Summary The reaction of Cab-0-Sil, a highly dispersed vitreous quartz, with hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) was studied in the temperature range 38O-50O0C, using ,'Si solid state NMR and other techniques. Such studies are of importance in view of deactivation procedures of fused silica at high temperatures in capillary GC. The commonly accepted reaction equation: predominates only below ca. 400"C.Above ca. 400°C the intermediate cleavage product Me,SiNH, reacts with surface silanot groups to form iSiOSiMe,NH, + CH,. At higher temperatures these groups may ultimately form (3iO),SiNH, groups (analogously to the formation of bi-and tridentate linkages starting from :SiOSiMe, groups), but (3SiO),SiNH, groups are also directly formed at lower temperatures, simultaneously with the iSiOSiMe3 groups, probably by reaction with siloxane bridges: The reactions of the trimethylsilylamine part of HMDS with Cab-0-Sil were confirmed by an independent series of silylations using N,N-dimethyltrimethylsilylamine instead of HDMS. The presence of amino groups as ESiNH, was confirmed by FT-IR. This may be one of the reasons why very high temperature silylation with disilazanes does not provide a satisfactory deactivation of fused silica GC columns: the active 5iOH groups are "replaced" by active ZSiNH, groups. However, such a material may be of interest in LC. Silylation with silazanes at ca. 350°C in humid atmosphere andlor after extensive hydroxylation (leaching) of the surface should yield sufficiently deactivated surfaces with a rather well defined surface structure. (Me,Si),NH + 2 iSiOH + 2 ESiOSiMe, + NH,


This paper describes, analyzes and compares trends in teaching methodology in librarianship, in information resources and services, in the Mercosur and the international level.


This thesis explores paradigms of the Qur'anic concept of 'self and 'human nature' in
the ontological and hermeneutic works of selected contemporary and medieval writers
and in the Islamic thought. Among the main themes of the thesis are: (i) the contrast
between the humanitarian values projected in the Qur'an and the enigmatic
interpretation of the Qur'an which tends to vitiate these values; (ii) the contrast between
the respect for human life and human dignity, commensurate with human disposition
recognised by Islam, and the radicalised ideology; (iii) the contrast between the code of
living devised by Islam at the individual and social levels and the parochial juristic–political
outlook.
The thesis investigates the distortions concerning the Islamic concepts of Jihad,
democracy and tolerance of other faiths. It traces the historic roots of the insurgent
groups, evolving into violent extremism, which threatens in modem world the global
security through indiscriminate bloodshed and terrorism in the name of Jihad. The
treatment of women in Muslim societies has attracted in recent years a barrage of criticism against Islam. This is examined from the exegetical and extra-exegetical
sources. The thesis probes into the conflict between the Muslim rationalists and the
traditionalists and between the philosophers and the traditionalists on the controversy
over emanation and responsibility for human actions.
This research is topical in the wake of the 9/11 and 7/7 catastrophes and in the light of
the dilemma facing the Muslims in the West. The juristic dictum over the qualification
of religio-political leadership of the community and the implementation of the Shari'ah
are investigated; and the attitude in the West in fomenting extremism among Muslims is
explored. This research, for the first time in a Western University, examines two major Qur'anic exegeses, and correlates these writings to the exceptional, contemporary,
burning issues of the day.


Abstract. Let φ(s, a, λ) denote the Lerch zeta-function, φ(s, a, λ) a slight modification of φ(s, a, λ) defined by extracting the (possible) singularity of φ(s, a, λ) at s = 1, and (φ)(s, a, λ) for any m ∈ Z the mth derivative with respect to s if m ≥ 0, while if m ≤ 0 the |m|-th primitive defined with its initial point at s+∞. The present paper aims to study asymptotic aspects of (φ)(s, a, λ), transformed through the LaplaceMellin and Riemann-Liouville operators (say, LMz;τ and RLα,β z;τ , respectively) in terms of the variable s. We shall show that complete asymptotic expansions exist if a > 1 for LMz;τ (φ)(s + τ, a, λ) and RLα,β z;τ (φ)(s + τ, a, λ) (Theorems 1–4), as well as for their iterated variants (Theorems 5–10), when the 'pivotal' parameter z (of the transforms) tends to both 0 and ∞ through appropriate sectors. Most of our results include any vertical ray in their region of validity; this allows us to deduce complete asymptotic expansions along vertical lines (s, z) = (σ, it) as t → ±∞ (Corollaries 2.1, 4.1, 6.1 and 8.1).


The properties and behavior of the interface between mineral surfaces, adsorbed organic compounds, and water are important for oil recovery. Low-salinity (LS) water flooding releases more oil from sandstone reservoirs than conventional flooding with seawater or formation water. However, the role of strongly adsorbed organic material, as an anchor for oil molecules, is not yet completely understood. Here, we mimic reservoir pore surfaces using graphene oxide sheets deposited on flat silicon wafers. The LS response was quantified using atomic force microscopy (AFM) in chemical force mapping mode to directly measure the adhesion force. AFM tips were functionalized to serve as models for hydrophobic and polar oil molecules, i.e., with alkyl, −CH3, and carboxyl, −COO(H). Adhesion force, measured with −CH3 tips, was 18% lower in LS (∼1500 ppm) than high-salinity (HS, ∼35 600 ppm) solutions, while for −COO(H) tips, adhesion force was 13% lower in LS than HS solutions. The Dejarguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek theory ...


Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic and corrosive gas; thus, in order to mitigate its environmental impact, its capture and removal from various emitting sources, natural and anthropogenic, is of a necessity. In this work, recent advances (2020–2022) proposed by a series of investigations are reviewed. Adsorption using metal-oxide-based adsorbents appeared to be the most popular technology, whereas solvent absorption is used to co-absorb both toxic H2S and CO2. The uses of the various membrane technologies for H2S removal are also described.


are more or less likely to win wars has long been a contentious issue. The Greek general Thucydides' chronicle of the defeat of democratic Athens in its twenty-four-year struggle with authoritarian Sparta in The Peloponnesian War, particularly his account of the Sicilian debacle, remains the classic indictment of the inability of democracies to prepare for and Žght wars.1 Indeed, for most of Western history, pessimism dominated thinking about democracy and war. "Democratic defeatists," from the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville to mid-twentieth-century realists such as E.H. Carr, George Kennan, and Walter Lippmann, believed that democracy was a decided liability in preparing for and Žghting wars. Particularly during the Cold War, the pessimistic perspective on the Žghting power of democracies was dominant.2 Even leaders of the free world, such as John F. Kennedy, believed that when democracy "competes with a system of government . . . built primarily for war, it is at a disadvantage." Despite the end of the Cold War, a few Cassandras remain concerned that democracies are unprepared to meet the next major military threat from authoritarian states such as China or international terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda.4 Democracy and Victory


This paper presents the actual situation and effect about the application on frequency converter for screw conveyer of kilotones material silo,pointing out precautions during improvement.


We present a guided local search (GLS) algorithm in a multi-frame environment for the detection of endocardial contours in echo cardiographic image sequences. The proposed method requires minimal user intervention at the first frame of the image sequence for specifying the candidate points of the contour. The initial contour is approximated by fitting an ellipse in the region defined by the points specified. First level of regularization on the contour is made by radial gradient search incorporating both magnitude and direction. The second level of regularization makes use of the GLS algorithm. The GLS with features and constraints for solution space and penalty terms overcome the optimization being trapped in local minima. The proposed method also incorporates the temporal information from the adjacent frames during the regularization process. The subsequent frames in sequence are initialized by the final contour of the previous frame. The algorithm developed was applied to 20 data sets over a cardiac cycle and the results were validated by comparing computer generated boundaries to those manually outlined by one expert. The maximum error in the contours detected was plusmn3.1 mm. The application of guided local search algorithm proposed in this paper offers a fast and efficient method for semiautomatic segmentation of heart chambers in 2D echocardiography sequences.


For hundreds of years, statutes of wills assumed that only the testator himself could design and execute his plan of testamentary distribution. In recent years, several states have enacted conservatorship provisions that permit a conservator to make, amend, or revoke the will of a protected person if the conservator obtains judicial approval. This article examines the new world of proxy will-making and the incompleteness of current proxy will-making statutes. The article questions whether the proxy will, once unleashed, can or should be confined to conservatorship proceedings. Because many individuals execute a durable power of attorney in hope of avoiding a conservatorship, the article explores whether states should permit an agent to make a proxy will if the principal explicitly grants the agent that authority. The article concludes that recognition of the proxy will under carefully defined rules is a logical step forward in probate law's continuing effort to fulfill testamentary intent.


ABSTRACT Flotation, as an efficient method for separating fine coal particles (−500 µm), is making slow progress for use with lignite, which basically remains at the laboratory stage. Lignite flotation is more difficult than flotation of other coals, and flotation efficiency here is very low. The difficulty in floating lignite primarily includes two aspects, abundant oxygen containing groups on the coal surface and porous surface of the coal particles. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to clean lignite by flotation. In this article, the effects of some process parameters for lignite flotation were studied. Laboratory experiments were carried out, and the effects of depressant (sodium silicate) dosage (0–1000 g/t), collector (kerosene) dosage (50–3000 g/t), frother (methyl isobutyl carbinol) dosage (15–1000 g/t), pulp pH (2–12), solid ratio (10%–20%), flotation time (1–7 minutes) and particle size (500–63 µm) on flotation performance were investigated. A concentrate with 37.18% yield and 40.11% combustible recovery was obtained at 250 g/t sodium silicate (Na2SiO3), 250 g/t kerosene and 100 g/t methyl isobutyl carbinol (MIBC). Within the studied range, the optimum pulp pH was 2, the solid ratio was 10%, the flotation time was 5 minutes, and the particle size was −500 µm. Under these optimum conditions, the ash content of lignite coal was reduced from 19.08% to 12.70%.


The task of this paper is to identify a set of subjective factors that affect the decision-making in the family about the birth of the second and subsequent children. For the broadest possible description of the phenomenon under study, the method of slightly-structured interviews was used. To assess the severity of the established subjective factors based on the analysis of qualitative interviews, a questionnaire consisting of two parts was developed and tested. The first part is intended for parents of any children, the second — only for parents of children with special needs. The questionnaire was completed by 122 women with at least one child. 75 of the respondents had a child with special needs and completed both parts of the questionnaire. 92 respondents lived in Russia, the rest respondents lived in English-speaking countries. Based on the results of responses for each part of the questionnaire, an exploratory factor analysis was performed using the principal component method with Kaiser normalization. As a result, the first part of the questionnaire revealed 11 significant scale-factors, and the second part — 3 significant scale-factors. Since the survey was conducted with both Russian-speaking and English-speaking respondents, the questionnaire is available in two versions (in two languages). This questionnaire will be useful for building correctional and rehabilitation work with parents of children with disabilities. The authors are ready to provide the questionnaire to interested specialists (free of charge).


Background: The aim of this study to assess the role of 99mTc-HMPAO leucocyte scintigraphy combined with 99mTcMDP bone scintigraphy in the diagnosis of the diabetic foot infection. Methods: 50 diabetic patients with suspected osteomyelitis were included. The HMPAO-Leucocytes/MDP scan was considered to be consistent with osteomyelitis when the HMPAOLeucocytes uptake was concordant with MDP bone uptake. A HMPAO-Leucocytes uptake without concordant bone MDP activity was considered as a soft-tissue infection. The results of the HMPAO-Leucocytes/MDP scan were compared to the following diagnostic criteria: bone infection was confirmed by radiological follow-up or bone biopsy; the absence of bone infection was confirmed by clinical (healing of the ulcer without antibiotic therapy) and radiological follow-up. Results: According to these criteria, among the 56 ulcers, bone infection was observed in 27 (48.2%): the HMPAOLeucocytes/MDP scan was positive in 25 cases, including 7 ulcers with normal or equivocal radiographs at inclusion. In the group of 29 ulcers without proven bone infection, the HMPAOLeucocytes/MDP scan was negative in 28 cases, including 8 lesions with a soft-tissue infection. Conclusion: With a sensitivity of 92.6%, a specificity of 96.5%, the HMPAO-Leucocytes/MDP scan is a reliable tool for the diagnosis of osteomyelitis in the diabetic foot. Neuroarthropathy did not affect the performances of the HMPAOLeu/MDP scan. Owing to a high spatial resolution this test is very helpful to differentiate bone infection from soft-tissue infection especially in case of neuroarthropathy.


Hydrogen production from electrolytic water based on Renewable Energy has been found as a vital method for the local consumption of new energy and the utilization of hydrogen energy. In this paper, the hydrogen production power supply matching the working characteristics of electrolytic water production was investigated. Through the analysis of the correlation between the electrolysis current and temperature of the proton exchange membrane electrolyzer and the electrolyzer port voltage, energy efficiency, and hydrogen production speed, it was concluded that the hydrogen production power supply should be characterized by low output current ripple, high output current, and wide range voltage output. To meet the requirements of the system of hydrogen production from electrolytic water based on new energy, a hydrogen production power supply scheme was proposed based on Y which is the type three, is the phase staggered parallel LLC topology. In the proposed scheme, the cavity with three is the phase staggered parallel output is resonated to meet the operating characteristics (high current and low ripple) of the electrolyzer, and pulse frequency control is adopted to achieve resonant soft in the switching operation and increase conversion efficiency. Lastly, a simulation model and a 6kW experimental prototype were built to verify the rationality and feasibility of the proposed scheme.


by Hans-Josef Endres Andrea Siebert-Raths University of Applied Sciences Hannover, Germany Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department of Bioprocess Engineering When biopolymers are manufactured from genetically modified crops by direct fermentation, they polymerize during the fermentation process. Due to natural biosynthesis, no additional synthesizing step is required for polymerization. By contrast, the fermentative generation of monomers, such as PLA from lactic acid, requires man-made polymerization.


C. Tollnick, G. Seidel, M. Beyer, K. Schugerl: Investigations of the Production of Cephalosporin C by Acremonium chrysogenum.- K. Friehs: Plasmid Copy Number and Plasmid Stability.- P.S.J. Cheetham: Bioprocesses for the Manufacture of Ingredients for Foods and Cosmetics.- I. Roy, S. Sharma, M.N. Gupta: Smart Biocatalysts: Design and Applications.- B. Zhumabayeva, A. Chenchik, P.D. Siebert, M. Herrler: Disease Profiling Arrays: Reverse Format cDNA Arrays Complimentary to Microarrays.- A. Mukhopadhyay, T. Madhusudhan, R. Kumar: Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Clinical Requirements and Developments in Ex-Vivo Culture.- M. Dutta, M.M. Borah, N.N. Dutta: Adsorptive Separation of beta-Lactam Antibiotics: Technological Perspectives.


American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Staging Manual, 7th Ed, Edge SB, Byrd DR, Compton CC, et all (Eds), Springer New York 2010. Goldfinger SE and JR Strosberg, et al. Clinical characteristics of carcinoid tumors. In: UpToDate, Basow, DS (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA 2012. Kulke MH, Mayer RJ. Carcinoid tumors. New England Journal of Medicine 1999; 340:858. Oberg K. Carcinoid Tumors: Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment. The Oncologist 1998; 3:339-345. Strate LL. Lower GI bleeding: epidemiology and diagnosis. Gastroenterology Clinics of North America 2005; 34:643. Ileal mass preand post-biopsy.


This thesis bases on one feature cyberspace law has-disciplining of the governments,probes on various aspects of the impending lex cyberspace,like the electronic contracts,electronic signature,torts on line,foreign-related jurisdiction and application of laws related with cyberspace,points out that the domestic legislation is specifically supportive in this field,and suggests that the online arbitration and cyberspace customs shall be directed by governments,in order that it may proceed into the formation of the international cyberspace laws.


: Relevance of the chosen research topic. The mechanism of partnership relations between the state and private business that has developed in Western countries in the implementation of socially significant investment projects represents a new stage of state regulation of the economy based on liberal concepts of development. The use of the investment mechanism within the framework of such systems in Russian conditions is possible, especially in those areas and areas of activity in which private investment is able to provide a sustainable vector for the equilibrium growth of the economic system, leaving control functions to the state. Today, there is a trend when the economic situation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation requires the use of various tools to assess their economic potential, the state of socio-economic development, financial balance and competitive conditions in the domestic and world markets. Such tools are important for an active federal policy aimed at leveling interregional inequality and ensuring the economic integrity of the country. The purpose of the article is to explore theoretical and conceptual approaches to regulating relations between the state and business on the example of government orders and public-private partnerships and in the face of modern challenges. The research methodology was based on the study of the international experience of individual countries, coupled with domestic practice in the field of systems for regulating relations between the state and business, using the example of government orders and public-private partnerships. During the work on the article, both theoretical (analysis, synthesis, analogy, generalization) and practical (comparison, description) research methods were used. Based on the analysis, it was revealed that it is the public-private partnership that is a more preferable form of interaction between the state and business than the state order and public procurement, in modern conditions, both in domestic practice and abroad.


Serum glycyl‐1‐prolyl 4‐methyl‐coumaryl‐7‐amide (gly‐pro‐MCA) hydrolase (DPP IV) and L‐lysyl‐L‐alanyl β‐naphthylamide (lys‐ala‐β NA) hydrolase (assumed to be DPP II) activities were measured in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma and healthy subjects. The mean serum DPP IV activity of all cancer patients was significantly (P < 0.001) decreased, compared with that of healthy subjects. Although there was no significant difference between the stages by International Union Against Cancer (UICC) classification (1978), DPP IV levels tended to change dynamically, reflecting the clinical status during therapies. The serum DPP IV activity of patients with a fair prognosis was significantly elevated toward the normal range, whereas the activity of patients with a poor prognosis was significantly decreased (P < 0.05). In contrast, the mean serum lys‐ala‐β NA hydrolytic activity of cancer patients was significantly (P < 0.001) increased, compared with that of healthy subjects, and was changed reciprocally to DPP IV activity. The correlation of these two serum enzyme activities with tumor weights also was observed in animal models using nude mice transplanted with human KB carcinoma cells and hamsters transplanted with BHK21 cells. These results indicate that these serum enzyme levels may become an aid for the diagnosis of malignant tumors and for estimating the prognosis of the patients.


A 22 yr old female† with miscarriage at 24 wk was admitted on July 23, 2019 to the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India. She underwent hysterotomy due to a failed medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) and was diagnosed to Fig. 1. Hysterotomy specimen showing the right horn (arrow with black border and white fill) and left non-communicating horn (black arrow) of the unicornuate uterus. Fig. 2. Magnetic resonance imaging pelvis showing a unicornuate uterus with haematometra in the non-communicating left horn (black arrow) and a separate right horn (arrow with black border and white fill).


The invention discloses a method for preparing polyvinylidene fluoride ultra-filtration membranes. The method includes the steps of mixing the polyvinylidene fluoride with diluents, and heating the mixture to form a homogeneous phase solution, wherein the diluents are a mixture of a solvent and a non-solvent of the polyvinylidene fluoride, and at least one of the solvent and the non-solvent of the polyvinylidene fluoride can be dissolved in water; subjecting the homogeneous phase solution to knife coating on a supporting screen to form a plate-shaped membrane casting solution or to be spinned into a membrane casting solution in a hollow fiber shape by a spinneret, submerging the membrane casting solution into a cooling liquid to be cooled, subjecting the membrane casting solution to phase separation and solidifying into membranes; extracting the diluents in the membranes through an extracting agent to obtain the polyvinylidene fluoride membranes. Sections of the polyvinylidene fluoride membranes are in a homogeneous spongeous structure with bore diameters in a range of 0.02 to 4 microns, and the membranes have surface layers with surface bore diameters ranging from 2 nanometers to 100 nanometers. Simultaneously, the polyvinylidene fluoride ultra-filtration membranes have the advantages of high strength, porosity, flux and separation accuracy.


The aim of writing this final project entitled Analisis Trauma dan Dendam Hannibal Lecter dalam Novel Hannibal Rising karya Thomas Harris (Analysis of Trauma and Revenge of Hannibal Lecter on Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris) is to show the change of the psychologycal side of an innocent boy named Hannibal Lecter who turns into a psycho killer.
On writing this final project, the writer uses a library research method. Library research is a research that is done in the writer's room or library where the researcher gets the data and information about the object of the research from books or any audio visual device. The writer also uses intrinsic approach focusing on characters and conflict. The writer also uses psychological approach according to The Personality Theory of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud.
Working through the analysis, the result of the analysis shows that if an unstable natured person is pressured into a breaking point, it can change his personality and trigger a destructive behavior.


The problem of time‐dependent molecule‐leads coupling in single‐molecule junctions is acute for the structure, stability and functionality of these systems during non‐equilibrium transport. Time‐dependence of molecule‐lead coupling operators may rise when they are perturbed directly, or formally (indirectly), when time‐dependent perturbation to the molecule or to the leads are mapped onto the coupling operators by unitary transformations. In this work a reduced density matrix formulation is outlined for the study of transport in the presence of time‐dependent couplings. The formulation assumes weak molecule‐lead coupling, but accounts for many body interactions within the molecule, and for strong time‐dependent field. For band limited or periodic fields the formulation leads to kinetic equations which map the time‐dependent transport problem onto a static transport problem with multiple leads, thus providing convenient working equations as well as a useful tool for interpreting experiments on field driven single molecule junctions. Applications to concrete models are demonstrated.


Indolo[2,1-b]quinazoline-6,12-dione (1) has been reduced by various methods and the stereochemistry of the products [e.g. 6-acetoxy-5a,6-dihydroindolo[2,1-b]quinazolin-12(5H)-one (10b) and 6-acetoxy-5-acetyl-5,5a,6,12-tetrahydroindolo[2,1-b]quinazoline (30b)] has been studied by n.m.r. spectroscopic methods. The detailed structure of the acetylated products, obtained from compound (1) by reduction with NaBH4, [(10b)], and LiAlH4, [(30b) and 1-(2-acetamidobenzyl)-3-acetoxyindole (34)], have been determined by X-ray crystallography.Reduction of the dione (1) with hypophosphorus acid yielded the 6,6′-coupled dimeric product (40) which readily underwent dehydrogenation to the violet compound (41).


Detecting and classifying the plankton in situ to analyze the population diversity and abundance is fundamental for the understanding of marine planktonic ecosystem. However, the features of plankton are subtle, and the distribution of different plankton taxa is extremely imbalanced in the real marine environment, both of which limit the detection and classification performance of them while implementing the advanced recognition models, especially for the rare taxa. In this paper, a novel plankton detection strategy is proposed combining with a cycle-consistent adversarial network and a densely connected YOLOV3 model, which not only solves the class imbalanced distribution problem of plankton by augmenting data volume for the rare taxa but also reduces the loss of the features in the plankton detection neural network. The mAP of the proposed plankton detection strategy achieved 97.21% and 97.14%, respectively, under two experimental datasets with a difference in the number of rare taxa, which demonstrated the superior performance of plankton detection comparing with other state-of-the-art models. Especially for the rare taxa, the detection accuracy for each rare taxa is improved by about 4.02% on average under the two experimental datasets. Furthermore, the proposed strategy may have the potential to be deployed into an autonomous underwater vehicle for mobile plankton ecosystem observation.


The efficiencies of modern power stations have been exploited very extensively with respect to the layout of the steam generator as well as to the turbine cycle. A potential for an improvement of fossil-fired power plants may still be seen in the cooling of the flue gases before entering the flue gas desulphurization plant (REA) and in alternative concepts in the area of combustion air preheating. The newly developed Powerise-Schaltungen (power-rise circuits), especially the Rekuluvo-Plus-Schaltung (recuperative air-preheater), presented here, offer the possibility of retrofitting existing power stations with respect to an efficiency increase.


The immutability of classical dynamical laws for the microscopic object in the space which coordinate axes are the transition matrix elements of the corresponding coordinates is proved. It is stated that measurement is a micro-object localization process in the classical space when it interacts with the device. The description of the wave function reduction is obtained using the path integrals. The mechanism of the probability arising on measurement is offered, where the hidden parameter that is the cause of the measurement randomness of microscopic characteristics relates to the interaction process of classical instrument with micro-object. Both types of quantum mechanics processes evolution and reduction of the wave functions are described in a unified approach


Norms are generally recognized as standards of behaviour and effective means to control and coordinate agents' activities. The development of a multi-agent system requires organizing the system in such a way that the standards of behaviour , represented by a set of norms, are actually followed by the agents. In this talk, I present an operational approach for organizing the overall multi-agent system behaviour by means of a norm enforcement mechanism. Such a mechanism monitors the behaviours of agents, evaluates if they violate any norm, and intervenes by responding to the norm violating agents. For many applications perfect monitoring or response is not always available or feasible. This presentation provides a logical analysis of imperfect monitor and response capabilities. The analysis can be used to determine if and to what extent a given set of norms can be enforced by a mechanism with imperfect monitor or response capabilities. If time allows, I will also present a game-theoretic approach to analyse the effectivity of norm enforcement mechanisms. This allows determining if a norm enforcement mechanism can bring about the desired overall system behaviour assuming that individual agents act in accordance with their design objectives.


In this research study an evaluation of the process of production and exports done by the tobacco company in A.J. FERNANDEZ in the second half of 2013. This research is qualitative approaches in depth the process of production and exports by that company. The main recommendations for the tobacco processing company focusing on monitoring the management process in the production and export activities, as well as ensuring compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).


Drug addiction is a devastating disorder with a huge economic and social burden for modern society. Although an individual may slip into drug abuse throughout his/her life, adolescents are at higher risk, but, so far, only a few studies have attempted to elucidate the underlying cellular and molecular bases of such vulnerability. Indeed, preclinical evidence indicates that psychostimulants and adolescence interact and contribute to promoting a dysfunctional brain. In this review, we have focused our attention primarily on changes in neuroplasticity brought about by cocaine, taking into account that there is much less evidence from exposure to cocaine in adolescence, compared with that from adults. This review clearly shows that exposure to cocaine during adolescence, acute or chronic, as well as contingent or non‐contingent, confers a vulnerable endophenotype, primarily, by causing changes in neuroplasticity. Given the close relationship between drug abuse and psychiatric disorders, we also discuss the translational implications providing an interpretative framework for clinical studies involving addictive as well as affective or psychotic behaviours.


The ideology of economic development advocated by capitalism disseminates the discourse of education as an important factor for competitiveness in global economies. A set of state actions, materialized in plans, programs and legal instruments establish the connection between educationknowledge-development, establishing compliance with the economic demands. Higher education, analysis object of this article is heavily impacted by the mediations of capitalist sociability by expanding access in the wake of an extensive process of privatization, considering that majority offer is given in private-market institutions, with intense concentration of these institutions in Southeast region. The objective of this article is to analyze the current developmental phase initiated by major infrastructure projects in the country under the overcoming speech inequalities with better income distribution and interrelations with the distribution of access to higher education. The methodology is grounded in the contributions of historical and dialectical materialism and is the result of research conducted by the author in doctoral education. literature review and documentary analysis supported the production. The research results indicate uneven access in different regions of the country, in addition to a low participation of public institutions in enrollment, marking the continuity of privatizing scenario of higher education in Brazil.


This letter presents the design and implementation of a LoRa- based wireless communication system aimed at monitoring of driver's biomedical signals in the car environments. The proposed system is composed of a sensor node, a LoRa gateway, and a cloud server. Each sensor node includes four parts as microcontroller unit, data collection unit, wireless communication unit, and supplied power unit. The microcontroller unit is mainly designed as the signal processing module to deal with the detection of abnormal ECG symptom such as left bundle branch block (LBBB), which is the most common symptoms of myocardial infarction. The data collection unit contains a sequential stage of the instrumentation amplifier and the filter blocks. The notification of LBBB detection is then transmitted to the LoRa gateway by wireless communication unit. The LoRa gateway with multiple wireless interfaces is designed to collect the information from the sensor node to transmit to cloud server. The experimental results are conducted to evaluate the detection performance of LBBB by means of MIT-BIH arrhythmia database.


The article discusses the results of geological and geomorphological mapping of archaeological monument, mainly Paleolithic age, the location of which is confined to low-mountain spaces of the Mountain Altai. Using this mapping would greatly clarify the sequence of relief habitat of ancient people and more objectively determine the age characteristics of archaeological monument.


A new solid phase microextraction (SPME) system, known as in-tube SPME, was recently developed using an open tubular fused-silica capilary column, instead of an SPME fiber, as the SPME device. On-line in-tube SPME is usually used in combination with high performance liquid chromatography. Drugs in biological samples are directly extracted and concentrated in the stationary phase of capillary columns by repeated draw/eject cycles of sample solution, and then directly transferred to the liquid chromatographic column. In-tube SPME is suitable for automation. Automated sample handling procedures not only shorten the total analysis time, but also usually provide better accuracy and precision relative to manual techniques. In-tube SPME has been demonstrated to be a very effective and highly sensitive technique to determine drugs in biological samples for various purposes such as therapeutic drug monitoring, clinical toxicology, bioavailability and pharmacokinetics.


ABSTRACT Jakarta has long been a prime destination for migrants across the ethnically diverse Indonesian archipelago. Using qualitative insights from fieldwork and data from the 2010 Census, this paper examines patterns and drivers of ethnic intermarriage in Jakarta. Jakarta has the highest rate of interethnic marriage in Indonesia (33%). Among married adults aged 20–39, recent migrants have a notably lower likelihood of intermarriage than non-migrants and non-recent migrants. Fieldwork findings suggest that despite the decline in the practice of arranged marriage, third party influence and broader social structures continue to influence individuals' preferences on who they should and should not marry. The popular notion that marriage signifies the union of two families reflects the unrelenting influence of parents and kinship networks in family formation decisions, and in contributing to a norm of ethnic assortative mating. Studying ethnic intermarriage in one of the world's largest metropolises contributes to two growing strands of scholarship in social demography: the literature on assortative mating in multi-ethnic developing societies, and the literature on marriage transitions in Asia.


There is a large body of recent research that is capitalizing on the improved skill of state-of-the-art hydroclimatic services for investigating their value in informing water reservoir operations. Yet, the potential value of these services in informing infrastructure design is still unexplored. In this work, we investigate the added value of hydroclimatic services in the planning of water reservoirs, composed of the joint design of the infrastructure’s size and its operations informed by streamflow forecasts. We demonstrate the potential of our approach through an ex-post design analysis of the Kariba dam in the Zambezi river basin, which is the largest man-made reservoir in Africa. The reservoir is operated for hydropower production and irrigation supply. Specifically, we search for flexible operating policies informed by streamflow forecasts that allow the design of smaller and less costly reservoirs with respect to solutions that do not rely on forecast information. This requires selecting the most informative forecast lead times to use in the dam design phase, which depends on both infrastructural reservoir characteristics and tradeoffs across performance objectives. After estimating the value of perfect forecasts, we analyze its sensitivity with respect to using imperfect synthetic forecasts characterized by different biases. The results show that informing the infrastructure design with perfect streamflow forecasts allows reducing capital costs by 20% with respect to a baseline solution not informed by any forecast, while maintaining the same performance in terms of hydropower production and water supply. Forecast overestimation results in the most critical synthetic forecast bias, reducing their value by 8%. Moreover, our analysis show that forecast value is highly sensitive to reservoir size and operational tradeoffs, ultimately representing a valuable tool for supporting the ongoing planning of 3,700 major dams worldwide.


Provides information about library communication tools and special events, including forms. description of punctuation, grammar, and usage in published materials


In this paper the author summarizes main aspects of distance education in engineering, its availability, and teaching and learning issues as well as its benefits and limitations. Next, the concept of Digital Libraries as a support element for distance education is introduced. Gateways to technical information are described, and a list of E&T electronic resources are presented.
The development of digital collections as an integral part of the teaching-learning process is discussed, and some new integrated tools such as the digital reference desk is presented. Finally, some of the concerns about digital libraries are analyzed.


This paper examines the efficacy of electronically monitored home confinement as a case management tool for probation and parole departments. Itcompares the frequency of success among offenders who would otherwise have had their liberty revoked with others who have more successfully adapted to community control. Data are drawn from community correctional populations in two metropolitan areas of a southwestern state in which electronically monitored home confinement is used almost exclusively as a sanction for offenders who evidence difficulty in complying with the conditions of theirrelease to the community. Analysis of these data indicate that electronic monitoring is an effective method of reducing revocations in community correctional populations.


PurposeLiterature divides information behaviours into two forms: first, interacting information with a purpose in mind and second, encountering accidently in three environments including person to person, analogue and online environment. However, the unique information encountering and encountered information keeping behaviour of social sciences research students of Asian culture in an online environment remained unexplored. Therefore, the present study is designed to investigate the research information encountering and encountered information keeping behaviour of the students of social sciences in an online environment.Design/methodology/approachThe quantitative approach and survey technique were used for the study. The research students were approached using a multi-stage total population sampling technique. In total, 233 returned questionnaires were entered and analysed in SPSS (version 22). Descriptive (frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistical techniques (t-tests, one-way ANOVA, effect sizes, correlations and regression) were applied to meet the objectives of the study.FindingsThe results of the study indicate that the respondents whether male or female, of MPhil or PhD, whichever frequency to use the Internet, often encounter research information. However, those who use the Internet for general browsing encounter more than those who purposively. This makes a change to the model of information encountering that the users encounter information while generally browsing and not only while actively working on foreground information searching. Moreover, the research students prefer to use simple tools on complex software based for keeping the encountered research information. The information if kept properly for use, may be useful in the course of research, ease its tasks and result in increasing the speed of research productivity.Practical implicationsThe present study has theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically first, it fills the literature gap regarding research information encountering and its keeping and second, it came up with a proof that the researcher not only encounter research information while foreground information searching but while generally browsing also. Hence, information encountering model is equally applicable to research students who generally browse. Regarding practical implications, the study identifies that the research students prefer to keep using simple tools. Hence, information literacy instructors, either librarians or continuous education program designers are advised to incorporate instructional programs on the use of complex software-based tools for keeping information.Originality/valueThis is the first study in non-Western countries which investigated the research information encountering behaviour of social sciences MPhil and PhD students. The preferred tools to keep the encountered research information are first time identified in the literature.


The phase equilibrium conditions for methane hydrate in mixed sand–clay sediment with the presence of fulvic acid (FA) and sodium chloride (NaCl) were measured using the multistep heating method. The experiments were conducted at the temperatures from 281.45 to 290.65 K and pressures from 6.33 to 17.39 MPa, respectively. The mixed sand–clay porous media and aqueous solutions containing 2.0, 6.0, and 10.0 wt % FA and 3.0 wt % NaCl were used. The experimental results indicate that the phase equilibrium curve of methane hydrate in mixed porous media shifts to the left side as compared to that in bulk solutions because of the capillary force and hydrophilic surfaces of porous media. FA is a thermodynamic inhibitor for methane hydrate formation as the −COO– and short alkyl substituent of FA could compete with hydrate for water molecules, and the inhibition effect of FA on methane hydrate formation is weaker as compared to 3.0 wt % NaCl under all studied concentration conditions. The phase equilibrium pressures...


Input device 100 of the present invention, the coupled fixed to the displaceable operating body 110 and the operating body and the magnetic body 130 with a displacement, such as 110, and the operating body 110 in any direction of displacement and the elastic body (150) for returning the operating body 110 to the home position, installed in the main circuit board 10 of the device and detects a change of magnetic intensity due to the displacement of the magnetic body 130 of the operating body (110) and a magnetic sensor 170 for detecting a displacement, and can be installed to separate the main circuit board includes a housing 190 for holding the operating body 110 and the magnetic material 130. the Housing 190 has a displacement region of the plurality of hook-shaped engaging projection 194 is formed operating body 110 is exposed to the outside and the contacts 111, the contact portion 111 of near the center of the outer peripheral wall (193) the opening hole (195) for providing is formed. An input device, an operation, magnetic, magnetic, sensor, displacement circuitry, the housing, the direction, the substrate, the separation


A method of manufacturing a substrate structure is disclosed, including: providing a carrier board having a first surface; and forming a circuit layer and metallic lines on the first surface. The metallic lines and the carrier board constitute a two dimensional code, thereby eliminating the need to form 2D codes by laser or inkjet after the substrate structure is manufactured. Therefore, the method is simplified, and the substrate structure has a reduced cost. The present invention further provides the substrate structure.


The recent development of techniques for the culture of capillary endothelial cells represents a new phase in the study of the microvasculature and should make possible application of many current techniques of cell biology to these cells. Much of the discussion related to the differences, now evident, in the biology of capillary endothelial cells from different tissue sites, and between different species. For example, the Weibel-Palade body, frequently used as a marker for human umbilical vein endothelial cells, appears to be much more common in human large vessel and microvessel endothelium than in the cells from other species. The most specific marker for endothelial cells, to distinguish these from other vascular cells, still appears to be the secretion of Factor VIII antigen. Capillary endothelial cells appear to be particularly sensitive to the substratum, a finding which reinforces other studies with large vessel endothelial cells in culture, and which may account for some of the current differences, in studies in different laboratories, on the dependence of endothelial cells in culture on exogenous growth factors. Among the most interesting future investigations with capillary endothelial cells in culture should be those on their prostaglan-


In this review the research on the anticoagulant and antilipaemic activity of sulfated and synthetically modified polysaccharides extracted from marine macro algae between 1913 and 2018 was summarized and the results were compared with a long known natural polysaccharide from animal sources, heparin which contain N-sulfate group. The highest anticoagulant activity of algal sulfated polysaccharide was obtained from Dictiyota menstrualis, red alga, found to be 4.8 times more active than heparin. Antilipaemic activity of some algal sulfated polysaccharides showed similar activity as heparin.


By using the hydrological data,analysis and calculation are conducted for the upstream watershed of water in-take at Hun River mainstream,the upstream watershed of water in-take at Dalishugou,which are designed as water source for Yatai Cement Project.The results indicate that shallow groundwater at Dalishugou can provide 103 × 104m3 yearly,which can not meet the water demand of 3478 m3/ d or 127 × 104m3/ a in actuality year.The water intake at Hun River mainstream can supplement the shortage of Dalishugou water source,availablewater supply at the water intake of Hun River mainstream is 3.59 × 108m3/ a in 2010,and 2.473.59 × 108m3/ a in 2020.


The NDT is an industrial and engineering application-oriented scientific field,and hence it must be involved in combining itself closely with the affairs of national economy development and must serve for the large engineering projects and maintain their safety and integrity.In order to realize sustainable development of economy, the energy-saving and green manufactures have become the basic policy of national economy development.Under this background,it is of significance and very high interest to promote green NDT techniques.The paper detailed the basic concepts of green NDT and compared existing NDT methods from the point of view of green aspects,and aimed to draw some conclusions for the future development of various NDT means.The paper also discussed the future development trend of NDT techniques,and its final part was,by taking the author's own working experience in AE monitoring of fatigue cracks as an example,to showed the significant role played by NDT technique.


This paper examines the an economic analysis of seasonal migrant workers in brick kiln industry Tamil Nadu as a case study to highlight the extreme vulnerability of circular migrants workers while stressing the diversity of circulation. Unemployment is the major cause of economic development and it is too severe in the rural are and urban areas. Agriculture is also affected due to monsoon failure and various economic factors. The people migrate to various places for searching their livelihood and to clear all their debts. The people migrate for to brick kiln industry for their survival and to overcome indebtedness. In brick kiln industry is only half season 89 month (November to July). The Brick kiln industry both male and female is engage in works. Before starting the works in brick industry, majority of the workers get advance amount from the employers to clear all their debts. Thereafter, they start working in the brick industry and face various issues. In order to overcome their debts in brick industry, they work beyond the usual work hours more than 12 to 16 hours wherein they undermine the poor living arrangements provided. In particular, the female workers are highly affected due various health hazards, the present study analyses the migrant workers of brick kiln industry in, Tamil Nadu.


Morphological studies were carried out on Laurencia gemmifera and L. poiteaui from the Nichupte Lagoon System, Quintana Roo, Mexico. These species share morphological similarities and possess features intermediate between the subgenera Laurencia Lamouroux and Chondrophycus Tokida et Saito, including secondary pit-connections between adjacent cortical cells and a right-angle arrangement of the tetrasporangia. They are, however, easily differentiated by their respective habits and anatomical details. Vegetative and reproductive features of Laurencia gemmifera and L. poiteaui are reported here. Despite the fact that the two species share characteristics common to both subgenera Laurencia and Chondrophycus, they appear to be more closely related to subgenus Chondrophycus.


The paper summarizes the results of a three-year-long experiment in implementing a system of credits and student ratings at the Higher School of Economics. The main outcome of the experiment was the methodological development, organization and implementation of a subject credit system, a module system of studying, a grading system based on a 10-point system, and a rating system of student achievement.


that might have occurred: 6,000 years ago in the Mesopotamian basin? 300,000 years ago off the Ivory Coast? one-half million years ago on the shores of Lake Tanzania? Other theologians will want to use other chapters as their own provocation to reflection. There is a fascinating chapter on "The Historian's Jesus" that shows an admirable acquaintance with recent historical criticism of the Gospels. And, as expected, N. proves to be wonderfully balanced in the way he incorporates that scholarship into his christological positions. But not every theologian, to say nothing of biblical critic, will want to follow him in his specific conclusions. But this is what theological debate is all about. What theologians have here is an admirable stimulus for such disputations; and what students have is one of the best, most complete, most accessible twovolume introductions to Catholic theology now available.


For students who are at a loss to understand how poetry helps them distinguish the real from the imaginary in a world increasingly turning 'virtual,' Marianne Moore's "Poetry" and Russell Edson's "Piano Lessons" offer some valuable insights. Reading poetry "with a perfect contempt for it," as Moore suggests famously, students soon begin to realize that the ethics of poetry are not all that different from the aesthetics that embody other modes of discourse.In their reading they begin to see the asymmetrical relation the verbal shares with the non-verbal when writers try to capture everyday reality in a language purportedly 'poetic' and 'imaginative.' Observing how students gain such insights, a teacher learns that the "aliteracy" of young adults growing up in our globalized, media-rich environs is largely a myth. The teacher's pleasure after all begins precisely when he/she is sure that poetry, now and here, makes more sense to its readers in a class (in 2010-11, in India) than what it was meant to suggest in another place or circumstance to its earlier implied readers. If the class at least begins to see a philosophy of reading implicit in imagining language differently, one couldn't ask for more of a course in American Poetry and Poetics.


Basic indications for the use of apheresis in the treatment of antibody-mediated acute rejection include: (i) resistance to conventional anti-rejection therapy; (ii) poor prognosis for the graft; (iii) the need for a rapid removal of antibodies from the circulation, since their half-life is of about 3 weeks. Despite the large number of cases already reported in the literature, the role of apheresis in the treatment of acute rejection is still a matter of discussion. This is due to the difficulties in drawing definitive conclusions on its effectiveness for the lack of large controlled trials as well as for the variability in treatment schedules and the associated drug therapy. However, in many transplant centers apheresis is currently used to treat antibody-mediated acute rejection. The criteria for an appropriate use of apheresis in these settings are: (i) a prompt diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection by means of graft biopsy; (ii) starting apheresis as soon as possible after diagnosis, and before irreversible damage of the graft occurs, without waiting for failure of drug therapy; (iii) the association with immunosuppressive agents effective on antibody production.


In his paper on stress wave radiation from explosions Archambeau (1972) has some interesting comments on the lowand high-frequency spectra of displacement pulses. In particular his statements about the low-frequency behaviour of the displacement spectrum would, if they are true, place in jeopardy much current work on earthquake mechanism. The estimation of seismic moment and the spectral theory of dislocation sources both involve the spectrum of the far-field displacement pulse and its property of tending to a constant (which is proportional to seismic moment) at low frequencies. Archambeau, however, on p. 359 of his paper, suggests that the displacement spectrum in the far field (the term r-') is of order 02, and further that the near-field terms become significant at low frequencies so that, in fact, the eventual low frequency asymptote is of order o-'. I propose to show that the first of these suggestions is due to an error in Archambeau's analysis and that, as regards the second suggestion, the effect of the near-field terms appears only at frequencies lower than v,, a frequency whose relation to the corner frequency in the displacement wave, v , that is due to source size, is


The paper investigates the conceptual and material bases of women's exclusion from the formal arena in politics. It discusses the structural barriers within formal institutions, strategies to promote women's political participation and representation adopted around the world, and identifies internal and external conditions that have both facilitated and hindered women's political empowerment in Nigeria. Despite their numbers, politics remain an area in public life solely dominated by men. Faced with structural and financial barriers, the paper argues that there is a deeper need to change attitudes and relationships at many levels, including making women's as well as men's interests integral to the design of programmes in all political, spheres. Keywords: Women in politics. Political parties. Elections. Sustainable development. Political participation. Political representation. DOI : 10.7176/JAAS/53-03 Publication date :March 31 st 2019


The term 'non-traditional students' is commonly used in higher education research and yet its definition has been unclear. This study systematically reviewed 45 definitions of 'non-traditional student' in mental health research conducted within the higher education context using a standardised data extraction and appraisal tool. Findings suggested a wide range of variations on how this term was defined. Thirteen different categories of meaning have been used, including age, multiple roles, mode of study, gap in studies, commuter status, being demographically 'different' from the norm, sex, admission pathway, enrolment in 'non-traditional' programs, being 'disadvantaged', disability and trauma, ethnicity, and having a previous degree. Different combinations of categories were mentioned in the reviewed definitions and wide variations existed within each category of meaning. The term 'non-traditional student' does not currently represent a functional category in communicating a distinct concept. Future research should improve the clarity and consistency in which it is defined.

 Key words: Definition; non-traditional student; systematic review; tertiary education.


A family of passive isolated self-bias circuits providing stabilized voltage for control circuit of boost derived converters with no dedicated controller is introduced.
This paper presents the basic principle of operation and describes extension of the concept to attain multiple bias outputs.
The theoretical predictions were verified by simulation. Experimental results obtained from a single-phase high power factor rectifier prototype support the proposition of the paper.


Although social phobia is one of the most common mental disorders in adolescents, there are few reliable and valid assessment instruments for this age group. This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of a brief version of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI; Turner, Beidel, Dancu, & Stanley, 1989) in a sample of adolescents. Although the original 45-item SPAI has excellent psychometric properties, its utility is limited by its length. We developed and piloted a brief, 16-item version of the SPAI that has good psychometric properties, assesses cognitive, behavioral, and somatic symptoms, consistent with the original scale, which may be particularly useful as a screening measure. Limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.


Azerbaijan is recovering from a banking crisis and recession caused by a prolonged decline in oil prices since mid-2014. Monetary conditions remain tight under a de facto peg. Despite rising government spending, the fiscal position is projected to strengthen in 2019 mainly due to firmer oil prices and improvements in revenue administration. Weaknesses in bank balance sheets, structural and policy rigidities, and institutional and governance deficiencies hinder medium-term growth prospects and weaken resilience to shocks.


During 1988 a series of acoustic propagation experiments was conducted in the Hudson Canyon area off the coast of New Jersey. It included synthetic aperture experiments in which a source transmitting multiple tones was towed toward/away from a vertical array of receivers. By this means, a two‐dimensional structure of the acoustic field was obtained at eight different frequencies. This data set is used to estimate the bottom acoustic properties using global optimization approaches such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithm and to compare their performance with that of perturbative methods, which because of their simplicity have some advantages over the global methods.


In many respects, A History of Intelligence and Intellectual 'Disability' is a confronting work. At a literal level, it comprises eighteen chapters verging on a total of quarter of a million words, apart from twenty-two pages of primary and secondary sources. Many of its chapters are drawn from Chris Goodey's articles since the early 'nineties in such journals as Ancient Philosophy, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, History of the Human Sciences, and Political Theory. However, he immediately warns us that such articles exist as a "more primitive form" (vii) of the current volume.


Abstract Clustering is done in wireless sensor networks (WSN) to conserve the energy of sensor nodes in the network. Decreasing the energy consumption of nodes prolongs the lifetime of the WSN. A quantum bit can exist in "0" state, "1" state or a linear superposition of "0" and "1" states, unlike the binary bit which can exist in only "0" state or "1" state. In this paper, we propose a Quantum inspired PSO (particle swarm optimization) called Quantum-inspired PSO for Energy Efficient Clustering (QPSOEEC). The algorithm is tested by giving different values to the number of sensor nodes and cluster heads, varying the base station position, etc. Then, our results are compared to existing algorithms that demonstrate the superiority of our algorithm.


The objectives of this research were 1) to study culture of Thai-Mon ethnic group in Ratchaburi province and 2) to study Buddhism culture for peaceful coexistence of Thai-Mon ethnic group in Ratchaburi province. The research method was qualitative method, study with - 7 key informants. The tool for collecting data was as the structured interview, and analysis by content analysis technique. The findings of this research are as follows: 1.  The culture of Thai-Mon ethnic group in Ratchaburi province was to settle down at Ban Pong and Photharam district. Although, Thai-Mon ethnic group in Ratchaburi province believed in the Buddhism deeply and offer sacrifices to a spirit Thai-Mon Ethnic groups emigrated to stay in Thailand and got about customs, tradition and the culture to hold inherit ministerial strictly. The some part of Mon culture, it was influential to Thai-society such as music culture got Mon orchestra consisting of five groups of wood and percussion instruments to use in funeral rites or the dialect language, Thai society got some Mon language to use in Thai language too such as the words are that "krung", "nie", "klong" that means "the capital city", "mister", "channel" etc. In the aspect of literature, it was found that Thai society got influential from Mon culture in about the plot, that is Rachathiraj story which about Mon annals and the aspects of Thai-customs and traditions such as Song-Kran festival or Water festival, both of Thai and Mon people were regarded as New Year festival. As for the dressing original of Mon, it was chintz cheered wearing by the elder man wore a Panung, which call that "Sarong" and wear a shirt leisurely. The dressing of women wore a Panung, which call that "Ka-Nin" or "Nin", it was resemble with wearing skirt of Thai woman but it was long covered the heel and wearing a shirt leisurely. In the time when they go to temple or religious ceremony, they used a breast cloth and popularity to put up long hair lower than behind. The aspects of house found that Mon people believed about the gable putting by laying the gable on east–west direction, in other that they put the gable take the sun and there were the ghost pillars or the main post pillar at the first pillar position on the east direction by the ghost doors was the door of house at the west direction which was the door upstairs that was not porch supports for prepare to take a corpse get off a house in accordance with belief of ancients. 2. Buddhism culture for peaceful coexistence of Thai-Mon ethnic group in Ratchaburi province found that the spiritual culture or nonphysical culture, which a history about the trust of human for intellect and beautiful mind such as morality, Buddhist doctrine and traditionalism. It was indicated on rites or ceremony which was instrumental for helping the creation the solidarity to society. Because the religion of Buddhism culture was Dharma principle that encourage for Peaceful Coexistence such as Sangahavatthu, Dhamma for sympathetic joy or social solidarity for Peaceful Coexistence, feature that give alms (giving, sharing, sacrifice, generousness). Peyyavajja (kindly speech, convincing speech). Atthacariya (useful conduct, rendering services of doing well for others). Samanattata that behave oneself properly in all circumstances, equality consisting in impartiality. The principles virtuous existence, the Dhamma adhere of adults, feature that Matta or kindheartedness, were inspired by kindness for others). Karuna or Kindness (compassionate, wish for helping others from suffering. Mudita or sympathetic joy, Ubegkha that behave equality consisting in impartiality) and Sappurisadhamma; Sattaburut of Dhamma or Dhamma of good person, feature that Dhammannuta (knowing the cause), Atthannuta (knowing the self), Mattannuta (knowing to be proportion), Kalannuta (knowing how to choose and keep time), Parisannuta (knowing the assembly; knowing the society) and Puggalannuta (knowing the individual; knowing the different individuals).


The present invention is directed to a device for controlling the fluid flow and pressure, including an adjustable pressure regulator, inlet restrictor and a pressure regulator comprising a semi-automatic valve and a pressure regulator having a bypass valve. Adjustable pressure regulator includes a movable shuttle, the shuttle housing, a high pressure diaphragm, the fluid conduit connecting the low pressure diaphragm and the inlet to the outlet. One of these components or may be adjusted to modify the outlet pressure of the regulator. The inlet restrictor, incoming fluid can enter the pressure regulator when the pressure of the incoming fluid is higher than the threshold level. Using the positioning of the inlet restrictor, it is possible to prevent the partial vacuum is formed inside of the pressure regulator. Semi-automatic valve opens manually, automatically closes when the fluid flowing through the valve is insufficient to leave open the valve. Also it is possible semiautomatic valve is semi-automatic electrical switch. Bypass valve when the slow flow, or directing the flow to bypass the pressure regulator when having a low pressure. .The 2A


Occupant restraint systems, such as air bags, are popular and essential equipment for new automobile models in recent years. Air bags, now widely accepted by the public, have demonstrated their effectiveness as evidenced by the latest statistics of highway accident-related injuries in the United States. Coping with the growth and technological advancements in the safety sector, the auto industry is currently adapting electronic crash sensors for vehicle safety systems. This transition is propelled by the potential benefits of electronic sensors, including sophisticated functionality, cost savings, and flexibility in integration with other electronics in automobiles. This paper addresses the crash sensing technologies for occupant restraint systems and discusses the engineering problems encountered in the design of such systems. The design of electromechanical crash sensors is analyzed to review the crash sensing concepts. Crash sensing algorithms for electronic sensors are also discussed. The paper then proposes potential strategies to combine several sensing technologies to improve the performance of vehicle safety systems. Applications in frontal and side impact protection systems are evaluated. The paper concludes with a discussion of future restraint systems and technologies required for their implementation. An intelligent restraint system will incorporate information from occupant positioning, impact-condition identification, and crash sensing severity to deploy appropriate levels of restraints. A future restraint system will be an integral part of a full vehicle safety system that includes pre-impact warning and avoidance, injury-mitigating protection, and post-impact notification and handling.


........................................... xxix CHAPTER 1 THREE PUBLISHED HUMORISTS; SMITH, NEAL, AND LONGSTREET .......................... 1 2 THE COMMUNITY AS CATALYST ............... 30 3 HUMOR AND THE MARKET REVOLUTION: THREE DISTINCT PERSPECTIVES ................... 56 4 THE HUMOROUS CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL CHANGE ................................... 84 5 HUMOR FROM THE WEST: KIRKLAND, HALL, AND THORPE ................................... 106 6 LAUGHING AT THE WILDERNESS .............. 143 7 A NEW FABLE OF THE BEES ................. 171 8 THREE PERSPECTIVES ON REFINEMENT IN THE WEST ................................. 197 VOLUME II 9 THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE OF CULTURE AND PLACE: SHILLABER, RILEY, AND BALDWIN ... 224 10 THE GOOD OLD DAYS ....................... 250 11 ENTHUSIASM AND APATHY IN THE REVIEWS OF PARTINGTON. PUDDLEFORD. AND FLUSH TIMES.. 279 12 THE SECTIONAL CRISIS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANTEBELLUM HUMOR .... 302 13 THE TRANSFORMATION COMPLETE: MORTIMER NEAL THOMSON AND GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS . . . 330 BIBLIOGRAPHY ......................................... 373 VITA ................................................ 405 xxviii Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT This work revises earlier interpretations ofThis work revises earlier interpretations of antebellum American humorists and sets forth a new model for understanding their accomplishments. Rooted in historical thinking, this study integrated biography, publishing history, critical responses, and a penetrating analysis of the sketches of several major figures. The first third examined Seba Smith, Joseph C. Neal, and Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. A devotion to their communities in Maine, Philadelphia, and Georgia, respectively, and preference for writing warm, genial selections remained important shared influences while cultural differences between the societies in which each matured and wrote made their humor diverge significantly. In both content and expression their stories about the market revolution, politics, and other important topics possessed distinctive characteristics. The middle chapters examined the western humorists Caroline Kirkland, Baynard Rush Hall, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Their perspectives originated in cultural backgrounds in the East and observations of dissimilar communities in Michigan, Indiana, and Louisiana. Each made fun of the people involved in the settlement process and discovered that culture played a major role in how people organized their communities. xxix Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. The last third asserted the continuing importance of culture and place by discussing the perspectives of three humorists popular during the 1850s. Benjamin Shillaber from Boston, Henry Riley in western Michigan, and Joseph G. Baldwin of Alabama conveyed different concepts of change, and reviewers around the country responded to their published collections more favorably if the material came from their own region. This enthusiasm for a local humorist and apathy for those from elsewhere gave the first indications that the sectional crisis had intruded into the creative process. Over the 1850s as tensions rose, humor became more contentious. The sketches of Northerner Mortimer Neal Thomson and Southerner George Washington Harris illustrated the complete transformation as humorists began using humor as a weapon in the growing strife.


Objective:To study the level of the hydrogen peroxide residue and degradation in air.Methods:The hydrogen peroxide residue was absorbed with titanium tetrachloride and colorimetric detected with ultraviolet spectrophotometers technique.Results:The hydrogen peroxide residue sprayed in air was degraded quickly,it was spent more time for the high concentration hydrogen peroxide residue was degraded to permissible exposure concentration-short term exposure limit(PEC-STEL),such as 100 mg/m3 hydrogen peroxide degradation in air must needs 135 min,50 mg/m3 hydrogen peroxide degradation in air must needs 55 min,for 25 mg/m3 low content hydrogen peroxide degradation in air,after 35 min,was difficultly detected with instrument.Conclusion:In order to reduce and eliminate the hydrogen peroxide in air harming human health,under satisfy the work requirement condition,it must adopt effective measure to reduce the hydrogen peroxide concentration in air as far as possible.


An introduction to the universal algebra approach to Higman–Thompson groups (including Thompson's group V) is given, following a series of lectures by Graham Higman in 1973. In these talks, Higman outlined an algorithm for the conjugacy problem; which although essentially correct fails in certain cases, as we show here. A revised and complete version of the algorithm is written out explicitly. From this, we construct an algorithm for the power conjugacy problem in these groups. Python implementations of these algorithms can be found in [26].


This paper describes a research study carried out in Ireland looking at transport provision in rural areas in Ireland. The objective of the study was to look at experiences of older people in rural Ireland and to assess how well current levels of transport provision were meeting their transport needs. A series of focus groups with older people living in rural areas was conducted in different parts of rural Ireland, both in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. A number of interesting findings were revealed. This paper focuses on the findings relating to health trips and accessibility of health services. It was apparent that trips to health facilities (such as doctors, clinics, and hospitals) were the most important trips for older people and were also the most difficult trips to make in rural areas. It was clear that this was due to a lack of synergy between transport operators and health service providers and also a lack of synergy and coordination between government bodies devising and implementing health policy and government bodies implementing transport policy. It was also discovered that driving cessation is a major issue for older people in rural Ireland, who are often forced to give up their car at some point due to ill health or visual impairment and that this leads to significant decreases in relative mobility.


We study the 2018 Martian global dust storm (GDS 2018) over the Southern Polar Region using images obtained by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board Mars Express (MEx) during June and July 2018. Dust penetrated into the polar cap region but never covered the cap completely, and its spatial distribution was nonhomogeneous and rapidly changing. However, we detected long but narrow aerosol curved arcs with a length of ~2,000–3,000 km traversing part of the cap and crossing the terminator into the nightside. Tracking discrete dust clouds allowed measurements of their motions that were toward the terminator with velocities up to 100 m/s. The images of the dust projected into the Martian limb show maximum altitudes of ~70 km but with large spatial and temporal variations. We discuss these results in the context of the predictions of a numerical model for dust storm scenario.


Preface Acknowledgments "How Can I Deny That These Hands and This Body Are Mine?" Merleau-Ponty and the Touch of Malebranche The Desire to Live: Spinoza's Ethics under Pressure To Sense What Is Living in the Other: Hegel's Early Love Kierkegaard's Speculative Despair Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigary and Merleau-Ponty Violence, Non-Violence: Sartre on Fanon Notes Index


Background/Objectives: The information generated by the social networks is exponentially higher and demand effective systems to yield effective results. In conventional techniques stay unqualified because they ignore the social related data. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The existing system doesn't provide any proper methodology to report people about any natural disasters rapidly or to notify the rescue agencies for taking immediate actions to carry out the rescue process. The only existing methodology of reporting people is the media, i.e. news, radio, etc. The use of a particle filter fetches the necessary keywords from tweets by the use of Stemming along with the location and time. When the system encounters keywords related to natural disasters, an auto alert is sent to the people in the nearby locations and the rescue teams based on a proper verification algorithm. Findings: The method finding the two data set representations: one is considering the two directional social relations, and the other considering the one directional social relation. It is seen that the performance of the recommender system can be greatly boosted by the mentioned contextual factors. Application/ Improvements: On validation of the authenticity user, the user is allowed to enter the application. The user is allowed to tweet using the same application.


Previous reports from this laboratory identified bursa‐derived lymphocytes (B cells) and non‐B cells as the predominant cell types respectively involved in the early cytolytic and subsequent latent infection of chickens with Marek's disease virus (MDV). It was not known whether these differences were qualitative or quantitative or if the method for detection of latent infection (viral antigen production after 48 h of in vitro cultivation) was sensitive enough. To further define the cells involved in the various phases of MDV infection, we used monoclonal antibodies which specifically react with B cells, or T cells, or la‐antigen‐bearing cells. Dual fluorescence tests to detect surface markers and viral internal antigen (VIA) were conducted with infected spleen cell freshly collected from MDV‐infected chickens or after in vitro cultivation of those cells. The same antibodies were also used for a rosetting procedure to yield fractions enriched or depleted of T cells, B cells or la‐bearing cells. These were examined directly for viral DNA by in situ hybridization or dot blot DNA hybridization and for VIA cultivation. We learned that infected T cells also comprise part of the early cytolytic phase of MDV infection but constitute a minority population (approximately 2–3%) compared to B cells (83–92%) at 3 or 4 days post infection. Latently infected cells were definitively identified as mostly la‐bearing T cells, although a few (2–4%) were B cells. Prior to in vitro cultivation, latently infected cells apparently had insufficient viral DNA for detection by in situ hybridization, but the more sensitive dot blot procedure revealed viral DNA in fractions later found positive by VIA expression after in vitro cultivation. Viral DNA replication in latently infected cells apparently had occured after 48 h cultivation because in situ hybridization detected infected cells at that time. Treatment of cell cultures with iodo‐deoxyuridine, 12‐O‐tetradecanoyl phorbol‐13‐acetate or n‐butyrate failed to increase the number of spleen cells which expressed VIA.


Traditional recognition of Chinese sign language mostly uses static feature vectors.This paper proposes an algorithm that extracts efficient feature vectors to recognize a hand gesture for sign language.The proposed algorithm recognizes hand gesture based on visual information without using any special gesture glove.To recognize hand gesture,the proposed method is divided into three steps.First,by using an edge-based hand area search algorithm,a hand block is found and segmented efficiently from the monochrome input images.Secondly,if hand area is successfully extracted,the feature vectors representing the hand shape are analyzed applying orientation histogram scheme.Also,the feature vectors of moving hand is obtained by motion estimation.Lastly,the hand gesture is recognized by feature vectors of hand's shape and movements.The proposed algorithm can not only segment the hand area,but also extract the feature vectors from the gray scaled motion images representing language words.


Load Frequency Control (LFC) is employed in a system to maintain the scheduled system frequency and tie line power of an interconnected area within the prescribed limits. In this paper load frequency and tie line power of three area interconnected power system is controlled first by conventional PID controller then to quench the variation occurred in system frequency and tie line power the Fuzzy load frequency controller is incorporated. To damp out deviation occurred in area frequencies and tie line powers Fuzzy becomes enabling technology and emerging to large integrated power systems. The proposed control strategy with Fuzzy Controller assures the improved transient performance and faster settling time of automatic generation control after the sudden load perturbation. The performances of both the control methodologies of the above controllers are simulated using MATLAB/SIMULINK package R2014a.


The genetic diversity of the exon2 of BoLA-DRB3(BoLA-DRB3.2) in China Holstein cows of the South China was investigated by polymerase chain reactionrestriction fragment length polymorphism(PCR-RFLP).After digestion with restriction endonucleases,products were separated with 14%PAGE.6,4 and 11 RFLP patterns were found with enzymes HaeIII,BstYI and RsaI respectively.The result demonstrated that the BoLA-DRB3.2 locus was highly polymorphic in China dairy cattle.PCR-RFLP may therefore be a rapid and effective method for DRB3 typing in dairy cattle.


MOST students are faced with the task of solving the equation x2 + 1 = 0 over the real numbers at some time in their algebra classes. After they substitute values for unsuccessfully, they usually attempt to solve the equivalent equation x2 = -1. They soon realize that it is impossible to square a real number and obtain a negative number. At this point their teacher may define the imaginary number / to be ^f11! and then proceed to develop the complex number system. Since some students encounter the situa


We discuss the interior solutions of fluid Sphere in f (R,T ) gravity admitting conformal killing vectors, where R is Ricci scalar and T is trace of energy momentum tensor. The solutions corresponding to isotropic and anisotropic configurations have been investigated explicitly. Further, the anisotropic case has been dealt by the utiliza-tion of linear equation of state. The results for both cases have been interpreted graphically. The equation of state parameter, integration constants and other parameters of the theory have been chosen to find the central density equal to standard value of central density of the compact objects. The energy conditions as well as stability of the solutions have been investigated in the background of f (R,T ) gravity.


Background: Nurse-to-nurse shift report means the exchange of information about the patient's state of health between health care professionals. Previous research shows that errors within the communication are common and that it can lead to serious consequences for the patient. Bedside handover means that the shift report is conducted to the patient's bedside, therefore the patient can also be actively involved in it. Aim: To describe patients' and nurses' experience and views of bedside report. Method: A literature review was conducted based on 11 studies that corresponded to the purpose. These were quality checked and analyzed with Friberg's three-stage model. Results: Articles focusing on patients was revealed into three themes: 1) Provides increased safety. 2) The integrity could be affected. 3) Communication adapted to patient. Articles focusing on nurses was revealed into three themes: 1) To get closer to the patient. 2) The importance of dealing with privacy and sensitive information in a correct way. 3) Improved communication. Conclusion: The main findings in this literature review were increased patient safety and increased sense of patient participation. These findings are notions which the person-centered care is based on. Health care professionals who intend to pursue a person-centered care should consider implementing bedside handover as their report model.


Background The increase in the number of autistic children being identified has led to increased demand on public schools to provide high-quality services. Effectively scaling up evidence-based practice (EBP) use for autistic students is challenging, given the complicated organization of special education. Teachers have significant challenges implementing autism EBP with fidelity. Factors such as implementation leadership and climate and attitudes toward EBP are linked to successful EBP use and may vary at different levels of the education system. Examining mechanisms of successful implementation is a critical step to support scale-up. Method In this observational study, conducted from September 2018 to March 2020, California school personnel (n = 2273) at multiple levels of the system completed surveys related to implementation climate, leadership, and attitudes toward EBP. Data were collected throughout California at the Special Education Local Plan Areas, County Office of Education, and district and school levels from educators and administrators working in public schools supporting autistic students. Multi-level modeling was conducted to characterize implementation readiness. Results Overall, implementation climate and leadership scores are low across levels with regional levels rated more positively than districts or schools. Attitudes toward EBP were moderate, with those working in schools having the poorest ratings and specialists/trainers and related service providers (e.g., speech-language pathologists) having the highest ratings. Conclusions Outcomes provide a unique opportunity to compare implementation factors across organizational levels with a large, statewide sample. These data provide guidance for developing implementation interventions at multiple levels of the education system to increase readiness for effective scale-up of autism EBP in schools. Personnel and leaders at different organizational levels may need differentiated training targeting improved implementation climate and leadership. Personnel within districts and schools may experience a particular benefit from leadership support for EBP implementation.


The deleterious effects of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) on gastric mucosa have been well documented in experimental and clinical studies. With a direct endoscopic assay system we evaluated in healthy volunteers whether pretreatment with prostaglandin analogues (misoprostol, rioprostil), omeprazole and ranitidine prevented ASA-induced gastric mucosal injuries. Ranitidine (2 X 150 mg/d) in large antisecretory doses almost completely abolished these changes (p less than 0.05). By contrast, misoprostol (4 X 50 micrograms/d and 4 X 200 micrograms/d), rioprostil (3 X 100 micrograms/d), omeprazole (5 mg and 10 mg/d) as well as ranitidine in non-antisecretory doses (2 X 25 mg/d) did not reduce gastric mucosal injury after single-dose ASA administration. The results of this trial indicate that socalled cytoprotective doses of prostaglandins, omeprazole and ranitidine in contrast to animal findings are not effective in preventing acute ASA-induced mucosal damage.


We report a two‐step growth process, using an atomic layer epitaxially grown GaAs predeposition layer for the growth of GaAs/Si layers by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy technique. Photoluminescence and deep‐level transient spectroscopy techniques are used to show that the quality of the grown material is comparable to that grown by a much complicated procedure involving strained layer superlattice buffers introduced between the active GaAs layer and the Si substrate.


The suitability of Skewness based ANN model for zone wise classification of cavitation signals from pressure drop devices that are used for flow zoning in a Proto type Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is explored in this paper. Neural network used here is Elman Recurrent Networks which propagate data from later processing stage to earlier stage. A copy of the previous values of the hidden units is maintained which allows the network to perform sequence-prediction. The training algorithm used is the resilient back propagation algorithm. It is a systematic method to train the neural network. The purpose of it is to eliminate the harmful effects of the magnitudes of the partial derivatives. Only the sign of the derivative is used to determine the direction of the weight update and the magnitude of the derivative has no effect on the weight update. In this paper, the statistical feature based on the first-order distribution measure skewness is selected as input feature. The proposed ANN model contains 5 layers. The extracted feature (Skewness) is normalized between –1 to +1 and fed as input to ANN model. The classification range has been fixed, from Skewness values. It is concluded that the performance of the recurrent network is optimum. Index Terms Skewness, ANN model, Recurrent Network, Resilient BPN Algorithm.


The present research aims to argue the need to train adults involved in the adoption process, so that each of the actors involved in this process to achieve optimal success - applicants for adoption to become parents, the child / children to find their permanent family, and specialists to follow the stages the adoption and post-adoption process as efficiently as possible.
Adoption, although it has all the peculiarities of a classical family, is rather a transitional institution that creates a family different from the traditional biological family, serving a dual purpose, that of first offering a home to a child and then offering parents a child. The complexity of this process makes some applicants for adoption either delay the submission of an application for adoption or give up during the process facing a tumult of rules that become contradictory and create difficulties for them.
Between 2018-2021, research was conducted that included 120 candidates for adoption, who were trained according to a new curriculum, and as research methods were used semi-structured interview and psychological training. As result were strengthened the parenting knowledge and skills of least 120 adoptive parents (60 couples) for 18 months and as a consequence was updated the training curriculum for potential national adopters to increase the success of adoption.


This article fi rst introduces the contents and essence of the Japanese Positive List System which reflects the growing "Green Barrier" set by Japan. Then, it analyses the four impacts on Chinese agriculture industry. They are the great loss of agricultural product exports to Japan, the great challenge to Chinese agricultural technology and supervision to the quality of agricultural products, the more strict requirements to innovating the institution of Chinese agricultural product export industry, and indirect reflection of the defects of fi nancing system in Chinese agricultural sector. In the following, the article provides four measures, including further negotiation with Japan, improvement of agricultural technology and supervision to the quality of agricultural products, further innovation of the institutional arrangements of the Chinese agricultural sector, and completion of the fi nancing system in Chinese agricultural sector.


The application of Fourier Transform (FT) spectroscopy instruments has broadened the knowledge and capabilities of textile researchers to study a host of projects including surface modifications of cotton fibers to impart flame retardant capabilities, monitoring aging effects on ancient cellulosic artifacts (Kavkler et al., 2011; Lojewski et al., 2010), determining the amount of dye fixation to fabrics (Choi, H-M, et al., 1994), and characterization of cotton byproducts during the processing of cotton (Cheng and Biswas, 2011), to name a few. As can be observed from the above examples, the power and versatility of analyzing textiles with FT spectroscopy is proven.


The study analyses the capacity of different dendrologic species to diminish noise and also considers optimum varieties of urban street plantations composition with the scope of noise reduction. Optimization restrictions will be analyzed – especially extreme restrictions – along with optimization factors which depend on the dendrologic species assortment and the quality of the architectural-landscape composition of the plantation; these aspects concord with some spatial decree restrictions which the landscape specialist must provide for when completing the sound-insulating street plantations.


This soil survey of Crosby County, Tex., will serve several groups. of readers. It will help farmers and ranchers in planning the kind of management that will protect their soils and provIde good yields; assist engineers in selecting sites for roads, buildings, ponds, and
other structures; add to soil scientists' knowledge of soils; and help prospective buyers and
others in appraising a farm or other tract.


This study presents the results for Cu/In bonding based on the solid–liquid interdiffusion (SLID) principle for fine-pitch interconnects in three-dimensional integration. The microbumps were fabricated on Si wafers (55 µm pitch, 25 µm top bump diameter, 35 µm bottom bump diameter). In was electroplated directly on Cu only on the top die microbumps. Two different In thicknesses were manufactured (3 and 5 µm). The interconnects were successfully fabricated at a bonding temperature of 170 °C. High temperature storage was carried out at 150 and 200 °C for different times between 2 and 72 h directly after the interconnect formation in order to investigate the temperature stability. The microstructure was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The intermetallic compound (IMC) found in the microbumps after electroplating was CuIn2. The intermetallic interlayer consists of Cu11In9 and a thin layer of Cu2In after bonding and isothermal storage.


The sections in this article are

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Riccati Equations

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Homotopy Algorithm Based on Ly's Formulation

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Homotopy Algorithm Based on Overparametrization Formulation

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Numerical Algorithms

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The Distributed Homotopy Algorithm

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Numerical Results and Discussion

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Acknowledgment

Keywords:

Homotopy method;
Riccati equation;
LQG controller synthesis;
H2/H∞ performance


Dupilumab is the first targeted biologic therapy that can be used in moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. The mono-clonal antibody inhibits interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 signal transmission [1]. Dupilumab has a good tolerance profile for the treatment of atopic and allergic diseases. Clinicians should consider its novelty and the potential for unexpected and adverse drug reactions. We present a patient who developed a large-cell anaplastic T-cell lymphoma with involvement of the supraclavicular lymph node and mycosis fungoides after induction of dupilumab.


Network device 102 includes a first interface 142 and the multicast packet of the N dog common multicast address to determine the control has a module 126 for receiving a multicast packet. The network device 102 a packet aggregation module that uses the N of the multicast packets to form aggregate data bundle; the (packet aggregation module 139) also includes. The network device 102 also includes a packet format module 140 to add a header to the aggregated data to form a unicast packet bundle. Network device 102 also includes a second interface 146 to send the unicast packets. N is an integer of 1 or more.


The world is constantly seeking new sources of energy to replace the use of coal and fossil fuels to generate electricity. And a strong source of energy from the ocean is one of the hopes of scientists around the world. Ocean energy is an endless renewable energy source for making electricity used for the world. Marine technology was once considered too expensive to be a viable source of alternative clean energy, especially compared to already developed products such as wind and solar. However, with the increased price of oil and the issues of global warming and national security, U.S. coastal sites are looking to add ocean energy to their renewable energy portfolios. This paper gives an overview of ocean energy technologies, focusing on two different types: wave, tidal. It outlines the operating principles, the status, and the efficiency and cost of generating energy associated with each technology.