AF related stroke places a significant burden on individuals, carers and health and social care systems. The observed prevalence of AF in populations is often lower than expected and this results in high rates of AF diagnosis at the time of the stroke event. Opportunistic screening for AF in at risk populations is recommended by ESC, however, is often missed due to time constraints and lack of expertise. Technological advancements such as m-health ECG monitors can aid in the diagnosis of AF with improvements in timely risk assessment and initiation of protective anticoagulation.

 The purpose of this study was to determine whether introduction of a suite of m-health tools including electronic patient record based tools and smart phone based ECG recording could improve the rates of AF detection and subsequently reduce the rate of AF related strokes.

 The study was conducted in a city region with a population of around 300 000, served by 48 primary care practices. The project involved a three staged approach; education and support for primary care staff, creating an "at-risk" register on primary care electronic patient record for those over 60 or with relevant co-morbidities associated with electronic prompts for screening and a standardized assessment template and the roll-out of smart phone based single-lead ECG monitors to facilitate rhythm checks. The population was followed over a 4 year period to monitor rates of AF diagnosis, anticoagulation and stroke rates.

 The study population were male (53%), aged between 30–39 (22.4%) and were of white ethnicity (40%). At baseline, in 2014, the prevalence of AF was 0.89% (2492 individuals). By 2018, this had increased to 1.1% (3328 individuals) with on average 40 new diagnoses of AF compared to 26 in the baseline period (see figure).Anticoagulation prescription within 30 days of diagnosis increased from 29.80% to 50.00% whilst prescription of antiplatelet monotherapy within same time period decreased from 12.73% to 6.4%. This was also associated with a reduction in the proportion of strokes seen in the population secondary to AF with 35% (n=143) of strokes secondary to AF in 2014 and 25% (n=127) secondary to AF in 2017.

 The study found that implementation of a screening programme across a wide range of primary care practices led to an improvement in AF diagnosis, management and timeliness of care. This highlights the benefit of using simple methods such as GP educations in conjunction with new technology device to detect AF more effectively and subsequently treat in an appropriate and time-effective fashion. In our population this appears to be associated with real reductions in AF related strokes

 CLAHRC NWL, NHS Hounslow CCG, Pfizer


Village democracy as local level democracy is different from supra village democracy. The difference is primarily on applied value or tradition basis. In empirical level, village democracy in Neglasari until present time applies two value basics, which are local and liberal values. Whereas it has been years that state, by its policies, try to introduce and enforce liberal democracy traditions in village area, both in decision making and village chief election particularly, as well as in governmental implementation generally. Local values based on Islamic teaching and Naga tradition that still exist and becoming the basic of democracy in Neglasari highly contribute in creating conditions above. In fact, local values have become a power that cannot be ignored by the governmental authorities of Neglasari in implementing democracy. It is an invisible thing that its existence can be felt especially in decision making and village chief election.


The Editor and the Editorial Board of Public Finance Review (PFR) are delighted to announce that Patrick Walsh is the winner of the annual ''Outstanding Paper Award,'' given for the papers published in PFR in the year 2008. Professor Walsh received his doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan in 2006 and is currently a professor of economics at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. His award-winning paper appeared in the November 2008 issue of PFR and is entitled ''Are Involved Parents Providing Public Goods or Private Goods?'' In this paper, Professor Walsh asks whether parents who lobby their children's schools for better and/or increased educational resources provide a school-wide public good, or whether they instead capture a larger share of school resources for themselves and their own children. His theoretical model identifies the channels through which the public versus private good effects work, and his empirical work demonstrates that both public and private good effects are present. For example, Professor Walsh finds that a 10% increase in the probability of parental contact raises the probability of the parent's child being included in a gifted program by 2–3%. In addition to these private good effects, however, higher parental participation in a school's parent–teacher organization leads to a higher probability that principals frequently observe and evaluate all teachers at that school. Public Finance Review Volume 37 Number 2 March 2009 119 # 2009 Sage Publications 10.1177/1091142109331414 http://pfr.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com


As CMOS technology scales to nanometer dimensions, analog-to-digital converter (ADC) design has become increasingly more challenging. This is mainly due to the increased transistor leakage currents, process variations, and poor matching. The K-Delta-1-Sigma (KD1S) modulator was proposed as a practical solution for designing high-speed ADCs in nanometer CMOS processes. This paper presents an 8-path KD1S modulator with an effective sampling frequency of 2 GHz derived from a 250 MHz input clock. The simulation results confirm the true first-order noise shaping of the modulator. The simulated SNR is 44.95 dB and the simulated SNDR is 44.41 dB corresponding to Neff = 7.17 bits with a conversion bandwidth of 15.625 MHz.


Water quantity, water quality and physical structure determine the ability of a river's ecosystem to function and therefore its fitness for wildlife. This paper describes how a system for assessing the physical dimension of river‐habitat quality has been developed in the UK. The paper also highlights (a) the main features and principles of 'river habitat survey', (b) how the method has already been used to help river management, and (c) some future uses, including the setting of habitat targets.


Voids are an essential scientific issue when it comes to traditional composite materials, because they greatly degrade the latter's properties and usually cause catastrophic failure [1]. Many characterization methods, such as microscale X-ray computed tomography and ultrasonic attenuation, have been developed to detect the voidmicrostructure in composites [1]. However, because nanoscale voids cannot be observed by the above methods, nanocomposites are usually considered compact materials. Although fractured samples of nanocomposites are often used to characterize their microstructure, the true microstructure cannot be observed from them [2–4]. Thus, void microstructure has long been ignored in assembled nanocomposites. In a landmark study recently published in Science [5] by Prof. Qunfeng Cheng's group from Beihang University, the three-dimensional (3D) void microstructure of titanium carbide MXene films was systematically characterized using focused ion beam/scanning electron microscopy tomography (FIB/SEMT) and nanoscale X-ray computed tomography (nano-CT), as shown in Fig. 1a. The FIB/SEMT and nano-CT results consistently demonstrate that the MXene films have numerous voids between adjacent platelets, with the volume of each void ranging from 2× 10–5 to 1.5μm3.The porosity of the MXene films is 15.4± 0.6%, as shown in Fig. 1b. Cheng et al. [5] developed a simple and effective densification strategy using a sequential bridging process of hydrogen and covalent bonding. A hydrogen bonding agent (sodium carboxymethyl cellulose) fills and closes large-scale voids betweenMXene platelets, and a covalent bonding agent (borate ions) bridges adjacent MXene platelets bringing them closer and eliminating small-scale voids. As a result, the sequentially bridged MXene (SBM) films have very compact platelet stacking. FIB/SEMT and nanoCT (Fig. 1a) show that the void volume (5.35 ± 0.31%, as shown in Fig. 1b) in the SBM films is greatly decreased compared with that of the unbridged MXene films.


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OBJECTIVE
To discuss the clinical experience of diagnosing and managing of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea.

METHOD
Twenty-four cases of cerebrospinal rhinorrhea were analysed retrospectively from Jan 2003 to Sept 2008, among which 18 cases from department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and 6 cases from Neurosurgery.

RESULT
Postoperative follow-up lasted from 4 months to 72 months. All the cases were successfully cured, among which 6 cases with conservative treatment and 18 cases under surgery, and no relapse case was found. The 18 cases under surgery included endoscopic approach (12 cases), extra-nasal approach (4 cases), transnasal approach under microscope (2 cases).

CONCLUSION
It is not only minimally invasive, safety and efficiency of transnasal endoscopic technique for CSF leaks, but also without facial scarring after operation. Transnasal endoscopic approach can be preferred for the closure of uncomplicated CSF leak, located at the cribriform plate or the sphenoid sinus. The extra-nasal or intracranial approach may be an attractive option for more complicated and large CSF leak, or the leak site is not easily found with endoscopic.


With the continuous innovation and development of science and technology, mechanical automation manufacturing technology has become one of the measures to measure the development level of mechanical automation manufacturing technology. National science and technology development in the fierce market competition environment, we must attract enough attention. China is in an important period of economic development. It is necessary to improve the quality of products and the competitiveness of products in order to promote the best development of economy, to realize the leapfrog development of economy and the development of Chinese machinery manufacturing technology. Several factors affecting the construction of mechanical automation technology and the application of automation technology analysis the application of automation technology in modern engineering construction and the application of automation technology in future engineering construction and future cooperative project development. This paper focuses on the application of mechanical automatic control technology in engineering construction, hoping to bring some help to the development of engineering construction.


Wind energy in nowadays is a necessity that helps to transform the energy economy towards the sustainable energy developments. Some difficulties that wind power plant expansion faces is related to community acceptance. It is now clear that annoyance from wind turbine noise occurs to a higher degree at low noise levels than noise annoyance from other sources of community. Therefore, it should be analyzed in more details the cases when wind plant impact is related to other impacts of human activities. The aim of the study is to analyze noise impact of road traffic flow to the noise levels in the vicinity of wind plant. For the study was chosen wind plant near Vydmantai and the road A11 ŠiauliaiPalanga. Noise levels were measured downwind from the wind plant and upright to the road. Then traffic noise was modeled using GIS-based traffic noise prediction software MapNoise and Computer Aided Noise Assessment software CadnaA. It is shown that the wind plant noise at the distance around 200 m decreases to the background level whereas the road traffic noise is the main factor of noise at the selected area. Modeling was applied for the traffic noise calculation for different traffic flow. It is shown that the area in the very vicinage around the Vydmantai plant tower is masked by traffic noise when traffic flow exceeds 5000 vehicles per day. Also it is shown that because of nature of wind turbine noise, it is difficult to adjust measured sound pressure values to community annoyance.


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Nonlinear forced vibration of fluid-conveying nanotubes based on Euler-Bernoulli beam theory under electromagnetic actuation is studied. The nanotube is modeled as cantilever type beam and the effects of fluid motion and external harmonic excitation are considered in the governing equation of the structure vibration. The Galerkin procedure is applied in order to discretize the governing equation of vibration of the system. The well-known multiple scales method is utilized to investigate the primary resonance in the forced vibration of nanotubes. The effects of various parameters, namely, fluid velocity, position of applied force, aspect ratio and electromagnetic excitation on the primary resonance of the system are fully investigated. It is revealed that the electromagnetic excitation is highly influential on the frequency response of the considered system.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


Organisational and economic relations appearing at industrial enterprises in the process of efficiency management of electric power consumption are considered in the article. The role of electric power as one of the important elements of production in technical and economic system «energy speed effect» is explained. Special attention is paid to the diagnostics of organisational and economic problems of increase in electric power efficiency in industry.


This paper describes the experimental study of ventilation efficiency for commercial kitchens. We investigated an air conditioning and ventilation system which has high efficiency and which can maintain a comfortable environment in the working space with a minimum amount of necessary ventilation air. The results are as follows: (1) In the case of outdoor-air being supplied from the hood, 60-70% of the outdoor-air is exhausted by the hood. (2) Air-flow distribution above the gas range is comparatively stable except in winter, updraft above the gas range flows straight to the exhaust hood when outdoor-air is supplied from the gas range. In winter, updraft above the gas range is strongly effected by the outdoor-air from the hood, and there is dispersion in the updraft direction. (3) Capture ratio of the combustion gas by the exhaust hood is over 80% except in winter. Capture ratio is increased when the caloric output of the gas range is larger.


We show that a waveguide with multiple gratings can have a modal dispersion relation which supports frozen light. This means that light can be coupled efficiently to low group velocity modes of an optical waveguide or can even have finite coupling to zero group velocity modes. These effects are associated with stationary points in the dispersion of the form ω − ωo ∝ (k − ko), for integer order m > 1, around a center frequency ωo and wave number ko. Stationary points of any order can be created, not only regular band edges (m = 2), but also degenerate band edges (m > 2 and even) and stationary inflection points (m odd). Using the perturbation theory of matrices in Jordan normal form, the modes and their properties are calculated analytically. Efficient coupling is shown to stem from evanescent modes which must accompany the presence of high-order stationary points with m > 2.


Midlife migraine with aura, especially in women, appears to be associated with later-life appearance of infarct-like lesions on MRI, according to a report in the June 29 JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association. The longitudinal study adds to an emerging picture of migraine as having not only acute, episodic effects, but also long-term systemic consequences. Although the clinical implications of lesions in patients with migraine and aura are unknown, the findings suggest that ®


Outage of a heavily loaded transmission line or tripping of large generating unit may lead the system toward collapse. Under such circumstances, compared to other measures, load shedding procedure is an efficient method to make the power system voltage stable when many system variables are out of their normal ranges and the system is driven toward collapse. This paper introduces the concept of the continuation power flow analysis to be used for load shedding using power world simulator.The appropriate load buses for the shedding are identified by sensitivities of voltage stability margin using P-V curves at different buses. Then, the amount of load shedding at each bus is determined by applying GA to solve a nonlinear optimization problem formulated in the optimal power flow framework. It uses the P-V curves to find the knee point of a certain bus. The proposed approach has been tested and examined on IEEE-30 bus test system.


Energy being the very key concern area with sensor networks, so the main focus lies in developing a mechanism to increase the lifetime of a sensor network by energy balancing. To achieve energy balancing and maximizing network lifetime we use an idea of clustering and dividing the whole network into different clusters. In this paper we propose a dynamic cluster formation method where clusters are refreshed periodically based on residual energy, distance and cost. Refreshing clustering minimizes workload of any single node and in turn enhances the energy conservation. Sleep and wait methodology is applied to the proposed protocol to enhance the network lifetime by turning the nodes on and off according to their duties. The node that has some data to be transmitted is in on state and after forwarding its data to the cluster head it changes its state to off which saves the energy of entire network. Simulations have been done using MAT lab. Simulation results prove the betterment of our proposed method over the existing Leach protocol.


N-3 fatty acids, such as fish oil, have been reported to have some beneficial effects in patients with bronchial asthma. The effects of dietary supplementation with perilla seed oil rich in α-linolenic acid (α-LNA), parent n-3 tatty acid, were studied in five patients with asthma. The symptoms of asthma and mean peak flow rates (PFR) both early in the morning and in the evening were improved 2 weeks after dietary supplementation and the increases in PFR were significant (P<0.05). The generation of leukotriene B4 (LTB4) by peripheral leukocytes stimulated with the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 was significantly


Keywords: railway stations ; pedestrians ; gares ; pietons ; tracking ; modeling ; behavior ; comportement ; modelisation Reference EPFL-TALK-176375 URL: http://www.vlp-aspan.ch/fr/agenda/course.php?id=83 Record created on 2012-04-24, modified on 2017-10-16


Hatimi A, Tahrouch S, Bouizgarne B. 2018. Effect of symbiotic association of rhizobia and endomycorrhizae from Moroccan arid littoral dunes on Acacia cyanophylla tolerance to drought. Asian J For 2: 39-45. The research on behavior of A. cyanophylla Lindl plants associated with a symbiotic indigenous endomycorrhizal fungi M, and three rhizobia isolates: two low growing isolate R1 (Bradyrhizobium sp. RCM6), and R2 (Bradyrhizobium sp. RLC3) and a fast-growing isolates R3 (Rhizobium sp. S21), originated from coastal dunes of the Souss-Massa region in drought stress conditions, was investigated in greenhouse. Results have clearly shown that the growth and nutrition of seedlings of A. cyanophylla were drastically affected after two months in drought stress conditions. However, inoculation of the symbiotic microorganisms either alone (treatments M, RMC6, R2 or R3) or as inoculums consisting of combination of the rhizobia with the endomycorrhiza (treatments MR1, MR2 or MR3) resulted in enhanced tolerance of A. cyanophylla seedlings to drought stress. At 100% of field capacity (fc), all treatments showed a significant improvement of plant growth compared to non-inoculated plants in stress conditions. In addition, we have shown that Bradyrhizobium RCM6 (R1) holds a high efficiency to improve the growth and nutrition of the host plant. Indeed, higher number of nodules/plant and higher amount of total nitrogen were recorded in the seedlings inoculated with Bradyrhizobium sp. RCM6 in comparison with plants inoculated with the two other rhizobia Bradyrhizobium sp. RLC3 (R2) and Rhizobium sp. S21 (R3), and control plants. Dual inoculation with each of the three rhizobia and the endomycorrhizal complex (M) led to higher water content (W.C) and relative water content (RWC) and a significant increase in Phosphorus content of the aerial part. While positive effects were recorded for Phosphorus, no such effects were recorded for nitrogen. However, the overall results showed the importance of the use of microorganisms in the dune coastal environment particularly adequate tripartite association: rhizobia Endomycorrhizes-A. cyanophylla in enhancing tolerance to drought stress.


The author considers artistic culture as a subject of synergetics and pre-quantum / quantum culture. The author's reflections are in the field of searching theater, literature, performative art, and cinema. The theater of the future is the research subject, a "scientific" project. The level of the theater rises by an order of magnitude to its surpassing scenarios. Universalism, or rather, trans-professionalism, is becoming an indispensable component of the future artistic process. The leader, the Scientist–Researcher–Poet (Artist), becomes of current interest. The stage works by Castellucci, Suzuki, music by Scott Gibbons and others have modeled this future. Time moves simultaneously in all directions refuting the laws of classical physics. The trajectory of movement indicates quantum measurements. Faulkner, Joyce, Proust, Andre Gide, John Dos Passos, Rilke successfully polemicize with physics. The new dimensions of a person imply a plurality of identifications. Calvino – "The Cloven Viscount".


This study aimed to explore the clinical efficacy of ulinastatin and haemodialysis in the treatment of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). 60 SAP patients treated in the Binzhou Central Hospital in Shandong Province, China, during June 2015 and December 2016 were randomly selected as the research subjects in this study and divided into a conventional treatment group A and an ulinastatin combined with haemodialysis treatment group B. The clinical data of the patients were compared and the blood amylase, urine amylase, serum urea nitrogen, serum lactose, serum creatinine levels, CD4+, CD8+, interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) ratio were compared after treatment. The levels of serum amylase, urinary amylase, serum creatinine, serum urea nitrogen and serum lactose of group B decreased with the increase of treatment time and showed a significant difference when compared with the conventional treatment group (p < 0.05); IL-1 and TNF-α levels decreased, CD4+, CD8+ and the ratio of both increased gradually. The improvement of the clinical symptoms such as fever, abdominal pain and swelling in group B was shorter than in group A (p < 0.05). The cure rate of group B was about 50% and its total effective rate was about 93.3% while those of group A was about 26.7% and 53.3% (p < 0.05). Ulinastatin combined with haemodialysis has a good clinical effect on severe acute pancreatitis.


ON FEBRUARY 13, 1883, while building a cookhouse at Whakawhitira in the Waiapu valley, the Ngāti Porou chief Hāmana Mahuika was callously shot and killed by a disgruntled member of his own tribe. Widely lamented as the "terrible" loss of a "law abiding" leader, his death caused shock and outrage in and beyond the local community. Writing of the tragedy more than half a century later, iwi (tribal) scholar Rewiti Kohere recounts that at the time of the funeral:


Background: BRAK/CXCL14 is a chemokine expressed in many normal cells and tissues. Several papers have reported tissue distribution, but no study has examined the serum protein level of this chemokine. Methods: We evaluated serum levels of BRAK/ CXCL14 by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, after determining the conditions necessary to increase the sensitivity and reproducibility of the method. Results: The average level of males was significantly higher than that of females. Two percent of the volunteers showed a value 2 S.D. higher than the average value without any obvious abnormality, but no person was lower than 1 S.D. of the average value. The serum BRAK/CXCL14 levels of individual subjects were constant. Conclusion: These data indicate that the serum BRAK/CXCL14 level is highly conserved and suggest that the levels are determined by the genetic background and/or lifestyle of the individual.


A hybrid computing technique is presented for improving the resolution of the discrete-space discrete-time (DSDT) resistive network method and the treatment of large scale systems encountered in the solution of partial differential equations.


Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has developed at an exponential rate since the last decades, and is now widely used as an anatomical and functional medical imaging modality. The development of magnetic nanoparticles as contrast agents for vascular, molecular, and cellular MRI applications has followed this trend. Nanoparticles that generate either "positive" or "negative" contrast in MRI figure among one of the most important direct applications of nanotechnology. The present chapter is an introduction to the principles underlying the performance of nanoparticulate-based MRI contrast agents. It addresses the main considerations guiding the design, the synthesis, and the physicochemical characterization of magnetic nanoparticles based on the elements iron, manganese and gadolinium (Fe, Mn, Gd). The fundamental aspects of nanoparticle magnetism and relaxometric characterization are introduced, as well as examples of applications in biological models.


Summary form only given. Progress in technological scaling allows the integration into a single chip of hundreds of millions of transistors, moving quickly to the multi-billion transistor capacities. Achieving acceptable quality and reliability levels for these complex products is one of the most critical issues that need to be faced. Testability is therefore a key factor that could limit these trends if not addressed adequately. At these levels of complexity external testing is becoming infeasible due to ATPG limitations. At the same time, the scan approach is losing interest due to the increasing length of scan chains (and thus test length), and low test application speed. At-speed test is a major limitation at a context where increasing clock frequencies (moving quickly to the multi-GHz domain), are making timing faults predominant. Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) is another important limitation, since, although its very high cost, it does not offer the memory capacities/depth and test application speed required for testing present day ICs. Under these constraints, the only realistic issue is to extend the BIST practice beyond memory testing. This requires new developments on logic BIST for increasing fault coverage while containing hardware cost. Furthermore, new developments on fault modeling, fault simulation, and ATPG tools are needed to encounter for timing faults, cross talk, ground bounce and other spurious faults. These developments should be oriented towards a BIST approach.


Titanium dioxide doped Fe3+ and La3+ nano-composite films were prepared using the sol–gel method. The photo-catalytic properties were evaluated by photo-degradation of methyl orange in solution. Scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, and energy dispersive spectrometer were used to characterize the TiO2 film doped Fe3+ and La3+, indicating that the film has nano-structure, and mainly anatase crystal. It is proved that co-doped Fe3+ and La3+ can improve significantly the photo-catalytic properties of TiO2 film due to the synergistic effect of the two ions.


To embed characteristic of closure to Tcl,we take a look at Tcl and closure briefly and put forward a solution by adding context information in the front of closure code and forming the structure of closure composed of arguments list and code block.It is a simply but effective tool to simplify the way of Tcl programming and code optimization.


In this article, we describe ecological recovery efforts – restoration – as a crucial component of strategic delta planning. We present restoration as a design process at once biogeophysical and territorial that entails socioecological uncertainties. Adaptive management is an approach to dealing with uncertainties through active monitoring and recalibration of actions taken. We have developed a 'socioecological monitoring' program that uses existing biophysical monitoring protocols to collect data on human use. Beyond provisioning demographic and use data, this program also helps to change the relationship between the monitors and managers involved in adaptive management and diverse non-scientific publics, who have thus far been removed from the process. Our approach highlights the importance of user experiences and affective labor to bring people into the design of restoration areas, both as actors to be managed for, as well as agents whose values and desires can help guide landscape evolution.


─ hadronic nuclei like systems that consist of hadrons that are strongly interacting particles bound states. The kinds of hadronic nuclei that have been made and the years in which they were first identified include proton, neutron, di-baryon, quadroquark, pentaquark, etc. The lifetime of these hadronic nuclei are of the order of 10−20 s, but this is long enough to identify them and study their characteristics by means of their strong interactions. They are available to study only in the beams of particles hyper accelerators. We describe the theory of hadronic nuclei in quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics based on strong interactions framework. We first provide an introduction to the overlap clustering model (OCM) based on three-dimensional layout (3DL), and then calculate colored charge radius of several hadronic nuclei like proton, neutron, lambda, sigma and omega, etc. We investigate the dynamics of the hadronic nuclei in which hadrons are defined as atomic nuclei in 3DL OCM that presented by the author to describe new definition of atomic nuclei's structures. The general properties of bounding state and the conditions for it are studied via the 3DL OCM.


The regional climate model RegCM3 is used to investigate the direct and semi-direct aerosol effects on the southern African climate during the austral winter season (June-September). The sensitivity of simulated aerosol-climate effects to different biomass burning inventories, boundary conditions and sea surface temperature (SST) feedbacks is tested to assess the range of uncertainty associated with these parameters. Little sensitivity to boundary forcing is found, while the aerosol radiative forcing (RF) varies approximately linearly by up to a factor of two, in response to the factor of two difference between emissions inventories. In all cases the surface RF is negative, while the top-to-atmosphere RF is negative over most of the domain but positive over high-albedo savannah regions where aerosol loading is high. Sensitivity to SST feedbacks is negligible in RegCM3. Although the magnitude of simulated RF varies, all simulations show similar aerosol-climate impacts. Surface temperature decreases over most of the subcontinent, a signal which acts to reduce model bias over the western half of the region. The absorbing nature of the simulated aerosol burden results in heating at altitude, which, in combination with the surface cooling, serves to increase stability in the lower atmosphere over most of the subcontinent. In the middle troposphere, however, this warming induces an elevated heat-pump effect in the equatorial regions between approximately 8°N and 5°S. This enhances convection, precipitation as well as soil moisture, effectively spinning-up the hydrological cycle in the tropics. An investigation of the interannual variability of the simulated aerosol radiative impacts showed that seasonal average precipitation changes varied more from year to year than aerosol-induced surface temperature changes. In contrast, despite significant differences between synoptic conditions, there is little synoptic-scale variability of aerosol-climate impacts.


The NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) maintains a database of environmental parameters associated with severe convection (Dean and Schneider, 2006). These parameters are archived from hourly SPC mesoscale analysis (SfcOA) grids (Bothwell et al. 2002) available on a 40 km grid that are available from 2003-present. The database also includes severe weather reports, gridded CG lightning data, and archived SPC forecast products.


Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between independent photon sources (HOMI-IPS) plays an important role in quantum information processing. A variety of HOMI-IPS experiments have been demonstrated at near-infrared wavelengths or telecom wavelengths [1]. In all the previous HOMI-IPS experiments, the HOM dips are obtained by recording the four-fold coincidence counts as a function of the temporal delay. However, the spectral correlation during the interference is omitted, partially due to technical difficulties, e.g., the acquisition time is too long for measuring a joint spectral distribution. Spectral information, as the conjugate of the temporal information in the Fourier transformation, is definitely of great importance and should be investigated. Very recently, a new technique of spectral correlation measurement in a HOM interference has been developed by Gerrits, et al [2]. This technique has the merits of high speed and high resolution, therefore, has been used as a powerful tool to analyse the spectral correlation in a HOM interference between signal and idler photons from one spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) source. In this work, we measure the joint spectral distribution in HOMI-IPS using the new technique developed in [2]. The experimental setup is shown in Fig. 1 (Left). The two independent sources are based on SPDC from two 30-mm-long periodically poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) crystals pumped by picosecond laser pulses (76 MHz, 792 nm, temporal duration ~ 2 ps). In Fig. 1 (Left), the dispersion compensation fiber model (DCFMs), the superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) [3,4,5] and the time interval analyzer (TIA) constitute a fiber spectral analyzer [6]. Fig. 1(Right: (a)) is the measured four-fold HOM interference between signal1 and signal2, with idler1 and idler2 as heralders. Without subtraction of any background counts, the raw visibility of the HOM dip is 69.9±3.2%, which is consistent with our previous results in [1,7,8]. Fig. 1(Right: (b)-(g)) are the measured joint spectral intensities at different delay positions. The splitting phenomenon in the joint spectral distribution is clearly observed. The experimental results agree well with our theoretical simulations. This experiment not only can deepen our understanding of HOMI-IPS from the viewpoint of spectral domain, but also can be used to improve the visibility of HOMI-IPS by temporal filtering.


Automatic speech recognition(ASR) offers the ability to access the semantic content present in spoken language within audio and video documents. While acoustic models based on deep neural networks have recently significantly improved the performances of ASR systems, automatic transcriptions still contain errors. Errors perturb the exploitation of these ASR outputs by introducing noise to the text. To reduce this noise, it is possible to apply an ASR error detection in order to remove recognized words labelled as errors. This paper presents an approach that reaches very good results, better than previous state-of-the-art approaches. This work is based on a neural approach, and more especially on a study targeted to acoustic and linguistic word embeddings, that are representations of words in a continuous space. In comparison to the previous state-of-the-art approach which were based on Conditional Random Fields, our approach reduces the classification error rate by 7.2%.


We present initial results of finding temporal patterns of entity dynamics on the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. For the analysis, we use the dataset of the three-year observation of the Dynamic Linked Data Observatory. Using k-means++ clustering with Euclidean distance, we reveal the temporal patterns of entity dynamics. In addition, we conduct the first investigation of periodicity in entity dynamics on the LOD cloud. While a large portion of entities are static, a certain number of entities have a temporal pattern with substantial changes. We observe different periodicity with respect to temporal patterns of entity dynamics. Knowing about the temporal patterns and their periodicity is important for applications that are depending on fresh data caches and indices of the distributed LOD cloud. They can concentrate in crawling and refreshing those parts of the LOD cloud, which are a) known to have changes in the past and b) currently have their highest periodical change rate.


This research focuses on methods for multiple period Value at Risk (VaR) estimation by utilizing some common approaches like RiskMetrics and empirical distribution and examining quantile regression. In a simulation study we compare the least square and quantile regression percentiles with the actual percentiles for different error distributions. We also discuss the method of selecting response and explanatory variables for the quantile regression approach. In an empirical study, we apply the three VaR estimation approaches to the aggregate returns of four major market indices. The results indicate that the quantile regression approach is better than the other two approaches.


The orientation of the circular motion of most swimming E. coli at a solid surface is shown to be (i) reversed by supplementing the medium with alginate and (ii) restored by rendering the glass surface positively charged. Given slip promotion by the polymer and suppression by its anchoring on the surface, observations are interpreted by slip at the boundary. This points out bacterial swimming as a probe of the solid/fluid boundary condition.


ffiHffiilffiffiilHUiWW Background: According to a data by WHO, in lndia there are around 194 million men and 45 million women who consume tobacco either in smoked or smokeless forms. lndians ranks as second biggest consumers of tobacco in different forms like bidi, khaini, paan-masala, cigarettes etc, The present study was conducted with the aim to determine the awareness of adolescents regarding tobacco consumption. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted by the Department of Community Medicine, Rajshree Medical Research lnstitute & Hospital, Barellly, Uttar Pradesh (lndia). ln this study adolescents of nearby villages were questioned about tobacco consumption and awareness. All the demographic details were recorded including agej' gender, residential area and level of education. The data was obtained in a tabulated version and analysed using SPSS software, The data was arranged as percentage of total value. Chi square test was used for analysis. Probability value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results: ln this present study a total of 300 adolescents were enrolled. Out of these there were 47o/o (n=141) who were aged between 10-15 years and 53% (n=159) were aged between 15-20 years. There were 168 males (n=56%) in the study and 132 females (n=44o/o) in the study. There were 86.3% males who knew that tobacco was harmful for health and there were 84.1 % females who knew that tobacco had harmful effects.


Assembly modeling and variable assembly design are the core of integrated platform, while the assembly planning and simulation, assembly analysis, tolerance analysis and synthesis constitute the fundamental functions. The framework integrates the product information and design process, forming a top down design loop with interdependent system modules and mutually interacting effects to accelerate the process of reaching the design goal.


The present utility model relates to a coal-fired boiler air preheater air leakage on-line monitoring device which comprises an air preheater arranged on a flue. The device is characterized in that the on-line monitoring device comprises two measuring units, each measuring unit comprises a gas sampling device, a sucking pump, and an oxygen meter for measuring and calculating the oxygen content of a gas sample; the output ends of the gas sampling devices are connected with the input ends of the oxygen meters after passing through the sucking pumps, the input ends of the two gas sampling devices are respectively connected with an inlet flue and an outlet flue of the coal-fired boiler air preheater, and output signals of the two oxygen meters are all connected with a data acquisition system for realizing data processing. By adopting the device, the measurement of the air leakage rate of the air preheater can be realized, and the device is favorable for working personnel to control and maintain according to the state. Moreover, the multiple-spot simultaneous sampling of gases and the weight control sampling of different gas sample inlet air pipes can be realized, and the device has advantages of high detection precision, high reliability and simple and convenient operation.


The aim of the study. The sport of golf demands not just physical skills but also psychological fortitude from players. To succeed in golf, athletes must have mental strength, emotional stability, and appropriate levels of anxiety. A sound psychological training program can help improve their performance, and this is precisely why the current study aims to investigate whether a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) module would be effective in achieving this goal.

Materials and methods. To conduct the study, the researchers administered a questionnaire to 120 former and current golf athletes. The data collected from the survey was analyzed using IBM SPSS software.

Results. The results reveal that a vast majority of the respondents (86.8%) believe that creating an NLP module that focuses on psychological aspects would be advantageous. The study's findings suggest that there is a pressing need to develop an NLP module that addresses the psychological needs of golfers.

Conclusions. The results have important implications for the design and implementation of psychological training programs for athletes, indicating that an NLP module could be a valuable addition to the training regimen. Furthermore, the study highlights the potential for further research in this area to refine and optimize the NLP module's effectiveness in enhancing golfers' performance


The concept of connections batched is proposed to support multiple connections in a call session in automatically switched optical network(ASON).To support a call request having multiple similar connections,the function of component and procedure of signaling perform are extended.A test-bed of 15 nodes is built,the control plane of ASON by running resource reservation protocol-traffic engineering(RSVP-TE),open shortest path first-traffic engineering(OSPF-TE) and link management protocol(LMP) is implemented.The experimental results shows that multiple connections per a call have less connection setup time and network traffic than one connection per a call have.


How to account for the courtly love complex of the troubadours and minnesingers has been an unsolved puzzle ever since the romanticists discovered it as a scholarly problem. For about three generations, in the 12th and 13th centuries, Provençal and German lyrical poetry was preoccupied with a strangely uneven love pattern. In the classic version of this poetry, the male lover presents himself as engrossed in a yearning desire for the love of an exceedingly beautiful and perfect woman whose strange emotional aloofness and high social status make her appear hopelessly distant. But the frustrated and sorrowful lover cannot overcome his fascination and renders faithful "love service" to this "high-minded" and exacting lady who reciprocates in a surprising manner: She does not grant him the amorous "reward" which he craves, but she gives him what immeasurably increases his "worth": She rewards him with approval and reassurance. The great lady accepts him as being worthy of her attention, but only at the price of behavioral restraint and refinement of manners, that is, at the price of courtois behavior. As the contemporaries put it, courtoisie is the result of courtly love.


Disclosed are a CD47 antibody, an antigen-binding fragment and the medical use thereof. Further, disclosed are a chimeric antibody and humanized antibody comprising the CDR region of the CD47 antibody, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the CD47 antibody and an antigen-binding fragment thereof, and the use thereof as an anticancer drug.


This article aims to explore the superstitious belief in selecting housing property in Malaysia. Various types of superstitions have been passed down through the ages and remain until today. Based on the instrumental perspective of Feng Shui , prospective buyers instill a belief that success and wealth are influenced by Feng Shui arrangements. Whether Feng Shui is associated with property purchase is a question. Overall, these principles are instilled in the minds of an intuitive Feng Shui believer and implemented in a property purchase. Furthermore, Malaysians are involved in various taboos, folklores, and taboos besides Feng Shui when deciding on property purchase. While some investors make a vow by it as to not make any proceedings before the consultation with their expert, other investors perceive the myths as merely nonsense and old wives' tales. This study are expected to provide guidance to property stakeholders (developers, real estate agencies, architects, local authorities) in their future development projects. For homebuyers, this study serves as a property Feng Shui checklist for home selection and investment.


Water vapor sorption by sodium alginate-based films may result in swelling and conformational changes in the molecular structure and affecting the water vapor barrier properties. Sodium alginate film specimens were dried in a vacuum freeze dryer and their moisture content was determined by an air-oven method. The water vapor absorption was determined at two different levels of water activities (0.727 and 0.995) and at three temperatures (10, 20, and 30℃), and kinetics were analyzed using a simple empirical model. Reasonably good straight lines were obtained with plotting of 1/(m-m?) vs 1/t. It was found that water vapor absorption kinetics of sodium alginate films were accurately described by a simple empirical model. The rate of water vapor sorption increased with increase in temperature and it showed temperature dependency following the Arrhenius equation. The activation energies varied from 49.18∽149.55 kJ/mol depending on the relative humidity.


A musical style or genre implies a set of common conventions and patterns combined and deployed in different ways to make individual musical pieces; for instance, most would agree that contemporary pop music is assembled from a relatively small palette of harmonic and melodic patterns. The purpose of this paper is to use a database of tens of thousands of songs in combination with a compact representation of melodic-harmonic content (the beatsynchronous chromagram) and data-mining tools (clustering) to attempt to explicitly catalog this palette ‐ at least within the limitations of the beat-chroma representation. We use online k-means clustering to summarize 3.7 million 4-beat bars in a codebook of a few hundred prototypes. By measuring how accurately such a quantized codebook can reconstruct the original data, we can quantify the degree of diversity (distortion as a function of codebook size) and temporal structure (i.e. the advantage gained by joint quantizing multiple frames) in this music. The most popular codewords themselves reveal the common chords used in the music. Finally, the quantized representation of music can be used for music retrieval tasks such as artist and genre classification, and identifying songs that are similar in terms of their melodic-harmonic content.


We study the impact of JPEG compression on the performance of an image retrieval system for different feature detector-descriptor combinations. The VLBenchmarks retrieval framework is used to compare a total of 60 detector-descriptor combinations for a dataset with JPEG-encoded query images. Our results show that among all tested detectors, the Hessian-Affine detector leads to the most robust performance in the presence of strong JPEG compression. Additionally, we compare the retrieval gains of the different detector-descriptor pairs after processing the JPEG-encoded query images with different deblocking filters. The results illustrate that for the MSER, MFD and WαSH detectors, the retrieval results benefit from two of the deblocking approaches at low bit rate irrespective of what descriptor the detectors are combined with. The same two deblocking filters are found to increase the retrieval performance for the MROGH descriptor when combined with most of the tested detectors.


This paper theoretically examines the impact of thermal buoyancy on human skin tissue's blood flow, heat exchange and their interaction with the surrounding environment using a two phase mathematical model that relies on continuity, momentum and energy conservation equations in continuum mechanics. The tissue blood flows and heat transfer characteristics are determined numerically based on Darcy's Brinkman model for a saturated porous medium coupled with modified Pennes bioheat equation while analytical approach is employed to tackle the model of interacting surrounding environmental buoyancy driven air flow with heat sink. The influence of embedded biophysical parameters on the skin tissue's blood flow rate and temperature distribution together with friction coefficient at skin tissue surface and Nusselt number are display graphically and discussed quantitatively. It is found that a boost in thermal buoyancy enhances skin tissue heat transfer and blood flow rates.


The ability of 5G networks to fulfill Quality of Service (QoS) constraints by properly organizing the available resources opens the possibility to rely on this type of connectivity for monitoring purposes. In fact, especially in case of a mobile business process, where smart devices can be used to monitor activities executed on changing locations outside the organizations' premises, a reliable exchange of monitoring data is mandatory. Although the NFV MANO provides support to allocate a Virtual Network (VN) based on specific QoS constraints, these constraints are expected to be static during its life. Conversely, the connectivity requirements could vary during the execution of a business process, depending on the status of the process itself. Goal of this paper is to make more fruitful the marriage between mobile business processes and NFV MANO exploiting the knowledge of how the QoS constraints are changing in specific sets of processes. To this aim, the paper presents a method to elicit location-and time-varying connectivity requirements based on the monitoring requirements for a process model, and to automatically derive QoS constraints for the network services. This method can then be used to drive the configuration of future NFV MANO platforms supporting dynamic QoS constraints.


Background Epidemiological evidence suggests that increased dietary ω‐6 and reduced ω‐3 fatty acid intake, may have contributed to the rising prevalence of asthma, but these hypotheses have not been tested in studies comparing both dietary intake and objective measures of polyunsaturated fatty acids.


This paper is a report on the research and study of the atmospheric corrosion behavior of galvanized steel roofing under the influence of Sodium Chloride (NaCl) deposition. This research focus on the atmospheric corrosion behavior of galvanized steel roofing under the application in the marine environment which exposed directly to the extreme environment of sea weather with high exposure to Sodium Chloride deposition. ASTM B 117 Salt Spray (Fog) Test and Mass Loss Method are introduced to study the corrosion behavior of galvanized steel under different concentration of Sodium Chloride (NaCl) concentration. The exposure time was set to four weeks for each concentration. The result from the experiments was gathered in a table and graph was plotted to show the influence of the NaCl deposition on the atmospheric corrosion of galvanized steel roofing.
The results show that Sodium Chloride can accelerate the atmospheric corrosion of the galvanized steel roofing. After 4 weeks of exposure, the corrosion rate increase as the NaCl concentration increase. However, the corrosion rate decrease as the time of exposure elapses from week 1 to week 4. This behavior is due to the electrochemical process that takes place on the surface of the galvanized steel as discussed in chapter 4 of this report.


Abstract : A half-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was designed and constructed from composite materials for the Flight Research Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School. The vehicle was designed as a technology demonstrator for two studies. First, the Tilted Ducted Fan (TDF) vertical flight capability engine and its stability and control systems, and second, for the tail configuration testing for longitudinal and lateral-directional stability enhancement of an existing tailless Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Completion of these research and test objectives should provide the configuration requirements for a full-scale development vehicle with vertical takeoff and landing with transition to the forward flight mode.


In a device for detecting errors in a charging line, the device detects an error in the charging line connecting the vehicle generator and an on-board battery. The device includes a bias (73) Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION, circuit, a charging line error detecting means, and a warning KARIYA-CITY (JP) means. The bias circuit biases a Voltage of an external termi nal receiving the power generation instruction signal in the vehicle power generation controller with a Voltage of an out (21) Appl. No.: 12/005,279 put terminal of the vehicle generator. The charging line error detecting means detects the error in the charging line based on a Voltage of an output terminal of the power generation (22) Filed: Dec. 27, 2007 instructing means that is provided within the external control ler and generates the power generation instruction signal and a terminal voltage of the on-board battery. When the charging (30) Foreign Application Priority Data line error detecting means detects the error in the charging line, the warning means performs a warning operation to give Dec. 27, 2006 (JP) ................................. 2006-3524.94 notification of the error.


and thatthromboprophylaxisshouldbeconsid-eredinpatientswithRAadmittedtothehospital. Because that study identifiedpatient groups but not comparisongroupsthroughhospitalizationdata,andbecausehospitalizationisassociatedwithVTE,reportedrisksmayreflectcircum-stances unrelated to the inflammatorydisease but associated with VTE. Thismay lead to false conclusions regard-ingtheunderlyingbiologyofVTEinRAandthetimingofriskdevelopmentand


At this time, a healthy environment is everyone's dream. A healthy environment is strongly influenced by the accompanying conditions, one of which is the awareness of protecting nature with the availability of medicinal plants/herbs that can be healthy consumption for the community. Banyumas Regency is one area that has the potential to utilize herbal plants supported by environmental conditions that have fertile natural potential. This study aims to determine the effect of training on the use of herbal plants and entrepreneurial motivation on improving the economic welfare of the community. This study used a quantitative method with Nasyiatul 'Aisyiyah Regional Leadership in Banyumas Regency as the respondent. The results showed that training on the use of herbal plants had a 62.2% greater influence than 37.8% entrepreneurial motivation on the community's economic welfare.
Keywords: Training, Herbal Plants, Entrepreneurial Motivation, Economic Welfare


The present work aims to present and debate situations that end up making Physical Education classes divided by sex, where some sports practices such as football are played only by boys and other activities more used to females are aimed at girls. In this sense, I understand the importance of the debate and critical view about this subject, since it is increasingly present in Physical Education classes. It is worth mentioning that this situation reflects the society in which we live, taking logic and values within the walls of schools. Thus, this monographic work sought the opinions of Physical Education teachers of the municipal and state education networks located in Sao Goncalo and Rio de Janeiro
on this theme, showing how difficult it is to implement this cross-cutting theme in school, but it is also important for the formation of students as critical subjects.


This study aims to determine the classification of mobile banking services that improve customer satisfaction based on the dimensions of E-Servqual using the Kano Model method. The classification is needed so that the banks were able to make improvements and innovations in the performance of the quality of their mobile banking services. From the results of data processing using Kano, it is known that the service attributes that need to be improved are the m-banking facility, which features a cash withdrawal service via ATM. This will have a major impact on customer satisfaction because these attributes have the highest satisfaction coefficient value of 0.67 in one-dimensional classification. Furthermore, service attributes that need to be improved and innovated are m-banking has a fast application reactivation service with a satisfaction coefficient of 0.61 in the attractive classification


Barns arbete i andra varldskrigets England : Recension av Berry Mayall & Virginia Morrow, You can help your country. English children's work during the second world war, London 2011


Controlling the global statuses of a network by its local dynamic parameters is an important issue, and it is difficult to obtain the direct solution for. The transformation method, which is originally used to control physical field by designing material parameters, is proposed to obtain the necessary local dynamic parameters when the global statuses of a network system are prescribed in a space. The feasibility of this transformation method is demonstrated and verified by two examples (a communication field cloak and a communication field bender) in the network system. It is shown that the global system state can be controlled by adjusting the local nodes dynamics with the transformation method. Simulation results also show that the transformation method provides a powerful, intuitive and direct way for the global statuses controlling of network systems.


In the early 1980s, a clinician trained in neuro-developmental treatment had the opportunity to observe an evaluation performed by Dr. A. Jean Ayres. The child being evaluated, an 8-month-old girl, had been referred because of delayed motor development. The assessment conducted by Dr. Ayres concluded the following: slow or absent righting and protec tive reactions, and a 2-to 3-month delay in gross motor development. Dr. Ayres's proposed explanation for these findings was a dysfunction in the vestibular system: the child did not adjust her posture because she did not register her movements in space and in relation to gravity. The clinician, who perceived the child's problems in a different way, debated Dr. Ayres's findings. The clinician felt that the child had a neuro-motor dysfunction, which interfered with the movement production in re sponse to gravity. Dr. Ayres maintained her position and recommended intervention that incorporated sensory integration (SI) as well as neuro developmental treatment (NDT) principles. The clinician did not hear about the case again until five years later. During those five years, the child received therapy utilizing sensory inte gration and neuro-developmental treatment approaches. The child had also been diagnosed with right hemiparesis. This diagnosis suggested that the delayed responses could have a neuro-motor base. However, although the neuro-motor deficit was present clinically, the child exhibited signs of severe hyporesponsivity to vestibular/proprioceptive input. The inad equate postural reactions and delayed gross motor development observed five years earlier were probably a result of the vestibular dysfunction rather than the neuro-motor problem. The above case represents the dilemma that faces therapists when deter mining the optimal therapeutic intervention to address a child's specific problems. It is important to identify the primary or most fundamental problem hindering normal development before deciding on the most appropriate intervention. The question that guides the assessment proc ess is often, Are the signs of dysfunction primarily due to disorders in sensory processing, neuro-motor functioning, cognitive abilities, or socio emotional well-being? The answer to this question determines the appro priate treatment approaches to be used in the intervention. Sensory integration and neuro-developmental treatment theories provide two important frames of reference that contribute to understanding the child's problems and how they affect the child's functional performance. Deciding if NDT, SI, or a combined approach would be the most appro priate intervention strategy requires an understanding of their theoreti cal bases; specifically, what areas each theory addresses, how each


This paper aims at determining whether the presence of penultimate accentuation varies across the varieties of French, at examining acoustic correlates of penultimate prominence marking in a corpus-based perspective, and at discussing the status of such a phenomenon in French phonology. In French, the minimal prosodic unit for pitch accent assignment is not the Phonological Word, but a higher constituent in the prosodic hierarchy, the Accentual Phrase (AP). In the varieties of French spoken in the North of France, AP is tonally marked by a high pitch movement associated with its rightmost full syllable and an optional high tone associated with a syllable on its left (see the LHiLH* pattern identified by Jun & Fougeron [2002]). In the regional varieties of French spoken in the periphery of the Hexagon (Belgium and Switzerland); one variant of this pattern involves the realization of a prominence on the penultimate syllable of the AP. Little work has been dealing with such a prosodic pattern. Yet, the phonological status and the phonetic features associated with penultimate prominent marking in French still remain unsolved issues. In order to examine this question, we analyzed data extracted from the "Phonologie du Francais Contemporain" (PFC) database [Durand et al. 2009]. In all, 6 varieties were selected: one variety from France (Paris, Lyon), three varieties spoken in the French-speaking part of Switzerland (Geneva, Neuchâtel, Nyon and Martigny) and two varieties from the French-speaking part of Belgium (Tournai and Liege). For each of these 8 varieties, we selected the recordings of the same text read by 8 speakers. In order to examine the presence of a prominent penultimate syllable within the AP, we first identified the APs boundaries. Then, we coded the penultimate syllable of each AP as prominent or non-prominent. On the other hand, to examine the acoustic features involved in the realization of a penultimate syllable perceived as prominent, we computed, for each parameter (duration, F0, amplitude and F0 rise), the number of UPs ("Unite de perception", according to Rossi [1979]). Taken together the results show that, despite the fact that penultimate prominences appear in the 6 varieties, not all acoustic cues are involved in the same in their realization in the different varieties, and that the question of the phonological status of penultimate marking in French is a complex problem


The present invention relates to a kind of stereo flame simulation electric fireplace, the emulation charcoal that its interior anterior position of housing, imaging source, light processing equipment and housing cavity that includes electric fireplace is provided with, be provided with translucent imaging screen near emulation charcoal back, the place ahead of described imaging screen is provided with second imaging screen; Described second imaging screen is set to substantially parallel with imaging screen.The light that imaging source produces behind treating apparatus, projects imaging screen and forms elementary flame simulating picture, and part light sees through imaging screen and projects the secondary flame simulating picture of formation on second imaging screen; Be placed in before and after the imaging screen and second imaging screen above the emulation charcoal, the simulating flame picture that makes both produce forms the flame field with depth feelings, covers emulation charcoal top, forms the vivid effect of stereo burning flame.


In order to master the gas emission law premise to the mining protective seam and gas drainage seam,a research on coal mining method and gas control for the South Wing No.15 seam with potential outburst in basin area of Nanshan Mine was conducted.The research results showed that the average gas emission from the pre-slicing was higher.During the coal mining period,a drainage and mining operation should be conducted with the increased ventilation to prevent and control the gas content over the limitation.The gas emission from the bottom slicing was 73% less than the top slicing.The fully mechanized longwall caving mining method can be applied.During the mining operation in the high gas outburst seam,a gas pre-drainage technology combined with the top slicing protective seam mining technology shall be applied in order to eliminate the gas outburst danger occurred in the bottom slicing.The expended coal mining face could be excavated with fully mechanized longwall top coal caving mining method.With the pre-long period gas drainage in the outburst dangerous area,the danger of the outburst could be eliminated,the layout and construction of the production system could be simplified and the production cost could be reduced.The application of the longwall top coal caving mining technology can reduce the gateway driving cost.With the application of the available two gateways for the whole seam mining,the economic benefit will be more prominent.


Digital images are useful media for storing spatial, spectral and temporal components of information. Many large image databases have been generated for different kinds of purposes. These images are often stored in compressed format such as JPEG. This paper examines the algorithms of direct extraction of low level features from compressed images. Also a cluster based indexing technique will be used in this retrieval system. The query image will only compare with small subset group instead of all the images in the large database. The contentbased retrieval system is based on DCT coefficient energy histogram and clustering algorithms. It can offer a fast response time with high retrieval accuracy.


Five cycloether compounds containing metal Fe(CO) 3L, (L 1=Ph 2P(CH 2CH 2O) 2·CH 2CH 2PPh 2, L 2=Ph 2P(CH 2CH 2O) 4CH 2CH 2PPh 2, L 3=OPh[(OCH 2CH 2)PPh 2] 2, L 4=OPh[OCH 2CH 2) 2PPh 2] 2) and [Fe(CO 3)] 2L 5(L 5=[Ph 2PCH 2CH 2OCH 2CH 2PPh 2] 2) were synthesized. The composition of these compounds were determined and their structure were characterized with IR and P NMR. KI+ether was used as catalyst for reaction of carbon dioxide with oxriane to produce ethylene carbonate. The ether, which forms stable complex with K +,enhances the activity of KI. The cycloether compounds containing metal can react with K + ion and increase the nucleophilic reactivity of anion similar with ordinary ethers.


We design a novel online analytical processing system for sequence data analysis (the S-OLAP system). The biggest distinction of S-OLAP from traditional OLAP is that a sequence can be characterized not only by the attributes' values of its constituting items, but also by the subsequence/substring patterns it possesses. Traditional OLAP systems and techniques were not designed for sequence data and thus they are incapable of supporting sequence data analysis. This paper describes my Ph.D research on the design and implementation of the S-OLAP system. The proposed system is able to support "pattern-based" grouping and aggregation, which is currently not supported by any OLAP system. The preliminary ideas, significant research issues as well as major challenges of this ongoing project are presented.


This qualitative study examines the academic aural/oral difficulties Taiwanese ESL students experience on the US campus and the coping strategies they use in improving related proficiency. They are discussed within a framework of input/interaction/output theory, socio-cultural theory, and from perspectives of affective factors in second language acquisition. The research questions include: What challenges does participation in classroom discussion present? How do students exploit the all English environment to gain the sought-after proficiency? What problems are there in acquiring communication opportunities in the environment? Participants in this study were four Taiwanese graduate students majoring in special education, business, linguistics, and electronics engineering at the University of Kansas. Their stays on campus vary from four months to more than three years. Data are collected through semi-structured interviews, which are recorded and transcribed for analysis that results in four dimensions: Personal attributes, environmental impacts, difficulty types, and strategy repertoire. There are further subcategorized into: background effects, motivation & attitude effects, environmental advantages, impeding situations, linguistic deficiency, content & cultural barriers, strategies to overcome difficulties, and strategies to gain communication opportunities. The main difficulties Taiwanese ESL students experience include insufficient vocabulary and basic listening/speaking skills, lack of background knowledge about the current American society, and being shy from risk-taking in spontaneous discussions. The strategies to cope with such difficulties contain making the most of the environment to improve basic competence, taking an active role in social participation, and engaging in adequate preparation for class meetings.


In 2045, Indonesia will get a demographic bonus of 70% of Indonesia's population. It is expected that with the population at that time Indonesians will be superior, advanced and able to compete with other countries, and mature enough to overcome classic national problems, such as corruption, poverty and so on. The product produced through this research development is in the form of an instrument for evaluating basketball learning outcomes that is in accordance with the characteristics of grade IX junior high school students. This assessment was developed in the process assessment and also assessment of results that will help teachers of Physical Health sports education to assess student skills. when data collection is done when students do physical education learning in school on the Big Ball learning material, namely Basketball. This research was conducted in a school that can be reached by researchers in the city of Medan, North Sumatra Province, namely Junior High Schools. This research is a type of research and development. Research and Development (R&D). Researchers conducted research and development of basketball playing skills test instruments in junior high school subjects in class IX.


ABSTRACT Applying the science of human factors to eliminate error across all aspects of process design, management, operation, and maintenance has been a focus in the process safety area for many years. Human error has been attributed as a major cause of many high profile catastrophic accidents around the world. These accidents have resulted in national and international attention, which has led to a focus on improving organizational capabilities, systems, and in many cases, governmental regulations around human factors. This article provides a review of the field of human factors highlighting various topics in the literature, and introduces governmental regulatory bodies currently engaging organizations in a scientific approach to human factors. Finally, the need for integrating behavioral science methodologies with human factors is addressed. This is done with specific focus on how Organizational Behavior Management methodologies can work in concert with human factors to optimize process safety.


This study examined the factors influencing the intention to use smartwatches using the integrated model of technology acceptance model (TAM) and innovation diffusion theory (IDT). An online survey was conducted and the data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling (SEM). The results showed that the research model had an acceptable fit, and all paths, except for the one from the perceived ease of use to the intention to use, were supported. Regarding paths from IDT to TAM, it was observed that higher the compatibility, the users perceived greater usefulness. Additionally, both observability and trialability influenced the perceived ease of use. However, perceived ease of use affected the intention only through the mediated effect of perceived usefulness. The implication of the study lies on the major focus on the effects of users' perceptions regarding innovative characteristics of smartwatches on the intention to adopt and attempted to increase the explanatory power of the TAM and IDT by combining both.


Based on urban-rural integration research both at home and abroad, this paper analyzes limits of current researches. Urbanization rate, dual contrast coefficient, urban-rural residents' income diversity and urban-rural residents' Engel coefficient diversity factor are adopted as urban-rural integration level indicator system. The urban-rural integration evolution analysis model based on the SOM network is put forward. Anhui Province is taken as an example to analyze the influence of various indicators on urban-rural integration. Results suggest that, apart from dual contrast coefficient and urbanization rate, all the other indexes will lead to corresponding changes of urban-rural integration level. Besides, Northwest Anhui and Central Anhui with a relatively low urban-rural integration level should adopt urban-rural residents' income diversity and urban-rural residents' Engel coefficient as the major improvement objectives.


Over the last decades the development of Gajraula as an industrial area has elevated the risk of atmospheric pollution. Thus to know the quality of air, AQI was evaluated and for the purpose PM 10 , PM 2.5 , SO 2 and NO 2 was monitored over a period of monsoon (July to September 2014) and winter season (November to January 2015) at three different Sites i.e. Raunaq Automotive (S1), Indra Chowk (S2) and Town Basti (S3). Results are based on AQI calculator recently launched by CPCB MoEF, New Delhi. The experimental results of air quality index (AQI) obtained from different Sites are 137 at S1, 144 at S2 and 95 at S3 in monsoon and 197 at S1, 268 at S2 and 131 at S3 in winter season. The highest AQI value was obtained from experimental result at Site S2 in winter season while lowest at Site S3 in monsoon season. Elevated concentration of all the pollutants at Site S2 may be due to anthropogenic activities i.e. industrial growth, vehicular density and other developmental works in this area. There are relatively stronger inter- pollutant correlation at the sites and results also suggest that a large number of industrial developments induces high correlation of PM 2.5 , PM 10 , NO 2 and SO 2 at S1 and S2 sites. Human beings are more affected as evidenced in increases in daily hospital admissions in different departments' i.e. Cardiac, Respiratory, Skin and Eye of Gajraula Government Hospital.


The "Divertor Tokamak Test" (DTT) is an experimental fusion reactor being built in Frascati (IT) in the framework of the European Fusion Roadmap. The DTT Central Solenoid, used to drive the current in the magnetically coupled plasma, comprises six Nb3Sn layer-wound independently energized modules. Each module is made of three sub-modules: High Field (HF), Medium Field (MF) and Low Field (LF) grades. To meet all goals of the DTT scientific program, a variety of plasma scenarios have been designed. These cause intense and heterogeneous loading conditions for the CS stack; from the mechanical point of view, each module is subjected to a vertical expansion or compression and to a huge radial action, whereas the current variations cause relevant heat loads due to AC losses, with impact on the coil temperature margin. In this work, the engineering study on the current design and the analyses on the module windings are presented.


The analysis of the FDTD method is usually performed by assuming an e/sup j/spl omega/t/ time dependence for the field quantities as the response due to a steady-state monochromatic wave excitation. This continuous dependence, when combined with the discrete nature of the Yee grid leads to solution errors and dispersion relations that do not describe accurately the propagation properties in the grid for all frequencies. In this article, the discrete oscillator is introduced and used to study the numerical properties of the FDTD method. Formulas are derived for the propagation characteristics in the one- and two-dimensional cases.


By using participatory rural appraisal method and variance analysis method,this paper establishes the evaluation index system of land circulation perception and studies the perception index of farmersland circulation of different means of livelihood in Three Gorges Reservoir Area,and the differences and reasons of land circulation perception index of different means of livelihood are analysed.The research shows that:in Three Gorges Reservoir Area,farmerslivelihood way is single,livelihood diversification index was 3.75,non-farm level in valley Pingba,hilly areas,high mountain farmers are lower,and non-agricultural activities are mainly migrant workers.As the altitude increased,the perceived quality and attention perception are depressive rule.With the farmersnon-agricultural level increasing,perceived quality,land circulation attention perception are degressive rule.But the changing perception and participant perception of the land transfer are increasing law.Farmers in different regions of different means of livelihood,the necessary understanding feeling of land transfer is high.


The paper proposes a short circuit fault tolerant system for the conventional Matrix Converter (MC) to increase the immune capability of the MC against short circuit fault. In this paper, the short circuit fault in semiconductor switching device such as IGBT is analysed. When the short circuit fault arises, it is quickly detected, then IGBTs are softly turned off to prevent the short circuit fault spreading out to relevant healthy IGBTs and damaging the whole converter. The short circuit fault is diagnosed, and the fault location of the shorted faulty IGBT is identified in the MC. In the post fault operation, the MC is reconfigured by utilizing a redundant fourth leg to mitigate the fault. The proposed fault tolerant system is verified in simulation work with realistic models. Some simulation results are shown to confirm the correctness and effectiveness of the methods used for detecting and diagnosing the short circuit faults in the conventional MC topology.


Finally, the focus on nurses and physiotherapists raises important questions about power and prestige. Depending on one's institutional context, when a physician becomes a clinicianscientist, financial incentives are rarely cited as a reason. However, speaking as two non-physician clinicians turned scientists, becoming a clinician-scientist for a nurse or physiotherapist may in fact bring with it capital gains. These are important factors to consider when examining the role of clinician-scientists. Indeed, without addressing the epistemological boundaries and the power relations embedded therein, we question whether the divide between scientific and clinical practice will ever truly be bridged.


Post-Modernism literary theory thoroughly subverts the traditional literary concept of four literary elements.The strategy is to separate the relationship between the semiotics and the world,signifier and signified,shaking the foundation of linguistics of traditional philosophy and literary theory.The theory of Post-Modernism has obvious weakness of anti-realism,anti-humanism,anti-literary significance and anti-literature.


The macroscopic behaviour of semiconducting materials is determined by the distribution of microscopic defects like dislocations , impurities and intrinsic defects . Therefore, microanalytical methods are necessary to control the influence of technological process parameters on the materials properties. In the case of GaAs substrates , measurements of the cathodoluminescence ( CL l and the electron beam induced voltage ( EBIV l as well as the new charging technique seem to be promising methods to perform this task. CL-micrographs of as-grown GaAs substrates show bright cellular structures, which correspond to dislocation networks. Comparative investigations by use of the new charging contrast technique indicate an increased conductivity in the bright areas. CL-measurements of annealed substrates reveal additional characteristic island-like structures in the cell interior. Both, cellular and island-like structures can also be visualized by the EBIV technique. These results can be explained by a homogeneous conductivity and an inhomogeneous distribution of the excess carrier lifetime.


To study the prognostic significance of the state of the residual liver after hepatectomy for small hepatocellular carcinoma (s‐HCC) no larger than 5 cm in diameter, 123 patients were followed for periods from 9 months to 9 years and 1 month. The following results were obtained: (1) recurrence occurred in the residual liver in 58 patients (54.2%) after an average of 14.9 months from hepatectomy; (2) at recurrence diagnosed by imaging, 12 of 48 recurrent patients showed negative alpha‐fetoprotein; (3) computed tomography (CT) had a high sensitivity (71.4%) in detecting recurrence; (4) 5‐year survivals for all patients (n = 123) who had hepatectomy, and for those without recurrence (n = 49) or with recurrence (n = 58) were 19.1%, 48.9%, and 11.0%, respectively; and (5) survivals for the patients who developed recurrence and who did and did not receive embolization treatment (n = 32, 23, respectively) were 70.3% and 37.1% at 1 year, 45.0% and 0% at 3 years, and 14.9% and 0% at 5 years, respectively. It is important to recognize that the patient who has undergone surgery even for s‐HCC should be followed as a super high‐risk patient at regular intervals using CT. Therapeutic embolization for recurrent patients improved the survival after recurrence.


We report the use of networks of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with high and moderate coverages (measured as number of tubes per unit area) for all of the conducting (i.e., source, drain, and gate electrodes) and semiconducting layers, respectively, of a type of transparent, mechanically flexible, thin-film transistor (TFT). The devices are fabricated on plastic substrates using layer-by-layer transfer printing of SWNT networks grown using optimized chemical vapor deposition (CVD) procedures. The unique properties of the SWNT networks lead to electrical (e.g., good performance on plastic), optical (e.g., transparent at visible wavelengths), and mechanical (e.g., extremely bendable) characteristics in this "all-tube" TFT that would be difficult, or impossible, to achieve with conventional materials.


The common ready-mixed mortar cement is a new type cement based on ready-mixed mortar and masonry cement,which can markedly reduce the energy consumption and the cost of ready-mixed mortar.For the preparation of standard of Guangdong Province,an experimental method of tensile bond strength of common ready-mixed mortar cement and new walling materials was put forward on the base of tensile bond strength experiment in Standard JGJ/T 220—2010,and the autoclaved lime-sand bricks and autoclaved aerated concrete blocks were used as the bases to be studied.The results as following:compared with autoclaved aerated concrete blocks,the autoclaved lime-sand bricks could differentiate the tensile bond strength of cement with different water retention agents and new walling materials.Suggested experimental method was:rendered six autoclaved lime-sand bricks with 10 mm to 12 mm cement mortar and tested a sample on each autoclaved lime-sand brick after a dry curing of 14 days,the qualified tensile bond strength of cement and autoclaved lime-sand brick was not less than 0.15 MPa.


The scope of this article is to identify the parameters of bivariate fractal interpolation surfaces by using convex hulls as bounding volumes of appropriately chosen data points so that the resulting fractal (graph of) function provides a closer fit, with respect to some metric, to the original data points. In this way, when the parameters are appropriately chosen, one can approximate the shape of every rough surface. To achieve this, we first find the convex hull of each subset of data points in every subdomain of the original lattice, calculate the volume of each convex polyhedron and find the pairwise intersections between two convex polyhedra, i.e., the convex hull of the subdomain and the transformed one within this subdomain. Then, based on the proposed methodology for parameter identification, we minimise the symmetric difference between bounding volumes of an appropriately selected set of points. A methodology for constructing continuous fractal interpolation surfaces by using iterated function systems is also presented.


In many small and medium-sized communities, the need to reflect the unique characteristics of travel by special markets is an important consideration. Visitor travel is a special market for many communities that enjoy the benefits of being a destination for visitors from outside the region. Visitor travel can affect the transportation system in a community as well as benefiting the economy. Visitor travel is often not modeled explicitly because of the cost associated with collecting behaviorally rich survey data to support model development. This paper presents a low-cost option for collecting travel behavior data for special markets through the administration of a small-sample intercept survey of persons staying in recreational vehicle (RV) campgrounds in the French Broad River region of North Carolina. Analysis of the survey data showed that travel by these surveyed RV households was different from both retired and seasonal part-time resident households, captured in the region's household travel survey. Development of a special market model to address travel by RV visitors in the region is also discussed.


1School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia; 2Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 200071, People's Republic of China; 3Department of Nursing, School of International Medical Technology, Shanghai Sanda University, Shanghai, 201209, People's Republic of China; 4Yangpu Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200090, People's Republic of China; 5ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia; 6School of Science, Psychology and Sport, Federation University, Mount Helen, Victoria, Australia; 7Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, 3084, Australia Abstract: Comorbid depression and insomnia are ubiquitous mental complaints among women going through the perimenopausal stage of life and can result in major decline in quality of life. Antidepressive agents combined with/without hypnotics, and/or hormone therapy are currently the most common treatment for perimenopausal depression (PMD) and insomnia (PMI). Balancing the benefits of these pharmacotherapies against the risk of adverse events (AEs) is a difficult task for both clinicians and women. There has been a growing body of research regarding the utilization of acupuncture for treatment of PMD or PMI, whereas no studies of acupuncture for comorbid PMD and PMI have appeared. In this review, we summarize the clinical and preclinical evidence of acupuncture as a treatment for PMD or PMI, and then discuss the potential mechanisms involved and the role of acupuncture in helping women during this transition. Most clinical trials indicate that acupuncture ameliorates not only PMD/PMI but also climacteric symptoms with minimal AEs. It also regulates serum hormone levels. The reliability of trials is however limited due to methodological flaws in most studies. Rodent studies suggest that acupuncture prolongs total sleep time and reduces depression-like behavior in PMI and PMD models, respectively. These effects are possibly mediated through multiple mechanisms of action, including modulating sex hormones, neurotransmitters, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis/hypothalamic-pituitary-ovary axis, oxidative stress, signaling pathways, and other cellular events. In conclusion, acupuncture is a promising therapeutic strategy for comorbid depression and insomnia during perimenopause. Neuroendocrine modulation is likely to play a major role in mediating those effects. High-quality trials are required to further validate acupuncture's effectiveness.


Writing in English has always been a formidable obstacle for learners; accordingly, many studies aimed to find not band-aid but complete solutions for learners to improve their writing proficiency. One of these solutions, largely thought to reduce language errors, is error correction. However, instructors seem to be alternating between different corrective feedbacks with the purpose of determining the most efficient one for their students. Previous research largely compared peer feedback and teacher correction and ignored self-editing. In this sense, this study investigated three error correction methods, namely self-editing, peer review, and teacher corrections. To achieve this, three student groups were created and each group, composed of 10 students, was tested with one method. Wilcoxon, Kruskal-Wallis, and Mann-Whitney U tests were employed for analyses and the results yielded significant differences in terms of all methods concerning comparisons of preand post-tests. On the other hand, the test to determine inter-group differences found significant results for the method of teacher correction. Furthermore, the most frequent linguistic errors in students' writing were revealed. This research contributes to teaching pedagogy by comforting instructors regarding the efficiency of teacher correction and suggests instructors focus on particularly spelling, punctuation, and article to prompt writing development.


Sustainable constitutional democracy in any society depends largely on an independent courageous and incorruptible judiciary. In Nigeria, disputes often arise from electoral process; whether pre mostly from the attempt constitutions or the Electoral Act. By adopting the paper examined the challenges facing the judiciary as a democratic institution charged with the responsi which is free and fair electoral process. The arguments presented in this paper also takes into account the nature of politics in most emerging democracies, in Africa and particularly in Nigeria "do or die" affair. The judiciary has a duty of ensuring process. However, enormous challenges; corruption, political interference in the judicial process and indeed, the absence of judicial independence. The central argument in the paper is that, unless the official, judicial and politi constitutional democracy in the country is uncertain.


In the title compound, [Ni{(C 4 H 9 O) 2 PS 2 } 2 (C 9 H 7 N) 2 ], the metal atom is coordinated in a distorted octahedral arrangement with the central Ni atom lying in the plane formed by the four S atoms and with the two isoquinoline moieties in trans positions. The Ni-S bond distances are 2.491(3) and 2.498 (2) A and the Ni-N distances are 2.103 (4) A.


The aerobic oxidative cross-coupling of indoles with azoles driven by flavin-iodine-coupled organocatalysis has been developed for the green synthesis of 2-(azol-1-yl)indoles. The coupled organocatalytic system enabled the one-pot three-component synthesis of 2-azolyl-3-thioindoles from indoles, azoles, and thiols in an atom-economical manner by utilizing molecular oxygen as the only sacrificial reagent.


This paper discusses energy needs (oil, electricity) of transport systems (road transport, tramway and rail bound transport) within the area of the town of Zagreb with the aim of quantifying existing and expected demands. The degree of motorization, transport capacity and fuel cost have been analyzed as basic parameters for the quantification of energy consumption.


Beginning in 1982, Saudi Arabia will send 50 million tons/yr of crude oil through the Suez-Mediterranean pipeline, according to a communication from A. Taher (Petromin) to the Sumed pipeline management. The capacity of the line will therefore be increased during 1978-82 from 80 million to 120 million tons/yr, and another pump station is to be constructed. The increase in the capacity of the Sumed pipeline will take place simultaneously with the construction of a pipeline from the Abqaiq-Ghawar oilfield to the Red Sea.


There should be no problem in the measurement system for scientific quality management. In this paper, we want to correctly identify the factors that can affect the measurement results during the measurement process and identify what causes them when the measurement results cause problems in terms of location and variation. Variations in the measurement system are largely described in terms of location and dispersion. Location-related attributes are accuracy, stability, and linearity while dispersion-related attributes are reproducibility and repeatability. Analyzing the factors associated with dispersion is an R&R analysis, in which the size of repeatability and reproducibility is represented by a range of differences between multiple measurements and a range of differences between measurements, and 99% of dispersion is determined. Experimental design can also be used for measurement system analysis. Proper analysis is performed only when the factors causing the fluctuation, the worker and the product, are correctly identified as random or fixed factors.