions of fairness in a single country applying one theoretical approach; this study tests two theoretical approaches to fairness, the distributive justice and relative resources perspectives, in three country contexts. Second, while previous studies have applied these theoretical approaches to countries with high female labor force participation, namely Sweden (Nordenmark & Nyman 2003) and the United States (DeMaris & Longmore 1996; Lennon & Rosenfield 1994), little is known about how these theoretical models apply to countries with lower female labor force participation rates where women lack the work-family time pressures that may generate dissatisfaction with husbands' contributions to household work. To test the theoretical models in countries with varying levels of female labor force participation and gender equality, this paper considers Sweden, the Netherlands and Hungary, three countries with different female labor force regimes and varying levels of societal gender equality. …


There is little agreement in the literature on what scuffing is, what causes it, or what appearance is. From a strictly mechanical point of view, the estimation of bearing's scuffing risk supposes to settle the interdependence between the Kinematics, dynamic, lubrication and friction phenomena realised in bearing's rolling contacts subjected to an important sliding. Our research focused on a specified angular contact ball-bearing realised an experimental and theoretical modelisation both on discs test specimen and ball bearings. Some scuffing tests have been carried out on the high-speed twin-disk machine available at LMC facilities. Another series of scuffing tests were applied on the 7206 angular contact ball bearing included in an original test rig. An energetically criterion to estimate scuffing limits has been proposed. The proposed scuffing criterion is sufficiently effective and reliable for designers and producers in order to offer a covering tool related to scuffing risk in angular contact ball bearings.


USL1 is the first version of USL (Unified Super Learning) to revolutionize the world using its colossal potential to boost the human capital in unprecedented scale to the economic growth not at the expense of the energy, environmental, social causes, but to sustainably balance them all by creating an international treaty based one 5UEs (Unified 5Es: Education  Economy  Energy  Environment  Empowerment/Equality) in the chronological order and thus positioned to resolve the top 5 global challenges or crises (Education crisis, Sovereign Debt crisis, Depleting Energy & Resource crisis, Environmental and Ecosystem destructions, including the climate change, and the Post-2015 issues especially the global poverty).


We previously showed that muscle anabolic responses to i.v. essential amino acids or oral protein bolus are brief (~1.5 h) but large (~3‐fold) in young men. We predicted that in older men anabolic responses would also be brief and blunted compared to those in younger men, even with supply of a 'high‐quality' protein bolus. Four men (~67 y, BMI ~25 kg.m−2) received [1,2‐13C2]leucine (1mg.kg.h−1) over 6.5 h, the first 2.5 h being before drinking 48 g whey suspension; muscle was intermittently biopsied. Myofibrillar protein synthesis (MPS) was measured as a capture of [1,2‐13C2]leucine and signaling by immunoblotting. MPS increased 0–45 min after whey (0.034±0.008 to 0.059±0.008.%.h−1; P<0.05). However, whereas MPS fell thereafter, anabolic signals remained elevated e.g. increased phosphorylation of p70S6 kinaseTh389 present from 45 min persisted at 180 min (+130±17%; P<0.01). Notably, when compared to our previous results in younger men, both peak (0.10±0.01 vs. 0.059±0.008.%.h−1; P<0.01) and area under the curve analyses (0.089±0.019 vs. 0.034 ±0.004 %.h−1; P<0.01) demonstrated that MPS responses to oral protein were blunted in older men. We conclude that MPS responses to oral protein are more short‐lived in older men than in the young and also that as in young men, anabolic signals outlast them. Moreover, generous leucine availability (~6 g) did not overcome anabolic blunting previously observed. Support: RCUK


SiO2-doped and pure ZnO thick film gas sensors were prepared by using screen printing technique and tested for their methanol and ethanol gas sensitivity.Morphological properties of the thick film are studied by using field emission scanning electron microscopy(FESEM).The results show that SiO2-doped is quite effective in restraining the growth of ZnO grains.SiO2-doped enhanced the sensitivity of thick film ZnO gas sensor to methanol and ethanol gases at the operating temperature of 400~450 ℃.However,the sensitivity of this thick film ZnO gas sensor to methanol and ethanol gases was restrained,at the operating temperature between 200 ℃ and 350 ℃.Furthermore,the response time of the SiO2-doped ZnO film was always longer than that of pure ZnO.Finally,the sensitive mechanism of the thick film gas sensor was analyzed and discussed.


The biomechanical modeling and simulation of human tissue are the basic part of virtual surgery system. As an important human soft tissue, the biomechanical modeling and simulation method of subcutaneous adipose tissue are urgent problems to be solved in virtual surgery system. In this paper, biomechanical modeling and simulation of subcutaneous adipose tissue were completed based on linear elastic and hyperelastic finite element model. First, the deformation process of subcutaneous adipose tissue was divided into two stages: Initial loading stage and later loading stage. Furthermore, the linear elastic model at initial loading stage and the nonlinear elastic model at later loading stage were established, respectively. Then, the biomechanical model of subcutaneous adipose tissue was solved based on the finite element method. Finally, the linear finite element calculation was included in nonlinear finite element calculations, and finite element simulation program of the subcutaneous adipose tissue was compiled in Visual Studio environment. The accuracy of the model was verified by comparing the simulation results with the experimental results. The efficiency of finite element simulation program of the linear and nonlinear hybrid model is evaluated by comparing the simulation time with the single linear model and the hyperelastic model.


Melting, quenching cracks, baked unevenness, without causing deformation or the like, thereby causing transformation inside surface of the hardened material by simple and rapid process utilizing frictional heat under pressure, whereby the hardened material surface internal tissues of the a surface hardening method for a metal causing transformation which is adapted to modify the martensite structure which is reduced. The surface hardening method, and more pressurization tool to press at a predetermined pressure to push slightly the bottom while substantially cylindrical pressurizing tool (2) is rotated at a high speed to be hardened material (1) surface and the cause and generating localized frictional heat, the transformation to be hardened material of the portion receiving the frictional heat between the object to be hardened material, the curable located near pressing tool by frictional heat when the surface of the treated material began to soften, comprising the steps of moving the pressurization tool.


An efficient aqueous oxidative cyclization mediated by the combination of iodosobenzene with tetra-(n-butyl)ammonium iodide provides a new convenient and useful route to functionalized fused dihydrofuran derivatives in moderate to excellent yields with high diastereoselectivities.


We report our experience in the treatment of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears employing bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft, with a minimum follow-up of two years. The average time of follow-up was 40.6 ±8.8 months. Lynsholm knee score in the preoperative period 64.6 (±19.1), and in the postoperative period, 89.4 (±10.1) (p<0.001). Cincinnati knee score was, in the preoperative period, 277.32 (±58.8), and in the follow-up 370.93 (±40) (p<0.001). Using the IKDC evaluation system, at the follow-up period, 76% were level A or B. The KT-1000 arthrometer findings were normal or nearly normal in 93% of the cases. Pain on kneeling and pain in donor site were the most important limitations of this technique. Bone-patellar tendon-bone remains a valid option of treatment in ACL tears.


The low diagnostic sensitivity of cytology for detecting low-grade bladder tumors as well as the inconvenience for patients and the costs of cystoscopy for diagnosis and follow-up monitoring have provided a strong boost for the research and development of numerous noninvasive urine-based tests [5]. In this respect, among the 21st century new challenges in BC research, the European Association of Urology (EAU) has listed the following hurdles to be fronted: 1) new screening strategies for the population at risk of developing BC; 2) the prioritized evaluation of patients with suspicious symptoms for BC; 3) the implementation of BC patients surveillance to reduce the number of cystoscopies to be undertaken [6].


The mode specificity of the unimolecular reaction of HFCO is studied by six-dimensional quantum dynamics calculations. The energy and mode dependency of the dissociation rate is examined by propagating a number of wave packets with a small energy dispersion representing highly excited states with respect to a specific vibrational mode. The wave packets are generated by applying a set of filter operators onto a source vibrational state. All the information necessary for propagating the wave packets is obtained from a single propagation of the source state, thus allowing a significant decrease of computational effort. The relevant spectral peaks are assigned using the three-dimensional CH chromophore Hamiltonian. The resulting dissociation rate of the CH stretching excited state is in agreement with that obtained from a statistical theory, while the rates of the out-of-plane bending excited states are about one order of magnitude smaller than the statistical rates. A local-mode analysis also shows that the ...


Taylor and Francis RIPH_A_539357.sgm 10.1080/09672 59.2011.539357 International Journal of Philosophical Studies 0967-2559 (print)/1466-4542 (online) Original Article 2 11 & F ancis 00002011 ainM cdonald i .m l @u ontreal.ca Can any more be said today regarding Adorno and Heidegger? 1 Perhaps their historical opposition has become as devoid of interest as their attacks on each were polemical. As is well known, Adorno's career-long critique of Heidegger is unremitting and extraordinarily severe: 'being itself is too poor, too meagre, not to reek of poverty. One gets the impression that if the absolute is nothing more than the air wafting around a wretched stove bench, then one should prefer to have nothing to do with it.' 2 Although it is not widely known, things were not very different in the other camp. In an interview dating from 1969, Heidegger stated that he had no interest in reading Adorno, even though – or perhaps because – the substance of his critique had been reported to him. 3 For Heidegger, Adorno's attacks were illegitimate in part because of their apparent malice – he had also been told that Adorno had vowed to 'bring him down' 4 – but, more importantly, because they seemed to miss the point: his thinking showed that he was a 'sociologist, not a philosopher'. 5 Indeed, Heidegger even questions Adorno's credentials: 'With whom did Adorno study [philosophy]? ... Did he study under anyone at all?' 6


s published: ■ u ■ , Scoles, D.R., Chen, M.S., and Pulst, S.M. Effects of NF2 missense mutations on schwannomin interactions. Biochemical Biophysical Research Commun/caf/ons 290(1 ):366-374; 2002. Sun, ex., Haipek, C, Scoles, D.R., Pulst, S.M., Giovannini, M., Komada, M., and Gutmann, D.H. Functional analysis of the relationship between the neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) tumor suppressor and its binding partner, hepatocyte growth fector-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate (HRS/HGS). Human Molecular Genetics ^^25), Dec 1,2002 (In Press). Scoles, D.R., Nguyen, V.D., Qin, Y., Sun, C.X., Momson, H., Gutmann, D.H., and Pulst, S.M. Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) tumor suppressor schwannomin and its interacting protein HRS regulate STAT signaling. Human Molecular Genetics 11(25), Dec 1,2002 (In Press). Scoles, D.R., Nguyen, V.D., Qin, Y., Sun, C.X., Morrison, H., Gutmann, D.H., and Pulst, S.M. Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) tumor suppressor schwannomin and its interacting protein HRS regulate STAT signaling. Human Molecular Genetics 11(25), Dec 1,2002 (In Press). Abstract presentations: ...,.,« Scoles D R Nguyen, V., Lam, S., and Pulst, S.M. The NF2 tumor suppressor schwannomin interacts with pi 10, a coponent of the eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (elF3). Neurology (Suppl. 3) 58:A11 (2002).(Annual AAN meeting 2002)presentations: ...,.,« Scoles D R Nguyen, V., Lam, S., and Pulst, S.M. The NF2 tumor suppressor schwannomin interacts with pi 10, a coponent of the eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (elF3). Neurology (Suppl. 3) 58:A11 (2002).(Annual AAN meeting 2002) The NF2 tumor suppressor schwannomin interacts with the eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (elF3) subunit pi lODaniel R Scoles, Vu D. Nguyen, Samuel Lam, Yun Qin, Stefan M. Pulst Bums and Allen Research Institute and Division of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California (ASCB 42"^ Annual Meeting, December 14-18,2002, San Francisco.)


Composite structures made of structural steel and concrete maximize the advantages of the two components. Using high-performance materials, composite construction is becoming more popular. The European Coal and Steel Community has therefore supported the research project "Use of High Strength Steel S460." Within the scope of this project, European research institutes worked on developing design and execution guidelines to overcome the obstacles associated with using these high-strength materials. The Institute for Structural Concrete, Aachen University of Technology, has carried out experiments and performed finite element calculations for composite beams made of High Performance Steel S460 (HPS) and High Performance Concrete C 70/85 (HPC).


Malaysia supposedly should not have any problem in becoming a biotechnology producer nation. Malaysia is comparatively more developed than other developing countries and is naturally endowed with bountiful tropical forest, biodiversity, a rich source for genetic materials used as main raw ingredients for biotechnological inventions. In that sense, Malaysia has the extra advantage over other developed nations that are poor in natural resources. The paper investigates the characters of the biotechnology industry locally in preparing the nation towards the national aspiration.


A series of bead copolymers of dimethylaminostyrene and styrene cross- linked with 1--20% of divinylbenzene have been quaternized with methyl iodide at room temperature. Divinylbenzene cross-linked (10%) resins having exchange capacities of 1.47, 2.35, 2.80, and 3.00 meq/g are described. These capacity values are in agreement with theoretical values calculated on the basis of the copolymer composition and established nized resins, quaternized by previously described techniques which give no more than 52% of the theoretical amount of quaternization, can be quaternized up to 88% of the theoretical amount by additional treatment with methyl iodide at room temperature. (auth)


This study deals with the eye muscle nerves and the ciliary ganglion of the bony fish Gambusia affinis affinis. The eye muscle nerves include the nervi oculomotorius, trochlearis and abducens. The oculomotor nerve leaves the cranial cavity through its own foramen. It innervates the rectus superior, rectus inferior, rectus medialis and the obliquus inferior muscles. It carries pure somatic motor fibres and visceromotor (parasympathetic) ones. The ciliary ganglion is small and has no radix ciliaris brevis. There is only one ciliary nerve arising from the ciliary ganglion. The radix ciliaris longa originates from the truncus ciliaris. The nervus trochlearis passes outside the cranial cavity through its own foramen. It has no connection with the other cranial nerves. It carries pure somatic motor fibres to the obliquus inferior muscle. The nervus abducens leaves the cranial cavity through its own foramen. It enters the posterior eye muscle canal (myodome) and it has no connection with the other cranial nerves. It carries pure somatic motor fibres to the rectus lateralis muscle. [Dakrory, A.I; GABRY,M.S; Abdel-Kader, T. G. and Mattar, S.F.E. Anatomical Studies on the Cranial Nerves of Fully Formed Embryonic Stage of Gambusia affinis affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853). I: The eye muscle nerves and ciliary ganglion. J Am Sci 2012;8(12):230-242]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.jofamericanscience.org. 35


Research of xantine oxidase enzyme inhibition activity of infusion and ethanol extract of white tea were done. The aim of this research was to evaluate  xantine oxidase inhibitory activity of infusion and ethanol extract of white tea. Phytochemical screening on dry tea, infusion and ethanol extract of white tea showed that all samples contained alkaloid, flavonoid, quinone, tannin and tritherpenoid/ steroide. The IC 50 value of samples were 76,64 μg/ml and 31,11μg/ml respectivelly. This study used allopurinol as standard with IC 50 was 0,60 μg/ml.


Cancer diagnosis data, for example microarray gene expression profiling data and proteomic profiling data, are often described by thousands of features. To computationally make a diagnosis for new samples, these data are usually input to a learning algorithm, the algorithm then induces a classifier, the classifier then predicts a class label for any test sample. As the data is so high-dimensional, most of the resulting classifiers are very complicated particularly those based on kernel-functions such as support vector machines---the interpretation of the decision results must need all the features to be involved. In this paper, we discuss built-in features and use them to concisely characterize the data and to easily interpret the decisions. Built-in features are features that are used only in the classifiers, and that are only a small subset of the original features, e.g., the features in a decision tree. So, the notion of built-in features is different from input features and also from original features. As there is a significant reduction from the huge size of original features to a small number of relevant features, the complexity of the interpretation can be much eased. The use of built-in features also provides much potential for elucidating the translation between raw data and clinically useful knowledge. In this paper, we also report that the performance of classifiers using built-in features tends to remain stable even input feature space changes, but other types of classifiers fluctuate their performance. So, once again, we promote the use of classifiers that use built-in features since the algorithms can avoid the existing hard problem of selecting best number of features for learning.


Optical systems often employ off-axis optics to prevent obscuration or because of geometric constraints. Measuring these optics in conventional interferometric setups is challenging: for cases other than off-axis parabolas, a CGH has to be used and setup size grows with the off-axis distance and radius of curvature. Measuring large convex surfaces is particularly difficult. Measurements of theses surfaces using a DUI NMF600 S cylindrical non-contact measurement machine will be demonstrated, showing flexibility, high point density, short measurement times and no setup cost.


The Fe3 + Mossbauer spectra are measured for a number of ion-exchange resins between 4.5°K and room temperature. A magnetic hyperfine structure (hfs) is detected in sulforesin (" zerolite") with adsorbed water. The hfs is a strong function of the temperature (above 27°K) and this indicates the importance of electron spin relaxation processes in the formation of the hfs spectra. Owing to the presence of well resolved lines in the spectra it has been possible to carry out a careful experimental study of the relaxation process itself and to determine the temperature dependence of the relaxation time in a broad temperature range between 4.5 and 250°K. A theoretical analysis is presented for those spin-lattice relaxation processes which are decisive for the samples with a small magnetic ion concentration. It is shown that for the Fe3 + ion in the S state only two-phonon processes can exert an appreciable effect on the shape of the hfs lines. A consequence of this is that a large number of elementary relaxation processes between various Kramers doublets can be described by a relatively small number of parameters. Thus for an axial symmetric surrounding of the Fe3+ ion only two parameters are required. On the basis of the analysis it is possible to relate the measured relaxation time to some definite processes, viz. to the total probability for transitions from the Sz = ± 5/2 state to the Sz = ± 3/2, ± 1/2 states. The temperature dependence of the relaxation time corresponds to that for two-phonon spin-lattice relaxation. Owing to the absence of detailed information on the vibrational properties of the system the calculations were performed for two models, a Debye and an Einstein one. For the temperature range investigated by us the variation of the relaxation time can be satisfactorily described by either of the models. It furthermore has been possible for the first time to separate the relaxation times for Sz = ±% and Sz = ± 3/a. Experimentally the value Tr (Sz = ±%)/Tr(Sz = ± 3/a) = 1.5 ± 0.3 is obtained which is in satisfactory agreement with the theory proposed here.


Introduction The purpose of this brief review is to examine the review of e-learning theories, frameworks and models (see Stage 2 Learning Models (Version 1)) and the developing Mapping Table (see Stage 2 Mapping (Version 1)) of the JISC-funded E-Learning Models Desk Study, to explore their relevance to evaluators. To achieve this, it is first necessary to clarify what it meant by 'evaluation' and who might be deemed to be an 'evaluator'.


The film distributors functioning in the Malayalam film industry are making use of various promotional methods for marketing of films. The tools used by them may differ on the basis of type of movies distributed, experience of film distributors in the field of distribution, concentration of distributors in specific language films etc. In this paper by making use of Kruskal-Wallis Test an attempt is made to find out the most suited promotion method for film distributors on the basis of types of films they distribute.


Objective:To discuss the value of adopting True FISP sequences in the diagnosis of etiology and location of obstructive jaundice. Methods:The MR appearances of 32 patients who were clinically diagnosed as obstructive jaundice were analyzed (prospectively or retrospectively) by 3 radiologists using 3 different sequence combination (True FISP coronal image,MRC,MRC plus True FISP and T1WI with iv-contrast administration). The diagnosis of etiology and location of obstruction were compared with the clinical diagnosis. Results: All of those three sequence combinations lead to accurate diagnosis of location of obstruction. For the diagnosis of obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct or intra-bile duct lesion, the accuracy of True FISP sequence and MRC was 78. 9% and 84. 2% respectively. There was no obvious statisticall difference between the two (P = 0. 30). For the diagnosis of obstructive jaundice caused by extra-bile duct lesion, the accuracy of the True FISP sequence and MRC was 84. 6% and 30. 0% respectively (P0. 05). For the diagnosis of obstructive jaundice caused by various different etiology,the accuracy of the sequences combination of MRC plus True FISP and T1WI with contrast administration was 93. 8% ,which was higher than that of MRC (62. 5% ,P0. 01) ,but quite similar to that of True FISP sequence (81. 2% ,P = 0. 1). Conclusion:The location of obstructive jaundice can be accurately defined with the True FISP image. For the diagnosis of obstructive jaundice caused by extra-bile duct lesion, True FISP sequence provided more detail information than MRC to define the etiology of the lesion. Combination of True FISP sequence with MRC and routine sequences without and with contrast administration,even higher diagnostic accuracy rate can be obtained.


Equitable infrastructure provision in the less-developed world requires recognition of the needs of marginalized groups, such as the elderly. This paper explores issues relating to the use of household energy sources by the elderly in a rural village in the Western Cape province of South Africa, and focusses on perceptions of and barriers to electricity uptake. Whilst poor elderly persons are frequently involved in child care, and together with the young suffer most the negative health effects of indoor air pollution, their access to electricity is limited by constraints including affordability, status and custom. Electrification is considered by the South African Government of National Unity to be a vital development intervention and employment creator; yet the elderly tend to be excluded from the concrete benefits of development, and their construction and commentaries on energy issues often contain a critique of infrastructural development and the accompanying processes of social change. Rather than dismiss the elderlys attitudes towards electrification, it is important to look deeper into what their commentary tells us about missed opportunities, to ensure that development brings with it equitable access and outcomes to categories of people in need.


The objective of this study was to determine adsorption isotherms for polynuclear aromatic (PNA) compounds in methanol and a mixture of 50 percent methanol 50 percent water. The adsorption isotherms are useful in understanding the behavior of PNA compounds in relation to the presence of a cosolvent and PNA physical/chemical characteristics. The results presented here are part of a broader study of assimilative capacities and loading rates being conducted at Utah State University.


Aiming at the needs of assisted assembly in industrial production lines, a mobile parallel manipulator configuration combining 3-RPS parallel mechanism and Mecanum wheel platform is firstly proposed. Secondly, The method of applying the screw theory to the limb chains of the traditional 3-RPS parallel manipulator (PM) is analysed, and the degree of freedom (DOF) of the PM is determined to be 3, i.e., one translational and two rotational DOF. Thirdly, the inverse kinematic solution of the PM is calculated. Comparing the various orientation description methods, the Z-X-Z Euler angle description can simplify the computational complexity. the inverse kinematics solution is obtained by Matlab and compared with the simulation analysis results of Adams kinematics. Finally, the design architecture of the control system and the photos of the prototype are given.


The paper reviews the external environmental costs of motor vehicle use in the United States. The paper provides: definitions, prescriptions, and scope of the study; review of the estimated of external costs; and examples of applications of external cost estimates. The paper's focus is on recent research with regard to the estimates of external costs. Its intent is to familiarize a general audience with the methods, data, results, and uses of analyses of the external costs of the motor vehicle use in the U.S. The estimates presented can be used in analyses of efficient pricing of motor vehicle goods, services, and infrastructure; in evaluating the social costs and benefits of transport investments and plans; and in analyses of trends in costs.


An incision 1·5 em. long is made through the skin 3 or 4 mm. on the nasal side of the inner canthus. Starting at the fold of the upper lid, the incision is carried 3 mm. below the orbital rim down to the nasal bone. The sac is freed from the lachrymal fossa. A window is made in the naso-lachrymal bone with a Stryher bone saw using a blade 10 mm. in diameter. A longitudinal incision is made in the nasal mucosa. A similar incision is made in the posterior or inner wall of the sac. A Veirs needle is passed through the lower punctum, opening in the sac, and the nose. The stylet is removed and a 20 gauge stainless steel wire is passed through the Veirs needle into the nose. The Veirs needle is removed and the wire united. The anterior and posterior edges of the incision in the sac are sutured to the corresponding edges of the nasal mucosa using 4/0 chromicized gut. Subcutaneous tissue and skin are then sutured. The steel wire is jiggled in a circular motion for one minute five times a day for 21 days. The naso-Iachrymal passages are irrigated with penicillin after the wire is removed and again two weeks later.


Submitted for the DNP10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Investigating Parton Energy Loss and Antishadowing in Nuclei at Fermilab E-906/SeaQuest BRANDON BOWEN, Abilene Christian University, SEAQUEST COLLABORATION — Fermilab E-906/SeaQuest is a fixed target experiment using Fermilab's Main Injector optimized to detect muon pairs produced in 120 GeV proton collisions. Primarily, SeaQuest will measure the Drell-Yan di-muon cross sections for proton-proton and protondeuterium collisions for extracting d̄ to ū asymmetry in the nucleon. This data will also be used to understand partonic energy loss in cold nuclear matter, which will aid in understanding partonic energy loss in hot nuclear matter experiments at the LHC and RHIC. Since parton energy loss is inversely proportional to the beam energy, SeaQuest will be much more sensitive to energy loss effects than Fermilab E-866/NuSea, which placed upper limits on such parton energy loss at 800 GeV. SeaQuest will also further our understanding of nuclear antishadowing and extend the Drell-Yan measurements into the EMC effect region. SeaQuest will have significantly better precision and extension over a higher range in Bjorken-x, where competing asymmetry models diverge strongly from each other. Brandon Bowen Abilene Christian University Date submitted: 31 Jul 2010 Electronic form version 1.4


On the base of the basic principles of the circular economy theory were summarized,the necessity and possibility of circular economy theory were deduced in mineral resources planning application in China.Some problems existing in the management of mineral resources planning,and some ways of mineral resources planning were put forward in the development of circular economy of mineral resources.


Objective To study the influence of the method of nourishing-"yin",tonifying-"qi" and activating-blood on caspase-3 mRNA expression associated with apoptosis in pancreas of aged diabetic rats.Methods The aged diabetic rat model was induced by D-galactose,enrich-diet and streptozotocin the concentrations of blood lipid and FFA in serum were measured,and detect caspase-3 mRNA was assayed by RT-PCR.Results Compared with the control group,the level of FFA in aged group(P0.05) and the levels of blood lipid(TG,TC,LDLC) and FFA were elevated(P0.05),the content of HDLC decreased in diabetic aged group(P0.05),and caspase-3 mRNA expression in aged and aged diabetic groups were evidently heightened(P0.01);compared to the aged diabetic group,the level of blood lipid in DC treated group was improved(P0.01~0.05),and caspase-3 mRNA expression was also evidently declined(P0.05).Conclusion It demonstrated that there had lipid metabolism disorders and pancreatic cell apoptosis in the aged diabetic group,and DC can impove lipid metabolism of diabetic rats via inhibiting the pancreatic cell apoptosis.


In this work, the dissolution of iridium was studied through a thermodynamic theoretic study with different concentrations of hydrochloric acid (HCl) and Iridium (Ir). Three different acid conditions and three different concentrations of iridium were analyzed: 1, 0.1 and 0.01 M HCl and 0.86, 0.021 and 0.002 M of iridium. The system 1 M HCl was the only one that presented soluble species of Ir. Results showed that as the Ir concentration diminished from 0.86 to 0.002 M, the pH range where it is possible to obtain Ir soluble species, increased (from 0-1.2 to 0-2). The presence of two Ir species (valences III and IV) for 0.021M and 0.002 M Ir concentrations was determined from the Pourbaix diagrams; while for the 0.086 M concentration, only the Ir (IV) species was observed. The Pourbaix diagrams showed that it is possible to obtain the species iridium (IV) from a potential range of 0.823 V vs SHE to 1.422 V vs SHE and at a pH between 0 and 1.2 in the 1 M HC1 solution.


This paper analyzed materials of surveying oncomelania hupensis,sorts of geographical maps and data about environment factors at first.Then it imported geographical maps to GeoDatabase by using ArcGIS 9.3 software.With Hubei's village administrative vector figures as base maps,with the corresponding international code as related field,using Joins and Relates tool,connected arranged oncomelania hupensis' information table and data tables about environment factors,it established oncomelania hupensis' environment geographic information system database.Kriging interpolation method Kriging interpolation method Kriging interpolation method Kriging interpolation metThe establishment of this database consolidates data from different sources and presents oncomelania hupensis' geographic distribution characteristics immediately and intuitively.It provides a decision-making tool for government and researchers' dynamic and quantitative analysis,and lays the foundations for the establishment of predicting oncomelania hupensis' spread models.


In the title complex, [Cu(C2H3O2)(C10H8N2)2](CH3CH2OSO3)0.5(CH3OSO3)0.5, the CuII ion is bis-chelated by two 2,2′-bipyridine lignds and coordinated by an O atom of an acetate ligand in a CuN4O disorted square-pyramidal environment. In the structure, equal amounts of methyl sulfate and ethyl sulfate anions are disordered on the same crystallographic sites. The crystal structure is stabilized by weak intermolecular C—H⋯O interactions.


Poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethylmethacrylate-b-methymethacrylate) (PDMAEMA-b-PMMA) poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethylmethacrylate-b-vinylcaprolactam-b-(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA-b-PVCL-b-PDMAEMA) and poly(vinylcaprolactam-b-(2-(dimethylamino)ethylmethacrylate-b-vinylcaprolactam) (PVCL-b-PDMAEMA-b-PVCL) block copolymers were obtained by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization, and the effect of the solution pH on the particle size was investigated. In the case of PDMAEMA-b-PMMA, PDMAEMA was first synthesized using 2-cyanoprop-2-yl dithiobenzoate (CPDB) as a chain transfer agent (CTA), which was subsequently used for the RAFT polymerization of MMA. The triblock copolymers were obtained using PDMAEMA or PVCL as macro-CTAs prepared using dibenzyl trithiocarbonate (DBTTC) as a bifunctional RAFT agent. The structure and formation of the copolymers was confirmed through 1H NMR and SEC analysis. The particle size varied considerably depending on the pH of the aqueous solutions of copolymers indicating that these materials could be potential candidates for biomedical applications.


We report a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 fb −1. The observed distribution showed an excess in the 120-160 GeV/c 2 mass range. Further studies and comparisons with D0 are presented.