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Abstract : The oscillatory component of magnetoresistance has been measured for single crystals of n-type gray tin at liquid-helium temperatures. The period of oscillation is independent of magnetic field direction, confirming an isotropic effective mass and, therefore, a conductionband edge at the center of the Brillouin zone. Oscillations were also observed in a polycrystalline specimen. Carrier concentrations deduced from the oscillatory period are in reasonably good agreement with values obtained from the Hall coefficient over a range of almost two orders of magnitude in this parameter. An electron effective mass of 0.024 m sub o was obtained from the field and temperature dependence of the oscillatory amplitude for samples having carrier concentrations on the order of 10 to the 16 power/cu cm. Nonthermal damping of the oscillations is attributed mainly to inhomogeneities in the impurity distribution. The experimental results are compared with theory. (Author)


Abstract In this paper, a novel intelligent control is proposed based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to mitigate cascading failure (CF) and prevent blackout in smart grid systems after N-1-1 contingency condition in real-time. The fundamental contribution of this research is to deploy the machine learning concept for preventing blackout at early stages of its occurrence and to make smart grids more resilient, reliable, and robust. The proposed method provides the best action selection strategy for adaptive adjustment of generators' output power through frequency control. This method is able to relieve congestion of transmission lines and prevent consecutive transmission line outage after N-1-1 contingency condition. The proposed ANN-based control approach is tested on an experimental 100 kW test system developed by the authors to test intelligent systems. Additionally, the proposed approach is validated on the large-scale IEEE 118-bus power system by simulation studies. Experimental results show that the ANN approach is very promising and provides accurate and robust control by preventing blackout. The technique is compared to a heuristic multi-agent system (MAS) approach based on communication interchanges. The ANN approach showed more accurate and robust response than the MAS algorithm.


Introduction and Objectives: Metastatic castration resistance prostate cancer is a lethal disease. New AR-axis-targeted agent are available, but they will eventually become ineffective. Brefeldin A, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein transport inhibitor, has been shown to cause ER stress. Navitoclax is a BH3 mimetic drug that targets anti-apoptotic proteins (BCL2 and BCLXL) and induces apoptosis in some solid tumors. Here, we investigated the efficacy of Brefeldin A combined with navitoclax on prostate cancer cells.
 Materials and Methods: We assessed the effect of combination therapy for prostate cancer cells using MTS assay, qRT-PCR, luciferase assay, and western blot.
 Results: Combination therapy with Brefeldin A and navitoclax synergistically decreased cell viability in prostate cancer cells. Mechanistically, Brefeldin A induced MCL1 degradation and, combined with navitoclax, drove apoptosis. Further, integrated stress response was at least in part involved in Brefeldin A-induced MCL1 degradation.
 Conclusions: Combination therapy with Brefeldin A and navitoclax shows synergistic anti-tumor effects in prostate cancer cells. These results suggest that Brefeldin A might still be effective in prostate cancer if used with navitoclax.
 Citation Format: Akira Ohtsu, Seiji Arai, Tatsuhiro Sawada, Yoshiyuki Miyazawa, Yoshitaka Sekine, Kazuhiro Suzuki. Brefeldin A mediates integrated stress response and in combination with Navitoclax induces apoptosis in prostate cancer cells [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 5655.


In the present research work the consequences involving the Ecuadorian adult's university students, who are between the ages of 20 and 25 years and have passed through a process of divorce of their parents during their childhood, will be exposed...


Beijing, China, Oct.31-Nov.3, 2021 1 Abstract. Accurate prediction of driving range of electric vehicles (EVs) is critically important to help optimize energy management. In this paper, a novel method to perform accurate driving range prediction is investigated using long short-term memory(LSTM) recurrent neural network combined with convolution layers. The data used in this paper are obtained from the National Monitoring and Management Platform for New energy vehicles. First, the data cleaning is applied to deal with abnormal values and missing values. Then, the datasets are constructed by the sliding window method. Finally, the LSTM model is built and the convolution layers are connected to the model. Dropout method is also introduced to prevent the model from overfitting. The results show that the proposed method can accurately predict the driving range, and the average RMSPE 0.099.


Let N be a nest on a real or complex Banach space X and let AlgN be the associated nest algebra. Ω ∈ AlgN is called an additively all-derivable point if for any additive map δ : AlgN →AlgN , δ (AB) = δ (A)B+Aδ (B) holds for any A,B ∈ AlgN with AB = Ω implies that δ is an additive derivation. Assume that P is an idempotent operator with range ran(P) = N0 for some nontrivial N0 ∈ N . Let Ω ∈ AlgN be any operator satisfying that PΩP =Ω (or (I−P)Ω(I−P) =Ω ). We show that, if Ω|ran(P) (or Ω|ran(I−P) ) is injective or has dense range, then Ω is an additively all-derivable point. Moreover, if X is infinite dimensional, then every additive map derivable at such an Ω is an inner derivation. Mathematics subject classification (2010): 47L35, 47B47.


The aim of this article is to analyze the so-called "European strategy for employment". In the first part, this strategy is evaluated with reference to professional and occupational training. In the second, we analyze the local development initiatives and their relation with the employability strategies, making specific reference to the case of the youth collective in the town of Reus.


Anne Hull Grundy and her husband, John, were prolific antique collectors, remembered for their generous donations of fine and decorative arts to several major museums. Less well known is their collection of over 200 items broadly related to medical topics and donated to the University of Manchester Museum of Medicine and Health (mmh) between 1978 and 1983. The donation includes items of equipment in silver, a collection of commemorative medals and a set of framed prints, all linked to medicine and medical history. This paper describes the Hull Grundy collection and its place in the history of the museum. Short biographical sketches of Anne and John Hull Grundy and a brief history of the mmh, are followed by an account of the artefacts in the collection. The role of donors and donations in defining the nature of a 'medical history museum', and its potential use for social history and the medical humanities are also discussed.


Carica papaya that belongs to Caricaceae family has long been known as a traditional medicine for dengue fever, as well as for anticancer and antiinflammatory studies following identification of beneficial phytochemicals such as saponins in the leaves. Unfortunately, the compound has been known to induce a bitter taste in the leaf extract for human consumption, making them unpopular and nonconsumer friendly. Thus, this study aims to observe the potential adsorption of saponin compound from C. papaya leaves using ion exchange resins as an adsorbent for the reduction of bitter-taste-inducing saponins. This study uses three types of weakly basic ion exchanging resins, namely, Amberlite IRA-67, Diaion WA30, and Diaion WA21J, at different adsorbent doses of 5% (w/v) and 10% (w/v). The Peleg model suggests that the extraction of saponins from C. papaya leaves lasted for 12.50 hours yield a maximum amount of saponins, 9.31 mg/g. Further study shows that there is a significant difference (p<0.05) of saponin adsorption percentage between these three types of resins. The Diaion WA30 resin showed the highest percentage of adsorption at 87.83% (w/w) as compared to the other two 5% (w/v) loaded resin. The 10% (w/v) resin-loaded Diaion WA30 demonstrated the highest overall adsorption capacity as much as 97.59% (w/w) with the shortest exhaustive time of 4.99 hours. The overall acceptance of samples in sensory evaluation treated with ion exchange resins gave good response in which the sample treated with 10% (w/v) resin-loaded Diaion WA30 demonstrated the highest overall acceptance in parallel with having the lowest bitterness score as compared to other samples and fresh samples (untreated). The Langmuir constant (RL) was less than one (0.167–0.398), indicating the adsorption of saponins onto Diaion WA30 was favourable.


On average, more than 200 child sex offences were recorded by UK police every day in 2020, and investigations for offences including rape, online grooming and sexual assault against children in the United Kingdom (UK) increased by 57% from 2014/15 to 2019/20. The interview process is central to information gathering, but empirical research regarding the obtention of information through child sexual abuse (CSA) suspect interviewing is still limited. The current study analyses 45 hours of interviews with CSA suspects focusing on behaviours consistent (and inconsistent) with motivational interviewing (MI) using the Observing Rapport-Based Interpersonal Techniques coding manual. In line with previous research demonstrating the efficacy of MI with terrorist suspects, this article focuses on the same four key interviewer skills identified in the therapeutic literature (reflective listening, summarising, rolling with resistance and developing discrepancies). It looks at their effects on information yield (information of intelligence value) and suspect engagement. Results revealed that the four MI-consistent behaviours increased information gain. Also, approaches antithetical to MI (including assumptive questioning, judgemental summaries, fighting resistance and accusatory challenges) had a significant negative impact on suspect engagement and, by extension, reduced yield – potentially by creating suspect reactance (where the individual is motivated to regain a freedom they feel is being threatened). Hence, MI approaches are efficacious for information-gathering efforts, and using an approach antithetical to the spirit of motivational interviewing (like pressuring, confronting and judging) with CSA suspects will always make things worse.


This article discusses the penetration of telemedicine in Latin America in relation to its implementation by hospitals in the region, considering key Latin American hospital markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It gives an overview of the hospitals, the challenges they face in implementing telemedicine and telehealth services in each country, with a characterization of the various health systems, and presents telemedicine as an aid to the shortage of doctors and specialists in remote or hard-to-reach areas. It discusses the anticipated effects on patients and providers, and the main challenges for implementation. To prepare the report, interviews were held with specialists, who spoke about some of the major initiatives in the region. Lastly, it offers recommendations based on market intelligence gleaned from Global Health Intelligence data.


To rationally secure and maintain the safety and serviceability of a high-rise building, monitoring of structural responses of members is necessary. As such health monitoring of large-scale building structures has received growing attention by researchers in recent years. However, due to a very large number of members complexity of structural responses of a high-rise building structure, practical difficulties exist in selection of structural members to be sensored for assessment of structural safety of a structure. In this paper, a selection technique for active members for safety monitoring of a high-rise building based on displacement participation factor and strain energy density of a member is investigated.


Dogs are known to be very good at communicating with humans and they understand human communication, this is probably a product of the domestication process. It has been shown in other studies that dogs seek help from humans when they encounter an unsolvable task, they seek help by gazing, touching or vocalizing towards the human. This help-seeking behaviour seems to vary depending on the dogs' age, breed and forms of training. So far only one study has looked into sex-differences and found that there are differences in the breed beagle. The female dogs in that study sought more physical contact with the human. This study took place at a shelter in Sweden called Hundstallet where they take care of abandoned, abused or unwanted dogs and find new homes for them. The dogs in this study were faced with a solvable and an unsolvable problem. The purpose with the study was to see if there were any differences in males' and females' help-seeking behaviour and if the dogs preferred to seek help from a familiar person or an unfamiliar person. The results did not show any significant differences regarding to the sex of the dogs or the preferred human. They also did not perform other behaviours such as gaze alternation between the human and the problem, which has been seen in other studies. This may be because all the 28 dogs where too different, almost all of them where mongrels, did not live in a house with humans and some of them had been abused earlier during their life. More studies are needed in this area to fully understand the dogs' communicative abilities.


General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units consists in using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to perform the computation of applications traditionally handled by regular processors (CPUs). Due to their increasing use, it is important that Computer Engineering and Computer Science curricula include the basics of this new computing trend. As regards the practical part of the training, one major issue is how to introduce GPUs into a laboratory: buying GPUs for all the workstations of the lab may be too expensive, whereas installing one GPU in a server and requesting the students to log into this server may lead to a low teaching quality due to its associated overhead. In this paper we suggest a new solution to introduce GPUs into a laboratory: the rCUDA (remote CUDA) framework, which allows applications running in a computer to use GPUs installed in remote servers. Hence, students will be capable of sharing a remote GPU (concurrently and transparently) from their local workstations in the lab, without logging into the server. To prove that our approach is possible, we show experiments in a real laboratory. The experiments demonstrate that our proposal reduces the cost of the laboratory, whereas the teaching quality still remains.


On 3 February 2011 tropical cyclone (TC) Yasi struck the coastline of north Queensland, Australia. This study explored the process of a pre-emptive evacuation of a 330-bed regional hospital prior to the cyclone. A range of health care professionals and middle management staff (n=15) were interviewed about their experience of the hospital evacuation. Patient care and safety was the overarching priority for everyone involved in the hospital evacuation, but communication issues challenged the effective management of the evacuation process. Four hierarchical levels of leadership were identified. Communication breakdowns between each level, and the lack of an evacuation plan, led to confusion about roles, responsibilities and processes, contributed to lengthy delays for patients waiting to be evacuated, and resulted in less than optimal patient care. Given the unpredictability of natural disasters, a comprehensive disaster evacuation plan focusing on communication, pre-planning and leadership, is essential for hospitals in vulnerable locations.


PURPOSE: A desalinization method and a device thereof are provided to reduce energy for the control of temperature and optimize the efficiency of a SWRO process through the control of pressure and temperature. CONSTITUTION: A desalinizing method of the seawater comprises next steps. An estimation model is generated by using at least one data and learning algorithm which includes a first inflow water driving value, a first producing water real flow rate, and a first producing water real water quality(S110). Either a producing water target flow rate or the producing water target water quality is inputted. The property of the inflow raw water is measured. The driving value of the second inflow raw water is calculated by comparing either the producing water target flow rate or the producing water target water quality with the producing water estimated flow rate or the estimated water quality.


Article analyzes new threats and XXI century calls (the regional and local conflicts, the international terrorism, drug traffic, uncontrollable migration, etc.) in the Central Asian region, demanding effective strategy of regional security. Interests of world powers (Russia, the USA, China) to this region are revealed on the basis of the analysis of geopolitical position of the states of Central Asia, their natural riches, available resources, tendencies and difficulties of development. Difficulties and contradictions of formation of the system of regional security on the example of SCO are analyzed, scientific and practical recommendations about forming of the system of regional security are formulated.


In order to grow CdTe/InSb heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy, the chemical reaction between InSb surface and molecular beams for CdTe growth was studied. The chemical reaction was analyzed by using reflection highenergy electron diffraction, Raman scattering, and Auger electron spectroscopy. It is revealed that In2Te3 compound is easily formed on the InSb surface irradiated by Te excess beams, which deteriorates the CdTe growth on it. This chemical reaction was inevitable even at 200°C under the Te excess beam condition but can be suppressed by using Cd excess beams. Under a Cd excess beam condition, high quality CdTe/InSb heterostructures of which photoluminescence spectra were dominated by CdTe exciton peaks were obtained at a substrate temperature as high as 280°C.


This paper summarizes the trends in laser technology and facilities for advanced accelerator research as presented at the Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop held in Breckenridge, CO between August 12 and August 17, 2018. A synopsis of how contributions presented at the conference fit within these trends is provided. Readers may then refer to the full references for additional detail.


Three-dimensional-multiple-input-multiple-output (3D-MIMO) technology has attracted a lot of attention in the field of wireless communication. Most of the research mainly focuses on channel estimation model which is affected by additive-white-Gaussian-noise (AWGN). However, under the influence of some specified factors, such as electronic interference and man-made noise, the noise of the channel does not follow the Gaussian distribution anymore. Sometimes, the probability density function (PDF) of the noise is unknown at the receiver. Based on this reality, this paper tries to address the problem of channel estimation under non-Gaussian noise with unknown PDF. Firstly, the common support of angle domain channel matrix is estimated by compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction algorithm and a decision rule. Secondly, after modeling the received signal as a Gaussian mixture model (GMM), a data pruning algorithm is exerted to calculate the order of GMM. Lastly, an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm for linear regression is implemented to estimate the the channel matrix iteratively. Furthermore, sparsity, not only in the time domain, but in addition in the angle domain, is utilized to improve the channel estimation performance. The simulation results demonstrate the merits of the proposed algorithm compared with the traditional ones.


Vacuum deposition with a shadow mask has been widely used for preparing patterned organic films. We found that, during vacuum deposition of organic molecules with a shadow mask, a small amount of organic molecule was also deposited on the mask-shielded surface. This phenomenon was revealed by selective Mg-vapor deposition using photochromic diarylethenes (DAEs). With this selective Mg deposition, no Mg is deposited on the DAE surface in a colorless state with a low Tg near room temperature, even if the DAE film thickness is at a several-nm level. On the other hand, since Mg is deposited on the colored surface obtained by UV irradiation, the presence or absence of low-Tg organic film with a thickness of several-nm level can be determined by the Mg-deposition property. The Mg nondeposition areas of a mask-shielded region depended on the vacuum level, the space between a substrate and a shadow mask, and the DAE deposition quantity; a lower vacuum level (higher pressures), a thicker space, and a larger deposition quantity resulted in a larger Mg nondeposition area. Vacuum deposition in the high vacuum level (10−4–10−3 Pa) with a substrate-shadow-mask space distance of 60 μm led to an Mg nondeposition width over 100 μm from the mask-shielded edge. These results indicate that the origin is in molecular scattering by a residual gas in a vacuum chamber. When minute organic patterns are prepared using shadow masks, which are effective for obtaining satisfactory performances of organic electronics devices, the influence of small amount of deposition under mask-shielded areas should be taken into account.


An experimental technique has been developed to study the strength of materials under conditions of moderate pressures and high shear strain rates. The technique is similar to the traditional pressure‐shear plate‐impact experiments except that window interferometry is used to measure both the normal and transverse particle velocities at a sample‐window interface. Experimental and simulation results on vanadium samples backed with a sapphire window show the utility of the technique to measure the flow strength under dynamic loading conditions. The results show that the strength of the vanadium is approximately 600 MPa at a pressure of 4.5 GPa and a plastic strain of 1.7%.


A thin disk laser has been developed which is capable to run at stochastical trigger with an extremely short latency (400 ns) between the electronic trigger and the optical output pulse. The Yb:YAG laser made from a Q-switched oscillator and a multi-pass amplifier delivers pulses up to 50 mJ at 1030 nm (M2=1.3), independently of the pulse to pulse delay (1.2 ms to infinity). Yb:YAG exhibits a long lifetime (∼1 ms) of the excited states, and the disk-laser design provides efficient cooling needed for cw-pumping [1,2].


specialist at Orlando Health in Orlando, Florida. mortality. Therefore, early prevention is the key to providing quality patient care. The American College of Chest Physicians provides health care practitioners with a comprehensive summary of evidence and recommendations for prevention and treatment of DVT. In general, for patients who are at moderate/high risk, mechanical prophylaxis with the use of an intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC)/SCD device is recommended. IPC/SCD devices have been validated as a safe and effective method for reducing the risk of DVT. These devices limit venous stasis by applying gradual sequential inflation and deflation of air to the lower extremities. The applied pressure causes blood to be evacuated from the leg veins in a wavelike fashion, thus simulating the same compression that is created through ambulation. The question that is asked is "What is the role of IPC/SCDs if a patient is suspected or known to have DVT?" Current guidelines for the prevention and management of DVT do not provide a clear answer regarding the use of IPC/SCD devices once a DVT is suspected or confirmed. Interestingly, all vendors of these devices list having a DVT as a contraindication. The same contraindication doctors say no because of the clots. Is there evidence to support the use of SCDs with known clots?


Dygogram is the name of a curve, invented by Archibald Smith and employed in his Admiralty Manual of the Deviation of the Compass, to give a graphic representation of the varying magnetic field of a compass as the ship is swung round in azimuth; a description is given of the Dygogram by Maxwell in Electricity and Magnetism, §441. There are two kinds of the Dygogram; one gives the magnetic field with respect to the land as the ship turns in azimuth, the other gives the magnetic field relatively to the ship. The curves are drawn on two cards, superposed and pivoted at a point; and thereby a reading of the compass on the ship can be converted into a true magnetic bearing with respect to the land or chart. Archibald Smith's Compass Dygogram of the first kind is a Limacpn of Pascal, and the second kind is an ellipse; we may distinguish them as the space and body dygogram. Now it is curious that the same curve, the limacjon and ellipse, will serve as the dygogram, space and body, for the axle reaction of a pendulum, swinging freely under gravity about a fixed axis. The investigation is important in the case of a large body, such as a ship, a ballistic pendulum, a church bell, a hammock chair, or a swing at a fair, for calculation of the strength and stability of the frame; and Kater's experimental determination of g by his pendulum is now considered untrustworthy from insufficient consideration of the yielding of the support employed.


This paper describes a comparative theoretical study of the infinite dilution properties of solutions of univalent ions in different water‐like solvents. The theoretical results are obtained by solving the reference hypernetted‐chain (RHNC) approximation as described in the first article of this series [J. Chem. Phys. 88, 7715 (1988)]. It is shown that the inclusion of the octupole moment of the water molecule in the model solvent leads to strong preferential solvation of negative ions, and that this has important effects upon certain thermodynamic properties and upon the ion–solvent and ion–ion structure. Questions concerning the definition and physical interpretation of individual ion partial molar volumes are raised and considered in detail. It is argued that in general the individual ion results obtained experimentally may not accurately reflect the true microscopic ion–solvent structure.


To THE EDITOR: In the January 1996 issue of THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, Leslie Milne, MD, of San Diego, California, advises us to go by the Ottawa Ankle Decision Rules to avoid taking unnecessary ankle x-rays.' In our community, this is folly. Anyone who has been in practice for a while knows that the reason we take these x-rays is legal, not medical. I am sure the Ottawa Ankle Decision Rules were known to Hippocrates and everyone who followed him. In Canada, the legal system does not have a contingency fee, nor are physicians necessarily subject to the scrutiny of a jury of their "TVliterate, question-oxymoronic" peers on matters that they cannot comprehend. We live in a nation whose legal system serves by and large, to paraphrase a famous attorney, "a nation of attorneys, by attorneys, and for attorneys" and that has established a legal system whereby lawyers get a share of any action, necessary or not. Anyone who shows up at an emergency department with an ankle complaint darned well better get x-rays, or the physicians will pay if they don't have them taken. Anyway, what's all the fuss? A $50,000 fluoroscan machine can give a reading in a twinkling. It costs $30,000 to process any single claim, whether anything comes of it or not, according to our malpractice carrier. My advice: Buy a fluoroscan, photograph all symptomatic ankles, take x-rays of them all, and have them documented. Let the Canadians practice medicine under their legal system, and don't try to tell us how to practice it under our legal system. WILLIAM R. HALE, MD 1902 Royalty Dr, Ste 130 Pomona, CA 91767


Bailliere's Clinical Anaesthesiology: Fluid Resuscitation. Editors: W. J. Kox, J. Gamble; Harcourt Brace Janovich Ltd., 24-28 Oval Road, London NWl 70X, United Kingdom; STG £18.50; 255 X 330; pp. 760. This book covers fluid resuscitation and is one in a series of Clinical Anaesthesiology. It contains information you will not find in many clinical textbooks because it is jointly edited and largely written by physiologists. This is the strength and weakness of the book. The initial chapter on the physiology of fluid exchange is excellent essential reading for everyone examining and sitting for the Primary Examination and of interest to every clinician. Another impressive chapter covers the physiology of the cardiovascular system but the clinical recommendations reflect the, physiologist's fascination with readings from the! pulmonary artery catheter without mentioning its shortcomings which have flavoured our practice in the 1980s. In fact there is no specific chapter on how we clinically assess fluid status. Similarly there are three chapters on various aspects of plasma substitutes without an overall review of the various types of colloid solutions and their place in clinical practice. There is no specific chapter on the crucial role of the lymphatic system and the interstitial space, nor on blood transfusions. Nevertheless, I am impressed by this book. There are many authorative chapters which shed a refreshing light on this complex area. Some of the chapters, particularly when physiological principles are applied to clinical practice, are among the most authorative I have read and are well explained and easily digestible. I would highly recommend this book to all those clinicians who want to make sense of many of the physiological principles underlying fluid resuscitation. KEN HILLMAN Director of Anaesthetics Intensive Care & Coronary Care The Liverpool Hospital N.s.w.


Sparse representation has attracted a great deal of attention in the past decade. Famous transforms such as discrete Fourier transform, wavelet transform and singular value decomposition are used to sparsely represent the signals. The aim of these transforms is to reveal certain structures of a signal and representation of these structures in a compact form. Therefore, sparse representation provides high performance in the areas as diverse as image denoising, pattern classification, compression etc. All of these applications are concerned with a compact and high-fidelity representation of signals. In this thesis, we consider the classical face recognition problem. This application is more concerned with the semantic information of image signals. It is shown that a sparse representation based framework is a possible way to tackle this problem. We also propose a new approach for face classification which is based on task driven dictionary learning.


A value of a qualitative variable (derivative) can be positive, negative, or zero. Qualitative models are such models which contain qualitative variables only. Some parameters of an industrial process are measurable. Their time records are available. The main goal of this paper is to predict qualitative behaviour of all those variables which are not measured (cannot be measured) using time records of all such variables which are measured. Two case studies (damped oscillation, three reactor system) are given in details.


To date, methane emissions from lakes in the pan‐arctic region are poorly quantified. In order to investigate the response of methane emissions from this region to global warming, a process‐based climate‐sensitive lake biogeochemical model was developed. The processes of methane production, oxidation, and transport were modeled within a one‐dimensional sediment and water column. The sizes of 14C‐enriched and 14C‐depleted carbon pools were explicitly parameterized. The model was validated using observational data from five lakes located in Siberia and Alaska, representing a large variety of environmental conditions in the arctic. The model simulations agreed well with the measured water temperature and dissolved CH4 concentration (mean error less than 1°C and 0.2 μM, respectively). The modeled CH4 fluxes were consistent with observations in these lakes. We found that bubbling‐rate‐controlling nitrogen (N2) stripping was the most important factor in determining CH4 fraction in bubbles. Lake depth and ice cover thickness in shallow waters were also controlling factors. This study demonstrated that the thawing of Pleistocene‐aged organic‐rich yedoma can fuel sediment methanogenesis by supplying a large quantity of labile organic carbon. Observations and modeling results both confirmed that methane emission rate at thermokarst margins of yedoma lakes was much larger (up to 538 mg CH4 m−2 d−1) than that at nonthermokarst zones in the same lakes and a nonyedoma, nonthermokarst lake (less than 42 mg CH4 m−2 d−1). The seasonal variability of methane emissions can be explained primarily by energy input and organic carbon availability.


Soils with a wide range of plasticity were compressed in a one-dimensional cell up to 2200 p.s.i. with subsequent rebound to zero stress. There is a relation between coeff. of earth pressure and the drained angle of internal friction and with plasticity. In medium and high plasticity soils a laminar structure appeared and after the test a jointed structure was observed for all soils suggesting that structures of these types in preconsolidated deposits are due to stress history.


Our goal is to perform well against the best expert, a harder (and more reasonable) task than performing well against a single action. Note, however, that by best expert we mean the best sequence of probability distributions {et,i}t. Depending on the setting, it is possible that our experts are themselves running online algorithms, in fact, they may be conditioning on our behavior! However, we cannot compare against other possible runs of their algorithms – what we can compare against is their actual behavior, which is captured by these probability distributions. Clearly, given a loss vector on experts, we can apply algorithms we have seen in the past, such as Follow the Regularized Leader, where the "leader" that we follow is an expert instead of an action. This bounds regret against an expert. However, recall that this algorithm is for the full information case where we have the full loss vector ` (and hence full loss vector g). In our case, as with all bandit settings, at each time step we choose a single action at , and only observe the loss of that one action `t(a ∗ t ). Thus, we will have to use an additional trick (similar to that of Lecture 12) to estimate ̃̀t, and g̃t for use in our analysis. In summary, we will run the exponentiated gradient (EG) algorithm (i.e. multiplicative weight updates) on f̃t(w) = g̃t · w. The key advantage of EXP4 (as opposed to just running EXP3 on the experts) is that by observing the outcome of a single action we may be able to gain information about multiple experts.


In recent years, it has become clear that hyperspectral imaging has formed a core area within the geoscience and remote sensing community. Armed with advanced optical sensing technology, hyperspectral imaging offers high spectral resolution-a hyperspectral image can contain more than 200 spectral channels (rather than a few channels as in multispectral images), covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths at a resolution of about 10 nm. The result, on one hand, is significant expansion in data sizes. A captured scene can easily take 100 MB, or more. On the other hand, the vastly increased spectral information content available in hyperspectral images (or large spectral degrees of freedom in signal processing languages) creates a unique opportunity that may have previously been seen as impossible in multispectral remote sensing. We can detect difficult targets, for example, those appearing at a subpixel level. We can perform image classification with greatly improved accuracy. We can also identify underlying materials in a captured scene without prior information of the materials to be encountered, by carrying out blind unmixing.


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Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) continues to be a devastating problem in the field of total joint arthroplasty. There are a number of surgical options to decide from and management decisions are based upon the interplay between host, pathogen, and surgeon characteristics. The goal of management is to maximize function, prevent systemic complications, and eradicate infection. Throughout this chapter we will discuss the most relevant recent literature and guiding theories to assist the treating orthopaedic surgeon in the surgical decision-making process.


This article presents a study about the planning and implementation of an Italian language course as a Heritage Language (HL). The theoretical basis of this research is based on Post-Method Pedagogy, Oral History Methodology and Heritage Language studies. Preliminary results point to the need to create more formal language teaching spaces, as well as to the importance of familiar linguistic policies for their maintenance in informal contexts. The work also corroborates the idea that the teaching of language of inheritance is distinguished from teaching of foreign language, due to the specificities of the revitalization of language and culture.


In an attempt to establish a taxonomy for the polar contingent of lightly calcified coccolithophores, we are currently dealing with species of Papposphaera. Here we describe a new species, Papposphaera heldalii sp. nov., based on material from Svalbard. The species is unique in terms of calyx design, which is an elegant modification of the standard P. sagittifera theme, and also in terms of the absence of central area calcification in body coccoliths. The species thus occupies a further step in a sequence of five Arctic forms ranging from P. sagittifera via P. sarion, P. arctica and P. iugifera to P. heldalii showing a gradual reduction of central area calcification in body coccoliths. P. heldalii is unique also in the sense that the species has not been found during any of the major Arctic TEM nanoplankton surveys conducted during the last decades.


Nowadays after the long-term efforts of physicists and dantists we came up to the creation of very important device for human life - laser drilling machine. However the problem of laser choice for this machine has not been solved yet. In table 1 are represented the earlier published data of main lasers — candidates on the role of "drill" [1-5]


This chapter assesses the impact of the Council of Vienne on the practice of philosophy clear through to the seventeenth century. In the early fourteenth century, Franciscan philosophical psychology suffered three shocks in a row: John Duns Scotus, the Council of Vienne, and Peter Auriol. The first generation of Franciscan theologians at Paris after the Council argued for a range of positions, from postulating that humans have only an intellective soul to arguing for real presence in human beings of distinct intellective, sensory, and vegetative souls. The chapter discusses Himbert's questions on the plurality of forms and plurality of souls. For Franciscan thinkers, the obligation that the soul be form of the body combined with their doctrines of matter and form to become a requirement that the body have separate substantial form. Keywords:Council of Vienne; Franciscan theologians; John Duns Scotus; Peter Auriol; plurality of Forms; plurality of Souls


OBJECTIVE To investigate the antibiotic resistance of clinical isolates from our hospital in 2007.METHODS Bacteria were isolated and identified by routine methods.The antimicrobial susceptibility test was carried out by Kirby-Bauer method.RESULTS A total of 1124 clinical isolates were collected,Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria accounted for 23.1% and 76.9%,respectively.About 55.7% of Staphylococcus aureus isolates were identified as meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus,75.0% of coagulase negative Staphylococcus(CNS) isolates were meticillin-resistant.The resistance rate of Enterococcus faecium was higher than that of E.faecalis.ESBLs-producing strains accounted for 44.6% in Escherichia coli and 32.4% in Klebisiella spp.Isolates of Enterobacteriaceae were still highly sensitive to carbapenem.The Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates showed the relatively higher resistance rates(38.1% and 41.0%) to imipenem and meropenem.The Acinetobacter spp isolates showed the relatively lower resistance rates(13.3% and 17.2%) to imipenem and meropenem.CONCLUSION The prevalence of meticillin-resistant S.aureus MRSA,meticillin-resistant CNS(MRCNS) and ESBLs-producing strains is very high.Surveillance and analysis of antibiotic resistance can help doctors to decide the rational antimicrobial therapy and control the transmission of drug-resistant strains.


Abstract Objective Breast-feeding is an important determinant of health of mothers and their offspring. The present study aimed to compare breast-feeding rates across Europe disaggregated by maternal education and establish what proportion achieves at least 50 % exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) at 6 months. Design/Setting Secondary analysis of national or sub-national studies' breast-feeding data for EU Member States plus Norway and Iceland, published in 2006–2016. Nineteen EU Member States plus Norway reported rates of EBF and any breast-feeding disaggregated by maternal education, of which only thirteen could be matched to the International Standard Classification of Education. Participants Mothers and their infants aged 0–12 months. Results Data on EBF rates at 6 and 4 months were found in only four and six countries, respectively. At 6 months, EBF rates of 49 % in Slovakia and 44 % in Hungary were closest to WHO's target of at least 50 % EBF. At 4 months, mothers with high education level in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany had the highest EBF rates (71, 52 and 50 %, respectively). Mothers with low education level were less likely to initiate breast-feeding and cessation occurred early. The inequality gap ranged from 63 % in Irish mothers to no gap or very low levels of inequality in Poland, Sweden and Norway. Conclusions More mothers with high, compared with low, education initiate breast-feeding and practise EBF for longer. More European policies should be targeted to protect, support and promote breast-feeding, especially among mothers with only mandatory education.


The archetypal Onetti hero, Medina is at different times of his life a (phoney) doctor, a painter and police chief. He lives in Lavanda, across the river from Santa Maria, a town he is not allowed to enter, and therefore wants to destroy. The wind speaks and Santa Maria is devoured in flames. This is the first novel written by Onetti in exile in Spain. In it he is coming to terms with exclusion from the Santa Marias of his childhood. A bitter lament, it ends in the destruction of the object of adoration.


The lately invented instrument, phono laryngograph, which can evaluate objectively vocal function, was used to determine separately in 30 normal adults and 30 patients with laryngeal carcinoma treated primarily by vertical hemilaryngectomy from 1984 to 1994. The results showed that mean air flow rate, intensity, MPT, have significant difference between surgical groups and normal group (P < 0.01). There is pitch difference between surgical groups and normal group (P < 0.05). We also found that the determined values have significant difference between postoperative two years and postoperative ten years groups (P < 0.01).


In Autumn, 1961, Miss Chang Yu-ping and the others (including the present author) of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology went to Hsiang- hsiang district, Hunan, for investigating Tertiary strata and collected vertebrate fossils. Some fish remains were collected from Hsiawanpu, about 7.5km Southwestern of the district city of Hsianghsiang. It is of interest that the fish faunule indicates an older geological age as was thought before. All the meterial collected are described in this note.


(1990). Comparative efficacy of induced resistance for selected diseases of greenhouse cucumber. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 16-24.


The paper roundly describes the configuration about software and hardware of constructing a long-distance education's platform. The configured requirement about the server,encoding machine and the card for gathering information are introduced in the field of hardware. By inserting some pictures I also present some setting parameters of the software about service and encoding in detail.


The results of the adaptation of methods of water solutions biotesting for the assessment of air quality after the removal of formaldehyde from air via dielectric barrier discharge reactor are presented in this work. The conditions for the express-analysis of air are determined.


In this study, a new combined power and refrigeration cycle is proposed,
 which combines the Rankine and absorption refrigeration cycles. Using a
 binary ammonia-water mixture as the working fluid, this combined cycle
 produces both power and refrigeration output simultaneously by employing only
 one external heat source. In order to achieve the highest possible exergy
 efficiency, a secondary turbine is inserted to expand the hot weak solution
 leaving the boiler. Moreover, an artificial neural network (ANN) is used to
 simulate the thermodynamic properties and the relationship between the input
 thermodynamic variables on the cycle performance. It is shown that turbine
 inlet pressure, as well as heat source and refrigeration temperatures have
 significant effects on the net power output, refrigeration output and exergy
 efficiency of the combined cycle. In addition, the results of ANN are in
 excellent agreement with the mathematical simulation and cover a wider range
 for evaluation of cycle performance.


The present paper discusses anonparametric algorithm for detecting clusters. Inthealgorithm apositive value called potential is associated witheachdatumbasedondissimilarities. Bydefining sub- ordination relations amongdata, hierarchical structure isintroduced intothedataset.Asaresult oftheintroduction ofhierarchical struc- ture, thedatasetisdivided intosomesubsets called subclusters. A procedure forconstructing clusters fromthesubclusters isalsocon- sidered. Theproposed algorithm canbeapplied toaverywiderange ofdatasetandhasgreat ability todetect clusters, whichisverified by computer simulation. IndexTerms-Cluster detection, hierarchical structure, k-adjacent, k-nearest neighbors, k-touch, nonparametric algorithm, subcluster.


An in situ nondestructive characterization method for zeolite composite membranes, based on transient permeation experiments, is proposed in the present article. This technique allows an accurate evaluation of the zeolite selective layer thickness as well as the thermodynamic and transport properties of sorbing hydrocarbons. To this end, a dynamic model representing mass transport phenomena within the whole permeating module is derived. In order to get the crystal layer properties, a two-step experimental approach is required. The zeolite layer effective thickness is first estimated with the permeation of a nonadsorbing species like hydrogen. Then, the adsorption equilibrium constants and the diffusion coefficients of butane isomers are determined. Three membranes obtained by different synthesis procedures are studied in the Henry domain. The estimated values of the equilibrium constants and diffusion coefficients for normal butane and isobutane are favorably compared with existing literature data. 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 54: 2527–2538, 2008


ABSTRACT The increased use of humic acid (HA) as a plant-growth stimulant in recent years has led to an intense interest in finding an accurate and reliable method to quantify it in an acceptable manner among producers and consumers. Today, there are four common laboratory methods for the determination of HA, including the CDFA, Colorimetric Method, ISO 5073, and NSM. To date, there has been no comparison among these methods to evaluate the quantity of HA across a wide range of commercial fertilizers containing various additives. In the present study, the four aforementioned methods were used to determine the HA content in 22 samples containing a wide range of physical and chemical properties. According to NSM's principles the method and their consistency with the classical method, it was used as a reference method to make comparison among the other methods. Compared to the NSM, CDFA, and ISO 5073 methods that underestimate the HA content (13.8% and 1.5%, respectively), however, it has been demonstrated that the colorimetric method overestimated the HA content by 64.2%. The low ratio of extractant to sample and the presence of soluble organics are the main reasons for under and overestimation in CDFA and colorimetric method, respectively.


The purpose of this research is to observe the various natural and man-made landscapes within the Ţumberak – Samoborsko gorje Nature Park, to analyse their importance for this protected area and to suggest possible measures of their conservation.


Pattern recognition has become an accessible tool in developing advanced adaptive products. The need for such products is not diminishing but on the contrary, requirements for systems that are more and more aware of their environmental circumstances are constantly growing. Feed-forward neural networks are used to learn patterns in their training data without the need to discover by hand the relationships present in the data. However, the problem of estimating the required size of the neural network is still not solved. If we choose a neural network that is too small for a particular given task, the network is unable to "comprehend" the intricacies of the data. On the other hand if we choose a network size that is too big for the given task, we will observe that there are too many parameters to be tuned for the network, or we can fall in the "Curse of dimensionality" or even worse, the training algorithm can easily be trapped in local minima of the error surface. Therefore, we choose to investigate possible ways to find the 'Goldilocks' size for a feed-forward neural network (which is just right in some sense), being given a training set. Furthermore, we used a common paradigm used by the Roman Empire and employed on a wide scale in computer programming, which is the "Divide-et-Impera" approach, to divide a given dataset in multiple sub-datasets, solve the problem for each of the sub-dataset and fuse the results of all the sub-problems to form the result for the initial problem as a whole. To this effect we investigated modular neural networks and their performance.


Abstract Background/Objective: To study the effectiveness of knee-tendon to bladder artificial reflex arc in dogs. Methods: In 6 beagles, the proximal end of the right L5 anterior motor root and the distal end of the right S2 anterior root were anastomosed to build a knee-tendon to bladder reflex, whereas the right L5 posterior sensory root was kept intact. Action potential (AP) curves and electromyograms (EMGs) of the detrusor muscle, the intravesical pressure, horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labeled neurons, and the passing rates of myelinic nerve fibers were calculated to evaluate its feasibility. Results: AP curves and EMG detected in all 6 dogs were similar to those of the control. Six and 18 months after surgery, the means for bladder contraction induced by percussion of the right knee-tendon were 38 ± 27% and 62 ± 5% that of the normal control, respectively. The mean duration times induced by percussion of the right knee-tendon at 6 and 18 months after surgery were 51 ± 37% and 84 ± 12% that of the normal control, respectively. HRP retrograde tracing and neurohistologic observation indicated the feasibility of the artificial reflex arc. Conclusions: Our data showed the effectiveness of bladder innervation below the level of spinal cord injury producing urination by knee-tendon to bladder reflex contractions, and therefore, might provide a new clinical approach for restoring bladder function in individuals with paraplegia.


The principle should be followed and the problems should pay attention especially when strengthening and reconstruct the existing building was summarized,and point out that,the strengthening and the reconstruction should consider to fetch up the shortage of current code when they are satisfied with the demand of current code at the same time.


The paper presents an ACT-R model of task switching, which implements flexible mechanism of control over task rules, that adapts to the level of task change predictability. In predictable task switching situations, the model loads relevant task rules into an easily accessible focus of attention (simulated with an ACT-R goal buffer). However, when tasks change randomly, such strategy would lead to long recovery from incorrect rules already loaded into the focus. So, during unpredictable task changes the model always retrieves relevant task rules from its declarative memory. Two experiments were administered to test assumptions of the model: one required predictable switching while the other imposed some level of unpredictability. The model aptly simulated the pattern of switch trial RTs from both studies, and it also replicated constant RTs of repeat trials in fully predictable conditions, as well as decreasing RTs of repeat trials in less predictable conditions.


Introduction: Lyme disease is associated with multiple inflammatory and neurological symptoms such as arthralgia, arthritis, Bell's palsy, severe headaches, encephalitis, and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome. Rare in occurrence, Lyme Disease induced TMJ arthritis is often missed or lower on the differential. Hereby, new onset TMJ arthritis, likely associated with acute Lyme Disease, is reported. Case Description: 16 years-old male was evaluated for a 6-week history of left temporomandibular joint pain and dislocation, …


Combining the working principle of high-voltage inverter,this paper details the technical scheme of our company's condensate pump inverter reform of unit 1 and 2.The energy saving effects and operationg conditions are analyzed.The results show that the condensate pump adopting frequency conversion control has good economic benefits and technical performance.


While writing this editorial the first case of "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome corona virus"(MERS-CoV) is already detected in Bangladesh in a person returning from middle east. MERS-CoV is a novel corona virus first reported on 24th September,2012 on proMed –mail by Egyptian virologist Dr. Ali Mohammad Jaki in Jeddah.He isolated and identified a new corona virus from a 60 year old male patientwith acute pneumonia and renal failure1. Until 23rd may2013, MERS-CoV had frequently been referred to as a SARS like virus.2 As of 11thJune, 2014, 699 laboratory confirmed cases of human infections with MERS-CoV have been reported to WHO, including at least 209 deaths. Overall 63.5% of cases reported (n=695) are male and the median age is 47 years old. To date , the affected countries in the Middle East include Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia(KSA), United Arab Amirates (UAE) and Yemen; in Africa: Algeria Egypt And Tunesia; In Europe: France,Germany,Greece, Italy, The Netherland and the United Kingdom; in Asia; Malaysia,philippines and Bangladesh and in North America: the united states of America.3


Acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) is a group of rare genetic disorders of the hepatic heme synthesis, characterized by acute attacks with neurovisceral manifestations [1]. The hepatic heme synthesis is regulated by the first, rate limiting enzyme in the pathway, delta-aminolaevulinic acid synthase 1 (ALAS1). When ALAS1 is upregulated, neurotoxic heme intermediates, mainly delta-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) and porphobilinogen (PBG), accumulate, resulting in acute attacks. An estimated 5– 8% of symptomatic AHP patients experience recurrent attacks, a condition associated with chronic disease manifestations and debilitating effects on Psychiatric evaluation and Pain management [2].


In this expository work we show how the Para-analyzer can be useful to a variety of applications involving decision-making when facing mainly with uncertainty, inconsistent or paracomplete information. The Para-analyzer can be implemented electronically, originating the Para-control, very useful in applications in the area of Robotics and Automation.


Air pollution is a difficult problem for environmental protect. To solve the problem of urban air pollution, we must master the disturbing and release of pollutant source; combine with the condition of city construct and economy development, urban pollution actuality and weather condition etc, through adaptive model to modeling the air pervasion to based up relation of the gas pollutant source and air quality. Make certain the air environmental capacity, remove the pollutant source and optimize industrial distribution in reason is earnestly problem to solve by now.


The present invention provides an in-wheel motor and the wheel is mounted inside the motor may be a plug-in hybrid vehicle, the wheel motor which comprises: an annular rotor disposed outside of the brake drum, with its center at the axis of rotation of the brake drum on; rotor flange, disposed between the mounting surface of the brake drum and the outer end surface of the wheel, and an annular rotor connected to a brake drum; annular stator disposed within the wheel, and an annular outer rotor; bearing unit, which is arranged in between the annular rotor and annular stator, the stator is supported on the annular ring of the rotor; and a connecting rod connecting the stator to the annular dragging arm suspension.


In heterogeneous microfluidic immunosensors, the diffusion boundary layer produced on the sensing area represents a critical factor that limits the biosensor performance. A three-dimensional simulation using the finite element method on the binding reaction kinetics of C-reactive protein (CRP) has been performed. We present a new microfluidic biosensor based on a novel reaction-surface design without and with electrothermal force. Two reaction surface configurations were studied. The kinetic reaction rate was calculated with coupled Navier−Stokes, mass diffusion, energy, and Laplace equations. The numerical results reveal that the characteristics of a microfluidic biosensor are more enhanced by using the circular ring design of the sensing area coupled with the electrothermal force. The rate of initial slope related to the association phase is multiplied by a factor 2 when the voltage is increased from 10 to 15 V. The results prove to be valuable in designing new microfluidic biosensors.


The inner structures of the multiquark states are an interesting subject in hadron physics, generally they may be in tetraquark states which are composed of colored constituents, or in molecular states which are composed of two color singlets, or their mixtures. Therefore, the mechanisms which bind the constituents in a unique system and induce the multiquark states to decay would be different in those cases. In this work, using the quantum mechanics we analyze the dynamical mechanisms inducing decays of the tetraquarks where Y(4630) stands as an example for the study, we also comment on the molecular states without making numerical computations.


The purpose of this study was to find a relationship between fanaticism and cohesiveness towards the tendency of aggression behavior in PSIS Semarang Panser Biru football supporters. The sample used was 357 PSIS Semarang Panser Biru football supporters. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling. Data analysis using multiple regression. The results of this study show that there is a relationship between fanaticism and cohesiveness towards the tendency of aggression behavior, there is a positive relationship and significance between fanaticism towards the tendency of aggression behavior and there is a positive relationship and significance between cohesiveness towards the tendency of aggression behavior.


This paper discusses various formal solutions adopted by the Indian official bodies to deal with the Indian informal settlements "the slums". It focuses on Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) or the "Housing for All by 2022" as an essential housing act toward improv-ing the living conditions of the informal settlements, and to achieve cities and housing for all. According to the Indian 2011 censes, 66% of formal towns and cities in India have informal areas. Nearly one in every six urban Indian res-idents lives in a slum. Poor and rural immigrants find in the slums a physical shelter, but they lack quality of living and basic social-economic infrastructure. Bringing formal solution to the informal set-tlements is a challenge that requires deep understanding of the Indian heterogeneous population. This paper starts with the main housing policies that were launched in India during the 2000s, and extend to cover several case studies in In-dian cities based on a field visit conducted in India. It discusses sever-al concepts applied such as in-situ and relocation alternatives; possible improvements for the local communities by promoting livelihood re-sources; the concepts of using land as a resource, land pooling and public private partnership in developing the slums. This paper aims to understand the notion of risks and uncertainty in these solutions as constraints in improving the informal settlements in India for a better urbanism future.


The utility model provides a lighting device, which comprises a frame body, a lamp cap, an LED (Light Emitting Diode) module, an LED lighting circuit substrate and a lamp shade. The lamp cap is arranged on one end of the frame body and is powered up. The LED module is arranged on the other end of the frame body and is provided with an LED. The LED lighting circuit substrate is contained in the frame body (11) and is provided with a lighting circuit, an input of the lighting circuit is connected to the lamp cap, an output of the lighting circuit is connected to the LED module (12), and the LED of the LED module (12) is lighted up. The LED is covered by the lamp shade, so that light emitted by the LED is diffused and radiated, and the LED is arranged on the frame body. The frame body comprises resin with heat conductivity of a carbon filling. The LED module is arranged on the frame body through a heat conduction plate which is partially exposed from the frame body.


This paper analyzes the nexus between corporate social responsibility and community development in Niger Delta, using the case of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and community development in selected host communities in Bayelsa State. The paper revealed that, the oil companies score conspicuously low in the discharge of Corporate Social Responsibility activities in tandem with the huge profit they make from the area. This is because the living standard of the local people is still low and in pitiable conditions. Again, whereas, there are memoranda of understanding signing between the oil companies and the host communities, the oil companies more often than not fail to implement such agreements invariably negates the promotion of community development. More so, MOU's programmes do not reflect the priority needs of the people, which make such projects subject to abuse and misuse. The paper therefore recommends that the laws governing the Nigerian oil industry need to be reviewed to compel oil companies to carry out social responsibility activities. More so, the MOU's must be respected, implemented and fully driven by the spirit of popular participation to give the oil bearing communities a sense of belonging and that will help to close the curtain of strained relationship between oil companies and their host communities.


Chickenpox (Varicella) is a benign illness caused by VaricellaZoster virus and primarily manifests in childhood and is quite infrequent in adults. Most complications and serious cases are observed in adults [1]. These include pneumonia, encephalitis, cardiac arrhythmias, seizures, rare neurological sequelae including optic neuritis and transverse myelitis [2]. Thrombotic complications of the varicella zoster are rare [3,4]. A variety of hematological complications including thrombocytopenia, purpurafulminans and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy have also been reported in children with varicella [2-4].


The sensitization of the photoconductivity in polyacenaphthylene by a dye and/or a Lewis acid was investigated. The most effective materials are methylene blue (E1⁄2=1500 lux. sec.), rhoda-mine 6G (6000 lux. sec.), and victoria pure blue (6500 lux. sec.) in the dye sensitization, and 1-nitroanthraquinone (1200 lux. sec.), 2, 3-dichloronaphthoquinone (1400 lux. sec.), 1, 5-dichlo-roanthraquinone (1500 lux. sec.), chloranil (1800 lux. sec.), and 2-chloroanthraquinone (1900 lux. sec.) in the Lewis-acid sensitization. The combined effects of a dye and a strong acid were determined in the case of polyacenaphthylene as well as poly-N-vinylcarbazole.


Due to DNN-based approach, sound event localization and detection is now possible with a simple microphone array. However, this DNN-based sound event localization and detection has problem with dataset imbalance, pooling size decision, and periodicity of angles. In this paper, we propose three methods: soft f-loss with temporal masking, periodic loss, and PoolNet-based architecture to handle three issues. We evaluate our approach on TAU-NIGENS Spatial Sound Events 2020 dataset. The experimental results show our approach shows performance improvement in sound event localization and detection metrics compared to the baseline system.


Larry Portis, Moral Education and Moral Order : The Political Uses of Durkheimian Sociology ; Because Durkheim 's sociology avoided any utopian project for society and tended to contribute to the maintenance of existing institutions and social relationships, education and the formation of moral consciousness are central to it. The force of durkheimian sociology lies in its capacity to give the impression of contributing to social reform while avoiding any radical critique of the structure or dynamic of existing society. The vocabulary and concepts proper to this sociology allow scholars and journalists to describe the symptoms of social dysfuction without explaining the causes. This integrationist sociology performs, thusly, an ideological function.


We consider statistical attractors of locally typical dynamical systems and their "e-invisible" subsets: parts of the attractors whose neighborhoods are visited by orbits with an average frequency of less than e << 1. For extraordinarily small values of e (say, smaller than 2^(-10^6)), an observer virtually never sees these parts when following a generic orbit.
A trivial reason for e-invisibility in a generic dynamical system may be either a high Lipshitz constant (~1/e) of the mapping (i.e. it badly distorts the metric) or its proximity (~e) to the structurally unstable dynamical systems. However Ilyashenko and Negut [IN] provided a locally typical example of dynamical systems with an e-invisible set and a uniform moderate (<100) Lipshitz constant independent on e. These dynamical systems from [IN] are also |log e|^{-1}-distant from structurally unstable dynamical systems (in the class S of skew products).
We further develop the example of [IN] to provide a better rate of invisibility while staying at the same distance away from the structurally unstable dynamical systems. We give an explicit example of C^1-balls in the space of "step" skew products over the Bernoulli shift such that for each dynamical system from this ball a large portion of the statistical attractor is invisible. Systems that are c/n-distant from structurally unstable ones (in the class S) have rate of invisibility e = 2^(-n^k) where 3k is the Hausdorff dimension of the phase space.


We propose to measure the isomer shift in the self-conjugate Al (N = Z = 13) nucleus along with the isotope shifts of 24−33Al using bunched-beam collinear laser spectroscopy at the COLLAPS beam line at ISOLDE. These isomer and isotope shifts allow the extraction of precise mean-square charge radii, in particular the difference in charge radius between the I = 5, T = 0 ground state and I = 0, T = 1 isomer in Al. This charge radius difference, in comparison with the odd-even staggering in the Al-chain, is an excellent probe to study proton-neutron pairing correlations, as was previously illustrated for 38 19K19 [1]. Furthermore, accurate knowledge of the mean-square charge radius in Al is essential to reliably calculate its isospin-symmetry breaking correction which is important to extract the CKM matrix element Vud from the 0 + → 0 superallowed β-decay data. Finally, the charge radii of the neutron-rich Al isotopes will probe the development of deformation at the border of the island of inversion. Requested shifts: 21 shifts (split into 2 runs over 1 year)


The utility model discloses a clamp for manufacturing a shift fork. The clamp comprises a base, and is characterized in that a standing plate is arranged on the base, a fixed radial positioning sleeve and a shift fork positioning module are arranged on the standing plate, an axial positioning device is further arranged on the base, the axial positioning device comprises a movable top block, a spring is arranged at the bottom of the top block, a core rod is arranged at the top of the top block, and a positioning bolt is arranged on the side surface of the top block. Due to the structure of the clamp, a shift fork and a shift fork shaft can be combined into an assembly through one-time processing. The clamp can complete shift fork assembly processing through one-time clamping, so that the assembly processing work requires one process, instead of three processes in the past, to complete.


From an energy conversion point of view, most of electrical machines including Induction Motors (IMs) can be modeled by an equivalent 2-phase machine model (d-q model). A 3-phase IM, with one of the phases opened (faulty 3-phase IM), can also be modeled by an equivalent 2-phase machine. If a conventional Rotor Field-Oriented Control (RFOC) for balanced IM is used for this faulty machine, considerable oscillations in the torque and speed will result. In this paper, a new technique for vector control of faulty 3-phase IM is presented. In the proposed method, the supposition of Lqs/Lds = (Mq/Md)2 = a2, which is normally applied in other FOC of unbalanced 2-phase IMs, is not used. Results showed that considerable improvements in the torque and speed responses are achieved, specifically in the reduction of the oscillations.


A novel design technique to improve the directivity of a microstrip direction coupler by a meandered structure is proposed in this paper. Increasing of even-mode phase velocity by the proposed meandering method is reported for the first time. An analytical method to obtain closed-form equations or even-mode phase velocity is developed. The proposed structure is verified by experiments. More than 40 dB measured directivity improvement comparing to conventional microstrip coupler is achieved.


There are many intrinsic problems in the framework of the history of Sudan. Abeyi, is the most complicated and hard to resolve. The variability of income generating methods in the area was minimum, except for the claimed tribal and racial. Part of the theoretical framework of the thesis was that long coexistence between the tribal component, shared resources and kin-relationships could be important with the framework of conflict resolution. The recent economic background added to the conflict on resources which evolved from range and pasture strife to struggle to contain existing massive oil reserves. That enhanced central and southern Sudan governments to stands as parts of the confrontation. The introduced framework of Conflict Resolution comes as a fundamental pillar in political economic analysis. The present work analyzes the impasse of Abeyi that caste its shadow on the future of the Sudan as a nation. The main variables discussed in this thesis involve the historical backgrounds of the area, the tribal interrelationships and the civil administration of Abeyi. The analysis includes four digits-square parameters: win-win, win-lose, lose-win and lose-lose solutions. The model was applied to the Abeyi problem considering economic, social and political variables, with strong emphasis on the historical background of the area. Demographic effects were considered in the analysis and the solutions included also secession and joining the expected southern state, federal, confederal and independence. The results showed that it is possible to reach win-win solution accordingly. Civic administration stands as a cardinal variable that could play an imperative role in the solution. Based on confederal status, it is possible to amalgamate the demographic variance with the help of economic development.


Negative-sequence currents produced by traction loads are calculated with the generalized method.Negative-sequence currents are analyzed deeply corresponding to the situation when traction loads are under traction and regenerative braking and fed by single-phase and two-phase power supplies.Thus,reference is made for design of the traction power supply system for high-speed railways.Suggestions to weaken negative sequences are also put forward according to the reasons of negative-sequence changes.The calculation results can be used to provide a simple and convenient engineering method to determine the negative-sequence currents of different traction loads in design.


Several recent insvestigations havse confirmed that the polycarboxylate cements (SrMvITH, Tr Dent J 125: 381, 1968) displayy adhesive bonding to dental enamel that is (rtliable undlei in vivo conditions foi extended periods of time. In studies oIi the mechanism of adhesion of these cements to human enamel, it wsas observed that the interaction of the aqueous polyacrylic acid component of the cement with enamel varied accoirling to the formulation. Purified polyacrylic acit produced only slight etching on clean ctoamel surfaces. Hoissevxe, polyacmylic acid contaiming sulfate ion as a residue from tIme polynierization initiator gave a wshitish appearance to the enamel surface; observation wsith the scanning election microscope (SEM) showed that this was a crystalline deposit (Fig I). Further studies have shown that the crystal formation tlepends mainly on sulfate ion conccntiation in the polyacrylic acid solution and is independetit of the molecular weight or concentration of the solution. Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated that many of the crystals were nucleated at the sosrface of the enamel anti that slight chemical reaction of the surface occussed. Chemical analysis revealed the release of calcium ions from the tooth surface into the supervening polyacrylic acid. The crystals appeared to be bonded finmly to the enamel surface and esistecd mechanical emosval. X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe studieS were carried omt on samples of the crystalline deposit in situ on the enamel surface and also after iemosal by careful scraping. These measuirments revealed that the cmystals in situ mere gypsum CaSO4*R2,O; thme material removetI from the enamel surface suas a mixture of this and hydroxyapatite. Studies of the interaction of synthetic hydroxyapatitc tisks with acids revealed that only the sulfate containing polyacrylic acitl resulted in formation of gypsum crystals, othermiise CaHPO.21HIO was obtained. According to Broswn and Wallacc (Ann NY tcad Sci 57: 690-693, 1958) and Sognnaes (Chemistry of Enamnel Dissolution, 1962, p 66) CaHPO4 2I.O isill precipitate as time solid phase from acidic solution, since it has the los est solubility of the calcium phosphates. At a higher pH, Ca (H2P04) *2H2O is reported to precipitate. Since this does not occur in the polyacrylic acid solution containing sulfate ion, the influence of the polyacrylic acid itself, the


This study investigates the relationship between coworker work hours and perceived work-to-family (WFC) conflict in a multinational sample of professional service employees. Building on recent research on the ways in which work groups influence individual WFC we demonstrate that the average hours worked by coworkers has a significant relationship with reported WFC independent of an employee's own work hours. While this finding is universal across the multinational sample, national cultural differences were found to moderate the relationship such that employees in collectivist countries are more strongly influenced by average coworker hours than their counterparts in more individualistic countries. These relationships were demonstrated using hierarchical linear modeling in a sample of 17,778 professional service employees in 620 different work groups across 21 countries. The results provided strong support for the effect of culture on the relationship between group average hours and perception WFC and have...


To determine the feasibility of a multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) to investigate whether digital rotation of the fetal head from occiput posterior (OP) position in the second stage of labour reduces the risk of operative delivery (defined as caesarean section (CS) or instrumental delivery).


Design is "something that we do" that is related to our unique human condition as creative individuals, so as "making" is related to how we manifest and impress that uniqueness into our surrounding environment. As designers, the way we impress our ideas into the material world is tightly connected to a 'continuous creative performance' and with concepts often missing in digital design and fabrication techniques –yet present in analog processes such as ambiguity, improvisation and imprecision. In this paper, a model of human-machine interaction is proposed, that seeks to transcend the 'hylomorphic' model imperative in today's digital architectural design practice to a more performative and reciprocal form of computational making. By using body gestures and imbuing fabrication machines with behaviour, the research seeks to embrace the concept of 'performance and error' as promoters of creativity and cognition about the things we create, installing human as the bond of the interrelations between designing and making.


The molecular Stark effect in NH2D was used to modulate the 10. 6‐μ P(20) line of a CO2 laser yielding a modulation depth of 40% from a 200‐V cm−1 rms signal applied to a 19. 7‐cm gas cell external to the laser. NH2D was prepared by mixing ND3 and NH3. The absorption coefficient of the M=4 Stark‐split line was measured as a function of mixing ratio and pressure. The observed pressure‐broadening coefficient was 32. 5 MHz/Torr.


Associated to Birkhoff orthogonality, we study Birkhoff angles in a normed space and present some of their basic properties. We also discuss how to decide whether an angle is more acute or more obtuse than another. In addition, given two vectors $x$ and $y$ in a normed space, we study the formula for Birkhoff `cosine' of the angle from $x$ to $y$ from which we can, in principal, compute the angle. Some examples will be presented.


• Cybersex is a subset of online sexual activities that involve a real-time interaction between two people using an online device. • A script is a sequence of behaviours that people learn is acceptable to perform in a specific social context. • Sexual scripts are scripts that are applied to sexual behaviours. These scripts include aspects of cultural expectations regarding appropriate behaviours for men and women in sexual situations, people's internal desires, and the actual sexual activities that occur. • Sexual script theory suggests that during sexual activities men are assertive and make the first move, while women pleasure the men. • There is little research examining sexual scripts online and no studies have examined the role that men and women take in specific cybersex activities. • The purpose of this study was to examine whether heterosexual men and women reported similar or different specific cybersex activities across the following three partner types: • Primary Partner (PP) is a person who is a primary romantic partner at the time of the activity. • Known Non-partner (KNP) is someone known but who is not a primary partner at the time of the cybersex activity. This includes a friend, colleague/classmate, ex-partner, or partner outside of a primary relationship. • Stranger (S) is someone not known at all and has never been met.


INTRODUCTION UNSCEAR (1) reported that the effective doses due to inhalation of radon (Rn) and its progeny account on average for about one-half of all natural sources of radiation. In recent years, indoor surveys in Europe and Asia revealed that the dose contribution from thoron (Rn) and its progeny can equal to or even exceed that of Rn and its progeny (2). For assessment the public exposure from Rn and its progeny, large-scale surveys of indoor Rn and its progeny concentrations are desirable. Recent reviews of Rn and its progeny metrology can be found in literature (2, 3). However, convenient, low-cost and time-integrating measuring methods which are suitable for large-scale surveys are still few. In indoor environments, the air mixing time is usually much larger than the half-life of Rn (56 s), the Rn concentration is highly non-uniform, so it is difficult to obtain a representative value of indoor Rn concentrations. Moreover, from the view of dose contribution, Rn progeny are much more important than Rn. Therefore, it is desirable to know the concentrations of Rn progeny. In this study, three integrating measurement methods with allyl diglycol carbonate plastic (CR-39) as detectors were attempted, and a smallscale of field measurement was performed. The results indicate that they may be suitable for evaluating the indoor Rn and its progeny concentrations whenever the public exposure to Rn and its progeny is taken into account.


The use of traditional medicines (TM) and Complementary Alternative Medicines (CAM) are common in Western Pacific countries including Brunei and Singapore. Our cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence of TM use amongst Brunei population. The objectives are to compare the practices on the use of TM with conventional medicines and to address the safety and cost implication. This study was conducted for a period of 12 months from October 2007. It was a cross-sectional study using a structured self-administered questionnaire which was pretested from the pilot study. Questionnaires were randomly administered to all patients attending the tertiary hospitals and health centres in Brunei. The questionnaires are bilingual and consists of 27-item questions. Both sexes were included in the study, and participants had to be mentally competent and of age between 16 years and 85 years. Data entry and analysis were done using SPSS version 16.0. Information leaflets were given to participants, and their written-informed consent was obtained. There were 2,400 respondent for this study of which 32% (n=777) were male and 68% (n=1,623) were female, 85 % were Malays, and 55% were in employment status. The proportion of Bruneians who have used some form of TM during their lifetime was 59%, (n=1,396). Use of TM is equal in proportion among Chinese (62%) and Malay ethnicities (59%). Use of TM was highest in the 56 years and above age group (71%), p<0.01. It was higher amongst female respondents compared to males p<0.001. 64% respondents indicated that TM was safe. 76% (n= 1,804) of respondents answered that TM are easily available. Majority of TM users (91%) used local herbs and 63% used TM for general health and vitality. 43% of users of prescribed medicines (common cold remedies, antipyretics and antibiotics) reported using TM as well. 73% of respondents did not report their use of TM to their doctors. 94% (n=1,284) of the respondents claimed that there were no adverse effects accompanying use of TM. 62% perceived TM is safe due to the traditional practices and natural sources. 82% of TM users spend less than BND $50 on TM every month. We concluded from this study that there is a high prevalence of TM use in Brunei despite the free health care services provided in the country. Doctors need to understand TM better and communicate more with their patients regarding TM use. This can be due to their use as maintenance of health rather than for treatment of illness. TM is also easily available and perceived to be safe because it had been used for generations and of natural sources despite their limited scientific evidence. The lack of regulation and perceptions of TM being safe needs extra cautions to avoid any potential serious adverse herb-drug interactions. Therefore, medical and health care workers should not ignore this perceptions and patients' education is utmost important.


The evidence for a causative relationship between the Epstein‐Barr virus and infectious mononucleosis is reviewed, and results of a study of the age incidence of antibody to this virus in an Australian population are presented. A comparison is made with the findings of surveys in other populations and the reasons for any differences are discussed.


A 2D/3D switchable autostereoscopic display with spatial and sequential hybrid control (SSHC) using polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films is studied. The light propagation in the SSHC system is simulated with a Monte Carlo ray-tracing method. Relationship between the 2D uniformity and anisotropy factor as well as mean free path is obtained by a series of simulation cases. The uniformity reaches over 85% in simulation. As well, a two-viewpoint prototype is built to give the experimental result. Measurements show that a highly transparent PDLC film can maintain the high-quality 3D performance while a strongly diffusive one can enhance the uniformity in 2D mode. By increasing the driving duty cycle of the backlight units, the issue of luminance attenuation in 2D mode can be addressed. Our technique offers a practical solution for 2D/3D switch in autostereoscopic displays.


COMPILATION AND GENERATION OF MULTI-PROCESSOR ON A CHIP REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Randall S. Klingler Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Master of Science Current FPGA technology has advanced to the point that useful embedded System-on-Programmable-Chips (SoPC)s can now be designed. The Real Time Processor (RTP) project leverages the advances in FPGA technology with a system architecture that is customizable to specific real-time applications. The design and implementation of the framework for architecting such a system from ANSI-C code is presented. The Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) was retargeted to the RTP architecture and extended to produce a generator directive file. The RTPGen hardware generator was created to consume the directive file and produce a highly customized top-level structural VHDL file that can be synthesized and programmed onto an FPGA such as the Xilinx Spartan-3. Thus, an application specific multiprocessor real-time embedded system is realized from ANSI-C code.


The various types of pain evoked after thoracic surgery are wound pain, pulmonary apex pain due to the drain, pain caused by intercostal nerve damage, visceral pain due to manipulation of the pleura/bronchi during surgery. As the dominant nerve differs among painful areas, the innervation regions requiring analgesia are extensive, causing difficulty in pain control. These pains are treated by the thoracic epidural anesthesia, the administration of anti-inflammatory analgesics such as non- steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, gabapentin (anti-epileptic drug) as a central nerve system drug, or tranquilizers.


Total cross sections for the $^{63}\mathrm{Cu}(p, n)^{63}\mathrm{Zn}$ and $^{63}\mathrm{Cu}(p, 2n)^{62}\mathrm{Zn}$ reactions at 1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 4.5, 6.0, 9.0, and 11.5 GeV have been determined. These results are used to normalize previous differential-recoil angular-distribution data for the ($p, 2n$) reaction at 1.0 GeV. A comparison with similar data for the $^{65}\mathrm{Cu}(p, pn)^{64}\mathrm{Cu}$ reaction indicates that, for energy transfers sufficient to evaporate only one nucleon, the inelastic ($p$, ${p}^{\ensuremath{'}}$) reaction is approximately 100 times more probable than the ($p$, $n$) interaction at this energy.


Infrared thermography is a painless, non-invasive method that can be used to improve the physiological assessment and health of the horse, and as an alternative, or in combination with other imaging methods and diagnostic procedures. The main advantage of thermography is the detection of subclinical signs of inflammation before the onset of clinical signs of pathology. The aim of this pilot study was to determine the surface body temperature of six clinically healthy horses in indoor conditions. The horses` bodies were laterally scanned on the left and right sides and were divided into the following regions: neck, shoulder, thoracic limb, back, thigh and pelvic limb. The abdominal region of the horses was scanned individually in ventral projection. The average temperature of each region was calculated. An approximately equal thermal symmetry was observed between both sides of the horse's body.


This paper gives a sparse domination for the iterated commutators of multilinear pseudo-differential operators with the symbol σ belonging to the Hörmander class, and establishes the quantitative bounds of the Bloom type estimates for such commutators. Moreover, the Cp estimates for the corresponding multilinear pseudo-differential operators are also obtained.


Outlines initiatives that employers and employers' organizations can take to stimulate youth employment. Describes measures in the areas of: creating a positive environment for job creation; enhancing employability; promoting youth entrepreneurship; and promoting equality at work for young women and men. Outlines an action plan for employers and their organizations.

This guide is designed to help employers and their organizations to initiate and expand action to promote youth employment. It provides a number of ideas and resources to assist employers in stimulating youth employment, from influencing public policy to partnering other groups such as trade unions and educational institutions, and even engaging in concrete activities directly with young people.


Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) accounts for a large percentage of deaths in children with epilepsy. Contributing factors to paediatric SUDEP are incompletely understood.


The continuous growth of high-rise residential properties indicates that there is a need for an effective property management system to provide a sustainable high-rise residential property development. As intensive as these studies are, they do not attempt to investigate the correlation between property management systems with the trends of Malaysia high-rise residential property development. By examining the trends and scenario of Malaysia high-rise residential property development, this paper aims to gain an understanding of impacts from the effectiveness of property management in this scope area. Findings from this scoping paper will assist in providing a greater understanding and possible solutions for the current Malaysian property management systems for the expanding high-rise residential unit market.


Machine vision has been made easier by the development of computer systems capable of processing information at high speeds and by inexpensive camera-computer systems. A Camera-Computer system called SIVEDI was developed based on the shape from focusing (SFF) and shape from defocusing (SFD) techniques. The SIVEDI system has as entries the images captured by the camera, the number of steps of the focusing mechanism, and user specifications. The focusing mechanism used is the internal one of the camera and a computer-camera interface was designed to control it. An equation is introduced to obtain the measure of relative defocusing among many images. A 3D image is produced as the result of the system. SIVEDI consist of a number of modules, each one implementing a step in the system model. The modules are independent of each other and could be easily modified to improve the system. As SIVEDI was developed in a MATLAB environment it can be used in any computer with this software installed on it. These characteristics allow users to access intermediate results and to control the system internal parameters. Results show that the 3D image reconstruction has an acceptable quality.


Papers relating to a production of `Ghosts on the Coast' a family fantasy with the Rouseabouts. It was performed on the West Coast between 29 Oct and 5 Nov 1960. The script was written by Elsie Locke and Dick Austin was a member of the cast. Includes folk songs by various writers (collected by Elsie Locke) not all of which were used in the production and parts of the script.
The Rouseabouts were a folk music group associated with the William Morris Group, Christchurch
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The invention discloses a method of removing paracetamol by applying a vertical-current biological retaining system. According to the method disclosed by the invention, a modularized biological retaining system can be introduced to purify a water pollutant containing paracetamol, so that not only can requirements of biological water treatment technical development of synchronous detoxification denitrification be achieved, but also pollution of the paracetamol can be quickly degraded. The method has the advantages such as simplicity in operation, certain pollution load resistance, and the like, and is very suitable for a water treatment process of wide areas such as municipal sewage and agricultural sewage.


The political process is the most embracive social activity of democratic society. It may be defined as the process whereby public values are determined and public policies formulated and executed. No other activity covers such a multitude of social phenomena and groups or involves such a variety of institutional arrangements. A broad understanding of the environment and operation of the political process is essential for any individual or group which endeavors to influence and guide the nature of public decisions and the agencies of policy formulation.


Transverse field-induced strain (x_2-E), hysteresis loop (P-E), dielectric constant andpiezoelectric coefficient under DC bias were measured for 3mol% barium-doped PLZT 10/65/35relaxor ferroelectric ceramic. Dynamic dielectric constant and piezoelectric coefficient were calcu-lated according to the slope of x_2 - E and P - E curves respectively. Dynamic dielectric constantis much larger than DC biased dielectric constant as the electric field is less than 8 kV/cm, thedifference between them is getting smaller as the electric field increases. Dynamic piezoelectriccoefficient is much larger than the value under DC bias as the electric field is in the range of 3~15kV/cm, the difference between them is small as the electric field is less than 3 kV/cm or higherthan 15 kV/cm.


Real GNP grew at a 4.3 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 1987, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Such rapid growth typically suggests an acceleration in the pace of economic ac tivity. On closer examination, however, the first-quarter performance appears to be an inventory reaction to developments in preceding quarters. When the second half of 1986 and the first quarter of 1987 are viewed together, real GNP grew at a 2.7 percent rate, little different from the 2.5 percent rate over the previous two years.


The paper deals with the theoretical aspects of knowledge management in organizations. The emphasis on the relevance of the introduction of knowledge management system in the management of logistics service providers is done. The results of the developed procedure for the introduction of the knowledge management system in the management of business processes in organizations of 3PL (Third party logistic) providers, as well as the classification of knowledge about processes in 3PL organizations, are presented. On the basis of theoretical studies, the main stages of knowledge integration into business process management in 3PL providers have been determined.