Religion plays a major role-as a harbinger of ethical and moral values. As key repositories of civilizational values, religions can have an important role to play in preaching about environmental ethics. So when the global environmental crises is demanding the attention of human kind with ever increasing urgency, attempts have been made to deal with this crises through a variety of channels such as science, technology and religion. Every major religion contains values, beliefs and ethics that support a conservation ethics Islam is one such Religion which is developing worldviews and ethics that shape our attitudes towards nature. It incorporates teachings that relate to the harmonious existence of humans with their natural environment. This study is an attempt to explore the ethics of environmental protection as preached in Islam.


PURPOSE: To prevent an appliance from being influenced by a movement of an eye when positioned in a fornix by arranging a thin and slender cylindrical main body having projecting elements extending outward in the radial direction, and setting a length and a diameter containing the projecting elements of the appliance to a specific value in an ocular inserting appliance to control discharge of an ophthalmic medicine to an eye. CONSTITUTION: A rib-shaped appliance 70 has a cylindrical wall 72 having a dome upper end part 74, and a series of circular arc-shaped projecting elements 76 are an annular shape in a cross section, and are formed in a doughnut shape, and are arranged at prescribed intervals over the total length of the appliance 70. The appliance 70 has at least a length of 8 mm and a diameter containing the projecting elements 76 not more than 1.9 mm, and has sufficient flexibility so as to bend along curvature of an eye when the lengthwise directional axis of the appliance 70 is positioned in an upper or lower fornix so as to become almost parallel to a horizontal diameter of an eyeball. The appliance 70 has the size and a shape of not extending to a visibility part of an eyeball when inserted into the fornix, and is not influenced by a movement of an eye, and is maintained on the outside of visibility.


Bone imaging studies of 1650 patients with known or strongly suspected extraosseous malignancies were reviewed to determine whether a completely negative posterior view was sufficient to exclude metastatic disease. Of 708 negative posterior images, 27 (3.4%) were positive for metastasis on anterior views. Alt of the anterior lesions were in the sternum, sternoclavicular joints and first four ribs. When the posterior view is positive, further views may be unnecessary. Negative or equivocal posterior images necessitate anterior views of the thoracic cage.


Ensuring reliable and timely diagnostics and control of a rotating stall and self-oscillations on the fan blades and the first stages of GTE compressors for aviation and ground application with special bench tests, at the engine development stage, is a relevant topic. To solve the problem, spectral analysis of the vibration sensor signals, the bench control system, registered during the engine check for unstable modes of operation, was performed. Diagnostic components that appear in the signals of vibration sensors with rotating breakdown and auto-oscillations at the moments of the appearance of stresses on the blade components of the strain gauge signals are revealed. The existence of the dependence of the blade component and the diagnostic components on the rotor speed is determined. The dependence obtained makes it possible to isolate diagnostic components from the broadband signal, similar to the construction of vibrations using the first rotor harmonics. A method was developed to control rotating breakdown and self-oscillations in the course of GTE tests, with designated limit levels proportional to the stress levels on the fan blades. It is shown that the best, from the ease of implementation and efficiency, a method of monitoring unstable modes of operation is the method with the use of servo filters at diagnostic frequencies. At the same time, it is technically easier to use the available vibration sensors used in monitoring the first rotor harmonics than to install additional pulsation sensors, performing modifications to the engine design, without mentioning the work package required for strain gauging. Besides, the set of signals of standard and technological vibration sensors of the bench control allows determining the diagnostic frequencies of any element of the engine design: fan, compressor, turbine. After tuning the vibration equipment to the required diagnostic frequencies, a specialist with no skills in diagnosing vibration signals can maintain control, which is convenient for the first tests of the engine in operation, where the experimenter controls the flight.


Refrigeration systems consume a substantial amount of energy. A large fraction (typically, about 80%) of practical refrigerators are of vapor compression type and operate with mechanical energy input. In most cases the mechanical energy is derived from electric motors. In the present work Pulse wave modulation technique is used to reduce the energy content of the system and to increase the C.O.P of the system. Modeling and analysis work was done on various evaporating temperatures to find out the energy efficiency and C.O.P of the system .The analysis was conducted using MATLAB and verified experimentally. It was seen that the energy savings in the range of 30% were observed and efficiency of the system also improves.


This paper will show that the rank of the model matrix of a closed, n compartmental model with k sinks is n-k. This statement will be extended to include open compartmental models as a part of theorem.


Abstract This article is about the simultaneous effects on Northern Ireland of European integration; both ameliorating constitutional controversies and becoming part of the fundamental conflict. There is common ground about NI's material interests and their political representation in Brussels through Westminster. But policy which requires cross‐border co‐operation can be seen by unionists as 'creeping' Irish unification. NI is not unique in containing both regional advocates of better policy‐making within existing states and those who see the EU as an opportunity for a different political status. Concessions to some cross‐border co‐operation have been made in recent initiatives from various political quarters. Thus, the conclusion is that there is scope for participants of different persuasions to concentrate upon improving defects internal to the UK and upon the appropriate composition and functions of ad hoc cross‐border authorities.


Innovation assumes a noteworthy job in medicinal services for sensor gadgets as well as in correspondence, recording and show gadgets. The system tends to propose, interpretation of hand or head movement via complex algorithms. These algorithms are in the form of software, hardware or a combination of both. The main goal of gesture recognition system is to enable an individual or a group of individuals to communicate using specific sign languages or gestures. This paper proposes the use of a three axis accelerometer, wireless protocols of communication and a database system in a computer. The merits and the demerits of the above mentioned three attributes are presented in the paper.


The necessary and sufficient condition for the representations of Temperley–Lieb algebra arising from representations of Heck algebra is presented. Using the condition, the representations of braid group with a quadratic reduction relation are divided into two kinds. One has a representation of Temperley–Lieb algebra behind it and another has not. Some concrete examples are discussed with the condition and their Baxterizations are also mentioned.


This paper analyzes some influence factors that affect the performance of elite jumpers with the method of gray relation theory in order to find out the effect degree.The result shows that the relation of factor is horizontal velocity of takeoff,run up velocity,takeoff velocity,the utilization ration of velocity,vertical velocity and angle of takeoff.


We present a short review of GRB studies performed for many years by Ioffe Institute experiments onboard a number of space missions. The first breakthrough in the studies of GRB was made possible by four Konus experiments carried out by the Ioffe Institute onboard the Venera 11-14 deep space missions from 1978 to 1983. A new important stage of our research is associated with the joint Russian-American experiment with the Russian Konus scientific instrument onboard the U.S. Wind spacecraft which has been successfully operating since its launch in November 1994. The Konus-Wind experiment has made an impressive number of important GRB observations and other astrophysical discoveries, due to the advantages of its design and its interplanetary location. We also briefly discuss future GRB experiments of the Ioffe Institute.


The Galerkin approximation technique is used to solve the flow problem of an infinite plate immersed in a non‐Newtonian power law fluid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field. The velocity outside the boundary layer depends exponentially on time.


The integrated coastal observation system (ICOS) represents an improvement in the capabilities of underway coastal marine measurement by incorporating in situ biological, chemical, and physical sensors in an undulating vehicle with a mobile, sea-going laboratory van capable of further analysis of critical seawater properties on pumped samples. This mobile lab undulating vehicle system is capable of rapid, high resolution, simultaneous measurement of key fields such as salinity and depth. The system is composed of a ship-going laboratory van, the ECOShuttle, and the Mini-Shuttle, a towed surface instrumented depressor wing.


The emission spectrum of a xenon high-pressure arc lamp provides a reasonable approximation to the ultraviolet-visible region of terrestrial sunlight. This lamp has therefore been employed in a variety of laboratory testing equipment designed to predict the useful outdoor lifetime of plastics, textiles, dyes, asphalt, etc. Several methods of operation (ASTM and Atlas) of an Atlas 6000W xenon arc Weather-Ometer have been examined, and the necessity of monitoring intensities at both ultraviolet (at 340 nm) and visible (at 420 nm) wavelengths is illustrated. Lamp aging has been found to be the main factor in decreasing lamp intensity. Xenon lamp control at intensities similar to noon summer sunlight at 340 nm gives short lamp lifetimes of approximately 400 h. Operation of the arc at lower wattages (3500–5000W) has been found to provide a stable lamp intensity for much longer periods—approximately 2000 h.


Abstract This study was undertaken to determine the effect of aromatic hydrocarbons on growth and plant growth promoting activities of Azotobacter chroococcum strain JL104. The organism was grown on Jensen's media without sucrose, supplemented with different concentrations of aromatic hydrocarbons. Azotobacter chroococcum strain JL104 was able to grow in the presence of benzene, toluene, aniline and benzoic acid and was able to utilize these as sole carbon source as well. The culture showed the highest growth in presence of 0.5% concentrations of aniline and benzoic acid and 0.01% concentrations of benzene and toluene. Maximum indole acetic acid (IAA) production and acetylene reduction activity (ARA) were recorded with benzene and benzoic acid, respectively. Among other substituted benzene derivatives such as xylene, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, di-nitrophenol and di-chlorophenol, xylene was observed to be the least toxic and di-nitrophenol the most toxic hydrocarbon. The highest soil survival was found in soil amended with 1% sucrose however, the population of A. chroococccum strain JL104 declined continuously in unamended soil. Amongst various hydrocarbons, 0.1% toluene amended soil supported the maximum survival, indicating it to be least toxic aromatic hydrocarbon carbon in soil.


In this work, the nucleation and growth of the CdS buffer layer (chemical bath deposition) on Cu(In,Ga)Se/sub 2/. (CIGS) thin films was observed using the surface-specific methods of atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE). The AFM images show islands at short deposition times (<30 s) whereas XPS measurements do not register any sulfur on these surfaces. The authors postulate that Cd(OH)/sub 2/ precipitates out of the basic deposition solution while rinsing it off the CIGS surface, thus creating the islands. All methods used here indicate the onset of bulk CdS growth after about 30 s deposition time. According to the AFM images, the entire CIGS surface seems to be covered within 1 min deposition. This is confirmed by SE, which shows bulk layer growth after 1 min; it increases at about 0.4 nm/s after the induction phase.


In this paper, we present the results of a 3D-numerical simulation of SOI TRI-GATE FinFET transistor. 3D-device structure, based on technology SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator) is described and simulated by using SILVACO TCAD tools and we compare the electrical characteristics results for Titanium Nitride (TiN) fabricated on Al2O3 (k ~ 9), HfO2 (k ~ 20) and La2O3 (k ~ 30) gate dielectric. Excellent dielectric properties such as high-k constant, low leakage current, threshold voltage and electrical characteristics were demonstrated. The implementation of high-k gate dielectrics is one of several strategies developed to allow further miniaturization of microelectronic components. From the simulation result; it was shown that HfO2 is the best dielectric material with metal gate TiN, which giving better subthreshold swing (SS), drain-induced barrier lowing (DIBL), leakage current Ioff and Ion/Ioff ratio.


Mun Keat Looi Is this like the ice bucket challenge but sponsored by KFC? I wish. At least that would be earning money for charity. No, the NyQuil chicken challenge involves people filming themselves cooking chicken bathed in over-the-counter medication and ingesting it. What the cluck? The dish—also called "sleepy chicken" or "bedtime chicken" after the side effects of the medication, which contains acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, anddoxylamine—originally cameabout around 2017. It seems intended to treat cold and flu symptoms combined with a meal. And it's recently turned into a viral social media meme on TikTok as users seemingly challenge each other to make and eat the dish. Is it finger licking good? It's dangerous, is what it is. The rise in videos posted has alarmed health authorities. So much so that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a public health warning.1 "Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways," it said. What happens in this instance? Aaron Hartman, a physician and assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, told the website mic.com,2 "When you cook cough medicine you boil off the water and alcohol in it, leaving the chicken saturated with a super-concentrated amount of drugs in the meat. If you ate one of those cutlets completely cooked, it'd be as if you're consuming a quarter to half a bottle of NyQuil." The recommended dose for an adult is 30ml every six hours. A poultry amount in comparison Quite. "Even if you don't eat the chicken, inhaling the medication's vapours while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body," warn the FDA. "Put simply: someone could take a dangerously high amount of the medicine without realising it." Are people really that stupid? Yes and no. As the news site Techcrunch has pointed out, it isn't actually a "challenge" in the ice bucket sense—most of the videos are shocked and bemused reaction videos rather than people cooking and eating the thing itself.3 But thememe, andothers involving over-the-counter drugs, has beenaround formanyyears and regularly resurfaces on YouTube and other social media sites. A variation is the Benadryl challenge that dares people to take large doses of allergy medicine containing diphenhydramine to induce hallucinations. The FDA also published a warning about that in September 2020.


An adaptive inverse controller is developed for feedback linearizable nonlinear systems with nonsmooth actuator nonlinearities such as a dead-zone characteristic. The use of an actuator nonlinearity inverse and a feedback linearizing controller leads to an error equation suitable for deriving an adaptive update law for the inverse. Closed-loop signal boundedness is proved and system performance improvement is shown by simulation results.


This paper presents a ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) survey over two circular structures originally surrounding Bronze Age burial mounds at the site of Koekelare (western Belgium). The region is characterized by sandy soils. Their low water storage capacity and the consequent moisture contrasts in dry summers played an important role in the detection of over 1000 Bronze Age funeral monuments through aerial archaeology in the past few decades. At Koekelare, low attenuation of GPR waves resulted in the detection of a double and single circular ditch. A fluxgate gradiometer survey and electromagnetic induction (EMI) measurements did not clearly reveal the ditches. For the GPR wave velocity analysis, constant velocity migration tests were combined with time‐domain reflectometry (TDR). The TDR measurements were made at different depths within the ditches and in the adjacent undisturbed soil, so that the differences in the physical soil parameters could be assessed.


Staged thermal modifications on the microstructure and magnetic characterizations of epitaxial FePd films have been investigated, while the optimum composition for FePd (001) films with the highest ordering degree was Fe52Pd48. For the FePd films directly grown at the low temperature of 400 °C, the isolated islandlike morphology was observed and displayed a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with the coercivity value of 8000 Oe. On the other hand, the FePd films grown at 100 °C and then postannealed at 400 °C showed continuous surface and with a lower remanence corresponded to the alternate up and down orientations of the magnetization due to stripe domains formation. The significant distinction in magnetic exhibition of the FePd (001) films was due to the marked change in magnetic domain structures and surface morphology caused by varied interfacial energy during staged thermal modifications.


Two types of anthocyanin, cyanidin 3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (cyanidin 3-glucoside) and peonidin 3-O-(6-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-β-D-glucopyranoside) (peonidin 3-rutinoside) were isolated from ginger rhizomes by various chromatographic methods. A comparison of the content of these compounds showed their presence in many kinds of Japanese ginger, but not in Chinese ginger. In particular, peonidin 3-rutinoside, which we identified for the first time in the ginger rhizome, was the main anthocyanin constituent at 0.67–2.38 mg/100 g of fresh ginger rhizome, and its concentration was 2.0–43.4 times higher than that of cyanidin 3-glucoside. These two anthocyanins were only present in the lower stem and rhizome in the ginger plant, and their proportions in the lower stem were different from those in the rhizome, cyanidin 3-glucoside being much more abundant than peonidin 3-rutinoside in the lower stem. These results suggest that the anthocyanin formation in ginger varies according to its variety, the part of the plant, and the place of cultivation.


The conus medullaris is frequently affected by inflammatory and infectious lesions which many times are hardly differentiated because of the similarity of their clinical history and physical examination among the different etiologies. Magnetic resonance imaging presents high sensitivity in the detection of these lesions and plays a relevant role in the diagnosis as well as in the evolutive control of the condition. The present pictorial essay with selected cases from the archives of the authors' institution is aimed at demonstrating imaging findings which might help in the diagnosis of a specific etiology amongst inflammatory an infectious conditions and in the differentiation with diseases of neoplastic and vascular etiologies, for example. Findings such as enhancement pattern, presence of cysts, edema and involvement of other regions of the central nervous system are important for this differentiation, and may define a specific etiology as associated with clinical and laboratory tests findings.


The purpose of this study is to further understand the relationship of family background and how it affects self-esteem and the perception of gender roles in online imagery. This study focuses on how our history serves as a lens to see gender roles. The schema theory, created by Robert Axelrod, is a model suggesting that people have a "pre-existing assumption about the way the world is organized" (Axelford, 1974). Furthering this theory is Bem's (1981) Gender Schema Theory, which proposes that one's sexual self-concept affects how one structures items in memory. These theories, applied to the understood roles and activities that we see our parents perform, should relate to how we see people in the media take on certain roles and activities in online advertisements. The method for collecting data is a survey broken down into questions of demographics, family history, self-esteem, and ten randomized advertisements portraying traditional, decorative, and non-traditional gender roles for both men and women. If we can begin to understand the relationship between family background and advertisement effectiveness, then advertisers can see the real cultural values and changing gender-role identities in consumers. INTRODUCTION The schema theory, created by Robert Axelrod, is a model (see Figure 1) suggesting that people have a "pre-existing assumption about the way the world is organized" (Axelford, 1974). In relation to advertising, information is sent and then received by an audience. The audience interprets this message based on information currently available to the audience such as past experience, repetition of outcomes, and relationship to currently understood "truths." This theory, applied to the understood roles and activities that we see our parents perform, is expected to correlate to how we see media personnel take on certain roles and activities in online advertisements. This study is unlike most published studies related to gender roles and self-esteem in advertising because it does not focus on body dissatisfaction; it instead focuses on why our family history makes us see gender roles the way we do.


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Surfactant-assisted mechanical milling has been used to produce discrete nanoparticles of both Nd-Fe-B and Sm-Co amenable for bottom-up production of nanostructured or nanocomposite permanent magnets. However, in Nd-Fe-B the comminution of the material proceeds by transgranular fracture, which influences both the morphology of the nanoparticles and the magnetic properties. This paper utilizes alloy design to alter the fracture behavior from transgranular fracture to intergranular fracture. Nd-rich Nd 2 Fe 14 B alloys were produced by melt spinning in an overquenched state. The melt spun ribbons were annealed at 700°C and 800°C to ensure complete crystallization and to form different grain sizes. The resultant materials were then milled using a SPEX8000 mixer/mill with Oleic Acid as a surfactant for varying lengths of time. A second set of alloys was made with a 1 % S (atomic) addition, with the objective to embrittle the grain boundaries and force intergranular fracture. The coercivity decreased with increasing milling time for both S-less and S-containing alloys, from approximately 18 kOe to 3 kOe. The particle refinement process was also dependent on alloy composition, with the S-containing alloy showing a greater propensity for refinement. ii Acknowledgements


A new small-sized soft x-ray source of 0.2-2-keV range is described. The soft x-ray source consists of electron gun, focusing electrode, and anticathode. The electron gun is ceramic-to-metal vacuum seal. The anticathode is made from a stainless tube and cooled by tap water. The target can be fixed onto the top of the stainless tube and can be easily exchanged. It is usually made by Cu. Al, or C for receiving the different wavelengths. The x-ray source spot can be adjusted by moving the stainless tube along its axis of operation. The diameter of the x-ray source is ~1 mm. The material of the x-ray output window is 1-μm thick polypropylene film, using Ni mesh, which transmits 80% of the radiation, to support it. Thus we get the high soft x-ray intensity. The total power is 1-2 kW. The tests we did with this source included determining the detective quantum efficiency of detectors; measuring the reflectivity of x-ray mirrors; and measuring the transmittivity of windows. These data are important in the study of space astronomical instruments.


The following article outlines – based on recent studies on the health status of Austrian children and young people – some results from the fi eld of nicotine and alcohol consumption as well as obesity. Recent studies also point to the relatively new problem of bullying in Austrian schools. First initiatives in health education – dating back to the 1980s – primarily aimed at nutrition consciousness and healthy exercises; nowadays more campaigns aim at consumption (abuse) of tobacco and alcohol and more recently on the phenomenon of "bullying". The so-called life and health skills are increasingly refl ected in projects and campaigns.


The Current Population Survey (CPS) Voter Supplement is a premier source of data on turnout in the United States. A little- known aspect of the survey is that for a sizable proportion of people, turnout is measured by proxy—one member of a household reports for another member—rather than self-reports of having voted. The pur- pose of this research note is to investigate how the use of proxy- reported turnout affects conclusions about the determinants of turnout in America. The results suggest a generally optimistic assessment. Although proxy-reported turnout is about 4 percentage points lower than self-reported turnout, the individual-level correlates of turnout and interstate turnout differences are mostly similar for the two measures.


The failure mechanism of lead-free solder interconnections of chip scale package–sized Ball Grid Array (BGA) component boards under thermal cycling was studied by employing cross-polarized light microscopy, scanning electronic microscopy, electron backscatter diffraction, and nanoindentation. It was determined that the critical solder interconnections were located underneath the chip corners, instead of the corner most interconnections of the package, and the highest strains and stresses were concentrated at the outer neck regions on the component side of the interconnections. Observations of the failure modes were in good agreement with the finite element results. The failure of the interconnections was associated with changes of microstructures by recrystallization in the strain concentration regions of the solder interconnections. Coarsening of intermetallic particles and the disappearance of the boundaries between the primary Sn cells were observed in both cases. The nanoindentation results showed lower hardness of the recrystallized grains compared with the non-recrystallized regions of the same interconnection. The results show that failure modes are dependent on the localized microstructural changes in the strain concentration regions of the interconnections and the crack paths follow the networks of grain boundaries produced by recrystallization.


Introduction: Malnutrition remains an important public health challenge in developing countries. Approximately, each year, 3 million children below 5 years old die due to malnutrition. Evidence-based nutrition programs depend on accurate estimates of malnutrition  derived  from  anthropometric  data  collected from nutrition centers for therapeutic feeding. Anthropometric information can be used to determine an individual ́s nutritional status and prevalence of malnutrition, and subsequently provide Original Article Original Articles 45 Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention Vol. 12 No. 1 2021 Methods: This was an observational cohort study or 7 months for 227 malnourished children admitted to the therapeutic feeding program in Kwale County, Kenya. Anthropometric measurements were taken at admission, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th months in the program. Progress of WAZ, HAZ, MUAC and WHZ of malnourished children were later analysed using WHO AnthroPlus. Results: At admission, 30% of children were at  risk  of  malnutrition;  34%  of  children  with moderate to acute stages of malnutrition; 36% of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. In the course of the therapeutical feeding program,  protein  food  supplements were  provided to the child and family as such. This led to a decrease in prevalence of severe acute malnutrition of 19% after 4 months in the nutritional program. Progress in all anthropometric parameters after 4 months were reported, with these median values: WAZ z-score  (-2.81  to  -1.15); HAZ z-score (-2.35 to 1.00); MUAC z-score (2.47 to -1.68); WHZ z-score (-2.22 to -0.71). Conclusion:We conclude that anthropometric measurements of children significantly improves after four months of intensive therapeutic feeding of malnourished children. In this study the results indicate that comprehensive care for malnourished children, which includes: correct and accurate anthropometric measurements; providing treatment; regular monitoring of the children; collaboration with caretakers of the children, with health workers in the rural health facilities; with community health workers in communities lead to improved child nutrition.


This methodological report indicates a way forward in estimating the economic role of embedded digital technology (EDT) from the supply side. We propose a more holistic approach to the production and diffusion of ICT and we develop the foundation of a methodology that would ultimately take into account the overall use and impact of embedded digital technology in the productive process. Technological, economic and statistical arguments support our approach. Current technological development no longer accommodates clear borderlines between ICT and non-ICT goods or between general purpose computers and embedded digital devices. The economics and statistics of ICT reveal the complex and multi-channel contributions of ICT to the productive process. The methodology we propose uses the input-output method known as backward linkages to give a measure of EDT as ICT consumption generated along the value chain by the demand of final goods. We give an account of the methodological limitations of applying the method and an overview of data availability and shortages for its implementation. A simplified application of the methodology to German data is used as an example.


The recent advancement in data science coupled with the revolution in digital and satellite technology has improved the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the forestry and wildlife sectors. India shares 7% of global forest cover and is the 8th most biodiverse region in the world. However, rapid expansion of developmental projects, agriculture, and urban areas threaten the country's rich biodiversity. Therefore, the adoption of new technologies like AI in Indian forests and biodiversity sectors can help in effective monitoring, management, and conservation of biodiversity and forest resources. We conducted a systematic search of literature related to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms (ML) in the forestry sector and biodiversity conservation across globe and in India (using ISI Web of Science and Google Scholar). Additionally, we also collected data on AI-based startups and non-profits in forest and wildlife sectors to understand the growth and adoption of AI technology in biodiversity conservation, forest management, and related services. Here, we first provide a global overview of AI research and application in forestry and biodiversity conservation. Next, we discuss adoption challenges of AI technologies in the Indian forestry and biodiversity sectors. Overall, we find that adoption of AI technology in Indian forestry and biodiversity sectors has been slow compared to developed, and to other developing countries. However, improving access to big data related to forest and biodiversity, cloud computing, and digital and satellite technology can help improve adoption of AI technology in India. We hope that this synthesis will motivate forest officials, scientists, and conservationists in India to explore AI technology for biodiversity conservation and forest management.


This study provides a valuation model to price Commodity Research Bureau Index futures contracts, now traded at the New York Futures Exchange. An empirical analysis suggests that substantial mispricing was exhibited during the early months of trading in an unseasoned Commodity Research Bureau Index futures market.


The leisure culture in Chengdu has a great number of local traits,and it is worth maintaining.This paper analyzes current leisure cultural characteristics of Chengdu through empirical studies,the results showing that: Chengdu's leisure culture enjoys universality,advancement,entertainment and diversity.Based on surveys,the paper also discusses the formation mechanisms of leisure cultural in Chengdu: 1) geographical features are the premise of leisure culture development;2) economic advance is the rational path of Chengdu leisure culture;3) field and habitus contribute to the construction of the leisure culture.


Results are presented of investigations into the use of high intensity pulsed electric fields to inactivate microorganisms in liquid suspensions. Potential applications are in food manufacture, including dairy, fruit juice and brewing, and water treatment. The process is non-thermal and has little effect on functional and organoleptic properties of the treated liquid. Investigations were made into the effect of number of pulses, electric field strength and conductivity of the liquid on the effectiveness of electric field sterilisation of yeast. A greater inactivation rate for a given treatment time was found with yeast suspended in beer compared with simple electrolyte solutions, approaching 4 logs of inactivation at 16.7 kV/cm. In contradiction to the conventional relationship described between inactivation and applied treatment time, a plateau region for inactivation was found which suggested a more resistant subset of the cell population, between 0.1 and 1% of the total. A similar plateau region was also found for inactivation of a bacterial contaminant in the beer.


Hardness,soluble solid content(SSC),sensory quality,VC content,and marketable fruit percentage were measured on melon fruits from four different cultivars,reticulate melon(Zhongmi No.55 and Huami No.2) and smooth rind melon(Zhongmi No.116 and Yujinxiang) at days 0,14 and 28 of post-harvest storage at 10 ℃.Meanwhile,grey correlation analysis was used to evaluate the experimental data.The suitability of the melon cultivars for fresh-cut processing followed the decreasing order of Huami No.2 Zhongmi No.55 Zhongmi No.116 Yujinxiang.Huami No.2 was characterized by higher marketable fruit percentage at the early harvest stage,better sensory quality and higher VC content,and Zhongmi No.55 showed the characteristics of higher marketable fruit percentage and better sensory quality and storage tolerance.


Skin grafting has been practised by European surgeons for little less than a hundred years, and it is now the recognized method of treating extensive superficial injuries for which the autonomous process of repair would be too hazardous and too slow. When, as sometimes happens, a patient has lost more skin than it is feasible to replace by the usual methods of autoplastic free grafting, the surgeon may choose between two alternatives. He may adopt an expedient such as autoplastic 'pinch grafting' (Davis, 1914) for making one piece of skin do the work of two or three, or he may decide to use skin from a relative of the patient or from a voluntary donor. The disadvantage of the first method is that the new skin is poor in quality and often unstable; and of the second, that its results are never permanent. It is true that, with -few exceptions, the early investigators made no critical distinction between the fate of native and foreign skin (see Ehrenfried, 1908; Davis, 1910), and that skin homografts are still occasionally used by surgeons to-day without a clear recognition of their ultimate fate. Nevertheless, it has come to be acknowledgedt that foreign skin cannot be used to form a permanent graft in human beings, except, without doubt, between monozygotic twins (Bauer, 1927; Padgett, 1932; Brown, 1937). Theories about the mechanism that underlies resistance to homoplastic grafting are of two general types. The first is that the reaction is primarily local and cellular, and that evidence for the failure of homografts is to be found within the grafts themselves or in their immediate neighbourhood. This view is based mainly on histological considerations, and is held, together with a more detailed theory about the special function of the lymphocyte, by Loeb and his colleagues (Loeb, 1930, 1937). The second, long familiar to students of tumour transplantation (see Woglom, 1929), is that resistance to homoplastic grafting is systemic and primarily humoral in nature, and that in one form or another it follows the general pattern of an antigen-antibody


of food-vessels only underlines the anxiety with which his monograph for the Gulbenkian series is awaited. The pre-Roman Iron Age is represented by a note contributed by Irwin Scollar on enclosures in the Cologne basin (many brought to light by air photography), a well-illustrated and documented treatment of massive armlets from North Britain by Morna Simpson, and an essay by Anne Ross that usefully lists a large number of shafts from Belgic Britain, but does not perhaps recognize that until society was desacralized in modern times wells were neither sacred nor profane—throughout most of human history they have been both simultaneously. Carrying the story into the Dark Ages Elizabeth Fowler discusses the purpose and cultural-historical significance of bronze hanging-bowls and pleads vigorously for taking account of art-historical motives in whatever medium, including mosaics, illuminated manuscripts and stone carvings, when considering metal-work. Professor Charles Thomas offers what one can only regard, in view of the widespread transmission of ideas, as a facetious attempt to promulgate an invasion of choppedgrass people from Ulster to Cornwall; it is a pity his editors did not insist on adequate illustration of the interesting technique to which he draws attention. There are other signs that this attractive and interesting volume, fittingly ended by Vincent Megaw's erudite survey of musical instruments from many periods of ancient Europe, has been somewhat hastily edited. Thus the references to illustrations in the Catalogue of Mrs. Trump's paper do not conform to the numbers in the text; and in Mrs. Roe's the symbols for ovoid and Orkney pestle maceheads are insufficiently differentiated on Figs. 31 and 34 and cushion maceheads should have been specifically excluded from the legend of Fig. 34. Readers will however be grateful for the index. GRAHAME CLARK


Cephalothorax : Nearly as long as wide, narrowing anteriorly, with rounded lateral edges; truncated in front, clothed with fine pubescence. Anterior median eyes slightly larger than posterior medians but smaller than anterior laterals; posterior medians also smaller than posterior laterals. Eyes of both the rows recurved; one double line starting below the posterior medians and ending at the posterior end of cephalothorax; lateral sides of thoracic region darker in colour as in fig. 1. Clypeus dark brown; subrectangular narrowing anteriorly and with stout spines pointing forward. Sternum heart-shaped, pointed behind, dark brown and clothed with fine pubesence. Legs I and II much longer and more spiny than III and IV. Tibiae I and II with five and four pairs of ventral spines respectively.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the concordance and discordance between the test results of Her-2/neu by immunohisto-chemistry (IHC) and flourescence In Situ hybridization (FISH) in breast cancer cases.

STUDY DESIGN
Descriptive cross-sectional study.

PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY
Department of Histopathology, Dr. Ziauddin Hospital, Karachi, from 2011 to 2016.

METHODOLOGY
Forty-three specimens of invasive ductal carcinoma of breast were evaluated for grade and Her-2/neu status using IHC and FISH methods. Concordance and discordance between their results was determined.

RESULTS
There is 100% concordance between FISH and IHC in cases scoring 0, 1+ (negative) and 3+ (positive) immunostaining. Tumour cases scoring 2+ immunostaining showed amplification in 69.2% cases. All grade-I tumours were non-amplified on FISH, while most of the grade-III tumours showed Her-2/neu amplification on FISH. There is significant association of Her-2/neu IHC with tumour grade and FISH (p<0.05). A fairly high proportion i.e. 69.7% of cases showed Her-2/neu gene amplification. There was high concordance between Her-2/neu testing on IHC and FISH, (Kappa co-efficient 0.466, p <0.001).

CONCLUSION
Her-2/neu amplification increases with increasing grade of breast cancer. A high proportion of Her-2/neu gene amplified cases indicates aggressive disease in that area and need for FISH testing on large scale, which is the gold standard for equivocal cases on immunohistochemistry.


Regular measurements of the dust and nuclei contient of the air near the ground at Poona were made during 1967-69 to study the characteristic elements of natural pollution n6ar the ground, its origin and its variation with time seasons and altitude. The electrical field strength the positive and negative conductivity of the air and the number of positively and negatively charged small ions in the atmosphere near the ground were also measured at the same time. These observations were repeated at two mountain stations during February and June 1969. The dust content and the electric field show seasonal and diurnal variations opposite to those of the small ion density and electrical conductivity. Thus, while the electric field is a maximum in winter, the conductivity and small ion content is a maximum during the monsoon months and the dust content a maximum in the pre-monsoon summer months. A marked increase in the electric field and the dust and condensation nuclei content is observed since similar measurements were last made in 1933-1937 at Poona, with a corresponding decrease in small ion count and conductivity. These large variations are associated with the increased industrialisation and urbanisation of the regions around Poona during the last thirty years.


The Eemshaven, located in the north eastern part of the Netherlands, is developing rapidly since 2004 introducing new port infrastructure for various clients such as AG Ems (Borkum ferry line), Wijnne & Barends stevedoors, Bio Value, Essent/Vopak/Gasunie (LNG plant) and the Energy Park comprising amongst others new power plants for Nuon and RWE.


The application of calculus is of great importance in physics. It is used to calculate energy, acceleration, velocity, and much more. In this paper, to calculate the internal energy of an ideal gas (gas molecules) we will use Maxwell-Boltzmann statistical distribution based entirely on calculus. The technique represents the mathematical concept that depends on integration and substitution in calculus to solve a problem.


This thesis discusses the set-theoretic methods for constrained control of high-order systems. Specifically, focus of the thesis is given on the opera


A theoretically - driven, information processing based examination of ability - performance relations during the acquisition of a high - fidelity complex air traffic controller simulation task is described. Two laboratory experiments and one field experiment are reviewed that describe the results of extensive ability testing (including measures of general, reasoning, spatial, perceptual speed, and perceptual/psychomotor abilities) and individual differences in skill acquisition over protracted skill-learning sessions. Laboratory studies examine individual differences in the acquisition of skills on TRACON® - a Terminal Radar Approach Controller simulation. The field investigation examines acquisition of skills by FAA Air Traffic Controller Trainees. Results are reported from perspective of global/component abilities, and global/component criterion task performance measures. Results validate and further extend the Ackerman (1988) theory of the cognitive ability determinants of individual differences in skill acquisition. This research program demonstrates the benefits of ability component and task component levels of analysis over global analyses of ability - skill relations. Implications are discussed for developing refined selection instruments for the prediction of air traffic controller training success, and for other job tasks with demands for inconsistent information processing, as well as implications for design of tailored training procedures.


Background : Healthy employees are vital for functioning and competing in the global business environment. Employee wellness programmes (EWPs) may assist in building and maintaining a productive workforce.
Objective : The aim of this study was to investigate employees' awareness, attitudes and utilisation of an EWP.
Methods : A random sample of 301 employees was selected from a financial services company in South Africa. Data were collected using a web-based questionnaire.
Results : The majority of the participants (83.1%) were aware of the EWP and 70.4% were aware that the services of the EWP were confidential. However, 37.2% were not aware that most of the services offered by the EWP were free. Among those who had experienced some sort of problem in the past 24 months, 72.0% indicated that they had accessed the EWP for solutions. Almost all the respondents (94.1%) rated the quality of the services offered as either excellent or good. Those who were married were twice as likely (OR=2.232, p=0.019), and those who were divorced were 3.5 times (OR=3.527, p=0.013) more likely to use the EWP than single employees. The main reason for non-utilisation of the EWP was inconvenient operating hours.
Conclusion : This study reported employee awareness, attitudes and utilisation regarding EWPs in South Africa. It also highlighted reasons for non-utilisation and provided recommendations to the company regarding their EWP.


In this work, an end-to-end indoor routing and guiding solution, 'InLocW' (InLoc - Wearable) is discussed. The initial location fix of the user is obtained using an infrastructure of BLE beacons. Primary focus is on continuous calculation of instantaneous walking direction (a primary arrow displayed on the smartwatch) based on user's current location estimated by a particle filter which runs in the back end. A solution is devised to synchronize these directions to user's walking, thereby solving the problem of inherent latency between estimated and actual user's location in a PDR system. Another major contribution of this work is a preventive measure against the deviation of user from the path, for which a secondary arrow is displayed on the smartwatch to inform the user of any impending turn well before the turn itself. Also a correction module is implemented which re-routes the user back to the correct path in case any deviation from the optimum path is detected, which constitutes another major contribution. The overall system works without any dependence on a smartphone, or any involvement of user with the smartwatch during routing, thereby allowing them to walk without any distractions, and just follow the displayed directions. The system has been tested on paths with multiple turns and has proved to be efficient in preventing deviations from the routing path, and ensuring a smooth movement of user from source to the selected destination with high reliability.


-Digital image processing encompasses processes whose inputs and outputs are images and also encompasses process that extract attributes from images and including the recognition of individual objects. With the increase in popularity of the network and development of multimedia technologies, users are not satisfied with the traditional information retrieval techniques so there should be an appropriate system to efficiently manage these collections. The most common approach used is Content Based Image Retrieval . Goal of Content Based Image Retrieval system is to support image retrieval based on visual content of image. There are many algorithms for efficient image retrieval. In this survey paper the techniques used for content based image retrieval are discussed. It also introduced the combination of features like color, texture for accurate and effective Content Based Image Retrieval System.


The present invention relates to a conditioning shampoo composition that while excellent hair conditioning benefits improve the stability of the shampoos according to the passage of time, such a conditioning shampoo composition week conditioning agent insoluble in the non-volatile silicone gum emulsion with an organic silicon polymer polysaccharides, 4 class will be so the effect of improving the quality and reliability of cationic containing palm oil to reduce hair tangles in wet hair with a conditioning effect, such as gloss, flexibility of the hair Good improve the stability of the shampoos according to disregard sikimeuroseo products .


Design, Setting, Participants, Measurements—In Alberta, Canada, 534 drivers, convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), installed IIDs and agreed to participate in a research study. IID BAC tests are an established proxy for predicting future DUI convictions. Three risk groups were defined by rates of failed BAC tests. Program entry and followup blood samples (n=302, 171) were used to measure phosphatidyl ethanol (PETH), carbohydrate deficient transferrin (%CDT), gamma glutamyltransferase (GGT) and other biomarkers. Program entry urine (n=130) was analyzed for ethyl glucuronide (ETG) and ethyl sulfate (ETS). Entry hair samples were tested for fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE) (n=92) and ETG (n=146). Psychometric measures included the DSM-4 Diagnostic Interview Schedule Alcohol Module, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), the Timeline Followback (TLFB), the Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DRINC), and the Temptation and Restraint Inventory (TRI).


Two kinds of honey, acacia and buckwheat, supplied by the producer have been stored at for one year to study storage qualities. Titratable acidity of the honey-increased with time specially at the elevated temperatures: the acidity of bukwheat increased 1.7 times at the end of storage at . Viscosity decreased with time and elevated temperatures. Viscosity of acacia honey at was 1/12 the value at and that of buckwheat was 1/3. Hydroxymethylfurfural(HMF) content increased slowly with time at , whereas. fast increase was observed at . HMF content of acacia honey after four months of storage exceeded the HMF limit of Codex, 40mg/kg. Buckwheat honey showed the same level after six months. It was noticeable fact that HMF content decreased significantly with time at . Diastase activity decreased with time and elevated temperature, and that of acacia honey was below 8 which is the Codex limit after six months of storage at . Buckwheat honey showed the same level of the activity after eight months. Fructose and glucose content decreased significantly with increased temperature. The ratio of fructose to glucose increased with temperature and maltose was detected in the sample stored at .


So far now,there are many methods with advantages and disadvantage respectively.With the combination of advantages of grid method and artificial potential field method,whose weak point is conquered by the counterpart,it is effective in path planning for family robot.As the method of artificial potential field is used locally,the size of grid could be large,so that the efficiency of search is high.In local path planning,the robot can deal with emergency situation properly.It is well used in the project named "family life support multi-robot systems".


OBJECTIVE To study the phylogram of 20 strains in Klebsiella pneumoniae.METHODS The β-lactamase gene,aminoglycoside drug resistance-associated gene,chromosome and plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance-related genes,transposon and integron gentic markers in K.pneumoniae were detected with polymerase chain reaction(PCR).The drug resistance gene as molecular marker result was cluster-analyzed.RESULTS The results showed that 20 K.pneumoniae strains could be divided into group A and group B.Group A carrying less resistance gene but group B bringing more resistance gene and there were dissemination between the two clones.The two clones of nosocomial infection had become pandemic strain.CONCLUSIONS K.pneumoniae induces the transmission in our hospital and cluster analysis is a rapid and effective method to study the relationship between the tested strains.


The mineralogy and chemical properties of volcanic ash soils from West Sumatra, Indonesia were studied. The soils under study contain high amounts of organic carbon, a slightly acid to acid pH and low available phosphorus contents although the total phosphorus is high. The low bulk density, the high phosphate retention and more than 2 % of Al + 1/2Fe extracted by ammonium oxalate meet andic soil properties criteria. The clay fraction is composed mainly of allophane, cristobalite, feldspars and halloysite. Gibbsite is only present in the clay fraction of the soils from Mt. Talamau, while opal-A is only found in the clay of the soils from Mt. Marapi.


In recent years, commercialization of the second generation high temperature superconducting (2G HTS) tape has been realized and widely used in development of various electronic device applications. This paper emphases on the experimental research of twisting properties of 2G HTS tape at 77 K, self-field. Geometric deformable model is firstly established to analyze the twist strain of the single tape. Mechanical properties under different twisting pitches are experimentally carried out by measuring the critical current Ic. Consequently, the minimum twisting pitch is determined. The results can provide a useful reference for research and development applications of 2G HTS tapes.


Gonadotropins require carbohydrate for their normal physiological function, however, determining the mechanisms involved is complicated by the existence of several glycosylation sites decorated with a variety of oligosaccharide structures that contribute to various aspects of gonadotropin structure and function. Partially overlapping functions of these oligosaccharides provide additional complications. N-linked oligosaccharides contribute to protein folding, heterodimer stability, circulatory survival, receptor-binding affinity, and cellular activation. O-linked oligosaccharides influence N-linked oligosaccharide processing and extend circulatory survival. Equine LH and eCG provide useful subjects for studying the influence of carbohydrate on gonadotropin action because they differ only in their carbohydrate moieties, which produce substantial effects on their activities. Moreover, because these hormones bind FSH receptors, as well as LH receptors, they can be used to study the role of carbohydrate in hormone activation of both receptors.


The aim was to review and analyse evidence on the impact of service integration on quality of care for women living with HIV.


An imine–SnCl
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Lewis acid catalysed aziridination reactions, is isolated and
characterised by X-ray diffraction; the structure and catalytic properties
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This paper presents an evaluation of the quality of experience of use and the resources provided by the Mobile Fitness Applications (MFAs) Nike+Running and RunKeeper (MFAs). In this study, we used analytic and empirical evaluation methods, exploring usability, and user experience to verify if they supply the users' needs. Initial results show the relation between motivational and emotional aspects and MFAs resources, as well as the quality of its resources. We present the first part of a research whose final objective is to identify what characteristics are necessary for designing MFAs capable of motivating users to engage and evolve on physical activity.


Dogs inhaled 1 to 150 ppM /sup 35/SO/sub 2/ via trachela cannula for 20 to 40 min. Pulmonary compliance measured at t = 30 min was unchanged. Pulmonary resistance increased 50 to 125% within 10 sec. /sup 35/S was present in all tissues examined; % of dose was: trachea 42%, lung 2.6%, hilar lymph nodes 1.7%, brain 2.8%, eye 0.3%, liver 5.7%, spleen 0.7%, and kidneys 6.0%. Blood /sup 35/S showed a gradual rise and fall with exposure.


The invention relates to a growing ginger treating agent for preventing ginger blast. The ginger treating agent comprises active components, resistance inducer and auxiliaries, wherein the active components are compound compositions of pyrimidine nucleoside antibiotic and benziothiazolinone; effective components used for the treating agent are low-toxic medicaments, are safe to non-target organisms and environment, free of bad harm to human body and suitable for treating fresh growing gingers; particularly, compared with single dosage, because of compounding of the medicaments, the synergism is realized; meanwhile, the difference of microbe-killing mechanisms of two different medicaments is utilized, the production of drug resistance of the ginger blast is relieved.


Exploring thinking It is interesting to wonder about situations and to consider whether thinking is involved in each, and when it is, what forms of thinking are involved, and whether they are significant to education. Consider the following: solving a mathematics problem, following a recipe, doing the dishes, writing a story, remembering a past event, feeling sorry for someone, watching a sunset, listening to music, and breathing. All these involve conscious, subconscious or unconscious brain processing, but whether they involve thinking depends on how one defines thinking--in particular, whether only conscious brain processing should be considered in that definition. For me, it seems difficult to separate conscious and nonconscious thinking. Nonconscious thinking can be made conscious with the development of awareness (which itself can be considered to be a form of thinking). Thinking within education more often has a focus on the critical, creative or metacognitive. While these might provide starting points for trying to define thinking, it is difficult to categorise situations, such as those above, in terms of these forms. thinking is not limited to these forms, and the different forms often overlap in any single activity. I would like to define thinking as the continuous multitask processing that is inherent in every aspect of our existing, knowing and doing while we are alive. I do appreciate, however, the practicality of a definition of thinking for education that limits it to the conscious aspects of such processing. Traditionally, from a theoretical perspective, the brain has often been compared to a machine with inputs and outputs. From a systems approach, it is more appropriate, as Minsky (as cited in Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1991) explains, to consider the brain as using its processes to change itself--which means that the processes cannot be separated from the products. For example, brains make memories, which change subsequent thinking. such a view of the brain makes no mention of representation, and reflects "operational closure" in which "the results of its processes are those processes themselves" (Varela et al., 1991, p. 139). Thinking also links with philosophy and its three cornerstones: being (ontology), knowing (epistemology) and acting (ethics). Some philosophers give these different weightings, but I see them as interrelated aspects of thinking that are all relevant in the domains in which we function (for example, the physical, personal, social, ecological and abstract domains). I concur with the statement that "to live is to know" (Maturana & Varela, 1987, p. 174), and, for me, this implies that living/ being, knowing/learning and acting/doing are all inseparably linked with thinking. One can extend my notion of thinking and ask, "Does an animal, plant, a stone and the world itself think?" Philosophers such as Spinoza saw thought as an inherent aspect of substance (Stevenson, 2005, p. 163) and this notion has appeal for many deep ecological philosophers (Naess, 2008, pp. 230-251). For me, it is not only people who are in a state of being, knowing and acting (and I consider animals and plants to be complex, emerging "living" systems that are self-organising, comprised of subsystems and nested within bigger systems such as cultures and societies) but it is whether they think or not that is problematic. My view is that more is needed than just traditional views of thinking when considering the school curriculum. I see a need to include personal, social, cultural and ecosystem thinking. Justifying thinking in education While we think all the time, and we learn to think without being taught to do so, our thinking skills can be improved. If this is seen as desirable, then considering it from an educational perspective requires a change of focus within schools. Such a change needs to be justified from numerous perspectives in order to convince policy makers and educators to support the changes. …


Protein S deficiency is a rare thrombophilia, autosomal dominant disorder leading to VTE especially thrombosis at an uncommon place. Arterial thrombosis and strokes are very rare presentations. We are presenting a case of 19 years old lady with Beckwith Weidemann syndrome who presented with arterial thrombosis with a stroke one month prior to thrombosis. Patient was successfully managed with intravenous heparin and thrombectomy and discharged on Apixaban for life long treatment.


It has long been realized that the proliferation of information-centric applications and services must be reflected in a corresponding shift of the underlying Internet architecture. Even though users increasingly focus on the desired information, the underlying network still focuses on the endpoints providing/consuming this information and in many cases this mismatch has resulted in an inefficient utilization of network resources, as demonstrated by peer-to-peer (P2P) and file sharing applications. In view of this situation, many research projects have focused on the investigation of alternative networking models centered around information. However, less attention has been paid to the transition process from the current end host centric model to an information centric one. In this paper, we propose an overlay multicast-enabled, publish-subscribe architecture and focus on its gradual deployment both inside administrative domain boundaries as well as across the Internet. Our simulation results demonstrate the benefits for individual network operators as they gradually adopt our new networking model, and shed further light on the extent of deployment required within an administrative domain in order for our approach to perform optimally.


Ongoing experiments on the National Spherical Torus Experiment have demonstrated ohmic transformer flux savings by initiating the discharge with transient coaxial helicity injection (CHI). The combined use of discharge cleaning of the CHI electrodes and use of lithium evaporation, along with the use of poloidal field coils, to produce a buffer flux that prevents arcs at the top of the device has been shown to reduce the radiation from low-Z impurities. Without such impurity reduction, CHI-initiated discharges could not have their plasma current increased by ohmic ramp-up; however, the CHI-initiated discharges with reduced low-Z radiation can be ramped up by induction and exhibit higher plasma current than discharges without the benefit of CHI initiation.


Hot stamping uses boron (B) steel to simultaneously form parts at high temperatures while cooling the parts in a mold, which is advantageous because of the ability to freeze the forms. However, compared to conventional cold forming, this technique requires additional facilities that include heating devices and additional time for cooling after forming at high temperatures. Additionally, because of the high strengths of hot stamping parts, shear process operations after molding tend to be difficult to perform as a continuous operation via press processing; thus, most operations depend on separate laser processing, which results in lower productivity and increased manufacturing costs. This limitation continues to be the most significant problem with this technology, therefore, restricting its commercialization because of increased mold manufacturing costs and durability problems. This study investigated a low-cost, high-functionality shear mold manufacturing method for 1.5 GPa grade hot-stamped components using heterogeneous metal additive manufacturing. After the concentrated stress in steel during the shearing processes was analyzed using a multi-physical analysis, metal additive manufacturing was used to fabricate the shear mold. Its life was evaluated through trial molding and compared with that for conventional technology. Finally, the commercialization potential of the newly developed method was assessed.


Much of the research on markerless model-based human body motion capture always tries hard to construct accurate human body model and precise surface contour (e.g. using super-quadrics or ellipsoids to represent model limbs). Unfortunately, because of the main challenges of human body motion capture such as loose clothing, self- occlusion, image noise and background segmentation error, there are lots of error messages in the 3D reconstruct result of human body, which makes the efforts of these methods get very limited effects. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm that uses a compact distance energy model (DEM) to recover the human pose which is robust to the inaccurate human body reconstruction caused by the factors mentioned above, and the DEM will be updated in EM framework in the process of motion capture to ensure that the DEM is compact to the body at any time. Experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed method.


A large hot gas filter using up to 130 porous ceramic filter elements was installed at the Grimethorpe PFBC plant in the UK by EPRI in 1985. After extensive filter trials in 1987, the plant was operated for more than 1500 h for gas turbine trials carried out in the Grimethorpe Topping Cycle Project (GTCP) which ended in 1992. Detailed studies of the behavior of the clay bonded silicon carbide filter elements used during the GTCP have been carried out. It was found that the elements lost strength, increased in length and sometimes bent in service. The element failures were linked to plant control problems, often involving the build-up of ash within the filter vessel. The residual strengths of the elements were found to correlate with the results of non-destructive ultrasonic testing carried out during plant shutdowns. Microstructural studies on selected used and unused elements and laboratory tests were carried out to determine the factors affecting element properties. This paper discusses the results of these studies, in relation to those obtained from the earlier operations at Grimethorpe and other filter trials. In general, the findings from previous studies were confirmed, but the interpretation of filter element behavior was enhanced.


Set up a Raspberry Pi as an IPv6 router and tunnel endpoint that you can use to provide IPv6 access to your home or office LAN.


BUMDes is very important in the context of empowering rural communities But unfortunately many BUMDes have not been able to run optimally One of them is BUMDes Gunong Kleng or Gampong-Owned Enterprises BUMG) Gunong Kleng BUMG Gunong Kleng has 3 types of businesses They are event tend rental sound system rental and brick making However over time the business that is currently running is only event tend rental The other two businesses are no longer running This type of research is descriptive qualitative with a phenomenological approach based on the Qanun BUMG regarding the purpose of the establishment of BUMG Furthermore the results of the study show that BUMDes has played a sufficient role in community empowerment but it has not been maximal However there are several obstacles including the lack of incompetent Human Resources and the community who does not use BUMDes as a third party


We have designed and synthesized a novel deep-blue luminescent compound (WuFDA), which can emit efficiently both in solution and in the aggregated state; the fluorescence emission maximum of WuFDA in the aggregated state shows a remarkable blue-shift from that shown in the dilute solution. Moreover, WuFDA shows interesting fluorescent behaviour in mixed solvent systems of THF–H2O, and a solvent effect in different polar solvents. These unusual phenomena have been interpreted by studies of the single crystalline structure of WuFDA and density functional theory (DFT) investigations. The special chemical structure (containing a planar conjugated fluorene core and strong polar groups (–NH and –F)) and their location in the molecule formed a typical non-planar D–π–A molecule with strong internal charge transfer (ICT). Such a polar molecule possesses the ability to form hydrogen bond interactions with itself, as well as with the polar solvents. Both the ICT effect and the intermolecular hydrogen bond interactions play very important roles in the geometrical manner of aggregation and the fluorescent behaviours of the WuFDA. In addition, WuFDA exhibited good thermal stability, with 5% and 10% weight-loss temperatures (Td) of WuFDA in nitrogen of 399 and 414 °C, respectively, and the glass transition temperature (Tg) was about 161 °C.


Subjects of this paper are: (a) containing spaces constructed in [2] for an indexed collection S of subsets, (b) classes consisting of ordered pairs (Q,X), where Q is a subset of a space X, which are called classes of subsets, and (c) the notion of universality in such classes. We show that if T is a containing space constructed for an indexed collection S of spaces and for every X ϵ S, Q X is a subset of X, then the corresponding containing space TI Q constructed for the indexed collection Q ={Q X : X ϵ S} of spaces, under a simple condition, can be considered as a specific subset of T. We prove some "commutative" properties of these specific subsets. For classes of subsets we introduce the notion of a (properly) universal element and define the notion of a (complete) saturated class of subsets. Such a class is "saturated" by (properly) universal elements. We prove that the intersection of (complete) saturated classes of subsets is also a (complete) saturated class. We consider the following classes of subsets: (a) IP(Cl), (b) IP(Op), and (c) IP(n.dense) consisting of all pairs (Q;X) such that: (a) Q is a closed subset of X, (b) Q is an open subset of X, and (c) Q is a never dense subset of X, respectively. We prove that the classes IP(Cl) and IP(Op) are complete saturated and the class IP(n.dense) is saturated. Saturated classes of subsets are convenient to use for the construction of new saturated classes by the given ones.


The purpose of this study was to determine the chemical composition and to evaluate the antioxidant and antibacterial effects of the Moroccan Artemisia herba-alba Asso essential oil against foodborne pathogens. The essential oil of Artemisia herba-alba was analyzed by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectroscopy. The antibacterial activity was assessed against three bacterial strains isolated from foodstuff and three bacterial strains referenced by the ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) using the disk diffusion assay and the macrodilution method. The antioxidant activity was evaluated using the DPPH (2, 2-diphenyl-1- picrylhydrazyl) method. The fourteen compounds of the Artemisia herba-alba essential oil were identified; the main components were identified as β-thujone, chrysanthenone, α-terpineol, α-thujone, α-pinene, and bornyl acetate. The results of the antibacterial activity obtained showed a sensitivity of the different strains to Artemisia herba-alba essential oil with an inhibition diameter of 8.50 to 17.00 mm. Concerning the MICs (minimum inhibitory concentrations), the essential oil exhibited much higher antibacterial activity with MIC values of 2.5 μl/ml against Bacillus subtilis ATCC and Lactobacillus sp. The essential oil was found to be active by inhibiting free radicals with an IC50 (concentration of an inhibitor where the response is reduced by half) value of 2.9 μg/ml. These results indicate the possible use of the essential oil on food systems as an effective inhibitor of foodborne pathogens, as a natural antioxidant, and for potential pharmaceutical applications. However, further research is needed in order to determine the toxicity, antibacterial, and antioxidant effects in edible products.


Narrative psychology theoreticians emphasized the importance of context to the construction, communication, and understanding of individuals' life stories. Still, the various contexts in which, and in reference to which, life stories are told, the methodological implications of the importance of context, and the possible interpretive moves explicating the different contexts have not been worked out. Thus, drawing on various theoretical formulations and exploring two case studies, the authors point to three spheres of contexts in which narrators situate their life stories: the immediate intersubjective relationships in which a narrative is produced; the collective social field in which one's life and story evolved; and the broad cultural meaning systems or meta narratives that underlie and give sense to any particular life story. The authors outline how to identify these spheres as represented and marked by narrators, and suggest possible interpretive moves in explicating them.


Introduction ▪In index case, we found a compound heterozygous mutation in the KISS1R, one of these was a nonsense variant (c.969C>A, p.Y323X) which was known as an inactivating mutation caused IHH and the other was a novel missense variant (c.170T>C, p.L57P). ▪Molecular analysis of the parents showed that both parents were heterozygous carriers. While the mutation c.969C>A (p.Y323X) was inherited from the father, c.170T>C (p.L57P) was inherited from the mother. ▪The moleculer analysis of his siblings were performed. Karyotype analysis of all three sisters were 46,XX. Genetic analysis of both sisters who were fourteen and twelve years old revealed the same compound heterozygous mutation in the proband whereas the genetic analysis of the youngest one was normal. Clinical and hormonal characteristics of all cases including the proband are shown in the table 1.


Background: SMEs performance and their innovativeness are associated to their participation in innovation networks. Thus, SMEs tend to join clusters aiming to accelerate their process of innovation, catch up with the dynamics of the industry and increase their probability to access external knowledge and resources. Consequently, promoting a collaborative atmosphere by boosting the synergies between cluster managers and SMEs will foment a culture of innovation. Moreover, the inclusion of new technologies, and especially the advent of industry 4.0, is facilitating collaboration, while at the same time accelerating the development of innovation outcomes and setting new challenges for SMEs. This contribution identifies discrepancies between offer (clusters) and demand (SMEs), hindering the creation of a culture of innovation and highlights critical points, where both SMEs and Clusters, may gain from a proper interaction. Methods: 120 empirical studies analyzing innovation determinants have been evaluated. Based on these determinants and stressing the importance of SMEs participating in collaborative-networked innovation actions, a concept for supporting the creation of a culture of innovation is proposed. This concept is enhanced by exploring potential benefits of industry 4.0 technologies supporting the acquisition, assimilation and transformation of knowledge into innovation. Additionally, in order to gain an insight about the interrelation between clusters and SMEs towards the creation of an innovation culture, an empirical study has been conducted. Results: The descriptive analysis shows that communication problems and discrepancies between cluster organizations and SMEs are evident. Moreover, the understanding of SMEs on the requirements for building an innovation culture is rather low. Although cluster organizations tend to generate services supporting their members' innovation processes, a gap between offer and demand is observable among all phases defined in the concept. Conclusions: we suggest that cluster managers could play a more preponderant role as orchestrators of innovation by adjusting their services to the requirements of each innovation process phase. Moreover, this work highlights inconsistencies between offer (clusters) and demand (SMEs) constraining the creation of a culture of innovation, particularly stressing communication problems. Hence, the integration of innovative communication channels, having the potential to increase the effectiveness of communication strategies between cluster managers and SMEs, are key for facilitating a culture of innovation in organizations, especially in SMEs. In this case, we suggest exploring different elements around the industry 4.0 in order to define the characteristics of such communication channels, particularly those supporting the acquisition, assimilation and transformation of internal and external knowledge into innovation.


According to the Ministry of Digital Transformation there are more than 350 state registries in Ukraine of which about 200 contain personal information about the population. The creation of registries was based on a narrow departmental approach without due attention to the information value of this resource. The State Statistics Development Programme until 2023 identifies expanding the access of state statistics bodies to administrative data and registries as one of the key areas for reducing the reporting load on respondents. The draft Law of Ukraine "On Official Statistics" (registered by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on September 2, 2021 № 5886) provides an institutional basis for expanding such access for producers of official statistics including to individual registries data.
The article aims to reveal the possibilities of using registries data in statistical studies of employment, in particular the data from the registry of insured persons which is administered by the Pension Fund of Ukraine. The scale of information about insured persons is constantly growing but their use for analytical and statistical purposes is still limited. The scale of information about insured persons is constantly growing but their use for analytical and statistical purposes is still limited.
Since the beginning of 2021 the quarterly distribution of employees by the number of gross wages has been formed by the registry of insured persons which has significantly reduced the load on respondents of the state statistical observation "Survey of Enterprises on Labor Statistics". The transition to an alternative data source did not break the general proportions and trends in the distribution of employees by wages groups but increased the dependence of obtaining statistical information on regulatory changes in administrative procedures. Thus, the changes in the form and frequency of companies' fiscal reporting led to an increase in the waiting period for the publication of the distribution of employees by wage groups by two months. The intensification of the use of registries data in the production of official statistics requires the expansion of the powers of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine for practical participation in the policy for the development of public registries.
The registries data of the Pension Fund of Ukraine can significantly expand the list of short-term and additional statistical characteristics of employment and wages especially in terms of structural distributions for the analysis of differentiation and inequality. For in-depth research it is proposed to develop standardized procedures aimed at forming a representative sample of the registries data which will be available in the form of depersonalized microdata to a wide range of researchers.


The presence of nature—imagining buildings, neighborhoods, and cities immersed in nature—helps to create a positive image of places we will want to live in the future. Trees, native vegetation, food-producing gardens, and abundant contact with flora and fauna feed our need for wonder and meaning, and these are qualities and conditions at the core of biophilic design and planning. I frequently say that, in the language and practice of biophilic cities, the philic is as important as the bio; that is, the advantage of this language is that it embeds a value statement about the need for contact with the natural world, and our innate connections with and caring for it. It is not a neutral word, and not simply a factual statement about the benefits and services provided by nature (a meaning that tends to be conveyed by commonly used terms such as green infrastructure).


The periodical press in the second half of the XIX century turned into one of the most effective tools of "soft power" due to its ability to influence public opinion; the periodical press interpreted the events in favor of the state strategy in its foreign policy preferences. The Russian press, in contrast to most European countries, continued to be significantly influenced by censorship, which, among other things, held back its number (the censors could not cope with a large number of publications). Newspapers and magazines were under the influence of the system of administrative penalties, in addition to liability to the court. Censorship strictly followed the principles of public diplomacy, taking care to preserve foreign policy priorities in the periodical press, not only in war, but also in peacetime. However, there are a number of Russian publications, which gave an objective assessment of what happened during the Balkan crisis, demonstrated the diversity of England's approaches to the events of 1876–1877. The Russian press was able to solve the most important problem facing public diplomacy: to convey the understanding of the policy of their own state to the mass of their own and foreign readers, to influence decisions made in the highest circles.


This study aims to determine whether there is a significant relationship between the honorary teacher salaries with teacher performance at MI Nurul Huda Gowak in 2019.  In this study, the population was eight honorary teachers at Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI) Nurul Huda Gowak, Pringsurat, Temanggung in 2019.  Because there are eight teachers, all of which will be sampled, this study is a population study.  The data was gained through questionnaires.  Data were analyzed quantitatively by Spearman correlation with SPSS 12.0 statistical software.  The result shows that there is no significant relationship between the honorary teacher salaries with teacher performance that can be known from the results of the calculation using SPSS 12.0. The calculation using Spearman's rho obtained 0.518, while r value in Sig (2-tailed) with df 8 is 0.188. It turns out that r o (magnitude: 0.518) is greater than Sig (2-tailed) 0.188. Because r o is bigger than Sig (2-tailed), then the null hypothesis (Ho) is accepted.  It meant that there is no positive correlation between variables teacher salaries and teacher performance.  Based on this fact, it can be explained that teacher salaries have nothing to do with teacher performance.


We present MINESweeper, a tool to measure stellar parameters by jointly fitting observed spectra and broadband photometry to model isochrones and spectral libraries. This approach enables the measurement of spectrophotometric distances, in addition to stellar parameters such as Teff, , [Fe/H], [α/Fe], and radial velocity. MINESweeper employs a Bayesian framework and can easily incorporate a variety of priors, including Gaia parallaxes. Mock data are fit in order to demonstrate how the precision of derived parameters depends on evolutionary phase and signal-to-noise ratio. We then fit a selection of data in order to validate the model outputs. Fits to a variety of benchmark stars including Procyon, Arcturus, and the Sun result in derived stellar parameters that are in good agreement with the literature. We then fit combined spectra and photometry of stars in the open and globular clusters M92, M13, M3, M107, M71, and M67. Derived distances, [Fe/H], [α/Fe], and −Teff relations are in overall good agreement with literature values, although there are trends between metallicity and within clusters that point to systematic uncertainties at the ≈0.1 dex level. Finally, we fit a large sample of stars from the H3 Spectroscopic Survey in which high-quality Gaia parallaxes are also available. These stars are fit without the Gaia parallaxes so that the geometric parallaxes can serve as an independent test of the spectrophotometric distances. Comparison between the two reveals good agreement within their formal uncertainties after accounting for the Gaia zero-point uncertainties.


The initial efforts of a program of research and experimental testing is described in which the optical performance of materials for use in solar energy utilization devices will be determined before and after exposure to outdoor weathering tests. Materials which are currently in use and others which are being considered or developed for these applications will be characterized and exposed to natural solar radiation. Outdoor testing will be accomplished in Phoenix (Ariz.), Miami (Fla.), and Chicago (Ill.). The results of these tests, primarily the effects of outdoor exposure on optical and physical properties, will be compiled in a handbook, along with cost, availability and other pertinent information. These data are vital to the intelligent selection of solar utilization materials, since a knowledge of the cost performance and lifetime characteristics of candidate materials will greatly assist the design of efficient and reliable solar energy utilization devices. Primary accomplishments include the definition of sample requirements, specification of test samples and test configurations, formulation of acceptance/rejection criteria and contacts with numerous potential materials suppliers.


A novel method of computing the flutter boundary for an isolated airfoil based on a high-fidelity CFD model reveals unusual behavior at certain Mach numbers for a NACA 0012 section. Inviscid and viscous predictions of the flutter boundary for the two airfoils are compared with results from a previous experimental study. Over a narrow range of Mach numbers, unusual aeroelastic response behavior occurs, and inviscid and viscous predictions dier significantly. Also in this range, solutions show increased sensitivity to grid topology as well as flow Mach number. This is found to be a consequence of flow shedding which occurs over a narrow range of Mach numbers. The nature of this shedding is captured only by using a greatly refined viscous grid, and unusual numerical results occur when using coarser viscous and inviscid meshes.


This article reports an evaluation on the linear ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) baseline scenario for various first-wall locations. The initial-value code NIMROD and eigen-value code AEGIS are employed in this analysis. Despite the distinctly different approaches in modeling the scrape off layer region, the dominant growth in each of the low-n (n = 1 − 10) modes are consistent between the two codes. The higher-n modes are dominated by ballooning modes and localized in the pedestal region, while the lower-n modes have more prominent external kink components and broader mode profiles. The influence of the plasma-vacuum profile and wall shape are also examined using NIMROD. In the presence of a resistive wall, the low-n ideal MHD instabilities are further studied using AEGIS. For the designed first-wall location, the n = 1 resistive wall mode is found to be unstable, which could be fully stabilized by uniform toroidal rotation above the 2.9% core Alfvén speed.


In this commentary, I argue that adverse is unlikely to be eliminated, although can be reduced to some extent, as long as a test assesses cognitively loaded constructs such as general intelligence and other specific cognitive abilities such as verbal and quantitative abilities based on ample research conducted in personal selection and educational admission.


Based on data obtained within previous researches at CSM and other European projects, this project aims at developing an ecologically and economically attractive alternative pickling system, suitable for application in continuous process lines for stainless steel strip. The system, which operates by means of a preferential dissolution of the chromium-depleted layer (CDL) by electrochemical reaction under potentiostatic control, is applied for pickling a wide range of stainless steel grades, including ferritic, austenitic and duplex steels. The economic and environmental advantages of this system arise from the electrochemical nature of the process, which allows at using less polluting and less expensive pickling liquors, based on sulphuric acid, thus replacing the conventionally used mixed acid baths (HNO 3 /HF). The potentiostatic control of the surface to be pickled enhances pickling efficiency and, at the same time, offers protection of the base material from over-pickling. Thus, a strong reduction of the environmental impact is combined with better economy of raw materials and lower pickling costs. The main innovation within the electrolytic/potentiostatic pickling process development consists of the definition and optimisation of the potentiostatic pickling for continuous process lines. In this context, a crucial step is the assessment of the behaviour of high power potentiostat in a device simulating the motion of the strip in the electrolytic cell.


Oxide free Tin nanoparticles were synthesized from a chemical reduction method. Their morphological and thermal characterizations were studied in this paper. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) study showed that no oxides of Tin nanoparticles were formed. The thermal characterization by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) exhibited the size dependency of the melting points. The melting point was as low as 202.16°C.


Prostate cancer (PCa), bladder cancer (BC), and renal cell cancer (RCC) are the most common urologic tumours in males. N6-methyladenosine (m6A), adenosine N6 methylation, is the most prevalent RNA modification in mammals. Increasing evidence suggests that m6A plays a crucial role in cancer development. In this review, we comprehensively analyzed the influence of m6A methylation on Prostate cancer, bladder cancer, and renal cell cancer and the relationship between the expression of relevant regulatory factors and their development and occurrence, which provides new insights and approaches for the early clinical diagnosis and targeted therapy of urologic malignancies.


Objective: To study the complications after cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage and predictors of spinal cord ischemia (SCI) after advanced endovascular therapy with CSF drainage for complex aortic disease. Methods: Between 2009 and 2012, 88 attempts of CSF drainage insertions/84 operations/83 patients, of the 658 operations for aortoiliac diseases, were performed. Results: Indications for therapy were aortic dissection (n 1⁄4 13) and aortic aneurysm (n 1⁄4 70), of whom 38 had thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA). In all, 10 had ruptured aorta. The CSF drainages were inserted preoperatively (n 1⁄4 75) and postoperatively (n 1⁄4 9). In all, 14 CSF drainages were nonfunctioning. The SCI was present in 29 patients, transient/permanent in 12/17. Intraoperative circulatory instability (P 1⁄4 .001) and operation for TAAA, type II (P 1⁄4 .036), were associated with SCI. Meningitis (n 1⁄4 1), epidural (n 1⁄4 1), and subdural (n 1⁄4 2) hematoma and needle-mediated paresis in 1 leg (n 1⁄4 1) occurred after CSF drainage. Conclusions: Complication to CSF drainage occurred too frequently in this selected group of patients with high rate of SCI.


The solution of the mean spherical approximation for a polydisperse fluid mixture of particles interacting via a set of (factorizable) hard-sphere Yukawa potentials allows one to represent those thermodynamic quantities that are relevant to determine phase coexistence (i.e., pressure and chemical potential) by a limited number of (generalized) moments. Being thus a member of "truncatable free energy models," the equilibrium conditions reduce to a set of coupled and highly nonlinear equations; we have solved these relations, we have determined phase diagrams for polydisperse fluid mixtures (i.e., cloud and shadow curves as well as binodals), and have extracted the daughter distribution functions of the coexisting phases.


Background—Exercise training is being promoted increasingly for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Many of these patients experience exercise related arterial desaturation but the clinical importance of these hypoxaemic episodes is not known. QTc dispersion is a marker of myocardial repolarisation abnormalities and there has been much interest in its role as a non-invasive predictor of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death. However, little is known about the dynamic eVects that exercise and hypoxaemia have on QTc dispersion in patients with


SUMMARY Separation of concerns is a fundamental principle for managing conplex tasks. Previous tools for assisting in generating back-of-the-book indexes do not apply this principle as thoroughly as they might; in particular, most confuse two issues: recording where references occur in the main text, and deciding what terms should appear in the index. This paper describes a general facility for multi-level indexes that embodies this principle, usable in any document formatter that can produce a secondary output file recording page numbers where references occur. L ATEX, Scribe, and nroff/troff fall in this category.


In this paper, we introduce a novel class of topological systems with inversion-symmetry and fractional (non-integral) Chern numbers. The non-integral topological number arises due to the discontinuous behaviour of the Hamiltonian in the spectral domain. We propose a fractional bulk-edge correspondence that links the number of edge-states with the fractional topological number. Furthermore, we show that the number of bands below a band-gap of a generic one-dimensional periodic system determines the Chern topological number of an extended system with a synthetic dimension. It is theoretically and numerically demonstrated that in real-space the Chern number gives the number of gapless trapped state branches localized at the system boundary, when its geometry is continuously displaced by one lattice period.


An option contract now commonly encountered is the Asian quanto-basket option. This contract is useful for risk managers willing to participate to the return of an industrial sector with an international exposure without the foreign exchange risk exposition. Although the price of such contracts can be obtained very accurately using Monte Carlo simulation, market participants prefer faster but less accurate analytical approximations. This paper thus examines the precision of three different analytical approximations available to price Asian quanto-basket options. The results of a comprehensive simulation experiment performed on a large test pool of option contracts reveal that the approximations based on the reciprocal gamma and Johnson-type densities are in general the most accurate.


The emotional theory of mind problem in images is an emotion recognition task, specifically asking"How does the person in the bounding box feel?"Facial expressions, body pose, contextual information and implicit commonsense knowledge all contribute to the difficulty of the task, making this task currently one of the hardest problems in affective computing. The goal of this work is to evaluate the emotional commonsense knowledge embedded in recent large vision language models (CLIP, LLaVA) and large language models (GPT-3.5) on the Emotions in Context (EMOTIC) dataset. In order to evaluate a purely text-based language model on images, we construct"narrative captions"relevant to emotion perception, using a set of 872 physical social signal descriptions related to 26 emotional categories, along with 224 labels for emotionally salient environmental contexts, sourced from writer's guides for character expressions and settings. We evaluate the use of the resulting captions in an image-to-language-to-emotion task. Experiments using zero-shot vision-language models on EMOTIC show that combining"fast"and"slow"reasoning is a promising way forward to improve emotion recognition systems. Nevertheless, a gap remains in the zero-shot emotional theory of mind task compared to prior work trained on the EMOTIC dataset.