The adaptive structural and functional strategies enable plants to survive in variable biotopes. The intensity of some parameters of abiotic factors can be estimated from the environment on the basis of anatomic studies. In this research paper there are histo-anatomical studies of the leaf blades and stems of 10 angiosperm species which have populations growing in both open and shaded places from mountainous biotopes in the Ciuc-Basin¸ with the application of methods for making microscopical preparations. The qualitative evaluation of the histo-anatomical properties was combined with determination of stomata density and biometric data. Up to the present, there have been no histo-anatomical studies in plants distributed in these areas. The studied species possess histological structures adapted to utilizing more efficiently the light energy and humidity accessible to plants in their habitats. The structural adaptations to illumination conditions of the studied species can be distinguished in the structure, types and development rate of the assimilatory and mechanic tissues.


Background: Blockage of the CH1/TAZ1 domain of p300/CBP has a profound effect on cell cycle regulation in cancer cells. A small molecule modulator of CH1/TAZ1, INTH-454, has been shown to trigger cell cycle arrest followed by either cell death or senescence causing sustained anti-tumoral effects in xenograft models of several hard-to-treat tumor types like castration-resistant prostate and gastric cancer. Methods: The anti-proliferative effects of INTH-454 were assessed in a panel of five hundred cancer cell lines. A comprehensive analysis of gene expression and mutational data led to the selection of representative cell lines for subsequent in-depth studies of the corresponding molecular events by cell cycle analysis. INTH-4549s impact on genes and proteins involved in cell cycle progression and apoptosis e.g. cyclins and caspases were investigated by qPCR, western blotting and reporter assays. The in vitro results were confirmed in cell line and patient derived xenografts models of gastric and prostate cancer. Results: INTH-454 inhibited cell growth at low nanomolar concentrations in one third of the five hundred cell lines tested. In most of these cell lines, the compound caused cytotoxic effects with >90% inhibition of proliferation at submicromolar concentrations. We used information on tissue origin, gene expression and mutations of the panel to select several cell lines for further characterization. Longitudinal analysis of very sensitive prostate, breast, lung and gastric cancer cell lines showed that the cell cycle was heavily dysregulated. INTH-454 induced cell cycle arrest, generated either strong apoptotic responses or senescence, and caused reduction of protein levels of important cellular factors e.g. c-Myc. Accordingly, INTH-454 treatment caused profound growth inhibition of the tumors in the respective xenograft models under various dosing regimens. Apoptotic/cytotoxic effects in vitro translated into tumor regression while senescence in vitro correlated with tumor stagnation in vivo. Conclusions: INTH-454 exhibits strong anti-proliferative effects in a very broad panel of cancer cell lines. Thorough analysis of particularly responsive genotypes in vitro led to the identification of predictive biomarkers for selection of cell lines that undergo apoptosis upon treatment. These in vitro findings were successfully translated to in vivo xenograft models and will facilitate the identification of patients/cancers that are most susceptible to treatment with INTH-454. Citation Format: Valentino Cattori, Beatrice Pilger, Ulrich Kessler. Identification and characterization of tumor types that are driven into apoptosis/regression upon treatment with p300/CBP interactome modulator INTH-454 [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research 2020; 2020 Apr 27-28 and Jun 22-24. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2020;80(16 Suppl):Abstract nr 6376.


The network radio medium prior to the advent of television has been the subject of little economic analysis. This is a potentially serious omission in the media economics literature. Each of the communication industries, or each distinct period in a medium's history, constitutes a potential case study in competitive relationships and their consequences for media content and consumer welfare. Even allowing for different possible definitions of an industry, the number of media industries is small, especially when compared to the number of manufacturing industries. Hence, omitting an industry such as pre-television network radio from the field's literature excludes what may prove to be valuable information and insight into competitive processes. From its birth, the radio industry grew quickly. In 1921 there were only five radio broadcasting firms or stations; by 1923 there were 556 (Sterling & Kittross, 1978). The rapid growth was not fueled by a rational expectation of a prompt return on investment, but, similar to the investment frenzy surrounding the Internet and dot-com companies in recent years, by the enthusiasm for the potential of a new medium. This bubble of enthusiasm led investors and entrepreneurs to pay high initial costs for stations only to discover that the lack of revenues would not pay the substantial operating costs of the medium. At this point in its history radio had not yet become a fully commercial medium. Despite high costs and uncertain revenues there was no lack of buyers for the radio firms put on the block by disappointed investors as other entrepreneurs affected by the excitement of radio stepped into what Archer (1971) called the "mad circle" to buy stations. THE JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS, 14(4), 197–212 Copyright © 2001, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.


Callistemon viminalis belongs to the family Myrtaceae and also known as bottlebrush which is or found throughout in India. It has a remarkable place in Ayurvedic medicine of India, due to presence of phytoconstituents and pharmacological activities. Callistemon species as a farm tree are planted for forestry or ornamental purposes and for weed as well. In traditional Chinese medicines, C. viminalis is used for treating hemorrhoids. Hot drink locally 'tea' in Jamaica from C. viminalis has been used for the treatment of gastroenteritis, diarrhea and skin infections. The phytochemical research carried out on C. viminalis extracts and showed that the plant is rich in phenolics, triterpenoids, flavonoids, saponins, steroids, alkaloids, tannin, carbohydrates, amino acids and proteins compounds. The investigated pharmacological studies reported the presence of anti-inflammatory, Alzheimer, hemolytic activity, anthelmintic, anti-oxidant property, anti-bacterial, antifungal and hepatoprotective activities in C. viminalis.


Male guinea pigs were castrated at approximately 550 g body weight and androgens were administered by subcutaneous implantation of pellets (approximately 15 mg each) for intervals up to 35 days in 2 series of experiments beginning at 21 and 220 days after castration. The weight, RNA and DNA of the oblique and the gastrocnemius muscles were not changed by either castration or androgen administration. The older animals had heavier muscles with a proportionate increase in RNA but no change in total DNA. The RNA of representative androgenresponsive muscles—temporal and masseter— was lower in the castrated animals. Testosterone produced an immediate maximum increase within 5 days in RNA, which was maintained but was not increased further by continued androgen administration. Castration retarded the attainment of the adult level of the DNA in the temporal and the masseter muscles. Prolongation of castration was accompanied by a very gradual increase in the DNA of these muscles, with an attainment of the normal ...


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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science CE-MS-2007-11 The rapid technology scaling i.e. shrinking feature size means that a large number of components can be integrated on a single Integrated Chip (IC). This increased complexity translates into an increase in design effort and also potentially more design errors. Thus changes are required in the system-on-chip development which will reduce both design effort and design errors. To reduce design effort, a modular design methodology which promotes reuse of already designed IP cores rather than the design of IP cores themselves is used. Thus the complexity of such a chip is resident in communication between these cores rather than in the computation taking place in them. The shriking feature size also introduces Deep Sub-Micron (DSM) effects in on-chip interconnect wires. Networks on chip have since evolved as a promising new type of interconnect which have the potential to alleviate these shortcomings. Effective debug aids in fast and accurate detection of majority of the errors that may be present in the design thus reducing the number of iterations in the design cycle (and effectively the time to market). Traditional debug is core-based, where each of the IP cores in a SoC are the locus of debug actions. Communication-centric debug has been proposed as a complementary debug solution that uses the interconnect to debug the chip. Combination of these debug strategies might help speed up accurate error localization during debug and thus significant gains possible in reducing time to market. This thesis report presents a debug infrastructure that facilitates Communication-Centric Debug of System on Chip using Network on Chip. Communication-centric Debugging of Systems on Chip using Networks on Chip A Debug Infrastructure


In order to improve the efficiency and reliability of C band geostationary communication satellite ground communication equipment, this paper designs and develops a broadband 1000 W solid-state high power amplifier instead of the traditional electric high vacuum amplifier. The actual test shows that the performance of technical indexes can satisfy the system requirements.


AbstractThe aim of this paper is to provide a brief summary of the last two years of the process of transformation in Cuba from a primarily economic perspective. It consists of five parts: an introduction, which makes it clear that the changes are not merely economic; a first section that deals with the urgent needs of economic development; a second section that seeks to highlight how the process has been gaining in depth and scope and now focuses more on how to define the paths of development than on survival; a third section that evaluates the results in two perspectives, from the dynamics of the process of change and from the country's economic performance in recent years (although with restrictions due to data availability); and conclusions.Keywords: economy, Guidelines, results, performanceIntroductionTwo years after the Lineamientos (Guidelines) were approved as the programmatic document of the changes being made in Cuba it is time to take stock, however brief, of their meaning and what has been achieved.The transformation undertaken has undoubted precedents that cannot be ignored, but it responds to a reality that is qualitatively different from that which pertained during previous processes, just as it has references to the international situation, but neither are they exactly the same.The scope of the changes (which the Guidelines have caused) is holistic and has not only led to changes in the economy, but is accompanied by the deepest, and possibly the most questioned, institutional changes that have occurred in the country since the mid-1970s. In fact, these transformations challenge the Cuba of the present and introduce logical questions about Cuba's future. They are not only associated with a form of economic operation, but also the political and ideological superstructure that must promote and legitimise it.They are totally legitimate in the sense that the country that is becoming transformed sustains a society built from a socialism (that of the 1970s and 80s) that replicated patterns generated in Europe and that, after 30 years, failed to generate the means to eliminate the structural deformations of underdevelopment. This society is now moving towards a different socialism, one that is Cuban, to be built upon national conditions that are very different from the European, without a theoretical framework, that closely fits those conditions, and it is doing so at a time when an unquestionable generational transition is taking place. All this implies a paradigm shifteven though in essence what is being attempted is to keep alive the socialist ideal.To draw the contours of this new socialist ideal is not a simple task, and to define the details of its operation is perhaps a difficult goal to achieve due to the very dynamic nature of the changes to be made.After two years of implementation, it is time to review the progress and the way forward in the coming years. The work below is intended to contribute to that purpose.1 From the Confrontation of an Adverse External Environment to a New Conception of Cuban SocialismJust as in the case of the process of opening that began in 1990, the trigger for the current updating process is associated with external constraints. Indeed, what we know today as 'the updating of the Cuban economic model' is the direct result of a process that started from the middle of 2007 and had as its genesis the confrontation to an adverse external environment:Since 2005 the limitations of the economy have been evident: to address the deficit in the financial account of the balance of payments, withholding foreign bank transfers and the high amount of debt maturities, all that meant a great stress in handling the economy. (Guidelines, 2011)The process initiated in 2007 has passed through stages which have ranged from targeting urgent problems (putting idle land into production, adjusting imports to meet the payments crisis, etc. …


A case of NSOC syndrome revealed by cervical smear screening in mass surveys was presented. The patient was a 50-year-old woman who had not complained of any problem. In cytology, tumor cells could be seen as a cohesive and overlapping cluster in a clean background and papillary adenocarcinoma originating from ovary or Fallopian tube was considered. We would like to emphasize that the rare NSOC syndrome always should be considered in the examination of cervical smears.


One ControlLogix5000 master-control unit is adopted in the PLC system and AGC system respectively of a cold rolling mill. The paper emphatically expounds how to realize the communication control between the two master-control units through the control net.


Surface waves have been extensively studied in earthquake seismology. Surface waves are trapped near an infinitely large surface. The displacements decay exponentially with depth. These waves are a...


Doubts and uncertainty have persisted in EU sustainable finance policy as to the role that the MiFID II suitability requirements will play in making sure that advisors and portfolio managers adequately satisfy their client's sustainability preferences. This article sheds light on the link between sustainability preferences and the legal criteria for suitability as set out in article 25(2) MiFID II. More specifically, it offers a critical analysis of whether a client's 'sustainability preferences' should be subsumed into the definition of a client's 'investment objectives' in article 25(2) MiFID II. The European Commission has proposed an approach that conceptually bifurcates, instead of merging, these two concepts. It is argued that the Commission's approach is suboptimal. It connotes a more fragile model for investor protection insofar as it weakens incentives by investment firms to treat the sustainability preferences of their clients accountably. Conversely, aligning sustainability preferences with investment objectives in article 25(2) MiFID II will ensure that the suitability requirements operate more effectively in safeguarding the interests of investors demanding sustainable finance products. The discussion presented in this article helps us delineate MiFID II investor protection standards in sustainable finance policy.


An estimation method for the increased damping on a moored body in waves which allow simulation of the decay increase of low-frequency motion in waves is described. Emphasis is put on the analytical estimation method for the increased damping due to waves (wave drift damping) on a moored body during low-frequency motion. The estimated increased damping is compared with that of free oscillation tests in waves, and it is shown that the estimation method presented herein is acceptable qualitatively. The low-frequency resonant sway motions of a two-dimensional moored body in regular wave groups are also compared, and the numerical results show a tendency similar to the experiments when the wave drift damping is included in the equation of motion.


Research conducted by material objects novel Pusara by Maulana
Syamsuri is against the background of Mandailing social phenomenon is revealed
in the novel Pusara, which changes sistem Mandailing cultural values.
Theoretically, the research aims to uncover the social conditions of society
Mandailing contained in the novel Pusara related changes and factors causing
changes in the system Mandailing of cultural values in the novel Pusara.
This type of qualitative research is descriptive by using literature that is
novel Pusara as the primary data and supported by secondary data sources. The
theory used is a sociological theory of literature that refers to literature
Swingewood a social reflection of society, equipped with the concept of culture
and cultural change.
Mandailing community in the social reality Mandailing still implement
custom rules. Dalihan Na Tolu customary institutions still functioned well in
traditional ceremonies siriaon (joy) and sidangolon (grief), namely in the
ceremony of marriage, birth ceremonies, and funerals. Mandailing community
has a habit of travel, like to trade.
The results reveal that the contained several novel Pusara forms of
Mandailing cultural value system changes. Mandailing cultural value system
changes contained in the novel Pusara relates to the reduced role of traditional
institutions Dalihan Na Tolu, the implementation of the marriage ceremony where
the bride, the ceremony of the birth of the child follow the rules of the Malay
culture and Islam, and the implementation of the funerals that follow the teachings
of Islam. Mandailing cultural value system changes in the novel Pusara occurs
caused by several factors, namely factors intermarriage, adjustment factors
teachings of Islam, to custom Mandailing, and factors increasing formal
education.


A new triterpenoid, glaucinoic acid (2α, 3β, 19α, 24-tetrahydroxyolean-12-en-30-oic acid) (1) along with several known compounds, arjunic acid (2), arjungenin (3), sericoside (4), and friedelin (5) were isolated from the stem barks of Terminalia glaucescens. These compounds showed β - glucuronidase inhibitory activity. The structures were identified on the basis of spectroscopic techniques


A dormitory is an accommodation service of a university for the students especially who live far away from the educational institutions. In our country, with perfectly low price, a dormitory is needed for number of students. Each year student applicants are selected by a committee. It can be happened that a group of students may not be selected by a committee member without a reasonable reason. This fact can bring undesirable biases in educational area. Therefore, using rational and acceptable criteria for selecting students to stay in a dorm are needed. In this article, we propose to apply Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a Decision Support System (DSS) to select undergraduate students to a dormitory of a university. We provide 4 main criteria and 16 sub-criteria. Based on the method, an eigenvector is calculated and the Consistency Ratio (CR) can be determined from the eigenvector. By iteratively following the process of AHP, we then can have appropriate weight numbers that can be used for selecting proper students to the dormitories.


The analysis of an appropriate rate of water to be supplied to the Project Green area is presented. Project Green is a project of Phoenix Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd. To use treated waste water from the pulp mill to irrigate eucalyptus field which cover an area of about 4,000 rai around the mill. Besides, an analysis of the existing irrigation and drainage systems are also carried out in order to recommend appropriate strategies to improve the systems, and some approach to manage the treated waste water of the mill are also presented. The calculation and analysis were done by using the water-balance concept in Hydrology and based on principle of Irrigation Engineering. It was found that the mill can supply total volume of the treated waste water to the field during October to July, But there are some excess treated waters water, after supply to the field, during August and September. Some of the excess water can be diverted to Huay Chod directly, then the mill can manage the less by using recommended appropriate approach. Furthermore, some follow up and morritoring strategies for the project are presented as well in order to carry on it in the future.


The purpose of this study is to determine the signs displaying the insulation ageing process and allow predicting the change in its technical condition under operation of traction motors in locomotives. In order to choose the indicators of the insulation condition, the methods of linear electrical circuits were used to analyze the equivalent scheme of frame insulation. In the equivalent scheme, the dielectric micro- and macro-heterogeneities were taken into account. The most informative parameters of the frame insulation ageing process are those related to absorption and resorption processes over time. The return voltage has been selected as the main characteristic to determine the indicators of insulation condition. The analytical dependences for determining the frame insulation condition indicators have been obtained different from those currently used in the diagnosis of electrical machines. The choice of indicators will allow predicting changes in the technical condition of frame insulation in operation. The studies will allow us to change the regular preventive maintenance technology to the maintenance based on the facility condition.


The ..gamma.. radiolysis of a 3:1 mol, hydrogen-carbon monoxide mixture was investigated with and without added alumina and nickel-alumina catalysts. Product yields were measured while varying temperature, pressure, and irradiation time. The added substrates exhibited selective catalytic behavior. Both the product yields and distributions differed considerably with each added substrate and with the homogenous radiolysis. Negligible results from unirradiated control experiments for all three systems indicate the reactions to be initiated by ionizing radiation alone.


Encryption algorithm plays a crucial role in information security which guarantees the recent growing internet and network applications. They are used to secure the data in wireless networks against malicious attacks but securing data also consumes resources such as C.P.U time, Memory, battery power, encryption time etc. In this paper, we evaluated the performance of four symmetric key encryption algorithms; AES, DES, 3DES and Blowfish which commonly used for data encryption in terms of encryption time, decryption time & throughput. In this research, we evaluated encryption time, decryption time and throughput for all four encryption algorithms in Visual Basic's environment using large size text data (.doc). Experimental results show that Blowfish encryption algorithm may be more suitable for wireless networks. Study reveals that Blowfish gives better performance than AES, DES and 3DES in terms of encryption time, decryption time & throughput.


In the mounting of functional parts, in particular the vehicle axles, the cooperating screw threaded nuts are generally expensive welded. DOLLAR A It is proposed that the threaded nut as a connection piece with internal thread and push through said port by means disposed in the bottom flange of the carrier to the body through-bore and to connect a permanently connected to the stub flange with a cage by spot welding, the walls of the upper and bottom flange of the carrier are spot-welded. The welding process is thus considerably simplified. DOLLAR A use for the fastening of axles on the U-shaped body supports.


This paper discusses the problem of tolerance management in the construction industry. Despite industrialized building having increased the demand for higher precision, the problem of tolerance management still occurs. Selecting appropriate tolerances is an optimization problem, where the cost of accuracy and the costs due to lack of tolerance need to be balanced. Problems of tolerance management, such as dimensional, aesthetic and functional, cause rework and additional costs. The purpose of the paper is to raise the importance of tolerance management and to identify problems. A study has been conducted in which representatives from the construction industry gave their views about problems with tolerance management. Based on the interviews, there is need for a deeper understanding about tolerances across the industry. The following four factors seem to be of particular interest: consequences, deviations, industrialization and management.


External morphology: The parasite is circular to somewhat elliptical in outline, being slightly convex on the dorsal surface and concave on the ventral with a small indentation in the mid-line at the posterior end which is the opening of the genital system. The mouth is almost invisible and consists of an invagination of ectoderm cells on the ventral surface in the mid-ventral line about one-third the distance from the anterior


We have described a high precision measurement for surfaces of erected antennas. Besides high-precision measurement of antenna surfaces, the measurement system is easy to use in other applications.


The invention relates to a tarsal-sinus implantation material used for stabilizing and recovering movement between the talus and the calcaneus and guaranteeing normal movement and bone alignment. In a preferable embodiment, the implantation material is made of titanium alloy and comprises a cylindrical main body and a hopper-shaped bottom integrally connected with the main body. A plurality of grooves are formed in the surface of the cylindrical main body and are parallel to one another along the cross-section axis of the cylindrical main body. Each groove comprises an inner side and an outer lateral side, each inner side is perpendicular to the radial axis of the implantation material, and an angle is formed between each outer lateral side and the radial axis of the implantation material. The implantation material is designed to be hollow so as to be inserted into a proper position by a catheter.


The PAX (PolarizedAntiproton eXperiment) experiment is proposed to polarize a stored antiproton beam for use at the planned High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) of the FAIR facility at GSI (Darmstadt, Germany). The polarization build-up will be achieved by spin-filtering, i.e., by a repetitive passage of the antiproton beam through a polarized atomic hydrogen or deuterium gas target. The experimental setup requires a Polarized Internal gas Target (PIT) surrounded with silicon detectors. The PIT includes an Atomic Beam Source (ABS), the target cell and a Breit-Rabi Polarimeter (BRP). The first phase of the Spin-Filtering Studies for PAX covers the commissioning of the PIT components and themeasurement of an absolute calibration standard for the BRP at the COSY ring in Julich. The spin-filtering with protons aim at confirming the results of the FILTEX experiment and determine the pp hadronic spin dependent cross sections at 50 MeV.The second phase will be realized in the Antiproton Decelerator ring (AD) at CERN to polarize antiprotons for the first time using spin-filtering. This diploma thesis summarizes aspects of the polarization and calibration theory based on the hyperfine structure of hydrogen and deuterium, provides the implemented algorithms necessary to solve the calibration and presents the results of the calibration of the BRP. Additionally, the atomic polarization of the hydrogen gas targetmeasuredwith a prototype openable storage cell is presented and the error analysis is discussed. The effect of the magnetic holding field on the hyperfine state occupancy is examined. Finally, the stability of the polarization between opening cycles of the storage cell and during an ABS nozzle cycle is presented.


Abstract

Introduction

Personality traits differ significantly between professionals, and the biomedical field is no exception. However, whether specific clusters of personality traits are indeed typical for biomedical scientists is unknown. This can be of particular interest since personality traits impact on behavior, and sloppy science or even scientific misconduct may be linked to specific clusters of personality traits. To explore clusters of personality traits among biomedical scientists, and to associate the clusters with academic position and research misbehaviour we designed a cross-sectional study with cluster analysis of personality traits among a stratified sample of Dutch biomedical scientists working in academic medical centers.

Methods

We used the NEO-BIG5, Rosenberg Self-esteem, Achievement Motivation Inventory and the Dark Triad (narcissistic, Machiavellianistic and psychopathic personality traits) as validated questionnaires. Self-reported research misconduct was assessed via a separate questionnaire.

Results

We included 537 active biomedical scientists completed a web-based survey (response rate 65%). Cluster analysis revealed the existence of three personality clusters among biomedical scientists: the 'perfectionist', the 'ideal son-in-law' and the 'sneaky grandiose'. The latter cluster showed a consistent set of (subclinical) personality traits such as narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism, that are indicative of the presence of a mental disorder, but could not be classified as such in terms of the DSM-IV TR or ICD-10. Male gender, higher academic hierarchical position, perceived publication pressure and, importantly, self-reported scientific misbehaviour were associated with the 'sneaky grandiose' personality cluster.

Discussion

These findings suggest that biomedical scientists in the 'sneaky grandiose' personality cluster have a relatively high propensity to engage in research misbehaviour. A small proportion of the 'sneaky grandiose' might suffer from a psychiatric condition characterized by pathological preoccupation with publishing and being cited. We therefore propose to name this syndrome 'Publiphilia Impactfactorius' (PI), and we suggest this affliction should be considered in revised versions of DSM5 and ICD-10. We provide tentative diagnostic criteria for PI. Early identification and intensive treatment or, alternatively, expulsion and annihilation of colleagues who suffer from PI may prevent further accumulation of research waste.


An LED package is provided to improve a light extraction efficiency by preventing the leak of a silicon resin using a screw connection structure composed of a male screw and a female screw. An LED package comprises a package body, an LED chip, a wire, a molding member, and a lens. The package body(220) includes one or more pairs of lead terminals(210a,210b). A molding member injected space is defined in the package body. A male screw portion(221) is formed at an outer periphery of the package body. The LED chip(230) is mounted on the lead terminal. The wire(240) is used for connecting electrically the LED chip with the lead terminals. The molding member(250) is injected into the package body to protect the LED chip and the wire. The lens(270) is formed on the resultant structure. The lens is composed of a light transmitting portion(270a) and a connecting portion(270b) with a female screw portion(271) corresponding to the male screw portion of the package body.


A software-defined adaptive coding scheme is experimentally implemented and evaluated for 50 Gbps 4-PAM optical switching in wavelength-routing DCs. Up to 1 dB reduction in transmission power is achieved with switching latencies of hundreds of milliseconds.


The volatile oil was extracted from the roots of Notopterygium incisum Ting ex H.T.Chang using petroleum ether.The content of the volatile oil from N.incisum Ting ex H.T.Chang was 3.2%.More than fifty kinds of peaks and forty-one species of compounds were separated and identified by GC/MS.The relative content of these compounds were calculated using square peaks to normalization.41 identified compounds mainly included Shyobunone,9,12-Octadecadienoic acid(Z,Z)-,beta.-Sitosterol acetate,Cadindienol,n-Hexadecanoic acid.It is helpful to provide the foundation for reasonable utilization by this experiment.


A new technique was developed for the investigation of chatter formation considering the instability of the closed-loop system formed by machine tool structure and metal-cutting process. Machine tool structure indicates the importance of different system components and it's dominating mode frequencies whereas the metal cutting process indicates the effect of the instability of chip formation-chip serration frequency. The mechanisms of the investigation of chatter explained by the technique were experimentally verified during end milling operation of medium carbon steel (AISI 45) considering the chips and types of discreteness in the form of serrated saw teeth. Experimental investigations have been conducted on the chips and common types of discreteness in the form of serrated saw teeth. Mechanism of formation of these teeth has been studied and the frequency of their formation has been determined. The different modes of the vibrating components of the machine tools have been identified using modal analysis and the vibration responses during cutting conditions have been recorded using an online monitoring system. The vibration signals in frequency domain have been analyzed to identify the chatter frequencies and compared with the chip serration frequency in a wide cutting speed range for different cutting conditions. It has been found that chatter is the outcome of resonance, which occurs in the system when the frequency of secondary or primary serrated teeth formation is approximately equal to or an integer multiple of the 'prominent mode frequencies' of the system components. problem are identified, they can be eliminated. The main characteristic of machine tool chatter is that it is a self-induced vibration, not caused by external periodic forces. Chatter draws the energy for its maintenance from the cutting operation. Although chatter has been extensively investigated in the past 100 years, it is still very difficult to suppress it in practice. Taylor suggested that element chip formation is responsible for chatter (1), but this proposition was not acceptable since element chip formation occurs at extremely low cutting speed where chatter is almost absent. Kudinov (2) and Shteinberg (3) considered that the periodic effect of built-up-edge (BUE) formation can excite vibration. Kuznetsov (4) also considered that the vibration caused by the unstable and periodically broken BUE is responsible for chatter. However, no serious chatter is also observed in the cutting speed range of BUE formation, chatter generally exists at relatively higher cutting speeds where BUE is absent. Eliasberg (5) considered that the cause of chatter is the formation of a crack in the chip above the tool point which is observed when the cutting process is monitored using a high speed video camera. However, Loladze (6)


This article addresses how China's discriminatory trade practices and illicit means of foreign technology acquisition under its Made in China 2025 plan undermine current international trade orders and pose the greatest threat to its existence. Using both primary and secondary data, this article highlights major implications that Made in China 2025 has on free trade, the overall health of the U.S. economy, and U.S. national security. It proposes a multilateral strategy to preserve the current trade system to steer China on track toward honoring its commitment to free trade and identifies how the United States can maintain supremacy throughout the twenty-first century.


Quadratic matrix equations and in particular symmetric algebraic Riccati equations play a fundamental role in systems and control theory. Classically, they are solved via methods using their connection to Hamiltonian eigenproblems. Due to the ever-increasing complexity of the models describing the underlying control problems, new methods are needed that can be used for large-scale problems. In particular, sparsity of the coefficient matrices, obtained, e.g., from semi-discretizing partial differential equations to describe the physical process to be controlled, need to be addressed. We briefly review recent approaches based on Krylov subspace methods and discuss a new approach employing a sparse implementation of Newton's method for algebraic Riccati equations.


The present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and the two or more electrode assembly having an intervening structure of the separation membrane between the positive electrode and the negative electrode is a battery cell incorporated in the battery case, the electrode assembly the position of the electrode terminals are vertically stacked as a reference, at the interface of the electrode assembly, a side lower edge of the electrode assembly of the upper position is in contact with the upper surface of the electrode assembly of the lower position, the lower one side upper edge portion of the electrode assembly position is laminated in structure in contact with the lower surface of the electrode assembly of the upper position, the battery case, in that it consists of an inner surface shape corresponding to the laminated outer shape of the electrode assembly providing a battery cell, wherein.


In the wake of the Copenhagen Conference and the outstanding issue of shaping climate change mitigation for the period beyond that covered by the Kyoto protocol, this paper puts into context the various economic instruments available fot tackling climate change, and highlights the emergence, as a result of the framework of instruments provided by the Kyoto protocol, of carbon markets, (...)


Temporal variations of the path of the East Korea Warm Current(EKWC) which flows northward along the east coast of Korea were analysed to investigate whether the EKWC directly influences the existence of the so-called Warm Core in the Ulreung basin. From the 13 years(1975-1987) data of the Fisheries Research and Development Agency(FRDA), the isotherm at the 100m depth and the depth of isotherm and the temperature field at the 200m depth were used for identification of the path and the central position of the Warm Core. Sea surface winds computed from the surface pressure charts gave the monthly-averaged wind stress curl over the East Sea which was used for determination of the Sverdrup transport. And the mass transport stream functions were computed by use of the Sverdrup balance. The variations of the path show that the EKWC does not always have a fixed path and fluctuates with time. And the existence of the Warm Core is independent upon the presence of the EKWC even when the EKWC doesn't flow northward along the east coast of Korea. In view of the mass transport stream functions, the influences of the sea surface winds on the branching of the Tsushima Warm Currents and the presence of the EKWC were investigated. The presence of the EKWC may be hindered by the southward flow driven by the sea surface winds when the Tsushima currents are rather weak. A very weak correlation exists between the north-south component of the Sverdrup transport and the position of the Warm Core. However, a small but significant part of the southward transport across the latitudinal line of indicates that cold water from the northern part of the East Sea may be driven and be forced to flow beneath the permanent thermocline in such a way that the thermal structure of the Warm Core and its position might be changed.


--A hydrothermally altered rhyolitic hyaloclastite from Ponza island, Italy, has four alteration zones with unique clay assemblages: (1) a non-pervasive argillic zone characterized by smectite; (2) a propylitic zone with interstratified illite-smectite (I-S) containing 10-85% illite (I); (3) a silicic zone composed of I-S with -->90% I and pure illite; and (4) a sericitic zone with I-S ranging from 66% I to pure illite. Atomic force microscopy reveals abrupt changes in particle morphology with illitization, including initial changes from anhedral plates to laths and then to eubedral plates and hexagonal plates. I-S particles progressively thicken with illitization and mean particle area (basal plane) remains constant from pure smectite to I-S with 80% I. However, particle area increases from 90 to 100% illite. Computer modeling of I-S structural forms indicates octahedral cation ordering progressively changes from cisvacant smectite to interstratified cisand t rans-vacant l-S, and then to t rans-vacant illite. In addition, polytypes progressively change from 1M d to 1M, and then to 2MI illite. Electron-microprobe and X-ray fluoresence analyses show that I-S chemistry progressively changes during illitization, evolving toward a phengitic composition with --0.89 fixed interlayer K + per O~0(OH)2. Octahedral Mg 2+ shows little change with illitization, varying from 0.3 to 0.5 cations per O~0(OH)2. The layer charge of smectite is --0.38 equivalents per OI0(OH) 2. On the basis of abrupt changes in morphology and progressive changes in polytype and chemistry, smectite illitization on Ponza involved a dissolution and recrystallization mechanism with multiple stages of nucleation and crystal growth. In this multi-step model, temperature of alteration provided the major control for the layer composition, polytype, and morphology of I-S crystallites. Other factors that may play a secondary role include: K + availability, water-rock ratio, and permeability. Alternatively, the mechanism of I-S and illite formation at Ponza and other hydrothermal environments may occur by direct precipitation of I-S crystallites from rhyolite glass and may not involve progressive reactions of smectite precursors. Key Words-Atomic Force Microscopy, Chemical Analysis, Illite, Polytype, Smectite, XRD. I N T R O D U C T I O N N u m e r o u s studies (see rev iew by Al tane r and Ylagan, 1997) of smect i te i l l i t izat ion have p roposed various reac t ion m e c h a n i s m s wh ich can be grouped into two g e n e r a l ca t egor i e s : so l id s t a t e t r a n s f o r m a t i o n (SST) and d isso lu t ion and crys ta l l iza t ion (DC). A n SST m e c h a n i s m invo lves the gradual and topotact ic r ep l acemen t of smect i te by illite. This m e c h a n i s m features gradual changes in Re ichwei t e order ing, s imilar po ly types o f the smect i te and illi te crystals , and illi te c rys ta ls wi th a s imi lar size and shape as the smect i te precursor (Barronet , 1992). Pol lard (1971) p roposed a m e c h a n i s m where A1 and Si diffuse t h rough the interlayer, fo l lowed by te t rahedra l shee t d is tor t ions as A1 replaces Si. Others s tudies sugges t an SST m e c h a n i s m but do not p ropose specific mode l s (Hower, 1981; Hunz ike r e t a l . , 1986; Inoue e t a l . , 1990; L indgreen e t a l . , 1991). DC m e c h a n i s m s invo lve comple te d isso lu t ion of smect i te fo l lowed by crys ta l l iza t ion of ill i te as a separate grain. DC m e c h a n i s m s feature abrupt changes in t Present address: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co., P.O. Box 2189, Houston, Texas 77252-2189 USA. Re ichwei te order ing, polytype, and m o r p h o l o g y (Barronet, 1992). On the basis of minera log ic and t ransmiss ion e lect ron mic roscopy (TEM) evidence , several D C m e c h a n i s m s have been p roposed for i l l i t izat ion (Nadeau e t aL , 1984, 1985; Yau e t a l . , 1987; Inoue e t a l . , 1987; Eber l and Srodofi, 1988). Accord ing to Inoue e t a l . (1987), anhedra l smect i te crys ta ls b e c o m e unstable , dissolve, and recrys ta l l ize to fo rm th in euhedral laths, some o f wh ich d isso lve and crys ta l l ize to fo rm larger euhedra l il l i te la ths and hexagons . Whi t ney and Velde (1993) p roposed a DC mode l wi th several stages inc lud ing smect i te dissolut ion, nuc lea t ion o f smal l i l l i te crys ta ls onto smect i te templates , and coa lescence and growth of ill i te crystals . Eber l and Srodoff (1988) and Inoue e t al. (1988) conc luded that i l l i te recrys ta l l iza t ion is cont ro l led by an Os twald r ipen ing m e c h a n i s m whe reby the smal les t crysta l l i tes d isso lve and reprecipi ta te on to larger crys ta l l i tes to min imize the surface free energy. A h n and Peacor (1986) presented a reac t ion m e c h a n i s m in te rmedia te be tween SST and DC where smect i te d issolves and illi te replaces the parent smecti te . In summary , some studies favor the DC m e c h a n i s m (Nadeau e t a L , 1985), others favor Os twa ld r ipen ing Copyright 9 2000, The Clay Minerals Society 610 Vol. 48, No. 6 , 2000 Reaction mechanisms of smectite illitization from Ponza island, Italy 61 1 (Eberl et al., 1990), and still others favor an SST mechanism (Hunziker et al., 1986; Lindgreen et al., 1991; Clauer et al., 1995). Several studies emphasize that different mechanisms may apply in different geologic environments: an SST or local DC mechanism describing illitization in shale and bentonite (Inoue et al., 1990; Ahn and Peacor, 1986; Li et al., 1997) and a DC or Ostwald ripening mechanism in hydrothermal settings (Yau et al., 1987; Inoue et al., 1988; Christidis, 1995). Based on crystallite shapes and size distributions, Lanson et al. (1998) proposed different pathways for illitization in different sedimentary basins. In addition, other studies suggest the reaction mechanism changes from SST where illite-smectite (I-S) exhibits Reichweite, R = 0 order to DC where I-S has R 2 1 order (Drits, 1987; Whitney and Northrop, 1988). Inoue et al. (1987) suggested a three-step process of K+ fixation, followed by DC, and then followed by Ostwald ripening. It is important in geologic studies to understand the reaction mechanism of smectite illitization because, if illitization occurs by an SST mechanism, then geochemical analyses of I-S minerals (e.g., K/Ar ages and 6180 values) represent an average over a broad range Figure 1. Geologic map of Ponza and Gavi islands (Modified from Carmassi et al,, 1983), Inset depicts a regional map of environmental conditions. However, if illitization of Italy showing the major volcanic provinces. (Modified Occurs by a DC mechanism, then these data represent from Turi et al., 1991). Tuscan magmatic province (TMP) the diagenetic conditions during the final stage of ilages are from Ferrara and Tonarini (1985). Fornaseri (1985), litization. The objective of this paper is to characterize and ~ e r r a r a et al. (1988); Roman comagmatic province the reaction mechanism of smectite iiiitization in a nat(RCMP) ages are from Capaldi et al. (1985). ural setting of hydrothermal alteration. GEOLOGIC SETTING Regional geology Ponza island is on the western coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea along with numerous volcanic islands Figure 2. Map of northern Ponza and Gavi indicating sample locations, % Illite in I-S value, and the distribution of the alteration zones. Heavy dashed lines with "?" indicate possible faults (Ylagan er al., 1996). 612 Ylagan, Altaner, and Pozzuoli Clays and Clay Minerals


The protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP)‐like phytase, PhyAsr, from Selenomonas ruminantium is a novel member of the PTP superfamily, and the only described member that hydrolyzes myo‐inositol‐1,2,3,4,5,6‐hexakisphosphate. In addition to the unique substrate specificity of PhyAsr, the phosphate‐binding loop (P‐loop) has been reported to undergo a conformational change from an open (inactive) to a closed (active) conformation upon ligand binding at low ionic strength. At high ionic strengths, the P‐loop was observed in the closed, active conformation in both the presence and absence of ligand. To test whether the P‐loop movement can be induced by changes in ionic strength, we examined the effect that ionic strength has on the catalytic efficiency of PhyAsr, and determined the structure of the enzyme at several ionic strengths. The catalytic efficiency of PhyAsr is highly sensitive to ionic strength, with a seven‐fold increase in kcat/Km and a ninefold decrease in Km when the ionic strength is increased from 100 to 500 mm. Surprisingly, the P‐loop is observed in the catalytically competent conformation at all ionic strengths, despite the absence of a ligand. Here we provide structural evidence that the ionic strength dependence of PhyAsr and the conformational change in the P‐loop are not linked. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the previously reported P‐loop conformational change is a result of irreversible oxidation of the active site thiolate. Finally, we rationalize the observed P‐loop conformational changes observed in all oxidized PTP structures.


Objective To standardize the utilization of the implantable consumables for the orthopedic patients of medical insurance.Methods Statistical analysis was performed for the implantable consumables of the orthopedic patients of medical insurance in some third-class first-grade hospital in the first half of 2011.Results Medical quality and the benefit of the patients of medical insurance were all ensured.Conclusion It's suggested that personnel training and approval procedure be emphasized to standardize the utilization of the implantable consumables of the orthopedic patients of medical insurance.


This paper describes how an analysis/optimization program in current use may be adapted for the design of m.i.c.s. The optimization routine combines two different strategies to reduce the execution time and increase the accuracy of approach to the true minimum. The analysis routine incorporates an algorithm for junction parasitics, dispersion, conductor and dielectric loss in the microstrip lines. The effects of these parameters, together with design details, are given and optimized results presented for several amplifiers, including an X-band single stage version, employing GaAs Schottky-gate field-effect transistors. This amplifier achieves 7 dB ± 0.5 dB gain, with 2.5 : 1 input and output v.s.w.r., over the frequency range 8–11.6 GHz.


The aerodynamics of finite-span inclined flat plates in ground effect is experimentally investigated at a chord-based Reynolds number of 50 000 for aspect ratios of 1 and 2. The minimum ground height is varied between 0.1 and 1.0 chord lengths, and lift and drag forces are measured using a force balance for angles of attack between −90° and 90°. Planar, two- and three-component particle image velocimetry is used to perform streamwise and cross-plane measurements at the midspan and one chord length downstream of the trailing edge, respectively. Ground effect is significant at ground clearances below 0.5 chord lengths, most notably near the stall angle, where it leads to significant changes to flow development. At sufficiently low free flight pre-stall angles, the increase in edge velocity at low gap ratios caused greater suction, generating higher lift with a minimal increase in drag for both orientations. Closer to the free flight stall angle, a decrease in aerodynamic loading is observed for negative orientations due to earlier onset of stall with a decreasing gap ratio. The exception was the higher aspect ratio plate at negative orientations, where the loading was largely invariant to changes in gap ratio for all angles tested. At positive orientations, the increase in average static pressure along the pressure surface in ground proximity led to an overall increase in loading prior to deep-stall conditions for both aspect ratios. The ground effect was minimal at post-stall angles of attack. The results may be used to guide the design of photovoltaic supports at relevant latitudes.


In this paper the basic function of Microsoft Access2000 and its application in computer manage system of College of Life Science and Technology in Shaanxi University of Science Technology were introduced. We mainly explained how to use Microsoft Access2000 to set up database and discussed the function of the objects in Microsoft Access2000.


The Christmas ritual is the largest consumption period of the year, but few researchers have attempted to understand the meanings of Christmas via holistic study. This paper uses an ethnographic approach to identify six dimensions of the Christmas ritual: (1) Spirit of Christmas, (2) Religion, (3) Santa Claus, (4) Family, (5) Gifts, (6) Decorations. Thick description through presentation of quoted verbal reports and observation of behavior is presented. Based on an interpretation of these data, it may be concluded that emotions are the most important dimensions of Christmas. Implications and suggestions for future research are offered.


A method of measuring the 3-D pose of the remote revolving target such as rocket or missile by using the intersected measuring system with a proper algorithm is described.An emulate experiment that measuring the 3-D pose of the target is carried out in lab.A new calibration method on dual-CCD intersection measurement is described which is more accurate.This paper creates a math model of measuring the 3-D pose of the target;The measuring precision of this method is analyzed by using the relative error.The simulation results show that this method can be used in the practical project,The measuring precision is higher than 0.5° if the measuring stations are arranged correctly in lab.


Report presenting turbulent-heat-transfer measurements obtained through the use of an axially symmetric annual nozzle consisting of an inner shaped center body and an outer cylindrical sleeve at Mach number 3.90. Results regarding the variation of wall temperature with longitudinal distance, variation of local Nusselt number with local Reynolds number, and variation of local temperature-recovery factor with local Reynolds number are provided.


Teaching children and youth to be socially competent is a central theme within schools. As Odom, McConnell, and McEvoy (1992) stated, "Humans enter a social world at birth and make their way through the world by successfully negotiating decades of social exchange" (p. 7). An estimated 10% of school-age children, however, have social skill difficulties significant enough to lead to peer rejection (Asher, 1990). For children with disabilities, the problem is even worse. Early education teachers have indicated that up to 75% of children with disabilities need remediation in social skills (Odom et al., 1992). Teaching social skills directly is one strategy to provide children with the social behaviors they need to successfully interact socially with peers with and without disabilities (Hops, Finch, & McConnell, 1985). Most published social skills curricula fail to meet the specific needs of students with disabilities and lack information about assessment, teaching, and generalization strategies (Maag, 1989). The need for effective social skills curricula is highlighted by teacher surveys that overwhelmingly indicate that special and regular educators alike believe social skills training should be an integral part of the curriculum (Bain & Farris, 1991; Fuller, Lewis, & Sugai, 1995; Meadows, Neel, Parker, & Timo, 1991). The focus of this article is on the strategies and structures necessary for fostering social competence in all children, and, in particular, children who are at risk of academic or social failure. These include strategies for assessing and understanding social skills problems, strategies for teaching social skills, and preferred practices for achieving generalized responding. Guidelines for developing, examining, and selecting a social skills curriculum are provided.


was no defitnite evidence of a coustitutional predisposition to nervous disease, as in only seven cases was there a history of nervous taint in the family. The ages of the patients ranged from 12 to 69, the great majority falling within the third, fourth, adcl fifth decades. In the early stage the diagnosis was often (lifficuit or impossible. The symptoms of onset were, in order of frequency, fever, diplopia, sownoleuice, insomnia, delirium, and ptosis. There was a great predominance of motor over sensory symptoms, as shown by the fact that 48 had sotmie formii of motor disturbatnce, as compared with only 15 with any evidence of sensory disturbance. Examination of the ceretro-spinal fluid was useful in excluding other disease ot tlhe nervous systemi. The pressure was normial in 18, increased in 6, and diminished in 5. There


The effect of melt pretreatment on microstructures and their properties in hypereutectic Al-Si alloy has been studied. It is shown that the primary silicon and eutectic silicon in Al-Si alloy have been greatly refined in the optimum melt pretreatment condition. Meanwhile, the mechanical properties and microstructures in hypereutectic Al-Si alloy have been obviously improved,i.e. σ b is increased by 43%~60%; δ is increased by 19.5%~102%;HB is increased by 19%~26.6%.Furthermore,the refining mechanism of melt pretreatment is primarily studied.


Respiratory, voice, and swallowing difficulties after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) may result secondary to upper airway disease from prolonged intubation or mechanisms related to the virus itself. We examined a cohort who presented with new laryngeal complaints following documented SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. We characterized their voice, airway, and/or swallowing symptoms and reviewed the clinical course of their complaints to understand how the natural history of these symptoms relates to COVID‐19 infections.


We consider several applications in black-box quantum computation in which untrusted physical quantum devices are connected together to produce an experiment. By examining the outcome statistics of such an experiment, and comparing them against the desired experiment, we may hope to certify that the physical experiment is implementing the desired experiment. This is useful in order to verify that a calculation has been performed correctly, that measurement outcomes are secure, or that the devices are producing the desired state.


Background: Physicians' and nurses' experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and its physical and psychological consequences can be associated with changes in biological and hormonal levels experienced as fatigue, restlessness, disruptions in one's mood, and sleep quality. This study examined the role of depression and death anxiety in contracting COVID-19 among healthcare staff. Methods: The statistical population of this descriptive correlational research comprised nurses and nurse assistants working in Tehran (Iran) hospitals from the summer to winter of 2021. A sample of 156 was selected to fill out a demographic information form, Templer's death anxiety scale, and Beck's depression inventory. The data were analyzed in SPSS software, version 25.0 using logistic regression analysis. Results: The model based on three predictors of depression (cognitive, affective, and physical components) led to a significantly better prediction compared to the fixed-effects model (P<0.001). The affective component of depression was a more powerful predictor of the risk of COVID-19 than the other two components. The model based on three predictors of death anxiety (absolute death anxiety, fear of pain and surgery, and the general factor) also led to a significantly better prediction compared to the fixed-effects model (P<0.001). All three components of death anxiety were statistically significant predictors of COVID-19 risk Conclusion: Consequently, depression and death anxiety seem to predict and explain the risk of COVID-19 in healthcare staff by altering cognitive, affective, and physical conditions.


Background and Objectives Antihistamine drugs for acute upper respiratory tract infection treatment in children have many side effects. In this study, a anti-cough syrup was prepared from Cordia (Sepestan in Persian) extract and its effect was compared to that of diphenhydramine syrup on cough relief of children with upper respiratory tract infection. Subjects and Methods This double-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted on 124 children with upper respiratory tract infection aged 6-12 years referred to Abouzar Hospital in Ahvaz, Iran during 2019- 2021 in two treatment groups. The first group was given Sepestan syrup at a dose of 20 mg/kg/day and the second group received diphenhydramine syrup at a dose of 5 mg/kg/day in four dosages. For three days, the number and severity of day-time and night-time coughs were examined and the data were analyzed with independent t-test and chi-square test in SPSS software, version 24. Results The number and severity of day-time and night-time coughs in the group received Sepestan syrup significantly decreased compared to the diphenhydramine group, without any side effects (P<0.001). Conclusion High polysaccharides, strong antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory compounds of Sepestan can reduce throat irritation and soften the chest. The mucilage in the Sepestan extract can dissolve in water and produce a viscous substance such as gelatin that cause softening of the breast and expectoration.


The article outlines the activities of Kazan"s Beekeepers Society in 1903-1917. The Society played a prominent role in the region"s economic development as it gave rise to new, then unknown patterns of economic activity in the Kazan Governorate and contributed to the proliferation of advanced bee-farming practices.


A single oxide layer acts as a surface oxide activation layer (SOAL) on top of the VN surface toward the HER. VN is a simple model nitride, and this picture can be used for designing enhanced nitride-based catalysts with controlled oxidation of surfaces.


At present,the archives resources still can not cater the demands of the development of the society,the consciousness of archive-service also needs improvement,and the development of information technology provides new space for the enhancement of the development and utilization of archives resources.The key point is how to grasp this opportunity of the modernization of archives management.


Reacting 1,2-butylene oxide in the presence of double metal cyanide catalysts such as zinc hexacyanocobaltate catalyst complex homo- or random copolymer. Surprisingly, the polymer contains a large amount of monofunctional impurities, which can be controlled by selecting a polymerization condition part.


illogical, since many expert criminals hail from Australia and since the rhyming argot is most widely used on the West Coast. Over a period of years I have been collecting this argot and noting its geographical distribution; recently I forwarded several hundred selected items to Mr. Sidney J. Baker, the Australian lexicographer, for checking against Australian usage. The results are given in the following pages. First, a word about this argot and its use in the United States. Briefly, its notable features are the following: Each meaning is expressed by a pair of words the second of which rhymes (or rhymes imperfectly) with the meaning. The predominant rhythm of these pairs is either iambic or trochaic and usually carries over into the meaning, dinky-dirt, a shirt. The key word (a shirt) is not expressed but is left for the hearer to supply. There is frequently-too frequently to be coincidental-a connection between the sound and the sense, or between the imagery and the sense, or both. There is a tendency (notably less pronounced than in Australia) to clip one term and allow the other to carry the meaning even though it no longer rhymes, as twist, a girl, from twist and twirl. There is a marked lack of technical meanings, indicating that rhyming argot has never been specialized to any criminal craft; the more highly specialized crim-


A refined Resonant Ionization Spectroscopy (RIS) scheme for high resolution Laser Photodetachment Threshold Spectroscopy (LPTS). In this work the scheme is used to measure the electron affinity of cesium.


The geometrical conditions are analytically calculated in which two interlinked second-order nonlinear interactions generating entangled triplets are phase-matched in 3D. The interactions are the spontaneous parametric downconversion of an intense pump and the upconversion of a portion of the downconversion cones by a further pump. The calculation applies to type-I interactions occurring in uniaxial crystals and allows us to forecast positions and frequencies of the entangled triplets experimentally generated. The photon number statistics and the intensity correlations are also measured.


This article discusses the requirement made by article 1,647 of Brazil's Civil Code of a spouse award for the provision of guarantee by one of the spouses. The subject is analyzed in accordance to the principles of bill of exchange law and the specificity of the legal regime of credit instruments, as well as comments on the recent change in the jurisprudence of the STJ, which changed the paradigm of interpretation of the article. The purpose is to demonstrate the unnecessary marital bestowal to provide the guarantee. The method used was the deductive and research was bibliographic and documentary types.


Through watching the video of women's 400m individual medley match of 30th Olympic Games,quantitative analysis and comparative study was adopted to analyse the technical movement of top eight athletes by using fast feedback system,and referring to related information the study found: Ye shi-wen was at peak of competitive age,tall stature,and wealth of practice experience laid the foundation of her best athletic ability in the Olympic Games.The personalized distribution of physical strength saved the energy consumption in the entire game.The well starting technology and perfect coordination of the arm-leg technology in freestyle attributed to her win by amazing swimming speed.


Communicating with students in today's high school science classroom is challenging for teachers because the majority of them speak only English (Darling-Hammond and Sclan 1996). Many of their students, however, do not speak English as their primary language. This creates an instructional barrier across the content areas, and especially in science where much of the learning is abstract and hard to grasp for those who do not speak the language of instruction well. This created a big challenge for me as I prepared preservice teachers of secondary science in the state of Utah in 2004. In many school districts throughout Utah the percentage of English language learner (ELL) Latino students is around 40% of the total student population (Utah State Office of Education 2004). One way I found to bridge this gap in secondary science and to teach English as a second language is through the use of portfolios. Communicating through portfolios Teachers have used portfolios, in one manner or another, for many years. But they are not always used effectively in science. This may be due to teachers seeing portfolio grading as time- and labor-intensive. Many science teachers do not realize, though, that portfolios can be used not only for assessment but also for instruction. Using portfolios for instruction benefits students from many different backgrounds; students are encouraged to reflect and write about their learning experiences as they occur and then have conferences with their teacher regarding concepts that are unclear or misunderstood. Through the use of portfolios, students learn to use writing to apply inquiry skills and communicate their findings to others. Entries require students to apply what they have learned to their personal lives. As relationships are built in the classroom, students are more comfortable with their learning environment and are empowered to be more successful. The use of portfolios can provide all students an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of concepts and content as they apply their new learning to prior knowledge and cultural experiences. Throughout this process, students who may be learning English not only have the opportunity to practice writing skills and choose their own words in English to represent their ideas, but they are also empowered to bring in their own experiences and make the science content culturally relevant to them. Portfolio use transitions the learning environment from being teacher-centered to student-driven and provides more opportunities for students to develop their own meanings and to have choices in their learning experiences. Three easy pieces When I taught secondary science in 2001 in Ohio, the instructional model of portfolio use I implemented was one I adapted from the State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) science portfolio curriculum (CCSSO 1996). This model contains three types of portfolio pieces; the use of inquiry and the National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996) are a critical component of each entry. This replaced lab reports for entry-level science classes that I taught. Investigation The first type of portfolio piece is the investigation entry (Figure 1). This entry is based on a scientific investigation guided by the teacher, but mostly constructed and performed by the student. The student writes the entry throughout the investigation in place of a typical lab report, with input and assistance as needed from the classroom teacher and peer group. An example of this type of work has a teacher posing to students a problem called "Hot Wheels Madness." Students develop an investigation to determine the effect of ramp height and car type on the average speed and distance traveled by a toy car. Students then work with a partner to design an experiment and test out their toy cars. In their portfolio entry, students use their own words to describe their procedures, experiment, and results. …


In order to enhance the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique that is employed in a physical layer of WiMax network, OFDM technique based on Discrete Wavelet Transform DWT-OFDM is introduced to replace the conventional OFDM based on Fast Fourier Transform FFT-OFDM. Forward Error Correction (FEC) code and Viterbi decoder of high speed decoding capabilities is introduced to the system. Based on the simulation results analysis, the proposed system employing parallel Viterbi decoder shows a superior performance enhancement when compared to FFT-OFDM system and significantly enhances the throughput of the system without degrading the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance. KeywordsOFDM; WiMax network; discrete wavelet transform; parallel Viterbi decoder.


Objective: Preschizophrenic children who merit psychiatric referral are claimed to have a particularly malevolent illness when the psychosis develops later. The 21 years outcome of a sample of such children was investigated.


Brain function is highly dependent upon controlled energy metabolism whose loss heralds cognitive impairments. This is particularly notable in the aged individuals and in age‐related neurodegenerative diseases. However, how metabolic homeostasis is disrupted in the aging brain is still poorly understood. Here we performed global, metabolomic and proteomic analyses across different anatomical regions of mouse brain at different stages of its adult lifespan. Interestingly, while severe proteomic imbalance was absent, global‐untargeted metabolomics revealed an energy metabolic drift or significant imbalance in core metabolite levels in aged mouse brains. Metabolic imbalance was characterized by compromised cellular energy status (NAD decline, increased AMP/ATP, purine/pyrimidine accumulation) and significantly altered oxidative phosphorylation and nucleotide biosynthesis and degradation. The central energy metabolic drift suggests a failure of the cellular machinery to restore metabostasis (metabolite homeostasis) in the aged brain and therefore an inability to respond properly to external stimuli, likely driving the alterations in signaling activity and thus in neuronal function and communication. www.impactaging.com 1 AGING, May 2016, Vol. 8 No.5 its oxidative, high-energy demanding metabolism [1, 6, 7]. In vivo monitoring of brain metabolism, using PET (Positron Emission Tomography) and MRS (Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy), have reported an energy deficit determined by abnormally low glucose metabolism (uptake and oxidation) coupled to mitochondrial dysfunction as one of the main, early indicators of age-related changes toward cognitive impairment in the healthy aging brain and neurodegenerative diseases [8-10]. Glucose is the primary source of energy for brain cells where it is almost fully oxidized via oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria to produce ATP [11]. Although glucose is a key energetic substrate for the brain, the alternative substrates such as lactate and ketone bodies are used when glucose is in short supply [12, 13]. While neurons require extensive amounts of energy for signaling processes the astrocytes play an essential role in the regulation of brain energy metabolism [1]. Energy metabolism is coordinated through the mitochondria-cytosol link, and the observed cerebral glucose hypometabolism driven by mitochondrial regulatory dysfunction seems to be an early event in the progression of brain aging that hinders the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Disrupted ion homeostasis, inability to maintain the integrity of cellular compartments, synaptic communication and neuro-transmission directly affects neural function [14, 15]. Although the impairment of mitochondrial energy-transducing capacity leading to loss of cellular homeostasis is an evolutionary conserved phenomenon considered a hallmark of aging, it is still largely unknown why and how the homeostasis is disrupted [16, 17]. Brain aging is a particularly challenging problem to assess and it is not clear whether the mechanisms that have been identified in different animal models (including rodents, flies, molluscs and worms) at the organism level also play a role in central nervous system (CNS) aging. With the 'omic technology improvements we are getting closer to understanding the causes and effects of aging at the molecular level. Genomeand proteomewide views of age-associated changes in the epigenome, in gene and protein expression, have been described in the aging brain in animal models and across human populations [18-23]. However, metabolome-wide studies are scarce and mainly focused on biofluid screening (e.g. blood plasma, cerebrospinal fluid) for biomarker discovery associated with neurodegenerative diseases that implicate accelerated disease-induced aging. Molecular phenotyping at the metabolite level during the aging process has been limited to a small subset of known highly abundant metabolites (e.g. glucose, lactate, N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), myoInositol, creatine, choline, glutamate and glutamine) that can be assessed in vivo, using PET and MRS [8, 24]. Low sensitivity of MRS and PET provide limited information concerning low abundant and labile metabolites. Global tissue metabolomics could markedly upgrade our understanding of the molecular bases of brain aging by direct and unbiased monitoring of tissue activity across a broad range of small molecules, including low abundant and trace metabolites, from the whole-organ level down to the regional, cellular and sub-cellular level [25, 26]. Specific types of cells (e.g. cell culture) and/or fractions enriched in specific organelles (e.g. mitochondria) can be routinely analyzed due to considerable advancements in instrument sensitivity. Here we examine brain energy metabolism in order to characterize the role it plays in central nervous system function during the healthy aging process. In mice, as in humans, aged individuals have shown a variety of cognitive and behavioral changes, including deficits in learning and memory [27, 28]. While most studies have addressed changes in energy metabolism of the aging brain in pathological conditions, in the current study we have applied cutting-edge, mass spectrometry-based 'omic technologies to reveal metabolic changes that are taking place during the normal brain aging. The proteome and metabolome wide profiling of mouse brain at different stages of the life cycle (12, 18 and 24 months) and across different anatomical regions provided insight into a new phenomenon we define as metabolic drift in the aging brain. The intrinsic changes in cellular activity of a healthy aging brain were mainly defined by altered oxidative phosphorylation and nucleotide biosynthesis and degradation, with some parallels to metabolic reprogramming in cancer. Characterization of the aging brain phenotype at the metabolite level is an essential step toward understanding how metabostasis is changing and thus deducing the mechanisms to limit the effects of aging.


Introduction. Organophosphorus Compounds. Carbamates. Organochlorine Compounds. Synthetic Pyrethroids. Organotin Compounds. Organomercurial Compounds. Dithiocarbamate Compounds. Benzimidazole Compounds. Chlorphenoxy Compounds. Dipyridiliums. Miscellaneous Pesticides. Combined Exposure. Epidemiology of Acute Intoxications. Reentry Periods. Epidemiology of pesticide toxification Human toxicology of selected groups of pesticides Combined effects of various pesticides and chronic effects in long-term use of pesticides Monitoring of human exposure Methods for reducing exposure Safe exposure limits


Inspired by abstract mathematical animated loops like those created by David Whyte (@beesandbombs), I explore animations based on isohedral tilings. I present a complete interactive tool for designing tiling animations, and show a few results that I have obtained using this tool.


In order to choose the soft substrate suitable for container nursery, which are charactered of easy collection and low cost of transportation, Cinnamomum glanduliferum and Robinia pseudoacacia container nursery were tested on bagasse, sawdust,slag,bark powder and straw powder as substrates,which mixed with peat and pearlite at a mix rate of respectively.Through a comprehensive evaluation on seedling height,diameter,root length,total biomass,it showed that Cinnomomum glanduliferum grew best on No 3 substrate, with a height of 203cm,diameter of 042cm,total biomass 2 200mg and aboveground to underground biomass 1∶4;meanwhile Robinia pseudoacacia grew best on No 1 substrate, with a height of 323cm,diameter 071cm,total biomass 6 2577mg and aboveground to underground biomass 1∶2.This paper also compared the costs of Robinia pseudoacacia on different substrates,the result showed that the costs on above 5 substrates were 003 yuan each seedling difference with the topsoil nursery,but the weights of those substrates were lighter than 1/2 of the topsoil;so the transportation expense was more cheaper.For Cinnomomum glandaliferum container nursery, the cost of each container seedling increased 0014 yuan than common nursery,but the survival rate improved 277%.The experiments proved that the soft substrates should be applied in practice.


Objective To investigate the effect of volar locking plate combined with external fixator in the treatment of unstable distal radius type C fractures. Methods 24 patients with unstable distal radius type C fractures were treated by volar locking plate combined with external fixator. Results 22 cases were followed up for 6 ~ 29 months. Acorrding to Lidstrom scoring criteria,image evaluation were excellent in 12 cases,good in 7,and fair in 3. According to Cooney functional evaluation standard,the function evaluation of the wrist joint were excellent in 17 cases,good in 3,and fair in 2. No serious complications were found. Conclusions The volar locking plate combined with external fixator in the treatment of unstable distal radius type C fractures can earlier recover and have satisfactory function.


A lancet assembly capable of puncturing with less number of steps and safely treatable after puncturing. The lancet assembly comprises a lancet and a lancet holder storing the lancet holder. The lancet comprises a lancet body, a lancet cap, and a puncturing member. The puncturing member is provided in the lancet body and the lancet cap, and the lancet cap covers the tip part of the puncturing member. The lancet cap and the lancet body are integrally joined to each other through a bridge member. The lancet assembly is characterized in that when the lancet cap is pressed while the lancet body is fixed to the inside of the lancet holder, the bridge member is broken and the lancet cap is separated from the lancet body and when the separated lancet cap is further pressed, it is moved to a position derailed from a puncture route for the puncturing member.


Teaching innovation activities, based on the use of information and communication technologies, are becoming increasingly important. Such activities allow the development of learning spaces based on academic discussions that favor students´ critical thinking development based on communication. In this context, the forums are acquiring great relevance because they allow the students to be placed in a certain problem, motivate them to intervene in the discussion and give them the opportunity to contribute with their point of view. The present paper analyses the experience developed in the use of forums in the subject Business Economics: Management and Organization in the Degree in Business Administration and Management (ADE) and in the double degree in ADE and Law in the 2021-2022 academic year from the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of A Coruna. Once the forums were developed, a survey was carried out to the students whose results show that the most valued aspects of the forums for Business Administration students and for Business Administration and Law students are the perceived usefulness -related to the dimension of technological acceptance of the tool- and the perceived self-efficacy respectively -related to the cognitive social dimension provided by the tool. Regarding the least valued aspects of the forums, both Business Administration students and Business Administration and Law students point to the perceived ease of use -related to the dimension of technological acceptance of the tool-.


Cultivation and construction of innovative talent of enterprises and institutions are the important content of human resource management,but also the important content of the strategy of talents contributing to a powerful nation.Giving priority to the construction of innovative talent teams and cultivating innovative talents are important measures for creating a new situation for China's talent undertaking,and fundamental guarantee for China's grasp of the initiative in future international competition.The cultivation of innovative talents is a complicated systematic engineering and cultivation of creative talents must start form when they are young,so innovative family education is the basis;forming a linkage mechanism is the key to cultivating students' innovative consciousness and thinking and innovative ability in primary and secondary schools and universities to realize organic coordination and mutual cooperation;further deepening China's current educational system reform and truly realizing the shift from exam-oriented education to quality education are the core;gradually perfecting enterprises and institutions-based cultivation mechanism of innovative talents is important means.


Particle tracking velocimetry is applied to a bubbly two-phase flow in a horizontal channel to investigate the mechanism of turbulent shear stress reduction using bubbles. We derived three componential stresses to express the phenomenon hidden in the turbulent shear layer and measured them with the PTV data at Re=4×104. It is newly found that the role of a vertically correlated shear stress is important to reduce the total stress effectively.


The coupled-cluster single-double withy a perturbative triple excitations [CCSD(T)] theory in combination with the quintuple correlation-consistent basis set (cc-pV5Z) of Dunning and co-workers is employed to determine the equilibrium geometry, dissociation energy and vibrational frequencies of the SiH 2 ( C 2v , X 1 A 1 ) radical. By comparison, excellent agreement can be found between the present results and the experiments. The values obtained at cc-pV5Z are 0.15163 nm for the equilibrium bond length R Si—H , 92.363° for the bond angle α  of H—Si—H, 3.2735 eV for the dissociation energy D e (HSi—H) and 1020.0095, 2074.8742  and 2076.4762 cm -1 for the vibrational frequencies ν 1 ( a 1 ), ν 2 ( a 1 ) and ν 3 ( a 1 ), respectively. The equilibrium geometry, harmonic frequency and potential energy curve of the SiH( X 2 Π ) radical are calculated at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pV5Z level of theory. The ab initio points are fitted to the Murrell-Sorbie function with the least-squares method. The spectroscopic parameters, whether directly determined by the Gaussian03 program package or they are derived from the analytic potential energy function, conform almost perfectly with the available experimental results. The analytic potential energy function of the SiH 2 ( C 2 v , X 1 A 1 ) radical is derived by using the many-body expansion theory. This function correctly describes the configuration and dissociation energy of the SiH 2 ( C 2 v , X 1 A 1 ) radical. Two symmetrical saddle points have been found at (0.312, 0.160 nm) and (0.160, 0.312 nm), respectively. And the barrier height is found to be 0.5084 eV.


A detailed analysis of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Kanban, optimised Production Technology (OPT) and Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), including the applied assumptions behind these and their limitations and weaknesses, shows that each system is sound in its own way and can accomplish low cost, high quality, on‐time production. People problems, however, can destroy the effectiveness of any system and in this respect Kanban and OPT systems solve the majority of people problems, while FMS installations, by design, eliminate most problems of this type. The experience gained during the coming decade may lead factory managers to use two or more of these systems side by side.


Social control theory argues that religious people would stick to the ethical codes of religion. The theory further asserts that religion would have tremendous effects on individuals' moral attitudes and behavior. This study tests social control theory. Data were collected from a sample of 911 people who were 18 or older at the time of study. The analysis reveals that Protestants have stronger moral values, are less corrupted, volunteer more for community service, and have better concerns for others than atheists. These differences, although significant statistically, are not so great. Religious activities such as church attendance, family worship, and participation in church activities have small effects on the Protestants' attitudes toward violence, and reasonable effects on voluntary service. Various religiosity indices have reasonable and consistent effects on the Protestants' attitudes toward marital fidelity and violence and on some of the moral behaviors in a positive way. The effects of religion on the Protestants' morality are, however, not as great as social control theory predicts.


Ultrafast hole relaxation dynamics is selectively investigated in intrinsic bulk GaAs using a high sensitivity two‐wavelength pump‐probe technique. Nonequilibrium carriers are photoexcited close to the bottom of their respective bands and hole heating is followed by monitoring the transient bleaching of optical transitions involving higher momentum states. Hole heating is found to be dominated by hole‐phonon interactions with a thermalization time of the order of 150 fs for carriers densities in the 1017 cm−3 range.


Investigation of equivalent tolerance fields in frequency and time domains is necessary when neither a circuit nor its transfer function is available. This letter gives a method for the efficient determination of a frequency-to-time-domain sensitivity matrix, based on the Fourier transform. The effects of tolerance-field specifications and other errors on frequency and impulse responses may now be investigated before approximation or circuit design commences.


Abstract This article is for those who have already a computer program for incompressible viscous transient flows and want to put a turbulence model into it. We discuss some of the implementation problems that can be encountered when the Finite Element Method is used on classical turbulence models except Reynolds stress tensor models. Particular attention is given to boundary conditions and to the stability of algorithms. Introduction Many scientists or engineers turn to turbulence modeling after having written a Navier-Stokes solver for laminar flows. For them turbulence modeling is an external module into the computer program. Generally, the main ingredients to built a good Navier-Stokes solver are known; this includes tools like mixed approximations for the velocity u and pressure p to avoid checker board oscillations and also upwinding to damp high Reynolds number oscillations; however the problems that one may meet while implementing a turbulence model are not so well known because these models have not been studied much theoretically. Judging from the literature [3] [11] [12] [15] [19] [22] the most commonly used turbulence models seem to be algebraic eddy viscosity models (zero equation models) k= e models (two equations models) Reynolds stress models All three start from a decomposition of u and p into a mean part and a fluctuating part u'. However oscillations are understood either as time oscillations or space oscillations or even variations due to changes in initial conditions. In any case, the decomposition u+u' is applied to the Navier-Stokes equations.


Chapter 3: Transitions 1 introduces dancer Denise Desoes and her magical trunk filled with costumes that she has danced in over many years, starting with those worn in the early Santa Clause Parades.
Chapter 4: Born to Dance has Denise telling her stories as a senior dancer at the Fay Simpson School of Dance in a series of flashbacks beginning with memories of the ballet Giselle.


Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important human pathogens causing a variety of nosocomial infections. Carbapenem antibiotics have been primarily used to treat the A. baumannii infections. However, carbapenem resistant A. baumannii producing carbapenemases causes serious treatment problems worldwide. Outbreaks of carbapenem resistant isolates have reported in some area of the United States, but their dissemination and genetic structure of the carbapenemase encoding genes are currently little known. To understand outbreaks, dissemination, and genetic structure of the carbapenemase encoding genes in Southern Texas, 32 clinical isolates collected from Austin and Houston, TX were characterized. Twenty-eight of 32 isolates were resistant to all tested β-lactam antibiotics including carbapenem (imipenem and meropenem). Three of them carried blaOXA-23 as a part of Tn2008 integrated into a known plasmid (pACICU2) and all others carried blaOXA-24 flanked by XerC/XerD-like recombinase binding sites that were adjoined by DNA sequences originated from multiple plasmids. Genotype analysis revealed that the 25 isolates carrying blaOXA-24 were all identical genotypes same as a representative isolate carrying blaOXA-24 from Chicago, IL but the 3 isolates carrying blaOXA-23 was a distinct genotype as compared with isolates carrying blaOXA-23 from Chicago, IL and Washington, D.C. Each of the blaOXA-23 and blaOXA-24 was transferred to carbapenem susceptible A. baumannii and E. coli with similar minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of carbapenem as that of their parental isolates but significantly lower levels of MIC in E. coli. Overall results suggest that a unique strain carrying blaOXA-23 and a similar strain carrying blaOXA-24 as seen in other geographic areas are currently disseminated in Southern Texas.


Tomoji Shogenji (1999) argues that beliefs that are more coherent need not thereby be more likely to be true. This would strongly suggest that coherence (in the sense of mutual support) is not truth conducive, i.e., that the traditional philosophical problem of whether coherence implies truth has been given a negative solution. But Shogenji resists this conclusion, maintaining that the notion of truth conduciveness is inadequately captured by the formula 'more coherence implies a higher likelihood of truth'. Further, he goes on to show that coherence is truth conducive on another, supposedly more adequate, account of the problematic concept. In this paper I shall argue that while Shogenji's observation of a lack of correlation between coherence and truth is correct, his reasons for not drawing the natural philosophical conclusion are not. Shogenji has drawn attention to the following problem of coherence and specificity. He asks us to imagine 'an epistemically ultraconservative agent who only holds a few extremely unspecific beliefs say, some rocks are heavier than others; some animals sleep sometimes; and someone is humming some tune somewhere' (1999: 342). In this case it is, Shogenji writes, 'very likely that her beliefs are all truth even though they do not hang together' (ibid.). Meanwhile 'a huge collection of highly specific beliefs such as the entire body of medical science almost certainly contains errors even though they tightly hang together' (ibid.). Hence, more coherence does not imply a higher joint likelihood of truth. This informal argument can be made formally precise as follows. Following Shogenji we first define the degree of coherence of a pair, A and B, by


This invention discloses one overflow protective parts and its conductive polymer with positive temperature parameters, which comprises Polyalkenes polymer base materials, conductive stuff and fluoroplymer with weight percentage rate between 1 and twenty percent. The method is to combine one positive temperature parameter layers located on first electrode layer and second layer to form overflow current protective parts.


Terminal medical treatment of dementia patients raises many legal problems. In particular, in the case of a current natural will that contradicts the living will, a conflict of wills may arise that must be resolved. This issue is dealt with in detail in the study. The basis of the study is the revocation of the living will standardized in Section 1827 (1) sentence 3 of the German Civil Code (BGB), for which the sufficiently clearly expressed natural will may be sufficient. Within the framework of the study, various manifestations of the natural will are examined with regard to their legally relevant will content and practical procedural proposals for solutions are developed.


This study determined the extent of implementation of the School-Based Management (SBM) in Biliran Division. Specifically, it determined the socio-demographic, academic/professional, and administrative profile of the school heads. The survey included 16 school administrators and 80 public secondary school teachers from 16 public secondary schools in Biliran Division. The extent of School-Based Management program has been implemented to a large extent in Biliran Division, with no serious implementation problems. The extent of SBM implementation was highest among married school heads, implying the need to develop a high sense of personal commitment and responsibility in SBM implementation for it to be successful. There was no significant relationship between school heads' profile and the level of seriousness of problems met on SBM implementation. Similarly, there was no significant relationship between the level of empowerment of school heads and: extent of SBM implementation, and the seriousness of problems met in SBM implementation.


This paper presents the results of radon monitoring in 40 East Tennessee homes that were a component of a larger study to evaluate indoor air quality. Measurements were conducted during two 3-month time periods with passive integrating track etch monitors in each of the forty homes. In a subset of homes, measurements were also conducted with a real-time monitor that provided readings on an hourly basis. The results of the monitoring indicate that about 30% of the homes had radon levels were associated with local variations in geology; most of the homes having higher levels were located on the porous dolomite ridge partially surrounding Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 7 references, 3 figures, 2 tables.


We designed and fabricated a three-in-one function reconfigurable microwave passive device, which can be functionally reconfigured to operate either as a radiating antenna, bandpass filter, or a two-way T-type power splitter. The device's function reconfigurability is enabled by locally sputtering vanadium dioxide (VO2) phase transition thin films, which adjust the shape of conductor resonance patch and interconnect to electrically connect or isolate copper planar transmission lines and the patch on a sapphire substrate. Controlling the combination of the phases of four VO2 thin-films interconnects effectively matches impedance and guides microwave signals, enabling the device's electromagnetic response to be reconfigured without reconstructing the physical structure. For different functions, the return loss and realized gain of patch antenna are 21 dB and −0.98 dBi at 4.75 GHz, respectively; the insertion loss of bandpass filter is 2.8 dB with bandwidth of 150 MHz (4.66–4.81 GHz); the dividing loss of power splitter is 5.0 dB at 4.7 GHz with power and phase imbalance within ±0.5 dB and ±7° from 4.4 to 5.0 GHz, respectively. Combining three devices in series enables more than 13 types of operation, which are suitable for different microwave systems.