Standardization, playing an important fundamental role in various land resources works, has been formed a good development platform during the past two decades. In recent years, both performing their duties in accordance with the law in land resources administration and land resources market improvement raise a high and urgent claim for standardization, so the paper points out that it is very important for how to establish supporting system and make full use of technical supporting of standardization for land resources management. In this case, the paper systematically builds the base and platform for standardization development from the meaning, target, principle, content and component factors of land resources supporting system; and makes some proposals for some problems needing attention.


This paper discusses a demonstration project undertaken to determine if micro-surfacing would extend the life of freeways exhibiting premature surface deterioration. The paper describes the design, testing procedure, material characteristics, construction, and short-term performance of the micro-surfacing systems studied. It also discusses the viability of micro-surfacing as a surficial rehabilitation treatment under freeway conditions.


Current forensic practice in age estimation relies on the application of morphological standards as a means to characterize complex threedimensional skeletal surfaces. Research in our laboratory has demonstrated that the application of the morphologically based Suchey-Brooks method to a contemporary Queensland, Australian population demonstrated significant inaccuracy in age-estimation. Consequently, this study presents preliminary results to quantify age-related skeletal changes of the pubic symphysis in Queensland individuals using novel geometric and micro-architectural protocols that have the potential of improving age estimation in the forensic context. Computed tomography scans of the right and left pubis were obtained from Caucasian individuals aged 15–70 years (n=195) from the Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services. Morphometric variables including surface area, circumference, maximum height and width of the symphyseal surface, and micro-architectural assessment of cortical and trabecular bone structure were conducted in Rapidform XOS and Osteomeasure, respectively. Morphometric analysis demonstrated increases in maximum height and width of the surface with age independent of gender, with most significant (P<0.05) changes between the 25–34 and 55–64 year subsets. Sexual dimorphism and bilateral asymmetry were prominent features in the Queensland population. Micro-architectural analysis demonstrated degradation of cortical composition with age, with differential bone resorption between the medial, ventral and dorsal aspects of the symphysis. The ability to quantitatively model age-related changes to the pubic symphysis provides potential for future methodological refinement, where rigor and robust geometric assessment of the surface may remove the subjectivity associated with aging the pubic symphysis.


The effects of solution (quench) temperature on the properties of SiCW/Al composite have been investigated using tensile tests. The experiments indicate that the solution temperature of the composite fabricated by P/M technique can be raised to 560 degrees C. The tensile strength of the composite is obviously dependent on solution (quench) temperature and the composite solutionized at 540 degrees C exhibits a maximum of tensile strength and elongation-to-failure. These results can be accounted for by the variation of the dislocation density in the composite.


In this paper, some new results on characterizations of Rayleigh distribution based on order statistics and record values have been established. The conditional expecta- tion (also known as mean residual life) of a distribution plays important roles in modeling and analysis of life time data. Some results on characterizations based on mean residual life have also been established.


The authors introduced the importance of fresh-keeping packaging for edible fungi,summaried the effect of modified atmosphere packaging(MAP) technology on the quality of fresh edible fungi and the latest research progress worldwide in the domain.Guidance is provided for the packaging technique and material selection in the fresh-keeping packaging of edible fungi.


In recent small marine turbochargers many efforts have been made to speed up the rotation of rotor to attain a high pressure-ratio. It is well known that a floating bush bearing has an excellent stability performance in high speed operating conditions. Its performance, however, is largely affected by a significant change of the bush shape with heat deformation and by the operating characteristic conditions due to the temperature of oil film surrounding the bush. In the present investigation, temperature measurements were performed for a small marine turbocharger with a floating bush bearing for 500kW class diesel engines. From the mea-surements, the effects of the operating condition on surrounding temperatures of the bearing were discussed. The results give us a useful knowledge to design next advanced turbochargers with the floating bearing.


NIT No. 447/W&M Dated 16.08.2018 Name of Work Internal Electrification in 02 Class Room at A.M.U. City High School, AMU, Aligarh. Estimated Cost Rs. 3,79,488.00 EMD Rs. 9,490.00 Cost of Tender (Non Refundable) Rs. 500.00 Time of Completion 03 Months/ 15 Days after Completion of Civil Work Registration Charges for One Year Rs. 2,360/(GST Included) Tender Processing Fee Rs. 885/(Non-Refundable) Last Date & Time of Online submission of Technical and Financial Bid 07.09.2018 up to 15:00 Hours


Brillouin microscopy is a new tool to characterize the stiffness of cells and tissues, however the underlying relationship between stiffness and Brillouin measurements remains unknown. As the stiffness of biological materials is influenced by hydration, we performed Brillouin microscopy on hydrogels whilst independently examining the role of stiffness and water content. Brillouin measurements were independent of stiffness, but correlated strongly with hydration, indicating that Brillouin microscopy really measures water content.


Pronouncing words with the correct stress plays an important role in communication. This has been investigated by different phoneticians, Torsuyev and Gibson amongst others, who have analyzed the different accentual patterns of English words and defined a large number of different accentual patterns. In this paper the author experimentally challenges the concept of complex accentual structures by investigating the pattern of standard British English speakers. Using the PRAAT program, a software package which is widely used in phonetic experimental research, the fundamental parameters of frequency of tone, intensity and time were measured and used to define accentual patterns of polysyllabic words as spoken by two modern standard English speakers. This study demonstrated that polysyllabic words, phrases and abbreviations exhibit only four distinct accentual-syllabic patterns. This is in direct contrast to previous work and demonstrates that accentual structure in spoken English has been over analyzed and made unnecessarily complex.


The packaging device is the essential factor to determine the working efficiency and the packaging quality. The key technologies of the packaging device used for the multi-component moulding materials including the measuring-mixing system and the procedure control system were introduced and analyzed. It indicates that the measuring and mixing system composed of the volume measuring pump, the SK online mixer and the availably designed pouring valve is chosen after the comparison with the usually applied technologies. With the experimental results, the measuring accuracy can be limited to about 1% and the mixing units should be designed more than 32 joints. Furthermore, the main procedure control system is also displayed and described in detail in this paper.


We investigate the scattering of heavy‐light K and D mesons by nucleons at low energies. The short‐distance part of the interaction is described by quark‐gluon interchange and the longdistance part is described by a one‐meson‐exchange model that includes the contributions of vector (ρ, ω) and scalar (σ) mesons. The microscopic quark model incorporates a confining Coulomb potential extracted from lattice QCD simulations and a transverse hyperfine interaction consistent with a finite gluon propagator in the infrared. The derived effective meson‐nucleon potential is used in a Lippmann‐Schwinger equation to obtain s‐wave phase shifts. Our final aim is to set up a theoretical framework that can be extended to finite temperatures and baryon densities.


This correspondence is concerned with the estimation and resolution of overlapping random signals in additive noise. Two resolution schemes are presented; one is optimal and the other has computational advantages. It is shown that the overlapping signals are not resolvable if the eigenfunctions constitute a complete basis.


The utility model discloses a multi -parameter engine plateau environmental test device, the device is including the box, cavity and exhaust cavity admit air, treat that experimental engine sets up in the box, be provided with a temperature regulation module in the box, first atmospheric pressure adjusting module and first humidity adjusting module, admit air the cavity respectively with the induction port of engine with set up the air inlet sealing connection on the box, the exhaust cavity respectively with the gas vent of engine with set up the gas vent sealing connection on the box, the cavity that admits air is connected with the 2nd temperature regulation module, second atmospheric pressure adjusting module and second humidity adjusting module, the exhaust cavity is connected with the 3rd temperature regulation module, third atmospheric pressure adjusting module and third humidity adjusting module. The utility model discloses temperature, atmospheric pressure and the humidity messenger environment that the engine is located of regulation box, admit air cavity and exhaust cavity reach high old terms, realize the engine plateau environmental test of multi -parameter, have simple structure, the low -cost and high advantage of the test result degree of accuracy.


Central nervous system (CNS) diseases are complicated and the knowledge we get about them is very limited. PET plays an important role in the diagnosis of CNS diseases since it is noninvasive. Exploring the functional changes of the brain with PET has become a hot topic. The key of PET brain imaging is the molecular targeting probes. This review summarizes the research progress of CNS PET tracers on the basis of 2016 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.

Key words:
Central nervous system diseases; Positron-emission tomography; Radioactive tracers; Trends


In this letter, AlGaN/GaN Fin-HEMTs with different nanochannel geometric parameters were fabricated and characterized. The drain current density, transconductance, and on-resistance were improved by reducing the length of the nanochannel, which was attributed to the modulation of access resistance by changing the length of the nanochannel. The threshold voltage shifted to the positive direction with the decrease in the width of the nanochannel and showed the independence on the length of the nanochannel. With the reduction in the length of the nanochannel, the gate swing was increased by suppressing the increase of source resistance, improving the linearity of transconductance.


The harshest conditions of the human gastrointestinal tract were simulated in order to study probiotic bacteria in their intended environment. Eight Lactobacillus strains were cultivated in MRS broth with added bile in different concentrations and their growth was monitored as optical density. The gathered data was used to determine the MIC of bile for each strain. The recovery of the strains in MRS broth after 3 h in simulated gastric juice solution (pH 1.8, 5000 U/cm3 pepsin) was investigated. Lactobacillus gasseri S20 exhibited the best survival rate and reached OD 600 0,490, while Lactobacillus acidophilus S11 could not survive the conditions of the stomach (OD 600 0,076).


The present study focuses on 'revelation,' one of the three constitutive concepts, and possibly the most central such concept, in Rosenzweig's philosophy. As opposed to its ostensibly religious meaning, the article offers a view of the rational element enfolded within this concept in Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption. By employing a textual exegesis based on a close reading of Rosenzweig's language, the article seeks to show that Rosenzweig's conception of revelation does not refer to an intuitive, Kabbalistic-mystical or esoteric concept. As a central pillar of Rosenzweig's star-shaped method, revelation is the mediator between God's love of people to a person's love of others – which, in turn, is the basis for global redemption. The exposure of the rational-intellectual aspect of revelation thus advances the desired objective of Rosenzweig's method, and accords with Rosenzweig's own words when he suggested that neither does it make the claim to be a philosophy of religion – how could it do that when the word 'religion' does not occur in it at all! Rather, it is merely a system of philosophy. The study seeks to explore the dialectical thicket of descriptions and arguments in The Star of Redemption in order to expose the logical kernel of Rosenzweig's philosophical method. Indeed, a close reading which isolates the mechanical concepts of Rosenzweig's thought reveals The Star of Redemption's philosophical motivation when Rosenzweig denudes the text from the complex of religious concepts that are the proverbial flesh that surrounds the proverbial bones of the system Rosenzweig attacks. Insofar as The Star of Redemption is concerned, we are not dealing with systematicism in the sense of a rigid consistency of rationality as a concept, but rather with a methodical outline where Rosenzweig describes religion's sociological 'skeleton' and weaves his method around it using such concepts as "orientation" = "revelation" = "sharing" = "redemption." Furthermore, the affinity between God and human passes through the affinity between one human and another. It therefore follows that the 'warm welcome' of revelation, is not a mystical experience, but rather a person's conscious, rational, and reflexive orientation in her or his human environment.


Pragmatic analysis of communication focuses on the relationship between the sender's intention and the perlocutionary effects of the message in a given context. Although researchers in Organisational Semiotics have realised the important roles of the information field, pragmatic information and validity claims in the success of a communication, no model has been developed to illustrate how these factors together contribute to the perlocutionary effects. Therefore, this paper introduces a pragmatic Input-Process-Output (IPO) model developed on the basis of pragmatic analysis of the communication and the IPO business process modelling, as a part of a study of communication in multicultural distributed workplaces from social-pragmatic perspectives. This model identifies the key elements contributing to the pragmatic effects via the communication process, namely the information field, pragmatic information, validity claims, and time. Major steps within the process and the input and output of each step are also illustrated in the model. A clear picture can be seen from the model how these key elements involved in the process and how the final pragmatic effects are generated. Therefore, this model provides a guideline for future pragmatic studies on communication with focus on pragmatic information, validity claims and the information field.


The concept of ferrolysis as defined in the 1970s by Brinkman and co‐workers is mentioned in the recent literature as a dominant process to explain clay disintegration, interlayering of clay minerals, and strong texture contrast of duplex soils, in which bleaching and mottling are predominant features. Ferrolysis is based on biochemical reduction of free iron(III) oxides to Fe2+ and re‐oxidation of Fe2+ during alternating reducing and oxidizing conditions in the soil. The acidity produced during the oxidation is assumed to release cations from silicates which results in the destruction of clay minerals.


Artesunate is presently well acclaimed a potent anti-malaria, and hitherto, un-resisted by the malaria parasite plasmodium falciparum. Despite its beneficial effects, cases of toxicity had been reported in the off-springs of women that took the drug at pregnancy. Such effect is presently examined and observed on the fetal bones with the aim to find safe periods and dosages of administration of this promising anti-malaria drug.


Exam is the most commonly used evaluation tool in modern educational and personnel selection process,high school is facing tremendous pressure studies,so the phenomenon of test anxiety in the performance of high school students in particular.And for a high school freshman,the environment,the atmosphere of intense transformation and exams moment it is difficult to adapt,test anxiety and therefore this group has become one of the most common psychological problems.


Disclosed is a testing unit (210; 300) for testing a data transfer and/or an addressing scheme in a bus-based system. The testing unit (210; 300) comprises a data generator (250) for generating an expected data pattern, and a comparator (260) for comparing the expected data pattern with a data pattern received from a sending unit (200; 300) within the system. The data generator (250) is adapted to generate the expected data pattern in a defined relationship with the data generation of the data pattern received from the sending unit (200; 300). Preferably, the defined relationship is an algorithmic relationship and might be based on the address of the testing unit (210; 300).


The association between pre‐operative serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and liver scanning employing technetium (99mTc)‐tin colloid was investigated in 30 women subsequently proven to have primary epithelial ovarian carcinoma to determine whether these two investigations improve the detection of hepatic mtastases. The uer limit of normal for CEA (≥ 5 ng/ml) did not represent the optimal levels for use in predicting ovarian carcinoma nor the presence of liver metastases. But with CEA levels> 10 ng/ml sensitivity for liver metastases was 57%. Liver scanning alone demonstrated metastases in five out of seven patients (71%) with parenchymal liver metastases. The combination of CEA and liver scan was positive in six out of these seven patients (86%).


Ormont identifies a common group problem in what he calls the 'isolate' and discusses his understanding and techniques for enabling such a group member to join the flow of the group. I am pleased to have an opportunity to respond to and build on Ormont's experience and ideas from a Systems-Centered Therapy (SCT) perspective (Agazarian 1997). We know from previous work that there are many possible responses to any particular group episode (Kennard et al., 1993), and Ormont's style of presentation with clinical examples provides us with an opportunity to consider other approaches to the situations he describes. Firstly I will outline A Theory of Living Human Systems from which the methods of Systems-Centered Therapy (SCT) are derived. Then I will consider one of the clinical examples given by Ormont to illustrate how an SCT practitioner might think and intervene.


Objective To evaluate clinical results of double dorsal locking plates used in the fixation of distal radial fractures.MethodsFrom March 2007 to December 2009, 22 patients with distal radial fractures were fixed with double dorsal anatomical locking plates. They were 12 males and 10 females, with a mean age of 47. 5 years (21 to 78 years). By AO classification, there were one case of type A3, 5 cases of type B2, 2 cases of type C1, 11 cases of type C2 and 3 cases of type C3. Iliac autograft was performed in 5 patients. Clinical results and postoperative functional recovery were assessed by range of motion, grip strength, radiographic measurements of ulnar inclination, palmar tilt and radial height, the DASH (Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand) questionnaire and the Gartland-Werley sere.Results The mean follow-up was 19 months (12 to 32 months). All fractures united within 6 months (2 to 6 months). The mean ulnar inclination angle was 25.3° (22° to 29°), the mean palmar tilt angle was 12.1° (8° to 14°), and the mean radial height was 1.1 cm (0.8 to 1.3 cm). The mean radiographic Stewart score was excellent or fine in 90. 9% of the patients. The mean dorsal extension was 53° (30° to 68°), the mean palmer flexion was 47° (32° to 65°), the mean ulnar inclination was 22° (16° to 30°), the mean radial inclination was 14° (11° to 32°), the mean pronation was 76° (30° to 90°) and the mean supination was 72° (10° to 90°). The mean grip strength of the operated side was 72% (15 kg) of the normal side. The mean Q-DASH and Gartland-Werley scores were 11.4 (0 to 70) and 3.4 ( 1 to 16), respectively.Conclusions Fixation with double dorsal locking plates for unstable distal radial fractures can result in fine clinical results, especially for those with comminuted dorsal hone cortex.

Key words:
Radius fractures; Fracture fixation, internal;  Bone plates


The effect of diluents on the dissolution rate of indomethacin was studied and the dissolution rate for the marketed products was compared to establish the quality standard for indomethacin preparation. The results are as fellows 1. The effect of test methods was not significant in the case of paddle method but was greatly effected in the case of basket method. 2. The effect of diluents was not significant generally, but in the case of starch dissolution rate was greatly effected. 3. The dissolution rate was remarkably decreased in proprotion to increase of capsule size. 4. The marketed products met the KP dissolution requirement but showed a little difference due to manufacturers.


Voith-Schneider propellers have been activated and controlled from ships' consoles by means of mechanical rods or via a hydraulic or electrical signal transmission system. Rod systems have then been used in the propeller itself to avoid overload and mechanical blockages. J. M. Voith GmbH and Siemens AG have redesigned this system, achieving significant improvements through the use of modern electronics and hydraulics.


The paper considers the possibility of using visualization when preparing a task for frontal surface examination of hazardous industrial facilities using unmanned aerial vehicles. The research is based on the results of an experimental survey of buildings and structures of a large metallurgical enterprise in Russia. As initial data, photographs of buildings and structures obtained using a camera of an unmanned aerial vehicle and their drawings were used. When building a 3D model, the capabilities of Autodesk AutoCAD and Autodesk Revit were used. When building a 2D information model, a combination of a 3D model and a photograph of the object was used. The resulting 3D and 2D models are included in the structure of the flight chart as part of an applied digital platform in an automated decision-making system for expert assessment of the technical condition compliance of a hazardous production facility with regulatory requirements. Violation of regulatory requirements entails the occurrence of emergencies and incidents at an industrial enterprise. Visualization elements allow increasing the reliability of information entering the database of expert information.


This paper describes the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) issues encountered during the construction and assembly of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) system chosen for the Girassol development, offshore Angola. This presentation is from the contractor's point of view and includes general remarks on the management of big projects. Finally the paper adresses contractual aspects of the clientcontractor relationship, which have been carried out in a unique manner at Girassol. Introduction The Girassol project has been quite exceptional and it is true to say that it is greater than the sum of its parts. No matter how difficult the construction program was, however, the tale would seem banal if all of the details were recounted. In order to avoid a tedious cascade of figures designed to demonstrate the merits of Mar Profundo Girassol, the Bouygues Offshore/Stolt Offshore joint venture, in their management of this complex project affair, it has been decided to provide the "inside story", presenting the major problems encountered and the way in which they were resolved. Many of these problems are of a general, rather than a technical, nature and are common to the management of all major projects. In order to make this presentation more interesting, a number of famous authors have been quoted entirely out of context, of course in order to throw a humorous light on the matter. In the beginning The problems with the Girassol project began with the preparation of the tender at the end of 1997. Those in the industry are familiar with the haste with which TotalFinaElf E&P Angola decided to proceed with this development. The questions at that moment were: which type of contract for which scope of work and what type of facility was to be built and on what basis? It was to be an FPSO, a floating unit for the production, storage and offloading of oil. It is best described as a hull with a vast production complex on its deck for the processing of oil, water and gas; storage of crude oil; re-injection of water and gas and export and metering of the crude oil.


Abstract : A process has been developed by which integral solar cell covers (ISCC's) can be applied directly to the front surface of solar cell modules. The covers are a codeposited mixture of silica and alumina. The tensile-stressed alumina serves to compensate for the compressive stress of the silica. The process by which these covers are applied is Plasma Activated Chemical Vapor Deposition (PACVD) which is a low-temperature CVD process (145 C). The process utilizes the OCLI-proprietary Plasma Activated Source (PAS) to generate activated oxygen species to simultaneously oxidize silane and trimethylaluminum (TMA) to form silica and alumina on the substrate surface. By adjusting the reactant flow rates, the codeposited cover stress can be adjusted to quite low stress levels, typically zero to three kpsi. Besides serving to protect then junction of the solar cells from particle damage, the cover may also serve as an electrical insulator in high-voltage array applications. Tests as to the effectiveness of the integral cover as an insulator will be performed in the future by the Air Force. A significant advantage of ISCC's over conventional covers is that the minimum degradation temperature of the assembly is significantly increased by elimination of the adhesive used to bond the conventional covers. In this project, four ISCC modules were delivered: two for the Interaction Measurements Payload for Shuttle (IMPS)/Photovoltaic Array Space Power (PASP) project and two for a Living Plume Shield III (LIPS III) project.


Two cheers for Michael Huberman. His comment on my article makes two valid points but fails to preserve its internal consistency in its extrapolations from them.' First, Huberman has replicated the principal empirical findings of my article. Such replication should become more common in economics and economic history. I welcome it here, of course, because my conclusion that integration in 1833 was related to product quality in the textile industry can be replicated easily. Huberman even shows that this finding is robust under alternate specifications. Second, Huberman compares my principal regression for 1833 with a new regression for 1841.1 did not use the 1841 survey in my work because it did not contain the data that my hypothesis required. Huberman has dealt with this problem in the spirit of Christina Romer, degrading the 1833 data to make them comparable with the 1841 data. Regressions on these limited data (in columns 4 and 7 of his table 3) are not very good for either year. And they are less good for 1841 than for 1833. What should we conclude from this difference? Neither regression on these incomplete data is well specified. Location is used as a proxy for product quality even though there was a range of quality in each location. The standard deviations of the count spun in a town was 69,30, and 10 in Manchester, Bolton, and Oldham, respectively, in 1833. The ratio of the standard deviation to the mean in the three towns was 0.9, 0.4, and 0.3. This independent variable, in other words, was very roughly measured, biasing its coefficient and ^-statistic toward zero. In addition, Huberman uses all workers as a measure of size. I used spinners in order to avoid simultaneity coming from the presence of weavers in integrated establishments. The 1841 data do not allow this. Using workers as an independent variable introduces positive feedback into the regression, enhancing the measured significance of this variable. Huberman finds that this imperfect regression works less well for 1841 than for 1833. But there is no test statistic for comparing poorly specified regressions. There is no way of knowing whether this difference represents chance, problems with the imperfect data, or changes in the structure of the cotton industry. Huberman's regression result, while interesting, does not provide a solid foundation for a new interpretation of the industry. Nevertheless, Huberman is correct to emphasize the historical nature of my conclusion. The cotton textile industry was evolving rapidly, and the correlation between product quality and vertical integration that I found was a product of the then current technology. It is only natural to expect this relationship to evolve over time as power looms became more able to weave finer counts. I believe I emphasized the historical nature of my conclusions—that I was describing and analyzing economic conditions of the 1830s—but it is well to have that point emphasized. This brings us to the problem with Huberman's argument. Starting from this highly imperfect evidence, he suggests that "the monitoring problems of large firms" can


The deep-frying is one of the most widespread technologies for the production of culinary products and one of the foundations of the global food industry. In this connection, the researchers are faced with the continuous task of stable improve product quality, thermal efficiency and operating characteristics of equipment which, including, can be solved by increasing the precision of setting the thermal regime of heating the frying oil. In turn, the thermal mode of heating the frying oil directly affects its quality and the quality of the final product. It is known that for some media the macroscopic state at a given time depends on their state at earlier time (the phenomenon of memory). These work deals with the modeling of thermophysical processes in frying oil on the basis of the theory of materials with memory are considered. The influence of the oil degradation degree on the changes in its viscosity and convective heat transfer coefficient is shown. As a result of the analysis of the data, formulas for the corresponding corrections are derived. The conclusion is drawn that for the management of the quality of food requires data analysis when developing a mathematical model of the process.


This paper is an attempt at showing the Slovenian heritage in the field of lifelong educa tion as we enter the Year of Lifelong Learning as this current 1996 year has been defined in Europe. The author points out educational needs of people employed in enterprises and institutions. The needs analysis dwells upon the data sent yearly by the latter to the Central Statistical Office. The paper draws attention to the imbalance between the educational needs of the work sta lions and competencies of the employees occupying them. Assuming that the differences found between the needs of the work stations and the competencies of the employees can be a basis upon which to develop education and training, the author in conclusion offers some recommenda tions as to what to do in order to reduce this imbalance, alleviate its consequences and try to abolish it.


A meta-analysis was conducted on the accuracy of predictions of various objective outcomes in the areas of social and clinical psychology from short observations of expressive behavior (under 5 min). The overall effect size (/) for the accuracy of predictions for 38 different results was .39. Studies using longer periods of behavioral observation did not yield greater predictive accuracy; predictions based on observations under Vi min in length did not differ significantly from predictions based on 4- and 5-min observations. The type of behavioral channel (such as the face, speech, the body, tone of voice) on which the ratings were based was not related to the accuracy of predictions. Accuracy did not vary significantly between behaviors manipulated in a laboratory and more naturally occurring behavior. Last, effect sizes did not differ significantly for predictions in the areas of clinical psychology, social psychology, and the accuracy of detecting deception. The way in which people move, talk, and gesture—their facial expressions, posture, and speech—all contribute to the formation of impressions about them. Many of the judgments we make about others in our everyday lives are based on cues from these expressive behaviors. Gordon Allport (1937) believed that expressive behaviors were important indicators of personality and that impressions from brief interactions were often verified upon further acquaintance. Allport and Vernon (1933) demonstrated that people's expressive styles were quite consistent across a variety of situations. They then began to investigate the accuracy of perceivers' impressions that were based on observations of these expressive styles. For reasons that have been discussed elsewhere, this issue—like other issues concerning the accuracy of interpersonal and social perception— was neglected for a long time (Funder, 1987; Kenny & Albright, 1987). Recently, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in the accuracy of social and interpersonal perception and judgment (Funder, 1987; Kenny & Albright, 1987; Kruglanski, 1989; Swann, 1984) and in the study of expressive behavior (Lippa, 1983; Riggio & Friedman, 1986). Recent work confirms earlier findings (Passini & Norman, 1966) that the ratings of strangers converge surprisingly well with self-ratings of personality by targets (Albright, Kenny, & Malloy, 1988; Funder & Cohan, 1988; Watson, 1989). This correspondence seems to confirm Gordon Allport's observation that there is something in the nature of individuals that


Pollen production and seed set were compared for cultivars and derived homozygous pollinator "R" lines with cytoplasm and genetic restorers from Triticum timopheevi. Pollen production and anther extrusion were determined in the laboratory on excised spikes from greenhouse and field-grown plants. Some restored "R" lines were as good as their parent cultivars for pollen dispersal. In diverse controlled environments restored "R" lines were somewhat more sensitive to temperature and photoperiod than were normal cultivars. Apparently "R" lines developed with T. timopheevi cytoplasm will be satisfactory for most environments.


During the last 15-20 years new technology has been developed and introduced to the industry, allowing a rigid analyzing of the interaction between fire and structure and thus improved fire design. The most important factor for achieving cost reducing design and safer systems for personnel is detailed knowledge of the development and behaviour of real fires in combination with advanced structural response simulations. Such advanced methods are tracing the accidental events from the actual hydrocarbon leak, ignition and combustion, heating of structural components up to material softening/weakening. The Kameleon FireEx system comprises the CFD simulator Kameleon FireEx (KFX) for detailed fire simulation, automatically linked to the FEM code Fahts/Usfos for detailed non linear structural response analysis. This article focuses on the methodology being used by ComputIT for fire analysis and fire design, a methodology that has been applied for a large number of industrial analyses with good results. Simulation results are presented as examples, and achievements in projects are given. Introduction Fire is a continuous threat for most offshore oil and gas installations. It is required that the structure resists fires with a given probability long enough to evacuate the platform. The platform integrity is also crucial with respect to the economic consequences of fire accidents. In the past, design of structures for fires is mainly based on prescriptive standards for the size of fire heat loads. Typically, a conventional fire design procedure might be: 1) Find a standard heat flux, for example 200 kW/m, 2) Let the entire structure be exposed to this heating, 3) If the steel temperature exceeds 400°C, insulate the steel surface with passive fire protection (PFP). The total surface of the structural components of a platform, representing the potential exposed to fire, is typically 1050.000 m (for comparison the area of a football ground is approximately 7.000 m). If all surfaces should be protected, the total weight of the PFP would be 50 100 ton with corresponding costs of magnitude 5-20 mill €. A question that may be raised is: Do we need to protect all surfaces? The experience of ComputIT is that for many installations the answer is no. This article focuses on the methodology ComputIT is using for fire analysis and fire design, a methodology that has been applied for a large number of industrial analyses with good results. Article in Fabig Technical Newsletter, Issue # 41, January 2005. The Steel Construction Institute, UK Computational Industry Technologies AS The KFX Integrated fire analysis During the last 15-20 years new technology has been developed and introduced to the industry, allowing for a much more rigid analyzing of the interaction between fire and structure and thus improved fire design. It has become quite common to use Finite Element Method (FEM) which is a rigid and accurate method for calculation of the structural response to fires. However, in combination with this it is also quite common to use very simplified methods for calculating the fires loads, which might be insufficient in combination with rigid FEM analysis. Typically a pool fire is taken as a heat load of 150 kW/m and a jet fire as 250 kW/m. This is a strong simplification of real fire behaviour, and the consequences will often be very conservative design with respect to structural protection and insufficient design with respect to personnel safety, evacuation etc. A fire will in general vary by time, both in intensity and location, and all surfaces will not be heated by the same load during a fire, nor will one specific surface be heated by the same load during the whole fire. Often might also 400°C be accepted if the integrity is maintained due to redistribution of forces. The most important factor for achieving cost reducing design and safer systems for personnel is detailed knowledge of the development and behaviour of real fires in combination with advanced structural response simulations. Such advanced methods are tracing the accidental events from the actual hydrocarbon leak, ignition and combustion, heating of structural components up to material softening/weakening. The ComputIT methodology is in principle given by: • The fire simulations (transient and 3D) including temperature calculation in solid materials, are carried out by the CFD fire simulator Kameleon FireEx (KFX). The KFX simulations account for the actual release of hydrocarbons, which in many cases are limited due to process segmentation and shut down systems, and is in detail calculating the heat loads, radiation, smoke production, smoke distribution etc in real process environments. • Detailed structural analyses are carried out by the Finite Element (FEM) codes Fahts and Usfos to check the structure's load bearing capacity. The temperatures are intermediate results only. • Identify weak parts and reinforce/insulate these components. • The coupling between the fire simulations and the structural simulations are done automatically as a part of the KFX system • The results of the fire and the structural response simulations may be visualized by video technique for a realistic impression of the fire and its consequences. The following analysis procedure for structure integrity is used: • Apply mechanical loads (operational loads and wind) to 100 % • Apply temperature history • Increase mechanical loads by 10 %, (at least) An alternative procedure is to apply step 1 and 2 in once, i.e. to check the stability of the structure at different stages during the fire. Based on the temperature situation, parts of the structure are assigned the degraded material properties. If the temperatures exceed f ex 1000°C, the parts are completely removed from the finite element model (become non structural). For the cases with high temperature, the alternative procedure is preferred because it is more robust numerically for elements with "zero" stiffness and capacity. Article in Fabig Technical Newsletter, Issue # 41, January 2005. The Steel Construction Institute, UK Computational Industry Technologies AS The structure is accepted if: • Global stability is preserved at all stages of the temperature history • Component strain level limited to 15%, (ref NORSOK) The additional weight is applied to get an idea of the residual strength at the end of the fire history, but does not represent any requirement as such. In general, member yielding and buckling causing load shedding is allowed. Kameleon FireEx Kameleon FireEx (KFX) is a field model for gas dispersion and fire simulation, developed at ComputIT/NTNU/SINTEF. The KFX development is a continuous activity at ComputIT, at present supported by Total, Statoil, the ENI-group, ConocoPhillips and Hydro. Kameleon FireEx is capable of calculating heavy and light gas dispersion as well as hydrocarbon liquid pool fires, spray fires, and gas jet fires, in enclosures and in open air. In addition fire suppression using monitors, deluge, sprinkler, and water mist systems can be included in fire simulations and interact with the flow and energy field in the gas phase. KFX includes CAD import capabilities, and is widely used internationally for safety analysis in the oil and gas industry. Advanced rendering technique gives, by creation of realistic pictures and animations of fire developments, a unique opportunity to interpret the results of the transient calculations and to increase the understanding of the complicated flame physics that is very important in fire safety design. Kameleon FireEx is based on a Cartesian finite volume technique to solve the averaged basic transport equations from fluid dynamics. The SIMPLEC algorithm [6] is used for calculating the pressure terms in the momentum equations based on the pressure correction which must be imposed in order to obtain mass conservation. The turbulent transport effects are modeled as gradient diffusion with turbulent viscosity calculated from the k-ε model of turbulence. The averaged reaction rates for the species mass fractions are modeled according to the Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) for combustion by Bjørn F. Magnussen [1]. The thermodynamic properties are calculated by the CHEMKIN [4] package and tabulated. The source terms for soot are modeled according to the Eddy Dissipation Soot model by Magnussen [1]. It includes a transport equation for the soot nucleus that is the starting point for the soot particle growth. The soot mass fraction is used to find the correct radiative absorption coefficient of the control volumes. The absorption coefficient is used in the Discrete Transfer Model by Lockwood and Shah [2] to calculate realistic radiative transfer in flame and between the flame and its surroundings. Fire mitigation by water systems is treated by a two phase spray model. A Lagrangian description is selected for the behavior of the droplets [13], [14]. The cloud of droplets is represented by a number of discrete numerical droplets each representing a group/class of real droplets [14]. The number of physical droplets represented by each numerical droplet, i.e. the total number of numerical droplets to be used, depends on the computational capacity available. When calculating the effect of for instance deluge on fire evolution it is assumed a certain particle size or particle size distribution. Based on the prescribed or assumed release rate the number of droplet parcels are calculated and then released in the prescribed direction from the nozzles. Article in Fabig Technical Newsletter, Issue # 41, January 2005. The Steel Construction Institute, UK Computational Industry Technologies AS FEM tools Fahts/Usfos An important feature of the KFX system is the link to the finite element code Usfos. The response program consists of two parts; one for temperature response, Fahts, and one part for mechanical response, Usfos. The KFX results give the heat flux at the individual structural component s


Due to the rise in demand of crude oil over the long term, technologies to upgrade crude oil need to be developed to ensure maximum use efficiency of future oil sources. In typical carbon rejection processes, coke formation is a common phenomenon that would lead to decreased yield of upgraded oil. As a result, the chemical behavior of coke formation is a potent area of research. Due to the high complexity of the composition of crude oil and coke, this work simplifies the study of supercritical water upgrading of crude oil to a hexylbenzene pyrolysis system. The pyrolysis of hexylbenzene at process conditions of 450°C and 75 creates several hundred products resolved by GCxGC, and the analysis is intractable if one considers only the experimental data, which does not reveal reactive intermediates or reaction paths. However, introducing theoretical considerations using the Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) allows analysis of a vast number of species while retaining information of elementary reaction steps and reactive intermediates. Information on these steps and intermediates can be obtained from Quantum Chemistry


The invention discloses a persimmon corn pancake and a manufacturing method thereof. Fresh persimmons, corn flour and table salt are used as raw materials and mixed with a proper amount of water to process and manufacture the persimmon corn pancake. The technical key point is that the weight ratio of the raw material and water use amount is that the weight ratio of the corn flour to the persimmons to the table salt to the water is 1:(0.10-0.25):(0.02-0.04):(0.35-0.40). The manufacturing method comprises the following steps: cleaning squashy fresh persimmons, removing peduncles and pits of the persimmons, peeling the persimmons, pulping the fresh persimmons by adding the water and the table salt, ensuring the granularity of the pulp is less than 80 meshes, then adding the corn flour and stirring to obtain a pancake paste, standing, draining clear water on the upper layer, processing the pancake taste by a pancake machine so as to obtain the pancake. The method has the remarkable advantages that dual nutrient and health-care ingredients in corn and persimmons are retained, squashy persimmons with viscosity replaces a common gelatin additive, the persimmon pulp can be bonded with the corn flour, and the produced pancake is chewy and slightly sweet, and has a unique persimmon flavor.


Chapter 3 describes major shifts in the strategic orientations of TNGOs that represent a concerted movement from their historical roots as charitable conduits to social and political change agents seeking sustainable impact and long-term transformations. Three illustrative strategic shifts—from direct service delivery to championing rights and supporting entrepreneurship; from reactive advocacy to proactive global campaigning; and from capacity-building to systems thinking—underscore the growing mismatch between the inherited institutional and normative features of the architecture and the sector's contemporary ambitions and strategies. The evolution in TNGO strategies over the past several decades suggests new future roles for TNGOs, but future-oriented change is complicated by the need to overcome architectural challenges and confront past legacies.


This work deals with the existence and multiplicity of solutions for
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The invention discloses an organic light-emitting display panel, a manufacturing method therefor, and an organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display panel comprises a display region and a packaging region surrounding the display region. The organic light-emitting display panel comprises a substrate, a glass cover plate, and an organic light-emitting display device which is disposed between the substrate and the glass cover plate. The substrate and the glass cover plate are bonded in a packaging region through frame packaging glue melt by laser irradiation. A protection layer is formed on the glass cover plate, and also comprises a shading layer and a light absorbing layer. The shading layer covers a part, adjacent to the packaging region, of the display region, and the light absorbing layer covers the packaging region. The laser transmittance of the light absorbing layer is higher than the laser transmittance of the shading layer. The organic light-emitting display panel can effectively prevent laser from irradiating the display region in a packaging process, thereby protecting the devices in the display region. Meanwhile, the organic light-emitting display panel can effectively balance the laser irradiation intensity in the packaging region, and improves the reliability of a packaging structure.


We observe a strong negative magnetoresistance at non-quantizing magnetic fields in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). This strong negative magnetoresistance consists of a narrow peak around zero magnetic field and a huge magnetoresistance at larger fields. The peak shows parabolic magnetic field dependence and is attributed to the interplay of smooth disorder and rare strong scatterers. We identify the rare strong scatterers as macroscopic defects in the material and determine their density from the peak curvature.


Secondary electron emission in combination with the elecromagnetic fields generated by a bunched beam can lead to the formation of electron clouds in the beam chambers of particle accelerators. The interaction of the circulating beam with the e-cloud can lead to transverse instabilities, beam losses, transverse emittance degradation. Moreover, the electrons impacting on the chamber's walls induce other unwanted effects like energy deposition (particularly critical for superconducting machines) and vacuum degradation. This contribution summarizes the mechanisms leading to the formation of the e-cloud, the effects that it can have on the performance of an accelerator, the methods employed to study the phenomenon and different techniques that have been developed to reduce or suppress its formation.


Let G be a left orderable group and LO(G) the space of all left orderings. We investigate the circumstances under which a left ordering < of G can correspond to an isolated point in LO(G), in particular we extend known results to cover the case of uncountable groups. With minor technical restrictions on the group G, we also find that no dense left ordering is isolated in LO(G), and that the closure of the set of all dense left orderings of G yields a dense G-delta set within a Cantor set of left orderings in LO(G). Lastly, we show that certain conditions on a discrete left ordering of G can guarantee that it is not isolated in LO(G), and we illustrate these ideas using the Dehornoy ordering of the braid groups.


Neuroblastoma is known to exhibit wide ranges of clinical phenotypes, from spontaneous regression to highly resistant to chemotherapy. One of the challenges in the clinic is to develop suitable therapeutic strategies for the intermediate risk-type of patients (stage 3 or 4 without MYCN amplification) whose prognosis sometimes tends to be poor in terms of long-term follow-up (10 years survival rate was 51% in our database, n = 161). To identify key biological pathways involved in the unfavorable phenotypes in this patient group, we have analyzed 63 primary tumors (dead:32, alive:31) without MYCN amplification nor ALK alteration by integrated genomic analyses such as array CGH, whole exome sequencing (SureSelect XT Human All Exon V4, average read depth:157, x20 coverage:95%), RNA sequencing, as well as Methylome profiling (Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip). By using the Karkinos and ANNOVAR software, we found so far 816 non-synonymous somatic single nucleotide variations (SNVs) in coding exons in total (approximately 20 per tumor in average) and number of alterations in each tumor strongly correlated with age at diagnosis (p Citation Format: Miki Ohira-Ichikawa. Genomic landscape of aggressive tumor subtype in MYCN-non-amplified neuroblastoma. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr 2424.


Today we live in the information society. Internet has keen an important way for people to get the information, as all kinds of information presents the explosive grouth, the search engine has become the most popular way for information retrieval. A mature search engine should involve information retrieval technology. Data mining technique and artficial intelligence. Distributed processing. Nataral language processing etc. But most seanch engine for user experience of personalized inquires is not keing completely safisfactory. Therefore, personalized search engine techology development and application is an important research topic.


According to previous report, the aged sleeves of old transmission line showed two different defaulted installation patterns, that is, biased or corrosive-fractured of steel sleeve cases. Corrosion of steel sleeve is one of typical defect patterns by aging of sleeves. These defect cases occupied almost 25 percent of investigated aged sleeves. This can cause serious accidents such as rapid increasing of sag or falling out of overhead conductor from sleeves. Consequently, the defects result in power outages. This paper studies thermal and mechanical properties for ACSR conductor in case of fractured steel sleeve by corrosion. The detailed results were presented in the text.


Intracerebroventricular streptozotocin (ICV-STZ) injection is among the best animal models to simulate sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) (Hoyer, 2002, 2000, 1998; Salkovic-Petrisic and Hoyer, 2007). Brain insulin signaling abnormality et al., 2007), neurodegeneration (Kamat, 2015), neuroinflammation (Liu et al., 2022), cholinergic damage (Blokland and Jolles, 1993; Roy et al., 2021), mitochondrial dysfunction (C. Correia et al., 2013), genetic abnormality (Chen et al., 2012), respiratory problem (Ebel et al., 2017), oxidative stress (Sharma and Gupta, 2001), gliosis (Rostami et al., 2017), sleep disturbances (Song et al., 2018) associated with cognitive abnormalities seen in ICV-STZ injected rats. Available experimental evidences has used varying doses of STZ (<1 to 3mg/kg) and studied its effect for different study durations, ranging from 14-21 (short), 30-42 (mild), 90-105 (moderate) and 250-270 (long) days (Chen et al., 2013, 2012; Grünblatt et al., 2007; Knezovic et al., 2015; Kraska et al., 2012; Mehla et al., 2013; Rostami et al., 2017; Salkovic-Petrisic et al., 2006). These studies indicated that 3mg/kg of body weight is the optimum dose for inducing sporadic AD in the rodents. However studies on the pathological process with relating the morphological and functional abnormalities reported were illusive. Therefore in the present study, we have investigated the effect of 3mg/kg ICV-STZ on three cognitive domains viz. spatial, episodic and avoidance and even neuropsychiatric abnormality i.e. anxiety with extensive morphological examination in the layers associated with hippocampus proper. Further, we have observed the onset of diffuse amyloid plaques, in association with enlargement of lateral ventricles and down scaling of spines in granular cells of dentate gyrus. Finally, to dissect the functional changes in spatial and anxiety variables we had examined the probability of fraction of time spent in Morris water maze and changes in ethological patterns of STZ injected rats in elevated plus maze.


Wood is the most important natural and endlessly renewable source of energy and therefore has a major future role as an environmentally cost-effective alternative to burning fossils fuels. The major role of wood is not only the provision of energy but also the provision of energy-sufficient material for our buildings and many other products. In addition, developing wood cells represent one of the most important sinks for excess atmospheric CO2, thereby reducing one of the major contributors to global warming.


Interferon-α (IFNα) exerts profound apoptosis-inducing activity on myeloma cells, but only at concentrations 10-100-fold above those clinically achievable due to dose-limiting toxicities. In colony forming assays, all multiple myeloma (MM) samples tested (8 primary myelomas and 2 cell lines) were sensitive to high doses of IFNα. Furthermore, very high doses of IFNα prevented MM tumor growth in 2 primary MM xenograft models (LAGk-2 and LAGk-1A). In order to exploit this potential of IFNα, we sought to improve its therapeutic index by increasing its activity towards myeloma cells relative to normal cells. Tumor-specificity can be modestly increased by attaching IFNα to an anti-CD38 antibody, thus targeting it to MM cells. Here we demonstrate that by introducing an attenuating mutation into the IFNα portion of this fusion protein, the IFNα activity is reduced by >10,000 fold on CD38 negative cells while it exerts similar potency on CD38+ MM cells compared to native IFNα. We show that direct in vitro killing activity of this anti-CD38-attenuated IFNα fusion protein on CD38+ myeloma cells is comparable to free IFNα, however, the activity of this fusion protein is reduced by ∼10,000 fold if the CD38 antibody is replaced by an antibody of irrelevant specificity, or if CD38- cells are used in the assay. In addition, we tested activity of the anti-CD38-attenuated INFα fusion protein in the H929 MM xenograft model and found that a single dose at 10mg/kg was sufficient to completely eradicate established tumors (150mm3) in 10/10 mice. Furthermore, when mice with starting tumor volumes of >700mm3 were treated for 3 weeks, we saw complete regression of these large tumors, an effect not observed with other MM agents tested. Our findings suggest that by administering this fusion protein to patients, it may be possible to target the robust tumor-killing activity of IFNα to the myeloma cells, with minimal toxic effects resulting from IFN's activity on normal cells.

Disclosures: Pogue: Teva Pharmaceuticals: Employment. Taura: Teva Pharmaceuticals: Employment. Bi: Teva Pharmaceuticals: Employment. Mikesell: Teva Pharmaceuticals: Employment. Yun: Teva Pharmaceuticals: Employment. Sho: Teva Pharmaceuticals: Employment. Wilson: Teva Pharmaceuticals: Employment.


Teacher performance is very important in ensuring the achievement of school goals, it needs to be encouraged for better performance. However, this is not easy because many factors influence it. The purpose of this study was to analyze the direct and indirect effects of work motivation, job satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) on teacher performance at SDN Murung Pudak District, Tabalong Regency. This research is a regression research with a quantitative approach which is formulated into a path analysis model. Based on the results of the study, the variable regression coefficient values were positive numbers such as work motivation (X1) with performance (Y) of 0.275, work motivation (X1) with Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) (Z) of 0.433 , job satisfaction (X2) with performance teachers (Y) of 0.375, job satisfaction (X2) with Orgaizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) (Z) of 0.435, Orgaizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) (Z) with teacher performance (Y) of 0.269 , work motivation (X1) through organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) (Z) with teacher performance (Y) of 0.116 and job satisfaction (X2) through Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) (Z) with teacher performance (Y) of 0.117. Therefore, this study can be concluded that there is a significant direct and indirect effect between work motivation, job satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) on teacher performance.


We study indigenous bundles in characteristic p > 0 with nilpotent p-curvature, and show that they corresponds to simpler objects which we call deformation data. We consider the existence problem of a certain class of deformation data, which arise from the reduction of Belyi maps from characteristic zero to characteristic p. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): Primary 14H25, 14H60.


We point out the difference between the two mostly used methods for calculating the effective refractive index of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers, namely by solving the Maxwell's wave equation and by analyzing the frequency spacing of the longitudinal modes of the Fabry-Perot cavity. The effective refractive indices obtained by these methods are shown to be different, as one refers to the phase effective refractive index while the other refers to the group effective refractive index, respectively. Dispersion relationships for these two effective refractive indices are deduced for mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers, which show an increase in group refractive index and a decrease in phase refractive index with wavelength. Experiments are conducted to obtain the group effective refractive indices of quantum cascade lasers emitting at various wavelengths, and good agreement has been achieved between the experimental data and theory.


Dancing plays important role in children's growth.Children's dancing is characterized by wide range of selecting subjects,knowledge,amusement and interest,refined structure,succinct language and rich connotation.At present,the dancing creation for children has grown-up characteristics and is conceptualized with narrow scope of themes.The dancing designers should,according to the characteristics of children,create works embodying the national style and diversity of children's dancing and reflecting the features of children in the new period.


Students' attendance in all academic institutions is very important and cannot be overlooked because all institutions have certain criteria for their student's attendance in class, college activities, and examinations. Hence, the lecturers in most academic institutions are concerned with the students' inconsistent attendance. The manual method of taking attendance is not effective because there are several challenges to that kind of method. The data collected through the conventional method is difficult to manage; time consuming to be scrutinized; and it causes the wastage of human and material resources. Therefore, the aim of this project is to develop a web-based application for handling attendance record of college activities and the scrutinization of college application in UiTM Perlis. This web-based application will use the barcode scanner to scan the barcode on students' matric card in order to retrieve the data. The study involved three main phases which are requirement identification phase, design and development phase, and testing phases in part of the research methodology. The study also involves usability and functionality testing by using unit test, test script and distributed post-task questionnaires respectively to the college manager, college staff and students in UiTM Perlis branch, Campus Arau. In short, this project is conducted to find the feasible solution for the related issues by implementing the web-based and barcode technology for the research and development purpose. Also, the prototype enables the management to facilitate in handling the college application and can keep on track the attendance of student's activity.


The primary objective of this research is to offer concepts related to the "user interface", as part of a knowledge-based system whose function relations with the user. We believe it is imperative to address the problem of user interface from an ergonomic point of view taking advantage of methods and tools that have been developed in this regard. One issue that is of real interest in the mining area of use of the w eb is to capture user activities during connection and extract patterns of behavior to define their profile in order to design adaptive interfaces. Second, the context-free grammars probabilistic modeling that allows browsing sessions is used. That renders Web sessions by graphs and probabilistic context-free grammars so that the sessions that are most likely are considered the most popular or most preferred, therefore the most important in relation to a particular topic. It aims to develop a tool for processing Web meetings obtained from server log represented by probabilistic free grammars of context.


There are differences in the electromagnetic transient characteristics between the wind power access system and the traditional power grid during the fault, resulting in the problem of adaptability deterioration of the relay protection equipment in the wind power access system. In the PSCAD simulation platform, the adaptability of the traditional transformer protection in the wind field is further analyzed. When the fault occurs in the transformer zone, the differential protection cannot be quickly and stably operated, the transition impedance causes the protection to be rejected, and the traditional transformer protection does not adapt to the wind power access system. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of the doubly-fed wind farm and the system fault transient current frequency, the transformer protection based on the difference of current frequency is proposed, and the action criterion is constructed by using the difference of instantaneous frequency. The simulation results show that the protection method can reliably and sensitively identify various types of short-circuit faults inside and outside the transformer, adapt to different wind speeds, and withstand the ability of transition resistance.


Proposed in 1950s,construct validity has gone through a process from none to existence,from trinity to core position,and gradually became one of the heaviest concerns of language testing.With the gradual establishment unitary validity,construct validity accordingly achieves new development but with problems and challenges.Based on the analysis of the construct validity development,this article chiefly discusses the contributions,problems and challenges of the new theory as well as the author's corresponding opinions and attitudes in the light of unitary construct validity theory.


The military compensation system is complex and includes an array of cash compensation elements, non-cash compensation (benefits), deferred compensation (retirement pay and benefits), and tax advantages. This report focuses primarily on the cash compensation provided to members of the active component armed forces.


This study aims to develop a risk management model (RMM) that can be used by the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to survive in a pandemic condition. An approach with psychological theory was used in the context of developing the RMM. The research method is based onqualitative paradigm and there are three stages in this study to develop the RMM for SMEs in a pandemic condition. This study finds that there are several problems and challenges that the SMEs management have to deal with the pandemic condition. Additional explanations are prepared to create the connection between the RMM with the Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle Theory. This RMM can be used by the SMEs management as a guide for carrying out an organization's business activities in a pandemic.


We accomplished the first demonstration of 25Gbit/s NRZ transmission for 100G-PON by leveraging state-of-art 25G Ge/Si APD. Measurement results prove that 35dB power budget is achievable. Comparisons between 25G and 10G APD receivers are performed.


As the construction industry, especially steel construction, contributes to a large portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable structural design has become a necessity to achieve the world vision of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. As steel portal frames are the most used structural system for single-story buildings, the main objective of this study is to determine the optimal steel portal frame configuration using prismatic and/or non-prismatic members to achieve the least embodied carbon. Five different portal frame configurations are considered under the effect of five distinct loading conditions. The results led to developing design charts consisting of contour plots showing the embodied carbon per unit of volume enclosed by the steel frame for different frame configurations, loading conditions, span lengths, and column heights. In addition, by increasing the number of member divisions, design variables, and non-prismatic segments, the average embodied carbon of the steel portal frames can be significantly reduced by about 14.34% up to 26.47% relative to the configuration with only prismatic members.


New class of integral identities concerning constraints on behavior of the Riemann's zeta function on the critical line is introduced in this paper. Namely, we have obtained new kind of $\sigma$-additivity and $\sigma$-multiplicativity in the class of reverse iterated integrals (energies).


RECENTLY we received through the post a Press release eontaintng a statement attributed to the Chairman of the Anti-Fluoridation Campaign of New South Wales, Mr. K. S. Jaffrey. This related to the fluoridation project in the city of Hastings, New Zealand, which has had con tinuous fluoridation of its water supply since 1954. It referred to comparisons that had been made between the state of the teeth of children in Hastings and that of the children in the nearby city of Napier and indicated that, according to recent findings, the Napier children had much better teeth than the Hastings children who had been drinking fluoridated water. The statement brought forward serious grounds for questioning the value of fluoridation, and we read it with interest and some surprise. Indeed, so interested were we that we decided to get more information about the matter. It is just as well that we did, as the facts that have been made available to us by those with first-hand knowledge of the position in Hastings and Napier show that the main points in Mr. Jaffrey's statement are quite wrong. This may not be his fault, as he may have been wrongly informed, but the fact remains that the information in the statement which we received, and which presumably was released to the Press in general, bears only a tenuous relation to the facts.


Internet usage has become essential for correspondence in almost every calling in our digital age. To protect a network, an effective intrusion detection system (IDS) is vital. Intrusion Detection System is a software application to detect network intrusion using various machine learning algorithms. The function of the expert has been lessened by machine learning approaches since knowledge is taken directly from the data. The fact that it makes use of all the features of an information packet spinning in the network for intrusion detection is weakened by the employment of various methods for detecting intrusions, such as statistical models, safe system approaches, etc. Machine learning has become a fundamental innovation for cyber security. Two of the key types of attacks that plague businesses, as proposed in this paper, are Denial of Service (DOS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks. One of the most disastrous attacks on the Internet of Things (IOT) is a denial of service.  Two diverse Machine Learning techniques are proposed in this research work, mainly Supervised learning. To achieve this goal, the paper represents a regression algorithm, which is usually used in data science and machine learning to forecast the future. An innovative approach to detecting is by using the Machine Learning algorithm by mining application-specific logs. Cyber security is a way of providing their customers the peace of mind they need knowing that they have secured their information and money.


This study examines the consumer behavior in the Carrefour Supercenter of Hangzhou, China, in the attempt of finding results that will display the shopping patterns of an evolving clientele. The city of Hangzhou is one of the cities with the highest per capita income, and because of its proximity to Shanghai it has been used as a test city before introducing products to mayor markets. Using observation as the main tool for such an analysis, the research considered a sample of consumers seeking to detect their shopping patterns, furthermor, a number of interviews generating useful information for strategic decisions was performed. The results show information about attitude towards promotional stands, the demographic characteristics of the consumer and the way of choosing products, among other variables. Additionally, it is verified that the Chinese culture impacts every aspect of the average People´s Republic of China (PRC) consumer.


The present invention provides a WLAN entity such as an access point or an access control system for a wireless local area network (WLAN). The entity has a processor configured to acquire road information regarding the cellular mobile network in response to a request for road information received from a device that is not associated to the WLAN. The entity comprises a transmitter for transmitting the acquired road information to the device. The present invention further provides a device such as a cellular telephone having the ability to associate to the ability and WLAN to connect to a cellular mobile network. The device has a transmitter, receiver and processor. Transmitter, when the device is not associated to WLAN, to the WLAN entities, can send a request for loading information of the cellular mobile network. The receiver can receive the load information. The processor determines whether or not to associate to the WLAN using the road information.


Objective
To predict the age structure of basic medical insurance participants in Beijing from 2017 to 2030, and the pooling fund income and expenditure of basic medical insurance for urban employees in Beijing for the same period, for reference of the establishment of a scientific and reasonable medical insurance policy.

Methods
Based on the data of basic medical insurance participants in Beijing from 2010 to 2016, the age structure of insured population from 2017 to 2030 was calculated by " Feedback" calculating method. Combined with the growth rate of pooling fund income and expenditure of basic medical insurance for urban employees, the pooling fund income and expenditure was predicted from 2017 to 2030.

Results
The age structure of basic medical insurance participants in Beijing stays at a " young" stage at present in general, and the fund is faced with less fund-raising pressure relatively. The proportion of retirees and those insured aged 65 years old and above will be up to 23.28% and 15.06%, respectively. The pressure of fund operation is increasing.

Conclusions
Under the existing policies, the pressure on fund operation is increasing, and the fund may fail to make ends meet in the future, which calls for measures to cope with.

Key words:
Insurance; Age structure; Fund prediction; Beijing


Conceptualisation • Involves developing hypotheses and conclusions from the experience which need to be tested Abstract Conceptualisation The Experiential Learning Cycle Concrete Experience Reflective Observation Active Experimentation Coaching in Leadership Development Copyright Centre for Coaching Craig O'Flaherty & Janine Everson: Centre for Coaching, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Cape Town, South Africa firstname.lastname@example.com www.centreforcoaching.co.za Page 10 of 13 Active Experimentation • The learner tests their newly developed principles or hypotheses by taking action which results in new experience. The cycle repeats itself Coaching strongly mirrors the process of experiential learning: • Concrete Experience The coachee (leader) experiences a process which forces them to become aware of the need to change what they are doing and how. This may come through the leader reflecting on past actions, or from feedback (360degree type input from subordinates and peers) which causes the leader to see their behaviour in a new way. • Reflective Observation The coach suggests some observations that the coachee (leader) should do to become aware of what has caused them to get to where they are and the triggers that cause them to become stuck. • Abstract Conceptualisation The coach works with the coachee (leader) to consider alternative possible solutions that may assist the leader to make a breakthrough with regard to the challenge facing them. • Active Experimentation The coachee (leader) tries new practices developed in partnership with the coach and assesses the impact on the desired results. 5. Trends and likely future scenarios 5.1 Propositions We would like to put forward some propositions regarding coaching in the context of leadership development. These represent our views of the likely future trends that will emerge. The statements are stated as propositions because they will require monitoring through research and evaluation. Proposition 1. Coaching will become a significant component of leadership development into the future and an increasing proportion of leadership development budgets. The impact of coaching on competency development and its ability to be tailored to the unique situation and characteristics of a leader will make it a sought after development modality into the future. It will begin to complement and even replace more generic leadership development forms such as off-the-shelf training courses, popular readings and generic education. Proposition 2. Organisations will increasingly seek to develop 'coaching cultures' as a way of differentiating themselves. Coaching in Leadership Development Copyright Centre for Coaching Craig O'Flaherty & Janine Everson: Centre for Coaching, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Cape Town, South Africa firstname.lastname@example.com www.centreforcoaching.co.za Page 11 of 13 Coaching skills and their wider application will begin to proliferate across organisational levels and functions. Organisations will increasingly look to investing in developing and acquiring coaching skills as a way of developing leadership talent and as a way of achieving competitive advantage. Proposition 3. Coaching will become increasingly used to integrate the learning and development outcomes aimed for in other learning modalities. Organisations will begin to view coaching as a development modality that can integrate and complement the learning outcomes that are targeted in initiatives such as training and development, assessment centres, mentoring programs and learner-directed development programs. 5.2 Conclusion Coaching can play a significant role in leadership development because it echoes strongly the process of how adults learn. It seeks to help leaders understand the meaning they bring to their surroundings and the actions they take. Working within the domain of how leaders see the world it strives to build competency development and to leave the leaders self-correcting and self-generating. As such it provides a highly tailored way of allowing leaders to explore the habits which get them stuck and the paths they need to build towards outstanding performance. Coaching will become an increasing part of the leadership-development landscape into the future. 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6038 Background: Past research indicates that uninsured and Medicaid-insured cancer patients have an increased risk of late stage at diagnosis compared to Medicare- or privately-insured patients. State projects (Michigan, California, Washington) have reported late stage at diagnosis among patients enrolled in Medicaid after diagnosis for 4 cancer sites. We assessed the relationship between Medicaid-enrollment status/timing and stage at diagnosis for 10 cancer sites, focusing on males in South Carolina. We hypothesized that late enrollment would be associated with late stage at diagnosis for most sites. Methods: Secondary data were extracted from the South Carolina Cancer Registry and Medicaid program. Male patients ages 18-64 diagnosed during 1996-2005 with a first invasive primary cancer of the lung/bronchus, prostate, colon, rectum, kidney/renal pelvis, thyroid, pancreas, or urinary bladder and patients with melanoma (skin) or NHL with nonmissing vital status or staging data were selected for analysis. ...


work collaboration between all Author OOS designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, wrote the protocol, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Authors PMN and ODO managed the analyses of the study. Author GOA managed the literature searches and wrote the second draft of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. ABSTRACT Aim: The study was done to investigate the anti-venom activity of Mucuna pruriens leaves extract against cobra snake ( Naja hannah) venom. Study Design: The mice were randomly grouped into six groups (A, B, C, D, E, and F) of five rats each. Group A served as the normal control (no induction), and the mice in the group were given normal saline (1ml/kg/body weight).Group B served as the test control (snake venom was induced but no treatment administered), Group C served as the standard control (snake venom was induced and treated with antivenin, a venom and thereafter the treatment with M. pruriens extract for Group D, E and F were done with 40 mg/ kg, 60 mg/ kg and 80 mg/ kg respectively intraperitoneally in the mice. Serum blood of the animals was used to assay for total cholesterol, bilirubin, AST, ALT, GSH and catalase levels after 14days. Result: The injection of crude venom of cobra snake ( Naja hannah) caused an increase in cholesterol, AST, ALT, bilirubin, catalase and glutathione in envenomated mice which significantly reduced (p<0.05) compared to all the controls after 14 days of treatment with the extract. Conclusion: The results suggests that 80 mg/ kg of the plant extract is more effective than the standard drug, therefore M. pruriens leave s has a greater anti-venom potential for curing snake bite, than antivenin.


There have been two principal ways of comparing Paul with Judaism, each of which has suffered from characteristic defects. One has been holistic in a certain sense. Taking "Paul" to be essentially represented by the doctrine of justification by faith and "Judaism" to be essentially represented by works righteousness, many Christian scholars have understood Paul and Judaism as antithetical. The characteristic weakness of this sort of comparison is that Paul is oversimplified, Judaism is both oversimplified and misrepresented, and the comparison is made in order to show the superiority of Paul to Judaism. That is, such comparisons have generally been pejorative and biased. The other principal method has resulted in more of a genuine comparison. Instead of dealing with generalized essences, this approach concentrates on individual motifs. It may properly be called atomistic, although the term Motivsgeschichte might better describe the method. Those who have followed this approach have generally answered the question of whether or not there is a positive relationship between Paul and Judaism affirmatively. The characteristic weakness of this approach — and this is a much less serious weakness than that of the other approach — is that a conclusion about some of the parts may lead too quickly to a conclusion about the whole. One may, for example, learn a great deal about the relation of what Paul says about Adam to Adamic speculation in Judaism without being able to determine whether or not Paul's religion was basically Jewish. As David Flusser has seen, building blocks from one edifice may be used to put together quite a different construction. Seeing the similarity, or even the identity, of some of the stones should not lead one to conclude that the building is the same. Thus a comparison of the two wholes as represented by their generalized essences generally goes awry, but the same may also be true of a comparison of any number of parts. Is there any way around this difficulty?


Electronic cigarettes are popular alternatives to actual cigarettes and are often used for smoking cessation. However, concerns about their efficacy and safety have resulted in calls for tighter regulation of their use.


Abstract The new indicator for lipid peroxidation (LPO) processes -9-hydroxy-10,12-octadecadie-noic acid (9-HODE) -was used to investigate, whether LPO processes are increased in destructed bone material of patients suffering from rheum atoid arthritis (RA) in comparison to surrounded non destructed bone material. The HODE content in destructed bones exceeded that of non destructed ones of the same patient for a factor of about 3. In addition similar increases in leukotoxines and epoxy oleic acid in the destructed bone material were observed, indicating an increase of LPO processes in affected bone parts of patients.


Slow light propagation in structured materials is a highly promising approach for realizing on-chip integrated photonic devices based on enhanced optical nonlinearities. One of the most successful research avenues consists in engineering the band dispersion of light-guiding photonic crystal (PC) structures. The primary goal of such devices is to achieve slow-light operation over the largest possible bandwidth, with large group index, minimal index dispersion, and constant transmission spectrum. Here, we report on the experimental demonstration of to date record high GBP in silicon-based coupled-cavity waveguides (CCWs) operating at telecom wavelengths. Our results rely on novel CCW designs, optimized using a genetic algorithm, and refined nanofabrication processes.


Phase-shifting profilometry is among the most popular techniques in optical measurement due to its numerous advantages like high resolution and low computational cost. In phase-shifting profilometry a series of interferometers are captured while the phase changes. Phase


Background: Since muscle temperature seems to influence the electrically evoked compound muscle action potentials, we wanted to quantificate the effect of light external cooling and warming on evoked responses in a clinical setting.


Tremendous gains have been made in advancing life expectancy around the world; however, marked disparities persist across socioeconomic gradients within countries and among countries globally. Exposure to disease-causing environmental agents also varies markedly by socioeconomic indicators; indoor and outdoor air pollution are exemplary in that regard. An ever-increasing body of evidence links environmental contaminants to diseases and poor health across the lifespan. This presentation addresses how the environment contributes to disparities in health and the potential to reduce disease burden through environmental management. The focus is on air pollution, but other examples will be explored, giving emphasis to the potential for prevention and the policies that are needed to do so.


ABSTRACT The electron captor gas most often used in microwave gas discharge devices such as transmit-receive switches is water vapour. It has been found that comparably short recovery (de-ionization) times are obtainable with hydrogen. This result is surprising in view of usually accepted values of the electron affinity of this gas. Communicated by the Author


Large eddy simulations of flow over heterogeneous forest canopies are performed. Each simulated forest consists of equal-sized strip canopies which alternate in the streamwise direction between sparse and dense leaf area density. Quadrant analysis is then used to investigate the eddy fluxes near the top of the forest with an eye towards developing a parameterisation of particle motion through the forest. The quadrant analysis demonstrates that the sweep-ejection cycle is modified by the canopy heterogeneities. The greatest modifications occur with the largest difference in leaf area densities. Ejections appear to be enhanced over canopy heterogeneities of intermediate length. Forests with large length-scale heterogeneities and forests with short length-scale heterogeneities are qualitatively similar to uniform canopies.


The active protein components of initiation factor M2B (IF-M2B) have been resolved into two homogeneous factors. These proteins, IF-M2Ba and IF-MBB@, were purified 300. and 500-fold, respectively, with a yield of about 15% of the original starting activity. The low molecular weight (-17,000) of these two proteins is in contrast with the much greater molecular weights that have been found for other initiation factors. IF-M2Ba is also unique among the initiation factors in that it contains no tryptophan and is capable of self-association. Both proteins are required for model assays which utilize 40 S and 60 S subunits (poly(U)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis or AUG-directed methionyl-puromycin synthesis). IF-M2B/3 has been shown to be required for hemoglobin synthesis, however, the presence of high concentrations of IF-M2Bcx in the 100,000 x g lysate supernatant has precluded the demonstration of an IF-M2Bcx requirement in hemoglobin synthesis.


PurposeThere is a large gap between UKA and TKA in terms of tissue preservation including bone stock and knee ligament. We have recently introduced bicompartmental UKA (Bi-UKA) to fill the gap and achieve more "physiological" knee than TKA. In this study, we report the short-term results of Bi-UKA.Subjects and MethodsThirty knees in twenty-nine osteoarthritis patients who underwent Bi-UKA from December 2010 to December 2013 (6 males and 23 females, average age of 75) were clinically and radiologically evaluated with an average observation period of 19 months. The operative indications were (1)confirmed diagnosis of medial and lateral osteoarthritis or osteonecrosis with preserved status of patellofemoral joint; (2)range of knee flexion greater than 110°; (3)flexion contracture less than 20°; (4)clinically stable knee in the frontal and sagittal plane; (5)correctable knee deformity with fine knee congruency. In all cases, fixed type UKA was implanted through a tibia dependent cut using a spacer block. Zimm...


Introduction: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a type of accumulation of fat in the liver cells. Portulaca oleracea has hypolipidemic properties, therefore the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of twelve combined training and portulaca oleracea supplementation on lipid profile and liver parenchyma in obese females with non - alcoholic fatty liver disease. Methods: The study population consisted of obese women (40-60 years) with non-alcoholic liver fatty. 40 obese females with non -alcoholic fatty liver disease were randomly divided into four groups of combined training with portulaca oleracea (n=10), placebo (n=10), portulaca oleracea (n=10) and combined training (n=10). Before and after the intervention sonography of parenchyma of the liver and blood tests were performed .the paired samples t-test, one-way anova and wilcoxon test was used. The significant level was determine at P<0.05. Results: 12 weeks of portulaca oleracea supplementation and combined training caused significant decrease in profile lipid and significant increase HDL serum level in combined training with supplement group, supplement and combined training groups (P<0.05). liver parenchyma also improved in training with supplement group and training group. Conclusion: Portulaca oleracea supplementation with combination training can be effective in decrease profile lipid and improving liver parenchyma in obese females with nonalcoholic fatty liver.


Review of literature.?In England and America rats have been incriminated as important reservoirs of salmonella organisms. Savage and Read (1913) examined the liver, spleen, focces and heart-blood of 41 rats and isolated five strains of Salmonella enteritidis. Savage and White (1923) isolated six strains of the same organism from the liver, heart-blood and intestinal content of 96 rats. Kerrin (1928) made cultures of spleen and liver of 100 rats and isolated 11 strains of S. enteritidis. Recently Khalil (1938) in a more extended series isolated 45 strains of S. enteritidis, 40 strains of S. typhi murium, three strains of S. neurport and one strain of S. thompson, respectively, from 750 rats. In America, Meyer and Matsumura (1927) examined 775 rats and isolated 28 strains


Water extraction of soybean oil was studied to find the optimal conditions for recovery of oil preenriched protein and for aqueous extraction of soybean oil. Orthogonal tests were employed in the procedures of oil pre-enrichment and aqueous extraction. Soybeans were crushed to pass a 40 mesh sieve, soaked under the optimum conditions (solid/water=1/5(w/v), 40°C, pH 10, 3 h) and water-ground to 100 mesh, stirred in 65 °C water for 20 min, and centrifuged at 1400 g to separate oil pre-enriched protein. The protein yield was 17.8 g from 100 g soybeans, which contained 62.8% oil. The oil yield was 69.0%. Optimum conditions for the aqueous extraction procedure were: solid-to-water ratio 1∶2, pH 9.0, time 30 min, stirring in boiling water bath, stationary time 10 min, centrifuge at 3600 g for 10 min. Experimental values showed that the oil yield after aqueous extraction from oil pre-enriched protein reached 88.3%, so the total oil extraction rate was 60.8%.


I investigate whether the degree of intimacy between victims and defendants affects legal responses to violence and how this association has changed over time. Using data on homicides between 1974 and 1996, I examine court outcomes in more than 1,000 cases. I demonstrate that intimacy matters at three criminal justice stages: charging, mode of conviction, and sentencing. However, moving beyond the traditional conceptualization of intimacy, I show that defendants who kill intimates do not always receive the same treatment, nor are all defendants who kill nonintimates treated similarly. Finally, I show that criminal justice leniency toward intimate violence is less evident in recent years.