This paper argues that early, "preoedipal" anxieties about
dependency, autonomy, the boundaries of the self, the dangerous interpenetration
of inner and outer worlds--the outer world contaminating
the inner self, the self afraid of losing the precious "substance" that
keeps it alive--play a significant role in Shakespeare's plays, specifically
Hamlet and King Lear. It argues further that childhood
dependence on a mother influences later feelings about the opposite
sex and sexual conflicts revive early anxieties about autonomy and
independence, so that the attempt to establish a proper balance between
inner and outer worlds is inextricably tied (in the plays) to conceptions
of sexual identity. In broader social terms, these plays reflect the
problem of being (1) a separate, self-conscious individual at a time
when the old values of an ordered, hierar"chical society were giving way
to a new, middle-class, Protestant ethic of "individualism" and (2) a
man at a time when sexual roles were becoming polarized in new ways.
As the plays themselves imply--and as the paper tries to show--we can't
understand the dilemmas of modern "individualism" without understanding
the sexual parameters (learned in early childhood, reinforced by social
experience) in terms of which these dilenrnas are lived out.


Recording rain-gauge data, supplemented by radar observations, are utilized to determine the relative contributions of convective and stratiform lifting to the total precipitation deposited by an intense extratropical cyclone. A simple cell model is then used to deduce the vertical transport of mass necessary to produce the observed convective rainfall. The vertical transport of mass accompanying production of the stratiform precipitation is obtained by assuming this precipitation was generated by uniform moist adiabatic ascent. On the basis of the computed mass transports, the vertical transports of momentum and sensible heat accomplished by each mode of lifting are determined. It was found that at least 30 per cent of the total precipitation produced and, therefore, the same fraction of the total latent heat released by the storm was attributable to cellular convection. Approximately the same amount of air was funneled upward through the 700 mb level by convective cells as was lifted by larger-scale motions. Finally, although the convective transport of sensible heat through 700 mb was small by comparison with that transported by stratiform lifting, the cellular mode of motion was dominant at this level in the vertical transport of momentum. The results suggest that certain physical processes usually attributed solely to the larger-scale motions of cyclonic systems may, in fact, be highly concentrated into convective cells. Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Pauline M. Austin Title: Research Associate


Abstract : System theory is concerned with the modelling and analysis of phenomena both natural and man-made. It is a discipline whose formal beginnings go back at least to Watt and Maxwell and much of its motivation stems from engineering problems. Before World War II, a system design and analysis were primarily an art. During and after the war, techniques based on complex variable theory were developed and applied primarily to single input, single output systems represented by a rational function, called the transfer function. The theory of servomechanisms developed rapidly from the end of the war to the early fifties and time-domain methods were applied. The representation of transfer functions via linear, constant-coefficient, differential equations led to a renewed interest in so-called state space methods. The rapid development of the theory followed and continues today. However, the increasing complexity of the engineering and economic problems considered required greater mathematical sophistication.


Abstract Sexual thalli of Bonnemaisonia geniculata Gardner from California are described, and developmental stages in the female reproductive system are illustrated and discussed. The production of a primary gonimoblast cell from the carpogonium and its fusion with the first cell of the carpogonial branch are demonstrated. Observations are compared with those made on other members of the genus, and a discussion of criteria used to distinguish Bonnemaisonia and Asparagopsis is presented. It is emphasized that the position of the axial cell which cuts off the fertile pericentral cell is useful in separating Asparagopsis from Bonnemaisonia. Unlike other species of the genus, B. geniculata lacks iodine cells.


Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics and describes the interactions of charged particles. It can similarly be viewed as a perturbation theory of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. The emergence of QED allowed physicists to explain phenomena such as the magnetic moment of the electron and the Lamb shift, as well as general interactions of light and matter. Currently, QED theory is an effective tool for many physics problems involving elementary particles, atomic nucleus, and solid state. The opening chapters deal with the general theory of free fields and establish a method to derive the fundamental quantization laws valid for any field. The theory developed is then applied to scalar, electromagnetic, and spinorial fields in order to prepare the reader for understanding field interactions. The authors introduce the scattering matrix, Feynman-Dyson diagrams, and the effective scattering cross section as general problems of field interactions. They examine divergence-free second order processes, using Compton scattering and Moller scattering as examples, and calculate the effective cross sections and transition probabilities. The final chapter delves into divergent second-order processes, and the authors discuss vacuum polarization as well as mass and charge renormalization.

Basics of Quantum Electrodynamics is a useful guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying physics. A final section that includes an appendix containing several functions used in quantum field theory, as well as problems along with solutions, helps facilitate the application of the theory. This text provides a detailed connection between quantum mechanics and QED through the quantization of free fields followed by their interactions. The detailed stepwise progression used by the authors provides a clear demonstration of the important theories and aspects of quantum electrodynamics that makes this text a valuable resource for both the student and instructor.


Objective: To observe the effect of quintet method on teaching of pathophysiology.Method: 212 students from the specialty of anesthesiology were selected and divided randomly into two groups.The test group was receiving quintet teaching method which including theory teaching,stage case analysis,general case analysis,students-patients in-class communication and clinic reinforcement,and the control group receiving traditional teaching.Effect of these two teaching methods was compared by analyzing the final exam score and questionnaire surveys from the two groups.Results: Total scores(74.40±10.34) and scores for traditional part(73.04±9.90) from the test group were significantly higher than those from the control group(66.84±13.44,65.79±13.19 respectively)(P0.01);score for clinical case from the former(1.36±1.22) were still statistically higher than those from the latter(1.05±1.04)(P0.05),but the difference was much smaller.Questionnaire survey showed that most students from the two groups considered contacting clinic ahead of schedule was important for them to improve their learning interest and learning quality.Conclusion: Quintet method in the teaching of pathophysiology could improve students' learning interest and learning quality.


An 83-year old woman was emeregently admitted to the hospital because of increasing low abdominal intermittent pain and fullness, which had occurred sometimes. There were no chracteristic findings in a plain abdominal X-ray film and ultrasonography. Abdominal CT demonstrated whirling mesentery adjacent to the mass with a calcification placed centrally, and a whirl-like pattern of the small bowel loops. In reviewing sagittal views of MRI, the patient was diagnosed as having a small bowel volvulus. A conservartive therapy was performed because no ischemic nor edematous changes were seen in the intestinal wall. But, whirl-like pattern did not disappear on CT even 10 days after the conservative therapy. and detorsion had to be performed operatively at laparotomy, it was found that the volvulus was twisted by 720° clockwise rotation around the mesenterium about 70cm from Treitz ligament to the ileo-cecal part. Abdominal CT and MRI are considered to be useful in the early diagnosis of small bowel volvulus. In this case, emergently operations were not necessarily needed under no inflammatory signs in the intestinal mucosa, even if a typical whirl-like pattern was demonstrated.


After, a 6-month period of instruction, a comparison of performance in English literacy skills between two groups of English language learners in first grade was made. A total of 12 students were assessed. Six students attend a school that trains teachers on research based teaching strategies. Six students in the control group attend a school in: which the staff has not participated in such strategic site based training. There was a significant difference on post-tests between these groups of students.


In this paper, a problem of sustainable limitation of vertical high-frequency oscillations of elevator cabin in buildings with various number of storeys is considered. To solve this problem, dynamic model of the elevator movement was developed. In the course of analytical and experimental studies, the main cause for emergence of undesirable high-frequency oscillations of a cabin was defined. The amplification factor which is the function of λ and length of cable was determined. The λ parameter is variable, and length of the cable changes depending on length passed by the cabin and is an amplification factor argument. For sustainable limitation of oscillations, use of dynamic dumper of lever type is proposed. Adjustment of the dumper natural vibration frequency in such a way that it is equal to the excitation frequency allows limiting of oscillations of the cabin and the elevator machine to reasonable value irrespective to position of a moving cabin in the shaft. Using dependences and plots which were obtained in the course of scientific analysis and experimental studies, reasonability of dumper application for sustainable limitation of high-frequency influence of the elevator machine on the base and obtaining of solutions of inertial forces equilibration problem was proved.


Common antigenicity has been discovered between glycoprotein antigens obtained from leukotic lesions of chickens with Marek's disease and antigens obtained from a variety of human cancers. This sugges


In part two of our interview, AMA President Steven J. Stack opines on whether physicians will ever buy into government-based payment programs.


The presence of surface deposits, such as sand, iron sulfide, or organic solids, in oil and gas production systems can lead to premature failure of fluid-handling equipment. When corrosion occurs u...


Abstract Introduction Antiretroviral therapy, especially protease inhibitors are a cause of hyperglycemia in 5% of patients with HIV. However most people develop hyperglycemia of mild degree. We present a rare case in which an Integrase Strand Inhibitor (Dolutegravir) led to the development of profound hyperglycemia over a short period of time. Case: Patient is a 48 year old transgender patient (male to female) with a past medical history of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and strokes. Patient was being treated with Emtricitabine-tenofovir and efaverinz until 2013 after which she did not follow up and stopped her medication. In June 2018, infectious disease clinic restarted her on Emtricitabine-tenofivir and added Doletugravir. Her Hba1c was 5.9% at that time. In July 2018, she was found to have a blood glucose of 467 mg/dl on random lab testing. Patient was started on Metformin 500 mg BID. In August 2018, she presented to the hospital with altered mental status and shock. Laboratory work up was consistent with hyperosmotic hyperglycemic state with a glucose of 1700 mg/dl, serum osmolality of 391 mOsm/kg, Hba1c 12.9%, anion gap of 28 mmol/l, bicarbonate of 17 mmol/l, lactate of 3.1 mmol/l and trace ketones in the urine. An insulin drip was initiated and patient was subsequently transitioned to basal bolus regimen. A thorough review of medical records failed to elicit any other medication that could have caused hyperglycemia including steroids. Other etiologies such as infections were ruled out. C peptide was 1.6 with a fasting glucose of 141 mg/dl. Insulin Ab, islet cell Ab and Glutamic acid decarboxylase were all negative. There was no history of autoimmunity in the family. Due to the absence of other potentially causative factors, we think Doletugravir could be the cause of her diabetes mellitus. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the second case report identifying Doletugravir causing diabetes mellitus and especially hyperosmolar syndrome. The mechanism of action hypothesized has been the medications ability to chelate magnesium which in turn affects the glucose transport via GLUT 4 receptor and gluconeogenesis causing insulin resistance.


A comprehensive numerical analysis has been conducted to investigate the vortical flow dynamics and acoustic response of a gas-turbine swirl- stabilized injector. The theoretical formulation is based on the complete conservation equations of mass, momentum, and energy in three dimensions. Turbulence closure is achieved by means of the large-eddy-simulation (LES) technique. The compressible version of the Smagorinsky eddy- viscosity model is employed to describe the subgrid- scale turbulent motions and their effect on large-scale structures. The governing equations and the associated boundary conditions are solved by a finite- volume, Adam-Bashforth predictor-corrector scheme along with the implementation of the message passing interface (MPI) parallel computing architecture. Detailed flow structures are studied for two different swirl numbers. Results show that the internal flowfield in the injector is intrinsically unsteady and subject to shear and centrifugal instabilities. The unsteady flow evolution and vortex breakdown are clearly visualized and can be explained on theoretical bases. The unsteadiness may be related to periodic vortex shedding, vortex breakdown and breakup, mode competition, and other phenomena that are sensitive to the swirl number.


The accurate quantitative maturity detection of fresh Lycium barbarum L. (L. barbarum) fruit is the key to determine whether fruit are suitable for harvesting or not and can also be helpful to improve the quality of post-harvest processing. To achieve this goal, abnormal samples were eliminated by the Mahalanobis Distance (MD), and nine components (i.e., R, G, B, H, S, V, L, a, and b) of the ripe fruit, half-ripe fruit, and unripe fruit were extracted, firstly. Then, significant component combinations of the three fruits beneficial to the extraction of their areas were determined. Through binary processing, morphology processing, and other image processing methods, a quantitative maturity detection model of fruit was established based on the support vector machine (SVM) model. On this basis, field experiments were conducted to verify and compare the relationship between the prediction results of the model and the picking forces of fruit. Field experiments showed that the accuracies of both the training set and prediction set were 100% and the prediction results of the model were consistent with the picking forces of fruit. Findings provided a theoretical basis for the accurate quantitative maturity detection of fresh L. barbarum fruit.


An electromagnetic knot is an electromagnetic field in vacuum in which the magnetic lines and the electric lines coincide with the level curves of a pair of complex scalar fields ϕ and θ (see equations (), ()). When electromagnetism is expressed in terms of electromagnetic knots, it includes mechanisms for the topological quantization of the electromagnetic helicity, the electric charge, the electromagnetic energy inside a cavity and the magnetic flux through a superconducting ring. In the case of electromagnetic helicity, its topological quantization depends on the linking number of the field lines, both electric and magnetic. Consequently, to find solutions of the electromagnetic knot equations with nontrivial topology of the field lines has important physical consequences. We study a new class of solutions of Maxwell's equations in vacuum Arrayás and Trueba (2011 arXiv:1106.1122) obtained from complex scalar fields that can be interpreted as maps S 3 → S 2 ?> , in which the topology of the field lines is that of the whole torus-knot set. Thus this class of solutions is built as electromagnetic knots at initial time. We study some properties of those fields and consider if detection based on the energy and momentum observables is possible.


This brief outlines findings on how the 54.6 km South Commuter Railway (SCR) to be built between Metro Manila and Laguna province in the Philippines is expected to improve access to jobs. A quantitative analysis estimates that residents of cities and municipalities with an SCR station will be able to reach an average of 300,000 extra jobs within a 1-hour commute—an increase of 15.3% in the south and 8.5% in Metro Manila. This could lead to better labor market matching, higher income for workers and more job opportunities for low-income households. The study contributes to efforts to quantify the wider economic benefits of infrastructure projects, especially efficient urban transport systems.


Contentious politics is the use of disruptive techniques to make a political point or to change government policy. Examples of such techniques are actions that disturb the normal activities of society such as demonstrations, general strike action, riot, terrorism, civil disobedience, and even revolution or insurrection. Social movements often engage in contentious politics. Historical sociologist Charles Tilly defines contentious politics as "interactions in which actors make claims bearing on someone else's interest, in which governments appear either as targets, initiators of claims, or third parties"(Tilly 2001). Until its development, the study of contentious politics was divided among several traditions each of which were concerned with the description and explanation of different contentious political phenomena, especially the social movement, the strike, and revolution.


We investigate the impact of strain on photovoltaic current (Jz) characteristics for iron‐doped LiNbO3 (Fe‐LN) under visible light illumination by thin‐film experiments. The Jz values are demonstrated to be dramatically enhanced for the film with a tensile strain along the Ps direction, which is over 500 times as large as that of the bulk (strain‐free) Fe‐LN crystals. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that the tensile strain increases an off‐center displacement of Fe2+ that is opposite to the Ps direction. Our experimental and DFT study demonstrates that the control of the lattice strain is effective in enhancing the photovoltaic effect in the Fe‐LN system.


Let T = U | T | be the polar decomposition of a bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space. T is called a class p - wA ( s, t ) operator if {ie641-1} and {ie641-2} where 0 < s,t and 0 < p ≤ 1. We investigate spectral properties of a class p-wA ( s, t ) operator T . We prove that if s + t = 1 and λ ≠ 0 is an isolated point of the spectrum σ( T ) then the Riesz idempotent E with respect to λ is self-adjoint and ran E = ker( T - λ) = ker(( T - λ)*). Also, we prove relating results.


Using the methods of general and stimulation electromyography 53 patients suffering from parkinsonism were examined. The electromyographic findings were compared with the clinical ones. An idea concerning the role of alpha- and gamma-mononeurons and Renshaw's inhibitory interneurons in the origin of the parkinsonism syndrome is suggested.


Introduction. The reasons for housing policies. Policy instruments. Policy options in practice. Housing policy context. Social rented housing: systems of provisions. Social housing issues. Private rented housing provision. The changing position of private rented housing in Europe. Affordability. Conclusions. References. Index.


This thesis investigates Swedish lexical blends. A lexical blend is defined as the concatenation of two words, where at least one word has been reduced. Lexical blends are approached from two persp ...


The profession of petro-chemical production technology was carried on the exploration and experiment in the construction of backbone model,from professional guiding ideology and basic ideas of the construction of the content and connotation construction,professional construction,specialty construction effect in the Yinchuan energy institute.Now,it formed the university-enterprise cooperation and work-integrated learning personnel training mode and trained large quantities of skilled talents to promote the regional economy and the development of petrochemical industry.


The borders of new states represent sites of contention on two different levels: physical and intellectual. The physical border challenges the government of the state to extend its authority and meet its obligations to citizens within the territory which it encapsulates; to match its "juridical" authority with "empirical authority" and fulfil the criteria for independent statehood. Moreover, governments are charged with its protection and ensuring that it is not breached by illicit movements of people or goods. On the intellectual level, borders present a need for the creation of a national identity that justifies political independence, the very raison d'etre of the borders. This involves the creation of a national narrative and posits choices regarding the nature of the new state and its institutional structure, as well as political mechanisms for managing the statesociety relationship. The physicality of the new boundary and its intellectual basis also force new social and political decisions. Benedict Anderson's "imagined community" becomes all too real as those living in the border areas or enclaves on either side of the political boundary are forced by the appearance of a barrier to identify themselves with a national enterprise and relinquish bonds of community shared with those across a political boundary.


A well‐known problem in classical two‐tailed hypothesis testing is that P‐values go to zero when the sample size goes to infinity, irrespectively of the effect size. This pitfall can make the testing of data consisting of large sample sizes potentially unreliable. In this note, we propose to test for relevant differences to overcome this issue. We illustrate the proposed test on a real data set of about 40 million privately insured patients.


The CD requirements for the 45nm-node will become tighter so as it will be difficult to achieve with 65nm node technologies. In this paper, a method to improve resolution by using DRECE (Dry-etching Resistance Enhancement bottom-Coating for Eb) will be described. After all, DRECE has five times as high dry-etch resistance than the EB resist, and this enables to accept higher anisotropic dry etching condition. By optimizing dry etching conditions, the CD iso-dense bias dropped to 1/3 and the CD shift was reduced to 1/2. Also, there was no negative effect to CD uniformity. From these results, we propose the use of DRECE for the 45nm-node technology.


A conformationally locked tetraacetate undergoes, quite akin to a temperature-guided molecular switch, a reversible thermal switching between two polymorphic modifications; the room-temperature alpha-form converted at -4 degrees C to a low-temperature denser beta-form, which displayed an unusual kinetic stability till 67 degrees C and transformed back to the alpha-form beyond this temperature.


We introduce a binding unanimous voting rule to a public goods game with an uncertain threshold for the total group contribution. In a laboratory experiment we find that voting generates significantly higher total contributions than making individual voluntary contributions to the public good. Heterogeneity with regard to marginal costs of contribution makes coordination on the threshold value somewhat more di cult when voting, but apparently facilitates coordination when not voting. Homogeneous non-voting groups instead exhibit a breakdown of contributions commonly observed in linear public goods games, but unusual for a threshold setting. We also notice a preference for payoff symmetry over maximization of expected welfare in heterogeneous voting groups, which to a lesser extent also appears in nonvoting groups. Using a top-down rule, i.e., splitting the voting process into two separate votes on 1) total contribution and 2) individual contributions does not affect these results.


With the current interest in small-scale geothermal power plants for rural local generation and offgrid power, this paper examines five case histones of such small power plants in terms of technology, economic and inhtructure issues. From a technology standpoint ORMAT' has supplied over 200 power modules ranging in size from 0.3 MW to 6.5 MW, either singly as small power plants or in combination as larger power plants. These binary technology based power plant modules operate with geothermal fluids at temperatures of 100°C to 315'C. Power plant modules of this type were installed in the cases considered herein as follows: (a) Tad's Enterprises, Nevada USA, with 2 modules rated at 1.75 MW total; @) Empire Geothermal, Nevada USA, with 4 modules rated at 4.8 MW total; (c) EGAT Fang Geothermal, Thailand, with one module rated at 300 kW; (d) NAGQU geothermal, Tibet PRC, with one module rated at 1.3 MW and (e) Sao Miguel Geothermal No.1, Azores, Pomgal, with 2 modules rated at 5.5 MW total. This presentation details economic, maintenance and resome issues. Conclusions reached are that: (a) small geothermal power projects are technically and economically feasible, with plant and well utilization technologies proven and power costs acceptable, and @) most d the problems in developing and operating these plants relate to availability of financing and maintenance infrastructure.


This past April, I traveled to New Zealand to see if I could find causes other than volume for the high scores in reading comprehension and interpretation of literature. After visiting school, interviewing parents, present and former students, district reading advisers, teachers, professors, and the New Zealand Department of Education personnel, I would like to suggest more reasons for New Zealand's students having impressive reading achievement scores.


Mobility of proteins is crucial for their functionality. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a sensitive tool for assessing dynamics in vivo. It can reveal properties of diffusing proteins, as well as of the surrounding medium. Hence, subtle changes in the dynamics after treatment with toxic substances can be visualized. On biological membranes, the high concentration of transmembrane and peripheral membrane proteins leads to molecular crowding, and thus to a change in the diffusion behavior, i.e., to anomalous diffusion of membrane proteins. Presented here is a protocol for conducting and evaluating FCS measurements of membrane proteins before and after treatment. Curr. Protoc. Toxicol. 48:2.19.1‐2.19.16. © 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


This paper focuses on the United States intervention on The New Fourth Army Incident in 1941, external foreign propaganda between KMT and CCP in the beginning of 1940s and the KMT-CCP Negotiation in 1944 led by Hurley and the responses from KMT and CCP along with the transformation of the interactions between the two parties and foreign intervention. The incidents above may appear irrelevant, but all lie in the same frame. One thing worth mentioning about the New Fourth Army Incident is the role of international pressure in its resolution. Some Chinese scholars propose the influence of international pressure in easing the KMT's anticommunist policies, but the effectiveness of such pressure leave rooms for questions. For example, according to materials that was exposed up to now, it's not easy to explain that the United States carried out a aggressive attitude in intervening the New Fourth Army Incident. However, it seems KMT was not able to entirely reject the U. S advice due to its needs of economical aid. Thus, KMT attempted in reducing the New Fourth Army Incident from a political and ideological collision to merely an internal disciplinary crisis. The identical logic follows for KMT's relationship with the Soviet Union as the former was reluctant in stimulating the latter with ideological conflicts thus placing its financial assistance in jeopardy. In 1944, the United States obtained a central role in convincing the reconciliation between KMT and CCP. Desperate in warding off the Japanese, the United States urged KMT for a negotiation with CCP for an agreement between the two. However, the different stances of KMT and CCP in the concept of 'coalition' and 'unification' resulted in the difficulty in reaching an agreement. TheU.S understanding in the rooted conflict between the two parties was much too vague. Surely an agreement between the two parties would have been significant in bringing the U.S a victory in the Pacific War, which highlights the crucial relationship between domestic and foreign policies. However, the negotiation between KMT and CCP ended a failure and re-invoked a civil war.


The purpose of this study was to determine what type of marketing communication
objectives are present in the digital content marketing developed by
luxury auto brands with social media presence in Puerto Rico, particularly Facebook.
A longitudinal multiple-case study design was used to analyze five luxury
auto brands using content analysis on Facebook posts. This analysis included
identification of marketing communication objectives through social media
content marketing strategies, type of media content and social media metrics.
Our results showed that the most used objectives are brand awareness, brand
personality, and brand salience. Another significant result is that digital content
marketing used by brands in social media are focused towards becoming more
visible and recognized; also, reflecting human-like traits and attitudes in their
social media.


Abstract Paratylenchus (Gracilacus) straeleni (De Coninck, 1931) Oostenbrink, 1960 was detected for the first time in Turkey. Our studied population was found in the rhizosphere soil of hazelnut orchards in Ordu. Females and males were studied morphologically and morphometrically by light microscopy and molecularly by sequencing the D2-D3 of the 28S rDNA gene. We present here the morphological and molecular characterisation, phylogenetic analysis of examined population and comparison of variability of worldwide known populations of P. straeleni.


This paper improves an identification method of stiffness matrix for an MDOF linear shear building model. The method can guarantee that the identification result conforms to the modal information that has been evaluated before through the same vibration record. The least squares method with weighting factors is utilized to linearly calculate the structural parameters by considering the modal identification result as constraint condition. Numerical simulation indicates that the modal constraint improves robustness in the stiffness identification. The method is applied to shaking table tests of a 0.3-scale six-story steel frame to study damage detection. A sudden drop in identified stiffness shows structural damage in the corresponding story.


In this work, we consider the application of an adaptive fuzzy control for a class of single input single output non linear systems. The method uses a fuzzy inference system of Takagi Sugeno (TS) type to approximate the feedback linearization law and a fuzzy inference system of Mamdani type to estimate the control signal error which is not available. The parameters of the (TS) controller are adapted and changed using the gradient descent law based on the estimated control error. The rule base of the Mamdani fuzzy inference system is constructed from expert knowledge. The global stability of the resulting closed loop system is guarantee using Lyapunov theory. The simulation results for an unstable nonlinear plant demonstrate the control effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


The authors studied the sub-picosecond dynamics of photoexcitations in methyl-substituted poly(para-phenylene)-type ladder polymer (m-LPPP) films in a wide excitation density range up to values typical for the regime of narrow band emission by pump-probe spectroscopy. The singlet excitons relaxation dynamics, monitored at the stimulated emission (SE) peak at 2.53 eV, showed an intensity dependent ultrafast decay component, which occurs on a sub-picosecond time scale, ascribed to the onset of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). In addition the authors identified photoinduced absorption (PA) bands of singlet excitons at 1.48 eV and polarons at 1.9 eV respectively. At high excitation density an additional absorption band becomes evident at 2.63 eV.


Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with high covalent bonding density of polymer layers have been prepared by a "grafting to" approach, where the benzyl chloride groups of styrene copolymers ( Mn ) 47 600) reacted with the alkyne groups on SWNTs under relatively mild conditions, resulting in a higher grafting efficiency, as high as 81 wt % of (TGA). Microscopic observations clearly displayed the uniform, thick polymer layers formed on the SWNT surface. The high density of covalent bonding between polymer and nanotubes was confirmed by Raman, 1 H NMR, and FTIR, which makes them well dissolved in organic solvents and homogeneously dispersed in polymer matrices. The in situ UV-vis observations during the dissolution indicated that for such a multifunctional system almost no cross-links occurred between SWNTs due to the physical absorption and steric hindrance of polymer chains during the functionalization of SWNTs. The functionalized SWNTs exhibited a pronounced effect on the mechanical properties of polystyrene composites. Only 0.06 wt % of SWNTs resulted in 82% and 78% of increases in tensile strength and elastic modulus of the composites, respectively, indicating an efficient interfacial stress transfer between SWNTs and polymer.


A class of maximally flat magnitude driving-point immittance functions whose real part on the j\omega axis has on equi-ripple variation is identified, and their application in the design of equalizers is indicated. These functions exhibit a better frequency response over a limited band than other known designs and lend themselves to convenient realization in the form of equal-element ladder networks.


We have wished to examine the missionary work in university in the dimension of the Place by humane studies. There are three different symbolic Places in same location, 'Place of Education in University' and 'Place of Christian Confession in University and 'Place of Mission in University'. Here missionary work exists between 'Place of Education in University' and 'Place of Christian Confession. It is an attempt that wishes to make all the being in the space of university christian believers through the Place of Missionary work. Then, 'Believing in' means living in God, living in meeting God as ultimate reality, living in pursuing religious meaning and living in different life on everyday. Also, missionary workers of the Place in University have to know the concept of the Place by the liberal arts to be religious human who desires that own Christian faith to be in common use in university. And they are also the Re-appearancers of Place and Homo-Religiosus who live the sacred life daily. Missionary workers of the Place in University who are always exist in the in-between the Place of Education in University and the Place of Christian Belief, have to communicate the two worlds by displaying their own space-ability.


This research verified the effects of anchors' reputation and brand equity evaluation of news on the continuous watching intention for general news channels such as KBS, JTBC, and YTN. Data collection was conducted on nationwide 539 adults who were watching news for each channel, and Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to analyze the impact of the anchors' reputation and news brand equity evaluation factors. As a result, first, KBS showed continuous watching intention as viewers are men, their academic background is lower, they are more conservative, viewing frequency is higher, anchor awareness is higher, and news awareness and news preference are higher. Second, JTBC showed continuous watching intention as viewers are more advancing, viewing frequency is higher, anchor confidence, news awareness, and news preference, and evaluation on news quality are higher. Third, YTN showed continuous watching intention as their viewing frequency is higher, anchor confidence and anchor attraction are higher, news preference and evaluation on news quality are higher.


The effect of pyridine binding and spin state on the spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of six-coordinate σ-bonded iron(III) porphyrins is reported. The investigated compounds are represented by (P)Fe(R) where P is the dianion of octaethylporphyrin (OEP), tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP), tetra-m-tolylporphyrin (TmTP), tetra-p-tolylporphyrin (TpTP), or tetrakis(p-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)porphyrin (TpCF 3 PP) and R is C 6 H 5 , C 6 H 5 , C 6 F 4 H, or C 6 F 5 . The five- and six-coordinate σ-bonded (P)Fe(C 6 H 5 ) derivatives are low spin in all solvents at room temperature


This article focuses on some episodes from the prolonged Angolan conflict that can potentially broaden our understanding of the past. The analysis is centred on and describes the ways in which this traumatic experience has been represented in the official domestic narrative, relegating local or regional dynamics – such as in Malanje – to the margins. In my opinion, these dynamics are nonetheless of major importance in a discussion of the post-conflict period in Angolan society. The argument is based on the assumption that, although there are always contradictions between local micro-narratives which affect the processes of negotiation,1 the micro-narratives presented in this article assist in the interpretation of the official political-military rituals that are carried out by the Angolan state as an act of appeasement towards the past – with varied and sometimes contradictory implications for the process of national reconciliation. Introduction This text analyses the context of political violence in Malanje, one of Angola's eighteen provinces, an area traumatised by an armed conflict that laid waste to the entire country. The analysis is a contribution to the theoretical perspective developed by Norbert Elias and John Scotson on the tensions and spaces of belonging. We rely on Elias and Scotson's approach in an attempt to understand the categories of 'outsiders' and 'insiders' as they manifested themselves during the armed conflict in Malanje, and we start from their local meanings as an expression of difference within a space of belonging. Elias and Scotson argue that the notion of 'the established' is defined by the relationship that a particular individual establishes with another individual, or that exists between groups of individuals who exercise authority within their own environment, and are able to influence others fundamentally through more or less heterogeneous 1 V. Igreja, 'Negotiating Relationships in Transition: War, Famine, and Embodied Accountability in Mozambique', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 61, 4, 2019, 774–804.


Rodlet cells are frequently found in teleost fishes and although their role in organisms is not completely understood. The occurrence of these cells are related to stress and may undergo changes in contaminated environments, thereby allowing their use as biomarkers. This hypothesis is tested in the present study. Thirty specimens of Oreochromis niloticus were divided into three groups, two groups were exposed to organophosphate pesticide methyl parathion at nominal concentrations of 4 mgl -1 and 8 mgl -1 and one group was kept as control. After ten days, the gills were removed for microscopic study and the number and area of the rodlet cells were analyzed and compared with a well-established method of assessing histological damages in fishes. No significant differences were found in the area of the cells, but there were significant differences in the number of rodlet cells among examined concentrations. The present study provides evidence for the use of this new biomarker in teleost fishes and discusses some of the potential confounding factors of this approach.


Taking the vibration characteristics of cabin power equipment as the research object, the author conducts a research of ship's steam turbine generating set and buoyant raft vibration isolation system based on the finite element method. The author carries out the vibration isolator layout design and working condition setting according to the real working condition, studies the influence of damping change on power equipment's vibration characteristics according to numerical simulation, calculates the vibration intensity curve, reveals the influence trend of vibration isolator damping on steam turbine generating set's vibration characteristics, and provides reference for cabin power equipment vibration reducing analysis.


We investigate some aspects of the physics of wave propagation at the ocean bottom (ranging from soft sediments to crustal rocks). Most of the phenomena are associated to the presence of attenuation. The analysis requires the use of an anelastic stress‐strain relation and a highly accurate modeling algorithm. Special attention is given to modeling the boundary conditions at the ocean‐bottom interface and the related physical phenomena. For this purpose, we further develop and test the pseudospectral modeling algorithm for wave propagation at fluid‐anelastic solid interfaces. The method is based on a domain‐decomposition technique (one grid for the fluid part and another grid for the solid part) and the Fourier and Chebyshev differential operators. We consider the reflection, transmission, and propagation of seismic waves at the ocean bottom, modeled as a plane boundary separating an acoustic medium (ocean) and a viscoelastic solid (sediment). The main physical phenomena associated with this interface are ...


Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) of the T-cell origin. A diagnosis of ALCL requires tumor biopsy with histopathological verification. The morphological features require T cell immunophenotyping with a positive expression of CD3 or CD4 immunological markers, and CD30 expression in all neoplastic cells is a must. A 46 old male patient with advanced ALK-negative cutaneous ALCL, with a rapidly progressive clinical course, is presented. Given a significant difference in the prognosis between ALK-negative systemic ALCL and cutaneous forms of ALCL, a close collaboration between oncologists/hematologists, pathologists, and dermatologists is the best guarantee for a correct diagnosis and proper treatment. Acta Medica Medianae 2017;56(3):55-61.


Abstract Based on data drawn from audio recordings of a 9th grade female English teacher in Southern California and her interactions with students in her classroom, I examined how she represents the thinking and voices of her students as her students during confrontation and conflict. Analysis demonstrates how the projected ventriloquation of her students' thinking and voices becomes a resource for indirectness in interaction, and a means to manage the gendered contradictions of teaching – the simultaneous expectations that female teachers provide authoritative criticism of student work while also being emotionally supportive – in the back-and-forth of classroom talk. In this analysis, I contribute to an understanding of intertextuality and reported speech in teacher talk, including the relevance of emotional labour, and demonstrate how a teacher uses the linguistic resources of the 'managed heart' to mediate conflict and criticism in whole-class interactions.


The upper yield point (≃ 700 MPa) appears at the compression test curves (e=0.024 see -1 ) of b.c.c. Nb-50wt.%Ti due to the increase of hydrogen content from 0 to 0.2 wt.% and more and leads to the non monotonous increase in compressive lower yield stress from 400 to 550 MPa. Taking into account close connection between macro- and microplasticity of metallic materials the low frequency (∼ 2 Hz) amplitude dependent internal friction (ADIF) spectrum (γ = 1.. 60.10 -5 ) in hydrogenized Nb-50 wt.% Ti and Nb samples are studied. The ADIF investigation of the closed hysteresis loop loading-unloading shows the dependence of its width from the hydrogen content which evidences the fact of dislocation unpinning from hydrogen atmospheres in the 1/2 cycle of loading. The study of ADIF spectrum for samples with different hydrogen content before and after torsion deformation (γ = 2%) shows the sharp increase of IF level at γ = 1.. 10.10- after 1 hour of natural ageing. At that time the ADIF curves change its shape from Γ-shape to U-shape. The amplitude range of the IF increase depends on the hydrogen content. It is the interaction of hydrogen atoms with dislocations that caused the above mentioned effect which has not been observed in hydrogen free samples. The time estimation for the formation of thermodynamically stable hydrogen atmospheres on dislocations shows that hydrogen atmospheres could not follow the dislocation during compressive tests and that leads to the upper yield point appearance.


The researches results of possible ways for storing data in applications under the Android OS and a review of a number of scientific papers on this topic are presented. The absence of mathematical and technical description of data storage technology for such applications is revealed. The analysis and comparison of the solutions spectrum in this area are carried out. A typical approach for interacting with various databases is formulated. The reasons for using Room DAO, on the basis of which the necessary descriptions of operations with data are selected, are considered; an algorithm for processing data is proposed, and features of encapsulation when working with data are noted. Methods and algorithms for interaction with the Room Database are proposed. The general requirements for data storage based on Android, which are necessary to create a workable application, are formed. These technologies may be required in the mobile application market.

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Room DAO, Room Database, OC Android, internal storage, external storage, migrations


Polycrystalline 3C-SiC (poly-SiC) films are deposited by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition on Si substrates using 1,3-disilabutane and are in situ doped by NH3. Microstrain gauges and cantilever beam arrays are fabricated to study the doping effect on average residual strain and strain gradient. A bi-layer deposition scheme consisting of films with different residual strains due to differing doping content is developed to minimize the strain gradient without compromising the electrical resistivity of the deposited film. In this way, a 3 µm thick poly-SiC film with a strain gradient of 5 × 10−5 µm−1 and a resistivity of 0.024 Ω cm is achieved.


In order to provide references to wheat breeding and high-yield cultivation,the difference of grain protein content,SDS sedimentation value and nitrogen metabolism enzyme activity in different spikelet and grain position were studied in this paper.Three kinds of wheat varieties,strong-gluten wheat Zhengmai 366,middle-gluten wheat Yumai 49-198,weak-gluten wheat Zhengmai 004 were planted in the field conditions.The result showed that grain protein content of Zhengmai 366 and Zhengmai 004 were observed the highest value in basal spikelet,followed by central spikelet,then apical spikelet.However,for Yumai 49,the grain protein content was as follow:centralbasalapical.Grain protein content presented in G1 and G2 were higher significantly than G3.Therefore the G1 and G2 grain position were beneficial for improving protein content.SDS sedimentation values of the three type cultivars were observed the highest value in the middle and base positions.For Zhengmai 366,G1 grain of the middle and base position was significantly higher than other position.For the middle and weak gluten cultivar,the grain position difference presented as follow:G2G1G3.As for GS enzyme activity,the highest activity was showed in the grain of the basal spikelet of Zhengmai 366 and Yumai 49-198.But,the highest value was observed in the central spikelet grain of Zhengmai 004.As for GOGAT enzyme activity,the highest value was obtained in the basal spikelet and the lowest value was obtained in the apical spikelet.The significant correlation relationship between protein content,SDS sedimentation value,GS and GOGAT enzyme activity indicated that the improvement of GS and GOGAT activity would benefit to improve grain protein content and processing quality.Based on these results,measures of reducing florets and increasing the number of spikes could be taken to increase yield and improve quality for strong-gluten and middle-gluten wheat varieties.Measures of increasing florets could be taken to increase yield and processing quality for weaken-gluten wheat variety.


The capability of electric vehicles (EV) to store grid energy has created avenues to utilize them for grid services through controlled bidirectional power transfer known as vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system. The study presented in this paper valuates the potential revenue that could be drawn by providing V2G power service under varying penetration of aggregated vehicles. The determination of saleable component for V2G supply involves integration of critical mobility attributes to model the energy consumption in driving. Time-of-use pricing differentiating between on-peak, off-peak and mid-peak periods has been utilized along varied discharge power levels of existing charging standards to compute the total revenue share. Results established that the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and battery electric vehicle (BEV) compositions in the system along with discharge power rate regulates the return on V2G power service. The dividend on the part of grid service would be a motivation for their greater adoption in the view of their expensiveness in present state.


The invention discloses a balloon advertisement character, and relates to a new technology in the fields of balloons and electronics. The balloon advertisement character comprises a balloon in a unique shape, rubber adhesives, needle cylinders, a demonstration box, electromagnets, and a remote control device; wherein the balloon is located inside the demonstration box; the rubber adhesives are arranged on the inner surface of the balloon; the other end of wires are connected with the needle cylinders; the needle cylinders are connected with the electromagnets; the electromagnets are connected with the remote control device. The electromagnets can generate magnetic field after receiving a power-on instruction, so as to attract the wires to move forward to pull the rubber adhesives, the outer surface of the balloon rises and falls unevenly, and the requirement of advertisement design is satisfied.


Abstract A large and growing population of older adults with multimorbidity, cognitive impairment, and functional disability live in the community but are homebound (never/rarely leave home). While homebound status is associated with decreased access to medical services and poor health outcomes, it is unclear how long individuals remain homebound. We used the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and over, with survey weighting to assess duration of homebound status in the community. Among the incident homebound in 2016 (n=253) , only 28% remained homebound after 1 year. 21% died, 18% were recovered, and one-third left the home but still reported difficulty. As the locus of long-term care shifts from nursing homes to the community and models of care expand to serve the needs of the homebound, it is critical that we better understand the heterogeneity and transitions of the homebound population.


This is a study of 24 patients (28 Knees) who underwent acute repair for quadriceps and patellar tendon ruptures using Leeds Keio ligament. Four patients had bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture. The mean age of patients was 57.4 years (range from 20 to 85 years) with mean follow-up of 20 months (range from 2 months to 3 years). Four patients (6 knees) were lost in follow-up. Knee injury and Osteoarthritis and Outcome Score (KOOS) and Tegner Lysholm Knee Score were used to evaluate the outcome. Sixteen patients had scores of 80 and above in both scoring systems. The mean flexion was 125° and extension lag of 6.6°. The knees were not immobilised after surgery and patients were encouraged to fully weight bear. One patient had patella fracture secondary to fall although technical error played a part in this. Two patients had bilateral ruptures secondary to fall and one patient had ectopic bone formation. There was no wound infection. This technique permits immediate mobilisation and full weight bearing of the limb. The early results are promising but long term results are yet to be evaluated.


ABSTRACT Mindfulness can support clients and can support trainee counsellors in dealing with internship anxiety. Since the personal development of a counsellor is core to therapy outcomes, the positive impact of mindfulness practice on therapeutic presence validates mindfulness programs within counsellor education. This qualitative study applied thematic analysis to written reports from 53 post-graduate counselling interns who participated in piloting an eight-week mindfulness challenge. Six major themes emerged: the variety of mindfulness activities, observations of self, insights about self and mindfulness, hindrances to practice, outcomes from participation, and advice for others. Intern reports indicated that mindfulness was not easy to learn, could be explored through a range of activities, and for most the practice contributed to growth in self-awareness.


Abstract Phlogopite mica has crystallized from blast-furnace slags at atmospheric pressure. Its chemistry is characterized by an excess of Na and K over their normal stoichiometric content, which is attributed to a composite association between phlogopite and glass. The diffraction pattern indicates that the phlogopite has a preferred orientation around the a-axis. Scanning electron microscopy shows that this phlogopite consists of numerous small platelets, which probably have their a-axes aligned.


Traditionally, the management of bleeding trauma patients has included early rapid fluid replacement on scene. However, evidence shows that a delay to definitive treatment (control of bleeding) may be harmful and UK policy advocates minimal delay on scene with intravenous fluids being administered in transit to hospitals. This paper systematically reviews the evidence for administering fluids in pre-hospital trauma patients with no head injury. Randomized controlled trials comparing immediate and delayed fluid replacement were sought using formal search strategies. Study selection, quality assessment and data extraction were performed independently by two reviewers using pre-defined criteria. We found no evidence to suggest that pre-hospital fluid administration is beneficial. There is some evidence that it may be harmful and that patients do comparatively well when fluids are withheld. However, this evidence is not conclusive, particularly for blunt trauma, and is not sufficient to disprove current UK policy, which recommends hypotensive resuscitation.


The magnetism, structure, and morphology of ultrathin Fe films deposited on a highly asymmetrical Cu(311) substrate has been investigated in situ by spot profile analyzing low-energy electron diffraction and magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements. A gradual-structural transformation from fcc pseudomorphic towards strained bcc Fe via a Pitsch transformation is observed with increasing coverage. The shear angle and tensile lateral strain are determined. At a critical thickness ${d}_{C}\ensuremath{\approx}5\mathrm{ML}$ the transition is completed and a coalescence of isolated Fe crystallites is formed. These structural and morphological changes caused a spin reorientation transition of the magnetization from a canted perpendicular state at low coverage to an in-plane state above ${d}_{C}.$ At ${d}_{C}$ the Curie temperature ${T}_{C}\ensuremath{\approx}200\mathrm{K}$ is strongly reduced with respect to ${T}_{C}(4\mathrm{ML}{)=T}_{C}(6\mathrm{ML})$ \ensuremath{\approx}300 K. Below 1.8 ML no ferromagnetic long-range order is found above 140 K.


On the background of a highway/railway combined composite girder three-truss cable- stayed bridge which will be built. The three dimensional model of the long span combined road and railway cable stayed bridge was established and the static characteristics of structure,under the dead load、live load and temperature load,was discussed. The effect of different longitudinal restraint conditions was research,that in the main girder on the the static characteristics of the structure and reasonable longitudinal restraint rigidity .The result shows that the characteristics of the structure are improved obviously if the main girders have reasonable longitudinal restraint rigidity.


EDA technology is on the cutting-edge of the design method for electronic design,which must be grasped by modern electronic engineer.The EDA technologl develops fastly,so in order to make EDA technology curriculum of our university keep up with the pace of technology development,this project starts from the construction of EDA innovation experiment base,the construction of curricular content and the curriculum structure,and conducts a comprehensive EDA / SOPC(System On Programmable Chip) series Course Construction.Thus the mode of this project has been put forward,which contains the interpenetration of curricular content,the unification of teaching team and the share of experiment platform.Through this mode,we have received many good results.


Advertising literacy has been a topic of discussion for decades long and up till today, the subject is still debated on. In fact, the dimensions of advertising literacy have evolved along with its many factors and varied key terms. Thus, this study was conducted to identify the key dimensions intact with advertising literacy through the use of factor analysis with the objective of measuring the reliability and validity of the dimensions present in advertising literacy. A survey was conducted at three locations of the Public's Housing Program (PHP) in Kuala Lumpur to accumulate the response of this study. The use of the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) with varimax rotation revealed that there are four factors which determines the advertising literacy index. Initially, a factor analysis on the 4 dimensions with 41 items was done and this showed that the numbers of dimensions are retained, yet, only 22 items could be measured. The results of this analysis contributed to the study by determining the reliability and validity of the four dimensions of advertising literacy; informational, visual, rhetorical and promotional literacy is applicable to other studies. In addition to this, it develops awareness towards the people in the advertising industry mainly the advertisers on how to maximise their advertising strategy by understanding the targeted audience intended in a deeper sense.


The soft magnetic properties and electrical resistivity of Fe-Mg-O films prepared by an rf magnetron sputtering technique were studied for high-frequency (e.g., 100 MHz) soft magnetic materials. Soft magnetic Fe-Mg-O films have a heterogeneous structure containing nanometer sized Fe-grains.A high saturation magnetization of 10-18 kG and a high electrical resistivity of 100-1000 μΩcm were achieved for Fe-Mg-O films with an Fe content of 40 to 80 at%. The relative permeability of an Fe60Mg17O23 film was about 2000, and was almost constant up to 200 MHz.


Two broad continuous bands are observed in the visible region following electron impact ionization of a He‐seeded molecular beam of SiCl4 or GeCl4. By using tunable vacuum UV radiation from a synchrotron source to measure the threshold energy at which the fluorescence bands occur, it is shown that the bands are related to the initial formation of the C 2T2 state of the parent ion SiCl+4/GeCl+4. By comparison with photoelectron data, the bands are assigned to bound–free transitions in SiCl+4/GeCl+4 C 2T2–A 2T2 and X 2T1. The C state of CCl+4 does not fluoresce. The results are compared with the electronic emission spectra of the three tetrafluoro molecular ions.


Nigerian agriculture is expected to provide sufficient food forever growing population. Supply raw materials for agro-industries and generate export products for foreign exchange earnings as well as providing employment for a sizeable number of Nigerians. The involvement of children as sub-culture in the society in agriculture has consistently been on adhoe basis or functional approach basis.
Today, rural children are yet to be recognized as a vital group of rural households that needs to be integrated in and exposed to innovative agricultural practices for the long term realization of the Nations agricultural transformation.
This study was carried out in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Primary data were obtained by administering one hundred and twenty questionnaires to in-school rural children. The findings of the study revealed that children in the age categories of 16-20 years practice agriculture than others. The study also revealed that there are more male children participating in agriculture. There is high participation in planting, wedding and harvesting. The rural have moderate interest in farming activities.


for EAHN 2012, Brussels: Deconstructive, legitimation of architecture. Most anthologies of architecture recognise a phenomenon in recent history that is referred to as deconstructive architecture or deconstructivism. However, some critic's accounts seem to disagree on this phenomenon. According to Hilde Heynen, 'deconstructive architecture is inspired mainly by two sources: constructivism in the 20s and Jacques Derridas deconstructive reasoning.'1 Yet, Mark Wigley says: 'It is the ability to disturb our thinking about form that makes these projects [shown at the exhibition] deconstructive. It is not that they derive from the mode of contemporary philosophy known as 'deconstruction".2 David Watkin describes Deconstructivism as 'a typical end-of-century phenomenon characterized by a will to shock...'3. Was deconstructivism essentially about form, philosophy, culture, or social protest? Peter Eisenman is generally recognized as a protagonist of Deconstructivism. Nevertheless, Deconstructivism as a source of inspiration and later as a denominator for his work entered Peter Eisenmans vocabulary halfway his career. By the end of 1980s he refers to it as his ideology.4 Later he dissociated from it again. I would argue that deconstructivism was an attempt to create an intellectual and ideological framework to legitimize the work it refers to. It is exactly with the will to legitimize that a classical problem is infused. It presents itself as interacting with culture to proof it is meaningful. This leads to an ambiguous position, because fundamentally deconstrucitivism in architecture was not supposed to explain or to legitimize, but to deconstruct external meaning of form. I will build up this argument by investigating Peter Eisenmans early career influences that slowly transformed his architectural creed into deconstructivism. Colin Rowe, from whom he inherits the will to intellectualize about the grammar of form, put forward a reasoning on intentions in early modernism that is of key importance for this argument: 'Functionalism was, perhaps, a highly positivistic attempt to reassert a scientific aesthetic which might possess the objective value of the old, and the ultimately Platonic Aristotelian critique.'5 This might be the root for a will to legitimize and thus the root for the ambiguous position of deconstructivism in architecture. 1. Hilde Heynen, 'Dat Is Architectuur' : Sleutelteksten Uit De Twintigste Eeuw (Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010, 2001), 768. Translated by the author. 2. Philip Johnson, Mark Wigley, and The Museum of Modern Art (New York N.Y.), Deconstructivist Architecture (Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1988), 11. 3. David Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, 4th ed. (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005), 761-74. 4. Peter Eisenman, "Peter Eisenman Versus Leon Krier: My Ideology Is Better Than Yours," Architectural Design 59, no. September/October (1989). 5. Colin Rowe, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, and Other Essays (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1976), 9. Cannaregio project 1978 SCI-ARC EXHIBITION | 02.23.07 04.22.07 | SCI-Arc Gallery Eisenman Architects: Grounded | http://www.sciarc.edu/exhibition.php?id=929 © 2011 SCI-Arc // 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Below: the cover of the exhibition catalogue Deconstructivist Architecture, by Philip Johnson, Mark Wigley and The Museum of Modern Art, New York Working Title: Bits & Pieces. Thoughts and Meaning in recent Architecture Design Theory. Rem Koolhaas age 40 @ 1984 Peter Eisenman age 40 @ 1972 James Stirling age 40 @ 1966 Léon Krier age 40 @ 1986 Christopher Alexander age 40 @ 1976 Alvin Boyarsky age 40 @ 1968 Harry Mallgrave age 40 @ 1987 THE CRITICAL TURN THE POSTMODERN TURN 1972: AA SCHOOL REFORMED NEW GROUP OF TUTORS KRIER, KOOLHAAS... 1972: DEMOLITION OF THE PRUITT-IGOE COMPLEX 1959: TEAM X @ OTTERLO THE END OF CIAM 1967: GUY DEBORD'S SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE 1968: GLOBAL PROTEST 1964


The essay analyzes the subject of the physical empty in the work of Kant, illustrating particularly the problems of the impenetrability, the inertia, the continuity, the negative quantities, the ontological empty, the ether and the dynamical schematism.


Here, we report a comparative experimental investigation about the radiation sensitivity of Long Period Gratings (LPGs), fabricated in several optical fibers (from standard to radiation hardened ones) by electric arc discharge technique. For the purpose, similar set of gratings were tested under two different conditions. One is gamma radiation produced by a 60Co source using a 0.2 kGy/h dose rate and up to 25-35 kGy total doses. The other is mixed neutron-gamma exposure in a nuclear reactor at 9 Gy/s gamma-rate and 1.25∙1012 n/(cm2 ∙s) neutron flux, reaching a total gamma dose of about 65 kGy and neutron fluence of 9.18∙1015 n/cm2 . The analysis was focused on the real-time radiation-induced wavelength shift exhibited by the gratings. As an outcome, the responses of the LPGs subjected to the different radiations were compared and correlated with fiber compositions.


Mechanochemistry of hydrothermally prepared Al-free and Al-substituted 1.1 nm tobermorite was studied using 29 Si NMR, XRD, and TGA-DTA. Tobermorite has a double-chain structure and Al/Si substitution occurs preferentially at bridging tetrahedra. By using the vibration mill, both tobermorites were observed to decompose as a function of milling time to form amorphous C-S-H-like phases. The decomposition rate was higher for the Al-substituted tobermorite. The decomposition process occurs mainly at the bridge portion of the silicate double chain. In the Al-substituted tobermorite, the breakage seems to occur preferentially at the points where Al has replaced Si. On heating the amorphous C-S-H-like phase, wollastonite is formed. However, no decrease was observed at the wollastonite formation temperature.


594 Background: Black women with breast cancer have higher mortality than White women. Differences in tumor biology contribute to racial disparities in breast cancer outcomes. BIRC5 gene encodes survivin, an inhibitor of apoptosis protein, and an independent marker of poor prognosis in breast cancer. Cancer patients have anti-survivin antibodies and circulating survivin-specific T cells, suggesting that survivin may be targetable. Several ongoing antibody-mediated, vaccine strategies that target survivin are being developed. Nevertheless, most survivin studies were conducted in cohorts of White women. To date, the prevalence and/or role of survivin expression in breast tumors from Black women has not been studied. Methods: Associations between BIRC5 expression, clinicopathological and molecular features were measured in the population-based Carolina Breast Cancer Study (CBCS) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) breast cancer cohort. Gene expression was measured by Nanostring RNA counting and split into BIRC5 high (4th quartile) and low categories based on log2 gene expression values. Relative frequency differences (RFD) for the association between BIRC5 high and clinicopathologic features were estimated. RNA based p53 mutant status and homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) status were included in RFD analysis. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to illustrate the potential of BIRC5 expression to distinguish patients who achieved pathological complete response (pCR) after receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy in CBCS (133 Black, 49 non-Black). Results: BIRC5 gene expression was significantly increased in tumors from 966 Black patients compared to 1,497 non-Black (p < 0.00001), adjusting for stage and subtype. BIRC5 high tumors were significantly more expressed in higher stage and basal-like breast cancer subtypes. BIRC5 high tumors were also significantly enriched for expression of genes involved in p53 loss and HRD. Furthermore, in an analysis of 182 CBCS patients, BIRC5 gene expression alone predicted pCR with similar overall AUC to ROR-PT multigene signatures (AUC 0.62 vs 0.64). Conclusions: Our study shows that survivin expression is particularly high in breast tumors from Black women. This was associated with more aggressive clinicopathological features in addition to p53 mutant and HRD status. Black women with breast cancer represent an area of unmet clinical need and could potentially benefit from anti-survivin targetable treatment strategies. Further studies are needed to help close this gap which constitutes the largest disparity among cancer-specific diseases.[Table: see text]


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Research on Enterprise Management Innovation Based on the "Internet+" Era Zhe Zhang BNBM Building Materials Co., Ltd., Beijing, 10000, China Abstract In the current new era, under the continuous promotion of computer science and technology in China's modern information technology, coupled with the comprehensive popularization and application of Internet technology, Chinese society has now entered the information age. Therefore, "Internet+" also has different meanings, it is fully integrated and innovated with various industries and fields, and has brought huge changes to China's social production and people's lifestyles. Based on the background of "Internet+", the paper discusses the methods of enterprise management innovation to improve the management level of the enterprise and promote its long-term development.


In the present study, the effect of various nanofluids on mass transfer coefficients in an irregular packed liquid-liquid extraction column was investigated. The chemical system of toluene–acetic acid–water was used. 10 nm SiO2, TiO2 and ZrO2 nanoparticles with various concentrations were dispersed in toluene-acid acetic to provide nanofluids. The influence of concentration and hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity of nanoparticle on mass transfer coefficient was discussed. The experimental results show that the mass transfer coefficient enhancement depends on the kind and the concentration of nanoparticles. The maximum enhancement of 35%, 245% and 207% was achieved for 0.05 vol% of SiO2, TiO2 and ZrO2 nanofluids, respectively. A new conceptual model was proposed for prediction of the effective diffusivity as a function of nanoparticle concentration, drop size and drop Reynolds number.


Prolonged electrophoresis of human serum has demonstrated the non-homogeneity of the albumin in phosphate buffer at p1l 8 and ionic strength 0-1, the migration velocities of the boundaries of-the two main components, as apparent from the patterns, differing by about 2% or less (Blix, Tiselius & Svensson, 1941; Hoch & Morris, 1945). Under the conditions ofthese experiments, i.e. similar mobilities and comparatively low ionic strength, the conventional methods of analysis of the patterns cannot be applied, since here the separation of the boundary peaks and the relative areas in the gradient curve are not even approximate measures of the difference in mobility and ofthe relative proportions ofthe two components in the original mixture. A detailed analysis of boundary anomalies of this kind was given by Svensson (1946). The calculation of the true proportions and relative mobilities by means of the theory available at present (Svensson, 1943; Dole, 1945; Svensson, 1946) can yield only approximate information on account of the necessity for assumptions concerning changes in mobility of the ions across the boundary. A simplified method of treating the data has been suggested for use under certain conditions (Hoch, 1948). In the present paper, the ascending patterns of albumin obtained after prolonged electrophoresis of normal and pathological sera are studied by a procedure similar to that used previously.


The purpose of present paper deals with the flow and heat transfer characteristics of magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid flow over a permeable vertical stretching sheet in the presence of the radiation and buoyancy effects with viscous dissipation. A similarity transformation was used to transform the governing partial differential equations to a system of non linear ordinary differential equations. Which are then solved numerical using implicit finite difference scheme namely Keller Box Method. The obtained Keller Box solutions in comparison with the previously published work are performed. Numerical results for the velocity, temperature and nano particle volume fraction profile distribution have been shown graphically for the differentvalues of Magnetic field parameter, suction parameter, Prandtl number, buoyancy parameter, Schmidtnumber, Biotnumber, radiation parameter, Eckertnumber, Brownian motion and Thermophoresis parameter onvelocity, temperature and nano particle volume fractionprofiles.


the philosophical pedigree of this text and its sources remains. Ulrich Rudolph examines three Arabic Presocratic doxographies, in Ps.-Ammonius and Turba philosophorum (both of which, he claims, are based on Hippolytus' Refutatio) and K. Sirr al-halîqah, arguing that the Greek doxographical reports are modiμed to support the ideas of Islamic origin. The question of Ammonius' relation to the Arabic treatise might eventually be worth revisiting after more work is done on his school. Paola Carusi discusses the appropriation by tenth-century Islamic alchemy of Greek philosophical cosmology (Presocratic doctrine of opposites, Aristotelian doctrine of generation, particularly the embryology of GA, the ideas of scala naturae and world cycles) and Qur'anic cosmogony (interpreted in the literature of early Ismailism). Yves Marquet gives a survey of alchemy-related texts from Rasâ'il Ihwân al-Safâ, pointing out that the authors had no special interest in alchemy and noting a ̧nities with the Jâbirian corpus in the analysis of the composition of natural bodies which, he suggests, might be explained by a common source of which the Ihwân and the Jâbirian writers, respectively, made different use. Pierre Thillet surveys the use of Greek proper names and terminology in the Arabic K. al-rawâbi' li-A·âtûn and its Latin translation. The volume will be of use for students of ancient alchemy and historians of science and philosophy; it covers many subjects and gives a fairly good idea of the state and direction of research in this fascinating μeld. There are too many misprints, in French and Greek as well as in Arabic transliterations.


One important area for the application of space robotics is autonomous On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) of failed spacecrafts. Visual servo of eye-in-hand type system is one of the most promising approaches to perform this task. This paper describes research and development of a visual servoing system for autonomous satellite capture using an on-board manipulator with binocular hand-eye cameras. Taking account of the special aspects of space environment such as lighting and available computing power, to realize a safe and reliable real-time visual servoing operation, cooperative visual marker search processing, time delay processing, and capture strategy have been carefully designed. Some critical constraints such as FOV limit, joint range limits, kinematic singularities, and joint velocity limits are concerned during visual servoing. A ground experiment system based on air-bearing table is set up. With the system, experiments of autonomous capturing target are conducted. The results validate the effectiveness of our research.


The Cartesian view that animals are automata sparked a major controversy in early modern European philosophy. This paper studies an early contribution to this controversy. I provide an interpretation of an influential objection to Cartesian animal automatism raised by Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636–1673). Pardies objects that the Cartesian arguments show only that animals lack 'intellectual perception' but do not show that animals lack 'sensible perception.' According to Pardies, the difference between these two types of perception is that the former is reflexive such that we both perceive an object and the perception itself, whereas sensible perception lacks this reflexivity. This notion of sensible perception was criticized by the Cartesian Antoine Dilly for violating the doctrine that all thought is conscious. However, I argue that sensible perceptions are not unconscious for Pardies. Rather, they are conscious perceptions that are unaccompanied by a kind of reflexive perception that is constitutive of attention. Moreover, I argue that when understood in this way Pardies raises a compelling objection to Cartesian animal automatists.


Neutron and proton-induced fission studies on actinide nuclei, a t low and intermediate energies, are of great interest for fundamental understanding of the fission processes and especially for applied nuclear research such as transmutation of long-lived radioactive wastes. As a first step of a long-range research program at Louvain-la-Neuve cyclotron facility, we have recently performed the measurements on the proton-induced fission reactions with 238U and 239Pu targets at 26.5 and 62.9 MeV bombarding energies. Some preliminary results are presented. Future measurements on other actinides are foreseen.


Recognition of activity of daily living (ADL) with ubiquitous sensors has been studied so far, aiming to provide services like automatic life logging, elderly monitoring and energy saving in domestic environments. Although existing studies achieve good accuracy of ADL recognition on average, mis-classification of some activities often occur. In this paper, we try to minimize mis-classification in ADL recognition through reliability assessment of the recognition results obtained by machine learning. Specifically, we propose a novel ADL recognition model which extends the random forest classifier trained by ADL data-set by adding the real time uncertainty propagation of the measured variables to each decision tree providing thus the confidence probability of each output class. This adds to the classifier output a confidence value that holds an important role for many purposes such as decision making, features design to improve the classification rate for some classes, etc. The proposed model classifies the input data samples into activity classes with high confidence probability (e.g., more than 50% confidence) and an unclassifiable class, where higher confidence probability leads to the higher recognition accuracy but higher ratio of unclassifiable samples. Through experiments, we confirmed that the proposed model achieve 75% accuracy with less than 30% unclassifiable samples and 95% accuracy with 50% unclassifiable samples.


The Indonesia Smart Card for Merdeka College (KIP-Kuliah Merdeka) is one of the Smart Indonesia programs during the administration of President Joko Widodo through the Ministry of Education and Culture in the form of cash assistance, expanding access and learning opportunities provided to students with poor or vulnerable family backgrounds in throughout Indonesia to finance education. This research was conducted to find out the Implementation of the KIP-Independence College Program at Sultan Ageng TirtayasaUniversity (UNTIRTA), because in its implementation there were several issues which stated that the KIP-Independence College program was not on target, the schedule for disbursing pocket money and the KRS process was delayed, and there was a lack of transparency for students receiving the KIP-Kuliah Merdeka Replacement scholarship. In order to answer these issues, researchers used the theory of Policy Implementation from George C Edward III with its four indicators namely Communication, Resources, Disposition, and Bureaucratic Structure using a Descriptive Qualitative research method. The research findings in this research are that the implementation of the KIP-Kuliah Merdeka program has been carried out well, starting from a very strict selection process, students who are substitutes for KIP-Kuliah scholarship recipients are students who previously nominated themselves but did not pass, as well as those who become obstacles to the process disbursement of pocket money and the KRS process are students who arelate in filling out the re-registration that has been requested previously


High-strain-rate superplasticity has been observed in many metallic materials such as aluminum alloys and their matrix composites and it is associated with an ultra-fine grained structure of less than about 3 μm. This high-strain-rate superplasticity is defined in JIS H 7007 by Japanese Standards Association as superplasticity which appears when the rate of strain is 10 -2 s -1 or over. These strain rates are considerably higher than the typical forming rate used for the conventional superplastic materials, but rather close to the commercial hot working rates of 10 -1 to 10 -2 s -1 . Its deformation mechanism appears to be different from that of conventional superplastic materials. A new model is considered from the viewpoint of the accommodation mechanism by an accommodation helper such as a liquid or glassy phase. The new mechanism is proposed in which superplasticity is critically controlled by the accommodation helper both to relax the stress concentration resulting from the sliding at grain boundaries and/or interfaces and to limit the build up of internal cavitation and subsequent failure. A few examples of the industrial applications of high-strain-rate superplasticity are demonstrated.


Objective To explore the causes,prevention and treatment of the complications and faults in intervention therapy for hepatic and renal cysts in 17 cases.Methods In recent 3 years,118 cases of hepatic and renal cysts were treated by intervention therapy(absolute ethyl alcohol as therapeutic medicine in all cases),and 17 cases of complications and faults were found by retrospective analysis;shock occurred in 1 case(hepatic cyst);intolerance to alcohol with allergy in 4 cases(hepatic cysts);leaking of some alcohol to peritoneal cavity in 2 cases(1 case of hepatic cyst and 1 case of renal cyst);some alcohol entered the renal pelvis in 1case(renal cyst);no way to suck out the injected alcohol in 3 cases(1 case of hepatic cyst and 2 cases of renal cysts);penetration costophrrenic angle in 1 case(hepatic cyst);faulty penetration to gallbladder in 1 case(renal cyst);hematoma occurred under hepatic capsule in 1 case(hepatic cyst);hematoma occurred under renal capsule in 1 case(renal cyst);termination of the operation due to falling off the needle from the cyst cavity after sucking out the fluid in the cyst in 2 cases(1 case of hepatic cyst and 1 case of renal cyst).Results In 1 case of shock the condition is improved after anti-shock therapy.In 4 cases of intolerance to alcohol with allergy,the condition is improved after intravenous symptomatic therapy.In 2 cases of partial alcohol leakage,the condition was relieved by symptomatic treatment.In 1 case of alcohol entering the renal pelvis,symptoms is improved 2 days later due to immediate fluid infusion and diuretic therapy.In 3 cases of alcohol retention in the cysts,no apparent symptom occurred after dilution with water injection.In 1 case of penetration via costodiaphragmatic angle,the patient was cured after symptomatic anti-inflammatory therapy.In 1 case of faulty penetration to gallbladder,no clinical symptoms appeared after complete sucking out the bile.In 1 case of hematoma under hepatic capsule and 1 case of hematoma under renal capsule,no special treatment was treated because of no further enlargement of the mass.In 2 cases of falling off the needle from the cyst cavity.The cysts relapsed 3 months later,and further intervention therapy succeeded after treatment.Conclusion Intervention therapy,for hepatic and renal cysts is a generally applied method.Few complications and faults may occur due to different factors,and accompanying the improvement of objective conditions and continuous accumulation of experiences in technical operation,the complications and faults will decrease considerably after treatment.


Abstract Test-bed operations of three real-time transmission types are described: a three-dimensional (+two-dimensional) high-definition multimedia interface broadcast on point-to-multi-point connections, a two-dimensional high-definition multimedia interface broadcast on multi-point-to-multi-point connections, and a three-dimensional high-definition multimedia interface full duplex on a point-to-point connection. The network design has an optical broadcast topology centered with an "optical hub." This article first introduces the design and implementation, then explains the issues and further considerations for implementing a high-definition multimedia interface based three-dimensional broadcast access network.


The reading of university students has passivity,superficial-reading,utility,It influence on reading effect.Video Reading Salon Teaching created a kind of reading environment of opening,relaxing,democratic for students by preparing for lessons together,cooperative method of teaching.It stimulate student interesting for reading,elaborated the students' subject position and constructed campus reading culture.


In recent years,as China's rapid economic development,vocational and technical education has been gradually recognized by the society.As highly educated people,vocational and technical education graduate is an important force in the development of vocational education.But in reality,their employment orientation deviate from the trend of the profession and only a small part of them do related work after graducation.Combined with the current development status of vocational education,the article analysis the reasons of this problem and give policy recommendations,so as to create a good environment for vocational and technical education talented people.


Virtual queue-based marking schemes have been recently proposed for Active Queue Management (AQM) in Internet routers. In an effort to improve performance of congested gateways, a new Active Queue Management (AQMNEW) algorithm was developed by feeding virtual queue size to the RED algorithm. The objective of the new algorithm is to improve overall performance by keeping link utilization high, link utilization stable, queuing delay low and consecutive packet drop rate low. This paper shows the objective is met by comparing AQMNEW with six other well known AQM methods. To provide fair comparisons, the AQM parameters are fine-tuned by exploring many different parameter settings. The simulation results conclude that AQMNEW improves overall performance by 8 to 25%.


PURPOSE: To provide chocolate food provided with a taste like fat, a flavor profile similar to refined chocolate, an excellent color, viscosity adjustment and stability. CONSTITUTION: This fine powdery cocoa paste composition provided with an improved food modifying property for a chocolate produce contains the hydrated particulates of cocoa whose the particle size is about 0,1-about 20 microns dispersed in a sugar solution. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO


Objective To investigate renal dialysis patients' resilience and influencing factors for clinical teaching. Methods Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC),simplified coping style questionnaire (SCSQ), perceived social support scale (PSSS) and positive and negative affect scale (PANAS) were used for a survey of 160 renal dialysis patients in Xinan Hospital and Xinqiao Hospital (156 valid questionnaires) and the questionnaire information was put into the computer by the two- input mode and was made the questionnaire data analysis, single factor analysis and variance and re- gression analysis of by SPSS 18.0. Results Renal dialysis patients' resilience has no significant differ- ence in gender, frequency of kidney dialysis and kidney dialysis time(P〉0.05), but resilience and positive coping scores of the age group between 31 to 40 were significantly higher than those of the group between 41-50 group(P=0.000). Taking the education background into consideration, resilience and positive coping scores of junior high school or above education were significantly higher than those of primary school education(P=0.000,P=0.000). Positive emotion, positive coping, and social support were positively correlated with resilience and negative emotions were negatively correlated with resilience in linear regression analysis. Conclusion Kidney dialysis patients who are over the age of 40 and less educated may have lower resilience, and less positive coping, more prone to nega-tive emotions, which is not conducive to the rehabilitation and treatment of disease. For kidney dialysis patients, improving their positive response, perceived social support and positive mood, and reducing their negative emotions are beneficial to the improvement of their resilience.

Key words:
Renal dialysis patients;  Resilience;  Social support;  Positive and negativeaffect;  Simplified coping style


The sensitivity of pesticide leaching to pesticide/soil properties and to meteorological conditions was assessed by calculations with an existing convection—dispersion model. The model assumes equilibrium sorption (Freundlich equation), first-order transformation kinetics and passive plant uptake. The extent of pesticide leaching was characterized by the percentage of the dose leached below 1 m depth. The calculations were carried out for a humic sand soil cropped with maize and exposed to Dutch weather conditions.

In general, the percentage leached was found to be very sensitive to the sorption coefficient, the Freundlich exponent (describing the curvature of the isotherm) and the transformation rate. The percentage leached was moderately sensitive to weather conditions (wet/dry years), long-term sorption equilibration and the relationship between transformation rate and temperature. Sensitivity to the extent of plant uptake was only significant for pesticides with low sorption coefficients. Sensitivity to soil hydraulic properties was small. The effect of application in autumn instead of in spring was found to be very large for non-sorbing pesticides with short half-lives. The sensitivity to spatial variability in sorption coefficient and transformation rate was found to be substantial at low percentages leached.


Purpose:To explore the clinical features of benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) with tuberculosis.Method:Retrospective analysis of 8 cases BPH with tuberculosis has been made.Results:6 cases underwent open surgery and 1 case was treated with antituberculosis therapy,and 1 cases was treated by TURP.6 cases were followed up for an average of 10.8 months.The therapeutic results were satisfactory.Conclusions:Clinically, BPH with tuberculosis was often mistaken for BPH or prostatic carcinoma, so attention should be paid to the differential diagnosis. The final diagnosis should rely on pathological examination.


Three experiments investigated why and when sad moods might inhibit generative thought relative to happier moods. Specifically, sad moods might inhibit generative thought compared to happier moods, because they result in individuals' (a) being less likely to use accessible, old ideas; (b) being less likely to use novel ideas; or (c) having less material available in memory. These three possibilities were investigated by having participants in happy or sad moods completed a task that familiarized them with a set of solutions to an upcoming generative task. In contrast to the hypothesis that participants in sad moods were less likely to use accessible ideas than those in happy moods, mood did not influence the use of old solutions on the generative task. Instead, mood affected how many new responses participants generated, with those in sad moods generating fewer new responses than did those in happy moods. This effect of mood was eliminated when participants were told that all responses were acceptable. Because these instructions affect how individuals use information from memory but could not affect what was in memory, these results suggest that mood alters the use of novel information rather than altering the use of accessible responses or the type of material in memory.


Web Services have a variety of qualities, such as flexibility,simplicity,support communication through firewalls and provide interconnection between distributed applications over the Internet. However, the Web Services performance depends on the toolkit implementation and the choice of the SOAP payload transport protocol. It is necessary to investigate the performance limitations of Web Services implementations. The performance evaluation process can demand good amount of time, money and a developer with a good experience in the Web Services technology and toolkit. This paper presents an open source utility to automate the performance comparison of different Java Web Services toolkits. At this moment, JWSPerf utility supports three Java toolkits - Apache Axis, Sun Java Web Services Developer Pack and Systinet Server for Java. Beyond, a general-purpose benchmark was defined to compare the results and explore the influence of the complexity and the size of the data types.


A method is proposed for compiling a corpus of phonetically-rich triphone sentences; i.e., sentences with a high variety of triphones, distributed in a uniform fashion. Such a corpus is of interest for a wide range of contexts, from automatic speech recognition to speech therapy. We evaluated this method by building phonetically-rich corpora for Brazilian Portuguese. The data employed comes from Wikipedia's dumps, which were converted into plain text, segmented and phonetically transcribed. The method consists of comparing the distance between the triphone distribution of the available sentences to an ideal uniform distribution, with equiprobable triphones. A greedy algorithm was implemented to recognize and evaluate the distance among sentences. A heuristic metric is proposed for pre-selecting sentences for the algorithm, in order to quicken its execution. The results show that, by applying the proposed metric, one can build corpora with more uniform triphone distributions.


Measurements of the hourly global solar radiation (G) and its diffuse component (D) on a horizontal surface have been carried out in Qena / Upper Egypt in the period from June 1992 to May 1993. The corresponding diffuse fraction (DIG) is calculated. Diurnal variations of the results have been studied. Also the daily totals values and its monthly and seasonal averages as well as their frequency distributions were computed and examined. The seasonal and climatic effects on the fluctuation of the results are discussed. These effects were particularly large during spring and Winter months owing to the high fluctuation of the atmospheric conditions with aspect to amount of clouds, water content, and concentration of aerosol dust particles. The influence of clouds is also considered. It shows small effect on the results (4.5%), reflecting the low degree of cloudiness in the study region. The relation between the diffuse fraction and clearness index (G/Go) shows that most of the points lies in the region of the high availability of the incoming solar radiation. In general the study shows clearly the abundance of solar energy in Qena / Egypt, and the suitability of its climate for using it in different applications.