Effective workplace teaching is increasingly important in healthcare, with all staff being potential educators. The introduction of new roles and the need to create capacity for increased numbers of students can make it difficult to create a good learning experience. Despite the richness of clinical practice as a learning environment, creating capacity for teaching can be challenging. This article explores the possibilities for identifying and creating teachable moments in busy clinical environments and suggests a developmental model for incorporating these learning opportunities. Teachable moments linked directly to optimal patient care can potentially influence and shape a positive learning culture in clinical environments. Citation Reynolds L et al (2020) Nurses as educators: creating teachable moments in practice. Nursing Times [online]; 116: 2, 25-28. In this article... ● Using teachable moments to enhance workplace learning ● Drawing on real-life challenges to create learning opportunities ● Working with learners to recognise and maximise the benefits of teachable moments Clinical Practice Discussion Nurse education Copyright EMAP Publishing 2020 This article is not for distribution except for journal club use 26 Nursing Times [online] February 2020 / Vol 116 Issue 2 www.nursingtimes.net to develop effective and trusting relationships with their learners. To be truly effective, they must try to put themselves in the position of the learner to create the conditions needed for learning to take place. Learning may be considered a social, cultural process that happens through interactions in human relationships (Dudley-Marling, 2012), thereby in concert with others – and, in the case of T-moments, collaboratively. Supervisors may need to flag up T-moments so learners can recognise them for what they are and fully engage in the process. This may require supervisors to be explicit in their interactions with learners, rather than assuming they will automatically make the link to a learning opportunity, to break away from the perception that learning only takes place in a classroom or behind a desk. It could be as obvious as physically signalling to learners that this is a learning moment or by taking a few minutes to explain what the learning possibilities are in a given situation. Framing learning within the care context, from the patient's perspective, assists this process (Ekebergh et al, 2004). By signposting T-moments, and making learning from practice explicit, supervisors will support learners to develop a sense of salience, so they recognise what is important in clinical situations and develop towards effective clinical reasoning (Benner et al, 2010). T-moments in practice In the model presented here, T-Moments are part of a conscious process in which learners are supported to recognise learning opportunities and capitalise on this with their supervisors. Through reflection, the learning is embedded and provides the foundation for future experiential learning in the practice setting (Fig 1). T-moments or brief learning opportunities, while largely opportunistic, can enhancing their nursing practice by developing their understanding of patients' illness experiences and perspectives (Benner et al, 2010). A Health Education England model of delivering bite-sized teaching in the clinical environment (Bit.ly/HEEBitesize) has also had some success. For more information about bite-sized teaching, see Thompson et al (2020, p29). T-moments may be used to create learning opportunities by exploring conflict situations or lack of congruity between expectations and real life. For student nurses, this may be when: ● Entering a new setting; ● Joining a team; ● Confronting the theory-practice gap. Recognising challenging situations as T-moments, and offering students time to explore their reactions through supervision or coaching in the moment, opens up space for learning and can prevent learners from acting in a confrontational or defensive manner. In this way, students can learn from their experience and adapt to the organisational culture, rather than simply being informed by it and reframing their understanding of it. This can be exposing for students and clinical teams, so support is needed to create a safe space for open communication and learning, where failure or naivety can be embraced as an opportunity for learning (Ekebergh et al, 2004). The success of contextualised teaching, or supported learning moments, depends in part on the supervisor and requires investment in developing skilled supervisors. Constructivist educational theories operate on the premise that learning is a socially active process, in which participation and engagement with others is essential (Dudley-Marling 2012). Supervisor role Given that opportunistic T-moments can arise from highly charged, emotive and challenging situations, supervisors need creation of the practice supervisor role aligns learning with care delivery. It also gives nursing and midwifery education the opportunity to engage other health professionals, although there is evidence that some nurses consider it an additional task (Attenborough et al, 2019). This article explores how exploiting teachable moments (T-moments), or brief opportunities for learning, can be an effective way of aligning care delivery and education in the workplace, and proposes a developmental model for incorporating these learning opportunities. This follows Benner et al's (2010) call to arms for a new approach to nurse education that moves away from decontextualised knowledge and the separation of the classroom and clinical teaching to situated learning and integration in all settings. Learning is a combination of knowledge acquisition and its application in practice (Fuller and Unwin, 2003). In this article we explore the opportunities for work-based learning, and how to harness this opportunistically and proactively, to make T-moments an integral part of learning in practice. T-moments T-moments are well established in school settings, where teachers identify spontaneous opportunities to explore problems and situations as they happen, with the aim of guiding learning at the student's own pace (Lewis, 2019). They have also been conceptualised as an opportunity for learning that may be co-created through communication, often through reflective discussion and challenging assumptions (Lawson and Flocke, 2009). This approach views learning as developmental, with T-moments or brief learning opportunities building in practice on previous developmental tasks to enable the success of future learning (Ward et al, 2000). To protect learners' self-esteem and allow them to take risks for learning to occur, supervisors must consider their maturity or readiness for learning when identifying or co-creating T-moments. The use of T-moments in the health setting has been established in the context of patient education by harnessing key events to influence the health behaviours of service users (Lawson and Flocke, 2009). Practice supervisors may also apply T-moments in partnership with patients and carers to explore key moments in care provision and develop learners' understanding of service users' experiences. In this way, learners may develop skills and attributes for effective partnership working, as well as Clinical Practice Discussion Fig 1. T-moments in practice ● Service user ● Carer ● Student ● Social process ● Supportive process ● Contextualised learning ● Debrief ● Assess ongoing learning needs ● Signposting ● Reflection ● Feedback Embed the T-moment Identify the T-moment Identify the learner Maximise the T-moment Copyright EMAP Publishing 2020 This article is not for distribution except for journal club use 27 Nursing Times [online] February 2020 / Vol 116 Issue 2 www.nursingtimes.net between learners' self-perceptions and how they themselves are received. The expectations students may have about clinical practice and how they will be supported may contrast with their experience of reality – this can cause stress. Delivering education in practice settings where learners are experiencing moderate-to-severe stress is a huge barrier to learning. Acknowledging learners' stress and a lack of congruence with expectations can help create a safe space to fully exploit T-moments, rather than focusing on bridging a theory-practice gap. Techniques such as self-disclosure and storytelling may also make students less fearful about clinical practice and more able to recognise learning opportunities in challenging situations (Attenborough and Abbott, 2018). Proactive T-moments Supervisors in practice may also identify opportunities to plan for T-moments to occur during day-to-day activities and scheduled events, such as routine admissions or clinical reviews. Planning considerations include how to: ● Engage the multidisciplinary team; ● Involve service users and carers in the teaching; ● Create a safe, comfortable learning environment. Observation A supervisor can identify opportunities for learners to observe scheduled events. Observations may focus on specific areas with learning and development supported by creating an observation guide or including a task for the learner. Observation notes can be used for reflection and further learning. Integration Incorporating education into existing structures ensures it is integrated into current work, instead of being treated as an additional activity, requiring additional resources. For example, learning may be included as standard on routine meeting agendas, and identifying learning opportunities can be incorporated into the structure of huddles in the clinical setting for the benefit of the team as well as learners. In this way, potential T-moments can be harnessed and learning embedded more fully within a team or organisation. Schwartz Rounds Organising and delivering Schwartz Rounds may require extra time and financial commitment, but where they are established students


Abstract Using isotope-resolved, two sector field mass spectrometric techniques we have identified and investigated quantitatively the energetics and kinetics (in particular the kinetic energy release, KER) of the spontaneous decay reactions C60–2m z+ → C60-2m-p(z-1)+ + Cp + with m = 0 or 1, z ranging from 3 to 6 and p = 2 and 4. The obtained KER results are not compatible with the properties expected for a single-step fissioning reaction as described by the liquid drop model. Therefore the present data had to be interpreted by a different fragmentation mechanism. This novel reaction sequence, termed auto charge transfer (ACT) reaction, is initiated by the statistically driven neutral C2 (or C4) evaporation followed by an electron transfer process from the receding C2 (or C4) fragment to the remaining highly-charged fullerene ion thereby leading finally to the two charged reaction products observed in the exit channel of the decay reaction. Moreover, in the case that a C2 + loss from C60z+ is occurring in...


Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to describe the temporary and permanent exemptions issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the large trader identification requirements under Rule 13h‐1.Design/methodology/approach – Specifically, the paper provides: an explanation of the definition of a "large trader" as defined under Rule 13h‐1; an overview of the recordkeeping, reporting, and monitoring requirements under Rule 13h‐1; an explanation of the two‐tiered temporary exemption issued by the SEC; and an overview of the permanent exemption adopted by the SEC for certain capital market transactions in connection with determining whether a person is a large trader.Findings – The SEC extended the April 30, 2012 compliance date under Rule 13h‐1 for registered broker‐dealers by 12 months to May 1, 2013; however, broker‐dealers that are either large traders, or have large trader customers that are either broker‐dealers or trade through a "sponsored access" arrangement, must be in compliance by No...


The notions of quasi-ideals for rings and semigroups were introduced by O. Steinfeld in 1953 and 1956, respectively. The notions of quasiideals for Γ-semigroups, semirings and Γ-semirings were defined analogously. In [4], the author studied some properties of quasi-ideals of Γ-semirings. In this paper, some properties of quasi-ideals of regular Γ-semirings are provided.


Context  Familial neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus (FNDI) is a rare disorder resulting from arginine vasopressin (AVP) gene mutations. A partial defect in AVP secretion occurs early in the course of FNDI and may not be detected by a water deprivation test (WDT). Testing for AVP gene mutations may confirm a diagnosis of FNDI when a WDT is inconclusive and may also predict individuals who will later develop FNDI.


Abstract This paper develops a nonlinear shear-strength reduction technique for analyzing the stability of uniform slopes with the general nonlinear failure criterion. To incorporate the nonlinear ...


Ships navigating wave affects other ships near the sail course . It is repQrted that the worker on the deck of 皿 oored ship fell down into the water by the effect of ship wave . Ships wave is also importallt to the analysis of wave making resistance . Therefore it is important issue to study the characteristics of the ship wave .1n this study authors measured the actual ship wave as well as 皿 odel ship wave . The full scaled SHIOJI MARU , which is training and research ship of the Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine , and the two sized mode 工s were used . From these meas −


Ground motion simulation is an important tool for analyzing seismic risk in engineering systems. Recently, ground motion simulations using fault model are being widely applied. Characterized fault models are conveniently used to model the heterogeneous slip distribution on fault plane, which divides the fault into two areas, i.e., asperity area and background area. The model, however, is too simplified to model the complex characteristics of actual slip. In this paper, a model to simulate the slip distribution of the fault plane is proposed.


This chapter examines international collaboration in distance education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on efforts aimed at utilizing technology. It identifies a number of significant collaborative endeavors. The collaborative efforts observed have a similar goal of pooling together ICT resources and expertise towards improving educational outcomes. The prevalence of teacher education and training across the initiatives, in the context of the Millennium Development Goals, is noted. Institutions outside Africa are actively involved in the funding and provision of expertise. Also, the AVU consortium model seems to be a viable approach to collaboration, with notable results seen. With the challenges facing technology-focused collaboration, such as a lack of enabling policies and the digital divide, the chapter suggests that African countries and institutions should pursue a culture of change and be more flexible. More formal training in distance education, utilizing Africans in the Diaspora and promoting dialogue across international spectrums are also recommended.


We carried out extensive first-principles modeling of microscopic structural, vibrational, electronic properties and chemical bonding in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) in a wide range of hydrogen concentration and preparation conditions. The theory has been compared with experimental results to comprehensively characterize this semiconductor material. The computer modeling includes ab-initio Molecular Dynamics (MD), atomic structure optimization, advanced signal processing and computer visualization of dynamics. We extracted parameters of hydrogen and silicon bonding, electron charge density and calculated electron density of states (EDOS) and hydrogen diffusion. A good agreement of the theory with various experiments allowed us to correlate microscopic processes at the atomic level with macroscopic properties. Here we focus on correlation of the amorphous structure of the material, atom dynamics and electronic properties. These results are of increasing interest due to extensive application of a-Si:H in modern research and technology and to the significance of detailed understanding of the material structure, bonding, disordering mechanisms and stability.


(AU). , J. M. Bauer, T. Grav, A. K. Mainzer J. Masiero, R. Cutri, J. Dailey, R. McMillan, R. Walker, E. L. Wright, and the WISE Team,Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91011, 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles.


Seasonal changes in the numbers of sulphate-reduc ing bacteria in water, soil, the surface of sedge ( Carex acutiformis Ehrb.) immersed in water and roots (dead and live) were studied. The study on one of larger wetland near Ol sztyn (Masurian Lake District) was carried out in two annual cycles. Sulphate-reducing bacteri a in the studied ecosystems occurred sporadically and generally in inappreciable count. Their count did not exceed 20 cells in 1 cm of water; in the soil and in different parts of se dg the number of bacteria ranged from several to over dozen thousands cells in 1 g of dry weight. In the first year of studies these bacteria were the most numerous in June, July and d uring first days of December, but in the second – in April (in soil and sedge immersed in wa ter), in August (in soil and dead and live roots), in November (in water, soil, sedge immersed in water and dead roots) and exceptionally in other months.


Rico & Sousa in Sousa (1986) published Pithecellobium campylacanthus L. Rico & M. Sousa and I, as first author, feel responsible for the name. We used 'campylacanthus' as an epithet to mean 'with curved spines' but the ending did not agree with Pithecellobium as it should have in its adjectival form, i.e., P campylacanthum. R. C. Barneby later pointed out (pers. comm.) our error, but at the time I was fully engaged on my PhD thesis and did not pursue the matter.


Nowadays, one of the hottest topics in the telecommunication domain concerns the viability of the Next Generation Optical Access (NGOA) networks: access networks based on fiber technologies, such as Fiber-to-the-Home (FttH). In the past, telecommunication networks in Europe were in the hands of the incumbent: the (often public) telecommunications operator. This actor still has a quite stable market position and is not eager to invest in the deployment of NGOA networks. Therefore, other paths need to be investigated and other actors need to be involved in the rollout and operation of such networks in Europe. This paper will investigate which actors (both public and private) can participate (actively or passively) in this process. Because of the involvement of multiple actors, it is important to map those actors to the role(s) they take up and model the interactions between them. After this multi-actor analysis, each actor can be lifted out and investigated separately to identify his case-specific costs for and benefits from participation in the deployment and exploitation of NGOA networks. Apart from the well-known direct costs and revenues, it is important also to take indirect benefits, like the socio-economic development of the region, into account because they can be of great significance to public actors such as governments or municipalities. This research will analyze and evaluate the (social) costs and benefits for each actor by developing a quantitative model that is able to calculate the costs and benefits for all actors separately. Based on a first qualitative analysis, two preliminary conclusions can be drawn. First, cooperation between different partners (public and/or private) seems to be necessary when evolving towards NGOA networks. Second, this research focuses on indirect benefits, as they can persuade public actors to coinvest in the deployment of fiber-based access networks. JEL codes: D61, E20, H20, L32, O52


Patients in rehabilitation settings often face difficulties in complying with physical exercise regimens. To examine social-cognitive determinants in the adoption and maintenance of exercise, a study with four points in time was launched, scrutinizing beliefs and behaviors of 509 orthopedic patients. Although exercise levels increased over time, a sizable number of patients remained inactive. Perceived self-efficacy and outcome expectancies predicted levels of intention and action plans. The latter two in turn were proximal predictors of subsequent exercise. In light of the findings, it is argued that planning helps to bridge the intention-behavior gap. Planning is an alterable variable and is therefore suitable for effective intervention.


The site selection,the arrangement and other problems of conventional straw-fired power plant were analyzed with examples.The relation between the main plant area and straw storage yard was expounded.The methods to simply the auxiliary and ancillary facilities were put forward.All these can be used as reference for site selection and arrangement design of straw-fired power plant.


It is known that current sharing effects of the stabilizer are limited in cryocooling conditions being different from poolboiling. Therefore we have studied stability under it, focusing on minimum quench energy (MQE) of Nb/sub 3/Sn superconductors under various conditions of the applied magnetic field, temperature, and the transport current, for various volume fractions and configurations of Cu stabilizer. From the experimental results, the larger the external Cu volume fraction, the higher the MQE was obtained. All MQE data were summarized by only one line in characteristics of normalized MQE and normalized B(B/B/sub c2/). The obtained MQE behavior was to be characterized by only one empirical equation. It is thought that the obtained formula is useful for a standard of designing the Nb/sub 3/Sn superconductor and its coil under cryocooled condition.


s, Inquiry, Vol. 16 ....... 108 Abstracts, Inquiry, Vol. 17 ....... 215 Announcement of Philosophy of Science Association, Elections-1974 .... . 19 A Set of Independent Axioms for Positive H6lder Systems. JEAN-CLAUDE FALMAGNE ................ 137 An Argument for the Logical Notion of a Memory Trace. DEBORAH A. ROSEN 1 Better Theories. HOWARD ARMSTADTER 20 Discussion: A Note on a Definition of 'Observation Term'. PHILIP A. OSTEIN 203 Discussion: A Note on Historical Interpretation. LEON J. GOLDSTEIN .... 312 Discussion: A Reinterpretation of Harr&'s Copernican Revolution. EDWARD MACKINNON ............. 67 Discussion: A Relative Notion of Natural Generalization. NATHAN STEMMER 46 Discussion: A Reply to Professor Margolis. ROLAND PUCCETTI ........ 281 Discussion: A Response to Machan and Zupan. MORTON SCHAGRIN ...... 311 Discussion: A "Revolutionary" Philosophy of Science: Feyerabend and the Degeneration of Critical Rationalism into Sceptical Fallibilism. JOHN G. McEvoY ............... 49 Discussion: An Exploration of Salmon's S-R Model of Explanation. NORETTA KOERTGE ............... 270 Discussion: Back to Being Reasonable. TIBOR MACHAN and M. L. ZUPAN . . 307 Discussion: Comments on Some Recent Analyses of Functional States in Biology. KENNETH K. BAUBLYS .... 469 Discussion: Duhem's Thesis, Observationality, and Justification. WILLIAM K. GOOSENS . ............ 286 Discussion: Five Duhemian Theses. R. M. YOSHIDA ..... ......... 29 Discussion: Model of Implication in Statistical Mechanics. L. S. SCHULMAN, R. G. NEWTON, and R. SHTOKHAMER 503 Discussion: More Philosophical Aspects of Molecular Biology. S. WENDELLWAECHTLER, and E. LEVY ...... 180 Discussion: Puccetti on Brains, Minds and Persons. JOSEPH MARGOLIS ...... 275 Discussion: Ramsey Sentences for Infinite Theories. HERBERT E. HENDRY . . . 28 Discussion: Relative Truth, the Correspondence Principle and Absolute Truth. LESZEK NOWAK ........ 187 Discussion Review: Achinstein's Law and Explanation. JAMES E. FETZER .... 320 Discussion: The Meaning of 'Marketing'. REINHARD ANGLEMAR and CHRISTIAN PINSON .. ............ . 208 Discussion: Theory Confirmation in Psychology. CHRIS SWOYER and THOMAS C. MONSON .............. 487 Discussion: What Do We Talk About. PAVEL TICHY ............. 80 Discussion: Wright and Taylor: Empiricist Teleology. ARTHUR MINTON ..... 299 Is Biology a Provincial Science? RONALD MUNSON ............... 428 Learning to Report One's Introspections. ARTHUR E. FALK ........... 223 On Global Theories. C. A. HOOKER . . . 152 On Purely Probabilistic Theories of Scientific Inference. DAVID G. BLAIR . . . 242 Prediction, Explanation and Testability as Criteria for Judging Statistical Theories. BROWN GRIER ....... 373 Recent Books ............... 112 Some Doubts about Scientific Data. GORDON N. PINKHAM ........... 260 The Bifurcation of Scientific Theories and Indeterminancy of Translation. DONALD HOCKNEY ............ 411 The Concept of a System. J. H. MARCHAL 448 The Replacement of Scientific Theories: Reduction and Explication. JAMES GAA ................. 349 The Role of Genidentity in the Causal Theory of Time. RONALD C. HOY 1I 'True' and Truth. AVRUM STROLL and HENRY ALEXANDER .......... 384 Two Grades of Evidential Bias. PAUL M. CHURCHLAND ........... . 250


A method of operating a Suchrufgerats, the method comprising: that the pager destination subscriber information (120; 410, 420) receives corresponding to a target subscriber (50, 60) corresponding to which is to be monitored; that the pager a monitored page message (300) corresponding to the target subscriber (50, 60) receives (810); and that the pager a message monitoring user (40) signals (860); characterized, in that the step of receiving target subscriber information (120; 410, 420) the step of receiving a target subscriber ID (120; 420) of a paging system (10), wherein the target subscriber ID (120; 420) is an ID for the target subscriber (50, 60) is clearly to be monitored.


The chemical and mineralogical composition, structure and petrophysical properties of volcanic rocks, composing three Quaternary volcanoes of Spitsbergen island - Sverrefjellet, Halvdanpiggen and Sigurdfjellet - have been studied and compared. The sharp tendency of basalts elastic properties' change in a row of volcanism "rejuvenation" - Sigurdfjellet — Halvdanpiggen — Sverrefjellet has been obtained. The same links between petrophysical characteristics have been defined for all studied volcanoes. This paper reveals the benefits of petrophysical properties — density ( ), porosity (P), velocity of longitudinal waves (Vp), strength (Rc) - for the definition of lava flows within basaltic outcrops. The petrophysical peculiarities of Spitsbergen basalts have been shown in comparison with basalts from various tectonic unites of the Earth — rifts, island arcs and foldbelts.


Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This study analyzes the use of like in English and como, como que, and like in Spanish in the speech of bilinguals from Southern Arizona to assess the possible influence of like in English on its equivalents in Spanish in a language contact situation in which English is the majority language. Design/Methodology/Approach: Drawing on a discourse-pragmatic variationist approach, this study analyzes the use of like in English and its Spanish equivalents in recorded conversations between nine pairs of young Spanish-English bilingual friends from Southern Arizona. Data and Analysis: 3389 tokens of like in English and its Spanish equivalents from 18 hours of recorded conversations (9 hours in each language) were analyzed quantitatively. The analysis assesses the relative frequencies of these variants and their syntactic positioning as clause-external discourse markers and clause-internal discourse particles. The independent variables of the analysis were the language of the conversation and the sex and language dominance of the participants. Findings/Conclusions: Contact with English did not appear to radically influence the use of como, como que, and like in Spanish in the speech of these bilinguals. In the speech of the same bilinguals, like in English was much more frequent and occurred in many more syntactic positions than its Spanish equivalents. Originality: This is the first study of discourse-pragmatic features in contact to analyze the use of discourse markers and discourse particles in both the donor and the recipient language in the speech of the same bilinguals. Significance/Implications: These results contribute to our knowledge of the limited interaction of linguistic repertoires in the speech of bilinguals at the discourse level even in language contact situations with a majority language. They also underline the ability of bilinguals to both understand and reproduce the subtleties of the use of these features in the two languages they speak.


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Feedforward power amplifiers for cellular base stations require a narrow-band filter in GHz range. For this application, surface transverse wave (STW) filters on Quartz have been developed. In consideration of frequency stability, the STW filters were assembled by a flip-chip technique. Flip-chip assembly can be suitable for high-frequency applications because of no bonding-wires and it can also provide high frequency-stability because of no adhesive. The insertion loss of less than 4 dB and and of more than 1500 are obtained for both of an 820 MHz filter and a 1970 MHz filter. In this paper, the frequency-stability of flip-chip STW filters is investigated. Also the center frequency shift in the flip-chip assembly process is presented.


Three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures and nanodevices have attracted tremendous interest in the past few years due to their special mechanical and physical properties. Nanodevices using 3D nanostructures as the building blocks have been demonstrated to exhibit multifunctionality and functions that conventional planar devices cannot achieve. In this article, we report and review focused ion beam techniques for direct site-specific growth of 3D nanostructures and postgrowth shape modification of freestanding nanostructures by ion beam-induced chemical vapor deposition and ion-beam-irradiation-induced plastic bending, respectively. Such techniques have shown nanometer-scale resolution and accuracy in the fabrication of metallic nanoelectrodes, 3D pickup coils, nanogaps, and multibranched structures. Characterization of the resulting nanostructures shows that focused ion beam techniques allow conducting and superconducting freestanding 3D structures to be tailored in size, geometry, and integrated with planar electronic, mechanical, and superconducting nanodevices, potentially enabling lab-on-a-chip experiments.


This article concentrates on the wages policy aspects of the Accord. The Statement of the Accord, the National Economic Summit Communique and the Principles for National Wage Cases, are considered in the context of the rationales for wages policy. The apparent early successes of the Accord, followed by signs, such as the emergence of wage drift, that it will eventually break down, are outlined. Long-term political economy aspects of the Accord are considered, which suggest that it is unlikely to represent a long-term solution. The growing enthusiasm for decen tralisa tion and deregulation, despite the Hancock Report, is noted, as is the importance of promoting shared objectives at the grass roots level.


Designs wireless calling system by using radio voice-T/R module,digital encoding/decoding dual-function integrated circuits,high-brightness LED digital tubes and so on.Once the productions of front-line staff need emergency help,they can start the wireless call system.Receiver receives the call signal,after a series of receiver circuit amplification processing,outputs the control signals,then the digital display works,and finally the call areas is showed.At the same time,voice alarm starts to remind the staff on duty.The system is a modular circuit design,with features of anti-vibration,non-debug,digital display,and voice prompt,reliable operation,its working distance is around 1000m,that's why it can be used for mining engineering,electrical control equipment,security systems,industrial data acquisition and other fields.


Methods of mechanical and thermal testing specifically directed toward evaluation of impact-limiting materials for radioactive material transportation containers are presented. Associated figures of merit and procedures for rank-ordering the materials are also developed. Based on testing and evaluation procedures developed herein, thermal and mechanical results are presented for high- and low-density aluminum honeycombs, polyurethane foams, and aluminum foams. On a minimum mass basis, the high-density aluminum honeycomb is found to be a superior impact energy absorber up to the point of lock up. On a minimum volume basis, the high-density polyurethane foam is far superior, however. Based on the thermal figures of merit, the high-density polyurethane foam was found to be the most favorable material.


[Problem] To provide a signal configuration device, a signal configuration system, a signal configuration method, and a storage medium storing a signal configuration program which enable the receiving side to perform decoding in an appropriate manner. [Solution] This signal configuration device 12 includes an information generating unit 21. The information generating unit 21 corresponds to a TMCC information generating unit 121 in the first embodiment shown in fig. 2. The information generating unit 21 generates a frame to be transmitted in which each of the multiple slots configuring the frame includes slot counter information indicating a value depending on the order in the frame.


Affiliations 1 Epileptogenesis Lab, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland. 2 Bioinformatics Lab, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland. 3 Department of Computer Science and Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA. 4 Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France. 5 Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany. 6 Department of Neuropathology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany. 7 Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, CRMBM, Marseille, France 8 APHM, Hôpital Universitaire Timone, CEMEREM, Marseille, France 9 Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.


Robert B. Lees's article on "The Constituent Structure of Noun Phrases"' invites a number of comments. Since the definite article is introduced as dependent on a (subsequently deletable) relative clause symbol, "CN" (p. 164, rules iv and ix), there will be kernel sentences enumerated by Lees's grammar which are not sentences of English, for instance, "The C, man is on the C, corner" (and nonkernel, derived sentences such as "The man is on the comrner"). This result follows from the definition of a kernel sentence as one which has undergone only obligatory transformations and from the fact that the deletion of "CN" is optional. The rule must be optional, of course, if we are to have derivable sentences with relative clauses, attributive adjectives, and so on. Or, if the rule is obligatory and follows the development of the clause symbols by generalized (i.e., two-sentence) transformations, then there must be an ad hoc specification that the result of substituting a second source sentence (with a relative pronoun formant) for the clause symbols "Cp" or "Cm" (which develop from "CN" in the constituent structure rules) is no longer a "CN." Alternatively, the generalized transformations which perform the substitution might be obligatory rules, but then all sorts of complex sentences would be


CD48 antigen (243 aa, ~28 kDa) is encoded by the human CD48 gene. This protein plays a role in both CD2 binding and activation of ligand-dependent signaling pathways.


This paper presents a new composite forecasting method for corporation financial distress modeling and forecasting based on rough-fuzzy-ANN model,and gives the corresponding composite learning algorithm.After doing the empirical research which is based on the latest data of China's listed company,the result shows that this method is highly accurate and have reinforcement learning properties and mapping capabilities.For forecasting financial distress,it proves to be feasible and valid.The research work supplies a new way for dynamic prediction for enterprise financial crisis.


The dielectric properties of a typical ionic food polysaccharide, κ-carrageenan, were investigated with special relevance to the sol−gel transition of its dispersed system. The dielectric relaxatio...


The UFRJ's Undergraduate Course in Artistic Education with Design Qualification offers 36 places per year through the National High School Exam. The purpose of this article is to analyze the profile of students entering the year 2017, in relation to their expectations and knowledge about the subject they will be able to teach at the end of the course. This analysis, made through a questionnaire, is the starting point of a study that seeks to value such discipline, which is often unknown or camouflaged in others.


1. A multisystemic approach to language studies Language is a complex system. As one of the main domains of human cognition, it represents distinctly and evidently a primacy of exposition, that is, it is the preferential way for thoughts to come out physically from mind roaming. Put in this way, it might seem that language holds a record of independence among the mind faculties for what concerns the direction that it follows, from inside to outside of mind. There is nothing more wrong than this assumption. In fact, as we will see, the complexity of language strongly relies on its dependence to the environment, understood as the set of ecological pressures and equilibria involved in human experiences, practices, and behaviors. The concept of complexity fine describes the nature of human language, particularly assuming an evolutionary perspective. Complexity does not mean that the linguistic phenomenon is hard to approach but rather that, comprehended as a multidomain set, it is formed by several subsets which are interconnected hierarchically and self-embedded, one in another in a recursive framework. Complexity is rather the theoretical filter, the passepartout, which permits to deeply investigate the evolutionary mosaic that presents human language as one of the outcomes. Crucial for this study is the role of centrality played by the environment in shaping human cognition and communicative forms. Although there are different scientific fields that question the nature of language abstracting from the ecological context, we believe that such approach alone does not fully cover the basic formulations regarding language evolution, for they rather offer a theoretical model which fits only few aspects of the survey. The objective of the research is neither to explain exhaustively all the facets of the polyhedron representing the reciprocal causation of binomials like environment-language and environment-cognition, for it would be impossible to successfully describe the phenomenon in absence of a broader analysis of updated scientific data. The aim of this paper, then, is to state that the study of the relations among scientific domains concerning language studies is the right path to follow in order to better comprehend the nature of human language, its phylogenetic trend, and its mutual dependence with the environment. The leading question hence would be: which hypothesis describes efficiently the relation between human language and the environment in its reciprocal dialectics of causation? In attempting an answer, we will consider different queries concerning the relations between the scientific subjects, the relevant hypotheses proposed by the main areas and, where possible, the dialogue between opposite theoretical positions. The reason behind the topic and the methodology emerges from the need to shed light on


High Schottky barriers have been achieved by applying colloidal graphite on n-type InP and on n-type GaN semiconductor crystal wafers. The barrier heights were shown to be close to Schottky-Mott limit ad thermionic emission theory. Porous properties of the graphite Schottky contacts were demonstrated by scanning electron microscopy. Besides, on the semiconductors, prior to the graphite, sub-monolayers of platinum group catalytic metals were deposited by electrophoresis from colloid solutions. The Schottky contacts along with ohmic contacts prepared on the other site of the wafers formed diodes with high rectification ratios and low reverse leakage currents. Diodes were tested on sensitivity to hydrogen by measuring current after alternative exposure to 0.1 % hydrogen/nitrogen blend and air Hydrogen sensing was improved by several orders-of-magnitude over the best results reported previously. Diodes with bimetal Pd/Pt (2:1) nanoparticles were compared with those containing Pd or Pt nanoparticles.


This paper introduces the various energy-saving measures in the dispatching of east China power grid,analyzes the energy-saving effects,and proposes the direction of improving the energy efficiency.The measures include clean energy first,optimal scheduling of hydropower cascade,energy saving dispatching,and power generation right trades.


Understanding the heating of electrons to quasi-thermal energies at collisionless shocks has broad implications for plasma astrophysics. It directly impacts the interpretation of X-ray spectra from shocks, is important for understanding how energy is partitioned between the thermal and cosmic-ray populations, and provides insight into the structure of the shock itself. In previous work by Ghavamian et al. we presented observational evidence for an inverse-square relation between the electron-to-proton temperature ratio and the shock speed at the outer blast waves of supernova remnants in partially neutral interstellar gas. There we outlined how lower hybrid waves generated in the cosmic-ray precursor could produce such a relationship by heating the electrons to a common temperature independent of both shock speed and the strength of the ambient magnetic field. Here we explore the mechanism of lower hybrid wave heating of electrons in more detail. Specifically, we examine the growth rate of the lower hybrid waves for both the kinetic (resonant) and reactive cases. We find that only the kinetic case exhibits a growing mode. At low Alfvén Mach numbers the growth of lower hybrid waves can be faster than the magnetic field amplification by modified Alfvén waves.


Traditional type of check dams in the Kasaragod district of Kerala, locally known as Kattas proved significant role in water storage and water recharging, which in turn help to meet the drinking water and irrigation requirements of the locality. A field study was conducted in Western Ghats region of Northern Kerala at Yethadka village to test the efficacy and financial viability of a temporary check dam established in a participatory mode. The cost-benefit analysis of the water harvesting system was also carried out to find out its financial viability and social acceptability. The studies suggested that the construction of Kattas ensures a reliable source of water for irrigation during summer months and also helps to increase the groundwater table. The analysis also indicated that establishment of such structure was not only financially viable but a highly attractive proposition, too for low cost harvesting and effective use of channel flows.


Tamil Nadu is a renowned state known for the development of art and architecture. It is an indigenous one and developed gradually through the ages. The art and architecture of Tamil Nadu developed according to the religion prevailed in the modern society, and the subject was elaborately discussed in the Sastras, Agamas and Puranas. Construction of a temple depends upon the financial position of the builder. The structural involvements nearby the temple are also essential for the principal worship and rituals. Before the Gupta age, the temples were constructed with perishable materials. Hence, they had no permanency. In South India, the Chalukyas, Pallavas, Cholas, Pandyas, Hoysalas and Vijayanagar rulers widened the prospects of temple architecture. The Pallava style comprises the earlier rock cut palace and the later structural palace. The late phase was wholly structural and the first building of this type was the shore temple at Mahabalipuram. There are many inscriptions belonging to the days of Rajaraja I on the walls of the temple. Dravidian style of architecture reached its pinnacle during the period of Pandyas. The South Indian architecture reached its climax under the patronage of the Nayaks of Madurai. The Nayak style is characterized by a profuse use of figure sculpture and integration of confronted figures with the architectural scheme.


A general conservative numerical model for simulation of transmission-line unsteady fluid-dynamics has been developed and applied to high-pressure injection systems. A comprehensive thermodynamic approach for modeling acoustic cavitation, i.e. cavitation induced by wave propagation, was proposed on the basis of a homogeneous barotropic mixture model of a pure liquid in equilibrium with its vapor and a gas, both dissolved and undissolved. For the pure liquid flow simulation outside the cavitation regions, or in the absence of these, temperature variations due to compressibility effects were taken into account, for the first time in injection system simulation, through a thermodynamic state equation which was derived from energy considerations. Nevertheless, in the cavitation regions, an isothermal flow was retained which is consistent with negligible thermal effects due to vaporization because of the tiny amounts of liquid involved. A novel implicit, conservative, one step, symmetrical and trapezoidal scheme of the second-order accuracy was applied to solve the hyperbolic partial differential equations governing the pipe flows. It can also be enhanced at a high-resolution level. The numerical model was applied to wave propagation and cavitation simulation in a high-pressure injection system of the pump-line-nozzle type for light and medium duty vehicles. The system was of relevance to the model assessment because it presented severely cavitating flow conditions. The predicted pressure time histories at two pipe locations and injector needle lift were compared to experimental results, substantiating the validity and robustness of the developed conservative model in simulating cavitation inception and desinence with great degree of accuracy. Cavitation transients and the flow discontinuities induced by them were numerically analyzed and discussed.© 2003 ASME


A new approach to adding built-in self test (BIST) capabilities to integrated sigmadelta modulation RF transmitters is presented. An area efficient, all-digital building block generates multi-tone FM stimulus signals without compromising the performance of the RF transmitter itself. The RF signal is demodulated and digitized in a on-chip digital FM discriminator. Both blocks are fully testable using standard scan chain methods and consume a chip area of only 0.03 mm 2 in a 130 nm CMOS technology. The spectral quality and reproducibility of the test signals are suitable for inter-modulation distortion tests or PLL frequency response measurements A digital on-chip spectral analysis of the demodulated bit stream helps to allow a complete BIST, reducing even further the requirements for costly RF production test equipment. Built-In Self Calibration (BISC) strategies can also be implemented with this setup to increase the yield and to make the circuit more robust against environmental variations. When a full BIST implementation is preferable, the multiphase architecture can also be combined with a dynamic reseeding scheme that uses combinational logic instead of a ROM in order to perform the reseedings. This way the implementation area of the BIST circuitry is further reduced. Experimental results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed LFSR reseeding approach over the already known reseeding techniques.


Gender harmony means a relationship of equality, mutual complementarity and cooperation between the two sexes and the development society-wide of an equal, fair and harmonious gender environment. Gender harmony, as well as economic harmony, social-strata harmony, ethnic harmony, regional harmony, generational harmony and ecological harmony, is a prerequisite for achieving social harmony and a logical requirement for comprehensively implementing the scientific outlook on development, and also for promoting coordinated socio-economic development and the all-round development of the people. It is a precondition for achieving social justice, fairness and harmony, as well as an important hallmark in the development of a harmonious socialist society and the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. It is necessary to fully understand the importance of gender harmony in the development of a harmonious socialist society, strive to promote gender equality and the harmonious development between the two sexes, and contribute to the development of a harmonious socialist society.


Objective:Probe into influence that the psychological intervening brings to the recovery of the STD patients.Methods:Divede the 200 STD pa- tients into two groups at random the observation group(100),the other is the contraposition group( 100),the contraposition group is received the usual nursing,while the observation group is given the psychological intervening in addition to the usual nursing as a.Results:Tbe spivit,mood,dietand,sleep- ing of the observation group after the psychological interening are better than that of the contraposition group,the heart rate,blood pressure,and the anxiety rate(P0.05)are obviously alleviated.Conclusion:The psychologicl intervning can alleviate the anxiety of the STD patients,it can increase the immur- nity,reduce the curative time,reduce the rate of recrudescence and increase the curative rate.


Abstract The article provides a survey of the mammalian fauna and ecology in different habitats across the city of Tashkent that vary in the degree of urbanization. The current mammalian fauna of Tashkent is represented by 32 species; during the city's development, 9 species have disappeared from the place, either through an anthropogenic impact or having been forced out by alien species. The urban mammalian fauna has increased through arrival of five new invasive species. With the ongoing urbanization, the species diversity of small-sized mammals is decreasing, while their numbers are growing, resulting in simplification of the structure of small mammals' urban communities and lowering of their biodiversity. The urbanization does not impact the age and sex structure of the house mouse population noticeably. The urban population shows a productivity 1.7 times higher than the wild populations, which is a compensatory response to the relatively high embryonic mortality that is almost totally absent in natural populations. Differences in the morphophysiological indicators of the house mouse synanthropic population and those of populations in the wild are an adaptive response to anthropogenic impact, which appears in the form of more rapid growth, a higher metabolism, exchange of energies, and overall stress load on the rodents in urban biocoenoses. The study showed that the skulls of urban animals grow more rapidly than those of wild mice, while their proportions change following the development pattern of juvenile mice, which suggests that individuals from the Tashkent population can be referred to as rapidly growing animals, with outdoor individuals showing greater relative cranial parameters.


This bibliographical survey analyses the period open to study through historical archives, from the 1947 Marshall Plan to the 1974 Portuguese Democratic Revolution. Until recently, literature on Portugal and European integration was comparatively underdeveloped in relation to other countries of the European Union. Only the published works of the politician Jose Goncalo Correa d'Oliveira, the diplomat Jose Calvet Magalhaes, and the economist Jose da Silva Lopes, provided useful starting points for researchers. Fortunately, this has changed in recent years. The research project, "Portugal and the Unification of Europe", along with other archive-based work, has contributed to a healthier panorama.


Introduction: Pleural tuberculosis is a pleural infection of tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which commonly manifests as hydropneumothorax. Initial treatment with anti-tuberculosis drugs is aimed to prevent progression of the disease and relieve patient's symptoms. Indication of adhesiolysis and decortication is to remove layer of fibrous tissue and allow the lung to reexpand. Case: A 60 year old woman with shortness of breath, cough, and right-sided chest pain. She had a history of treatment with first-line anti-tubercular drugs for a year stop in September 2016. She was identified with recurrent right-sided hydropneumothorax by chest imaging and thorax CT-scan. Adhesiolysis and decortication were performed on her. Two months later she was diagnosed again with recurrent right-sided hydropneumothorax. VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery) revealed fistula involving inferior lobe of the lung. Then, she was treated with second-line anti tuberculosis drugs. After four times reccurent hydropneumothorax, patient showed significant improvement in clinical condition, radiology finding, and lung function test after she finished the tuberculosis treatment. Discussion: Definitive diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis is by the finding of mycobacterium tuberculosis in pleural biopsy, or Mtb culture, and it was difficult to perform. In this case pleural fluid analysis revealed that cause of recurrent right-sided hydropneumothorax was tuberculosis infection. Summary: A 60 year old woman with four times reccurent right-sided hydropneumothorax, and the pleural fluid analysis suggested it was tuberculosis infection. Providing anti-tuberculosis medication based on clinically diagnosed tuberculosis based on flowchart of tuberculosis diagnosis from national tuberculosis programmed are essential to prevent progression of the disease.


It provided a method of using the output from the language model to assess the quality of the text of the online advertising systems, and computer-readable media. Output from the language model may be used to generate a machine learning algorithm corresponding to a mass fraction of individual ads. The mass fraction can be used to filter ads online auction has poor quality text or be taxed or punishment. Ad quality score can also be used to submit the advertisement advertiser to rate or score. In one embodiment, the mass fraction of the combined mass fraction advertiser with a single ad to produce the final score is used to assess the advertisement. Advertisers rating / score and advertising content can be transferred to advertisers as an advertiser feedback.


Significance The hallmark of remyelination in the CNS has been proposed to be the presence of thin myelin sheaths. This has been demonstrated in multiple experimental models and in multiple sclerosis. It is the only surrogate marker of remyelination, and therefore a crucial fingerprint of myelin repair. However, this has been challenged recently in separate studies, in which, by implication, the degree or presence of remyelinated axons has been underestimated. In this article, we provide evidence from two different models that thin myelin sheaths and short internodes persist almost indefinitely. Future attempts to promote myelin repair in models of multiple sclerosis will be crucially dependent on a definitive marker of repair. We propose that the thin myelin sheath remains the gold standard. The presence of thin myelin sheaths in the adult CNS is recognized as a marker of remyelination, although the reason there is not a recovery from demyelination to normal myelin sheath thickness remains unknown. Remyelination is the default pathway after myelin loss in all mammalian species, in both naturally occurring and experimental disease. However, there remains uncertainty about whether these thin sheaths thicken with time and whether they remain viable for extended periods. We provide two lines of evidence here that thin myelin sheaths may persist indefinitely in long-lived animal models. In the first, we have followed thin myelin sheaths in a model of delayed myelination during a period of 13 years that we propose results in the same myelin sheath deficiencies as seen in remyelination; that is, thin myelin sheaths and short internodes. We show that the myelin sheaths remain thin and stable on many axons throughout this period with no detrimental effects on axons. In a second model system, in which there is widespread demyelination of the spinal cord and optic nerves, we also show that thinly remyelinated axons with short internodes persist for over the course of 2 y. These studies confirm the persistence and longevity of thin myelin sheaths and the importance of remyelination to the long-term health and function of the CNS.


Conversation and fellowship with others are important activities for all human beings as part of a fulfi lling, enriching life. Increased social connection through family and nonfamily relationships contributes to positive mental health and reduces vulnerability to chronic or pathological depression (Seedsman, 2017). Finding opportunities for social connection may become more diffi cult for individuals as they age. Due to factors such as decreased mobility, death of a spouse, or moving to a new location, older adults are more at risk for social isolation (Dinkins, 2017). Such isolation is likely to have a negative impact on mental and physical health. Loneliness has been linked to adverse health outcomes (Chen, Dattilo, & Frias, 2018), and depression and poor mental health have been found to increase long-term risk for dementia and suicide, worsen outcomes for patients with cardiac disease, and reduce overall quality of life (Hagert, 2017). One way to improve social connectedness for older adults is to create opportunities for intergenerational engagement (Seedsman, 2017). Younger and older generations tend to assume they lack common interests, so discussion and social engagement can be diffi cult or anxiety-producing (Andreoletti & Howard, 2018). An effective way past this challenge is to invite intergenerational groups into facilitated conversation with an explicit purpose. The ABSTRACT Opportunities for social connectedness are important for older adults' psychosocial well-being. Social connections through intergenerational engagement provide older adults benefi ts such as increased generativity, improved cognitive functioning, and a greater sense of self-worth. The facilitated discussion known as Socrates Café is ideally suited for bridging generation gaps and inviting selfexpression. Socrates Cafés provide an alternative to more traditional social programming by promoting communal inquiry and substantive refl ection on questions of value and meaning. In a study of an intergenerational Socrates Café with college students and low-income older adults, fi ndings indicated reduced ageism and stereotyping from students, the formation of relationships between students and older adults, and a recognition from older adults that they had valuable insights to share with younger generations. Health professionals wishing to improve psychosocial health for older adults may consider setting up an intergenerational Socrates Café. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 57(1), 11-15.]


CollawnZinn, Lisa M. Schwiebert, Casey T. Weaver and James F. Lolita Zaliauskiene, Sunghyun Kang, Kerri Sparks, Kurt R.http://www.jimmunol.org/content/169/5/2337J Immunol€2002; 169:2337-2345; ;Referenceshttp://www.jimmunol.org/content/169/5/2337.full#ref-list-1This article cites 57 articles, 34 of which you can access for free at: Subscriptionshttp://jimmunol.org/subscriptionsInformation about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: Permissionshttp://www.aai.org/ji/copyright.htmlSubmit copyright permission requests at: Email Alertshttp://jimmunol.org/cgi/alerts/etocReceive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at:


First Baluran National Park zoning appointment is on 1987 undergo Director
General of Forest Protection and Nature Preservation decree number 51/Kpts/DJ-VI/1987. Twelve years after Baluran National Park zoning has been renewing with new decree of Director General of Protection and Nature Conservation number 187/Kpts/DJ-V/1999 and been changed with Director General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation decree number SK.228/IV-Set/2012 by 26 December 2012 about Baluran National Zoning. The purpose of this study is to know the physic and the community of Baluran National Park, also for studying the zoning of Baluran National Park based on actual condition approach and the laws without disregarding the need of biodiversity protection that already exist. This study used ecological sensitivity and community social pressure sensitivity. The result of both criteria is used as a base for knowing the level of land ability and land suitability of Baluran National Park. By knowing the level of land ability and land suitability the manager can see if Baluran National park has been treated as it should be based on the zone. There�s different between existing zone map and the study map, the different of the map is shown by different area size, the block shape different and use of the zoning different. The different area size of actual core zone map and study map is 965,1 Ha. The different of wilderness zone is 762,79 Ha, and the different size of other zone is 1.727,45 Ha. The different is caused by the urgency of Balauran National Park management that used for community need, also there�s a different in data analysis and the method of zoning determination.


The invention discloses an LED chip and a manufacturing method thereof. The LED chip comprises a substrate; an epitaxial layer, which is arranged on the substrate; a transparency electrode layer, which is arranged on the epitaxial layer; at least two grooves, which vertically pass through the transparency electrode layer and the bottoms of which are arranged in the epitaxial layer, and which are distributed along the edge of the transparency electrode layer; an insulation layer, which is lined to the side walls of the grooves and on the transparency electrode layer at the edges of groove openings; N electrodes, which are arranged on the insulation layer; and a P electrode, which is arranged on the transparency electrode layer, wherein the distances between the P electrode and the N electrodes are same. The N electrodes of the LED chip encircle the P electrode, and the distances between the P electrode and the N electrodes are same, so that when the LED chip works, flow direction of the current between the N electrodes and the P electrode is allowed to be scattered, current density distribution is allowed to be more uniform, and luminous efficiency of the LED chip can be improved.


Speaker recognition methods are well known and widely used in the ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) systems. The use of these methods for the classification of machinery sounds in noisy environments is presented in this paper. Influence of background noise was reduced by using a highly directive sound recording, which can be understood as a spatial filter. A fusion of microphone antenna with beamforming algorithm forms such a filter, which improves SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio). Features of machinery sounds have been extracted using standard MFCC (Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients) parameterization method with Mel and linear frequency scaling. SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier was used for the classification of sound features. A significant improvement of the classifier decision performance was achieved in noisy environment when 8 microphones were used together with beamforming algorithm. Results of using Mel and linear scale are also presented and show similar results in recognition of machinery sounds.


Drawing on paradigms of the New Economic Criticism, this essay shows how subsequent editions of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale Hansel und Gretel construe an increasingly complex network of economic metaphors and themes. In addition, it argues that these economic topoi are tightly interwoven with modes of gender differentiation that are partially figured in the imaginary geography put forth in the fairy tale. The fairy tale ultimately re-establishes a social organisation that subjugates women under male authority and shows how a shift from a mercantilist notion of economic activity to one of a capitalist market economy seemingly legitimates such an arrangement.


In this paper, the impact of beam-beam effects on the precision luminosity measurement at the International Linear Collider is investigated quantitatively for the first time. GUINEA-PIG, a beam-beam interaction simulation tool, is adapted to treat the space charge effects affecting the Bhabha events used in this measurement. The biases due to the resulting changes in kinematics are evaluated for different center-of-mass energies and beam parameters.


Tamara Karren, émigré writer, journalist and poet, was born as Maja Salomonowicz in Warsaw before the war to the assimilated Jewish family. Before the war the family found themselves in Romania, and Tamara in 1940 left Warsaw to find her family. Important stages in this war journey were Białystok and Vilnius. In Vilnius she met Roman Brandstaetter, to whom she was married. Together they made their way to Palestine. In 1945 she divorced him. As an education officer of the Red Cross, she joined the Polish II Corps in Italy. In 1946 she married Wacław Zagórski, a publicist and officer of the underground Home Army and they moved to London together. From that time on, she used the name Tamara Karren-Zagórska. In the community of Polish emigration she was very active. As a publicist and reviewer, she was connected with the London papers: "Wiadomości", "Tygodnik Polski", and "Orzeł Biały". Her literary debut had place late, in the second half of the 1970s, which was a play based on Gabriela Zopolska's letters titled Pani Gabriela (Autoportret z listów) [Pani Gabriela, A Self-Portrait from letters]. The 1980s resulted in only two, yet very mature, texts: the monodram Kim był ten cżłowiek? Rzecz o Januszu Korczaku [Wha was that man? On Janusz Korczak] as well as a volume of poetry Czarne niebo [Black sky]. The writer died on April 12, 1997 in London. The drama Pani Gabriela (Autoportret z listów) was based on Zapolska's letters to Ludwik Szczepański and Stanisław Janowski. The work is a kind of testimony to reading not only the last years of the life of the author of Moralność pani Dulskiej [Mrs. Dulska's Morality], but also the phenomenon of her outstanding personality. The drama was very popular on the stages of London emigration (the first public performance was in December 1976 at the Polish Hearth Club).


was proved that the markers of the linguistic consciousness of the bilingual, represented in the texts produced by the bilingual subject, objectify the laws of the national and individual author's pictures of the world.


This paper presents a conceptual design for intelligent Chinese File Retrieval. Based on a taxonomy for various Adaptive User Interfaces (Boyce and Lin, 1993), Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network are employed to deal with the problems of Chinese File Retrieval.


Solitary fibrous tumors(SFTs) are a kind of rare mesenchymal origin tumors,frequently occurring in chest and abdominal cavity,but also have been reported in other organizations outside the pleura.Most of SFTs behave benign clinical process,however,recent studies have showed that some benign SFTs can change into malignant solitary fibrous tumors(MSFTs).In clinical and pathological,SFTs should be differentiated with some spindle-shaped tumors,conquently,accurate pathologic diagnosis of SFTs is of great significance for the treatment and prognosis appraisement of patients.In this paper,recent clinical and pathological study progress on SFTs will be reviewed.


I report familial lichen nitidus in a 33‐year‐old father and his 3‐year‐old daughter. Histopathology of small papules in both cases revealed typical features of lichen nitidus. Immunohistochemical examination showed UCHL1‐positivc, L‐26‐ncgarive lymphocytes and HAM56‐positive histiocytes and multinucleated giant cells in the dermal infiltrate in both cases.


The purpose of this demo is twofold. On the one hand, we present a novel problem that has much potential for multiagent research. This is the problem of allowing a team of UAVs with limited communication range to autonomously coordinate to service requests so that the overall time to service requests is minimized. On the other hand, we describe the main features of MAS-Planes, a simulation environment specically geared towards testing coordination algorithms for that coordination problem.


In order to output sound signal for sonar electrical equipment,the technical solution based on the PCI9054 and FPGA is proposed.By the PCI9054 from PLX Company,the PCI transmission for the sound data is done.Using internal memory block in the FPGA,the large size DC FIFO is designed,the rate difference between the input and output of the sound signal is solved.By the logic deign,the sound data is put into the FIFO through PCI interface.At the same time,FPGA reads the sound data from the FIFO according to the timing requirement,and generates the programming signals for the AD1866.Then,D/A conversion is accomplished.At last,the continuous sound output is realized.The sound is clear,and the digital sound output requirement is met.


Among U.S. states, Kansas children's HPV vaccination rates remain low. Parent/guardian HPV vaccine-beliefs likely influence vaccination rates. Additionally, Facebook's popularity suggests that this forum's representation may influence parent/guardian decisions to vaccinate children. This dissertation explores how Kansan parents/guardians of HPV vaccine-eligible children perceive the vaccine in the contexts of the health belief model (Rosenstock, 1974; Rosenstock, Strecher, & Becker, 1988) and the social amplification of risk framework (R. Kasperson et al., 1988), parent/guardian engagement with HPV vaccine-related information, and Facebook representations by general users and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the vaccine's first decade on the market. Results indicate HPV vaccine risk perceptions among some Kansan parents/guardians, social media as an active and passive source of information, and the HPV vaccine's representation on Facebook as increasingly negative. HPV vaccine promotion strategies should consider focusing on the vaccine's representation and risk attenuating messages.


This present work deals with monitoring some molecular aspects standing beyond the varied production of volatile oil in three medicinal plants (Ocimum basilicum, B, Mentha longifolia, M and Origanum majorana, O) after ten days of exposure to drought stress by using 250 mM mannitol as a drought inducer. The results showed that proline has increased in all drought-stressed plants as compared to the control. Four protein bands (210, 70, 63 and 18 kDa) have disappeared in stressed B-plant, in addition to low molecular weight newly expressed protein bands (16-78 kDa). The protein polymorphism has varied among the species and ranged from 16.66 to 54.54%. RAPD-DNA technique indicated high similarity of genomic-DNA in stressed and unstressed plants. GC-MS screened intensive fluctuations within the pool of phytochemical compounds. The genomic DNA structure was generally stable under drought stress despite of new proteins expression which mediated the induction of chemical compounds with antioxidant property to cope with the drought stress.


We investigated the effect of different interventions on aortic atherosclerosis in Watanabe rabbits. Four groups of rabbits were fed either an oleic acid-enriched diet (80% of total fat intake) with or without vitamin E supplementation (250 IU/kg) or a diet enriched in linoleic acid with or without vitamin E supplementation for 6 months. At the start of the study, plasma cholesterol concentration was 21.4±3.6 mmol/L (n=32). The diets did not influence the mean plasma lipids and lipoprotein concentrations except for HDL cholesterol, which was increased more on the oleic acid— enriched diets than on the linoleic acid-enriched diets. Vitamin E levels in plasma and LDL were increased on the oleic acid diet and reduced on the linoleic acid diet. On the latter diet, supplementation of vitamin E was quantitatively less effective in raising plasma or LDL vitamin E levels. The susceptibility of LDL to oxidation was determined in vitro. Both oleic acid-enriched diets increased the lag time by 140% from baseline. The linoleic acid diet supplemented with vitamin E increased lag time by 59%. Linoleic acid alone, how ever, decreased the lag time by 30%. Similar but inverse effects were seen on LDL oxidation rate. Thus, intervention protected LDL to oxidation in the following order: oleic acid plus vitamin E>oleic acid>linoleic acid plus vitamin E>linoleic acid. Despite the differences in LDL oxidizability induced by the four experi mental diets, assessment of aortic atherosclerosis at the end of the 6-month dietary study period revealed no differences among the four study groups. These results suggest that a decrease in the oxidative susceptibility in vitro alone is not sufficient to attenuate atherogenesis when cholesterol levels remain markedly elevated. (Arterioscler Thromb Vase Biol. 1995;15:290-297.)


Community participation in national and state life today is an important study. This is because in a democratic country, public policy cannot be separated from public participation. This study seeks to discuss the relationship between community participation, the making of Act and the implementation of judicial review. The results showed that: (1) Public participation in the making of Act and the implementation of judicial review can: (a) Provide a better basis for public policy making in creating good governance. (b) Increase citizens' trust in the executive and legislative branches. (c) Save human resources, because with the involvement of the community in public policy making, the resources used in public policy socialization can be minimized. (2). Community participation in evaluating Act becomes an important activity, in order to establish control whether an Act is in accordance with its objectives or not. The public can submit a judicial review to the Supreme Court (MA) or the Constitutional Court (MK) if they judge that their rights have been impaired by certain Act. (3). The relationship between community participation and the making of Act and the implementation of judicial review is very close. Without community participation, the Act produced does not reflect the interests of the community and only prioritizes the interests of certain groups. The Constitutional Court (MK) and the Supreme Court (MA) will not conduct a judicial review if there is no request from the public.


If we understand Bourdieu's literary field from a historical perspective, we should give first thought to theoretical interpretation of historical appearance of literature. As far as French literature is concerned, this process undergoes three stages of self - determination, double structures and wealth of productive signs. In fact literature is not stable for aesthetical revolution can exhaust its resources of discourse internally and it can not escape the political influences externally. Bourdieu's theory is available in the developed countries.


We have computed the electronic and hole spectra of a three-dimensional superlattice consisting of layers of GaAs rods of finite height arranged in a hexagonal lattice and embedded in an AldGa1−dAs matrix, alternating with spacer layers of homogeneous AlAs. The spectra are calculated in the envelope function approximation, with both light-hole and heavy-hole subbands and hole spin degeneracy taken into account. The application of thick spacers allows to investigate the band structure of isolated layers of cylindrical rods. We estimate the ultimate efficiency of solar energy conversion in a solar cell based on an array of cylindrical quantum dots versus the dot height, and determine the optimal value of this parameter.


According to engineering practice,internal force analysis and design optimization of RC continuous vierendeel truss used as structure transformation story are made. In addition,the behavior of RC continuous vierendeel truss with different distributions of vertical bars is compared. Some design suggestions are offered.


This paper investigates factors that influence the extent of corporate mandatory disclosure practices in New Zealand over a three‐year period. Researcher‐created disclosure‐scoring templates consisting of mandated information items from three regulatory sources were used to derive indexes of disclosure in financial annual reports of the sample companies. Regression analysis suggests that company age is the most critical factor in explaining the extent of mandatory disclosure practices of the companies. The results also indicate that company size, liquidity, profitability, existence of audit committee, and auditor‐type are consistently positively related to the extent of corporate mandatory disclosure. Further research opportunities are suggested.


We reported earlier that freshness of trawlcaught fish in terms of K values were very good both just after catching, in spite of prolonged towing time in the water of high temperature, and at retail markets, in spite of lack of any cooling device.1,2) It is worth while knowing if fishes inhabiting temperate waters as Japanese waters also remain in such a high freshness when exposed to such a high environmental temperature. It is possible that speeds of lowering in freshness of fishes vary according to ambient water temperatures of respective fish species. Although this possibility was suggested through a study on the freshness of the fish by sight at a Thai fishing port,3) there is no paper proving this through chemical analysis. Many papers have been published on temporal changes in freshness during preservation with ice by fish species,4-12) some of them9-12) comparing speeds of lowering in freshness for several marine fishes of economical importance. A trial by us to formulate temporal change in freshness, which is considered to follow species specific speeds of lowering in freshness, is reported in the present paper. This enabled us to compare more accurately speeds of lowering in freshness among fishes from the tropical and temperate waters, and to clarify the effects of ambient water temperatures on speeds of lowering in freshness of fishes inhabiting the waters of various water temperatures. In addition to changes in K values reported here, temporal changes in each of ATP related compounds in fish muscle were simultaneously studied. The results of this study are to be reported elsewhere.


Because the Chain Rule can confuse students as much as it helps them solve real problems, we put ourselves in the shoes of the mathematicians who derived it, so that students may understand the motivation for the rule; its limitations; and why textbooks present it in its customary form. We begin by finding the derivative of sin2x without using the Chain Rule. That exercise, having shown that even a comparatively simple compound function can be bothersome to differentiate using the definition of the derivative as a limit, provides the motivation for developing our own formula for the derivative of the general compound function g[f(x)]. In the course of that development, we see why the function f must be continuous at any value of x to which the formula is applied. We finish by comparing our formula to that which is commonly given.


Information seeking behavior refers to patterns of human behavior related to the nature of information, both in terms of using and seeking information. The term "behavior" refers to how a person obtains information through his behavior. The Kulthau literature review method is used in this paper. According to Kulthau, information seeking behavior has several characteristics, including initiation, which is the initial stage where users are aware of their information needs, selection, where users begin to collect the information topics needed and then look for them through OPAC, browse directly to shelves or by asking users. At this point, the user is confused because he has to decide which information best suits his needs. formulation At this point, the user has determined which information best meets his needs. Users collect information that has been obtained and recorded in books, cellphones, or by taking pictures at this stage, and the last presentation is the user's feelings of satisfaction and dissatisfaction after getting information in the library.
Keywords: information seeking behavior, kulthau, library


Abstract This paper reports an evaluation of presentation skills training for participants from manufacturing, service, production, and research organizations using a repeated‐measures quasi‐experimental comparison‐group design. In addition to posttest assessments of participants' reactions and learning, participants' self reports of sixteen behavioral skills were assessed across three time periods. Similar analyses were employed to test for co‐workers' ratings of program participants' long‐term improvement. Statistical analyses of participants' responses (controlling for the number of comparisons) revealed positive reactions to the training, improvement in learning, as well as short‐term behavioral change in eight of the sixteen skills taught. Long‐term change was found in seven of the dependent measures. On‐the‐job change was found in three skills. Taken together, improvement was found in all but two of the skills areas in the training. Analyses of co‐workers' ratings of participants' skills also reveal...


Hand gesture recognition has gotten so many areas of application such as in human-computer interaction, hearing impaired communication and systems control. Recognizing gestures in videos however is a challenging task. Many techniques and features have been adopted in the literature but some of the methods still need to be improved upon. There are basically two types of gestures: the static and the dynamic gestures. In this work, a computer vision-based system for recognition of static hand gesture is proposed using a fusion of the histogram of oriented gradient and the Hu invariant moments as features. The proposed system consists of three phases: preprocessing, feature extraction and classification. The images are first pre-processed using segmentation and morphological operations. The histogram of oriented gradient and the Hu invariant moments are then extracted as features. The extracted features are concatenated and passed as input into a multilayer neural network model to recognize the static hand gesture. The proposed system is implemented and tested on the hand gesture database collected online. The model was trained using 500 features which consist of 20 gestures each from 25 gesture types. The model is then tested with another 500 gestures which also consist of 20 gestures each from the 25 gesture types. The experimental results show that the proposed system is able to recognize the static gestures with accuracy of 96.4%.


With the development of request in the field of consumption and environment, the reverse logistics becomes more and more important. The paper studies the definition of reverse logistics and the difference with the common logistics firstly. Then the influence operated on the corporation by the reverse logistics is analyzed. Aiming at the character of complexity and decentralization, the method of reverse logistics management is also discussed in this paper.


Lookalike contests are a regular feature of the entertainment business. The plethora of celebrity doubles has its origin in the visual resemblances between celebrities and lesser mortals. Since the Iookalikes are generally not closely related to their celebrity templates, an initial resemblance is a chance event. Once an outline similarity is established, however, a train of changes may serve to make the resemblances manifest. Hairstyles, clothes, make-up, vocal nuances and gestures are selectively acquired to emphasize and enhance the similarity Strangely, perhaps, what happens in the entertainment world has parallels on a molecular level. Homologous genes in different species may be identified by the loci they occupy, the function they serve and their past history Generally these attributes are congruent, genes sharing recent ancestors serve the same function and occupy equivalent loci in different species. With the passage of time, reproductive isolation between species and the accumulation of substitutions usually ensures that the same genes from different species lose their resemblance as the species diverge from each other. It is this process which enables the construction of phylogenetic trees appropriate for the gene and species. Under particular circumstances, however, a gene may find itself cast in a novel role for which it must acquire the appropriate molecular paraphernalia. Functional selection may then mould the gene into shape for the role it plays. Distantly related genes can come to resemble each other when they play the same novel role (true convergence). Alternatively, they may diverge in a like direction from their common ancestor (parallelism). There are several definitions of convergence in common usage (Patterson 1988). In this review, I use the term convergence to mean sequence similarity between gene products which is not attributable to common ancestry or chance and is not generated by exchange mechanisms.


Introduction: A dedicated primary scene landing Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) has been in operation in Ireland since 2012. Commencing with a unique collaboration between the Irish Aer Corps and civilian Emergency Medical Services (EMS) it has expanded to include a second charity funded model in the south west of the country. Both services operate under a single governance and dispatch system and provide an Advanced Paramedic level of care to the patients they serve. There is limited published literature on prehospital care in Ireland and to date no detailed descriptive study of patients treated by HEMS in Ireland. This research describes the characteristics of the patients treated by HEMS in Ireland. Method: This retrospective study will investigate the data of an excess of 8000 patients responded to by HEMS (2012-2022) in the republic of Ireland. Descriptive statistics will be used to interpret patient demographics, geographical spread, receiving facilities, mechanism/etiology of disease or injury, vital trends, transportation decisions and clinical interventions and short-term clinical outcomes. Results: Early stage data extraction shows seasonal variation in HEMS use with increased use in the summer months. Almost twice as many male patients vs. females were treated by HEMS while the most common age profile was 55-65 yrs. Trauma presentations have increased over the past 10 years and now account for over 60% of the overall caseload. The most common medical etiology was cardiac arrest or post resuscitation care followed by STEMI Care, the most common trauma cases were from road traffic collisions followed by falls and farm accidents. Conclusion: This study will be the first to describe the overall characteristics of HEMS patients in Ireland over a decade of service provision. As the Irish health system continues to evolve, so must its aeromedical services.


The polymerizable α-keto ester methacryloylethyl phenylglyoxylate (MEPG), and its homopolymer, were synthesized and tested for their photoinitiation capabilities in a crosslinking monomer resin system containing bis-phenol A-glycidyl methacrylate (BisGMA) and triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA). Monomer conversion kinetic data were collected using both the MEPG and poly(MEPG) as initiator and/or comonomer. Furthermore, the evolution of CO resulting from the photoinduced decarbonylation led to a significant reduction in the volume shrinkage of the resin upon photocuring with a UV light. The shrinkage of the resin was reduced by 63% when 45% of MEPG was added to the BisGMA/TEGDMA monomer mixture of the resin. However, dispersion of the CO voids was uncontrolled, resulting in large voids which are likely to be detrimental to material properties. Addition of inorganic filler (SiO2) to the resin mixture did not affect CO generation and produced even less shrinkage compared to systems without SiO2 at given MEPG concentrations.


Younger patients with Alzheimer's disease (YPAD) present many clinical aspects different from people with late-onset Alzheimer's disease. The author reviewed terminological, diagnostic, and therapeutic issues, as well as support systems for YPAD and concerns related to disclosure. The Japanese Psychogeriatric Society is a leader in this field, focusing not only on treatment of AD, but also comprehensive support systems for people with dementia.


Preface Hydrosilylation Reactions of Methylhydridesiloxane to N-Alkenes Hydrosilylation Reactions of Methylhydridesiloxane to Styrene and a-Methylstyrene Hydrosilylation Reactions of Methylhydridesiloxane to Trimethylsilylated Esters of Acrylic and Methacrylic Acids Hydrosilylation Reactions of Methylhydridesiloxane to Acrylates and Methacrylic Acids Hydrosilylation and Dehydrocondensation Reactions of Methylhydride-siloxane to Acrylic and Methacrylic Acids Dehydrocondensation and Hydrosilylation Reactions of Methylhydride-siloxane to Allyl Alcohol Formation of New Thermoreactive Polysiloxanes Comb-type Siliconorganic Compounds with Epoxy Groups in the Side Chain Synthesis of Cyclolinear Organosiloxane Copolymers via Hydrosilylilation reaction Hydrosilylation Reactions of Methylhydridesiloxane to tricyclodecadiene Hydride Addition of Methylhydridesiloxane to Cyclohexa-1,3-diene Synthesis of Polysiloxanes with pendant unsaturated cyclic fragments Synthesis and Characterisation of Polysiloxanes with Pendant Bicyclic Fragments Hydrosilylation Reactions of Methylhydridesiloxane to Phenylacetylene Index.


This book approaches Updike's oeuvre by illuminating its ongoing, pervasive conflict between faith and doubt. Concentrating on a trio of Olinger stories, the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy, In the "Beauty of the Lilies", and "Rabbit Remembered" and dramatizing most emphatically Updike's career-spanning dialogue with his complexly fragile religious beliefs, Bailey interprets the Rabbit saga as fictionalized spiritual autobiography in which, through imposing Harry Angstrom's perceptual limitations upon his own stylistic gifts, Updike set himself the toughest trial of his ethical and aesthetic creed of the spirit-affirming capacities of human perception and expression. Between his aspirations to creating a fiction emulative of patterns of transcendent meaning and his apprehension that Howellsian realism is all that he can achieve in prose, Updike has created, and Bailey has documented, one of the preeminent dramas of contemporary American culture and fiction - a literary engagement of the post-Christian with the postmodern. Peter J. Bailey is Professor of English at St. Lawrence University.


Clinical practice is an essential part of occupational therapy education. In order to rationalise training school objectives and the student's needs with the learning experiences offered by an occupational therapy department, a student-centred learning package was developed. The package uses a structured and sequential format, which employs experience check lists, incomplete handouts, and both structured and informal feedback to optimise the learning environment. This permits a more complete evaluation of personal performance by the student and a consistent approach to supervision, and leads to a more accurate final assessment.


Automatic test system is widely applied in productive process of products,including design,product,application and maintain.It has major affection on raising properties of products and production efficiency,reducing production cost and production cycle cost.The conception of test and inspection and automatic test system has been introduced.Based on subsystem,it expatiates on the operating principle of automatic test system and introduces the conception,structure and keytech of buildingup of automatic test system.Early stage and uptodate automatic test system are introduced and three development stage are discussed in this article.


Previous research indicates that the academic performance of minority students improves when school faculties include minority teachers. This research addresses this issue using data from some 540 school districts and 668 campuses in Texas. It finds that the greater the shortfall between the district/campus percentage of minority teachers and the district/campus percentage of minority students, the lower the percentage of district/campus minority students passing the state achievement test. When controls are entered for the rate of increase in minority student percentage, this association disappears for Hispanic students but not for African-American students.