Title Reproduction and Development of Pseudopolydora kempi japonica (Polychaeta: Spionidae), with Special Reference to the Polar Lobe Formation (With 3 Text-figures, 1 Table and 2 Plates) Author(s) MYOHARA, Maroko Citation 北海道大學理學部紀要 = JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY Series VI. ZOOLOGY, 21(4): 355-364 Issue Date 1979-07 Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/27642 Type bulletin File Information 21(4)_P355-364.pdf


We present new astrometric measurements of the components in the T Tauri system, and derive new orbits and masses.
T Tauri was observed during the science verification time of the new extreme adaptive optics facility SPHERE at the VLT. We combine the new positions with recalibrated NACO-measurements and data from the literature. Model fits for the orbits of T Tau Sa and Sb around each other and around T Tau N yield orbital elements and individual masses of the stars Sa and Sb.
Our new orbit for T Tau Sa/Sb is in good agreement with other recent results, which indicates that enough of the orbit has been observed for a reliable fit. The total mass of T Tau S is 2.65+/-0.11 Msun. The mass ratio M_Sb:M_Sa is 0.25+/-0.03, which yields individual masses of M_Sa = 2.12+/-0.10 Msun and M_Sb = 0.53+/-0.06 Msun. If our current knowledge of the orbital motions is used to compute the position of the southern radio source in the T Tauri system, then we find no evidence for the proposed dramatic change in its path.


Public policy,as the authoritative allocation tool of value,presents triple alienations: public plight,shortsighted effect,and hegemony based on instrumental rationality. The triple alienation can bring damages of various degrees to the public policy itself,policy system,and even the political system,and consequently bring net losses to public interests. In reality,alienations of public policy are caused by the following factors: driving force of "Selfishness"in policy subject,imbalance between science and democracy,and misalignment in value selection. Therefore,to ensure the spiral ascent of operational quality of the public policy system and the consolidation of legitimacy of political system,it is necessary to effectively treat the alienations in public policy by cultivating and strengthening the public spirit of policy subject,seeking balance between science and democracy in policy affairs,and establishing reasonable value selection mechanism.


Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial — Over territory in general and persons and property situated therein — Person and baggage in transit at international airport — Whether any right of search or arrest-Chicago Convention, 1944, Annex 9 — The law of Senegal The individual in international law — Extradition — Procedure — Provisional arrest by authorities in requested State — Requirement of urgency — Requirement to notify person arrested of accusations against him — Whether request from Interpol equivalent to request from requesting State — Jurisdiction over territory and persons and property situated therein — Person and baggage in transit at international airport — Whether any right of search or arrest — Chicago Convention, 1944, Annex 9 — The law of Senegal


Atomic layer deposition was applied to precisely disperse Pt on Sn‐, K‐modified Al2O3, while the dispersion of Pt depended strongly on the atmosphere. Pt presented as single‐atoms in oxidative atmosphere but both single‐atoms and clusters under reductive gas. After H2‐treatment at 873 K, Pt single‐atoms, clusters and particles co‐existed in the catalysts, but their population varied considerably. The typical nanoparticles featured by crystallized Pt3Sn alloys, while the subnanometric clusters contained amorphous Pt−Sn alloys in a monolayer geometry. When tested for propane dehydrogenation at 873 K, the monolayers displayed outstanding performance; the mass specific activity approached 5.1 molC3H6 molPt−1 s−1, which was 2.7 times greater than that of particles. Structural analysis revealed that the amorphous Pt−Sn monolayer exposed more surficial Pt atoms surrounded by Sn atoms, which finely tuned the electronic property of Pt and thus favored the activation of C−H bond in propane.


* Preface and acknowledgements * Map of the Congo * 1. Half a holocaust * 2. The Political economy of pillage * 3. Congo must be sweet - image and ideology in the Congo wars * 4. War in South Kivu * 5. War in North Kivu * 6. Congo and the international community * 7. After the war


The role of independent directors features prominently in corporate governance codes. U.S. public companies continue to adopt the best practices within the framework of strengthened securities market listing standards and legal requirements that developed, beginning with the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and have continued with the financial crisis and the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act. In India, key corporate governance laws had not kept pace with the changing contours of the economy until the recent enactment of the Companies Act of 2013, which completely revamps the country's corporate governance code. In this research study, I present a comparative assessment of the independent director models both in India and the U.S. on several key parameters, i.e. definition and selection, board and committee composition, manner of appointment, term of office, remuneration, and duties and liabilities.


Improvement of land and forest fire hazard mapping method for sumatera and kalimantan based on remote sensing data. Fire hazard prediction model has been developed using spatial and satellite data for Sumatra and Kalimantan since these areas are very prone to land and forest fires. The model could predict fire hazard for several months ahead based on predicted rainfall and predicted vegetation indices. The previous method used four parameters as inputs, which were rainfall, vegetation index, land cover, and land type. The objectives of this research are to improve the method of fire hazard determination using spatial and satellite data and to compare the results of previous and last methods for Sumatra and Kalimantan. An improved method has been developed by using topographic map as additional input of the method. Improvement has been also made by using raster format data instead of vector format data as used in previous method of overlaying by geographic information system software. The results show that the use of raster data format could produce more detailed land/forest fire hazard maps for Sumatra and Kalimantan compared with the use of vector data. Further more, the use of slope parameter based on topographic map derived from SRTM data could generate better fire hazard maps in terms of vulnerability indication and spatial information.


In 1999 the European Union (EU) defined for the first time common priorities in the area of migration and asylum. In 2014 the Justice and Home Affairs Council is deciding on the fourth multi-annual strategic guidelines. This thesis examines the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the EU influencing these guidelines through the European Commission public consultation, and their impact on shaping the future agenda for migration and asylum. While the EU has gained more competences in this field and increased legal protection standards across the EU, member states favour restrictive and security-oriented policies. EU NGOs represent a more liberal rights based approach, and having difficulties getting their points across. A step-by-step process tracing reveals the factors that enabled influence, such as a structured civil dialogue with opportunities for input. However, there were also elements disabling this influence, related to the disconnection between civil society and the Council, which partly undermined the purpose of the consultation.


2011 is the 10th anniversary of China's entry into the World Trade Organization. During the ten years, China has obtained rapid development in economy and foreign trade. The depth and the breadth of participation in globalization achieve the unprecedented level. Now, China has become the world's largest exporter and the second largest importer of merchandise trade, and the second largest economy in 2010. The economic status and the level of opening up to the world obtain the huge promotion. This article points out the ten achievements resulted from China's entry into the WTO, and analyse the ten challenges facing to China and put forward the ten policy recommendations for the next decade based on the win-win idea between China and the rest of the world.


Background and objectives: Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common type of cancer in the world. Considering the adverse effects of anticancer drugs and the emergence of chemotherapy resistance, plantderived extracts and their constituents could be a valuable source of novel anticancer drugs. In this study, we investigated cytotoxic effects of Juniperus excelsa leaf extract on esophageal cancer cell line KYSE-30 and healthy fibroblast cells (HU02 cells). Methods: KYSE-30 cells and HU02 cells were cultured in DMEM medium. The cells were treated with different concentrations (1, 10, 100, 500 μg/ml) of the J. excelsa leaf extract for 24 and 48 hours. The cytotoxic effects of the extract were assessed using the MTT assay. Data were analyzed using SPSS (version 19) and GraphPad Prism 5. Results: According to results of the MTT assay, the Juniperus excelsa's leaf extract exerted significant cytotoxic effects on esophagus cancer cell line (KYSE-30) and healthy fibroblast cells (HU02) in a timeand dose-dependent manner (P<0.05). Conclusion: The J. excelsa leaf extract has cytotoxic effects against KYSE-30 esophageal cancer cells while causing lesser toxicity on healthy fibroblast cells. Our findings suggest that the potential anticancer effects of this extract should be further exploited in future studies.


This study, conducted in Portugal, analysed interviews of 3 female students from working-class backgrounds and their respective families. These students were selected from a previous study in which academic results and their link to socio-economic background were analysed. That work demonstrated that, out of 600 students from all socio-economic backgrounds, there were only three working-class female students who achieved high academic results up to the 9-th and final year of compulsory education. The aim of the present study is to understand why these three female students have succeeded, and how they appreciate this success. "Critical discourse analysis" has been the theoretical and methodological basis for this work and has permitted to consider the possibility that these female students had achieved such great academic success by internalising the discourse of the middle classes, although this is dissimulated, hidden and masked forboth for the female students and their families.


This article thinks that some hidden accidents of security are found after a large examination to the safe qualities of the architectural engineerings of different enterprises. The author also realizes that it is only to strengthen the management of the architectural engineerings of Mn-industry factories that we can improve productive environment of security in Mn-products of the whole county, and now the competitive abilities of the enterprises are improved.


This essay explores the nature and extent of the collective aesthetic practices of the creative writer Sophie Tieck-Bernhardi-Knorring (1775-1833) and the literary translator Dorothea Tieck (1799-1841), primarily in relation to their collaborative ventures with the 'king of German Romanticism' Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853). The study addresses the politics of family and sibling creative partnerships, as well as the group dynamics of late eighteenth and early to mid-nineteenth century writers' circles and literary salons, inasmuch as they comprised individuals who shared and pooled ideas, values and visions and committed to similar poetic processes. Copyright © 2010 Thomson Reuters


The natural food habits of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis Ord) in Yellowstone National Park were investigated in 1973-74 to identify the grizzly's energy sources and trophic level(s), nutrient use, and distribution. Food consumption was determined by scat analysis and field observations. Food quality and digestibility were estimated by chemical analysis. Grizzlies were distributed in 3 distinctive feeding economies: valley/plateau, a grass/rodent economy where grizzlies were intensive diggers; mountain, primarily a grass/springbeauty/root economy where grizzlies were casual diggers; and lake, primarily a fish/grass economy where grizzlies were fishers. The economies occured in areas with fertile soils; distribution of bears within each was related to the occurrence of succulent plants. The feeding cycle in the valley/plateau and mountain economies followed plant phenology. Grizzlies fed primarily on meat before green-up and on succulent herbs afterwards; meat, corms, berries, and nuts became important during the postgrowing season. Succulent grasses and sedges with an importance value percentage of 78.5 were the most important food items consumed. Protein from animal tissue was more digestible than protein from plant tissue. Storage fats were more digestible than structural fats. Food energy and digestibility were directly related. Five principle nutrient materials (listed with their percentage digestibilities) contributed to total energy intake: protein from succulent herbs, 42.8; protein and fat from animal material, 78.1; fat and protein from pine nuts, 73.6; starch, 78.8; and sugar from berries and fruits, digestibility undetermined. Protein from succulent herbs, with a nutritive value percentage of 77.3, was the grizzlies' primary energy source. Because succulent, preflowering herbs had higher protein levels than dry, mature herbs, grizzly use of succulent herbs guaranteed them the highest source of herbaceous protein. Low protein digestibility of succulent herbs was compenstated for by high intake. Grizzlies were digestively flexible and maximized use of protein from plant and animal sources. They were adapted to the most constant and abundant sources of protein: succulent herbs and animal material from open, fertile grasslands. Competition among grizzlies for animal food during the pregrowing season may be regulatory for the grizzly population. The grizzly population level can be partially accounted for by the grizzlies' status as secondary consumers during pregreen-up periods and primary consumers during the growing and postgrowing seasons. The essential environmental requirement was the availability of fertile grasslands and herblands interspersed with cover and capable of maintaining artiodactyls, rodents, and abundant nutritious herbs as sources of food. Extensive grizzly bear (Rausch 1963) use of unnatural foods (garbage and camp groceries) in Yellowstone National Park occured from the early days of the park until closure of the Trout Creek and West Yellowstone open-pit garbage dumps in 1971 (Skinner 1925, Cole 1976). After these primary sources of unnatural foods were removed, most grizzlies resumed use of natural foods (Cole 1974). This report on grizzly bear use of natural foods is based on research conducted in 1973 and 1974 as part of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Team Study. The overall objectives were to develop hypotheses about the grizzly's natural energy sources and tropic level(s), the quality and quantity of nutrient use, and grizzly distribution. I am grateful to all those who gave help, advice, and encouragement during this study. R. R. Knight provided the research opportunity, aided in scat collection, and critically read the manuscript. H. D. Picton provided advice throughout the study and aided in preparation of the manuscript. R. J. Mackie and W. R. Gould critically read an early draft of the manuscript. J. H. Rumely aided in identification of plant specimens. G. F. Cole gave valuable advice and aided in scat collection. D. G. Despain helped to identify plant specimens, interpreted the distribution of vegetation, and aided in scat collection. D. B. Houston, M. M. 'This study was funded by the National Park Service contract CX-6860-4-0486 and the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station (Journal Series No. 751). Meagher, G. Merin, R. Schmidt, J. M. Chester, B. Hoskins, D. C. Graham, and T. Haraden aided in scat collection. K. R. Greer provided technical advice and laboratory facilities, and J. Montagne provided information on geology and soils. I am especially grateful to my wife, Marjorie, for her aid in the collection and preparation of plant specimens and in the preparation of scat samples, for typing the rough draft of the manuscript, and for her encouragement during the research.


In the history of Chinese literature, poets in prime Tang Dynasty are ones of unique attitudes towards life. They are ideal poets with strong sense of social responsibility and noble political goals as well as depressed ones with deep concern about life crises which pre- vail in their life stories and poems as a result of disillusion of ideals and depression. The main cause of such phenomenon comes from ex- ternal "anti-realistic" factors and inborn political immaturity of poets.


In order to scheme Osmanthus fragans var. Semperflorens in garden scientifically,the photosythesis of Osmanthus fragans var. Semperflorens of different shadings were studied.The results show that less light results in less photosynthesis intensity and less contents of sugar and more chlorophyll content;the color of the leaf turns dark green.Two large of gauzes promoted the growth and the worth of appreciation of Osmanthus fragans var. Semperflorens .According to the demand of light intension, O.fragans var. Semperflorens belongs to neutral partial negative tree.


We address the problem of answering broad-topic queries on the World Wide Web. We present a link based analysis algorithm SelHITS, which is an improvement over Kleinberg's HITS [2] algorithm. We introduce the concept of virtual links to exploit the latent information in the hyperlinked environment. We propose a novel approach to calculate hub and authority values. We also present a selective expansion method which avoids topic drift and provides results consistent with only one interpretation of the query, even if the query is ambiguous. Initial experimental evaluation and user feedback show that our algorithm indeed distills the most important and relevant pages for broad-topic queries. We also infer that there exists a uniform notion of quality of search results within users.


Abstract The stability of C2-Al64Pd30.4Fe5.6, an approximant phase to the icosahdral Al–Fe–Pd quasicrystal, has been investigated by high-pressure X-ray diffraction using a diamond-anvil cell and synchrotron radiation up to 24.30(1) GPa. The material is structurally stable within the framework of the experiment. The unit cell volume as a function of pressure follows a second-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state with K0 = 169.5(2.5) GPa. This value is comparable to that of other quasicrystals and approximant phases containing Al and heavy transition metals.


Wear and leakage of water piping system in the direct flow burnerboiler are common.By the example of water piping system in HG 670t/h, introduces the arrangements and operation conditions of different burners,analyses the wear of water piping system,puts forward the measures to protect it from wear.


essays do not engage closely with each other, readers may sometimes find it more rewarding to consult individual articles from the collection on a separate basis. However, Habermann and Witen's introduction clearly outlines the comparative spatial emphasis adopted by each article, and I enjoyed encountering so many different perspectives on what, and how, the idea of 'Shakespeare and space' might mean across the course of the volume. Overall, this edited collection represents an interesting and thoughtful contribution to our understanding of the spatial politics associated with studying Shakespeare, whether in the form of the sites and spaces represented in his plays or in relation to the international reception history of his works.


The importance of understanding mindsets to direct behavior in internet-based entrepreneurship is the effort in bringing entrepreneurial learning processes close to changes in entrepreneurial behavior. This study aims to determine the grouping of students' mind sets in two growth and fixed categories, knowing the description of mind set content and internet entrepreneurial behavior in students, knowing the differences in internet entrepreneurial behavior based on student mindsets, knowing the correlation between mind set and internet entrepreneurial behavior, then know the contribution of mindset to internet entrepreneurial behavior. This research method with a quantitative approach, using a likert scale questionnaire instrument, the sample is students registered at UPI YPTK Padang in 2018/2019 academic year totaling 148 people, sampling from the population is done by purposive sampling technique, data analysis with percentage techniques in describing data, independent test sample t test for different tests, pearson correlation product moment analysis for testing the relationship of variables and the square of r for testing the contribution. The results of the analysis state that 45% of students with a fixed mind set and 55% with a growth mind set, students with a growth mind set have better internet entrepreneurial behavior with an average of 86.82%. Hypothesis testing states that there are differences in student internet entrepreneurial behavior based on personal mindsets, there is a fairly strong correlation between mind set with internet entrepreneurial behavior, with a contribution of 20.4%. It is proven that students with growth mindsets have higher behavior in internet entrepreneurial activities, therefore to increase the ability and interest of students in entrepreneurship must start from the approach to the correct mindset about entrepreneurship.


This study investigated the effect of different drying methods on nutrient composition and quality of three edible insects from East Africa. Ruspolia differens (grasshopper), Gryllus bimaculatus (cricket) and Bunea alcinoe (caterpillar) were freeze dried, oven dried, sun dried, direct solar cabinet dried, boiled before sun dried or direct solar cabinet dried. Proximate composition, available lysine, and protein digestibility were not significantly affected by drying methods. The protein digestibility corrected amino acid score was lower in boiled dried cricket and caterpillar than the other dried forms. Boiled and dried insects had lowest proportions of linoleate and α-linolenate. Despite these losses in boiled dried insects, the essential amino acid scores and lipid quality indices of differently dried insects were within desirable limits for human nutrition. Sun drying and solar cabinet drying on their own or with prior boiling could be cost-effective and affordable alternatives to freeze drying and oven drying for preserving edible insects.


Based on the fact that Web service dynamically changes in SOA projects, a redundancy optimization of Web Service workflow is established. At the same time, on the basis of redefining the particle swarm algorithm, combining with the cross and mutation operations in genetic algorithm, the QoS scheduling strategy based on improved PSOA is designed. At last, the experimental results of this algorithm are presented.


Using annealing procedure at different temperatures after deposition at room temperature we obtained copper- phthalocyanine (CuPc) thin films with a — and p —phase structure. A phase structure of thin films was controlled by X-ray diffraction method, morphology was controlled by SEM. The field effect transistors was fabricated by high vacuum deposition of CuPc thin film (thickhess of 100 nm) on Si02 substrate which acting as gate contact. Gold drain and source contacts deposited on the top of active layer of FET. From measured current voltage measurements calculated mobility and concentration of charge carriers in FET. These parameters depend on phase structure of CuPc thin film, and characteristics of our FET are comparable with values of other authors.
CuPc is commercially available macro cyclic metal complex that can be easily obtained in large quantity and high purity. Together with other phthalocyanine derivatives, the chemically and thermally stable CuPc has wide applications in dye processing, spectral sensitization, chemical sensors, and optical data storage [3-4]. The semiconducting behavior of metal phthalocyanines was first observed in 1948 and they have since attracted great interest in advancement of protptype organic semiconductors. Among the metal substituted phthalocyanines CuPc has been found superior properties [5-7], such as phenomena of field dependent and wavelength-dependent efficiency in an organic static induction transistors, and stabilizing role of CuPc layer on a highly stable organic electroluminescent device based on thin film Alq, and indicated a very weak interaction between CuPc and Au at the interface.
In general, phthalocyanine materials can exist in several crystalline polymorphs, including a-, p -, x-and y - structure, and the most well known are the thermally metastable a- and p - [8-10], Phthalocyanine films deposited at room temperature usually consist of a-phase crystallites (at sublimation pressure of less than 10 Pa). At higher deposition pressures or at substrate temperature above 210°C, the p -phase directly obtained [11], Although it is well known that a-phase crystallites undergo a phase transformation into P -phase by treatment in various organic suspension media [12,13] or during annealing at higher temperatures [14,15], only some authors describe the nature of the a—>p phase transformation of copper phthalocyanine thin films with a thickness of less than 100 nm [8,14-15].


This protection technique is provided for optically readable media. The data (D1-D6) can scramble the data in a way that distributes the secret pattern over the multi-layer (54, 56) on the disk, or encryption, or hidden. Pattern information can be supplied to the device or the user authentication in the form of a key. Data can be read only by the optical drive with the appropriate hardware that has access to the key. The optical read head is mirrored area can be switched in order not to selectively block or blocks for reading data is provided on the optical medium. To read the data back, the authentication / licensed device electrochromic area to provide access to gamyeo focussed in turn on the different data layers as necessary to obtain the data the reading head in proper sequence data by using the key ( 55) to be selectively switched. Electrochromic area, optical readable media, optical disk drive, a reflective pattern


This paper uses modeling techniques from Game theory to analyze Brexit, Britain's choice to exit the European Union. First, a brief history of the Brexit negotiations over the past 4 years is present. It is followed by a macroeconomic cost-benefit analysis of Brexit to both players (Britain and the European Union) in which food security, trade, and migration rules are considered. Information from this cost-benefit analysis is then used to assign payoffs, create a simple 'static game' modeling Brexit as of 2018, and find the mixed Nash Equilibrium that gives us the best strategies that both sides can play. A more complex 'Bayesian extensive-form' game (Tree Z) is then built to reflect the real-world Brexit negotiations more accurately. This game shows the European Union to be of two types: i) Humanitarian-goal oriented and ii) Economic-goal oriented. Backward induction techniques are used to derive the optimal strategy that the United Kingdom should play given its beliefs about the European Union's type.


The invention provides a beads connecting toy by which even children can make a beaded toy with design with a certain degree of difficulty which is appropriate to children. The beads connecting toy comprises a connecting toy main body (51) which makes up a base for fabricating the beaded toy which is based on a strand set member which includes a beading strand wherein a strand set locking portion is formed at one end side of the beading strand and a large number of beads are put on the other end side of the beading strand; two base strands; and an engaging strand which interweaves the beading strand, the base strands and the beads together for engagement. The beads connecting toy also comprises a one-end-side locking portion (52c) which is provided at one end side of the connecting toy main body (51) and where the strand set locking portion is locked in place, and an other-end-side locking portion (54c) which is provided at the other end side of the connecting toy main body (51) and where the two base strands and the beading strand are locked in place.


In contrast to the commonly used acceleration measurement, this research discusses the use of force measurements to identify bearing faults. A force sensor is fixed between the rigid surroundings and the bearing to measure all of the reactive forces due to the vibration excitation. Using a force measurement, systematically prepared samples with the five typical faults that can occur during the assembly process (axial, radial, bending moment, contamination and shield defect) were investigated. The samples were prepared with low, medium and high fault ratings. The force measurement, with its relatively simple signal processing based on an envelope detection, was shown to be successful in correctly identifying both the fault rating and the fault type. The presented approach was successfully applied to high-series assembly production and is relatively easy to apply to similar applications.


Background Puppy acquisition decisions may impact upon the health and behaviour of these dogs in later life. It is widely recommended by welfare organisations and veterinary bodies that puppies should not leave maternal care until at least eight weeks (56 days) of age, and that when acquiring a puppy it should be viewed with its mother. Methods Owner-reported prospective data were used to explore risk factors for puppy acquisition age, and whether the mother was viewed during acquisition, within a cohort of dog owners participating in an ongoing longitudinal project. Results A quarter (461/1844) of puppies were acquired under eight weeks of age and 8.1 per cent were obtained without viewing the mother (n=149). Only 1.6 per cent of puppies were obtained under eight weeks of age and without the mother being seen (n=30). Multivariable logistic regression analysis revealed that owners who intended their puppy to be a working dog, visited their puppy prior to acquisition, and/or obtained a puppy of unknown breed composition had increased odds of acquiring a puppy under eight weeks of age. The odds also increased as the number of dogs in the household increased but decreased as annual income rose. Owners who visited their puppy prior to acquisition, obtained a Kennel Club registered puppy, viewed the puppy's father, and/or collected their puppy from the breeder's home had decreased odds of acquiring a puppy without viewing the mother. Conclusion Targeting interventions towards identified owners who are more likely to acquire a puppy against current recommendations could help reduce these types of acquisitions.


Abstract The findings of a study designed to examine relationships among four measures of clinical psychopathology (depression, self‐esteem, marital discord, sexual discord), a measure of sexual attitudes, and measures of both sexual activities and sexual preferences are reported. These relationships are examined in relation to a four‐group typology of sexual orientation based on self‐report preference measures. Individuals are categorized as either predominantly heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or asexual in their preferred sexual orientation. The sample (N = 689) consists largely of younger, well‐educated individuals who are predominantly single and come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Analysis of variance and both simple and multiple regression analyses were used to control for the effects of background characteristics of respondents. Significant mean differences among sexual orientation groups were obtained, but the prediction or explanation of clinical psychopathology based on these differences p...


Haemochromatosis (HC) is a disorder of iron metabolism, requiring frequent phlebotomy to normalize high serum iron levels. There is currently no consensus relating to the eligibility of these patients to donate blood for transfusion. To gain a better understanding of the policies worldwide, a survey amongst blood services was performed.


OF THE DISCLOSURE Potassium chloride and water are added to a first aque ous nitrate-chloride mother liquor having a mol ratio of not more than about 0.37 to form a potas sium nitrate crystallization medium. The medium is cooled to precipitate crystalline potassium nitrate and form a second nitrate-chloride mother liquor. After separation of the potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate is added to the second mother liquor, all added water is evaporated to form an ammonium chloride crystallization medium, and ammonium chloride is crystallized at a temperature higher than the potassium nitrate crystallization. The am monium chloride is separated, and the residual mother liquor is recycled to receive additional potassium chlo ride and water. The maintenance of a net balance of com ponents permits continuous operation of a cyclic meta thesis operation. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to production of potassium ni trate fertilizers that are low in chloride content, and in particular to a cyclic process for the production of crys talline potassium nitrate low in chloride, with by-prod uct formation of crystalline ammonium chloride. As is known, ammonium chloride is also suitable as a fertilizer for certain crops, for example, rice, which is tolerant to chloride. Potassium nitrate has obvious crop producing values as a fertilizer because of its high analysis, greater plant response, and almost complete absence of sodium, chlo ride or other substances which can be deleterious to crops. To better identify the agronomic advantages of potassium nitrate, extensive agronomic tests have been conducted in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, and other countries on many crops. Moreover, the detrimental ef fect of chloride buildup in the soil from long-term use of potassium chloride is well documented and is a present danger in such areas. It is apparent from these facts that potassium nitrate is a valuable fertilizer; however, heretofore a low-cost process for producing potassium nitrate has not been avail able. It is well known to conduct a metathesis between two salts in the presence of water to form the solid stable salt pair. Thus, one can dissolve equivalent amounts of the two salts and then alternately separate first one and then the other of the solid products by crystallization at two different temperatures at two different solids concentra tions. In particular, it is known that one can add an equiv alent mixture of solid ammonium nitrate and solid potas sium chloride to water and crystallize out potassium ni trate at the lower of two temperatures, e.g., 0° C., then remove some of the water and crystallize out the am monium chloride at a higher temperature, e.g., 25 C., then add back the water with makeup quantities of the reactants to continue the cycle indefinitely. Unfortunately, the phase relationships for the salt pair-water system are such that this known process must be operated in a very restricted region to maintain product purity. Consequently, 5


Objective: To evaluate the clinical manifestations of the ovarian chocolate cyst rupture and the cause of the misdiagnosis,improve accuracy of diagnosis.Methods: The clinical data of 18 hospitalized patients with confirmed ovarian chocolate cysts rupture in our department from November 2002 to January 2009 were retrospectively analysed.Results: 18 patients,8 cases of ovarian chocolate cyst were preoperatively diagnosed,B-ultrasonic examinations were suggestive of pelvic cystic mass,and with light brown bloody fluid after culdocentesis,the diagnosis rate was 44.44%;10 cases were misdiagnosed,misdiagnosis rate was 55.56%.Conclusion: The detailed history,physical examination,supplemented of culdocentesis,B-ultrasound,CA125 blood test can increase the rate of preoperative diagnosis,once the diagnosis is confirmed,the operation should be done as early as possible.


The effect of low-energy electron beam irradiation (LEEBI) on residual hydrogen impurities and native defects in activated metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy-grown Mg-doped (p-type) GaN layers was studied by cathodoluminescence (CL) microanalysis and spectroscopy at temperatures between 80 and 300 K. The LEEBI treatment dissociates (Mg–H)0 complexes producing (i) at 300 K, a significant increase in a free-to-bound transition (e,Mg0) centered at 3.26 eV and (ii) at 80 K, a substantial decrease in a H–Mg donor–acceptor pair emission at 3.27 eV. In-plane and depth-resolved CL imaging reveals a direct correlation between the spatial distribution of the injected carriers and the depth and lateral distribution of activated Mg acceptors. This finding strongly suggests that hydrogen dissociation results from electron-hole recombination at hydrogen defect complexes rather than heating by the electron beam. The results at 80 K indicate that the process of dissociation of hydrogen from (Mg–H)0 complexes is accompanied...


A slow liquid–gas diffusion method in strong acid conditions has allowed stabilizing for the first time in the solid state the diprotonated form of the 4,4′-bipyridine-N,N′-dioxide (bp4do), H2bp4do2+ as two polymophs of the chloride salt (H2bp4do)Cl2, while in the presence of a metallic salt M(III)Br3 (M = Bi, Sb), the monoprotonated form Hbp4do+ is mainly stabilized as (Hbp4do)2[Sb2Br8] and (H2bp4do)(Hbp4do)4[Bi4Br18]·2H2O. The dehydration of this last phase leads to (H2bp4do)(Hbp4do)4[Bi4Br18]. In the structures of (H2bp4do)Cl2 salts, the hydroxyl H atoms point toward the chloride anions leading to close (O)H···Cl contacts in the range 1.831–1.839 A. A one-dimensional network of H-bonded Hbp4do+ cations is found in the structure of (Hbp4do)2[Sb2Br8], whereas H-bonded supramolecular cations of five entities are found in the structures of bromobismuthate salts. In all the halometallate structures, X-ray analyses (293 K and 120 K data) did not allow us to locate the acid H atoms of protonated bp4do molecul...


The defeat of France in 1940 led to the fall of the Third Republic and the creation of the Petain (or Vichy) regime. It is generally believed that the coup took place on July 10, but in fact it happened on June 16, when Petain replaced Reynaud as head of the French government. Moreover, the first steps towards the coup were taken a month earlier, in the second half of May, after the appointment of Petain as deputy head of government, and several of his supporters to other key posts. This article is written in order to prove this on the basis of factual material. The content of the article also shows that, in addition to the generally recognized reasons (the country's unreadiness for a «new type of war», the strong positions of defeatists of different political orientations, etc.), the position of Britain and the United States towards France also played a role in the coup: the former, after Dunkirk, actually left France to its fate, the public opinion of the latter has not yet matured before joining the war. At the same time, the results of the work allow us to reconsider some of the existing points of view on the Vichy government: despite a number of analogies with the Nazi coup of 1933. In Germany, the Petain regime was not completely totalitarian, although it was a kind of «conservative revolution».


Fine food has recently become the major attraction in the tourist industry in Taiwan, but this epiphenomenon cannot actually be a reflection of food and drink in Taiwan society. This study applies the concept of synesthesia-derived gustemological sensibility to explain why rice wine best contributes to a distinctive Taiwan Taste, and based on this, provides an alternative space in which to reexamine what really represents Taiwan food culture, which is generally thought of as local snacks or night market food, however. By adopting a conceptualized aesthetic landscape that is focused on rice wine, through its productive, ritual and culinary spaces, we find that rice wine plays critical roles in people's everyday lives, etiquette, personal expressions of emotion, and cooking. This approach also helps us perceive the distinctive Taiwan food culture that features not just a Chinese philosophy of dietary balance, but also an imbalanced realm between moderate and radical enjoyments of food.


The preparation of (Bi0.50Na0.50)1−xBaxTiO3 films requires a compositional/structural control, as they determine the functionality of these materials. We report a systematic compositional and structural analysis on (Bi0.50Na0.50)1−xBaxTiO3 films fabricated by chemical solution deposition. The effects of incorporating Na(I) and Bi(III) excesses are analyzed through the comparison of the compositional depth profiles of stoichiometric films (BNBT) and films containing excesses (BNBTxs). Heterogeneous compositional profiles with larger bismuth content close to the substrate and thicker film-substrate interfaces are observed in BNBTxs, unlike stoichiometric films, which show atomic concentrations that correspond


A fundamental study on the volatilization purification method, a pyrometallurgical purification technology, was carried out to examine the removal of impurities from vanadium pentoxide (V2O5). From the thermodynamic analysis, it was expected that impurities contained in V2O5 could be removed into the gas phase while holding it at temperatures over 300°C for P2O5 and at over 600°C for NaOH and KOH, because of their high vapor pressures. Experiments were carried out in the temperature range of 600–1,100°C and a holding time range of 15–60 min under atmospheric and reduced pressures. The range of reduced pressure was 7.9×10 -2 –1.1×10 -1 atm under an argon atmosphere. By comparing the thermodynamic analysis with the experimental results, it was verified that impurities such as SO3, P2O5, NaOH, and KOH were effectively removed from V2O5 regardless of the pressure conditions of the furnace. At the optimum conditions, V2O5 with a purity of 99.6 wt% was manufactured from V2O5 with a purity of 99.2 wt%.


This study aimed to determine whether there is a negative correlation between selfacceptancewith anxiety to face the working world of individual with physical disability. Based onthe research, internally individuals with physical disability generally have a low self-acceptanceand high anxiety because of there different physical condition. Externally, individuals withphysical disability discriminated by public and have limited employment opportunities.Research conducted at UPT Rehabilitasi Sosial Cacat Tubuh Pasuruan between the agesof 21 to 35 years with a number of subjects were 40 people consisting of 24 people are male and 16women.Data collection tool in the form of self-acceptance questionnaire consisting of 32 itemsand the anxiety to face the working world consisting of 45 items. Reliability for self-acceptance is0.788 and 0.901 for anxiety. Data analysis was performed with statistical techniques ProductMoment correlation, with the help of SPSS version 16.Based on the analysis of research data obtained by the correlation between selfacceptancewith the anxiety at a -0.475 with p of 0.001.This suggests that there are negative andsignificant correlation between self acceptance with the anxiety to face the working world on theindividual with physical disability. That is, the higher self-acceptance, the anxiety facing thelower the working world.


The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence TB disease in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This study employs a quantitative approach to data collection and analysis. The data collections were obtained from Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Sabah and the result were analyzed using the Graph Prism Version 6. The data were collected from year 2011 until 2013. From the result, the risk of male getting TB at the age of more than 45 years old is about 4.5000 times the risk of a female getting TB at the same age. On the other hand for lesser than 45 years old were 0.6111 lesser than female. This showed those males were more affected with TB at the age more than 45 years. From the result, in age less than 45 year, the female are more death than male patients. Then, in age more than 45 year, the male are more death than female patient. It is based on the data from year 2011. In conclusion, the most important and effective way to prevent TB spreading in this country is to diagnose people with the disease as soon as possible and make sure they have a full course of correct treatment.


An investigation to study the sensitivity of nine wheat varieties, viz. 'WH 1022', 'HD-2687', 'C-306', 'UP2338', 'PBW-343', 'WH-542', 'WH-711', 'WH-283' and 'WH-147' to most popular used herbicide combination, i.e. sulfosulfuron + metsulfuron (R.M.) was undertaken at Hisar during Rabi seasons of 2005–06 and 2006–07. At 15 DAT with recommended dose of herbicide 32 g/ha, the leaves of all wheat varieties except 'C-306' showed slight yellowing of leaves which disappeared with passage of time as at 30 days after treatment no yellowing was visible on leaves even at double to recommended dose (64 g/ha). In all wheat varieties, the grain yield with x and 2x doses was at par with weed-free check but higher than weedy check, indicating no detrimental effect of the herbicide on any variety tested.


This chapter analyses the 2004 reform of the Moroccan Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, which established official women preachers and experts in Islamic Law. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss whether these female religious authorities mark a real evolution in the traditional male monopoly of Islamic spaces and discourses. The study also explores some of the challenges that the adoption of a similar model would imply for Europe. With reference to the recent debates about multiculturalism, gender equality, and Islam, I finish with a reflection on the contemporary challenges of the eventual promotion of official Muslim women preachers and scholars in Europe and the changes they might bring to Islam, religious authority, and the gender equality debate.


A novel interferometer, a Sagnac interferometer (SI), is presented for the measurement of the difference phase and amplitude spectra induced by photoexcitation with a femtosecond time resolution. The SI has a remarkable advantage of high stability owing to the common-path configuration. In order to separate the phase and amplitude changes, the optical path difference is scanned between the probe and reference pulses making the best use of polarization. This improved polarization-division Sagnac interferometer (PSI) provides a nearly sinusoidal fringe. To demonstrate PSI we examined the nonlinear phase and amplitude changes in CS2 and a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well (QW) structure. The sepctral feature of the nonlinear dispersion relation in QW can be explained by the blue-shift of the excitonic resonance. The time dependence of these changes is observed to be determined by the exciton lifetime. These experimental results are consistently explained from neutralization of the built-in potential inside the QW sample.


Understanding the roles of the Congress and administrators in declaring the environmental rules understanding the roles of the Federal and State Courts in declaring environmental liabilities environmental liability of the property purchaser environmental liability of the operator or a US site environmental liability of the exporter to the US market environmental damages liability in civil tort lawsuits environmental liability for markings and labelling the role of international standards the liability of investors the liablility of insurors concepts of extraterritorial punishment by US Courts criminal liability for the owner or operator disclosure and trade secrets issues conclusion.


For the planar N-body problem, we first introduce a class of moving frame suitable for collision orbits, which is the main new ingredient of this paper. This allows us to reduce the degeneracy of the problem according to intrinsic symmetrical characteristic of the N-Body problem. Then following some original ideas of C.L. Siegel, especially the idea of normal forms, we give a full answer to the infinite spin or Painlev\acute{e}-Wintner problem in the case corresponding to nondegenerate central configurations. Applying the theory of central manifolds, we give a partial answer to the problem in the case corresponding to degenerate central configurations. We completely answer the problem in the case corresponding to degenerate central configurations of first order. Combining some results on the planar nonhyperbolic equilibrium point, we give a criterion for the case corresponding to degenerate central configurations of second order. We further answer the problem in the case corresponding to all known degenerate central configurations of four-body. Moreover, for almost every choice of the masses of the four-body problem, the answer to the infinite spin or Painlev\acute{e}-Wintner problem is negative. Finally, we give a measure of the set of initial conditions leading to total collisions.


The advance of the democratic politics requires the brace of the political psychology.The political identification,political confidence and the democratic preference are the important psychologic resources to brace the political development.For the moment,China is located in the process of transformation from the traditional society to the modern one.The political identification,the political confidence and democratic preference are insufficient to meet the need of the development of China,which will influence the direction and ratio of the political development in China.


The cooperative behavior in college class managing embodies man-centered idea. To review and orient teacher and student's role and their relation in class communication is helpful to cultivate efficient, automatic and reactive cooperative behavior in class, which is also good for teacher and student to understand, communicate and cooperate. So teacher and student can develop common cognition trend and emotional activity to promise the successful teaching goal, which is weight on humanistic values.


Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a clonal disorder of a multipotent hematopoietic progenitor cell. In most patients, a driving mutation of Janus kinase 2 gene, calreticulin gene or myeloproliferative leukemia virus oncogene is detected. The occurrence of thrombotic and/or bleeding complications is very typical in manifestations of ET, with many cases of both occurring in the same patient. The thrombotic or bleeding phenotype can be a consequence of the coexistence of driving and non-driving molecular mutations and polymorphisms, affecting the platelet number and function. This paper discusses the nature of this disease, paying special attention to calreticulin gene function.


(1) There exists a binary operation A1 on the set of real sequences such that for all elements a, b of the set of real sequences holds A1(a, b) = idseq(a)+ idseq(b) andA1 is commutative and associative. (2) There exists a functionf from [:R, the set of real sequences: ] into the set of real sequences such that for all sets r, x if r ∈ R and x ∈ the set of real sequences , then f (〈r, x〉) = idR(r) idseq(x).


Point cloud is an important type of data structure for 3d visual information processing. Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) like Pointnet [4] are proposed for effective feature learning of point clouds recently. Pointnet is a novel type of neural network that directly consumes point clouds whcih can select informative points. In this paper, we design a fast, low-power FPGA accelerator for Pointnet. Most of the current FPGA accelerators currently do not handle point cloud data very well. The network designed for the FPGA implement, called O-Pointnet, optimizes Pointnet's nonlinear implementation, multi-layer sensing layer and maximum pooling layer by analyzing the implementation of the network and the space-time complexity. Experiments show that the computational performance is 1.208 GMAC/s with 2.149W power dissipation, and the the accuracy rate of the O-Pointnet is 88.48%, which outperforms previous approaches.


Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, represents a heterogenic group of chronic diseases with a high morbidity and poor prognosis. The etiology of IBD is still unknown, and the pathogenesis of IBD has not been fully clarified. Consequently, the clinical outcome of IBD is unsatisfying. Fortunately, a variety of new biological therapies have being developed in recent years. These therapies are shown to be helpful in inducing remission, preventing complications, improving l i fe quality of the patients, and reducing hospitalization rates and surgical rates. This article will review these new biological agents clinically used for IBD patients.


The type and the corresponding feature of porous metal materials have been briefly mentioned. Primarily, various preparation methods of these materials have been introduced, so as to supply some clues for optimizing the producing technology.


Magnetic Cellular Automata (MCA) is a variant of Quantum-dot-cellular automata (QCA) where neighboring single-domain nanomagnets (also termed as magnetic cell) process and propagate information (logic 1 or logic 0) through mutual interaction. The attractive nature of this framework is that not only room temperature operations are feasible but also interaction between neighbors is central to information processing as opposed to creating interference. In this work, we explore spatially moving Landauer clocking scheme for MCA arrays (length of eight, sixteen and thirty-two cells) and show the role and effectiveness of the clock in propagating logic signal from input to output without magnetic frustration. Simulation performed in OOMMF.


An overview is presented of the preventive measures that can be taken with regard to the various side effects of radiotherapy of the head-and-neck region. Xerostomia, mucositis, radiation caries, trismus and osteoradionecrosis are to some extent preventable.


Silver Jubilee 2013 logo has been created by Encik Yusri Hamid (Photographer B17) and the slogan " Past Experiences and Future Aspirations" created by Cik Ooi Kien Bee (PPPT DH52)


This investigation describes the prosodic features of the vocative in the Spanish language as spoken in four Colombian main cities: Bogota, Cali, Medellin and Cartagena. The data include 80 phrase-vocatives that serve different pragmatic functions and 169 vocatives in declarative and interrogative sentences. The analysis reveals that in addition to melody contour, syllable duration and tonal field are essential to differentiate between vocatives from the dialectal and pragmatic points of view.


Galectins are a family of lectins that interact with β-galactosides, express in cytosol, nucleus, and extracellular matrix, and confer a broad range of functions including cell-cell interaction, cell-matrix adhesion and transmembrane signaling. Despite their low sequence homology, their three-dimensional structures are essentially identical. The binding affinity of galectins to lactose and other β-galactosides vary significantly. However, it is difficult to rationalize the molecular recognition mechanisms of different galectins based on their crystal structures of the apo- and holo-forms, which exhibit minimal conformational changes even for the side-chains that are involved in ligand binding. In order to better understand the origin of substrate binding affinity and selectivity, we systematically investigate the differential effects of lactose binding on human galectin-1, -7, and -8 in terms of their internal dynamics and folding stabilities using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, far-UV circular dichroism (CD), intrinsic fluorescence and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. NMR hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) data suggest that lactose binding not only perturbs the structures and dynamics of the residues that are directly involved ligand binding but also results in long-range perturbations at the dimer interface for galectin-1 and -7. This is consistent with the differences in fast internal dynamics in MD simulations and 15N spin relaxation dynamics, as well as the folding stabilities of galectin-1, -7, -8 in response to lactose binding. Such differential responses to ligand binding for different galectins may be implicated in modulating the binding affinity and selectivity, and hence could potentially be exploited for designs of better inhibitors with higher specificity.


A flight test with a simplified HLFC system on the vertical tail plane of an A320 aircraft was performed in April/May 2018. In this paper we discuss the preparation of the flight test data for evaluation with linear stability theory on the basis of sample measurements. Then we present our correlated transition N-factors and compare them with the results of the A320 flight tests of 1998.


A time division multiplexer (TDM) is analyzed under a general model for the per station packet arrival process. This model can be used for the description of the packet generation process of a variety of packet sources. The expected packet delay of each station is exactly derived. The results obtained show that the mean packet delay may vary significantly for different stations, as long as the statistical characteristics of the packet traffic are different, even if the intensity of the packet traffic and the assigned capacities are the same. The latter implies that oversimplifications in the description of the packet traffic may result in very inaccurate results.<<ETX>>


Variations in law are constituted by adaptations to social reality, they happen as a consequence of changes in social, cultural, economic and technological development models, which generates new production techniques. These adaptations and changes in labor legislation create a problem in its substance, which is related to the sense they take. The economic tendencies which have productivity and competitiveness as principal references that oriented the reform to Federal Labor Act of 2012 are a cause of concern. The new dispositions relative to atypical forms of hiring constitute an antinomy with the 2nd article of the Federal Labor Act because there is no congruence between the purpose of promoting decent or dignified labor and labor rights' flexibility, generating a consequence of uncertainty, labor precariousness and employment instability.


Abstract The first known jökulhlaup from the Blåmannsisen ice cap in northern Norway began on 6 September 2001. It lasted 35 hours and emptied the lake Øvre Messingmalmvatn (∼4.0 × 107m3). Before the event, the lake drained steadily via a rock spillway into Sweden. The water from the jökulhlaup drained into the hydropower reservoir Sisovatn, and so was financially beneficial to Norway. Glaciological data show evidence of glacier retreat and thinning during the last four decades. Glacier thickness decreased in the ablation zone, reducing ice-barrier stability. The lake drained at a water level 40 m below that required to equalize the ice overburden pressure. Measurements show an ice-barrier thinning of 3.5 m since the jökulhlaup occurred. Climate scenarios indicate future negative mass balance and further thinning. The lake volume was 82% full 2.5 years after the event, suggesting a probable repeat interval of 3 years. Future jökulhlaups may be triggered at lower water levels and produce lower discharges.


Enhanced telemedicine could bring a higher level of health care to offshore oil & gas platforms and reduce unnecessary, and sometimes dangerous, medical transport. A Houston company has rolled out a service, used in prisons and geographically remote clinics, that allows doctors, medics, instruments and patients to interact in real-time. But will offshore oil companies go for it? Russell McCulley reports.


Both measurement series were opportunistic. Therefore, the instrument and experimental plan were notoptimized for these observations. However, we have bcexl able to derive flame temperature, smoke/gas plume temperature, wind speed, wind direction and column densities for CO, co, , HZO and NIIj. Other species are being sought hut there are a number of unidentified features in the spectra that have so far defied interpret.at.ion.


Video and radar observations of the 2000 Leonid shower are presented. We find strong evidence that the first peak in the shower on 2000 November 17 near 8 UT resulting from 1932 ejecta is much stronger than previously recognized and larger than the broader peak on November 18 resulting from 1866 and 1733 ejecta. In particular, we find a TV‐radar average peak flux value on November 17 at solar longitude 235. ◦ 29 ± 0. ◦ 02 near 0.15 ± 0.02 meteoroid km −2 h −1 (Mv > +6.5), which corresponds to a zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) ∼900 assuming a mass index of 1.7. Similarly, we find the second peak on November 18 to be located at 236.


Ad hoc network is a kind of self-organizing network, and it requires no infrastructure, nor any central con- trol. It can be rapidly constructed under emergency conditions. A major problem for IEEE802. 11-based ad hoc network is the super high link-layer delay when the channel is fully loaded, which prevents upper-layer protocols from working properly. By introducing modifications on both transport layer and link layer, we propose a congestion control algo- rithm that employs congestion window, data packet lifetime management, and packet priority control. The algorithm significantly reduces the link-layer delay and greatly improves the throughput of the network under such conditions.


Chapter 3 argues for the materiality of emotional practice, even when emotion is conceived of as immaterial or "immediate" experience. Emotions are especially important mediators of experience for Protestants because they can be conceived of as immaterial. Drawing on ethnographic studies of mainline and Charismatic church communities, this chapter shows that styles of enthusiastic practice (Enlightened, Romantic) make a difference as to what emotions are taken seriously. Emotions count as evidence in different ways for each: "depth" indicates for mainstream, liberal Protestants a real emotion, one that is in the immaterial part of the self, whereas for the Charismatics, "intensity" provides evidence, i.e. the material force of bodily movements and sensations counts as real. Their "belief" is framed as "knowledge": they are certain. Rather appalled at this claim, the liberal Protestants engage in an emotional practice of doubt, which they view as essential to maintaining personal autonomy, even as they subscribe to conviction. Doubt is, however, also a material practice, dependent on a specific way of doing enthusiasm.


In the paper,a research is made on 28 medical students selected randomly as samples in order to explore the effect of basketball on serum hormone.It is proved that basketball game is helpful for medical students to better their testosterone and percentage of T/C,to decrease hydrocortisone.Thus tends to form energetic substance.


Objective To observe the curative effect of drug intervention on gestational hypertension.Methods From Jan.2007 to Jan.2012,300 gestational hypertension patients had been treated in Pinghu Hospital of Longgang District.Among these patients,125 cases treated with drug intervention were enrolled into this study as control group(from Jan.2007 to May 2008),while the other 175 cases treated with drug intervention were enrolled as observation group(from Jun.2008 to Jan.2012).The following parameters were compared and analyzed:postpartum hemorrhage,cesarean section,premature labor,fetal distress and neonatal asphyxia.Results Compared with the control group,the rates of postpartum hemorrhage,cesarean section,premature labor,fetal distress and neonatal asphyxia were significantly lower in observation group,the differences were statistically significant(P0.05).Conclusion For patients with gestational hypertension,drug intervention is effective to reduce the rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes and worthy of clinically application.


Funding: None. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the institutions in which they work. EDITORIAL Health research is fundamental for the improvement of population health. Research development should be a priority action in any health policy agenda 1. Although scientific publication is not the last stage of a research process, as a rule, it should incorporate certain issues into the actual application of health care, it is in fact essential as it facilitates an open debate with the scientific community and, ultimately, with society in general. The outcome of any research may be communicated in various ways and formats (scientific meetings, reports, working papers, the Internet…). However, scientific articles usually offer the greatest rigour, dissemination and impact. A scientific publication of research findings should provide information about what was actually done and how, what was found and, basically, assess the reliability, validity and relevance of any conclusions reached further to tasks that may be of importance for decision-making in many different matters related to health care, public health and health policies. The quality of scientific publications depends on an expert appraisal (about the object being studied and methodology used), carried out through a peer review process. Through this system, which is essential for quality control and the prominence of publications , one or more experts review, analyse and evaluate articles to determine their scientific rigour and relevance to their specific area of knowledge. Although this system is the most popular and is widely implemented (it is included in the recommendations for the conduct, reporting, edit and publication of scholarly work in medical journals, issued by the International


The proliferation of artistic content, increased mobility of people, ethnic diversification, and increased scarcity of time outside of work against a backdrop of austerity requires an integrated approach to marketing within the arts. This paper proposes a framework for the marketing of arts based on participation, cocreation, and social networks. Additionally, the framework considers the role of self-construal in the participation of arts.


An object of the present invention is to provide a pair of terminals force required for insertion by the coefficient of friction is reduced can be formed using reduced connector plating terminals, and such plated terminal for connector. The surface of the terminal base material made of copper or a copper alloy (2) consists of tin and palladium, tin - forming alloy containing layer (1) containing a palladium alloy. Here, an alloy containing layer (1), the domain structure of the first metal phase made of an alloy of tin and palladium (11), the ratio of tin to palladium is higher than pure tin or the first metal phase (11) alloy it may be one formed in a more becomes the second metal phase (12).


In general, the sawmill industry perceives softwood lumber to be a commodity product and its individual actors' traditional focus is on cost reduction. However, instead of focusing on cost reductio ...


The paper is concerned with optimal control of stochastic two-time-scale linear systems with performance-measure in a finite-horizon integral-quadratic form. Nature, modeled by stationary Wiener processes, whose mean and covariance statistics are known, malevolently affects the state dynamics and output observations of the control problem class. With particular focus on the system performance robustness, the use of higher-order statistics or cumulants associated with the performance-measure of Chi-squared random variable type makes it possible to restate the stochastic control problem as the solution of a deterministic one, which subsequently allows disregarding all sample path realizations by Nature acting on the original problem. The distinguishing feature of risk-averse control paradigm is that the performance index is multi-objective in nature, being composed of both risk-neutral integral and risk-sensitive costs associated with the ubiquitous Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) and rather recent risk-sensitive control problems. Another issue that makes this class of control particularly interesting is the fact that Nature has the ability to exercise all the higher-order characteristics of the uncertain Chi-squared performance-measure and the efficient controller, having access to Nature's a-priori statistical knowledge and employing dynamic output feedback, seeks to minimize the performance uncertainty that Nature can do over the set of mixed random realizations. Furthermore, the results herein potentially generalize the existing results for the single-objective H2, H∞, and risk-sensitive control problems to a substantially larger class of systems, wherein Nature selects mixed sample path realizations that need not to be Gaussian. That is, the entire probability density function of Nature choices is not necessarily known except for its first two statistics. Finally, the numerical simulations for a two-time-scale longitudinal dynamics of the F-8 jet aircraft demonstrate that the proposed control paradigm has better performance in the closed-loop system responses and offers multiple levels of robustness for the system performance.


PurposePositive role modeling by clinical trainers is important for helping trainees learn professional and competent behavior. The authors developed and validated an instrument to assess clinical trainers as role models: the Role Model Apperception Tool (RoMAT).MethodOn the basis of a 2011 systemat


The following pages deal with literature and its relationship to education. Three writers (Maxine Greene, Martha Nussbaum, Wayne Booth) are incorporated because of their extensive works which explore how literature is a unique and important companion to our lives. A polyfocal analysis ensues, inspired by Joseph Schwab's vision of the eclectic, which attempts to build a foundation for comparison as I show how literature serves as not only a companion to our lives, but also embodies, in its very structure and form, a potential value that is applicable to our development of a curriculum sensitive to contributing vantage points. Literature becomes an example of how a polyfocal analysis acknowledges the power of the imagination in our educational process. Literature becomes, in this sense, a companion to our subject matter in a similar sense as it is a companion to our lives, as we reflect and deliberate between perspectives.


Based on fuzzy matter-element analysis, a new method for assessment of sustainable utilization of regional water resources is described to evaluate sustainable utilization of water resources of Shaanxi Province, combining with the concept of Euclid approach degree. Case study showes fuzzy matter-element model is more reasonable and applicable than that vector modulus method, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation and artificial neural network. It provides reference for sustainable development of water resources in Shaanxi Province.


With growing numbers of tourists representing a range of cultural backgrounds and with English taking on the role of a global language, English-language texts in multilingual and bilingual promotional materials in this case those available in the Italian Alps are often read by a multicultural audience. Even if one or two "English speaking cultures" are considered prime targets, the readership of English texts may in fact come from a number of cultures, especially when the material is in Italian and English only. Whatever their cultural and linguistic background, visitors or potential visitors do not share the same knowledge of the local geography, culture, traditions, specialties, and so on. Further complicating the situation is the need for choices whether on the part of translators or members of local organizations about whether to maintain a specialized term in the local language or "translate" it. In this context, common ground, used as a general term for those assumptions shared by interactants about common or shared knowledge, goals, wants, values, and so on, takes on an important role. This paper explores the notion of common ground, examining the presuppositions behind the use of specialized lexis in multilingual, bilingual and monolingual tourist brochures for Valtellina, a major alpine valley in Lombardy, Italy. The study investigates where common ground is presupposed in the Italian and English-language texts (e.g. the use of a proper noun that seems to represent a place-name, without any explanation as to whether it is a mountain pass, a glacier or a hotel name) and where it is not, focusing on linguistic choices that help build shared knowledge. The paper gives particular attention to selected specialized terms relating to local culture and sometimes left in Italian in the English language texts and sometimes translated, and it also examines selected instances of evaluation (Thompson and Hunston 2000). The paper discusses the linguistic choices that contribute to increasing shared knowledge about specific features and specialties of the area. It also shows that in a number of cases, a single Italian term takes on a variety of forms in the texts in English and in other languages. The paper discusses the implications of these differences in terms of building a particular image for and awareness of the area and its specialties. It discusses the issue of coordinating visitor materials, especially linguistic choices in non-Italian texts, when a number of organizations produce them. Finally, the paper considers the implications of the increasing use of the Internet to communicate aspects of the area to both visitors and local residents. 1 A draft of this paper was presented at the Tourism Research 2002 Conference in Cardiff, Wales, Sept. 4-7, 2002, in Panel 3, "Tourism, Language and Communication", chaired by Adam Jaworski and Annette Pritchard (Original title: Exploring Common Ground in Multilingual Brochures for Alpine Areas in Lombardy, Italy). I'd like to thank the Morley Scholarship Committee for making it possible for me to work on the conference paper during my stay at the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Michigan in the summer of 2002. I also benefited from (and of course enjoyed) informal discussions on "menu discourse" while at the ELI.


In order to make clear the relationship between the chemical substances concentration and symptom of sick house syndrome, an investigation of 30 sick houses in Japan has been done for 8 years. Chemical substance concentrations show a decrease as the building age increases. However, there are some houses where concentrations increase due to low air change rate, use of moth crystals for clothes and new furniture. Because there was the case where the improvement of indoor air quality has relieved occupant's symptoms, it must be important to take measures such as ventilation frequently, non use of chemical products or use of low chemical products in the long term to treat "SHS".


Abstract Below-ground biomass might play an important role in the persistence of grasslands. The summertime water stress of Mediterranean grasslands very much accounts for annual plants in their communities. These plants die off in summer, and the soil seed bank ensures the grasslands' recovery every autumn. Temperature decreases with altitude, together with the proportion of annual and perennial herbs. This paper explores the vertical profile of this biomass in grasslands on the Iberian Peninsula along an altitudinal gradient and two geomorphological positions in each site. Both factors were considered to determine the development of below-ground biomass. We also took into consideration the experimental exclusion of livestock, considering that the presence or absence of herbivores may influence the aerial and underground structure of the grasslands. Using an allometric approach, we examined the relative distribution of below-ground biomass with depth and its temporal variation ("construction"). We found that there is a general allometric pattern in the vertical profile of variation of below-ground biomass in which density is inversely proportional to the depth of the stratum raised to the power of 1.8 (at high elevations) and 2.5 (low elevations). The construction process of these grasslands exhibits slight variations within a common pattern. Growth of the plant canopy can be temporally limited by the action of herbivores, a more complex underground structure thereby developing, with more strata and a more even biomass distribution. An adaptive reaction to the notable Mediterranean seasonal change appears to occur but, surprisingly, may depend upon altitude rather than upon the influence of herbivory.


CMV is a lytic virus that causes a cytopathic effect in vitro and in vivo. The pathologic hallmark of CMV infection is an enlarged cell with viral inclusion bodies. Cells that exhibit cytomegaly are also seen in infections caused by other Betaherpesvirinae. The microscopic description given to these cells is most commonly an «owl's eye». Although considered diagnostic, such histological findings may be minimal or absent in infected organs.2


Abstract This article argues that during the years in which he was Archbishop of York, 1514 to 1530, Thomas Wolsey monopolised the patronage of the city of York's governing institution. Unlike previous patrons, Wolsey's status as both the prelate of the archdiocese and the most prominent Crown minister and favourite of Henry VIII, gave him an unprecedented position in the city's quest for securing royal favour. The mayor and commonalty of York were not only aware of Wolsey's pre-eminent standing, but sought to exploit their perceived special connection with him for the city's economic benefit. It was York's governors who initiated and strived to maintain a continual patron-client relationship with Wolsey. In doing so, they deviated from the typical pattern of clientage among sixteenth-century urban governments by forsaking multiple ties with other local and regional notables. Brokers formed the channel through which patronage and clientage were transmitted. These were both men associated with Wolsey through archidiocesan administration and resident locally, and men situated in Wolsey's London household at York Place. By examining patronage and clientage in the context of the city's most pressing issues, this article sheds light on urban-Crown relations in the early Henrician period under Wolsey's supremacy.


Within the framework of a cooperation project selected compounds of washing agents and personal care products have been analysed in sewage and groundwater bodies in eastern Austria. In particular, linear alkylbenzenesulfonate (LAS), fluorescent whitening agents (DAS-1 and DSBP) as well as polycyclic musk compounds have been investigated. These substances became part of daily life and find application in the range of tons. After use these substances are transported and treated in waste water treatment plants (WWTP), where some of them are degraded efficiently. Respectively, concentrations of LAS in influents and effluents (median) were 10.900 μg/l and 8 μg/l. Concentrations of fluorescent whitening agents in the influents were 10.200 ng/l (DAS-1) and 2.790 ng/l (DSBP). Both were detected at one tenth of their initial concentration in the effluents (median). In impacted groundwater samples both LAS and optical brighteners could be detected above their quantification limits. Polycyclic musk compounds have been detected in almost all influent samples. The highest concentrations detected, were galaxolid, tonalid, phantolid and traseolid. They have also been detected in effluent samples significantly above their limit of quantification and also in charged groundwater samples. In uninfluenced groundwater samples, polycyclic musk compounds were generally below the limits of quantification.


Because the Dong-ba religion was spread individually from master to prentice, different Dong-ba scripture formed its own style. It was difficult to find two scriptures of the same style. This paper made a comparative study on the borrowing scriptures in three editions of the early scripture—the Story of Human immigration(创世纪).


Sir,Aming to delineate preventive policies, pertussis hospitalizaton in Portugal was recently analyzed and reported in this journal [1]. Of 2281 hospitalizations, 94% occurred in infants <1 year-ol...


Quasi-one-dimensional, both equilibrium and kinetic analyses were carried out to evaluate vitiation effects on thrust performance of a typical engine under M6 flight conditions. With incoming-flow parameters varied, it was found that matching static pressure and static temperature (or total enthalpy) of the incoming flow gave minimum deviation on engine performance between the non-vitiated and vitiated cases. However, change in thermal properties due to vitiation resulted in few percent deviation even in this case. This deviation could be corrected by using equilibrium analysis results even for kinetic calculation. Chemical kinetics was found to be dominant in relatively narrow range in fuel equivalence ratio.


Second language (L2) research in the generative paradigm argues that L2 grammars develop within the strictures of the language faculty as the product of a reflex to analyze target language input (Schwartz, 1986, 1987, 1998, 1999), although the exact ingredients of this reflex in L2 acquisition are much debated. Some have assumed that the native (L1) grammar constitutes the initial state of L2 acquisition (Schwartz & Sprouse, 1994, 1996; Schwartz, 1998; and many supporters), while others believe that certain features not instantiated in the L1 grammar are not available for L2 analyses (Hawkins & Chan, 1997; Hawkins & Hattori, 2006; Tsimpli & Roussou, 1991; Tsimpli & Dimitrakopoulou, 2007), or that functional categories cannot initially be deployed in L2 grammar construction (Vainikka & Young-Scholten, 1996a, b). Others have highlighted the role of computational issues arising in the spelling out of features (Prévost & White, 2000; Lardiere, 1998) and the role of a phonological filter on production (Goad, White & Steele, 2003). The claim that L2 grammars are UG-constrained is supported by a body of research on the poverty of the stimulus in SLA which examines the development of L2 knowledge that is not the object of instruction, is not directly instantiated in the input and does not appear to follow from general strategies or general principles of inference applied to the grammatical domain (Dekydtspotter, Anderson, & Sprouse, 2007; Slabakova, 2006a, b; Schwartz & Sprouse, 2000). This research repudiates the notion that L2 development results from general cognitive ersatz strategies supplementing L1-based knowledge (cf. Bley-Vroman, 1990; Clahsen & Muysken, 1986, 1989; Meisel, 1997). Bley-Vroman (2007) points out that the language faculty must also include a set of grammatical 'kludges and patches' that supplements and interacts with the generative system (Emonds, 1986; Lasnik & Sobin, 2000; McCawley, 1988; Morgan, 1972; Sobin, 1997). He proposes that L2 acquisition is not characterized by the same compositional reflex, perhaps because L2 parsing is shallower (Clahsen & Felser, 2006a, b). Under these conditions, the kludge and patch system fills the gap. The question of the respective roles of two types of representations is not new in SLA. Much of the discussion has arisen in the context of the formula-to-rule acquisition scenario in which learners are said to gain a foothold into new structures by extracting strings from the input as lexically stored chunks. Decomposition and compositional treatment follow (Hakuta, 1974; Myles, Mitchell, & Hooper, 1999; Towell, 1987; Towell & Hawkins, 1994; Schmidt, 1983; Weinert, 1995; WongFillmore, 1976; cf. Raupach (1984) for chunks as a production strategy). Such chunks may provide internal input for rule-based behavior. Myles (2004) argues that the presence of both mechanisms in early stages of acquisition is most compatible with the progressive development of functional categories argued by Vainikka and Young-Scholten (1996a, b) and Hawkins (2001). Thus, the language faculty seems to include structures resulting from processes applying to basic expressions under the mediation of principles of grammar, as well as constructions that are lexically


It is observed that big trees are older than little trees and there are more little trees than big trees since not every little tree grows up to be a big tree most die young. But seeds produced and shed by the bigger trees will naturally form little trees. It can also be noticed that there are some dead needles and leaves on the ground and some standing dead trees which will eventually fall to the soil, the result of the deaths of those young trees and plant parts. It is natural that the live trees have roots in the soil formed partly from those dead leaves and logs and surmise that the trees obtain some nutrients from them Mangroves are the forests positioned at the convergence of land and Sea in inter tidal zones of the world. Mangrove forests are architecturally simple when compared to rainforests, often lacking under storey of leafs and shrubberies and are generally less species rich than other tropical forests. Mangroves have been heavily used traditionally for food, timber, fuel and medicine, and presently occupy about 181000 km2 of tropical and subtropical coastline. Mangroves are a precious ecological and economic resource, being vital nursery grounds and breeding sites for birds, fish, crustaceans, shellfish, reptiles,Polychaete, Crabs, Prawn, Zooplankton and mammals; a renewable source of wood; accrual sites for sediment, contaminants, carbon and nutrients; and offer Fortification against coastal erosion. Major reasons for obliteration of mangroves are urban development, aquaculture, mining and over exploitation for timber, fish, crustaceans and shellfish.


The last in a series of reports published to meet Task 7710 Milestone No. II; "Produce Report on Thermal Stresses in a Solid Moderator Reactor Shield" is presented. The method of solution is applicable for rotationally symmetric temperature gradients and applies to thin-walled structures. The previous reports in which methods of analysis for certain components whose solution was not available were written by Dunholter, Kroll, and Roscher, and are listed in the bibliography. A summary of these reports, and other methods published in the literature is presented which is combined in a form applicable to the analysis of composite structures such as the Reactor Shield Assembly. A thermal stress analysis in which stresses arising from temperature gradients within each separate component is presented along with a consideration of the stresses arising from the enforcement of continuity conditions at the edges of adjacent components, which except for their mutual constraint would expand thermally at different rates. (auth)


This brief paper considers the New Product Development (NPD) strategies and practices recently employed by the Ford Motor Company as a base for a substantial, near-term improvement in automotive vehicle development performance. The recognition of current industry "best practices" in lean design and manufacturing coupled with consumer desires for niche vehicles provides an opportunity to significantly reduce the time-to-market for new vehicle designs. This paper proposes that a Special Vehicle Operations plant be established as an ongoing facility to develop and manufacture technology demonstration vehicles for corporate research use and public sale. Such a facility, a manufacturing "proving ground" akin to vehicle test facilities, would support the more rapid introduction of advanced vehicle technologies by routinizing design experiments in a quasi-mass production setting. The expected result would be a steadier and more continuous introduction of advanced processes into mainstream products. The scheduling, technical, financial, and quality risks inherent to such introductions would be lessened as well. The research foundation of this paper is an International Motor Vehicle Program-sponsored repofl supe~ised by Professor Michael Cusumano of MIT on the NPD practices under implementation by the Ford Motor Company. Other prima~ source materials include articles on advanced product development initiatives taking place in the automobile industry.


By using gradient information to the VSSLMS, an improved functional CVSSLMS is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm is used to echo canceller. The performance of the proposed algorithm was verified from the view of correlation with desired signal.


A composition comprising an extract of Epimedium Koreanum harmless to human body is provided to prevent neuronal damage effectively at a hippocampus CA1 area, thereby capable of preventing or improving ischemic damage disease such as vascular dementia, Alzheimer's disease and stroke. A composition for preventing and treating ischemic damage disease comprises 0.001-99.99 wt.% of an extract of Epimedium Koreanum prepared by using at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of water, C1-4 alcohol, hexane, ethyl acetate and dichloromethane as an effective ingredient.


Abstract : Contracting managers are more effective if they can plan for the future rather than react to situations as they develop. Trend analysis is frequently a useful tool in forecasting future conditions and is used here to better understand expectations for future contracting. In order to ascertain the existence of contracting trends, it was thought to be beneficial to collect limited contracting-related data from FY 1975 through FY 1985 and analyze it. In the event trends were shown to exist, those trends that merited further investigation could be examined in more detail. The objectives of this study were to review and analyze contract type data for possible trends that provide insights or suggest areas for further investigation. The approach was to collect individual historical contract related data which is summarized by the DD 350 reports. The data was first compiled in table format. However, to enhance comparison of data points the final results are presented in line-chart format. These charts were analyzed for trends and/or inflection points and are presented in this report. An attempt was then made to explain the causes of the trends and major changes without expending considerable resources.


AA Alcoholics Anonymous AACOM American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine AACP American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy AADE American Association of Dental Examiners AADS American Association of Dental Schools AAFP American Academy of Family Physicians AAP American Academy of Pediatrics AAPA American Academy of Physician Assistants AAPT Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial AARC American Association for Respiratory Care ABMS American Board of Medical Specialties ACCDI Advisory Committee on Chemical Dependency Issues [of ADA]; now called the Dentist Well-Being Advisory Committee ACCME Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education ACCP American College of Clinical Pharmacy ACD Academy of Computerized Dentistry ACGME American College of Graduate Medical Education ACMHA American College of Mental Health Administrators ACNM American College of Nurse Midwives ACOTE Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy ACP-ASIM American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine ACPE American Council on Pharmaceutical Education ACS American College of Surgeons ADA American Dental Association ADAA American Dental Assistants Association ADAMHA Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Administration ADEA American Dental Educational Association ADH aldehyde dehydrogenase ADHD attention deficit hyperactMty disorder ADHA American Dental Hygiene Association ADLs activities of daily living ADR adverse drug reaction AGD Academy of General Dentistry AGS American Geriatrics Society AHCQ Agency for Health Care Quality AHEC Area Health Education Center AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AMA American Medical Association AMERSA Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse ANA American Nurses Association ANCC American Nurses Credentialing Center AOTA American Occupational Therapy Association AOA American Osteopathic Association APA American Psychological Association APAP Association of Physician Assistant Programs APhA American Pharmaceutical Association APHA American Public Health Association APNA American Psychiatric Nurses Association APTA American Physical Therapy Association ARC-PA Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant ASAHP Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions ASAM American Society of Addiction Medicine ASDA American Student Dental Association ASHP American Society of Health-System Pharmacists ASI Addiction Severity Index ASPH Association of Schools of Public Health ASSIST American Stop Smoking Intervention Study ATOD alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs ATTC Addiction Technology Transfer Center AUDIT Alcohol Use Disorders Inventory Test


Based on the penetration theory, a new semiempirical relationship for the prediction of the number of mass transfer units is given. The model of plug flow of vapor with no horizontal mixing has been used for the point efficiencies related to the overall number of mass transfer units. And the predicted efficiencies are modified by the factor of entrainment using Colburn's correlation. The results indicate that calculated point efficiencies agree with the experimental data within 6% error.


.............................................................................................................................. ii Acknowledgments.............................................................................................................. vi Vita .................................................................................................................................... vii List of Tables ..................................................................................................................... ix List of Figures ..................................................................................................................... x Chapter 1: Background ...................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2: Methods ........................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 3: Results ............................................................................................................. 15 Chapter 4: Discussion ....................................................................................................... 27 References ......................................................................................................................... 36 Appendix A: Questionnaires ............................................................................................. 40


A 511 bp gene segment was amplified by PCR with the template of pseudorabies virus Ea strain genome DNA and a pair of primers designed acording to the published gene sequence. Restriction nuclease enzyme digestion and sequence analysis indicated that the gene segment is gL gene . There are several mutations, which results in the 94% DNA identifity to PRV strain Kaplan. Further analysis demonstrated in PRV Ea gL gene there is 95% amino acid identifity. The gL gene sequence was submitted to GenBank, and the accession number is AF448456.


The twenty-second diplomatic session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law closed on 2 July 2019 with the adoption of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Decisions in Civil and Commercial Matters, also known as the Judgments Convention. The present work focused on analyzing the indirect criteria that are provided for in art. 5 of the Conference of the Hague for the recognition and enforcement of judgments. This is an ambitious project that will give rise to a global enforcement regime on the circulation of judgments. The shortcomings are still many as well as the debate between civil and common law, but the time is ripe for a concrete project of broader inspiration, more political and less juridical. The method used in our work is based on comparative doctrine and jurisprudence on a global level.


In the medium of H2SO4 and in the presence of KBr,the color of methylene blue oxidized by iodate can be faded,and the degree of color fading is proportional to the concentration of iodate,and a new spectrophotometric method for determination of iodine is reported.The maxium absorbance is at 590 nm.Beer′s law is obeyed from 1 to 20 μg of iodine per 10 mL of solution.The apparent molar absorptivity is 1.0×104 L·mol-1·cm-1.The method has been used in the determination of iodine in iodine-spiked salt with satisfactory results.


This paper discusses two common arguments for the adoption of a UBI; that it can be a more effective way of supporting low-income households when existing safety net programs are inefficient, and that it can generate broad support for structural reforms. Using India as an illustration, the paper discusses the trade-offs that need to be recognized in adopting a UBI in these contexts. It shows that replacing the 2011 Public Distribution System (PDS) with a UBI results in losses for many low-income households, although much of this can be reduced by recycling the "out-of-system" PDS losses and the fiscal savings from excluding the highest-income groups as higher UBI transfers. In contrast, replacing inefficient energy subsidies—raising energy prices to efficient levels to internalize the negative environmental externalities of energy consumption—could simultaneously deliver unambiguous distributional gains, help address fiscal pressures, and improve energy efficiency with associated environmental and health gains. Implementing such reforms would, of course, require careful communication and implementation to address political barriers to reform.