To take full advantage of gangue for roadside supporting in coal mines,physical properties of coal gangue are tested.The collapsed slump,uniaxial compression strength and initial setting time of gangue binder backfill material with different water-cement ratios and admixture contents are researched.Experimental studies show that the best ratio of water,cement,coarse aggregate,fine aggregate and admixtures is 1:2:5.6:1.6:0.02for site pumping of roadside packing support.The collapsed slump,28d uniaxial compression strength and initial setting time of gangue binder backfill material are 210 mm,20.8MPa,224min respectively under such ratio.It could satisfy the requirement of site supporting,and the initial setting time of binder backfill material under such ratio is about 50 min shorter in site than indoor.


In this note, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for a BCK-formula to have the unique normal form proof. We call implicational propositional formulas formulas for short. BCK-formulas are the formulas which are derivable from axioms B = (a → b) → (c → a) → c → b, C = (a→b→c)→b→a→c, and K = a→b→a by substitution and modus ponens. It is known that the property of being a BCK-formula is decidable (Jaskowski [11, Theorem 6.5], Ben-Yelles [3, Chapter 3, Theorem 3.22], Komori [12, Corollary 6]). The set of BCK-formulas is identical to the set of provable formulas in the natural deduction system with the following two inference rules. Here γ occurs at most once in (→I). By the formulae-as-types correspondence [10], this set is identical to the set of type-schemes of closed BCK-λ-terms. (See [5].) A BCK-λ-term is a λ-term in which no variable occurs twice. Basic notion concerning the type assignment system can be found [4]. Uniqueness of normal form proofs has been known for balanced formulas. (See [2,14].) It is related to the coherence theorem in cartesian closed categories. A formula is balanced when no variable occurs more than twice in it. It was shown in [8] that the proofs of balanced formulas are BCK-proofs. Relevantly balanced formulas were defined in [9], and it was proved that such formulas have unique normal form proofs. Balanced formulas are included in the set of relevantly balanced formulas.


The syndrome of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM) is thought to be mainly a result of the production of parathyroid hormone‐related protein (PTHRP) by malignant tumors. Serum 1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25‐DHD) concentrations are generally low in such patients, which contrasts with the findings in animal studies. A patient is reported with HHM from a clear cell ovarian carcinoma and elevated serum immunoreactive PTHRP (about five times the upper limit of normal) in whom serum 1,25‐DHD concentrations were abnormally high (200 pmol/l) and associated with increased intestinal calcium absorption. Treatment with two different nitrogen‐containing bisphosphonates (pamidronate and [3‐dimethyl‐amino‐1‐hydroxypropylidene]‐1,1‐bisphosphonate) did not normalize serum and urinary calcium despite effective inhibition of bone resorption. These observations suggested an additional intestinal contribution to the maintenance of hypercalcemia. Tumor removal was followed by decreases in serum immunoreactive PTHRP and 1,25‐DHD concentrations to their respective normal ranges and normocalcemia. Separating HHM into Types I and II, according to the prevailing serum 1,25‐DHD concentrations, can provide a basis for a better understanding of the pathogenesis of hypercalcemia, and it also may have practical use in the successful management of these patients.


Missing data is a nuisance in statistics. Real donor imputation can be used with item nonresponse. A pool of donor units with similar values on auxiliary variables is matched to each unit with missing values. The missing value is then replaced by a copy of the corresponding observed value from a randomly drawn donor. Such methods can to some extent protect against nonresponse bias. But bias also depends on the estimator and the nature of the data. We adopt techniques from kernel estimation to combat this bias. Motivated by Polya urn sampling, we sequentially update the set of potential donors with units already imputed, and use multiple imputations via Bayesian bootstrap to account for imputation uncertainty. Simulations with a single auxiliary variable show that our imputation method performs almost as well as competing methods with linear data, but better when data is nonlinear, especially with large samples.


Buckley's Quill and Snowbelle are freely flowering Philadelphus cultivars with very fragrant, double white flowers that survive the winters well in Eastern Ontario. Snowbelle has a medium high shrub and produces more flowers during a longer flowering season than Buckley's Quill. Buckley's Quill has been rated higher than Snowbelle in cooperative trials. Its quill-like petals give it an unusual appearance for mock orange.


Seven La 1-x Sr x FeO 3-δ (x = 0, 0.05, 0.15, 0.25, 0.35, 0.50, 0.70) based perovskites were synthesized using the glycine-nitrate method. The La 1-x Sr x FeO 3-δ compounds were characterized with powder X-ray diffraction and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy on cone-shaped electrodes using a Ce 1.9 Gd 0.1 O 1.95 electrolyte. The activity of the La 1-x Sr x FeO 3-δ based perovskites towards the electrochemical reduction of oxygen was strongly dependent of the strontium content, the activity being highest for the composition La 0.85 Sr 0.15 FeO 3-δ . The results indicates that Fe(III) is the catalytic active specie towards the electrochemical reduction of oxygen in a solid oxide fuel cell on La 1-x Sr x FeO 3-δ compounds. The results also show that oxide ion vacancies in the perovskite structure are important for the electrochemical reduction of oxygen. However, the effect of ordering of oxide ion vacancies for the strontium rich compounds can not be excluded.


DSP is used as a main processor in a control system of a underactuated robot.The high-speed calculation of real-time dynamic control is satisfied.The experiment result shows that the whole control system has powerful function and good real-time ability,and the control system has good stability and performance.


nism for some members of the movement" ( 10). This is disappointing as far as effecting social change goes. It may also be an American weakness; Janelle Reinelt's essays points out how British feminism has been allied to the working class from the start. The plays she discusses were all commissioned by specific companies for known, large audiences and were widely seen and understood. Despite the "materialist" position of some of the American writers, actual production circumstances are often ignored or glossed over and social change through popular performance forms is either uninteresting or ineffective for these theorists. Performing Feminisms is a valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre. I have just one lingering, non-textual question after reading the book. Only one of the twenty contributors—all women—was a full professor at the time of publication. I hope this is merely because the writers (of whom I have only met three, so I'm speculating about the others) are all young.


A new SAW resonator filter on LiTaO3 (X-112°Y) substrate has been developed. The filter is a transducer coupling 3-poles filter with Butterworth response. It is constructed monolithically and requires no external elements. 3.5 dB minimum insertion loss, 5 10 kHz 3 dB-bandwidth, and 46 dB image signal rejection level are obtained at 280 MHz. This new filter, designed for a front-end filter, enables single super-heterodyne radio paging receivers to be offered.


This paper investigates Arabic terms used as equivalents for English consonants and vowels. The Arabic terms, namely harf sakin (consonants) and harakat (vowels), are specifically tailored for the study of Arabic linguistic items. In bilingual dictionaries, Arabic terms do not truly reflect the linguistic realities represented by English vowels and consonants. The aim of the study is therefore to identify the linguistic realities that the Arabic terms represent within the Arabic linguistic environment. A sketch of contrastive analysis of vowels and consonants in English and Arabic helps in clarifying the linguistic meanings, which are absent from bilingual dictionaries. The findings of the study show that Arabic lexical equivalents are simply sense- indicators and thus not sufficient, as the totality of the conceptual meaning of the item is not provided in bilingual dictionaries. The study concludes by briefly discussing some of the study's implications for translators and other dictionary users.


Two variants of multi-robot search for a stationary object in a priori known environment represented by a graph are studied in the paper. The first one is generalization of the Traveling Deliveryman Problem where more than one deliveryman is allowed to be used in a solution. Similarly, the second variant is generalization of the Graph Search Problem. A novel heuristics suitable for both problems is proposed which is furthermore integrated into a cluster-first route second approach. A set of computational experiments was conducted over the benchmark instances derived from the TSPLIB library. The results obtained show that even a standalone heuristics significantly outperforms the standard solution based on k- means clustering in quality of results as well as computational time. The integrated approach furthermore improves solutions found by a standalone heuristics by up to 15% at the expense of higher computational complexity.


Lectins are proteins or glycoproteins of nonimmune origin, which bind specifically to carbohydrate structures. They are widespread in the human diet, and many are resistant to digestion. High doses of lectins have been shown to stimulate intestinal and pancreatic growth. The aim of the present study was to investigate the long‐term actions of low doses of lectins on the rat intestine and pancreas. A long‐term carcinogenesis study was performed using low levels (40 µg/rat/day) of peanut (PNA) or mushroom lectin (ABA) which bind to O‐linked (mucin‐type) oligosaccharides in the gut. While this was primarily designed as a colon carcinogenesis study, the pancreas was also investigated. No significant changes in colon carcinogenesis were seen, however, the colons were slightly heavier in the lectin treated groups. The weight of the pancreas was significantly greater (by 18 and 23%) in both lectin treated groups (P < 0.03/0.001). The weights of the acini and septal tissue were also increased by 39–46% in PNA and ABA fed animals, respectively (P < 0.002); there was no significant change in the endocrine pancreas.


The article addresses the problem of competence-based approach in solving the problem of reading. The problem of defining competence and various approaches to its solution is considered. The concepts of "competence / competence" at the present stage have become key and determining the goals and content of training. The main ability of the graduate is the ability to form his speech utterance for special purposes. For this reason, the main category of linguodidactics becomes communicative competence. The establishment of a new paradigm of education, on which the updating of the content of education in school is based, requires the development of new approaches to planning the expected learning outcomes. This aspect determines the relevance of the described issue. The authors determine the theoretical basis for the formation of reading competence. At the same time, an attempt is made not only to give its own definition of the term, but also to draw a line between the concepts of "reading competence", "literary competence", "reading literacy". In the course of addressing the problem of the formation of reading competence, the article defines the descriptors of reading competence, which give the teacher a direction that requires the application of efforts. Functional literacy, which is one of the results of learning at school, also includes structural elements of the competence under consideration.


A Master of Science in Mechatronics Submitted to the School of Engineering by Mohammad Al-Khedher, "Model Identification of Unsteady Aerodynamic Loading of Delta Wings for High Angle of Attack," June 2004. Chair of Thesis Committee Dr. Ameen Al-Jarrah & Co-Advisor Dr. Khaled Assaleh. Thesis available only in hard copy in Reference and AUS Archives.


K s ight chain deposition disease (LCDD) is characterized by the deposition of or immuoglobulin light chains in many organs, includng the kidney. The disease frequently is ssociated with multiple myeloma or other lymhoplasmacytic proliferative disorders, although significant number of patients with LCDD how no evidence of bone marrow abnormaliies. LCDD frequently has been reported to ecur after renal transplantation, inevitably folowed by graft failure. Multiple myeloma also as been considered a major cause of light chain eposition in renal allografts and to show a high ate of recurrence. The most characteristic feature of LCDD is odular glomerulopathy resembling diabetic gloerulosclerosis. The mesangial nodules are comosed of extracellular matrix proteins admixed ith the monoclonal light chain deposits. Glomerlar basement membranes (GBMs), tubular baseent membranes (TBMs), and vessel walls are ariably thickened as a consequence of subendohelial light chain deposition. Clinically, various egrees of proteinuria and renal insufficiency are ommon manifestations, and rapid deterioration n kidney function can occur as a consequence of isease progression. We report a case of LCDD progression more han 4 years after renal transplantation, with a etrospective analysis of serial biopsy specimens hat showed gradual progression of light chain eposition in the renal allograft.


This study bridges research on squatting and urban commons by studying squatting - when collectively self-organized for community wide social (material and immaterial) benefit and within largely anti-capitalist and anarchist ways - as a practice of commoning. In this paper we analyze the "why" and "how" of such a practice in a Swedish context. A country where the provision of community spaces has historically been satisfied by public authorities within a contradictory hybrid model of corporatist/state capitalism amidst a traditionally well-developed public service sector and strong civil society. Our empirical material consists of 17 semi-structured interviews with squatters, as well as the authors' participant observation at the longest lasting squats in the Swedish capital since 2000. We focus on how the creation of this 'free and voluntary' community led to a 'commoning' of knowledge and skills within squatters' daily lives; and how these practices developed, evolved, and were maintained. Our analysis shows that while the space, most objects in it, and the provisioning of goods there were commoned; the most profound 'commoning' there was immaterial in nature. This commoning centered on the un/intentional sharing, diffusion, and commoning of knowledge, skills, and even emotions and feelings which happened within the mixture of planned and autonomously rotating responsibilities in space.


Develops an intelligent controller for an integrated manufacturing resource planner within a manufacturing execution system. The overall goal is to construct an integrated planner and controller which first generates a master production schedule that satisfies all material and capacity requirement constraints and then defines a closed-loop control law which will implement that schedule. In addition, numerous forms of manufacturing flexibility and uncertainty will be considered. The proposed intelligent controller will rely heavily upon an object-oriented simulation methodology to provide guidance in decomposing the overall planning problem while supporting the inclusion of system-wide controllers to implement the defined plan. Finally, the technology of online simulation analysis will be employed in order to access the future performance of the system while operating under a given plan and its associated enabling control law.


Field experiment was conducted on wetting pattern and salt distribution for micro sprinkler irrigation in deep, medium and shallow soil. The study of soil moisture distribution was undertaken to know the effect of water application rate under 1 kg/cm2 pressure head at different time intervals in different types of soil. To know the effect of salt distribution the soil samples were analyzed at the beginning and at the end of experiment. The horizontal spread of 91 lit/h discharge rate for 1 and 2 hour on deep, medium and shallow soil was 3.00 m on the soil surface. The moisture content was found out to be 76 to 100% of field capacity of the soil. The accumulation of salt was found to be maximum at the periphery of wetted area.


Introduction. The results of experimental studies on the comparative assessment of the effects of various doses of UV radiation on the survival of poliovirus type I LSc2ab, phage MS-2, hepatitis A viruses and their RNA in tap water are presented. Material and methods. Poliomyelitis viruses of type I strain LSc2ab (PV), viruses of hepatitis A, strain HAS-15 (HAV), phages MS-2, free RNA isolated from hepatitis viruses and poliomyelitis were introduced into model reservoirs with dechlorinated Moscow tap water. Water samples were taken from each tank and subjected to ultraviolet irradiation (UVR) with a wavelength of 254 nm with doses of 25, 40, 60, 80 and 100 mJ/cm2. PV titration was performed on a BGM monkey kidney cell transplant line; MS-2 phages were determined by the agar layer method using the E. coli K12F + Str. detector; determination of PV RNA and HAV was carried out on the Rotor GeneTM 6000 amplifier in RT-PCR reaction in real-time using appropriate test systems. Extraction and isolation of RNA from samples of PV and HAV were also performed using reagent kits of domestic and foreign production. Results. Ultraviolet irradiation in doses from 25 to 100 mJ/cm2 was shown to have a pronounced inhibitory effect on phages MS-2 and PV, determined by traditional methods in accordance with the methodological guidelines MUK 4.2.1018-01 and MUK 4.2.2029-05. At UVR doses of 80 and 100 mJ/cm2, complete inactivation of MS-2 and PV phages in water was noted. At the same time, these same doses of UVR had a less inhibitory effect on PVA, HAV RNA, as well as on isolated free PVA RNA/X and HAV, which were more stable and continued to be determined by RT-PCR in water at all doses of UVR, including 80 and 100 mJ/cm2. Conclusion. If only RNA viruses are detected in the treated drinking water and there are no other direct or indirect indices of viral contamination, it is impossible to unambiguously judge the extent of the potential epidemic hazard of the water body. This requires the development of reliable additional tests confirming the infectivity of viruses, determined only by RNA or DNA markers.


AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. DOROTHY SISK CONDUCTED This interview is the third in a new series initiated by the members of the Bulletin 's 2008-2010 Editorial Board. The goal of the series is to feature interviews conducted with Delta Kappa Gamma members or other educational leaders on a topic related to the theme of the issue. Gifted Education The National Association for Gifted Children (2009) defines gifted children as "students who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities," while the Elementary and Secondary Education Act defines gifted children as "students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities" (U. S Department of Education, 2002). Although no federal agency or organization collects statistics on the number of gifted students in the United States, the National Association for Gifted Students (NAGC) estimates that there are more than 3 million school aged academically gifted children which translates to approximately 6% of the population. No single program has been implemented to serve the special needs of these children, and each state and in some cases each school district designs and implements a program for its own students. Services may be provided in a number of ways, including, but not limited to: * Part time class with like ability students, regular schedule the remainder of the time. * Accommodations in the regular classroom * Full time class with students of like ability * Acceleration of content * Grade advancement Dr. Sisk's Background in Gifted Education Dorothy Sisk is currently the Program Director for the Texas Governor's Program for Gifted Children. She holds the Lamar University's Conn Chair for Gifted Education in the College of Education and Human Development, a position she has held since 1989. In 2009, she was honored as the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer. She served in Washington, D.C. as Director of the Office of Gifted and Talented Education and was previously a professor of Special Education and Gifted Education at the University of South Florida. She has authored a number of books about gifted children and has lectured all over the world on their behalf. In August, 2009, she lectured at the World Council for the Gifted and Talented in Vancouver, Canada on the unique perceptions of gifted kids and the discrepancies between their mental age and their chronological age, which could lead to feelings of inadequacy. A Career Devoted to Children Who Are Gifted Dr. Sisk, what led to your involvement in Gifted Education? I became interested in gifted education in my very first year of teaching third grade in Garden Grove, California, in which I taught a cluster group of gifted students, above average students and average students. Across the hall, my colleague had a class of above average students, average students, and students below average. She was an accomplished musician and would give impromptu concerts for all of us before or after school, and there was a constant flow of students back-and-forth from our classrooms, as we shared our talents. My students were studying famous authors and were eager to share their findings with our companion class. This experience taught me that "gifted strategies" are enabling strategies for all kids. The pace and product may be very different, but the active, responsive classroom works for all abilities. I was very fortunate to be selected as part of a team of ten teachers who participated in a special project in the district that replicated the Cleveland Major Work Class. …


The need to minimize populations of overwintering boll weevils (Anthonomus grandis Boheman) in eradication programs is widely recognized, but the potential contribution of nonfruiting regrowth cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) to weevil survival has not been directly examined. We conducted experiments in 2002 and 2003 to examine the host-free survival of weevils previously supplied vegetative-stage regrowth cotton. Weevils, 1-3 d after eclosion, were caged with vegetative regrowth cotton under ambient environmental conditions (2002), or in a controlled environment (23.9 ± 2°C, 13:11 [L:D] h photoperiod, 2003). Four cohorts of each weevil sex were examined each year. Of the 60 weevils dissected in 2002, 12% possessed the hypertrophied fat bodies associated with diapause and extended host-free survival. In both years, the majority of weevils (>75%) died during the initial 3 wks of the host-free period. No differences in host-free survival were detected between weevil sexes, but differences were observed among replicates of the experiment established on different dates. Survival patterns among replicates, however, did not strictly follow a seasonal pattern. Overall, approximately 5% of the weevils survived >=12 wks beyond the feeding period. Maximum observed host-free longevities were 21 wks in 2002 and 19 wks in 2003. Our findings suggest vegetative-stage regrowth cotton should not be disregarded in eradication zones, particularly in those experiencing unsatisfactory progress or resurgence of weevil populations.


Bali Tourism Development Corporation's lagoon (BTDC lagoon) has been used for treating wastewaters that come from all facilities available in the Nusa Dua Resort tourist area. Reuse of the lagoon effluent is limited for some applications due to salt and suspended solid contents. Application of an integrated membrane system for improving the water quality of the lagoon effluent which is suitable for various uses is under consideration. In this work an ultrafiltration (UF) pilot performance for possible pretreatment of Reverse Osmosis (RO) was investigated. The results showed that permeate quality was stable (less than 0.5 NTU), regardless of concentrating and diluting retentate in each cycle and fouling for a long duration of operation. However, the water quality obtained with this membrane was not enough to be directly used. The permeate quality obtained from the UF system fulfils the requirement for the optimal operation of reverse osmosis. Moreover, appropriate intermittent-backwash operation was fairly effective to maintain the fluxes at a reasonable level.


Aim  Island taxa often attain forms outside the range achieved by mainland relatives. Body size evolution of vertebrates on islands has therefore received much attention, with two seemingly conflicting patterns thought to prevail: (1) islands harbour animals of extreme size, and (2) islands promote evolution towards medium body size ('the island rule'). We test both hypotheses using body size distributions of mammal, lizard and bird species.


A microgrid is composed of distributed power generation systems (DGs), distributed energy storage devices (DSs), and loads. To maintain a specific frequency in the island mode as an important requirement, the control of DGs output and charge action of DGs are used in supply surplus conditions and load-shedding and discharge action of DGs are used in supply shortage conditions. Recently, multiagent systems (MAS) for autonomous microgrid operation have been studied. Especially, load-shedding, which is intentional reduction of electricity use, is a critical problem in islanded microgrid operation based on the MAS. Therefore, effective schemes for load-shedding are required. A novel optimization algorithm called ICA has been used to optimize this load shedding procedure.


This paper introduces the searching identification of Chinese standard literatures and the manual searching of Chinese standard literatures, and gives the concrete methods for searching the Chinese standard literatures.


Social work practice is grounded in the symbiotic relationship between macrosystemic community work and direct practice with individuals; however, following a resurgence in emphasis on evidence-based clinical social work in higher education, research on community-building efforts within social work has waned. Among sexual and gender minority populations (SGM), research has indicated a vast array of negative outcomes associated with added stressors, such as stigma, discrimination, and marginalization impacting the population. As such, this study attempts to re-focus the attention of social work practice on the importance of building community, especially for SGM populations. Via a multi-group analysis, the relationship between community (positive social institutions), hope, and flourishing was explored in both the cisgender-heterosexual population and that of the sexual and gender minority population (n = 586) within the United States. Results indicate that there are differences with positive social institutions directly impacting flourishing and indirectly through hope, whereas among the cisgender-heterosexual population, positive social institutions impact flourishing indirectly through hope, and not directly. As such, it is imperative that social workers focus on building strong supportive communities for SGM populations in order to directly and indirectly impact their overall flourishing and wellbeing.


Li-ion polymer battery (LIPB) have become very important components for a portable electronic product at present and it must have high reliability. We reveal using failure analysis and express these by using Failure Tree Analysis(FTA). The failure mechanisms of LIPB are dendrite growth, destruction of inner circuit, oxidation decomposition, corrosion of electrode with short, open and electrical degradation. Temperature and voltage are selected as stress factors by using of two-stage Quality Function Deployment(QFD). Using them, the experimental study is carried out by failure of inner circuit alike failure of battery field. Additionally, Analysing the data of failure, this study estimates B₁? lifetime of LIPB and presents a lifetime increasing plan of LIPB.


There is provided a content use system that both continued to maintain high levels of security, and can use the content under appropriate conditions. Host (100) includes a security information management unit securely manage security information (105), the sending host communication process section security information from the security information management unit (105) managed (101) to the card (200), and a card lower (200) determines that can use the content, the playback unit (104) use of the content; card (200) includes a license management unit usage conditions remains content (203), to obtain the card security information from the host (100) a communication processing unit (201), and according to the security information and the usage conditions, determines the host (100) can utilize the use determination unit content (204), the security information obtained by the card communication processing unit (201), the usage conditions remain in the license management unit (203).


In recent years, the unique stress experienced by those who do 'people work' has been acknowledged by the helping professions as a widespread problem and has been recognized by social scientists as a topic requiring systematic research. This paper begins by briefly reviewing research on the type of job stress experienced by workers in the helping professions. Then, a study of 142 police couples is reported, illustrating the effects of job stress on family life. In a survey study, police officers and their wives described family interactions. Officers who were experiencing stress, as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory, were more likely to display anger, spend time off away from the family, be uninvolved in family matters, and to have unsatisfactory marriages. An examination of the coping patterns used to deal with the stress of police work highlights differences between coping strategies used by husbands versus wives.


AN in-situ synthetic method for nanometer multifunctional silver-protein structure is disclosed, the combination of nanometer keratin and Ag+-containing solution is used for functional treating of material solid surface. For processed materials, the method used three different preparations at different stages of processing respectively and in a specific order. Wherein said functional preparation comprises at least three solutions as follows: nanometer keratin, Ag+-containing solution, reductant solution. Solid surface of material which has been processed exhibits good antibacterial properties, UV-shielding performance and enhanced infrared radiant properties.


Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Category: Multi Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Relationship: James T. Kirk/Khan Noonien Singh, Spock/Nyota Uhura, Leonard McCoy/OC Character: James T. Kirk, Khan Noonien Singh | John Harrison, Spock, Nyota Uhura, Leonard McCoy, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov, Carol Marcus, Alexander Marcus, Christopher Pike, OC Character, multiple OCs Additional Tags: Wingfic, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega!Kirk, Pure Omega!Kirk, Alpha/Beta!Khan, Alpha!Khan, Beta!Khan, Beta!McCoy, I'm Going to Hell, Explicit Language, Pregnant!Kirk, Pure Omega!Kirk / Alpha/Beta!Khan, Omega!Kirk/Alpha!Khan, Omega!Kirk/Beta!Khan, Beta!McCoy/Beta!OC, Augment!OC, Established Relationship, past mentions of child abuse, Past mentions of sexual abuse, Near Death Experience, Past Mentions of Abuse, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, Nipple Play, Ear play, bottom!Kirk, top!khan, Topping from the Bottom, You Have Been Warned, Double Penetration in Two Holes, Double Penetration in One Hole, Self-Lubrication, Foursome M/M/M/M, Omegaverse Sex, Spitroasting, Abusive Relationship, Facials, 69 (Sex Position), Deep Throating, Hand Jobs, Marriage Proposal, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD, Pure Beta!Pike, Beta!Pike, Come Sharing, Come play, Forced Knotting, Biting, NonConsensual Knotting, Blood As Lube, Panic Attacks, Forced Orgasm, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Sponge Bath of Evil, Shower of Evil, Oil Gland Kink, Oil, Wing Grooming, Wing Oil, Shower Sex, Public Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Voyeurism, Bathroom Sex, Klingon!OC, Weapons Kink, I'm Bad At Tagging, Tags Are Hard, Wall Sex, Rough Sex, Domestic Disputes, Domestic Violence, Arguing, Shouting Matches, Abandonment Issues, Self Confidence Issues, Self-Esteem Issues, I need help tagging, First Flight, Flying, First Time, Virgin!Kirk, Loss of Virginity, Bottom!Khan, Top!Kirk, Virgin!Khan, Trigger Warnings, graphic description of rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence, I'm not joking at this being dark Stats: Published: 2015-08-19 Completed: 2019-10-24 Chapters: 50/50 Words: 359370


The Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) provides real-time telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) services for the Department of Defense (DoD) space systems. It consists of a worldwide network of Remote Tracking Stations (RTSs), the Air Force Satellite Test Center (STC), at Sunnyvale, California, and the soon to be completed Consolidated Space Operations Center (CSOC), located near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The object of this paper is to present an overview of the wideband communications systems which provide connectivity between these elements, and the planned evolution of the communications architecture required to support future growth. INTRODUCTION The Air Force Satellite Control Facility (AFSCF) has provided command and control for DoD space systems for over 25 years. The AFSCF consists of 12 Remote Tracking Stations (RTSs), located at seven geographically dispersed locations, and the STC, located in Sunnyvale, California (see Figure 1). Command originating in Mission Control Centers (MCCs) at the STC are relayed to the RTSs for transmission to space vehicles. Telemetry and tracking data received by the RTSs from the space vehicle are relayed back to the MCCs for processing (see Figure 2). In the early days of the AFSCF, the communications between the STC and the RTSs were limited to low speed, 1200 BPS, data lines. In the late 1970s, the AFSCF installed a wideband communications system known as the Defense Communications System/ Satellite Control Facility Interface System (DSIS), to provide a means of relaying high speed satellite telemetry data (up to 1.024 MBPS), multiplexed with voice and other data streams at aggregate rates of up to 1.536 MBPS, from each RTS (see Figure 3). This system, with minor improvements, continues to serve as the backbone of the AFSCF communications network. The creation of the AFSCN with the addition of CSOC, the Data Systems Modernization (DSM) program, the installation of the new Automated Remote Tracking Stations (ARTS), and higher satellite telemetry data rates (greater than 1.024 MBPS) led to requirements for upgrades of the communications network.


Study of soil-tool interaction has been carried out since 1912, but it progressed significantly after 1980's along with the development of computer and computing technologies. Researchers have been modeling these interactions using numerical methods since then. Models developed were for evaluating the performance of tillage operations, soil movement by tillage tools, soil profile and crop residue management, and manure injection, etc. Plenty of research achievements have been received over the past two decades. Variety of mathematical models have been developed, such as numerical models using finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics, analytical methods, empirical models, and others. To provide a clear overview of these models, this paper summarized these studies in the area of modeling of soil-tool interactions. Detailed review was focused on those models developed by the authors. Relative achievements from other researchers were also briefly discussed. Descriptions of these models included characteristics, determination of model parameters, validations, and suitable cases of applications. Limitations and potential improvements were also discussed.


Existing cloud storage systems obtain the data in its plaintext form and perform conventional (server-side) deduplication mechanisms. However, disclosing the data to the cloud can potentially threaten the security and privacy of users, which is of utmost importance for a realworld cloud storage. This can be solved by secure deduplication mechanisms which enables the user to encrypt the data on the client-side (or via an encryption-as-a-service module) before uploading it to the cloud storage. Conventional client-side encryption solutions unfortunately make the deduplication more challenging. Privacy-preserving public auditing schemes, on the other hand, is also crucial because the clients outsource their data to the cloud providers and then permanently deletes the data from their local storages. In this paper, we consider the problem of secure deduplication over encrypted data stored in the cloud while supporting a privacy-preserving public auditing mechanism. We show that existing solutions cannot support both goals simultaneously due to the conflict of their security and efficiency requirements. In this respect, we present an efficient and secure deduplication scheme that supports client-side encryption and privacy-preserving public auditing. We finally show that our scheme provides better security and efficiency with respect to the very recently proposed existing schemes.


Crit Care Med 2016 • Volume 44 • Number 12 (Suppl.) deficit. Significant univariate mortality predictors in the prolonged cohort were: corticosteroids (HR 4.7); arterial pH ≤7.2 (HR 4.4); peak glucose ≥240 mg/dL (HR 3.3); genetic abnormality/syndrome (HR 3.3); mediastinal hematoma (HR 3.2); weight ≤10 kg (HR 2.4), liver injury (AST/ALT ≥5XULN)(HR 2.2); and dialysis (HR 2.0). On multivariate analysis arterial pH ≤7.2 (HR 3.2), corticosteroids (HR 2.8), weight ≤10 kilograms (HR 2.4) remained predictors of mortality (p<.02). Conclusions: Long-term survival after prolonged ECMO support in pts that survive to hospital discharge was favorable. Strikingly, ECMO duration to nearly 1-yr was achievable. Pts that weigh ≤10 kg, who develop severe acidosis and receive steroids during the initial week of ECMO may be at risk for mortality.


Owing to their potential energy absorption capabilities, continuous fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) composites are more frequently considered for use in automotive structures subjected to impact loading, where understanding the inherent loading rate-dependent mechanical properties is essential to predict structural performance. The rate-dependent behavior of the polymer resin will tend to dominate the rate-dependent response of FRP composite materials containing brittle fibers, so it is important to quantify this effect for automotive crash applications. This study investigated the tensile properties of a three-part snap curing resin system formulated for rapid resin transfer molding processes over a range of strain rates (10 to 10 s). A series of tensile tests were conducted using an MTS hydraulic testing machine for static loading, and a hydraulic intermediate strain rate test frame (HISR) for intermediate loading. The experimental results revealed that both the tensile modulus and strength of the resin system increased with increasing applied strain rates. The samples exhibited limited ductile behavior at low strain rates, while a brittle response was observed at higher strain rates. Elastic-plastic constitutive models using Power-law and Johnson-Cook rate-dependent methods were investigated to predict the strain rate dependency of the tested material in a commercial finite element software (Abaqus), and the Johnson-Cook method provided an improved fit to the experimental data when compared to the Power-law method. Overall, this study provides an initial estimate of the resin strain rate effects to support the analysis of FRP for automotive crash applications.


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We present results from a teleseismic receiver function study of central and northern Iceland, carried out during the period 1995–1998. Data from eight broad-band seismometers installed in the SIL network operated by the Icelandic Meteorological Office were used for analysis. Receiver functions for each station were generated from events for a wide range of backazimuths and a combination of inversion and forward modelling was used to infer the crustal structure below each station.

The models generated show a considerable variation in the nature and thickness of the crust across Iceland. The thinnest crust (20–21 km) is found in the northern half of the Northern Volcanic Zone approximately 120 km north of the centre of the Iceland mantle plume. Thicker crust (24–30 km) is found elsewhere in northern and central Iceland and the thickest crust (37 km) is found close to the plume centre. Velocity–depth profiles show a distinct division of the crust into two main sections, an upper high-velocity-gradient section of thickness 2–8 km and a lower crustal section with small or zero overall velocity gradient. The thickness of the upper crust correlates with the tectonic structure of Iceland; the upper crust is thickest on the flanks of the northern and central volcanic rift zones and thinnest close to active or extinct central volcanoes.

Below the Krafla central volcano in northeastern Iceland the receiver function models show a prominent low-velocity zone at 10–15 km depth with minimum shear wave velocities of 2.0–2.5 km s−1. We suggest that this feature results from the presence of partially molten sills in the lower crust. Less prominent low-velocity zones found in other regions of Iceland may arise from locally high temperatures in the crust or from acidic intrusive bodies at depth.

A combination of the receiver function results and seismic refraction results constrains the crustal thickness across a large part of Iceland. Melting by passive decompression of the hot mantle below the rift zone in northern Iceland forms a crust of thickness ∼20 km. In contrast, the larger crustal thickness below central Iceland probably arises from enhanced melt production due to active upwelling in the plume core.


The kinetics of reaction of •OH and $e{}_{{\rm aq}}{}^{-}$ with lecithin bilayers have been measured. The rate for •OH + lecithin is $5.1\pm 0.9\times 10^{8}\ M^{-1}\ {\rm sec}^{-1}$ while the $e{}_{{\rm aq}}{}^{-}$ + lecithin rate is very slow. When a solute such as pyrene is solubilized in the bilayer, •OH and $e{}_{{\rm aq}}{}^{-}$ may react with the solute; rates of $1.65\pm 0.12\times 10^{9}\ M^{-1}\ {\rm sec}^{-1}$ and $7\times 10^{7}\ M^{-1}\ {\rm sec}^{-1}$ have been measured for reaction of •OH and $e{}_{{\rm aq}}{}^{-}$ , respectively, with pyrene in lecithin. These rates are lower than those observed for similar reactions in homogeneous systems. This is explained in terms of (a) the protective effect of the bilayer, this being especially true for $e{}_{{\rm aq}}{}^{-}$ which does not readily leave the aqueous phase, and (b) in ter...


Although improved, the prognosis of chronic heart failure is still malignant, the survival rate being similar to that of cancer. Due to the relevant epidemiology of this disease, the terminal care of heart failure has a significant impact, searching for the best quality of cure and care.


Apparent diffusion coefficients, Dapp,i, were determined in solutions with a polycationic additive — poly(diallyldimethylammonium) — acting as a pseudostationary phase for electrokinetic chromatography. They were determined for six small neutral analytes at five concentrations of the polymeric additive (between 0 and 4% w/w) by a stopped migration method. The apparent diffusion coefficients decrease with increasing polymer concentration only within 40% maximum, an effect that cannot be associated with the macroscopic viscosity of the polymer solution (which increases by a factor of 10). The change of the apparent diffusion coefficients is related to the interaction of the neutral analyte molecules with the polyelectrolyte chain. Applying the model of analyte partitioning between "free" solution and polymer, capacity factors and partition constants were derived from the slope of the 1/Dapp,i vs. polymer concentration curves. Partition constants determined by this method (ranging between 40 and 170) agree with those obtained by electrokinetic chromatography.


There has been increasing evidence implicating RNA-binding proteins (RNA-BPs) and alternative splicing in the development of cancer. In this article, the authors investigate the involvement of two hnRNP proteins, hnRNP A1/A1b and hnRNP A2/B1, in hepatocellular carcinoma. These hnRNP proteins are up-regulated in HCC tumors derived from an inflammation-induced liver cancer mouse model. They show that the levels of hnRNP A2 (but not of its splicing isoform hnRNP B1) and hnRNP A1 are critical for tumor formation. This requires the activation of the Ras-MAPK-ERK signaling pathway, which depends on the ability of hnRNP A2 to modulate splicing of A-Raf, reducing the expression of a short dominant-negative isoform.


Insulin resistance after burn is associated with alterations in postreceptor insulin signaling and abnormal glucose homeostasis. RAS exerts a largely inhibitory role on insulin action and is activated after burn injury. We examined the possibility that an angiotensin II type‐1 (AT1) receptor blocker, losartan, enhances insulin sensitivity and thereby increases glucose tolerance in thermally injured rats. A 30% body surface area burn was induced by immersion of the dorsum into 90°C water for 15s. Sham burned rats were immersed in 23°C water. Losartan (30 mg/kg/day) or placebo (water) was given by gavage for three days post‐burn resulting in sham burn, burn placebo, burn losartan. Plasma angiotensin II levels between burn and sham burn were not different three days post‐burn. However, losartan significantly increased plasma angiotensin II levels (p<0.05), suggesting blockade of the AT1 receptor. The oral glucose tolerance test ( Table ) showed an increase in the area under the curve (AUC) for insulin and the glucose insulin (GI) index in burn placebo as compared with sham burn, indicating insulin resistance. Losartan treatment abolished the insulin resistance in burn as evidenced by an AUC for insulin and GI index lower than burn placebo and similar to sham burn. This suggests that insulin resistance and glucose intolerance associated with burn injury is due, in part, to RAS.


The objective of this work was to investigate the role of tyrosine kinase in monosodium urate monohydrate (MSUM) and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystal‐induced neutrophil activation using the tyrosine kinase inhibitor lavendustin C (LVC). Human neutrophils pretreated with LVC at concentrations between 10 and 150 μM or control neutrophils were stimulated by plasma‐coated CPPD or uncoated MSUM, and chemiluminescence, superoxide generation, intracellular calcium concentration, and degranulation (myeloperoxidase and lysozyme release) were monitored with time. LVC strongly inhibited chemiluminescence, superoxide anion generation, myeloperoxidase and lysozyme release, and calcium mobilization. After 1‐min crystal‐neutrophil incubations, neutrophil cytosolic fractions showed extensive inhibition of tyrosine kinase activity by LVC. We conclude that the inhibition of neutrophil responses to crystal stimulation, by the protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor LVC, provides evidence that supports the involvement of tyrosine kinases in crystal‐induced neutrophil activation. J. Leukoc. Biol. 55: 112–119; 1994.


I investigate the effect of incomplete information on the growth process of scale-free networks-a situation that occurs frequently in real existing citation networks. I propose two mathematical models and solve those analytically for the scaling behavior of the connectivity distribution. These models show a varying scaling exponent with respect to the model parameters but no breakdown of scaling thus introducing the first models that are scale-free networks in an environment of incomplete information. I compare to results from computer simulations and discuss the relevance for known data of real networks.


Introduction. Few studies have addressed teacher trainees' information acquisition in the context of a task. The paper reports findings from an empirical study on teacher trainees' use of information (seeking) channels and sources, and their modes of information acquisition in lesson planning. Method. Semi-structured (retrospectively held) individual interviews and supporting classroom observations were conducted. Analysis. Inductive thematic analysis was applied to the transcribed interviews. Findings. The trainees used various information channels for a single lesson plan, mainly their personal collections and the Web. The information sources acquired comprised documentary and interpersonal sources, various media and contents. Their information acquisition encompasses a continuum of modes beginning with purposeful and goal-orientated, and ending up with accidental and passive modes of information acquisition. Conclusions. Trainees' information acquisition for lesson plans cannot be described only in terms of their present activities or goal-orientated information seeking behaviour. The use of personal collections of information sources, gathered in the past in anticipation of future lessons, constitutes an essential characteristic of their information acquisition. Trainees' modes of information acquisition reflect continuity across work tasks, which calls for capturing across task perspectives in information seeking models.


An organic substance, hydroquinone is used to form clathrate compounds in order to identify separation characteristics of carbon dioxide in flue gas. Formed samples were analyzed by means of the solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Raman spectroscopic methods to examine enclthration behaviors of guest species. In addition, elemnetal analysis was also performed in order to evaluate separation efficiency of in a quantitative way. Based on the experimental results obtained, molecules are found to be captured into the clathrate compound more readily than molecules. Moreover, because such preferential enclathration is even more significant at low pressure conditions, separation/recovery from flue gas can be achieved with minimizing additional energy cost for the technique. Experimental results obtained in this study can provide useful information on separation techniques of flue gas or selective separation of gas mixtures in the future.


Liquid rare-earth mixture containing cerium is used as raw material, potassium permanganate as oxidant and carbonate of alkaline matter (e.g. sodium carbonate and ammonium dicarbonate) as acidity regulator. After washed, deposited cerium in the form of cerium hydroxide is dissolved in concentrated hydrochloric acid while 4-valence Mn and Ce are dissolved and reduced into 2-valence Mn and 3 valence Ce. By use of oxalic acid as precipitant, they are separated from each other. Through washing, filter, baking and roasting, cerium oxide is obtained with a purity of 84-99.8%.


Understanding how microbial communities respond to environmental change requires knowing the main drivers of their structure, diversity and potential resilience. Lake Baikal is the world's most ancient, deep, voluminous, and biodiverse lake, holding 20 percent of unfrozen fresh water that is undergoing rapid warming. Despite its global importance, little is known about Baikal's bacterioplankton communities and their drivers. In this extensive survey, we show that temperature, along with stratification, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen, but not geographic distance, define major microbial habitats and community similarity. Mixed layer and deep water communities exhibited contrasting patterns of richness, diversity and evenness, and comprised different cohesive modules in the whole Baikal OTU co-occurrence network. The network's small-world properties indicated likely resistance to perturbations but sensitivity to abundance changes of central, most connected OTUs. Previous studies showed Baikal water temperature rising by over 1.2°C since 1946, and this trend is predicted to accelerate. Because temperature emerged as the most significant predictor of the mixed layer community structure, we hypothesize that it is most likely to drive future community changes. Understanding how temperature and other abiotic factors structure microbial communities in this and other rapidly changing ecosystems will allow better predictions of ecosystem responses to anthropogenic stressors.


Aims: the role of concomitant chemotherapy with radiotherapy (crt) in locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPc) is controversial. the aim of this study was to report the outcomes of patients with LAPc treated with crt over a 10year period within a single institution and to identify those patients who derived the most benefit. Methods: Patients with LAPc who received radical radiotherapy (> 45Gy) between January 2004 – October 2014 were identified. the Electronic Patient record was reviewed to collect data regarding staging, treatment, response and outcome. the Kaplan-Meier and cox regression methods were used to analyse survival outcomes and compare survival rates between groups. results: 138 patients were identified. Patients who had a response on imaging after induction chemotherapy had a median Os of 17.4 months compared to 10.3 months in non-responders (Hr 0.55, 95% cI 0.35–0.87, p=0.01). At three months post-radiotherapy, patients who had achieved a response on ct had a median Os of 56 months compared to 10.7 months (Hr 0.28, 95% cI 0.12– 0.65, p=0.003). However, a reduction in cA199 prior to radiotherapy was not significantly associated with progression free survival (PFs) Sophie Otter1, Irene Chong2, Ria Kalaitzaki3, Diana Tait2 Affiliations: 1Clinical Research Fellow, Royal Marsden Hospital, UK; 2Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Royal, Marsden, Hospital, UK; 3Senior Statistician, Royal Marsden Hospital, UK. Corresponding Author: Dr. Diana Tait, Royal Marsden Hospital, Downs Road, Sutton, UK, SM2 5PT; Email: diana. email@example.com Received: 22 December 2017 Accepted: 23 February 2018 Published: 06 March 2018 or Overall survival (Os). Patients with a response in cA19-9 levels at 3-months post-radiotherapy compared to baseline had an Os of 19.1 months compared to 10.5 months in non-responders (Hr 0.42, 95% cI 0.26–0.68, p<0.001). conclusion: Patients with LAPc who responded to chemotherapy on imaging prior to radiotherapy had improved PFs and Os than non-responders and therefore appeared to benefit the most from crt. A decrease in cA19-9 prior to radiotherapy was not associated with improved survival and proved less useful for patient selection for crt.


Objective To establish the evidence-based medicine database of Chinese medicine of cold and warm nature in view of chronic hepatitis B(CHB)so as to reveal the scientific connotation of Chinese medicine of cold and warm nature and explore its significance for clinical guide and provide scientific support.Methods The retrospective analysis was adopted for the case investigation so as to draw up a set of normalized clinical information collection form of Chinese medicine of cold and warm nature and establish Java 2(J2EE)technological system.Model-view-control(MVC)structure of database system was used.Results This database achieved the input,storage,revision,retrieval,statistics,patterning display and maintenance of CHB records.Conclusion The database for the evidence-based medicine research of Chinese medicine of cold and warm nature is established.The information integration is achieved on individual data,clinical data and medical research data.This database provides the structuralized,organized,standardized and sharing management for the evidence-based medicine research in the treatment of CHB with Chinese herbology and ensures the information giving for the smooth development of evidence-based medicine research on the medicine nature of Chinese herbology.


This paper argues for a theory of lexical acquisition which takes syntactic transfer effects in bilinguals and overgeneralization in monolinguals to be manifestations of the same underlying mechanism. The theory views both transfer and overgeneralization as epiphenomena of an updating system which spreads newly acquired information across paradigms. A consequence of this set up is that both transfer effects and overgeneralization are only expected to affect members of the same paradigm. Experimental evidence, both old and new, is presented in support of this model.


We prove some general asymptotic formula for the values of $L$-function of a sequence of constructible $\mathbb Q_l$-sheaves on curves over $\mathbb F_q$ with some good asymptotic properties. We also give the asymptotic formula for the number of points on the stack $\mathrm{Bun}_G$ for asymptotically exact sequence of curves and a split reductive group $G$. In the case of $\mathrm{GL}_n$ we prove that the same formula holds if we take only semistable points in the account.


The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition and its use for makeup the line of the eyebrows while being a care to induce and / or stimulate the growth and / or the pigmentation of the eyebrows and / or to slow down their fall and / or to increase their density. the cosmetic eyebrow care and makeup composition comprises at least the N-palmitoyl-Gly-His-Lys peptide, the N-palmitoyl-Gly-Gln-Pro-Arg peptide, an extract of Coleus, a witch hazel plant extract, a vegetable extract of horse chestnut, a plant extract of St. John's wort, a plant extract of nettle, a plant extract of apple, hydrolysed Sericin, D Yellow 5, D RED 40, D Green 5 with at least an acceptable excipient for cosmetic application.


This experiment was conducted to determine the effects of cutting height on the yield and nutritive value of brittle culm rice. A brittle culm cultivar, KL501, was compared with a non-brittle culm rice, Seomjinbyeo. The cultivars were grown in paddy until flowering stage at which the first cutting was made followed by the second cutting on October 20. Cutting regime conducted were 0, 5, 10 and 20cm from the surface. Herbage yield, TDN and other nutritive values were measured. As the higher cutting height, crude protein, fat and NFE (nitrogen free extract) contents were increased and crude fiber and ash content were decreased at the first cutting, while those at second cutting were increased except NFE content. Fresh and dry matter yield at 10cm cutting height, Seomjinbyeo was 4.45 and 1.16t /ha, KL501 was 4.71 and 1.14t /ha, respectively. TDN content of first cutting was increased as the higher cutting height, but that of second cutting was decreased. TDN yields of Seomjinbyeo and KL501 at 10cm cutting height were highest by showing 0.63t /ha and 0.61t /ha, respectively.


A variety of factors in the early 1990s engendered interest in informal investment as a financial solution for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Great Britain. Because of recession, a gap had emerged in the provision of both debt and equity financing to SMEs. Banks' attempts to rebuild capital bases meant that SMEs could no longer rely as heavily on loans and overdraft protections. Because SMEs typically needed less than £25,000, traditional venture capital (VC) was not an option, with its majority of institutional investors, emphasis on financial engineering expertise, transaction crafting and closing fee generation, and short term goals, all of which made outlays under £250,000 impractical. While it was clear that informal investors had an important role to play in the British economy, having overtaken traditional VC as a significant source of risk capital for SMEs, American scholarship tended to dominate. In order to study this phenomenon in the UK, solicitations for participation were made by post and via advertisements in industry publications in order to gather a study sample. Several data points emerged. Overwhelmingly, informal investors were men. Often referred to as 'business angels,' they provide capital to new and growing firms with which they had previously had no association. Angels were more likely to invest than traditional VC, with a tendency to focus on one firm. Professional relationships fostered most referrals, most likely benefiting young companies (one third) but not generally pre-start-ups (9%). Additional characteristics of informal investing and the decision criteria of such investors are discussed. Two major conclusions were reached. Extra-financial considerations were strong motivating factors for angels, who often involved themselves in the day-to-day operations of the firms in which they invested. And, while traditional VC seemed to have been concentrated in the southeast (i.e., around London), informal investments were found to be distributed throughout the UK. There were also four implications for policy. First, entrepreneurs needed to be better informed about business angels. Second, greater efficiency in use of informal venture caital was necessary. Third, parity was needed for taxes on equity for publicly and privately held enterprises. Finally, the Financial Services Act of 1986 needed clarification. (RAS)


The kidney of some Littorinoidea and Archaeotaenioglossa was studied by histochemical and electron microscopic techniques. Viviparus was assumed to be the most primitive because no clear differentiation occurs between vacuolated excretory cells and ciliated cells. Differentiation is effective in the other species. The ciliated cells were abundant in marine species only; they could move urine and phagocyte. The excretory cells often become monovacuolated in terrestrial (Pomatias) and amphibious (Pila) species. The kidney of all these animals except the Pomatiadisae contains puric compounds. In these animals, those substances are stored in the concretions gland. In contrast to Pila's ureter, Viviparus ureter possesses no suitable equipment for osmoregulation, and thus the kidney compacity could partially compensate for this handicap. In the kidney of Pomatiasidae, osmoregulation seems to be reduced; this function may be carried out by the tubulous pedal gland.


Periodically the casual observation is heard that the largest U.s. banks are not large enough to meet the credit needs of the country's largest manufacturing corporations. While this observation is typically made' by those with a vested interest in convincing bank regulators and legislators of the desirability, or even necessity, of a permissive attitude toward consolidations, the question is an interesting one. Thus, if the contention is true, it might be an important impediment to economic growth and might have significant implications for bank merger policy. Unfortunately, there is no direct approach to analyzing this issue with available data. Therefore, this article addresses the issue indirectly by (1) examining trends in the growth of two sources of business credit vis-a-vis the growth of big U.S. manufacturing corporations over the past 50 years and (2) examining trends in bank lending that might suggest whether a problem exists.


This work considers the creation of electron-positron pairs from intense electric fields in vacuum, for arbitrary temporal field variations. These processes can be useful to study quantum vacuum effects with ultra-intense lasers. We use the quantized Dirac field to explore the temporal Klein model. This model is based on a vector potential discontinuity in time, in contrast with the traditional model based on a scalar potential discontinuity in space. We also extend the model by introducing a finite time-scale for potential variations. This allows us to study the transition from a singular electric field spike, with infinitesimal duration, to the opposite case of a static field where the Schwinger formula would apply. The present results are intrinsically non-perturbative. Explicit expressions for pair-creation as a function of the potential time-scales are derived. This work explores the spacetime symmetry associated with pair creation in vacuum: the space symmetry breaking of the old Klein paradox model, in contrast with the time symmetry breaking of the temporal Klein model.


In this article, we present our teen leadership group and projects. We describe our "I'm a Student, Too!" campaign and why it is important to raise awareness about Latino/a children and families that live in Isla Vista, California, which has the reputation of being a college town. We outline our group's mandate to create a better, safer, and healthier place where youth and families can grow up. We then describe how we collected data on people's opinions of Isla Vista over the past two years and how we shared this information at town halls, University of California Santa Barbara orientations, and community conferences to make positive changes in our community.


We perform lattice simulations in pure-SU(2) Yang-Mills theory to investigate how the infrared behavior of electric and magnetic gluon propagators in Landau gauge is affected by temperature. We consider the largest lattices to date, in an attempt to keep systematic errors under control. Electric and magnetic screening masses are calculated through an Ansatz from the zero-temperature case, based on complex-conjugate poles for the momentum-space propagators. As recently reported in [1], we find good fits to the proposed form at all temperatures considered, with different ratios of real to imaginary part of the pole masses for the longitudinal (electric) and transverse (magnetic) propagators. The behavior of the magnetic propagator D_T(p) is in agreement with the dimensional-reduction picture, showing infrared suppression (with a turnover in momentum) and violation of spectral positivity at all nonzero temperatures considered. The longitudinal propagator D_L(p) appears to reach a plateau at small momenta and is subject to severe finite-Nt effects around the critical temperature Tc. As a consequence, only lattices with temporal extent Nt > 8 seem to be free from systematic errors. After these errors are removed, the infrared-plateau value is considerably reduced around the transition and the sharp peak observed previously for this quantity at Tc is no longer present. The resulting infrared behavior for D_L(p) at Tc is essentially the same as for 0.5Tc . An investigation of the temperature range between 0.5Tc and Tc reveals that a less pronounced (finite) peak may occur at smaller temperatures, e.g. T ~ 0.9Tc.


The patient was a woman, 60 years old, who reported that her throat had been paining her for the past two years, and that for a long time, almost as long as she could remember, she had had more or less discomfort in the region of each tonsil. The right was found to be somewhat hypertrophied, and she had pain running to the ear from this region. She did not at first want the tonsil removed, and was treated for some weeks with chromic acid applications. This was followed by some improvement in the sensation. Later she consented to the removal of the right tonsil; the left one was not large. On applying a tonsillotome I was surprised to find that I was unable to cut through the tonsil, and on examining with the finger found that a bony mass penetrated the tonsil almost to its outer border. This was


The objectives of this paper were to study the ductile and brittle behavior of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) strengthened concrete beams, under different steel ratio, and with or without end anchorage; and to investigate the delamination of CFRP strengthened concrete beams under monotonic and cyclic load, with or without end anchorage. Results of the performed tests demonstrate the feasibility of using externally applied, epoxy bonded CFRP system to restore or increase the shear capacity of reinforced concrete beams.


This article focuses on the first Greek edition of a work of classical antiquity printed in England, namely Euripides' Troades, published by John Day in 1575. This is not a new edition of Euripides' text, but it reproduces the text established in the editions derived from the Aldine one, without any of Willem Canter's 1571 changes. Basing their discussion on a textual and contextual analysis, these notes focus on the book's typographical peculiarities, suggesting that Day's Greek types may have been used later by Dawson. The article also attempts to identify Day's printing purposes and the possible readership of this entirely unusual printing venture.
Keywords: Greek theatrical literature; reception of Greek literature; early modern English culture; reception of Euripides


The chemical and electronic structure of indium-on-copper phthalocyanine CuPc contacts is addressed. Both core levels and valence-band evolutions were inspected during the incremental formation of the indium- CuPc interface. In contrast to the previous study V. Y. Aristov et al., Phys. Rev. B 72, 165318 2005, our results suggest that the In-CuPc system is not a reactive one. This is corroborated by the absence of reactive components in the C 1s and N 1s regions. A component shifted toward high binding energy in the In 4d spectrum and gap states—the latter emerging between the highest-occupied molecular orbital and the Fermi level, which were regarded as an evidence of a reaction between In and CuPc—are consistently interpreted in terms of the final-state effect of finite indium nanoclusters exposed at the CuPc surface. Metal-organic interfaces are becoming integral parts of nowadays electronic devices. This applies both for the con- ventional electronics in virtue of ongoing applications of polymers in the role of low-dielectric-constant alternatives to inorganic insulating films and for organic electronics. The latter roots in applications of electronically active organic films, yet these have to be provided by metallic contacts. Among other techniques, photoemission spectroscopy offers unique possibilities to investigate both chemical and elec- tronic structures at the onset of the contact formation: An analysis of core levels of concerned elements permits to dis- criminate reacted ones via their chemically shifted compo- nents and an inspection of the valence band reveals relative positions of electronic energy levels at interfaces, namely, barriers for charge carriers. Since the overall properties of thin films may be dramatically affected by their contacts, numerous studies have addressed properties of correspond- ing interfaces. 1-22 Basically, there are two types of contacts employed in organic electronic devices: the bottom contact and the top one, i.e., the organic-on-metal and the metal-on- organic contacts, respectively. The bottom contact has been prevailingly investigated compared to the top contact since well-defined metallic surfaces are convenient substrates for organic film growth studies. Importantly, the bottom and top contacts represent technologically distinct problems; while the morphology of a metallic substrate is usually negligibly affected by the organic film growth and a planar contact is established, the metal growth on organic films may occur in distinct fashions depending on the nature of both the metal and the organic film: The metal may react with the


The present invention relates to a surface reforming nanoparticle made of an oxide or hydroxide of the metal or metalloid, it reacts with the modifying agent on the surface to form a covalent bond. The modifying agent is a polysiloxane. The present invention relates to the use as filling material in the present invention relates to the production method of these particles, the coating material, plastic, foam retention, and nail varnish of the particles flow, to a dispersion containing the particles. Coating, a filler, a polysiloxane, nanoparticles


The crystal structure of a Nd-based (Ru 0 . 75 Cu 0 . 25 )(Sr 1 . 47 Ba 0 . 2 Nd 0 . 33 )(NdCe)Cu 2 O 10 − δ compound has been studied by using neutron powder diffraction data collected at 295 K and 65 K. The Rietveld refinements of the data show that the rotation angle of the RuO 6 octahedron around the crystallographic c -axis increases and the tilt angle of the RuO 6 octahedron decreases upon cooling. The oxygen vacancies were also observed to be located on both the O(1) site of the RuO 2 basal plane and the O(4) site of the fluorite-type (Nd,Ce)O 2 − δ block. The magnetization data showing a paramagnetic behavior are discussed in connection with the refined structural properties of the compound.


We say that a symmetric matrix K is quasi-definite if it has the form K = [ −E AT A F ] where E and F are symmetric positive definite matrices. Although such matrices are indefinite, we show that any symmetric permutation of a quasi-definite matrix yields a factorization LDLT . We apply this result to obtain a new approach for solving the symmetric indefinite systems arising in interior-point methods for linear and quadratic programming. These systems are typically solved either by reducing to a positive definite system or by performing a BunchParlett factorization of the full indefinite system at every iteration. Ours is an intermediate approach based on reducing to a quasi-definite system. This approach entails less fill-in than further reducing to a positive definite system but is based on a static ordering and is therefore more efficient than performing Bunch-Parlett factorizations of the original indefinite system.


The subjective notion of quantity refers to the speaker's subjective evaluation of quantities and is a subcategory of the quantity category. The subjective notion of quantity can be expressed linguistically by: A)numeral-quantifier expressions, including those used as modifiers; B)marking words used at the end of sentences; C)adverbs used as adverbials; and D)set frames that consist of two parts. This article discusses the subjective notion of quantity expressed by numeral-quantifier expressions under the following three circumstances: a)the repetition of numeral-quantifier expressions; b)special numeral-quantifier structures; and c) those numeral-quantifier structures modified directly by some words.


Recent discussions concerning the future of public policy and administration both in academic journals and under the auspices of bodies such as BTEC and CNAAI have reflected some doubt among teachers about the future direction of the subject (Kingdom, 1987; Chapman, 1987; Chandler, 1988). Amid the debate on the future of Public Administration there seems to be a growing consensus that events, in particular the changing agenda of government have forced a reconsideration of traditional boundaries and the creation of three broad poles of study. These are Public Administration, Policy Analysis and Public Management with the latter becoming increasingly important in determining the agenda and shape of the other two. The agenda of the Thatcher years has meant an emphasis on management and finance with the subject being mobilised to both reflect and facilitate a cultural shift and equip students for their new roles in this environment. It is not clear whether these developments have been forced on institutions as a result of 'internal' resource constraints or whether there has been enthusiastic collaboration as new markets have been exploited, short courses sold and research reorientated. The nature of the perceived environment seems to indicate the latter, with many speaking up for vocational relevance and the development of student skills if the discipline is to play its part in reversing economic decline and bringing Public services up to the best standards set in the private sector. Consequently a more business and managerial focus would seem to be relevant. The view that public policy and administration should be a more practically orientated field of study finds support in the breakthroughs in applied theory and skills pioneered by BTEC. This organisation has prided itself on the way it has sought to move the focus away from a traditionally academic stance. While somewhat more guarded discussions and documentation circulating at a recent conference of CNAA have not fully endorsed this, numerous references to the 'real world' and even some suggestion that staff need to be 'converted' from a political science or sociological approach are worrying signs.! It would be a pity if it was left only to the mavericks reveal 'real worlds' to be contingent, temporary and sometimes the products of the exercise of power. While in the 1980's journals like


Duoluokou Freight Yard is the junction in Wuhan for goods storage. The warehouses of 5# and 6# in the first-stage extension construction of this freight yard are roofed by steel structure. The structural form and difficulties in assembly welding are introduced in this article; the welding techniques and installation methods of the steel structure are elaborated.


The core of restructuring the state-owned enterprises in the old northeast industrial bases is the mechanism and the institutional mechanism of the state-owned large-sized and medium-sized enterprises. The structuring follows the principles of governmental leadership and market-oriented operation. The stress lies in exploring the state-owned capital exit mechanism in practive and exerting the governmental functions in terms of designing, guidence and supporting.


The article deals with architecture as a catalyst for sensual experience. It refers to two architectural theories which clashed throughout the 20th century – minimalism, which started with Adolf Loos and Mies van Der Rohe, and the idea of architecture as a trigger of all sensual experience. Is this only a matter of taste or could this aspect of architecture be analysed in a more objective way? Examples of Peter Zumthor's buildings give evidence that designing for all senses should be part of architectural curriculum.


Propensity scores are commonly used to balance observed covariates while estimating treatment effects. Estimates obtained through propensity score weighing can be biased when the propensity score model cannot learn the true treatment assignment mechanism. We argue that the probabilistic output of a learned propensity score model should be calibrated, i.e. a predictive treatment probability of 90% should correspond to 90% of individuals being assigned the treatment group. We propose simple recalibration techniques to ensure this property. We investigate the theoretical properties of a calibrated propensity score model and its role in unbiased treatment effect estimation. We demonstrate improved causal effect estimation with calibrated propensity scores in several tasks including high-dimensional genome-wide association studies, where we also show reduced computational requirements when calibration is applied to simpler propensity score models.


For a given number of $k$-sets, how should we choose them so as to minimize the union-closed family that they generate? Our main aim in this paper is to show that, if $\mathcal{A}$ is a family of $k$-sets of size $\binom{t}{k}$, and $t$ is sufficiently large, then the union-closed family generated by $\mathcal{A}$ has size at least that generated by the family of all $k$-sets from a $t$-set. This proves (for this size of family) a conjecture of Roberts. We also make some related conjectures, and give some other results, including a new proof of the result of Leck, Roberts and Simpson that exactly determines this minimum (for all sizes of the family) when $k=2$.


We consider the statistical properties of photon detection with imperfect detectors that exhibit dark counts and less than unit efficiency, in the context of tomographic reconstruction. In this context, the detectors are used to implement certain positive operator-valued measures (POVMs) that would allow us to reconstruct the quantum state or quantum process under consideration. Here we look at the intermediate step of inferring outcome probabilities from measured outcome frequencies, and show how this inference can be performed in a statistically sound way in the presence of detector imperfections. Merging outcome probabilities for different sets of POVMs into a consistent quantum state picture has been treated elsewhere (Audenaert and Scheel 2009 New J. Phys. 11 023028). Single-photon pulsed measurements as well as continuous wave measurements are covered.


Based on Amartya Sen's capability approach, this study first built non probabilist theoretical framework of analysis of multidimensional dynamic of welfare taking the interactions between its different components into account. Then, it developed theoretical analyses based on this framework before to propose a method of empirical application of this model on a panel with two observations. Theoretical analyses of the dynamic of welfare – by step diagram method – point out the importance of such dynamic analysis. Indeed, from two instances, on the one hand, these analyses show that the combination of the structural policies which aim at to develop opportunities or to facilitate their access and the policies which aim at to increase households capabilities would rapidly lead to sensitive poverty reduction. On the other hand, these analyses point out that the efficiency of an anti-poverty policy depends on the nature of the dynamic of welfare. One anti-poverty policy which revealed itself effective in one locality can be ineffective in an other one, if the dynamics of welfare in both localities have not same nature. An implementation of this dynamic model on a panel with two observations enables to apprehend (i) multidimensional vulnerability of each household and the degree of this vulnerability, (ii) discriminating of welfare dynamic according to gender, social class, ethnic group, locality and so on, (iii) social factors – discrimination, social and legal norms and so on – which are constraints to a positive dynamic of welfare, (iv) importance of each component of potentialities into multidimensional dynamic of well-being. For a given population, the application of this dynamic model successively on different panels corresponding to different periods permits to apprehend the evolution (on time) of (i) difficulties or facilities of households or some specifics groups access to opportunities and (ii) social constraints which hang over dynamic of welfare. That allows to know if structural policies are making in the sense of a progressive insertion of poor. Thus, this framework can enable to apprehend dynamic of well-being of a population into several aspects. However, valuations of this method require high quality of database about relatively important number of households. In the contrary case, the robustness of results is not guaranteed.(Full text in French)


Pollan begins by focusing on a seemingly simple question, "What should we have for dinner?" The answer, it seems, is not so simple for omnivores like us. Pollan guides the reader by examining the three major types of food production and divides the book into these three areas: Industrial (focusing on the modern food industry's reliance on corn), Pastoral (focusing on organic food production, both "big" and "small" scale), and Personal (focusing on personally hunting and gathering one's food).


Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Liz Lynne is stirring up a row in her party with controversial plans for a special health tax.


Rhabdomyosarcoma accounts for almost 20% of all primary malignant neoplasms of the heart. Left atrial mass was detected by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, but only histopathology confirmed the nature of the lesion. Although rhabdomyosarcomas of the heart are highly lethal, operation is indicated in order to clarify the diagnosis, relieve symptoms, and improve short-term survival. We report on a case of left atrial rhabdomyosarcoma


In this present investigation, computational analysis was performed on a data set of OSC inhibitors in order to perform its binding mode analysis and lead identification. The pharmacophore analysis and QSAR studies revealed that the radius of the Aro/Hyd and/or Hyd properties and the polar properties are important for the interaction and activity elicitation. The docking results derived from the analysis also explain that the aromatic amino acids predominantly present in the active site and the polar groups are separated by the aromatic/hydrophobic regions. The significant aromatic amino acids Phe696, Phe444 and His232 make π–π stacking or CH–π interactions with the functional groups (aromatic or aliphatic) present in the inhibitors. The polar groups present in the compounds interact with Asp455 or Trp581 or Trp387 or Ile338 or Gly380 (all through water) or with Glu532. The natural products analyzed on this target provided significant docking scores and its mode of interactions are similar to the OSC inhibitors, which can be used for the treatment of obesity.


This study is an assessment of the impact of quality management training on workplace experience in a republic of the former Soviet Union. This preliminary study indicates that initial focus of quality in the republic is "conformance to specifications, and the reliance on improved engineering and operations". While the concept of quality in an individual context is prized and recognized, when it comes to the collective, the emphasis is on quantity over quality. The immediate need is for training in principles, tools and practice of continuous improvement for a broad base of the population. The findings are particularly significant as they have implications for policy makers responsible for guiding the fledgling market economy that is developing in Kyrgyzstan in particular and other central Asian nations in general, to world class competitiveness.


Abstract:Long times of serious lagging of civilization in China has resulted in a lot of contradictions in the development of our economic society.The key to the question is that we should accelerate the process of civilization. Through the analysis of realistic,the process of civilization should follow in the footsteps of developing big, medium and small sized cities connectively. At the same time, we should formulate and adopt some effective policies to lead the process of civilization to the healthy way. 


Although ultrasonic wave propagation is a well-known technique for nondestructive analysis, it can be also applied for dynamic mechanical characterization (DMA) of polymers and composites. Most of DMA characterizations at ultrasonic frequencies are performed on thermoplastics and only a few articles are available on the characterization of the reactive properties of thermosetting resins. Therefore, in this work a complete characterization of the cure of a model epoxy system is presented, by comparing isothermal and nonisothermal data. The propagation of ultrasonic waves acting as a dynamic mechanical deformation at high frequencies can be used for the calculation of complex longitudinal bulk moduli during the cure of the epoxy resin. The evolution of attenuation and velocity during reaction is related to the strong physical changes occurring during the cure process. Furthermore, a comparison between the degree of reaction measured by Differential Scanning Calorimetry and ultrasonic data is proposed. The ultrasonic velocity (or the bulk longitudinal modulus) can be considered the most interesting parameter for cure monitoring because it follows the growth and evolution of the mechanical stiffness of the resin during cure. In particular, the obtained results suggest that the measurement of longitudinal velocity or L′ could be exploited for on-line measurements of post-gel properties. Finally, an immediate correlation is also proposed between the gel time and the end of cure and the ultrasonic data. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 73: 1969–1977, 1999


Real-time object detection is a challenging but crucial task for autonomous underwater vehicles because of the complex underwater imaging environment. Resulted by suspended particles scattering and wavelength-dependent light attenuation, underwater images are always hazy and color-distorted. To overcome the difficulties caused by these problems to underwater object detection, an end-to-end CNN network combined U-Net and MobileNetV3-SSDLite is proposed. Furthermore, the FPGA implementation of various convolution in the proposed network is optimized based on the Winograd algorithm. An efficient upsampling engine is presented, and the FPGA implementation of squeeze-and-excitation module in MobileNetV3 is optimized. The accelerator is implemented on a Zynq XC7Z045 device running at 150 MHz and achieves 23.68 frames per second (fps) and 33.14 fps when using MobileNetV3-Large and MobileNetV3-Small as the feature extractor. Compared to CPU, our accelerator achieves 7.5×–8.7× speedup and 52×–60× energy efficiency.


The EU is a unique economic and political partnership between 27 democratic European countries. It has accomplished a great deal in promoting peace, prosperity, justice, freedom, solidarity, and participatory democracy for its 498 million citizens. The eurozone showcases the achievement of its deeper monetary integration. This paper aims at addressing the following topics: How has the EU developed? How does it work? How are the institutions structured and who makes the decisions? How does it pursue external economic policies? How does it promote internal economic and social integration? How has it deepened monetary integration through the creation of the eurozone? What are the shortcomings in the agreement on the Economic and Monetary Union? What are the current crises facing the EU, and the eurozone in particular? Are there legal obstacles in providing financial aid to Greece? What are the reform proposals aimed at strengthening the eurozone and avoiding future financial crises? And what are the future prospects of the EU and the eurozone?


Incremental parsers have potential advantages for applications like language modeling for machine translation and speech recognition. We describe a new algorithm for incremental transition-based Combinatory Categorial Grammar parsing. As English CCGbank derivations are mostly right branching and non-incremental, we design our algorithm based on the dependencies resolved rather than the derivation. We introduce two new actions in the shift-reduce paradigm based on the idea of 'revealing' (Pareschi and Steedman, 1987) the required information during parsing. On the standard CCGbank test data, our algorithm achieved improvements of 0.88% in labeled and 2.0% in unlabeled F-score over a greedy non-incremental shift-reduce parser.


Automatic detection of human in a video sequence is a canonical instance of object detection. It's considered as a nonrigid object; it has many appearances at different perspectives. Different approaches are used by several methods to combine what is specific to the pedestrian detection, and what is common to the object recognition. A robust solution to this problem would have numerous applications to design smart systems, including video surveillance, power management, vehicle driver assistance systems, and evaluation of advertising policies. In this article we will discuss the main techniques of human (pedestian) detection on video sequence. Especially those how are learning-based methods. Then we describe in general terms the type of information that can be extracted once the detection is performed.


Replacement of cement with pozzolan in the production of concrete not only improves the mechanical properties and durability of concrete but also decreases the amount of consumed cement in construction projects as well. Rice Husk Ash (RHA) is a by-product of the agricultural industry which contains high amount of silicon dioxide (SiO2). For many decades, the concretes incorporating RHA as an artificial pozzolan have been noticed for its qualities and properties. In this paper, in order to supply typical RHA, a special furnace was designed and constructed in Amirkabir University of Technology. XRD and XRF techniques were used to determine the amorphous silica content of the burnt rice husk. Consequently, temperature of 650 degrees centigrade and 60 minutes burning time was found to be the best combination. Then, various experiments were carried out to determine properties of concretes incorporating optimum RHA.


Alteration of the conformational and dynamic properties of peptides in the presence of micelles mimics the cellular events that take place during insertion and translocation of peptides in biological membranes. We have recently reported the alteration of the conformation of neuropeptides Leu- and Met-enkephalins in the presence of ganglioside GM1 micelles.41 Here, using pulsed-field gradient-stimulated echo diffusion NMR studies, we observe that the diffusion coefficients of the peptides are greatly reduced in the presence of GM1 micelles. Partition coefficient calculations indicate a nearly total incorporation of the peptides into the micelles. The binding epitope of the enkephalins, as established from the saturation transfer difference NMR spectroscopy, indicates involvement of the Tyr1, Gly3, and Phe4 residues. The involvement of the aromatic side chains of the Tyr1 and Phe4 indicates a possible hydrophobic nature of the interaction.


We think that it is necessary to study the economic indicators because without their study as well as volume, level and proportion, it is not possible to appreciate the optimisation of meat production structures. In frame of increase the economic process, in country agriculture, the participation of different regions, in concordance with the specialisation and their capabilities, can constitute the important links in increase the total production of meat.


This paper mainly discusses airport detection in the large area satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar(SAR) images.A new algorithm based on features of the regional shape is proposed.It employs an adaptive clustering method to solve the problem of small target segmentation from large area and complex background images.The ellipse-fitting method is utilized to approximate the scale and the shape of the considered region instead of the widely used approaches of the minimum enclosing rectangle and the bounding box.Several large area satellite-borne SAR images collected from separated scenes are used for experiment.The results show that the proposed algorithm is able to detect single or multiple airports with variable runways in a short time.


Chinese lithostratigraphic reservoirs have been widely developed in four types of sedimentary basins including (1) rift basins, (2) depression basins, (3) foreland basins, and (4) cratonic marine basins; and three types of reservoirs (e.g. siliciclastic, carbonate and volcanic). This paper attempts to synthesize the formation mechanisms and distribution characters of these lithostratigraphic reservoirs in continental petroleum basins from four aspects namely (1) reservoir development and evolution, (2) origin of the trap development and distribution, (3) reservoir-forming dynamics, and (4) distribution patterns of oil and gas of different basin types and prediction of the favorable exploration plays. In the past three years, the proven numbers of Chinese lithostratigraphic reservoirs have accounted for approximately 60% of the total proven reserves. We predict that the additional numbers of such play types may account for up to 50% of the total additional proven petroleum reserves in China.


Abstract We attached 11 g (1.4% body‐mass equivalent) global location sensing (GLS) archival tag packages to tarsi of 25 breeding sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus, titi) on Whenua Hou (Codfish Island), New Zealand during the chick‐rearing period in 2005. Compared with chicks reared by non‐handled adults that did not carry tags, deployment of tags on one or both adult parents ultimately resulted in 35% reduction in chick body mass and significantly reduced chick skeletal size preceding fledging (19 April). However, body mass between chick groups was not significantly different after controlling for skeletal size. Effects on chicks were more pronounced in six pairs where both parents carried tags. Chick mass was negatively related to the duration that adults carried tags. In this study, none of the chicks reared by pairs where both parents were tagged, 54% of chicks reared by pairs where one parent was tagged, and 83% of chicks reared by non‐handled and non‐tagged parents achieved a previously determined pre‐fiedging mass threshold (564 g; Sagar & Horning 1998). Body mass of adults carrying tags and returning from trans‐equatorial migration the following year were 4% lighter on average than non‐tagged birds, but this difference was not statistically significant. Reduced mass among chicks reared by adults carrying tags during the chick‐provisioning period indicated that adults altered "normal" provisioning behaviours to maintain their own body condition at the expense of their chicks. Population‐level information derived from telemetry studies can reveal important habitat‐linked behaviours, unique aspects of sea‐bird foraging behaviours, and migration ecology. Information for some species (e.g., overlap with fisheries) can aid conservation and marine ecosystem management. We advise caution, however, when interpreting certain data related to adult provisioning behaviours (e.g., time spent foraging, provisioning rates, etc.). If effects on individuals are of concern, we suggest shorter‐term deployments, smaller and lighter tags, and alternative attachment techniques, especially when investigating threatened or endangered species.