Much waste has been involved in the purchase of map equipment for elementary schools in the United States, particularly because of the choice of wall maps of kinds which can contribute little to a child's development. It follows that the problem of the scientific selection of map equipment is, in one respect, a phase of the general problem of effecting school economy. Maps should be selected, of course, in terms of the ends which they may serve. In the study of geography, for example, maps are of value in proportion to the amount which they can contribute to an understanding of relationships between man's activities and natural environment. In the study of history the value of maps is measured by the contribution they can make to an understanding of the themes with which history deals, while in the study of economics maps are worth only what they can bring to an understanding of that subject, and so on. Maps bear a relation to various subjects which is akin to that of the printed page. They are tools of information-information regarding the distribution, extent, and relative locations of cultural and natural landscape features or of areas wherein given types of cultural or natural conditions are found. Such ideas are expressed better in map symbols than in words. Just as children learn to express many ideas in word language, so they should learn to express, as well as to read, some kinds of ideas in the language of maps. It should be the purpose, then, of those who guide children in the use of maps to develop in their pupils (i) an understanding of the specific types of information that can be best expressed in maps, (2) the ability to read such kinds of information from maps, (3) the ability to translate into map language information expressed in other ways but well suited to expression in map form, and (4) the habit


We contrast place-based economic development strategies (PBEDS) in Thailand and in economically advanced countries. Through government initiatives, PBEDS focuses on improving economically underdeveloped areas' economic conditions. Thailand's PBEDS began in 1959 to develop the impoverished Northeast region, focusing on agricultural improvements. Since 1970, infrastructure and industrial development zones have been the main strategies to attract foreign investment for export-oriented growth. In economically advanced countries, the primary purpose of PBEDS is to reduce regional economic disparity. However, as they are implemented in Thailand, they increase regional inequality as development is concentrated in and around Bangkok. Thailand's latest PBEDS is the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) project in three eastern provinces. The national government oversaw the EEC and granted the EEC Office special powers to streamline investment approvals, although local governments have no formal role. We contrast Thailand's top-down PBEDS with approaches in other countries that emphasize local decision-making and leveraging regional assets. Thailand's policies focus on national growth, while international evidence suggests that locally-led PBEDS more effectively address regional disparities and increase national output.  Thailand should empower local governments, coordinate with them, and invest in poorer regions. At the same time, the EEC may promote growth, but its centralized approach risks misaligning with local needs. A balanced strategy accounting for local contexts could better lift Thailand economically.


Traditional system of medicines has vast applications of poisonous plants; hence the knowledge about poisonous plant and its therapeutic effects becomes very essential to develop a new drug for the new diseases like Covid 19 and other diseases. Many research studies have showed that the poisonous medicinal plants are endowed with properties like Antidiabetic, Anticancer, Antibacterial, Antifungal, and Cytogenetic effect. This study focused on one such drug called Snuhi - Euphorbia Neriifolia, a Upavisha or a poisonous plant to evaluate its therapeutic effects, which would be helpful for the mankind after the proper Shodhana (purification), by conducting experimental studies, toxicity studies and thereby applied in various diseases for its therapeutic benefits and to relieve the sufferings of the patients.


Design criteria for two-stage gain-shifted erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (GS-EDFAs) determined for
multiwavelength operation at the 1580 nm wavelength band are presented. In order to achieve a flat gain and
low noise figure, special care must be taken when selecting erbium-doped fiber lengths, pump configuration
and pump powers.


abstract Like many countries in the world, the South African Government announced its first national lockdown to curtail the spread of the coronavirus in March 2020. Despite the announcement of these restrictions, which were intended to protect the citizens, destruction of homes and evictions of people living in informal settlements were reported. Writing against the notion of an 'exceptional' time during the experience of COVID-19, in this briefing I offer two terms: 'survivalist mobilities' and 'survivalist economics' as modes of making life that speak in response to the excess of normative and oppressive conditions. The case of Bulelani Qolani's eviction from his home in eThembeni, Khayelitsha, by the City of Cape Town's Anti-Land Invasion Unit (ALIU) in July 2020 becomes the centrepiece to the examination of the exceptionality of COVID-19 as it pertains to black life, and how the understanding of 'the human and citizenship' is articulated and experienced by those living in the remains of trans-historical conditions. In the first section I introduce 'black life' as a frame to work against reading COVID-19 as a singular and exceptional crisis. In the section that follows I introduce the case of Bulelani Qolani's eviction through the method of 'the episode', from which to begin to examine the notion of black life under the conditions of the pandemic. The jarring image of his naked body and the loss of his home resonate with black people's ongoing relationship to this form of trans-historical dispossession.


Here, we present the study of electromagnetic waves interaction with material with single and double negative parameters having periodic surface, based on rigorous solution to corresponding boundary value problem. It is well known and proved by numerous cases that the most profound and efficient study of electromagnetic waves interaction with objects and especially the objects possessing resonant properties, can be performed by the interactive and complementary study of diffraction and spectral problem solution. Here, we use the solution to diffraction problem for periodic surface obtained by C formalism associated with regularization that is described. For the spectral problem solution the analytical continuation (within the frames of the theory of analytic functions) of the solutions to diffraction problem for the boundary between two dielectric media into the domain of complex valued frequencies is considered. The reason and benefits of such continuation consist in the fact that singularities (poles, branching points and etc.) of the diffraction problem solution, appearing after such continuation into the domain of complex frequencies, define and predetermine completely the diffraction field features, obtained in the physical (at real frequencies) domain of parameters.


Previous work at this centre has shown enhanced sensitivity for PMOS dosimeters using a design approach. This is being extended presently to longer chains of devices. Prior to this extension, thermal effects have been investigated and a noise analysis has been undertaken. The need for a temperature compensation technique becomes imperative if the signal/noise ratio is to be improved.


The studies of occupationally exposed workers to radiation have been based on recorded annual radiation doses. Monitoring programs in Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) use thermoluminescent dosimeter which measures the whole body dose and not the actual dose to the organs and tissues. Bayesian Statistical model was used to estimate annual and cumulative absorbed doses to the organs and tissues including redbone marrow, female breast, thyroid, ovary, testes, lung and skin. The organ doses averaged over a cohort of occupationally exposed workers were estimated for the purpose of the ongoing cancer risk analysis. The skin indicates to be more susceptible organ to radiation with high mean dose of 1.15 ± 0.59 mGy/5yrs and followed by the thyroid and the female breast with the mean dose of 0.90 ± 0.46 mGy/5yrs and 0.72 ± 0.38 mGy/5yrs respectively. The red bone marrow, ovary and lungs received low dose with the mean dose estimates of 0.12 ± 0.11 mGy/5yrs, 0.20 ± 0.10 mGy/5yrs and 0.39 ± 0.19 mGy/5yrs respectively. SPSS was used to analyze the recorded data. Consequently the estimated mean annual cancer risks indicated low estimates as compared to the international reference levels. The study therefore indicates that the radiation doses are permissible to the limits verifying that medical facilities and the techniques used are adequate and acceptable. The study would therefore assist appropriate stakeholders to understand how to model the quantity of absorbed dose in a particular organ and compare with the whole body dose. ©Emerging Academy Resources


Objective: Siddha system is an ancient traditional system of medicine treats many chronic ailments and neurological disorders. Muthu parpam is one of the herbo marine Siddha drugs which have the indication for neurocognitive dysfunction. The main objective of this current study was to evaluate the acetylcholine esterase (AChE) inhibition of Muthu parpam.
Methods: AChE activity was evaluated using a modified 96-well microplate assay based on Ellman's method. Physostigmine (5, 10, 20, and 40 μg/ml) was used as the positive control.
Results: The result of this study clearly indicates that the test drug Muthu Parpam was effective in inhibiting AChE enzyme at the specified concentration dose dependently. Maximum percentage inhibition of about 71.68% was observed at 500 μg/ml when compared to that of the Physostigmine, a known AChE inhibitor with the maximum inhibition 84.87% at the concentration of 40 μg/ml.
Conclusion: Hence, this preliminary screening has proven the efficacy of Muthu parpam through AChE inhibition potential in the management of Alzheimer disease.


Underwater acoustic communication systems generally require an equalization system to compensate for the effects of the channel since underwater acoustic communication channels suffer from inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by multipath propagation of acoustic waves [1]. One of the representative equalization systems, the time reversal (TR) technique, has been studied as a technique for obtaining high reliability in an underwater communication system [2]. In addition, the equalizer added after the TR processing provides reliable communication performance by eliminating the residual ISI. The decision feedback equalizer (DFE) is one of the equalizers that can be effectively used in combination with the TR technique and is generally known to have superior performance over decision direct equalizer (DDE) [3]. However, the DFE has the disadvantage that the performance is drastically degraded when error propagation occurs. Bidirectional equalization has been proposed to overcome such drawbacks [4]. The bidirectional equalization technique can obtain the diversity and reduce the error rate by combining the soft output performing the forward equalization and the soft output performing the backward equalization on the communication frame. However, even if the bidirectional equalization technique is applied, the DFE greatly increases the error rate due to error propagation when a burst error occurs. In this paper, we propose a bidirectional communication method that adaptively adapt the equalizer to overcome drawback of DFE. The proposed method can prevent the increase of the error rate due to error propagation by converting the DFE to the DDE when the burst error occurs. In the case of a long-range underwater communication, since the intensity of the acoustic signal is very weak, a burst error tends to occur. Thus, the proposed scheme is applied long-range communication signal containing factors of a burst error. The results show that the proposed scheme effectively improve error performance compared with conventional bidirectional communication system. 2. Proposed Scheme


This paper discusses the basic method of video storage,and analyses the basic principle of FAT32 file system.For the high transmission speed and mass data of HDTV video stream,a method based on FPGA and AVR microcontroller is proposed,which can store the video stream in a hard disk without an operation system.A software realization based on the hardware platform is provided.


THz spintronics emitters represent today novel sources for broadband emission using nanometer-scaled materials. We experimentally investigate and model THz spintronic emission based on the spin Hall effect in 3d/5d transition metals and on the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect in the optimized topological insulator Bi1-xSbx.


MASCULINITY and femininity pose interesting measurement problems. In contrast to the definition problems encountered with most other intuitive psychological constructs, there is a readily available external criterion upon which to base an operational definition. Clearly, masculinity must involve behavior that is similar to that typically observed in men and femininity must involve behavior that is similar to that typically observed in women. Most masculinity-femininity (MF) scales, including those of Gough (1952), Guilford (1936), Heston (1949), and Terman (1936), have been based on this operational definition of sex difference. Scales based on items showing sex differences have not been found to have the desired high positive correlations with each other and Heston (1948) has suggested that MF items based on interests seem to form one cluster, while those based on personality characteristics seem to form another. Webster (1956, 1957) was disappointed with the low internal consistency of items selected on the basis of sex difference, and he found that he could improve reliability considerably by dividing MF items into three scales on the basis of item content. Two of the scales so constructed were found by Webster to have a negligible correlation with each other in a sample of a single


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Barcelona 1992 was a unique and pivotal edition of the Olympic Games. The award of the event provided an impetus for the city to advance its urban redevelopment strategy, which existed before the host city nomination, and continued after the Games had ended. The strategy facilitated major transformation of the public realm, expansion of amenities, regeneration of the economy, and global repositioning of the city to promote its status as an International and democratic Western nation after the Franco regime (1936-1975) [1]. It heralded a new phase of commercialisation and regeneration in Olympic development, setting a benchmark for future Olympic cities and initiating a reinvention of the criterion by which to judge whether or not an Olympic Games had been a success [2]. The resurgence of Barcelona was driven by inspired city leaders, in particular, architect, urban planner, and city Councilor Oriol Bohigas, the 'mind' and masterplanner of the Games. In pursuit of an ambitious yet pragmatic urban strategy and quality architectural infrastructure, Bohigas orchestrated new constructions by influential architects such as Alvaro Siza (Meterology Center), Arata Isozaki (Palau Sant Jordi), David Mackay (Olympic Village), Frank Gehry (Golden Fish Sculpture), Norman Foster (Torre de Collserola), Ricardo Bofill (New Airport Terminal), Santiago Calatrava (Montjuïc Communications Tower), and Vittorio Gregotti (Estadi Olímpic). The Olympic development in Barcelona assembled International acclaim and resulted in the assignment of the prestigious RIBA Gold Medal to the city in 1999, representing a new era for the esteemed award, which had never previously been extended to a city rather than an individual [3]. International architectural practices involved in the resurgence of Barcelona created a trend for future Olympic Games. In 2017, Barcelona celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the XXV Olympiad with a special programme of cultural and sporting events to reflect the importance and commend the lasting legacy of the 1992 Olympic Games. This paper is a review of the context and design solutions that shaped the long-standing legacy of Barcelona 1992. Building upon previous research, the study applies a case-study approach to evaluate the infrastructural impacts of the Games in the city, and their subsequent influence on the development and future of Olympic architecture and engineering. References [1] L.A. Brown and M. Cresciani, "Creative architectures of the Summer Olympic Games: Design, construction, legacy," in Creativity in Structural Design: Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017, Boston, USA, July 16-20, 2018, C. Mueller and S. Adriaenssens Eds. [2] J.R. Gold, and M.M. Gold (eds.), Olympic Cities: City Agenda Planning and the Worlds Games: 1896-2020 (3rd ed.), Routledge, 2017. [3] "The Royal Gold Medal", The Journal of Architecture, vol. 4, pp. 229-244, 1999.


When a cytoskeletal protein, tubulin, is enclosed inside a liposome and the tubulin molecules assemble to form microtubules, a spherical liposome transforms into a rugby-ball shape due to the mechanical force generated by the microtubule assembly. Tubular projections of membrane then grow from both ends of the rugby-ball liposome, and finally the liposome transforms into a characteristic shape consisting of a central ellipsoid and straight tubes. Here we investigate mechanical aspects of the shape transformation of liposomes caused by microtubule assembly. We calculate the liposome shape using a mathematical model based on the notion of the minimum bending energy of the liposome membrane. The force generated by the microtubule assembly is incorporated in the model by considering the local force balance of the membrane. Numerical analysis of the model gives a series of shapes which are similar to the shapes observed in experiments. The force-transformation relationship obtained in our model predicts the ex...


The article describes the stages of formation and the main reasons for the transformation of the current art institutional system. Its characteristics, conventional to Europe at the end of the 18th century, became common to most countries by the second half of the 19th century. Globalization processes that accompany the entire history of the previous century are the key factor of the rapid changes in society, including the art sphere. The role of global economic changes with the orientation on the society of consumption, on the growing importance of art market, commercialization of culture in general, emergence of new technologies and changes in attitudes to contemporary art in all its manifestations were observed. The reasons for shifting the emphasis and rethinking the role of artist, curator and spectator in the modern mode of existence of art institutions were analyzed. The conditions for updating existing and new forms of art representation, as well as expanding the concept of an artwork and the difference in understanding its value in historical and commercial terms that do not always coincide, were described.


out and, except for a small opaque calculus in one of the minor calices at the lower pole of the left kidney, no other abnormality was seen. Kidney and ureter were plainly visualized on both sides of the body. In many of the previously reported examples of transverse ectopia, one of the testicles has been quite abnormal and in one reported case the ectopic testicle was the site of a malignant tumour. It is true that we have not proven by histological examination that both testicles in our patient were normal histologically and functionally. The accompanying photograph would however establish with reasonable surety that both testicles were normal, so that this case is one of genuine rarity.


The aim of this study are : (1) to identify production profile of broiler's partnership at Gerbangkertosusila region; (2) to identify farmer's profile of broiler's partnership at Gerbangkertosusila region; (3) to identify human resources development factors of broiler's partnership. This research done at Gerbangkertosusila region (Gresik, Bangkalan, Mojokerto, Surabaya, Sidoarjo dan Lamongan) East Java Province for 2 (two) months. This research is quantitative research with Cross Sectional Survey which mean questionnaire method by question list used in order to data collected as primary and secondary data. Primary data collected by survey, observation and depth interviewed with questionnaire used in order to got valid data, such as farmer profile and production profile information. Secondary data collected by data study and documentation from government documents and broiler's partnership corporation related documents. Data analysist was descriptive analysist. The conclusion of this study are : (1) Broiler's farmer profile are mostly (90%) at productive ages with Senior High School graduated as the most common (75%) and an enterpreneur as main profession (45%) which more than 3 years of production periods (80%) and had experiences at 2 kind of broiler's partnership models (60%); (2) Management contract as the most choosen broiler's partnership models by respondents


We obtain differential optical reflectivity spectra from a photonic crystal nanocavity containing coupled quantum dots (QDs). Our technique employs Coulomb shifts in QD optical transition energies and is not restricted to linearly polarized cavities.


Erythema multiforme (EM), an uncommon immune-mediated skin disorder of cats, conceivably could be triggered by feline herpesvirus type-1 (FHV-1) infection, in a manner analogous to human herpesvirus-associated EM (HAEM). This report describes a 10-year-old Persian-mixed cat with a presumptive diagnosis of HAEM.


According to the strong relationship between low level features in an image and human emotion, an approach to classify wood images into emotional categories(gorgeous vs. simple) is proposed in this paper. Through analyzing the wood texture feature by the viewpoint of visual perception and image analysis, some features are structured to depict the relationship between wood texture and human emotional feelings. And the method that extract the features which reflect the emotional changes of wood texture by calculating directionality and coarseness in Tamura texture quantity and coarseness by K-means cluster algorithm, and extracting the global color feature in HSV color space is proposed, and Back Propagation Neural Network is employed to map these low level features to emotional feature space. Finally, we show some experimental results.


ABSTRACT:The main objectives of any VLSI design are to achieve the low Power, minimum Delay and Area reduction. Minimizing power, delay & area is a challenge in the present situation, but all efforts to achieve one of these can lead to a better design. This paper proposes an EDA tool for low power/ high speed VLSI design, which solves any DFG to estimate the speed of operation and the percentage reduction in the power consumption using pipelining and parallel processing concepts.


Characterization of Electromyogram (EMG) signals is important for identifying neuromuscular diseases. Although various techniques were implemented for classification, none of them were implemented in the complexity domain. In this study, characterization of EMG signals recorded from healthy, neuropathic and myopathic subjects has been performed in complexity domain based on Multiscale Entropy (MSE) method. To do this, the multiscale entropy method has been applied to an EMG database publicly available in PhysioNet. The complexity profile curves obtained with the MSE approach have shown promising classification among healthy subject, neuropathic and myopathic patients in terms of complexity. One way ANOVA test has shown statistically significant differences (p<0.01) among these three classes. Moreover, Support Vector Machine (SVM) has demonstrated a classification accuracy of 86.1% for characterizing EMG signals of neuromuscular disorders. Furthermore, myopathic and neuropathic patients have been recognized with 66.7% sensitivity at 95.8% specificity and 100% sensitivity at 100% specificity respectively.


Bibliographic instruction is an important tool to teach students about services and collections offered in a library. At the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Mississippi, curators often use instruction sessions to teach students about the civil rights history of the state. Through correspondence, photographs, government documents, and music, students become aware of the activities of civil rights activists and the segregationists they fought against. This paper explores the various civil rights primary sources and subjects covered in instruction sessions at the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Mississippi.


Introduction: TLR9 agonists, being recognized via non-methylated CG-motifs, target the Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9). This way, they activate the innate and the adaptive immune system. Two different families of TLR9 agonists are currently used in preclinical and clinical studies: Covalently-closed dumbbell-shaped DNA molecules with natural phosphodiester backbone which are protected from degradation by their conformation (dSLIM®) and single-stranded, oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG-ODN) commonly stabilized by phosphorothioates (PTO). However, chemical PTO-modifications have resulted in off-target effects and an unfavorable risk-to-benefit ratio in clinical trials. EnanDIM® are a new family of TLR9 agonists. EnanDIM® molecules consist of linear single-stranded ODN. Protection against exonucleases is achieved through L-deoxyribose nucleotides instead of the naturally occurring D-deoxyribose nucleotides at their 39-ends. EnanDIM® lead to pronounced induction of cyto- and chemokines, like IFN-alpha and IP-10, as well as broad activation of immune cells, like monocytes, NK cells and dendritic cells, within PBMC. Therefore, EnanDIM® were evaluated in various syngeneic murine tumor models for their anti-tumor effects. Methods: Mice were subcutaneously inoculated with either CT26 (colon carcinoma), MC38 (colon carcinoma), EMT-6 (breast cancer), B16F10 (melanoma) or A20 (lymphoma) cells for solid tumor growth. EnanDIM® (250 µg per dose, intratumoral) was used to treat established tumors. In addition, the capability of EnanDIM® to modulate the tumor micro-environment (TME) was analyzed via immunohistochemistry in a syngeneic tumor model. Results: Mice in all models showed clear reduction in tumor growth (TGI: 53 to 85%) and, therefore, an increased survival (p ≤0.001, logrank). Notably, in the EMT-6 tumor model 8/10 mice showed complete tumor regression after EnanDIM® injection. Those 8 mice rejected EMT-6 tumor cells in a subsequent re-challenge study, indicating a sustained immune memory against the tumor, which was in contrast to age-matched naive mice. When analyzing the TME of mice from the CT26 model an increased immune cell infiltration into the tumor by CD3+, especially CD8+ T cells was detected, showing the ability of EnanDIM® to beneficially modulate the TME. Conclusions: The enantiomeric TLR9 agonists EnanDIM® show promising anti-tumor effects in a variety of syngeneic murine tumor models and a beneficial modulation of the TME towards an increase of anti-tumor effector cells. These data provide the basis for a further development of EnanDIM® in cancer. Citation Format: Barbara Volz, Kerstin Kapp, Detlef Oswald, Burghardt Wittig, Manuel Schmidt. EnanDIM, a family of potent enantiomeric TLR9 agonists, modulate the tumor microenvironment and show single-agent antitumor effects in various syngeneic murine models [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 5557.


Much excitement surrounds the intense mass loss that seems to take place in some massive stars immediately before core collapse. However, occurring too late, it has a negligible impact on the star's evolution or the final yields, which are influenced instead by the longer-term, quasi-steady mass loss taking place during H and He burning. Late-time observations of core-collapse supernovae interacting with the progenitor wind are one means to constrain this secular mass loss. Here, we present radiative transfer calculations for a Type II SN with and without this interaction power, focusing on the phase between 350 and 1000d after explosion. Without interaction power, the ejecta are powered through radioactive decay whose exponential decline produces an ever-fading SN. Instead, with a constant interaction power of $10^{40}$ erg s$^{-1}$ (representative of an SN II ramming into a steady-state $10^{-6} M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ wind), the spectrum morphs from decay powered at 350d, with narrow lines forming in the inner metal-rich ejecta, to interaction powered at 1000d, with broad boxy lines forming in the outer H-rich ejecta. Intermediate times are characterized by a hybrid and complex spectrum made of overlapping narrow and broad lines. While interaction boosts primarily the flux in the ultraviolet, which remains largely unobserved today, a knee in the $R$-band light curve or a $U$-band boost are clear signatures of interaction at late times. The model predictions compare favorably with a number of Type II supernovae including SN 2004et or SN 2017eaw at 500-1000d after explosion.


The research for the following paper titled, Selection System Prediction Of Safety: A Step Toward Zero Accidents In South African Mining and authored by Rachel Aguilera-Vanderheyden was conducted at Minnesota State University, Mankato located in Mankato, Minnesota. This study was a requirement of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Master's Program and was conducted during the 2012-2013 academic school year. Underground mining is a high-risk industry with a history of frequent accidents and deaths. The purpose of this study is to identify cognitive and psychomotor factors that may predict, and ultimately be used to prevent injuries. More specifically, I tested the extent to which the Raven's Progressive Matrices, a measure of cognitive ability, and the Vienna Test System, a measure of psychomotor ability, predicted injury – It was hypothesized that the Raven's scores would explain additional unique variance beyond the psychomotor scores alone. The results show that the Raven's scores were significantly predictive of Serious Injuries when analyzed in isolation, however, the scores did not explain unique variance when analyzed with other psychomotor variables. Models were established for predicting injuries across three injury levels (Dressing Case, Lost Time, and Serious Injury). Expected increases in accuracy of predicting were identified and translated into expected cost savings for the organization studied. SELECTION SYSTEM PREDICTION OF SAFETY


In this paper, a Monte Carlo simulation used to analyze probabilistic slope stability. The results including: probabilistic slope failure and reliability index with respect to factor of safety under the effects of uncertainties in the parameters of soil properties. Base on this informations, geotechnical engineers how to get optimal designs to prevent slope failure. In addition, the purpose of this paper is to show that standard deviation of soil properties can be applied in simple ways, without more data, time, or effort than are commonly available in geotechnical engineering practice. Applying Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate probabilistic slope stability on route Nha Trang Da Lat.


As volume requirements for print cartridges increase beyond the capability of laboratory tooling, the need for an automated assembly system becomes apparent. The automated assembly system for the DeskJet 1200C print cartridge is designed to meet a set of objectives that includes autonomy through distributed control, flexibility of assembly process order, and efficiency through commonality of designs and components. Each process station or small group of process stations has the ability to operate in a stand-alone mode. In this manner, many tools can be debugged and qualified simultaneously without reliance on one large controller. The design of the assembly system allows processes to be added, subtracted, or relocated without significant disruption of the line. The assembly system is designed around a common set of tooling philosophies and component selections. Designs such as those for print cartridge fixturing mechanisms follow a common concept from tool to tool. In this way, discoveries made on one tool can be easily leveraged to other tools and processes online.


4-Nonanolide (γ-nonalactone) and 4-undecanolide (γ-undecalactone), famous perfumes known as so-called Aldehyde C-18 and C-14, have been synthesized via lactonization of 4-hydroxy acid derived from 1-nitroalkane through the Michael addition to ethyl acrylate followed by the Nef reaction and reduction. Each step of the reaction sequence was found to proceed in fairly good yield, and thus this sequence prescribes a facile general synthetic method of γ-alkyl-γ-butyrolactone.


1Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, The university of Manchester, Manchester, UK 3Division of Endocrinology-Metabolism and Diabetes, Medipol International School of Medicine, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey 4Department of Psychology, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey


AC/DC hybrid distribution network gains increasing attention due to the characteristics of high efficiency, high reliability and high quality. With the rapid development of power electronic technology, energy router is regarded as a flexible equipment with multiple ports, which is convenient to participate in power and voltage control. The topological structure of energy router is developed to build AC/DC hybrid distribution network flexibly. Then the control strategy for single energy router and multiple energy routers is proposed to address closed loop operation in short time scale in AC/DC hybrid distribution network, which aims to control energy routers actively to stabilize DC voltage and follow load demand. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified via simulation with multiple operation conditions.


Problem Situation Today management science has been experiencing a process where concepts with regards to how organizations will be managed are often discussed and new approaches are suggested with research support. It is seen that the concept of leadership becomes prominent more than the traditional concept of management and administration. Iman (2000) defines the concept of leadership as the power to influence others and lead them to action in line with certain goals and targets. Calik (2003) defines leadership as being a source of inspiration to others and guiding them while being the stimulating power of the change in the organization as well as solving the problems. Leadership is the foremost of the important issues that both theorists and implementers strive to resolve and about which extensive scientific research in the field of management have been made in 20th century (Ercetin, 2000). A leader is generally a person who can motivate, influence, give good examples and guide. Leader is the individual who has a creative and initiator role in ensuring organization to survive in line with its goals. The leader is the one making critical decisions not daily ones. Leadership involves foreseeing future, determining a realistic vision and targets for the future of the organization and collaborating people in order to realize this (Iman and Turan, 2001: 43). Senge (1990) defines leaders as the designers of the organizational behaviors. At schools, activities are conducted towards changing student behaviors in a planned and programmed manner. It is undoubtedly true that the most important factor in conducting the educational and instructional activities and consulting at school is the school administrator. The role expected from the school principle who performs the function of administering with the legal force is now not the educational administration but educational leadership (Yoruk and Akda ; 2010:67). With the developing and changing education system, the roles expected from school administrators have become more complicated. The school administrator needs to be aware that he should change at first in order to maintain the transformation at school and demonstrate this change to his surroundings. Besides the managerial aspect of the school administrators, it is expected that they are the instructional leaders. It is necessary that administrators demonstrate effective leadership at education institutions where human resource is effectively educated. School administrators should possess the characteristics of a leader more than a manager in order to reach the organizational goals. School principals in the recent educational entities implement some major strategies while practicing the leadership approaches. These are traditional leadership, instructional leadership, transformative leadership and facilitator leadership. The concept of effective leadership may bring the change of school principals who do not have any effect of the school anymore and whose success levels are gradually decreasing on the agenda. Decisions that may adversely affect the school may result in a decrease in education staff's trust to school. However; an effective leadership may be an effective component of the system (Porter et.al. 2010). Managers with leadership behaviors may establish visions; gather all the employees around a common goal, open new ways for education by creating a positive culture at school (ct. nandl, Ozkan 2006, Law and Glower, 2000). The interest in leadership also gains importance in cultural terms as weld as an educational policy in macro level. School leadership should be dealt with in interaction with administration (Heck and Hallinger, 2005). Scientific studies regarding instructional leadership have been performed since 1980s. The concept of effective schools comes into front through these studies. In a study by Edmons (1979) instructional leadership is defined as the school principal's role (Hallinger, 2005). …


Attenuators are extensively employed as an amplitude control circuit in communication and radar systems. Flatness, attenuation range, and bandwidth are typical specifications for attenuators. Most attenuators in previous studies rely on the basic topologies of the Pi-, T-, and distributed attenuators. The performance of the Pi- and T-attenuators, however, is affected substantially by the switch performance of transistors, and it is hard to obtain optimum flatness, attenuation range, and bandwidth with these attenuators. The conventional distributed attenuator also demands a large chip area for large attenuation ranges. We report the design of a new microwave/millimeter-wave CMOS attenuator. A design method is proposed and implemented in the attenuator to improve its flatness, attenuation range, and bandwidth. It is recognized that the Pi- and T-attenuators at a certain attenuation state inherently has the insertion-loss slope increasing as the frequency is increased. This response is owing to the off-capacitance of the series transistors. On the other hand, the distributed attenuators can be designed to have the opposite insertion-loss slope by shortening the transmission lines. The reason is that short transmission lines causes the center frequency be shifted higher. The proposed design method utilizes the two opposite insertion-loss slopes and is implemented for the Pi-, T-and distributed attenuators in a cascade connection. Over 10-67 GHz, the measured results exhibit attenuation flatness of 6.8 dB and attenuation range of 32-42 dB.


knowledge on factors affecting vitamin D absorption efficiency, in an effort to improve our strategies and overcome this public health issue.


ABSTRACT A new librarian offers advice and insights about what she has learned from working at a library within a health science center. The librarian earned her MLIS in spring 2015, and while she had previous teaching experience, she realized there was much more learning needed to properly teach medical, graduate and allied health students, faculty, and residents. In this "one-year on the job" column, the librarian describes the different teaching experiences today's librarians encounter, and reflects on what she has learned from them and how they shape her view of the profession.


A large scale interdisciplinary research is carried out within the TAMOP research project at the University of Miskolc that is rather unusual to national practices. The basic idea is that Cserney, an isolated and economically disadvantaged peripheral community is subject to a complex set of tasks through an experiment of development with the introduction of the biomass-based heating system in the region. The preparation and analysis of conditions is more than just an analysis of technical, environmental economical and legal aspects. Contrary to Hungarian practices an unusual aspect is also taken into consideration: the Applied Anthropological and Sociological background of the project. It is unusual because while in the majority of developed societies a successful innovation is always considered to be a result of an overall analysis of conditions, in Eastern Central European practices a detailed research of social consequences is not part of the innovation. All over the World is a typical phenomenon, fields of knowledge, which contribute to the realization of the goals of the political and economic élites by "producing" social-science knowledge of practical value, are highly appreciated. The project entitled "The Development of a Biomass-Based Community Energy System" is carried out at Cserney, South of Ózd, surrounded by hills and basins, covered by large forests. The history of the settlement goes back to the 13 century. In the late 20 century the majority of the inhabitants were agricultural or forestry workers or worked in the industrial plants of Ózd. Following the political changes of the 1990s, with the closing down of industry in the region, there was a dramatic increase in the number of unemployed workforce resulting


The Leveller movement The Levellers were a political movement united around the programme of the first Agreement of the People (3 November 1647; Wolfe 1944, pp. 223–34). That Agreement is the first proposal in history for a written constitution based on inalienable natural rights. It embodied three essential principles. The first, though ambiguously expressed, was taken by contemporaries to be that any property qualification for the franchise should be abolished: even the poor should have the right to vote. The second was that the representative assembly should have supreme authority in making law, appointing magistrates, and conducting foreign policy: the king, if any, was to be accountable to his subjects. The third principle was that the powers of government be limited by the principles of natural justice. This meant, first, that all laws must apply equally to all subjects: there must be no privileged estate or corporation. This also implied the illegality of all monopolies. Second, all subjects had the right to freedom of conscience, entitling them to dissent from any established state religion. This also implied a right to freedom of expression. Third, conscription was banned: subjects could not be compelled to serve in an army if they disapproved of the cause for which it was to fight, although they could be compelled to pay taxes. Finally, all laws 'must be good, and not evidently destructive to the safety and well-being of the people'. This implied both the right of juries to refuse to enforce bad law, and an ultimate right of revolution: if the people's representatives betrayed their trust, the nation as a whole could assert its ultimate sovereignty.


Laser-guided bomb is one of important weapon when it exact attacks target.With experimental data,this papers studies its simulation with a wind axis seeker.It establishes the bomb's six-freedom space mathematics model,offers relevant chart on VC.Then,according to the result of bomb's simulation and CEP,the papers calculate the effective bomb attack area.Furthermore,based on six-freedom space movement model,the simplified model of bomb and its attack area is calculated.Finally,the papers show the similarities and differences of bomb's attack area between six-freedom space model and simplified model.The result provides the theoretical basis for bomb's application.


The Ru-La2O3/γ-Al2O3 catalysts with various La2O3 contents were synthesized by impregnation method,the catalysts were tested for the CO selective oxidation and characterized by XRD,XPS,H2-TPR,CO-TPR.BET techniques.The effects of various parameters(La2O3 loading and pretreatment methods) on Ru-La2O3/Al2O3 catalysts structure and performance were investigated.The results showed that higher CO conversion(99%) and O2 useful ratio(55.7%)were obtained at 110~170 ℃ on the Ru1La6/Al2O3.La2O3 promoted the dispersion of Ru species,thus enhance the catalytic activity.When Ru1La6/Al2O3 catalyst was heated in a H2/N2 mixed gas flow as the pretreatment,the CO oxidation activity was highly improved at a low temperature range,the 3d electron binding energies of Ru species of the catalyst decreased,the amounts of surface Ru species and surface lattice oxygen concentration increased,which could be of benefit for the oxidation reaction of CO.


In-Flight connectivity (IFC) on commercial airplanes is in growing demand as people expect pervasive, high-performance access to the Internet. The highly unique IFC environment – with planes flying at high speed, thousands of feet midair – challenges efforts to provide a performing, reliable Internet connection. Turbulence is one of the exclusive features of the IFC context whose potential impact has been, so far, overlooked. The goal of this project is to test the potential impact of turbulence on IFC performance. To this end, we have developed an application that measures velocity of a device to detect sudden changes in speed during turbulence events, records user-validated turbulence detection, and monitors network performance during flight. Using data collected by this app, we plan to study the correlation between user-validated turbulence events, their intensity levels, and network performance.


Whole brain segmentation, referred to as skull stripping, is an important technique in neuroimaging. Many applications, such as presurgical planning, cortical surface reconstruction and brain morphometry, depend on the ability to accurately segment brain from non-brain tissue, i.e. remove extra-cerebral tissue such as skull, sclera, orbital fat, skin, etc. However, despite the clear definition of this essential step, no universal solution has been developed that is robust to neuroanatomical variability and the types of noise present in standard structural MRI sequences. We approach the skull-stripping problem by combining watershed algorithms and deformable surface models. Our method takes advantage of the simplicity and robustness of the former, while using the accuracy and surface information available to the latter. A training set of accurately segmented brains validates the segmentation and eventually corrects it, resulting in a robust and automated procedure. Thesis Supervisor: Olivier Faugeras Tide: Adjunct Professor of E.E.& C.S. Thesis Supervisor: Bruce Fischl Title: Assistant Professor of Radiology


Hoover reviews SnappOs recent publication, commenting that it Ocovers areas not typically seen in either the forecasting or the supply-chain literature Ð namely, how the major ERP forecasting tools work, and how to make them work better.O Copyright International Institute of Forecasters, 2013


It isn't an injustice to Thimblerig and its talented creator, Alfred Silver, to speak of its symbolic importance as a published work and, before that, as a theatrical event at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, if only because given the theatrical history of Winnipeg, this fine play represents a hope for the future as well as a reminder of the past.


The feasibility of using machine-learning techniques to support the development of a speech understanding system is investigated. The research studies the behavior of hidden Markov models as an incremental learning mechanism. The approach is to train whole-word recognizers using a minimal set of training tokens and then incrementally train them as new examples of the words are recognized and added to the training set. The results show that it is practical to generate seed recognizers from a small training set made up of word tokens composed from segmental fragments. This yields better results than a model formed by chaining hidden Markov models. A seed recognizer can be used to locate additional tokens. One iteration of the Baum-Welch training algorithm is sufficient to incrementally train the hidden Markov model. There is a rapid improvement in the performance of the hidden Markov model with each new token added.<<ETX>>


An increasing number of academic courses adopt a project-based evaluation of the students' knowledge and skills. In such courses, students gather development and management experiences similar to those present in industry. In this paper, we present an overview on the Service Oriented Design Master course where an industrial project proposed in collaboration with an IT company is developed by students in teams. We share our experience concerning organizational issues to be addressed before the beginning of the course, during the course, and after the end of the course. Further, we provide some information about the current edition of the course and the shareable course material.


The five (5) families of quadrature rules with periods of one or two intervals for the real line and spline classes $C^0$, $C^1$ are presented. The formulae allow one to calculate the points or weights of these quadrature rules in a very simple manner as for the classical Gauss-Legendre rules.


On 14 December 1900 Max Planck first formulated the idea of the intrinsic discreteness of energy of elementary solid-body oscillators and expressed the discrete energy portions, or quanta, as the product of the frequency of the emitted or absorbed radiation and a new universal constant, now known as Planck's constant. Despite the following spectacular progress of the thus initiated 'quantum mechanics' (and 'new physics' in general), the physical origin of both energy discreteness and universality of Planck's constant, determining quantization of very diverse object behaviour, remain mysterious, as well as other 'peculiar' properties of quantum dynamics. In this paper we review the recently proposed, causally complete extension of quantum mechanics consistently explaining all its 'mysteries', including the action and energy quantization, by the irreducibly complex, 'dynamically multivalued' behaviour of the underlying simple, physically real system of two interacting 'protofields' (quant-ph/9902015, quant-ph/9902016). We emphasize the truly 'first-principles' character of the theory containing no imposed 'postulates', 'principles', or inserted 'entities' except one, unavoidable, assumption about the qualitative, physical nature of the protofields. All the observed entities and their properties, starting from physically real space, time, and elementary particles, are consistently derived, in exact correspondence with their emergence in the real, irreducibly complex, system dynamics (physics/9806002). The latter also provides the natural (dynamic) unification of the causally extended versions of quantum mechanics, relativity, and field theory. The intrinsic realism and completeness of the obtained world picture are in agreement with the 'absolute reality' quest of Max Planck and actually confirm his famous 'doubts' in the conventional, purely abstract and formally postulated, scheme of quantum mechanics (cf. quant-ph/9911107). We describe various applications of the obtained results providing successful solution to numerous fundamental and practical problems (e. g. gr-qc/9906077) dangerously stagnating within the canonical, dynamically single-valued approach that continue to dominate in science because of the purely subjective influences emphasised by Thomas Kuhn.


This study focuses on the development of mathematical modeling capabilities students Elementary School Teacher Education through ethnomathematics-based contextual learning terms all students, educational backgrounds and cultural origins of the research subject is semester students 1, 3, 5, and 7 academic year 2012/2013 at a State University in West Java and Banten, in the development of teaching materials prepared by the method of didactical design research (DDR). Were tested in the experimental stage. The instrument used a posttest. Experimental study with a posttest only control group design was used 135 study subjects 1st semester students were divided into 3 groups. 2 The experimental group made teaching DDR, non-DDR , and 1 control group. Mathematical modeling capabilities among students who get ethnomathematics-based contextual learning (DDR and non-DDR) better than students who do not. There is interaction between the model of learning and cultural origin groups in the mathematical modeling capabilities, there is no interaction in group educational background.


Objective:To observe the curative effects and the functional mechanism of detoxificating and kidney-Invigorating pill.Methods:To compare the Detoxificating and Kidney-Invigorating Pill improving blood circulation and detoxicating,and liver kidney benefiting with Viartril-S osteoarthritis patients recognized as deficiency of liver and kidney and congestion of toxin and blood were divided randomly into two groups.The test group took orally detoxificating and kidney-invigorating pill the control group took Viartril-S Capsule,both for 8 weeks.The therapeutic and security effects were observed through the international WOMAC questionnaire,traditional Chinese medicine symptoms quantitative evaluation,and so on.Results:Reveal that in the test group,the treatment shall decrease the WOMAC index,and score of traditional Chinese medicine symptoms evidently,with no distinctive differences contrast to the control group;however,there are distinctive differences on the improvement of the traditional Chinese medicine symptoms between the test group and the control group.Conclusion:Both the detoxificating and kidney-invigorating pill and Viartril-S Capsule can improve the symptoms of osteoarthritis effectively,and two kinds of medicine have equal therapeutic effects.But as far as the improvement of Traditional Chinese medicine symptoms are concerned,the detoxificating and kidney-invigorating pill is superior to Viartril-S Capsule.


This research is aiming to set higher standards in healthcare research in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the aspect of mathematical and information science methodology. The data on Hepatitis C virus treatment published in previous work was reinvestigated using the Bayesian network methodology. The results are still in the line with the results published worldwide, but this research provides an additional quality, through the conditional probabilities for treatment outcome. Further development of this model may result in an acceptable prediction model for HCV treatment outcome.


The ball-on-rod RCF Tester is an elemental test machine used to evaluate bearing steels for rolling contact fatigue (RCF) properties. The calculated contact stress, operated at standard loads, is 5.4 GPa, which results in plastic deformation of the test tracks. RCF tests were performed on the ball-on-rod tester at the 5.4 GPa stress level and at a lower contact stress level of 3.4 GPa, which results in minimal plastic deformation. Several bearing steels were tested at both stress levels and the Weibull analysis showed that lowering the contact stress increased the length of the test 5 fold, but did not change the relative ranking of the materials in terms of fatigue life (L 10 and L 50 ).


Submitted for the DFD09 Meeting of The American Physical Society On contact line induced instability in flow of hanging fluid films TE-SHENG LIN, LOU KONDIC, New Jersey Institute of technology — We consider free surface instabilities of films hanging on inverted substrates within the framework of lubrication approximation. Contrary to all the previous works, we include fluid fronts in formulation. It is found that the presence of contact lines leads to free surface instabilities of convective type without any additional natural or excited perturbations. A single parameter D = (3Ca)1/3 cotα , where Ca is the capillary number and α is the inclination angle, is identified as a governing parameter in the problem. This parameter may be interpreted to reflect the combined effect of inclination angle, film thickness, Reynolds number and the fluid flux. Variation of D leads to change of the wave-like properties of the instabilities, allowing to observe traveling wave behavior, mixed waves, and the waves resembling solitary ones, which were observed in many other unstable flows. Te-Sheng Lin New Jersey Institute of technology Date submitted: 06 Aug 2009 Electronic form version 1.4


Consumer market grows rapidly every year and the number of competitors among different types of products and goods increases steadily. The general objective of the study was to analyze the contribution of product packaging innovation on consumer buying behavior in Rwanda. This study was descriptive, comparative and correlational design. The total population was 2081 bars, the sample size of the study was 95 respondents. This study employed the stratified random sampling technique. The major sources of data in this study was primary source of information. This research used inferential statistics to establish relationship between variables under study, while descriptive statistics frequency and percentage were used to indicate how was the understanding of respondents in this study. This study used SPSS and found that the Pearson correlation coefficient (r) equals to 0.977. This was confirming that there is a significant and positive relationship between product packing and consumer buying behavior in brewery industry. It is finally recommended that the marketers of the industry should not consider the packaging as the solely factor for the success of any product, therefore, they should also take up other important factors of the marketing while they are launching new products or revitalize old products.


The Godavri River in Nashik is being over exploited due to overpopulation, urbanization and industrialization, therefore requires monitoring of water quality parameters. In the present work various physicochemical parameters i.e. temperature. pH, turbidity, conductivity, total dissolved solids, nitrates, chlorides, phosphates, sulphates, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand were analyzed at five locations S1 to S5 of Godavari river at Nashik during Winter, Summer, Monsoon in the year Nov. 2008 – Oct. 2009 with reference to Mean values, Standard Deviation, Coefficient Correlation and Water Quality Index. Results showed that the physico-chemical parameters determined were higher in summer than in winter and Monsoon and WQI value of the water samples at various sampling sites is 60-95, indicating the pollution status of Godavari River at Nashik.


Wobbler syndrome is characterized by compression of the cervical spinal cord, resulting in varying degrees of neurological deficit. At the same time, the choice of the best method of treatment remains controversial, which confirms the fact that the correction of spondylopathy has not been studied enough. The aim of this study was to compare the methods of surgical treatment of cervical spondylomyelopathy in dogs and to establish the most effective method. This study involved 45 dogs diagnosed with Wobbler syndrome. All animals underwent a clinical and neurological examination, including radiography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The animals were divided into three groups. The first group (n=19) included dogs that underwent the cage method, and after the screws were placed, bone cement was used to fix them. The second group (n=11) included animals that were caged and fixed with two beams. The third group (n=15) received a cage and fixation with two plates. As a result of the research, it was found that the use of two parallel plates, reinforced with four cortical screws located at angles of 25-350 in the bilateral direction, provides high-quality operations in 86.7% of cases due to the high ergonomics of the method. Correction with an interstitial cage with its strengthening with a diagonally placed intervertebral screw and two parallel transpedicular beams is successful in 63.6%, and the installation of screws with bone cement to fix the screws is successful in 58.0% of cases.


This study is a section from the Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA), commissioned by the European Commission, on the impacts of the Investment Chapter in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The Investment Chapter in CETA could encourage economic benefits including trade-stimulating effects and fostering intangible business linkages in Canada, although the significance of these will likely be minor to notable at most; impacts in the EU will likely follow these trends but on an even lower level of significance. Positive environmental impacts would result from increased investment in green technologies, yet negative impacts would likely result from increased FDI in the oil sands and mining sectors in Canada. Various social impacts are expected, but all relatively minimal in scale. The majority of the study is devoted to investigating the costs vs. the benefits of including controversial NAFTA-style investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions in CETA. It find that there is no solid evidence to suggest that ISDS will maximise economic benefits in CETA beyond simply serving as one form of an enforcement mechanism, just as state-state dispute settlement is also an enforcement mechanism. And the policy space reductions caused by ISDS allowances in CETA, while less significant than foreseen by some parties, would be enough to cast doubt on its contribution to net sustainability benefits. As such, the study's assessment suggests that a well-crafted state-state dispute settlement mechanism might be a more appropriate enforcement mechanism in CETA than ISDS.


Cloud computing is one of the prominent technologies in this century. Due to its various features and capabilities, it attracted a large population towards it. Cloud is a huge pool of resources which is owned and managed by the third parties collectively called as Cloud Service Provider (CSP). The users enjoy the freedom in using the resources at their ease that has been deployed in the cloud. Irrespective of the place, the computing resources could be accessed by the user via internet services. It also provides the advantage of using the cloud services as per end user's demand. As each coin has two faces, the cloud computing strategy also has an evil face. The major drawback lies in securing the sensitive information and preserving the privacy details. To throw light upon this fact and to overcome this, a new terminology has been emerged in the cloud environment called "Access Control". This Access Control has travelled a long way in recent times. Among many techniques of access control, DAC, MAC, RBAC and ABAC prove to clear the security issues prevailed in cloud storage environment. Today's business market is totally depends on real-time applications and E-shopping applications as the country's major economy is derived from it. Many eminent researches have been carried out by the scientists to apply the access control in application scenario. In this paper, we have analysed the major business applications, the security issues currently faced by them and we have suggested which of the access control models would be efficient to make them more secure and enjoyable to use.


The rational application of nitrogen fertilizer and close planting are two important ways to obtain high yields and efficient growth from maize (Zea mays L.). This study utilized the maize varieties DengHai 618 and XianYu 335 as test materials from 2019 to 2020 and the maize variety XianYu 335 as the test material in 2021. The planting densities were 7.5 × 104 plants ha−1 and 12.0 × 104 plants ha−1, respectively. Application rates of nitrogen within the range of 0–765 kg ha−1 per 45 kg ha−1 were considered the nitrogen application gradient. The results showed that as the nitrogen application rate increased, the yield of the maize increased at first and then tended to remain flat. Under conditions of 7.5 × 104 plants ha−1 density, the best yield was 17.6–20.2 t ha−1, and the required nitrogen application rate was 219–337 kg ha−1. Under conditions of 12.0 × 104 plants ha−1 density, the best yield was 18.7–21.9 t ha−1, and the required nitrogen application rate was 243–378 kg ha−1. With the increase in the nitrogen application rate, the dry matter weight showed a linear/platform relationship in each growth period. The best nitrogen application rate was obtained for dry matter accumulation in various stages by fitting the nitrogen application rate and dry matter accumulation in different stages. It is concluded that when the planting density was 7.5 × 104 plants ha−1, the recommended nitrogen application rate was 340 kg ha−1, and the distribution ratio of the nitrogen application rates before and after silking were 61.2% and 38.8%, respectively. When the planting density was 12.0 × 104 plants ha−1, the recommended nitrogen application rate was 380 kg ha−1, and the distribution rates before and after flowering were 65.8% and 34.2%, respectively. In summary, increasing planting density can improve maize yield, and the amount of nitrogen applied should be increased before flowering.


In August 1989 a sequence of m b 5-6 normal faulting earthquakes occurred in the area between the Ghoubbet Asal-Manda Inakir and Manda Haroro-Abhe Bad rifts in central Afar. Relocation of the events suggest they occurred on major faults in the Dobi graben, located midway between the principal rift zones. The earthquakes are evidence that extensional strain is still occurring in the area. The bookshelf tectonic model for central and southern Afar proposed by Tapponnier et al. [1990] is modified to account for ongoing extension in the area between the principal rifts as well as distributed shear


We constructed infinitely many involutions on M × M with fixed point set homeomorphic to M. All these involutions are ℤ/2-isovariantly homotopy equivalent to interchange and are inequivalent to one...


The liquid-phase oxidation of p-methoxy toluene to p-anisaldehyde in the presence of Co based catalysts has been studied. With Co(OAc)2 alone in acetic acid as a solvent, only a trace amount of p-anisaldehyde could be obtained; however, upon the addition of a second metal salt (e.g., Mn(OAc)2 or Ce(OAc)3) a considerable improvement in the yield (up to 60%) was observed. The synergism of Co and the second component as well as the optimization of the reaction conditions were investigated. Co(OAc)2–Ce(OAc)3–Cr(OAc)3 (3:1:2) was finally found to be the most effective catalytic system, which gave a 76% yield of p-anisaldehyde under 3 atm O2 at 110° for 3 h.


This processor uses a significant amount of integration and other techniques to enable the construction of cost-efficient SPARC computer systems that retain excellent absolute performance.


Objective Nrf2 overexpression confers poor prognosis in some cancers but its role in colorectal cancer (CRC) is unknown. Due to its role as a transcription factor we hypothesise a metagene of NRF2 regulated genes could act as a prognostic biomarker in CRC. Design Using known NRF2 regulated genes, we defined an NRF2 metagene to represent the pathway expression using principal component analysis and Cox proportional hazard models. The NRF2 metagene was validated in four independent datasets, including the recently profiled MRC FOCUS randomised controlled trial. Results 36 genes comprised the final prognostic metagene in the training set. 1,360 patients were included in the validation analyses. High NRF2 metagene expression is associated with worse disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) outcomes in stage I/II/III disease and worse OS in stage IV disease. In multivariate analyses, NRF2 expression remained significant when adjusted for known prognostic factors of adjuvant chemotherapy and stage in stage I/II/III disease, as well as BRAF V600E mutation and sidedness in stage IV disease. NRF2 metagene expression exhibits variation within each of the Consensus Molecular Subtypes (CMS) but high expression is particularly enriched in CMS 4. Conclusion We demonstrate in a large scale analysis that NRF2 expression is a novel biomarker of poor prognosis across all stages of colorectal cancer. Higher expression observed in CMS 4 further refines the molecular taxonomy of colorectal cancer.


Matrix tablets were prepared using blends of xanthan gum (XG), Guar gum (GG) and ethylcellulose (EC). The polymers were combined using six different ratios; 1:1:1, 1:2:1, 1:2:2, 2:2:1, 2:1:2 and 2:1:1 to produce formulations XG1GG1EC1, XG1GG2EC1, XG1GG2EC2, XG2GG2EC1. XG2GG1EC2 and XG2GG1EC1 respectively. Metronidazole was used as the model drug. The ability of the prepared matrices to target drug release predominantly at the colon under the influence of colonic bacteria was evaluated using the dissolution medium containing 4 % caecal content. Our results show that, optimum drug release was observed with formulations XG2GG2EC1 and XG2GG1EC1 with Cmax of 60 and 76 % respectively. Significant difference (P 0.45) respectively. Key Words; matrix.guar, xanthan, ethylcellulose, metronidazole, colon delivery


We automatically segmented the hippocampus in 400 brain MRI scans from the Alzheimer's disease (AD) Neuroimaging Initiative, combining AdaBoost with a novel model, the auto context model (ACM). Trained on 21 hand-labeled segmentations, ACM created binary hippocampus maps in 100 controls, 200 with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 100 AD subjects, (age: 75.8+/-6.6SD). A radial atrophy mapping technique computed average parametric surface models and local statistics of atrophy. We visualized correlations between regional atrophy and diagnosis (MCI v. controls: p = 0.008; MCI v. AD: p = 0.001), mini-mental state exam scores, and clinical dementia rating scores (CDR; all p < 0.0001, corrected). Based on false discovery rate curves in gradually reduced samples, 40 subjects were sufficient to correlate atrophy and CDR scores; MCI and AD were distinguishable with N = 304.


A semi-analytic solution for the elastic/plastic distribution of stress and residual stress in a thin annular disc subject to pressure over its inner radius is presented. It is assumed that the disc is made of functionally graded material. Numerical methods are only necessary to solve simple transcendental equations. An illustrative example is presented.


GNP Snack company has problems in making raw material inventories which are sometimes not enough for 0.5 tons of cassava chips to fulfill demand. This will affect the production process carried out every day. Production needs per day 1 - 1.5 tons of production of cassava chips. The company benefits of GNP Snack are not optimal because it only produces an average profit per month of Rp. 2,000,000 therefore the right formula is needed to overcome this problem using the Branch and Bound Method and the Genetic Algebra Method. The calculation results from the branch and bound method show an increase in profits in December 2018 of Rp. 2,018,992 to Rp. 2,531,467 or a 25% increase, in January 2019 amounting to Rp. 2,247,488 to Rp. 4.247.620 or an increase of 89%, and in February 2019 Rp. 1,290,661 to Rp. 1,299,020 or experiencing a 1% increase and the results of calculations using the genetic algorithm method show an increase in profits in December 2018 of Rp. 2,018,992 to Rp. 2,555,477 or a 27% increase, in January 2019 Rp. 2,247,488 to Rp. 2,655,551 or an increase of 18%, and in February 2019 Rp. 1,290,661 to Rp. 2,810,316 or 118% increase.


The inverse of Maurer's secret key distillation problem from (many independent realisations of) a triple of random variables X, Y, Z by two players (Alice and Bob) against an eavesdropper (Eve) is considered: the formation of the joint distribution (up to local degrading of Z) from secret key and public communication. We determine the asymptotically minimal amount of secret key for this task, and indeed the full trade-off of secret (between Alice and Bob) vs. public (shared between Alice, Bob and Eve) correlation for this problem. Our result generalises a theorem of Wyner on the "common information of a pair of random variables", which is recovered as the special case of Z being independent of XY. We investigate the secret key required as a function of the probability distribution and compare to an analogous notion based on prior shared entanglement


The legal framework of equality law discrimination proof of discrimination discrimination in relation to work equal pay industrial tribunal proceedings and remedies discrimination outside employment the commissions (CRE and EOC) public remedies maternity rights. (Part contents).


From the industrial revolution to the age of space travel, the same pattern keeps emerging. For a sustainable business process, the emphasis is no longer on raw technology but on how to make the new technology reliable, secure, inexpensive and easy to use. Products that used to require years for their development are now being produced in months or even weeks, and rushed to the market. Globalisation, technological advancement and change in legislation landscape have led to strategic shifts for enterprise development. The emergence of e-business, especially, has transformed the international trade landscape. As this development has the potential to benefit economic growth and living standards around the world, it is imperative that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) supports barrier-free e-commerce. Moreover, global competition combined with technological innovation has created an environment that opens a window of opportunity for enterprises. This paper outlines the challenges and issues of sustainable enterprise development in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) era. Through the findings of web-based-survey, user acceptance of a new business development is tested in the 'virtual world' by the intended users/customers. The experiences of these early users/customers are forwarded to the enterprises that make final decision.


Introduction Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a recognized complication associated with central catheters and it is thought that peripherally inserted central venous catheters (PICC) were associated with higher rates compared to centrally inserted catheters (CVC) but studies performed were not always in patients with home parenteral nutrition (HPN).1,2 The aim of our analysis is to assess the incidence of catheter-associated deep vein thrombosis (CA-DVT) and evaluate different rates of catheter-associated complication (CA-C) between the PICC and CVC group in a HPN cohort. Method This is a retrospective, single centre cohort analysis of patients on HPN who had either PICC or CVC. The number of catheters removed due to CA-C from the 1st of January 2018 to 31st of December 2018 was reviewed and expressed in episodes. Data on CA-C which consisted of CA-DVT, confirmed and suspected catheter-associated infection (CA-I), catheter-associated device dysfunction (CA-DD) including line fracture and occlusion were analysed. Rates were calculated based upon the number of catheter and catheter re-inserted during this time period. Cumulative episodes and rates were compared between the two groups. Fisher's exact test was used for statistical analysis. Results 64.3% (n=45) had CVC (Hickman lines) and 35.7% (n=25) had PICC with 25 episodes of catheter removal (n=19 and n=9 respectively, multiple episodes per patient allowed). The overall rate of CA-DVT was low at 1.4% (n=1) and this was associated with a PICC. There was no reported deep vein thrombosis within the CVC group. The cumulative episodes of CA-C appeared higher in the CVC group compared to the PICC group although the difference in rates was not statistically significant (42.2% n=19 vs 36%n=9, p = 0.7994). There were 9 episodes of CA-I and 10 episodes of CA-DD in the CVC group compared to 3 episodes of CA-I and 5 episodes of CA-DD in the PICC group. Statistical analysis showed no difference in rates of CA-I (p=0.5029) or CA-DD (p=1) between the two groups. Conclusions This analysis showed an overall low rate of catheter-associated deep vein thrombosis within a HPN cohort in a 12 month period. There was no significant difference in rates of catheter-associated complication between PICC and CVC. References Bonizzoli M, Batacchi S, et al. Peripherally inserted central venous catheters and central venous catheters related thrombosis in post-critical patients. Intensive Care Med. 2011;37(2.:284. Vineet Chopra et al. Risk of venous thromboembolism associated with peripherally inserted central catheters: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet. 2013;vol 382 issue 9889; 31–25.


The water-absorption capacity of the lamellar mesophase, which is an important physical state for the function of monoglycerides in various food systems, can be greatly increased by incorporating small amounts of ion-active components into the lipid bilayer of the lamellar system. This can be done by neutralising the free fatty acids present in industrial monoglycerides or by adding other surface active substances having ionic properties. Non-ionic surfactants have no influence on the swelling of the lamellar phase, even though they may be strongly hydrophilic in character. The presence of salts in the water decreases the swelling capacity of monoglycerides. Gel phases of neutralised monoglyceride-water systems are stabilised by ionic surfactants in the bilayer, but not by non-ionic surfactants.


Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of infectious diseases of CNS.Methods Inpatients treated in the second hospital of Hebei Medical University from 1996 to 2005 were subjected to retrospective study.Results During 10 years,the hospitalization number of infectious diseases of CNS was 3929.The proportion of inpatients with viral meningitis(encephalitis),cerebral cysticercosis,tuberculous meningitis(TBM),purulent meningitis(PM)and cryptococcal meningitis(CM) was 63.8%,17.4%,7.7%,0.7% respectively.The hospitalization number of viral meningitis (encephalitis),TBM,PM and CM in the 2001—2005 5-year period was 53.5%,21.3%,35.3%,and 77.3% higher than that of the 1996—2000 period.Whereas the hospitalization number of cerebral cysticercosis decreased by 32.4% than that of the last 5 years.The peak months of viral meningitis (encephalitis)in a year were July,August and September.The peak months of TBM in a year were April, May and June.The case fatality of viral meningitis(encephalitis),cerebral cysticercosis,TBM,PM and CM was 8.1%,6.9%,22.4%,12.9%,33.3% respectively.Conclusions In the past l0 years,the incidence of common infectious diseases of CNS has increased in Shijiazhuang except cerebral cysticercoids. Our vigilance should be improved and some effective measures should be adopted to keep away infectious diseases of CNS.


A MDOF time\|varying dynamic model of the mechanical system of high\|speed elevator is established in this paper. In order to obtain the dynamic response of the system, a numerical method is applied to solve the time\|varying equations. Under four extreme working conditions,the dynamic response of elevator car and the natural frequencies of the instantaneous systems are calculated. Simulated results show that the dynamic responses obtained in this paper have a good match with the engineering practice.


It is proved that every linear code of dimension k can be decoded by a threshold decoding circuit that is guaranteed to correct e errors if e \leq (d - 1)/2 where d is the minimum distance of the code. Moreover it is demonstrated that the number of levels of threshold logic is less than or equal to k by giving an algorithm for generating the decoding logic employing k levels.


Aedes aegypti mosquito females transmit diseases such as Dengue, Yellow fever, Zika fever and Chikungunya associated with mortality in many developing countries. Zika fever has neither treatment nor vaccine. Personal protection by application of the skin repellents is the major control approach. Though synthetic skin repellents are effective, they are toxic however the natural mosquito repellents such as Ballet® are not effective. The purpose of the study was to develop a natural repellent formulation that can provide 100% repellency. A formulation was developed from a combination of Azadirachta indica, Eucalyptus citriodora, Ocimum basilicum and Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium extracts. They were applied thinly on rabbit ears and tested with starved Aedes aegypti females. Observations were made on the effect of the test combination, frequency of mosquito landing and blood engorgement. The combination that worked on rabbits was then tested on human skin of volunteers. The formulation provided complete protection, had mosquito paralytic effect and had higher repellent activity than Ballet® (p<0.001). The final formulation that may scale up and applied for human use is a combination of Azadirachta indica, Eucalyptus citriodora, Ocimum basilicum and Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium


This paper introduces the application of P80C552, a microprocessor with ADC, to microwave curer. The principle and functions of the curer presented, the hardware and software designs of its intelligentized control system are described in detail. The designs, making the curer reliable and stable, prove practical.


Summary Previous estimates of allosperm storage capacities and self-fertilization rates in pulmonate snails have been derived almost exclusively from laboratory mating experiments. Here we report observations on a single adult albino Physa acuta collected from a natural pond in Charleston, South Carolina. Cultured in isolation from August 2002 until its death in February, this individual laid an average of 78.3 eggs per week (s.e.m. = 6.2), with a hatching success of 35.1% and an overall frequency of albino (putatively selfed) offspring of 6.4%. We found no evidence of reduced fecundity, reduced offspring viability, or increased self-fertilization over 20 weeks of observation, suggesting that stores of allosperm at no time approached exhaustion. We suggest that self-fertilization in primarily outcrossing populations of pulmonate snails may not be an adaptation, but rather may be a consequence of inefficiency in the mechanism sorting autosperm from allosperm.


This Paper proposed the design of single stage operational trans-conductance amplifier by using split length transistors technique. Split length transistors technique is very helpful to enhance the DC gain without affecting the unity-gain bandwidth (UGBW), stability and power dissipation of conventional single stage operational trans-conductance amplifier. This design is simulated on cadence virtuoso tool in 180nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor process and supply voltage is 1.8V. Simulations results show that DC gain is increased 23% and UGBW is approx. 56% while maintaining other parameters. This technique is very helpful for high amplification, stability and low power applications.


Immunotherapy for melanoma patients is a promising treatment option, as clinical evidence of the use of systemic CTLA4- and PD1-antibodies has demonstrated. With the exception of unresectable melanoma patients, there is a great need for an adequate therapeutic option for patients with locally advanced melanoma (stage III). In this issue of the European Journal of Dermatology, Seledtsova et al.[1] report their investigations on the treatment of stage III melanoma patients with a xenogeneic cell-based [...]


AIM:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of amboxol pro injection in phlegmlysis and apophlegmatic. METHODS: One hundred and forty-one patients of acute and chronic respiratory diseases were divided into two groups randomly (test group and control group). Seventy patients were enrolled in test group (M 38, F 32; age (53± s 14) a). The other 71 patients were enrolled in control group (M 37, (F 34;) age (51±13) a). The patients in test group were intravenously dripped with domestic ambroxol proinjection 30 mg dissolved in 5 %-10 % glucose injection or 0.9 % sodium chloride injection 100 mL twice a day for 5-7 d. The patients in control group were undergo the same way but with imported ambroxol. All patients were observed for the clinical effects, the changes of the amount of sputum, sputum properties, the improvement rate of cough, and adverse reactions. RESULTS: The clinical control rates of the test and control group were 40 % (28/70) and 53 %(38/71), and the total effective rates were 76 % (53/70) and 79 %(56/71) respectively, outcoming with no significantly differences (P0.05). There were also no significant differences on the amount of sputum and sputum properties and the improvement rates of cough between the two groups (P0.05), togehter with no significant differences on the incidences of adverse reactions between the two groups ((P0.05).) CONCLUSION: Domestic ambroxol pro injection is an effective and safe mucolytic agent and an apophlegmatisant.


We establish some structural results for the Witt and Grothendieck–Witt groups of schemes over Z[1/2] , including homotopy invariance for Witt groups and a formula for the Witt and Grothendieck–Witt groups of punctured affine spaces over a scheme. All these results hold for singular schemes and at the level of spectra.


Through the determination of biomass of main plant community of estuarine wetland of Minjiang river,result shows that :biomass seasonal dynamics of main plant community of Minjiang river estuary is basically identical: in late April after turning green,plant grow vegetatively in May and the biomass is smaller;with the promoting of growth stage,keeping with vegetative reproductive growth phase,biomass increase gradually;biomass begins to decrease because of aging of the plant and increase of dead matter after a period of time.The maximum biomass above under ground of plant appears in August.Maximum value of total biomass of community of Spartina alterniflora,Phragmites australis,Cyperus malaccensis Lam is 40.96,41.30,31.17 t·hm-2 respectively.Community of Spartina alterniflora(34.04 t·hm-2)community of Phragmites australis(27.21 t·hm-2)community of C.malaccensis Lam(20.21 t·hm-2)among biomass of main plant communities.


Study on Staffing Requirements in Nursing Facilities. --The Secretary shall conduct a study and report to Congress no later than January 1, 1992, on the appropriateness of establishing minimum caregiver to resident ratios and minimum supervisor to caregiver ratios for skilled nursing facilities serving as providers of services under title XVIII [Medicare] of the Social Security Act and nursing facilities receivingpayments under a State plan under title XIX [Medicaid] of the Social Security Act, and shall include in such study recommendations regarding appropriate minimum ratios.


Both polymer gels and PRESAGE radiochromic solid dosimeter, in conjunction with optical CT scanning system, have been employed to measure 3-D dose distribution. The 3-D dose maps obtained from these systems can provide a useful tool for dose verification on complex treatments such as IMRT, radiosurgery, and RapidArc. These complex treatments present high dose gradient regions in the boundaries between the target and the surrounding critical organs. Dose accuracy in these areas can be critical, and may affect the treatment. There is a pressing need for a dosimeter that allows for accurate determination of 3-D dose distribution with high spatial resolution. In this paper, performance of polymer gels and PRESAGE dosimeter with optical CT scanning is reviewed and evaluated in terms of their sensitivity calibration, irradiation, optimization of scanning procedures, precision, and accuracy. Clinical applications of optical-CT dosimetry are presented.


WINEMAKING The growing season was exceptional without too much measurable rain or prolonged heat spikes that could have adversely affected the vintage. The fruit was sourced from sustainably farmed vineyards in San Lucas, Hamas Valley and Arroyo Seco. The southern regions of Monterey benefit from warm days and cool Pacific Ocean breezes in the late afternoon. The fruit was picked in the early morning hours and processed at the nearby winery. The clusters were triaged and de-stemmed before being transferred to stainless tanks. Some lots were cold soaked to extract fla vors and color with two pump overs a day. Once inoculation was initiated the pump overs were reduced to once a day and stopped after 10 days, just before completed fermentation. The wine remained on the skins for 18-20 days, then pressed off gently and aged in French oak barrels for 7-8 months prior to working on the final assem blage of the different lots and varietals.


[Objective] To develop a novel method for determination of amoxicillin in animal origin food stuffs using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric( LC-MS / MS). [Method]The samples were extracted with phosphate buffer,precipitated the proteins with zinc acetate,and purified by HLB solid phase extraction column,then eluted with acetonitrile- 0. 005% formic and directly analyzed by LC-MS / MS. [Result] The average recovery was 75. 42%- 90. 22% and the RSD was less than 10% when the concentrations are in the range of 100- 300 ng / g. The limit of quantification of this method was 0. 10 μg / kg. [Conclusion] This method was sensitive,reproducible,and was suitable for determination of amoxicillin in animal origin food stuffs.


Glutathionylspermidine synthase (GSS) is a crucial enzyme in the trypanothione biosynthetic pathway and is also an interesting molecular target for drug design. We synthesized a series of amides of a glutathione analogue (L-γ-Glu-L-Leu-Gly-NHR) where R are linear alkyl groups. All of these drugs exhibited marginal biological activity against the responsible agent of Chagas' disease, the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi.


Engaging employees is one of the top five most important challenges for management, according to a survey of 656 chief executive officers (CEOs) from countries around the world (Wah 1999). Employee engagement has become a hot topic in recent years among consulting firms and in the popular business press. However, employee engagement has rarely been studied in the academic literature. In this study we investigated the antecedents and consequences of employee engagement in Jordanian Industry. A snowball sample of 310 respondents from the Jordanian hotel industry was interviewed using the research instrument. The sample comprised of employees from different levels of management. The results confirm the relationship between Employee Engagement and Perceived Organizational Support. The effect of Job Characteristics, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards, Perceived Supervisor Support, Perceptions of Procedural Justice, Perceptions of Distributive Justice on Employee Engagement is also confirmed. The hypotheses considered in this study are supported by the evidence from data collected from a sample of respondents drawn from the hotelindustry in Jordan.


The article deals with the analysis of the theory and practice of hybrid project implementation and using models to create information systems. The authors confirm expediency of the conducted research to substantiate the parameters of a SARIMA model for forecasting milk procurement on the territory of communities. The Mito platform was used to prepare data and choose appropriate methods to forecast the seasonal volumes of incoming raw materials during implementation of the hybrid projects of milk procurement on the territory of communities. The authors used methods to determine parameters of a SARIMA model based on the analysis of the diagrams of the autocorrelation functions and partial autocorrelation function. The conducted studies were used for substantiation of the SARIMA model parameters. The SARIMA model was improved for better forecasting seasonal volumes of raw materials during implementation of the hybrid projects of milk procurement on the territory of communities. It is confirmed that the obtained results of the forecast of the seasonal volumes of raw materials are of statistical significance. Applying the proposed model, the authors of the work made forecast of the seasonal volumes of raw materials during implementation of the hybrid projects of milk procurement for a specific community. The research proves that the mean square error of the forecast of the volumes of milk procurement is 0.24. The produced model can in information systems be used for precise planning of the hybrid projects of milk procurement on the territory of a community.


Propositional satisfiability checking is a powerful approach to domain-independent planning. In nearly all practical applications, however, there exists an abundance of domain-specific knowledge that can be used to improve the performance of a planning system. This knowledge is traditionally encoded as procedures or rules that are tied to the details of the planning engine. We present a way to encode domain knowledge in a purely declarative, algorithm independent manner. We demonstrate that the same heuristic knowledge can be used by completely different search engines, one systematic, the other using greedy local search. This approach enhances the power of planning as satisfiability : solution times for some problems are reduced from days to seconds.


The invention relates to a double-disk type magnetorheological clutch which comprises a driving disk, a driven disk, a magnetorheological fluid, a transmission shaft, a rotating blade, a magnetic conduction shell, a magnet exciting coil, an insulation ring, a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, a bearing and a sealing element, wherein the driving disk is connected to a driving shaft; the driven disk is connected to a driven shaft; the magnetorheological fluid is filled between primary and secondary magnetic conduction disks through the fluid inlet; a sealing ring device is rotated so as to keep the magnetorheological fluid between the two disks; the magnet exciting coil is fixed in the magnetic conduction shell with no need of an electric brush; and the magnetorheological fluid is sealed between the two disks, and the rotating blade is arranged on the transmission shaft. The rotating blade is rotated under the driving of the transmission shaft, so air is guided to circularly flow through an air vent, and the excellent radiating property is maintained. The double-disk type magnetorheological clutch has the advantages of compact structure and good radiation property, and can be used for natural air cooling.


An overview of the current state of development of parallel event-building techniques is given, with emphasis on future applications in the high-rate experiments proposed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The paper describes the main architectural options in parallel event builders, the proposed event-building architectures for LHC experiments, and the use of standard networking protocols for event building and their limitations. The main issues around the potential use of circuit switching , message switching and packet switching techniques are examined. Results from various laboratory demonstrator systems are presented.


A vehicular delay tolerant network (VDTN) is a special type of delay tolerant network (DTN), where messages are carried by vehicles from one end to another end. End-to-end connectivity in a VDTN is episodic because an end-to-end path between different source nodes and destination nodes does not exist and therefore the possibility of delivering messages to the destination node reduces drastically. Underlying routing protocols of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) fail when applied to a VDTN because of the non-existence of an end-to-end path that is used to carry packets to the destination. Thus, routing becomes the challenging task in a VDTN. Different types of routing algorithms are proposed for a DTN in the literature but very few algorithms have been proposed that take into account the past history of nodes. In this paper, we propose a contact history based routing algorithm explicitly designed for a VDTN that exploits the history of a node to find the best candidate relay to take a decision to forward a message to the destination. This contact history contains every node's past encounters with relay nodes that had come in contact with this node in the past. We show that, our algorithm outperforms existing history based approaches as well as few non-history based approaches in terms of message delivery ratio, overhead ratio and average delivery latency.


The result showed that L.sordida could utilize glucose,sucrose,soluble starch and corn meal C-sources as well as peptone,wheat bran ,yeast meal N-sources.The mycelium could grow under 5-15 ℃and pH6.0-9.0 condition.It also showed that the fermentative medium was more suitable for L.sordida mycelium growth.