The present invention provides a method for preparing a coated bismuth vanadate pigment, comprising steps of: providing a bismuth vanadate substrate of a specified particle size; adding pure water to the bismuth vanadate substrate of the specified particle size to formulate a basic coating slurry; heating the basic coating slurry, carrying out a chemical reaction for coating, adjusting the pH, and carrying out filtering, washing, drying, sintering, wet milling, filtering and washing after the coating reaction is complete, to obtain coated bismuth vanadate; and adding pure water to the obtained coated bismuth vanadate to formulate a basic coating slurry, and repeating the previous step for a specified number of times, to obtain a final coated bismuth vanadate pigment. Through the method for preparing a coated bismuth vanadate pigment of the present invention, acid resistance, alkali resistance and temperature resistance of the obtained coated bismuth vanadate pigment can be improved, thereby avoiding interference between different layers in the multilayer coating process.


Workload, remuneration, and psychological reward play an essential role in the level of job satisfaction and also in the level of job performance of any individual whether in the form of an increase or decrease. This study intends to investigate the impact of workload, remuneration and psychological reward on job performance along with mediating role of job satisfaction. Data for this study was collected from 231 employees of different private sectors and analyzed by using regression and correlation analysis. The result of the study indicates that workload showed positive significant impact on job performance and job satisfaction that was contrary to hypotheses. Similarly, remuneration and psychological reward have significant positive effect on job satisfaction but insignificant effect on job performance. Additionally job satisfaction has strong positive effect on job performance. Finally job satisfaction does not mediate any relationship of workload, remuneration and psychological reward with job performance.


The growing number of patients with chronic illnesses and conditions is forcing primary care practices to become more creative with the way they treat such patients.


The concepts related to the design, construction and operation of infrastructure components for the delivery of water, the removal of liquid and solid wastes, and the provision of power for services are relatively new in the extremely cold environment found in the far north or south. The objective of this monograph is to introduce the basic principles of cold region environmental engineering. While it does not cover the basics of the environmental engineering field, it does present a great deal of introductory information related to cold regions engineering and the special geotechnical considerations that influence the design of utilities systems. The book is divided into 17 different sections that cover such topics as: planning, geotechnical, and thermal considerations; water source development; water storage; wastewater collection; utilidors; central facilities; remote camps; fire protection; and energy management. There are also appendices that provide additional information on piping options, vehicle-haul systems, snowdrifting and snow loads, and freeze protection.


This paper studies the incidence and welfare effects of a particular kind of training subsidies, Individual Learning Accounts (ILA). We exploit a natural experiment provided by the reform of a French ILA, the Compte personnel de formation (CPF). First, we theoretically model the impact of changing the per-hour subsidy rate on demand and supply for training, using a simple partial equilibrium model. Informed by this, we study the impact of a reform of 2019, which differentially lowered the per-hour value of the CPF subsidy across industries. We highlight three results. First, the supply of training is between 15% and 50% less elastic than demand, so that more than half of the benefit of the subsidy is captured by training producers. Second, total hours of training undertaken are not significantly affected by subsidy changes, leading to estimates of demand and supply elasticities which are close to zero. This makes CPF subsidy a simple transfer to producers and trainees. The silver lining is that, when studied through the lenses of a sufficient statistics framework, the efficiency cost of CPF is also low. Third, we use data on revenues and expenses of training to see that the reduction of the subsidy eventually translates in a reduction of producers' profits, with no effect on labor costs and employment of trainers.


Abstract : The work set forth in this report is intended to lead to portions of an integrated system to dynamically link automated plan generation and analysis with execution monitoring. The report deals with algorithms for, and interfaces to, a prototype battle-trajectory decision aid. We explored complexities of navigating parameter tradeoff spaces and performed detailed studies of strength/attrition parameter estimation and calibration techniques. We investigated software for solving differential systems and for visualizing and interacting with decision aid data. We considered aspects of the analytical theory of dynamic systems: mathematical chaos, stability, and control. We set the groundwork for formulation of models to produce systems exhibiting inherently chaotic behavior and for studying qualitative aspects of phase plane trajectories. It is probable that nonlinear analytic techniques will soon be considered as invaluable to commanders.


Objective: To explore the protective effect of water extract from Mactra chinensis muscle(WEMC) on CCl4-induced acute hepatic injury of mice.Methods: Mice were administered orally with the extract at the daily doses of 0.15,0.45 g/(kg·d)and 0.90 g/(kg·d).Eight days later,6% CCl4 were intraperitoneally injected at the dose of 1 mL/kg.At 24 h after the injection,liver index and the contents of serum alanine aminotransferase(ALT),total protein(TP),albumin(Alb) and globulin(Glb) as well as A/G were investigated.On the other hand,the pathological changes in the hepatic tissues of each group were determined.Results: WEMC at each dose significantly lowered ALT in serum(P 0.01).Meanwhile,the hepatic histology was also improved in three WEMC groups.Moreover,a significant increase in A/G was observed in each WEMC group when compared with the model group(P 0.01).WEMC had a pronounced promoting effect on the recovery of mouse liver function but had little effect on liver index.Under a light microscope,it could be observed that WEMC had a marked effect on improving hepatic injury in mice.Conclusion: EMC can protect CCl4-induced liver damage of mice.


Terminology is one of Linguistics fields. With regard to this, there are many linguistic data related to theterminology. One of Indonesian terminologies in terms of social structure can be found in Aceh province. The Acehnese structure is divided into the highest level to the lowest level. These structural levels are known asmukim, gampong, sagoe, etc. The terminology can be optimized in terms of contributing to the color of Indonesian nationality. Accordingly, the unity in diversity is not abondoning the roots of local culture.


Abstract : This research concerns undetermined coefficient problems in partial differential equations, in particular those problems where the unknown coefficients depend only on the dependent variables. The problems modeled by these equations are related to the determination of unknown physical laws or relationships. The nonlinear terms which we seek to recover in our model problems correspond to material properties that have physical significance; temperature dependent specific heats, conductivities, reaction terms, to name a few. Examples of such problems are - the determination of an unknown reaction term f(dot) in u sub t - u sub xx = f(u), or the conductivity k(dot) in the equation Del dot k(u) Del u = 0. We seek to determine these functions by giving only overposed boundary data. This type of problem is distinct from those that involve media with unknown inhomogeneities; that is, the differential equations contain an unknown coefficient that depends on the independent spatial variable. In a given physical problem both situations may occur, that is, the unknowns have both spatial as well temperature dependence. This is a considerably more difficult problem and has received little attention in its full generality, instead both the limiting cases of dependence on a single one of these variables have and has received the vast majority of the research efforts. For those cases where the media is isotropic, the assumption that the unknowns depend only on the independent variable may be a very reasonable one. (jhd)


Objective To study the result of arthroscopic posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by using 7 strands hamstring tendon graft with remnant augmentation.Methods Thirteen patients with posterior cruciate ligament rupture were reconstructed arthroscopically by using 7 strands autogenous hamstring tendon graft with tibial tunnel technique.The PCL remnant augmentation was reserved.The tendon graft was fixed with suspensory technique.The patients were followed up and evaluated according to Lysholm and Tegner rating scale.The stabilization and the range of motion of the knee joint were evaluated.Results The patients were followed up for 12 to 36 months.The Lysholm knee score were 50.20±8.32 preoperatively and 87.23±4.20 twelve months postoperatively(P 0.05).The Tegner sport level were 2.03±0.33 preoperatively and 4.11±0.13 twelve months postoperatively(P 0.05).There were 7 cases with negative posterior drawer test,5 cases with 1 degree positive posterior drawer test and 1 case with 2 degree positive posterior drawer test twelve months postoperatively.The sport ability was improved in all cases.Conclusion Arthroscopic posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using 7 strands hamstring tendon graft with remnant augmentation is a reliable method to restore the stabilization and function of the knee.


In order to solve the problem of convergent speed of Genetic Algorithm and avoid the lack of local most optimization, an improved adaptive genetic algorithm(AGA) which adjusts the probabilities crossover and mutation and introduces the immigrant strategy is presented. The method is applied to ammunition packaging problem, and it enhances the efficiency of packaging.


The invention belongs to the technical field of aviation and relates to a rotating and connecting structure of an aircraft radome. The rotating and connecting structure mainly comprises a radome (1), a rack wheel (2), a pinion (3), a speed reducer (4), a hydraulic motor (5), a support seat (6), an overturning bearing (7), a transition part (8), a bolt (9), a bolt (10), a bracket (11) and a reinforcer (12). The overturning bearing of an inner gear is arranged in the radome, and a load of the radome is transferred to a bearing inner ring and then transferred to the bracket by virtue of drive of the hydraulic motor, so that a large-size and large-inertia radome rotating function and load transferring are achieved. The rotating and connecting structure is simple, good in force transmission characteristic and light in weight, adopts rotating driving, and adopts a rotating driving, connection and installation method of the aircraft radome. Rotating of the radome can be achieved, the load of the rotating radome is transferred to the bracket, and the problems of large-inertia rotating and load transferring are solved.


Because the pricing equations in Levy models contain integrals, it is difficult to develop rapid numerical methods for solving them. Although the integrals are not periodic, the standard evaluation methods use the FFT, and therefore require large computational regions to ensure accuracy. In earlier work, we developed efficient methods for pricing options in the Merton and Kou double exponential models. The methods rely on the fact that in those models the density functions satisfy ordinary or partial differential equations, so differential methods can be used to evaluate the integrals. In this paper, we present effective numerical methods for pricing options in another Levy model, the Variance Gamma model.


Higher education is facing many challenges, including increased student enrolments, diversification of the student population and decreasing budgets. Meeting the demands of the labour market is another of the major challenges faced by higher education. In the area of meeting demands of the labour market, the role of higher education has significantly changed over the past century. When higher education was still elite education, graduates were certain to find good jobs. Nowadays, getting a higher education degree does not automatically guarantee a good position on the labour market. Between 2008 and 2011, the unemployment rate of young adults with a higher education degree has risen from 3.3% to 4.8% in OECD countries as a result of the economic crisis (OECD, 2013). These figures do not take into account the probably substantial number of graduates who avoided unemployment by accepting jobs for which they are overqualified and in which they are not able to put the skills they acquired in higher education to full use. Questions therefore arise as to whether higher education meets the demands of today's labour market. Could higher education contribute more to the innovative capacities of economies? Should more attention be paid to the so-called 21st century skills? If so, which ones? Should higher education produce more generalists to keep up with the fast changing world? Or should it focus more on producing specialists who can deal with the increasing complexity of the work to be done? Should higher education focus on imparting skills that increase short-term employability, or should it focus on imparting skills that ensure long-term employability? These are not easy questions to answer and we need a more systematic approach for dealing with them. This paper outlines a framework to help think about skill formation in higher education in a more structured way.


Objectives: Aripiprazole is recommended in a dose of 10 and 15 mg/day, with a dose ranging between 10 and 30 mg/day in the treatment of schizophrenia. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety profile of Aripiprazole in low dose of 15 mg versus high dose of 30 mg in the treatment of Schizophrenia.
Methods: A total of 60 patients (not on treatment) between age 18-60 years of either gender who meet the diagnostic criteria as per DSM-IV classification for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. All patients were randomly divided into two groups on single-blind study criteria. Group-I: Aripiprazole 15 mg once a day, morning dose for 6 weeks. Group-II: Aripiprazole 30 mg once a day, morning dose for 6 weeks. The ESRS includes 12 questionnaire items; each item is rated on a 7-point scale. Efficacy assessment included at baseline and at 6 weeks end study scoring on PANSS, EPRS, and CGI.
Results: The total number of patients showed the ESRS (total symptoms) in group-I was 09 patients (35%) out of 26 and in group II, 13 patients (59%) out of total 22 showed the ESRS (total symptoms). In both the groups aripiprazole showed the comparable efficacy by improving overall symptoms in the number of patients. In group I, 20 patients have shown the improvement in overall scores of all scales. In group II, 16 patients have shown the improvement in overall scores in different scales.
Conclusions: Aripiprazole is effective in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders, doses of 15 mg are equally effective as doses of 30 mg, side effects like EPS are more with higher doses of Aripiprazole.


Zimbabwe's urban areas are experiencing a dearth of water services which is epitomized by acute water shortages and high morbidity due to waterborne diseases. The possible contribution of failures of water policy implementation to this state of affairs is explored. This review identifies and assesses 122 studies in Zimbabwe and in other countries that have analyzed water policies, in order to understand the factors which create gaps in policy implementation. It was found that these implementation gaps are mainly a result of capacity limitations in institutions; finances; social and technical/human resources. There is currently very limited literature available that analyses water policy in Zimbabwe. In order to overcome the water conundrums in Zimbabwe's urban areas it is recommended that a literature review combined with an empirical study of both qualitative and quantitative gaps between the ZNWP and its implementation be undertaken. In particular, the review and study should focus on capacity limitations in institutions; finances; social and technical/human resources in Zimbabwe.


The EXPERT mission aims at collecting precise in-flight data during atmospheric re-entry. For this purpose a vehicle was envisaged that is designed especially for that. Almost twenty payloads are on board of the EXPERT capsule which has the shape of a cone with a blunt nose. Four non-moveable flaps are located at the end of the capsule. The nose of the vehicle is made from a ceramic matrix (CMC) composite material. In the nose four exciting experiments are situated. Payload 1 is a Flush Air Data System that measures the pressure and the heat flux in five positions on the nose. Payload 2 collects temperature date on the inside of the ceramic nose at six locations via pyrometric measurements. Payload 10 is a spectrometer that investigates the chemical properties of the boundary layer around the nose via an optical window in the nose. Palyoad 11 is an experiment that deals with the catalycity of materials in the region of the interface of the nose to the adjacent metallic Thermal Protection System (TPS) of the capsule. This paper describes the development of the Instrumented Nose Assembly of the EXPERT capsule, referred to as the NAP, from the design concepts over the analysis and the tests up the flight hardware assembly.


On excellent appearance stability, it has a refreshing feeling in use mild in the oral cavity, provide an excellent cooling sensation and residence realize a liquid oral composition of non ethanol type sustained and a manufacturing method thereof. Ethanol in substantially no liquid oral composition containing, (A) E. O. The average number of moles added 40 to 100 moles of polyoxyethylene hydrogenated castor oil, (B) decaglycerol fatty acid ester, tri-fatty acid glyceryl, an emulsion having an average particle size of 50~500nm consisting of glycerin and water, (C) L- menthol, (D) 3- (L-menthoxy) propane-1,2-diol, (E) glycerin, blended polyhydric alcohol selected from polyethylene glycols of propylene glycol and an average molecular weight from 190 to 630. Above (A), (C), (D) and (E) was blended ingredients, production method of the oral composition to add the component (B).


PURPOSE: An align mark and a plasma display panel using the same are provided to prevent deformation of align mark even in the high temperature heat treatment process including a baking process. CONSTITUTION: An align mark(58) comprises a mask(64) disposed on an upper substrate(40), and which has an align hole for alignment with the upper substrate; and an align portion formed into a groove shape on the upper substrate in such a manner that the align portion corresponds to the align hole of the mask, or formed by a phase shift caused due to the crystallization. A plasma display panel comprises a pair of sustain electrodes formed on a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; an address electrode formed on the second substrate in such a manner that the address electrode is orthogonal to the pair of sustain electrodes; a mask disposed on the first and second substrates, and which determines shape of the sustain electrodes and address electrode; and an align portion formed into a groove, or by a phase shift caused due to the crystallization.


The structure and properties of zeolite-4A modified by hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTMAB) were investigated in this work. Structure characterization proved that surface modification only influenced the external surface structure and properties of zeolite-4A. Properties testing showed that the surface modification improved the dispersity of zeolite - 4/4 in lower polar and non - polar solvents and the adsorbability dyestuff of zeolite-4A in aqueous solution. However, the rate of its Ca2+ ions exchange in aqueous solution reduced


The spiral finned tubes are used as the substitute of bare tubes in heat exchangers, which is an effective method to reduce abrasion and fouling in boilers. The cold state test with PDA system has been made to study the distribution of granule concentration between fins. This experimental research has laid the foundation of analysis for further study why the spiral finned tube can reduce abrasion and fouling.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


This paper presents the fabrication technology for a novel class of photonic devices which integrates silicon 2D photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides and electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical systems. Bimorph cantilevers equipped with tips that are self-aligned relative to the holes of the PhC modulate the propagation properties of the slab PhC depending on the proximity of the tips to the holes. The integrated devices have been successfully fabricated by surface micromachining techniques. Preliminary experiments with these devices have shown 80% throughput modulation using a square-wave drive signal of 0–8 V at 1 kHz.


This article introduces Newton, a specification language for notating the analytic form, units of measure, and sensor signal properties for physical-object-specific invariants and general physical laws. We designed Newton to provide a means for hardware designers (e.g., sensor integrated circuit manufacturers, computing hardware architects, or mechanical engineers) to specify properties of the physical environments in which embedded computing systems will be deployed (e.g., a sensing platform deployed on a bridge versus worn by a human). Compilers and other program analysis tools for embedded systems can use a library interface to the Newton compiler to obtain information about the sensors, sensor signals, and inter-signal relationships imposed by the structure and materials properties of a given physical system. The information encoded within Newton specifications could enable new compile-time transformations that exploit information about the physical world.


In 1930 Mr. Walters acquired a large copper gilt and enameled reliquary1 (Fig. 1) which previously had formed part of the Economo Collection in Paris. The remnants of an inscription (IN ISTA CAPSA SVNT SEQVENTES RELIQe B AMANDI…. on one side and PRO ESSENTIS COMPOSITVVS…. on the other) indicate that it once contained the relics of St. Amandus. Beyond this the records of the museum contain no further information, although one finds difficulty in believing that no account exists concerning the earlier history of so large and important an object.


Abstract The recent introduction of Google Scholar has renewed hope that someday a powerful research tool will bring continuing education literature more quickly, freely, and completely to one's computer. The authors suggest that using Google Scholar with other traditional search methods will narrow the research gap between what is discoverable and available. They present results of an investigation in which the names of two scholars were submitted to research queries using traditional library databases and Google Scholar. While not all of the scholars' academic publications were identified in the search, more were identified by Google Scholar than the other databases. However, other databases identified some that Google Scholar did not. It was evident from this informal analysis that utilizing Google Scholar with other traditional research methods adds value and discoverability in the search for relevant continuing education literature.


Given strong evidence that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are co-factors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition, integration of STD prevention programs is an essential aspect of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) control. The interaction between STDs and HIV is bidirectional and synergistic. HIV-infected persons with a concomitant untreated STD may have enhanced shedding of the virus, thereby increasing transmission efficiency. Moreover, the impaired immunity in HIV-infected persons with an STD is associated with more severe clinical manifestations of that STD and a compromised treatment response. According to numerous prospective studies, the presence of a concurrent STD at the time of unprotected intercourse is associated with an up to five-fold increased risk of HIV infection. The presence of a genital ulcer and either urethritis or cervicitis are highly predictive of seroconversion. Cervical entropy and lack of circumcision further increase the risk of HIV transmission. Preliminary research findings from Thailand and Tanzania suggest that an aggressive AIDS educational campaign, in conjunction with condom distribution and a large-scale STD diagnosis and treatment program, has the potential to slow the rate of HIV seroconversion.


【The effects of spot cooling on growing ever-bearing strawberry in hydroponic cultivation during summer by spot cooling system was estimated in plastic greenhouse located in Pyeongchang. The temperature of cooling water was controlled by heat pump and maintained at the range of $15{\sim}20^{\circ}C$ . Cooling pipes were installed in root zone and very close to crown. Spot cooling effect was estimated by applying system in three cases which were cooling root zone, crown plus root zone, and crown only. White low density polyethylene pipe in nominal diameter of 16 mm was installed on crown spot, and Stainless steel flexible pipe in nominal diameter of 15A was installed in root zone. Crown and root zone cooling water circulation was continuously performed at flowrates of 300 ~ 600 L/hr all day long. Strawberry yields by test beds were surveyed from Aug. 1 to Sep. 30. The accumulated yield growth rate compared with a control bed of crown cooling bed was 25 % and that of crown plus root zone cooling bed was 25 % and that of root zone cooling bed was 20 %. The temperatures of root spot in root zone cooling was maintained at $18{\sim}23.0^{\circ}C$ and that of crown spot in crown cooling was maintained at $19{\sim}24^{\circ}C$ . Also, the temperatures of root spot in crown plus root zone cooling bed was maintained at $17.0{\sim}22.0^{\circ}C$ and that of crown spot was maintained at $19{\sim}25^{\circ}C$ .】


Introduction: there are drugs that stimulate wound healing, but their cost is high. Due to its physico-chemical properties, saccharose is considered to have bactericidal and bacteriostatic properties and stimulate wound healing.


Kyrgyzstan is a country of 4.3 million persons in Central Asia with Kazakhstan bordering to the north, China to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the west, and Tajikistan to the southwest. Among Kyrgyzstan's major ethnic groups, Kyrgyz account of 52% of the population, Russians 22%, and Uzbeks 13%. Since independence Sept. 7, 1991, from the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan has found itself in a very difficult position. The situation in the energy sector is particularly strained. Oil and gas production are minimal, there are no refineries in the country, and all petroleum products are brought in from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Natural gas in supplied from Turkmenistan. Although there are domestic reserves of coal, imports from Russia and Kazakhstan account for 55% of supply. However, there is significant hydropower potential in Kyrgyzstan. Energy officials have clearly identified development of this resource as the path to energy independence and economic progress. An overview of Kyrgyzstan's energy sector is given in this article for crude oil, natural gas, coal resources, electrical power, and investment opportunities.


The Richard B. Kershner Space Integration and Test Facility (Fig. 1) provides laboratory and office space to support the assembly and testing of spacecraft and spacecraft-borne instruments. Environmental test facilities within its 79,000 square feet simulate the rigors of launch and of operations in the vacuum conditions of space. The building contains assembly and test rooms that are clean enough so that precision optical equipment will not be contaminated; laboratories for the development of components for attitude control systems, power system electronics, batteries, and solar arrays; reliability and quality assurance laboratories for the inspection of delicate electronics parts and for failure analysis; and office space for 155 engineers, technicians, draftsmen, and secretaries. At the core of the building's function are areas devoted to the assembly and testing of spacecraft and spacecraft instruments. Five rooms, each with 1000 square feet of floor space, adjoin a staging area served by an overhead crane. Three of the rooms meet Federal Standard clean room requirements of Class 100,000. (These standards will be defined later in this article.) Two rooms are 10 times cleaner, i.e., Class 10,000. Adjacent to that area are two rooms, each with a 240 square foot floor area, that are maintained at Class 100, suitable for the assembly of small space instruments containing delicate optics and particle detectors or as sterile rooms for the assembly of implantable biomedical devices. Joining the assembly and test area are the Space Simulation and the Vibration Test Laboratories. The former contains vacuum chambers for simulating the vacuum and temperature conditions of space and a temperature, humidity, and altitude chamber to simulate environmental extremes on earth. The Vibration Test Laboratory has shakers for vibrating and shocking test articles, thereby simulating environments common to launch vehicles, missiles, and aircraft. Smaller laboratories serve the Satellite Reliability Group. There, new parts are inspected and parts that may have failed to operate properly are analyzed. Nearby are a stockroom for bonded storage of flight hardware and a solar simulation laboratory where spacecraft solar array performance (electrical output characteristics) can be tested.


Optimisation-Based Solution Methods for Set Partitioning Models The scheduling of crew, i.e. the construction of work schedules for crew members, is often not a trivial task, but a complex puzzle. The task is complicated by rules, restrictions, and preferences. Therefore, manual solutions as well as solutions from standard software packages are not always su_cient with respect to solution quality and solution time. Enhancement of the overall solution quality as well as the solution time can be of vital importance to many organisations. The _elds of operations research and mathematical optimisation deal with mathematical modelling of di_cult scheduling problems (among other topics). The _elds also deal with the development of sophisticated solution methods for these mathematical models. This thesis describes the set partitioning model which has been widely used for modelling crew scheduling problems. Integer properties for the set partitioning model are shown, and exact and optimisation-based heuristic solution methods for the model are described. All these methods are centered around the wellknown column generation technique. Di_erent practical applications of crew scheduling are presented, and some of these applications are considered in detail in four included scienti_c papers. It is shown how these applications all _t into a generalisation of the set partitioning model. Each of the four papers contribute a novel solution method for the speci_c application treated in the paper.


This paper presents an ERP system development platform ERP_DSS (Develop Support System) which is based on service components and can be reconstructed. It introduces the design and the implementation of the platformpsilas service process for editing environment in detail. The model resolver of service process is designed for the platform, and the automatic creating process was achieved from service process to some code.


In this paper we characterize *-prime group rings. We prove that the group ring RG of the group G over the ring R is *-prime if and only if R is *-prime and Λ+(G) = (1). In the process we obtain more examples of group rings which are *-prime but not strongly prime.


A concrete filled steel tube (CFT) column with stiffeners has preferable behavior subjected to axial loading condition due to delay local buckling of the steel wall than traditional CFT columns without stiffeners. Welding lines in welded built-up steel box columns is expected to behave as longitudinal stiffeners. This study has presented a numerical investigation into the behavior of built-up concrete filled steel tube columns under axial pressure. At first stage, a finite element model (FE) has been built to simulate the behavior of built-up CFT columns. Comparing the results of FE and test has shown that numerical model passes the desired conditions and could accurately predict the axial performance of CFT column. Also, by the raise of steel tube thickness, the load bearing capacity of columns has been increased due to higher confinement effect. Also, the raise of concrete strength with greater cross section is led to a higher load bearing capacity compared to the steel tube thickness increment. In CFT columns with greater cross section, concrete strength has a higher influence on load bearing capacity which is noticeable in columns with more welding lines.


We show how to measure a steady-state magnon population in a magnetostatic mode of a ferromagnet or ferrimagnet, such as yttrium iron garnet. We adopt an optomechanical approach and utilize the magnetoelasticity of the ferromagnet. The magnetostrictive force dispersively couples magnons to the deformation displacement of the ferromagnet, which is proportional to the magnon population. By further coupling the mechanical displacement to an optical cavity that is resonantly driven by a weak laser, the magnetostrictively induced displacement can be sensed by measuring the phase quadrature of the optical field. The phase shows an excellent linear dependence on the magnon population for a not very large population, and can thus be used as a 'magnometer' to measure the magnon population. We further study the effect of thermal noises, and find a high signal-to-noise ratio even at room temperature. At cryogenic temperatures, the resolution of magnon excitation numbers is essentially limited by the vacuum fluctuations of the phase, which can be significantly improved by using a squeezed light.


Tuning of spin–orbit coupling and electron correlation effects in pyrochlore iridates is considered for many interesting phenomena. We have investigated the temperature evolution of structural, magnetic, and electronic properties in doped Y2(Ir1–xTix)2O7 (x = 0.0, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15), where the substitution of nonmagnetic Ti4+ (3d0) for Ir4+ (5d5) amounts to dilution of the magnetic network and tuning of these parameters in an opposite way. The system retains its original structural symmetry, but local structural parameters show an evolution with Ti content. Although the magnetic transition temperature is not largely influenced, both the magnetic moment and the magnetic frustration decrease with Ti doping. Magnetic relaxation measurement shows that the parent compound Y2Ir2O7 as well as its Ti-doped analogues are in a nonequilibrium magnetic state, where the magnetic relaxation rate increases with Ti. Temperature-dependent Raman measurements indicate no changes in the structural symmetry; however,...


Being as unique nonlinear components of block ciphers,substitution boxes(S-boxes) directly affect the security of the cryptographic systems.It is important and difficult to design cryptographically strong S-boxes that simultaneously meet with multiple cryptographic criteria such as bijection,non-linearity,strict avalanche criterion(SAC),bits independence criterion(BIC),differential probability(DP) and linear probability(LP).To deal with this problem,a chaotic S-box based on the artificial bee colony algorithm(CSABC) is designed.It uses the S-boxes generated by the six-dimensional compound hyperchaotic map as the initial individuals and employs ABC to improve their performance.In addition,it considers the nonlinearity and differential uniformity as the fitness functions.A series of experiments have been conducted to compare multiple cryptographic criteria of this algorithm with other algorithms.Simulation results show that the new algorithm has cryptographically strong S-box while meeting multiple cryptographic criteria.


The effect of nitrogen doping on the profiles of oxygen precipitates in Czochralski (CZ) silicon subjected to conventional annealing and rapid thermal annealing (RTA) has been investigated. After conventional high-low-high three-step annealing (1150 °C, 4 h + 650 °C, 128 h + 1050 °C, 16 h), it was found that an M-like oxygen precipitate profile existed in the cross section of a nitrogen-doped CZ silicon (NCZ-Si) wafer; however, this was not the case in conventional CZ silicon (CZ-Si) wafers. In contrast to conventional annealing, after rapid thermal annealing (RTA) followed by a low-high two-step annealing (800 °C, 8 h + 1050 °C, 16 h), an M-like oxygen precipitate profile existed in the cross section of the CZ-Si wafer but not in the NCZ-Si wafer. It is suggested that not only vacancies but also nitrogen doping have an influence on the oxygen precipitate profile. In addition, the relevant mechanism is discussed.


Despite the limited amount of information that is available to the observer of a moving light display, humans are able to infer detailed information about the activity and identity of the actors within the film. The development of a system, which uses such displays to recognise different types of human motion, is described using a spatio-temporal neural network to classify different temporal sequences of movement. ART architectures are employed to adapt and maintain the learned codes of the network providing real-time learning and stability against insignificant events.


"The Hostess Phenomenon in Japan in the Drama Cabasuka Gakuen by Director Takashi Kubota" is the title of this study. The purpose of this study is to learn more about the phenomenon, the duties of a hostess, and the efforts made by the hostess to deliver the best possible service. The descriptive analysis method was employed in this study. Service Theory, Semiotics Theory, and Sociology of Literature Theory are the theories utilized. According to the study's findings, it is known that the hostess phenomenon can be seen in three ways, 1) factors that cause someone to become a hostess, there are (1) bad financial conditions; (2) does not have an education degree; 2) the qualifications of a hostess; 3) the job of a hostess, there are (1) welcoming clients; (2) serving clients; (3) take the client out when finished visiting. A hostess makes the following efforts to give the best service: (1) maintaining an attractive appearance; (2) being adaptable in all circumstances; (3) listening to client complaints; (4) becoming familiar with the terms used in the cabaret club; and (5) fulfilling client requests outside the cabaret club. The findings of this study show that the desire of high school students to work as hostesses, which is thought to be an easy job to obtain and do, is actually not as easy as assumed. In order to keep their place, hosts must compete with one another.


Andriani Skopeliti 1 Lysandros Tsoulos 2 Cartography Laboratory, Faculty of Rural and Surveying Engineering National Technical University of Athens H. Polytechniou 9, 157 80 Zographou Campus, Athens, Greece Tel: +30 +1+772-2730 Fax: +30+1+772-2734 email: firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com ABSTRACT Generalization of linear features is considered to be among the most important generalization operations. This is due to the fact, that the majority of map features are represented as lines or polygons, which are bounded by lines. Usually the results of a generalization transformation are evaluated visually, mostly based on aesthetic criteria and less on the qualitative/quantitative assessment of the result. Generalization of digital data is an analytic procedure and thus specific criteria must be developed for the evaluation of the results. This paper elaborates a methodology enabling the assessment of linear features generalization integrity, through the utilization of specific tools. Measures are used to describe quantitatively the effects of generalization and assessment tools determine whether specific constraints are satisfied. New measures for the quantification of shape change due to generalization, based on the parametric description of line shape, are used along with measures for the assessment of the horizontal position error. Specific conditions are checked, utilizing the measures and the interpretation of the post-generalization situation. The application of alternative generalization schemas and assessment tools to the original data, result to the selection of the optimal solution. In this way structural knowledge is related to a specific generalization solution and procedural knowledge is acquired.


from two elastic strains, one associated with the twin boundary and the other with the lattice distortion at the tip region. The tangent of the angle at the tip which was calculated from the model agrees with experimental observations sufficiently well. The growth mechanism of the twinned domains is analyzed with an energy minimization approach. The similarities of transformation characteristics in this system to those of other systems are briefly discussed.


With regard to the practice, which goes against the educational and psychological laws and quality-oriented education, in the current PE teaching mode at universities or colleges, this paper attempts, by analyzing it with document research, to call teachers' attention to it and renovate their notions for education so that they can break through the traditional teaching mode and improve the present teaching mode to advance quality-oriented education.


Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is a key-enzyme for design of new drugs against Chagas disease. Herein, molecular inhibition mechanism of GAPDH involving 1,3-bisphospho-D-glyceric acid (1,3-BPGA) analogs were studied using the hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) approach and molecular dynamic simulations. The analysis of the binding contribution of the individual residues shows that Lys209, Asp210, Arg212, Thr167, Thr197, Thr199, Ser224, Thr226, Ser247, Arg249, water molecules, and NAD+ are responsible for stabilization of the protein-inhibitor complexes. The results obtained suggest that Arg249 plays an important role in the GAPDH-inhibitor complex and might induce the compression of the 1,3-BPGA analogs inside the active site of GAPDH. In addition, analysis of QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations have shown that the extended conformation 1,3-BPGA analogs contribute to biological activity of these compounds. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


ABSTRACT: The present paper describes one new genus Parvarhynchus gen. nov. with two new species, Parvarhynchus aligarhensis sp. nov. and Parvarhynchus shishodiai sp. nov., and one new combination, Parvarhynchus japonicus comb. nov. of tribe Copiphorini (Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from India. A key to Indian genera of Copiphorini, illustrations and morphometric ranges of all the described and reported species have been provided. All type specimens have been deposited in the Zoology Department, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.


Workshop training is a kind of interactive training model,which can strengthen the interaction and cooperation between the trainer and the trainee. It encourages learner participation,interaction,learning in doing and doing in learning. Learners experience teaching themselves,share knowledge and experience,and solve practical problems together,thus improving the teaching ability of the English teachers.


Automated connectivity checking with formal verification Tom Anderson Formal verification traditionally has been regarded as an advanced technique for experts to thoroughly verify individual blocks of logic, or perhaps small clusters of blocks. The appeal of formal techniques is the exhaustive analysis of all possible behavior for the design being verified. This stands in sharp contrast to simulation, which exercises only a tiny fraction of possible behavior by running specific tests. If no test triggers a design bug, the bug will not be found. If the bug is triggered but no change in results is observed, the bug will not be found. Given a sufficiently robust set of properties to describe intended behavior, formal tools can not only find all bugs but also prove that there are no more bugs to be found. Today, many more users can take advantage of the power of formal verification, and most of them are not experts. There are several reasons why formal adoption has grown so much. The broad deployment of standardized formats, most notably the SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) subset, has reduced the level of expertise needed to write formal properties. Model-based mutation coverage can identify those parts of the design not covered by assertions, providing valuable guidance to users. Formal tools now have more automation and simulation-like debug features, making them easier to use. Regular breakthroughs in the power and performance of formal algorithms enable use on large blocks and clusters unimaginable just a few years ago. However, the primary reason for the wider use of formal verification is that the majority of users are running applications ("apps") targeted for specific verification challenges. Apps typically generate most, or all, of the properties needed for formal analysis, with algorithms and tool features tuned for the target application. The result is a "pushbutton" solution requiring minimal training even for users with no formal experience. Further, apps are so efficient that many are run at the full-chip level even for very large system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The goal remains finding all bugs and proving that all bugs have been found, but only those bugs related to the specific challenge being addressed.


The Afghanistan File is a first-hand account of Saudi Arabia's involvement with the Mujahideen during and after the Afghan-Soviet War by Prince Turki AlFaisal AlSaud and Michael Field. The son of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906–1975), Prince Turki served as head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Directorate (GID) for 24 years from 1977 to 2001 and later served as Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom and United States. Prince Turki explains that during his time as GID head, 'almost' the entire time he was 'above all' focused on Afghanistan (p. xvii). He credits King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (1924–2015), then a crown prince, with the idea for writing the memoir, quoting him as commenting that people in other countries gave their perspectives but there was no Saudi book to rebut false claims about Saudi Arabia. Beyond Prince Turki's memories, the books also draw on other figures who were interviewed for the book, including former Afghan and Saudi intelligence officers. Prince Turki sees his intelligence work on Afghanistan consisting of three phases. The first is Saudi Arabia, through the GID, aiding the Mujahideen resistance against the Soviet Union from 1979 to 1992. Most of the book is centred around this subject with Prince Turki detailing his travels, interactions, and specific meetings with Afghani, American, Pakistani and Saudi leaders as well as others, such as his 'former press adviser' Jamal Khashoggi (1958–2018) (who is also thanked in the acknowledgements). The book begins with Prince Turki describing the day the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and the conversations he held with other governments. Notably, Pakistan was particularly concerned about the Soviet Union also occupying parts of Pakistan and the impact of an India-friendly government in Kabul. He details, for example, meeting the Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan (1924–1988), in Riyadh during 1980 and days later Saudi Arabia sending $2 million in cash to the Pakistani government to be spent 'as it wished' (p. 6). Subsequently, American officials, at the insistence of Pakistani President General Zia-ul-Haq (1924–1988), worked with Prince Turki and other Saudi officials to match funds for the resistance and purchase weapons. Prince Turki also describes aspects of Saudi bureaucratic culture, writing: 'It tends to be the Kingdom's policy to have just one department and one small team of people around the head of that department handling any particular issue' (p. 12). He further notes that he authorized 'every payment' made by the GID and how the selection of a spokesperson for the Mujahideen came from his orders of putting the leaders in a conference room and forcing them to speak with a single voice. The total sum tallied for Saudi government expenditures to the Mujahideen was $2.71 billion, not including private donations.


Background: TbBILBO1 is the only known component of the flagellar pocket collar, a cytoskeletal structure in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei. Results: The TbBILBO1 N-terminal domain has a ubiquitin-like fold with a conserved surface patch; overexpression of constructs with a mutagenized patch is lethal. Conclusion: The conserved surface patch is essential for TbBILBO1 function. Significance: The surface patch is a potential therapeutic target. TbBILBO1 is the only known component of the flagellar pocket collar, a cytoskeletal barrier element found in trypanosomes. The N-terminal domain (NTD) of TbBILBO1 was found to be dispensable for targeting of the protein in vivo. However, overexpression of constructs lacking the NTD caused complete growth inhibition, implying an essential requirement for this domain. A high resolution structure of the NTD of TbBILBO1 showed that it forms a ubiquitin-like fold with a conserved surface patch. Mutagenesis of this patch recapitulated the phenotypic effects of deleting the entire domain and was found to cause cell death. The surface patch on the NTD of TbBILBO1 is therefore a potential drug target.


In order to estimate the health risk associated with a low dose radiation, the fundamental process of the radiation effects in a living cell must be understood. It is desired that an electron bunch or photon pulse precisely knock a cell nucleus and DNA. The required electron energy and electronic charge of the bunch are several tens keV to 1 MeV and 0.1 fC to 1 fC, respectively. The smaller beam size than micron is better for the precise observation. Since the laser-driven dielectric electron accelerator seems to suite for the compact micro-beam source, a phase-modulation-masked-type laser-driven dielectric accelerator was studied. Although the preliminary analysis made a conclusion that a grating period and an electron speed must satisfy the matching condition of LG/λ = v/c, a deformation of a wavefront in a pillar of the grating relaxed the matching condition and enabled the slow electron to be accelerated. The simulation results by using the free FDTD code, Meep, showed that the low energy electron of 20 keV felt the acceleration field strength of 20 MV/m and gradually felt higher field as the speed was increased. Finally the ultra relativistic electron felt the field strength of 600 MV/m. The Meep code also showed that a length of the accelerator to get energy of 1 MeV was 3.8 mm, the required laser power and energy were 11 GW and 350 mJ, respectively. Restrictions on the laser was eased by adopting sequential laser pulses. If the accelerator is illuminated by sequential N pulses, the pulse power, pulse width and the pulse energy are reduced to 1/N, 1/N and 1/N2, respectively. The required laser power per pulse is estimated to be 2.2 GW when ten pairs of sequential laser pulse is irradiated.


This research investigated the mediating role of psychological safety in the relationship between self-sacrificial leadership and employee voice. We used a two-wave survey to collect data from a sample of 329 Master of Business Administration students at two universities in North China. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results show that self-sacrificial leadership had a direct positive effect on employee voice, and psychological safety partially mediated this relationship. Our findings expand the literature on the self-sacrificial leadership–employee voice link, and highlight the importance of the role of psychological safety. This study has practical implications for managers seeking to develop a self-sacrificial leadership style to encourage employees to express constructive opinions about work-related issues.


Patient with abdominal pain and diarrhea. CT shows tumor located in the root of the mesentery and partially calcified tumor in the terminal ileum. In addition, there is a cystic in the neck of the pancreas. Elevated blood serotonin. Operative findings: eight tumors in the terminal ileum and a tumor in the root of the mesentery, with retractile fibrosis. Partial resection of the ileum, right hemi-colectomy and lymphadenectomy of the lymph nodes close to the ileocolic vessels and right middle colic it´s performed. Tumor has positive expression of chromogranin A and synaptophysin. Mitotic index 1/2 mm2 and K-67 1%. DNA sequencing does not identify copy number changes, translocations, or gene fusions. Tumor mutation load (TMB) is one Mut/Mb. There is microsatellite stability and the mutational signature, is not detected. Tumors (SI-NETs) with TMB above 10 Mut/Mb respond to association with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Pharmacological treatments for (SI-NETs) with low TMB may be ineffective. In addition, prophylactic lymph node dissection (SI-NETs) with low TMB may disrupt the immune surveillance system. For an effective surgical treatment, it is necessary to know beforehand the mutational load of the tumor by liquid biopsy from circulating DNA


Yi Jing is highly reputed as a representative masterpiece of the ancient Chinese Classics,literarily and philosophically. On the levels of word,syntax and rhetorics,the analysis and study of poetic characteristics of Yi Jing will be carried out to explore the rules and skills of translation of Yi Jing,thus,to achieve a maximum translation effect on the display of charm of Culture Classics.


The acrofacial dysostosis (AFD) syndromes are an heterogeneous group of disorders with undefined classification and inheritance. We report the sonographic and clinical features of an AFD fetus with predominantly pre-axial forms. We made a prenatal diagnosis of Nager syndrome but postnatal examination showed post-axial defects previously undetectable by ultrasound.


The Fifth UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook was held at Guilin, China, from 26 to 28 October 2011. This forum was jointly organized by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Pacific Asian Travel Association in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Guilin Municipal People's Government. This year's forum was the fifth of its kind which has designated Guilin as its permanent conference venue. It drew attendees from about 20 countries and regions including the USA, the UK, France, Australia, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Samoa, Dominican Republic, Nepal, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan. This year's forum was themed around innovation and diversification in tourism. It was believed that innovation and diversification have an important role to play in facilitating product development and the recovery of the industry from the financial crisis. In particular, this forum aimed to


Abstract In Historical GIS or spatial history, the lack of data is a common problem. In particular, high-resolution population surface models are needed for detailed analyses of segregation and population change. Combining highly accurate poll tax registers with spatial data allows the creation of accurate high-resolution population grid models. However, geolocating data for individual households is time-consuming. This paper presents a novel method for a data aggregation based on page sums recorded in original documents. The study inspected the accuracy of the aggregation method based on the effect on the spatial segregation index (S). Since the effect of the aggregation on the index is consistently around 10 per cent, the method allows diachronic research on the changing levels of segregation. This facilitates the study of spatial history of the segregation in urban space.


The problem of elastic sliding in the 'wheel road surface' contact is considered. A mathematical surface interaction model is developed. The model presented here suggests that the road surface deformation processes can be neglected. The wheel is modeled as a set of elastic rim sectors mounted on an elastic disc. The model dynamics is mainly influenced by the interaction force of the rim sectors with the wheel center, the intersectional interaction force, and the contact surface interaction force. The experimental studies using numerical simulation methods are conducted. It is discovered that there is a dependence of the stalling load value on the other wheel properties. The obtained results are of interest for solving problems on the wheel motion control to prevent the contact disruption. The used holistic approach allows identifying the emergence that influences the overall system trajectory.


In this paper, we establish a data model for the feature extraction of point scatterers in the presence of motion through resolution cell (MTRC) errors and unknown noise, the data model is a sum of 2-dimensional sinusoidal signals with quadratic phase errors, which are caused by 'range walk' and 'variable range rate' respectively. Based on the data model, we propose a parametric RELAX-based algorithm to extract the target features when there are MTRC errors in radar imaging. The algorithm minimizes a complicated nonlinear least-squares (NLS) cost function, and it is performed alternately by letting only the parameters and errors of one scatterer vary and freezing all others at their most recently determined values. The Cramer-Rao bounds (CRB's) for the parameters of the data model are also derived. We compare the performance of the proposed algorithm with the CRB's by simulation. And the results show that the mean squared errors of the parameter estimates obtained by the algorithm can approach the corresponding CRB's. Then we apply the algorithm to the simulated radar data with MTRC errors. The proposed algorithm generates 'focused' point image with higher resolution, which conforms the algorithm and the data model.


Abstract We extend the inference procedure for the synthetic control method in two ways. First, we propose parametric weights for the p-value that includes the equal weights benchmark of Abadie et al. [1]. By changing the value of this parameter, we can analyze the sensitivity of the test's result to deviations from the equal weights benchmark. Second, we modify the RMSPE statistic to test any sharp null hypothesis, including, as a specific case, the null hypothesis of no effect whatsoever analyzed by Abadie et al. [1]. Based on this last extension, we invert the test statistic to estimate confidence sets that quickly show the point-estimates' precision, and the test's significance and robustness. We also extend these two tools to other test statistics and to problems with multiple outcome variables or multiple treated units. Furthermore, in a Monte Carlo experiment, we find that the RMSPE statistic has good properties with respect to size, power and robustness. Finally, we illustrate the usefulness of our proposed tools by reanalyzing the economic impact of ETA's terrorism in the Basque Country, studied first by Abadie and Gardeazabal [2] and Abadie et al. [3].


This study provides descriptive evidence on 897 voluntary accounting changes from 1995 to 2010 where managers exercised discretion by voluntarily changing to a preferable accounting principle and their auditors approved such changes. Our results reveal that manager use of voluntary accounting changes varies by industry, issue type, and materiality. Managers most commonly use accounting terminology to justify the new principle, and managers' justifications for these changes vary by issue type and materiality of the change. We also provide evidence of variation in industry, issue type, materiality, and directionality by the auditors approving voluntary accounting changes. Our study informs academics as they study the joint effects of managers' use and auditors' approval of accounting discretion and informs standard setters, regulators, and audit practitioners as they develop policies about financial reporting discretion and voluntary accounting changes.


Historically, Jesus' supposed blasphemy before the Sanhedrin consisted in the claim that he would sit at God's right hand and come with the clouds of heaven, a divine mode of transport. Though replaced with "the Power" in public reporting, "Yahweh" in Jesus' actual quotation of Ps 110:1 made the supposed blasphemy deserving of death in agreement with m. Sanh. 7:5.


Abstract : The goal of this project was to construct a completely realistic testbed for cyber-security research. This testbed was intended to support the functioning of networks of 1000+ virtual machines in real time, and support the launching of real attacks, logging them in a database, and building classifiers to detect them. All of these goals have been accomplished. Several large networks have been built, and they can be run faster than real time. The primary significance of this testbed is that we can implement and evaluate defensive methods quickly and realistically. Also, we can evaluate the relative strengths of various data mining methods in cyber-security. Our plan for the next year is to add support for mobile wireless nodes in our virtual networks and improve the automation of the construction of networks. We plan to use our improved testbed to evaluate ensemble classification methods and to test the use of nonlinear classification methods on attack data.


The US Department of Energy (DOE) will support the construction of three small nuclear reactors at its Savannah River Site in South Carolina.


INTRODUCTIONIs it a boy or a girl? Almost automatically after birth, every newly born person is gendered. In fact, the sex/gender of the newborn acts as a pre-requisite for his/her recognition as a human being. As argued by Judith Butler, the sex/gender of a person acts as the ontological basis for his/her body to become intelligibly human.1 In turn, individuals who do not appear to be "properly" gendered have their own humanity put into question.2One of the sources of the sex/gender regulatory system that discursively transforms observed genitalia into sex/gender is the law.3 The law plays an essential role in the regulation of individuals' identities, which certainly includes their sexes/genders.4 Every person is constructed by the law as a legal woman or a legal man,5 and this legally imposed sex/gender is the first assumption of a person's identity. Indeed, the legal attribution of a sex/gender to a person has the value of a truth that is, at the same time, read in and imposed on the body. As asked and answered by Michel Foucault in his introduction to "Herculine Barbin":Do we truly need a true sex? With a persistence that borders on stubbornness, modern Western societies have answered in the affirmative. They have obstinately brought into play this question of a "true sex" in an order of things where one might have imagined that all that counted was the reality of the body and the intensity of its pleasures.6Furthermore, the law's sex/gender system is not only mandatory, but is also conceived in terms of an oppositional man/woman binary. These two sexes/genders are conceived as ontologically opposite; therefore, belonging to one of the sexes/genders implies being excluded from the other. In fact, the law can only comprehend its subjects as legally sexed/gendered in a binary manner, problematizing every individual that does not fit properly within the binary understanding of these categories.7 This article is about the problematization of the bodies that do not fit the normalizing sex/ gender model.The article will resort to queer theory as a methodological tool for analyzing legal discourse. Queer theory works within a post- structuralist understanding of identities that contests their stability, challenging not only the fixity of categories such as sex, gender and sexuality, but also the traditional construction of these characteristics as opposed binaries.8 In particular, Butler's work will be used for its understanding of the link between sex and gender and the possibility of imagining identities that transcend the binary understanding of sex/ gender.9Since the early 1970s it has become usual within feminist theory to distinguish between the categories of sex and gender.10 While sex was understood in terms of biological differences, regarding genitalia and procreative functions, gender was considered to be a cultural creation that refers to a differential social classification between men and women.11 However, queer theory proposes a different understanding of the sex/gender dynamics.12 From a queer perspective, both sex and gender should be understood as cultural constructions.13 In fact, what might prove to be the case is that the distinction between sex and gender is no distinction at all.14 Sex can be understood to be gender, since the sex/gender attributed to individuals is always culturally created.15 Yet more, Butler affirmed that the cultural character of gender and sex, coupled with the absence of a needed causal relation between both notions, suggested that the binary conceptions of gender and sex are actually unnecessary.16 Since neither sex nor gender is a pre-discursive notion that is fixed on the individuals, both notions could be re-conceived outside the limited categorical binary manner in which they exist.17 Therefore, following Butler, this article will not distinguish the concepts sex and gender and it will dare to envision a queer existence beyond the binary understanding of sex/gender identities. …


Monosomics lack a pairing partner in each meiotic cell, and genes on an entire chromosome are present in the hemizygous condition. We have isolated monosomics for chromosomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in Zea mays utilizing a recently-discovered system. This is the only series of this type that has been recovered in any diploid organism. The monosomic plants are surprisingly vigorous, good cytological samples can be taken, and crosses can be made. We are isolating all possible monosomic types and characterizing them by studying: (1) the cytology of meiosis, (2) the cytological behavior of univalent chromosomes, (3) the effect of monosomy and trisomy on intergenic and intragenic recombination, (4) the frequency and types of spontaneous chromosomal aberrations arising in monosomics, (5) the effect of aneuploidy on the relative amounts of specific fatty acids in embryos, (6) monosomic mutational mapping, (7) the effect of monosomy on pollen exine morphology with the scanning electron microscope, and (8) the effect of monosomy on DIMBOA levels. We are also developing test systems utilizing maize to detect the environmental or genetic induction of non-disjunction. This study has discovered genetic factors that control the meiotic process, genetic recombination, lipid biosynthesis, andmore » the free amino acid pool.« less


The paper presents research a of abrasive waterjet cutting of heterogeneous "sandwich" material with different Young modulus of elasticity of the cutted surface geometry by means of vibration emission. In order to confirm hypothetical assumptions about direct relation between vibration emission and surface quality an experiment in heterogeneous material consisting of stainless steel (DIN 1.4006 / AISI410) and alloy AICuMg2 has been provided.


Motion-compensating long-term memory prediction extends the spatial displacement utilized in block-based hybrid video coding by a variable time delay permitting the use of more frames than the previously decoded one for motion compensation. The long-term memory covers the decoded frames of some seconds at encoder and decoder. We investigate the influence of memory size in our motion compensation scheme and analyze the trade-off between the bit-rates spent for motion compensated prediction and residual coding. Simulation results are obtained by integrating long-term memory prediction into an H.263 codec. PSNR improvements up to 2 dB for the Foreman sequence and 1.5 dB for the Mother-Daughter sequence are demonstrated in comparison to the TMN-2.0 H.263 coder.


Microglia in the brain are exquisitely vigilant to their surroundings. They are dispersed throughout the brain parenchyma where they continually receive and integrate large numbers of incoming signals. They become activated once a tightly controlled signalling threshold is reached. This can lead to a cascade of cellular and molecular changes culminating in the recognition and engulfment of self and non-self structures ranging from macromolecules to whole cells depending on the initiating signal. Once internalised, they digest and where appropriate, present antigens to aid future recognition of pathogens. Their response to pathogenic signals in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) has long been recognised, but recent genetic findings have cemented their direct causal contribution to AD and thus the potential to target them or their effector pathways as a possible treatment strategy. Around 25% of the ~84 AD risk genes have enriched or exclusive expression in microglia and/or are linked to immune function*. Ongoing work suggests many of these genes connect within important microglial molecular networks as ligand activators ( IL34 ), immune receptors ( TREM2, MS4A4A, HLA-DQA1 & CD33 ), signalling intermediates ( PLCG2 , PTK2B & INPP5D) or effector mechanisms (ABI3 & EPHA1 ). In some cases, evidence links them to specific core pathogenic immune responses and cell mechanisms such as complement (CR1 & CLU) or cytoskeletal machinery ( ABI3 , EPHA1 and FERMT2 ). However, more work is needed to establish whether these risk variants lead to gain or loss of protein function and to connect them to other genes within effector pathways and downstream cell processes which themselves could be tractable targets for treatment development. Brain tissue analysis and cell models of genetic risk carriers will help enormously to


In this paper we present the system MARS which has been designed for potential database users working with retrieval systems. It is an instrument that is to assist the retriever in specifying the search queries. MARS is an aid for increasing termprecision as well as for finding previously unknown terms which are morphologically related to user search terms. This is achieved by way of linguistic procedures as opposed to conventional mechanical operations such as truncation etc. The morpheme lexicon and the morphological decomposition procedures are described briefly. MARS was put to the test in a real-world situation the results of which will be presented.


Since 2008, macroalgal blooms of Ulva Prolifera (also called green tide) have occurred every summer in the Yellow Sea (YS), which has caused environmental and economic problems. In recent years, a variety of detection algorithms for green tide have been proposed. However, the extraction thresholds of each algorithm are uncertain because of atmospheric conditions, the distribution of green tides, etc. In this paper, Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) data and Landsat- 8 data were used to explore the threshold stability of some common detection algorithms for green tide, including the AFAI, DVI, EVI, IGAG, and NDVI. Four scenes of GOCI satellite data from 2016 to 2018 were selected for the experiments. The first step was to extract the green tide areas in one region to determine the threshold for each algorithm. In this step, the extraction results of the Landsat-8 data, which has a resolution of 30 m, was seen as the true value of the green tide coverage. Then, we determined the threshold value for each algorithm by visual inspection. The thresholds determined in the first step were used to extract the green tide area in the other three regions, and the extraction results were compared by visual contrast. A comparison of the extraction precision for each algorithm in the other three regions indicated that the threshold stability of the AFAI algorithm was the best among these data in the YS region.


ABSTRACT This study was designed to characterize the protective capacity of phloretin against acute liver oxidative injury induced by CCl4 in mice. Administration of phloretin at 100, 200 and 500 mg/kg·bw orally daily in mice for 21 consecutive days, prior to intraperitoneal injection of 0.5% CCl4/peanut oil (ip, 0.3 mL), significantly reduced the CCl4-induced inhibition of serum alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase and lactic dehydrogenase activities. Furthermore, phloretin elevated glutathione and superoxide dismutase activities and reduced formation of malonaldehyde in the liver of mice, when compared with CCl4-intoxication mice. Moreover, phloretin also prevented the CCl4-caused liver histological alteration, as indicated by histopathological evaluation. These data collectively demonstrated the potential prospect of phloretin as functional ingredient to prevent liver injury.


Local area network (LAN) access is the top vector for insider threats and misuses according to the Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report. Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is often exploited by the attackers who have gained access to the LAN. It is critical for students to learn how attacks on ARP work and know the countermeasures. In an earlier work, authors developed a hands-on lab to help students learn how an ARP spoofing attack works by asking them to create and send attack packets. To enhance learning further, we present an interactive visualization tool that intuitively shows the effects of the ARP spoofing attack in real-time. The Hacker Graphical User Interface (HGUI) is an interactive visualization tool developed to assist students in learning how ARP Spoofing works. By modeling a controlled ARP Spoofing attack using virtual machines, we give students the ability to alter elements of the attack by interacting with the visualization. This tool was developed using Processing, an open source programming language used in many visual art communities. It runs on virtual machines installed with Kali Linux. This tool animates attack packets, normal packets, and the status of ARP cache in real-time. If students have successfully carried out the ARP spoofing attack, they can see the normal packets being routed to the attacker machine and the victim's ARP cache being poisoned. In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of the lab. Tests were conducted to measure the performance of students before and after using this tool. We also gave students surveys after they completed the hands-on lab. The result shows that this tool can significantly enhance students' understanding of the concept of ARP spoofing attacks and motivate them in learning more about cyber security.


A procedure for the preparation of pycnidium-forming fungi, inside host tissues, for observation by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been developed, and consists of removal of mucilage from the pycnidium followed by fixation, embedding, and precision sectioning of pycnidia before final SEM preparation. The fungus tissues were fixed in glutaraldehyde and uranyl acetate. Tissues were prevented from collapsing by using glycerol substitution followed by air drying. The total procedure allows for direct comparisons, using the same sections, for light microscopy and SEM. Six species from the order Sphaeropsidales (Septoria avenae, S. avenae f, sp. triticea, S. nodorum, S. tritici, Darluca filum, and Phoma medicaginis) were used as experimental organisms; although only two species, S. avenae and S. tritici are pictorially represented.


Many people with mental illness face the double challenges. Not only do they struggle with the symptoms of their illness, they also struggle with the stigma that the society has towards their illness. Through this creative project, I would like to discuss how stigma towards mental illness affects those who suffer from it negatively, and how letting go of stigma benefits those who are mentally ill and those who are not. I use Erving Goffman's theory on social stigma, and another theory regarding self-stigma by Patrick W. Corrigan and Deepa Rao. These theories helped me understand how a stigma can be internalized by people with mental illness, and how it further worsens their symptoms. Moreover, the theories helped me create my story and my characters as realistically as possible and suggest a plausible solution for the problem through my story. My project is in the form of a romance drama short film screenplay. It tells the story of Jae-in Kim, a counselor in a suicide hotline, who is falling for a guy named Jon-young Park. They have been talking on Facebook for months, and when they are about to meet for the first time, she suddenly finds some similarities between him and a depressed guy who often makes suicidal calls to the hotline. It makes her reluctant to build a deeper relationship with him, which becomes a barrier for their relationship, and also challenges her perceptions towards people with mental illness. At the end, when she finally lets go of her stigma, their relationship gets better, and she becomes more inspired to help the mentally ill through her job.


where N [t, t + ] is a right continuous integer-valued function that jumps 1 at each event time and is constant otherwise. Thus, N [t, t+ ] counts the number of events in the interval (t, t+ ], and x is a general state variable of the system. Here, we assume a shot noise dynamics as described by Eq. (1) in the main text governs the state variable x. The hazard function for neuronal ensembles can be derived from a field master equation of the system as it is stated in Eq. (B.1) [13]. Generally, a full master equation assumes an infinite reservoir of entities and sparse interaction among them (the underling assumptions of mean-field theory). Therefore, it results that the fluctuation in the inputs are incoherent and sufficiently uncorrelated. This allows to apply the method of elimination of fast variables [6] given the slow state variable x [13]. Indeed, it can be shown that the hazard function is the response function of a neuron in the presence of noise, which can be derived by the Fokker-Planck approximation of the mean field master equation [16, 2] as described in [9] for the mean-adaptation theory. In [13] it is shown that the Kramer rate function [5]


The effects of dietary 18 :3n-3 on the fatty acid composition of total lipids and lipid classes of pig tissues were investigated. Pigs (n = 25) were fed diets containing 18 :3n-3 at 0% (control), 1.5% (LNA1), 2.5% (LNA2), and 3.6% (LNA3). The total lipid content of the tissues was not affected by dietary treatment. Feeding LNA1, LNA2, and LNA3 diets increased (P < 0.05) the 18 :3n-3 and 20 :5n-3 content in the total lipids, triglyceride, phosphatidylethanolamine, and phosphatidylcholine of all tissues except brain. The enrichment of 18 :3n-3 was mainly in the triglycerides. Long-chain n-6 and n-3 fatty acids were incorporated in the phosphatidylethanolamine. Arachidonic acid and monounsaturated fatty acids were reduced in the phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine of all tissues except for brain by dietary 18 :3n-3. The 22 :6n-3 content of brain was not altered by dietary 18 :3n-3, indicating a resistance of brain tissue to dietary manipulation.


The rerating possibilities of compressors are discussed. Start ing from the characteristic equations for design purposes, the relevant design parameters are specified. Concerning the rerat ing of axial compressors, methods are suggested for the rerating of axial compressors and for centrif ugal compressors. Examples of revamped compressors are presented.


GaAs MMICs were reliability life tested under accelerated high temperature conditions while operating under normal bias conditions under RF drive. These circuits (EG6010 power amplifiers) were standard evaluation circuit (SEC) deliverables on the US Department of Defense ARPA MIMIC Program. The median life, t50, was found to be 1/spl times/10/sup 7/ hours at a channel temperature of 140/spl deg/C, with an activation energy of 1.4 eV. Failure analysis revealed that circuit degradation and burnout were the result of failure of the field effect transistors (FETs). Hot spots were found to occur at the FET fingers that were covered by air bridges and could not be plated with gold for better heat dissipation. Excess leakage currents at the hot spots were found to be responsible for circuit degradation and burnout.


The research is focused on the theoretical study of the Lyapunov stability of the evolution of a dynamical system depending on parameters. It is described an original method of separation between the stable and unstable zones, in the plane of chosen principal parameters. In the paper is presented, using this results, an original method for identification, in the plane of principal parameters of the mathematical model of the dynamical system, the stable and unstable regions of the motion. We analyze also some theorems, as the Floquet stability theorem, concerning the stability of a dynamical system described by differential equation systems with periodical coefficients. The results are applied to the study of the couple pantograph – contact wire of a electrical locomotive. The parameters of the system are the two concentrated masses, the bending stiffness, the wire tension, the viscous damping and the mass per unit length of the wire, the other damping coefficients and stiffness elements of the system and any constant speed specified in the model. We study the stable and unstable regions of the dynamical system motion using these parameters and our method of stability zones identification.


Despite tight genetic compression, viral genomes are often organized in functional gene clusters, a modular structure that might favor their evolvability. This has greatly facilitated biotechnological developments, such as the recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) systems for gene therapy. Following this lead, we endeavored to engineer the related insect parvovirus Junonia coenia densovirus (JcDV) to create addressable vectors for insect pest biocontrol. To enable safer manipulation of capsid mutants, we translocated the non-structural (ns) gene cluster outside the viral genome. To our dismay, this yielded a virtually non-replicable clone. We linked the replication defect to an unexpected modularity breach, as ns translocation truncated the overlapping 3' UTR of the capsid transcript (vp). We found that native vp 3'UTR is necessary to high VP production, but that decreased expression do not adversely impact the expression of NS proteins, which are known replication effectors. As nonsense vp mutations recapitulate the replication defect, VP proteins appear directly implicated in the replication process. Our findings suggest intricate replication-encapsidation couplings that favor maintenance of genetic integrity. We discuss possible connections with an intriguing cis-packaging phenomenon previously observed in parvoviruses, whereby capsids preferentially package the genome from which they


This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share proxied by university graduates and the level of investment in information and communication technologies (ICT) as a percentage of total investment. The analysis is based on a survey of 1,000 Austrian firms in 2000. To account for firms which do not employ university graduates we apply a standard Tobit model. The empirical evidence indicates that firms with a higher ICT investment ratio employ a larger fraction of high-skilled workers. Finally, we find that innovation expenditures and the existence of patents are also important determinants explaining the high-skilled labour share.


We present noninvasive, spatially resolved measurements on low-pressure, subsonic, laminar gas flows using Raman spectroscopy. From the Raman signal, the density and temperature of the flow can be extracted directly, with reasonable integration times (∼10 min-1 h). The use of a high-power laser diode makes it a very attractive low-cost, efficient technique. Temperatures studied range from 290 to 790 K; the spatial resolution was 2.5 × 1 mm2 in the flow cross section, and 10–20 μm in the flow direction, within a flow profile of diam. ∼ 15 mm. The flow was generated by a conical double-nozzle system with CO2 as the sample and Ar as the sheath gas. Vibrational and rotational state population and relaxation properties in the gas flow have been studied, and nonequilibrium conditions were found. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculation is compared with the data; it supports the physical model suggested within the experimental errors.


We report a systematic study of the cyclotron resonance (CR) absorption of two-dimensional holes in strained InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells (QWs) in the quantum limit. The energies of the CR transitions are traced as a function of magnetic field up to 55 T. A remarkable CR line splitting was evidenced when the resonant field exceeds 20 T. We analyze our data with a $4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4$ Luttinger Hamiltonian including strain and QW potentials using two different methods to calculate Luttinger parameters for ternary alloys. We found excellent agreement with the experiment when linear interpolation of the Luttinger parameters is used.


All trusts - fixed, non-fixed and family trusts (but not deceased estates within the first five years or unit trusts operated for exempt entities) - are subject to a special rule in Div 270 of Sch 2F ITAA36 which operates to deny allowable deductions. This rule can temporarily disallow past year carry-forward and current year allowable deductions. Although the test is generally regarded as a tax anti-avoidance provision, it operates objectively and does not have a tax avoidance motive as one of its elements.


We have studied the effect of speed of deposited atom on morphology evolution during Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD). Using Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation that incorporate molecular dynamics simulations, we have shown that the rough surface morphology became smoother as the speed of deposited atom is increased. The growth exponent change from 0.97 to 0.67 as the speed increase from to in the case of GLAD. We also examined the effect of speed of deposited atom for the case of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) simulation. Compared to GLAD, the variation in scaling exponent is small but the speed of deposited atom also have considerable effect on growth morpholgy in the case of CVD.


In the US diasporic context, Kamat and Matthews (2003) have traced how Hindu nationalists draw on multiculturalist discourse for their presence while simultaneously funding cultural and political projects in India that incite hate and conduct violence against Muslim and Christian communities. In the Australian context, Hindu nationalist organisations have legitimised and consolidate themselves through the rhetoric of liberal multiculturalism. Such strategies which draw on state rhetoric of multiculturalism while simultaneously engaging in hate campaigns against Muslim and Christian others demonstrates Hindutva's ability to operate through a transnational necropolitics. This paper explores how a state biopolitics of multiculturalism enables the violence of Hindutva's necropolitics in the transnational routes between Australia and India.


Young Research's Awards at Nano Materials -2020 for the Nomination: Young Researcher Forum - Outstanding Masters/Ph.D./Post Doctorate thesis work Presentation, only 25 presentations acceptable at the Nano Materials - 2020 young research forum.


Assigning a plurality of nodes and implementing a first worker pool on the plurality of nodes such that each node includes one or more of the workers from the first worker pool; The pool is provided with an instruction set for performing a first task configured to interact with the computer system, the first worker pool is used to execute the first task, and the first worker pool A method, system and apparatus comprising a computer program encoded on a computer storage medium for monitoring at least one performance metric associated with the computer system while a worker from explain. [Selection] Figure 1


The present invention provides an apparatus and method for remote control of the Bluetooth device. The method comprising: establishing a connection with a Bluetooth Bluetooth headset; virtual media stream data generated during execution of the application; virtual media stream connections establish a Bluetooth headset virtual media stream based on data generated; in the virtual media stream connections after the identifying a control signal received from the Bluetooth headset control event; event control executed according to the control function of the application.


The United States Department of Energy, Industrial Technologies Program has invested in emerging Process Design and Optimizations Technologies (PDOT) to encourage the development of new initiatives that might result in energy savings in industrial processes. Gas fired furnaces present a harsh environment, often making accurate determination of correct air/fuel ratios a challenge. Operation with the correct air/fuel ratio and especially with balanced burners in multi-burner combustion equipment can result in improved system efficiency, yielding lower operating costs and reduced emissions. Flame Image Analysis offers a way to improve individual burner performance by identifying and correcting fuel-rich burners. The anticipated benefit of this technology is improved furnace thermal efficiency, and lower NOx emissions. Independent validation and verification (VV (2) Tune the furnace using currently available technology to establish baseline conditions; (3) Tune the furnace using the FIA technology; and (4) Document the improved performance that resulted from application of the FIA technology. It is important to note that the testing was not designed to be a competition or comparison between two different methodologies that could be used for furnace tuning. Rather, the intent was to quantify improvements in furnace performance that could not be achieved with existing technology. Therefore, the measure of success is improvement beyond the furnace efficiency obtainable using existing furnace optimization methods rather than improvement from the as found condition. « less


Combining the chaotic synchronization and chaotic control, a new method dealing with chaotic synchronization using genetic algorithm was proposed, based on the ideal of directing orbits of chaotic dynamical systems. The purpose is to synchronize chaotic systems in quickly way applying small perturbations only, and then take actions to sustain this synchronization. The Henon Map system is used to demonstrate the effects of the proposed method. The numerical simulation result shows that the method is effective.


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Through the study of the solar cell analysis,Propose to STC89C52 MCU as the control core through the study of solar cells,Using MPPT technology for maximum output power tracking control of solar panels,and supplementary control through the photo diode sensor,so as to improve the efficiency of the output power of solar panels.


The performance of handwriting recognition systems is typically measured in terms of "recognition rate". Many academic competitions work this way. However, additional external requirements may shift the view of recognition quality: Processing time and acceptable error rate may be limited, lexica may be missing, but are needed to unambiguously define result correctness. These aspects will be discussed in detail, and appropriate metrics will be proposed. A single-valued combination of these metrics may then be defined for specific application areas. It can be used in order to choose between recognition approaches or systems, and to optimize system parameters automatically.


Objectives: This study examined the effects of the socio-economic factors, health behaviors, motivation, and self-control on the will of Seoul citizens to quit drinking. Method: The datasets were based on "The 4th Seoul Citizens Health Indicators Surveys(2010, n=8,910)", which was conducted in 2010. Using univariate analysis and factor analysis, 17 variables related to quitting drinking were input into a regression model through four types of factors. The covariation of drinking behavior, health literacy, and the frequency and period of smoking and drinking were set as control variables. Binary logistic regression analysis was used as the final analysis model. Result: The most decisive factor was motivation in both genders(p<0.001). In other words, the likelihood of having the motivation to quit drinking increased significantly if the individual had suffered from problems as a result of drinking. In addition, men's resolve to quit drinking was related to self-control, health literacy, and stress(p<0.05). On the other hand, women's will to give up drinking was related to self-control and marital status (p<0.05). Conclusions: The factors affecting the desire to quit drinking are less obvious than the factors affecting smoking. This study revealed that people decided to practice temperance in the presence of an action trigger associated with the intention to quit alcohol. Thus, we need to provide more suitable programs for quitting alcohol by clarifying the detailed contexts of action triggers.


The effects of protein absorption to monosodium urate monohydrate (MSU) crystals on crystal-induced lysosomal enzyme release from human neutrophils were studied. Native crystals produced prompt release of both lysosomal and cytoplasmic enzymes, suggesting that they are directly membranolytic for the neutrophil. When albumin, IgM, or beta-lactoglobulin were adsorbed to MSU crystals, lysis was blocked and lysosomal enzyme release was negligible. Prior incubation of crystals with 20% human serum or adsorption of IgG resulted in inhibition of lysis but enhancement of lysosomal enzyme liberation. This non-cytolytic lysosomal enzyme release induced by IgG-coated crystals may be important in the pathogenesis of acute gouty arthritis.


A novel construction for a magnetoelastic transducer for sensing tensile or compressive loads is described. The device requires neither coils nor exciting currents, relying instead on the field from a permanent magnet to polarize a magnetostrictive core element. A field intensity sensor, such as a Hall‐effect device, detects the leakage flux from the magnet/core combination. Variations in this flux by the stress‐dependent bulk moment of the core are used to signal the applied force. The core moment affects the flux both by sourcing an additional field and by altering the operating point of the magnet. The moment in the core is altered by the redistribution of domain orientations by the stress anisotropy. Data from experimental sensors using tubular cores with internal magnets show good linearity and a small hysteresis that can be of either sign. The design allows for the construction of small, low‐cost force transducers.


The under-allocation of computation resource would slow down the completion of data-parallel jobs like Hadoop and Spark applications. Hence, users are inclined to speed jobs by requiring more computation resource. In this paper, we reveal an unexpected fact that the over-allocation of computation resource would also lengthen the job completion time (JCT). We attribute the over-allocation problem to the underlying system overheads and utilize machine learning techniques to predict the optimal resource allocation for a given job. Via the prediction model, the resource manager prevents jobs from demanding excessive computation resource. Furthermore, we discuss the optimal multi-job resource allocation if the JCT of one job is known in advance as a function in terms of the resource allocation. CCS CONCEPTS • Computer systems organization Distributed architectures;


Handout for the Poster Presentation at the Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL) Annual Conference, 30-31 May, 2018, Galway.


Alice F. Maxwell, San Francisco-The value of intravenous glucose solutions as a therapeutic measure has long been accepted and the method has been employed for a wide variety of conditions. In medicine the usefulness of glucose in acute infectious diseases, pneumonia, etc., cannot be overemphasized; the application of this treatment in surgery has demonstrated that nothing relieves postoperative shock, vomiting, and acidosis as promptly as glucose. Indeed many surgeons advise its use routinely as a preliminary and prophylactic measure in all major operative procedures. In the obstetrical field intravenous sugar has been most effective in controlling the acute vomiting and intoxication of pregnancy. In short the value of this procedure as a supportive-measure in any medical or surgical crisis cannot be disputed. Unfortunately, however, unexpected and unfavorable reactions occasionally follow its use, which may lead to most serious consequences and even fatal termination. It is generally agreed that these reactions are entirely preventable and depend upon errors in technique in preparation or administration of the solution. A discussion, therefore, of such reactions and their prevention should be of considerable interest to the medical