The purpose of the study was to explore the impact of the Baby Boomer Generation on the future services provided by Senior Centers in Northwest Arkansas, specif ically in Benton, Madison, and Washington counties. The study was a mixed methods design utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods. Three research groups were used: Nine Senior C enter Directors, which were interviewed; one focus group composed of four Baby Boomers; a nd a print survey distributed to ninety-two Baby Boomers. The data revealed that changes are needed in the program and services in Senior Centers to attract the Baby Boomer Genera tion. Changes will need to include updating facilities and eliminating the institutional feel t o the buildings. Providing current and trendy programs, activities, and education was also recomm nded. The primary policy implication is funding, which affects all of the areas suggeste d for change. Senior Centers will need to find innovative ways to increase funding or reduce expenses, and st arting entrepreneurial activities and building community partnerships is one method to inc rease resources. If increased funding is not forthcoming, then a re-evaluation of the t arget group of seniors is warranted, along with a review of the best way to service seniors on a limited budget. This dissertation is approved for recommendation to the Graduate Council. Dissertation Director: _________________________________ Dr. Barbara Shadden Dissertation Committee: _________________________________ Dr. Barbara Hinton _________________________________ Dr. Valerie Hunt DISSERTATION DUPLICATION RELEASE I hereby authorize the University of Arkansas Libraries to duplicate t his dissertation when needed for research and/or scholarship. Agreed _______________________________ Wanda Faye Dobbs Turner Refused _______________________________ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I want to thank God and my family. The support and encouragement of my family was priceless. My late husband, David Alan Turner, was always s upportive and gave me the strength to embark upon this endeavor. To him, I will be forever grat eful, and I am just sorry he is not here to see this project finished, as he was always my number one cheerleader in this project and in life. My two beautiful daughters, Angela and Meredith, we re always there for me and gave up precious time with me on numerous occasions so that I could complete this project. Angela and Meredith thank you for being so understanding. I love both of you mor e than words can express. My brothers, Jerry, Larry, and Mickey, have loving expres sed their pride in my tackling this research project. To each of you, thank you for your love and support, a nd now you no longer have to call me "Master Sis". Although, I kind of like being the "Mas ter," but "Dr. Sis" has a nice ring too. As well, I want to thank my sister-in-laws , Carol and Debbie, my nieces, Bobbie and Jennifer, my mother-in-law, Dorothy, and each member of my very l arg family. A thank you seems so insignificant in relation to how much I appreciate e ach and every one of you for all of your support and encouragement, not only in this process but in life. Secondly, I would like to send a heartfelt thank you to Dr. Barbara Shadden, my Dissertation Chairperson. She did not give up on me, and she continued to encourage me and support me during many trials and tribulations during this process, both mine and hers. Bar bara, I will be forever grateful. You are truly an angel in disguise. Two very important people in this project are my committee members, Dr. Barba ra Hinton and Dr. Valerie Hunt. Without each of you this process would not have been possible. I thank each of you from the bottom of my heart. You are both role models in the academic fi eld that I can only hope to someday attain. Your encouragement and willingness to sta nd by me during this process is appreciated. Again, a simple thank you just does not seem like enough. I had a very supportive network of people guiding me, listening to me, and in general just being there for me. I want to especially thank Jami Forrester and Kenda Gr over for their support during this long process. Knowing that you were always there for me was very c omforting and made this process a little easier. There are so many other people in my life that gave me encouragement. To eac h of you, and you know who you are, thank you. DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this dissertation to my late husband, David, my daughters, Angela and Meredith, my brothers, Jerry, Larry, and Mickey, and my late beloved fathe r and mother, W.T. and Ruth.


ABSTRACT In this article, the author focus on the simple and yet very important case of making inference on the difference of two population means using the empirical likelihood approach of two-sample compound Poisson process. It is shown that the log empirical likelihood ratio statistic for the difference of two population means converges in distribution to as . The simulation results show that the empirical likelihood ratio method is applicable.


Aptitude test is designed to measure someone's potential talent. One of the is adaptive with IRT3 (Item Response Theory Three Parameters) where intake of score is not only based on right answer but also parameters influence their answer. Aptitude testing online of Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) only include questions and question parameters without knowing furthermore the process by software, and get test scorequckly and accurately. Bengkulu University has 8 faculties with Bachelor regular programs. the University of Bengkulu is able to accommodate thousands of high school graduates who want to continue their education into college. This study aims to develop a decision support system applicationthat givesrecommendations for students who want to continue their education into speciall in the University of Bengkulu. System development method used in this research was a prototype method using the UML as a system designing method. The result is a decision support system that can give recommendations of study program at the University of Bengkulu for prospective students because the system has been able to show the result of calculations based on data input by using Multifactor Evaluation Process (MFEP) method and produced five study programs that have been in the ranking.


Several methods for syntheses are available in literatures which involve conventional synthesis methods. Most synthesis of pyridazine is based on the addition of hydrazine or its derivative to an appropriately 1,4-disubstituted carbon chain. As part of our program aimed at utilizing β-aroylpropionic acid derivatives containing the different aromatic moiety as starting materials react with different hydrazine derivatives for the synthesis of pyridazine and pyridazinone derivatives, these reports of interesting biological activities prompted us to synthesize a new series of pyridazinones containing different other moieties to give the corresponding pyridazinone. © 2015 iGlobal Research and Publishing Foundation. All rights reserved. Indo Global Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2016; 6(2): 65-71 66 During last two decade numbers of pyridazines have been synthesized due to variety of biological activities specially related to cardiovascular system. Properties of Pyridazine Pyridazine being a pie electron deficient heteroaromatic compound is a colorless liquid at room temperature with pyridine like odour & melting point of -8°C. Pyridazine is a weak base with boiling point 208°C. This unusually high boiling point compared to benzene (80°C) indicates the involvement of some type of intermolecular association and is attributed to the polariseability of N-N unit, which results in extensive dipolar association in the liquid 4 . Pyridazine forms pyridazinium mono-cation with acids. It undergoes nucleophilic substitution with great difficulty; but conversion into 1-oxide gives a means of preparing various pyridazine substitution products 5 .


The purpose of this review is to present the development of retinal chips in the surgical treatment of retinitis pigmentosa. The technological opportunities, surgical techniques and results in terms of vision in conceptually different subretinal and epiretinal implants are reported, as well as technological developments and expected future progress on the basis of published results from the R&D centers producing this type of chips. At this stage in the development of medicine, inserting a retinal implant is the only way to regain vision for patients with retinitis pigmentosa at the end stage of the disease. It is still difficult to determine which of the implant types gives better results in the long run and which among them might give rise to less undesirable side effects. The information available in the literature provides encouraging outcomes for vision's recovery in patients with late-onset pigment retinitis.


ABSTRACT The term 'end forming of tubes' is commonly used to explain the production of simple or complicated tube end shapes by means of a wide variety of processes such as expansion, reduction, inversion, flaring, flanging and tapering. In the present work, the expansion behaviour of AA2014 aluminium alloy tube ends was processed while pressing with different die geometries were studied. This heat treatable aluminium–copper alloy AA2014 finds wide application in the aerospace and defence industry due to its high strength-to-weight ratio. AA2014 showed poor formability (6.1 mm) at cold conditions in all die geometries due to the hardness of the material. An attempt was made to improve the formability of the alloy through heat treatment process such as solutionized, aged and over aged states. In order to reduce the experiments, FEA based simulations performed using DEFORM-2D software which uses the flow stress equation. The material constants in flow stress equation n and K values are determined by conducting disc compression tests for various heat-treated conditions and incorporated in the software. The results revealed that increase in formability with annealing heat-treatment process.


The complicated nature of planning and key aspects of the orthodoxy of the Westminster system of governance and the separation of powers are discussed. The seven key tips that can make planners help their councilors survive are highlighted.


Context. Optical nova lightcurves often have structures, such as rapid declines and recoveries, due to nebular or dusty phases of the ejecta. Nova Cygni 2006 (V2362 Cyg) underwent an unusual brightening after an early rapid decline. The shape of the lightcurve can be compared to that of V1493 Aql, but in that case the whole event was not as bright and only lasted a couple of weeks. V2362 Cyg had a moderately fast decline of t2 = 9.0 ± 0.5 days before rebrightening, which lasted 250 days after maximum. Aims. We present an analysis of our own spectroscopic investigations in combination with American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) photometric data covering the whole rebrightening phase until the return to the final decline. Methods. We used medium resolution spectroscopy obtained in ten observing nights in the course of 79 nights to investigate the change of the velocity structure of the ejecta. The publicly available AAVSO photometry was used to analyze the overall properties and the energy of the brightening. Results. Although the behavior of the main outburst (velocity, outburst magnitude, and decline timescales) resembles a "normal" classical nova, the shell clearly underwent a second fast mass ejecting phase, causing the unusual properties. The integrated flux during this event contributes ≈40% to the total radiation energy of the outburst. The evolution of the Hα profile during the bump event is obtained by subtracting the emission of the detached shells of the main eruption by a simple optically-thin model. A distance of D ≈ 7.5 +3.0 −2.5 kpc and an interstellar extinction E(B − V) = 0. m 6 ± 0. m 1 was also derived.


There was no research regarding selection criteria for the economically relevant dairy cattle objective traits in Ethiopia. Therefore, the goal of this paper was to determine the selection criteria for Holstein Friesian and crossbreed dairy cattle economically relevant traits. The research was based on 236 respondents of large, medium and small scale dairy farms from Dire-Dawa, Harar, Bishoftu, Holeta agricultural research center and Mekele. Data were analyzed using statistical analysis software and traits preferences were ranked by calculating index values with the principle of weighted average. For Holstein Friesian preducers, the most preferred breeds were pure Holstein Friesian, Holstein Friesian crossbreeds and local cattle breeds with an overall index value of 0.47, 0.36, and 0.13, respectively. Similarly for crossbreed producers, pure Holstein Friesian (0.46), Holstein Friesian crossbreed (0.37) and local cattle (0.15), respectively, were their main breed preferred. In the present study, both Holstein Friesian and crossbreed producers were used milk yield (0.61, and 0.64) and milk yield composition (0.39, and 0.34), as the main preferred selection criteria for milk composition, respectively. On the other situations, age at first calving (0.45, and 0.39), age at first service (0.38, and 0.37), and service per conception (0.08, and 0.17), were the preferred selection criteria for economically relevant reproduction traits both for Holstein Friesian and crossbreed, respectively.


American urban school population changed radically after World War II. The new wave of immigration of the last 25 years from Hispanic countries, from the Middle East, and from Asian countries has washed over the urban schools like a tidal wave, bringing with it additional challenges, this time cultural and linguistic. The minority population of urban schools increases, and the duties and problems that come with the new population are overwhelming to the institution. Yet the added responsibilities have come without any administrative or structural change and without the addition of essential teacher resources (Nieto, 1992). Though education improves, poor people still have much less access to good education. In urban schools, social inequality in education began to manifest itself. Kozol (1991) painted a portrait of two worlds in education -- a pretty picture for the socially and economically advantaged and an ugly montage for children in poverty. These inequalities continue to exist. Hulsebosch and Koerner (1994) found that minority teachers felt like outsiders, struggling to be faithful to their racial identities. Ginsberg and Cliff (1990) speculated on the effects of the "hidden curriculum" on minorities, which perpetuates, legitimizes, and gives uncritical acceptance to the status quo. A 2-year study, Barriers to Excellence: Our Children at Risk (National Coalition of Advocates for Students, 1985), based on hearings held around the country, found that twice as many Blacks as Whites drop out of school. About 25% of youngsters in any age group do not complete high school, and in large urban cities over 40% do not finish high school today, leaving these dropouts economically deprived when they enter the job market. The existence of these at-risk students means schools are failing in their mission to give all children an equal education. The Education Trust (1996) reported many external factors that have been used to explain lower levels of performance among poor students and minorities:" ... pervasive poverty, single parent homes, violent neighborhoods, welfare dependency, drug and alcohol use, lead paint." What can be done to address the inequality in urban schools? This will not be an easy task when one considers burgeoning enrollments, limited finances, and our obsessive preoccupation with academic standards. But, next to home, what other institutions do the majority of students spend more time at and in a better position to help students become responsible, caring citizens? The question arises whether an ethic of caring can become a central part of a school's program. Unfortunately, schools are too often a reflection of an uncaring society that oppresses people because of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, language, and other differences (Ogbu, 1992). Teachers may view these issues abstractly, without a relationship to the context of the children in their classrooms or in their personal relationships with others. Even within the field of multicultural education, attention to the impact of teacher-student interactions on the educational achievement of minority student has been limited. Many multiculturalists write about social justice, but few talk about culturally relevant teaching and how to infuse various elements into the classroom. Defining Caring-Centered Multicultural Education Caring is a fundamental human capacity that translates into a coherent pattern of behaviors in interpersonal interactions rather than merely a romantic notion or sentimentality (Iaani, 1996; Noddings, 1992). Caring stresses the creation of trusting relationships as the foundation for building an effective academic and social climate for schooling (Chaskin and Rauner, 1995; Erickson, 1993). Caring may not be visible in an educational environment, yet it guides the interactions and organization of schools and classrooms (Noblit, Rogers, and McCadden, 1995). …


Abstract This paper is concerned with the amplitude fluctuations observed in the radio waves reflected from meteor trails. Subsequent to the initial diffraction phenomena the radio echoes exhibit fluctuations of period between 0·01 and 0·1 seconds, when observed on radio wave frequencies of 36 to 72 Mc./s. These fluctuations have been investigated simultaneously on two radio wave frequencies and it is concluded that the phenomenon is due to wind gradients in the high atmosphere which cause the trail of meteor ionization to break up. In this way several reflecting regions are formed which give an interference pattern moving over the observing station.


There was investigated kinetic of processes on graphite anode in oxidative melt on the base of eutectic CsCl–KCl–NaCl with additives TeO2 and NaF at temperature 600 °C. There were researched relationships between limiting current of ions tellurium's overcharge and limiting current of discharge of oxygen-containing ions and content of TeO2 and NaF. Excess of these currents leads to chlorine evolution in oxychloride melts and freons in oxychloride-fluoride melts. There was offered mechanism of TeO2 dissolution in chloride and chloride-fluoride melts with generation and subsequent dissociation of tellurium oxychloride with forming of O2–, TeCl6 2–, and [TeO2Cl]–. Its availability in electrolyte was confirmed by method of infrared spectroscopy, and explains high rate of discharge of oxygenated ions at the anode.


384 fluid state and moving easily between languages, regions, events and identifications, of identity realizable by simple synthetic declaration" (131). Having established that the photo essay positions its viewers within a process that significantly transforms the desire for a stable identity, he proceeds to show how successive variations on this form modify the conditions for experiencing a sense of collective belonging. The Americans provides Stimson with the means of comparing the politics of form during the 1950s in the United States with the kind of photo essay that commanded similar prominence during the 1960s. Where Frank responded to the monocultural humanism of The Family of Man by exposing the seamier underside of its "syrupy universalisms," Bernd and Hilla Becher appear to reject Steichen's organicism in favor of what Stimson calls "an older, prewar paradigm" (137). What he wants to stress, however, is the contrast between Bechers' photographs of industrial structures and an older paradigm that sought to revolutionize labor by instrumentalizing art, the better to show how the photo essay transforms that archive. Yes, the Bechers produce what Stimson calls "a full-blown nineteenth-century archive exactly in the manner that Foucault would describe," but the Bechers do not offer a human archive "of the formal, physiognomic variations of deviance" but one of industrial buildings that have lost their usefulness along with the human energy that animated them (160). Thus, Stimson concludes, the beholder's satisfaction or frustration (as the case may be), is to be found in the "object without any specific individual aim or instrumental purpose" (166); such an object comes into being along with an archive structured around the absent ideal that shaped the old paradigm of the age of realism. By this means, the Bechers' sequences of industrial images turn around the Enlightenment ideal that drove the invention of photographic technology in the first place—a form of representation that promised unmediated knowledge of the material world. What is perhaps most significant about Stimson's selection of the Bechers' project to conclude his study of the photo essay form is the level on which it forces the reader to grasp "form" itself as a social force. Of the photo essays considered, theirs most obviously rejects photography as representation in favor of photography as a way of striking up a relationship to the world as participant observer. Stimson's study is exemplary in moving from aesthetic form to affective response and from there to ideology, never giving one transcoding the entire advantage over the other as the standard of comparison. His focus on the form of the photo essay consequently frees this book from the discourse of medium specificity, producing instead a more sophisticated and historically sensitive study than those intent on deriving meaning from the technology of a given medium. Never once succumbing to the critical theoretical temptation to suggest that an art form can change the world, he succeeds in offering a thoroughly persuasive account of a moment when photography did reshape the image of the world as one to which a significant number of people felt they belonged.


This past summer I was contacted by a colleague who had just attended the [Gordon Conference on Ion Channels][1]. The glowing account given of the conference ranked it as exceptional: outstanding speakers, exciting research, and great scientific interactions. Other attendees with whom I spoke rated


In scientometrics, the quantitative study of science, network analysis has become a prominent tool. The kinds of networks most frequently examined have been citation networks (mapping links between publications based on references) and collaboration networks (mapping the collaborative relationships between researchers based on joint publications) [Mil04][New01]. Collaboration networks are at the center of this work, too. Based on the extensive DBLP publication database, relations between authors and publications are compiled as graphs, mapping almost the entire field of computer science. This allows us to examine and quantify the collaborative relations between researchers using graph-based methods. The focus on collaboration is supported by empirical results showing that research increasingly happens in the form of teamwork, and publications produced by teams of authors typically reach a greater impact [WJU07][Sol09]. In the course of this work, the collaboration network is explored from several angles. A variety of techniques for the analysis of complex networks, especially social network analysis, yield insights into its composition. Of particular interest here is whether the natural components of the network correspond to separate fields with regard to research content. These analyses give us a general picture of the network and lead up to the central point of this work, the question how the network is shaped by social events in the academic realm: The Dagstuhl seminars assemble researchers with the goal of fostering (collaborative) work in cutting-edge areas of computer science. We examine whether such events leave a track in the structure of the network. Furthermore, the significance of centrality in the collaborative network is explored, both for authors and for publications. The structure of the work can be outlined briefly as follows: After some preliminary definitions (Section 1.2), Chapter 2 describes in detail the preparation of source data, leading to the modeling of the collaboration network as different graphs. Chapter 3 briefly highlights some technical aspects of the implementation. In Chapter 4, standard concepts from network analysis are applied in order to report general properties of the resulting network, including connectedness, degree distribution and k-core decomposition. Chapter 5 is concerned with clustering, i.e. partitioning the graph into internally dense subgraphs. After calculating a clustering of the collaboration network, we look into the question whether authors form collaborative clusters according to the topical similarity of their work. As a core element of this work, we then explore the question whether participation in seminars designed to foster collaboration, the …


Much has been written about the restrictions on access to health for women under the Taliban regime that controlled Afghanistan until 2001. Taliban edicts gave institutional standing to practices which limited women's movements in public unless accompanied by a male relative obliged women to wear the all-enveloping burqa and denied women access to education work and health care. Several reports highlighted the impact of these measures on women's access to reproductive health (RH) services. In 1997 WHO reported that Afghanistan had one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates: 820 per 100000 live births. This alarming level was widely attributed to Taliban gender policies. (excerpt)


The paper deals with the problem of internal intruders (insiders) in the organization. It presents Top-7 methods of insider detection and substantiates the necessity of their joint usage. A technique to combine different methods of insider detection is proposed. A combination of methods means using the results of only one of them, union or/and intersecting it with the results of others. The technique formalization and graphic interpretation are given, as well as expressions for completeness, precision, accuracy, error and F-measure. Visualization of the third method combination is provided as an example. The results of experiments on insider detection at the real corporate network using human and machine-based methods are presented.


We consider the problem of sampling a bipartite graph with given vertex degrees where a set $F$ of edges and non-edges which need to be contained is predefined. Our general result shows that the repeated swap of edges and non-edges in alternating cycles of at most size $2\ell-2$ ('$j$-swaps' with $j \leq 2 \ell-2$) in a current graph lead to an ergodic Metropolis Markov chain whenever $F$ does not contain a cycle of length $2 \ell$ with $\ell \geq 4.$ This leads to useful Markov chains whenever $\ell$ is not too large. If $F$ is a forest, $4$- and $6$-swaps are sufficient. Furthermore, we prove that $4$-swaps are sufficient when $F$ does not contain a matching of size $3.$ We extend the Curveball algorithm of Strona et al. \cite{Strona2014b} to our cases.


This paper permeates the changes in education concerning the inclusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the learning process, contributing significantly to the inclusion of the educator and the student in the social environment they live in, allowing them to be able to follow technological advances, because when used as learning tools, ICT contextualize the social agents. Thus, for inserting the use of ICT in the classroom we need to restructure teacher training in order to make them independent of the resources used and provide students with the development of full citizenship. Therefore, the proposal is to encourage the use of ICT as an auxiliary tool in the teaching of science in school in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, integrating educators and students in the teaching-learning process, aimed at integration and the construction of knowledge of these educational actors in cyberspace.


This paper presents the possibility of non-invasive adaptation of the existing pipeline infrastructure in front of the condenser to the measurement of cooling water flow rate. In the analyzed variant, for the measurement of water flow rate in the cooling system, local pressure difference in the segmented elbow was applied. CFD (ANSYS CFX) was used as a tool for diagnosing flow structure, including the location of sampling points of pressure in the elbow. Many variants of flow were modelled ("What if?" analysis type) in this paper. These variants were used to determine the correlation between the differential pressure in the elbow and the flow rate. In addition, the article identifies the advantages and disadvantages of the solutions of this type against a background of standard elements and measuring distances and discusses the basic procedures for preparing and conducting CFD numerical experiment.


This paper proposes a method of using the RTW(Real-Time Workshop) code generation tool to convert Matlab/Simulink to the C/C++ code.Accordingly the system's model is constructed conveniently by using simulink.This can not only avoid the problem of low simulation speed of the model in matlab/Simulink circumstance,but also deduce the workload of the programming engineer.In addition,the converted C code can run independently out of Matlab circumstance,which expands the use domain of the converted C code by this method.


Abstract. The discovery of new specimens of the Late Carboniferous species elongata Brongniat, 1893: 433, belonging to the taxon Archaeorthoptera nom. Béthoux and Nel, 2002, dis.-typ. Béthoux, 2007c (i.e. is more closely related to the Linnaean order Orthoptera than to any other recent insect order) is reported. The head and leg morphology of the species could be investigated thanks to the good preservation of the specimens, and new preparation. The tarsus is 5-segmented, supporting the view that this state is plesiomorphic for orthopterans s. s. Morphology of mandibules indicates a carnivorous food-habit. Fore- and mid-leg femora and tibiae were provided with long and spaced out spines, most probably arranged in two rows. These spines might have assisted the entrapment of preys. The relative length of leg segments, and the length of antennae, are reminiscent of the condition exhibited by phasmidans, suggesting a similar locomotion behavior.


Two recent articles make prominent use of the concept of "apparent weight."1,2 The concept of "apparent weight" leads to two confusing inconsistencies. We need to know that with very little change in our representations, we can give our students an improved understanding of "weight" without ever having to invent the appealing but confusing concept of "apparent weight."


As we approach the one-year mark since our unwanted acquaintance with the novel coronavirus, the scientific community is forced to adapt to widespread restrictions across the life sciences research landscape, spanning from institutional shutdowns to city-wide curfews and travel bans. As a result, many conference proceedings globally have been postponed, delayed or cancelled. Difficult times ask for creative and courageous solutions to complex issues. In the interest of the health, safety and well-being of all registered attendees and the general public, the Society for the Study of Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity (SSNN) Board of Directors has decided to migrate all upcoming events that require in-person attendance to a virtual environment. We are committed to supporting public health authorities globally in their effort to slow and contain the spread of COVID-19. We must stay positive, healthy and united more than ever to overcome this crisis. Our long-established events the 10th European Teaching Course on Neurorehabilitation (4-5 September 2020), the 15th International Summer School of Neurology (6-7 September 2020) and the 4th EAN Task Force on Rare Neurological Diseases Teaching Course (8 September 2020) will be offering excellent opportunities for education, dissemination of scientific research, as well as the exchange of best practices, through a brand new online platform that has been tailored to promote lively interaction between participants (Figure 1).


Effectuation of Good in Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right consists
 in neither happiness nor welfare but in deliberate and courageous
 externalization of particular will. Such notion of Good works directly
 contrary to the "good" as social peace where people are entertained by
 comfort and therefore maintained in the status of masses. Compensating the
 lack of one's freedom by comfort is rather a characteristic of the world of
 Abstract Right (which Morality is on the path of overcoming). Abstract Right
 is synonymous with the right of might because in it, righteousness is
 defined through contractual in(justice).


A pinhole camera is coupled with a Pilot‐B scintillator and image‐intensified TRW streak camera to study pinched electron beam profiles via observation of anode target bremsstrahlung. Streak intensification is achieved with an EMI image intensifier operated at a gain of up to 106 which allows optimizing the pinhole configuration so that resolution is simultaneously limited by photon‐counting statistics and pinhole geometry. The pinhole used is one‐dimensional and is fabricated by inserting uranium shims with hyperbolic curved edges between two 5‐cm‐thick lead blocks. The loss of spatial resolution due to the x‐ray transmission through the perimeter of the pinhole is calculated and a streak photograph of a Gamble I pinched beam interacting with a brass anode is presented.


Since the 1990 s, a number of researchers and institutes abroad have initiated research investigations and practical implementation of the integration of public digital cultural resources. In fact, the research and practice in overseas countries have been undergone three main stages: cooperation and co-construction,resource sharing, and knowledge sharing. In the 21 st century, even greater attentions have been placed on the study of public digital cultural resources integration. This paper reports on a research investigation aiming at analyzing and discussing the origin and historical development of public digital cultural resources integration in foreign countries. Moreover, this paper focuses on the newly emerged research areas in the field, namely, life-cycle management of digital resources, emerging technologies and applications, as well as the formulation of metadata standards. Furthermore, this paper aims to provide useful implications to the study of public digital cultural resources integration in China.This paper adopts Social Science Citation Index( SSCI) as the data source, which was systematically searched using relevant keywords. The articles were retrieved, manually screened and selected for analysis.The selected articles report a long period of history, represent diverse periodical sources, and demonstrate rich description and discussion. These articles not only provide experience, which were generated anddeveloped through previous projects, but also deliver point views on the approaches of integration as well as the conceptualization of technical implementation in real practice.This paper analyzed and synthesized four main research orientations on public digital cultural resources integration in foreign counties. 1) The necessity and desirability of investigating public digital cultural resources integration. 2) The approaches for integrating public digital cultural resources. This perspective mainly involves resource development, organization, access and acquisition, retention and preservation, as well as user service provision. 3) Useful and practical technologies for public digital cultural resources integration. These technologies include digital visualization, linked data applications and platforms, twodimension code technologies, and cloud computing. 4) Problems encountered and potential solutions in the processes of public digital cultural resources integration. Problems can emerge from the collaboration between heterogeneous public cultural organizations, the dissonance of metadata standards, and the protection of intellectual properties. Many scholars abroad have explored and discussed the causes,consequences and mitigating strategies to these problems. Based on the literature analysis, it has become clear that there is a growing concern about the integration of public digital cultural resources. Researchers have focused on the life-cycle management of digital resources and the implementation of newly emerged technologies. Also, the articulation of metadata standards has become a popular research topic.On the basis of the findings, theoretical basis and experience developed and shared by the overseas researchers, the investigation on the integration of Chinese public digital cultural resources should focus on and reinforce the following perspectives: 1) establishing effective mechanism for inter-organizational collaboration; 2) formulating a integrated set of pragmatic metadata standards; 3) further strengthening the development and implementation of digital visualization, linked data, two-dimension code, and cloud computing technologies; 4) intensifying the research on intellectual property problems.This paper contributes to both practice and theory development in three perspectives. Firstly, this paper identifies the origin and different stages of public digital cultural resources integration. Secondly, from the perspective of life-cycle management, the paper explores and evaluates the development, organization,access and acquisition, retention and preservation, as well as the provision of user services of the public digital cultural resources. Thirdly, this paper shed light on the future development and implementation of new information technologies, which can be used in the integration of public digital cultural resources.However, this paper also includes two limitations. Firstly, due to the limitation of SSCI database,probably not all relevant articles were retrieved and included for analysis. Secondly, the study of metadata standards and intellectual property protection requires further intensification. 1 fig. 50 refs.


Rupture of vascular tissue in the circulatory system under non-impact loading is involved in potentially life threatening events such as Marfan's syndrome or rupture of small renal veins during shock wave lithotripsy. The rupture mechanisms are not well-understood. The complexity of the artery wall precludes the use of rupture theories invented for metals or for fibered composites with a homogeneous matrix. Artery tissue is composed of ground material, smooth muscle cells, elastin and collagen. The collagen fibers, which are generally circumferentially oriented, are the load carrying material after large deformations. Clark and Glagov [1] propose that the media of an elastic artery is built of musculo-elastic fascicles made up of a layer of circumferentially oriented SMC that lie parallel and between two elastin lamellae. Between the elastin sheets of adjacent elements are interspersed collagen fiber bundles.Copyright © 2010 by ASME


This paper presents a linguistic constraint model and a phrase-length constraint model to describe the prosodic phrasing process.Each part of them can be described in detail.In the linguistic constraints model,Chunk is considered as an important basic unit.And an HMM is used to model the phrase-length constraints,which include the distributions of the prosodic phrase lengths and the prosodic word number in the prosodic phrase.Then a k-candidate method is introduced to combine these two models.This approach makes full use of the linguistic constraints and the phrase-length constraints.The experiments show that this approach achieved a good performance with the phrasing f-score 82.9%.


ABSTRACT The Ḥafṣid [makhzen/ruling administration], which grew out of old Almohad élites, succeeded in combining the administrative traditions of Ifrīqiya with the specific features of Almohad power. It was founded primarily on the army, based in the garrisons of Ifrīqiya, especially Tunis. The continuing importance of Almohad ideology did not prevent major changes under al-Mustanṣir, who profited both from emigration from al-Andalus and from local political heritage, which he used to build a state that was both Ifrīqiyan and Almohad. Thus, the Ḥafṣids became a closed caste, far removed from their tribal Maṣmūda origins, holding power with the help of other foreign elements. The legacy of the Almohads influenced the politics, socio-economic life, and culture of Ifrīqiya under the caliph al-Mustanṣir, although not evenly: whether of Moroccan or Andalūsī origin, this legacy was more pronounced in urban than in rural environments. The Almohad fiscal system remained in force in Ifrīqiya into the Ḥafṣid period, and Almohad influence is also detectable in several sectors of the economy and urban life. On the other hand, under al-Mustanṣir, the limits of Almohad influence upon the culture of Ifrīqiya become apparent.


Saethre-Chotzen syndrome (SCS) is a common autosomal dominant craniosynostosis disorder that has been mapped to distal chromosome 7p. In addition to craniosynostosis, patients with SCS have facial asymmetry, low frontal hairline, ptosis, deviated nasal septum, brachydactyly, and partial cutaneous syndactyly. We evaluated 66 individuals in 10 SCS families. Linkage analysis was performed with 11 dinucleotide repeat markers between D7S513 and D7S516, spanning a genetic distance of 27 cM. The tightest linkage was to marker D7S664 (Z = 7.16, {theta} = 0.00), with a confidence interval of 8 cM. Haplotype analysis of those families with informative recombination events showed the disease locus to lie within the 12 cM region between markers D7S513 and D7S507. We used FISH to physically map the gene using chromosome spreads from the SCS patient with t(2;7)(p23;p22) reported by Reid et al. and YAC clones from a contig spanning the critical interval. These studies confirmed that the breakpoint lies within this region, and in fact identified a microdeletion. Further studies will be targeted towards identification of candidate genes for Saethre-Chotzen syndrome.


j?ixed configuration feedback control often forms the basis for the design of a linear control system. The design freedom is limited to the adjustment of the free parameters of the system. Analytical methods prove to be valuable in these circumstances and the aim is the optimization of a selected index of performance. A suggested index is developed for a regulator system from a comparison of the dynamics of the subject system witn those of a desired model along a transient state space trajectory. The result is an optimal system dependent on the initial state chosen for the transient response. The effects of the initial state on the optimal system are investigated and the final selection is based on statistical considerations.


We describe the design and operational experience of the ATLAS production system as implemented for execution on Grid3 resources. The execution environment consisted of a number of grid-based tools: Pacman for installation of VDT-based Grid3 services and ATLAS software releases, the Capone execution service built from the Chimera/Pegasus virtual data system for directed acyclic graph (DAG) generation, DAGMan/Condor-G for job submission and management, and the Windmill production supervisor which provides the Jabber messaging system for Capone interactions with the ATLAS production database at CERN. Datasets produced on Grid3 were registered into a distributed replica location service (Globus RLS) that was integrated with the Don Quijote proxy service for interoperability with other Grids used by ATLAS. We discuss performance, scalability, and fault handling during the first phase of ATLAS Data Challenge 2.


Abstract Antythrombin III (AT III) is one of the most important regulators of the coagulation system. Improper concentration of AT III in blood is a great risk and often leads to thrombotic complications. In routine laboratories there is a choice between two types of methods (functional and immunology) of AT III examination which are time consuming. The paper deals with the AT III analysis by means of high performance affinity chromatography (HPAC). The results presented in the paper indicate high sensitivity of HPAC for AT III analysis which can be performed in a few minutes.


The South Burbank pool was discovered in January, 1934, by the Mead Oil Company et al well in the NE NE SW Sec. 10-25N-6E. In two years over 250 wells with initial productions of 10 or 15 to about 5,800 barrels have been drilled. A little oil is found in the "Mississippi lime", but the production is chiefly from a sand lense of the off shore bar type in the Cherokee shale which lies on a southwest-ward dipping monocline. The lense pinches out into shale on the east, forming a trap. The pool lies in an area which is devoid of Chattanooga shale. The only unconformities of any magnitude in the zone of drilling are at the top and base of the "Mississippi lime." The absence of Chattanooga shale indicates the erosion preceding the deposition of The cut down the structures developed during this period to an amount which causes a variation of 298 to 428 feet in the lime" in the South Burbank The topography developed on the surface of the Mississippian may have had the effect of checking currents and starting the formation of bars.


Aim: To construct eukaryotic plasmid which includes HCV NS3 gene, and induce the expression of NS3 protein in human hepatocytes. Methods: HCV NS3 gene was cloned by using PCR from plasmid pBRTM/HCV1-3011 which includes the full length of HCV gene. We recombined the NS3 segment with expression plasmid pcDNA3.1(-) to construct eukaryotic plasmid pcDNA3.1(-)/NS3. Then plasmid pcDNA3.1(-)/NS3 was transfected into human hepatocytes by using poly-cation. The expression of NS3 protein was detected by immunohistochemical staining method and Western Blotting. Results: The cloned NS3 segment had correct length and sequence. The QSG7701 cells were successfully transfected and expressed NS3 protein. Conclusion: Eukaryotic expression plasmid pcDNA3.1(-)/NS3 incluing HCV NS3 gene was successfully constructed and expressed in human hepatocytes.


Specimens made from twelve types of repair material have been exposed to chlorides and the time to corrosion and corrosion rates of embedded steel bars determined. Control specimens of a good and a moderate quality concrete have also been assessed. The results have highlighted differences in performance between the materials and shown that some provide good protection against chloride-induced corrosion. Six of the repair materials were used to repair spalls in small reinforced concrete slabs. The performance of the interface between the parent concrete and repair material has been shown to be critical, allowing relatively easy ingress of chloride in many cases. Initiation of corrosion was frequently much earlier than would have been expected from the results of single material specimens, with intense anodic sites forming on the steel at the interface.(A) For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 831449.


This paper is dedicated to the study of non-linear wave forces and free surface motions in the vicinity of a multi-column structure. This topic, which is of the utmost interest for designers of offshore platforms, is addressed using an original time domain simulation method for non-linear potential flows with a free surface. The model is based on a formulation of the fully non-linear diffraction problem in which the incident wave is given explicitly, with sensible advantages in terms of efficiency and accuracy over more conventional formulations. Original results using this model have already been published, with emphasis on higher order forces in long waves ([10], [11]), or non-linear wave-current-body interactions ([1][9]). In these calculations, the incident wave was given by the stream function model of Rienecker & Fenton [16], and waves were diffracted by a vertical circular cylinder. This latter restriction allowed an easy implementation of bi-cubic splines interpolations, for accurate estimations of slopes and fluid velocity at free surface markers. In ths paper, applications of this fully nonlinear diffraction model are extended to multi-column structures. This extension is based on the implementation of more flexible schemes for the computation of slopes and fluid velocities around free surface piercing structures of complex shape.


This article puts forth a comprehensive set of etymologies for "fire" words in the Germanic languages that descend from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) peh2-ur. I propose that all relevant cognates are derived from the PIE holokinetic inflection, that is, ph2-u r (nominativeaccusative) ~ ph2-un(oblique), and that all variants in the Germanic languages arose as a result of analogical changes in the Proto-Germanic and later periods. Furthermore, these etymologies cast doubt on reconstructions that require the positing of + in Proto-Germanic or ProtoIndo-European. In addition to providing cause to review existing reconstructions, this article also provides a closer philological view of the evidence of cognates in Germanic.


This article aims to demonstrate the proper use of the tools of design to product video-graphic vignettes, to enrich the construction of meaning, when aired on national television, especially using pictograms, for easy reading, providing a broader understanding of the used signs.


One of the main goals of the metal-mechanical industries is the reduction of the production costs through the productivity increase. For this, larger rates of material removal are searched for smaller intervals of time. In this way, the increase of the tool life becomes fundamental in machining mainly of hard-to-cutting materials. In the attempt to reach this goals, many researchers have been used the hot machining method. This method consists, basically, in the heating of the workpiece hundreds of degrees Celsius above room temperature with aid of an external source of heat. Thus, the reduction of the shear stress of the material of the piece is gotten and, hence, is possible to obtain a smaller wear of cutting tool in relation to the conventional machining. This paper presents a review of hot machining, where the different techniques are presented together their results. This work involves, since the heating using an electric current method between the piece and the tool in the end of the nineteen century until now a days where is used the laser as a source of heating. This latter is used mainly in modern materials of hard machining such as advanced ceramics and alloy steels.


Departamento de Neurologia, Hospital Santa Marcelina, Sao Paulo SP, Brazil. Correspondence: Valmir Passarelli; Rua Oscar Freire, 1380 / apto 51; 05409-010 Sao Paulo SP, Brasil; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Received 18 February 2014; Received in final form 02 May 2014; Accepted 22 May 2014. Figure. Initial EEG. Prior to stimulation, slowing of background (A). After sternal rub, bilateral triphasic waves (repeated every 0.5 s) prominent in the fronto-central regions of the two hemispheres, left and median predominated (B). This activity was associated with jerks affecting right upper limb. DOI: 10.1590/0004-282X20140094 IMAGES IN NEUROLOGY


The world has faced a series of pandemics in its history, and the COVID-19 pandemic is a monu-mental one, bringing about far-reaching impacts on all aspects of life, including impacts on public health, and on the way people live. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the interdependence between human beings and the environment, evident from the impact that COVID-19 has had on the environment because of the limits it put to human mobility and travel. The world has witnessed how countries experienced positive environmental impacts on their local areas through improvements in air quality, water quality and noise pollution. This was driven particularly by national lockdown(s), where social interactions and movements were limited due to work-from-home arrangements, people were encouraged to stay at home, and non-essential domestic and international travel were being halted. In the


The article is devoted to topical issues of land cadastral relations in the organization of the system of lands and rural areas monitoring. It presents a new model developed by the authors of the management system of lands and rural areas monitoring in the sphere of cadastral relations.
The study is based on the methods of scientific research: systemic, geoinformational and statistical method. The modern complex approach to managing monitoring measures, suggested by the authors, will favor the right development of the conception of conducting monitoring. Strategic monitoring model makes it possible to organize work at a high technological level and moreover to achieve key results avoiding many problems and mistakes. The model is expressed through an organizational and strategic scheme-model that promotes effective work management and reliable data collection. The article also examines the issues influencing the development of the whole conception of the state and political system in the field of land cadastre relations.
Solutions to the problems of technological and methodological support of the formation of modern interactive databases and the application of GIS technology, developed by the authors, give an opportunity to conduct deep integrated strategic monitoring of lands and rural areas in the sphere of cadastral relations.


Abstract : ONE PORTION OF THE Soil Dynamics Research effort during the past year is described. Included are: (1) A general discussion of the stress-strain relationship for particulate masses; (2) Specifications for the preparation of fat, backswamp clay samples by static compaction; (3) Data concerning creep, using a load rise-time of 30 millisec; (4) Description of a preliminary attempt to measure pore pressures during compression creep; (5) Data concerning the sonic dilitational wave velocity in a core of soft clay; and (6) Description of a preliminary attempt to measure the sonic dilitational wave velocity in a soft clay sample during consolidation.


As the field of intelligence studies develops as an academic complement to the practice of national security intelligence, it is providing a base of knowledge for intelligence practitioners to interpret their past, understand their present, and forecast their future. It also provides the basis for broader understanding of intelligence as a function of government for other government and security officials, academicians, and the general public. In recent years there has been significant growth in the numbers and kinds of intelligence-related educational and training opportunities, with the knowledge taught in these courses and programs derived from the body of intelligence studies scholarship. The question posed here is: to what extent is this body of knowledge sufficient as a basis for the development of intelligence studies as an academic discipline?


In order to improve the quality of teachers and education personnel and reward to the professionalism of teachers and lecturers then organized activities aimed at motivating teachers to improve their competence, one of which is make an elections competition outstanding teachers that represent each school where the teacher is teaching. In this outstanding teacher assessment process required criteria and sub-criteria that have been determined by Pontianak City Department of Education. The criteria and sub-criteria used in the selection of outstanding teachers refer to the technical manual selection of teachers, principals and school superintendents and chief achievement and special education teachers / pk dedicated in 2014. Decision Support System designed by combining AHP and Promethee to help those who are entitled to give a decision for each participant selection of teachers. In the decision support system designed performed two types of testing, which is the first to compare the combination of AHP and Promethee, AHP itself, Promethee itself and the second some user feedback through User Acceptance Test (UAT). From the results of the comparison method, the AHP, Promethee, and AHP-Promethee method the result is approached from the manual assessment is AHP-Promethee (method contained in the Decision Support System). Based User Acceptance Test, it can be concluded that the Decision Support System designed assessed successfully demonstrated with an average value of 85.316% for the administrator level, 86.278% to the level of the jury, and 85.743% for the level of participants. Keyword : Decision Support system, User Acceptance Test, Pontianak City Department of Education, Teacher Achievement, AHP, Promethee, user


Chinese Entity Recognition Based on BERT-BiLSTM-CRF Model XIE Teng, YANG Jun-An, LIU Hui (College of Electronic Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Hefei 230037, China) Abstract: Named Entity Recognition is a key technology in natural language processing, and the methods based on deep learning have been widely used in Chinese entity recognition. Most deep learning models focus on the feature extraction of words and characters, but ignore the semantic information of word context, therefore, they cannot represent polysemy, and the performance of entity recognition needs to be further improved. In order to solve this problem, this study proposes a method based on the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model. First, word vectors based on context information are generated by the pretreatment of BERT model, and then the trained word vector is input into BiLSTM-CRF model for further training. The experimental result shows that the proposed model achieves sound results and reaches F1-score of 94.65% and 95.67% respectively in the MSRA corpus and People's Daily.


Leukocyte recruitment to inflammatory sites involves sequential adhesive interactions associated with dynamic changes in expression and function of cell surface proteins. We hypothesize that proteolysis of cell surface proteins allows instantaneous uncoupling of adhesive and signaling events, and thus is a key regulator of the inflammatory response. To test this hypothesis, the sterile irritant thioglycollate was injected into the peritoneum of hematopoietic mouse chimeras that lack the sheddase ADAM17 in circulating cells. Thioglycollate injection first initiates neutrophil emigration into the peritoneal cavity, and at 4 hr Ly6G+ neutrophils are increased by 75% in null chimeras. ADAM17‐/‐ chimeras also display a 50% decrease in rolling velocity and a 2‐fold increase in adherent cells visualized by intravital microscopy of the cremaster muscle. In contrast with accelerated neutrophil emigration, monocyte (CD11b+/Ly6G‐) infiltration in null chimeras is reduced by 25% at 48–72 hr, a time of maximal monocyte accumulation. Studies of mixed hematopoietic chimeras (50% wild type, 50% null) further implicate ADAM17 in promoting macrophage exit from the peritoneum. Together these data reveal that ADAM17's function in wild type mice is critical for restriction of neutrophil infiltration, and promotion of monocyte emigration and resolution of the inflammatory response. (Supported by HL67267 & HL18645)


The sale of Western Australian Sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) harvested from remnant vegetation generates revenue of $12 million for the State of Western Australia (Anon. 2000). Sandalwood once grew throughout the wheatbelt of Western Australia but this resource has been exhausted due to over-exploitation and clearing for agriculture (Loneragan 1990). There has been increasing interest from the farming community and other investors in the development of a plantation Santalum spicatum industry in the wheatbelt. Extensive trials have shown that parasitic Santalum species show improved growth and vigour when cultivated with leguminous hosts (Radomiljac and McComb 1998; Brand et al. 2000; Loveys et al. 2001). It has long been recognised that Acacia species are the premier hosts upon which to establish Sandalwood. Most host plantations established to date in the wheatbelt have concentrated on planting seedlings of Jam wattle (Acacia acuminata) at 830 per hectare as the sole species of Acacia (Brand et al. 1999, 2000; Brand and Jones 2001). This paper investigates why species other than Jam should be included in Sandalwood plantations. Direct seeding of acacias is discussed, as are the benefits of using direct seeding for host establishment.


Relic - Jerusalem at the start of the 19th century the Sephardis Ashkenazi days of trial into the vortex (1831-1840) 1840 - disappointments, disarray, and a new start the Europeanization of Jerusalem the Ashkenazis break away "schools! schools!" the Nekhalat Shiva generation Frumkin and the rise of the Khavatzeler camp Meah Shearim "Old" Yishuv or "New" Yishuv Ben Yehuda - beyond the Haskala to political Zionism the other side of the Yishuv Sephardis and Eastern Jews the end of an era epiologue and conclusions.


Two synthetic routes to 2-aryl-1,2,3-triazoles are outlined. These have been used to synthesise a wide range of compounds of this structural type. Their insecticidal activities were evaluated against a number of veterinary and public health pests. The activity of these compounds is especially good against the housefly (Musca domestica). Structure-activity relationships are discussed particularly in relation to the physical properties of the compounds.


This study focused on training students in skills essential to making oral presentations based on original and independent research work as part of their English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. As a result of the training, students showed an increase in the successful use of researchrelated skills and a great improvement in their ability to present their findings in English. Students appeared to have a better grasp of their subject matter, to be more at ease, less reliant on their notes, and better able to address their audiences directly. Students' oral presentations not only illustrated a greater ability of students to use appropriate formats and structures in English but also a willingness and ability to adopt new methods of learning. This would seem to suggest that the preference for 'rote learning' so commonly attributed to Hong Kong students is indeed the result of expectations and experiences in previous learning situations rather than the intrinsic and inherent characteristics of the learners themselves.


Abstract Objective To investigate whether high doses of folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy are associated with child neurodevelopment at 18 months of age. Design The study uses data from the prospective mother–child cohort 'Rhea' study. Pregnant women completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire on folic acid supplementation at 14–18 weeks of gestation. Neurodevelopment at 18 months was assessed with the use of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (3rd edition). Red-blood-cell folate concentrations in cord blood were measured in a sub-sample of the study population (n 58). Setting Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 2007–2010. Subjects Five hundred and fifty-three mother–child pairs participating in the 'Rhea' cohort. Results Sixty-eight per cent of the study participants reported high doses of supplemental folic acid use (5 mg/d), while 24 % reported excessive doses of folic acid (>5 mg/d) in early pregnancy. Compared with non-users, daily intake of 5 mg supplemental folic acid was associated with a 5-unit increase on the scale of receptive communication and a 3·5-unit increase on the scale of expressive communication. Doses of folic acid supplementation higher than 5 mg/d were not associated with additional increase in the neurodevelopmental scales. Conclusions This is the first prospective study showing that high doses of supplementary folic acid in early pregnancy may be associated with enhanced vocabulary development, communicational skills and verbal comprehension at 18 months of age. Additional longitudinal studies and trials are needed to confirm these results.


Set X = {M11,M12,M22,M23,M24, Zn, T4n, SD8n, Sz(q), G2(q), V8n}, where M11, M12, M22, M23, M24 are Mathieu groups and Zn, T4n, SD8n, Sz(q), G2(q) and V8n denote the cyclic, dicyclic, semi-dihedral, Suzuki, Ree and a group of order 8n presented by V8n = 〈a, b | a = b = e, aba = b, aba = b〉, respectively. In this paper, we compute all eigenvalues of Cay(G,T ), where G ∈ X and T is minimal, second minimal, maximal or second maximal normal subset of G \ {e} with respect to its size. In the case that S is a minimal normal subset of G \ {e}, the summation of the absolute value of eigenvalues, energy of the Cayley graph, is evaluated.


A large decommissioning cost for the UK nuclear industry is cable and associated infrastructure for Control and Instruments. If future cable installation is reduced or avoided, this would drastically reduce costs.


Urinary incontinence and hematuria are frequent complaints evaluated by urologists often with readily identifiable etiologies. Occasionally, an unlikely source is found. We present an unusual case of urinary incontinence and hematuria in an elderly female. Evaluation revealed that the complaints were due to a large cyst emanating from her right hip which was the result of a previous right hip arthroplasty in 1970 with three subsequent revisions. Her symptoms resolved spontaneously and the cyst has remained unchanged.


Optimal management of chronic pain is complex and often daunting. In the pediatric and adolescent population, care-givers face additional biases in the face of youth and perceived states of health, which compounds this challenge and frequently leads to dismissal or under-treatment of chronic pain complaints. One study reports that approximately 20%–35% of young adults experienced chronic pain during childhood or adolescence that was 'dismissed' by parents, teachers, or physicians.1 This study also draws connections to several patient-reported, negative, long-term effects including self-directed negativity and isolation.1 It is, therefore, important to consider the potential roots of this problem to strive future improvements in care. As young physicians, we suggest that our perceptions of a patient's chronological age and state of apparent health biases us against acknowledging pain in the absence of an associated diagnosis, and therefore education and training are needed to improve patient care. A brief review of the literature reveals that the challenges of adequately addressing patients with idiopathic chronic pain are not new. In The Art of Handling 'Diff icult' Patients, Chesanow confides that chronic pain patients are often perceived as "difficult."2 They require complicated and time-consuming management and are frequently emotionally distressed.2 He also reports that physician dynamics are another major factor.2 Unfortunately, most physicians have at least one personal experience involving a patient seeking treatment for reasons that are not purely medical. We therefore feel compelled to consider the possibility of patient ulterior motives such as getting out of a test or missing school. Many physicians also feel pressured for time in that face of a full clinic, which may contribute to these patients' feelings of dismissal.2 Additionally, a survey conducted


This work-in-progress seeks to benchmark the visual literacy skills of undergraduate mechanical engineering students at a small technical university, as well as the faculty's current efforts to develop students' visual literacy skills. Visual literacy is accepted as a crucial 21st century skill for students, professionals, and citizens, yet its definition varies greatly across the literature. Existing assessment tools are too general and are insufficient for measuring visual literacy as it applies to engineering design. Our work seeks to establish a simplified method for assessing the visual literacy skills of graduating seniors in a mechanical engineering program. This work will inform the practical next steps in improving visual literacy pedagogy within the program in ways that are sustainable and effective for both faculty and students. We report on the methods of reviewing student visual literacy skills through an examination of a sample of capstone reports completed by the undergraduate mechanical engineering students in the class of 2017 in order to provide a baseline assessment of visual literacy skills. In addition, we report on survey results from faculty respondents regarding the importance they place on visual literacy within their instruction and in assessing students, what tools and methodologies faculty are currently employing, and explore what resources faculty would be most likely to utilize for enhancing instruction within this area. It is expected that in future work strategies and tools will be identified that could be adapted for use at other institutions and programs for assessing visual literacy in STEM fields. Future expansion of this work will include assessment of a larger sample of mechanical engineering student work, as well as other STEM programs at the university in order to measure student growth in visual literacy skills over the duration of their undergraduate experiences. Pilot studies involving faculty training in enhanced pedagogical strategies will also be developed in future work based on the outcomes of this work-in-progress. Communication Skills in Engineering Education In a 2006 study conducted by researchers at Penn State on behalf of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), 98% of employers surveyed ranked effective communication as moderately important, highly important or essential, the highest ranked of all eleven ABET learning outcomes. However, only 75% of these employers reported that new engineering graduates were adequately or well prepared in terms of communication skills [1]. The current ABET General Criterion 3, outcome (g) states that students must demonstrate "an ability to communicate effectively", but there is no mention of distinctions between written, oral or visual communication skills [2]. In contrast, outcome (f) for engineering technology programs requires "an ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in both technical and non-technical environments; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature" [2]. This trend is also evident in the literature for general higher education standards. The 2002 report published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) stated the need for learners to "effectively communicate orally, visually, in writing, and in a second language" [3]. However, in the AAC&U's follow-up report in 2005 omitted the direct reference to visual literacy and instead included the broader quantitative and information literacies [4]. In response to major changes in accreditation outcomes in the late 1990s (a.k.a. ABET 2000), many engineering schools began programs to integrate writing into their technical courses. "Writing across the Curriculum" replaced or supplemented technical communications courses. Engineering faculty were reluctant to participate, as they felt ill-prepared to teach writing, and felt that writing instruction would take time away from important technical content [5]. With no specific requirement for graphical communications in the new ABET accreditation requirements and pressure to address other criteria, graphical communication courses fell by the wayside at many universities. Defining Visual Literacy Definitions of visual literacy vary widely within the literature, particularly due to contextual basis. Scholars in visual literacy have often selected specific components of different disciplines that support their own theories and definitions, which has contributed to the lack of a single coherent theory for visual literacy [6]. This lack of coherent theory, and thus an agreed upon definition, for visual literacy impacts research; forming a consistently accepted definition would help to advance research within the field [6] – [8]. However, it is widely accepted that traditional definitions of literacy that focus solely on the reading and writing of text-based media are now insufficient [4], [8] – [10]. John Debes, as a founding member of the International Visual Literacy Association, stated that visual literacy "refers to a group of vision-competencies a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences" [11]. Debes suggests that use of these vision-competencies allow a visually literate person to discriminate and interpret visuals he or she encounters, communicate with others, and comprehend and enjoy masterworks of visual communication [11]. While this definition helped to begin the discussion around the importance of visual literacy skills, technological innovations and the importance of visual media in contemporary culture are causing rapid shifts in how visual literacy is defined. New definitions place emphasis on the use of visual media as a communication tool within a digital, connected world, as well as the ability to both critically analyze and produce visual materials. Metros [12] distilled visual literacy down into the ability to derive meaning from visual media and to compose effective visual communications. Larry Johnson [13] comments that visually literate people "have an imaginative ability to see and understand the messages communicated with images, as well as to create, modifying, and use visual cues and images". As Peter Felten [14] states, "the process of becoming visually literate continues through a lifetime of learning new and more sophisticated ways to produce, analyze, and use images". Brumberger [15] further highlights the importance of production of visual media in defining visual literacy, stating, "the ability to analyze and interpret images and other visual material, although critical, is not by itself sufficient for full visual literacy; it must be accompanied by some ability to create visual material". Despite emergent themes, the absence of an agreed-upon definition for visual literacy is prevalent. This may be influenced in part by the inclusion of visual literacy as part of a larger multimodal literacy that addresses the competencies needed in the 21st century. There is much overlap between visual literacy and other areas, such as digital technology and digital literacy [16]. Information literacy has also been used as a means for encompassing skills related to visual literacy [8], [16]. Learning Standards for the Digital Age Learning standards that define skills and competencies for the digital age, particularly in the K12 sector, have been emerging in recent years and state the need for skill development beyond traditional textual literacy [16]. Many of these standards describe skills related to visual literacy, though others are more implicit in their descriptions. For example, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) published the Standards for the 21st Century Learner, which include skills such as, "use the writing process, media, and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings" [17]. The enGauge 21st Century Skills also explicitly mentions visual literacy skills [18]. Others, such as the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, implicitly address visual literacy by including it under a larger umbrella of digital or information literacy [19]. One such standard states, "articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts" [19]. This highlights the importance of using visual representations without acknowledging visual literacy as a discrete set of skills, while also further highlighting the lack of a cohesive and accepted definition for visual literacy. Higher education specific standards explicitly containing visual literacy skills are limited. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) published the Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (henceforth referred to as the Visual Literacy Standards), which were informed by the ACRL's prior work in defining the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education [16]. The Visual Literacy Standards address the need for higher education students to develop skills in visual literacy and promote that "a visually literate individual is both a critical consumer of visual media and a competent contributor to a body of shared knowledge and culture" [20]. The Visual Literacy Standards provide a framework for teaching visual literacy skills from an information literacy perspective and highlight the expanding role of librarians and educators in supporting student development in digital age literacy skills. There is much overlap between information literacy and visual literacy as the evaluation and use of visual information has grown within research processes [8]. However, the Visual Literacy Standards allow for more specific focus on skills necessary for evaluating, analyzing, using, and producing visual materials. While much has been published on defining visual literacy and its perceived influence on the development of crucial 21st ce


The latest laboratory workload figures have been the subject of many a corridor discussion, management meeting or national forum. Most clinical laboratories continue to see 8–10% increases in workload year on year, usually without increases in budgets to match. With the global 'credit crunch', it becomes even more relevant that national health service (NHS) organizations deliver evidence-based practice, provide value for money and reduce waste.


With cognizance of legal characters of multinational banks, the thesis thinks the supervision to multinational banks should be divided into the supervision responsibility of home country and hosted country according to their branches' different legal characters and positions. With analyses on the history and development of Basle Concordat and present situation of legal supervision on multinational banks in China, the author states suggestion to establishment of China's legal system of separate supervision on branches of multinational banks after China's accession to the WTO.


Summary The intravenous administration of thrombin (70 N. I. H. u/kg) caused in the dog a decrease in platelets, factor V, factor VIII and fibrinogen, a prolongation of glass and silicone clotting times, prothrombin and partial thromboplastin times, decreased prothrombin consumption and defective thromboplastin generation. This resulted in a generalized bleeding syndrome. Increased fibrinolysis occurred after an initial phase of inhibition of fibrinolysis. It is suggested that this hemorrhagic syndrome is similar to some conditions observed clinically.


This study aimed to assess the suitability of the parameters of a physically based, distributed, grid-based rainfall-runoff model. We analyzed parameter sensitivity with a dataset of eight rainfall events that occurred in two catchments of South Korea, using the Sobol' method. Parameters identified as sensitive responded adequately to the scale of the rainfall events and the objective functions employed. Parameter sensitivity varied depending on rainfall scale, even in the same catchment. Interestingly, for a rainfall event causing considerable runoff, parameters related to initial soil saturation and soil water movement played a significant role in low flow calculation and high flow calculation, respectively. The larger and steeper catchment exhibited a greater difference in parameter sensitivity between rainfall events. Finally, we found that setting an incorrect parameter range that is physically impossible can have a large impact on runoff simulation, leading to substantial uncertainty in the simulation results. The proposed analysis method and the results from our study can help researchers using a distributed rainfall-runoff model produce more reliable analysis results.


The present invention relates to a continuous transesterification process by preparing a high yield with high purity industrial acrylate, 2-octyl acrylate. The method of the present invention are 2-octyl-titanate ester in the form of a solution or in the form of 2-octanol ethyl titanate as transesterification catalyst and the catalyst used comprises previously separated by distillation and then by means of one or two distillation columns the purification sequence.


The Dalitz plot distribution of the eta -> pi(+)pi(-)pi(0) decay is determined by using a data sample of 1.2 x 10(7) eta mesons from the pd -> He-3 eta reaction at 1 GeV collected by the WASA ...


This startling analysis of violence within intimate relationships contends that every abusive relationship has, paradoxically, a heart of its own. Practitioners must acknowledge and engage this dynamic emotional center in order for interventions to succeed. "The Heart of Intimate Abuse" takes a broad, critical view of standard responses to abuse by today's criminal justice, social work, and medical systems--especially those that respond to violence with coercive interventions such as mandatory arrest, prosecution, and reporting laws. Here is a bold vision of the core dynamics of abuse in families--a vision that professionals can use to realize new policies and implement effective interventions that reach the heart of intimate abuse.


Objective: The aim of our study was to test the hypothesis that ketamine would affect aura in a randomized controlled double-blind trial, and thus to provide direct evidence for the role of glutamatergic transmission in human aura. Methods: We performed a double-blinded, randomized parallel-group controlled study investigating the effect of 25 mg intranasal ketamine on migraine with prolonged aura in 30 migraineurs using 2 mg intranasal midazolam as an active control. Each subject recorded data from 3 episodes of migraine. Results: Eighteen subjects completed the study. Ketamine reduced the severity (p = 0.032) but not duration of aura in this group, whereas midazolam had no effect. Conclusions: These data provide translational evidence for the potential importance of glutamatergic mechanisms in migraine aura and offer a pharmacologic parallel between animal experimental work on cortical spreading depression and the clinical problem. Classification of evidence: This study provides Class III evidence that intranasal ketamine is effective in reducing aura severity in patients with migraine with prolonged aura.


Liberalisation of services in the European Community (EC), sends three clear messages to the current and future multilateral negociations on services (...).


DiscussIoN Dr. Zwillich: From rough calculations from your graphs of the arterial blood gas determinations on your animal subjects, it appears that the alveolar-arterial oxygen difference was actually reduced from the baseline values prior to endotoxin administration to an almost ideal level; that is, virtually no A-a gradient following endotoxin. How do you reconcile that fact with the pathologic changes which you have demonstrated in the lungs of these animals? Dr. Ishikawa: We felt that this occurred because so little of the lung was actually involved with this pathologic process. We believe that the uninvolved regions of the lung were able to compensate for the small areas injured after endotoxin exposure. Dr. Thuribeck: Can you tell me the relationship between anesthesia and awakening in these animals during the period of observation? Dr. Gemer: The pentobarbital was given 30 mg/kg IV before endotoxin injection and was not repeated. The animals appeared to be in a semi-conscious state throughout the experiment. 16 Durlacher SH, Bandfield WG Jr. Bergner AD: Postmortem pulmonary edema. Yale J Biol Med 22:565-572, 1950 17 Morada AO: Postmortem pulmonary edema: Differential susceptibility in newborn and adult rabbits. Arch Pathol 85:468-474, 1968


Plantago lanceolata is a perennial herbaceous plant widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean region. Variation in germination requirements and tolerance to osmotic stress and salinity were tested using seeds from two wild populations. Germination experiments were conducted under controlled conditions at constant (15, 20 and 25oC) and alternating (20/10 and 25/15oC) temperatures, and under a 16 h/8 h light/dark photoperiod. Seeds of both populations were non-dormant and incubation temperature significantly affected the final germination percentage and germination rate. Germination percentages ranged from 27 to 85% for the different temperatures and populations. Significant inter-population variation was found for the germination percentages reached at alternate temperature regimes. To determine the effect of osmotic stress and salinity, four polyethylene glycol (PEG 6000: 10, 20, 30 and 40% w/v) and four NaCl concentrations (50, 100, 200 and 300 mmol·L-1) were tested. Seed germination significantly decreased with increasing in PEG and NaCl concentration. Seed germination recovery when they were transferred to distilled water after PEG or salinity treatments was variable depending on population, suggesting that P. lanceolata seeds are moderately tolerant to osmotic and salt stresses at germination stage.


Conceptual system identifies leakage without requiring shutdown for testing. Proposed device detects and indicates leaks of cryogenic liquids automatically. Detector makes it unnecessary to shut equipment down so it can be checked for leakage by soap-bubble or helium-detection methods. Not necessary to mix special gases or other materials with cryogenic liquid flowing through equipment.


The efficacy of long-term rubella vaccine is >90%, and the anti-rubella vaccination causes few side effects.1 Some cases of anterior uveitis were reported after a combined vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella, but not when vaccination for rubella alone was administered.2 Another study reported that, after smallpox vaccination, 16 out of 450 000 subjects vaccinated had ocular complaints including conjunctivitis, keratitis and eyelid oedema, and only 5 of those cases were confirmed positive for vaccinia by culture or PCR.3 However, conjunctivitis after rubella vaccination with laboratory confirmation has never been reported.

A 43-year-old man was referred to the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, with a history of conjunctival redness in his left eye for 2 …


The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of body composition, physical fitness, metabolic disease risk factors and atherogenic index on male college students. 128 subjects were divided into normal(n=74), overweight(n=19) and obesity(n=35) groups by BMI. They measured body composition (body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, percent body fat, visceral fat area, skeletal muscle mass, basal metabolism), physical fitness(muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, cardiorespiratory endurance), metabolic disease risk factors(systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, glucose, total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride) and atherogenic index(TC/HDL-C, TG/HDL-C, LDL-C/HDL-C). First, male college student in the obesity group were more likely to have higher level of body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, percent body fat, visceral fat area, skeletal muscle mass, basal metabolism, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, compared to normal group and overweight group. Second, male college student in the obesity group were more likely to have lower level of flexibility, cardiorespiratory endurance compared to normal group. Third, male college student in the obesity group were more likely to have higher level of glucose, total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride and TC/HDL-C, TG/HDL-C, LDL-C/HDL-C compared to normal group.


This study is an attempt to analyze the strategic position of public space in the political practices of minority parties. Inspecting public space as a strategic choice for the political practice of the subaltern counterpublics, this study examines the strategic position of the public space in the political practice of subalterns, by analyzing the case of the '2019 Transgender Remembrance Day March' in Korea.
As a result of the study, the public space itself turned out to be a strategy in practicing the movement for the visualization of subaltern identity by the actors, and at the same time, functioning as a space for the subaltern to practice various politic strategies. Actors are also aware of the importance of these public spaces, and have obtained various effects by strategically choosing them as a method of movement and appropriating the space.
Physical public space becomes the lens that most explicitly exposes the criteria for who the community accepts as a member of the community in the real world. Since the right to the city—particularly, access to public space—is a right granted to everyone 'in principle', it paradoxically reveals the boundary of the exclusive right to the membership of the community most clearly. Therefore, the intersectional study of human rights and space will be a guideline pointing to the current state of minority human rights in our society, and at the same time, it will be an effective method for subjects crossing the boundaries of human rights represented by space.


The inter-related effects of three factors-socio-economic status, organizational involvement, and alienation-on political participation are shown, using data from a general population sample of three small Midwestern towns. All are associated with participation, but in a secondorder partialling operation, alienation drops out as a predictor. This is attributed to the simultaneous correlation of alienation with socio-economic status and organizational involvement. Organizational involvement, despite its high correlation with socio-economic status, exerts an independent effect. A method of summarizing partial operations in percentage tables with a single coefficient of association is introduced. Processes through which organizational involvement might be associated with political participation are considered.


Using MapX provided by Maplnfo company,functions of GIS are put into VB6.0 software to build the Information Management system for Qilian Mountain active block. According to the information characters of "Qilian Mountain block" active tectonic quantitive research, an elaborate system analysis and detailed organization are made, and coded in terms of Software Engineerideas. The system using MapX4.5 to manage many kinds of maps,using Access2000 and the internal data-base to manage great number of information,to realize alternating query,editing and analysising the maps and attribute information in active tectonic reseach.


Objective To understand the health attainment status of urban,rural residents and floating population in Wuhan city,and to provide scientific basis for developing intervention strategy.Methods Overall 5 600 residents were se-lected with multi-stage stratified sampling and a face-to-face interview was conducted.Results The mean score of health attainment was 34.4 ± 8.1.The health attainment score of urban redidents was higher than that of rural residents and floating population(F = 300.325,P 0.01).The level of health attainment of rural residents and floating population was not signifi-cantly different.The three health-attainment-related aspects were higher among urban residents than that of among rural resi-dents and floating population(P 0.01).Conclusion Rural residents and floating population are the focus of health educa-tion and health attainment skills is the key element of health education.


This paper mainly reviews the syntheses and properties of open-framework transition metal phosphates.These kinds of materials include molybdenum phosphates,vanadium phosphates,iron phosphates,cobalt phosphates,nickel phosphates,manganese phosphates,copper phosphates,zinc phosphates,titanium phosphates,zirconium phosphates and scandium phosphates.Hydrothermal synthesis with HF as a mineralizing reagent can be used to prepare novel open-framework transition metal phosphates and facilitate super-large pores.Open-framework transition metal phosphates exhibit interesting magnetism at low temperature.The novel VSB-n nickel phosphates have been prepared recently.The most important is the syntheses and properties of VSB-1 and VSB-5 possessing 24-member rings and high thermal stability.


Mount Unzen in Kyushu, the western island of Japan, erupted in November 1990. Many pyroclastic flows have taken place since May 1991 and the ground level downstream has been raised on average by approximately 40 m. Recently, volcanic activity has subsided. The fresh pyroclastic material has been intensively eroded by subsequent rainfall, with the sediment being transported as debris flows. Topographic changes, such as the development of gullies and alluvial fans and changes in river bed elevation have been investigated using remote sensing techniques. The fairly rapid changes in river bed elevation can be explained using a sediment routing method. The analysis provided estimates of the threshold rainfall needed to generate debris flows, and these were found to be time dependent. Erosion rates have also changed through time. The changes in erodibility are suggested to provide an interesting topic for further research.


Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) can be difficult to diagnose, but delaying treatment increases the risk of both acute and longterm complications. This article provides a guide to the assessment and recommended management of PID.


The Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) produces accurate precipitation data with high time and spatial resolution (per 1hour, 0.1 degree) by utilizing the satellite microwave radiometer. At the time and place which all microwave radiometer satellites are not available, the GSMaP estimates where the precipitation area observed before that time will moves by using a cloud moving vector retrieved from the infrared brightness temperature (IR Tb) observed by the geostationary meteorological satellite (GMS). However this method has some possibility of mistaking a destination of precipitating cloud with vertical shear of environmental wind, and uses only IR1 channel of the GMS observation to calculate the cloud moving vector. Therefore, we made a new data which can estimate precipitation probability globally with high temporal and special resolution by using IR1 and water vapor (WV) channel of GMS observation, called precipitation potential map (PPM), and then improved the accuracy of GSMaP precipitation areas by utilizing the PPM (JpGU meeting, 2014). Since it is difficult to distinguish small precipitating cumulus from non-precipitating stratus only with cloud top height information obtained from IR1 and WV channels, the past PPM has low accuracy of estimating precipitation area for low cloud. Therefore this study first tried to improve the accuracy of PPM for low cloud by adding multi-channel information obtained from Meteosat Second Generation (MSG2). The utilization of GMS multi-channel observation is important from the point of view of preparing next-generation GMS, Himawari-8, Himawari-9, GOES-R series, and Meteosat Third Generation. Next we included the modified PPM into GSMaP precipitation detection algorithm to improve GSMaP precipitation area and precipitation intensity product, and investigated the accuracy of modified GSMaP precipitation product by comparing them with precipitation radar (PR) of Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) as it is truth. We will intend to explain the result of case study of tracking precipitation system over the ocean under vertical wind shear with modified and non-modified GSMaP. In these areas and conditions, we can expect that the GSMaP estimates the precipitation area more accurately by utilizing the potential map. In these circumstances, we can expect that the GSMaP precipitation estimation becomes more accurate by utilizing the PPM. We used five geostationary satellites, MSG2, METEOSAT, GOES-West, GOES-East, and MTSAT-1R. All geostationary satellite data is released from the Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University (CEReS). Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) MVK and GSMaP NRT (v6.000.0) was used as satellite observation of precipitation with the microwave sensor. The GSMaP products are produced by Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). We used near surface rain observed by the precipitation radar of the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM PR; 2A25, V7) as truth.


Despite it being not only central to the politics of critical studies on men and masculinities but also one of Connell's four patterns of masculinity developed alongside the now-canonical 'hegemonic masculinity', the concept of 'complicit masculinity' has received little attention. This article suggests that complicit masculinities should be understood as political masculinities, in that they are from the beginning shaped by the existing politics and power relations that construct gender. This means acknowledging that masculinities are always at risk of complicity. Rather than this rendering the notion of 'complicit masculinities' redundant, I draw on a range of critical studies on men and masculinities to argue that identifying complicity as a feature of masculinities: first, allows us to identify three interrelated dimensions of complicity, which I label as 'intentional', 'structural' and 'intersectional' complicity; and, second, can serve as the starting point for a men's profeminist politics.


Author(s): Smith, Richard N. | Abstract: Priorities regarding Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife vertebrate damage control research are in most cases based on actual need. Need is influenced by economic, political, legislative, and biological incentives. These incentives affect private industry, state and local governments, academia, and the federal government but in different ways. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has 24 percent of its wildlife research budget invested in vertebrate damage control research. Its programs deal with predators, birds, and small mammals and research programs are problem oriented. Priorities are generally developed within the organization and are usually determined by biological need.