The Dorset Eskimo culture has been a subject of archaeological research in Newfoundland for more than five decades. Sites were first recognized by W.J. Wintemberg and Diamond Jenness in the late 1920's, after the original definition of Cape Dorset culture in the Arctic by the latter researcher, and since then numerous other finds have been made and excavations performed. Since the time of the first Dorset research in Newfoundland there has not been, however, a consistent interest in Dorset Eskimo archaeology. Instead, it has experienced a number of "hot and cold" periods, during which it was either in the forefront of Newfoundland research or of little concern to archaeologists. -- Two major monographs stand as landmarks in the history of Newfoundland Dorset archaeology. "The Cultural Affinities of the Newfoundland Dorset Eskimo" (Elmer Harp Jr. 1964), compiled following fieldwork in 1949 and 1950, examined the occupation of the northwestern Newfoundland coast, and compared and contrasted this Newfoundland Dorset complex with Dorset culture in Hudson Bay, northern Labrador, Baffin Island, and Greenland. Nearly two decades later, fieldwork by Urve Linnamae led to the publication of "The Dorset Culture: a Comparative Study in Newfoundland and the Arctic" (Urve Linnamae 1975). Both of these works have taken comparative approaches, and as a result there has developed the idea that Newfoundland Dorset is in some ways unique, in part due to the insular nature of the region. Concurrent with this idea arose the concept of "typical" Newfoundland Dorset culture, which implied a commonality of Dorset culture - or the observable part of Dorset culture, namely stone tools - throughout Newfoundland. -- Through the 1970's and 1980's the pace of Dorset archaeology quickened, as several excavations were performed in northern, eastern, southern, and western Newfoundland. This work permits a more detailed examination of Newfoundland Dorset culture than was previously possible, and it has become increasingly obvious that considerable variety, with respect to settlement, subsistence, and artifact styles, existed among the Newfoundland Dorset population. -- This study presents data from the Dorset Eskimo site at Stock Cove, Trinity Bay, where excavations were carried out in 1981. Contrasts between the stock Cove assemblage, and northern and western Newfoundland Dorset assemblages are notable, as are ecological differences between southern, northern, and western regions of the island. The hypothetical scheme presented in the last chapter suggests that there were at least three regional Dorset populations in Newfoundland, each adapted to local conditions, and distinctive with regards to subsistence and settlement, lithic material utilization, and the style of at least one artifact type, the harpoon endblade.


(Tavistock Publications, 32s. 6d) The family doctor, sitting at the centre of his observed world over years, has unique facilities for observation and record. All general practitioners in the National Health Service have two other advantages: that patients cared for on the 'list' comprise a practice population nearly representative of the community at large and that the doctor seems to be the best accepted middle-class individual in working class communities .


The use of multiple channels is probably the most common distribution strategy nowadays. On the other hand, it also triggers certain challenges. Unfortunately, prior studies have provided few insights for insurance decision makers related to hybrid-channel conflict, especially in terms of exploring the causes of multiple channel conflict in an insurance sector and investigating the frequency of causes of channel conflict. The purpose of this study is to identify the hybrid-channel conflict factors and to assess the frequency of the factors that cause hybrid-channel conflict. The methods used in this study are Delphi and analytic hierarchy process (AHP). According to the results of this study, the intrachannel conflict is more serious than interchannel conflict. Furthermore, "differences in perception of reality used in joint decision making", "using coercive powers", and "incompatibility of goals" are the three most important factors of overall causes. According to the finding, distribution managers can identify the causes of channel conflict and modify their distribution strategy to minimize channel conflict.


(2015) 'Adaptive energy-ecient power allocation in green interference alignment based wireless networks.', IEEE transactions on vehicular technology., 64 (9). pp. 4268-4281. Publisher's copyright statement: c 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract—Interference alignment (IA) is a promising technique for interference management in wireless networks. However, the sum rate may fall short of the theoretical maximum especially at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) levels since IA mainly concentrates on mitigating the interference, instead of improving the quality of desired signal. Moreover, most of the previous works focused on improving spectrum efficiency, but the energy efficiency aspect is largely ignored. In this paper, an adaptive energy-efficient IA algorithm is proposed through power allocation and transmission-mode adaptation for green IA-based wireless networks. The power allocation problem for IA is first analyzed, then we propose a power allocation scheme that optimizes the energy efficiency of IA-based wireless networks. When SNR is low, the transmitted power of some users may become zero. Thus the users with low transmitted power are turned into the sleep mode in our scheme to save energy. The transmitted power and transmission mode of the remaining active users are adapted again to further improve the energy efficiency of the network. To guarantee the interests of all the users, fairness among users is also considered in the proposed scheme. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in improving the energy efficiency of IA-based wireless networks.


Editorial Note Taking issue with the 'Vancouver style' into the twenty-first century The Ulster Medical Journal has, formanyyears, been a proponent of 'Vancouver style', as described in Uniform Requirements forManuscripts Submittedto Biomedical Journals I-devised by the International Committee ofMedical Journal Editors.2 A standard journal article is referenced with the authors/editor, followed by the title, journal name (as abbreviated in Index Medicus), year, volume, month, issue number (in brackets) and pages as illustrated in the following example: O'Neill SB, McCann JP. Unrecognised spinal cord compression as a cause of morbidity. The Vancouver system of referencing allows that a journal with continuous pagination throughout a volume (as most journals do), may omit the month and issue. In the Ulster Medical Journal, the sub-editor checks all references for accuracy, and (although not written policy) inserts the issue number after the volume (if not added already by the author). We have, from this issue, updated our instructions to authors to inclusion of the issue number as journal policy. What difference does adding the issue number make? Until recently, when manually searching for articles using hard copy bibliographic references such as Index Medicus, or the bound copies of the journals themselves, inclusion or omission of the issue numberwas immaterial-continuous pagination enabled the reader to quickly find the article in question in a specific volume. The advent of online journals and digital searching media has changed how articles are published. Manyjournals are available online, and are accessed using menu selection. Initially the required year is selected, followed by the issue and thereafter the page numbers. Often menu selection does not include page numbers, though invariably the issue number is included instead. In the Ulster Medical Journal, we are updating ourselves in line with other journals (at present mostlythose published on line but increasingly those which publish both online and print versions). This small alteration in the policy should assist writers locate their source material more easily. The Vancouver system includes instructions on referencing other material obtained from the Internet.I These follow the principles behind citing print sources, namely, a reference is a detailed description of the item from which you obtained your information and is used to acknowledge the work of others. Lastly, it should contain sufficient information for someone else to trace the item. Thus quoting a website's address e.g. www.nap.edu is similar to quoting a journal title alone. The proper reference may be as …


This paper presents a digitally master-slave controlled parallel system of multiple LLC resonant converters with an inner resonant current control loop in each module. Theoretical analysis of the stability of individual modules and the system with an inner resonant current loop is proposed based on the envelop model, which reveals the principle of the performance improvement brought by the resonant current control loop. Moreover, the inner resonant current loop eliminates the differences in small-signal characteristics among different static operating points, thus facilitating the voltage loop design. The analysis of parallel operation and a complete control loop design guide for paralleled LLC resonant converters is presented based on a small-signal model rather than on software simulation. Finally, the stability analysis and design are elaborated and verified through a 16-kW experimental system of four modularized LLC resonant converters.


Objective:To evaluate effect on newborn body weight by effective touch and massage.Method:60 cases who had more than 8 Apgar gade,had been randomly divided into experiment group and control group.In experiment group, mothers had been inducted to provide effective touch and massage on babi~es.Result:Newborn body weights show significant differences between two groups(P0.05).Conclusion:Induction about effective touch and massage show effect on newborn body weight.


Communication in professional forums is often decisive for future career options. This workshop helps participants to meet people with an attitude that is both adequate and self-confident, in informal situations ("socials") as well as in academic discussion settings. Participants can improve their networking and small talk skills by activating communication tools that made them successful as an academic. Starting with the first steps of initiating small talk, deciding when "bigger" talk can begin, and following up, they then will feel safer and be able to enjoy the occasion as they build up their professional networks. After the workshop, they will be able to plan professional gatherings in advance and feel more comfortable in the social setting of their academic community. Most importantly, participants will be able to set their own goals and to develop concrete strategies to achieve them.


(2) ~~~~~~~~n-c ()-En+ 1 -?.P{Ni = i + cINn+1 = n} provided that the conditional probabilities are defined. Now we shall give two examples for the application of this theorem in order statistics.


Meetings are an integral part of business life for any organization. In previous work, we have developed a physical awareness system called CAMEO (camera assisted meeting event observer) to record and process the audio/visual information of a meeting. An important task in meeting understanding is to know who and how many people are attending the meeting. In this paper, we present an automatic approach to detect, track, and cluster people's faces in long video sequences. This is a challenging problem due to the appearance variability of people's faces (illumination, expression, pose,...). Two main novelties are presented: a robust real-time adaptive subspace face tracker which combines color and appearance. A temporal subspace clustering algorithm. The effectiveness and robustness of the proposed system is demonstrated over a data set of long videos (i.e. 1 hour).


In this study, we present a new cell-based impedance sensor chip with integrated microfluidics for cancer cells detection with single cell resolution. To overcome the limitation of cell resolution posed by conventional approaches, a simple but effective cell-trapping method was proposed to position single cells on top of microelectrodes for sequential measurement. Impedance spectra change induced by single cells on microelectrode arrays was successfully recorded and modeled by using an electrical equivalent circuit. The preliminary measurement reveals a high sensitivity of sensor demonstrated by monitoring single cancer cells adhered on microelectrodes with different surface properties. The impedance magnitudes were also recorded to monitor the activities of single cell on microelectrode in real time. The proposed sensor chip has the potential for further detection and quantification of cancer cells from various tumor stages.


As the transportation systems become increasingly complex and crowded, more strict standards are proposed to reduce the levels of emissions produced by motor vehicles and hence the negative effects these emissions have on public health and the environment. The efficiency of three-way catalysts typically employed in Spark Ignition (SI) engines depends primarily on the Air-Fuel Ratio (AFR) regulation performance. We implement an Internal Model Controller (IMC) combined with an adaptive law in discrete-time and use this structure to address the AFR control problem despite the presence of parametric uncertainties.


Since the creation of the Responsibility to Protect, many critics have focused on the risk that this doctrine creates a dangerous Western 'right to intervene.' This article argues that the 'right to intervene' thesis is only part of the story and that it fails to account for shifts in the practices of war that shape the Responsibility to Protect. Drawing on the work of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, this article argues that the Responsibility to Protect emerges in response to the accumulation and intensification of global military force, and that this accumulation offers both new ethical possibilities for intervention and new dangers in the application of military force. If the forms of humanitarian governance envisioned by the Responsibility to Protect remain subordinate to these late developments in warfare, then supposedly limited episodes of intervention have the capacity to transform into explosive outbursts of political violence.


For a long time,the price of house in China has risen uninterruptedly.It is exorbitant and becomes heavy burden of common people.The abnormality development of real estate market has become menace of harmonious community.This article analysis effective demand and effective supply of real estate market of China,explores the reason of long price and puts forward some countermeasure to stabilize the house price.


R. Denk, R. Mennicken, and L. Volevich 1. On elliptic operator pencils with general boundary conditions. In this paper operator pencils A(x, D, λ) are investigated which depend polynomially on the parameter λ and act on a manifold with boundary. The operator A is assumed to satisfy the condition of N-ellipticity with parameter which is an ellipticity condition formulated with the use of the Newton polygon. We consider general boundary operators B 1 (x, D),. .. , B m (x, D) and define N-ellipticity for the boundary value problem (A, B 1 ,. .. , B m) analogously to the Shapiro–Lopatinskii condition. It is shown that the boundary value problem is N-elliptic if and only if an a priori estimate holds, where the norms in the estimate are again defined in terms of the Newton polygon. These results are closely connected with singular perturbation theory and lead to uniform estimates for problems of Vishik–Lyusternik type containing a small parameter.


Manufacturing and commissioning of the excitation systems with electrical braking for synchronous generators in HPP 'Bocac', which were performed in the time of machine repair in 2009, are described in this paper. The main parameters of excitation system, exciter, voltage regulator, thyristor ignition, electrical braking algorithm, data acquisition system, protection functions, measurements and signaling are described. Dynamic responses recorded at the time of system set-up, which are relevant for excitation system work are presented.


A unique assemblage consisting of 113 pine samples collected from a submerged Mesolithic landscape in the Haväng area, southern Sweden, was examined to assess the presence of large herbivores, as well as changes in wild-game population density and composition. Bark-stripping damages on prehistoric trees is an extremely underutilized source of information about past game-population dynamics, yet our analyzes of wood samples – dated to around 10 500 cal. yr. BP – shows that such material can be successfully used to study the presence and activities of large herbivores, most likely ungulates. To evaluate our results, comparisons have been made with subfossil peatland trees that grew around 6000 years ago, as well as trees from two present day clearcut logging sites in southern Sweden. Furthermore, studies in a wild-game reserve were performed to recognize and understand different types of damages on trees caused by ungulates. Bark-stripping indicate the presence of ungulates, and the rate of damage is commonly associated with the density of the wild game. Bark-stripping was most frequently observed in the submerged wood material from the early Holocene, where damages were detected in 15% of the trees. In comparisons, 11% of the mid-Holocene trees show bark-stripping damages, whereas marks could be detected in the range between 0% and 6% of the trees from the two present-day clearcut logging sites. Our results show that tree-ring analyzes of prehistoric wood can generate information about wild-game dynamics of the past, and thereby being a valuable complement to more commonly used paleoecological and zooarcheological records.


Working papers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment on research in progress. They may not have been subject to the formal editorial review accorded offi cial Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications. The views stated herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Mortgage companies (MCs) do not fall under the strict regulatory regime applicable to depository institutions. We empirically show that the resulting regulatory arbitrage allowed bank holding companies (BHCs) to circumvent capital requirements and avoid loan-related losses. MC subsidiaries of BHCs originated riskier mortgages (than bank subsidiaries), characterized by borrowers with lower credit scores, lower incomes, higher loan-to-income ratios, and higher default rates. Our results imply that regulation had the capacity to prevent the deterioration of pre-crisis lending standards, but only if consistently applied and enforced. The higher involvement of MCs in subprime lending and securitization do not explain our results.son for sharing their knowledge about the supervision and regulation of mortgage companies. They thank John Krainer, Philip Strahan, the participants of the Federal Reserve System Committee on Financial Structure and Regulation Meeting, and the participants of seminars at the University of Virginia-Darden Business School and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for useful discussions and comments.


Statistical-learning approaches such as unsupervised learning, supervised learning, active learning, and reinforcement learning have generally been separately studied and applied to solve application problems. In this paper, we provide an overview of our newly proposed unified learning paradigm (ULP), which combines these approaches into one synergistic framework. We outline the architecture and the algorithm of ULP, and explain benefits of employing this unified learning paradigm on personalizing information management.


The refractive index of potassium has been measured by the critical-angle method for photon energies from 3.96 to 9.69 eV. The potassium films were deposited on the flat surface of a quartz or calcium fluoride semicylinder so that, viewed through the semicylinder, the potassium surface in contact with the substrate is uncontaminated by oxidation. The geometry used facilitated the calculation of the refractive index from the observed reflectance as a function of angle of incidence. These data have been interpreted in terms of a nearly-free-electron model with a volume plasma energy of 3.72±0.05, an optical effective mass of 1.06±0.03, and an ion-core polarization of 0.20±0.03.


Embryo quality is a concept yet to be defined. Since some years now, many phenotypical characteristics have been studied to define this concept by comparing bovine embryos produced in vitro to their in vivo counterparts. More recently, microarrays have been used as a new tool to refine the characteristics related to a healthy embryo. Gene expression variations may be explained in many ways, such as the source of immature oocytes (aspirated from post-mortem ovaries, collected by in vivo ovum pickup, etc.), the development media (SOF with or without serum, with or without cellular support, etc.), the culture environment (laboratory conditions, manipulator skills, etc.) as well as RNA quality used to hybridize microarrays. The aim of this study was to determine embryo quality variations between two production sites to assess the culture environment impact and to observe the gene expression variations between several in vitro embryo production systems. Even if slight differences have been noted between blastocysts produced from the two laboratories, only the apoptotic cell proportion as well as apoptosis gene related gene expression were found to be significantly different. Significant variations were observed as well between embryos produced in vivo to some of their in vitro counterparts, for which the metabolism, the synthesis and the modification of lipids and cholesterol, as well as the transcription factor Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor, were expressed more importantly. A large contingent of uncharacterized novel transcripts was also influenced by the in vitro environment. On the practical side, these results provides evidence that the combination of ovum pick-up and a semi-defined in vitro system provides a high yield of blastocysts without the known ill effects of co-culture.


This article discusses the results of an analysis of road traffic safetyrelated changes introduced in T. Kościuszki and Królowej Jadwigi Streets in Dąbrowa Górnicza between 2006 and 2015. These changes were caused by the redevelopment and traffic reorganization at two intersections on T. Kościuszki Street and one intersection on Królowej Jadwigi Street. Previously, the traffic flow through these intersections was controlled by means of road signs. Since then, traffic lights have been installed at two of them, while the third one has been converted into a single-lane roundabout.


Support for research data management (RDM) has become a popular focus for library services, and many training opportunities in RDM exist for librarians. However, fewer opportunities exist for librarians to develop the more advanced skills and expertise necessary to support data science and open science. To better understand how to develop a library workforce prepared to develop services in the emerging areas of data science and open science, the National Library of Medicine convened a workshop of 15 librarians and information professionals with a range of expertise in data and open science. This session will present the workshop's recommendations and use participatory facilitation methods to engage attendees in conversation about how to prepare information professionals to meet the evolving challenges of data science and open science.


Designing two degree of freedom controller to control the boost chopper system is challenging. A new feedforward combined with feedback controller design is proposed. Increasing the efficiency of the DC-DC converters can be achieved by decreasing the distortion and noise for both input and output stages in the system. A linearization mathematical model analysis for boost chopper is presented. Both the input voltage with multiple steps and the duty cycle of PWM which control the switching circuit were applied to study the behaviour of the system. In this study, the simulation results show that the disturbance rejection and input tracking were improved for different cases and situations. Also, the results show that the proposed method can be adapted by redesigning the feedforward controller to recover the impact of the boost parameter changes.


This article documents a series of physical direct chill casting simulations performed on specimens of an AA3103 alloy by means of a Gleeble machine. During the experiments the specimens are subjected to thermal and straining histories similar to those experienced by material points in an ingot during the casting process due to thermal stresses. The measured stress is compared to the stress given by a steady-state creep law for the measured temperature and strain rate versus time. The creep law gives a good fit for temperatures above 400oC but increasingly overestimates the stress level as the temperature decreases below this level because of the increasing importance of work hardening. Since thermally induced straining occurs in the entire temperature interval in the casting process, it is concluded that more sophisticated constitutive modeling than the creep law is needed.


The detection of land mines using an air borne radar is investigated. The relation between the height of the radar and the separation distance between regular linear distributed mines is obtained. Bistatic and monostatic radars are employed with different operating frequencies to detect the number of mines and their locations. An E-plane or H-plane horn antenna can be used during the simulation.


Dispersal‐associated traits —such as flight ability— influence how species move across the landscape, and can dramatically impact their distributions and patterns of genetic structure. Ortego et al. examine genomic data from two recently diverged alpine grasshopper lineages with distinct wing sizes to assess the demographic impacts of flight loss. The authors showed that flight loss may lead to asymmetric introgression during speciation, and can significantly increase rates of intraspecific diversification.


Review(s) of: Environmental hygiene II, edited by N H Seemayer and W Hadanagy. Publisher: Springer-Verlag, 1990 273 pages, price unknown


Objective To investigate and analyze the diagnostic imaging features of patients with far lateral lumbar disc herniation (FLLDH) by CT and MRI.Methods 38 patients with FLLDH were diagnosed,and its radiology imaging diagnosis and clinical characteristics were analyzed.The main positive results of intervertebral disc herniation segment by CT and MRI scanning and its imaging features were observed.Results The positive of CT scans was 94.74% (36/38),MRI scans was 100% (38/38),the difference was not statistically significant (x2 =2.89,P >0.05) ;disc segments were mainly in L3-4 and L4-5 segments respectively,MRI scans were 34.21% (13/38) and 39.47% (15/38),CT scans were 3 1.58% (12/38) and 39.47% (15/38) ;22 cases with hummocky,8 cases with semicircular,irregular triangular shape and 3 cases respectively ;4 cases with foramen medial,18 cases with lateral foramen,14 cases of mixed type;prominence of < 3 mm was 13 cases,20 cases with 4 to 7 mm,8 cases with more than 7mm.Conclusion CT and MRI examination can accurately diagnose FLLDH and judge its location,extent and clinical timely treatment has important clinical application value.

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Intervertebral disc displacment ;  Tomography, spiral computed ;  Magnetic resonance imaging


Objective To study the feasibility of bacterial endocoxin test for Tetracaine Hydrochloride injection as a substitution for pyrogen test.Methods According to Chinese Pharmacopoeia(second part,2005),interference test was carried on endotoxin detection of Tetracaine Hydrochloride Injection with limulus lysate test agents produced by two different factories.Results There was no interference with the reaction between bacterial endotoxin and limulus lysate test agents in Tetracaine Hydrochloride Injection in 10-fold dilution.Conclusion It is feasible to use the gelatin method in bacterial endotoxin test.


This paper proposes that regional feminisms would be productive in avoiding some of the problems of "global feminism" or the co-opted shapes feminist transnationalism might take when it serves the priorities of international organizations or imperial powers. While Middle Eastern feminists would especially benefit from regional transnational links—given the nature of the social, economic, political, and geopolitical challenges that face the women and the people of the region in an age of capitalist globalization and empire—the paper warns that some dominant feminisms in the region may not be up to the task. The focus of the paper is on "white Turk" identity and ideology which have emerged in Turkey since the 1980s and have significantly influenced political and intellectual orientations among intellectuals, including liberal feminists. It is argued that this influence negatively impacts the capacity of liberal feminism both to articulate inclusive analysis and politics that would address different groups of Turkish women and to relate to other feminist groups in the Middle East.  [A] central aspect of a transnational feminist approach is in its attention to complicity. How embedded are we in the arrangements we describe?  (Razack 2000, 52)


The Health-Sickness Rating Scale (HSRS), originally developed at the Menninger Foundation, was translated into French and Swedish and sent out to a relatively large group of clinicians in each of the two countries, and to a group of judges in the USA. Ratings of the 34 specimen cases were made blindly by 21 US, 62 French, and 21 Swedish clinicians for each of the seven subscales and the global rating scale of HSRS. The consistency among the judgments within each country was found to be very high (.81, .77, and .78 respectively). The consistency among the three national averages and the original Menninger judgments was found to be extremely high (.96) for the global rating. The results were interpreted to encourage further inquiries into the measurement properties and usefulness of the scale. The usefulness of HSRS as an international thermometer of mental health is strongly supported.


Invasin allows efficient entry into mammalian cells by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. It has been shown that the C‐terminal 192 amino acids of invasin are essential for binding of β1 integrin receptors and subsequent uptake. By analyzing the internalization of latex beads coated with invasin derivatives, an additional domain of invasin was shown to be required for efficient bacterial internalization. A monomeric derivative encompassing the C‐terminal 197 amino acids was inefficient at promoting entry of latex beads, whereas dimerization of this derivative by antibody significantly increased uptake. By using the DNA‐binding domain of λ repressor as a reporter for invasin self‐interaction, we have demonstrated that a region of the invasin protein located N‐terminal to the cell adhesion domain of invasin is able to self‐associate. Chemical cross‐linking studies of purified and surface‐exposed invasin proteins, and the dominant‐interfering effect of a non‐functional invasin derivative are consistent with the presence of a self‐association domain that is located within the region of invasin that enhances bacterial uptake. We conclude that interaction of homomultimeric invasin with multiple integrins establishes tight adherence and receptor clustering, thus providing a signal for internalization.


In recent years, Homocentridia picta Hampson has been one of the major pests of Schima superda Gardn. et Champ. in Nanhai, Feshan City and Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. In order to pursue the suitable way for controlling the pest, the insecticidal activity of alcohol extracts using Soxhlit extraction method from Nerium indicum Mill., Derris trifoliate Lour. and Sapium sebiferum (L.) Roxb. were studied. The bioassays were carried out on the 3rd instar larvae of H. picta sprayed with the extracts from three kinds of poisonous plants indoors. The results indicated that all of the three kinds of plants have the potential as botanical insecticides to effectively control H. picta. The calibrated mortality of H. picta was higher than 60% after 3.5 days from the start of bioassays when the larvae of H. picta were treated by the extracts of plants respectively. On the 6th day, the calibrated mortality was over 90%. The order of the toxic effect of three extracts on H. picta was Sapium sebiferum Nerium indicum Derris trifoliate.


This paper analyzes the effects of investment,technology,market degree,industry structure and real wage on employment and concludes that with capital investment increasing,industry structure change and real wage jack-up are the main factors of employment increase,the increase of market degree restrains the employment growth.But as time goes by,the contribution of investment and industry structure change declines,and the effects of wage increase on employment growth increases and the restraining effect of market on the employment growth declines.


In this paper we proposed a method of building neural networks with large scale units using microcomputer clusters. Based on the method we have presented the application to Chinese character recognition.


SIFT method for the local description of images is introduced in this paper. After figuring out the various features of the images, this method is used to perform accurate comparison between different views of a scene or an object. The extracted characteristics are invariable to rotation of size, additional noise, change of light, cropped images, etcetera. All the keypoints features of the images are determined from the SIFT Algorithms. For feature matching of the images to check the accuracy, the KNN matching algorithms was used. The approach used in KNN matching is to match the distance ratio from closest point to the next nearest neighbors. A ratio of less than 0.6 is considered as true keypoints and above 0.6 is considered as false keypoints. Thus the main motive to use KNN matching instead of SIFT matching is to increase the accuracy of the keypoints and the matched pairs. The algorithm put forward is to make use of SIFT in real-time application for object detection.


An Edentulous patient reporting to his dental treatment is a common occurrence these days. The loss of support of the facial musculature is of great concern to the patient and caries a good social stigma. This clinical report focuses on proper support of the slumped oral musculature and cheeks in particular by incorporating cheek plumper and also demonstrates how denture esthetics can be achieved .The templates for cheek plumper was made by use of magnets placed in maxillary and mandibular buccal flanges. Key Words Magnetic, Plumpers, Esthetics, musculature, mandibular ridged form(Fig 1). On intraoral examination suction disk mark was observed in anterior maxilla leading to edematous and flabby tissue in surrounding areas. The old dentures revealed compromised retention and stability due to underextended borders ,severe occlusal wear was observed leading to free way space of 4-5 mm. Patient was advised to stop wearing his old denture, gum massage and oral physiotherapy was advised. The treatment was planned according to the condition of the present maxillary and mandibular ridges. Different impression techniques and materials were used to get the maximum retention and stability of the dentures. Procedure:


Handicraft plays a very important role in representing the culture and traditions of any community. Indian handicrafts are highly eco-friendly, labour intensive, unorganized household sector, with huge potential for employment generation and foreign exchange earnings and practised extensively in the rural areas. Based on this background and field observations, this study aims to investigate the historical tradition, society, and livelihood transformation of the Malakar community in rural Bengal. This study made use of data gathered through field interviews and phone calls in rural Bengal. And data were calculated in both quantitative and qualitative ways. Key findings show that sholapith is a culturally significant eco-friendly craft that is part of the Hindu Community's historical heritage. And it will be the future scope of huge uses of any ceremony's decoration and it fulfils the lives, livelihood, and societal identity of the 'Malakar' community. Socio-economically, the maker of the craft was not suitably developed in the aspects of income and other social things. According to this study, the Malakar community's cultural identity has been transformed and will decline in the future due to the transformation of traditional livelihoods. So, the historical-cultural community of Malakar and their inherited cultural works need to be developed and brought to more people's attention.


It is evident from experimental studies that the anode-liquid interface played an important role on conduction current vis time and field as well as breakdown probabily. The influence was shown on i-E characteristics which modify Nikuradse' ideal characteristic. The experimental data deals with insulating film, space charge, and charge carrier formed due to anode-liquid interface under influence of high DC non-uniform field. Analysis of the nature of this insulating film and space charge reaction will be presented.


This article develops an agenda setting framework for studying the role of American courts in protecting and promoting the interests of the politically disadvantaged. Drawing from work on agenda setting processes in local political systems, the author presents a framework that examines the ways in which varying configurations of organizational power influence the types of issues that reach lower court agendas. The framework and its implications are illustrated with findings from empirical research on legal mobilization on behalf of the poor by federally funded legal services lawyers. The article shows the variety of mechanisms employed by powerful local interests to constrain poverty lawyers who wish to mobilize issues of social reform. The findings suggest that judicial agendas may reflect prevailing distributions of power to a much greater extent than is implied by conventional views of the legal system's utility in effecting social reform.


Using the analysis presented in the accompanying paper (Part I) numerical results showing the dynamic stresses (circumferential and axial) in buried pipe are presented. Incident plane seismic waves considered are: longitudinal (P), vertically (SV), and horizontally (SH) polarized shear, and Rayleigh (R) waves. Results show significant dependence on depth of embedment, properties of the surrounding ground, and frequency and wavelength of the incident wave.


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This article discusses the natures and capabilities of a conceptual system, denoted by logistics information systems, whose main thrust is the consolidation of inbound/outbound shipments. The article presents a history of information systems in the logistics field, reviews the logistic cycle, sets the basis for this LIS model, and considers the requirements for simultaneous consolidation, outlining the capabilities available through this LIS. The evolution of just-in-time manufacturing is rapidly becoming a way of doing business for many organizations. The article presents a brief description of that methodology, and the many unique requirements for LIS in such an environment. The introduction of electronic data interchange and its impact on logistics is examined, and an example shows how LIS would work.


The effects of external two-dimensional excitation on the plane turbulent wall jet were investigated experimentally and theoretically. Measurements of the streamwise component of velocity were made throughout the flow field for a variety of imposed frequencies and amplitudes. The present data were always compared to the results generated in the absence of external excitation. Two methods of forcing were used: one global, imposed on the entire jet by pressure fluctuations in the settling chamber and one local, imposed on the shear layer by a small flap attached to the outer nozzle lip. The fully developed wall jet was shown to be insensitive to the method of excitation. Furthermore, external excitation has no appreciable effect on the rate of spread of the jet nor on the decay of its maximum velocity. In fact the mean velocity distribution did not appear to be altered by the external excitation in any obvious manner. The flow near the surface, however, (i.e. for 0 < Y+ < 100) was profoundly different from the unforced flow, indicating a reduction in wall stress exceeding at times 30%. The production of turbulent energy near the surface was also reduced, lowering the intensities of the velocity fluctuations. External excitation enhanced the two-dimensionality and the periodicity of the coherent motion. Spectral analysis and flow visualization suggested that the large coherent structures in this flow might be identified with the most-amplified primary instability modes of the mean velocity profile. Detailed stability analysis confirmed this proposition though not at the same level of accuracy as it did in many free shear flows.


Apparatus for removing a burr from an aperture in a workpiece, using a rotating deburring tool having a flexible of partly flexible shaft, an abrasive mechanism that rotates on the shaft and a collar that protects the workpiece from abrasion when the abrasive mechanism is being positioned for deburring. Optionally, the shaft and abrasive mechanism move laterally as they rotate. Optionally, a shaft holder includes a protective surrounding sleeve to catch or deflect any fragment of the shaft holder that might fly off. Optionally, the shaft and the workpiece rotate independently of each other. Two or more different abrasive mechanisms can be simultaneously attached to the shaft. The cross-sectional shape of the abrasive mechanism may be curvilinear and/or polygonal, depending upon shape of the workpiece surface. Optionally, a shaft restrictor receives the shaft and limits lateral motion of the rotating shaft. The shaft optionally includes a rotatable mass that provides additional rotational inertia after the shaft is initially spun up.


Abstract Plants from the Brazilian corn (Zea mays L.) cultivars CMS 54 and BR 473 were grown in nutrient solutions with 0.0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 mg cadmium (Cd) L‐1 for a ten day period. The experiment was a completely randomized block design with the treatments arranged in a 2×5×3 factorial, two corn cultivars, five Cd rates, and three replications. The influence of the Cd rates on the nutritional status of the corn plants was studied. Samples from roots and shoots were analyzed for their Cd, phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sulfur (S), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and copper (Cu) contents. At rates above 0.5 mg Cd L‐1, there was an influence of exogenous Cd on the elemental composition of the plants. It seems that with rates above 0.5 mg Cd L‐1, the influence of Cd on the P status of the shoots took place in the CMS 54 but not in the BR 473 cultivar. Similar results for K, Ca, Mg, and S were found. There was competition between the Cd and Zn ions at the absorption sites in the p...


We have studied the toxicity of luminescent silica nanoparticles to living cells from the whole cell level to the molecular level, such as the effects of the nanoparticles on DNA/protein damage, DNA repair activity, cell apoptosis, cell proliferation and death. Several biological approaches were employed to characterize the toxicity of the nanoparticles, including Vybrant apoptosis assay, MTT assay, DNA repair enzyme activity assay and comet assay. Preliminary results showed that the nanoparticles have no apparent effects on survival in several types of living cells up to 72 hours of incubation. Furthermore, luminescent silica nanoparticles do not cause significant DNA damage (strand breaks) compared to controls.


The fermentation conditions of the alkaline protease produced by a marine bacterium strain 7-11 and the regulation mechanism of the protease production was studied.The study showed that 7-11 was aerobic and psychrophilic.The curve of alkaline protease production showed primary metabolite kinetics.the casein medium improved the growth of the organism and the production of the protease.K\++was vital for the enzyme production.Composite amino acid inhibited the production of the protease.


This paper presents a new concept of health observation and connectivity to Medicinal experts at a distance. In the present era, the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way technology infrastructure functions. This work presents, an IoT -based smart health monitoring system to provide medicine on time using continuous screening of the heart rate, oxygen level, and body temperature of an individual. A system having heartbeat sensor, temperature sensor, SpO2 sensor based on Arduino platform with cloud Sheets API have been designed to implement the proposed system. The primary function of the presented approach is to consider two sensors at input for improving clinical care for cardiac patients by providing early intervention and improved 24-hour monitoring. The proposed IoT-based system enables data sheet preparation for real time upload and remote consultation in case of any variation in the heart rate, oxygen level, and temperature to provide medicine promptly.


Optical see-through head-mounted displays (HMDs) are less commonly used because they are difficult to accurately calibrate. In this article, we report a user study to compare the accuracy of 4 variants of the SPAAM calibration method. Among the 4 variants, Stylus-marker calibration, where the user aligns a crosshair projected in the HMD with a tracked stylus tip, achieved the most accurate result. A decomposition and analysis of the calibration matrices from the trials is performed and the characteristics of the computed calibration matrices are examined. A physiological engineering point of view is also discussed to explain why calibrating optical see-through HMD is so difficult for users.


Lichen ruber planus/lichen planus (LP), is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disease that affects the skin, oral mucosa, genital mucosa, scalp and nails. Planar, purple, polygonal, pruritic, papules and plaques appear on the flexor surfaces of the wrists, forearms and legs. Mucosal lesions are often lacy, reticular, white lines known as Wickham striae. Topical corticosteroids are the first-line therapy for all forms of LP, for severe, widespread LP systemic corticosteroids, acitretine, oral immunosuppressants or narrowband UVB therapy should be considered. Cutaneous LP may resolve spontaneously within one or two years, while mucosal LP may be more persistent and resistant to treatment.


Endocytic mechanisms actively regulate plasma membrane composition and sustain fundamental cellular functions. Recently, we identified a clathrin-independent endocytic (CIE) modality mediated by the BAR domain protein endophilin-A3 (endoA3), which controls the cell surface homeostasis of the tumor marker CD166/ALCAM. Deciphering the molecular machinery of endoA3-dependent CIE should therefore contribute to a better understanding of its pathophysiological role, which remains so far unknown. Here, we investigate the role in this mechanism of actin, Rho GTPases and microtubules, which are major actors of CIE processes. We show that the actin cytoskeleton is dynamically associated with endoA3- and CD166-positive endocytic carriers and that its perturbation strongly inhibits the uptake process of CD166. We also reveal that the Rho GTPase Rac1, but not Cdc42, is a master regulator of this endocytic route. Finally, we provide evidence that microtubules and kinesin molecular motors are required to potentiate endoA3-dependent endocytosis. Of note, our study also highlights potential compensation phenomena between endoA3-dependent CIE and macropinocytosis. Altogether, our data deepen our understanding of this CIE modality and further differentiate it from other unconventional endocytic mechanisms.


CANEGROWERS continues to promote safety as an integral part of business planning and operation. Regrettably, Australian agriculture has one of the highest rates of workplace fatalities and injuries.


properties, structure, mechanism of action and biosynthesis. During a relatively short period in the late 1940's and early fifties there was a flush of activity on the question of the role of antibiotics in nature. This interest stemmed in the main from investigators who were seeking to understand the mechanism of microbial antagonisms in soil and its relationship to soil-borne plant diseases. At present there is a renewed interest in the role that antibiotics play in their ecology of soil and in the life of the microbes that produce them. Most soils, whether cultivated, grazed or forested contain large numbers of microbes70). BRIAN') has estimated that one gram of surface soil contains the following populations: Bacteria I to 100 million Fungi 50 thousand to a million Actinomycetes 1 to 10 million Algae 10 thousand to 50 thousand Protozoa 100 thousand to a million Their numbers vary a great deal depending on soil type, depth of the soil, season of the year, rainfall and temperature97.T0). Under extreme conditions, such as in tundra, salt flats, and barren soil due to high or low temperatures, or moisture, the population of the soil is relatively homogeneous and their numbers greatly reduced.


A field experiment was carried out during rabi 2010-11 to study the growth, yield and quality of gram as influenced by irrigation and sulphur levels. Irrigation and sulphur have shown significant influence on growth, yield, quality, moisture extraction pattern and water use efficiency. Among four irrigation schedules, irrigation scheduled at 0.9 IW/CPE ratio recorded higher values for all the growth parameters at various stages, yield attributes, grain and stover yield, quality parameters as well as net return and BCR while, 0.7 IW/CPE ratio remained on par. Amount of moisture extracted from surface layers was more irrespective of irrigation treatment. Depletion of soil moisture increased and water use efficiency decreased with increasing frequency of irrigation. Application of 40 kg S ha -1 recorded higher grain yield, protein content and protein yield, net return and BCR and remained on par with 20 kg S ha -1 . However interaction between sulphur and irrigation levels, 20 kg S ha -1 and 0.7 IW/CPE has reported higher seed yield, net returns and BCR.


Since doing her master's degree, Prof Venter has been working on the Rift Valley fever virus. This mosquito-borne virus infects both humans and animals. The 2008 to 2011 outbreaks of Rift Valley fever in South Africa resulted in a high number of deaths, including that of a young veterinarian. Prof Venter's research focuses mainly on the epidemiology (incidence, distribution and possible control) of the disease.


FIELD: instrument making. SUBSTANCE: device relates to a capsule consisting of a body with a side wall and with the bottom integral with the side wall. Bottom for passing the liquid through the chamber is made with possibility of penetration by means of the device located outside the capsule. Capsule body is made of a polymer material, the bottom has a penetration zone and a rigidity zone. Central zone of the bottom is made as a penetration, and the rigidity zone is around the zone of penetration. Rigidity zone is made as two recesses located within the sectors, wherein the capsule body consists of two layers of polymer and is made by the deep drawing method which ensures the required rigidity of the high height capsule, as well as provides eliminating rigidity reducing due to high temperatures in operation. EFFECT: capsule comprises a lid closing the capsule body to make the closed chamber containing a substance for beverage preparation. 16 cl, 13 dwg


The well-known unintentional muscular contraction following a voluntary contraction was found to be inhibited by instructions favouring relaxation, to be increased by a difficult concurrent task and to be superimposed on small voluntary contractions of the same muscles. It was not superimposed (in either sense) on antagonist contractions. An explanation is suggested, based on the interaction of sensory adaptation and some other process known to occur and apparently related to fatigue.


It is necessary to consider touch or impact forces when a robot moves in human environments. An actual human's finger with its passive element, i.e. skin and muscle, protects both finger tip itself and outer objects. This paper aims at producing such passive element in a finger joint by employing a movable tension-pulley and a transmission wire, controlling actively the touch torque. It was cleared by the torque experiment that the finger having the passive mechanism controlled actively and softly the touch on the object.


A new method for mapping and imaging of the magnetic field of planar electromagnetic coil, placed into the homogenous magnetic field of an NMR imager, is proposed. First attempts of electromagnetic planar coil computation and testing on an NMR 0,2 T imager were accomplished. In our experiments a homogeneous phantom (reference medium) was used - a container filled with water - as a medium. The resultant image represents the magnetic field distribution in the homogeneous phantom. A standard gradient echo imaging method, susceptible to magnetic field homogeneity, was used for detection. An image acquired by this method is actually a projection of the sample properties onto the homogeneous phantom. The goal of the paper is to map and image the magnetic field deformation using NMR imaging methods.


In this preliminary study, it was shown that strong acid ion exchange resins allowed the dehydration of D-fructose to 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxaldehyde at mild temperatures and pressures. Evidence was given that the use of a solvent (i.e. methyl isobutylketone) with high extracting power toward the obtained compound improved the yield of this reaction. In order to take into account the treatment of aqueous solutions of sugars as well as the peculiar use of ion exchange resins, particularly a good hydration mode, a water:solvent ratio of 1:9 was chosen. These conditions were shown to lead to satisfactory yields and conversion rates.


BACKGROUND
The incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) varies according to seasonality, being higher in winter. The effect of sex on this phenomenon is not clear.

AIM
To evaluate the effect of seasonality in men and women hospitalized for AMI at different ages.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
We included all patients with a primary diagnosis of AMI admitted in public and private hospitals in Chile during 2002-2011 (codes I21-I22, of the tenth international classification of diseases). We obtained data from the National Discharge databases available at the Ministry of Health website. We estimated the number of discharges per month and per seasonality (cold /template), and the Standardized Incidence Ratio (SIR) with the formula: number of observed cases/expected cases (average annual hospitalizations), stratified by sex and age (< 50 years, 50-64 years, 6574 years, ≥ 75 years). We evaluated the effect of sex with binomial regressions for the different age strata.

RESULTS
We assessed 59,557 AMI hospitalizations (69% men, with and without ST elevation segment). May, June and July (austral winter) had a SIR of 1.10; 1.12 and 1.10, respectively. Women had a 20% excess of hospitalizations during cold seasons at any age. In men, the excess of hospitalizations increased from 9% in those aged < 50 years to 21% in those ≥ 75 years (p = 0.043). When comparing women and men, women aged < 50 years showed the higher risk of being hospitalized during cold seasons (adjusted risk ratio = 1.06; 95% confidence intervals 1.01-1.13).

CONCLUSIONS
Women have a stronger seasonal pattern in AMI hospitalizations than men. While this effect increases with age in men, in women it remains constant at all ages.


Serious emulsification occurring during aqueous phase extraction of oil leads to low oil yield.In the present study,we used response surface methodology to optimize the extraction of camellia seed oil for the purpose of maximizing oil yield.A mathematical model that describes oil yield as a function of solvent-to-solid ratio,temperature and extraction time was fitted.The optimal extraction conditions were found to be extraction at 61.56 ℃ for 1.26 h with a solvent-to-solid ratio of 3.13:1(mL/g).Under the optimal conditions,the predicted oil yield was 98.02%.The results of validation experiments suggested these extraction conditions to be reliable.


The progress we have had the information and communications technology in Colombia in recent years has been significant ; today it is more common to use technology in everyday lives of people and of both public and private companies , with the aim of making things easier and greater access to information; for this reason the government has been present at every stage of development of Information Technology and Communications (ICT ) in the country , generating control tools , innovation, access and approach to citizenship, but really what was the social impact generated by the electronic government in the lives of Colombians


Objective To evaluate the effect of the Aging Brain Care (ABC) Medical Home program's depression module on patients' depression severity measurement over time. Design Retrospective chart review. Setting Public hospital system. Participants Patients enrolled in the ABC Medical Home program between October 1, 2012 and March 31, 2014. Methods The response of 773 enrolled patients who had multiple patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores recorded in the ABC Medical Home program's depression care protocol was evaluated. Repeatedly measured PHQ-9 change scores were the dependent variables in the mixed effects models, and demographic and comorbid medical conditions were tested as potential independent variables while including random effects for time and intercept. Results Among those patients with baseline PHQ-9 scores >10, there was a significant decrease in PHQ-9 scores over time (P<0.001); however, the effect differed by gender (P=0.015). On average, women's scores (4.5 point drop at 1 month) improved faster than men's scores (1 point drop at 1 month). Moreover, both men and women had a predicted drop of 7 points (>50% decline from baseline) on the PHQ-9 at 6 months. Conclusion These analyses demonstrate evidence for the sustained effectiveness of the ABC Medical Home program at inducing depression remission outcomes while employing clinical staff who required less formal training than earlier clinical trials.


We generalize Dirac's new equation so as to deacribe particles of mass m and arbitrary spin s. The same remarkable properties are found: positive energy, non-negative density, a conserved four-vector current, and the impossibility of minimal electromagnetic interaction. We show that the particles described by a subset of these equations are composites of two subparticles interacting by a relativistic action-at-a-distance interaction charactcrized by two harmonic oscillators. For these composite particles we find a linear relation between the square of the mass and the spin. We emphasizr that the essential content of the generalized new Dirac equation is that it constitutes an example of a convariant solution for two interacting particles, and provides an explicit examaple of a new quantal subdynamics distinct from the (classical) front relativistic dynamics of Dirac. (auth)


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program has accounted for the listing of over 40,000 impaired waters nationwide and the development of over 37,000 TMDLs since the program's creation. Case-specific accounts of implementation are widespread, but the actual rate of implementing TMDLs nationally or regionally has remained virtually unknown because full census and tracking of every implemented practice would be an overwhelming if not impossible task. To gain insights on implementation, EPA's TMDL Program Results Analysis Project conducted a sample-based analysis of TMDL implementation rates and characteristics in the six EPA Region 5 states (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH and WI). A probabilistic sample was drawn from all TMDLs established through FY2007. Sampled TMDLs were allocated proportionally to states based on each state's total TMDL production. Regional but not specific state-level statistics were the goal of the study. Subpopulations of interest contrasted older (through FY2003) versus newer (FY2004 – FY2007) TMDLs, and nonpoint-source (NPS)-only TMDLs versus point source (PS)-only and mixed (PS/NPS) TMDLs. The project team extracted information on each of the 138 sample TMDLs and their proposed NPS and PS controls from EPA data systems in advance of working with each state to verify implementation rates and patterns across the Region. Findings demonstrated that, within a +/- 10% margin of error at 90% C.I., an estimated 80.3% of Region 5 TMDLs were at least partially implemented. Full implementation was uncommon. No implementation was observed in approximately 20% of the sample, but the diffuse nature of control practices typical of many TMDLs made complete verification of every practice difficult. Among subpopulations, implementation rates did not differ significantly between older or newer TMDLs, but the mixed TMDLs implementation rate exceeded the NPS-only rate by 16.1%. Implementation plans existed for 79.6% of TMDLs, and NPS-only TMDLs showed more plans than the mixed TMDL subpopulation. TMDLs generated as part of large watershed, multiTMDL efforts comprised 13.2% more of the newer TMDLs subpopulation than the older TMDLs subpopulation. Post-analysis steps included exploring GIS data on the watershed traits of each sampled TMDL for other possible associations with patterns of implementation. Analysis of predominant land cover in the samples' watersheds did not reveal significant differences among implementation rates associated with urbanized, heavily agricultural, lightly agricultural, and rural non-agricultural watersheds.


Abstract Taking as its provocation the recent observation by Larry Grossberg that "knowledge is relatively powerless to affect the conditions and directions of social change" (Tilting at Windmills 149-150) this paper will suggest that it is with the explication of comfort that a valuable response to the challenge of the current conjuncture can be found. Following a brief survey of the nature and purpose of Cultural Studies scholarship in this present moment, attention will turn to how comfort comes to be encoded into everyday practices and routines of lifestyle. Accordingly, this paper will assert that Cultural Studies, with its concern for "the quotidian experiences of lives lived" (Martin and Hickey 149), is well-placed to launch inquiry into the "conditions" of comfort-conditions that mark the dimensions of late capitalist social formation. A call for a research agenda within Cultural Studies that positions comfort as a prompt for scholarly attention will be outlined as an "activated" form of cultural inquiry focused on the clarification of the "everyday" dimensions of living now.


Image Retrieval is very one of the biggest task in the recent years. It is widely used in many real time databases to retrieve related images in various fields like medicine, military, online shopping etc. This paper offers with using radon transform followed by PCA and LDA techniques for image retrieval is called as Combined Radon Space Features Set (CRSFS). Caltech 101 database image sets used in this paper. The correct direction is select means the computation time and complexity of operation is less to achieve good retrieval rate. Due to tremendous technological advancements, need of image information systems has became an important issue, since visual media requires large amounts of memory and computing power for processing and storage, there is a need to efficiently index and retrieve visual information from image database. In recent years, the digital document image has become an important means of enhancing information management. Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is a challenging task which retrieves the similar images from the large database. Most of the CBIR system uses the low-level features such as colour, texture and shape to extract the features from the images. In so many works available, interest points are used to extract the similar images with different view and accuracy. In this paper, the same is tried to retrieve with the use of SURF. SURF is fast and robust interest points detector which is used in many computer vision applications and other methodologies available for the same have been discussed. Index Terms : Content based Image Retrieval (CBIR), Speed up Robust feature( SURF), image databases, Wavelet transform (WT). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I.INTRODUCTION Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the size of digital image collections. Every day, in the both military and civilian equipment generates Giga-bytes of images. However, cannot access or make use of the information unless it is organized so as to allow efficient searching, browsing, and retrieval. The image retrieval has been a very active research area since the 1970s, the thrust from two major research communities, in database management and computer vision system. These two research communities study image retrieval from different angles, a one being textbased and the other visual-based scheme. The text-based image retrieval can be traced back to the late 1970s. A very popular framework of image retrieval then was to first annotate the images by text and then use text-based base management systems to perform image retrieval method. Many advances, such as multidimensional indexing, data modelling, and query evaluation, have been made along this research area. There exist two major difficulties, especially when the size of image collections is large. The one is the vast amount of labour required in manual image annotation. Other difficulty, which is more essential, and results from the rich content in the images and the subjectivity of human perception. For the same image content based different people may perceive it differently. Gabor filter is widely adopted to extract texture features from the images for image retrieval, and has been shown to be very efficient. Yong-Hwan Lee, have shown that image retrieval using Gabor features outperforms that using wavelet transform (WT) features, and multi resolution simultaneous autoregressive model features. Hence, in our proposed method, and Gabor filter is used for extraction of texture features. The feature of vision can be classified by semantic hierarchy into middle level feature and lowlevel feature. Low-level feature includes color, texture and inflexion. Middle level involves shape description and object feature. Content based Image Retrieval systems try to retrieve images similar to a user-defined specification or pattern (e.g., shape sketch, image example). Their goal is to support image retrieval based on content properties (e.g., shape, color, texture), usually encoded into feature vectors. One of the main advantages of the CBIR approach is the possibility of an automatic retrieval process, instead of the traditional keyword-based approach, which usually requires very laborious and time-consuming previous annotation of database images.


The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a 16-year time series of vegetation condition information for the conterminous United States and Alaska using 1 km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data. The AVHRR data have been processed using consistent methods that account for radiometric variability due to calibration uncertainty, the effects of the atmosphere on surface radiometric measurements obtained from wide field-of-view observations, and the geometric registration accuracy. The conterminous United States and Alaska data sets have an atmospheric correction for water vapor, ozone, and Rayleigh scattering and include a cloud mask derived using the Clouds from AVHRR (CLAVR) algorithm. In comparison with other AVHRR time series data sets, the conterminous United States and Alaska data are processed using similar techniques. The primary difference is that the conterminous United States and Alaska data are at 1 km resolution, while others are at 8 km resolution. The time series consists of weekly and biweekly maximum normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composites.


Experiments using ground-based measurements of canopy temperatures have shown that plant temperatures are good indicators of plant water stress, and thus are useful for assessing water requirements and predicting yields. An intensive 23-day airborne- and ground-measurement program was conducted in Phoenix, Arizona in 1977 to compare airborne-acquired wheat canopy temperatures with simultaneous ground measurements. For canopies that covered at least 85 percent of the soil surface, airborne measurements differed from ground measurements of plant temperature by less than 2 C. Regardless of the amount of plant cover, the airborne measurements were virtually identical to ground-nadir measurements, and thus represent a combination of plant temperature and solid background temperature.


A method for synthesis of namyl lactate based on activated carbon supported phosphotungstic acid as catalyst was developed.The factors influencing the reaction were investigated through orthonormal experiments.The results show that the optimal condition is 1.8 g of catalyst and 5 mL of cyclohexane(to remove water) with the molar ratio of amylalcohol to lactic acid being 1.5 and the reaction time being 2 h.The yield of namyl lactate under such conditions is over 96.2%.The catalyst can be used repeatedly for many times without distinct loss in activity.


The alarming rate of new product failures in recent
times heightens the demand for careful and thorough
understanding of the characteristics, shapes and forms products take as they transit in their life cycles. Several studies in the marketing literature have examined the product life cycle (PLC) concept, but most
of these studies have shown conflicting and inconclusive associations between the PLC and the marketing strategy. This paper examines the PLC specifically from the strategy perspective within the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector and explores the various marketing strategies employed by firms in the effective and efficient management of products. An in-depth review of extant literature is adopted to develop a conceptual framework by exploring the various marketing mix variables, product attributes, product behaviours on the different PLC stages and factors determining these behaviours.The paper examines the PLC within the broader scope of the FMCG and offers suggestions on areas for further research so as to adequately enhance firm managements' understanding regarding the impact of the PLC on the strategy decision–making and implementation for organisational success.


This article reviews the evolution of the Russian pension system. National pension provision functions through new social institutes (base, accumulative and obligatory pensions). Contradictions in the Russian pension reform are discussed. Growth of non-state pension system as one of this reform's traits is analyzed from a sociological viewpoint.


The analysis has shown that respondents generally perceive promotion opportunities as the most important career aspect. However, job security and work-life balance are almost as important. Furthermore, it was shown that generation Y is not a homogeneous group since there are differences between women and men responses.


This paper discusses two cases of instruction from within a mathematics classroom, in which the situated experience of participants is informed using Bakhtinian utterance as analytical construct. T ...


The corpora cardiaca (CC) of the pneumorid grasshopper species Bullacris discolor contain at least one substance that causes hyperlipaemia in the migratory locust. Isolation of neuropeptides belonging to the adipokinetic hormone (AKH) family was achieved by single-step reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) of CC extracts and monitoring trypto- phan fluorescence. The material of the bladder grasshopper showed three distinct fluorescence peaks with adipokinetic activity in the migratory locust. The peptide sequences were identified by Edman degradation after the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue had been cleaved off enzymatically, and the exact peptide masses were determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of- flight mass spectrometry. Moreover, the assigned peptides were synthesised and natural and synthetic peptides were compared in their behaviour in RP-HPLC. B. discolor stores three AKH peptides in its CC: two of those are octapeptides, Schgr-AKH-II (pELNFSTGWamide) and Peram-CAH-II (pELTFTPNWamide), whereas the third peptide is a decapeptide, Phyle-CC (pELTFTPNWGSamide. The concentration of carbohydrates in the haemolymph of B. discolor is about 3 times higher than the lipid concentration. Upon injection with synthetic Schgr-AKH-II no adipokinetic or hypertrehalosaemic effect was measurable. A litera- ture survey appears to indicate that an active role of these AKH peptides in substrate mobilisation is only overtly displayed in those caeliferan species that undertake well-defined flight periods.


iii ACKNOWLEDGMENT My thanks go to all people that were involved in my master's thesis. I would like to express my immense gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Ibrahim Abuhaiba, for his advice, support, guidance and inspiration to conduct my research. I would also like to thank all my friends and my colleagues in the computer engineering department for their friendship and assistance during my research study. Special thanks to Dr. Wesam Ashour and Dr. Mohammad Al-Hanjouri for their assistance and expert advice. My heartiest gratitude to my beloved family: my husband, mother, and children; without their support, understanding, and patience, it would have been impossible for me to finally complete my study. Above all, I thank Allah for blessing me with all these resources, favors and enabling me to complete this thesis.


Rhetorical critics need to be sensitive to the broader possibilities of their role as accessory to the historian. In addition to analyzing persuasive works in relationship to the initial audiences to which they were addressed rhetorical critics might also profitably examine message levels ignored by initial audiences but which may potentially be very meaningful to later ones. Darwin's Origin of Species is here treated not as a work of the past but as a contemporary document whose message about man and the environment is significant for our time.


Proximization: The pragmatics of symbolic distance crossing is the author's fifth monograph in the area of political and persuasive discourse. The author's main interests cover the areas of Pragmatics, Rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis. He is the founding and managing editor of international journal Lodz Papers in Pragmatics. Proximization counts 220 pages and is divided into seven chapters. The analyses are based on an already-published body of material, but have been revised and further elaborated for this purpose.


Electron beam cold hearth me]ting and refining (EB-CHR) of refractory metals (Nb, Mo. Ta) and an alloy (Nb-1 •loZr) was examined for its ability to produce homogeneous materials in the 2 OOO and 400 kW EB-CH R furnaces and the 70 kW EB furnace. Behavior of gaseous elements was discussed with taking the volatile parameter R into the consideration. In the production of Nb-1•/.Zr in the 400kW EB-CHR furnace, zirconium content was controllab]e. serious segregation was found. These results show that the mechanism of zirconium loss in the EB-CHR process depends on both the evaporation and segregation of zirconium. Heat balance in molybdenum melting was measured in the 2 OOO kW EB-CHR furnace. The obtained heat efficiency was about 70'/o and energy loss of EB well agreed with the ratio of backscattered electron energy to whole EB energy input, which is about 3001•. Mechanica] processing tests involving forging. hot-rolling and cold-rolling were carried out. Material property such as workability was evaluated. EB-CHR processed materials gave better workability than others. Plates and sheets of some refractory metals were successfully produced.


The purpose of our research is to investigate the feasibility of this methodology for distributed application development by examining possible approaches to carrying out such developments. In particular, our emphasis lies in transformation technology, wherein user-invoked source-to-source transformations are applied to the partitioned system for the purpose of optimizing the transactions required to effect the distributed behavior. In this way, the application downloading system need only produce a correct partitioning of the original program, not an efficient one. The user, with system guidance, optimizes the partitioned program by applying transformations chosen from the system library. Thus, application downloading can be viewed as a narrow domain in which to apply the transformation technology we have developed elsewhere in a broader context(1).


The dynamics of liquid water in the gas channels with rectangular sections (REC), trapezoidal sections with open angles of 60 degrees (T60), and trapezoidal sections with open angles of 72 degrees (T72) are numerically investigated via the volume of fluid method. The effects of the contact angle of the top and side walls (CATS), the water inlet configuration, and the air inlet velocity are studied based on the temporal evolution of gas-liquid interface, the water volume fraction (WVF), the water coverage ratio of the gas diffusion layer (GDL) surface (GWCR), and the pressure drop between the air inlet and the outlet. For the hydrophobic GDL surface and the hydrophilic top and side walls, the T72 provides the lowest WVF and GWCR of around 7 percent due to periodic pressure spikes. The REC and T60 show a higher WVF and a lower GWCR as most of liquid water moves along the channel while attached to the top wall. As the CATS increases from 60 to 120 degrees, the behaviors of liquid water become similar for the three cross-sectional shapes. The T72 shows especially similar results irrespective of the CATS. When the liquid water emergence is concentrated along the side wall, the T72 shows the best water removal characteristics. For all the three channel cross-sectional shapes, water slugs move faster and have smaller sizes as the air inlet velocity increases.


SAI(Secondary Air Injection) system has been studied widely as one of the promising countermeasure for reducing HC emission at cold start. In this paper, in order to find out the optimal position of SAI, computational thermal fluid analysis on exhaust system adapted SAI system is performed using commercial 3-D CFD code, CFX. The present results showed that SAI position strongly affected the uniformity of air distribution in front of catalyst. And also through the decision process of optimal position of SAI, new index, uniformity of air distribution() is proposed to define it quantitively. Because is very simple equation and similar with flow uniformity, it is very easy to figure out the physical meaning and to apply it to practices. Finally, we applied the index to the decision process of the optimal position of SAI, so that we could get the clear comparison results.


For many years the maximum breathing capacity (M.B.C.) has been used as a test of the mechanical function of the lungs. It is most commonly performed with a spirometer, which provides a permanent record of the subject's performance. Unfortunately, much of the earlier experimental work suffered from two defects. (a) No control experiments were made to investigate the fidelity with which the spirometer recorded the tidal air of the subject at high respiratory rates, and (b) the rate of breathing was seldom recorded. It has been shown (D'Silva and Mendel, 1950; Bernstein and Mendel, 1951 ; Bernstein, D'Silva, and Mendel, 1952) that both the above factors should be taken into account when measurements of maximum ventilatory capacity (M.V.C.) are made with the aid of a spirometer. It is well known that the M.B.C. of a group of normal subjects may vary widely so that the deviation of an individual value from the mean may be very large. Thus, Gray, Barnum, Matheson, and Spies (1950) found a mean M.B.C. of 167.1 litres/ minute for a large group of healthy young men, but the standard deviation was ±21.0 litres. This large range of M.B.C. values diminishes the usefulness of this method of expressing the results of the test. D'Silva, Freeland, and Kazantzis (1953) found that in a group of normal subjects the tidal air during maximum breathing at a particular rate bore a nearly constant relationship to the vital capacity volume. Gaensler (1951) studied the rate at which the air in the lungs (following a maximum inspiration) could be expired. He called this the " fast vital capacity" and found that, though the vital capacity volumes of normal subjects varied widely, each succeeded, on the average, in breathing out 82.7% of his vital capacity volume during the first second after starting a maximal expiratory effort. Tiffeneau, Bousser, and Drutel (1949) obtained similar results. It is well known, of course, that


We introduce the notion of a subgraph generated by an $R$-word $r$ of the Sch\"{u}tzenberger graph of a positive word $w$, $S\Gamma(w)$, where $w$ contains $r$ as its subword. We show that the word problem for a finitely presented Adian inverse semigroup $Inv\langle X|R \rangle$ is decidable if the subgraphs of $S\Gamma(t)$, for all $t\in X^+$, generated by all the $R$-words over the presentation $\langle X|R\rangle$, are finite. As a consequence of this result, we show that the word problem is decidable for some classes of one relation Adian inverse semigroups.


The U.S. Army Edgewood Research, Development and Engineering Center, the U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground Support Activity, Directorate of Safety, Health and the Environment and SciTech Services Inc., an independent contractor, have developed an approach for screening environmental samples for the presence of chemical warfare agents. Since 1918, the Edgewood area of Aberdeen Proving Ground has been a research and testing ground for toxic agent compounds. Since these materials are considered highly toxic, screening for their presence in environmental samples is necessary for safe shipment to contract laboratories for testing by EPA guidelines. The screening ensures worker safety and maintains U.S. Army standards for transportation of materials potentially contaminated with chemical warfare agents. This paper describes the screening methodology.


As in international criminal law and any national penal law system, individual criminal responsibility arises not only when a person materially...


Contents/Sommaire/Sumario:Articles/Articles/ArticulosPaper n. 1, pp. 1-29Raffaele AvetaJudicial Equity and the "mild" Ethnicisation of Italian LawPaper n. 2, pp. 1-25Isabelle ChivoretHepatitis B Vaccination and the Risk of Demyelinating Disease in FranceEssays/Essais/EnsayosPaper n. 3, pp. 1-23Cristina Amato, Chiara PerfumiFinancial Investors as Consumers and Their Protection: Recent Italian Legislation from a European PerspectiveSelected Conference ProceedingsNew Frontiers of Pharmaceutical Law – Young Researchers Workshop: a SummaryFrancesco PanettiNews/Annonces /NoticiasInternational Workshop – SU GOLOGONE SYMPOSIAThe Vegetative State: Medical Facts, Ethical, Philosophical and Legal DilemmasSu Gologone Resort Oliena, Nuoro, Sardinia Italy, 5th – 7th October 2010International and Comparative Health Law Program – SUMMER SCHOOL 2011 28th May – 11th June ,Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa


Methods previously used to measure recoveries of dry matter (DM) from forages following natural or simulated rainfall often have relied on simple gravimetric techniques, which yielded inconclusive estimates of DM recovery. Our objective was to evaluate insoluble cell-wall constituents as internal markers for estimating recoveries of DM from alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) or alfalfa– orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) mixtures subjected to simulated rainfall. Forage mixtures consisted of 1000, 750, or 500 g kg−1 alfalfa, with the balance comprised of orchardgrass. Regardless of the forage mixture, concentrations of all cell-wall constituents increased (P ≤ 0.053) in response to wetting (0, 70, 140, 280, 420, 560, or 840 mm at 70 mm h−1) under a rainfall simulator. Following treatment, recovery of all cell-wall constituents was high ( ≥901 g kg−1). Generally, losses were smallest for neutral-detergent fi ber (NDF) markers regardless of analysis method (with alpha-amylase, sodium sulfi te, neither, or both), acid-detergent fi ber (ADF), and cellulose and largest for hemicellulose and lignin. Linear regressions of recoveries of DM by internal markers on values determined gravimetrically were good (r2 ≥ 0.775) when NDF was used to estimate recovery. In all these cases, neither slopes (P ≥ 0.103) nor intercepts (P ≥ 0.083) differed from one and zero, respectively. Fiber components appear to be suitable internal markers for measuring recoveries of DM following wetting, but this approach depends on complete recovery of shattered leaf particles before conducting laboratory analyses. USDA-ARS, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, 8396 Yellowstone Dr., Marshfi eld, WI 54449. Mention of trade names or commercial products is solely for the purpose of providing specifi c information about scientifi c procedures and/or subsequent evaluation of results and does not imply any recommendation or endorsement by the USDA. Received 4 Jan. 2008. *Corresponding author (firstname.lastname@example.com). Abbreviations: ADF, acid-detergent fi ber; ADFas, acid-detergent fi ber determined sequentially following initial extraction in neutral detergent containing both α-amylase and sodium sulfi te; ALF, proportion of alfalfa, in g kg−1; CELLas, cellulose determined sequentially following initial extraction in neutral detergent containing both α-amylase and sodium sulfi te; DM, dry matter; HEMIas, hemicellulose determined sequentially following initial extraction in neutral detergent containing both α-amylase and sodium sulfi te; LIGas, acid-detergent lignin determined sequentially following initial extraction in neutral detergent containing both α-amylase and sodium sulfi te; NDF, neutral-detergent fi ber without additives; NDFa, neutral-detergent fi ber with heat-stable α-amylase; NDFas, neutral-detergent fi ber with heat-stable α-amylase and sodium sulfi te; NDFs, neutral-detergent fi ber with sodium sulfi te. Published in Crop Sci. 48:2481–2489 (2008). doi: 10.2135/cropsci2008.01.0006 © Crop Science Society of America 677 S. Segoe Rd., Madison, WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Permission for printing and for reprinting the material contained herein has been obtained by the publisher.


The experiment of aqueous catalytic oxidation SO_2/NO of flue gas was carried out by using catalysts of Fe~(2+),Mn~(2+),Zn~(2+) and Al~(3+).The influence and the varying law of acid concentration of absorbing solution,the optimum concentration of catalyst,operation conditions on the efficiency of catalytic oxidation SO_2/NO were studied.Research showed that when the concentration of Fe~(2+),Mn~(2+),Zn~(2+),Al~(3+) were(0.5%),0.2%,0.5%,1.0% respectively,the gas flow was 0.1?m~3/h,circulated liquid flow was 6—8?L/h,the efficiency of catalytic oxidation SO_2/NO can be achieved above 95% and 50% respectively by this method.


Malicious code and its derivative code have become a major threat to network security. At present, some methods transform malicious code into images and use deep learning to classify families. However, these family classification methods based on deep learning has a problem that the malicious code images need to be uniformly scaled before model training, which may result in the loss of potential malicious code image features. This paper proposes a malicious code classification network based on spatial pyramid pooling and deep residual network. The network can accept malicious code images of any size as input, and solve the problem that neural network input requires uniform image size. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of this paper is 99.09%, and the recall is 96.69%, which is 2% higher than other methods on the same dataset.


This study compares a stress management program based on cognitive behavioural therapy principles with yoga-based stress management program. A study sample of 30 student. The subject were divided into 3 equal groups.


Thank you very much for reading mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search hundreds times for their chosen readings like this mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they juggled with some harmful virus inside their computer.


The structures of the compounds, resulting from the condensation of 2-methylpyridine, 2,6-dimethylpyridine and 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine with benzaldehyde and terephtalaldehyde, were confirmed by high field 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. Structural assignments were made based on the NMR spectra of the intermediate compounds, 4-[1-hydroxy-2-4,6-dimethyl-2-pyridyl-ethyl]benzaldehyde (5) and 4-[1-hydroxy-2-(6-methyl-2-pyridyl)ethyl]benzaldehyde (6), of the main reaction products 2-styrylpyridine (3) and 1,4-bis[2-(4,6-dimethyl-2-pyridyl)vinyl]-benzene (1), and of the side reaction product 2-phenyl-1,3-bis(2-pyridyl)propane (4) resulting from the addition of the methyl groups of 2-methylpyridine to the double bond of 3.


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Acquired inflammatory demyelinating neuropathies are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune conditions that share common sensory, motor, autonomic, clinical, laboratory, and electrodiagnostic features. They exist in both acute and chronic forms, with variable levels of cell-mediated and humoral immune dysfunction. Pain is an increasingly recognized problem in many of these conditions. This topical review describes the types of pain associated with commonly encountered acquired inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies (Table 1; additional conditions presented in electronic supplement Table 1e, available online as Supplemental Digital Content at http://links.lww.com/PAIN/A250).


The subway ride is not calming. No being lulled to doze by the slow rocky rhythm of the local train. Instead eyes scan every face. Rows of tired, disinterested. Plugged into cell phones like cattle feeding from troughs, fingers pressing buttons watching tiny screens. "Backpacks and other large containers," the subway voice said, "are subject to random search." The feeling he was being watched. Edward Snowden looking down on him from an ad for a FOX NEWS report. "Traitors In Our Midst." So much for objectivity. News outlets throughout the country working twenty-four hours a day to get him to hate ISIS. Michael must have slept through "Hate Week." Xavier sending him articles on NSA, Anonymous, Bootsy Collins. Encryption keys. The ad across from him showed a backpack just sitting there alone on a platform. "If you see something, say something." If people would only look up from their cell phones long enough. Michael walked. The air felt morning crisp. He couldn't shake off the nervous tension, the clenching fist. He was walking old streets. Barely a year since. Spanish Harlem had changed as much as the rest of Manhattan. Whole neighborhoods were disappearing as development spread uptown and the higher rents displaced people who deserved the development in the first place. The old cuchifritería was now a taquería, the large superette Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 94, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2017, 84–87


Nano-photosensitizers have great application value in photodynamic therapy due to its interesting properties which the conventional photosensitizers don't have.The structural design,election of nano particles drug carrier,preparation method of nano-photosensitizers will have great effect on the therapeutic effectiveness,slow/controlled release effect,and the achieve of specially function,such as nanoparticles actively targeting,diagnosis of tumor,dose monitoring,and the integration of these function.Functional nano-photosensitizers will have wide application in photodynamic therapy with important scientific value and socioeconomic benefits.


This study aims to analyze the effect of tax planning and leverage on earnings management with firm size as a moderating variable. This research was conducted at manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2015 to 2017. The types of data used in this study are secondary data in the form of annual financial report on December 31 for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The total number of companies made as a sample there were 29 companies for a period of 3 years (2015-2017) so there are 87 samples. Analysis data method that used for this research is SPSS version 24, with a value of significance was set at 5%. The results of this study concluded that tax planning has a positive relationship and significant influence on earnings management while the leverage variable has a negative relationship but does not have a significant effect on earnings management. This study also results that the size of the company can moderate the relationship of tax planning with earnings management but the size of the company cannot moderate the relationship of leverage with earnings management.