Curvature results have been made available by AWTA since July 2000 using the Laserscan instrument. The Wool Service Desk has analysed the Australian auction data which contains the curvature results and all other pre-sale measurements for the period July 2000 to December 2001. Mean curvature for all Australian sale lots is 94.4 degrees per mm (°/mm). The range of curvature values for sale lots was 58°/mm to 167°/mm, with a standard deviation between sale lots of 11.4°/mm. The curvature value decreases as the mean fibre diameter of the sale lot increases. Sale lots in the 17.5 to 18.4 μm range had mean curvature of 105°/mm and a SD of 10.7°/mm. For sale lots in the 23.5 to 24.4 μm range, curvature had a mean of 83°/mm and SD of 7.3°/mm. Curvature results were not related to AWEx appraised style for sale lots broader than 22 μm, but increased with better style wool for finer lots. The relationship between curvature and clean price was studied for fine Australian Merino fleece sale lots matching a consignment design which constrained diameter to ± 0.5 μm, staple length to between 75 and 95 mm, staple strength > 35 Nktex and VM content < 1.5%. The results for the individual characteristics are presented after these constraints were applied. The style of these sale lots did not vary with changes in curvature. The clean price of these sale lots were examined when the consignment average diameter ranged from 17 to 22 μm. Estimates were made of the rate of change in clean price due to curvature changes. This slope is linear within the diameter class, and ranged from 12 cents per °/mm at 18 μm to 0.3 cents per °/mm for 22 μm. KEY MESSAGES The average curvature of Australian sale lots is 94 °/mm with a range from 58 to 116 °/mm. Curvature is higher in fine wool, and in fine wool of better style. Within a diameter class, adult fleece wool has higher curvature than weaner wool, and lambs wool has the lowest curvature. For 18 μm sale lots chosen to match a standard processing consignment, auction price increases as curvature increases at a rate of 12 cents per °/mm. For consignments of higher diameter, the increase in price is lower and for consignments above 21 μm curvature does not alter price. METHOD Information was collected on each Australian sale lot that was offered at auction between July 2000 and December 2001. The information included core test results and staple measurements from AWTA. The measurement of fibre diameter using Laserscan provided curvature measurements, in addition to the fibre diameter statistics. Test information was combined with other sale and appraisal information on the sale lot. The other information included regional information, AWEx appraisals, sale details and auction price. The AWEx ID was used to provide style information. It is estimated that about 85% of all Australian wool production is sold through the auction system. Therefore it is assumed that the following results provide a reasonable and unbiased sample of the Australian wool clip. A total of approximately 740,000 sale lots were used in the analysis. Curvature classes refer to the median curvature ± 5°/mm. The relationship between curvature and price was analysed by comparing the average price of lots assembled to a typical processing specification but with the added constraint of limits on curvature. The design for a typical consignment specification was made by constraining diameter to the target mean ± 0.5 μm, staple length between 75 and 95 mm, staple strength > 35 Nktex, vegetable matter < 1.5% for adult Merino fleece wool lots.


Abstract The reagent Me3Si-L is versatile for conversion of M-Cl bonds into metal -imidazolates. Reactions with RuCl3., and [Ru(Ph3E)2Cl3(MeOH)] yield [RuClL2] and [Ru(Ph3E) 2L3] (E = P or As; L = imidazolate, Iz or 2-methylimidazolate, Melz) respectively, whereas [Ru(Ph3P)3Cl2] affords [Ru(Ph3P)2L2]. The stoichiometry of the compounds is consistent with the observed analytical data. The i. r. and C. V.-visible spectroscopic, conductivity and magnetic susceptibility measurement data indicate oligomerization with imidazolate bridging via the pyridyl nitrogen resulting in stable octahedral configurations around the ruthenium ion.


Our collaborators, Instructions for the Author, Objectives of the Revue, The Signs of Death, The institutional values that inspire the being and the acting of the UCPR are: ethics, truth, human dignity, service, quality, Pages No.85


Developing neural architectures that are capable of logical reasoning has become increasingly important for a wide range of applications (e.g., natural language processing). Towards this grand objective, we propose a symbolic reasoning architecture that chains many join operators together to model output logical expressions. In particular, we demonstrate that such an ensemble of join chains can express a broad subset of "tree-structured" first-order logical expressions, named $\mathcal{FOET}$ which is particularly useful for modeling natural languages. To endow it with differentiable learning capability, we closely examine various neural operators for approximating the symbolic join-chains. Interestingly, we find that the widely used multi-head self-attention module in transformer can be understood as a special neural operator that implements the union bound of the join operator in probabilistic predicate space. Our analysis not only provides a new perspective on the mechanism of the pretrained models such as BERT for natural language understanding, but also suggests several important future improvement directions.


The information delivery and transmission media(DID or PID) market is making remarkable growth as the high-speed networks are spreading and LCD/LED TVs are more and more popularized, and display devices are increasingly large and high-definition. In addition, the popularization of smart devices and the expansion of the information delivery and transmission media market make a demand for N-Screen in content service. Colleges and universities have installed and operated various types of DID to promote their schools and departments and deliver information about them, still remaining in the level of media content implementation. So, we implement and evaluate a next-generation electronic bulletin board for each department that allows for interactive N-Screen communication based on the integration of smart phone and internet. This board enhanced efficiency as supporting N-Screen, inserting and deleting the contents at real time and offering bidirectional communication.


Stratigraphic sections showing coal correlations within the lower coal zone of the Paleocene Fort Union Formation, Fillmore Ranch and Seaverson Reservoir quadrangles, Carbon County, Wyoming are presented.


This article presents a numerical study of heat transfer in a square cavity filled with water-Al2O3 nanofluid and heated from the bottom. Mass Conservation, momentum, and energy equations are solved numerically by the finite volume method using the SIMPLER algorithm for pressure-velocity coupling. The effects of the thermal conductivity, the dynamic viscosity, the Rayleigh number, the solid volume fraction and the particle size on heat transfer by Al2O3-water nanofluid were discussed. In this paper, two correlations for viscosity and thermal conductivity of Al2O3-water nanofluid as functions of nanosolid concentration and diameter size are proposed. The numerical results have shown that the heat transfer is influenced by the particle size, the solid volume fraction and Rayleigh number. Results have clearly revealed the appearance of a hysteresis behavior of flow structure and heat transfer when increasing and decreasing the Rayleigh number.


Theodore M. Schad In 1965 Congress passed the Water Resources Planning Act and thereby created a (federal) Water Resources Council. It also authorized the establishment of interstate water-resource development commissions and grants to individual states. About four years ago, Congress went a step further and authorized the creation of a (nonfederal) National Water Commission to look after the long-range problems confronting the US in its effort to preserve its water resources. The four articles that appear under the common title, "National Water Commission and Water Resources Council/7 are adapted from four related papers presented at the Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., Jun. 23, 1970.


Objective To discuss the effect of different composition of Radix Bupleuri and Radix Bupleuri Scorzoneraefolli on mice's acute toxicity.Methods Respectively prepare the water extracted and alcohol extracted components of Radix Bupleuri and Radix Bupleuri Scorzoneraefolli,and compare the acute toxicity of different components in Radix Bupleuri and Radix Bupleuri Scorzoneraefolli on mice in accordance with classical acute toxicity test methods,and the experimental datas are calculated MTD and MLD with the Kg body weight method,with the continuous administration and observation for 14 days.Results The acute toxicity of different components in Radix Bupleuri and Radix Bupleuri Scorzoneraefolli on mice is:alcohol extracted components of Radix Bupleuri Scorzoneraefolli alcohol extracted components of Radix Bupleuri water extracted components of Radix Bupleuri Scorzoneraefolli water extracted components of Radix Bupleuri.The water extracted components of Radix Bupleuri and Radix Bupleuri Scorzoneraefolli did not appear dead.Calculated by crude drug content,the MLD were respectively 181.6 g·kg-1·d-1 and 201.6 g·kg-1·d-1,which is equal to 1412.4 times and 1568.0 times of 70kg people's daily dried medicinal herb expenses.The alcohol extracted components of Radix Bupleur and Radix Bupleuri Scorzoneraefolli are unable to make LD50,the MTD were respectively 46.4 g·kg-1·d-1 and 75.2 g·kg-1·d-1,which is equal to 360.9 times and 584.9 times of 70kg people's daily dried medicinal herb expenses.Conclusion The toxicity of Radix Bupleuri Scor-zoneraefolli is bigger than the Radix Bupleur,and the toxicity of the alcohol extracted components is bigger than the water extracted components.There is some relevance between the content of Bupleurum saikosaponin and the toxicity,so we speculated that the Bupleurum saikosaponin may be the mainly toxical basis.


The dialectical unity of the Party's class basis and mass basis is determined by the Communist Party's nature and purpose.This paper analyses the dialectical unity of the Party's class basis and mass basis in the perspectives of the Party's class nature and advanced nature,the Party's advanced nature and representativeness and "being one vanguard and being two vanguards".


Rice flour bread made without wheat gluten leads to an increased consumption of rice and can be eaten by people with wheat allergies. However, because gluten-free rice flour bread shows low swelling and poor texture, a new processing technology (rice-gel) was proposed as a substitute for wheat gluten. This study used rice flour and rice-gel to make bread, and focused on the amount of water added to the dough. Bread properties were evaluated by examining hardness and its rate of change, specific volume and cross-sectional images. Rice-gels were made from white rice or brown rice and a comparison of their properties was conducted. (Received Jul. 12, 2017 ; Accepted Oct. 12, 2017)


A sea cucumbers detection method based on SSD and depthwise separable convolution is proposed. Firstly, sea cucumbers images taken by underwater robot are enhanced by Multi Scale Retinex, which can make underwater images clearer. MobileNet-SSD which uses a 13-layer depthwise separable convolution as basic feature extractor is trained to detect the sea cucumbers and model quantification is applied to the model to further reduce the model size and improve detection speed. Experimental results demonstrate that the mean average precision of improved SSD reaches 89.41 %, the detection precision for underwater sea cucumbers is 93.76% and the recall ratio is 91.17%, the detection speed can reach 19.8f/s in CPU mode which is no longer limited by the performance of computer. Compared with other methods for object detection, the improved SSD can reach a high level of both detection precision and speed, which can realize the rapid and accurate detection of sea cucumbers.


Background Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is still a health burden in Taiwan. In R/M setting, the prognosis becomes worse. ESCC is still an immunogenic cancer. In randomized 2nd line ATTRACTION-3 study(nivolumab vs taxane after PF failure), median OS improved from 8.4 months in chemotherapy to 10.9 months in nivolumab(HR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.62–0.96; p =0.019). The median duration of response was 3.9 months and 6.9 months. Nivolumab is a new 2nd line option for ESCC. Methods From early 2016 to early 2020, 15 advanced ESCC patients had ever received immunotherapy-containing regimens in Yun-lin Branch of National Taiwan University Hospital and were analyzed. Results The overall response to immunotherapy-containing regimens was 60%(9/15) and clinical benefit was 80%(12/15). 2nd line nivolumab was given in 3 cases; response rate was33% and clinical benefit was 67%. 2nd line afatinib combined with anti-PD1 was given in 9 case; response rate was 67% and clinical benefit was 78%. The response rate of 2nd line afatinib & pembrolizumab was 75%(3/4); however, Gr. III pneumonitis & Gr. II hepatitis were noted in the patient with progression. The response rate of 2nd line afatinib & nivolumab was 60%(3/5) and clinical benefit was 80%(4/5); skin rash and diarrhea were often found. 1st line afatinib combined with anti-PD1 was given in 3 patients; response rate was 67% and clinical benefit was 100%. The response rate of 1st line afatinib & nivolumab was 100%(2/2). Conclusions EGFR TKIs have multiple immuno-modulatory effects and may increase immunotherapy benefits in ESCC. Anti-PD1 and anti-CTLA4, another possible rationale, could bring more benefits maybe in 1st line CheckMate649 study. Acknowledgements Nil Trial Registration N/A Ethics Approval N/A Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this abstract and any accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor of this journal. Reference Nil


The technology of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is attractive as it is considered as one of promising clean energy due to its efficiency and clean production of electricity. However, high operating temperature of SOFC are main issue in range of applications such as in transportation and portable equipment. One of many goals of SOFC is to lower the operating temperature. Bi-layer electrolyte has become one of the solution in order to reduce the high operating temperature. This review article provides the preliminary information of bi-layer electrolyte in order to achieve high performance at intermediate temperature.


Genetic regression (GR) is an application of genetic algorithms to the problem of producing optimal calibration models by wavelength selection. GR has been shown to provide excellent calibration models under many conditions that typically result in poor calibration models with the use of other multivariate techniques. In this study, GR is applied to the calibration of the components of a ternary mixture with the use of near-infrared spectroscopic data. To determine how close GR comes to the true global optimum, a random search of the possible solutions was performed and the distribution of the solutions' predictive abilities determined. Through this study it has been determined that GR is capable of searching through extremely large search spaces and eliminating over 99.9999% of the unsuitable solutions in a matter of minutes. GR is also capable of finding multiple solutions of similar quality, something not available in many other calibration techniques. Comparison with results from partial least-squares (PLS) is also included.


Based on the data about China's listed companies over period 2004-2007,this paper analyzes the type of ultimate controller,pyramidal structure and the separation between controlling shareholders' control rights and cash flow rights to investigate the relationship between vertical ownership structure and controlling shareholder's embezzlement of listed company's funds,which is a proxy of tunneling.The results indicate: i) the degree of controlling shareholders' tunneling in the central government ultimately controlled companies is the least,the degrees of controlling shareholder's tunneling in the natural person and local government ultimately controlled companies don't have significant differences;ii) controlling shareholders in government ultimately controlled companies tunnel through productive operation while controlling shareholders in natural person ultimately controlled companies tunnel through non-productive method;iii) the more the pyramidal structure layers in natural person controlled companies and the bigger the degree of the separation between the ultimate controller's control rights and cash flow rights,the more severe the tunneling of controlling shareholders;iv) in central government controlled companies,the less the pyramidal structure layers and the more severe the tunneling of controlling shareholders,the capital occupied by the controlling shareholder in companies that have separation between control rights and cash flow rights is more than that in companies that don't have.


The paper analyses to present chamber press filter about its disadvantage of inefficient and long auxiliary time on discharging cake singly or clumpy. It also introduces a new type of press filter and its technical effect, which is based on electromechanical integration, open and close each filter plate in turn just like organ, thus all plate opened in turn to discharge cake can be realized. [Descriptors] Press filter Like organ Discharge cake


The cogging force is of great impact to the efficiency of permanent magnetic liner synchronous motor(PMLSM) especially in high precision and low speed. According to the fractional slot with q1 structure of PMLSM, FEM is used to analyze the influence of cogging force. Supposed estimator based on radical basis functional network(RBFN) is presented by improved algorithm. To select the right spread factor of base function, the accelerate fuzzy C-means(AFCM) is used in data clustering. Then, OLSA is used to choose the center vector from the clustering center. Comparing to the estimator based on back propagation neural network(BPNN) with momentum method, the novel estimator increases the clustering of neural network with boosting learning rate. Results show the fractional slot with q 1 structure effectively reduces the influence of cogging force in PMLSM. Through the estimator based on RBFN, the parameters of the PMLSM can be evaluated in the design period. By satisfying the standards of cogging force ripple, the estimator achieves the agility demand and improves the design level of PMLSM.


Cancer is an abnormal growth of the cells of the body, and may move from one place to another and lead to the growth and proliferation of irregular cells to form tumors are on the two types of tumor and benign tumor malignant, and there is no specific reason for the emergence of tumors and factors Environmental, genetic, economic, social, dietary habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol and drugs. The research aims to study cancer in the province of Babylon, one of the Iraqi provinces, the results showed a clear spatial disparity between the administrative units of the province, the rate of cases of cancer in all the province of Babylon in 2010 (43) Of the population, which is more than the rate of cases of infection across Iraq, amounting to (38) injuries per 100 thousand people. The study also showed a difference in the rates of infection according to the ten common types of cancer in Babil province comes on the list of these types is breast cancer, where the rate of infection (9.35) per 100000 population, which is one of the most dangerous types of cancer threat to the population, especially females. Lung cancer and bronchitis come in second place with a rate of (8.45) infections per 100000 population. Then leukemia comes in third place (5.47) per 100000 population. Pancreatic, gastric, and laryngeal cancers are among the lowest-risk cancers for the above-mentioned species (1.97–1.86–1.69), respectively. The level of administrative units, Hala recorded the highest rate of cases infected with the disease (56.18) per 100000 population. Followed by Musayyib (43.51), Mahawil (31.89), and Al-Hashimiah (27. 80).


Deep misunderstandings still besiege taxonomy after more than 200 years of fruitful output. It has been asserted in this journal that taxonomy should be integrative and conform to a series of restrictive guidelines. We show that taxonomy has been integrative for most of its history although, in our sense, integrative does not mean the indiscriminate pooling of any source of data. The guidelines proposed are not founded in good scientific rationale and can have, if followed, a detrimental effect not only on taxonomy, but also on biology as a whole. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 93, 211–216.


Because of the rarity of desmoplastic small round cell tumors (DSRCT), there is a lack of data describing patterns of care and survival for these patients. Using a national tumor registry, the current study sought to describe patterns of care and clinical outcomes for patients with DSCRT.


We have studied a modied Yang-Mills-Higgs system coupled to Einstein gravity. The modication of the Einstein-Hilbert action involves a direct coupling of the Higgs eld to the scalar curvature. In this modied system we are able to write a Bogomol'nyi type condition in curved space and demonstrate that the positive static energy functional is bounded from below. We then investigate non-Abelian spherically symmetric static solutions in a similar fashion to the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole. After reviewing previously studied monopole solutions of this type, we extend the formalism to included electric charge and we present dyon solutions.


Pitch-Controlled technique is one of the significant control techniques to MW level large variable speed pitch-controlled wind turbines,and the output power can be maintained close to the rated output power by pitch controlling.Due to the strong nonlinear characteristics of the blades,using the conventional PID controller is always hard to choose the parameters and lack of self-tuning capability.This paper proposes a design method of pitch-controlled nonlinear prediction controller based on genetic algorithms.A restricted nonlinear prediction control algorithm based on intelligent searching is designed for the nonlinear control objects based on the prediction control strategy of prediction model,rolling optimization and feedback verification.This algorithm has well restricted prediction control characteristics to the nonlinear objects referring to the results of the simulation.Compared to the conventional PID controller,this method has the advantages of fast responding,small overshoot and good anti-disturbance capability,which can also reduce the design work of controller parameters significantly by rolling local optimization.The results of the simulation demonstrate the effective of the approach proposed in this paper.


The paper presents a flow-based mathematical model of fault-tolerant routing of multicast flows. The optimal primary and backup paths are calculated by implementing path and bandwidth protection schemes within the model for each multicast flow. The analysis of obtained solutions was carried out in work. The model's operability for implementing the specified protection schemes and their optimality according to variants of the used routing metrics has been confirmed. The proposed mathematical model can be used to develop protocols for fault-tolerant multicast routing of multimedia flows.


The development of an ideal optical system to support Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality (AR) applications has raised a lot of interest in the scientific community in the last decades. The perfect device remains an inaccessible target and researchers have to focus on the optimization of some specific behaviors. Several years ago, we introduced a disruptive display concept to push the device integration to the limit, with the suppression of the optical system. This allows the imaging process to be considered in a different way with a specific monitoring of the field of view. With this 'smart glass' concept, the glass is the display, and the image is formed directly onto the retina with a combination of refractive and diffractive effects. This conceptual target allowed us to define a technological roadmap to support our development. Technologies involved in this concept concern principally the field of Photonic Integrated Circuits in the visible range, digital/analogic holography and Liquid Crystal devices. We will present the current state of our research with a particular focus on the holographic display element. Recent results related to analogic pixelated hologram recording validate and question both our technological and conceptual approach. We will show images formed by sparse holographic pixel distributions with controlled angular characteristics that demonstrate the mix of refractive and diffractive effects. The transmission behavior of this holographic device will also be analyzed.


A congressional inquiry, designed originally to evaluate current methods of securing human organs for transplantation, has helped alert federal policy makers to inadequacies in that system. But along the way, the inquiry also uncovered some other serious aspects of the profound dilemma that third parties will increasingly face in deciding whether to pay for costly new transplantation procedures and also involving the chaotic process by which emerging technologies are evaluated for their medical efficacy. The interest of the legislators who were party to the inquiry, undertaken by the House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, was provoked by . . .


Practice is the basis of knowledge. As with developments in practice, people's knowledge also advances and develops. China's philosophical thinking has progressed step by step from the shallow to the profound, from lower to higher levels, and from the one-sided to greater diversity as a result of advances in production and developments in class struggle. This development, however, has not proceeded in a straight line. Due to imbalances in the development of production and especially because of the highs and lows and wave-like advances of class struggle, philosophical thinking, as a reflection of class struggle, has also had its high and low tides and undulating rises and falls. Philosophical materialism has advanced on a spiral course amid its struggles with idealism and all its rises and falls. The development of materialism has not seen smooth sailing and its victories have not been gained easily. It has experienced arduous exploration, acute struggle, and numerous reversals. During the era of slavery, the basic contradiction was the one between slave owners and slaves, and the slaves carried on protracted and heroic struggles against the slave owners to seek emancipation. After the advent of feudal society, the contradiction between landowners and the serfs became the basic contraction, and from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to Hong Xiuquan, China's peasant class raised the banner of rebellion and waged exceedingly arduous struggles against their feudal rulers. These countless peasant uprisings and peasant wars were the true motive force behind the development of China's


The utility model discloses a high-speed train brake disc with forced radiating ribs. The high-speed train brake disc with the forced radiating ribs comprises a disc body, wherein the disc body is provided with a disc body friction face and a disc body back face. The disc body is provided with a middle disc body hole and the radiating ribs. Each radiating rib is of a circular arc strip structure. The ratio R/D of the circular arc radius R of each radiating rib to the outer diameter D of the disc body ranges from 0.4 to 0.6. The inflow angle beta 1 of each radiating rib ranges from 0 degree to 15 degrees and the drainage angle beta 2 of each radiating rib ranges from 25 degrees to 35 degrees. A vent groove is formed between every two adjacent radiating ribs. Radiating holes penetrating through the disc body friction face are formed in the bottoms of the vent grooves. The ratio B2/B1 of the height B2 of each reinforcing rib to the thickness B1 of the disc body ranges from 1.0 to 1.2. According to the brake disc, forced guiding of a radiating air field can be achieved, the radiation speed is high, the overall strength is high, and the high-speed train brake disc is widely suitable for brake systems of various kinds of high-speed trains.


Financial Advisers (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 15 of 2003), Securities and Futures (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 16 of 2003), Evidence (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 17 of 2003), Building Control (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 18 of 2003), Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 19 of 2003), Martial Arts Instruction (Repeal) Act 2003 (No. 20 of 2003), Income Tax (Amendment) Act 2003 (No 21. of 2003), Statutes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Act 2003 (No. 22 of 2003), Insurance (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 23 of 2003), Monetary Authority of Singapore (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 24 of 2003), Computer Misuse (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 25 of 2003), Maritime Offenses Act 2003 (No. 26 of 2003), Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003 (No. 27 of 2003), Regulation of Imports and Exports (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 28 of 2003), Urban Redevelopment Authority (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 29 of 2003), Planning (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 30 of 2003), Central Provident Fund (Amendment) Act 2003 (No. 31 of 2003), Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board Act 2003 (No. 32 of 2003), Human Organ Transplant (Amendment) Act 2004 (No. 1 of 2004), High Court (Admiralty Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Act 2004 (No. 2 of 2004), Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004), Accountants Act 2004 (No. 4 of 2004), Companies (Amendment) Act 2004 (No. 5 of 2004), Statutes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2004 (No. 6 of 2004), Fire Safety (Amendment) Act 2004 (No. 7 of 2004).


Abstract : Meat loaves were prepared in accordance with Armed Forces Recipe L-35 using ground meat extended with hydrated granular soy concentrate (18% protein- wet basis). The hydrated soy protein was added to the ground meat at 10 and 20% levels. The primary objective of the study was to determine the effect of soy extension of ground beef on the nutritional content of meat loaf. The second objective was to evaluate the consumer acceptability of meat loaf made with and without soy. A final objective was to determine the effect of soy extension on the cooked yield of meat loaf. The soy-extended meat loaves had higher mineral content than the 100% ground beef meat loaf. The thiamin and riboflavin levels were higher in the 100% ground beef meat loaf than in the 20% soy-extended meat loaf. Consumers independently rated the 20% soy-extended meat loaf comparable to that made with 100% beef. The 20% soy-extended meat loaf gave the greatest cooked yield.


How do children describe their everyday lives during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic? What do their descriptions reveal about how the pandemic has affected them and what their needs are? Because some children may have difficulty verbalizing their experiences, this project used participatory drawing and photovoice methods to elicit children's perspectives on their lives during the pandemic. Drawing on interpretive reproduction, the chapter pays particular attention to the ways that kids borrow and manipulate visual elements of the COVID-19 global pandemic to express their own concerns and values in drawings and photographs. Twenty-one children in Texas, aged 6 to 16 years, crafted images that illustrated the socio-emotional consequences of virus mitigation efforts. Their images documented how the pandemic disrupted their norms and institutions, increased their anxiety and loneliness, and pushed them to explore new activities and ways of connecting with friends. Children creatively appropriated and altered visual elements of the pandemic to suggest that virus mitigation strategies were preventing them from engaging in the face-to-face interaction with the friends and family that they valued so highly. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Nazneen Khan;individual chapters, the contributors


The goals of this project are 1) build a model for six major U.S. airlines that performs sentiment analysis on customer reviews so that the airlines can have fast and concise feedback, 2) make recommendations on the most important aspect of services they could improve given customers' complains. In this project, we performed multi-class classification using Naive Bayes, SVM and Neural Network on the Twitter US Airline data set from Kaggle. Significant accuracy has achieved, which shows that our models are reliable for future prediction.


This study estimates the stratosphere–troposphere exchange (STE) of air masses and ozone concentrations averaged over 2007 to 2010 using the Modern Era Retrospective‐Analyses for Research and Applications 2 (MERRA2) and ERA5 reanalyses, and observations. The latter includes Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) for ozone, MLS and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) for temperatures, and A‐Train measurements for diabatic heating. The extratropical downward ozone fluxes are 538 Tg year−1 from the ERA5 reanalysis, 543 Tg year−1 from the MERRA2 reanalysis, and 528–539 Tg year−1 from the observations, consistent with previous studies. Previous studies, however, did not consider tropical upward ozone flux. Here we show that the tropical upward ozone flux is 183–193 Tg year−1, which compensates about 35% of the extratropical downward ozone fluxes and should not be neglected. After considering the tropical upward ozone flux, the global ozone STE is 346 Tg year−1 from the ERA5 reanalysis, 360 Tg year−1 from the MERRA2 reanalysis, and 336–346 Tg year−1 from the observations. Those estimates (347 ± 12 Tg year−1) can be used as the contribution of ozone STE to the tropospheric ozone budget. We also investigate cloud radiative effects on the STE of air mass and ozone. At 380 K, cloud radiative effects enhance downward fluxes in the extratropics from both reanalyses and observation, but reduce and enhance upward fluxes in the tropics from reanalyses and observation, respectively. The discrepancy in the tropics is related to the tropical tropopause layer thin cirrus that is missing in the reanalyses. We find that cloud radiative effects enhance the global ozone STE by about 21%–29%.


We suggest a method for justifying why a literal is or is not contained in the answer set of a logic program. This method makes use of argumentation theory, more precisely of stable ASPIC+ extensions. We describe a way to translate a logic program into an ASPIC+ argumentation theory and investigate the relation between answer sets of the logic program and stable extensions of the translated ASPIC+ argumentation theory. The structure of ASPIC+ arguments with respect to a stable extension is then used for the justification of literals with respect to an answer set. We also present an implementation of our justification method which displays justifications


We propose a feature calibration method for the electromyography (EMG) based gesture recognition to be robust to noise. The proposed method is to subtract the feature of noise calculated in resting period from the signal feature. For the performance evaluation, we compare the recognition accuracy of the feature calibration applied with that of the feature calibration not applied. As noise level increases, the result of the proposed feature calibration method applied shows clear improvement in accuracy. When SNR is 0dB, the recognition result of the proposed method applied shows about 20% improvement in average accuracy compared to that of the proposed method not applied.


This paper looks back at the evolution of the Gas Turbine Generator sets (GTGs) in the U.S. Navy's DDG 51 Class, reviewing lessons learned, successes and areas where work is still required. Topics are discussed in the context of Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) Total Ownership Cost (TOC) and maintainability. It reviews changes that resulted in MTBF increasing by a factor of five and TOC dropping by a factor of four. It also looks to the future, identifying potential areas of further improvement.Copyright © 2006 by ASME


Zinc is an essential micronutrient which plays a macro role in the growth and productivity of the plants. Zinc (Zn) deficiency hinders metabolic and physiological activity in plants due to its inevitable role as an enzyme cofactor. Many Indian soil exhibit Zn deficiency with the content much below the critical level of 1.5ppm. The conditions that make unavailability of zinc to plants are high pH, low organic matter content, high usage of P fertilizer, less textured soil and utilization of synthetic fertilizer to correct Zn deficiency which results in unavailability of zinc after seven days of application. An alternative eco-friendly approach to overcome Zn deficiency constraint in plants is by the application of microbial inoculants as a biofertilizer. Rhizospheric microorganisms play a vital role in the conversion of unavailable form of metal to available form through solubilization mechanism.


In the article the scientific discussion is considered caused by the fact that in the definition of the notion «encouraging norms» there are certain difficulties as neither in the legislation nor in juridical literature one can find a clear definition of the notion «encouragement». The author makes the conclusion that encouraging norms are behaviour rules aimed at useful activity stimulation which belong to different law branches and differ in the multiplicity of their creating subjects as well as in specific diversity.


Seismic hazard studies of the Los Angeles basin area require a realistic seismic-velocity model. We use geologic information about depth to crystalline basement, depths to sedimentary horizons, uplift of sediments, and surface geology in a velocity-depth-age function to construct a three-dimensional velocity model. In earthquake location tests, the model predicts travel times satisfactorily, and in earthquake ground-motion simulations, the model correctly determines the timing and amplitude of late-arriving waves.


The judgments of foreign court have particular meaning in international civil judicial assistance. The Rule of Court of Philippines clearly provides the effect of foreign judgments. A respected Filipino authority of the matter has listed down some requirements for recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments does not need to bring up any litigation, but enforcement of foreign judgments requires a separate action or proceedings.


A Toeplitz operator Tφ$T_\varphi$ , φ∈L∞(Tn)$\varphi \in L^\infty (\mathbb {T}^n)$ , is a partial isometry if and only if there exist inner functions φ1,φ2∈H∞(Dn)$\varphi _1, \varphi _2 \in H^\infty (\mathbb {D}^n)$ such that φ1$\varphi _1$ and φ2$\varphi _2$ depends on different variables and φ=φ¯1φ2$\varphi = \bar{\varphi }_1 \varphi _2$ . In particular, for n=1$n=1$ , along with new proof, this recovers a classical theorem of Brown and Douglas. We also prove that a partially isometric Toeplitz operator is hyponormal if and only if the corresponding symbol is an inner function in H∞(Dn)$H^\infty (\mathbb {D}^n)$ . Moreover, partially isometric Toeplitz operators are always power partial isometry (following Halmos and Wallen), and hence, up to unitary equivalence, a partially isometric Toeplitz operator with symbol in L∞(Tn)$L^\infty (\mathbb {T}^n)$ , n>1$n > 1$ , is either a shift, or a co‐shift, or a direct sum of truncated shifts. Along the way, we prove that Tφ$T_\varphi$ is a shift whenever φ$\varphi$ is inner in H∞(Dn)$H^\infty (\mathbb {D}^n)$ .


Data on zero‐field μSR in ErRh4B4 are presented for temperatures from 4 to 300 K. Due to the large erbium moment, most of the muons have a relaxation time of less than 10 ns for temperatures below about 50 K. The data have been analyzed in terms of two distinct muon sites in the material. The deduced erbium relative fluctuation rate versus temperature is related to the crystalline electric field levels of erbium in the RERh4B4 structure.


Summary.  Hereditary dysfibrinogenaemia is characterized by the presence of functionally abnormal plasma fibrinogen. Dysfibrinogenaemia is a heterogeneous disorder associated with different mutations throughout the three genes that code for the fibrinogen sub‐units, affecting many different aspects of fibrinogen/fibrin activity. Dysfibrinogenaemia may be discovered during the investigation of individuals who present with bleeding or thombosis, or may be found in individuals during routine coagulation screening. More specialized coagulation tests may confirm the diagnosis of dysfibrinogenaemia but do not reliably distinguish between the different fibrinogen variants and are not usually useful in predicting bleeding or thrombotic risk. Advances in molecular diagnostics have facilitated the investigation of the molecular causes of fibrinogen disorders. Several 'hot spot' areas have been identified where mutations causing a high proportion of cases of dysfibrinogenaemia are found (AαArg16 and γArg275). Molecular diagnostics have also shown that many fibrinogen variants share the same causative mutation. There is a discrepancy between the quality of the molecular and functional data available for each mutation and the clinical information on individuals and their family members. However, there are accumulating data that the 'hot spot' mutations accounting for 60–80% of cases of dysfibringenaemia are not associated with a significant bleeding or thrombosis in the absence of other risk factors. Rapid screening for these mutations may provide reassurance for patients in the presurgical setting.


For more than fifteen years, I have worked as a music therapist, usually engaging with a diverse clientele. My profession is a practice of leadership, yet there are very few studies relating music therapy to leadership. This paper explores music therapy as a creative approach to leadership. Moreover, it focuses on music therapy leadership in a multicultural context that represents an opportunity for leading a social justice movement. This essay is certainly not exhaustive and does not have the pretension to cover all aspects of the cultural issues in the leadership, therapeutic and music arenas. This is a revised version of a paper I wrote for one of my professors in my doctoral program in Leadership and Change. The literature I have used from Leadership Studies is considered to be core in this program and I realize that there is leadership literature in other languages. But much of it has not been translated into English or French. I am also reflecting upon my own experience which is influenced by my Western music and music therapy trainings. This represents both strengths and limitations when it comes to leadership in the multicultural area.

One of the goals of this paper is to "inform" the reader, as the concept instrument implies. Instrument is derived from the Greek and Latin roots instrumentum and instruere which means "to inform", "to equip with tools" (Robert, 2000). In that sense, multicultural music therapy and leadership practices can benefit from "teaching" each other.

This paper looks at the constituent parts of multicultural music therapy and leadership which I will argue share the basic concepts of Listening, Vision and Process. These concepts emerged from making a parallel between my experience as a music therapist and the leadership literature.


The whole legal and institutional system of nuclear weapon is built on management,
control and agreements shaped in the times of the cold war. From the moment of signing the
first agreement in 1963 the non-prolific actions include agreements that ban the production
of the nuclear weapon to countries which did not have it and order its non-proliferation to
nuclear powers, agreements that decrease the number of the existing warheads and those that
create nuclear-free zones. As it is impossible to completely eliminate nuclear arsenals and the
declarative support for various types of initiatives usually finishes at this level, the international
control of arms will be as much effective as the will of countries that signed the international
agreements. Only meeting this requirement the international efforts will have an impact on
reducing the real threat of spreading and using the nuclear weapon – as in the case of the
programme of the Islamic Republic of Iran


Subject. This article discusses the trends in the development of corporate reporting.
Objectives. The study aims to prove or debunk the hypothesis that currently users of accounting and reporting data actively seek to access primary data on business facts in the real life format. To demonstrate the existing tendency of reporting customization, the study uses the concept of personalized reporting.
Methods. Studying the analysis of accounting data, I applied the methods of comprehensive, critical, logic, and statistical analyses.
Results. I applied the direct survey method to collect data of 300 companies. I proved that users of accounting data and financial statements are very interested in detailed data on the company's business facts in the real life format. Furthermore, the article mentions alternative methods for corporate reporting presentation, which could be used to make more precise forecasts on the future performance and the financial position of the companies. The findings prove the relevance of the proposed methods and customized reporting in particular.
Conclusions and Relevance. The study corroborated the hypothesis stating that today users strongly need customized reports, becoming more and more popular in practice.


We investigate the temporal evolution of the background seismicity rate related to the subduction of the Pacific plate in northeast Japan, at latitudes 34° to 42°, for the 1 January 1990 to 9 March 2011 period. Two declustering methods are used to identify robust features. We find that the dominant behavior is a lowering down of activity, especially in the northern half of our studied area, where changes appear related to the cycle of M7.5+ earthquakes, in particular the 1968 Tokachi and the 1994 Sanriku earthquakes. Acceleration of background seismicity is observed offshore the Kanto region and could mark a long‐term decoupling of the Pacific and the Philippine Sea plates over a 100 km long segment along the Sagimi Trough, which cannot be simply explained by the earthquake cycle model. Our analysis further suggests that changes in background seismicity are plausibly related to changes in seismic coupling and thus further strengthens the recent observation that seismic coupling does vary at the timescales of tens of years, for the Japanese subduction zone.


Dresden and Vatican manuscripts as a text based on declamation (soylama). 17th declamation, which is included in the manuscript and which also includes the story of Kazan's heroics, is noted as expressed in the language of Qazan. In this declamation, Salur Qazan started describing himself with a metaphorical saying that he was 'cloud, smoke and misty'. Beginning of the declamation with words about the sky in this way is in harmony with the other declamations in the text. However, in order to resolve these words, it will be necessary to understand the expression of burulma and saralma and what it means by being a 'cloud'. According to our study, burulmaq and saralmaq is an expression parallel to be angry and the cloud is part of the stereotypes about intimidating the enemy. Such as the lion's roar, the roar of the cloud is a symbol of wrath which is a glorified feature of heroes. The word bulut 'cloud' that describes Qazan, should be considered with the accolades used for Qazan such as kara bulut orguni 'black cloud thunder?' and dumanli dag borisi 'the wolf of the smoky mountain'.


that UM-22B cells are responsive to c-Met inhibitors and PF-2341066 in regard to inhibition of IL-8 release, reduction of phospho-c-Met, phospho-MAPK, and phospho-Akt, reduction of wound closure, and inhibition of growth in vivo . Effects showed the same level of sig-nificance in the published experiments. the relative sensitivity of the cells to PF-2341066 in these experiments the reported data most cases the authenticated cells are more sensitive than in the published assays, the vivo growth the blocking c-Met useful the of


Solar photovoltaic is a renewable power source that directly converts the irradiance into electrical power without complexity. The power generated from the panel depends on many factors such as intensity of irradiance, temperature, angle of incidence and so on. Due to the variation of these parameters the operating point at which the maximum power generated in the panel also varies. In order to track the optimum point at varying conditions, it is necessary to use a maximum power point tracker (MPPT). When the solar insolation distributed on the panel is uniform, many conventional MPPT techniques available can track the MPP effectively. However, when the panels are partially shaded, multiple MPPs may arise leading to failure of tracking the global MPP. This chapter describes the development of MPPT using voltage based feed forward technique suitable for tracking MPP under uniform irradiation and also partial shading climatic conditions.


This article explores teaching and the educational environment with the Autistic student in mind. It begins by approaching the medical and social models of disability and discussing the implications of their use in an educational setting, focusing on why a social model of disability best supports the learning of Autistic and neurodivergent students in order to be as inclusive as possible in the education setting. The article then goes into detail on the strategies found within the support tiers of Communication, Visual Aide, and Environment in a classroom setting to bolster the success of Autistic and neurodivergent students. This includes a comprehensive breakdown of best ways to support students in these areas, and why this is important. Focussing on the idea that all behavior is communication, the article discusses the importance of inclusivity in the classroom, and preserving the agency of Autistic students. This article aims to give educators the tools they need to support students who are Autistic and neurodivergent, so that they are experiencing less stress and an improved school experience across their learning journey.


(1) Serviço de Fonoaudiologia da Maternidade Escola Santa Mônica da Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas UNCISAL, Maceió, AL, Brasil. (2) Associação dos Amigos e Pais de Pessoas Especiais AAPPE, Maceió, AL, Brasil. (3) Sociedade Pestalozzi de Maceió, AL, Brasil. (4) Secretaria da Saúde de Maceió, Maceió, AL, Brasil. Conflict of interest: non-existent also a way to remove a child to a safer environment if competent authorities have declared the parents unfit2. Placing a child with the intended family to provide comfort, affection, and above all, love, means providing a foundation for the child's future development. However, it must be kept in mind that adoption is not a way to solve social problems such as abandonment or institutionalization, but rather as a right to have the expectation of a future within a family. The need for a family in a child's life cannot be denied, and so the process of adoption has an essential value3. When a newborn's mother dies, someone needs to be found to take over the mother's role, and a multidisciplinary team may help in choosing " INTRODUCTION


These are commentaries on a Cochrane review, published in this issue of EBCH, first published as: Haider BA, Saeed MA, Bhutta ZA. Short-course versus long-course antibiotic therapy for non-severe community-acquired pneumonia in children aged 2 months to 59 months. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD005976. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005976.pub2.

Further information for this Cochrane review is available in this issue of EBCH in the accompanying Summary article. Copyright © 2009 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The Cochrane Collaboration


Introduction The clinical relevance of Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) to formulate longitudinal evaluations of treatment appropriateness/efficacy and to assist decision making aimed at improving the quality of person-centered interventions has been poorly implemented in forensic psychiatry, also in Italy. Indeed, very few assessment instruments have been developed in this crucial field. Objectives As reliable ROM instruments are lacking, the aim of the current investigation was to examine psychometric properties (i.e. reliability, concurrent validity and sensitivity to measure scores' longitudinal changes) of the Parma Scale (Pr-Scale) (a new instrument fro the evaluation of offenders with mental disorder) in an Italian sample of forensic psychiatric patients. Methods Participants were male adult offenders with mental disorder recruited within the Parma REMS ("Residence for the Execution of Security Measure") or the Parma Penitentiary Institute (PPI). Exclusion criteria were known moderate/severe intellectual disability or any other medical condition inducing inability to express a valid consent for participating in the research. The Pr-Scale includes 20 items divided into 3 main domains: "Historical", "Clinical" (observational) and "Treatment Plannining". To test psychometric properties of the Pr-Scale, we examined interrater reliability, short-term (1-week) test-retest reliability and internal consistency. As measure of concurrent validity, a correlation analysis of Pr-Scale item scores with corresponding HKT-R (the "Historisch, Klinische en Toekomstige – Revisie" instrument) item subscores was performed. Finally, we examined the Pr-Scale sensitivity to measure scores' longitudinal changes over a 3-month treatment follow-up period. Results 60 male adult patients were recruited in this study. Our findings showed good to excellent interrater and test-retest reliability, concurrent validity and internal consistency for the Pr-Scale. Pr-Scale scores also display a moderate to large changeability over time (Intra-Class Correlation coefficient = 0.963, coefficient of stability = 0.997, Cronbach's ɑ = 0.736). Statistically significant correlations of Pr-Scale item scores with the corresponding HKT-R scores were found. Across the 3-month follow-up period, we observed statistically significant sensitivity values in measuring longitudinal changes for the Pr-Scale total score and Pr-Scale domain and item subscores. Conclusions Our results support the clinical use of the Pr-Scale in different forensic psychiatric settings (i.e. prison, REMS) as reliable ROM instrument. Disclosure of Interest None Declared


1. The experiments started in 1949 to determine the weight and chemical composition of the herbage dry matter eaten by two groups of dairy cows grazing under a rotational and a close-folding system of management have been continued in 1950. 2. Good-quality herbage was fed in adequate quantity to both groups for 20 weeks, in four fiveweekly periods allowing a double change-over system for the groups. The weights of protein, fibre, other extractives, lignin and minerals eaten daily by the close-folded group were determined. Difficulty in obtaining truly representative herbage samples from the rotational paddock made such detailed analyses for the rotationally grazed cattle not worth while. 3. The weight of dry matter eaten by the closefolded cows was remarkably constant, the mean was 26 lb./cow/day and the standard deviation ±2·7 lb. The weight eaten by the rotationally grazed cows was more difficult to measure and appeared to vary considerably, the average being 31 lb. dry matter/ cow/day, and the standard deviation ±3·1 lb. Reasons are suggested why this figure of 31 lb. may be at least 5% too high. 4. The relationship between the chemical composition of herbage as cut for sampling and the probable composition of the herbage as eaten by the grazing animal is discussed. Correction curves are given to convert the protein and fibre contents of herbage as cut in these experiments to values corresponding to those in the herbage as eaten. 5. An attempt has been made to provide a balance sheet, in terms of D.C.P. and S.E., of animal production against nutrient intake. A deficiency of both protein and energy existed during the first spring period in both 1949 and 1950 (according to presentday standards), and although the protein balance became positive later in the season, the energy provided by the grass eaten was still barely adequate. 6. Mineral balances calculated for the closefolded cows showed deficiencies of both calcium and phosphorus during the period of high milk yield, with the balances becoming positive later in the grazing season.


ABSTRACT Thermal and mineral spa treatments are an important therapeutic tool backed by centuries of experience and numerous scientific studies showing its effectiveness. The research consisted of content analysis of 1,254 customer reviews posted online from 2015 to 2019. Qualitative analysis identified five key themes: thermal (spa), staff, room, location, and pool. On a theoretical level, this research's results help to fill research gaps in the literature by separating attributes linked to satisfaction from those related to dissatisfaction. This study is different as we focus on the factors affecting tourism satisfaction and dissatisfaction in thermal and mineral spas using sentiment analysis.


We study experimentally two-dimensional periodic photonic lattices optically imprinted in photorefractive nonlinear media, and explore the effect of anisotropy on the induced refractive-index patterns. The orientation anisotropy is demonstrated by comparing square and diamond lattices, while the polarization anisotropy is shown to distinguish ordinarily and extraordinarily polarized light. In particular, the extraordinarily polarized lattice induces much stronger refractiveindex modulation for the same conditions. Finally, we exploit the photorefractive anisotropy to generate a quasi-onedimensional refractive-index pattern for the observation of twodimensional solitons and corroborate these experiments by numerical simulations. PACS 42.65.Tg; 42.65.Wi


In the spectrum resources description of the dynamic spectrum allocation,we introduce two characteristic parameters to construct a spectrum description model.This method enrich description of the resource features.Because of differences in demand for spectrum,give the different weights of spectrum availability and the free probability respectively,so that the user is assigned an appropriate spectrum.Simulation results show that different types of business result different spectrum availability and the free probability parameters combined together to describe the spectrum availability,it can be appropriate to improve the spectrum efficiency.The spectrum efficiency can be increased by about 40% when the weight of free probability is much greater than the spectrum availability,especially for the voice signal.


Indonesia has a large area of degraded land, i.e. 30 million ha, which could potentially be utilized for biofuel plantations. The leguminous tree pongamia (Pongamia pinnata syn. Milettia pinnata) could be utilized to produce biofuel while restoring degraded land. Here, we explore the potential of pongamia as a source of biofuel and for restoring degraded land in Indonesia. Pongamia occurs across Indonesia, in Sumatra, Java, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and Maluku. It grows to a height of 15–20 m and can grow in a range of environmental conditions. Its seeds can generate up to 40% crude oil by weight. It can help to restore degraded land and improve soil properties. Pongamia also provides wood, fodder, medicine, fertilizer and biogas. Therefore, as a multipurpose species, pongamia holds great potential to combat Indonesia's energy crisis and to restore much of the degraded land.


In the paper we present different problems which may occur during measurements of displacements/strains and shape of engineering objects including the necessity of recalculating of coordinates of measurement results and performing measurements in climate chambers. The first example refers to metal plates segments that are objects of complex geometry and are di cult to be measured with a single 3D DIC setup from only one direction, the second one is a composite cylindrical container with programmed faults, while the third one is a mirror subjected to thermal load in a climate chamber. Presented applications shows a flexibility of the method in different measurements tasks, however in each of these cases, an individual approach to experiment preparation and planning was required.


Abstract Estimates of the survival of juvenile sharks within their critical habitats are important in defining the dynamic of the species and designing management strategies. The objective of this study was to evaluate the survival of juvenile lemon sharks, Negaprion brevirostris, at Los Roques Archipelago. During the period 2005–2014, 29 field surveys were conducted in the Sebastopol Lagoon, an area previously identified as a nursery area for this species, capturing 223 juveniles. Survival was evaluated by use of two modeling approaches (POPAN and Multistate) based on tag-recapture data. The annual probabilities of survival obtained were low (0.40–0.52), but were comparable with those estimates reported for other populations of juvenile lemon sharks. The probabilities of survival did not vary with age group. The low levels of survival and the absence of increased estimates with age suggest the influence of illegal fishing within Sebastopol Lagoon, which may be more selectively catching the larger juveniles. More effective control and surveillance is needed in the Los Roques Archipelago by the local institutions with responsibility for the conservation of marine resources.


This paper is devoted to the study of the gradient temperature field dynamics and distribution in the metal targets irradiated with high-intensity beams of gas and metal ions. The investigations concerned ion implantation modes with the ion beam current density from several tens of mA·cm−2 up to A·cm−2 were investigated. The ion beam power was additionally varied due to the change of ion energy in the range from 0.6 to several keV and the pulse duty factor in the range of 0.2–0.8. The integral temperature of the target was measured with an electrically isolated thermocouple. To measure the dynamic change in the local temperature on the irradiated target a high-temperature pulse pyrometer KLEIBER 740-LO was used. The problem of temperature evolution and metal sample melting under the exposure of a high-intensity repetitively pulsed ion beam was solved numerically using the heat conduction equation written in cylindrical coordinates. Analysis of the experimental data obtained with the use of electrically isolated thermocouple, pulse pyrometer, and numerical simulation revealed the presence of significant gradient temperature fields both over the surface and along the depth of targets irradiated by high-intensity ion beams.


One of the limitations of the current Blockchains is that recipients of transactions (originated from both users and smart contracts) must preliminarily sign up the system. In contrast, the nature of Blockchain would allow the implementation of services with a high degree of flexibility and interoperability, once the subjects can be securely identified someway. In this paper, we overcome this limitation by integrating Public Digital Identity with Ethereum via Identity-Based-Encryption (IBE). An important feature of the solution is that it does not require additional trust w.r.t. that necessary for IBE and Public Digital Identity systems.


ABSTRACT:Last fall, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian wrote a bracing essay for The Nation that criticized progressives in the United States who oppose free migration and defend the existence of nation-states. We should not, she argued, promote "the idea that someone arbitrarily born on the wrong side of a line is less deserving of a good life" or "play by the far right's rules" that, in part, "got us into this mess."


Tables for variables acceptance sampling plans for use with small lots are presented. The sampling plans are derived using a decision theoretic approach for which the theory has been previously presented by the authors. Using this approach, which takes ..


The dominant approach in Swedish corrections is to deinstitutionalize as many offenders as possible. This started in the 1960's when Sweden decided that rehabilitation, and secondarily deterrence, would be the overriding goals of its correctional program. This has remained true despite the statistical evidence indicating that the goal of rehabilitation has not been achieved to any significant extent. The dominant belief in Sweden is that prison is harmful and counterproductive when the overall aim is to reintegrate the offender into society.


Data centers consume a large amount of energy and incur substantial electricity cost. In this paper, we study the familiar problem of reducing data center energy cost with two new perspectives. First, we find, through an empirical study of contracts from electric utilities powering Google data centers, that demand charge per kW for the maximum power used is a major component of the total cost. Second, many services such as web search tolerate partial execution of the requests because the response quality is a concave function of processing time. Data from Microsoft Bing search engine confirms this observation. We propose a simple idea of using partial execution to reduce the peak power demand and energy cost of data centers. We systematically study the problem of scheduling partial execution with stringent SLAs on response quality. For a single data center, we derive an optimal algorithm to solve the workload scheduling problem. In the case of multiple geo-distributed data centers, the demand of each data center is controlled by the request routing algorithm, which makes the problem much more involved. We decouple the two aspects, and develop a distributed optimization algorithm to solve the large-scale request routing problem. Trace-driven simulations show that partial execution reduces cost by 3%--10.5% for one data center, and by 15.5% for geo-distributed data centers together with request routing.


The article gives a brief introduction to the necessity of evaluating supply chain performance,discusses the evaluation framework models for internal,external and overall performance of supply chain in enterprises,and studies the comprehensive vague evaluation methods for enterprise performance evaluation from the perspective of quantitative.The evaluation process is also provided.


The situation of villager autonomy in 17 villages from 2 towns was investigated,and it was analyzed from the perspective of political development and based on the framework of "Four Democracy".So far,six elections have been carried in villages from Linxia county,and the villager autonomy has been pushed forward orderly,but problems still exist.Firstly,the rules and regulations of villager autonomy are contrary to the limited resources in these villages.Secondly,villager autonomy is not fully accepted by villagers.Thirdly,the ideal values of villager autonomy are affected by religious factors.Fourthly,the norms of democratic election should be strengthened.Fifthly,the basic links in democratic administration of village affairs are not sufficient.Lastly,influence from government on the autonomous administration frequently occurs.


As part of NASA`s Arctic Boundary Layer Expedition 3A and 3B field measurement programs, measurements of NO{sub x}, HNO{sub 3}, PAN, PPN, and NO{sub y} were made in the middle to lower troposphere over Alaska and Canada during the summers of 1988 and 1990. These measurements are used to assess the degree of closure within the reactive odd nitrogen (N{sub x}O{sub y}) budget through the comparison of the values of NO{sub y} measured with a catalytic convertor to the sum of individually measured NO{sub y}(i) compounds (i.e., {Sigma}NO{sub y}(i) = NO{sub x} + HNO{sub 3} + PAN + PPN). In the lower 6 km of the troposphere over Alaska and the Hudson Bay lowlands of Canada a significant fraction of the NO{sub y} budget (30 to 60%) could not be accounted for by the measured {Sigma}NO{sub y}(i). This deficit in the NO{sub y} budget is about 100 to 200 parts per trillion by volume (pptv) in the lower troposphere (0.15 to 3 km) and about 200 to 400 pptv in the middle free troposphere (3 to 6.2 km). Conversely, the NO{sub y} budget in the northern Labrador and Quebec regions of Canada is almost totally accounted for within the combinedmore » measurement uncertainties of NO{sub y} and the various NO{sub y}(i) compounds. A substantial portion of the NO{sub y} budget`s {open_quotes}missing compounds{close_quotes} appears to be coupled to the photochemical and/or dynamical parameters influencing the tropospheric oxidative potential over these regions. A combination of factors are suggested as the causes for the variability observed in the NO{sub y} budget. In addition, the apparent stability of compounds represented by the NO{sub y} budget deficit in the lower-altitude range questions the ability of these compounds to participate as reversible reservoirs for {open_quotes}active{close_quotes} odd nitrogen and suggest that some portion of the NO{sub y} budget may consist of relatively unreactive nitrogen-containing compounds. 56 refs., 16 figs., 4 tabs.« less


A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of organic and chemical fertilizers on yield and plant vegetative growth of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) between 22.05.2018 and 12.09. 2018 under field conditions in Bandırma, Turkey. Treatments were control with no fertilizer (CONT), developed organic fertilizer (DOF), organic fertilizer (OF) chemical fertilizer (CHF), each treatment has 3 replicates with 360 plants. Developed organic fertilizer and OF were applied in (2000) kg.da-1, chemical fertilizer (15%N, 15%P, 15%K, 20%SO3) was applied in 40 kg/da. Yield and plant vegetative growth weight were determined. Organic and chemical fertilizer applications had a significant effect (P<0.05) on yield and plant vegetative growth. The eggplant yield at CONT, DOF, OF, CHF were 3922, 4593, 4375, 4579 kg.da-1 respectively. The plant vegetative growth (Plant organs fresh weight) at CONT, DOF, OF, CHF were 3548, 4018, 3818, 3882 kg.da-1 respectively. The difference between fertilizers (DOF, OF, and CHF) was not significant so that organic fertilizers are competitive and may be a suitable replacement for chemical fertilizer.


Thispaperreviewsourrecentdevelopment of anintegrated circuit (IC)/microfluidic hybridsystem.The hybrid systemconsists ofanICchipandamicrofluidic chan- nelfabricated ontop.Biological cells attached tomagnetic beadsaresuspendedinsidethemicrofluidic systemthat maintains biocompatibility. A microcoil arrayintheICpro- ducesprogrammable, spatially-patterned magnetic fields to simultaneously manipulate multiple individual bead-bound cells withprecise position control. Two prototypes validate theproposedapproach.


This paper deals with the seismic design of tall structures by considering anchor bolt yielding. During earthquakes, the anchor bolts for fixing tall structures elongate due to the severe vibration of the structures caused by the strong ground shaking. The load-deformation curve of the center of gravity of the tall structure draws elasto-plastic hysteresis loops as a result of the elongation of the anchor bolts. Energy dissipation due to the hysteresis loop of the load-deformation curve can generally be considered in the seismic load evaluation. In order to evaluate the seismic load reduction due to the energy dissipation of yield members of the tall structures, the following have been carried out in this study: (1) investigation of the previous typical studies on nonelastic seismic design; (2) investigation of the relation between the structural type, yield mechanism and the deformation-restoring force characteristics; (3) analysis of the structural responses and of the seismic load reduction for the tall structures.


Relevance. Today, the nature of the impact of the inflammatory process caused by Trichomonas infection on the persistence of HPV and immune response, as a consequence of the progression of intraepithelial lesions of the cervix, is not fully understood.
Objectives: based on a retrospective clinical and statistical analysis to determine the risk factors for cervical dysplasia in women of reproductive age.
Materials and methods. A clinical and statistical analysis for 392 medical records of patients of reproductive age with verified HPV and Trichomonas Vaginalis, who received pathogenetic therapy at the clinical bases of the Bogomolets National Medical University Obstetrics and Gynecology № 3 Department and LLC "Clinic Profimed" for 2015-2019. As a result of a retrospective study of patients systematized by age, complaints, the presence of genital and extragenital pathology, reproductive history and the state of reproductive function, social status.
Results. According to the analysis of anamnesis indicators, the main risk factors for precancerous cervical conditions were: early onset of sexual life, menstrual disorders (29.1%), high incidence of childhood infectious diseases (63.5%), somatic pathology (71.2 %), irregular use of barrier contraception (19.9%), genital diseased caused by sexually transmitted infections (STD), including HPV and Trichomonas Vaginalis, frequent abortions (41.6%) and childbirth with cervical trauma, low level of medical and sexual cultures and smoking (65.3%). The systemic negative impact of numerous risk factors on the body contributed to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) development in women of reproductive age.
Conclusion. The retrospective study proves the need for stratification of patients with for CIN risk, requires management of cervical pathology in women with HPV and detected Trichomonas Vaginalis, which will increase the effectiveness of diagnosis, treatment and recurrence  prevention.


Utilizing the modulation of the refractive index of the fiber Bragg grating based on the arc discharge process,a scheme of the single frequency narrow linewidth distributed feedback(DFB)fiber laser based on the corrugation-pitch-modulated fiber Bragg grating(CPM-FBG)is proposed.The mathematical model and simulation study of the CPM-FBG is established,and the interest of phase shifted fiber Bragg grating(PSFBG)is proved.An on-line CPM-FBG production system is achieved,and the erbiumdoped CPM-FBG is formed.A single-frequency narrow linewidth distributed feedback(DFB)fiber laser is realized,and the laser threshold power is 25.4mW with 3dB linewidth at 805 Hz and side mode rejection ratio greater than 48.8dB.


having feathery margins. Histopathology revealed a reduced number of melanocytes and melanin pigment in most cases, but one report showed a normal number of melanocytes with macromelanosomes. ASH has been compared with other reticular pigmentary disorders such as Dowling-Degos disease, acropigmentation of Kitamura, acropigmentation of Dohi. Unlike those, macules of ASH are more prominent on margins between dorsal and ventral surfaces of hands and feet, with normal intervening skin. Acral vitiligo can be a differential diagnosis of this condition, but non-progressive lesions in unilateral distribution, unresponsive to treatment in our case, does not favor the diagnosis. Confetti vitiligo presents as speckled depigmented macules of size 1-5 mm. They are usually seen around pre-existing vitiligo patches and are hallmark of rapidly progressing vitiligo. Clinical, dermoscopic, and histological comparison of all differentials are described in Table 1. Previous reports have included ASH in reticular pigmentary disorders. Familial nature of this condition cannot be ascertained as only two reports had a family history. Our case stands apart as the girl has unilateral involvement with family history of vitiligo vulgaris. The etiology of this condition remains elusive. Further reports and genetic workup of speckled hypopigmentation cases may help to unravel the mystery of cause and course of this condition.


Dispersal Simulation of Rice Blast Disease Using Spatial Multi Criteria Evalution Model: Case Study In District of Karawang and PurwakartaRice blast is caused by Pyricularia oryzae. The potential epidemic of this disease can be spatially simulated using the MCA (Multi Criteria Analysis) method based on geographical characteristics, cultivation practices, and eviromental condition. A software that can be used for MCA is SMCE (Spatial Multi Criteria Evaluation). This study was aimed to predict the spatial dispersal of blast disease using SMCE model, and identify the factors that supports the epidemic. The study was conducted in February - August 2018 in Karawang and Purwakarta District. The research methods include observing the severity of blast disease, cultivation practices and environmental conditions, and analyzing SMCE. The SMCE analysis uses rice crop maps from the Sistem Monitoring Pertanaman Padi (Simotandi), which consists of grouping factors, standardizing factors, and weighting factors. The SMCE results are a simulation map of blast disease dispersal which is then compiled with predictions of its severity. Accuracy of prediction results was evaluated by MAPE (Mean Absolute Percentage Error) based on observational data on actual disease severity. The prediction results for Karawang and Purwakarta showed means of accuration 78.16% and 73.95% respectively. In general, factors that have a strong influence on the development of blast disease include altitude, distance from source of the epidemic, history of disease in the fields, number of spores (inoculum) trapped, irrigation quality, application of herbicides, soil nutrient (N, P, K) contents and the level of soil acidity.


ABSTRACT Objectives: To compare the quality of life of adolescents born prematurely with very-low-birth-weight, reported by adolescents themselves and their caregivers, and analyze associated factors perceived by both. Methods: This cross-sectional study included former preterm adolescents born with gestational age < 37 weeks and birth weigh < 1,500 g, who were being followed up at the premature outpatient clinic of a university institution, from birth to adolescence, and their caregivers. Quality of life was assessed by the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Factors associated with quality of life were analyzed by linear regression. Results: Of 91 eligible adolescents, 73 (80.2%) were included, being 38 (52.1%) male. The mean gestational age was 30.1 ± 2.4 weeks and birth weight was 1134 ± 239 g. Adolescents reported better quality of life than their caregivers (p = 0.011), being respectively: dissatisfied (1.4 vs. 4.1%), neither satisfied nor dissatisfied (20.5 vs. 20.5%), satisfied (56.2 vs. 71.2%) and very satisfied (21.9 vs. 4.1%). Scores attributed by adolescents and caregivers were, respectively: overall quality of life (4.0 ± 0.7 vs. 3.8 ± 0.6, p = 0.032), physical domain (3.6 ± 0.6 vs. 3.5 ± 0.6, p = 0.685), psychological domain (3.4 ± 0.6 vs. 3.6 ± 0.6, p = 0.116), social relationships (3.7 ± 0.7 vs. 3.6 ± 0.8, p = 0.371) and environment (3.4 ± 0.7 vs. 3.2 ± 0.6, p = 0.037). For caregivers, absence of fixed partner and hospitalization in childhood decreased the overall quality of life score; furthermore, the occurrence of respiratory distress syndrome increased this score. In the adolescents' view, leukomalacia reduced this score. Conclusions: Adolescents reported better quality of life than caregivers. For adolescents, only biological factors were associated with quality of life scores; for caregivers, biological and social factors were associated this scores.


Objectives Hematopoietic pre-B-cell leukemia transcription factor (PBX)-interacting protein (HPIP) plays an important role in cancer invasion and metastasis. The aim of this study is to investigate the expression of HPIP in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Patients and methods Immunohistochemical method was performed using 42 normal ovarian specimens and 145 specimens with EOC. The correlations of HPIP expression with the clinicopathological factors and prognosis of EOC patients were evaluated. Statistical analyses were performed using the chi-square test, multivariate Cox proportional hazard, and Kaplan–Meier method. Results HPIP expression in EOC was higher than that in normal tissues (P<0.001). HPIP expression was significantly associated with histological grade, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage, and lymphatic metastasis of EOC (P<0.05). Patients with high HPIP expression had poorer overall survival and disease-free survival (P<0.001) compared with patients with low HPIP expression. Multivariate Cox analysis demonstrated that HPIP was an independent factor for overall survival and disease-free survival (P<0.05). Conclusion HPIP may be a valuable biomarker for predicting the prognosis of EOC patients and may serve as a potential target for cancer therapy.


This paper reports a study of the photon recycling effect in semiconductor quantum well (QW) lasers and how to enhance such an effect to reduce threshold current density and to increase power conversion (wall-plug) efficiency. To maximize the enhancement of the spontaneous emission recycling, it is necessary to use metal contacts with high reflectivity, to remove the substrate, and to optimize the overall doping profile design. The modeling results have also shown that the threshold current density in a multiple quantum well laser has a weak dependence on the number of QWs when the photon recycling effect is strong. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Objective: The microbial diversity off our abnormal hilit hyperpietics and normal hilit group was investigated using nested PCR–Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE). Methods: The total DNA in the fecal specimens of abnormal Sawda hilit hyperpietics with (20 samples) and normal Sawda hilit healthy people (20 samples), abnormal Khan hilit hyperpietics (20 samples) and normal Khan healthy people (20 samples), abnormal Sapra hilit hyperpietics (10 samples) and normal Sapra hilit healthy people (10 samples), abnormal Balgham hilit hyperpietics with (10 samples) and normal Balgham hilit healthy people (10 samples) were used as templates. After, the 16SrDNA genes (V6-V8 region) were amplified by using the universal primers and analyzed by DGGE. On each band on gel electrophoresis, use Quantity One 4.4.0 software and SPSS 17.0 analysis software for data analysis. Results: (1) The results from UPGAMA cluster showed the similarity of total intestinal tract bacteria. Abnormal Sawda hilit hyperpietics (45%-87%) > abnormal Khan hilit hyperpietics (50-85%) > abnormal Balgham hilit hyperpietics (42%-86%) > abnormal Sapra hilit hyperpietics (54-82%), normal Sawda hilit (40%-80%) > normal Khan hilit (49%-79%) > normal Balgham hilit (43%-72%) > normal Sapra hilit (52%-75%) (2). By analyzing the diversity, richness and evenness of four groups of total intestinal bacteria, abnormal Khan hilit hyperpietics and normal Khan hilit, abnormal Balgham hilit hyperpietics and normal Balgham hilit was statistically significant (P< 0.05). Abnormal Sawda hilit hyperpietics respectively compared with abnormal Khan hilit hyperpietics, abnormal Balgham hilit hyperpietics was statistically significant (P<0.05). Compared with abnormal Sapra hilit, the richness and diversity of total intestinal bacteria was statistically significant (P<0.05), but the evenness was not significant (P>0.05). (3) The sequences that frequency much can representative each sample were compared with sequences in the Gene bank nucleotide sequence database by using Blast software and phylogenetic trees were constructed. Conclusion: (1) There were some differences of similarity, species and distribution diversity in intestinal microbial communities of four abnormal hilit hyperpietics and normal hilit group (2). The phylogenetic trees of intestinal flora diversity of four abnormal hilit hyperpietics and normal hilit group in Uighur nationality and the phylogenetic trees show the existence of Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Verrucomicrobia, Butyrate-producing bacterium and Uncultured bacterium were some factors that can be determinant for the form and development of abnormal hilit hypertension.


OBJECTIVE:To analyze and determine the content of levofloxacin hydrochloride in different transfusion by HPLC.METHODS:The HPLC system consisted of Eclipse XDB-C18(150mm×4.6mm,5 m),sodium hexanesulfonate solution-methanol(3:1) as a mobile phase,1 mL·min-1 of flow rate,detection wavelength at 293nm.RESULTS:The linear range of Levofloxacin hydrochloride was 0.55 g-2.75μg(r=0.9999),the recovery were 100.1%(RSD=0.62%,).CONCLUSION:The method is simple,sensitive,accurate and reproducible and it can be used for the quality control of Levofloxacin hydrochloride in different transfusion liquid.


Scientific research is the principal work for higher vocational colleges.While for the lack of experience and teachers,the scientific achievements in higher vocational colleges are still at a low level.This paper analyses the present scientific research situation in higher vocational colleges and puts forward the courtermeasures.


This paper puts forward an initial discussion of the principles of RD officers' capability appraising index system.The index system for RD officers comprehensive capability appraising is built up on the basic process.


A total of 259 amphibians from the Cyrus H. McCormick Experimental Forest, Marquette and Baraga counties, Michigan, were examined for blood parasites between 1972-74. Seven trypanosome forms were encountered, one of which is described as a new species, Trypanosoma pseudopodium, from Bufo americanus. Two other forms new to this area were identified as T. bufophlebotomi and T. schmidti-like sp., both from B. amercianus. These 2 forms may constitute new species but data are insufficient to justify this designation. Approximately 20 species of trypanosomes have been identified from North American amphibians (15 in Anurans, 5 in Urodeles). Although the identifying characteristics of most species are generally accepted, conflict still persists with regards to the ubiquitous Trypanosoma rotatorium (Mayer 1843) Laveran and Mesnil 1901. Diamond (1965) disagreed with Kudo (1922), Fantham et al. (1942), and Nigrelli (1945) on the existence of T. rotatorium in North American amphibians. This divagation is significant because Diamond's treatise is frequently cited as a major reference work (most recently by Flynn, 1973) and yet a substantial number of workers continue to encounter and/or at least describe T. rotatorium from North American amphibians (Bailey, 1962; Campbell, 1968; Woo, 1969; Bardsley and Harmsen, 1969; Desser et al., 1973). In our work, we have concurred with the latter authors on the presence of T. rotatorium in Michigan amphibians. Correlated directly to the above problem is whether or not the so-called "round-form" frequently seen in T. rotatorium infections is indeed a form of T. rotatorium or a separate species. We are regarding it here as a form of T. rotatorium. Our study represents part of a general survey of the herpetofauna of the Cyrus H. McCormick Experimental Forest, Marquette and Baraga counties, Michigan (Werner, 1973). MATERIALS AND METHODS Amphibians were collected periodically throughout the spring and summer of 1972-74 both during the day and at night. Most individuals were bled in the field at the time of capture. Those not bled in the field were bled in the laboratory within 12 hr of capture. Anurans whose body length was approximately 40 mm or greater were bled by forcing the mouth open and puncturing the facial vein at the angle of the mouth with a 22-gauge needle. A digital or heart puncture was utilized on small anurans and all of the salamanders. Blood was drawn into a heparinized capillary tube and 2 drops placed on a slide. One of the drops was smeared into a thin film, the other spread out with the corner of a slide, and both were then air-dried. Staining varied from 30 min to 2 hr in Giemsa's stain and slides were then rinsed in McIlvaine standard buffer, pH 6.2 to 6.4. Wet mounts were made with a citrate-saline buffer solution on approximately half of the specimens. Representatives of each trypanosome species were enlarged on paper with a camera lucida and the following measurements were made: body length, excluding the free flagellum (BL); width of the body at the level of the nucleus (BW); distance of the kinetoplast to the center of the nucleus (N-K); width and length of the nucleus (NW, NL); distance from center of nucleus to anterior end (N-A); distance from posterior end to center of nucleus (P-N); distance from posterior end to kinetoplast (P-K); and length of free flagellum (FF). All measurements are in microns unless stated otherwise. Other features such as the presence or absence of a free flagellum, undulating membrane, appearance of costae, myonemes, and vacuolation were noted. The identification of trypanosomes was based on Kudo (1922), Fantham et al. (1942), Nigrelli (1945), Diamond (1965), and other references as indicated specifically in the text.


Converter transformers demand a high standard of insulation design and monitoring due to high frequency electrical stress. Traditional monitoring techniques for power transformers generally suffer from their invasive nature, and may lack sensitivity when applied to converter transformers. Effective and non-invasive insulation monitoring technique is critical for converter transformers. This paper proposes a novel online insulation monitoring technique for converter transformers, which is based on the inherent common-mode characteristic harmonics (CMCH) generated by the power switches. Two transfer functions (TF) are introduced using the measured voltages and currents at the neutral ends. Insulation ageing condition can be evaluated according to the performances of two TFs at the characteristic frequencies. Theoretical analysis, model simulation and experimental results are presented to validate the proposed technique. The importance of the proposed technique lies in its non-invasiveness and simple implementation.


The ribonuclease molecules irradiated in a solution in the presence of 18O2 were separated, by the method of gel-chromatography, into fractions of aggregated macromolecules, denatured monomers and the molecules which retained the original sizes. Oxygen was bound by the molecules of all fractions. The oxygen binding prevented the aggregation of macromolecules. The fractions of molecules of monomer forms, obtained after irradiation in the presence of oxygen, were more inactive than those obtained after irradiation in vacuum.


By using human menopausal gonadotropin (HMG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), fairly good clinical therapeutic efficacy has been obtained in the treatment of infertility. However, difficulties are brought about due to the ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) easily induced by these two drugs. Therefore, we


Setting up a responsive installation in a public space is a challenging task. Location, dimension of the object and its position in the public space are only a few of the elements that contribute to creating an engaging experience for passers-by. This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a responsive installation that simulates a breathing-like behaviour depending on the proximity of passers-by. Placing the installation in different locations across the UCL campus (University College of London, UK) permitted to run systematic observations and, hence, outline basic categories of people behaviour. A higher number of interactions was registered when: 1) the Breathing Display was easy to reach by hand while walking by; 2) somebody was already interacting with the display; 3) the display was set to move in relation to the users' proximity (i.e. closer triggers more intensive movement by the display). These findings may be beneficial to other designers who are creating and implementing public display applications.


Adsorbed {ital n}-hexadecane films of thickness {similar to}10, 20, and 40 A are studied at 350 K via molecular-dynamics simulations. In the thickest film periodic oscillations of the density extend {similar to}18 A from the solid-liquid interface, the roughness fluctuations at the liquid-vapor interface are Gaussian, and the density tail is fitted by an error function. Molecules in the first adsorbed layer lie preferentially parallel to the surface exhibiting domains of intermolecular orientational alignment. The diffusion is anisotropic with the component parallel to the surface greatly enhanced in the liquid-vapor region.


It was the five months Marawi sieged between the Philippine Armed Forces and the ISIS group that brought the masjid and madrasah and other waqf properties into ruins and ashes. The government promised to reconstruct the city, but there is no guarantee that waqf properties will be included in the proposed transformation plan on the ground that these are not constitutionally considered as part of the government assets. It will be the responsibility of the people in Marawi City and the religious organizations to work together and find ways to reconstruct and revive the destroyed masjid, madrasah, waqf buildings and other related properties. The aim of this paper is to identify the prospect and challenges in reviving and reconstructing the waqf properties, including the waqf lands claimed by the government as part of the military reservation. The importance of waqf properties for the socio-economic development of Muslims who were victims of the war will be highlighted. The rights and rule of law, as well as the strategies in the reconstruction of masjid and madrasah, will be examined. This study will use qualitative research method to be gained from library research, and web-based journals and articles. The finding will show that the reconstruction of the waqf properties will take many years, unless, the government and other Muslim countries will provide financial assistance and services knowing the important role of these properties to the socio-economic development of the Muslim population of Marawi City.


About 20 years ago, in 1983, the Australian parliament made a precedent-setting decision. At the initiative of "femocrats" from the Labor Party, the political party then in power, a resolution was passed to look into how the national budget of Australia was likely to affect the status of women in the country. A year later that resolution was implemented, when the national budget was presented to the Australian parliament together with the first Women's Budget Statement. The Statement was an extensive report detailing the implications of the proposed budget for Australian women and girls (in this paper, references to "women" are meant to include girls as well as women).


the importance of the subject in the discussion as it determines the success and failure of every organisation. However, health institution as defined by Law insider dictionary is an organisation that primarily has a purpose of care and treatment of patients or promotion of public health of which could be the hospital, nursing home, convalescent home, maternity home, health centre, dispensary or other body where health or other medical services are rendered. In the relative vein, Encyclopedia of Bioethics explained health institution to be the hospital, a nursing home, a rehabilitation facility, or another such single-site entity where people work at different capacities and have leaders who direct their affairs like hiring, firing and setting of policy. Considering the earlier definitions, health care services are provided in health institutions no matter what they are called, be it a hospital, nursing home, dispensary and so on. However, Abstract: Examined in this paper is the impact of organisational behaviour on firm performance, focusing on the hospital as an organisation. The organisation doesn't exist without the people, and the people do not exist without conduct or the other, which is a massive determinant to achieving organisational goals and objectives. These processes and actions called behaviour, could either be individualistic or group and optimistic (organisational citizenship behaviour) or negative, which affects the performance or the output of the organisation; hence organisational citizenship behaviours are encouraged. Secondary data sourced through textbooks, internets, journals and articles were used for this study. The findings established that organisational behaviour has an impact on organisational performance, especially in hospitals. Meanwhile, it was recommended that positive action be taught, appreciated and encouraged among people at work to foster set corporate objectives.


Dataset aiming at understanding the relationships between coffee pests and diseases, crop management, environment (including soil), and coffee tree characteristics from a two year survey conducted in Costa Rica at national level in 2002 and 2003


As DOE have special dispersion,small volume,light weight and can be replicated, it plays more and more important role in national defence,production and science research.Its application in optical imaging system can not only improve imaging quality,but also perform system's lightweight,miniaturization and increase degree of freedom in the design.The 16?step Fresnel lens had been fabricated by ion beam etching and it has been used in refractive?diffractive CCD camera.Its diffractive efficiency is measured and the factors to affect it are analyzed.