Four kinds of activating fluxes, TiO2, Cr2O3, CdCl2 and ZnCl2, were used to investigate the effects of the coating quantity of active fluxe on TIG welding penetration of magnesium alloy. The distribution of active flux element in the weld-pool was measured by EPMA analysis. The results showed that the above activating fluxes all increased the weld penetration and the coating quantity of each flux has a saturation point for penetration increment. The distributions of Mg and Al in the weld-pool are changed in different degrees after welding with flux. No active flux element was found in the weld-pool after welding with CdCl2 and ZnCl2 fluxes, however, the elements Ti, Cr and O were observed in the weld-pool after welding with TiO2 and Cr2O3 fluxes. The increase of weld penetration induced by chlorides mainly is due to the effect of flux on the arc, and the increase of weld penetration induced by oxides mainly is due to the reaction of flux with the fusion zone metal.


Multi-national enterprises (MNEs) operate in developing countries for many reasons: to take advantage of the availability of specific raw materials, natural resources, labour pools, skills-sets, or processing facilities, or to serve growing customer markets. In many cases, it is their supply chains that matter most in shaping their contribution to enterprise development and local earnings in developing countries. For companies with on-site production, such as mines or hotels, supply chains can be a greater source of local economic impact than the direct payroll. And they certainly outweigh philanthropic investment: Shell's financial results for 2007 showed that the company spent $17 billion on goods and services from locallyowned companies in lowand medium-income countries, versus 'only' $170 million on social investment. For companies that do not produce or sell in the South, but source their primary inputs there (such as chocolate makers), and for those that contract intermediaries in the South (such as clothing companies), it is the supply chain that delivers impact. For those companies selling households goods in the developing world, from soap to soft drinks, distribution chains may have extensive reach into the local economy surpassing that of supply chains. While providing opportunities for workers, producers and vendors, supply and distribution chains are also where MNEs earn their margins, squeezing returns to low-income supplies or distributors. As such, whatever the sector, the supply and distribution chains of MNEs are major avenues by which MNEs affect the engagement of the poor in globalised markets.


Introduction: Hospital laundry are potential reservoirs of bacteria in hospitals. Preventing contamination and providing clean linen and laundry should help to prevent hospital acquired infections. Being an important component in the management of patients and the role in causing hospital acquired infections, the study about hospital laundry has been undertaken in our hospital. Methods: Quality control practiced in the Linen and Laundry Service was studied by conducting a prospective study. Samples were taken from the surface of these materials by sweep plate method prior to washing procedure. The second set of samples were collected from the same materials after the washing procedure. The organisms were identified by colony morphology, culture characteristics & biochemical reactions according to standard techniques. Results: Out of the 30 samples studied, 24 (80%) of them were contaminated with bacteria before washing. Organisms yielded were Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CONS), Aerobic spore bearing bacilli (ASB), Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. After washing, 25 (83%) of the clothes were sterile. Conclusion: Though terminal cleaning fails to completely eliminate bacteria from the laundered fabrics, it is effective in considerable reduction in bacterial growth.


Showing flexibility by being willing to add and subtract issues in an effort to find a solution to internal militarized disputes can be vital to success. Examples drawn from recent negotiations involving Angola, Cambodia, El Salvador, Mozambique, and the former Yugoslavia provide a number of lessons concerning the manipulation of issues and how that might facilitate agreement or make it less likely. In some instances, these involve certain dilemmas, since subtracting issues may help agreement, but the resulting agreement may not mean much; efforts to punish perpetrators of violence on the other side will impede negotiations, but failure to do so may undermine popular support for the agreement; and regionalizing the negotiation may bring in other parties and issues, allowing more tradeoffs, but can delay the negotiation by adding complexity.


Abstract A new methodology is proposed for the calibration of distributed hydrological models at the basin scale by constraining an internal model variable using satellite data of land surface temperature (LST). The model algorithm solves the system of energy and mass balances in terms of a representative equilibrium temperature that governs the fluxes of energy and mass over the basin domain. This equilibrium surface temperature, which is a critical model state variable, is compared to operational satellite LST, while calibrating soil hydraulic parameters and vegetation variables differently in each pixel, minimizing the errors. This procedure is compared to the traditional calibration using only discharge measurements. The distributed energy water balance model, Flash-flood Event-based Spatially-distributed rainfall–runoff Transformation – Energy Water Balance model (FEST-EWB), is used to test this approach. This methodology is applied to the Upper Yangtze River basin (China) using MODIS LST retrieved from satellite data in the framework of the NRSCC-ESA DRAGON-2 Programme. The calibration procedure based on LST seems to outperform the calibration based on discharge, with lower relative error and higher Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency index on cumulated volume. Editor D. Koutsoyiannis; Associate editor C. Perrin


The article describes the calculation method of masonry walls loaded vertically according to PN-EN 1996-1-1 and PN-EN 1996-3. The Calculation method is given and the differences between Eurocode 6 and "old Polish standard" are indicated. Additionally, the differences between calculations according to exact and simplified method described in Eurocode 6 that show adverse consequences of the use of simplified method. The places (formulas and assumptions), which causes the discrepancies in calculation methods are pointed out in the study.


Since Florida utilities often experience their system peak during the state's few cold mornings, understanding influences on space heat performance is important to controlling demand. Analysis of heat pump impacts on system load in a large scale monitoring study have shown large levels of strip heat being used during the winter morning peak. The implied coefficient of performance of heat pumps during the system peak hour was only 1.30. Also, analysisof the total seasonal space heat has shown that the impliedHeating Season Performance Factor (HSPF) of heat pump homes is only 4.4 BtuJW rather than the 6-8 BtuJW commonly claimed.Thepaperdescribes reasons forthe lower than anticipated levels ofperformance aswell as other significant influences on space heating demand.


Background: Patients with cancer of the lung have to endure a quantity of physical, psychological and social difficulties. In their exposed position they are in need of help and support to pull thr ...


Between the second half of the 17th Century and part of the 18th Century the convent of San Francisco at Santiago de Compostela transformed its entire architecture. To complete such an ambitious plan the friars turned to those professionals on construction who had taken the Franciscan habit inviting them to join the workshop of the convent and designating them different tasks. The present paper proposes to look into this particular way of working identifying to those Franciscan lay friars that had worked in Compostela, ordering the chronological sequence in which they participated in the works and trying to establish their particular participation.


The management of urban rainwater by local authorities evolves toward methods aiming to minimize the influence of urbanization both on the urban water cycle and on receiving media and to keep the urban water cycle as close as possible as the water cycle in natural media. The development of these best management practices (hereafter called water sensitive urban design or WSUD) practices is intended to reduce both the increase of flow peaks and of flow volumes and to reduce pollutant fluxes, all resulting from the development of impervious surfaces. This development is based on devices, which store and infiltrate rainwater such as vegetated roofs, porous pavements, ditches, infiltration trenches, and dry detention storage. At a local scale, they affect the water budget by enhancing infiltration, evapotranspiration and a correct design is required for ensuring their efficiency and preventing malfunctioning such local ponding or local floods. As illustrated by the example of the metropolitan area of Nantes (Fig. 1), these WSUD practices mainly concern peri-urban zones which host the largest part of the on-going urban development. In conclusion of their review paper on urban hydrology, Fletcher et al. (2012) state that there is a clear trend towards more integrated management of stormwater. That evolution, requires to collect new types of data and to develop new types of models both for helping urban planners to design the storm water systems of urbanizing areas and for better understanding the hydrological influence of WSUD. If the effect of WSUD on peak flowrate is well established, its influence on the other hydrological fluxes of the water urban cycle to these techniques deserves an in-depth investigation, both a the local scale (in the vicinity of the WSUD devices), and the catchment scale. Recent research works have higlighted the need to develop "process-based" models in order to analyse and evaluate the influence of these new urban design options on both the water and energy budgets (Mitchell et al., 2008; Nakayama and Fujita, 2010). A more physically-based approach of urban hydrological modelling would contribute to a better representation of both the hydrological behaviour of urban catchments and source control devices (Xiao et al., 2007). [Display omitted]The objective of this study is to present the implementation of WSUD practices into a distributed hydrological model. This model, based on urban databanks, is called URBS-MO (for Urban Runoff Branching Structure Model, Rodriguez et al., 2008), and can reproduce both the spatial and temporal variability of the hydrological processes in an urban area, in particular the runoff contribution of each land use (house, natural soil, streets), the evapotranspiration and the storage capacity of each cadastral parcel.. The introduction of WSUD practices such as flat roofs (vegetated or not), permeable reservoir pavements, infiltration ditches or basins has been performed in this very modular model. An urban catchment located in Nantes (France) is taken as a case study to analyse the influence of these innovative techniques on the catchment hydrological catchment behaviour. An "eco-quartier" (neighbourhood sustainability program) has been built on this catchment, with a rainwater management strategy encompassing a large proportion of WSUD. This kind of neighbourhood is typical of the planning "tools" that will be implemented in peri-urban zones. The effect of the planned scenario compared to a conventional scenario is analysed both with regards to the statistical distribution of peak flowrates and with regards to the saturation level evolution (Fig. 2). Other hypothetic urban scenarios involving WSUDs are implemented and the influence of WSUD techniques is analysed both on the total runoff and on each component of the urban balance. [Display omitted]


Photometry of the unique pre-main sequence binary system KH 15D is presented, spanning the years 2005-2010. This system has exhibited photometric variations and eclipses over the last ∼50 years that are attributed to the effect of a precessing circumbinary disk. Advancement of the occulting edge across the projection on the sky of the binary orbit has continued and the photospheres of both stars are now completely obscured at all times. The system has thus transitioned to a state in which it should be visible only by scattered light, and yet it continues to show a periodic variation on the orbital cycle with an amplitude exceeding two magnitudes. This variation, which depends only on the binary phase and not on the height of either star above or below the occulting edge, has likely been present in the data since at least 1995. It can, by itself, account for the "shoulders" on the light curve prior to ingress and following egress, obviating to some degree the need for components of extant models such as a scattering halo around star A or forward scattering from a fuzzy disk edge. However, the spectroscopic evidence for some direct or forward scattered light from star A even when it was several stellar radii below the occulting edge shows that these components can probably not be fully removed, and raises the possibility that the occulting edge is currently more opaque than it was a decade ago, when the spectra were obtained. A plausible source for the variable scattering component is reflected light from the far side of a warped occulting disk. We have detected color changes in V-I of several tenths of a


A History of Prophecy in Israel: From the Settlement in the Land to the Hellenistic Period, by JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP. The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1983. 287 pp. $16.95 (paper). Reviewed by JAMES LUTHER MAYS, professor of Old Testament, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. " I T IS CLEAR that Old Testament research has not yet progressed to the point that a definitive history of prophecy can be produced." So Robert R. Wilson writes in the introductory paragraph to his own provisional sketch "Toward a History of Prophecy in Israel" (Prophecy and Society In Ancient Israel, pp. 297ff., published in 1980). Because of the nature of the sources, one has to wonder whether that point will ever be reached. It is well that Joseph Blenkinsopp has undertaken what he calls a "provisional stock-taking," an attempt to describe the phenomenon of prophecy in its historical course. Without question the book is a valuable addition to any basic bibliography on Old Testament prophecy. There are numerous works on Old Testatment prophecy, but this one is the only current book-length attempt at a critical history. Before its appearance we have had only the sketches like those in Wilson's book, in Paul Hanson's The Dawn of Apocalyptic (pp. 12ff.), and in Frank Cross's Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Chap. IV). A critical history is an attempt to understand and explain its subject in terms of its development from its origin until its end and in terms of the relations between the variety and changes that constitute the subject and its course through time. That is precisely what Blenkinsopp has attempted. The book is not primarily a study of the books of the prophets or of the theology of the prophets. Rather it draws on all the approaches to prophetic material to reconstruct an account of prophecy over the span of its existence. The volume should have the same usefulness for the study of prophetic books and texts that a critical history of Israel has for the study of all the Old Testatment literature. Blenkinsopp's history contains six chapters with three to five sections in each. Chapter 1 gives an orientation to the place of the prophetic books in canonical process and theory and surveys modern critical study, putting special emphasis on recent attention to the social location of the prophet. Chapter 2 discusses the question of the origin of Israelite prophecy and traces its course from its dim beginnings down through the ninth century. The next three chapters proceed from Amos to Second Isaiah, dealing with each book in turn; a special feature is the attention given to the relation between the prophets and the activity which produced Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic history. The final chapter follows the course of prophecy in the postexilic period into the revaluation of the prophetic tradition in terms of a radical eschatology and concludes with a section on Jonah; again, a special feature is the explanation of the relation between the prophets and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, a relationship usually slighted in


This dissertation intends to give a better insight of the united states space policy by measuring the impact of the political debate on the concept of space policy. Beyond the official language used to describe the objectives of the space policy, it is necessary to reintroduce the interactions between the different actors, the influence of their own interests on the orientations of the space policy, whileit is also indispensable to evaluate the limitations posed by the political debate itself to their respective strategies. In this field, the political debate is driven as much by common norms as by larger stakes related to institutionnal conflicts specific to the united states political system


In this paper we develop a time-independent approach for the study of the spectral shift function (SSF for short). We apply this method for the perturbed Stark Hamiltonian. We obtain a weak and a Weyl-type asymptotics with optimal remainder estimate of the SSF of the operator pair (P = P0 + V(x), P0 = − h2Δ +x1), x = (x1,…, xn) where V(x) ∈ 𝒞∞(ℝn, ℝ) decays sufficiently fast at infinity, and h is a small positive parameter. Near a non-trapping energy λ, we give a pointwise asymptotic expansions in powers of h of the derivative of the SSF, and we compute explicitly the two leading terms.


Varela's enactive approach to cognitive science has been elaborated into a sophisticated theoretical framework of agency, sense-making, and sociality. At the same time, Varela's methodological innovation – neurophenomenology (NP) – continues to inspire noteworthy empirical work. We argue that the enactive approach was originally expressed in NP as three core tenets, i.e., (1) phenomenological pragmatics, (2) embodied cognition, and (3) conscious efficacy, yet these two research fields have become largely disconnected. We argue that this disconnect largely hinges on an unresolved tension regarding how to conceptualize the mind-body relationship. Although advances have been made regarding the overarching motivation of bringing cognitive (neuro)science closer to lived experience, Varela may have overestimated the impact of introducing first- and second-person methods on dissolving the traditional mind-body problem. Most efforts in NP have focused on applying tenet 1, while tenet 2 has received notably less attention, and there is even some explicit distancing from tenet 3. We illustrate this situation by way of a critical review of several case studies. We find that NP falls short of its revolutionary ambition to combine all three tenets; it still needs to demonstrate that first-person perspective matters, not only as another source of correlational data, but because a person's lived experience, as such, makes an efficacious difference to their embodied cognition. We conclude that, given tenet 1 is now an accepted tool of human neuroscience, and tenet 2 is slowly receiving more attention, it is time to revisit tenet 3. The development of genuinely experience-involving accounts of embodied brain activity would go hand in hand with a rebooting of neurophenomenology in stronger form


System leaders are those headteachers who are willing to shoulder system-wide roles in order to support the improvement of other schools as well as their own. As such, system leadership is a new and emerging practice that embraces a variety of responsibilities that are developing either locally or within discrete national networks or programmes that, when taken together, have the potential to contribute to system transformation. Because this is an emerging practice, there has been no attempt to date to document how system leadership is being enacted and is evolving across the English education system. This article elaborates the concept of system leadership and illustrates its potential power as a catalyst for systemic reform in three ways. First, it not only provides an initial conceptualisation of system leadership based on the contemporary literature and recent policy announcements but also raises a series of concerns about the way the concept is being interpreted. Second, by drawing on responses provided by local authorities, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), a range of national agencies and professional associations as well local and national networks of headteachers and teachers, it maps the system leadership landscape in England current in 2006 by proposing a taxonomy of roles that system leaders are currently assuming. Third, and based on these analyses and research with leading headteachers, it locates system leadership within the literature on systems theory and leadership, proposes a potential model for system leadership and explores the tensions involved in developing the concept further.


This research is undertaken to produce renewable energy. In this research, cow dung, salt or lime and old dry cell were used as raw materials. First, cow dung and common salt are mixed. Then an old dry cell is placed in the mixture. A carbon rod is used as positive electrode and a zinc cup, as negative electrode. A mixture of 200 g cow dung, 200 g salt and one old dry cell produced a maximum output voltage of 1.38 V and maximum power of 80 mW.


Deficiencies in delivery of mental health services for children are reinforced by parents' attitudes toward their children's problems, and by doubts regarding relevancy of mental health care. Parents' attitudes reflect socioeconomic differences. Ways are needed for reaching out to parents and helping them seek and use the services their children need.


In this paper,the mechanical structure of(2,0) type wheeled mobile robot designed by our university is introduced,and the mathematical model of robot kinematics is established.Based on it,the basic motion modes of mobile robot such as line motion and arc motion and implementation methods are analyzed in detail.The problem of the robot′s minimum motion radius in arc motion mode is deeply discussed.The influence on motion precision by the gear-driven robot is discussed also,and measures to be taken are suggested to improve the motion precision of the robot.


With shifts in island area, isolation, and cycles of island fusion–fission, the role of Quaternary sea‐level oscillations as drivers of diversification is complex and not well understood. Here, we conduct parallel comparisons of population and species divergence between two island areas of equivalent size that have been affected differently by sea‐level oscillations, with the aim to understand the micro‐ and macroevolutionary dynamics associated with sea‐level change. Using genome‐wide datasets for a clade of seven Amphiacusta ground cricket species endemic to the Puerto Rico Bank (PRB), we found consistently deeper interspecific divergences and higher population differentiation across the unfragmented Western PRB, in comparison to the currently fragmented Eastern PRB that has experienced extreme changes in island area and connectivity during the Quaternary. We evaluate alternative hypotheses related to the microevolutionary processes (population splitting, extinction, and merging) that regulate the frequency of completed speciation across the PRB. Our results suggest that under certain combinations of archipelago characteristics and taxon traits, the repeated changes in island area and connectivity may create an opposite effect to the hypothesized "species pump" action of oscillating sea levels. Our study highlights how a microevolutionary perspective can complement current macroecological work on the Quaternary dynamics of island biodiversity.


RESULTS: There were no significant differences in performance or HR response during the warm-up between the CTRL and EXPT. CONCLUSION: These finding suggest that the addition of a mental task during a warm-up on a cycle ergometer has no effect on sympathetic activity or performance during a 30 s WAnT. The lack of significant findings may be due to the small sample size. Future work should focus on more challenging psychological stressors in conjunction with warm-up protocols to determine whether dual stress challenges can be utilized to optimize performance.


The present invention provides represented by the following formula (I) quinazoline analogs: wherein the at least one binding 6, 7 or 8 carbon atoms and A is bicyclic, and wherein the ring is substituted with up to two independent R3 groups. The present invention also includes methods of formula (I), as compounds of the type I receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer.


In this paper, I evaluate the impact of regulatory interventions on the quality of auditing services. Because of the recent financial crisis the European Commission has come up with proposals to introduce a Single Market for Statutory Audits. Hereby, the European Commission wants to open the audit services market to cross-border competition, to standardize provided services and it wants to allow for voluntary quality certification in order to reduce the adverse effects from asymmetric information about audit quality in the market.This paper investigates the impact of the EC proposals on social welfare and the well-functioning of the market. I set up a pair of signaling games to theoretically analyze the relationship between an auditor, a firm and a regulator. The analysis reveals that standardization of audit services is optimal if the costs for verifying quality are sufficiently low. On the other hand, certification leads to a separating equilibrium where only high-quality auditors certify. This regime maximizes social welfare whenever verification costs are large. The results are robust against a number of extensions.


OVERVIEW: As demand on fresh water increases, water and environmental managers must trade off potentially conflicting uses of this resource, one of which is the maintenance of aquatic ecosystem integrity (Baron et al. 2002, Postel and Richter 2003, Arthington et al. 2006). In some cases, the process of analyzing trade-offs can identify solutions where numerous outcomes benefit (i.e., win-win scenarios, King and Brown 2010). Although the importance of "environmental" or "instream" flows is widely acknowledged, challenges arise in specifically identifying the flow regime needed to obtain a desired ecological state (Richter et al. 1997). Historically, environmental objectives were treated as a constraint whereby a minimum flow level for a given river is identified and used to maintain low flow conditions for critical needs. Although this provides some benefit, a minimum flow approach only addresses a single portion of a river's flow regime (low flows). This approach omits the magnitude, frequency, duration, timing, and rate of change of a river's entire hydrograph and the ecological significance of those parameters both individually and in combination (Poff et al. 1997). This technical note reviews multiple techniques aimed at managing water for environmental and ecological objectives. Review of these techniques is followed by a brief discussion of key considerations in selecting an environmental flow management scheme.


Description of the thesis: The present work aims to improve the conditions of the center of Santiago de Cali (neighborhoods: San Pascual, San Juan Bosco, Sucre, Guayaquil and Junin), which is affected by decay, abandonment and dilapidation, by creating a model of revitalization in which areas of opportunity that allow for urban acupuncture in favor of creating a compact city where public spaces serve as an invisible mesh group the cultural, social and economic dynamics of the sector are identified and the same I disappear so visible and invisible spatial barriers that hit this area, benefiting a total population of 594 inhabitants among which are: 90 Children, adults over 80, 310 merchants and street dwellers 87, proposing specific solutions: public space consists of playgrounds, malls, and cycle routes, equipment, housing and trade as a result of the analysis and characterization made in the sector.


This paper investigates an interaction between managerial flexibility and competition. We consider a two-stage game with two firms under demand uncertainty that follows a one-period binomial process. The cash flow generated from a project depends on both the demand and the firms' actions. We assume that the two firms make decisions sequentially at each stage whether they invest in the follow-up project. One firm called a leader primally make a decision, and the other firm called a follower decides secondly after observing the leader's decision. Namely, the leader has a competitive advantage over the follower. Both firms' managers can invest at either of the stages, hence they can defer their decisions for investment at the first stage. This means that they have flexibility to defer the project until the second stage. This flexibility can be considered a real option to defer the project. Although the model developed here is very simple the implication from the model is plentiful. We fully characterize the equilibrium strategies for both firms which are classified by their investment costs. We consider several situations where either or both firms can invest only at the first stage. By the comparison among these situations, we can analyze the effects of flexibility and competition. Our results indicate that under a monopolistic environment the existence of flexibility has a positive impact on the project value. However, under a competitive environment the effects of flexibility are not straightforward. For the follower obtaining the flexibility always increases the project value. On the other hand, the leader could decrease a project value by obtaining the flexibility on condition that the follower can invest only at the first stage. We call it flexibility trap, which can be interpreted as commitment effects in game theory. ∗This is a second version of the research. We have changed many notations for consistency and simplicity. †Both authors acknowledge a research support from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research in Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. ‡Faculty of Policy Studies, Iwate Prefectural University(IPU), 152-52 Takizawa-aza-sugo Takizawa Iwate, JAPAN. Email:email@example.com §Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa Hachioji, Tokyo, JAPAN. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


The duality of the relationship between female activism and
prevention of violence operates in a very specific way in
post-Soviet space, especially in countries with long-term
quasi- authoritarian regimes. In 2012 all opposition parties in
Belarus signed a petition about gender equality – a very formal
document reproducing the classical approach to human rights.
Could female activists undo this complexity?


the laws of biology. They do not have full faith in them because the consequences of these laws follow less promptly and bss definitely. There are some who believe that the great material advancement made possible by science has resulted in less attention being paid to the higher things of life. Some new evils have come, but these always accompany radical changes in the habits of people. We must learn how best to counteract them. So much has been added to the world in a short time that it is difficult for us as yet to put each thing into its proper place. We shall have to learn to accommodate ourselves more quickly to new conditions, If necessary, we must, by education and organization, see to i t that old activities of lasting value are not crowded out of our leisure hours by mere useless pleasures. The ways of the world have changed, but in the great essentials of life we have gone forward and not back. The millennium has by no means arrived. I believe, however, that there is now less selfishness and more love of man for man than ever before. Charity, though organized, is no less real, and more effective. Men have never given so freely for purposes designed for the common good. When tested by the measure of service placed before self, the world dominated by science is not found wanting. Dissatisfaction often arises because methods of getting things done have changed rather than from lack of accomplishment. The churches have learned to extend their influence by broadcasting their services by radio. They realize that if a human soul is moved to repentance by words entering the home from space, the result is fully as valuable as it would have been were the message received amid the beautiful surroundings of a consecrated temple. Let those who decry the present, instead of railing a t it, adopt its methods and use them for whatever noble ends they have in view. The tide of scientific progress sweeps relentlessly on. I t will engulf any who oppose its flow. The old world is gone, never to return. So long as men exist there will be those among them who will sacrifice all to search for truth, and there will be others who will apply new truths to their own ends and to the benefit of mankind. JOHN ZELENY YALEUNIVERSITY


Rhian Waters challenges us to move beyond the concept of allyhood as identity and applies student development theory to the development of social justice allies.


There have always been recommender systems the majority of the researches predicting uses single ratings. Where on the other hand, Multi-criteria predictions are more accurate. In recommender systems, collaborative filtering is a well-known strategy. Deep learning has produced excellent results in various fields, including computer vision, voice, and text. Deep learning at recommender systems recently gained wide attention, and many recommendation models have been published. However, based on our knowledge, no research has been conducted to collect multi-criteria recommendations and collaborative filtering with a dual view attention network. This paper proposes a multi-criteria Dual-View Attention Network (MDVAN) to predict the multi-criteria ratings for items as they progress from coarse to multi-criteria fine attention level. We explore the dual-view model to fully use the User View and Item View advantages hidden in historical rating behaviors with the multi-criteria problem. Then create a ReLU universal pair-wise channel unit to model the relation of two multi-criteria domains. We implement an aggregation function to incorporate the multi-criteria items in the dual view model. It was shown through experimentation on a real-world dataset that we had exceeded all of the current approaches. And that proof dual-view attention network in multi-criteria recommendation systems achieved great success.


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Spores of fungi forming vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza were collected from Ibadan, Iwo and Egbeda series at the experimental plots of Federal Department of Agricultural Research, Moor Plantation, Ibadan. These were used to inoculate cowpea, maize and tomato. The presence of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza was detected in the roots of these plants after a few weeks of growth. Dry weights of roots and shoots, and total P and N were determined. There was a positive correlation between the presence of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza and the amounts of P and N in the tissues.


Over the past few decades, Central Processing Units (CPUs) have improved exponentially, often doubling performance on a year-by-year basis. Recently progress has slowed due to the limits imposed by energy and heat. At present, instead of increasing CPU performance, manufacturers have focused on improving system performance by increasing the number of CPUs (known as cores) on a single silicon chip. A single application can benefit from the additional cores by being threaded; multiple threads can execute on different cores in parallel. Another source of parallel execution is the Graphical Processing Unit. GPUs have been used for graphics for decades. In recent years, programming interfaces have been introduced that allow the GPU to solve a variety of data parallel problems, not just problems involving graphics. This use of the GPU is known as General Purpose computing for Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU). This paper discusses the creation of a GPGPU programming course for undergraduates at Appalachian State University (App-State) and provides a brief introduction to using the NVIDIA CUDA API. In addition, the paper focuses on the final programming assignment in the course which solves an image classification problem. The programming assignment is simple enough that second year CS students are able to complete it and also allows for further exploration thus making it interesting for upper level students.


Objective The purpose of the observation was to study the effects of Tongfu decoction (TFD) on the gastrointestinal motility.Methods The animal model of Qi stagnation was established by licorice root decoction (LRD). And then, the tension of the small intestine in mice and the number of circle of the gastrointestinal electrical activity in rats were observed.Results TFD increases the tension of the intestine in mice and the number of fast waves in rats.Conclusion TFD facilitates the motility of stomach,duodenum and ileum.


The aim of the present study was to analyse the importance of defensive systems used by winning and losing basketball teams in their ball possessions, trying to study their influence in the offensive success. To achieve this, 1450 ball possessions were registered from 8 close games (final score differences below 12 points) of the Spanish Basketball Play-offs series, from the 2004-2005 season. The ball possessions were registered by systematic observation with Cohen's Kappa for each observational category coefficients >0.90; the variables registered were: final classification (winner and loser), type of defensive system (man-to-man half court, man-to-man pressure, zone in half court, zone pressure and mixed), points scored, number of passes and duration per ball possession. Statistical analysis used were Crosstabs commands, nonparametric χ2 (chi-square) test and a Student t-test for independent samples. The results showed these main conclusions: a) The winning teams made more ball possessions versus different types of defensive systems (mixed, zone pressure, man-to-man pressure) than losing teams; while the last ones generally made their ball possessions versus man-to-man and zone in half court ; b) The winners got more points scored per ball possession versus different defensive systems, while the losers usually made their ball possessions without scoring versus half court defensive systems (zone and man—to-man); c) The winning teams made more number of passes and spent more time duration their possessions of the ball versus different defensive systems than losing teams. This profile helps the coach to prepare practices and tasks to this specificity of defensive systems, and allow him to be ready to control these variables during the game in special situations like play-off series.


With the development of underwater resources and underwater exploration, there is an urgent need for high-precision, real-time, and three-dimensional observation of underwater detection methods. As one of the new technologies of underwater detection, underwater digital holographic technology can fill the gap in underwater high-precision three-dimensional observation and detection, so the research and development teams have successively carried out the research and development of underwater digital holographic systems. This paper briefly introduces the application and types of underwater digital holographic technology, and reviews the design and algorithm of different underwater digital holographic systems.


This study was conducted to provide the basic information for effective conservation and management of the construct-reserved site of forest recreational complex by analysis the vascular plant in Mt. Daebong, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do. The vascular plants were summarized as 246 taxa and included 80 families, 172 genus, 212 species, 3 subspecies, 26 varieties, and 5 forma. The Pre-Q(Pteridophyta Index) was 0.71 with 7 taxa. The plants of Compositae, Liliaceae Rosaceae, and Gramineae showed high distribution and the ratio of species to genus was 1.23. The Korean endemic plants were 5 taxa including Thalictrum actaefolium var. brevistylum, Stewartia pseudocamellia, Chrysosplenium pilosum var. fulvum, Philadelphus schrenkii, and Weigela subsessilis. The rare plants were 4 taxa including Thuja orientalis, Viola albida, Lilium distichum, and Iris ensata var. spontanea. The naturalized plants were 15 taxa including Rumex acetosella, Phytolacca americana, and so on. The floristic special plants found in this area were 20 taxa including T. orientalis, Acer pictum subsp. mono, and so forth: 2 taxa of grade Ⅳ, 3 taxa of grade Ⅲ, 6 taxa of grade Ⅱ, 9 taxa of grade Ⅰ. These indicators will help suggest the basic information for establishment of the conservation and application plans as well as ecological information of the constructed-reserved site.


Machine learning is now used widely for finding the resolutions to numerous challenges like market prediction, self-driving cars and several others. Integrating sensors in centralized electronic control unit in a car can increase the use of Machine learning to perform new functions. To drive a vehicle without human interference, there requires a sophisticated framework of sensors to capture vehicle data as well as surroundings data. These sensors comprise LiDAR, video, cameras, RADAR etc. that generate a high amount of data continuously in real time about the surrounding environment of car. In this paper, we are going to discuss about the Machine learning algorithms that are used in autonomous cars.


MicroRNAs have been shown to offer great potential in both the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. Despite the well‐established role of the miR‐17‐92 in cancer formation and progression, the contribution of each individual miRNA remains to be characterized. Thus, we investigated whether deregulation of the miR‐17‐92 associated with colon cancer prognosis.


A welding device for fabrics comprising means (8) for feeding at least two ribbons or tapes to be welded to at least one respective fabric and a heating unit (3) adapted to operate on a region of the fabric to be welded. Said feeding means (8) comprises an application roller (13) for each tape or ribbon.


Purpose of reviewAlemtuzumab (Campath 1H) is a powerful lympholytic monoclonal antibody, which is only effective against human lymphocytes. It has been used in a number of autoimmune diseases and has had especially good results in the management of chronic lymphatic leukemia. Recent findingsRecent studies and clinical trials have defined optimal modes of administration of the antibody. The principle is to give one or two doses to the patient in the perioperative part of the organ transplant as a preemptive strike. T and B lymphocytes are banished from the circulation for approximately 1 month. Advantage is taken of this period of relative immuno-incompetence to establish maintenance immunosuppression at a very low dose. Half the normal dose of one calcineurin inhibitor is sufficient to maintain good organ function without the need for conventional immunosuppression. In particular corticosteroids can be avoided in most patients. This contributes to a good quality of life. The protocol is much cheaper than conventional immunosuppression and long-term follow-up has given encouraging results. SummaryA monoclonal antibody that targets the lymphocyte surface antigen CD52 was recently developed for use in humans. In clinical trials the antibody was shown to have striking effects on lymphocytes being responsible for a drastic reduction in lymphocyte numbers within the very first few hours after infusion. Lymphocyte depletion is maintained for several weeks despite only two doses of the antibody being administered. This affords maintenance immunosuppressive regimen in which significantly less drugs are used, which results in better tolerability and less costs.


Because of being highly dependent on the threshold and lacking the consideration of global solutions,the Nearest Neighbors Algorithm(NNA) will make some mistakes when the density of targets is high.To solve this problem,global search strategy,gating and dynamic programming are used to build a new correlation algorithm-the Global Best Track Correlation Algorithm(GBTCA).In two experiments,both of the two algorithms are run and compared to NNA,GBTCA,which shows that the new algorithm has a higher correct correlation rate and is less dependent on threshold values.


The primary agricultural extension system is an important technical support for the development of modern agriculture,a strong power to promote the development of rural society and economy,and the main force in the construction of a new socialist countryside.In order to explore the development path of the basic level agricultural technology extension system,the summary has been made in the reform of Shaxian County Agricultural Technology Extension System in recent years,and the effectiveness of agricultural extension system.This article analyzes the existing problems in the reform process,and proposes to further improve the construction of basic level agricultural technology extension system in Shaxian County suggestions from the system functions,facilities,personnel,and service level etc..


This paper emphasizes the need for a new approach in the management or governance of creating fine-tuned frameworks that help the government or private contractors in reaching durable development when it comes to energy markets and the way they are built. The approach on energy markets will reach the issues of vertical and horizontal integration, this way the research was a bias towards a qualitative side with the perspective of creating new pathways for reaching equilibrium from the economic perspective by taking care of the social


We experimentally demonstrate multilane-based 50-Gb/s EPON system using O-band wavelength bands and RS(255,223) code. The packet throughput of 40-Gb/s and 16-Gbp/s at a downstream and upstream direction is presented on 20-km reach with 1:64 split ratios.


THE analysis of rare cells in flow cytometry data requires the acquisition of large data sets to visualize a sufficient number of events. Accurate identification of rare cells within a large number of events is hampered by the presence of artifacts and requires setting exclusionary gates to eliminate dying cells, cellular debris, autofluorescent cells, and cell doublets within analyzed populations (1). Doublet events are often observed in flow cytometry data, whether a sample is obtained from tissue or blood (2, 3). As cytometry data are further parsed to describe new rare populations of cells, the need for methods to properly discriminate contaminating doublets from true single cells has become an important aspect of data analysis. A newly described rare population of lymphocytes coexpressing both a T-cell receptor (TCR) and B-cell receptor (BCR), termed dual expressing (DE) cells (4) has been identified in the blood of patients with Type 1 diabetes (T1D). In this issue, Burel and colleagues (in this issue, page 1127– 1135) determine that commonly used analysis methods of nonimaging flow cytometric data do not efficiently resolve DE cells from a contaminating doublet population consisting of T-cell B-cell conjugates. The authors develop a gating strategy to limit T-and B-cell conjugate contamination from the analysis of DE cell populations through the use of imaging flow cytometry, which provides additional key parameters, such as bright-field area and bright-field aspect ratio. Utilizing this new strategy for doublet discrimination, the authors argue that a majority of DE cells, identified by traditional singlet gating strategies, are actually T-cell B-cell conjugates. Though they share a common stem cell progenitor, the development of the Tand B-cell lineages occur in spatially distinct locations, thymus, and bone marrow, respectively, via highly regulated and selective processes centered on the expression and signaling events that emanate from the Tor B-cell antigen receptors, TCR, and BCR (5, 6). Following development, naïve T cells circulate through the blood and secondary lymphoid organs surveilling an organism for the signs of foreign antigen (7). For major histocompatibility class II restricted CD4 T cells, this surveillance occurs through interactions with antigen presenting cells (APCs) such as dendritic cells, monocytes, B cells, and macrophages (8). These interactions between T cells and APCs can result in the formation of cell: cell conjugates mediated through cell surface adhesion molecules (9). It is therefore not surprising that T-cell conjugates have been observed in the peripheral blood of humans. The frequency of T-cell conjugates and the phenotype of the cells that comprise them often change in response to an organisms' inflammatory state, such as following immunization or in cases of tuberculosis, dengue virus, and HIV infection (10, 11). These findings suggest that changes in T-cell conjugates are likely hallmarks of an active immune response. Two different types of gating strategies are commonly employed to exclude cell doublets from flow cytometry data. First, events can be excluded that deviate from the linear correlation between the forward scatter area (FSC-A) and the FSC height (FSC-H) parameters. Alternatively, events can be passed through two successive gates of FSC-A by FSC width (FSC-W) and side scatter area (SSC-A) by SSC width (SSC-W) utilizing the low pulse width signal indicative of single cells (Fig. 1) (3). While these methods are highly effective in eliminating the majority of contaminating doublets, not all T-cell conjugates are removed from the data by these criteria alone (3). To define cytometry analysis parameters that more efficiently discriminate T-cell conjugates from DE cells, Burel and colleagues leverage their knowledge of T-cell monocyte conjugates found in the peripheral blood of humans (10). Despite using a doublet discrimination gating strategy, they identify events expressing both T-cell and monocyte-specific markers CD3 and CD14. The authors find that mean fluorescent intensity (MFI) of both FCS-A and SSC-A increase between CD3 CD14 double-positive and single-positive populations. However, using high FSC-A and SSC-A intensity Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts


Modification of the nuclear matrix elements for transitions between the ground state of a nucleus and accessible excited states of the nucleus formed by neutrino capture on the original nucleus are calculated on the basis of a deformed shell model where the initial and/or final nuclei involved may be deformed. It is shown that as long as there are different deformations in the initial and final nuclear states, the beta transition rates may be reduced by factors of two to three from the values they would have if there were no deformations. These considerations are applied to calculate neutrino capture rates in and in .


In order to reduce the secondary crushing quantity of a coal auger,structure parameters of the spiral conveyor device were optimized by using AFSA algorithm and by taking the diameter,spiral blade lead,helix angle and spiral blade thickness of spiral conveyor device as design parameters,choosing lowest secondary crushing rate of spiral conveyor device as optimal objective.Optimized results indicate that the secondary crushing quantity of coal auger reduces 11.56%,the coal circulation coefficient decreases 3.65% under that spiral conveyor device' external diameter is invariable and structural strength and stiffness are ensured and non-clogging,etc.


Chrysanthemums are short day plants which the flower initiation is influenced by photoperiodicity. Chrysanthemum grown in Indonesia with an average photoperiodicity of 12 hours a day, have stalk length ± 60 cm which classified into B quality class. To maintain the vegatative phase and reach the optimal stem length as cut flower, needed efforts to add artificial light from the lamp at night and plant growth regulator in the form of GA ₃ . This research used Split Plot Design (RPT) with 2 factors, is the addition light and concentration of GA ₃ with 3 replications. The results showed there was an interaction between the addition of light with the concentration of GA ₃ on the parameters of plant height, number of leaves, stem diameter and leaf area and on the parameters of flower initiation time, harvesting time, length of stalk, diameter of flowers, and vase life. Giving GA ₃ 225 ppm can decrease the growth of lenght of stalks until 13%. The addition light of 4 hours and GA ₃ 150 ppm resulted a long stalk of B quality class (63,55 cm), diameter of flowers of B quality class (7,17 cm) and harvesting time at 92,78 dap. The addition light of 8 hours and GA ₃ 150 ppm gave the best results on the growth of chrysanthemum stalks. In the addition light of 8 hours and GA ₃ 150 ppm was able to produce a long of stalk of AA quality class (77 cm), diameter of flowers B quality class (7,17 cm) and harvesting time at 97,67 dap.


*Corresponding author: Nur Afiqah Ab Latif, I Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pulau Pinang Branch, Permatang Pauh Campus,13500, Permatang Pauh, Pulau Pinang Email:firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract: English language has always been a challenging subject for some students in Malaysia. Despite the fact that these students have learned English for almost ten years in school, they are still facing problems to learn it mostly due to language anxiety. This study was conducted to identify the effectiveness of peer-tutoring approach as one way to lower the students' anxiety level as well as to boost their motivation in learning English language. This study was conducted in a public university in Malaysia in which seventeen pre-diploma students were selected to join a 'Mentor-mentee' programme as the mentees while five diploma (semester three) students were chosen to be the mentors. The mentors were asked to coach the pre-diploma students in learning English language by using four interesting and interactive English games namely 'Truth or Dare', 'Roll the Dice, 'Spot the Error' and 'Once upon a Time'. The researchers used a google form questionnaire to get responses from the participants regarding their feelings about the programme. The results show that the peer-tutoring programme has appeared to create a more relaxed and friendly environment for the students to learn English, thus boost their motivation in learning English.


THE film shows the movements of the vocal cords of a dog and of a monkey, after anastomosis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve with the phrenic. In the dog, on the right side, the phrenic root from the sixth cervical nerve was divided, and united end-to-end with the recurrent laryngeal nerve, while the distal end of the divided sixth cervical phrenic root was united end-to-end to the descendens noni nerve. On the left side the whole trunk of the phrenic nerve was divided, and then united end-to-end with the recurrent laryngeal. In order to obviate persistent paralysis of the corresponding half of the diaphragm, the descendens noni nerve was divided, and its proximal cut end united to the distal cut end of the phrenic nerve. The movements of the vocal cords may be seen. The right cord moves more vigorously than the left, because the anastomosis on the right side was made several months before that on the left. The diaphragm has entirely recovered from paralysis. Professor Elliot Smith, with his assistants Dr. Beattie and Dr. Melville, has examined this animal and several others, and he reports that the contractions of the diaphragm are entirely normal. In the monkey, on the right side, an end-to-side anastomosis was made: the cut end of the recurrent laryngeal nerve was sutured to the side of the phrenic nerve. On the left side the phrenic nerve was divided and its proximal cut end united to the distal cut end of the recurrent laryngeal nerve; so that on the left side the whole nervous current of the phrenic is passing into the recurrent laryngeal, while on the right side that of the end-to-side anastomosis-presumably not the whole nervous current of the phrenic is passing into the recurrent laryngeal. In the monkey the left vocal cord is moving much more than the right. So we may assume that the use of the whole phrenic was not necessary for satisfactory recovery of the movement of the vocal cord. Another anastomosis was made but is not shown in the film. When the descendens noni has been divided and used for anastomosis with the distal phrenic, there will, unless a further operation is carried out, be permanent paralysis of the depressor muscles of the larynx, the sterno-hyoid, the sterno-thyroid, and the omohyoid. It is easy to extend the distal part of the descendens noni after using the proximal part for anastomosis with the phrenic-and to suture it to the side of the hypoglossal nerve. The descendens noni lhas a tortuous course, and, when dissected out, is found to bemuch longer than might be imagined. This anastomosis has been carried out on many occasions, and always with success, namely, recovery of the movement and function of the depressor muscles of the hyoid bone and of the larynx. To sum up: paralysis of the vocal cords may be cured by anastomosis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve with the phrenic; paralysis of the muscle of the diaphragm -may be cured by uniting the phrenic to the descendens noni; and paralysis of the depressor muscles of the hyoid bone and larynx may be cured by uniting, end-to-side, the cut end of the descendens noni to the lower side of the hypoglossal nerve. These three operations may now be added to those which the laryngologist already carries out.


Patinkin came very, very close in 1987 to discovering for himself that Keynes,not Hicks, was the creator and developer of IS-LM. Unfortunately, he stopped his analysis right at the point where he could have established Keynes's priority over Hicks.
On pp.180-181 in chapter 14 of the GT,Keynes dealt with the classical and neoclassical theory of the rate of interest. Keynes provided the reader with an explanation as to why the interest rate is not explained by the forces of thrift and productivity alone. He stated that in order to have a determinant theory of the rate of interest, the state of liquidity preference, the amount of money, and their relationships to the rate of interest were required. Keynes provided that answer in chapter 15 on pp. 199-202.He also showed how his analysis could explain the special classical case of full employment in section IV of that chapter.
Patinkin is correct that Keynes did not provide a geometrical exposition of IS and LM in the GT. What Keynes provided was a mathematical and verbal exposition of IS and LM in the GT.Keynes had no objections to IS LM, in general ,outside of the fact that IS LM needed (1) a microfoundation in the theory of the firm and (2) needed to be able to deal with expectations. Keynes meet both of these shortcomings in chapters 20 and 21 of the GT.


Steering angle and driving force saturations are inevitable in autonomous vehicle motions, which will degrade the motion control performance and even deteriorate the driving safety. In addition, the strong coupling of lateral and longitudinal motions of autonomous vehicles also contributes to the saturations damage and increases the control difficulty. To reduce these negative impacts on motion control, a novel motion controller for automated vehicles is presented in this paper. Firstly, an extended 3 degree of freedom vehicle dynamic model is built with the unknown saturations, strong-coupled motion characteristics and external disturbance considered simultaneously. Then, a coordinated controller is designed to complete motion control task based on sliding-mode control (SMC) and non-singular fast terminal sliding-mode control (NFTSM). Moreover, a three-layer radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is adopted as a compensator to approximate modelling uncertainties. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, the uniform ultimate boundednesses of motion control errors are guaranteed. Simulation results show that the proposed controller owns smaller steady-state errors and faster convergence speed.


The present invention is a shock absorber (10) and body (12), a spring (16 having a movable mandrel (14) in the axial direction through the body, a coil provided on the mandrel and coaxially about the mandrel It consists of), the upper attachment device of a motor vehicle to the chassis (18) of the shock absorbers of the front wheel suspension assembly (10) about (20). The device is fixed to the free end of the mandrel (15), the only cup recessed toward the end of the free end of the mandrel (22), the elastomeric blocks containing a reinforcing material (26) and (24) has a coupling means (28) between the spring (16) and elastomeric block (24). Elastomeric block (24), as a mitigating generally along movement of the motor vehicle in the axial direction of the mandrel (14) is a cup (22) and attached to the chassis (18).


In the li gh t of the present situation of the informatization construction of our country's banking business, this paper puts forward a series of measures for speeding up t he construction of banking business's informatization, which include quickening the steps of the construction of the networking, speeding up the reengineering p rogress of our country's banking business, changing the investment points, accel erating the construction of the bank's comprehensive information management syst em, realizing the organic joint of the constructions of bank's informatization a nd enterprise's informatization, and treating well the relation between the dat a integration and the information security, etc.


In the title compound, C13H9Cl2NO, the meta-Cl atom in the benzoyl ring is positioned anti to the C=O bond, while the ortho-Cl atom in the aniline ring is positioned syn to the N—H bond. The two aromatic rings are almost coplanar, making a dihedral angle of 4.73 (5)°. The crystal structure is stabilized by N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, which link the molecules into chains along the b axis.


A class of compact, isolated high-velocity clouds which plausibly represents a homogeneous subsample of the HVC phenomenon in a single physical state was objectively identified by Braun and Burton (1999). Six examples of the CHVCs, unresolved in single-dish data, have been imaged with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. The high-resolution imaging reveals the morphology of these objects, including a core/halo distribution of fluxes, signatures of rotation indicating dark matter, and narrow linewidths constraining the kinetic temperature of several opaque cores. In these regards, as well as in their kinematic and spatial deployment on the sky, the CHVC objects are evidently a dynamically cold ensemble of dark-matter-dominated HI clouds accreting onto the Local Group in a continuing process of galactic evolution.


Shahid Abbas pour Dam is located at a distance of about 50 kilometers from Masjed Soleiman and a distance of about 150 km North East of Ahwaz. Flood disposal systems and energy dissipation in the construction of a dam are built to prevent flood damage and water depletion in excess of the capacity of dam reservoir. In bucket thrower, water flow reaches the ground bed in front of the structure after passing through the edge of the bucket and the formation of a parabolic curve. Although high-speed flow is associated with energy loss; but due to the collision speed and energy bed erosion and creating a scour hole will be possible. That's why 20 equations were provided to determine Scour depth of the spillway coastal martyr of Shahid Abbas pour Dam; was modeled by Mike software; was coded by Matlab software and was compared with the current situation. The results showed the following equations were introduced as the prior equations to estimate the scour depth in the research range of the present study: 1. National Institute of Science and Technology Laboratory of the French hydraulic; 2-Mason; 3- The organization of study and development of electrical equipment in France. These equations are highly adapted to the existing scour according to local circumstances and information available from the region.


During the solar wind dynamic pressure enhancement, around 0200 UT on January 11, 1997, at the end of the January 6-11 magnetic cloud event, the magnetopause was pushed inside geosynchronous orbit. The LANL 1994-084 and G MS 4 geosynchronous satellites crossed the magnetopause and moved into the magnetosheath. Also, the Geotail satellite was in the magnetosheath while the Interball i satellite observed magnetopause crossings. This event provides an excellent opportunity to test and validate the prediction capabilities and accuracy of existing models of the magnetopause location for producing space weather forecasts. In this paper, we compare predictions of two models: the Petrinec and Russell (1996) model and the $hue et al. (1997) model. These two models correctly predict the magnetopause crossings on the dayside; however, there are some differences in the predictions along the flank. The $hue et al. (1997) model correctly predicts the Geotail magnetopause crossings and partially predicts the Interball i crossings. The Petrinec and Russell (1996) model correctly predicts the Interball i crossings and is partially consistent with the Geotail observations. We further found that some of the inaccuracy in Shue et al.'s predictions is due to the inappropriate linear extrapolation from the parameter range for average solar wind conditions to that for extreme conditions. To improve predictions under extreme solar wind conditions, we introduce a nonlinear dependence of the parameters on the solar wind conditions to represent the saturation effects of the solar wind dynamic pressure on the flaring of the magnetopause and saturation effects of the interplanetary magnetic field B on the subsolar standoff distance. These changes lead to a better agreement with the Interball i observations for this event.


N-Vinylpirrolidinone reacts with (E)-ethyl 5-hydroxy-3-(4-oxo-4H-chromen-3-yl) acrylate (1) through a domino reaction similar to that reported reaction for ethyl vinyl ether. Inverse electron demand Diels–Alder (IEDDA)–elimination-IEDDA generates isomeric tetracycles 5 and 6. The assignment of the relative stereochemistry of the products was made by comparing the proton couplings with those obtained by reaction with ethyl vinyl ether.


simulation, in the clinical environment, can help detect any issues with the systems, policies and practices within an organization that may not work. Many system errors go unnoticed until there is a real incident. Conducting simulation This simulation exercise is designed to develop the skillset of foundation dental therapists in respect of Medical Emergency recognition and management in their own working environment. The parameters for assessment included teamwork, knowledge, communication, effectiveness of actions and situational awareness.Research methods for this project included a learning needs analysis, surveying and interviewing previous cohorts of hygiene therapists. The conclusions of which highlighted the need for further training in managing medical emergencies. The learning needs identified from stakeholders relating to this course have been used to develop the learning outcomes using Blooms' taxonomy Using GIBBs model of reflection, the 2021 delegates recognized personal learning needs including improvement in leadership and management skills, delivery of chest compressions and teamwork. Changes to practice were also recognized, for example, placing their emergency drugs in a more appropriate location. Using video, a 'Hot Debrief' method of evaluation was carried out whilst the experience was fresh. This proved to be powerful and enhanced personal reflection to support future learning and development. Later, an evaluation method in the form of a survey took place. Results of which showed that 50% of delegates had never partaken in simulation-based education before and 100% gave an excellent rating on the benefits to team and individual. One participant stated 'this was such a good, real-life experience! I hope this can either be introduced into undergraduate training or as part of the practice annual BLS CPD!!'.A successful session needed prior communications with the practice staff to free up a surgery for use, inform present patients of the activity and understand where the emergency equipment was during the session for patient safety. The benefits of conducting


The winners of any conflict often try to impose their views on the defeated. Through official and unofficial mechanisms, most of which operate under the aegis of the state and other agents that work on its behalf, the voices of the defeated are silenced. One important counter-mechanism that is available, the one that may serve to resist the imposition of the victors' History, is frequently found in the collection, analysis and publication of oral testimonies, which give expression to, and magnify, silenced and oppressed memories. Orality therefore provides us with a window into past events or, rather, with multiple windows that allow us to see and take account of the myriad histories of which the past is actually composed, according not to the state-imposed version, but to the ways in which people remember it.

Through an ethnographic study of local memories in one southern Spanish village, this article examines some of the ways in which the Spanish Civil War is remembered, focusing particularly on the lived experience of repression and hunger, and the memories of ideological clashes, class struggles and conflicts over land ownership.


Let $G=G(K)$ be a simple algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field $K$ of characteristic $p>0$. A subgroup $X$ of $G$ is said to be $G$-completely reducible if, whenever it is contained in a parabolic subgroup of $G$, it is contained in a Levi subgroup of that parabolic. A subgroup $X$ of $G$ is said to be $G$-irreducible if $X$ is in no parabolic subgroup of $G$; and $G$-reducible if it is in some parabolic of $G$. In this thesis, we consider the case that $G$ is of exceptional type. When $G$ is of type $G_2$ we find all conjugacy classes of closed, connected, reductive subgroups of $G$. When $G$ is of type $F_4$ we find all conjugacy classes of closed, connected, reductive $G$-reducible subgroups $X$ of $G$. Thus we also find all non-$G$-completely reducible closed, connected, reductive subgroups of $G$. When $X$ is closed, connected and simple of rank at least two, we find all conjugacy classes of $G$-irreducible subgroups $X$ of $G$. Together with the work of Amende in [Ame05] classifying irreducible subgroups of type $A_1$ this gives a complete classification of the simple subgroups of $G$.
Amongst the classification of subgroups of $G=F_4(K)$ we find infinite collections of subgroups $X$ of $G$ which are maximal amongst all reductive subgroups of $G$ but not maximal subgroups of $G$; thus they are not contained in any maximal reductive subgroup of $G$. The connected, semisimple subgroups contained in no maximal reductive subgroup of $G$ are of type $A_1$ when $p=3$ and of semisimple type $A_1^2$ or $A_1$ when $p=2$. Some of those which occur when $p=2$ act indecomposably on the 26-dimensional irreducible representation of $G$.
We also use this classification to find all subgroups of $G=F_4$ which are generated by short root elements of $G$, by utilising and extending the results of [LS94].


To promote the popularization of Marxism is the important strategic deployment made in the eighteenth National Congress of the CPC.Promoting contemporary Chinese Marxism popularization of Marx is an inevitable requirement of realizing Chinese dream;going China Road,carrying forward and condensing the Chinese forces of the Chinese spirit are in need of contemporary unceasing advancement of Marxism's popularity.Promoting contemporary Chinese Marxism popularization,on one hand,is to achieve the transferring of academic discourse to the public discourse,ideology discourse to life conversion discourse.And the way to make the doctrine of Marxism into daily life is to make Marxism doctrine easy to understand.Before,only a few people mastered the doctrine of Marxism.Now if majority of people understand and accept it and apply it to their life,it would become a powerful ideological weapon for the Chinese dream.


Seafloor seepage is a widespread phenomenon within salt‐influenced basins as the deformation provides pathways for hydrocarbons to reach the seafloor. However, only minor attention has been given to the distal parts of such systems where the impact of salt tectonic deformation is relatively unpronounced. The stress put on the sedimentary column by moving salt on a continental margin may influence fluid flow systems even outside of the salt province. This stress may lead to overpressure formation within reservoirs and determine the orientation of overpressure‐induced fractures. Seepage in the Congo Fan has been discovered in such a distal position at the Regab pockmark, about 35 km west of the salt front, and its geology and biology have been studied extensively in recent years. We present high‐resolution multichannel seismic data from the Regab pockmark that reveal the underlying migration pathways from a buried channel flank 300 m below seafloor to the seafloor via hydraulic fractures in the sealing overburden. Local doming of the reservoir and the remobilization and uplift of sedimentary strata along the migration pathways are interpreted as the result of overpressure within the reservoir. The orientation of the hydraulic fractures is WSW‐ENE, and the fracture outline corresponds to the area of most intense seepage activity within the seafloor pockmark. Along with a similar orientation of other fractures in the vicinity, we propose that this alignment is due to the stress imposed on the sedimentary column in the fan by the seaward moving salt and rafting sedimentary packages of the salt province further east.


o a eutanásia e em a retirada histológico. As lâminas foram fotomicrografadas e analisadas. Resultado: que precoce a área da mucosa, aumentando assim a área das glândulas e da muscular da mucosa, isso aumenta também a acidez estomacal. Também observamos que o desmame diminuiu a área da muscular longitudinal e submucosa, fazendo com que o organismo sofra adaptações para o funcionamento. Mostrando assim os riscos que desmame precoce pode ocasionar a saúde. ABSTRACT Objective: the objective of this study was to identify whether early weaning is capable of causing morphological changes in the gastric tissue of wistar rats. Method: We divided the puppies of rats into two groups, Weaning Group (n = 6) and Control Group (n = 6). The Weaning Group was weaned on the 15th day of life by maternal separation, while the Control Group remained with their mothers breastfeeding. After 90 days, the groups were euthanized and then removed from the stomach for histological processing. The slides were photomicrographed and analyzed. Result: The data showed that early weaning increases the area of the mucosa, thus increasing the area of the glands and the muscle of the mucosa, thereby increasing stomach acidity. We also observed that weaning reduced the area of the longitudinal and submucosa muscle, causing the body to undergo adaptations for its functioning. Thus showing the risks that early weaning can cause health.


Introduction: Enhancement of treatment adherence in bipolar disorder is a necessary and promising management component as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy. The main purpose of the study was to find the effect of psycho-educative intervention on adherence to treatment among persons with BPAD.
Method: A randomized controlled trial was conducted with a sample size of 50; 24 in experimental and 26 in control group. Four sessions of psycho-education was given to the patient in experimental group and the outcome was measured immediately after the intervention and at 1 month and 3 months.
Results: The study findings shows that there was a significant improvement of knowledge and attitude scores among the experimental group to the control group(p =0.001).There was a difference in adherence seen between the groups, however the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.111).
Conclusion: From the present study it was concluded that psycho educative intervention along with pharmacotherapy is one of the most easy, flexible and cost effective intervention to enhance treatment adherence in bipolar disorder.


The effect of II different antibiotics on Trichomonas hominis, T. elongata, Chilomastix mesnili and Enteromonas hominis was studied. Trichomycin, monomycin and levorin had the most pronounced protistocidic effect. On prolonged passages on media with the antibiotics, increased resistance to them in separate flagellatus strains was observed.


The degradation of thin gate oxides connected with the interconnect under the interlayer dielectric(IlD) by Ar plasma inadiation was observed. The electric field of gate oxide breakdown and the total charge to breakdovn(QBD were dependent on the material of the ILD. The current density through the ILD, calculated from QBD, was nearly equal to the measured value. Plasma damage through the ILD is caused mainly by the leakage current of the ILD. A-3-3


A 33-year-old woman was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), having presented with pancytopenia and atypical promyelocytes in her peripheral blood. Bone marrow biopsy showed typical morphological features of APL with numerous heavily granulated promyelocytes containing Auer rods. At diagnosis, many histiocytes containing multiple Auer rods were also present (left, arrow), presumably from phagocytosis of leukaemic cells. Conventional cytogenetic analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridisation identified a three-way translocation with 15q22, 17q21 and 9q12 breakpoints, consistent with APL. Complex translocations, such as this, occur in approximately 5% of cases and are considered to have a similar outcome as the standard t(15;17)(q22;q21). The PML-RARA rearrangement was also demonstrated by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction of bone marrow. Following induction with idarubicin and all-trans-retinoic acid, bone marrow biopsy at day 35 showed clearance of the abnormal promyelocytes; however, a number of phagocytic histiocytes containing Auer rods remained (right). Despite this persistent morphological abnormality, molecular and cytogenetic remission was demonstrated by the presence of a normal karyotype and absence of PML-RARA transcripts. Histiocytes containing Auer rods were not seen on any subsequent bone marrow aspirates following consolidation and maintenance therapy, and the patient remains in remission at 18 months since diagnosis. Auer rods, first described in leukaemic cells in 1906, represent crystalline forms of the enzyme myeloperoxidase. The presence of multiple Auer rods is characteristic of APL and, in the post-induction setting, their presence in blasts or promyelocytes regardless of the overall blast count is indicative of persistent disease. However, this novel appearance of numerous phagocytosed Auer rods persisting after induction therapy despite other strong evidence of remission demonstrates that Auer rods may persist in histiocytes long after the clearance of leukaemic cells and their presence does not necessarily indicate residual leukaemia.


The family of varieties of minimal rational tangents on a quasi-homogeneous projective manifold is isotrivial. Conversely, are projective manifolds with isotrivial varieties of minimal rational tangents quasi-homogenous? We will show that this is not true in general, even when the projective manifold has Picard number 1. In fact, an isotrivial family of varieties of minimal rational tangents needs not be locally flat in differential geometric sense. This leads to the question for which projective variety Z, the Z-isotriviality of varieties of minimal rational tangents implies local flatness. Our main result verifies this for many cases of Z among complete intersections.


Pan evaporation decrease has been reported worldwide over the past decades. A recent increasing pan evaporation trend has been found globally. Remarkably, most studies on Chinese pan evaporation change were based on simulations involving meteorological variables, including temperature, radiation (sunshine duration [SSD]), wind speed, and relative humidity (RH), due to the pan evaporation observation inconsistency caused by the micro‐pan (D20) replacement with large pan (E601) around 2002. In addition, a large‐scale humidity sensor replacement across China occurred since the 2000s can cause an inconsistency of RH and in turn lead to that of simulated pan evaporation. Therefore, the recent pan evaporation trends independent of the observed RH in China should be revisited. In this study, we (a) generate merged D20 pan evaporation from 1988 to 2017 according to E601 observations under the constant conversion coefficient assumption between the evaporation observations of these pans in the same month of every year at each station, and (b) propose a framework based on the PenPan‐D20 model to attribute pan evaporation change into specific humidity (instead of RH or vapor pressure deficit in previous studies), SSD, air temperature, and wind speed, since RH and vapor pressure deficit are not independent from air temperature. The results show a significant 2.68 mm/a/a upward pan evaporation trend (p < 0.05) across China from 1988 to 2017, which was primarily driven by the rising air temperature. Humidity sensor replacement causes an ∼2.2% inconsistency in RH, which produces nonnegligible errors in simulated pan evaporation trend.


Around 40% of the 210 million human conceptions occurring globally each year are unplanned. Contraception involving the use of devices, medications, and sexual techniques have been the bail out. This has empowered women to make positive decisions about their life and sexual health. Various methods of contraception in use today include the barrier method, the fertility awareness method, hormonal method and permanent contraception. In the United States and in most parts of the world, oral contraceptives (OC) have been the most used contraceptive method. Their use however comes with its pros and cons. OC failure is already an issue of concern in the reproductive health of women. More serious concerns are the impact of the use of these OC's on the woman's quality of life. Women all over the world are becoming increasingly conscious of the ability of OC to either aid or interfere with their health and overall well being. There is paucity of data in recent times looking critically at how OC has been a factor in altering the quality of life of women. Hence this review highlights contraceptive preferences of women, Success and failures of OC use, perception of women towards OC and how the use of OC has impacted their quality of life. Overall, contraceptives have a positive impact on the quality of life of women due to many other benefits it offers apart from contraception including relief of menstrual blood loss, dys-menorrhea, and premenstrual syndrome.


Two-lane rural highways in the USA have the highest accident rate (vehicle-mile exposure accident rates), four to seven times higher than those on rural interstate highways. Some studies have revealed that the geometric inconsistency is the main cause of this large percentage of accidents on two-lane rural highways. Current geometric design practice is fixed and depends on the functional class (freeway, arterial, and local) and selection of speed. The main objectives of this paper are: 1) To look at the geometric variables used in the accident prediction models so far and evaluate their significance to the present day conditions. 2) To see if there are other variables relevant to the present day conditions and predict an appropriate model. 3) To evaluate the transferability of these models to the given conditions. 4) To suggest safe values for the variables keeping in mind the practical speeds and conditions of two-lane rural roads. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 866319.


In ancient Egypt the god whose death and resurrection were annually celebrated with alternate sorrow and joy was Osiris, the most popular of all Egyptian deities; and there are good grounds for classing him in one of his aspects with Adonis and Attis as a personification of the great yearly vicissitudes of nature, especially of the corn. But the immense vogue which he enjoyed for many ages induced his devoted worshippers to heap upon him the attributes and powers of many other gods; so that it is not always easy to strip him, so to say, of his borrowed plumes and to restore them to their proper owners.


We have measured the band offsets and materials properties of epitaxial SrTiO3/Si(001) heterojunctions for both n and p substrates, with and without an interfacial SiO2 layer. The through-air transfer from the growth chamber to the photoemission system results in significant surface hydroxylation and roughening, although the SrTiO3–Si interface is undisturbed. Surface hydroxylation notwithstanding, the structural quality of 20 A thick epitaxial SrTiO3 on Si(001) is comparable to that of bulk SrTiO3(001). We find valence and conduction band offsets of ∼2.1 and ∼0.0 eV, respectively, independent of doping type and the presence of SiO2. These results are consistent with theoretical band offset predictions based on the electron affinity rule, modified by the presence of an interface dipole.


Childhood food allergies and intolerances are increasing in prevalence and can impact heavily on the health-related quality of life of children, in addition to placing a significant burden on parents and other caregivers. This paper reports on a multi-part research study in which we examined current use and future opportunities for software to support families dealing with childhood food allergies and intolerances. In the first part of our study, we conducted an online parent questionnaire and interviews with clinicians, in order to understand the challenges faced by families with food-allergic and food-intolerant children, as well as the current levels of technology use by these families. Based on the outcomes, we focused our subsequent attention on the design of food diary software to support the care of children with non-IgE adverse food reactions, which are extremely challenging to diagnose and monitor. We conducted a week-long food diary study and follow-up design workshop, in order to evaluate food diary compliance and to elicit design inspiration for a new food diary application.


IN an investigation upon the damping of electrical waves on iron wires~< I endeavored to detect a change of periodicity as well as a damping of these waves. Ou account, however, of the strong damping effect exerted by the magnetic nature of the conductors, not a sufficient number of oscillations could be set up in the conductors to enable one to make conclusive measurements. With more powerful means of experimenting I returned to the subject; and I have detected a marked change in the period of electrical waves which is produced by the magnetic nature of the wire. At the same time Mr. Oharles E. St. John, working in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, by an entirely different method has shown a change in wave length on iron wires even for the very rapid periods of the Hertz vibrator. It will be remembered that Hertz believed that il'on wires behaved like copper wires when transmitting very rapid electrical oscillations. Stefant in a recent paper gives an analysis of electrical oscillations in which he proves that rapid electrical waves on iron wire circuits have the same wave length as those on a copper circuit of the same geometrical form-the electrostatic capacity of the two circuits being the same. With reference, therefore, both to the theory of electrical waves and to the theories of magnetism, it seemed important to determine whether there is a lengthening of electrical waves on iron wires. The method of investigation I employed was the same as that which I have described in my paper on the damping of electrical waves on iron wires. A Leyden jar was discharged through the given wires and the resulting spark spread out by a revol ving mirror, was photographed. The apparatus was also modified as I have described in my paper on electrical resonance and electrical interference.t It was important in this investigation to be able to compare the times of oscillation on the iron circuits and the copper circuits, and it seemed best to employ some method of imprinting, so to speak, the time of a standard circuit on each photograph, beside the photograph of the spark produced on either the iron circuit or the copper circuit; for if the speed of the mirror changed this change could be readily detected by the measure-


A patent can be defined as an exclusive right that is granted to the patent owner, which allows him to prevent others from making, selling, importing or using the invention, without license or authorization for a period of 20 years. This right is given in return for the disclosure of technical information about the patent. This disclosure of information is said to be one of the most important benefits given to the society by patents, since it enables further research and development (R&D) in the field for which it is granted. In the pharmaceutical industry, patents play a significant role in the R&D process as they encourage inventors to develop new medicines. Pharmaceutical patents are different from other kinds of patents since they need more time to be developed and granted protection. Thus, if not protected properly, numerous forms of patent infringement can occur, such as, counterfeit, illegal copying etc. This is one of the reasons why pharmaceutical companies are constantly trying to further expand patent protection. However reasonable this may seem from the perspective of the companies and inventors, the legislators should also bear in mind the need of the society as a whole. Pharmaceutical patents have been in the centre of attention in the international forum for a long time, most notably in relation to the proliferation of patent protection and its impact on human rights and public health. One of the main concerns is access to essential medicines in developing countries, or the lack thereof. The largest barrier to access to essential medicines is their price, which is inflated by patents. The TRIPS Agreement provides flexibilities in patent protection to developing countries, which are very valuable in pursuing access to medicines for all, and the least developed countries had the ten year period of delayed implementation. The Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health and consequent decisions tried to improve the position of the developing countries, but the States are still unwilling to support the amendment of the TRIPS, notwithstanding these documents. Until a balance is reached between the interests of pharmaceutical companies and the need of developing countries for essential medicine, the conflict between the human right to health and access to essential medicines and pharmaceutical patents will continue to exist.


The defects in hydrothermally grown synthetic quartz have been studied by x‐ray diffraction topography. Linear defects which are apparently associated with the growth of the crystal are the predominant defects in z‐growth material. These defects which originate at inclusions or other defect sites on the seed surface are believed to be areas of high impurity content. If there are dislocations associated with the defects, their effect on the diffracted x‐ray intensity is affected by a surrounding cloud of impurity atoms. Defect densities range from 10 to 104 lines per square cm and the crystals with high densities of defects exhibit high acoustic loss at 5 Mc/sec and 300°K. The defects observed in synthetic quartz by etch, γ‐ray coloration, and polarized light are compared to those observed by x‐ray diffraction topography.


The Anonymous University Mechanical Engineering department was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to revolutionize its undergraduate program. The goal of the grant is to implement department wide changes that create a focus on doing engineering with engineers and fosters stronger engineering identities in students and faculty. One area of change is the program's curriculum. This paper describes how the Electrical Engineering Fundamentals course was integrated into the Mechanical Engineering Instrumentation and Data Acquisition (DAQ) course with the goal of creating connections between electrical engineering concepts and applications in mechanical engineering. Design and implementation of this course sequence are presented. Assessment and evaluation methods are also discussed.


A study has been made of the structure and the dc electrical properties of a metal‐glass thick‐film system. The metal part is formed by thermal decomposition of an organometallic solution and consists of Au and Rh. The glass component is a lead boroaluminosilicate. The influence of the firing treatment, of the composition of the metal part, and of the metal‐to‐glass ratio on the structure and the electrical properties of the film has been investigated. Some glasses, derived from the original glass component, have been used. In this system it is possible to have very small temperature coefficients of resistance in a wide temperature range. Sheet resistances can vary by several orders of magnitude. Under certain conditions the conduction behaves anomalously below 186 K. The different types of conduction in this thick‐film system are correlated with the different structures.


Today not one science reflects questions of state, dynamics, structure and other manifestations of tax deliktnosti. Is necessary the development of new scientific direction - tax of deliktology, to reveal the interrelations of tax deliktology with other related sciences.


Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: A philosophy for the presentation of art Chapter Two: Revealing visual attributes 2.1 Light and illumination 2.2 Human response to light 2.3 Light levels in museums 2.4 Revealing with light Chapter Three: Light-induced damage to objects 3.1 Photochemical reactions 3.2 Radiant heating effect 3.3 Material response to exposure 3.4 Limiting exposure Chapter Four: Daylighting typologies 4.1 The aesthetics of daylight 4.2 Side-lit rooms 4.3 Monitor skylights 4.4 Central skylight picture galleries 4.5 Overall daylight-diffusing ceilings 4.6 Restricted daylight-diffusing ceilings 4.7 Polar-oriented skylights 4.8 Wall-lighting picture galleries 4.9 The presence of daylight Chapter Five: Daylighting controls 5.1 Light transmission 5.2 Light distribution 5.3 Ultraviolet transmission 5.4 Solar heat gain 5.5 Thermal transmission Chapter Six: Electric lighting typologies 6.1 The aesthetics of electric lighting 6.2 Room surface lighting 6.3 Lighting three-dimensional objects 6.4 Lighting two-dimensional objects 6.5 Case lighting 6.6 Supplementing daylight 6.7 Self-luminous art objects Chapter Seven: Electric lighting controls 7.1 Light output control 7.2 Luminaire optical control 7.3 Luminaire directional control 7.4 Lighting control systems Chapter Eight: Lighting strategies 8.1 Ambient illumination 8.2 A sequence of visual experiences 8.3 Minimal-exposure displays 8.4 The great space 8.5 Visual connections Chapter Nine: Procedures for practice 9.1 A museum lighting pro forma 9.2 Setting up lighting for a new exhibition 9.3 Maintaining lighting during the life of an exhibition References Bibliography Index


In its 2009 fiscal year, the United States will experience a federal budget deficit that could reach 12 percent of GDP or more,1 an event unprecedented since the end of World War II.At the same time, long-term fiscal imbalances loom ever larger, as the ongoing demographic shift raises the old-age dependency ratio and medical expenditures continue to rise rapidly. Much of this year's deficit is attributable to the very severe recession, as a consequence of both automatic stabilizers and countercyclical discretionary fiscal policy actions already taken. But the US fiscal position had deteriorated even before the onset of recession at the end of 2007, as the federal budget surpluses of a decade ago gave way to substantial deficits that reached around 3.5 percent of GDP during the healthy fiscal years of 2003 and 2004.


A process for the preparation of a compressor blade comprising the steps of: - forging a blank from a steel austenitischferritischen; - are detected uniaxial stretching and plastically deforming the blank, while at least the expansion and deformation force of the blank and monitored; and - finishing the stretching after achieving a predetermined limit value for the voltage.


The authors propose a double filtering method to measure translational velocity for tracking fluorescently stained cells. This method employs two diffraction gratings installed in the infinity space through which the parallel pencil beam of the fluorescence passes. With this method, the change in light intensity whose period is proportional to the translational velocity of the sample can be obtained at the imaging surface. By using a sample that has a random distribution of fluorescence intensity, the authors verified that translational velocity measurements could be achieved using the proposed method.