Poor sleep quality is common in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and could contribute to fatigue, which is regarded as one of the most disabling symptoms in SLE. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) is a validated self-administered questionnaire that measures sleep quality over the previous month. The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship of sleep quality, measured by PSQI, with several variables including depression, anxiety, pain, disease activity, fatigue and functional disability in patients with SLE. A further aim was to establish the prevalence of poor sleep quality in SLE.

 A cohort cross-sectional study was carried out including 92 SLE patients who fulfilled the SLICC classification criteria for SLE and who provided informed consent for participation. The patients were interviewed, and they were asked to fill in questionnaires including PSQI, Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain and modified Health Assessment Questionnaire (mHAQ). Blood and urine tests enabled the calculation of SLE disease activity index-2K (SLEDAI-2K). The study was approved by the University Research Ethics Committee.

 92.4% of the cohort studied were females, and the mean age was 46.9 years (range 19-79 years). 55.4% were noted to have poor quality sleep (PSQI >5), and the median PSQI was 6 (range 0-18). Sleep quality measured by PSQI, had a significant correlation with SLEDAI-2K (R = 0.254, p = 0.014), VAS pain (R = 0.515, p < 0.001), HADS-D (R = 0.605, p < 0.001), HADS-A (R = 0.375, p < 0.001), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (R=-0.211, p = 0.044), FSS (R = 0.551, p < 0.001) and mHAQ (R = 0.559, p < 0.001). ANCOVA analysis showed that PSQI was significantly dependant on VAS pain (p < 0.001), HADS-D (p < 0.001) and eGFR (p = 0.003).

 Poor sleep quality is highly prevalent in SLE patients. This study has shown that the strongest predictive factors for poor sleep quality are pain, depression and impaired renal function. Since poor sleep quality is significantly related to fatigue and functional disability, its identification and management is important for patients' wellbeing.

 R. Magro None. L. Camilleri None. A.A. Borg None.


When freely going downhill a slope on a bicycle, which is faster, a wheelie downhill only with the rear wheel, or a normal downhill with both wheels? To discuss this downhill problem, the moment of inertia, the deformation of the wheels, and the frictional torque at the wheel axels have to be taken into account. Experimental results show that the wheelie bicycle wins for a relatively large angle of the slope, while the normal bicycle wins for a small angle, consistent with a theoretical study.


Heitoushan biotite monzonitic granite in Houjie Town,Dongguan,Guangdong province is located in the west end of Dalingshan complex granites,zircon SHRIMP U-Pb age show that it formed at 151.6 Ma(Late Jurassic),which belongs to product of Yanshanian magmatism.On the chemical composition of the rock,Heitoushan granite rich in SiO2(70wt%),K2O(4wt%); relatively poor in Al2O3(12 ~ 14.4 wt%),poor in Sr,Ba,Eu,Ti and P; rare earth distribution curve shows the seagulls type,with obvious negative Eu anomaly.Comprehensive discrimination method found that Heitoushan granite possess obvious characteristics of A-type granite,further can be divided into peraluminous A1-type granite.This paper argues that Heitoushan A-type granite formed in Yanshanian period under the background of the structure of the lithosphere extensional thinning.


Nowadays, Malaysia is moving towards being a developed nation in which it has worked hard to develop the country, especially in the field of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) which is strongly emphasized in producing first-class human capital. The application of seven (7) elements of soft skills (KI) which are communication skills, leadership skills, skills work skills, professional entrepreneurship, morals and ethics, continuous learning and information management, critical thinking and problem solving skills should be emphasized to the students. Mastering soft skills is very important to technical students as it is demanded by the industry. Hence, the purpose of this study is to develop the Soft Skill Implementation Teaching Module in Teaching and Learning Theory Class for Technical Lecturers. The objective of this study is to identify the suitability of the format, content and functionality of the module based on the feedback of the technical lecturers. The development of this module uses the Sidek model while the content of the module is based on UTHM publisher guidelines. The researcher chose the Sidek model as the module development model because it has systematic steps to develop the module. The Sidek model has two phases where the first phase is the draft phase and the second phase is the testing and evaluation phase. Each module built is considered a draft before it is evaluated and tested for its effectiveness. In addition, this study uses the quantitative approach involving ten (10) technical lecturers at FPTV, UTHM. The data were descriptively analyzed and presented in the form of frequency and percentages. The findings have shown that 97.27% of technical lecturers agree with the design format, 98% agree with the suitability of the module content and 100% agree with the functionality of the Soft Skill Implementation Teaching Module in Teaching and Learning Theory Class for Technical Lecturers. In conclusion, this module is suitable to be used by technical lecturers as a guidance and references in applying soft skills systematically.


In recent years, and in particular over this past year, friends and de tractors have asserted that the public's trust in higher education has been eroding and that something should be done. The reasons for this state of affairs include tuition increases, athletic scandals, inappropriate use of indirect costs, research fraud, faculty workload imbalance, inattention to undergraduates, and failure to connect the institution to important issues of the "outside world" such as the changing roles of schools. Derek Bok (1992) talked of this lack of connection at the 1992 National Con ference of the AAHE when he claimed that only 22 percent of the uni versities and colleges of this country help the schools and their com munities with school-based reform, in spite of perceptions that the level of entering students has deteriorated and that retention has seriously slipped. At the same conference, an exasperated Louis Harris said, "If we don't wake up and realize education is the heart of our society; and if educators don't take that case to the public and say, 'We represent the salvation of this society, and we have the guts to do what it takes to fix it,' then you deserve every fate that comes to you!" (1992, 5)


The status of theoretical predictions for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders is reviewed, focusing on the total cross section, differential distributions, and the description of top-quark production and decay including off-shell effects.


It is well known that higher military educational institutions play a leading role in the military education system, because they train officers, who, in turn, are directly involved in the subordinate personnel combat training. Therefore, is the system of military education ready to promptly respond to the modern war demands, and timely improve the training programs of officer personnel, precisely in the process of training? The article searches for modern approaches to the study and rapid introduction of combat experience into the educational process of the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine during the study of combined military disciplines. After all, the study and rapid implementation of combat experience increases the tasks performance within the limits of the powers defined by the law, measures for the training of personnel, comprehensive support, development, application and command. The issue of studying and introducing combat experience into the educational process of National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine in the study of combined military disciplines requires a certain systematization of this process. It is proposed to create a certain "foundation" for solving these tasks, which will enable the system of studying and introducing combat experience into the educational process of National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine to function effectively during the study of combined military disciplines In the article, the process of learning and implementing experience should be understood as a set of successive systematic actions that are used to collect, analyze and summarize information about problematic issues, determine the main reasons for their occurrence and ways to solve them, as well as for the dissemination and implementation of experience during the training and assigned tasks performance. A system of studying and introducing the combat experience into the educational process of National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine during the study of combined military disciplines is proposed, which will make it possible to optimize and speed up the tasks solution complex. It is noted that the issue of studying and introducing combat experience into the educational process of National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine during the study of combined military disciplines should have the leading position in the training process of future officers. After all, it can be said with confidence that, in addition to training and motivation, combat experience plays a major role during hostilities, which enables a creative approach to the units appliance.


The optimising code generators employed as part of the model-based development of embedded control software must undergo intensive quality assurance. The use of test suites plays a central role in this process. This article describes the construction of a modular test suite for code generators and proposes a testing approach which makes a systematic test of the optimisations employed by the code generator possible.


More and more student trajectories involve an academic stay abroad. To achieve the intercultural, personal or linguistic objectives associated with such placements, social inclusion with peers and faculty in the place of study is needed. This paper applies Bourdieu's theory of capital as a conceptual framework to examine the experiences of students who have competed a placement abroad, in particular students from educationally disadvantaged families, students with disabilities, and migrant students. Longitudinal data were taken from the German National Education Panel Study (NEPS) with N=8.469 students. The findings show the interrelatedness of social inclusion and a placement abroad: students who experience high social inclusion with peers and faculty at the beginning of their studies are more likely to study abroad. Social capital with faculty increases after such a placement, in particular for at-risk student groups, while no difference in the increase in social inclusion is observed between student groups. The findings imply a need for early interventions as some of the effects already take place in the first semester.


Abstract|"Analysis Method of Transportation Alloca- tion Process Fertilizer On CV. Chuan Kalorans "In Bekasi Iwan Aji Pratama Undergraduate Program, 2011 Gunadarma University http://www.gunadarma.ac.id Key Words: Analysis of Appropriations Products, CV. Chuan Kalorans. ABSTRACT : Analysis of the CV product al- location. Chuan Kalorans by looking produsi capacity lev- els and levels of demand for fertilizer in the year 2005 to 2006. In Scienti c Writing Titled "Analysis of transporta- tion methods in the process of allocation of fertilizer on the CV. Chuan Kalorans ". In scienti c writing, the writer wanted to know how important transportation method for the allocation of fertilizer on the CV. Chuan Kalorans. to facilitate the preparation of scienti c writing using descrip- tive methods, including interviews and literature research. From the calculation results obtained can be known that the transportation cost savings that have been established CV. Chuan Kalorans amounting to Rp 23 .000.000, - with a capacity of 162,000 units of production and delivery of fertilizers in 2003, was found to decrease after the calcula- tion by using the method of NWC at Rp 2.46 million, using VAM method of Rp 7.83 million, and use the MODI method for USD 08.07 10 000 Penamaan File: 10204510


This paper investigates the effect of substrate surface-waves on the radiation characteristics of a printed monopole at 60 GHz. The use of metallic sheets, dielectric slabs, and EBG structures is investigated in order to control the surface-waves and their effect on the gain and radiation characteristics of the printed monopole.


Introduction Part One: Textual Problems and Literary Analysis 1.Crime Scene Investigation: A Text-Critical Mystery and the Strange Death of Ishbosheth 2.The Locutions of 1 Kings 22:28: A New Proposal 3.The "Embarrassing Syntax" of Psalm 47:10: A (Pro)vocative Option Part Two: Readers of the Lost Ark 4. Ark-eology: Shifting Emphases in "Ark Narrative" Scholarship 5. Mouse Trap: A Text-Critical Problem with Rodents in the Ark Narrative Part Three: Further Soundings 6. A Bad News Bearer: The Dramatic Fulfillment of a Prophetic Word about the Dissolution of a Priestly Line/7. Highway to Sheol: Seductive Speech and Promiscuous Places in Proverbs 7 Part Four: The World of Chronicles 8.The Royal Skull in a Temple of Doom: An Interpretation of 1 Chronicles 10:10 9.Abijah's Elevated Rhetoric and the Civil War of 2 Chronicles 13 10. Capital Punishment: The Configuration of Ahaziah's Last Hours in 2 Chronicles 22 Conclusion


Introduction 1. Securing the Australian subject 1788-1918 2. Dreams of Pacific security 1919-1945 3. Cold War against the other 1946-1969 4. Realpolitik beyond the Cold War 1970-1995 5. Australia's Asian crisis 1996-2000 6. The wages of terror 2001-2007 Conclusion: a cosmopolitan future.


Bangrakam is one of the nine districts of Phitsanulok province, which is located in the lower north region of Thailand, 377 km from Bangkok. The district is located in the southwest of Phitsanulok, or 17 km from the city center. Bangrakam is a small town settled on the Yom River and is wholly located in the Yom River basin. The central part of Bangrakam is dominated by the reservoir, resulting in inundation for a few months every year during the rainy season. Interestingly, flooding has surprisingly not been seen as a problem for many or most Bangrakam dwellers. Amazingly, people have adjusted their houses and livelihood to fit or coexist with water in friendly ways. During the flooding season people go fishing and gain a lot of income from fishery products. Hybrid ways of living make Bangrakam a unique cultural landscape. Wet architecture, water-based domestic space, wet cultural landscape, water-based livelihoods, and other water-based elements are evidence illustrating how the residents live in harmony with water and survive flooding in more friendly ways. This article suggests that learning from the Bangrakam case can remind Thais to be concerned with and understand their own indigenous wisdoms more. More specifically, without appropriate adaptability, particularly in water land use planning and aquatic zone management, it will be far more difficult to survive the future in which water dramatically dominates our planet.


Proximity was determined in a thermoresponsive host–guest gel system and the polymer–phenol distance was calculated using solid-state 1H–1H CRAMPS NMR spectroscopy and rate matrix analysis.


Disclosed are an asynchronous FIFO controller and a method for preventing data overflow of an asynchronous FIFO buffer. The method may comprise: an asynchronous FIFO controller acquires the data volume to be acquired by a second FIFO buffer; the asynchronous FIFO controller acquires the data volume existing in the second FIFO buffer; the asynchronous FIFO controller adds the data volume to be acquired by the second FIFO buffer with the data volume existing in the second FIFO buffer to obtain the total data volume; the asynchronous FIFO controller compares the total data volume with the depth of the second FIFO buffer; and when the total data volume is not smaller than the depth of the second FIFO buffer, the asynchronous FIFO controller sends a stop indication signal to a first FIFO buffer.


How can one actually identify with people whose modes of being are substantially different from one's own? How can two groups engage in a dialogue who do not share certain fundamental values and concepts? To what extent does one identify? These concerns touch upon the sociological, political, and economic dimensions of a community. Accordingly, the task of political institutions is to provide adequate means of dealing with diverse identities. In this regard, I present a critical analysis of Charles Taylor's notion of multiculturalism and solidarity.1 While one can be sympathetic to his communitarian proposals, these proposals are apparently good wishes and less evident. I conclude the essay with my views on democratization.


Time dependent heat transfer has been investigated in a fin assembly comprising an array of fins attached to a supporting wall. Convective heat exchange from the supporting wail and thermal interactions between the wall and fins art considered. A new implementation of the boundary element method solution technique has been devised to investigate oscillatory heat transfer in a fin assembly and is extended to investigate fin assembly heat transfer that is of a general periodic nature.


Background Rheumatic heart disease is still a major heart problem associated with pregnancy in south China, despite its declining trend. The mortality and morbidity are considerably reduced1 by better perinatal care, where the anesthesiologist plays a major role in the multidisciplinary approach. Nevertheless, in wealthy nation, rheumatic disease has become uncommon and complex congenital heart disease is increasing in the recent decades. With the advent of intensive obstetric and anesthetic care, the death rate of pregnant women with heart disease is lower in mitral stenosis compared with other congenital heart diseases like Eisenmenger's syndrome, pulmonary vascular obstructive disease and Marfan's syndrome with aortopathy2. Although mitral stenosis is often associated with mitral regurgitation, morbidity is usually related to mitral stenosis3.


The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of perceived paternal and maternal acceptance on the bicultural orientations and psychological adjustment of ethnic-minority young adults in Bangladesh. The study was based on a sample of 412 young adults (mean age 22 years), consisting of 40% women and 60% men from 18 tribal subgroups in Bangladesh. Measures used were Parental Acceptance–Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ), Bicultural Attitude Scale (BAS) and Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ). Results showed that there are significant positive correlations between perceived parental (paternal and maternal) acceptance, heritage culture, and psychological adjustment of the respondents. Results further showed that perceived paternal acceptance has independent and stronger effect than perceived maternal acceptance on the bicultural orientations and psychological adjustment of the minority young adults in Bangladesh.


The purpose of this study was to determine if pre-exercise glucose ingestion would improve distance swimming performance. Additionally, pre-exercise glucose was provided at 2 different feeding intervals to investigate the affects of the timing of administration. Ten male triathletes (X¯±SD: age, 29.5 ± 5.0 years; VO2peak, 48.8 ± 3.2 ml · kg'1 · min') swam 4000 m on 3 occasions following the consumption of either a 10% glucose solution 5 min prior to exercise (G5), a 10% glucose solution 35 min prior to exercise (G35), or a similar volume of placebo (PL). Despite a significant difference (p < ,01) in blood glucose concentration prior to exercise (X¯±SD in mmol · L ': G" 8.4 ± 1.1 vs. G5 5.2 ± 0.5 or PL 5.3 ± 0.4), no significant differences were observed in total time (X¯±SD in minutes: G* 70.7 ± 7.6, Gs 70.1 ± 7.6. PL 71.9 ± 8.4). post-exercise blood glucose (X¯±SD inmmol · L−1: G35 5.1 ± 1.1, G5 5.1 ± 0.9, PL 5.3 ± 0.4), and average heart rate (X¯±SD in bpnv.G" 155.8±10.8, G5 153.6±12.6. PL 152.0± 12.5;...


Objective: To observe the degree of cerebral ischemia and to predict the acute cerebral ischemia that may be happen by studying the brain anatomic microstructure anomalous. Materials and Methods: Do the systematic reviews on 1786 cases with cerebral ischemia in our hospital nearly three years. The first CT images of 385 cases present normal or suspicious, and reexamination CT and MRI within 7 days. Results: 385 cases that be diagnosised normal or suspicious by the fi rst CT images happened new infarction after reexamination CT/MRI within 7 days. The brain anatomic microstructure anomalous on the fi rst CT images can predict the occur of acute cerebral ischemic events. In addition, 5 patients were diagnosised abnormal on the fi rst CT images, and presented normal on MRI(DWI) images that reexamination in 24 hours and 30 hours respectively. Conclusion: To evaluate the existence of cerebral ischemia by using of CT/MRI imaging methods.


The right to relief concerns to the effective security of civil rights,which is the important condition for any harmonious society;the right to relief relates to the effective control of the state power,which is the intrinsic requireement of a harmonious society;the right to relief relates to the peaceful settlement of the conflict between citizens and the states,which is the important staffgauge of a harmonious society.


We propose an AND-OR tree-based approach for structuring a variety of mode selections in a hybrid video coding system. The proposed approach can systematically analyze the input sequence and transform it into an AND-OR tree representation to allocate bits to each node of the tree. The motion vector of our system is estimated in the wavelet domain, where wavelet coefficients in different scales can be obtained by using different wavelets. We demonstrate the performance of the new features, and compare our codec's performance with that of an H.264/AVC-like implementation.


In 2013, Deakin University Library undertook a self-assessment of its research repository, Deakin Research Online, against ISO 16363. ISO 16363 is heavily structured on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model, so an understanding of OAIS is critical for a full understanding of the ISO 16363 criteria. With over 100 ISO 16363 criteria, a self-assessment can be a large and complex undertaking. Not only are many of the criteria very complex to understand, their arrangement is such that many of them cover common ground, which may lead to duplication of effort. An effective and efficient self-assessment will include a preliminary review of all the criteria, including an assessment of their applicability and risk to the repository being assessed. If resources are limited, repository managers should also focus their self-assessment on high-risk or vulnerable areas. Regular self-assessments of research repositories are highly recommended. Repository managers also need to ensure that once a self-assessment is completed, that resources are allocated to addressing identified areas of improvement.


This article presents a comparative study on the effects of different slot shapes on the size reduction of a microstrip patch antenna. The antenna investigated consists of a triangular shaped patch using air as substrate which is primarily used for cost effectiveness and ease of fabrication. At first, the effect of slot loading on the patch antenna for compactness is investigated using circular slots and then triangular, rectangular, star shaped, and folded rectangular slots are introduced on the microstrip patch and their effects are studied too. The simulated and measured results show that the size reduction is achieved by 18.86, 27.35, 27.77, 29.8, and 43.47%, respectively, for these cases compared to a conventional triangular patch antenna operating at the same center frequency. It is worth mentioning that this communication presents maximum reduction in size reported so far for equilateral triangular patch antennas, apart from overcoming some significant drawbacks of other compact equilateral triangular patch antennas reported earlier in literature. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 56:268–274, 2014


Summary form only given. Management approaches from the industrial or mass-consumer sectors, based as they are on the standardization, supervision and marketing of repetitive tasks and products, are not only inapplicable in the professional sector, they may be dangerously wrong. This research program challenges these criticisms by considering the use of manufacturing models to address specific problem of allocating work assignments in knowledge intensive firms. The general utility of manufacturing principles for professional service firms and other knowledge-intensive organizations is also considered.


This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Harris, P. (2016). Monkey business, Marco Polo, and managing global public affairs and trade. Journal of Public Affairs, 16(1), 3-6, which has been published in final form at doi: 10.1002/pa.1608. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.


Virtual space can eliminate the physical constraints of real space. Three-dimensional (3D) digital twins enable us to experience manipulation of cultural assets that are inaccessible in real space. However, most 3D models obtained using current reconstruction techniques are static; they cannot be manipulated dynamically. In this study, we reproduce a dynamic 3D model of a simple articulated object with a rotating joint from a static point cloud only with reference to a video of the motion and a manually added rotation axis. The reconstructed actual cultural asset is used for first-person experiences in an augmented reality environment.


A vehicle with a storage compartment comprises a bottom that defines a track, a plurality of pivotally connected to the floor panels and pivotable to an upper part of each of these plates fixed arm. The arm is designed to be pivoted to a folded in the plane of the plate in a supported position on the ground connected to the rail position. The arm is also designed to be pivoted in a supported by a plate connected to an adjacent planar member position.


In order to select higher salt tolerant cultivars of barley,solution culture experiments were carried out with 500 barley cultivars, which were preliminarily selected from 4581 cultivars by exposure to 1-2% of sodium chloride(MaCl) during the germinating stage. The concentrations of NaCl used in the experiments were 2 (control), 150 and 300 mM in nutrient solution.From the results of five solution culture experiments, each of which was carried out with about 100 cultivars, 105 cultivars of barley were selected as relatively about 100 cultivars. Then the final selection was carried out on those 105 cultivars, and it was found that more than 10 cultivars were highly salt tolerant, mainly based on the comparisons of shoot yields under the supply of 300 mM of NaCl.High salt tolerant barley cultivars mentioned above showed 42-86% and 17-30% of the control in shoot yield under the condition of 150 and 300 mM of NaCl, respectively.On three groups of barley,each having more than 10 cultivars, which are high,
moderate and low in salt tolerance, ion contents of the plants were analyzed.The results suggest that potassium(K) uptake was comparatively larger in the high salt tolerant goup of barley cultivars,through there was a big variation in sodium(Na) and K contents even within the same group.


The main aim of this research was to examine the relationship on the factors contributing to the employee engagement among Generation Y, namely; job characteristics, reward and recognition, and work-life balance. The study focused at the employee engagement as an essential and critical aspect in determining and affecting sustainability and success of the company, as it is much relies on its main asset that is the employees. Data were gathered using questionnaires from the respondents who were generation Y employees in the PC Company located at Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC). This study adopted SSPS in analyzing data. The results discovered that job characteristics, reward and recognition, and work-life balance were significantly correlated and contributed to the employee engagement. The study will also benefit the human resource practitioners theoretically and
practically by providing direction and suggestions in formulating, designing and implementing the right policies, reward and recognition package and job design for PC Company. Likewise, limitation and recommendations for future research direction were
also deliberated in this study.


Since the mid-1990s, the government has made important changes to excises, and has proposed major changes to the excise on fuels. Richard Webb examines and analyses these changes.


The case talks about turnaround successes of an ailing organization named MPCON which was once established as a premier consulting firm in central India promoted by an apex financial institution in 1979. The case, under analysis, of MPCON has broadly three pastures: MPCON during initial days, overall culture and strategic change initiatives during Mr Roy's period. Although sustained breakdown was experienced since inception, MPCON had maintained quality consistently in terms of creating good brand image in project consulting, training and capacity building. However, over the years, as it appears from the case, MPCON lacked direction, objectivity and leadership. This had a deep impact on the existing, demotivated human capital and the organizational culture. When Mr Roy took over, he clearly experienced a culture of indifference and accountability of 'chalta hai' type. Thus, the challenge with regard to change needed, as soon as Mr Roy took over, was more related to revamping the human capital and processes with a human face. To quote Mr Roy, 'I don't think competition is an issue. The challenge is more internal for all companies i.e. the ability to do the work well as the govt sector is becoming more and more demanding on performance.' The ability of an organization to morph and respond to external changes actually rests with its human capital—the skill and competencies they carry, their passion and the engagement with the work to acquire newer skills, supported by organization to remain viable and vibrant. Thus, organizations have to respond and restructure themselves to external demands. Although Mr Roy responds in the same way with his strategic three Ps (people, process and performance) approach to align employees through task-focused change, role-focused changes and system-focused changes, yet the case is silent about how such strategic human resource intervention was carried out in detail. For example, how behaviour modification through changing mindset was conducted in view of task-focused change? What strategic hiccups he came across in the process of initiating changes and coping with resistances, as any change is a painful process. What steps Mr Roy took to create necessary organizational climate where employees' behaviour and performance were aligned with newly developed organizational goals? How mission was created and who all were involved in creating the mission of intended change? People do not own change and become productive if they are not made the part of mission creation. There are examples of world-class and world-beating organizations who involved employees, at large, in their change processes to create mission statement. Worth mentioning among them are Tata Consultancy Services and Tata Steel. And only in one evening, Tata Steel generated 26,000 suggestions from its employees in its suggestion box while co-creating mission (Sinha & Mohanty, 2004). Global Business Review 16(4) 734–735 © 2015 IMI SAGE Publications sagepub.in/home.nav DOI: 10.1177/0972150915581117 http://gbr.sagepub.com


Contents: Reflections on the history of Scottish science The Edinburgh Town Council and its university, 1717-1766 The University of Edinburgh in the late 18th century: its scientific eminence and academic structure Professors Robison and Playfair, and the Theophobia Gallica: natural philosophy, religion and politics in Edinburgh, 1789-1815 The Leslie affair: careers, Kirk and politics in Edinburgh in 1805 Thomas Thomson: professor of chemistry and university reformer Science and Scottish university reform: Edinburgh in 1826 The chemist breeders: the research schools of Liebig and Thomas Thomson Practical chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, 1799-1843 The patronage of mid-Victorian science in the University of Edinburgh Individualism and the structure of British science in 1830 London institutions and Lyell's career: 1820-41 Brewster and the early British Association for the Advancement of Science Economic and ornamental geology: the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1837-53 Wissenschaft in Worstedopolis: public science in Bradford, 1800-1850 Index.


Discusses the implication of peace negotiations in the political democratization and social justice in Guatemala. Elements of the peace process; Phases of the civil war; Formation of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity; Creation of peace accords; Role of the United Nations Verification Mission on peace accords; Achievement of peace accords. Archdiocese Of Guatemala. 1999. Guatemala, Never Again! United States: Orbis Books.


Human resources play a strategic and important role to achieve company's vision and mission, the quality of human resources will affect the performance and progress of an organization. Commitment is very important for organization, a strong affective commitment encourages employees to contribute better, there are constructive factors of affective commitment such as transformational leadership and job satisfaction. This study wants to examine the relationship between transformational leadership, affective commitment, and job satisfaction and the effect of transformational leadership practices on affective commitment directly and indirectly through the mediating role of job satisfaction in tile rooftop manufacturers at Jatiwangi Indonesia. A quantitative survey approach has been used, and 5 hypotheses were tested with a sample 184 of 350 employees of roof-tile manufactures was selected to answer the questionnaire. Data collected based on descriptive analytics processed by SPSS Software, and the result of this study show that there is a positive relationship between these variables, transformational leadership significant positive relations to job satisfaction and affective commitment and job satisfaction becomes a partial mediator variable in the relationship between transformational leadership with affective commitment, but yet those 4 company still not represent all roof-tile company in Indonesia, future studies could replicate the current one by collecting data from different sources.


A historical systematization of the various plans, programs and actions that the Guatemalan government has implemented to respect human rights and, in turn, make migration and return to their country voluntary and safe processes is carried out. Three different periods are analyzed: the eighties, the nineties and the third half of the 21st century. Emphasis is placed on the participation of various governmental actors, international organizations, Central American nations and civil associations in the compensation of the damages caused by the civil war, the establishment of a democratic State, the application of justice and the search for peace and standards. basic welfare for the population.


Workers' remittance is a major source of foreign exchange earnings and plays an important role in the economy of Bangladesh. It accounts for 12% of GDP in 2010. This paper examines with annual data for 1971 – 2008, whether the fl ow of remittances is contributing positively to the development of the fi nancial system of the country. Our results suggest that remittances have a signi fi cant positive effect on fi nancial development. However, fi nancial sector's development is neutral in its effect on the in fl ow of remittances. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


Objective To investigate the pathologic neurotoxicity of platelet-activating factor (PAF) and its receptor (PAFR) after local ischemia/reperfusion injury in rat brain and study protective effect on ischemia/reperfusion.Methods Middle cerebral artery occlusion and reperfusion model of rats were established. Then PAF was measured by high performance thin-layer chromatography and PAFR gene expression was detected by RT-PCR after 3 h,6 h,12 h of local ischemia/reperfusion injury. Also, primary mice cortex neurons were culture. Neurons cultured in vitro were divided into three groups: contral group, PAF group and PAF+ receptor inhibitor group. Then cells were stained with PI/calcein for apoptosis.Results After 3 h、6 h、12 h of ischemia/reperfusion injury The PAF content of rats' cortex in ischemic side were (13.71±1.23)ng/g,(17.90±1.14)ng/g and (17.89±1.54)ng/g respectively. The PAFR gene expressions in the cortex after ischemia /reperfusion were (0.5892±0.1222)density,(2.0512±0.1519)density,(2.0168±0.1653)density. PAF content and PAFR gene expressions at 6 h、12 h local ischemia/reperfusion injury were significantly higher than those of the control group and 3 h after ischemia/reperfusion injury(all P 0.01). In vitro, neuron apoptosis rate of PAF group and PAF+ receptor inhibitor group were (41.92±1.39)% and (18.94±1.18)%, which were significantly higher(all P 0.01) than that of control group (10.23±0.59)%.Compare with PAF group, percentage of apoptosis of PAF+ receptor inhibitor group decreased significantly ( P 0.01). Conclusions The neurotoxicity induced by PAF after cerebral ischemia, in which PAF receptor may participate, can be suppressed by PAFR inhibitor. Antagonist of PAFR can protect neuron against injury after ischemia.


[Objective]To observe the association between Haplotypes in SOD1 and noise-induced hearing loss(NIHL) in Chinese han population. [Methods]A case control study was design to compare the threshold shift of left ear at 3 000 Hz among workers exposed to the same noise intensity.The 10% sensitive workers with maximum threshold shift(201cases) and 10% resistant workers with minimum threshold shift(202 cases) were selected.A questionnaire was designed to carry out an investigation,and an occupational health survey was used to identify the occupational risk factors.Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood cells samples by using standard procedures of Qiagen kit.SNPs were detected by using standard procedures of TaqMan probe allele identification method.Haplotypes were analyzed by the Haploview software. [Results]There were no significant difference in noise exposure levels between the NIHL sensitive workers and resistant ones [86.90(83.05,92.90) dB vs.86.90(83.73,92.70) dB](P0.05),but the threshold shift at 3 000Hz in left ear were significantly higher in NIHL sensitive workers than in the resistant workers(40.23±9.53 dB vs.16.15±2.58 dB)(P0.01).The genotype frequency of every SNPs locus in each group was in line with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.Compared with haplotype CGGA with highest distribution frequency,hyplotype TATG was a protective factor to NIHL,whereas CATG was a risk factor.The OR and 95%CI of TATG and CATG were 0.56(0.38,0.82),1.58(1.08,2.31) respectively. [Conclusion]In Chinese Han population,the haplotypes in SOD1 may be associated with the susceptibility to NIHL.


In order to gain an understanding of the spatial connections between instrumental and proxy climatic data in subtropical regions, we investigated the spatial patterns of climate and tree-growth anomalies in the montane forests of northwestern Argentina. Principal components technique was used to identify the dominant spatial patterns of climate and tree growth anomalies. A 43-year data set of monthly total precipitation at a selected network of thirty- one stations in northwestern Argentina was analysed on annual and seasonal basis. The most dominant annual pattern shows precipitation anomalies of the same sign over practically the whole area. The second and third patterns reflect altitudinal and latitudinal rainfall variations across the study area, respectively. The tree-ring data set consisted of twelve chronologies developed from Juglans australis Griseb., Cedrela angustifolia Sesse Moc., and Cedrela lilloi C.DC. The relationships between climatic conditions, site characteristics, and tree-ring growth were identified using response functions, correlation functions, and group analysis. These techniques show that tree ring widths in subtropical Argentina are affected by weather conditions from late winter to early summer. Tree-ring patterns mainly reflect the direct effects of the principal types of rainfall patterns observed, the first in which rainfall conditions are uniform across the study area, and the third in which pre- cipitation anomalies are concentrated in the northeastern part of the region. Finally, different regression models were used to reconstruct annual and seasonal variations in pre- cipitation. On average, 60-80% of the variance in regional precipitation is explained using the ring-width chronologies as predictive variables.


The article is devoted to the task of planning an experiment in chemistry and chemical technology. The problem statement of finding the optimal ratio of the initial substances of reaction is defined. A genetic algorithm for solving this problem is proposed. The algorithm is tested on the example of the reaction of aminomethylation of thiols using tetramethylmethanediamine. The optimal initial concentrations of reagents are calculated to obtain the maximum yield of the target reaction product.


To date the analysis of personal constructs have primarily been restricted to small data sets elicited via interviews, repertory grids or self-characterisation sketches. Within Personal Construct Theory (PCT) there has been growing interest in methods to analyse longer texts. Theoretical as well as technical developments in other fields offer opportunities to examine constructs and construing in longer texts. One such field is computerised corpus linguistics. A brief example is provided of a computerised analysis informed by George Kelly's "Ways of listening". Examples of the analysis and practical issues associated with the approach are discussed.


Chemiluminescence emission from opposed jet burner flames was measured by a charge coupled device (CCD) camera with an image intensifier. Radial profiles of the emission intensity of OH, CH and C2 radicals were obtained by the Abel inversion of the side-on observations. The profiles of emission intensity of these radicals are similar, and each maximum is located at the center of the flame zone. The emission of C2 and CH radicals produced in the early stage of the combustion reaction was observed even on the burned-gas side of the flame zone where the mean temperature is significantly high, suggesting that unburned mixture exists on the burned-gas side of the flame zone. It was found that the profiles of OH emission intensity and NO concentration are similar. This fact suggests that NO originating from the prompt NO mechanism is predominant in the distributed reaction zone.


Shelf of Pechorskoe sea is a part of Timano-Pechorskaya oil bearing province. Main reserves of this province are accumulated in lower permian layers. It has been created under conditions of further deepening of Pechorskaya plate. It is characterized by presumably carbonate sediments, wide development of reef generated bodies that tend to the upper and lower parts of the province. Only South-Eastern part has deep sea sediments. Lower part of the section along the province is represented by basal shell sandstone layer 10–100 m thick that up to the section is replaced by organic limestones with anhydrites and dolomites. In eastern regions the basal part is represented by argillites.


Low-level gamma ray spectroscopy with a NaI (TI) gamma radiation detector was used for the measurement of activity concentrations of radionuclides 226Ra, 232Th and 40K. Activity concentrations of radium were found to vary from 12 to 39 Bq kg−1, thorium ranged from 15 to 49 Bq kg−1 whereas 40K ranged from 157 to 460 Bq kg−1. Radium equivalent activity has been found to vary from 50.8 to 118 Bq kg−1 and absorbed gamma dose rates varied from 24 to 53.2 nGy h−1 whereas corresponding outdoor annual effective dose found to vary from 0.029 to 0.065 mSv y−1. The calculated values of Hex and Hin range from 0.13 to 0.31 and 0.16 to 0.41 respectively whereas values of gamma and alpha index vary from 0.19 to 0.42 and 0.06 to 0.19 respectively. The values of hazard index are under the action limit.


Two-dimensional (2D) periodic TiO2 pillar arrays, applicable to photonic crystals and micro-channels, were fabricated by direct patterning of a TiO2-organic hybrid material by multi-beam laser interference lithography and calcination of hybrid patterns. 2D periodic pillars of a TiO2– organic hybrid material were prepared by irra-diation with the interference pattern of femto-second laser beams and removal of the non- irradiated portions. Two types of periodic pillar arrays, standing pillars and top-gathering pillars (four pillars gathered at the top), were obtained, depending on laser irradiation conditions. After calcination of TiO2–organic hybrid pillars, TiO2 pillar arrays were obtained without collapse.


A method of preparing a near-neutral homogeneous mineral composition containing an excess of strong anions over strong cations for supplementing ruminant animal feeds, wherein magnesium and calcium chlorides are admixed with a molecular excess of ammonium sulfate and water and heated until aliquid phase is formed in which a metathetical chemical reaction occurs to substantially form homogeneous particles of magnesium and calcium sulfates, ammonium chloride and excess ammonium sulfate. Addition of granule binders and conditioning clays allows preparation of mini granules from damp agglomerates formed during the reac tion. The minigranules exhibit a high degree of strength, palatability and storage stability. The minigranular anionic salt composition prepared by the new method was found to be an effective mineral feed supplement for ruminant ani mals, particularly for preparturition cows.


SUMMARY The difficult airway poses a challenge to the trained anesthesiologist, and even more so to the inexperienced one. Failure to foresee a difficult intubation repre- sents a medical emergency which, if not treated promptly and adequately, could lead to severe problems and threaten the patient's life. This review in- tends to provide a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis and management of the difficult airway.


How do individuals participate in a vaccination campaign for an entirely new disease? This paper compares two groups involved in vaccination campaigns ordered by the state in 2009: an occupational medicine center for the A/H1N1 influenza, and a union of sheep farmers and veterinarians for bluetongue disease. Following the rumors in these two "watch groups," the study shows that vaccination calls into question the relations between individual and state and between humans and animals.


The law pertaining to emergency psychiatric commitment in Tennessee and in many other states interferes with providing desperately needed treatment for a particular subset of patients. We describe representative cases to highlight the problems and the consequences stemming from them.


Oligodendrogliomas (OGs) are a rare subset of primary brain tumors, accounting for approximately 5% of all brain tumors. While the etiology of OG has yet to be fully characterized, genomic heterogeneity is linked to clinical heterogeneity with variability in progression and survival. Currently, OGs are stratified into three molecular subtypes based on IDH mutation and 1p/19q co-deletion with additional molecular heterogeneity related to EGFR, PTEN, 10q deletion, and several other markers observed among 1p/19q co-deleted OGs. Using a public OG dataset, we assembled a set consisting of 156 primary OG tumors, 14 primary glioma samples, and 9 normal samples profiled using mRNA expression arrays. Using NetraAI, a novel machine learning platform, we identified three OG patient subpopulations based on survival and differentially expressed genes. Examining low- versus high-grade OG, we identified two subpopulations: (1) 26 low-grade and 21 high-grade OGs characterized by higher RPS6KV1 expression, and (2) 6 low-grade and 61 high-grade OGs characterized by higher LFNG expression. A third subpopulation emerged examining 1p/19p co-deletion, consisting of 60 no co-deletion and 3 co-deletion OGs characterized by higher HDAC1 expression. These driving genes have a common link to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection based on functional genomic analysis. HDAC1 is a histone deacetylase involved in gene expression regulation, LFNG is implicated in the Notch signaling pathway, and RPS6KB1 is a kinase regulating protein synthesis and cell growth. We hypothesize that concomitant HPV infection may negatively impact OG prognosis, warranting further investigation into the precise molecular interactions linking HPV infection to clinical outcomes. Furthermore, exploring the link between HPV infection and vaccination to OG outcomes on a population basis may provide valuable insights. The identification of these subpopulations, not previously described by other groups, demonstrates the utility of the NetraAI approach in uncovering subpopulations with potential implications in developing targeted therapies for OG.


http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/24/8/1243 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0886260508322187 2009 24: 1243 originally published online 13 August 2008 J Interpers Violence Jaycox Maria Orlando Edelen, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Grant N. Marshall and Lisa H. Gender Theory Evaluation of Differential Item Functioning According to Measurement of Teen Dating Violence Attitudes: An Item Response


The finite element method is used for deriving the mass matrix and stiffness matrix of the rotatory shell,then these matrixes are combined with the mass matrix and stiffness matrix of the liquid in the tank,on this basis,the local dynamic effect formula of rotatory shell element is deduced and the calculating procedure is worked out.By considering the continuous mass inertial force in the element and calculating the nodal dynamic displacement and dynamic inner force,it could be found that the local dynamic effect of reserve tank is directly proportional to nodal acceleration and continuous mass of unit and the local dynamic effect of reserve tank is more obvious owing to attached-object.These are beneficial to engineering design.


The invention provides a construction beam connection device including an abutment member, a connection member positioned under the abutment member and a threaded assembly fixedly connected with the abutment member and extending through the connection member. The connection device can be directly mounted at the junction between beams. The threaded assembly serves to fasten the abutment member to the connection member so as to securely connect the construction beams with each other. Accordingly, the safety in working can be ensured and the working is facilitated.


A sample of 198 soft X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the ROSAT International X-ray Optical Survey (RIXOS) is used to investigate the X-ray luminosity function and its evolution. RIXOS, with a flux limit of 3 x 10(-14) erg s(-1) cm(-2) (0.5 to 2.0 keV), samples a broad range in redshift over 20 deg(2) of sky, and is almost completely identified; it is used in combination wtih the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) to give a total sample of over 600 AGN. We find the evolution of AGN with redshift to be consistent with pure luminosity evolution (PLE) models in which the evolution slows markedly or stops at high redshifts (z > 1.8). We find that this result is not affected by the inclusion, or exclusion, of narrow-emission-line galaxies at low redshift in the RIXOS and EMSS samples, and is insensitive to uncertainties in the conversion between flux values measured with ROSAT and Einstein. We confirm, using a model-independent [V-e/V-a] test, that our survey is consistent with no evolution at high redshifts.


Abstract: Viscosity is the physical property of most interest to the majority of industrial processes. It is an important rheological parameter to be considered in dealing with fluid flow behavior and in understanding the hydrodynamics and the kinetics of reactions. Also, the rate of reactions between metal and slag can be determined by continuous measurement of the viscosity of composition. Moreover, viscosity is an indispensable quantity to predict other important transport coefficients, such as diffusivities, thermal conductivities and surface tensions of molten metals and slags. Thus, the viscosity is one of the most important factors to understand the thermodynamic properties of molten slag not only in the metallurgical community but also in chemical geology. Recently, BF operation in the ironmaking process includes the use of low grade iron sources and the pulverized coal injection, which have lead the increase of Al2O3 in the typical iron-making slag system. Due to the amphoteric behavior of Al2O3, it would be necessary to have a new perspective for estimating the effects of major elements such as CaO, SiO2, MgO and FeO significantly affecting on the viscous behavior of slag in the iron-making process. Although the alkaline oxide such as Na2O, K2O accompanied with low grade material sources can also affect the viscosity and thus impact the stability of the BF operation, relatively little has been known for the effect of alkali oxides (Na2O, K2O) on the viscous behavior under conditions of high Al2O3 concentrations. Furthermore, the contributions of Na2O and K2O toward the ionic charge compensation effect and structural changes in the BF type slags have not yet to be fully understood. The focus of present study is to understand the effect of not only major elements such as CaO, MgO but also alkaline oxide on the viscous behavior of iron-making slag system. To better understanding the viscous behavior, structural changes has been estimated using by Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, where the original Darken's excess stability function and ionic charge compensation effect was introduced in order to understand the thermo-physical phenomena. In addition, some effort has been also attempted to verify the relationship among the viscosity, primary phase and critical temperature.


Porcine small intestinal submucosa(SIS) derived from the submucosal layer of porcine intestine, both generate a minimal inflammatory response following implantation and have been approved by the FDA for many types of biomedical applications. Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)(PLGA) is a biodegradable synthetic polymer with acceptable mechanical strength and well-controlled degradation rate. Also, it can be easily fabricated into many shapes. In this study, we fabricated natural/synthetic biomaterial hybrid films using 0, 10, 20, 40 and 80 wt% of SIS. Schwann cells(SCs) and olfactory ensheathing cells(OECs) were seeded on SIS/PLGA film and confirmed the effects of adhesion and proliferation on SCs and OECs according to content of SIS. We confirmed that specific 10~20 wt% SIS in SIS/PLGA films was superior to adhesion and proliferation of SCs and OECs and content of SIS such as 40 wt% and 80 wt% could not help cell growth and proliferation.


The introduction aims at giving an overview of the new article 4 of the Worker's Statute (Law no. 300/1970), concerning the employer's monitoring powers, as recently reformed by the latest Italian Labour Reform (the so called Jobs Act). In particular, after a brief explanation of the rationale underlying the new rule, in order to make the employer's control power compatible with the improvement of technological tools in the workplace, the Author critically lists and takes into consideration the heterogeneous and complicated interpretative issues raised by the brand new reform.


【Purpose: Although use of a tilt table is recommended in clinical practice, there are no published guidelines regarding pressure and inclination for tilt table use. The aim of the current study was to assess the changes of pressure on sacrum and buttock according to different inclination of the tilt table in healthy subjects. Methods: Thirty two healthy subjects participated in this study. Subjects were positioned supine on the tilt table and safety straps were secured across the chest, pelvic, and knee with sufficient tension to prevent the subjects from falling. Pressure and peak pressure of sacrum and buttock were measured using pressure mapping system with the tilt table standing at $0^{\circ}$ , $15^{\circ}$ , $30^{\circ}$ , $45^{\circ}$ , $60^{\circ}$ , $75^{\circ}$ , and $85^{\circ}$ inclination. Results: A significant decrease in the pressure of sacrum and buttock was achieved by increasing tilt table inclination (p $0^{\circ}{\sim}15^{\circ}$ (8.16%), $15^{\circ}{\sim}30^{\circ}$ (8.02%), $30^{\circ}{\sim}45^{\circ}$ (11.61%), $45^{\circ}{\sim}60^{\circ}$ (16.18%), $60^{\circ}{\sim}75^{\circ}$ (16%), and $75^{\circ}{\sim}85^{\circ}$ (11.48%). A significant decrease in the peak pressure was achieved by increasing tilt table inclination (p $30^{\circ}{\sim}45^{\circ}$ (9.91%), $45^{\circ}{\sim}60^{\circ}$ (19.24%), $60^{\circ}{\sim}75^{\circ}$ (19.93%), and $75^{\circ}{\sim}85^{\circ}$ (11.48%). No significant peak pressure change was observed in $0^{\circ}{\sim}15^{\circ}$ , $15^{\circ}{\sim}30^{\circ}$ tilt table inclination (p>0.05). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the pressure of sacrum and buttock were decreased according to increasing tilt table inclination in healthy subjects. Guidelines are needed in order to optimize patient safety and overall outcome for tilt table standing.】


This study aimed to analyze the learning of Islamic Religious Education and BP in elementary schools in an engaging, fun, and not dull learning. This study uses the Research and Development (R&D) research method, and the model used is the ADDIE development model. Media experts have validated this product and tested it with ten students of SD 10 Perembang Gala village of Landau Tubun, Malawi. Primary data sources are Islamic Religious Education teachers, students, and school principals; secondary data sources include research journals, books, and websites. This study's results indicate that the validation results show that media experts get an average of 78.75%, which is included in the "Valid" category of Canva media implementation with links sent via the WhatsApp group for class VI SD Negeri 10 Perembang Gala. The results of student responses to the product average 86.37%, indicating that the product is feasible. The pre-test and post-test results show the effectiveness of developing PAI-BP learning media based on the Canva application, with a score of 100% increasing even though 13.6% has not been completed. Canva application-based media development can increase student motivation and achievement and be used in learning


Natalia I. Klushina (Moscow, Russian Federation) The article describes the extra-linguistic circumstances, which impact the norms of media language. The hypothesis is that it is necessary to treat studies of media language norms as a separate scientific field as these norms are most important ones for modern communication. The article is focused to prove that each new generation learn the norms of Russian literary language at secondary and high schools and, that is why perceives them as standard. However, these norms may transform in media language. The rationale for the research is that the norm is not yet explored as a frame, formed by school and high education. Norms (frames) of young and elderly generation may not always correlate. Moreover, the shift from traditional book epoch to new digital one should be taken into account. The article suggests that it is possible to use principles of speech culture for exploration of media language. The conclusion is that it is important to develop new principles and approaches for studying mass media language. This view of research field seems to be prospective as mass media language practice works under rules of new digital communication. Key words : language norm, norm-frame, culture of speech, media language, reframing of the norm, media norm . DOI 10.23683/1995-0640-2017-4-46-55 Quote : Klushina, N. I. (2017). Language Norm and its Meaning for Social World View. Proceedings of Southern federal university. Philology . 4, 46‒55.


In this paper we define new spectral properties (h), (gh), (ah) and (gah) as a continuation of [H. Zariouh, Property (gz) for bounded linear operators, Mat. Vesnik, 65 (2013), 94–103], which are variants to the properties (z), (gz) and (az) introduced in the mentioned paper. The purpose of the paper is to study the relationship between these properties and other Weyl-type theorems.


Background and Objectives : Previous studies have shown that morphine dependence leads to myocardial dysfunction. In addition, apelin plays a protective role in cardiac function. The purpose of this study was to evaluate effects of morphine dependence and three models of exercise training on serum apelin level of dependent and healthy rats. Methods : Ten healthy and 40 morphine-dependent rats were used in this study. The morphine-dependent rats were divided into four equal groups of control addicts, endurance training, strength training and concurrent training. The training exercises were carried out for eight weeks, five days a week. Serum apelin level was measured by ELISA, 72 hours after the last training session. Results: Statistical analysis demonstrated that apelin level increased significantly in morphine-dependent rats compared to healthy controls. On the other hand, endurance and concurrent training significantly increased serum apelin level in morphine-dependent rats compared to control addicts, but strength training had not effect on serum apelin level in morphine-dependent rats. Conclusion: Endurance and concurrent training may have cardioprotective effects on morphine-dependent rats by increasing serum apelin levels. Therefore, such training activities could be recommended to morphine-dependent patients to prevent cardiac disorders.


With the appointment of Archbishop Desmond Tutu as the Chair of the South African Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, and with that commission expected to begin work by early 1996, we witness the formal beginnings of another process of confronting the past through official truth-seeking. The next two years of investigations by this commission in South Africa will surely be filled with controversy, pain, sorrow and drama-especially as its hearings will largely be public, and its powers include that of granting amnesty to individual perpetrators who fully confess. But it is hoped that the process will also lead to forgiveness, healing for victims and their families, and ultimately greater reconciliation throughout post-apartheid South African society. Such a process of officially investigating a past period of human rights abuses is being undertaken in an increasing number of countries around the world, usually as a country moves through a transition towards more democratic rule. This is often done through temporary, government-sponsored commissions to look into past abuses-now generically referred to as truth commissions. Such truth-seeking bodies are attractive to a wide range of people for many different reasons. Presidents, parliamentarians, opposition leaders, columnists, human rights activists, United Nations representatives, survivors of the violence and family members of those killed or 'disappeared' can be found calling for a full and formal accounting of the past. There are many potential rewards for instituting such a process. A truth commission can promote reconciliation, outline needed reforms, allow victims a cathartic airing of their pains, and represent an important, official acknowledgement of a long-silenced past. It is also often hoped that this process will help keep such horrors from being repeated. During a difficult political transition, a truth commission can also be used by new leaders to demonstrate or underscore a break with a past record of human rights abuses, as a means to obtain or sustain political legitimacy. But a truth commission process is often more difficult than is at first realised, and the rewards of peace, reconciliation and reform are certainly not assured. A truth commission generally works under much public pressure, with little time and limited resources, often confronting the most sensitive issues in the political sphere-who did what, when, how and why-with the difficult aim of writing a report that will be universally accepted as impartial, fair and an accurate


This research was performed for the Smart UAV Development
Program, one of 21st Centry Frontier R&D
Program funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology
of Korea.


Over the last decade significant progress was made in the analysis and numerical treatment of optimal control problems with nonsmooth cost functionals. Such functionals are in the context of optimal control with sparsity constraints, for switching control and for multi-bang optimal control problems. The natural setting of such problems is given by non-reflexive Banach spaces, which leads to new analytical challenges. The lack of smoothness, on the other hand, demands novel numerical methods for practical solution of the resulting infinite dimensional optimization problems.


People's attention expand to the mental function from the physical function with the social development and progress of the times,and increase human interest and life sentiment to convey to consumers a cordial,warm and comfortable emotional experience.The author analyse automotive emotion from Visceral Emotion Design,Behavior Emotion Design,Reflective Emotion Design.


International organization — Officials — Participation in Pension Fund — Validation of service completed before participation — Interpretation — Estoppel by general circular to staff.


The present invention particularly relates to an adjustment device for a fastener element on a vehicle, such as a window, a sunroof or a convertible top, wherein the closure element is adjustable by means of the closure device between a maximum open position and a maximum closed position, and wherein the adjusting device for adjusting the closure element has a drive motor (M) and an electronic control unit and the control unit has a bridge circuit (B) to supply the drive motor (M) with electric current and the rotational speed and the rotational direction of a to be coupled with the closure element the drive element of the drive motor (M) control. Erfindungsgema0 is the bridge circuit (B) with at least one additional consumer (S) of the vehicle, such as a defogger, and is configured to control the energization of the at least one additional electronic load (S) and provided.


Target for food quality and safety professional training in pharmacy colleges,combined with teaching practice of identification technology of fake food,it is discussed how to improve experimental teaching to enhance students' practical and innovative ability,and students' comprehensive experimental quality by arrangement of the course content,improvement of teaching methods and enrichment of assessment mode.


Recognizing core's porosity distribution feature clearly and characterizing it quantitatively is very important when studying core sample's seepage feature.By scanning dry core and the core saturated with formation water, the porosity distribution features of each scanning slice and the whole core were obtained, and the porosity distribution images of each slice, orthogonal and three dimensional were reconstructed.Statistical features of core porosity distribution could be derived from frequency distribution and cumulative frequency distribution curves of porosity.The level for studying porosity distribution features of core were divided into two levels, 'slice level' and 'core level'.Seven parameters were selected to characterize the central tendency, dispersion and distributional patterns of porosity distribution.It's showed that, the porosity distribution of different scanning slices varied a lot, and core's porosity distribution feature could be characterized well by using the seven parameters.


For the estimation problem of the realized volatility, covariance and hedging coefficient by using high frequency data with possibly micro-market noises, we use the Separating Information Maximum Likelihood (SIML) method, which was recently developed by Kunitomo and Sato (2008). By analyzing the Nikkei 225 futures and spot index markets, we have found that the estimates of realized volatility, covariance and hedging coefficient have significant bias by the traditional method which should be corrected. Our method can handle the estimation bias and the tick-size effects of Nikkei 225 futures by removing the possible micro-market noise in multivariate high frequency data.


In this article, an intelligent inspection method based on image analysis is proposed to identify the color and woven pattern of yarn-dyed fabric automatically. The local sequence images under the reflected light and transmitted light (LSRT images), which consist of reflection sequence images and transmission sequence images, are first captured by a fabric image acquisition device. Then the Fourier transform, image segmentation, and arithmetic operations are employed to the transmission sequence images to determine the location of weave points. Subsequently, the L*a*b* values of each weave point are extracted from the reflection sequence images. To inspect the color pattern, X-means clustering algorithm is used to classify the weave points based on the L*a*b* values. To detect the woven pattern, incomplete weave pattern matrixes of all sequence images are used to match the weave pattern database. Eight LSRT images of each yarn-dyed fabric sample are tested by the proposed method. The experimental results proved that the proposed method can recognize the color and weave pattern of yarn-dyed fabric with satisfactory accuracy and good robustness.


J L Birman S Flugge (chief ed) Berlin: Springer–Verlag 1974 pp xvii + 538 price DM 198, £80.80 (subscription price DM 158,40, £64.70) This book is a self-contained, extensive but concise, abstract and by no means elementary treatise of group theory applied to crystalline solid state physics, specifically to lattice dynamics and to the interaction of light with lattice vibrations. It is an excellent article of encyclopaedia, where the sixteen sections, summarized and put into focus by good introductions, can be read almost independently of each other.


The article analyzes the feasibility of introducing the institution of criminal offense. The focus is on reforming the criminal justice system. It was found out that one of the directions of reforming the criminal justice of Ukraine is the introduction of the institute of criminal misdemeanor in the criminal legislation. According to the results of the study, different approaches to the expediency of establishing liability for misconduct in the criminal legislation of Ukraine have been identified. It is reasonable that changing the understanding of the concept of crime and the criteria for its evaluation is not an easy path, but in today's conditions the introduction of criminal offenses is a progressive, timely and unalterable step, as no scientific developments can solve law enforcement problems. Keywords: criminal proceedings, institute of criminal offense, crime, reforming, criminal legislation, Concept of reforms, criminal justice


The gully erosion presents spectral and spatial heterogeneity and altimetry variation. It is not a land use class, but an object and it can be mapped as a subclass, using OBIA. This study presents a methodology for delimitation of gullies in rural environments, based on image classification procedures. For such, two study areas were selected: one located in Minas Gerais, Brazil and another one located in Queensland, Australia. There were used high resolution images and ALS data. The objects were generated by multiresolution segmentation method. The most important attributes in the definition of gullies were selected using decision tree induction algorithms, being these attributes spectral, altimetry and texture. Classifications hierarchical and by decision trees were carried out. Using decision tree the classification is performed only by a factor of scale, not allowing the identification of all the constituent features of the gully system. In hierarchical classification, the procedure is performed at different scales and allowing to use of fuzzy logic. The classification obtained with hierarchical classification showed results more reliable with the field of reality, by allowing the use of different scales, fuzzy logic and integration of knowledge (the established rule base) compared to the automatic classification by decision tree. As different gullies erosion are similar when presents the same evolution stage and soil type, it is not possible to select attributes to classify all gully systems, being necessary to investigate attributes for each gully erosion, based on available data and existing land use classes in the area


Purpose. To report the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of sleeve patellar fractures in children. Methods. Records of a consecutive series of patients with sleeve patellar fractures were retrospectively reviewed. Results. Of the 11 children (8 boys and 3 girls; mean age, 12 years), 6 had minimally displaced fractures (1–2 mm) and were managed by cylindrical plaster of Paris immobilisation, whereas the other 5 with severely displaced fractures underwent open reduction with tension band wiring. The mean follow-up period was 10 (range, 3–36) months. All patients obtained full extension of the knee except one (with an extension lag of 10 degrees). No patient complained of pain or discomfort of the involved knee. Conclusion. Sleeve patellar fractures in children are uncommon. Diagnosis can be missed, especially in those with a very small avulsed bony fragment. For undisplaced fracture, conservative management can achieve good results. For severely displaced fractures, early surgical intervention is effective.


Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses occur most often in the late spring and summer months, many with similar presentations, making this a good time to test your knowledge of these pesty posers.


Coincident with the 6th report of the Joint National Committee on high blood pressure (see JW Jan 1 1998, p. 1, or Arch Intern Med 1997; 157:2413), two studies and a review provide more information on the role of salt in hypertension.

The first study evaluated whether demographic variables affect the relation between salt intake and blood pressure in salt-sensitive …


This paper proposes a new convolutional neural network architecture to tackle the problem of word spotting in handwritten documents. A Deep learning approach using a novel Convolutional Neural Network is developed for the recognition of the words in historical handwritten documents. This includes a pre-processing step to re-size all the images to a fixed size. These images are then fed to the CNN for training. The proposed network shows promising results for both Arabic and English and both modern and historical documents. Four datasets – IFN/ENIT, Visual Media Lab – Historical Documents (VML-HD), George Washington and IAM datasets – have been used for evaluation. It is observed that the mean average precision for the George Washington dataset is 99.6%, outperforming other state-of-the-art methods. Historical documents in Arabic are known for being complex to work with; this model shows good results for the Arabic datasets, as well. This indicates that the architecture is also able to generalize well to other languages.


: In this article we aim to refl ect on the religious and social context that predisposed Jews and Muslims converted to Catholicism in Portugal towards a progressive detachment from the involving Christian Society and towards an inter ‑approximation, which was consequence both of that isolation and of premises on a more important ethnical and religious proximity . The indecision shown by some Christians to clearly identify the image of north ‑Africa Jews, from a social and religious point of view, must be considered in the context of the essentialist assumptions of that period towards the non ‑Christians, especially concerning the Infi dels, institutionally consecrated in the so ‑called "Estatutos de Pureza de Sangue" .


With the rapid development of multimedia and network technique. Internet is widely used. At present Network Education has showed some obvious advantages in education field.This article makes sortie discussion and analysis on how to make good use of campus net, how to make aid teaching net of a simple practical,used by most of teachers, and provides a realized method of auto formed system on aid teaching net.


For closed-loop position control, the present invention provides a position control apparatus, which can suppress occurrence of stick slip occurring during a feeding operation is performed in a very low speed region. The adder actual speed deviation El Pl is multiplied by a proportional gain, the integral term of the deviation of the actual speed actual speed obtained Tl El integral compensator input deviation, multiplied by a proportional gain Pm and the motor speed motor speed deviation Em the resulting deviation Em input integral compensator motor speed deviation integral term Tm addition, as a result of the torque feedback command Tfb. Converter having integral compensator coefficients, it is possible to change the coefficient changes from 0 to 1, so that according to the speed feedforward command value Vr or the speed command Vc to adjust the integral gain and the integral gain Kl Km. Effect of idling by small integral gain in the very low speed region is set to be large, thereby enhancing Kl switched from the static friction torque in response to the speed of the movable friction torque, suppressing occurrence of stick slip.


ABSTRACT : In the normal marketing of goods and services to facilitate the flow of these events from producers to consumers as well as by using an intermediary in advance, it takes something appropriate distribution channels. This is based on the type of distribution channel used by the PT. Sinar Mas Eagles, as for the company's goal is to investigate the distribution channel and how to influence the distribution costs of the sale which is run by the Eagles PT.Sinar Mas by creating sample data for the period 2001 2005. With mengggunakan methodology to obtain accurate data, the observations and interviews conducted directly by making note of the source of the company. The conclusions are made that the company used two systems of distribution through the wholesale distribution and retail distribution tail.. While the coefficient of determination obtained by 0:14 (14%) affected the company's sales increased due to distribution costs while influenced by other factors such as promotional fees, marketing costs and consumer tastes. From the above description can be proved that the distribution of marketing done by. Sinar Mas Eagles can influence and attract consumers to the advantages and quality of products owned to increase the amount of chocolate sales for each year


We propose an algorithm for scheduling and distance adaption of hybrid AR and IR services based on time prediction. Simulation results show that the algorithm can effectively reduce the service blocking probability.


Incrementally Modified Drug (IMD), Yuhan Research Institute 416-1, Gyeonggi-do, KoreaReceived February 21, 2012, Accepted March 26, 2012A rapid, specific, and reliable LC-MS/MS-based bioanalytical method was developed and validated in ratplasma for the simultaneous quantitation of amitriptyline and its metabolite nortriptyline. Chromatographicseparation of these analytes was achieved on a Gemini C18 column (50 × 4.60 mm, 5 µm) using reversed-phasechromatography. The mobile phase was an isocratic solvent system consisting of 1% formic acid in water andmethanol (10:90, v/v), at a flow rate of 0.2 mL/min. The analytical range was set as 0.1-500 ng/mL foramitriptyline and 0.08-500 ng/mL for nortriptyline using a 200 µL plasma sample. The accuracy and precisionof the assay were in accordance with FDA regulations for the validation of bioanalytical methods. Thevalidated method was successfully applied to a pharmacokinetic study in six rats after oral administration ofamitriptyline (15 mg/kg). This method allows laboratory scientists to rapidly determine amitriptyline andnortriptyline concentrations in plasma.Key Words : Amitriptyline, Nortriptyline, LC-MS/MS, Quantitation, PharmacokineticsIntroductionAmitriptyline is a typical tricyclic antidepressant (TCA)used for the treatment of major depression since the 1960s. Itinduces a specific pharmacodynamic effect primarily byblocking presynaptic uptake of amines (norepinephrine,dopamine, and serotonin). Amitriptyline metabolism involveshepatic microsomal enzymes (mainly CYP2C19 and CYP3A4)that demethylate the aliphatic side chain, generating thepharmacologically active metabolite nortriptyline.


This study examines the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and innovation on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) export likelihood using a two-stage instrumental variable logistic estimator in 6,844 ASEAN SMEs. Adopting ICT technologies allows SMEs to overcome the constraints faced when exporting, while innovation allows SMEs to gain a competitive advantage. Meanwhile, the ASEAN economies are committed toward regional integration and have implemented policies to develop the SME and ICT sector. Results indicate that both ICT technologies and innovation contribute positively to export likelihood, albeit the magnitude of ICT technologies on export likelihood is greater. Furthermore, the results show that ICT technologies can overcome the constraints faced by marginalized businesses in terms of exporting, and can also enhance export likelihood in the manufacturing industry. Policy implications are discussed.


At a certain level it might seem superfluous, even tautologous, to speak of moral theology and orthopraxis. What is moral thoeology about if not the conduct, the right conduct, the orthopraxis of Christians? The relatively late distinction between dogmatic or doctrinal theology and moral theology as it began to prevail from the seventeenth century was based on a distinction between the study of revelation as truth or truths to be believed by Christians and a study of the practical or moral demands which they had to fulfill. In that sense dogmatic theology took care of orthodoxy while moral theology might be said to have taken care of orthopraxis, if the expression had been around. Despite the apparently radical developments in moral theology, particularly in the last thirty years during which the manuals which dominated since 1600 suddenly disappeared, that general picture of the scope and relationship of dogmatic and moral theology still prevails. In an effort to do justice to the complexities of that persisting view of the relationship and to the challenge facing it from the current theological interest in praxis and orthopraxis, it will be necessary to rehearse, from the moral theologian's viewpoint, some fairly obvious features of the conventional distinction between doctrinal and moral theology in its theoretical conception and actual realization.


Purpose As public health professionals strive to promote vaccines for inoculation efforts, fervent anti-vaccination movements are marshaling against it. This study is motived by a need to better understand the online discussion around vaccination. The authors identified the sentiments, emotions and topics of pro- and anti-vaxxers' tweets, investigated their change since the pandemic started and further examined the associations between these content features and audiences' engagement.Design/methodology/approach Utilizing a snowball sampling method, data were collected from the Twitter accounts of 100 pro-vaxxers (266,680 tweets) and 100 anti-vaxxers (248,425 tweets). The authors are adopting a zero-shot machine learning algorithm with a pre-trained transformer-based model for sentiment analysis and structural topic modeling to extract the topics. And the authors use the hurdle negative binomial model to test the relationships among sentiment/emotion, topics and engagement.Findings In general, pro-vaxxers used more positive tones and more emotions of joy in their tweets, while anti-vaxxers utilized more negative terms. The cues of sadness predominantly encourage retweets across the pro- and anti-vaccine corpus, while tweets amplifying the emotion of surprise are more attention-grabbing and getting more likes. Topic modeling of tweets yields the top 15 topics for pro- and anti-vaxxers separately. Among the pro-vaxxers' tweets, the topics of "Child protection" and "COVID-19 situation" are positively predicting audiences' engagement. For anti-vaxxers, the topics of "Supporting Trump," "Injured children," "COVID-19 situation," "Media propaganda" and "Community building" are more appealing to audiences.Originality/value This study utilizes social media data and a state-of-art machine learning algorithm to generate insights into the development of emotionally appealing content and effective vaccine promotion strategies while combating coronavirus disease 2019 and moving toward a global recovery.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-03-2022-0186


Apium bermejoi is a stoloniferous plant endemic to the island of Menorca (Balearic Islands). It is found only at one locality, and it is listed as Critically Endangered (according to the IUCN criteria). We describe the main results of population restoration actions undertaken under the Recovery Plan for this species, including the following: 1) introduction at two new localities (2008), 2) reinforcement of the original wild and the introduced populations, and 3) a programme for monitoring population dynamics (including both wild and introduced populations) spanning four years (2006-2010). The plant material for the introduction and reinforcement projects was generated from seeds gathered in the wild. We carried out a monthly census of all of the individuals/patches and emerged seedlings, from which we assessed their survival at 3-4months. The survival rates of the planted individuals in the two new localities after three months were found to be 59.0% and 56.3%, and more than 80% of the surviving plants produced fruits. A seasonal pattern was observed based on the minimum cover values recorded in the censuses taken at the end of summer, with an increase detected during autumn, and maximal cover values recorded during May/June. The A. bermejoi populations showed large inter-annual fluctuations in both the number of patches and area of occupancy. The number of seedlings varied across the study years, and their survival was linked to specific meteorological events, such as severe storms and dry and hot spells during autumn. The initial phase of introduction for this species has been overall successful, but a final evaluation can only be made on a longterm basis.


Objective: to evaluate the fluoridation scenario in a city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, since its implantation to the present day. Material and Methods: water samples were collected from 2011 to 2017, in 21 locations of the city, analyzed by the electrometric method and classified based on the recommended national fluoride concentrations. Results: from a total of 2,297 samples collected, only 688 (29.95%) were within the recommended range (0.65-0.94 ppmF), with concentrations ranging from 0.00 to 1.92 ppmF and with an average concentration of 0.41 ppmF. During the period of evaluation, it was observed that the locations that were closest to the central region of the city were constantly fluoridated, and most of the samples were in accordance with the parameters recommended by CECOL-USP. On the other hand, in the peripheral neighborhoods, the samples were considered underfluoridated, which might result in inefficacy in the prevention of caries disease. Conclusion: the city showed a clear deficiency in maintaining of fluoride levels at adequate concentrations, which reinforces the relevance of controlling of this measure as part of a continuous surveillance action in oral health care.


In Europe for the past decade and, more recently, in the United States considerable attention has been given to &dquo;quality of work life&dquo; (QWL) or semiautonomous group operation. The QWL approach emphasizes worker participation in the control of the work process, often including the design or redesign of work processes with particular focus on team or group operations in which a given worker is capable of at least several different work operations (rather than only one highly specialized operation). A Delphi studyl on organization development (OD) in the Eighties showed exceptionally strong agreement among academicians and OD practitioners that QWL will be a major (and perhaps a dominant) theme of OD in the Eighties. Having the opportunity to visit the People's Republic of China, I was especially interested in discovering whether or not the QWL/team approach would be in evidence there, because I had heard that small groups permeate life in China-from the neighborhood block committee to the factory group. These groups, however, seem to be associated with political consciousness and control, rather than being primarily task or work oriented. I hoped to see indications of the extent to which the group emphasis that Americans often associate with the People's Republic of China actually extends


The invention provides a preparation process of trifluoromethyl sulfinyl chloride. The preparation process comprises the steps as follows: 1) a synthesis kettle is taken, and thionyl chloride is added; 2) thionyl chloride is heated until reflux and cooled to 0-5 DEG C, and sodium trifluoromethanesulfinate is fed; 3) the temperature is increased to 15-20 DEG C, distillation is performed, the steam is turned off and the temperature is reduced to 10 DEG C or lower when the temperature reaches 90-100 DEG C, and water is added to clean a distillation kettle; 4) the material is distilled into a rectifying still, the rectifying still starts to heat up, front cut fractions are collected after reflux for 3-5 hours, whether the material in the reflux pipe is transparent is observed when the temperature reaches 40-45 DEG C, and a finished product of trifluoromethyl sulfinyl chloride is collected if the material is transparent, and reflux is continued if the material is not transparent; 5) the finished product is stopped from being collected when the temperature reaches 45-50 DEG C, reflux is continued, and the finished product of trifluoromethyl sulfinyl chloride continues to be collected after the reflux temperature is reduced. The process is simple to operate, is green and has no pollutant discharge during preparation, is energy-saving, consumption-reducing and good in economic benefit, an adopted solvent is recyclable, obtained trifluoromethyl sulfinyl chloride has high purity and yield, and the production cost can be effectively reduced.


The College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
The International Textiles and Apparel Association
The Department of Textiles and Apparel, Cornell University


Summary Male (n = 36) and female (n = 24) college students provided attributions on a luck-skill dimension for equally successful performance by males and females on a male-related task. Ss in a modification of Deaux and Emswiller's (1974) paradigm heard a male or a female test-taker achieve a better than average score on an item-identification task, and then they evaluated the performance. It was predicted that the S's sex and level of authoritarianism would combine to mediate differential attributions of male and female success. As hypothesized, a significant S sex × authoritarianism × performer sex interaction was obtained. Specifically, low authoritarian males and females did not make differential attributions on the basis of the sex of the performer, but high authoritarian males attributed more skill to males than to females and high authoritarian females attributed more skill to females than to males.


The impact of humidity and temperature on indium doped tin oxide based transparent conducting oxide (TCO) and electrical interconnects were assessed under hot and humid conditions. A review of thin film photovoltaic (PV) literature has shown one major failure mode of cells/modules is associated with the ingress of water into modules in the field. Water contamination has been shown to degrade the performance of the TCO in addition to corroding interconnects and other conductive metals/materials associated with the module. Few interconnects have been tried traditionally however currently the industry needs an alternative to traditional bonding methods which is reliable and has lower manufacturing costs. In this work, the impact of varying TCO process parameters on the thin film stability is studied in a hot and humid environment. Electrically conducting pressure sensitive adhesives have been applied as interconnects which hold manufacturing advantages. The stability of laminated TCO and interconnects is studied under hot and humid conditions and an optimized TCO layer and interconnect structure is proposed for a laminated CIGS module. A method for evaluation of TCO, interconnect, lamination materials and processes have been established to support qualification for the use in CIGS manufacturing.


of whichever group he thought could throw light on his enquiries – mathematicians, scientists, philosophers – and in his later work he drew on the mystics in deepening his thought about openness. At the same time we can ask whether he makes it particularly hard for the establishment to respond creatively. After all, who would talk to the British establishment about psychoanalysis using concepts like 'godhead'? The British interest in Bion is largely, although not exclusively, in his work on 'K' and the Bion Today book is an excellent introduction to and study of the earlier part of Bion's work. However, it barely addresses and noticeably undervalues the other half of his work conceived when he left Britain. It is this aspect of his work that has caught the attention of psychoanalysts and scholars in South and North America, Italy and elsewhere; and the current book on Bion Today would be well complemented by a second volume which covered these developments. Finally, who is this book for? The Introduction by Mawson and many of the papers are exemplary in their clarity and, as a result, the book would be accessible to people who do not know anything about Bion. At the same time it has the depth and enough rough edges to hold the attention of those who know a great deal about him.


Review(s) of: Records in Stone: Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom, by C.L.N. Ruggles (ed.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (1988) ISBN 0 521 33381 4.


From the feature of scene simulation, the paper analyses classification and store of battlefield situation information, and on the basis of which, puts forward method and key technology that realizing scene simulation of field situation information, discusses it base on data store, graph display and entity model.


The success of Formation Evaluation and Reservoir with modern tools, provided proper planning & Monitoring behind dual casings can be achieved logging preparation. The casing ex-centralization and well deviation are key factors that provide tool orientation and make it possible to record a stronger formation signal. The quantitative water saturation comparison (between open and cased hole evaluation) has indicated significant remaining oil left at the Dahra formation. The current oil water contact has been positively identified.


Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) qualifies mobile radio systems for detecting and localizing of passive objects by means of radar sensing. Advanced ISAC networks rely on distributed infrastructure, multisensor uplink and downlink, or meshed sidelink access. In this way, ISAC develops into a MS-MIMO (multisensor multiple input multiple output) network which constitutes a distributed MIMO radar network. Multisensor link coordination and synchronization are becoming crucial. Many multisensor access and signaling techniques find their communication counterpart in multiuser MIMO and cooperative multilink communications (CoMP) and can be adopted from there.


The article illustrates the characteristics of the Sistema bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN) whose management is currently entrusted to the Istituto per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (ICCU) and which groups about one third of the over 18,000 Italian libraries. After having analyzed the variety of bibliographic records, assessed their quality, that of the catalog and of the services provided, he proposes a re-foundation of SBN by the university library services, following the example of what has already been done by nine southern universities with Share Catalogue.