The Yinggehai basin is located in the western part of the South China Sea, the burial depth of the Huangliu and Meishan formations in the target layer is close to 4000 meters, the formation temperature is close to 200 degrees Celsius, and the formation pressure is up to 100 MPa. The reservoir is characterized by low porosity-ultra-low permeability, heavy carbonate cement, complex CO2 content, this leads to complex neutron and density logging effects.
 The solubility of CO2 Above CH4, the solubility change with temperature and pressure is different from CH4, which makes it difficult to identify the CO2 gas layer. In this paper, based on the difference in the physical characteristics of CO2 and CH4, the Boltzmann equation combined with MCNP software was used to simulate the neutron and density logging responses under different CO2 saturations. Environmental factors such as temperature and pressure, carbonate cement, mud content and pores were studied To measure the effect of logging response, the LM inversion method is used to jointly invert CO2 saturation of density and neutron logs.
 The purpose of the inversion is to reduce the non-uniqueness of the evaluation of porosity and CO2 saturation. By introducing the Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) method, the neutron logging response equation of the porosity, argillaceous content, CO2, CH4 in the rock and the corresponding temperature and pressure is solved, and also the response equation of above parameters to density logging, where porosity and CO2 content are the key parameters, and the calculation results prove the effectiveness of the method by comparing the sampling data. The results show that the accuracy of the estimated CO2 saturation is increased by 10% compared with the conventional interpretation method, and the new simulation method improves the calculation speed several times compared to the MCNP software.
 The joint inversion method has been successfully applied to field data, which has greatly improved the saturation evaluation results of traditional logging interpretation methods, can be extended to other fields of nuclear logging simulation and inversion.


To investigate the efficiency and affecting factors of thermophilic aerobic digestion(TAD),two self-made TAD reactors were used to study the removal of volatile solid(VS) and digesting supernatant as well as sludge retention time(SRT)and dissolved oxygen(DO).It was proved that TAD could achieve both high VS removal efficiency and stable pathogen reduction rate.Under the conditions of temperature 55℃ and SRT 8 days,VS removal rate was above 42% and facel coliform quantity was 120~600MPN/gTS in digested sludge,which can be safely reused.Nitrogen removal rate was very low in TAD.Ammonia concentration in supernatant accumulated to a higher level and could not be transformed to nitrate successfully due to inhibition of nitrification under thermophilic conditions.SRT 7~8d and DO 0.3~1.0mg/L was appropriate for TAD,and reducing the aeration rate could satisfy the VS removal and save the energy.


Portuguese public universities (UPP) use Facebook to communicate with their target audience.Firstly, we identified which UPP getFacebook and how they position themselves in terms of likes, comments and shares. In the analysis of the use of this tool, the frequency in number of posts andthe type of information conveyed were examined and we tried to identifythe extent related to the use of hashtags, inclusion of photography and/or video. The results obtained revealed that UPP use Facebook to communicate, however they position themselves in different ways on the network. There is a lot of work to be done iftheychoose to bet on Facebook as theirprimary communication tool. The posts are mostly short texts with images proving concern inmaking communication more humane with successful posts. They make use of news from external media to promote themselves and the use of hastags and videos in the posts is not observed.


When the passenger vehicle runs on an off-road, the vertical displacement occurs. This vertical displacement variation affects settling time and some oscillations for passengers on the vehicle. The passenger vehicle is simulated with a quarter car system. We measure the vertical peak displacement and settling time using the quarter simulation model using the road profile with semicircular bump stop. The active suspension system with specific feedback control has better performances for the settling time and the peak value of the transient response than the passive suspension system has.


This study aimed to examine the relationship between the level of self-disclosure of university students in their loving relationships and their loving style. The research was conducted at the Faculty of Education of a private university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the 2019-2020 school year. This research is a descriptive study based on the relational screening model with a total of 186 students, 135 women and 51 men, selected with appropriate sampling method. The Self-Disclosure Scale was used to measure the level of self-disclosure of students, the Attitudes to Love Scale-Short Form to measure their attitudes towards love and the form of personal information elaborated by the researcher for demographic characteristics. As a result of the findings obtained in the study, there was no significant difference in the level of self-disclosure in the students' loving relationships in relation to demographic characteristics. It was found that there was a significant difference in the subdimension of affective love according to the frequency of the encounter with the partner and the subdimension of love.


Current approaches taken by governments and international agencies to cut poverty by targeting only poor people or adopting measures separate from broader aspects of economic development fail to tackle the underlying causes, a United Nations report warns. Such failure could leave about one billion people destitute by 2015, it says.

The report analyses the causes and persistence of poverty and looks at what works and what doesn't in current policy planning and practice.

"The evidence shows that poverty is reduced when economic and social policies, institutions and political arrangements are mutually supportive," the report says. "Simple prescriptions may …


In this paper,with evaluation index from the perspective of supply and demand,we analyzed quantitatively the relationship between logistics industry development level and growth of export/import trade.Through Johansen co-integration test,we found that the level of supply and demand on the logistics industry in Henan and the export/import trade of the province maintained a long-term co-integrated relationship;through Granger causality test we found that the level of demand of logistics industry of Henan exerted a significant influence upon the export/import trade of the province while the level of supply not significant and there was no evident reciprocal interaction between the overall development level of the logistics industry and export/import trade.


Based on the Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) trends of six countries with different profiles (Brazil, China, Denmark, India, Nigeria and USA), this paper provides key learnings on factors that could potentially favour or hinder fertilizer management improvements across different regions. IFA's key recommendation for the KJWA and for countries preparing their next NDCs and plant nutrition recommendations is to take into consideration their countries' specificities in terms of crop mix, crop yields, agro-ecological conditions and fertilizer management, as they can vary importantly across regions. Site-and crop-specific plant nutrition is key to achieve sustainable and resilient agricultural systems.


The writer surveys the Doshinkubo ore deposits of the Chichibu mine, which belongs to the magnetite deposits of the pyrometasomatic type consisting of pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and some silicate skarn minerals. At the contact between the quartz-diorite and limestone, the following zones of mineral association were recognized by megascopic and microscopic observations. Zone 1: quartz-diorite, which is composed of quartz, plagioclase (An45 Ab55_??_An55 Ab45), brown hornblende, biotite and blue actinolite. Zone 2: mixed rock zone (width; 20_??_30cm.), which is composed of quartz, plagioclase, brown hornblende, diopside, garnet, chlorite, and calcite. Zone 3: vesuvianite-xanthophyllite zone (width; about 2m), which is composed of vesuvianite, diopside, wollastonite, garnet, and xanthophyllite. Zone 4: garnet-chlorite-epidote zone (width; about 10m.), which is composed of andradite, pistacite, and chlorite. Zone 5: magnetite ore body (width; about 30m.). Zone 6: hedenbergite-ilvite zone (width; about lm.). Zone 7: limestome. The occurrence of the Zones 2 and 3 are closely related, with an intrusive body of the quartz diorite, and those of the Zones 4, 5, and 6 controlled by the formation of the ore body. From the observation mentioned above, the writer suggests that the Zones 2 and 3 were formed by the magmatic "reaction" between the quartz-diorite magma and limestone, but the Zones 4, 5, and 6 may be the products of the mineralization at the later stage.


| Exploring complexities in (cid:13)ame front instability leading to (cid:13)ame extinction is of current interest in combustion physics and nonlinear science. We investigate the dynamical properties of the (cid:13)ame front instability induced by radiative heat loss using nonlinear forecasting. The (cid:13)ame front instability represents high-dimensional chaos generated via the period-doubling cas-cade process, while its short-term behavior is predictable using a local nonlinear predictor based on the Sugihara-May method (G. Sugihara, R. M. May, Nature 344, 734 (1990), H. Gotoda et al., Chaos 22, 033106, (2012)). The feasibility of a new approach based on short-term prediction is also discussed in this work from the practical viewpoint of combustion systems.


The paper shows that as a result of scientific study, original geoecological zoning of agricultural areas was developed to take into account and evaluate the impact of pollutants contained in the soil cover on the geoecological potential of the analyzed area. Zoning uses original criteria not previously used for these purposes, which also determines the novelty of the proposed study. The results of this zoning during the implementation of proposed works on the assessment of the territory will have critical and promising significance. This is determined by the fact that the proposed zoning will allow not only obtaining new, previously not used geoecological characteristics of the analyzed territory, but also assessing the geoecological stability of territorial complexes from the point of view of both a natural and an economic object in conditions of active impact of negative anthropogenic activity. The use of the proposed zoning is illustrated by the effect of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill on adjacent agricultural land. As shown in the above example, such zoning, along with the above, will allow determining the possibility of promising (planned) environmental and economic use of each of the allocated territorial zones taking into account the content of heavy metal salts in the soil with the development of methods and techniques for rehabilitation and restoration of the territories of these zones. The obtained zoning results may also be used for spatial correction, including the selection of locations for MSW landfills, incinerators, points of observation (monitoring) of the spread of pollutants, as well as the basis for initiating lawsuits related to the violation of the ecological state of territorial facilities and the geoecological state of the territory as a whole. The most important result of using the method of zoning agricultural areas described in the paper is the possibility of using the geospatial properties of the land to solve the economic and environmental problems of the country - the strategic task of its sustainable development.


We compare newly industrialising countries as to their capabilities for integrating sustainability innovations into their catching-up processes. We thereby provide an approach to assess their absorption potential for sustainability innovations. The conditions that favour the exploitation of imitation opportunities are separated into general innovation capabilities and the sustainability selection environment. Using principal component analysis to aggregate numerous subjective indicators, we construct two composite indices that measure the functioning of the national innovation system and the societal anchoring of sustainability, respectively. Both indices have a strong positive correlation, suggesting that the development of certain institutions promotes both innovation and sustainability.


In clinical trials and many other research fields, proc transpose are used very often. When many variables with their individual formats are transposed into one variable, we lose the formats. We can do a series of if then statements to put the formats back in. However, when the variables involved are too many, the above method can be very tedious. This paper illustrates how to extract formats from dictionary.columns or sashelp.vcolumn, and then use PUTN function to assign the formats at run time and make the task much easier. In addition, it is much easier to apply the same method to other projects without a lot of hard coding in the SAS program. Efficiency is largely increased with this method


A process for the electrochemical machining of workpieces, in which at least one electrode is positioned adjacent to a surface to be machined and are generated in a pulsed mode current pulses to remove material from the workpiece, characterized, in that before and / or at the beginning and / or be detected during the electrochemical erosion data of the current pulses and evaluated to - to identify a current-time diagram of a phase of the electrochemical ablation, in which the removal rate is not constant, and or - during a phase of the electrochemical ablation, in which the removal rate is not constant, to control the spacing of the electrode to the surface to be machined and / or the current flow, - the phase of the electrochemical ablation, in which the removal rate is not constant, which is identified by that a) increases the maximum or average current per pulse through a successive series of successive pulses, or b) decreases the maximum or average power per pulse over a series of consecutive pulses.


The fieldwork was financed by African Parks. We are grateful
to the Congolese wildlife authorities (Ministere de l'Economie
Forestiere et de l'Environnement) for the permission to carry
out this study, and we are deeply indebted to the director of the
OKNP and to the conservation, wildlife monitoring and research
manager, Erik Marav, respectively, for their continued support
during our study. We are particularly grateful to Dr. Mike Kock,
veterinarian, for collaring the elephants and to the field tracking
team. We are also grateful to Sean Cahill for the useful comments
and English correction that helped improve this manuscript. The
authors of the present study certify that they have no affiliations
with or involvement in any organisation or entity with any financial or nonfinancial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.


Islamic classic Balinese literature is one of past Balinese literatures that contain Islamic thoughts, especially mysticism and magnanimity. Characteristics of Islamic classic Balinese literature are,for example, written in Balinese and rarely using Islamic aspects. Current research intended to analyze contents of Geguritan Joharsa Puh 5 until Puh 9 texts. The story presented in the text contain lesson on praying. According to the author, God will answer a prayer sent by human beings by giving direction on what should they do in order to achieve their goals. In addition, in facing failure, faithful human being still has changes to achieve their goals through prayers.


Objective To explore the apoptosis inducing effect of ethanol on hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)cells and analyze the expression of its associated proteins primarily.Methods Apoptosis of HCC cell line HCC 9204 cells was induced by culturing the cells for 6h in the culture liquid which contained 6% ethanol.Apoptotic cells were detected with typan blue staining,Hoechst 22 258 fluorescence staining,and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) method.DNA contents was analyzed with flow cytometer.The expression of the cellular proteins prior to and after inducing apoptosis was analyzed with SDS PAGE.Results 6% ethanol can make obviously morphological apoptotic changes on HCC 9204 cells.Most of the cells couldn't be stained by trypan blue,and were TUNEL positively stained.Apoptotic sub G1 peak was seen under flow cytometer.SDS PAGE indicated that there were new proteins produced,whose molecular weight was about more than 97.4kD,in apoptotic HCC 9204 cells induced by ethanol.Conclusions Low dose ethanol can induce apoptosis of HCC 9204 cells obviously and produce new high molecular weight proteins.


In order to balance the statistical noise and the number of energy bins of the traditional spectral CT, this paper introduce a new design of spectral CT, which works in Dynamic-Threshold-Based Counting and Integrating Modes. Next, the model and ART-TV reconstruction algorithm of it are proposed. Once have these reconstructed images at different energy bins, we can use an image-domain method to decompose materials of scanned object. We test the proposed reconstruction and decomposition algorithm in a thorax phantom, and work out the error of their results. It turns out that even a little error of reconstruction will influence the result of multi-material decomposition very much.


These data will include geo-referenced climate data, and data describing demography and socioeconomic characteristics of individuals, households and places. This study will focus on three states of Southern Brazil –Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul – and will examine rural and urban populations and assess the impact of climate variability on livelihoods and well-being, and their changes over time and across space.


Many candidate geological repositories have been reported to have relatively high ratios of in-situ horizontal stress to vertical stress. There can be a substantial increase in the horizontal stress due to the thermal stress resulting from radioactive decay, and accordingly fractures – particular the shallowly dipping ones – could be reactivated. The associated permeability increase with fracture shear dilation and large fracture slip could threaten the long-term safety of the deep geological repository. In this study, we elaborately investigated fracture reactivation under the coupled thermo-mechanical loading based on laboratory experiments. Critically-stressed single fractures in ca. 100 mm cubic granite specimens were heated in the minimum principal stress direction, through setting a target temperature of 150 °C at the heating source. Expansion in the maximum principal stress direction was restricted. Sawcut, laser-marking, and tensile-splitting fractures with low to high joint surface roughness (JRC=0~13) were compared. Fracture slip and shear dilation were directly measured by using clip-on displacement transducers and the measurements were further validated by the digital image correlation analysis. Temperature is non-uniformly distributed in the rock, and decreases with the increasing distance to the heating source. Thermally induced fracture slip grows slowly (compared with the stick-slip) but progressively with the peak slip rate of 2.69 – 6.65× 10−2 μm/s in different test cases. Shear dilation during thermoshearing can be ignored in the sawcut fracture, and a tendency that shear dilation is higher for the fracture with a larger JRC was confirmed.


In the classical mathematical description of the convection of a viscous fluid heated from below, there is a sharp transition from conduction to convection as the Rayleigh number exceeds a critical value. The convection state bifurcates from the conduction state at the critical Rayleigh number. This is in contrast to experiments, where the transition is smooth as the Rayleigh number is increased. We employ a theory of singular perturbations of bifurcations [1], [2] to show that small imperfections, such as thermal noise in the applied temperatures, are sufficient to explain the smooth transition. Finally, we show that when the imperfections satisfy a special condition, the transition remains sharp, but it is slightly perturbed. Since the imperfections are arbitrary, smooth transitions are most likely to occur in experiments.


China became the second largest economic power. But the gigantic growth of China has triggered another concern that it will project its influence around the Oceans in order to have maritime hegemony. Actually, China recently provoked conflicts with the Japan, Philippines, Vietnam as well as the U.S in South and East China Sea. However, it would be premature to decide that Chinese maritime security policy is quite offensive for securing maritime hegemony. This is because maritime environment in the Indian Ocean is quite different from that of the Pacific Ocean. First, in the Indian Ocean, there is no dominant maritime power, unlike in the Pacific Ocean where bilateral military alliances led by the U.S are playing a key role in maritime status quo. Second, there is much room for cooperation among nations because nontraditional security issues such as piracy, armed robbery against ships and illegal transportation of WMD cannot be tackled by one or some nations. Third, Africa becomes an attractive region to China for its national resources. Against this backdrop, China is pursuing 'tailored strategy' by becoming 'multilateral' and 'cooperative' in the Indian Ocean, while staying 'unilateral' and 'conflicting' in the Pacific Ocean. For example, China is trying to make a positive contribution to peacekeeping, disaster relief and count-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean. Considering this, Korea should prepare multi-leveled maritime policy. At a bilateral level, Korea should consolidate military alliances with the U.S and Japan. At a multilateral level, it needs cooperation among nations to fight against non-traditional security threats like piracy. Finally, at a unilateral level,


Endotoxin is the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)component of the Gram-negative bacterial cell wall.It can be released when the bacteria are dissolved after death or damaged by artificialmeans.Endotoxemia is known as a pathophysiological manifestation that is caused by the release a large amounts of endotoxin form the bacterial to blood.Transfusion of a large amount of liquid polluted by endotoxin can also cause endotoxemia.Endotoxemia can lead to a variety of liver diseases with unknownmechanism,Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4),CD14 receptor and Kupffer cells play important roles in the development of endotoxin-induced liver injury.

Key words:
Endotoxemia ; Liver diseases


— Mobile grid is a class of distributed systems that autonomously engage in sharing of resources and exchange of services to provide higher performance and utilization of the mobile device resources in a seamless, transparent, secure and efficient way. It allows sharing and co-ordinate use of diverse resources in dynamic, heterogeneous and distributed environment. Distributed Hash Table (DHT) plays an important role in distributed systems and applications, especially in large-scale distributed environments like mobile Grid Environment.DHT is a simple and elegant design for distributed systems. It provides the functions like a hash table to deal with the distributed data. DHT does not require a central server and treats all DHT nodes in the distributed system equally. Normally the routing topologies for structured peer-to-peer overly networks are classified based on their routing process and they are torus for CAN, ring topology for Chord, PRR Tree is for Tapestry and Pastry. In this paper we review the DHT under a number of key aspects that concern performance, scalability and self-configurability. Mainly we focused on the different structured P2P Overlay DHT routing algorithms and their various platforms and way it works for Mobile Grid applications.


This paper studies the film characteristic of literary narration using The tell-tale heart as an analytic text. The visible pictures and audible voices of literary narration are the written language. The readers must see the pictures and listen to the voices through imagination.


Abstract Three experiments were conducted to study the protein and energy requirements of the young calf and the relative efficacy of various milk replacers, by using 88 three-day-old male Holstein calves from 4 to 60 days of age. The energy requirement for maintenance was 48.2kcal digestible energy daily per kilogram of body weight; the requirement for growth was 370kcal per 100g gain in body weight. The nitrogen retention was 2.56g per 100g gain in weight. The digestibilities of nitrogen, ether extract and energy; weight gains and fecal consistency showed significant (P


In this article, following up on our previous investigations on guided resonances (GRs) in photonic quasicrystal slabs based on octagonal (quasiperiodic) tilings, we present the salient results from a parametric study of the GR properties, varying the air/dielectric fraction, and the slab refractive index and thickness. Our results, obtained via full‐wave simulations, show similar qualitative trends as those observed in the literature for periodic photonic crystal slabs. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 2737–2740, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24721


An important contribution to the literature on frequentist model averaging (FMA) is the work of Hjort and Claeskens (2003), who developed an asymptotic theory for frequentist model averaging in parametric models based on a local mis-specification framework. They also proposed a simple method for constructing confidence intervals of the unknown parameters. This article shows that the confidence intervals based on the FMA estimator suggested by Hjort and Claeskens (2003) are asymptotically equivalent to that obtained from the full model under both parametric and the varying-coefficient partially linear models. Thus, as long as interval estimation rather than point estimation is concerned, the confidence interval based on the full model already fulfills the objective and model averaging provides no additional useful information.


Third in the "Sanctuary" series, following "Thieves World" and "Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn". Seven fantasy writers have written the stories of those who live and die in the world of "Sanctuary".


A new fully automatic algorithm is described to determine Notable things in the video that are based on your movement. Spatially Unrelated samples of light were taken to generate a flow of tanker trucks Motion estimates the local parameters related to the Super pixel Identified within each frame. These estimates, in addition to The spatial data, and the shape of the point distributions consistent in the resolution of the 5D Interview space objects or parts of there. These And de noised dividend calendar using particle filter Focus, combine to estimate position and movement The parameters of the prominent objects in the moving clip. we showed Resetting object / s on a variety of prominent bar clips Screensavers and messy


A Deep Space Habitat (DSH) is the crew habitation module designed for long duration missions. Although humans have lived in space for many years, there has never been a habitat beyond low-Earth-orbit. As part of the Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Habitation Project, a study was conducted to develop weightless habitat configurations using systems based on International Space Station (ISS) designs. Two mission sizes are described for a 4-crew 60-day mission, and a 4-crew 500-day mission using standard Node, Lab, and Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) sized elements, and ISS derived habitation systems. These durations were selected to explore the lower and upper bound for the exploration missions under consideration including a range of excursions within the Earth-Moon vicinity, near earth asteroids, and Mars orbit. Current methods for sizing the mass and volume for habitats are based on mathematical models that assume the construction of a new single volume habitat. In contrast to that approach, this study explored the use of ISS designs based on existing hardware where available and construction of new hardware based on ISS designs where appropriate. Findings included a very robust design that could be reused if the DSH were assembled and based at the ISS and a transportation system were provided for its return after each mission. Mass estimates were found to be higher than mathematical models due primarily to the use of multiple ISS modules instead of one new large module, but the maturity of the designs using flight qualified systems have potential for improved cost, schedule, and risk benefits.


The invention relates to solid fuel devices of vegetable origin. Compact fire replacer comprising a deck defining a longitudinal and a transverse hole. The cross hole is formed at an angle of 2 ° to a plane perpendicular to the axis of the deck, the upper portions are one or more radial grooves, the intersection of the holes is not less than 100 mm from the bottom of the deck. The technical result - an increase of stability and duration of combustion.


Summary Aim: The goal of palliative care is the achievement of the best quality of life for patients and their families. For this, the administration of drugs by subcutaneous infusion is frequently used since many patients have great difficulties in taking drugs orally and regular intramuscular injections are painful. Usually, drugs are combined in infusion solutions. The objective was therefore to study the compatibility and stability of dexamethasone sodium phosphate (CAS 2392–39–4) and sodium furosemide (CAS 54–31–9) combined in solutions destined to subcutaneous administration in palliative medicine. Methods: Twelve different solutions were assessed during 15 days. Drug admixtures were prepared in polypropylene syringes using 0.9 % saline as diluent and stored at 4 °C and 25 °C in the dark. Initial concentrations were 3.33–10.0 mg/ml for sodium furosemide (dose range 40–120 mg/day) and 0.33–3.33 mg/ml (dose range 4–40 mg/day) for dexamethasone sodium phosphate. Quantification of both drugs was performed by high-performance liquid chromatography. Results: After 5 days of storage at both temperatures, the maximum losses obtained were lower than 10 % for both drugs. However, after 15 days, slight precipitation/turbidity was observed in all mixtures. At this time, maximum losses of 20 % were obtained for both drugs. Conclusion: These results confirm the stability of mixtures prepared with sodium furosemide (= 120 mg/day) and dexamethasone sodium phosphate (= 40 mg/day) for a period of 5 days and with independence of their storage at 4 °C or 25 °C.


: This study aimed to identify the impact of tourism on social, economic and cultural conditions in Kecamatan Siak. The research method was quantitative deductive by using the Likert scale. Population in this research was Kecamatan Siak residents. The number of samples were 382 families with stratified sampling method. The results showed that tourism had positive and negative impacts on development in Kecamatan Siak. (1) The positive impact on the social sector with the highest value was to strongly agree on the increase of the relations and good communication techniques. The negative impact with the highest value was to agree on an increase in social deviations such as commercial sex, drug use and destruction of tourist attractions (2) The positive impact on the economic sector with the highest value was to strongly agree on the increase in of local businesses. The negative impact with the highest value was that there would be an increase in prices of local goods and basic goods. (3) The positive impact on the cultural sector with the highest value was to strongly agree on the increase in tourism human resources. The negative impact with the highest value was agreeing on the occurrence of consumptive lifestyle.


Surface-mounted permanent magnet motors with concentrated windings (CW-SPM) can have a wide constant power speed range if properly designed. This study introduces a design approach for CW-SPM machines for traction application, presenting the new parametric design plane x, b, where x accounts for the rotor on stator radius split and b summarizes the share between copper and iron in the stator. The proposed design method aims at covering the important area of design of PMSMs with flux weakening capability, with a simple methodology. Analytical and finite-element (FEA) models are used jointly. The design flowchart is illustrated and the output designs are validated by FEA. All presented results are obtained through open-source design resources available online.


The electrocardiographic manifestations of multiple infarction of the myocardium are always interesting, frequently puzzling, and sometimes missed entirely. In particular, the studies of evolutions of patterns of combined anterior and posterior infarction are still inadequate and incomplete. Yet the coexistence of such a combined lesion is a fairly common pathologic entity and has been reported to be as high as 32.3%.1 There are many reports of the "neutralization" of abnormalities in the electrocardiogram when a new infarct succeeds an old one in the opposite wall.* It has been pointed out that in such cases the tracings demonstrate a decided improvement that may not be warranted by the clinical findings. These electrocardiographic neutralization effects are by no means uniform or complete, and very often it is possible to detect the residuals of an old infarct in tracings depicting a recent one. Furthermore, one sees patterns of combined or multiple infarctions


Considerable accounting research has been devoted to analyzing the relation between accounting data and contemporaneous security prices. A conceptual framework that explains this relation is provided by the information perspective on accounting. This framework involves an information link, between accounting data and the future stream of benefits from an equity investment, and a valuation link, between the future benefits and security price.1 The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of these fundamental links. In a world with rational wealth-maximizing investors, security price is generally regarded as being tautologically equal to the present value of expected future benefits of share ownership. The contemporaneous association between accounting earnings and security price is therefore a


3559 Background: Colorectal cancer remains a significant source of morbidity and mortality within the United States, causing nearly 53,000 deaths in 2021. For unresectable pts, the estimated 5-year survival rate is 14%. Given recent advances in treatment, 50% of pts with mCRC will receive third-line therapy or greater, making optimization of therapy in these settings pivotal. Trifluridine-tipiracil (TAS-102) is FDA approved for third-line or greater in mCRC per the RECOURSE Trial. Standard dosing is 35 mg/m2 twice daily (maximum = 80 mg/day) on Days 1-5 and Days 8-12 of 28-day cycles. This dosing schedule is associated with Grade 3-4 neutropenia (38%), requiring treatment delays (53%), dose reductions (14%) and G-CSF support (9%). To reduce this toxicity while maintaining efficacy, we studied an alternative biweekly dosing (Days 1-5 and Days 15-19 of 28-day cycles). Methods: A retrospective analysis was completed (2019-2021) at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in pts with refractory mCRC and appendiceal cancer (CA) who completed > 12 days of TAS-102 therapy. Diagnostic imaging was completed every 8-12 weeks. Patient data was evaluated for lines of prior therapy, ECOG performance status (PS), the addition of bevacizumab, and CTCAE grade of treatment-related myelotoxicity. Evaluation of progression-free survival (PFS) was performed only in mCRC pts. Results: 24 pts met the criteria, with a mCRC:appendiceal CA ratio of 20:4 and Male:Female 13:11. Median age 61.5 yrs (range 31-80); median number of prior therapies 3; median ECOG PS of 1; and median duration of therapy 73.5 days. Hematologic toxicities: Neutropenia 30% [Grade 3 (13%), Grade 4 (0%)]; anemia 17.4% [Grade 3 (8.7%), Grade 4 (0%)]; thrombocytopenia 4.3% [Grade 3/4 (0%)]. No pts required G-CSF. One patient required a treatment-related dose delay (neutropenia), and 2 pts required dose reductions (fatigue). In mCRC pts, the median PFS was 2.3 months. To date, 7 mCRC pts remain on treatment (range: 38-385). Conclusions: In our retrospective cohort analysis, TAS-102 biweekly dosing schedule (35 mg/m2 twice daily; Days 1-5 and Days 15-19 of 28-day cycles) for pts with refractory mCRC and appendiceal CA reduced Grade 3 myelotoxicity without Grade 4 toxicities, while preserving PFS in pts with mCRC. With an improved toxicity profile, this alternative TAS -102 dosing schedule may be a more favorable option for future combination studies. Additional prospective data are needed to validate these findings. To our knowledge, this is the first analysis of biweekly TAS-102 in a US patient population.


Interpersonal conflict is a research topic increasingly gaining importance in project management. The purpose of this exploratory study was to find out how relationship conflict affects task confli ...


1 There are four other methods of computing normal profits, but the average earnings credit is the principal measure of normal profits. The other credits, including the invested capital credit, provide relief for corporations with low base-period earnings. and that these excess profits continued to be earned during the emergency. Increases over base-period earnings also are of two classes; some increases are shared in by all corporations, while some corporations earn a greater than average share of the increased profits. It is possible, therefore, to divide corporate profits into the following four categories:


Yichang is the main tea production area in Hubei Province and the famous tourism city in China. The construction of ecological - cultural tourism circle of Western Hubei will drive and accelerate the rapid development of Yichang tea culture tourism.Ancient tea culture is the basis of contemporary tea culture and the important connotation of tea culture tourism.The paper analyzes the present tourism situation of Yichang tea culture history,affirms the obtained remarkable achievements,ascertains the main problems and thereby puts forward the strategies to explore ancient tea culture and promote the tourism development of regional tea culture.


The purpose of the present paper is to study the geometry of a sub‐Riemannian manifold and to apply the results to the nonholonomic mechanical systems. First, we construct a linear connection on the horizontal distribution and obtain some Bianchi identities for it. Then, we introduce the horizontal sectional curvature, state a Schur Theorem for sub‐Riemannian geometry, and find a class of sub‐Riemannian manifolds of constant horizontal curvature. Also, we define the horizontal Ricci tensor and scalar curvature, and some sub‐Riemannian differential operators (gradient, divergence, Laplacian), extending some results from Riemannian geometry to the sub‐Riemannian setting. Finally, by using the sub‐Riemannian connection constructed here, we express the Lagrange‐d' Alembert equations for a nonholonomic mechanical system in a form that is similar to the Newton's equations from classical mechanics.


Flying ad-hoc network is now growing area of research. There are few work done in this area. This whole paper going to stdy about flying network and its protocols. In our propose work we give decentalize cloud based approach in which cloud have data form sensor and base station and then all the base station and device or sensor connected to the each other through many to many connectivity.


Answering the call for response process–based validation, this study shows how researchers can evaluate validity evidence of test scores based on the mental "processes" test-takers use, rather than based on correlations with other "outcome" measures. The proposed methods for process-based validation studies are demonstrated using a sample of 189 adults who took two listening comprehension tasks. Immediately after completing each task, the test-takers filled out a 10-item survey to reflect on the mental processes involved in reaching their answers. These 10 process variables attempted to capture five desired and five undesired response processes in answering multiple-choice listening comprehension questions. We investigated the relationships between these process variables and the binary outcome of item score (correct vs. incorrect) using mixed-effects logistic regression models, and showed how the results could provide validity evidence (or lack thereof). By doing so, we offer an alternative approach to study response process and test performance and encourage more process-based validation studies.


Since 1980,the temperature in South Shanxi Province has obviously gone up ,average rising about 0.1 ℃/year. Since 1990,continuous high temperature days have frequently occurred which appeared damage to the growth and yield of crops to various degree.In this paper, the meteorological phenomenon data were analyzed and studied purposely. The result indicated, once diurnal maximum temperature reached over 35℃,the pollen formation of crops began to be affected negatively. When diurnal maximum temperature over 35℃ lasted for over 8d, most of crops' pollen aborted, resulting in bad seed-setting and low yield.


During the rv "Sonne" cruise S082A a single Hydrosweep profile over the Reykjanes Ridge crestwas carried out. The recorded bathymetric stripe allows a classification of two main segments. The southern segment between the Charles Gibbs Fracture Zone and the Bight Discontinuity is a typical part of the northern Mid Atlantic Ridge with rift mountains bounding a median valley. The Bight Discontinuity seems to be a transition zone between the influenced and non-influenced region of the Iceland hotspot. From this transition zone the second segment trends 36° northeastward toward Iceland. Oblique spreading and en echelon ridges are typical, striking south of 61°N perpendicularlyto the spreading direction of 103°. The overall structure of the Reykjanes Ridge supports a mainly amagmatic-tectonic evolution as it is typical of episodic spreading models.


Introduction Chapter 1. Autonomy and Subordination: The Cultural Dynamics of Small Cities Chapter 2. Suakin: A Port City of the Early Modern Sudan Chapter 3. India from Aden: Khutba and Muslim Urban Networks in Late Thirteenth-Century India Chapter 4. At the Intersection of Empire and World Trade: The Chinese Port City of Quanzhou (Zaitun), Eleventh-Fifteenth Centuries Chapter 5. Clearing the Fields and Strengthening the Walls: Defending Small Cities in Late Ming China Chapter 6. Secondary Capitals of Dai Viet: Shifting Elite Power Bases Chapter 7. Coastal Cities in an Age of Transition: Upstream-Downstream Networking and Societal Development in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Maritime Southeast Asia Chapter 8. Missionary Buddhism in a Post-Ancient World: Monks, Merchants, and Colonial Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Cochinchina (Vietnam) Chapter 9. Religious Networking and Upstream Buddhist Wall Paintings in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Burma Chapter 10. The Ottoman Balkan City: The Periphery as Center in Punitive Spectacle Chapter 11. A Tale of Three Cities: Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800 Chapter 12. Urban Primacy and Urban Hierarchy: Four Examples from Southern India, c. 1000-1800


In the studies, we investigate the cause of failure that occur during pilot run and new process evaluation. The results are fed back to wafer and assembly design and process improvement. From our results, the evaluation for package qualification can find out not only package but also wafer process issue.


The senile traditional propaganda system of Chinese films, eager to pre-advertising, and mostly invested in television, newspapers and other traditional media, ignoring intermediate or late investment in public opinion, failed to pay sufficient attention on new media reviews, can not timely control and establish sustainable development atmosphere of new public opinion, providing opportunity to distort the comments.


The activity of clay mining in Sidorejo, Godean has been goes on hereditary.
The communities surrounding area Gedang mountain is a clay miner. However the
activity of clay mining in Sidorejo does not have license for mining process. Dinas
P3BA as official duty has the authority make license for the people activity of clay
mining. Until now Dinas P3BA does socialization only to the miner and does not
other efforts yet. Legal protection for nature from environmental damage caused by
mining without a permit be desirable that is noted so that activity of clay mining
does not damage the environment and threat for the miner.


In this work we developed target recognition algorithms for landmine detection with ultra-wideband ground penetrating radar (UWB GPR). Due to non-stationarity of UWB signals their processing requires advanced techniques, namely regularized deconvolution, time-frequency or time-scale analysis. We use deconvolution to remove GPR and soil characteristics from the received signals. An efficient algorithm of deconvolution, based on a regularized Wiener inverse filter with wavelet noise level estimation, has been developed. Criteria of efficiency were stability of the signal after deconvolution, difference between the received signal and the convolved back signal, and computational speed. The novelty of the algorithm is noise level estimation with wavelet decomposition, which defines the noise level separately for any signal, independently of its statistics. The algorithm was compared with an iterative time-domain deconvolution algorithm based on regularization. For target recognition we apply singular value decomposition (SVD) to a time-frequency signal distribution. Here we compare the Wigner transform and continuous wavelet transform (CWT) for discriminant feature selection. The developed algorithms have been checked on the data acquired with a stepped-frequency GPR.


The contemporary, income and consumption approaches to poverty definition and measurement, which are unidimensional in nature, are unable to capture multiple dimensions of poverty. The multidimensional approach operationalized here in the structural equation framework suggests that the multidimensionality of poverty hypothesis holds for the population in Kathmandu, Nepal, including economic well‐being, capability, and social inclusion. While all of these dimensions are integral, the capability dimension appears to be highly influential, affecting every other poverty dimension. This paper identifies indicators appropriate to measure different poverty dimensions and, although the multidimensional approach necessitates further work for more simplified and policy relevant application, alternative ways are explored with their practical implications.


The main objective of presented study is to evaluate the influence of skew on maximum bending moment of skewed continues concrete multicell box-girder bridges. the AASHTO LRFD specifications which widely used to bridge design in the most cases overestimates the moment distribution for external girder and underestimates that for internal girders by as much as 40% and 25% ,respectively. The standard AASHTO of line live loads (distributing the wheel loads equally between all girders) bring about even more conservative results for distribution factor of both external and internal girder causes to uneconomic design. This study indicates that the grillage analysis can predict the maximum moment of external and internal girders more reliable than current codes. Using an expensive parametric study on a large number of prototype bridges, several modification factor expressions are proposed to enhance the accuracy of moment distribution of AASHTO LRFD specifications. Keywords— Bridge, Truck, Skew Angle, Grillage Approach, Distribution Factor.


This paper proposes a realization of fully tunable all-pass (AP) filter and its application. Three Multiple Outputs Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (MOOTAs) and a grounded capacitor are used for realizing an all-pass filter which is able to tune in both of the frequency response and gain. The frequency response and gain are independently tuned through particular bias current. The advantage of independent tunable gain is of AP filter that can be widely used in many applications as well as the sinusoidal oscillator. A multiphase sinusoidal oscillator (MSO) using loop-back of three cascaded all-pass sections is raised as an application. Three MOOTAs and a grounded capacitor are constructed as current-mode APN. The PSpice simulations results are described in two parts, AP filter and MSO. It shows the magnitude and phase responses can be independently tuned. The MSO current and voltage outputs are equally spaced in phase of 360/n degree. The harmonic distortion of the sinusoidal output is less than 0.64%.


. M. Takeuchi proved the following nice result: The \two-number" of a symmetric R -space is equal to the sum of the Betti numbers of the space with coe(cid:14)cients in Z 2 . In the present paper an extension of this result is given for general R -spaces.


Abstract Measurements of ion conductivity have been made for four nickel solutions used in metal finishing processes but not all commonly for electroplating: chloride, nitrate, acetate and nickel methanesulphonic acid (MSA). Using criteria such as conductivity and Arrhenius plots to compare them with sulphate, chloride and acetate appear to be normal whereas nitrate and MSA have distinct differences.


sented by Andrew J. Nathan in 1973, which departed from the then dominant approach of focusing on ideological 'line struggles' in the Communist party. Nathan's factions were of a specific sort patronclient networks woven into what he called the 'trellis' of formal political institutions. In Nathan's view, even Mao was a faction leader. Nathan further argued that competition among factions was moderated by a 'code of civility' that broke down only during the Cultural Revolution, when Mao sought to destroy his competitors. Nathan's model was attacked from two directions. Lucien Pye and the late Tang Tsou questioned his narrow definition of factions, while Frederick Teiwes proposed a 'court' model in which the key factor was the 'core' leader Mao, Deng, or Jiang not factions. Tsou also rejected the idea of a code of civility, maintaining that factional struggles in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and in Chinese history generally, have been of the 'win-all, lose-all' type. Each of these arguments is repeated and updated here, with Lowell Dittmer acting as a kind of moderator. He tries to rescue Nathan's original model by widening its scope with the concept of 'informal politics,' a solution Nathan himself rejects. This is a book for specialists. A detailed knowledge of PRC political history is assumed, and there are formidable passages of dense social science lingo, although Pye, Susan Shirk, and the late Michel Oksenberg all make lucid and at times even witty contributions.


The heterodinuclear NCN pincer complex K[(L)PdII(DPS)AuICl], 1, (HL = 5-methoxy-1,3-bis(1-methyl-1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)benzene, DPSH2 = 4,4′-dicyanamidodiphenyl sulfone) with two-photon induced luminescent properties was synthesized and investigated for biological Co2+ detection. Importantly, 1 can selectively recognize Co2+ in aqueous media in the presence of other abundant cellular cations (such as Na+, K+, Mg2+, and Ca2+), trace metal ions in organisms (such as Zn2+, Ag+, Fe3+, Fe2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, and Cu2+), prevalent toxic metal ions in the environment (such as Cd2+, Hg2+, and Cr3+), and amino acids, with high sensitivity. The fluorescence response of 1-Co2+ with respect to pH change was studied and the resulting demonstrated fluorescence enhancement was observed in the pH range of 4–10. The water-soluble probe 1 was successfully applied in the visualizing of the site of Co2+ accumulation as well as estimating of trace amounts of Co2+ ions in live HeLa cells by two-photon microscopy.


A new theoretical relation between proton and cobalt-59 chemical shifts in cobalt(III) compounds has been established on the assumption that the proton shift comes primarily from the anisotropy of the second-order paramagnetism of the central cobalt(III) ion. The additivity observed for cobalt-59 chemical shifts in solution is explained and applied to the problem of proton shifts. The relation between 1H and 59Co chemical shifts, coupled with this additivity, allows one to calculate the chemical shift of a proton under the influence of the paramagnetic anisotropy of a cobalt ion.


The linguistic nature of a scientific term is a factor of its cognitive-heuristic potential. Term is a linguistically systematized and motivated unit and has its cognitive and lexical prototypes; all these characters predetermine its functions of systematizing, modeling and prognosticating scientific knowledge.


A paleoenvironmental and paleolandscape reconstruction of two separate sites in the Greenwich Bay region of RI was completed for use in the Paleocultural Landscapes Project. Investigations of a lacustrine sediment record in Warwick, RI were completed in order to develop a regional paleoenvironmental reference record. Investigations of the acoustic sub-bottom record in Greenwich Bay, RI were completed in order to develop paleolandscape reconstructions of the observed depositional environments for future use in an archaeological site prediction model. For Chapter one, we took a single sediment core from Gorton Pond, Warwick, RI in the summer of 2013 for the purpose of developing a regional paleoenvironmental reference record. The core was dated using both AMS-radiocarbon dating of four terrestrial macrofossil samples, and correlations with a radiometric/pollen age model from a surface core taken from Gorton Pond for a previous study. The oldest terrestrial macrofossil was a spruce cone dated to ~12,100 calendar years BP, but an estimated 18,000 years of sediment is in the Gorton Pond record, based on bracketing ages from dated recessional moraines in the region. However, we only sampled an estimated 16,000 years, based on a Younger Dryas transition of 13, 000 BP. Physical, magnetic, and elemental/isotopic (C, N, S, D/H) proxy measurements were made, and six distinct environmental zones were interpreted. The Gorton Pond record indicates significant changes in lake productivity and temperature. The Late Pleistocene Deglacial Period (16.0–13.0 ky BP) is indicated by low OC%, high concentrations of magnetic material, and terrestrially-sourced organic matter. The Younger Dryas chronozone was observed (13.0–11.8 kyr BP) as large decreases in


Abstract An automorphism group of a graph is said to be s-regular if it acts regularly on the set of s-arcs in the graph. A graph is s-regular if its full automorphism group is s-regular. For a connected cubic symmetric graph X of order 2pn for an odd prime p, we show that if p ≠ 5, 7 then every Sylow p-subgroup of the full automorphism group Aut(X) of X is normal, and if p ≠3 then every s-regular subgroup of Aut(X) having a normal Sylow p-subgroup contains an (s − 1)-regular subgroup for each 1 ≦ s ≦ 5. As an application, we show that every connected cubic symmetric graph of order 2pn is a Cayley graph if p > 5 and we classify the s-regular cubic graphs of order 2p2 for each 1≦ s≦ 5 and each prime p. as a continuation of the authors' classification of 1-regular cubic graphs of order 2p2. The same classification of those of order 2p is also done.


This paper examines data needed for the operation of a bridge management system (BMS). It briefly traces the history of the National Bridge Inspection Standard (NBIS) and examines the type of data required by the NBIS. These data must be collected by all highway agencies, but are not necessarily the data needed to make bridge management decisions. BMS data are more comprehensive and include topics not covered by the NBIS. Such data are identified and discussed in this paper.


This article argues that society as a whole and planning in particular need more creative responses to the problems and challenges they face. Planning needs creativity to imagine and to construct (structurally) different futures. First, the article briefly analyses two case studies: the Hasselt case as an example of creative transport planning and creative local governance; and the Perth case as an example of distorted creativity. Then the article questions the nature of planning creativity needs and looks for a systematic method. Scenario building turns out to be an excellent tool for conceiving possible futures and their processes, what must be changed first and what next. Just as there are many traditions and collective practices there are also many images of what a society wants to achieve. As the opportunities for implementing images are not equal the article reflects on a planning annex governance system that serves all citizens and especially the least powerful. All this has an impact on planners as well. In the final part, the article touches briefly on some preconditions for creativity, on how it could be enhanced and on how realistic the discourse itself is.


nuances that might be elusive to non-theologians. Though it looks carefully at religious belief and practice, this is not a work one would classify as a study of "lived religion." It is, however, one that takes seriously ritual and practice, surfacing imbedded assumptions and broad social and cultural implications contained within both. In this respect, McGrail's book can be a guide to which historians who wish to interrogate ritual texts as source materials may turn to develop their own interpretive skills.


Dress is integral to the performance of ballet, carefully considered in the collaboration between the choreographer and the designer. This chapter offers a broad introduction to thinking about "costume" as a term that is reserved for and relates to garments used for performance. It examines contemporary ballet costume through the conventions evidenced in the component parts of garments while emphasizing a tradition of making. Uniform is used in the training of a dancer so that dress is embedded in bodily practice, becoming a symbiotic partner in the dance. Contemporary ballet abandoned the form of the classical tutu and features leotards, bare legs, and pointe shoes or canvas slippers, flattening the hierarchy and blurring the gender lines.


This chapter explores vectors necessary for tackling the integration issues posed by blockchain technologies in derivatives markets. It begins with an overview of a typical derivatives transaction and a discussion of the basic regulatory infrastructure designed to address the risks of the derivatives markets today, including its registration regime. Next the chapter provides an overview as to how blockchain could be applied in the derivatives markets. In a third step, it explores the ways in which a blockchain-based derivatives market could possibly reduce risk, followed by an overview of some of the risk concerns about blockchain raised by market participants and how they may be addressed. The chapter concludes by considering an issue that has escaped considerable attention—how the application of today's risk-based registration regime on tomorrow's blockchain market may actually increase risk.


Take great Bridge high pier of Yesanhe for example, this paper analysed the high piers euler and extreme value stability. The calculation results showed that, the influence of calculation model and geometry characteristics of structure to its stability was bigger, bridge pier ratio of slope and the label of bridge pier concrete was also the major factor to influence the stability of high piers extreme value.


This work proposes a re-reading of the Freudian article of 1925 named "Some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes", following the path opened by Lacan with his theory of sexuation. In Freud"s text, there seems to be an implicit temporal proposition about the assumption of the sexed position, which leads to an Oedipal schematism that does not always account for the singularity of sexuation beyond its normative arrangements. Thus, we raise the question: can the sophism of the three prisoners – by the differential introduction of the time for "seeing", "understanding", and "concluding" – help us to deliver a non-normative reading of the body in the process of sexuation? Branching out this question, we will discuss the importance of maintaining, with Lacan, an acute and precise differentiation between the phallus and the penis and between sexual difference and the anatomical distinction between the sexes. Finally, we conclude by pointing to the limits of the Oedipal norm to predict or determine what will be made of the subject, since, by considering the Other as barred – and not a complete system of domination –, a space of contingency is opened, revealing for each one the unconscious choice of their sexed position.


Described here is a model for the long-time formation and evolution of erodible beds under the action of waves and currents. It is an extention of a model rst developed by Craik and Leibovich, which describes the dynamics of Langmuir circulation cells, later adapted by McWilliams and Restrepo to model the interaction of a gravity wave eld with global oceanic ows.


The nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization (NMP) of styrene and butyl acrylate in microflow tubular reactors was examined. In comparison with polymerizations conducted in a batch reactor under otherwise identical conditions, the microflow setup gave higher conversions and produced polymers with lower polydispersity indices. Block copolymers of the two monomers could be synthesized by connecting two microflow tubular reactors through a T-junction. The NMP of methyl methacrylate in a microflow tubular reactor was also investigated.


In this work, we study the oscillatory behavior of solutions of a class of first order impulsive neutral delay differential equations of the form (y(t)− p(t)y(t− τ)) + q(t)G(y(t− σ)) = 0, t 6= tk, t ≥ t0 ∆y(tk) = y(t + k )− y(tk) = bky(tk), k = 1, 2, 3, · · · ∆y(tk − τ) = y(t + k − τ)− y(tk − τ) = bky(tk − τ), k = 1, 2, 3, · · · for all p(t) with |p(t)| < ∞. AMS Subject Classification: 34K


the genome. As the patient is treated, the tumour evolves to circumvent treatment, gathering new genomic changes that convey resistance and allow the tumour to further progress and evolve. Traditional examination of the tumour is normally performed through needle biopsies or surgical specimens, and these invasive methods limit the examination of the tumour and only provide a snapshot of a specific tumour in space and time. I cancer patients, DNA from apoptotic or necrotic cancer cells is shed into the bloodstream and circulates freely together with DNA shed by normal dead cells. The circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) in plasma has been shown to contain the various tumour-specific alterations seen in the primary and metastatic tumours, and may more accurately represent the genetic profile of the whole tumour. For this reason, ctDNA can be seen as a "liquid biopsy" of the tumour, and provides an alternative, non-invasive method of tumour sampling to traditional tumour biopsies. Several recent reports have demonstrated that sequencing of plasma ctDNA represents a novel paradigm for noninvasive characterization of cancer, and ctDNA has been used for prognostication, prediction and monitoring of therapeutic response, resistance and to study tumour evolution. High-throughput sequencing of ctDNA has been performed for ovarian and breast cancer patients, showing that levels of mutant alleles reflect the clinical course of the disease and its treatment. Also, analysis of serial plasma ctDNA has identified mutations associated with acquired drug resistance in advanced cancers. L of ctDNA vary a lot from person to person and can be hard to detect, especially for small tumours in their early stages, and commonly make up barely 1% and possibly as little as 0.001% of the total DNA. Thus, the blood samples have to be collected using specific procedures to preserve ctDNA and reduce genomic DNA contamination from white blood cells. Technological advancements such as droplet digital PCR and high-throughput sequencing, also combined with allele-specific PCR, have allowed for unprecedented progress in this field, giving up to 0.001% sensitivity. The Norwegian Genomics Consortium (NGC) is a collaboration between nodes at the Oslo University Hospital/University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Bergen. Since its foundation in 2000, initially as the Norwegian Microarray Consortium, it has been a leading provider of high-throughput genomic analyses in Norway.


This article presents a framework for activity recognition and anomaly detection in multimedia streams featuring complex human activities. The framework models human activities as temporal sequences of their constituent actions and can handle actions that occur concurrently in multiple parallel streams. It operates in a supervised manner and comprises three stages, which are extraction of action sequences from data streams, feature selection and activity recognition/anomaly detection. The framework is assessed on the 'bridge design' dataset which is based on a reallife application. Preliminary results show that the proposed framework, when used in conjunction with standard classifiers offers good classification accuracy in activity recognition and anomaly detection.


Discourse condensation is a popular pragmatic phenomenon in Chinese.This essay first tries to formulate and define the concept of discourse condensation.Then it tries to make a distinction between discourse condensation and Chinese clippings in terms of their formative materials,structure,evolutionary trend and function,and finally points out that discourse condensation is a unique Chinese pragmatic phenomenon while Chinese clippings belong to the Chinese language structure.


In recent years, attention of the harm caused by harmonic waves is more and more paid by design engineers. There are many causes inducing harmonic waves, and also there are many measures to restrain harmonic waves. With the experiences in design process, some problems needed to note were discussed in this article.


Multi agent systems have gained increasing interest in research, particularly in areas where distributed intelligence is required, in situations where single centralized methods are not suited. Fault detection and identification in chemical process industries is one such domain where multi agent systems would be ideally suited. A chemical process industry experiences various faults at different levels of granularity in the plant; some may be at the sectional level, equipment level or at the sensor level and so on. Such faults if allowed to propagate could result in leaks, fires and explosions, resulting in loss of life, capital invested and production downtime. Single centralized monolithic monitoring strategies are not suited for identifying such faults as deviations in the process are lagging indicators by which time plant safety may be compromised. One method of isolating such faults would be to look at the process hierarchically in order to identify sections or equipments which may be faulty and then in turn to focus on the particular section for isolating faults. Therefore, a hierarchical multi agent based process monitoring system is studied in this paper to evaluate its advantages and disadvantages. Several FDI agents are developed at different levels of granularity of the process. The agents are incorporated into a multi agent system called ENCORE (Natarajan and Srinivasan, 2010) developed in our prior work. The benefits vis-à-vis the drawbacks of using such a hierarchical methodology are presented with an application to a simple CSTR — Distillation Column case study.


The effects of vector-isovector terms predicted by relativistic mean field models based on effective field theory on the equation of state and the neutrino mean free path in neutron stars have been studied. Using a procedure similar to Ref. [1] in treating the isovector sector, a parameter set (G2*) that predicts a much smaller proton fraction than the standard one (G2) can be obtained. We found that the G2* has a softer equation of state compared to the G2 at higher densities and the disappearance of the anomalous behavior of the neutrino mean free path in neutron star does not depend on the proton fraction.


ABSTRACT Research suggests a sense of purpose begins developing in earnest during adolescence, which may shape youth's interests and resilience. Here, we explored the types of purpose orientations reflected in youth's applications to a self-driven learning program, and how distinct pathways by which youth pursued these purposes moderated their resilience throughout the program. A content analysis of 356 youth's (Mage = 16.53, 57.02% female) descriptions of and rationales for choosing their learning topics found that career, creative, and prosocial purposes were the most prevalent; and about 70% of participants indicated following proactive pathways toward purposes. Moreover, youth's resilience significantly increased throughout the program, a pattern amplified among youth whose applications revealed a proactive purpose pathway (gradually developing and pursuing an interest) relative to reactive or social-learning pathways. Findings underscore important links between purpose pathways and resilience and have implications for designing learning opportunities that facilitate positive youth development.


Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae is a kind of broad spectrum entomopathogenic fungi, and thus, to increase its growth rate and sporification is of important significance. In this study, the environmental factors affecting hypha growth and second generation sporulation of two M. anisopliae var. anisopliae strains MA4 and MAlm1, such as culture temperature, initial pH of culture medium, entire volume of liquid, illumination, and microelements, were determined. The results showed that the optimal growth and sporification conditions for MA4 strain were 28 ℃, pH 7, 75 ml/250 ml installment, 24 h light/day with Mn addition; while those for MAlm1 strain were 28 ℃, pH 9, 75 ml/250 ml installment, 0 h light/day, and Cu addition.


The aim of image (photo) based emotion recognition system emotion is to detect and classify the emotion from the human face from an image. The automatic system mainly has two components i.e. extraction of facial feature and classification of facial feature. To classify the feature precisely effective feature classification methods should be applied. Many recent systems uses additional information from classification which reduces accuracy as well as increase execution time. In this system Double Local Binary Pattern (DLBP) is used for feature extraction which is a variant of Local Binary Pattern (LBP). Since DLBP has small dimension size which reduces the detection time. To handle local illumination problem Logarithmic Laplace-Domain is proposed (LoL-Domain). Finally, Convolution Neural Network (CNN) is used for an obtained feature for classification.


The invention discloses a method for analyzing the concentration of chloride ions of electroplating liquid of a printed circuit board (PCB). The method comprises the following steps of: drawing a standard curve through a spectrophotometer; and measuring the content of the chloride ions in the electroplating liquid. By the method for analyzing the concentration of the chloride ions of the electroplating liquid of the PCB, the spectrophotometer is used for analyzing. Compared with the other analyzing method, the method has the advantages that instrument equipment and operation are simple; colors of spectrum ends are distinguished by the spectrophotometer, sensitivity, precision and accuracy are high, and a small quantity of chloride ions in the electroplating liquid can be measured quickly, simply and conveniently.


Room−temperature cw laser operation has been achieved in Nd : CeCl3 at a threshold 0.6 times that of Nd : YAG, in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions.


Context: Hemorrhagic stroke (HS) is characterized by cerebral vessel´s rupture, causing potentially fatal hemorrhage. Approximately 20% of HS are due to spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage, being risk factors: age over 55, systemic arterial hypertension, smoking, obesity, physical inactivity and alcoholism. Case Report: Male, 84 years old, previously hypertensive, is brought by family members after being found unconscious. He was admitted to hypertensive emergency room, with irregular respiratory rate, anisochoric pupils (mydriasis on the right) non-photoreactive, Glasgow Coma Scale 3 and urinary loss. He was intubated without complications and later developed bradycardia (44 bpm), keeping hypertensive (160/90 mmHg), suggesting Cushing´s Triad (CT). Capillary bloody glucose of 98 mg/dl and laboratory tests showing: hemoglobin 9,3; platelets 184000; negative troponin; urea 52; creatinine 1.7; sodium 136; potassium 3.9. Due to the abrupt installation in a previously hypertensive patient, with unilateral mydriasis on physical examination and the development of CT, the diagnostic hypothesis were HS associated with intracranial hypertension. A skull´s scancomputed tomography or lumbar puncture were not requested because were unavailable at hospital. Patient was removed to a specialized servisse, 12 hours after arrival. Conclusion: Mortality after stroke is known to be substantially lower when patients are treated in high-volume regional centers and have access to qualified interventionists who specialize in neuro-intensive treatment. As it is a servisse without resources for definitive treatment, the patient was stabilized in the best way within the hospital condition, with priority being the removal of the patient as soon as possible, in order to reduce morbidity and mortality


asimov, 'Tsennost' nauki v predvidenii,' 27 February 2013, https://vpk.name/news/85159_ cennost_nauki_v_predvidenii.html. For a translated and commented version see Mark Geleotti, 'The "Gerasimov Doctrine" and Russian Non-Linear War,' 2013, https:// inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/the-gerasimov-doctrine-and-russian-nonlinear-war/. See also Charles K. Bartles, 'Getting Gerasimov Right,' Military Review 96, no. 1 (2016): 30–38. 3. C. Doxsee, Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr and J. Thompson, 'Tracking the Arrival of Russia's Wagner Group in Mali,' CSIS, 2 February 2022, https://www.csis.org/analysis/tracking-arrival-russiaswagner-group-mali; Serwat Ladd, Héni Nsaibia, Vincenzo Carbone and Timothy Lay, 'Wagner Group Operations in Africa – Civilian Targeting Trends in the Central African Republic and Mali,' ACLED, 30 August 2022, https://acleddata.com/2022/08/30/wagner-groupoperations-in-africa-civilian-targeting-trends-in-the-central-african-republic-and-mali/.


The same-size methanol and gasoline pool fire experiments were carried out in Lhasa and Hefei.The difference of combustion characteristics between the two places was investigated and the mechanism affected by low pressure and low oxygen was analyzed.It's discovered that,with the same fuel type and pan size,the fuel weight loss rate in Lhasa was slower than that in Hefei,and the CO concentration after combustion was higher.Based on flame image analysis,the flame images in the two places were processed.And it's found that in the same-size small oil pan,the flame area was larger,the flame width narrower and the average flame height higher in Lhasa than those in Hefei.The average flame height formula suitable for Plateau low pressure and low oxygen was established by experimental data fitting.


The droop control scheme based on Q − ω and P − V characteristics is conventionally employed to share the load power among sources in an islanded low-voltage microgrid with resistive line impedances. However, it suffers from poor active power sharing, and is vulnerable to sustained deviations in frequency and voltage. Therefore, accurate power sharing and maintaining the frequency and voltage in the desired ranges are challenging. This paper proposes a novel microgrid control strategy to address these issues. The proposed strategy consists of a virtual flux droop and a model predictive control, in which the virtual flux is the time integral of the voltage. Firstly, the novel virtual flux droop control is proposed to accurately control the power sharing among DGs. Then, the model predictive flux control is employed to generate the appropriate switching signals. The proposed strategy is simple without needing multiple feedback control loops. In addition, pulse width modulation is not required and tuning challenges for PI regulators are avoided. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed microgrid control strategy, simulation analysis is carried out in Matlab/Simulink software environment. The results show that accurate power sharing is achieved while a good dynamic response is provided. Furthermore, the voltage and frequency deviations are significantly improved.


Moving object detection is one of the most essential problems in image processing. It attracts many attentions recently. In the paper it is also assumed that the camera is moving. Major part of previous moving car detection methods engages radar signals. For online moving object detection, we suggest to employ hierarchical partitioning over the attributes extracted from image. Each moving object corresponds to a partition. Unlike the traditional partitioning algorithms, the threshold distance in the suggested method is not fixed. This threshold value is tuned by a Gaussian distribution. Harris attributes are applied to capture the corner attributes. Experimentations show the suggested method outperforms other competent methods.


The structure,function and the process of a vehicle management system based on VC were analysed.The approaches with VC and SQL Server 2000 of the system were introduced,with the emphasis on the theory on accessing SQL Server 2000 database using VC,the security and real-time response of the system.


PURPOSE: To simply and surely detect fine feature inside an object to be inspected, by coupling an optical matching means having a refractive index nearly equal to the one of the object to be inspected with the surface of the object to be inspected, via an optical coupling means having an incident angle larger than or equal to the critical angle. CONSTITUTION: A silicon prism 130 is made to hold the contact with a silicon wafer 110. An infrared ray source 132 is so arranged that a comparatively narrow infrared beam is casted on both prism 130 via a lens 134. The incident angle of a light is so selected that all of the internal reflections are generated from the a wafer 110 surface and a trench 114 wall. An infrared detector 136 collects the reflected light from the wafer 110 surface. An infrared detector 138 detects the reflected light from the boundary surface between the prism 130 and the wafer 110. An infrared detector 140 receives the reflected light from the trench 114 wall. A signal of the detector 138 is used as a control signal to the detector 140, in order to reduce the error due to insufficient contact. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO


Stereolithography (SL) technology is the mostly widely used Rapid Prototyping (RP) process in which complex structures are fabricated in a layer-by- layer fashion. Currently Microstereolithography (MSL) is undergoing fast development. In this paper, the development of MSL and its application in micro- manufacturing are reviewed. One promising direction for the development of MSL is the assembly-free process, through which a complex structure can be manufactured in a single process thus avoids the extra assembly procedure. With the assembly-free process, the manufacturing cost can be greatly reduced and the manufacturing reliability dramatically improved. The assembly-free process may play an important role in the future fabrication practice.


The main aspects of the implementation of the classifier of modifications of domestic civil aircraft as an effective means of implementing the principle of minimizing the costs of their design and production are set. Classification levels of classes include different modifications based on signs of species that are the most common.The classifier implements the principle of forming five signs of modifications of the Wash-shrinkage: a change in the functional purpose or conversion of the aircraft, due to its application area, a change in the degree of technical execution of the air vessel and an increase in economic efficiency. Mandatory accounting for differentiation of classification levels of modifications based on the signs of the presence or absence of the functional purpose of the aircraft and the remaining four alternative classification levels of the aircraft modifications are necessary.The first classification feature is based on the basis of the highest level - the species, and the following signs are attributed to equal classification levels - classes.The developed schemes of the components of the classes in the field of application, the stake of technical perfection and an increase in the economic efficiency of the aircraft vessel are given, and the fragment of its main flight technicians is presented.The practical use of the proposed classifier is associated with the necessary analysis of the characterization of the characterization of the components of the scope of application, changes in the flight specifications, the degree of technical perfection of the IS-complete modification and a sign of increasing the economic efficiency of modifies, as well as methods and comprehensive means of implementing the components of these recognition -s. This analysis is submitted to a large volume of research work, in the first approximation to the tables below - 5. The proposed principle and implementing its approach to the formation of a classifier of aircraft modifications must pass a sufficiently long process of practical phased implementation, starting with the level of subclasses and, in particular The next levels behind them, being objectically analyzed and justified by narrow specialists working at all stages of the life cycle of the aircraft.


To satisfy the requirements of smart distribution grid( SDG) and improve the quality of service( QoS) of the communication business of SDG,a genetic algorithm based access selection strategy in heterogeneous wireless networks for SDG is presented. A SDG heterogeneous wireless network access selection model is built and multiple network access evaluation is considered in this paper. The genetic algorithm is used to solve the fitness function to obtain the network selection evaluation index weights,and then the weights of evaluation indexes can be used to calculate the value of each alternative network effects. Effector function is used to assess the overall performance of each alternative network and then the optimal network is accessed. Compared with other heterogeneous wireless network access selection algorithms,the overall performance of genetic algorithm based access selection is advantaged. The simulation results show that the newly accessed service can be distributed more evenly in the candidate networks using the algorithm,meanwhile,the network blocking probability and the disparity of blocking probability of different candidate networks can be reduced effectively,so that the network load is balanced.


While many tests of univariate and multivariate normality have been proposed, those based on skewness and kurtosis coefficients are widely presumed to offer the advantage of diagnosing how distributions depart from normality. However, results summarized from many Monte Carlo studies show that tests based on skewness coefficients do not reliably discriminate between skewed and non-skewed distributions. Indeed, the use of skewness tests to discriminate between these distributions lackstheoretical foundation. The performance of skewness tests is shown to be very sensitive to the kurtosis of the underlying distribution


In India, the Shyok Suture Zone (SSZ) is tectonically intercalated between the rocks of the Indus Tsangpo Suture Zone (ITSZ) to the south and Karakoram Zone to north (Srimal 1986, Sinha 1992, Thakur 1992, Sinha and Upadhyay 1995).The major thrusts which make both boundaries are known as Shyok thrust and Karakoram thrust respectively. The Shyok Suture Zone is a complex association of Late Palaeozoic to Miocene rocks including turbidites and ophiolitic melanges with volcanic, calcalkaline magmatic rocks, granite batholith and molasses-type sequence forming an accretionary complex. The following opinions exist regarding the tectonics of the Shyok Suture Zone: 1) It is a subduction zone older than the ITSZ (Frank et al. 1977). 2) It is a subduction zone younger than the ITSZ (Brookfield and Reynold 1981). 3) It is a tectonic repetition of the ITSZ (Rai 1982). 4) It is a back-arc complex related to the ITSZ (Thakur and Misra,1984) .5) It is a the tectonic repetition of a marginal oceanic crust that existed between the ITSZ and the Asian land mass in the Middle Cretaceous (Srimal 1986, Upadhyay et al. 1999). 6) It is a back-arc basin (Thakur and Misra 1984, Sharma 1991). The sedimentary, volcanic and plutonic rocks of the SSZ are highly deformed and occur as tectonics slices between Ladakh and Karakoram Batholith. The lowermost unit of the Saltoro Formation is well exposed to the south of Khalsar, where it consists of thinly and even bedded, highly fissile and cleaved slates, phyllites and siltstones. A diverse palynfloral assemblage has been recovered from the siltstone unit collected from the Khalsar-Sakti road section of the same formation. The palynoflora is represented by 14 genera and 20 species of the spores and pollen grains. The significant palynotaxa of the assemblage are: Leiotriletes, Verrucosisporites, Platysaccus, Primuspollenites, Alisporites, Gondisporites, Faunipollenites, Striatopodocarpites, Densipollenites, Caheniasaccites, Scheuringipollenites, Hemiapollenites, Parasaccites,, Crescentipollenites, Corisaccites, Vesicaspora and Tetraporina. Based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis, Early to Late Permian age has been assigned to the assemblage. Although, on the basis of the gastropods, echinoids, foraminifera and bryozoans, age of the Saltoro Formation has


This chapter discusses the basics for wind energy and examines enough background to select wind generator‐power converter configuration for modeling and predictive control. Power converters in first generation of wind turbines (WTs) (Type 1) are used only for smooth grid connections, which are disconnected from the circuit once the generator is tied to the grid. Power converters that are identical on the generator‐side and grid‐side and are linked through a DC link are classified as back‐to‐back (BTB) connected converters. Parallel power converters increase power handling capacity but with the drawbacks of circulating currents and the subsequent power converter derating. The semiconductor device switching frequency is limited to few hundred hertz to minimize the switching losses and allow proper heat dissipation. The minimization of AC circulating currents and balancing of capacitors voltage between submodules is required to ensure the proper operation of the modular multilevel converter (MMC).


There is equipoise regarding the use of prothrombin complex concentrate vs. fresh frozen plasma in bleeding patients undergoing cardiac surgery. We performed a pilot randomised controlled trial to determine the recruitment rate for a large trial, comparing the impact of prothrombin complex concentrate vs. fresh frozen plasma on haemostasis (1 h and 24 h post‐intervention), and assessing safety. Adult patients who developed bleeding within 24 h of cardiac surgery that required coagulation factor replacement were randomly allocated to receive prothrombin complex concentrate (15 IU.kg−1 based on factor IX) or fresh frozen plasma (15 ml.kg−1). If bleeding continued after the first administration of prothrombin complex concentrate or fresh frozen plasma administration, standard care was administered. From February 2019 to October 2019, 180 patients were screened, of which 134 (74.4% (95%CI 67–81%)) consented, 59 bled excessively and 50 were randomly allocated; 25 in each arm, recruitment rate 35% (95%CI 27–44%). There were 23 trial protocol deviations, 137 adverse events (75 prothrombin complex concentrate vs. 62 fresh frozen plasma) and 18 serious adverse events (5 prothrombin complex concentrate vs. 13 fresh frozen plasma). There was no increase in thromboembolic events with prothrombin complex concentrate. No patient withdrew from the study, four were lost to follow‐up and two died. At 1 h after administration of the intervention there was a significant increase in fibrinogen, Factor V, Factor XII, Factor XIII, α2‐antiplasmin and antithrombin levels in the fresh frozen plasma arm, while Factor II and Factor X were significantly higher in the prothrombin complex concentrate group. At 24 h, there were no significant differences in clotting factor levels. We conclude that recruitment to a larger study is feasible. Haemostatic tests have provided useful insight into the haemostatic changes following prothrombin complex concentrate or fresh frozen plasma administration. A definitive trial is needed to ascertain the benefits and safety for each.


This paper presents a nonintrusive and electromagnetically self-powered embedded system with vibration sensor for condition monitoring of electromechanical machinery. This system can be installed inside the terminal block of a motor or generator and supports wireless communication for transferring data to a mobile device or computer for subsequent performance analysis. As an initial application, the sensor package is configured for automated condition monitoring of resiliently mounted machines. Upon detecting a spin-down event, e.g. a motor turnoff, the system collects and transmits vibration and residual backemf data as the rotor decreases in rotational speed. This data is then processed to generate an empirical vibrational transfer function (eVTF) rich in condition information for detecting and differentiating machinery and vibrational mount pathologies. The utility of this system is demonstrated via lab-based tests of a resiliently mounted 1.1 kW three-phase induction motor, with results showcasing the usefulness of the embedded system for condition monitoring.


While working on a catalogue of Indian fossil plants, the author came across names of ten palynotaxa, recorded from Indian Tertiary sediments, that are later homonyms, i.e., that are spelled exactly like names based on different types that were previously and validly published for a taxon of the same rank. These later homonyms, illegitimate under Art. 64.1 of the International code of botanical nomenclature, are replaced by substitute names (nomina nova).


The simultaneous stabilisation problem (SSP) and strong simultaneous stabilisation problem (SSSP) with the simple Hurwitz stability requirement are challenging in the control community. In this paper a new approach to these two problems is presented, with the extension to the general D stability requirement rather than simply the Hurwitz stability requirement. The advantages of this approach include: 1. the desired D stability region can be of any form and be connected or disjoint. This leads to a unified treatment of continuous and discrete systems, and consequently encompasses the Hurwitz and Schur stability regions as special cases; 2. the size of the family of plants may be more than three, which is the upper bound with the existing approaches; 3. both the SSPs and the SSSPs can be dealt with in a unified way, although a SSSP is more complicated than a SSP. 4. the traditional PID controller tuning problem can be treated within this general framework. Examples harder than the previous results are provided to show the merits of this synthesis approach. Application of the approach to Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) controller design is also presented.


Starting from a definition of the concept of development centered on the satisfaction of the essential needs, health, education, feeding, we show that the present pattern of development, while trying to impose Western values all over the world, prevents developing countries from building their future and, on the contrary, maintains them under the domination of Occidental countries. If the liberalism carried out during the twenty last years accelerated the merchandization of the world, capitalist system in its mondialized version has to be re-examined. Maximum profit research, primacy of private economic values, competition and technical progress must be questioned. The other development wants, starting from the current situation, to take the measurement of the essential changes that we must implement as quickly as possible. Thus, in order to replace humans at the center of economic system, we have to grant a more important place to the non-commercial activities and the non-monetary relations, like gift, which implies to reconsider the unlimited growth target and to define a new measurement of wealth. We will be able to avoid the ecological disaster announced only by reintroducing ethical and moral values and by adopting with respect to technical progress a principle of reason.


Abstract It is time for debate to do away with performance debate—not the practices this label describes, but rather the label itself. This article argues that performance debate is racially-coded language that devalues black participation in debate, and that, along with the label's lack of benefit for coaching or thinking about debate arguments or strategy, warrants its dismissal from everyday use. Not only is it racially-coded and unhelpful, it also disincentivizes black participation which is always rendered as other. Racially-coded rhetorics are a particularly insidious way to express racist ideas under the guise of race-neutral language. As such, one way to express displeasure with or a distaste for black debaters, and to discourage their participation, is to describe their debate as performance debate as opposed to debate. In order to make policy debate, where performance debate has its genesis, more inclusive to minoritarian debaters and more pedagogically sound, debate participants must reject the performance debate label in order to resist re-inscribing the racially-divided history of policy debate.


At the charge neutral point, graphene exhibits a very unusual high-resistance metallic state and a transition to a complete insulating phase in a strong magnetic field. We propose that the current carriers in this state are the charged vortices of the XY valley-pseudospin order parameter, a situation which is dual to a conventional thin superconducting film. We study energetics and the stability of this phase in the presence of disorder.


Synthetic β-cyclodextrin/zeolite-A (CD/ZA) composite was evaluated as a potential adsorbent for Cd2+, PO4, and methyl parathion (MP). The CD/ZA particles exhibit higher Cd2+ (223 mg/g), PO4 (196.2 mg/g), and MP (368.7 mg/g) Qsat values than zeolite-A reflecting the impact of the integrated polymer. The Cd2+, PO4, and MP uptake follows the classic assumptions of Pseudo-First order kinetics and Langmuir isotherm. The monolayer equilibrium model of one energy site was applied for more details about the adsorption systems. Based on the model findings, the CD/ZA particles can adsorb up to 4 Cd2+ ions (n = 2.76 to 3.03), 3 PO4 ions (n = 2.2 to 2.31), and 2 MP molecules (n = 1.89 to 1.94) per site. The adsorption site densities of Cd2+ (75.9 mg/g), PO4 (87.9 mg/g), and MP (194.7 mg/g) illustrate the high uptake properties of MP. Based on the classic kinetics, equilibrium, and Gaussian energies (˂ 8 kJ/mol) findings, the pollutants were adsorbed by physical processes in monolayer and homogenous forms. This was supported by the adsorption energies (˂ 40 kJ/mol) that reflected the effect of van der Waals, hydrogen bonding, and dipole bonding forces. The thermodynamic functions validate the spontaneous and exothermic behaviors of the adsorption systems. The composite display significant recyclability and affinity for the studied contaminants under the competitive effect of other ions (Pb2+, Zn2+, NO3, SO4, malachite green, and chlorpyrifos).


This work investigates the problem for some security trends over wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A survey of recent trends in general security requirements, key distribution schemes and target localization is presented. In order to facilitate applications that require packet delivery from one or more senders to multiple receivers, provisioning security in group communications is pointed out as a critical and challenging issue. The need for efficient software updating as one of the most challenging features is emphasized, too.