This study was conducted to determine and analyze the socialization of taxation and tax sanctions in the new normal era on the compliance of individual taxpayers, Faculty of Economics, UMN AW Medan. This research is expected to help develop the process of tax obligations in the form of socialization of taxation and sanctions, especially in taxation in the new normal era. In this study, researchers used quantitative methods. The data was processed using the statistical software SPSS 23. The tests used in this study were the data quality test, the normality test and the classical assumption test. Data analysis technique using simple linear regression and hypothesis testing using t test and f test. The population in this study were all individual taxpayers of the Faculty of Economics, UMN AW Medan, amounting to 67 people. Sampling was done by convenience sampling method. The results of the study show that simultaneously taxation socialization and tax sanctions have a significant effect on individual taxpayer compliance. Partially, tax sanctions have a positive and significant effect on individual taxpayer compliance, but tax socialization has no effect on individual taxpayer compliance.


c 2019 The Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility J Neurogastroenterol Motil, Vol. 25 No. 1 January, 2019 www.jnmjournal.org Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common disease characterized by reflux of stomach contents into the esophagus. It is one of the most common gastrointestinal diseases affecting 1319% of people worldwide with a greater prevalence reported in the western world. GERD has been reported to be increasing in Asia over the last 2 decades representing a challenge for physicians in this area. The costs for treatment of GERD also represent a significant burden on health care systems. Acid suppression by proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) is considered the primary treatment for GERD. PPIs are generally regarded to be safe. However, long term use of PPIs have been associated with side effects such as acute and chronic kidney disease, hypomagnesemia, Clostridium difficile infection, and osteoporotic fractures. Although, the causal relationship between long term PPI use and adverse events remains unproven, these risks underscore the importance of nonpharmacologic management for GERD. Dietary modification is endorsed by the National Institutes of Health and the American College of Gastroenterology as first-line therapy for patients with GERD. There exists a paucity of data on the role of diet in the pathogenesis and management of GERD. Coffee, carbonated beverages, alcohol, chocolate, citrus fruits, spicy, acidic, or fried foods have been associated with worsening of reflux symptoms. Studies have shown an association between food consumption and exacerbation of symptoms. However, this did not necessary correlate with pH changes. There is also no convincing evidence that avoidance of these foods can reduce the incidence of GERD symptoms. In this issue of Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, Nam et al evaluated the effect of micronutrient intake on erosive esophagitis and non-erosive reflux disease (NERD). This was a cross sectional study including 11 690 participants who underwent endoscopy and completed questionnaires for reflux symptoms and dietary intake. The authors aimed to analyze if there was a genderspecific difference in dietary micronutrients on the development of NERD and erosive esophagitis. Prevalence of NERD and erosive esophagitis was 6.8% and 11.2% in males and 9.1% and 2.4% in females, respectively. High dietary intake of calcium reduced the risk of NERD in men. High dietary intake of vitamin A, retinol, vitaJNM J Neurogastroenterol Motil, Vol. 25 No. 1 January, 2019 pISSN: 2093-0879 eISSN: 2093-0887 https://doi.org/10.5056/jnm18198 Editorial Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility


In this paper, we have focused on an analysis of the push-sum protocol in various topologies. We analyzed the behavior of distributed systems forming a tree, a star, a ring and a fully-connected mesh topology. We also examined the influence of stochastic features of the push-sum protocol on the properties of this protocol and the convergence rates in the particular topologies.


The aim of this paper is to analyze why eLearning initiatives do not achieve the desired goals and, consequently, to design a quality framework for eLearning. In this framework, the active role of online tutors will be shown as the cornerstone for the excellence in eLearning activities. Finally, the working methodology of online tutors will be explained, as so as the training program to be followed by those who desire to become online tutors. Key-Words: eLearning, online tutoring, teaching roles, quality framework for eLearning, eLearning methodology, training of trainers, collaborative working.


Lard was fractionated into olein and stearine, and lard olein was further refined. The effects of fractionation and refining of lard on the removal of cholesterol by β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) were investigated. The cholesterol in refined lard was more easily removed by β-CD; more than 90% of cholsesterol in bleached lard was effectively removed by stirring with 4% β-CD. The oxidative stability of lard was increased after bleaching. Fractionation not only reduced the cholesterol content but also the saturated fatty acids in lard. Considering the cholesterol removal efficacy and lard quality, the optimal step for cholesterol removal in lard by β-CD is between bleaching and deodorization.


The boron-containing o-cresol-formaldehyde resin (BoCFR) and octa(aminophenyl) polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (OAP-POSS) were synthesized, and the BoCFR/OAP-POSS nanocomposite prepared via an in-situ method. The curing process of the resin was characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR). The thermal properties and dynamic mechanical properties of the nanocomposites were investigated. The results show that the maximal mechanical loss temperature (Tp) increased with increasing OAP-POSS content. When the content of OAP-POSS was 10 wt% the Tp was over 200°C, 27°C higher than the pure BoCFR. The BoCFR/OAP-POSS nanocomposite had better thermal stablitity than the pure BoCFR. The residual weight of the o-cresol-formaldehyde resin was only 6.13 wt% at 600°C. But the residual weight of the pure BoCFR was 55.73 wt% at 600°C, and the residual weights of the BoCFR nanocomposites were all higher than pure BoCFR. The residual weight of the BoCFR nanocomposite was 63.2 wt% at 600°C and 21.83 wt% at 900°C when the OAP-POSS content was 10 wt%. The weight loss of BoCFR/OAP-POSS nanocomposite can be divided primarily into two temperature stages, from 430°C to 550°C and from 550°C to 900°C. The main thermal degradation reaction follows first order kinetics.


By the dual impact of natural and social factors,Yunnan natural disasters were exceptionally serious during the Beiyang Government,which mainly reflected in: three earthquakes resulting more than a thousand of deaths during the Republic of China in Yunnan occurred all in the Beiyang Government; the frost disaster caused the most serious famine in Yunnan's modern history; epidemic was a serious threat to public health security in Yunnan; limited relief capacity of government,made the natural disasters spread.


Human operators have di culty driving cranes quickly, accurately, and safely because of the slow response of heavy crane structures, non-intuitive control interfaces, and payload oscillations. Recently, a novel hand-motion crane control system has been proposed to improve performance by coupling an intuitive control interface with an element that reduces the complex oscillatory behavior of the payload. Hand-motion control allows operators to drive a crane by simply moving a hand-held radio-frequency tag through the desired path. Real-time location sensors are used to track the movements of the tag and the tag position is used in a feedback control loop to drive the crane. An input shaper is added to eliminate dangerous payload oscillations. However, tag position measurements are corrupted by noise. It is important to understand the noise properties so that appropriate lters can be designed to mitigate the e ects of noise and improve tracking accuracy. This work discusses implementing ltering techniques to address the issue of noise in the operating environment. Five di erent lters are used on experimentally-acquired tag trajectories to reduce noise. The ltered trajectories are then used to drive crane simulations. Filter performance is evaluated with respect to the energy usage of the crane trolley, the settling time of the crane payload oscillations, and the safety corridor of the crane trajectory. The e ects of lter window lengths on these parameters are also investigated. An adaptive ltering technique, namely the Kalman lter, adapts to the noise characteristics of the workspace to minimize the tag tracking error and performs better than the other ltering techniques examined.


We propose a stable nonparametric method for constructing an option pricing model of exponential Levy type, consistent with a given data set of option prices. After demonstrating the ill-posedness of the usual and least squares version of this inverse problem, we suggest to regularize the calibration problem by reformulating it as the problem of finding an exponential Levy model that minimizes the sum of the pricing error and the relative entropy with respect to a prior exponential Levy model. We prove the existence of solutions for the regularized problem and show that it yields solutions which are continuous with respect to the data, stable with respect to the choice of prior, and which converge to the minimum entropy least squares solution of the initial problem when the noise level in the data vanishes.


Simple Summary There are some clinical circumstances that require the parenteral administration of opioids, as an alternative to the oral route. A parenteral route of administration is often indicated in patients with severe pain intensity requiring rapid analgesia or in those who develop nausea and vomiting, dysphagia, or have limited intestinal surface for drug absorption. Subcutaneous and intravenous routes are effective in providing rapid analgesia, particularly the intravenous route. Many opioids have proved to be effective when administered in clinical conditions where oral opioids cannot be used or are poorly effective. Although most studies on this topic are not controlled, there is a body of experience suggesting that parenteral opioids may be useful in some specific circumstances. Abstract Opioids should be offered to patients with moderate-to-severe pain related to cancer or active cancer treatment unless contraindicated. Although oral administration of opioids is generally preferable, a parenteral route may be advisable and mandatory in some clinical circumstances. Parenteral administration of opioids may accelerate the achievement of analgesia. The intravenous route fits the need of rapid achievement of analgesia in patients poorly responsive to other opioids and provides a fast analgesia in patients with breakthrough pain, that has a specific temporal pattern requiring a rapid analgesic effect. When the oral route is unavailable for the presence of nausea, vomiting, or dysphagia. the parenteral route is one of the principal options. Opioids have different pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics and should be chosen according to the individual needs. Thus, the knowledge and experience with these routes of administration are mandatory for anesthesiologists committed to cancer pain management.


This paper introduces the theory and practice of benchmarking the efficiency and productivity of firms, and examines common methodological and empirical choices that researchers face regardless of whether they are performing non-parametric or parametric frontier analyses. We identify different decision forks that researchers encounter, and provide guidance on the options and sequence of steps that should be adopted in order to successfully undertake research in the field. We first summarize the main results of duality theory underlying economic benchmarking, and outline the most popular empirical methods available to undertake efficiency and productivity analyses: DEA and SFA. Afterwards, we discuss several strategies aimed at reducing the dimensionality of the analysis, present a series of models aiming to control for environmental (contextual) variables and endogenous regressors, and discuss the choice of orientation when assessing firms' efficiency using economic criteria. Subsequently we deal with the issue of enhancing the analysis to account for undesirable attributes, such as risk, or proper detrimental outputs like pollutants, waste, contaminants, etc. We next move on to present alternative definitions of temporal productivity change and their decomposition into several terms, such as efficiency change, technical change, scale effect, and so on. etc. Finally, dynamic efficiency measurement is discussed.


WS-Assurance is a framework for communicating information that a Web Service can present as evidence of its trustworthiness so that a user (requester) can make intelligent decisions regarding their use of the service. It consists of three components: the general framework for communicating evidence, vocabulary for business assurance and mechanism for platform assurance. The framework is defined as a natural extension of the WS-Security family of specifications.


Nickel powder is recovered by neutralizing, followed by electrolysis and ion exchange. The results show that the process is characterized by constant composition of cathode electrolyte, high electrolytic efficiency and high quality nickel powder.


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Objective To discuss the manifestation and significance of blood serum cholesterol(CHOL),cholinesterase(ChE),albumin globulin ratio(A /G),prealbumin(PA),total bile acid(TBA),alanin amino transferase(ALT),aspartic acid amino transferase(AST),monoamine oxidase(MAO) in patients with advanced liver cirrhosis.Methods The automatic biochemical analyzer was used to test the biological and chemical items in 53 patients with advanced liver cirrhosis patients and 75 cases of normal part,and the data were analyzed.Results CHOL,ChE,A /G,PA in patients with advanced liver cirrhosis compared with the normal control group were decreased significantly(P0.05 or P0.01).The ALT,AST,TBA,MAO were significantly higher(P0.05 or P0.01).Conclusion Results of CHOL,ChE,A /G,PA,ALT,AST,TBA,MAO in patients with advanced liver cirrhosis can be significantly abnormal,especially for MAO,PA,TBA.


Objective To improve the accuracy and timely supply management of the reengineering surgical instruments. Methods By the introduction of process reengineering management philosophy,the implementation of renewable surgical instruments,person responsibility for centralized payment and surgical instruments package restructuring measures were used to improve the management process of sterilizing surgical instruments. Results The supply utilization rate of surgical instruments was improved,the number of updates of renewable surgical instruments was reduced,and the labor intensity of operating room nurses was decreased. Conclusion Process reengineering in the application of renewable supply of surgical instruments effectively ensures the quality of the sterilization of surgical instruments,and improves the quality of surgical services.


This note considers a simple Hotelling model with Bertrand competition between two firms, who belong to separate jurisdictions and are regulated by separate regulators. Welfare properties of different regulatory regimes are compared. These suggest that the presence of multiple, mutually competing, regulators may decrease overall welfare.


A CAD system of mini triangle rotary piston engine based on VB 6 0 software was introduced,which owns many characteristics such as high visualization,facility and quickness etc,combined with Autolisp software,can produce high-quality drawing.


Micro-amounts and trace amounts of cobalt in uranium oxide (U3O8), uranium and a uranyl salt were determined spectrophotometrically with 2-nitroso-5-dimethylaminophenol (nitroso-DMAP) reagent. According to the cobalt content (above 0·01 p.p.m.) of the sample, four methods for determining cobalt are recommended. By use of one method, cobalt in a sample containing more than 5 p.p.m. of cobalt was determined in aqueous solution, while by use of the other three methods, cobalt in samples containing more than 0·5, 0·1 and 0·01 p.p.m., was determined by a solvent-extraction-spectrophotometric method.


Optimal control of Distributed Satellite System(DSS) formation was investigated.Hamilton Mechanics of DSS relative motion including non-spherical perturbation and the method of generating functions were utilized.To overcome the difficulty of high computation cost of the method of generating functions,an iterative generating function approximation method was proposed to solving the two-point boundary value problem induced by optimal control problem.First,low order approximation of generating function and approximate optimal trajectory were obtained.Then using low order approximation of generating function of Hamilton "relative motion" to the approximate optimal trajectory,improvement of the approximate optimal trajectory was iteratively made.In this way,high order approximation accuracy can be obtained by only using low order approximation,which is much cost effective in computing.Solving of a circular reference orbit problem and an elliptical reference orbit problem both reveals that high control precision is reached,while only low computation cost is needed.


Hoszowski A., Lalak A., Zaj"c M., Samcik I., Skar?yaeska M., Wnuk D., Wasyl D. Relationships of rough Salmonella strains with representatives of some serovars found in animals Summary The objective of this study was to provide an epidemiological characterisation of rough Salmonella strains and to evaluate their genetic relationship with some representatives of serovars noted in animals. Genome macrorestriction by means of pulsed field gel electrophoresis of 57 rough strains revealed 8 groups showing high genetic similarity to the profiles observed in Salmonella Enteritidis, Salmonella Mbandaka, Salmonella Typhimurium, Salmonella Goldcoast, Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Hadar, Salmonella Oranienburg and Salmonella Derby. Some of them showed profiles indistinguishable from the representatives of the above-mentioned serovars. These included also the most numerous group of iSalmonella Enteritidis-likei strains. This proves epidemiologic relationships within this group as well as with the reference strains, representing serovars found in animals. It was concluded that the molecular typing of rough strains provides additional epidemiological information and could sufficiently support routine Salmonella diagnostics, including autoaglutinating isolates.


Abstract This auto-ethnographic study describes a practical application of qualitative research skills in an intensive writing retreat. The retreat was held in response to an inadequate dissertation defense just three weeks before final university deadline for graduation. It uses narrative and double- storytelling to step in and out of the experience of a debriefing process that put the writer in a vulnerable position with a critical friend. The reality of not completing the PhD demanded aggressive and immediate action – an intense commitment to critical analysis of the dissertation. The reflective self-study of the writing retreat experience describes the significance of a critical friend, a safe place, commitment to task, trust, respect, and risk-taking that resulted in an approved dissertation and completed degree program. The unconventional action encourages exploration of alternative approaches for both doctoral committees and students struggling with the final phase of dissertation writing. Insights on collaboration and reflection are shown in the analogy with the playful spider sniffing activity. This auto-ethnographic study describes a practical application of qualitative research skills in an intensive writing retreat. The retreat was held in response to an inadequate dissertation defense just three weeks before final university deadline for graduation. It uses narrative and double- storytelling to step in and out of the experience of a debriefing process that put the writer in a vulnerable position with a critical friend. The reality of not completing the PhD demanded aggressive and immediate action – an intense commitment to critical analysis of the dissertation. The reflective self-study of the writing retreat experience describes the significance of a critical friend, a safe place, commitment to task, trust, respect, and risk-taking that resulted in an approved dissertation and completed degree program. The unconventional action encourages exploration of alternative approaches for both doctoral committees and students struggling with the final phase of dissertation writing. Insights on collaboration and reflection are shown in the analogy with the playful spider sniffing activity.


Construction of "genetic sexing" strains of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), for use in sterile-insect technique projects, depends on a close linkage of the sexing trait with the male's sex-determining chromosome. Genetic recombination in males was observed for two linkage groups and its possible effects on the linkage of the sexing trait to the male's sex chromosome was studied. A model was developed to evaluate the consequences of recombination in males on the integrity of genetic sexing strains. Actual data suggest that other mechanisms operate in such strains, causing the deterioration and reshuffling of the sexing trait.


that a geographer will not hoard it up until it can be found a meaningful place in some great store of accumulated geographical wisdom. In response to a start-of-course questionnaire that asked what students hoped to derive from the geomorphology module on which they were embarking, one of my undergraduates this year wrote: 'I want to know it all.' I am sure that I will be not able to help her. She is doomed, like the rest of us, to a life of unsatisfied geographical curiosity. However, geographers have always been quick to turn to technology for succour and aid, and now, at last, technology seems to have offered up an easement for the geographer's frustration: the Internet. The Internet is a worldwide network of computer connections available to anyone with a suitable computer and software. One element of the Internet is the World Wide Web (WWW). The web is made up of electronic pages that can contain information such as text, graphics, sound or video, with on-screen links that can flash the reader from page to related page


We present a systematic approach for the design of change detection and model validation algorithms for dynamical systems. We show how to associate to any identification algorithm a change detection and a model validation procedure, which are optimal in some asymptotic meaning. The foundations of our method go back to the «asymptotic local» approach in statistics, and our method generalizes this approach.


Gleis thinks both participants in a conversation should abide by cooperative principles and its criteria.However,in real intercourse activities,non-cooperative phenomenon exists,especially in autistic children's verbal communication.Based on relevant linguistics theory,this paper analyzes non-cooperative phenomenon in autistic children's verbal communication and explores cooperative essence in this phenomenon.


The flow of fluids through porous media can be used as a viscometer. In this study, we investigate if typical rheometric experiments to measure the elasticity of a fluid can also be done in porous media flow. In this paper, the main focus lies on the step-strain test. For the set-up it is found that the time delay measured in porous media flow exceeds the one measured with a commercial rheometer.


The master thesis deals with face recognition and face identification in a raster images. There are described and presented closer to the most common algorithms to detect and identify faces in the picture, especially Haar-like features and detection by color face. It is presented here as well as face identification using neural networks. Presented methods for face recognition are compared with each other on the basis of computing requirements, accuracy and reliability. The methods are implemented to test application which compares obtained results with results OpenSource library OpenCV. The implementation is realized by programming languages C# and C++. C# with WPF graphical subsystem create graphical user interface and core application is created in C++ for speed and compatibility.


SUMMARY The frequency of twins and triplets was significantly higher than expected among 56 patients with Klinefelter's syndrome (7.1%), compared with 1.58% in the population (P<o.ooi), and the frequency of multi ple births in the 56 sibships (4.08%) was also significantly higher than expected (P<o.oi). One of 15 patients with the XYY syndrome was a twin, and there were 2 twin births among the 53 births in the 15 sibships.


Sticker model is one of the main DNA computing models, whose features are that it does not require extension of DNA strands in the biological process, does not require biological enzyme action and also the DNA strands can be reused In this paper, we try to solve the general 0–1 programming problem by utilizing these features of the model and its four basic operations (merger, separation, setting and clear). The solution of DNA computing is put forward in [6] and [7], thus we use the method learning from [7]'s idea described in this article to go on solving.


Sports socialization and man's socialization are two different conceptions,which are closely related and mutually influeced.Starting from the essence of mans socialization,the paper analyzes the promotion of sports socializations to man's socialization and expounds the contents and requirements for mutual influences of sports socialization and man's socialization.


provide an overview of a thousand years of Byzantine historical, literary and linguistic development as well as a particular context for these romances. To be queried, for example, however, is the use of 'popular' (p.ix). In the jargon of the handbooks 'popular' in the context of these romances means not so much 'bestseller' status, as Betts implies here, as 'not learned', 'of the people', or 'written in a form of the vernacular'. On p.xx his comments on the relationship of the language of the Chronicle of the Morea to the spoken language of the day, and to that of the romances, are over-simplistic (Cupane, op. cit., p.36 is far more nuanced). On p.xxi he assumes that the genre (i.e. the romances?) originated in Frankish occupied territory, a statement which while intrinsically not improbable should have been amplified a little more, especially in view of the comment later that these three romances 'may have been written in the reconstituted Byzantine Empire' (p.xxii).On pp.xxviii-xxx he slides around the question of the circumstances out of which romances developed: he cites the call for an audience in the opening of both Velthandros and Livistros as an indication of oral performances, refers to the multiple versions, shies away from the linguistic evidence and concludes somewhat lamely that the scribes felt free to change the texts 'for any number of reasons that today we can only guess at'. However, by and large the main points at issue in the background to these texts are dealt with and the essential bibliography is listed (though one misses Cupane's seminal "Epax; YLa.aikzi>q, paper of 1973; Lambros, presumably Collection de romans grecs, Paris, 1880 is alluded to but not elucidated; and the spelling of Liddell, as in Liddell and Scott, is somewhat cavalier). But the novice reader won't be led too far astray, though the reader with Italian is recommended to turn to Cupane for a subtler introduction and much fuller interpretative notes to the texts.


Viscosities of polymer-oil blends do not plot as straight lines throughout the range of ASTM Viscosity-Temperature Chart D 341. One consequence is that SAE 10W/30 motor oils can be formulated from borderline 20W base stocks and high-potency V-I improvers. Compared to 10W/30 oils based on true 10W stocks, these anomalous representatives are relatively hard-starting at low temperatures. The heavy-base group can be excluded from the classification by specifying that the maximum extrapolated viscosity shall apply to sonic-irradiated rather than to new oils. This approach appears more attractive than published procedures based on the Brook-field and Ferranti-Shirley viscometers, or on identification of base stocks by dialysis. Contributed to the American Society of Lubrication Engineers by the author.


Description Dangerous terrain As climate change leads to regions of the world becoming increasingly uninhabitable, unregulated human migration is likely to increase. Migrants often traverse dangerous terrain, and the environmental conditions they encounter when exposed can be deadly. Campbell-Staton et al. used an approach commonly used to predict spatially explicit regions of physiological challenge in animal species to create a hazard landscape for the border crossing between the United States and Mexico. Their predictions of high risk, particularly due to dehydration, coincided with regions of high migrant mortality. Such detailed predictions may help to prevent these tragedies. —SNV Stresses linked to dehydration explain patterns of mortality among human migrants in the Sonoran Desert. Political, economic, and climatic upheaval can result in mass human migration across extreme terrain in search of more humane living conditions, exposing migrants to environments that challenge human tolerance. An empirical understanding of the biological stresses associated with these migrations will play a key role in the development of social, political, and medical strategies for alleviating adverse effects and risk of death. We model physiological stress associated with undocumented migration across a commonly traversed section of the southern border of the United States and find that locations of migrant death are disproportionately clustered within regions of greatest predicted physiological stress (evaporative water loss). Minimum values of estimated evaporative water loss were sufficient to cause severe dehydration and associated proximate causes of mortality. Integration of future climate predictions into models increased predicted physiological costs of migration by up to 34.1% over the next 30 years.


Sarah Pedersen recovers an overlooked area of Scottish literary response to the war in her chapter on women's letters to the editor published in newspapers. In these letters, ideals of sacrifice and patriotism were shaped and reused to argue for greater financial support for soldiers' families, as well as to criticise conscientious objectors or perceived shirkers. No less than male combatants, Pedersen argues, home front women also saw themselves as making sacrifices in a righteous cause.


Blindfolded Lady Justice represents the ideal of justice – a system that has no regard for the parties' power and is attentive only to the justice of a case. The reality, however, is that power does influence the course of civil litigation in Aotearoa. This article considers the dynamics of power in civil litigation, including the types of parties involved in disputes. It then surveys and evaluates potential areas for reform, including suppressing lawyers' fees, equalising the legal spend between opponents, removing lawyers from disputes, increasing judicial control, conglomerating claims, and involving the public in procedure reform. It concludes that the most promising areas for reform to be pursued in concert are: regulation of legal fees, increasing judicial control and involving the public in civil justice reform. Law. be in eliminating – or at least reducing – the influence of power in civil disputes. Before looking at solutions, however, it is important to understand the dynamics of disputes and how power can influence their course.


The present invention provides a method for machining a housing which includes: a process for forming a hair line on the inner surface of an in-mold molding; a process for forming the hair line on an in-mold film; and a process for molding the housing which displays the hair line of the in-mold molding and the hair line of the in-mold film by in-mold injection molding after locating the in-mold film inside the in-mold molding. [Reference numerals] (201) Form a hair line on the inner surface of an in-mold molding; (203) Form the hair line on an in-mold film; (205) Locate the in-mold film inside the in-mold molding and mold a housing by in-mold injection molding (separate a PET film of the in-mold film)


Engaging patients in the management of their health care can improve the quality of their care and enhance their experience while making more efficient use of care provider resources, especially for chronic diseases. However, health care system complexity and the challenge of consumer health literacy hinder greater engagement. In this paper, we propose a Context-Aware patient Navigation and Engagement (CANE) framework to support informed decision making and more efficient use of health care services. We use the BPMN 2.0 workflow language to formalize the description of navigation processes derived from medical guidelines and develop a healthcare network ontology to assist patient understanding of various clinical activities from multiple perspectives (e.g., resource, logistics, financial, and time). A running example of type 2 diabetes management is used to illustrate our CANE framework. Finally, we describe the system architecture of our prototype.


Models for the formation and evolution of galaxies readily predict physical properties such as star formation rates, metal-enrichment histories, and, increasingly, gas and dust content of synthetic galaxies. Such predictions are frequently compared to the spectral energy distributions of observed galaxies via the stellar population synthesis (SPS) technique. Substantial uncertainties in SPS exist, and yet their relevance to the task of comparing galaxy evolution models to observations has received little attention. In the present work, we begin to address this issue by investigating the importance of uncertainties in stellar evolution, the initial stellar mass function (IMF), and dust and interstellar medium (ISM) properties on the translation from models to observations. We demonstrate that these uncertainties translate into substantial uncertainties in the ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared colors of synthetic galaxies. Aspects that carry significant uncertainties include the logarithmic slope of the IMF above 1 M☉, dust attenuation law, molecular cloud disruption timescale, clumpiness of the ISM, fraction of unobscured starlight, and treatment of advanced stages of stellar evolution including blue stragglers, the horizontal branch, and the thermally pulsating asymptotic giant branch. The interpretation of the resulting uncertainties in the derived colors is highly non-trivial because many of the uncertainties are likely systematic, and possibly correlated with the physical properties of galaxies. We therefore urge caution when comparing models to observations.


special day without wardrobe worries getting in your way. With the weeks of finals and presentations, planning parties, saying goodbyes and getting ready to move out, choosing what you will wear to graduation should not be burdensome. Keeping a few simple guidelines in mind as you shop or search through your closets will help you put together something appropriate to wear under that graduation gown.


High-voltage direct current (HVDC) techniques play an important role in the power transmission, especially for the distance district. For the HVDC, control system is necessary to the operation of flexible transmission system, so it is significant to research its control strategy. Normally, the traditional control method is proportional integral (PI) control under the dq frame system, but if the grid voltage is unbalanced, the traditional control method cannot reach the required aim. So the article proposed the full-order terminal sliding mode (TSM) control under the α β frame system. In the proposed control strategy, the cross-coupled term of current in two-phase stationary reference frame is avoided; thus, the feed-forward decoupling is not needed and the whole control system becomes simple. At last, the proposed control strategy is simulated in PSCAD/EMEDC, and simulation results show that the proposed control strategy is correct and effective.


Pollinators may promote floral evolution by selectively visiting preferred floral phenotypes. Herbivores may also influence the evolution of floral traits, by reducing the fitness of poorlydefended plants, such as those without protective sepals. In this dissertation, I investigate the reproductive and evolutionary consequences of floral visitors for two floral traits of the Neotropical herb Chrysothemis friedrichsthaliana (Gesneriaceae). I focus on the trait malebiased nectar production, which results from coincident temporal shifts in nectar production rates and sexual function within flowers. First, I review theory relevant to maleand female-biased nectar production, and I generate hypotheses to explain its evolution in 41+ representative species. Next, I test natural and sexual selection hypotheses using C. friedrichsthaliana and its hummingbird pollinator Phaethornis striigularis (Trochilidae). Sexual selection theory predicts that secondary sexual traits (like nectar) serve to increase male more than female pollination success, and in accordance, (1) nectar production was consistently greater during the male phase; (2) visits by P. striigularis were sometimes limiting, indicating that plants had to compete for visits; (3) hummingbirds made more and longer visits to unmanipulated maleversus femalephase flowers; (4) female fecundity was maximized by one visit, whereas male fecundity continued to increase with additional visits. Using nectar manipulations, I also showed that P. striigularis discriminated against unrewarding real and artificial flowers, suggesting that preferences are based partially on nectar. Natural selection for inbreeding avoidance predicts costs of inbreeding and specific pollinator responses to reward distributions, yet neither prediction was well supported in C. friedrichsthaliana. Thus, sexual selection, more so than inbreeding avoidance, likely maintains male-biased nectar production in this species. I used a second floral trait, the cup-like, liquid-filled calyx of C. friedrichsthaliana, to test the hypothesis


Income polarization is a relatively new concept introduced in the literature of the measurement of income inequality. It has essential properties that may be used to measure relative deprivation and it adds another dimension to the measurement of income inequality concerned mainly with the middle income class (Esteban and Ray, 1994). No study, however, seems to have tried to decompose by population subgroups any of the polarization indices that have appeared in the literature. This study introduces a methodology that decomposes the polarization index recently suggested by Deutsch et al. (2007) by population subgroups. This polarization index is related to the Gini index and its components so that previous results on the decomposition of the Gini index may be applied. Two main cases are examined, that of nonoverlapping groups and overlapping groups. The paper also includes an empirical analysis based on Israeli data for the period 1990–2004, which covers the case of nonoverlapping (income) groups as well as that of overlapping groups, the latter being either Jews of Western and Eastern origin or Jews and Non-Jews. The empirical analysis shows a decrease in polarization over the period 1990–2002 and an increase in polarization during the years 2002–2004. Using the Shapley methodology we analyze the contribution of the different factors to the trend in polarization observed over time.


THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD and preliminary results of multiaxial proportional loadings at a range of different temperatures are discussed for the TiNi shape memory alloy. The results are limited to the R-phase reorientation and transformation pseudoelasticity of the material tested at the selected constant temperatures. The main objective of the paper is to develop experimental knowledge of the shape memory alloy properties under complex stress states which would allow better understanding of the material behaviour and create a basis for theoretical modelling.


Abstract The number of Latinos living with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is expected to grow from 379,000 in 2012 to 3.5 million in 2060. The purpose of this study was to generate recommendations for meaningful approaches to culturally adapt a timed-activity intervention, Healthy Patterns, to promote quality of life in this population. Consistent with a descriptive qualitative approach, community-based focus groups were conducted among a purposive sample of older Latinos with AD and their caregivers. Seventeen dyads participated. Surface structure issues included: need for linguistically appropriate intervention sessions; partnerships with local, trusted community organizations. Deep structure themes, included: 1) embedding social support through group sessions; 2) culturally relevant activities; and 3) building individual and caregiver motivation for participation. This study gives "voice" to older Latinos and caregivers in adapting a timed-activity intervention. Results may inform the design and implementation of AD interventions, including recruitment and retention of older Latinos in clinical trials.


Importance
Even after fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided complete revascularization, patients with myocardial infarction (MI) have high rates of recurrent major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE). These recurrences may be caused by FFR-negative high-risk nonculprit lesions.

Objective
To assess the association between optical coherence tomography (OCT)-identified high-risk plaques of FFR-negative nonculprit lesions and occurrence of MACE in patients with MI.

Design, Setting, and Participants
PECTUS-obs (Identification of Risk Factors for Acute Coronary Events by OCT After STEMI [ST-segment elevation MI] and NSTEMI [non-STEMI] in Patients With Residual Non-flow Limiting Lesions) is an international, multicenter, prospective, observational cohort study. In patients presenting with MI, OCT was performed on all FFR-negative (FFR > 0.80) nonculprit lesions. A high-risk plaque was defined containing at least 2 of the following prespecified criteria: (1) a lipid arc at least 90°, (2) a fibrous cap thickness less than 65 μm, and (3) either plaque rupture or thrombus presence. Patients were enrolled from December 14, 2018, to September 15, 2020. Data were analyzed from December 2, 2022, to June 28, 2023.

Main Outcome and Measure
The primary end point of MACE, a composite of all-cause mortality, nonfatal MI, or unplanned revascularization, at 2-year follow-up was compared in patients with and without a high-risk plaque.

Results
A total of 438 patients were enrolled, and OCT findings were analyzable in 420. Among included patients, mean (SD) age was 63 (10) years, 340 (81.0) were men, and STEMI and non-STEMI were equally represented (217 [51.7%] and 203 [48.3%]). A mean (SD) of 1.17 (0.42) nonculprit lesions per patient was imaged. Analysis of OCT images revealed at least 1 high-risk plaque in 143 patients (34.0%). The primary end point occurred in 22 patients (15.4%) with a high-risk plaque and 23 of 277 patients (8.3%) without a high-risk plaque (hazard ratio, 1.93 [95% CI, 1.08-3.47]; P = .02), primarily driven by more unplanned revascularizations in patients with a high-risk plaque (14 of 143 [9.8%] vs 12 of 277 [4.3%]; P = .02).

Conclusions and Relevance
Among patients with MI and FFR-negative nonculprit lesions, the presence of a high-risk plaque is associated with a worse clinical outcome, which is mainly driven by a higher number of unplanned revascularizations. In a population with a high recurrent event rate despite physiology-guided complete revascularization, these results call for research on additional pharmacological or focal treatment strategies in patients harboring high-risk plaques.


Diferrocenylethyne ( 1 ) was synthesized by metathesis of 1-ferrocenylprop-1-yne using various catalytic systems based on [Mo(CO) 6 ] (5 mole %) and a chlorophenol (30 mole %) in toluene. The yields varied for different chlorophenols; the best conversions were obtained with 2,5-dichlorophenol (66%) and 4-chlorophenol (55%). Alkyne 1 was further reduced to the known ( E )-1,2-diferrocenylethene and 1,2-diferrocenylethane, and its solid-state structure determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.


In order to solve wiring difficulties,high cost and other problems encountered in traditional water quality monitoring program,and to achieve accurate measurement and control of water quality and environmental factors,an intelligent monitoring system based on wireless sensor networks(WSNs)applied in aquaculture is introduced.Low power consumption chip CC2530 integrated data transceiving and data processing is choosen using CC2530 as RF transceiver low-power consumption WSNs nodes is designed,and the collection,processing and display of water quality parameters in aquaculture is achieved.Writing and compiling procedures of the sensor nodes in IAR development environment to implement data transmission between WSNs nodes.The results show that the technical performance indexs of the system meet the design requirements,and the system has simple structure,fast data transmission,the function is easy to expand,and has value to promote and apply.


Objectives: To determine individualism and distrust in the partnership work of agroexport production chains in the Mantaro Valley. Methods: Descriptive research, nonexperimental, correlational transactional scope. 383 farmers from the Mantaro Valley provinces: Huancayo, Concepcion, Jauja and Chupaca were surveyed. Descriptive statistics, frequency distribution, contingency tables and Chi square for hypothesis testing were used. Results: In the individualism dimension: 72,23 % of farmers expressed a positive attitude to production chains; 87,2 % consider it's important to participate in meetings; 88,5 % considered it's necessary the partnership training and 86,2 % like to work together with neighbors. It follows that 83,53 % of them don't have the individualism trait; therefore, only 16,47 % have this trait and it's not adversely affecting the partnership work in the Mantaro Valley. In the mistrust dimension: 52 % of farmers said that exists good communication in the production chain; 40 % contribute between 50-100 % of production costs; 56 % could contribute between 50 % and 100 % of production costs; 60 % rely on the articulating company and 60 % rely on their farmers colleagues. It follows that 53,6 % of these farmers don´t have the mistrust trait; while 46,4 % have it. Conclusions: Only 16,47 % have the individualism trait and it's not adversely affecting the partnership work; 46,4 % of these farmers have the mistrust trait and it's adversely affecting the partnership work in the valley.


A strong correlation between disordered breathing patterns, elevated sympathetic nerve activity and enhanced chemoreflex sensitivity exists in patients with heart failure. Evidence indicates that disordered breathing patterns and increased sympathetic nerve activity increases arrhythmia incidence in patients with heart failure. Enhanced coupling between sympathetic and respiratory neural drive underlies elevated sympathetic nerve activity in an animal model of sleep apnoea. We investigated the impact of carotid body chemoreceptor denervation on sympathetic nerve activity, disordered breathing and sympatho‐respiratory coupling in an animal model of heart failure. Renal sympathetic nerve activity, apnoea/hypopnoea incidence, variability measures of tidal volume and respiratory rate and arrhythmia incidence were quantified during resting breathing in heart failure animals with and without carotid body ablation. Our results indicate that carotid body chemoreceptor denervation reduces sympathetic nerve activity, disordered breathing patterns, arrhythmia incidence and sympatho‐respiratory coupling in experimental heart failure. These findings suggest that device‐oriented ablation of carotid body chemoreceptors is a viable treatment option for reduction of sympathetic nerve activity, disordered breathing patterns and arrhythmia incidence in heart failure.


Government policy in Australia is increasingly encouraging training organisations in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector to adopt flexible delivery approaches. This policy shift is supported by key VET stakeholders including Industry Training Advisory Boards. A recurring theme in VET policy documents is an apparent confidence that flexible delivery can meet the diverse needs of individual learners while at the same time providing cost savings. Yet evidence is emerging that Australian VET learners are not typically ready for flexible delivery, and this lack of readiness is reflected in high attrition rates and low pass rates in many flexibly delivered courses. One research project found that over 70% of learners in the Australian VET sector do not have the learning capabilities required to be ready for flexible delivery. A recent review of the module outcomes achieved by VET students nationally found that students studying by external/correspondence and self-paced unscheduled modes had lower module completion rates than students studying by other delivery strategies. Research on student progress in flexible delivery within the Australian VET sector has largely been quantitative. That research provides useful statistical data on completion and attrition rates for various modes of delivery, but does not explore the reasons underlying the high attrition rates found in flexible delivery. The qualitative research that is available tends to focus on students who successfully complete their courses, not on those who withdraw. As a result, the Australian literature on flexible delivery in the VET sector is lacking in-depth qualitative information about students who enrol in courses but do not complete. In comparison, the broader literature on distance education and flexible delivery in other educational sectors offers some useful insights into student attrition, and can be can be used to inform research into attrition within the Australian VET sector. This paper reports on aspects of a research project that followed up six adult learners who enrolled in VET courses but who either failed assessment or withdrew. The research project presented the students' stories in the form of narrative case studies, focussing on the detailed examination of the barriers that each student experienced, and analysing these barriers in relation to issues raised in the literature. This paper reports on two particular themes that emerged from that research project. The literature on distance education and flexible delivery argues that: · student dropout is often not determined by a single factor, but by the interaction of a number of factors that build up over time; · students who experience difficulties when studying by flexible delivery can often be reluctant to access the support that is available to them. This paper uses these themes as a point of reference in presenting the stories of some of the students who participated in the research project.


Cloud computing is emerging system which provides easier access to multiple applications through virtualized resources. It's a model of service which inspires the users to access the various resources without owing them as per the requirement over the web. Hence it is more convenient and cost efficient, but this feature brings the issue of data security with it. Under this paper, security challenges that could arouse and methods to overcome the same has been explored. In today's challenging world Cloud computing is equally important to any business but at the same time data privacy is also a big concern. Due to this reason cloud computing companies gives more importance to security of data.


The objective of this study is to find out cross reaction between antigens of Raillietina tetragona with antibody of Ascaridia galli by indirect-ELISA technique. In the first phase, collected Raillietina tetragona and Ascaridia galli from chicken's small intestine and created homogenate by sonication and centrifuge to got homogenate. The second phase, polyclonal antibody of Raillietina tetragona and Ascaridia galli was obtained from homogenate immunizated in mice. The third phase, cross reaction was detected by indirect-ELISA. The result showed : 1) Mean optical density (OD) value of the control antibody was 0.105; serum immunizated by Raillietina tetragona was 0.237 and serum immunizated by Ascaridia galli was 0.444. 2). Statistical analysis used was Duncan's multiple range test 1% indicated significant difference (p<0,01) between P0, P1, and P2, so the conclution based on the analysis above there was cross reaction between antigens of Raillietina tetragona with antibody of Ascaridia galli.


According to construction characteristics of water conservancy and hydropwer engineering, a new machine for engineering exploration is developed with power source from tractor chassis. More information about this machine is induced including its structure composition, the principle of work, the characteristics as well as the practical application.


Background and purpose: Natural bone is a combination of polymer and biological apatite, therefore, the composite scaffolds made of polymers and bioactive ceramics have found wide applications in bone tissue engineering studies. Among various polymers, the poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) and hydroxyapatite (HA) have attracted much attention due to their optimal properties. In this study, using PLLA polymer and hydroxyapatite (which is similar to human bone mineral component) threedimensional composite scaffolds were developed by Electrospinning Method. Then the behavior of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) was investigated on the scaffolds. The aim of this research was to develop an appropriate bioactive and functional scaffold for bone tissue engineering. Materials and methods:In this study mesenchymal stem cells were isolated from the human umbilical cord. The cells were cultured on both PLLA and PLLA/HA (10%) composite polymeric nano scaffolds. Biocompatibility of scaffolds was confirmed by MTT assay. The morphological and cell adhesion characteristics of MSCs on the scaffolds were compared using Scanning Electron Microscopic (SEM) imaging. Finally, the cells were treated with osteogenic differentiation medium for 21 days in order to investigate their differentiation potential on the scaffolds. The differentiation of the stained cells with Alizarin Red and Von Kossa were studied at 7,14 and 21 days after cultivation. Results: SEM studies showed that the surface properties of both scaffolds were desirable and the cells not only had the ability to attach and proliferate better on the nanocomposite scaffolds, but were also in a natural condition morphologically. The comparison of staining results indicated a higher differentiation rate in composite polymeric nano scaffold. Conclusion: The results showed that the PLLA/HA nano scaffold could be a very good candidate for bone tissue engineering.


Dear Editor, Dyshidrosiform bullous pemphigoid (DBP) is a rare variant of bullous pemphigoid (BP), autoimmune blistering disease mostly affecting the elderly. DBP was described by Levine et al. in 1979, as pruritic blisters on hands and feet, resembling pompholyx, often generalizing to other body sites. In pediatric population, dyshidrosiform presentation of BP is a constant initial BP manifestation in infants, while in adults the incidence of DBP ranges from 3.5% to 28%. Steroids represent the primary treatment of BP, adding steroidsparing agents when needed. Almost all adults and 93% of infants achieve remission. Recurrences are reported in 12% of infants, especially after rapid steroid tapering. We report a case of DBP, successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIGs) after ineffective classical steroid therapy. A 1-month-old boy who developed pruritic blisters on his hands and feet, progressively generalizing (Figure 1), was referred to the dermatology clinic after ineffective impetigo treatment with amoxiclavulanate. At clinical examination, mucosae were spared, Nikolsky sign was negative, and generalized pruritic, tense, hemorrhagic bullae were evidenced raising suspicion of BP. Laboratory findings revealed leukocytosis (58,000/mm), eosinophilia (24,000/mm), and thrombocytosis (1,000,000/mm). Skin biopsy was performed for histopathological examination and direct immunofluorescence (DIF), revealing respectively multiple eosinophils in the superficial dermis and in subepidermal clefts and linear staining of IgG and C3 along the dermoepidermal junction. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA, commercial-kits EuroimmunAG) evidenced IgG anti-BP180-antigen (234.5 U/ml) and IgG anti-BP230-antigen (22.8 U/ml) (normal values <20 U/ml). Infantile BP (IBP) was diagnosed. Oral betamethasone was administered (0.2 mg/kg/day), obtaining clinical remission within 1 month; it was progressively tapered. A relapse after tapering was controlled with prednisone (25 mg/day) and dapsone (50 mg/day), but weight gain and insomnia forced to taper steroids, worsening BP. IVIGs were added (1 g/kg/day, 2-day-course, monthly, 6 months) with immediate clinical improvement, allowing tapering of prednisone (5 mg/day) and dapsone (25 mg/day) within 4 months, as remission was obtained after the fourth IVIGs administration. Dapsone (25 mg/day) was still administered for 1 year. During 2-year-follow-up no further relapses were reported; ELISA IgG autoantibodies were negative. BP represents the most common bullous autoimmune disease in adults, whereas pediatric BP is rarer. Acral dyshidrotic BP is the major presentation in infants (100% of IBP), with progressive generalization in 91%. Noteworthy, most DBP patients present tense bullae on hands and feet, resembling dyshidrosiform dermatitis, often evolving into haemorrhagic bullae "haemorrhagic pompholyx," mostly generalizing, as in our case. Though no official treatment guidelines exist for IBP, steroids are administered as first-line therapy (97% of cases), adding steroidsparing agents in 60% of patients. Overall, 93% obtain remission. Dapsone is the mostly used steroid sparing agent (70%), effectively inhibiting neutrophilic chemotaxis and activity, and being well tolerated. Occasionally, IBP may be refractory to systemic corticosteroids and dapsone, as in the present case: IVIGs (2 g/kg/4w) may be of aid F IGURE 1 Clinical presentation of dyshidrosiform bullous pemphigoid in a 1-month-old boy: tense hemorrhagic bullae, partially ruptured and forming erosions and crusts, on the patient's foot Received: 5 July 2022 Revised: 1 September 2022 Accepted: 12 September 2022


The surface mount process to successfully mount 0.35mm pitch Wafer level packages (WLP) was studied. Processes including solder paste printing and flux dipping were examined and optimized. The paste print process was optimized in terms of printer setup to use standard materials. Flux dipping was used as an alternative to paste printing to address situations where print challenges cannot be overcome. Flux dipping often results in a decrease in board level due to the decrease in solder joint standoff, so a novel dip encapsulant was also included. The dip encapsulant is a polymer adhesive which encapsulates the BGA joints after reflow, providing some gain in reliability over standard flux dipping. For board level reliability, temperature cycling was performed using -40 to 125 C temperature swings. The lifetime and failure modes of the package were analyzed. This study shows optimized print process can be achieved using standard materials, yet alternative SMT processes can also be adopted to successfully assemble fine pitch WLP packages, while also considering board level reliability.


The purpose of this study is to investigate the selfcompactability of fresh concretes with ferronickel slag fine aggregates and copper slag fine aggregates, standardized as fine aggregates for concrete in JIS A 5011. In this paper, the self compactability of fresh concretes with these slag fine aggregates, in the both cases using a limestone powder and viscosity agent, were investigated by means of the slump-flow test, the V-type funnel test, and filling vessel test. Properties of fresh concrete were studied by bleeding test and setting properties test. The rheology properties of fresh self compacting concretes with these slag fine aggregates were also investigated using the rotation viscometer. As a result, it was confirmed that the self compacting concretes could be attained even with these non-ferrous metal slag fine aggregates, in both cases using a lime stone powder and viscosity agent.


A digitally programmable multitone generator is presented. The various output signals can be of any shape but periodic, and show absolutely stable phase relations. The proposed generator is useful in modern measurement systems such as in homodyne vector network analyzers or in other coherent measurement systems. It might be realized as a two-chip integrated circuit, one chip for logic and one read-only memory. >


This article highlights a correlation between successful language acquisition and personality characteristics of learners while they are being prepared to become a professional interpreter. The author in this article gives the thorough explanation of the results of the research carried out by the help of Myers-Briggs Indicator type.


The aim of this study was to analyse the genetic and phenotypic differentiation of bacteria isolated from root nodules of Trifolium rubens, a rare clover species. The symbiotic compatibility of selected isolates was investigated using two agronomically important plants, red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) and pea (Pisum sativum L.). A high genetic diversity of analysed strains was shown using the Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus Polymerase Chain Reaction (ERIC-PCR) method. Most of the strains showed a high similarity to R. leguminosarum in the 16S rRNA sequence. Two strains were identified as Agrobacterium spp. There was a strong positive correlation between fresh clover weight and the number of root nodules and a statistically significant increase in the number of the root nodules in selected strains compared to the negative control. Phenotypic tests and BIOLOG analysis showed the ability of the analysed strains to grow in different experimental conditions (pH = 6–10, 0.5–3% NaCl, different carbon and nitrogen sources), which makes them suitable for application as an agronomically important factor.


The clinical, electroencephalographic and neuro-pathological features of three cases (cases 1, 2 and 3) of congenital hydrocephalus in sheep were described. The observed neurological signs reflected damage in the telencephalon and brain stem. The electroencephalogram performed in case 1 and case 2 showed different patterns: symmetric and synchronous high-voltage slow-activity in case 1, and low-voltage slow-activity in case 2. By the post-mortem examination, in all the animals, dilatation of the ventricular system, especially of the lateral ventricles, associated with a glial reaction surrounding the dilated ventricles was observed. Only in case 3, a monolateral meningeal thickening at the left cerebellopontine angle seemed to be responsible for the obstructive hydrocephalus. In the other two brains (case 1 and 2), no potential anatomical cause for the hydrocephalus were detected, even if, in case 2, a compensatory form was not excluded due to the moderate hypoplasia of the cerebrum and the presence of the non-suppurative inflammation. The results of this work provide a contribution to the EEG characterisation in ovine hydrocephalus cases; nevertheless further multidisciplinary studies of a larger number of sheep could permit to better characterise the EEG pattern in ovine hydrocephalus cases.


Abstract An efficient methodology dealing with the Fe3O4@TiO2 nanocomposite-catalyzed direct condensation reaction of 4-hydroxycoumarin, aromatic aldehydes, and 6-amino-1,3-dimethyluracil in aqueous media at room temperature is reported. This new process has been successfully applied to the synthesis of 6-amino-5-[(4-hydroxy-2-oxo-2H-chromen-3-yl)(aryl)methyl]-1,3-dimethyl-2,4,6(1H,3H)-pyrimidinediones in high to excellent yields within 2–3 h.


The precipitable water above Cerro Tololo (CT 10) in Chile has been measured for nearly three years. Daily data and monthly distributions are presented. A pattern of dry winters (April-September) and relatively humid summers appears to repeat itself. Key words: precipitable water - infrared site


This paper describes research that was performed to verify the possibility of learning an economical time series using a neural network. An actual economical time series wasn't used for this research, but, instead, verification was performed using data obtained from an equation developed in the field of econophysics that simulates an economical time series. This data changes irregularly, and it is difficult to learn using a neural network, but by processing the data using a low pass digital filter, learning is possible with a low error rate, and short-term prediction is possible.


Effective succession management can play a very important role in ensuring positive growth in an organization. However, in Kenyan context especially in the civil service this issue has received less attention from past researchers hence the need to undertake this study. Organizations all over the world are faced with succession challenges prompted by, among other factors; demographic shifts, stagnation in one level in employment and effects of natural attrition. The affected institutions respond by instituting necessary succession management measures aimed at ensuring availability of capable human resources for consistent service delivery. The Kenya Civil Service faces career succession and stagnation management problems manifested by the ageing Civil Servants with an estimate of 58% of the total workforce aged thirty five years and above. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting succession management in the civil service. This study was carried out in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation headquarters in Nairobi. The target population was 300 civil servants in the middle and senior management level (job groups K and above) in the ministry of water and irrigation headquarters. Seventeen percent (17%) of the target population were sampled for the purpose of this study. The data had been analyzed using quantitative methods that involve simple descriptive statistics based on frequency tables and percentages and SPSS package for data analysis. The study has revealed that there is lack of effective succession management in the ministry of water and irrigation. Succession management initiatives were reported to be inconspicuous and incongruous owing to the fact that majority of the human resource management functions are performed by external agencies namely the public service commission of Kenya and Directorate of personnel Management. The Ministry should explore the possibility of forming a succession management committee to streamline succession issues and make provisions for outgoing officers to pass-on special skills to the likely successors in programmes akin to apprenticeships. It is also recommended that human resources managers should be empowered to carry out comprehensive Human resource management functions in their respective ministries Keywords: Succession Management,Stagnation,Civil service,Apprenticeships,Human Resources,Kenya


OUR topic is historical, because it deals with the synoptic gospels as historical documents; philosophical and theological, because it deals with the ideas for which the term, eschatology, has long been used. To cooirdinate the historical and philosophical aspects of a given topic is always an undertaking which arouses the most serious misgivings, but the task must be faced today as it always has been faced. Since historians certainly cannot do their work without some philosophy, it is appropriate to discuss in an introductory manner their philosophic presuppositions, and then to deal with the eschatology of the synoptic gospels.


We present an evaluation of incremental learning algorithms for the estimate of HMM parameters. The main goal was to investigate incremental learning algorithms that can replace traditional batch learning techniques, incorporating the advantages of incremental techniques for designing complex pattern recognition systems. Experiments were carried out on isolated digits, extracted from the NIST SD19, by using a state-of-the-art HMM-based isolated digits recognizer. The experiments demonstrated that batch learning performs slightly better for generating classifiers with good generalization performance. However, the results obtained by the Ensemble Training algorithm are very encouraging for pursuing further research in this subject, given that the loss in terms of performance is relatively small. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the incremental approaches provide lower-cost algorithms, which is a valuable advantage.


Abstract The article is devoted to the analysis of production volumes and efficiency of sunflower cultivation in Ukraine. It is shown that sunflower occupies more than 70% of the total acreage under oil crops. Attention is focused on the fact that the dominance of sunflowers in the structure of the production of oil crops provides this crop with a special role in the agricultural market of Ukraine. The dynamics of sown areas, gross harvests and the level of productivity of sunflowers in Ukraine for the period 2018–2020 were analyzed. The effectiveness of sunflower production was studied in terms of forms of management of agrarian formations and by the amount of land in use. It has been established that the most effective cultivation of sunflowers is carried out by agricultural enterprises with a land area of more than 2 thousand hectares. Cost calculations and their structure for growing 1 ha of marketable sunflower in 2021 are presented. The volumes and structure of the directions of consumption of marketable sunflower seeds in Ukraine are shown. Practical recommendations for improving the process of sunflower production are proposed, taking into account the balance of supply and demand for marketable products.


AbstractBackground: Tartrazine is a food colorant used in most food products that consumed almost every day. In view of the adverse effects of its excessive ingestion, it is essential to investigate new and safe protection. Nigella sativa oil, by its beneficial medicinal effects may offer a good protective therapy in this issue.Aim of Study: In this study the possible protective effect of Nigella Sativa Oil (NSO) on hematological disorders induced by tartrazine was investigated.Material and Methods: Thirty male Wistar rats were included in this study and divided into three groups: Control group (treated by distilled water), tartrazine treated group (20mg/kg/day), Nigella sativa+ tartrazine treated group (10ml NSO/kg/day + tartrazine treatment). Hematological state was evaluated by measuring total Red Blood Cells (RBCs) count, Packed Cell Volume (PCV), Hemoglobin (Hb) concentration, Mean Cell Volume (MCV), Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin (MCH), Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration (MCHC), Total White Blood cells (WBCs) count and total platelets count. Moreover, oxidative markers; Malondialdehyde (MDA) and reduced glutathione (GSH), were measured in kidney, spleen, Bone Marrow (BM) and RBCs. In addition, bone marrow was examined for histopathological changes.Results: Tartrazine significantly decreased RBCs count, Hb content, PCV, total WBCs count, lymphocytic, monocytic and granulocytic counts, and significantly increased the MCV, MCH and the platelet count, it also significantly decreased GSH, and increased MDA levels in RBCs, kidney, spleen and BM tissues. Histopathological examination provoked increased number of megakaryocytes and occurrence of myelofibrosis in BM of tartrazine group. Treatment with Nigella sativa oil significantly improved all the tartrazine-induced disturbances.Conclusion: The findings of the current study revealed that Nigella sativa oil improved the tartrazine-induced hema-tological disorders, most probably through its antioxidant properties.


Late in autum 1972 an unknown species of Amanita, with a very distinctive appearance, was found by me in the commune of Karjalohja, southwestern Finland. The most conspicuous feature of the fruit bodies (Fig. 1), besides their robust habitus, was the large, thick, ample, saccate volva. The colour of the cap when fresh was grey with an olive tinge; the stipe was stout, solid, without an annulus; the spores are broadly ellipsoid. The taxonomy of the genus Amanita is somewhat difficult, partly because many taxa, especially in the section V aginatae, have not yet been properly described and delimited. However, in view of the distinctive appearance of this find, I assumed that if it had already been described, it would be easily identified. A search through the literature showed that it might be Amanita argentea Huijsman, or some closely related taxon. However, it differs from that species in such features as the colour of the cap and aspect of the volva.


Two simple mass-balance models for estimating the concentration of air pollutants inside buildings are presented for pollutants originating from outdoors or generated indoors. The models can be used to establish average pollution loads on heritage objects inside buildings and assist in risk assessment for conservation. The models can be run with a minimum of data, either based on fixed conditions or as a Monte Carlo simulation based on plausible intervals of the input factors. Input data can be obtained by simple measurements or based on the literature. A museum storage hall in Denmark was used as a test site for demonstrating the models. They were evaluated with regard to the prediction of the indoor/outdoor concentration ratio for ozone and nitrogen dioxide and the build-up concentration of indoor generated organic acids. The pros and cons of such models were discussed, where the main reservation is related to shortcomings when real buildings are more complicated than the single-zone structure of the models. A strength of the models is the easy adaption to an indoor environment and, despite being semi-quantitative at times, the simplicity of the models, which allows for practical everyday use in air quality management of heritage buildings.


Abstract This paper presents a recursive algorithm for solving "a secret sharing" problem. This problem is one of the unsolved problems in the Second International Students Olympiad in Cryptography (NSUCRYPTO2015). Recently, Geut et al. solved the problem in a special case. We show that our algorithm is able to solve it in general.


The coast is one of the most complex systems on earth as it is the result of the continuous interaction between people, land, and water. These physical processes shape the geomorphology of the coast, which sustains specific ecosystems that provide crucial services to human societies to flourish. This paper aims at expanding the understanding on the functioning of the waterfronts, which are crucial factor to increase the awareness regarding the challenges of developing and governing coastal areas and waterfronts. Evidently, climate change represents the major human-induced source of natural risks. Understanding the risks associated to the coast is crucial to provide safe and resilient human environment. Planners must address the challenges of waterfronts and coastal areas' planning approaches. Coastal cities are facing the challenge not only by providing high quality services for its inhabitants but also to integrate specific coastal and waterfront uses that demand a large quantity of space and requires highly specialized services. Ports, dwellings, beaches, promenades, protectorates, industry, logistics, resorts, restaurants, are just few of the uses that characterized most coastal cities and waterfronts and need to be integrated into the urban fabric and smartly diminish the consequences of climate change. This paper provides an analytical narrative of Doha, the capital city of Qatar as a typical city-state in addition to significant coastal cities in Qatar like Al-Khor and Al-Wakra. The Gulf always played a major role in Qatar's economical, social, cultural, and political life. Inhabitants of old Doha being fishermen and pearl divers perceived the Gulf not only as source of their prosperity but also considered as a sacred entity.


which can be fitted into a pattern—I spare the details—by writing it as j^-y/jt/li, whence one is driven to interpret y/x as x'. Other interpretations, such as JC° as 1, also follow from discussion and generalisation of the situation. The mathematical ideas and concepts and knowledge that can flow, in two or three lessons, from this piece of enquiry have always impressed me. I am sure there are many corresponding topics now available from a prodigious range if only teachers would draw on them. I conclude with this item because it is a tribute to the width of vision of my own great master. I offer it as a final comment from my own voice from the past: those who neglect the past may be fated to rediscover it. May I wish you all an enriched life of professional success and happiness.


We study symmetry properties of an operator that has been introduced in Quantum Chemistry under the name of "Local Scaling Method," or "Local Scaling Transformation." This operator is defined using deformations of the space R3. It has previously been used in order to obtain density-functional approximations of the N-electron problem, and new N-representability results. In order that the operator satisfies a natural symmetry requirement associated with the symmetry group of a molecule, we show that only the deformations that commute with all operations of the symmetry group may be used. These deformations are listed and practical consequences explained.


The right of children to privacy under the Convention on the Rights of the Child extends to media reporting of children involved in difficult circumstances or who are victims of sexual abuse etc. According to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, publication of details like the names and photographs of such children which can lead to their being easily identified is a violation of the right to privacy guaranteed under article 16 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The plight of the over 200 girls abducted in Chibok, in northern Nigeria by the Boko Haram Insurgents, has been widely documented through interviews granted by some of the girls who escaped from the captivity and they tell harrowing stories of sexual slavery meted out to the girls by the insurgents. The right of these children to privacy is thereby called into question in the light of the possible trauma they will be subjected to, when and if they are released, once their identity has been exposed. The article takes the view that to determine whether the publication of their names and photographs in the media violates their right to privacy, one is required to perform a delicate balancing act in order to ascertain their best interest in this peculiar case. He, however, submits that it would have been possible to keep the world aware of the plight of the children without having their pictures published. He considers that even the need to convince the skeptics and conspiracy theorists that the children were really abducted is not a sufficient reason to subject the children to the future stigma that is sure to follow, if, and when they are released. He submits that this stigma will surely affect their ability to enjoy a normal family life in Nigeria and Africa generally.


A methodology to carefully select the impedance states of a backscatter phase-shift keying (PSK) load modulator in a passive computational ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is presented. Considering the most significant tag read range limitations reader sensitivity, power transmission and bit error rate (BER), the proposed selection results in constant power transmission to the energy harvester and thus in an increase of the average power at the input of the energy harvester during tag-to-reader communication. A graphical tool to select the modulator impedance states using a Smith chart is proposed.


The present disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus including a magnetic flux device configured to transmit and receive the magnetic flux. In some configurations, the magnetic flux device may include a second coil, and a magnetic permeable material having a first coil, a third layer and a fourth layer having a first layer and a second layer, the first coil is self extends over the first edge of the transparent material, the second coil extends over the second edge of the magnetic permeability material. In some other configurations, the magnetic flux device may include a first conductive structure that includes a first coil and second coil respectively surrounding the first and second regions. Second flux device may further comprise a conductive structure, the first at least a first plane portion of the conductive structure is in the first plane on the second portion is substantially the same flat surface of the second conductive structure.


A novel amperometric cholesterol biosensor based on bienzyme system such as cholesterol oxidase (ChOx) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was developed based on the gold nanoparticles decorated graphene-nanostructured polyaniline nanocomposite (NSPANI/AuNP/GR) film, electrochemically deposited onto indium-tin-oxide (ITO) electrode. The cholesterol oxidase (ChOx) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) have been coimmobilised onto the NSPANI/AuNP/GR nanocomposite electrode using gluteraldehyde as a crosslinking agent. The nanobioelectrodes ChOx-HRP/NSPANI/AuNP/GR/ITO and ChOx-/NSPANI/AuNP/GR/ITO have been characterised by differential pulse voltammetery (DPV), cyclic voltammetry (CV) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The bienzymatic nanobioelectrodes ChOx-HRP/NSPANI/AuNP/GR/ITO have exhibited higher sensitivity than mono enzymatic bioelectrode (ChOx-/NSPANI/AuNP/GR/ITO). Minimum interferences have been observed from ascorbic acid, uric acid, sodium pyruvate, glucose and urea for both single and bienzyme systems. It is inferred that bienzyme based nanobioelectrodes offer wider linearity (35 to 500 mg/dl), higher sensitivity (4.22 mAmM-1), high shelf life (8 weeks), low response time (19s) and high accuracy for testing of blood serum samples than mono enzyme system. Mechanism of the overall biochemical reaction has been proposed to illustrate the enhanced bio-sensing performance of the bienzyme system.


As the basic unit of cooperative study,country study has a great reputation among the world and has been valued by the scholars and the officials from the ancient time.A study of country education can provide us a good way to understand the specific knowledge of other countries' education and the cooperative study.From the perspective of country study,the thesis focuses on its concept,terms of historical development,research achievements and growing trends.


Terabus is based on a chip-like optoelectronic packaging structure (Optochip) assembled directly onto an organic card with integrated waveguides (Optocard). To-date, Terabus has demonstrated 4times12-array optical transmitters and receivers operating up to 20 Gb/s and 14 Gb/s per channel


Most demographic data indicate a roughly exponential increase in adult mortality with age, a phenomenon that has been explained in terms of a decline in the force of natural selection acting on age-specific mortality. Scattered demographic findings suggest the existence of a late-life mortality plateau in both humans and dipteran insects, seemingly at odds with both prior data and evolutionary theory. Extensions to the evolutionary theory of aging are developed which indicate that such late-life mortality plateaus are to be expected when enough late-life data are collected. This expanded theory predicts late-life mortality plateaus, with both antagonistic pleiotropy and mutation accumulation as driving population genetic mechanisms. Aging research has long employed demographic models of age-specific adult mortality that are based on an approximately exponential increase in mortality (1, 2), the best-known being the Gompertz model u~x! 5 Aexp~ax!, [1] where the age-dependent rate of mortality, u(x), is determined by two parameters, A and a, that affect mortality in an age-independent and age-dependent fashion, respectively. Aging is sometimes explicitly defined in terms of parameters or functions of this equation (1–3), an example of the latter being the MRDT (mortality rate doubling time; MRDT 5 ln(2)a21). The Gompertzian pattern of increasing mortality rate has been explained by evolutionary biologists in terms of a decline in the force of natural selection, a deductive result obtained from evolutionary theory first by Hamilton (4), and then explored further by Charlesworth (5). For populations near demographic equilibrium subject to weak selection, the force of natural selection at age t acting on proportionally uniform changes in survival probability is given by


This paper presents a comparative analysis of solar energy potential for six
 different cities, in six different countries in Europe: Freiburg (Germany),
 Graz (Austria), Maribor (Slovenia), Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Nis
 (Serbia), and Athens (Greece). Data processed in this work are accessed from
 Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS). Photovoltaic
 technology is crystalline silicon, and installed peak photovoltaic power is
 5 kWp. The aim of the work is to find out whether there are statistically
 significant differences among the cities in relation to monthly energy
 production in regard to different types of photovoltaic system (fixed - free
 standing, fixed - building integrated, inclined, and two axis solar power
 plants). The work is based on four hypotheses. The estimation of solar
 energy production in different regions is very important for determination
 of potential regions suitable for generation of renewable and sustainable
 energy.


ABSTRACT Mosquito pesticides effectively control vectors of human disease but have numerous unintended consequences. These may include adversely affecting non-target species such as weed biological control agents. Acute toxicity of two mosquito pesticides, naled and permethrin, was studied on three biological control agents released against invasive weeds in south Florida. These were the biological control agent Oxyops vitiosa of melaleuca, Melaleuca quinquenervia, the agent Neomusotima conspurcatalis for Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum, and the agent Lilioceris cheni for air potato Dioscorea bulbifera. We calculated LD50 values for both pesticides on early and late instars for each herbivore species. The air potato herbivore, L. cheni was the most sensitive species tested and all three species were more sensitive to the pesticide permethrin than naled. These results indicate that even low concentrations of these products can have a detrimental effect on these weed biological control agents. The unintended consequences of mosquito adulticide applications should be considered when evaluating biological control agent impacts.


The integrin av{36 was initially identified from primary cultures of airway epithelial cells. This integrin is expressed in bronchiolar and alveolar epithelium during development and in settings of injury and/or inflammation and mediates attachment of epithelial cells to fibronectin and tenascin. Like other integrins, this receptor localizes to structures called focal contacts in cells plated on appropriate ligands. In the pres ent study, we produced a mutant {36 eDNA (136m) containing a single substitution of Asp'" with Ala and transfected mutant (or wild-type) {36 eDNA into the human colon carcinoma cell line SW480. In parallel, we used cDNAs truncated just proximal to the transmembrane domain to generate secreted forms of mu tant av{36 in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The mutant {36, like the wild type, formed heterodimers with human av that were expressed on the cell surface of SW480 cells and secreted by CHO cells. Secreted av{36 containing this point mutation did not bind to fibronectin-Sepharose. Furthermore, in contrast to wild-type {36, the mutant form did not allow SW480 cells to bind to fibronectin in the presence of {31 blocking antibody and did not localize to focal contacts. Our results confirm that the Asp'" of {36, like the corresponding residues in {31 (Asp I30) and {33 (ASp 119) , is critical for interactions of av{36 with ligand, and also suggest that ligand binding to av{36is necessary for localization of this receptor to focal contacts.


Background: Recent studies showed the increasing importance of depressive disorders. Despite good treatment possibilities (pharmacological treatment and psychotherapy) only a minority of patients receive adequate treatment. One of the most dramatic consequences is a big number of suicides.
Methods: Within the competence network on depression and suicidality (founded by the German Ministry for Education and Research) a multi-level program was carried out in 2001 and 2002: the "Nuremberg Alliance against Depression". In the centre of the activities was the optimisation of diagnosis and therapy in primary care. Family doctors received continuous education and different screening tools were established. Brochures and videos were produced to improve patients` knowledge of symptoms, causes and treatment possibilities. Besides that an intense information campaign was started (posters, lectures, cinema spot, leaflets etc.). Moreover a close cooperation with other community facilitators (priests, geriatric nurses, teachers etc.) should improve awareness towards depression and suicidality. Finally, special support for patients and their relatives was provided. A telephone hotline for persons after suicide attempt offered help in the case of a further suicidal crisis. Main outcome criteria of the study was the reduction of suicidal acts (suicides and suicide attempts)
in comparison to a baseline-year (2000) and a control region (Wuerzburg).
Results: The results for the first year of intervention (2001) show a significant decrease of suicidal acts in Nuremberg compared to the baseline and to the control region. Suicidal acts dropped from 620 cases to 500 cases (p=0.046). The decrease of persons committing a suicide attempt was 21.6% (375 vs. 475 cases) and differed significantly from the control region (p=0.008). Completed suicides decreased from 100 to 75 (-25%) which was not significant compared to the control region where a similar reduction in suicide rates was observed.


The extended modified tanh-function method is developed to solve nonlinear mathematics physics equations. This method has been improved from tanh-function method in the form of solution and the solutions of constraint condition. By using the extended modified tanh-function method and with the aid of computer symbolism system Mathematica, abundant exact solutions of the (3+1)-dimensional Burgers System are obtained, including various hyperbolic function solutions as uniformly as possible, where the kink-shape solutions, rational fraction solutions, and periodic solutions, etc.


The article is devoted to the lexical representation analysis of one of the social value connotations of «masculinity / femininity» cultural dimension «ego effacing / ego boosting» in Russian and English. The analysis contains several aspects: the number of elements in the synonymic raw of key words, representing these connotations, specificity of denotative and evaluative aspects of semantics, frequency of these key words in speech actualization. The theoretical basis of the research are G. Hofstede's anthropological theory and A. Wierzbicka's lin-guacultural theory.


Aluminum nitride is a promising material for SAW devices, but so far not available as sufficiently large bulk single crystal. In this article the growth conditions for self-nucleation and for unidirectional sublimation growth of bulk AlN are presented. Well-formed self-nucleated crystals up to 14x7x2 mm have been grown at temperatures over 2200°C. Crystal morphology and quality were found to be strongly influenced by the polar nature of AlN. Al-terminated faces produce mirror-like facets and transparent material of high crystalline quality, whereas development of Nterminated faces leads to opaque and defective sectors in grown crystals. Unidirectional PVT growth allows preparation of AlN boules two inch in diameter and up to 15 mm in length. The polycrystalline material obtained in this process is a theoretically dense, highly pure bulk composed by grains up to 3x5 mm in size suitable for wafering and preparation of prototype SAW devices.


As a real effective arithmetic in AQM,the performance research of random early detection(RED)arithme- tic has been a hotspot in the field of network research.In this paper,former RED arithmetic is introduced;moreo- ver,some improvements are made.The simulation result and the experimental data prove that the loss rate can be decreased prominently by using the improved arithmetic,which can promote the utility of the network links.


This paper first expounds the problem and weak link in Cuncun Tong engineering,then emphatically introduces three actual applied schemes of optical fiber network technology in Cuncun Tong engineering,And it estimates merits and demerits of each scheme.Finally,it defines the objective and demand of the new period Cuncun Tong engineering.


Abstract This article deals with the thermal vibration analysis of the graphene-oxide powder-reinforced (GOPR) nanocomposite plates, once the plate is embedded on the viscoelastic substrate. The structure is subjected to thermal loadings with various temperature rises such as sinusoidal temperature rise (STR), linear temperature rise (LTR), and uniform temperature rise (UTR). Damping behavior of the GOPR nanocomposite plates is investigated based on the variations of the natural frequencies. Four functionally graded (FG) patterns of GOPs' distribution are taken into account comparatively in order to find out the best model of reinforcing the structure. The homogenization of the materials is carried based on the Halpin-Tsai micromechanical scheme. The governing equations of the motion have been derived through the combination of refined higher-order shear deformation theory and Hamilton's principle. The accuracy of this modeling is validated with those reported in the open literature. Finally, the influences of different parameters on the natural frequencies of the embedded GOPR nanocomposite plates are investigated based on the damping coefficient of the viscoelastic substrate. The graphical results reveal that the free vibrational behavior of the structure is remarkably affected by the variations of these parameters.


1. Negotiating the syllabus : a win-win situation?
2. The internet in every classroom? Using outside computers
3. Reverse-engineering communication tasks
4. The role on NLP in teachers classroom discourse
5. Evaluating pragmatics-focused materials
6. University classrooms in Vietnam : Contesting the stereotypes
7. Using visual organizers to enhance EFL instruction


Tibetan classical literature Of all the world's rich classical literary traditions, that which is preserved in the literature ofTibet, is probably one of the most outstanding and also the least well--known. Of the thousands oftexts once available inside Tibet, only a fraction have been translated into Western languages, andthe number of trained scholars capable of making accurate translations is very small. Nonetheless,