By definition, status dysraphicus implies a state of improper union or fusion between two contiguous or similar structures. The concept of status dysraphicus in man is said to originate with the observation of FUCHS** in 1909. Spinal dysraphism, according to BENDA~, is a myelodysplasia or malformation of the spinal cord due to arrested development before complete differentiation of the gray and white matter has occurred. In 1926, BREMER4 reported a clinical study of the relatives of a number of human patients with clinical syringomyelia. The various patients and relatives were classified by him into three groups. In the first group, each family studied contained at least one member with clinical syringomyelia. Other members of the family demonstrated signs which to BREMER suggested a "syringoid state". In the second and third groups of families, obvious clinical syringomyelia was not observed, but various individuals evidenced the signs to a lesser degree. From his clinical study, BREMER established a set of signs, the presence of which made him suspect a syringoid state or a "forme fruste" of syringomyelia. The incidence of these signs suggested a genetic transmission of the condition. BREMER'S signs included: (1) Anomalies of the sternum, usually a deformity known as koilosternia-a gutter-


Crack closure effect is important for metal fatigue.Crack closure was used to describe the crack growth under variable amplitude loading.Many effective stress intensity factor calculation models based on the crack closure concept were reported.Huang et al proposed a unified effective stress intensity factor range calculation equation based on the Newman's mode and fatigue crack growth life calculation model of engineering structures subjected to variable amplitude fluctuation loads.Some experimental data of crack opening ratio and crack growth rates of different material under different stress ratios were collected to validate this model.The predicted values by the model are compared with the test data.The comparisons show that the predicted values are in good agreement with the experimental data.Furthermore,these crack growth rate data of titanium alloy,aluminum alloy and steel under different stress ratios were expressed vs effective stress intensity factor range by the model.The results show that these crack growth data of each material under different stress ratios are in a narrow scatter band using the newly defined effective stress intensity factor range.Meanwhile,some useful conclusions were drawn.


In the work the influence of the processes characteristic for atmospheric pressure heavy inert gases discharge plasma on the value of the first Townsend ionization coefficient were investigated. Krypton plasma was considered. Calculations have shown that the greatest impact on the value of the first Townsend ionization coefficient has dissociative recombination of molecular ions, followed by descending influence processes occur: stepwise ionization, the electron-electron collisions and superelastic ones. The effect of these processes begins to appear at concentrations of electrons and excited particles higher than 1012 cm-3. At times shorter than the time of molecular ions formation, when dissociative recombination is absent, should expect a significant increase of the ionization coefficient.


This paper describes constrained sintering of substrates emoloying a sandwich structure, in which an alumina layer constrains the shrinkage of glass-alumina mixed layers during sintering. Because the inner-constraining alumina layer does not shrink at the sintering temperature of the glass-alumina mixed layer, the glass-alumina mixed layer is sintered without shrinkage. In addition to this, the inner-self-constraining alumina layer is densificated by the penetration of molten glass from the glass-alumina mixed layers, resulting in increased bending strength of the laminated substrates.


Approaches to the evaluation of on‐line bibliographical retrieval services have so far failed to assess the interrelationships of the various components of the services. This article presents a comprehensive framework for such an evaluation. Variables used in the framework include events occurring during a search cycle; role and status; knowledge and opinion; and cost, price, and demand. The framework is applied to the evaluation of the Educational Information System for Ontario (EISO) on‐line service in order to determine the relationships between search processing variables associated with costs and output variables measuring the client's gain in knowledge and degree of satisfaction.


MicroRNAs are small regulatory RNAs with important roles in carcinogenesis. Genetic variants in these regulatory molecules may contribute to disease. We aim to identify allelic variants in microRNAs as susceptibility factors to gastric cancer using association studies and functional approaches.


One of Raphael's early Madonnas has recently come into public view in the collection of the Norton Simon Museum of Art.1 Any new work by Raphael would be interesting, but this one is particularly so because it contains a rare iconographic detail — a strategically placed inscription — that reflects a fundamental trait of the piety of its day. The stylistic value of this detail is also considerable since, as I propose to demonstrate, the preparatory drawings show that it inspired the artist to fuse his highly interesting visual sources into the final work. The picture embodies the thought of the Middle Ages in the style of the Renaissance.


Abstract We critically assess the representative consumer with quadratic aggregate utility function which forms the foundation of a well-known class of linear oligopoly demand structures. It is argued that this approach is problematic and redundant. Regarding the latter, we show how the same demand system can be derived directly from a population of heterogeneous buyers for any number of products. Welfare analyses based on aggregate demand is shown to be sensitive to the underlying microfoundation.


According to the geometric and forming characteristics of anti-collision beam,the finite element method was used to study the stretch forming with cold punching of door beam made by high strength steel. The influence of polymer film lubricant on the fracture formed during stretch forming of door beam was analyzed and the drawing process of film lubrication was further discussed. Polymer film has certain effect to the improvement of sheet drawing limitation,and the friction between the blank and the die factor have great effect on high-strength steel forming,and the plastic deformation zone is the same as the main deformation zone of high-strength steel anticollision beam,and there is no lubrication failure during the whole deformation process.


Objective To explore the effect of different solubilizers,pressure and extract time in the extraction of resveratrol and emondin by supercritical CO 2( SCE). Methods Resveratrol and emondin were extracted from Polygonum cuspidatum by SCE with different solubilizers,including AOT,PVP k-90,Poloxamer 188,and Tween 80. The parameters of SCE such as concentration of solubilizer,pressure,and extraction times were optimized. The extraction results were compared with heat reflux extraction. Results: The results show that resveratrol was hardly extracted by SCE with ethanol as modifier( the yield was 0. 015 mg/g),but AOT could enhance the extraction yield of resveratrol significantly( the yield was 0. 304 mg / g),while the yield of emodin was influenced gently by using these solubilizers. The yield of emodin was highest( 1. 008 mg / g) when PVP was used as modifier,but when the Tween 80 was used the yield was the lowest( 0. 679 mg / g). The optimal process was as follow: pressure at 25 MPa,temperature at 50 ℃,the concentration of AOT was 0. 05 mol / L and extracted for 3 times. Under this condition the yield of resveratrol was 0. 31 mg / g which was dropped by 81. 5% than extracted by heat reflux extraction. The yield of emondin was 0. 97 mg / g which was increased by 86. 5% than extracted by heat reflux extraction. Conclusion: The yields of resveratrol and emondin extraction from Polygonum cuspidatum by SCE can be improved by introducing AOT,PVP k-90 and Poloxamer 188 into supercritical CO 2. Based on the comparison of SCE and heat reflux extraction,the advantage of SCE is less extraction time at lower operating temperature without using large amount of organic solvent.


2 Marianne Hirsch and Diana Taylor think of archives "as engines of circulation, as archival acts or practices that both mobilize different media and are mobilized by them. Instead of valuing notions of fixity, authenticity, and legitimacy, we look at the archives as the site of potentiality, provisionality, and contingency." In his introduction to a recent special issue of Anglia, Daniel Stein reflects upon the archive's inherent "agency" (345) and its dynamic status of being "always preliminary, always tenuous, and always in flux" (346), and thus delineates an understanding of the archive as "living," which refers less to a sense of organicism than praxeology, and which, understood as such, informs this issue immensely. See also Stein's contribution to this issue. For more on the concept of the "living archive," see Hall.


Most Driver Status Monitoring (DSM) systems consist of spatial features extractions and temporal status recognition in sequence. Extracting the spatial features, which include driver facial behavior such as eye closing and mouth opening, generally requires considerable computation. It causes DSM systems to lose the valuable instantly-occurring driver facial information during real-time processing. Loss of facial information affects the accuracy of the system, and its impact is more severe on restricted computing resources. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an Adaptive Batch-Image (ABI) based DSM (ABI-DSM) system. The ABI enables the DSM system to use images captured in real-time while the DSM process previous input images. For real-time operation on a lightweight GPU-equipped Single-Board Computer (SBC), the ABI-DSM system is designed as follows. First, the system uses the driver's facial behavior to reduce the dimension of the time-series data for recognizing the status of the driver. The second, detection and tracking of driver's faces are not used for facial behavior recognition. Also, the system works with PydMobileNet, which has lower parameters and FLOPs than MobileNetV2, for facial behavior recognition. Experiments show that the ABI-DSM systems based on MobileNetV2 and PydMobileNet perform better than others in terms of both FPS and Precision. In particular, the PydMobileNet-based ABI-DSM system outperforms competitors when the size of Batch-Image is over six images.


Experiments on m.o.s. structures when irradiated by X rays involve distributions of positive charges in the dielectric layer. As an interpretation of the results, including the curing of irradiated devices by annealing, we propose ionic-charge motions in the oxidised silicon, depending on the sense of the applied electric field.


Human activity significantly contributes to many of the world's current environmental concerns. Pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) at the workplace can help organizations improve their environmental performance. Therefore, the goal of this study is to provide an explanation for employees' ecologically beneficial conduct in large cities. The three hypotheses of this study were proven significantly. Rasch Model Analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) with second-order confirmatory factor analysis confirmed all the hypotheses. Eco initiatives significantly influence pro-environmental behavior, and eco-helping influences pro-environmental behavior significantly. The final one, eco-civic involvement, significantly impacts pro-environmental behavior. According to the findings of two statistical approaches used to analyze data, the environmentally friendly behaviors of employees in big cities are still limited to the behavior of good employees within the firm. It implies that pro-environmental behavior among city workers has not yet been motivated by personal initiative. On the other hand, the Rasch Model and SEM analysis results suggest that employees in big cities are environmentally sensitive as part of their organization's good citizenship.


Six main microfacies are identified which are Lime Mudstone, Bioclastic Wackeston, Bioclastic Packstone-Wackestone, Bioclastic WackestoneMudestone, Pelagic Mudstone–Wackestone, Bioclastic Packstone -Grainston Microfacies in addition to their associated depositional environment. The diagenesis process have affected the Mishrif rocks and played a role in deteriorating reservoir porosity in well Ga-2 and enhancing it in well Ga1,3.These processes include: cementation, micritization, recrystallization,dissolution,compaction pressure solution and


There are no medications that improve patient-oriented outcomes in children or adults with eustachian tube dysfunction. Oral corticosteroids, with or without antibiotics, improve pneumatic otoscopy and tympanometry findings in the short term, but these agents have no long-term benefit.


In the paragraph on Mechanism of action, the fourth sentence is incorrect. It should be replaced by 'The concentration of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins may also fall. This results from reduced hepatic secretion and/or increased clearance of very-low-density lipoprotein remnants which is due to enhanced expression of the LDL receptor'.


Nickel-coated carbon fibers (NCF) treated with a coupling agent (CA) have been used for preparing composites of polycarbonate (PC) and acrylonitrile—butadiene—styrene (ABS) (90/10%) by melt blending. These composites have been evaluated for electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness (EMI SE), mechanical properties, dispersion, and adhesion of the polymer to a filler using the scanning electron microscope (SEM). There is an improvement in the EMI SE, tensile strength, and impact strength of the composite when the carbon fiber is coupled with titanate CA. In loading NCF in composite, the optimum concentration of the CA Lica 38 used is about 2.0 phf combined with 1.5 phf calcium stearate (Ca.st.) (on the weight percentage of fillers); the composite can reach an SE of 50 dB by the coaxial transmission line test method.


Many multi-person trackers follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm applying a person detector in each frame and linking detections of the same target to form tracks in the association task. While the basic concept is the same among these methods, various motion models, distance metrics to measure the similarity of targets, and matching strategies are used. This makes it difficult to compare different methods and also to assess the influence of single tracking components on the final performance. For these reasons, all parts of the association task are thoroughly investigated in this study. Starting with a simple baseline which is consequently improved with the help of experimental results, a strong tracking-by-detection-based framework is developed that achieves state-of-the-art performance on two multi-person tracking benchmarks.


A geological zoning for landslides is performed in Kinki district , Southwest Japan, and 12 geological zon es are obtained, as shown in Fig . 1 and Table 1 (in Japanese) . The landslide areas are northern Tajima area (Zones 9 and 10), Sanda area (Zone 8), Awaji island (Zones 6 and 11), Izumi mountains (Zone 6) and Wakayama area (Zone 2 and 3). These zones are as follows: Zone 2; ultrabasic and/or basic rocks Zone 3; pre—Cretaceous geosynclinal sediments (metamorphosed facies) Zone 6; Cretaceous marine sediments Zone 8; Neogene non—marine or marine sediments Zone 9; Neogene geosynclinal sediments and volcanic rocks (so—called "green tuff" area) Zone 10; Pliocene—Quaternary terrestrial volcanics (lavas and pyroclastic rocks, associated with sediments) Zone 11; Pliocene—Quaternary sediments (shallow sea or non—marine deposits)


This article deals with career development processes in Oticon, a Danish high technology company with approx. 3,500 employees of which 1,300 bare located in Denmark. The company produces hearing aids and hearing care and is one of the world market leaders. The headquarters and production facilities are located in Denmark, whereas sales offices are found in most parts of the world. Oticon is part of The William Demant Holding Group of international companies which develops, manufactures and sells innovative and high-technology solutions incorporating microelectronics, micro-mechanics, wireless technology, software and audiology. The Group operates in a global market. Its core business is hearing aids.


Production and formulation of ecosystem goods and services(EGS),flow of EGS among the production and consumption regions,human's consumption and utilization of EGS,as well as impact of consumption on natural ecosystem and human society,are frontier issues in ecological studies,which need to be tackled by scientists and decision makers.This paper is based on existing case study results and secondary information,to analyze relationships between households'direct and indirect consumption of EGS,households'internal factors and external factors like policy affecting the consumption,and to identify impact of the consumption on ecosystem and land and water resources which the production and provision of EGS rely on.The paper addresses that the direct and indirect consumption of EGS are inter-related with each other,behind each of the direct consumption of EGS,there is indirect consumption occurring.For instance,consumption of provisioning services like food and fuel wood will coupled with indirect consumption of water,soil nutrition,etc,while consumption of recreation services like landscape beauty will associate with ecosystem's air and water regulation services,soil and water conservation services,cultural services,etc.At the household level,the scope and intensity of consumption is very much affected by internal factors,apart from government policies.Semi-structured household questionnaire surveys,Participatory Rural Appraisal,Focus Group Discussion,and Framework for Participatory Impact Assessment are useful methods for collecting first hand data for such analysis.Analysis on impact of consumption shows that EGS's consumption will have liner and/or non-liner relations with ecosystem's provision of those services,however,it has been proved very clearly through several case studies,that the consumption will bring impact on ecosystem services like biodiversity,water and soil conservation,etc.The paper also discusses the transformation of household level analysis to regional level analysis,and considers Agent Based Modeling(ABM)approach is very useful for establishing the most reasonable patterns of EGS consumption at the regional level on the basis of households'first hand data.Characteristic,paths,quantity,as well as mechanism of EGS transformation between the regions are discussed,and future research agenda is identified.This study will contribute to regional ecological security and establishing payment scheme by providing scientific bases and suggestions for optimizing structure of EGS consumption,by taking into consideration of regional production capacity and cross region impact of consumption patterns.The study will also be useful for solving the conflicts between ecosystem protection and human well-being.


A quantitative analysis for TMJ sounds was carried out to clarify the clinical, diagnostic reliability of TMJ.The proper recording point and sampling frequency for the spectral analysis of TMJ sounds were studied. Each recording point was compared by the differentiation between the silence group and the noise group, and the frequency-spectrum of each sound was observed.The results were as follows:1. As for the total energy, the difference was largest at 20 mm anterior inferior of the arbitrary hinge axis point in both the groups and was smallest at the arbitrary hinge axis point.The largest difference was at 7 mm posterior superior of the arbitrary hinge axis point, where a condylar movement analyzing system was easy to attached.2. The capability for differentiation at each recording point varied depending on other evaluations.3. It was necessary to apply over 7 k Hz of sampling frequency to observe small frequency components.


The results of the hypothesis testing using the Smart PLS 3.0 application indicate that there is a significant direct influence of job competence on organizational commitment, job satisfaction on organizational commitment, work motivation on organizational commitment, job competence on Civil Servant performance, job satisfaction on Civil Servant performance, work motivation on Civil Servant performance, and organizational commitment on Civil Servant performance.
         However, the results of the hypothesis testing for indirect effects suggest that job competence does not significantly affect Civil Servant performance through organizational commitment, job satisfaction does not significantly impact Civil Servant performance through organizational commitment, and work motivation does not significantly influence Civil Servant performance through organizational commitment.
        On the other hand, the results of the hypothesis testing for indirect effects reveal that job competence does not have a significant influence on civil servant performance through organizational commitment, job satisfaction does not significantly affect civil servant performance through organizational commitment, and work motivation does not significantly impact civil servant performance through organizational commitment.


The operating efficiency of an adaptive Capon beamformer in a three component noise field is investigated. The influence of correlatin between the ray paths of the echo signal on the output signal to noise ratio is analyzed


In general, the understanding of the relationship between Historiography and Human Ego Cognition has experienced three stages——ancient individual improvement, modern rational consideration, and present comprehensive perception of ego. While the ancient historians emphasized teaching people how to become perfect and sage, the modern historians attempted to explore the historical stage of human activities,and the present historians preceded a comprehensive and systematic philosophic exploration on human society itself, so as to freely grasp the fate of human history. This task is still processing.


This paper discusses the democratic value in the practice of villagers' autonomy in two respects: the democratic quality of the practice and its democratic effect.While the former has precious democratic value which should be fully affirmed,the latter carries more weight in its reinforcement of an autonomous society and its preparation of democratic politics.


Introduction The selectivity of the hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes depends on the crystal structure of the metal and of the substituents of the C=C double bond. These parameters define the adsorption geometry of the reactant. Because of the missing substituents of the C=C double bond, acrolein is the α,β-unsaturated aldehyde most difficult to hydrogenate selectively to allylic alcohol. Usually, supported Rh, Pt or Ru catalysts produce propanal, but by using silver and gold catalysts the hydrogenation of the C=O group is possible. The present study shows, how the preparation method of the catalyst influences the adsorption behavior of supported silver and gold catalysts and their activity and selectivity. Transient methods will give information about the differences in the primary steps of the interaction between hydrogen and the catalyst. Thus, to investigate the adsorption of acrolein, the activation of H2 and the exchange between D2 in the gas phase and H on the catalyst surface, the TAP (Temporal Analysis of Products) reactor is used. Furthermore, we characterized the catalysts by means of adsorption calorimetry using a Setaram DSC 111. The gas phase hydrogenation of acrolein was performed in a micro fixed-bed reactor using on-line GC analysis.


Security issues play an important role in almost all modern communication and computer networks. As Internet applications continue to grow dramatically, security requirements have to be strengthened. Hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems (HECC) allow for shorter operands at the same level of security than other public-key cryptosystems, such as RSA or Diffie-Hellman. These shorter operands appear promising for many applications. Hyperelliptic curves are a generalization of elliptic curves and they can also be used for building discrete logarithm public-key schemes. A major part of this work is the development of computer architectures for the different algorithms needed for HECC. The architectures are developed for a reconfigurable platform based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). FPGAs combine the flexibility of software solutions with the security of traditional hardware implementations. In particular, it is possible to easily change all algorithm parameters such as curve coefficients and underlying finite field. In this work we first summarized the theoretical background of hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems. In order to realize the operation addition and doubling on


Background In 2001, university researchers and state program partners in four states (Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska) initiated the Midwest Child Care Research Consortium (MCCRC). The focus of the Consortium's work is to conduct a large longitudinal study on a range of issues associated with child care quality and conditions. Across the four states, a random selection of 2,022 child care providers participated in the study representing licensed infant, toddler, and preschool centers including Head Start and Early Head Start programs, licensed family child care homes, and license-exempt centers. In Missouri, 517 providers participated in telephone interviews.


A detailed comparison of the solubility of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in ionic liquids (ILs) and in conventional solvents like Selexol, Purisol, propylene carbonate, and sulfolane is presented. The solubilities are compared on mole fraction, molality, and volume basis to demonstrate the effect caused by the high molecular weight of ILs. We found that conventional solvents are superior to existing ILs in terms of mass- or volume-based solubilities. Monte Carlo simulations have been used to quantitatively predict the solubility of CO2, CH4, and C2H6 in the solvents 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide [hmim][Tf2N] and tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether.


An extract from red kidney beans (Phaseo- lus vulgaris) was fractionated with respect to RNA syn- thesis-stimulating activity. The activity of the fractions was tested in chicken-spleen lymphocytes cultured in serum-free medium and in plasmolyzed E. coli cells. Lymphocyte-stimulating activity was found in a fraction called F III. This fraction contained protein and orcinol- positive carbohydrate. The protein (called F III p) responsi- ble for the observed activity was separated from the con- taminating carbohydrate by acid precipitation. F III p ap- pears to belong to the group of well-known mitogens of high molecular weight present in red kidney beans. A bac- teria-stimulating factor was found in a fraction called F V. This factor strongly stimulated RNA syinthesis in the bac- terial system, and had a weak stimulating effect in the lymphocyte system. In plasmolyzed E. coli cells, F V counteracted the inhibiting effect of rifampicin on RNA synthesis.


The purpose of this study is to conduct empirical analysis of influential relationship between cooperative governance and resident satisfaction depending on cooperative governance participation in Sajik 2-dong, Choengju, where regeneration project for deteriorated residences is performed. To achieve the purpose, this study conducted questionnaire survey with the local residents living in Sajik 2-dong, established analysis data, and analyzed influential relationship by using the structural equation model "AMOS 21.0." According to the analysis, hypothetical structural model was suitable, and it was interpreted that cooperative governance affected resident satisfaction. More specifically, to those who directly participated in cooperative governance, governance participation process significantly influenced their economic satisfaction and social satisfaction. Also, residents who participated cooperative governance directly were more influenced by governance participation process and resident participation program performance than to those who participated indirectly and to those who did not participate cooperative governance.


Abstract Background Limited options currently exist for treatment of patients diagnosed with symptomatic coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). Monoclonal antibody therapy (MAT) has been investigated as a therapeutic option for symptomatic COVID-19 patients in the outpatient setting at high-risk for progression to severe disease based on emergency use authorization (EUA) criteria. No published studies have compared outcomes for patients treated with different MAT for COVID-19. Methods This was a single-center, retrospective cohort study at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to compare COVID-19-related emergency room (ER) visits, admissions, and mortality at 30 days after MAT infusion for adult patients with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 between November 16, 2020 and February 2, 2021 who received bamlanivimab versus those who received casirivimab-imdevimab. Statistical analysis used logistic regression analysis to determine the odds ratio (OR) to evaluate the relationship between patient characteristics, MAT, and outcomes. Results The cohort included 943 patients with SARS-CoV-2 who received MAT, including 658 patients who received bamlanivimab and 285 who received casirivimab-imdevimab. Outcome results between patients who received bamlanivimab and casirivimab-imdevimab showed no statistically significant difference seen in the number of COVID-19 related ER visits (3.2% vs 3.5%, p = 0.80), hospital admissions (4.6% vs 2.8%, p = 0.21), or mortality (0.5% vs 0.7%, p = 0.63). Multivariate analysis showed no statistically significant difference in outcomes between the groups when accounting for potential confounders. As reflected in the Table, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), gender, and asthma were associated with increased COVID-19 related ER visit within 30 days of infusion and age, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, CLL, and lupus were associated with increased risk for COVID-19 related admission within 30 days of infusion. Age and obesity with body mass index greater than 35 mg/kg2 were associated with increased risk for COVID-19 related mortality at 30 days. Conclusion COVID-19 related outcomes were similar when comparing patients with COVID-19 treated with bamlanivimab versus those treated with casirivimab-imdevimab. Disclosures Mohammad Mahdee Sobhanie, M.D., Regeneron (Scientific Research Study Investigator)Regeneron (Scientific Research Study Investigator, Was a sub-investigator for Regeneron 2066 and 2069) Carlos Malvestutto, M.D., Lilly (Scientific Research Study Investigator)Regeneron Inc. (Scientific Research Study Investigator)ViiV Healthcare (Advisor or Review Panel member)


This paper mainly analysis Chengdu University student's health status testing,from physical measurement equipment,physical test venues,testing staff and hours,the contents of the tests and test data,and other aspects described,analysis of the existing problems and solutions,thus ensuring that the testing in an orderly way.


We are now far more inclined than our predecessors to view history "from the bottom up," and this collection, which does not pretend to be a history in the ordinary sense, is a very good example. The editors have a bit of a struggle to maintain coherence in what is not really a coherent story. The early Protestants were a tiny minority, but what revolutionary group has not been? They were accompanied from the very beginning by a much larger number of fellow travelers who sympathized with some part of their position,and these included men in powerful positions whose motivation was not always above suspicion. One very important thing emerges from this scholarly and well presented volume:the idea that the late medieval church was a robust and healthy institution challenged only by the political self-interest of the Tudors, is a myth, like all the other myths which have been generated by this seminal and still controversial period.


Fusarium Graminearum is best known as plant pathongen and most commonly found on cereal grains, wheat and barley. It has the detrimental interactions with various grains, causing numerous diseases such as gibberella ear rot and head blight. This study is to detect the presence of F. Graminearum in plant via image processing and artificial intelligence. The standard DNA gel electrophoresis procedures are used in image formation while machine learning is achieved by means of homomorphic filtering and support vector machine (SVM). Meanwhile the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) is used in feature extraction. On average, the methods and procedures returned a correct classification rate of more than 97%, with both sensitivity and specificity of 97.5%. This study paves the way for development of an imaging system to detect other types of pathogenic microbes in plants and food materials electronically.


CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy series were cast by magnetic suspension vacuum melting furnace. They were forged at 1160°C and annealed at different temperatures. Gleeble3800 thermal deformation simulation testing machine was used to conduct thermal compression simulation to research the hot workability of the alloy. The results show that the microstructures of these alloys are made up of solid solution with face-centered-cubic structure and white granular precipitate M23C6. The addition of C and La increases the elongation of CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy forged without annealing by 1.32 times. Annealing deteriorates the tensile properties of these alloys. The constitutive equation and thermal processing diagram of the alloy are established according to the results of thermal simulation. The addition of C and La reduces the flow stress of CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy, but significantly reduces the instability region of thermoplastic deformation. The optimized thermal process parameters are as following: ①CoCrFeMnNi, when the range of the deformation temperature and the strain rate are respectively 900~1040°C and 0.01~0.025s−1, the optimum deformation temperature is 1040~1100°C, and the strain rate is in the range of 0.013~0.033s−1; ②CoCrFeMnNiC0.007La0.0004, when the range of the deformation temperature and the strain rate are respectively 1000~1080°C and 0.31~1s−1, the optimum deformation temperature is 1080~1100°C, and the strain rate is 0.01~0.025s−1.


A new kind of biomass-based polygeneration system for the production of power and methanol is proposed in this paper. The most attractive feature of this proposed system is the elimination of shift process and the adoption of the partial recycling of unreacted synthesis gas (syngas). In this study, the thermodynamic performance of the system is examined and is then compared to those of two biomass-based reference individual systems, including the individual biomass to methanol system with the shift process (B-MS) and the biomass integrated gasification combined cycle (BIGCC). The influence of the recycling ratio of unreacted syngas (Ru), which determines the exergy ratio of the chemical product to power (γ), is also investigated. This paper further discusses a synergetic viewpoint of chemical conversion and energy utilization, with and without shift reaction and different treatments of unreacted syngas. Results show that the new polygeneration system can reduce energy consumption by as much as 10% compared with the reference individual systems. Moreover, the proposed polygeneration system is expected to realize the synergetic combination of chemical conversion and efficient utilization of bio-energy; hence, offering a possibility of developing new technologies for biomass-based systems.


Abstract This paper describes an investigation into the effects of nitriding, denitriding, and renitriding, on the rotating bending fatigue strength of notched specimens of the quenched and tempered steels 24CrMo13 and 42CrMo4. The effects of the different treatments were characterised by microstructural investigation, hardness measurements, determination of the nitrogen and carbon contents in the diffusion layer, and determination of surface macrostresses. Nitriding induced a doubling of the fatigue limit. Denitriding only partly removed the effect of the nitriding treatment, because the strength increase caused by precipitation of alloying element nitrides remained unchanged, and only the effect of interstitially solved nitrogen disappeared. For nitrided and renitrided specimens an approximately linear relationship was found between the surface hardness and the fatigue strength. Denitriding caused a larger decrease in the fatigue strength than could be explained by the loss of surface hardness. The change in macrostresses from compressive to tensile also played a part. The role of interstitially dissolved nitrogen in determining the fatigue strength was found to be larger than assumed thus far.


A two-year investigation in grain storage companies allowed us to follow the course of rapeseed batches from reception at the storage facility to outloading. Each of these batches was sampled outloading, and was analysed for insecticide residues content. Traceability of oilseeds established by grain-store managers allowed us to identify cross-contamination sources. Substances discovered were mostly pyrimiphos-methyl, malathion, plus chlorpyriphos-methyl and deltamethrin. Pyrimiphosmethyl was the most commonly detected active substance, and caused most cases of nonaccordance with regulatory levels in rapeseed. Main cross-contamination hazard resulted from treatment of cereals at their receipt during the same period of rapeseed delivery at the grain store, especially when these cereal treatments were systematically achieved or frequent at that elevator. Another situation led to cross-contamination, but generally at a lower extent: rapeseed stored in bin that contained previously treated cereals, or loaded in empty bins with handling equipment treated before the receipt of rapeseed.


The observed asymmetric behaviour of mixing properties of NaCd liquid alloys, with smaller negative value for excess free energy of mixing (-4.4919KJ) has aroused our interest to undertake a theoretical investigation of this system.The existence of an intermetallic compound in the solid phase, which is manifested in the phase diagram,  may be one of the factors for the anomalous behaviour of property of mixing. A simple statistical mechanical theory based on complex formation model (the complex is formed by the preferential arrangement of A and B constituent atoms of the alloy AB ;( μA + νB = A μ B ν ) has been used to investigate the phenomena of compound formation in NaCd liquid alloys through the study of entropy of mixing through out the whole concentration range. Key Words: Free energy of mixing (G M ); Heat of mixing (H M ); Entropy of mixing(S M ); Concentration fluctuation in the long wave length region [S cc (o)] and chemical short range order parameter(α 1 ) DOI: 10.3126/njst.v10i0.2839 Nepal Journal of Science and Technology Volume 10, 2009 December Page: 105-107


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Schools are placed in 'special measures' in England if they are deemed to be under performing by failing to provide their pupils with an acceptable standard of education. This chapter explores one female headteacher's emotional experiences as she coped in difficult circumstances during an intense period of scrutiny as she led her staff towards school improvement and out of special measures. The headteacher regulated and utilised her emotions intelligently to deliberately enhance the performance of others at work and in doing so she addressed and changed the localised culture of the school. Data are drawn from a series of interviews with the headteacher and her self-reported responses to an 'EQ Map' (Cooper & Sawaf, 1997). Using the EQ Map as the conceptual framework, findings show a sense of work satisfaction emerged as a result of tackling challenging situations. An increased awareness of one's emotions led to being mindful regarding the emotional state of others, as the headteacher sought opportunities to bring about school improvement and address challenges presented by being placed in special measures. A distinctive list of 21 key features of emotional management emerged from the scales of the EQ Map capturing a model in relation to coping under internal and external pressures.


The enzymatic synthesis of dihydropteroate or dihydrofolate from 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyldihydropteridine and p-aminobenaoate or p-aminobenzoylglutamate by bacterial extracts has been shown to require adenosine triphosphate (I-3). It has been postulated that a phosphorylated pteridine intermediate is involved before synthesis of folate-like compounds. Jaenicke and Chan (4) reported that the pyrophosphate derivative of dihydropteridine was active in the enzymatic synthesis of folate-like compounds. Recently we have reported the preparation of a pteridine diphosphate that, after reduction to the dihydro level, can be coupled with p-aminobenzoate or p-aminobenzoylglutamate to yield dihydropteroate or dihydrofolate by extracts of Lactobacillus plantarum in the absence of adenosine triphosphate (5). The purposes of this communication are to present evidence indicating that the phosphorylated pteridine active in the enzymatic synthesis of dihydropteroate or dihydrofolate is 2-amino-4hydroxy-6-dihydropteridinylmethyl pyrophosphate,l and to show that cell-free extract preparations from VeiZkmeZZa strain V2 carry out the enzymatic reaction as follows.


Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have high rates of gestational diabetes (GDM). The Pregnancy And Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) study is a prospective longitudinal cohort of women with type 2 diabetes (T2D), GDM or normoglycemia in pregnancy in the Northern Territory, Australia. In this analysis we report progression to prediabetes and T2D at 2.5 years [range 2.1, 3] postpartum in a subgroup of Aboriginal and Europid women with GDM and normoglycemia in pregnancy (n=337). Women with pre-existing T2D were excluded. Data were analysed using Fisher's exact tests. Among Aboriginal women with GDM we assessed predictions for progression using multivariate logistic regression. Aboriginal women with GDM (n=111) were younger than Europid women with GDM (n=104) (29 years (SD 5.9) vs. 32 (5.6) p Disclosure A. Wood: None. J. Boyle: None. F. Barzi: None. E.L. Barr: None. M.J.I. Hare: None. A. Titmuss: None. E. Death: None. M. Kirkwood: None. A. Simmonds: None. E.M. Moore: None. J. Oats: None. D. McIntyre: Other Relationship; Self; Novo Nordisk A/S. P.Z. Zimmet: None. A.D. Brown: None. J.E. Shaw: Advisory Panel; Self; AstraZeneca, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Mylan, Sanofi. Research Support; Self; AstraZeneca. Speaker's Bureau; Self; Eli Lilly and Company, Mylan. L.J. Maple-Brown: None.


Doxorubicin can cause disruption in the lipid profile due to the free radical process. In a free radical reaction, lipid peroxidation is the introduction of a functional group comprising two catenated oxygen atoms into unsaturated fatty acids. The lipid profile is a risk factor for coronary artery disease. Antioxidants play an important role in preventing ROS (Reactive oxygen species) free radical reactions caused by doxorubicin interaction. The purpose of the study was to investigate the possible protective effects of ethanol extract of Beta vulgaris L. on doxorubicin-induced toxicity by analysing the haematological and lipid profiles. Extracts were determined for their phytochemical content and antioxidant activity then continue to in vivo study using rats as animal models. Rats were administered doxorubicin at an accumulative dose of 15 mg per kilogram of body weight (kg BW) for 15 days. Doxorubicin was administered 5 times a week with an intraperitoneal dose of 1 mg/kg BW, and B. vulgaris L. extract at a dose of 12.5 mg, 25 mg, 50 mg and 100 mg /kg BW, each of which was given for 15 days. On the 16th day, the animals were anaesthetized, and blood samples were collected for the determination of the haematological profile and lipid profile. The result of antioxidant activity showed that the IC50 value of B. vulgaris L. extract was 37.366 μg/mL. All doses of treatment showed protective activity against doxorubicin-induced toxicity, at a dose of 50 mg/kg BW is the minimum dose that provides significant protection compared to the negative control group (p<0.05) in all parameters. It is concluded that B. vulgaris L. ethanol extract has protective effects in rats against doxorubicin-induced toxicity.


Exhibition hall should be strived to be simply, practical and modern on total thinking. It should be stressed its function and practice, and put Bauhous' design thought "Less is more" into the design of the exhibition hall.


It is highly complicated in the today"s market find well knowledge, coached, and highly motivated people. Human resource is one of the most important back office operations of any organization or business. Their skills, creativity, ability human cannot be replaced by machines. We can lose efficiency in work if no qualitative people. At all levels and areas of the business or firm human efficiency is required with machine efficiency. Human can work without machine but machine can"t. Hence, industry like advertising and direct marketing for instance human talent is more valuable among other else. No machine can ever come up with a unique advertising idea without the human input. Thus companies must learn to recognize and appreciate the value of their employees. It is worth and capital investments. That is why firms also need to search people those are on capital investment along with capital (money) while many entrepreneurs are focused on securing capital they have to make sure they have the right management team and employer in place if they want to attract investor create value and maximum wealth. Solid management team in what sets a company apart with venture capitalists. The article highlights the significance of Human resource valuation and methods to measures human assets value. The article describes views of the authors and finds out the organizations those have tried to implement human resource accounting. The article depicts the advantages of human resource valuation.


Social interest patterns are increasingly dissimilated during the further reform and opening.The increasing group political consciousness,pursuit of interest,interest protection,and involvement in political life are challenging the ongoing political system practice.Ethnic minorities as one of the social interest groups have their own pursuit of interest.This paper intends to explain the interest of ethnic groups,connotation of interest group,and tentatively explores the accesses and methods for ethnic groups to express their interest in order to promote political stability and development.


Abstract : In this study we extend the global stability results of the previous report 1. We focus on the scenario of a single TCP flow with proportional AQM controller at the router. By using Lyapunov functional method, we are able to prove the global stability of such nonlinear system with feedback delay.


The demand for space cooling is rising. The increase in cooling demand can put significant strain on the electric grid since approximately 99% of air-conditioning and refrigeration loads worldwide are met with electricity. Many hot weather cities could benefit from district cooling (DC) systems to meet their growing cooling demand in an effective sustainable manner. Since these systems require significant infrastructure investment and optimisation affecting multiple stakeholders, it is important to understand the role of local authorities or municipalities, energy companies, and end users in the planning for these implementations. This is due to the fact that the overall goals and objectives of these actors have a big influence on the success of these projects. A literature review was conducted to identify the role of DC systems in urban energy transitions and an exploratory, embedded multiple case study research method was used to identify the lessons learned from the DC system implementations in the downtown area of Houston and Austin. Even though the Austin system is owned and operated by the municipality and the Houston system is owned and operated by a private company, both systems had the same economic driver for implementation which was to capture load at the time of de-regulation of the electricity market in Texas. However, it was found that there were many benefits in the Austin system to be owned by the city. The information barrier was not prominent in Austin, but it was the main barrier mentioned in the Houston case. Since the system is owned by the city, it is part of the many utilities (water, electricity, etc.) that need to be considered during new developments and as a result there is more trust from end users. Private companies require more evidence if end users are not familiar with DE systems. Additionally, the environmental and social benefits of the DE system are not apparent when there is not a connection with the municipality. Although it is not a requirement for the municipality to be involved in implementing DC systems for it to be successful, it does have multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits that can drive municipalities to get involved. (Less)


The aim: is to study the therapeutic effectiveness of the new veterinary medicinal product Revozyn RTU 400 mg/ml (suspension for injections), manufactured by Eurovet Animal Health B.V. (Netherlands), in the treatment of acute (clinical) and hidden (subclinical) mastitis in cows during lactation.
Materials and methods. The research was conducted on dairy cows of the Simmental breed with a milk productivity of 6000-6500 kg of milk per lactation (F "Pchany-Denkovich", Pchany village, Stryi district, Lviv region). To confirm the diagnosis of "acute mastitis" and to identify cows with hidden (subclinical) mastitis, as well as to establish the effectiveness of the researched drug after treatment, a sample was taken with the California Mastitis Test (CMT), manufactured by Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Germany. For bacteriological research, milk samples were taken from the affected quarters of the mammary gland (1 sample from each cow) in compliance with generally accepted sanitary rules. The sensitivity of bacterial isolates to the drug was determined by diffusion in agar using standard discs with benzylpenicillin.
Results. A clinical examination of 127 Simmental dairy cows of different periods of lactation was carried out. During the clinical-diagnostic examination of animals, 8 cows with clinically pronounced, acute course of mastitis were found. According to the nature of the exudate in 3 cows, mastitis was serous, in 5 cows it was purulent-catarrhal. For serous mastitis, the CM test gave a positive result – thickening, the milk solution looks like a gel. In case of purulent catarrh, a sample with the CMT gave a strongly positive result – the mixture thickened, the gel took on a certain shape and became very viscous. The CMT revealed 12 cows with suspected latent mastitis. Representatives of opportunistic microflora – Streptococcus agalactiae, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli bacteria were isolated and identified from mastitis milk. The summarized results of the clinical trial of the drugs Revozyn RTU 400 mg/ml and Procillin® 30 % on cows suffering from the clinical form of mastitis were as follows. On the 10th day of the experiment, a milk sample with the California mastitis test showed that all milk samples from cows of both groups (with the exception of one milk sample from a cow from the control group) gave a negative result (the solution remained liquid, blue or gray and homogeneous, without clots). Taking into account the results of the CMT and the number of somatic cells in the milk after the therapy, the therapeutic effectiveness of the veterinary medicinal product Revozyn RTU 400 mg/ml in the treatment of various forms of mastitis in lactating cows was 100 %, and the one of the comparative drug Procillin® 30 % was 83.3 % .
Conclusions. A clinical study of the veterinary medicinal product Revozyn RTU 400 mg/ml, suspension for injections, manufactured by Eurovet Animal Health B.V. (Netherlands) established its effectiveness in the dosage, recommended by the manufacturer, in the treatment of clinical and subclinical mastitis in lactating cows, caused by microorganisms sensitive to benzylpenicillin. In terms of therapeutic effectiveness, the drug Revozyn RTU 400 mg/ml was not inferior to the comparative drug Procillin® 30 % in its dosage form and active substance when used in the treatment of various forms of mastitis in lactating cows


According to numerous reports, the prevalence rate of systemic arterial hypertension in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases varies from 0.4 to 27.7%. The number of authors have shown a decrease in heart rate variability against the background of hypertension, mainly due to the SDNN (the standard deviation of the normal-to-normal RR intervals) and RMSSD (the root mean square of successive RR-interval differences), indicating a decrease in parasympathetic effects on the heart rhythm and a relative increase in sympathetic tone.
Objective: to study changes in heart rate variability parameters depending on the level of apoptotic processes in patients with arterial hypertension against the background of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Materials and methods. We examined 25 men with a diagnosis of arterial hypertension stage II and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease stage II without clinically significant comorbidities, whose average age was 51.72±1.22; more than 80% of them were active smokers, pack-years index was 17.06±2.41, the harmful professional factor were indicated by 1/4 people.
The verification of arterial hypertension was carried out in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine dated May 24, 2012 № 384. All patients were diagnosed with stage II of hypertension. Arterial hypertension degree was diagnosed in 12% patients – first, in 28% patients – second and in 60% patients, respectively, third. Participants expressed their willingness to be included in medical research.
Results. Index SDNN statistically significantly (p<0.05) in parallel with the elevation of the values of the marker of apoposis of caspase-9 decreased by 13.68%, comparing between groups of patients less and more than IV quartile according to the values of caspase-9. The LF (Low Frequency power: frequency activity in the 0.04 - 0.15Hz range) value in patients with a cohort of less and more than IV quartile according to the values of caspase-9 showed a statistically significant decrease by 32.67% (p <0.05). HF (High Frequency power: frequency activity in the 0.15 - 0.40Hz range) with an increase in the activity of apoptosis processes according to the values of caspase-9 decreased most significantly significant, by 48.92% (p <0.05).
To assess the direction, the tightness and the nature of the relationship between the indices between the studied variables, a regression analysis was conducted to construct a functional dependence. As independent argument (X) considered the level of caspase-9 activity, and as a dependent variable (Y) considered the indicator LF / HF (LF/HF Ratio: A ratio of Low Frequency to High Frequency). The obtained data indicated that the correlation between numerical variables in patients with caspase-9 level less than 4 quartiles had an unreliable character, while in patients with high expression of this cysteine protease the correlation obtained with a high degree of accuracy and adequacy was approximated by the model of exponential form, and namely: Y = 4,0578 * exp (0,0901 * X) at R = 0,547, R2 = 0,30, normalized R2 = 0,29, p = 0,0083).
Conclusion. Elevation of the state of the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system and a decrease in the activity of the parasympathetic part of the autonomic support, which can potentially be associated with an increased risk of serious cardiovascular cases in patients with this comorbidity, were found in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease against the background of arterial hypertension.


Abstract Knee and hip alignment and knee moments during landing are considered risk factors for knee injuries while ankle bracing has been demonstrated to alter landing kinematics and kinetics at these joints. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a semi-rigid ankle brace has an effect on knee and hip kinematics and kinetics during landing on uneven surfaces. Seventeen recreational athletes performed a landing task on a randomly inclined platform with and without an ankle brace. Three different surface alignments were generated: everted, neutral, and inverted. Ground reaction forces (GRF), kinematics, and brace reaction forces were measured. Two independent variables were tested: the brace factor (braced and non-braced) and the inclination factor (everted, neutral, and inverted). Seven separate 2 × 3 repeated measures MANOVAs were employed to compare GRF, knee, and hip initial angles and range of motion (ROM), knee, and hip forces and moments. Participants landed with a more flexed knee and hip during the brace condition, followed by a knee ROM reduction. No differences were observed for the kinetic variables. Landing on the inverted surface resulted in increased peak magnitudes of the vertical and the mediolateral GRF compared to landing on the neutral surface. Landing on the everted surface caused higher knee and hip abduction moments during early contact. Results confirm that ankle bracing may affect the kinematics of the whole lower extremity with no effect on knee or hip loading. Landing on uneven surfaces may increase injury risk, but no adverse effects were shown for wearing the brace.


The present invention provides a method and system for utilizing irrigation cycle, horticultural technical field relates to cultivation and management. The method comprising: several pieces of waste to open ground, a trench laying PE film is placed on a cultivation substrate PE film; film will hit the bottom end of the trench nutrient solution return hole connected to a back outwardly through the aperture balance pipe, the balance recovery pipe are connected back to the main pipe, the nutrient solution flows through the main duct recovering recycling bin; the recycling bin is provided with a pumping means, the pumping means are connected by piping and fertilizer tub, the tub fertilizer irrigation pipes by irrigation of the cultivation medium; forming irrigation, exudation, collected nutrient solution irrigation. Proposed by the invention integrated solar greenhouse irrigation water and fertilizer nutrient solution recycling system, an effective solution to water, waste and fertilizer pollution problem, design a reasonable, low cost, it can be popularized in production in greenhouse.


Photoluminescence properties of Ba2MgSi2O7:Eu2+ synthesized by a solid-state reaction method are first investigated in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) to visible (vis) excitation energy range. The band gap of the host is found to be around 7.44 eV. The incorporation of Eu2+ leads to bright green luminescence with weak thermal quenching above room temperature. Cathodoluminescence (CL) properties under low-voltage excitations are then studied, and the results suggest a potential application of the compound in field emission displays (FEDs). Electronic properties of the compound are finally calculated by a hybrid density functional theory (DFT) method, and are discussed in association with observed luminescence properties.


We revisit core Service-Oriented Architecture –SOA– concepts to integrate advanced continuous processing techniques. The resulting architecture allows overcoming the high heterogeneity and the very large data scale that arise in the Internet of Things. Further, we discuss how to leverage the CoAP protocol so as to enable the resource-efficient deployment of the proposed architecture over the large diversity of sensor networks.


Financial statements refer to formal & original statements which are prepared to disclose the financial health of business. Thus the financial statement provides a summarized view of financial position and operations of a firm that is a systematic collection of financial data in a consistent & a logical way.                Critical analysis of financial statements and interpretation on basis of ratio analysis is an important tool in the hands of management for analyzing the performance of bank and any other organization.               Thispaper  is specially designed to understand the subject matter of Financial Statement Analysis. This paper gives information and report about analysis & interpretation of various ratios & trend analysis at LSB. Throughout the paper the focus has been on presenting information and comments in easy and intelligible manner. It gives overall financial view of LonavalaSahakari Bank in the banking sector.


In this paper the fundamentals of photothermal spectroscopy are presented, special emphasis is done in the obtention of the optical absorption spectra. It is shown that this spectroscopy can be used successfully for the monitoring of protozoans that could infect the human. The usefulness of the technique is illustrated in the special case of Leishmania, where it is possible to find that the stage when the protozoan infect vertebrate cells show important differences in relation to the protozoans infecting insects.


ABSTRACT The Argentinean movement #NiUnaMenos (NUM) represents one of the most relevant transnational examples of Latin American feminist mobilization against gender-based violence and can be understood as vanguard of a current tide of feminized resistance on a global scale. This article addresses two central narratives in the discourses and social practices of three founders of the NUM; one about feminist mobilization as a social transformative moment that creates distinctive protest performances in the pursuing of a liveable life despite the challenging restrictive possibilities; and the other about the intersection between gender and class in the struggle against the neoliberal patriarchal precarization of life, related to the lack of the collective systems of social protection against gender-based violence. The analysis of these narratives highlights a feminization of resistance that promotes a radical transformation of the social system, where politics also at a micro level question capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy by producing alternative knowledges, subjectivities, and epistemologies. Particularly, the study of the experience of enhanced precariousness created by the operation of patriarchal violence, and the resistance expressed in engendered alternative ethical and non-violent responses, reveals in the narratives the strength of a precarity awareness becoming a network of transnational and cross-identities solidarity.


Purpose: The study sought to analyze the impact of social media on strategic management in Morocco
Methodology: The research was conducted entirely on desktop review method. Secondary data, or data that doesn't require actual observation in the field, are the focus of desk research. Because it requires little more than an executive's time, telephone rates, and directories, desk research is generally seen as a low-cost strategy in comparison to field research. As a result, the research used data that had already been collected and reported. This secondary data was readily available via the internet's digital library and scholarly articles.
Findings: The results show that social media has had a profound impact on strategic management. It has enabled organizations to identify and capitalize on opportunities, manage risks, and increase efficiency. By leveraging the power of social media, organizations can gain valuable insights into their customers, competitors, and the market, enabling them to make more informed and effective decisions. Social media has become an increasingly important part of the business landscape and its impact on strategic management in Morocco has been profound.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Future research in strategic management may be grounded in either the resource based view theory or the network based view theory. Policymakers, researchers, and academics from all across the world will all stand to gain from this study's findings. The study's findings will also be used by the country's top strategic management executives to boost the effectiveness of social media across all of their operations and initiatives. According to the research, social media organizations may boost their productivity in key areas by adopting rules for dealing with conflicts.


This paper considers the problem of probability distribution construction for a random variable from known numerical characteristics. The problem is of importance in determining the parametric reliability of engineering systems when the numerical characteristics (in particular, the bias and the kurtosis) of an output parameter (state variable) are determined by analytical methods and its distribution must be recovered. This may be done using a four-parameter universal distribution, which allows one to cover certain ranges (preferably, as wide as possible) of the bias and kurtosis coefficients using a single analytical form. The most familiar universal distribution is Gram-Charlier's, which is a deformation of the normal distribution obtained using a Chebyshev-Hermite orthogonal polynomial expansion. However, in the general case, Gram-Charlier's distribution function is not a steadily increasing one. For some combinations of the bias and kurtosis coefficients, the density curve may exhibit negative values and multiple modes. Because of this, a search for other universal distributions to cover wider ranges of the bias and kurtosis coefficients is of current importance. The paper analyzes a method of universal probability distribution construction by multiplying the normal density by a perturbing polynomial in the form of a spline (referred to as the spline-perturbed distribution). The idea of a distribution of this type was proposed earlier to account for a nonzero bias coefficient. The spline is constructed based on Hermite's interpolating polynomials of the third degree with two knots, which have a minimum of parameters and possess a locality property The basic distribution is constructed for a four-knot spline. The paper further develops and generalizes the spline-perturbed distribution to nonzero bias and kurtosis coefficients. Two cases are considered. The first case is a composition of two splines that have four and five knots, respectively. The former and the latter allow one to account for the bias and the kurtosis, respectively. Integral equations are obtained to find the values at the knots of both splines and construct the distribution. The second case is more general and uses one five-knot Hermite spline. The paper shows a way to construct a generalized spline-perturbed distribution without any negative density values or any multiple modes. The knot points are chosen using an enumerative technique. Conditions for the absence of negative density values and multiple nodes are identified.


Anisotropy of the nonlinear magnetooptical (MO) response in regular arrays of Py antidots and «С»-, «U»- and «O»- shaped Py nanoelements is studied by means of the MO Kerr effect at the second harmonic (SH) wavelength. We demonstrate that the values of the MO effect and coercivity depend substantially on the azimuthal orientation of the antidots array relatively to the external magnetic field. In the arrays of «С»-, «U»- and «O»- shaped Py nanoelements the circular dichroism (CD) of the SH response was observed due to the extrinsic chirality of the samples. We demonstrate that the averaged over the azimuthal angle value of the CD depends on the applied to the structure magnetic field.


This paper investigates the problem of secure communication in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled net-works aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) from the physical layer security perspective. Specifically, the RIS is deployed to assist the wireless transmission from the UAV to the ground user in the presence of an eavesdropper. The objective of this work is to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing the phase shifts at the RIS as well as the transmit beamforming vector and location of the UAV. However, the formulated problem is difficult to solve directly due to the non-linear and non-convex objective function and constraints. By invoking the successive convex approximation and fractional programming techniques, the intractable original problem is transformed into convex ones, then an alternating algorithm is proposed to solve the challenging problem effectively. Simulations results demonstrate that the designed algorithm for RIS-aided UAV communications can achieve higher secrecy rate than benchmarks.


Underwater acoustic system performance depends on several complex and dynamic environmental parameters, and simulating such performance is vital to the success of development and implementation of these systems. Because of the complexity of the environment and governing physical equations, realistic simulations can become computationally prohibitive. This is especially true of for large environments with many active systems being assessed. By utilizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on data generated by well-established physics based models (such as BELLHOP's ray tracing algorithm), network predictions can be used lieu of physics-based models to significantly reduce the computational burden in the loop for system performance simulations. In this paper, the usefulness and limitations of using CNNs to estimate transmission loss (TL), which is a key element in determining system performance, is explored. Using BELLHOP's ray tracing algorithm as a baseline, CNN's were able to produce TL results with significantly lower errors than those estimates made using other estimation methods such as spherical spreading and K-nearest neighbors. This indicates that the computational costs of large underwater acoustic simulations may be shifted from inside the simulation to network training, thus allowing for more efficient traditional and Monte Carlo style simulations.


Knowledge represent result from knowing something and this happened after people do evaluation to an object (Notoadmodjo,1993). These days socialize to assume that knowledge very required and of vital importance for life to future, however there other, dissimilar factors or thing which also determine besides knowledge. Knowledge in comprehending about hemodialisation also very required therefore this research aim to know patient knowledge level fail renal chronic about hemodialisation and also knowing storey rutinity patient compliance or fail renal chronic in experiencing hemodilaisation
Research type used is obsevatif which aim to check whether is relation of between patient knowledge level fail renal chronic to rutinity experience hemodialisation. Technique of data collecting weared by use enquetee (to know patient knowledge about hemodialisation) and the teared observation (to see level rutinity patient experience hemodialisation). Sampel research used by patient fail renal chronic experiencing ill hemodialisation at Dr. Soepraoen Hospital Malang at date of 03-10 June 2003 as much 13 responder. Data gathered tobe analysed by using technique analyse chi-square to test freedom.
Result of research indicate that no relation between level of knowledge of patient fail renal of chronic to rutinity experience ill hemodialisation at Dr. Soepraoen Hospital Malang, This matter as according to hipothesizing which have been specified by X2 calculate < X2 of tables.
In this research expected by all good party from nurse, family, socialize, and the education environmen can support and motivate to more improve life with regulare and healthy life pattern.


Acrylamide is an aliphatic amide, which is produced by industrial processes and during heating of food. It is neurotoxic and a suspected carcinogen. In the present study an attempt was made to isolate acrylamide degrading bacteria from soil. The optimum growth conditions and physiological characteristics for the isolated acrylamide degrading bacteria were investigated. The isolated bacterium was identified as Bacillus clausii strain 1779 based on full 16S rRNA molecular phylogeny. The bacteria can degrade 800 mg l -1 acrylamide after eight days of incubation with concomitant cell growth. In addition to above, it also grows optimally at a concentration of acrylamide between 500-2000 mg l -1 between pH 8-10 and temperature and 25 - 45 0 C. Thus the isolate would be


India has over the recent decade witnessed a spate of land transfers as Special Economic Zones, extractive industries, or real estate dispossess farmers, land owners, and indigenous groups of their land. As a result, struggles over land have emerged with force in many locations, almost across India. Yet while the political economy and legal aspects of India's new 'land wars' are well documented, the discourses and identities mobilised against large-scale forcible land transfers receive less scholarly attention. We suggest 'the regional identity politics' of India's current land wars to explain the important role of place-based identities in garnering broad, public support for popular anti-dispossession movements. We explore how land, and its produce, are mobilised by anti-dispossession movements in the Indian states of Goa and West Bengal. The movements mobilised land and food not as emblematic of structural changes in the political economy, but first and foremost within a symbolic field in which they came to stand metaphorically for regional forms of belonging and identity under threat. While reinforcing regional solidarity, these identities also contributed to the fragmented and often highly localised nature of India's current land wars, while also potentially disrupting efforts to sustain organising in the long term.


The application of biological or synthetic grafts to bypass occluded or critically stenosed arteries is a common surgical procedure. Anastomotic intimal hyperplasia is a primary factor in the long-term failure of these grafts. A comparative Newtonian vs. nonNewtonian Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes investigation demonstrates that the anastomotic graft angle is of prodigious importance to defining the wall shear stress: a shallow or small anastomotic angle of 20° results in a decreased region of separated flow which reduces the likelihood of intimal hyperplasia relative to both 30° and 45° graft anastomoses. The study also highlights the importance of implementing the non-Newtonian solver. Unfortunately, the anastomotic angle is limited both by the graft material and the mechanics of suturing and skill of the surgeon thereby necessitating an alternative means of hemodynamic control. A further preliminary computation has demonstrated that a simply configured novel Hemodynamic Control Device* judiciously adapts the local anastomotic flow fields by reducing flow separation, thereby decreasing the likelihood of intimal hyperplasia and the subsequent graft failure. The associated increase in the long-term patency of the graft anastomoses will enhance the patient's survival rate in addition to reducing the need to perform expensive staff intensive re-operative procedures which are statistically less successful than the original procedure.


The pyrolysis characteristics of lignite, biomass (bagasse and corncob), and lignite- biomass blends with different weight ratios have been investigated by using a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA). The different devolatilization behaviors were observed for lignite, biomass, and lignite-biomass blends. In the case of lignite, broad devolatilization curve was observed as compared to the biomass which showed sharp devolatilization curve. This indicates that biomass has high devolatilization rate comparing to lignite. However, significant interactions between lignite and biomass have not been found in the solid phase under the conditions used in this study. So, it can be concluded that the pyrolysis of lignite is not affected by the presence of biomass in the solid phase within our condition. The heating value was measured for blends of lignite with bagasse and corncob with the ratios of lignite to bagasse or corncob of 90:10, 80:20, and 50:50. The measured heating values were decreasing with increase of biomass content. In case of bagasse blends, the decrease of heating value was very high (4396.2 cal/g) as compared to corncob blends (4664.1 cal/g) for the ratio 50 %. The fossil fuel lignite can be substituted by corncob more compared to bagasse.


The meanings of Security and Safety in the field of information network security and applications in specific industry is discussed and their definitions are given in this paper.The research is very important guidance to information security assessment,risk management,level of protection,and indicator system of information security evaluation.


The present study is the logical successor to a preceding paper where the nature of wind pressures on a tall building was investigated by wind tunnel experimental tests. The statistical analysis showed that the pressure time series recorded in separated flow regions have significant non-Gaussian features. The results of this experimental work are used here to develop a suitable procedure to simulate the wind pressure time series on prismatic buildings. This procedure is based on translation processes. It is shown that the proposed method is very attractive for simulation based on experimental data because the translation processes are completely characterized by marginal distributions and covariance functions, which can be easily estimated. The obtained results show that a very high accuracy is achieved. The efficiency of the proposed procedure is related to the exact calculation of the covariance function and the complete utilization of the information given by the marginal distribution. Moreover, time-c...


The electric vehicle charger is composed of the front-stage rectifier and the rear-stage DC/DC converter. This paper takes the electric vehicle charger as the object, and mainly studies the battery equalization control strategy in the charging and discharging process of the charger. The non-isolated Buck-Boost conversion circuit is used as the DC/DC converter, and the current is controlled to charge and discharge the battery. And the active equalization control strategy is adopted for the difference of the battery itself. The MATLAB/Simulink simulation realizes the charge, discharge and equalization control of the battery, so that the SOC difference of the battery during charging and discharging is minimized, thereby achieving the simultaneous charging and discharging tasks. The effectiveness of charge and discharge control and equalization control is verified by simulation comparison.


In this study, we investigated the effect of low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLr) deficiency on gap junctional connexin 36 (Cx36) islet content and on the functional and growth response of pancreatic beta‐cells in C57BL/6 mice fed a high‐fat (HF) diet. After 60 days on regular or HF diet, the metabolic state and morphometric islet parameters of wild‐type (WT) and LDLr−/− mice were assessed. HF diet‐fed WT animals became obese and hypercholesterolaemic as well as hyperglycaemic, hyperinsulinaemic, glucose intolerant and insulin resistant, characterizing them as prediabetic. Also they showed a significant decrease in beta‐cell secretory response to glucose. Overall, LDLr−/− mice displayed greater susceptibility to HF diet as judged by their marked cholesterolaemia, intolerance to glucose and pronounced decrease in glucose‐stimulated insulin secretion. HF diet induced similarly in WT and LDLr−/− mice, a significant decrease in Cx36 beta‐cell content as revealed by immunoblotting. Prediabetic WT mice displayed marked increase in beta‐cell mass mainly due to beta‐cell hypertrophy/replication. Nevertheless, HF diet‐fed LDLr−/− mice showed no significant changes in beta‐cell mass, but lower islet–duct association (neogenesis) and higher beta‐cell apoptosis index were seen as compared to controls. The higher metabolic susceptibility to HF diet of LDLr−/− mice may be explained by a deficiency in insulin secretory response to glucose associated with lack of compensatory beta‐cell expansion.


Preface Part 1: Children's Rights An Overview 1. The case for children's rights a progress report Bob Franklin Reader of Journalism, University of Sheffield Part 2: Children's Rights The Changing Legal Framework 2. Children's educational rights in a new ERA? Tony Jeffs Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Northumbria 3. Children's rights and the Children Act 1989 Christina Lyon Professor of Law, University of Liverpool, and Nigel Parton Professor of Child Care, Huddersfield University 4. The Criminal Justice Acts "justice" by geography Barry Anderson Head of the Youth Crime Section, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) 5. Children's rights in a land of rites Michael Freeman Professor of Law, University College London Part 3: Children's Rights Policy Prescription and Implementation In The British Setting 6. Children's rights officers righting wrongs and promoting rights Shane Ellis Leeds Children's Rights Officer, Save The Children Fund, and Annie Franklin Principal Officer, Save The Children Fund 7. A Minister for Children Joan Lester M.P. Labour M.P. for Eccles and Labour Party Shadow Minister for Children 8. The Children's Rights Development Unit Gerison Lansdown Director of the Children's Rights Development Unit 9. The rights and wrongs of children who care Jo Aldridge Research Associate, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University 10. Children's rights in their early years from plaiting fog to knitting treacle Gillian Alexander Head of Kirklees Early Years Service (KEYS) 11. Rights for children who are disabled Margaret Kennedy National Co-ordinator of the 'Keep Deaf Children Safe' Child Abuse Project Part 4. Children's Rights Comparative Perspectives 12. Children's rights an American perspective Cynthia Price Cohen Director of Child Rights International Research Institute 13. The Scandinavian experience of children's rights Malfrid Grude Flekkoy Cliniical Psychologist, formerly Norwegian Ombudsman for Children 14. Children's rights in Australia Moira Rayner Barrister, Chairperson of the Board of the National Children's and Youth Law Centre, formerly Victorian Commissioner for Equal Opportunities 15. Outside Childhood: street children's rights Judith Ennew Co-founder Streetwise Internation 16. Respecting children's right to physical integrity Peter Newell Director of EPOCH 17. Russian Children's rights Judith Harwin Lecturer in Department of Social Administration, London School of Economics


Isotopic composition changes with burnup can be used in fuel management and international safeguards. Development of measurement systems for these isotope correlations is discussed. (DLC)


Plane inertial waves are generated using a wavemaker, made of oscillating stacked plates, in a rotating water tank. Using particle image velocimetry, we observe that, after a transient, the primary plane wave is subject to a subharmonic instability and excites two secondary plane waves. The measured frequencies and wavevectors of these secondary waves are in quantitative agreement with the predictions of the triadic resonance mechanism. The secondary wavevectors are found systematically more normal to the rotation axis than the primary wavevector: this feature illustrates the basic mechanism at the origin of the energy transfers towards slow, quasi two-dimensional, motions in rotating turbulence.


. We report on preliminary results of a program of rest-frame UV spectroscopy of z > 4 QSOs. Despite their high luminosity and inher ent youth, these objects exhibit spectra that are generally very similar to those of AGNs at lower z. We find some evidence that the z > 4 systems are described by unusually strong 01A1304 emission, which may be a re sult of elevated metallicity or unusual prominence of the 'intermediate-line region'. High metallicities are also signaled by strong N v A1240 emission, consistent with quasar behavior at z « 2-3.


Unlike other well-developed countries such as New Zealand, Australia, and the USA, there is still no local performance base fire engineering codes in Hong Kong. Yet, the local government recognizes the importance of the fire engineering codes by issuing guidelines seven years ago to set out a framework on fire safety design by accepting both prescriptive and performance based fire engineering approach on design submission. Meanwhile, a Fire Safety Committee has been set up and a consultancy firm has been commissioned to draft the local fire engineering safety codes. On the other hand, lack of proper training for building professionals and the limitation of space in Hong Kong make the application of Performance Based Fire Engineering unpopular.


This article presents a new perspective on 'timeliness' through developing novel hypotheses and methodologies to explain behavioural and structural determinants of civil case disposition time. Our proposed more comprehensive methodology presents a powerful explanatory tool to inform future empirical investigation, as well as laying foundations for the creation of robust time standards against which civil courts can be more accurately measured, monitored and compared across jurisdictions.


Bethe–Salpeter equation in ladder approximation with self–energy graphs is discussed for the model problem of two distinguishable equal–mass scalar particles exchanging a single massive scalar boson. The spectral features are analyzed.


The author talked about the importance of experiments during the management of the CATV networks. Mainly introduced the contents and some problems which should be noticed of the experiments and stated the practical significance of the experiment mechanism for the CATV networks development.


Background: The prevalence of allergic disease has risen significantly during recent years. A major component of the susceptibility to allergic disease is determined in prenatal life, when the placenta plays a central role in fetal growth and development. In this study, we aimed to identify the patterns of gene expression in the placenta that may program early immune function to increase susceptibility to allergy. Methods: A set of immune genes known to be associated with asthma, allergy and inflammation were selected for analysis by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) on placental tissue from infants who did or did not develop an allergy by 2 years of age. Analysis was performed on males and females separately for each allergy type including eczema, rhinitis or asthma. Results: Of 11 candidate allergy-associated genes tested by qRT-PCR, 4 were found to be associated with the development of specific childhood allergy types (P < 0.05). These included MMP9 for both males and females that developed eczema, TLR7 for females that developed eczema, KITL1 for males that developed rhinitis and ORMDL3 for females that developed asthma. Conclusions: This study has identified altered expression of placental genes involved in inflammation in association with the development of specific allergies in childhood. The current data provide supporting evidence implicating the placenta in programming the fetal immune system in early life.


The article characterizes interaction areas of school psychologists and teachers when implementing creative project-based activities. The emphasis is placed on the need of training educational psychologists to be experts in characterizing the ways teaching, focused on the achievements of the modern educational psychology, is organized. There are presented the kinds of cooperation at all stages of the project-based strategy, focused on the support of teachers as active participants of programming and scenario planning of educational and bringing-up situations, responding to the principles of developmental teaching.


MEN, COHESION, AND BATTLE: THE INNISKILLING REGIMENT AT WATERLOO Mark Richard Bois December 8, 2006 Advisor: Dr. Wayne E. Lee This thesis is a social and military history of the First Battalion of the 27 Foot, the Inniskilling Regiment, at the Battle of Waterloo. Crucial to success in battle is the cohesion of units and their ability to withstand punishment and keep fighting. This paper offers an examination of the constituent elements of unit cohesion as manifested in the demonstrable staying power of the Inniskillings. The Inniskillings' battlefield experience is a case study in cohesion: by understanding the devastating battlefield experience of the


Twenty isolate of P.aerugiosa isolated from Baghdad hospitals identified morphologically and biochemical tests then vitek system.Disk diffusion method carried out to determined the sensitivity of bacterial isolates to different antibiotics like amoxicillin,ciprofloxacin, meropenem and cefotaxim by using Muller-Hinton agar, the results showed that 100% of isolates had resistance to amoxicillin,40% of resistance to cefotxim, 20% of resistance to ciprofloxacin and meropenem. Agar well method used to determined the minimal inhibitory concentrations for alcoholic extract of Allium sativum which prepared by using aqueous ethanol by soxhlet extractor ,it had inhibition effect in 50, and 25 mg/ml, the diameter of inhibition zone on agar were 15-9 mm.


We study few-cycle, strong-field dissociation of aligned ${\mathrm{H}}_{2}^{+}$ by solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation including rotation. We examine the dependence of the final angular distribution, the kinetic energy release spectrum, and the total dissociation yield on the initial nuclear angular distribution. In particular, we look at the dependence on the relative angle ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{0}$ between the laser polarization and the symmetry axis of a well-aligned initial distribution, as well as the dependence on the delay between the ``pump'' pulse that prepares the alignment and the few-cycle probe pulse. Surprisingly, we find the dissociation probability for ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{0}={90}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$ can be appreciable even though the transitions involved are purely parallel. We therefore address the limits of the commonly held ``ball-and-stick'' picture for molecules in intense fields as well as the validity of the axial recoil approximation.


Moreto's El desdén con el desdén seems a typical love comedy wherein three noble men vie for the attentions of a noble lady. Diana, however, is haughty, disdainful, intellectually opposed to marriage, and, if we judge by Carlos's initial reaction, not particularly good-looking. Unless we attribute greed to Carlos as his prime motive, we must ask why he so passionately pursues the Conde de Barcelona's only child.Multifaceted desire lies at the heart of this, and perhaps of all, comedia. Carlos desires Diana because his friend, the Príncipe de Bearne and the Conde de Fox, do. His desire, therefore, is inauthentic, vain, based on a model. Frustrated and frustrating desire, whose archetypal presentation is in the Echo and Narcissus story, is the central motivator of the action.Disdain, the sword Carlos turns against Diana to win her, is but the other face of desire's coin. Desire and disdain, like all signs, carry the trace of their radical other inscribed in their essence, and both, again like all signs, are unstable. That resultant instability, then, must be projected into the end of the play, and will produce at least two possible futures for the newly betrothed couple.


The theoretical models on Condensed Cluster Fusion in the dynamic ordering process of deuterons in condensed matter (especially PdDx lattice) have been elaborated in three steps in the period from 1989 to 2009. The present paper briefly reviews theoretical modeling, mathematical formulation and quantitative estimations of multi-body deuteron fusion rates, time-dependent screening effect by electron clouds, and time-dependent size of condensing clusters as 4D/TSC. TSC is the tetrahedral symmetric condensate and key idea for clustering and dynamic condensation. Final products of 4D fusion are mainly 4He nuclei with 2–5 MeV main component and 23.8 MeV minor component. © 2011 ISCMNS. All rights reserved.


A novel approach to angle of arrival estimation in beamspace for a uniform linear array is presented. Beamspace noise eigenvectors may be telescoped to vectors in the element-space noise subspace. The telescoped noise eigenvectors are bandpass, facilitating multirate processing involving modulation to baseband, filtering, and decimation. As these operations are linear, a matrix transformation applied to the eigenvectors may be constructed a priori. Incorporation of the technique into either the Root-MUSIC or ESPRIT prescriptions provides a computationally efficient procedure. Compared to past efforts to adapt Root-MUSIC and ESPRIT to beamspace, this approach circumvents the need for restrictive requirements on the form of the beamforming transformation. An asymptotic theoretical performance analysis is also included to provide an alternative to computationally intensive Monte Carlo simulations. Simulation studies show the validity of the performance predictive expressions and verify that the procedure, when incorporated into the Root-MUSIC/ESPRIT formulations, produces a direction finding technique that nearly attains the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB).


The oxoborate Ca4GdO(BO3)3 (GdCOB) is a potential material for advanced industrial applications because of its optical and electric properties. High quality single crystals of GdCOB have been grown from a melt using the Czochralski method. Single crystals of laboratory scale are of good optical quality showing no macroscopic defects like cracks, inclusions or discolouration. Crystals in [001] direction reveal regular growth, whereas crystals in [010] are of asymmetric shape but show less difficulties during the growth process.


Abstract d -1-Phenyl-2-ureidopropane was prepared by the method of Toritaku and alternatively, by reacting 1-phenyl-2-aminopropane directly with urea. The LD 50 of this ureide was found to be 840 mg./Kg. The compound was found to act as a central nervous system (CNS) depressant rather than as a sustained action CNS stimulant, as suggested by Toritaku. Comparison of the structural formula of 1-phenyl-2-ureidopropane with that of the barbiturates and hydantoins supports the experimental evidence that this compound acts as a barbiturate-like central nervous system depressant.


DOI: 10.2514/1.53825 Traditional extremum seeking depends on adding a perturbation to the control input, but it is untenable to continuously perturb the throttle in a controller meant to minimize fuel consumption. Inspired by a recent application of extremum seeking to a fusion reactor where internal nonperiodic perturbations were employed in the seeking process, a novel variant of extremum seeking is proposed that uses naturally occurring stochastic disturbances in lieu of the traditionally added perturbation signal. Relying on airspeed perturbations from atmospheric turbulence to reveal the local slope of the drag curve, the scheme induces a gradient descent to the minimum drag speed. Using stochastic averaging, it is proven analytically that the extremum-seeking controller stabilizesairspeedtotheminimumdragspeed,withanaverageoffsetproportionaltothethirdderivativeofthedrag curve and the variance of the airspeed. Brief simulation results illustrate the performance of the algorithm.


In a wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical network, backup reprovisioning (BR) provides a means to improve survivability (by protecting against multiple concurrent potential failures) and to utilize the available resources more efficiently. In particular, global backup reprovisioning (GBR), i.e. the reprovisioning involving the totality of the backup capacity has been demonstrated to be almost as capacity-effective as other re-optimization techniques involving primary paths. Unfortunately, existing ILP and heuristic solutions for the GBR problem are very time consuming and unsuitable to be adopted in time-sensitive network scenarios (e.g., subject to frequent network-status changes and/or connection-provisioning setup- time constraints). In this paper, we first analytically evaluate how the GBR computational time may impact on the connection provisioning process. Then, we propose a fast BR procedure based on simulated annealing (SA) which significantly decreases the computational time with respect to existing heuristics while still achieving very high resource efficiency.


Economic justice in the labor market is an abiding issue of economic policy. Concerns regarding fair pay or just compensation were addressed in classical political economy and continue to be the objects of policy discussion. What constitutes a fair wage? How is a fair wage to be determined? Will competition in the labor market ensure that a fair wage is established? Should employers be required by the State, or persuaded on a voluntary basis, to pay wages that maintain a family's dignity and honor?