f *--^ eena Alexander and Daniela Gioseffi first met (^ S£/j when they were featured poets at the 2002 Peot^/A^ pies' Poetry Gathering, sponsored by Poets House and City Lore at Cooper Union in New York. That was the year Alexander published a collection of poetry entitled Illiterate Heart, which won the PEN Open Book Award. Her latest collection of poetry, Raw Silk, was recently published by TriQuarterly Books, and her memoir, Fault Lines one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 1993 has been reissued in a new edition from the Feminist Press (2003). Her volume Indian Love Poems, edited for the Everyman series, was published by Knopf in 2005. Alexander is a poet of Syrian-Christian descent, born in Allahabad, India, and raised in southern India and North Africa. After marrying, she came to live in the United States in 1979. She is the mother of a college-age son and daughter and continues to be a global traveler. In 2004 she was featured at the International Struga Poetry Festival in the Republic of Macedonia and then visited southern India to return to her childhood home, where her aging mother still lives. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. Daniela Gioseffi is the American Book Award-winning author of thirteen books of poetry and prose. Her latest include Women on War: International Writings (2003) and Symbiosis (2002). She has received two grant awards in poetry and performance poetry from the New York State Council for the Arts and an award for short fiction from PEN American Center. Her verse was etched in marble on Penn Station's Seventh Avenue concourse wall next to Walt


We report calculations of the electronic charge density and the total energy of nitrogen as a function of volume in both molecular and nonmolecular crystal structures, using the local-density-functional method with an ab initio pseudopotential. At low pressures the molecular bond length is found to be 1.10 A\r{}, in good agreement with experiment. At high pressures we find a stable distorted arseniclike structure, which is semimetallic with a very small Fermi surface and is lower in energy than simple cubic and all other simple metallic structures considered previously by McMahan and LeSar. To investigate the transition under pressure we have carried out calculations for a number of structures which are on a path that connects continuously the molecular \ensuremath{\beta}-${\mathrm{O}}_{2}$, diamond, graphitic, arseniclike, and simple-cubic structures. The calculated transition occurs at a pressure of approximately 700 kbar, with a large barrier of approximately 1 eV/atom along this path. One signature of the transition is a large decrease of the highest phonon frequency. Although there is some uncertainty in our calculated pressure, we conclude that our results predict a transition to a nonmolecular structure at experimentally accessible pressures, in apparent disagreement with recent experiments in which no such transition was found up to a reported pressure of 1.3 Mbar.


With the remarkable increase in the number of DNA and proteins sequences, it is very important to study the performance of multiple pattern matching algorithms when querying sequence patterns in biological sequence databases. In this paper, we present a performance study of the running time of well known multiple pattern matching algorithms on widely used biological sequence databases containing the building blocks of nucleotides (in the case of nucleic acid sequence databases) and amino acids (in the case of protein sequence


This paper studies how CEO social networks affect bank risk-taking. Using a sample of 481 publicly traded U.S. banks, we find that bank risk increases with CEOs' social networks. Our results are robust with a bank fixed-effects model and a difference-in-difference approach, as well as with various alternative bank risk measures. Alternative explanations such as corporate governance, managerial ownership, compensation, or CEO ability do not drive the findings. We evaluate potential channels through which social networks affect bank risk and find that CEO social networks increase bank risk more when banks face opaque information environments, when CEO job market conditions worsen, and when there are higher odds of group-think mentality in the networks. We further find that social networks present banks with an inefficient trade-off between risk and return, showing a "dark side" of social networks.


The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale was used to examine the relationship between English learning anxiety and the oral fluency in the classroom setting of 12 non-English majors' college students.The results indicated: There was significant negative correlation between English learning anxiety and oral fluency,that is,students with stronger anxiety spoke more slowly,stopped more frequently,yielded fewer acceptable sentences,and produced sentences less fluently; The level of anxiety and the number of period of the male students were significantly higher than the female ones,while the speaking rate and the number of acceptable sentences of the female were greatly higher than the male ones.


The intermittent and stochastic of renewable energy has brought great challenges to power system. Its fluctuation can be stabilized effectively by the microgrid including energy storage devices. In this paper, an energy management strategy for microgrid integrated with hybrid energy storage which contains lithium battery and super capacitor is proposed. Basing on the real-time running status of renewable energy and energy storage devices, the operation of the hybrid energy storage system is adjusted. In this way, the output of the renewable energy and the exchanging power between microgrid and the main grid can be stabilized. Furthermore, the cycle life of the hybrid energy storage devices will be longer and the operating costs of renewable energy (or microgrid) can be saved. Experimental results show that the proposed microgrid energy management strategy is feasible.


Needs assessment of the learners in English language is considered as an important domain that comes under the ambit of ESP "English for Specific Purposes". English cogitates as a lingua franca and a cornerstone for success in any field. However, in ESL/ELT it is imperative to design a course that caters for the needs of the learners. Thereby this study attempts to evaluate the existing needs assessment literature to corroborate its relevancy and adequacy in preparing the nursing professionals for their professional English language requirements. In this evaluative study, needs analysis and assessment literature have been reviewed. ESP is explored in various ways like its definitions, classification, development, different approaches to needs analysis.


Recent analyses of failure mechanisms continue to show aseptic loosening as the predominant mechanism of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) failure. Evaluation for aseptic loosening begins with careful assessment of plain films radiographs, however the utility of examining lucent lines under a cemented tibial tray remains unclear. The purpose of this study is to examine the distribution of lucent lines under cemented tibial components on single-series anteroposterior (AP) and lateral plain radiographs and to determine their significance in the prediction of aseptic loosening found during revision TKA surgery. Retrospective chart and radiographic review of all patients that underwent revision TKA between 2001–2014 at a single academic hospital center. Revision TKA for periprosthetic fracture, stem fracture, implant dissociation and periprosthetic joint infection were excluded. The most recent pre-revision surgery AP and lateral knee radiographs were assessed by two fellowship trained adult reconstruction surgeons blinded to patient demographics and intraoperative details. Lucent lines under the tibia tray defined as >2mm were documented according to the new KSS radiographic scoring system. Demographic details and the surgeon9s assessment whether the tibia tray was loose intraoperatively were extracted from chart review and the operative note, respectively. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression modeling was used to predict the outcome of aseptic loosening. Between 2001 and 2014, 312 revision TKAs were performed that met our inclusion criteria. Of these, 84 (26.9%) had intraoperative loose tibia trays. We observed a significantly increased risk of aseptic tibia loosening among older patients at time of surgery (odds ratio [OR] 1.05, 95% CI 1.02, 1.08). Posterior stabilised primary TKA components conferred a significantly decreased risk of aseptic tibia loosening (OR 0.36, 95% 0.21, 0.60). On an AP radiograph, after adjustment for other zones, the presence of a lucent line in zone 1, 2 or 3 were all significantly associated with tibia loosening, OR 7.35, 8.69 and 22.26 (p Careful examination of lucent lines under a tibia component can be highly predictive of aseptic loosening. The areas associated with highest risk of tibia loosening occur in zone 3 on the AP radiograph (medial or lateral to the keel) and zone 2 on the lateral radiograph (posteriorly). The risk of loosening in the absence of lucent line findings on plain films is significantly low.


Rationale: Retinal cavernous hemangioma is a rare congenital vascular malformation with typical fundus changes. Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), which is in rise in the recent years, is a rapid and noninvasive technology to assist in obtaining information regarding the blood flow changes in the fundus lesions from different layers without injecting a contrast agent. Patient concerns: A 40-year-old male patient with visual occlusion in the right eye for >1 month was reported. Diagnoses: Retinal cavernous hemangioma was diagnosed by fundus examination, fluorescein angiography (FA) and OCTA, and the characteristics of OCTA images were analyzed. Interventions: The lesion occurred outside the macula, the central vision remained basically normal, and no significant complications were noted in this patient. Therefore, we preferred to regularly follow-up without therapeutic intervention. Conclusions: OCTA can display fundus blood flow and vascular lesions noninvasively and rapidly. On OCTA, retinal cavernous hemangiomas showed characteristic changes and have good correspondence with fundus imaging and FA examinations. Moreover, OCTA remains more sensitive to vascular abnormalities, and imaging remains clearer, providing new diagnosis and follow-up route for this disease.


In this article,we put forward some selective methods on developing our country's consumption credit existed in consumers,commercial banks,government and social organizations.The consumer should to change the idea,and try the way of modern consumption,commercial bank should hold tight the opportune moment,and extend the business's scope;The government should to progressively improve the environment,system and laws of consumption credit;Business enterprise,insurance company…etc.all should positive get involved with the development of supporting the consumption credit.


knowing?&dquo; and to avoid trivia. Here and there, there may even be an administrator who does help &dquo;new teachers ... translate the new education into action.&dquo; Granted, too much of what is passing for &dquo;education&dquo; is irrelevant, is full of trivia, and is non-inquiry oriented; yet, all is not lost. Nevertheless, this book, even if it exaggerates for the sake of a point, does present some challenges to all of us. Perhaps more and more of us will have to commit such acts of subversion as trying to avoid telling students any


Background: Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a type of myeloproliferative disorder. Although its etiology is unclear, the molecular pathology of CML is the present of BCR-ABLgene resulting from the translocation of chromosome 9 and 22. The clinical presentation of the patients depends on the duration of the disease. At present, imatinib which is the first-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is used as first-line treatment of CML. However, there are about 30% of patients do not response to imatinib. Considering imatinib pharmacokinetics, the major metabolic pathway is modulated by CYP3A4/3A5 while minor pathways are modulated by CYP2C19 and others. Moreover, imatinib is a substrate of efflux transporters such as ABCB1 or P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and influx transporter such as Solute linked-carrier (SLC) or Organic cation transporter 1 (OCT1). As a result, polymorphisms in genes that encode Imatinib metabolizing enzymes and transporters may involve in the successful or unsuccessful treatment. Therefore, this study aims to determine the association of genetic variants in CYP3A5, CYP2C19, SLC22A1, ABCB1with imatinib clinical response in Thai patients with CML. Method: One hundred and twelve Thai patients with CML from Ramathibodi Hospital between 2001 and 2017 were reviewed and enrolled in this study. Candidate SNPs were genotyped by using TaqMan® genotyping assay. The association analysis was performed by multiple logistic regression and cox proportional-hazards regression model. Results: The results of a multiple logistic regression model showed that the *1 allele of CYP3A5and GG genotype of SLC22A1C480G are significantly associated with non-responsiveness to imatinib treatment (adjusted OR = 2.938, 95% CI = 1.122-7.690, p= 0.028; adjusted OR = 14.834, 95%CI = 1.350-162.987, p= 0.027, respectively). Supporting by the finding from cox proportional-hazards regression model revealed the association between CYP3A5, SLC22A1C480G and imatinib therapy. The *1 allele of CYP3A5and GG genotype of SLC22A1C480G are significantly associated with non-responsiveness to imatinib (adjusted HR = 2.678, 95%CI = 1.157-6.200, p= 0.021; adjusted HR = 6.731, 95%CI = 1.845 -24.554, p = 0.004, respectively). Conclusions: The present study suggests that genetic variants of CYP3A5 and SLC22A1 have influence on imatinib response in Thai patients with CML.


Received: 19 October 2020 Accepted: 3 January 2021 Currently, tourists tend to plan travel routes and itineraries by searching for relevant information on tourist attractions via the Internet and intelligent terminals. However, it is difficult to achieve good retrieval effect on tourist attraction images with text labels. Based on deep learning, the visual location identification faces such defects as frequent mismatching, high probability of weak matching, and long execution time. To solve these defects, this paper puts forward a novel method for location identification and personalized recommendation of tourist attractions based on image processing. Specifically, the authors detailed the ideas and steps of the location identification algorithm for tourist attractions. The algorithm, grounded on hash retrieval, encompasses two stages: an offline stage, and an online stage. Besides, a personalized recommendation model for tourist attractions based on geographical location and time period. Finally, the proposed algorithm and model were proved accurate and effective through experiments.


The article is the fourth in a series of publications devoted to the biography and journalistic work of N.A. Logunova the Russian emigrant writer. It deals with the first years of her adult life in Odessa, the beginning of her literary career and the activities of the literary circle "The Green Lamp" (Zelenaya lampa). The authors focus on the first steps in the literature of the later famous Soviet writers and journalists V.P. Kataev, I.E. Babel, E.G. Bagritsky, Y.K. Olesha, etc., their first publications in the Odessa periodicals and their public speeches. In addition, it is about, one might say, a particular lifestyle of Odessa writers, formed under the influence of the cultural specifics of their home-city. Logunova tells in detail about the life of Eduard Bagritsky, who loved birds and was indifferent to the conveniences of life, describes the methods of Babel's literary work, who from his youth aspired to the maximum saturation of his prose, literally honing every phrase, removing everything that he considered optional. The article also characterizes methods used by Odessa writers for adaptation to the new – Soviet – conditions of literary life, fundamentally different from the pre-Soviet – political situation.


The most basic matter to establish forest carbon circulation village is statistic on greenhouse gas emissions. But currently, although there is statistic on greenhouse gas emissions in the level of city or province, there is not statistic on greenhouse gas emission in village unit. According to the results, The model area is located in Seobyeok-ri, Chunyang-myeon, Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the total emissions caused by energy used in the model area was . Heating accounts for 55% of total emissions followed by 23% for power and 22% for vehicles. The model area emitted due to rice growing and livestock raising, accounting for approximately 24.5% of total emissions. It is expected that a reduction of as much as emissions will be made from the current to a level of 1/12th that amount, or by replacing heating energy currently used in the model area with wood bioenergy such as wood chips or pellets. In addition, carbon emission reduction is expected for both heating and power by replacing the power consumption in houses, buildings, and street lights with solar power.


An experimental study of the application of discrete-time, linear quadratic control design methods to the cavity tone problem is described. State space models of the dynamics from a synthetic jet actuator at the leading edge of the cavity to two pressure sensors in the cavity were computed from experimental data. Variations in model order, control order, control bandwidth, and properties of a Kalman state estimator were studied. Feedback control reduced the levels of multiple cavity tones at Mach 0.275, 0.35, and 0.45. Closed loop performance was often limited by excitation of sidebands of cavity tones, and creation of new tones in the spectrum. State space models were useful for explaining some of these limitations, but were not able to account for non-linear dynamics, such as interactions between tones at different frequencies.


Undoubtedly, carbon-based (nano)composites can be promising photocatalysts with improved photocatalytic activity due to the coupling effect from the incorporation of carbon species. In this mini-review, we focus on the recent development of photocatalysts based on carbon-based (nano)composites. TiO2 is well-known as a typical photocatalyst. Special attention is paid to the various types of carbon–TiO2 composites such as C-doped TiO2, N–C-doped TiO2, metal–C-doped TiO2, and other co-doped C/TiO2 composites. Various synthetic strategies including the solvothermal/hydrothermal method, sol–gel method, and template-directed method are reviewed for the preparation of carbon-based TiO2 composites. C/graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) composites and ternary C-doped composites are also summarized and ascribed to the unique electronic structure of g-C3N4 and the synergistic effect of the ternary interfaces, respectively. In the end, we put forward the future perspective of the photocatalysts containing carbon species based on our knowledge.


This paper describes the characterization of an acidophilic and thermostable α-amylase from Alicyclobacillus sendaiensis NUST. The MW of this enzyme was estimated to be 56 kDa by SDS–PAGE. The enzyme was stable over a range of pH from 2.5 to 5.5 with an optimum around 3.5. Maximum activity of the α-amylase was observed at pH 3.5 and 85°C in the presence of soluble starch as substrate. The enzyme activity was decreased by Mg2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Al3+, K+, Li+, Ag+, urea, EDTA, trichloroacetic acid and Tween 60 and inhibited by Hg2+, Ce2+ and SDS, whereas the activity was increased by Mn2+, DTT, and β-mercaptoethanol. Ca2+and Fe2+ did not affect the enzyme activity.


Along with the power electronic technology is widely used in the production and life,harmonic pollution problem of the electric power system is getting worse.A passive filter is low cost,but not good governance harmonic,active filter filtering effect is better,but the cost is too high,go against the promotion,will be active filter and passive filter and a parallel hybrid active filter can overcome used alone without source and active filter faults.Based on this,this paper analyzes the parallel hybrid active filter topology,equivalent circuit and control method,the experimental results verify the parallel hybrid active filter superiority.


In this work nonlinear control theory is successfully extended to fractional-order Chen-Lee systems to achieve synchronization. The analytical results are derived based on the Laplace transformation theory. Moreover, numerical simulations are shown to verify the effectiveness of the proposed synchronization schemes.


This paper presents a prototype English-ToIndian Sign Language (henceforth called, ISL) machine translation system. The system can be used to disseminate information to more than 1.5 million deaf people in India. Further, considering such a low literacy rate among the deaf population in India [Vasishta, Woodward and Santis (1998)], the system can also be used as an educational tool to learn ISL.


Objective: To develop a rational, data-driven definition of impulsive/reactive aggression and establish distinctions between impulsive/reactive aggression and other common childhood problems. Method: Secondary analyses of data from Assessing Bipolar: A Community Academic Blend (ABACAB; N=636 ages 5-18; Youngstrom et al., 2005), Stanley Medical Research Institute Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Andrea Young, Johns Hopkins University, 1800 Orleans Street, Bloomberg 12N, Baltimore, MD 21287; Phone: 410-614-4236; Fax: 410-955-8691; email@example.com. Disclosures: Andrea Young has received research funding from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, PsychNostics, LLC and Supernus Pharmaceuticals. Ekaterina Stepanova and Dana Kaplin have received research funding from PsychNostics, LLC and Supernus Pharmaceuticals. Eric Youngstrom has consulted about psychological assessment with Pearson, Janssen, Joe Startup Technologies, and Western Psychological Services; he has received royalties from the American Psychological Association and Guilford Press. Robert Findling receives or has received research support, acted as a consultant and/or served on a speaker's bureau for Aevi, Akili, Alcobra, Amerex, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Press, Bracket, Epharma Solutions, Forest, Genentech, Guilford Press, Ironshore, Johns Hopkins University Press, KemPharm, Lundbeck, Merck, NIH, Neurim, Nuvelution, Otsuka, PCORI, Pfizer, Physicians Postgraduate Press, Purdue, Roche, Sage, Shire, Sunovion, Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Syneurx, Teva, Tris, TouchPoint, Validus, and WebMD. Jennifer Youngstrom and Joseph Calabrese do not have any disclosures to report. HHS Public Access Author manuscript J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2021 November 01. Published in final edited form as: J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2020 ; 49(6): 787–803. doi:10.1080/15374416.2019.1622121. A uhor M anscript


Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a serious complication of prematurity treatment and can lead to blindness unless recognized and treated earlyObjective: To determine the incidence and risk factor of retinopathy of prematurity in premature infants with birth weight 32 weeks, respectively and 64.5%, 22.5%, 6.9% in the infants with birth weight 34 weeks and birth weight >1,845 g. Univariate analysis showed a significant relationship between the occurrence of ROP and gestational age, birth weight, respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, pneumonia, apnea of prematurity, necrotizing enterocolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, patent ductus arteriosus, mechanical ventilation days, oxygen supplement days and blood transfusion. However, using multivariable logistic regression analysis; low gestational age (OR 0.768; Cl 0.633-0.932), low birth weight (OR 0.997; Cl 0.996-0.998), sepsis (OR 2.443; Cl 1.039-5.743), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (OR 2.152; Cl 1.092-4.242), patent ductus arteriosus (OR 2.558; Cl 1.326-4.934), mechanical ventilation day (OR 1.032; Cl 1.0061.059), oxygen supplement days (OR 1.019; Cl 1.004-1.035) and blood transfusion (OR 4.085; Cl 1.658-10.061) were significant risk factor for ROP.Conclusion: The incidence of ROP in Sisaket hospital is 20.1%. Low gestational age, low birth weight, sepsis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, patent ductus arteriosus, mechanical ventilation day, oxygen supplement days and blood transfusion were significant risk factor for ROP.


Protease-activated receptors (PARs) have been implicated in a variety of human physiological and pathophysiological processes, including; nociception, neuroinflammation, neuroprotective and neurodegenerative pathways (Peters and Henry, 2009; Adams et al . 2011). PAR3 was discovered as a second thrombin receptor in 1997, and since then few papers have been published which assess its expression in the nervous system (Ishihara et al . 1997). This paper investigates the expression of PAR3 in sensory neurons of the trigeminal ganglion (TG) and dorsal root ganglion (DRG) of naive adult rats. Immunohistochemistry showed PAR3 to be strongly expressed in non-neuronal cells of both the TG and DRG. Further analysis showed these cells to be non-myelinating satellite cells and myelinating Schwann cells, both showing strong co-expression of PAR3 and S-100. The expression of PAR3 in sensory neurons proved too difficult to accurately determine. This study concludes that further research, using multiple methods of analysis, is required to accurately describe the distribution and quantification of PAR3 positive sensory neurons within the TG and DRG of naive adult rats. This study does however show strong PAR3 expression in non-neuronal satellite cells and Schwann cells of both the TG and DRG of naive adult rats. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB ZH-CN AR-SA /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}


Specific LIF (laser induced fluorescence) and SFS (spectral fluorescence signature) sensors have been developed for detecting biofilms colonizing the surface of cultural heritage artefacts. The sensors contribute to a large-scale monitoring and decision supporting system, which is being deployed for historical monument protection within the framework of the European project STORM.


Abstract : The Marine Corps has identified a likelihood of combat in an urban environment during the mid-range time frame. The capability to apply force in such areas is important and may be the key to achieving political and military objectives in a given circumstance. A requirement exists, for employing amphibious forces against urban targets located along the littorals of the world. This analysis was undertaken in support of a program establishment to identify logistic requirements peculiar to an amphibious assault into a highly urbanized area. The area designated is SYNTHETIC CITY (Syn City), a map product and data base which provide an unclassified urban setting for examining tactical and logistical problems. Volume I of this investigation is a technical report in which the combat service support functions are defined in relation to their applicability to urban combat. This examination is based upon a family of operations plans, with their associated logistic annexes, having as their objective the seizure, isolation, or control of SYN City. Those plans comprise Volume II of this analysis.


The perspective that holding criminals accountable includes making amends or compensating victims through restorative justice remains valid. In order for true social reintegration to occur without victim restoration, it is necessary to consider the victim's perspective during the execution of sentences. From the victim's point of view, interest in the case does not disappear just because the criminal proceedings have ended. Therefore, it cannot be considered reasonable to send the message that the victim should no longer be involved in the process or to withhold information regarding testimony or treatment during the execution of sentence process.
Recently, Japan has attracted attention by establishing a system that listens to the opinions of victims during the execution of sentences and reflects them in treatment. The system allows for the correctional treatment and correctional education to utilize the emotional state and opinions of the victim if they have expressed interest in participating. Additionally, the system allows the victim to convey their emotional state to the prisoner or juvenile detainee when they desire. Considering the perspective of victim restoration during correctional treatment and education is a balanced and appropriate approach, rather than taking a one-sided view. South Korea should positively consider introducing a system that actively reflects the victim's opinion during execution of sentences and treatment stages by revising the relevant Acts. This legislative decision can create a systemic foundation that will allow for the practical implementation of restorative justice in the treatment process, which has been somewhat lacking in restorative justice's ideals compared to theoretical discussions.


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A weighing suitcase handle device comprises a handle (1), a handle base (8) and an active grip (7). A weighing device which can weigh the suitcase is disposed on the handle device. When the active grip (7) is held and the handle (1) is lift upward, the weighing device can display the weight of the suitcase. The weighing device includes at least one weight sensor (4), an electrical circuit board (12) electrically connected to the weight sensor (4) and an electrical display panel (13) to display the weight information. The weighing sensor (4) is located between the handle (1) and the active grip (7).


If we consider the Johannine literature to have primarily espoused an exemplary (rather than an imperatival) ethical paradigm, our understanding of its moral teaching becomes much richer. The Gospel of John does not provide a moral grammar primarily by conveying a set of commands or prohibitions, but through conformity to a moral example (Jesus Christ himself). More specifically, this paper initially approaches the issue by surveying the uses of the imperative in the Gospel of John, the appearances of ὀφείλειν and καθώς, related moral themes, the descriptions of the two Johannine commandments, and the statements of John 13:14–15. The essay then focuses particularly upon the recent work of Cornelis Bennema on the imitative or "mimetic" ethics of John. Bennema has emphasized the "cognitive mimesis" and "performative mimesis" of Johannine ethics, engendered and enabled by the Paraclete. Finally, through an exposition of John 8 and other relevant texts, this essay contributes to the conversation by adding "desiderative mimesis" to Bennema's proposed framework. As one's identity (who I am) is transformed, one's desiderative inclinations (what I desire) are renewed, resulting in changed behavior (how I act).


We report phase behaviors in silicon-wire multistage delayed interferometric (MDI) wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical filters on a 300-mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. In order to achieve spectrally uniform filter response and make clear the main factor for influencing spectral shape and uniformity across the SOI wafer, we fabricated 1×4 channel MDI-type WDM filters as a device under test (DUT) by using a 193-nm ArF-immersion lithography process and formulated the analytic calculation model, which can be fully adaptable to the measured data. By analyzing the measured filter response through an iterative fitting process with our analytic calculation model, we verified that phase behaviors in the DUT were the main factor to determine filter spectral shape and crosstalk, while the wavelength-sensitive coupling ratio of directional couplers had less influence on the filter performance within a 40-nm-wide spectral range. Phase fluctuations at each delayed interferometer (DI) were calibrated to be random processes at inter-dies across the wafer. In order to sustain good spectral shape and uniformity, it is important to minimize excess phase errors at each DI. Reduction of interaction lengths and equivalent refractive index variation of the waveguides could be one of the prominent ways to further improve WDM filter performances.


Investigation of tin bronze strips horizontal continuous cast on productions plants shows the form of the liquid solid interface without interrupting the casting prowess. A short sketch of the skin solidification indicates all conditions for inverse segregation. Surface segregations like high intergranular tin concentrations are only removed by milling. On the other hand the regular interdendritic segregation may be homogenized by annealing.


Cardiac hypertrophy is a common pathological process of many cardiovascular diseases. The mechanism of cardiac hypertrophy is very complex. At present there are many different mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy animal models, with rat models as the main ones. It is very important to successfully establish stable, reliable and high emulational animal models in the study of pathogenesis, pathophysiology, prevention and reversal treatment of cardiac hypertrophy. This article reviews the most commonly used establishment methods of rat model of cardiac hypertrophy.


This article studies the heat insulating effect in hot surface and cold surface. The result from the finite element analysis indicates that the heat insulating effect in hot surface is better than in cold surface. The coat cermet of pipe is made according to the figures of exhaust pipe by using the Self-Propagating High-temperature Synthesis(SHS) technology and the hot concussion examination is also carried through. The research of this article indicates that it is feasible that the SHS technology is used in the heat insulation of the exhaust pipes inner surface of the special vehicle engines.


This master thesis project contributes to the development of an energy management system (EMS), whereby the thesis is part of a bigger project carried out by the Barcelona-based software company GreenPowerMonitor. The developed EMS coordinates the different components of a hybrid power plant by repeatedly solving an optimization problem over one day and computing the optimal setpoints of the components' controllers for the next minutes. In the context of the EMS project, optimality is defined as maximizing the amount of used solar power while minimizing the battery losses for several future generation and consumption scenarios over the course of one day.
This thesis project focuses on examining ways to improve the computational costs of solving the optimization problem that lies at the core of the EMS and to implement the optimization problem in C++ as a "first draft" on its way towards a final product. Thereby, an already existing EMS prototype on the basis of Matlab/GAMS embedded in a simulation environment modeling a hybrid power plant in Cobija (Bolivia) is utilized. This prototype is translated into the open source modelling environment Julia/JuMP. The solver used throughout most of the project is the commercial mixed-integer linear problem (MILP) solver CPLEX. However, it is shown that the open-source solver CBC can be a serious alternative, especially for smaller power plants than the example case Cobija.
Test are conducted with the aim to qualitatively evaluate ways to keep the computation time of the solver within boundaries, while at the same time maintaining the quality of the results. As a measure of the EMS performance, the accumulated objective values over one day are compared. The conducted tests show, that setting a time limit to the solver, or extending the time to solve the problem, are good measures to keep the computation time within boundaries. The negative effects on the results are less pronounced than expected.
Furthermore, the optimization problem is implemented in the CPLEX solver specific application programming interface (API) in C++. The new C++ prototype is able to reproduce the expected results. In a future project, the input and output data processing will need to be implemented and refined.
Finally, an accumulated cost analysis is conducted that is able to show the economic utility of the EMS for a power plant operator.


Rationalization of Industrial Structure is essential characteristic of economic development and key to promote sustained, stable, coordinated economic development as well. Based on Grey Relevancy Degree, the paper is to analyze industry structure in Wenzhou, China. And give the evaluation for rationalization of industrial structure.


Functional state of vascular endothelium has been studied in 185 patients with different pathology. We used the method of laser Doppler flowmetry supplemented by two iontophoretic tests. To identify and determine the severity of endothelial dysfunction we calculated the vascular endothelial vasoregulating function. It was established, that the patients with a combination of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ischemic heart disease most often develop severe endothelial dysfunction, which may be not only a consequence, but also the cause of the development of the comorbid pathology.


Disaster prevention and coastal protection of Otsuchi have affected the livelihood and the daily pattern of lifestyle of the regular Otsuchian. This work represents the alternative to a typical top down prefectural level demand for a line based infrastructural solution to disaster prevention and creates the required importance of livelihood, culture and identity of a place over the protection structure. While in the design of such critical areas it is important to place protection of the citizens at a high level, it is also a necessity to understand the situation of each city as different from each other. In this way, the genius loci of a place is founded. Along the San Riku coastline where the tsunami and earthquake hit the hardest due to the landscape features and the proximity to the epicenter the government has set a list of top down governed structures that have impacted the urban fabric of the city, This document looks at one of these towns "Otsuchi" and how alternate solutions based on the historical and landscape features of the district can help create landscapes of livelihood for the citizens. Otsuchi among many other Japanese cities faces the issue of a shrinking population due to a lack of economy, a lack of education in the rural areas and a lack of opportunities. The design document also looks at how Identity crisis in a Rias coastline/ Aditya Athreya Rao/ TU Delft 1 landscape can create a set of cyclical opportunities for the people to develop their town responsibly and sustain-ably as they see fit. Landscape design seeks to provide opportunity to the stakeholders to further create, it provides the platform for this creation and the thesis looks at ideas and solutions on ways this can be done. Keywords: Landscape Infrastructure, Identity, Contextual Design Genius Loci, Landscape Design, New landscapes


Introduction In this contribution to the symposium we consider particular interdisciplinary 'psychosocial' frameworks, which can help illuminate the experiences of nontraditional learners in higher education. We want to build theories of change and transitional processes in less reductive, more interdisciplinary ways. To this end we connect the object relations school of psychoanalysis, and ideas of transitional space, with Bourdieu's sociological perspectives. This is part of a wider search to build holistic understanding of the lived, embodied, affective as well as cognitive experiences of students. In doing so, the paper straddles the sociology of social reproduction and psychosocial perspectives on learners' experiences of change.


Sean Burt reviews 'Many are Saying': The Function of Direct Discourse in the Hebrew Psalter , by Rolf A Jacobson. (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series; 397; New York: T & T Clark International; 2004. ISBN 0567081931.)


The SR complex SIBERIA consists of the dedicated 2.5 GeV storage ring SIBERIA-2, a small 4.50 MeV storage ring SIBERIA-l (a booster is planning to be used both as a booster and a VUV and soft X-ray source), a 80 MeV linac and two transfer lines EOC-1 and EOC-2. Now the injection part which includes the linac, the booster and the transfer lines has entered into commissioning phase. The paper briefly describes the first results on the commissioning.


Objective:The aim of this object was intended to optimize radiation dose for iodine-131 to treatment Graves'disease(GD)and analyzed possible factors affect outcome.Methods:155 patients with GD were selected. Determined 131I tracer thyroid uptake(TUR) effective half-life(EHL).Thyroid weight was estimated by radionuclide imaging(RI) ultrasound(US)before after 131I therapy repeat examined. The TUREHL of 131I therapy dose.Thyroid function was determined by serum thyroid antibody.Results:The TUR ,EHL of tracer dosetherapeutic, were lower 1.04×1.04=l.08.the thyroid weigh of the patients repeat after 131I treatment was significantly decreased. Followed up, 110 patient appeared euthyroid 71.0%,23 became latent hypothyroidism l4.8%,45 were still hyperthyroidism.TGAb(TMAb)positive were difference negitiveive.Conclusion: There are facts affects 131I therapy:the formulas of calculations is choice.Thyroid weight are main factor. The TUREHL of therapeutic are lower than racer dose,if 1.08 use to correct the dose of therapeutic dose,persistent hyperthyroidism will reduce in this object;TGAb(TMAb)playis some role in hypothyroidism development; actual dose of 131I solutioncapsule is discrepancy from expect dose.Used 131I dose calculated by optimize formula to treatment Graves'disease,but it was difficult to control hyperthyroidism in all patients avoid hypothyroidism.


The research objective is to analyze the degree to prices received 3 kg LPG gas
consumers in terms of aspects of supply (a case study Regency / City XYZ).
This study design is a case study method, the method of data collection of data
through observation, interviews and documentation analysis.
Based on the research results can lead to results at consumer price level differences
are as follows: 1). The cost factor is a factor that greatly affects the price of LPG 3
kg gas received by consumers, especially the cost of distribution. The longer the
distribution channel, the higher the price received by consumers in this case is the
community. 2). In addition to distribution costs other costs are the costs for capital.
The lower the frequency of the deliveries carried out by the agency, the higher
capital base must be removed so that it will increase the base price specified to
consumers. Vice versa the higher the frequency of the deliveries were done by the
agent, the lower the capital to be issued by the base. thereby decreasing the
specified price to the consumer base. 3). Factors speculation is one factor that led
to the price received by the community to be high. This condition usually occurs
due to the scarcity of supply from Pertamina parties so it can not meet the demand
cause prices to rise this condition. Or going from the agency's disobedience with
regulations on the distribution of prices and cause to be expensive.
Keywords: Price, supply


Citation: Mirsaeed-Ghazi SM, Allahkaram SR, Molaei A. Tribological Behavior and Corrosion Properties of Graphite Incorporated Cu/Sic Nanocomposite Coatings Prepared by Pulse Current Electrodeposition. Inorg Chem Ind J. 2018;13(1):123. ©2018 Trade Science Inc. 1 Tribological Behavior and Corrosion Properties of Graphite Incorporated Cu/Sic Nanocomposite Coatings Prepared by Pulse Current Electrodeposition Seyed Mahmood Mirsaeed-Ghazi, Saeed Reza Allahkaram and Arman Molaei School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 111554563, Tehran, Iran Department of Science and Technology, Organic Electronics, LinkÖping University, NorrkÖping SE-60174, Sweden Corresponding author: Arman Molaei, Department of Science and Technology, Organic Electronics, LinkÖping University, NorrkÖping SE-60174, Sweden, Tel:+46 13 28 10 00; E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


This paper consists of some generalizations about where First Amendment doctrine was when Chief Justice Warren took office, and about what happened to it during the years between then and when Chief Justice Burger retired in 1986. It summarizes the doctrinal sea-change that occurred, and says something about a few of the judicial strategies and categorical reformulations that the Court used to effectuate it. It asserts that the First Amendment is now peculiarly resistant to doctrinal belt-tightening and suggests several reasons why this might be so.


In the last third of the twentieth century, more than thirty new democracies were born around the world. More than 150 major new national, regional, and international instruments on religious liberty were forged—many replete with generous protections of liberty of conscience and freedom of religious exercise, guarantees of religious pluralism, equality and nondiscrimination, and several other special protections and entitlements for religious individuals and groups. This modern democratic revolution has helped to catalyze a great awakening of religion around the globe. In regions newly committed to democracy and human rights, ancient faiths, once driven underground by autocratic oppressors, have sprung forth with new vigor. In the former Soviet bloc, for example, numerous Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and other faith communities have been awakened, alongside a host of exotic goddess, naturalist, and personality cults. In postcolonial and postrevolutionary Africa, these same mainline religious groups have come to flourish in numerous conventional and inculturated forms alongside an array of traditional groups. In Latin America, the democratic revolution has not only transformed long-standing Catholic and mainline Protestant communities but also triggered the explosion of numerous new Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Traditional movements. Many parts of the world have seen the prodigious rise of sundry new faiths, some wielding ample material, political, and media power. Religion has become the newest "transnational variable." This same democratic revolution, however, has helped to trigger a new war for souls between local and foreign religious groups. With the political transformations of Russia, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, foreign religious groups were granted rights to enter these regions for the first time in decades. In the 1980s and 1990s, these foreign groups came in increasing numbers to preach their faiths, to offer their services, to convert souls. Initially, local religious groups welcomed these foreigners and the religions they were bringing. Today, they have come to resent these foreign religions, particularly those from North America and Western Europe that assume a democratic human rights ethic. Local religious groups resent the participation in the marketplace of religious ideas that democracy assumes. They resent the toxic waves of materialism and individualism that democracy inflicts. They resent the massive expansion of religious pluralism that democracy encourages. They resent the extravagant forms of religious speech, press, and assembly that democracy protects. A new war for souls has thus broken out in these regions: a fight to reclaim the traditional souls of these new societies and a fight to retain adherents to traditional faiths and cultures. Beneath shiny constitutional veneers of religious freedom for all, several countries of late have passed firm new antiproselytizing laws, cult registration requirements, tight visa controls, and other discriminatory restrictions on new or newly arrived religions. The aim of our panel discussion was to sort through some of the human rights dimensions of this modern problem of proselytism. How does the state balance one community's right to exercise and expand its faith versus another person's or community's right to be left to its own traditions? How does the state protect the juxtaposed rights claims of majority and minority religions or of foreign and indigenous religions? How does the state craft a general rule to govern Christians, who have easy conversion into and out of the faith; Jews, who have difficult conversion into and out of the faith; or Muslims, who have easy conversion into the faith but allow for no conversion out of it, among the many other views of the rights and rites of


Significant advancements in metallurgy were highlighted at a special symposium presented at the Materials Science & Technology 2016 conference in Salt Lake City. This article summarizes the topics presented. All six speakers shared examples of the importance of understanding how the specific manufacturing process affects microstructure development in metals. The fundamental understanding of microstructure allows metallurgists to select manufacturing processes and schedules to tailor the microstructure, and therefore mechanical properties and performance, for a particular component.


Blends were prepared from two kinds of urethane elastomers, containing 1,4-butanediol or 3,3′-dichloro-4,4′-diamino-diphenyl-methane as chain extenders, with lightly sulfonated polystyrenes. Dynamic mechanical studies show that strong interactions occur between the sulfonic acid and the urethane or urea moieties on the polyurethane chains. These strong interactions are clearly seen in the composition dependence of the loss tangent peaks (due to the glass transitions) for both the high temperature and the low temperature glass transitions of the blends. They are further confirmed by model studies.


ABSTRACTFast response servo-operated instruments often call for a need of a high gain servoamplifier. Though the choice of the type of the amplifier often depends upon quite a number of factors such as the availability of power supply, the performance specifications of the control instrument, etc., from the point of view of economy, simplicity and size, d.c. servoamplifier becomes the obvious choice in many cases.The problem of zero drift of d.c. servoamplifiers can be partially solved by the use of balanced stages which have the additional advantage of providing paraphase output required to feed d.c. servomotors. A general procedure for the design of a temperature compensated high gain servoamplifier incorporating a new method of cross-coupled diode feedback is discussed and the results obtained with a typical high gain servoamplfier are presented.


This article considers what successful working relationships between fly-in professionals and Aboriginal community workers involve. Interviews with six Aboriginal workers and the experience of the jointly delivered Let's Start parent–child programme in remote north Australian Indigenous communities confirm the importance of developing positive relationships within a both-ways learning approach, drawing on each other's strengths, and the significance of reflection on practice. Working cooperatively enables effective programme implementation, supports incorporation of new learning into practice, and benefits local Aboriginal community members through employment and development opportunities. This model has relevance for health and community programmes delivered in remote Aboriginal communities.


For reacting to an increasingly rival business environment, many companies emphasize the importance of knowledge management (KM). It is a favorable way to explore and learn KM features of high‐performance companies. However, finding out the critical KM features of high‐performance companies is a qualitative analysis problem. To handle this kind of problem, the rough set approach is suitable because it is based on data‐mining techniques to discover knowledge without rigorous statistical assumptions. Thus, this paper explored KM features of high‐performance companies by using the rough set approach. The results show that high‐performance companies stress the importance on both tacit and explicit knowledge, and consider that incentives and evaluations are the essentials to implementing KM.


Recent rulings in the ongoing litigation over the pari passu clause in Argentinian sovereign debt instruments have generated considerable controversy. Some official-sector participants and academic articles have suggested that the rulings will disrupt or impede future sovereign debt restructurings by encouraging holdout creditors to litigate for full payment instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2) substantial economic and reputational costs associated with such litigation, and (3) the availability of contractual provisions and negotiating strategies that mitigate the debtor's collective action problems. It also argues that the fact-specific equitable remedy in the Argentina case was narrowly tailored to Argentina's unprecedented disregard for court opinions and for international norms of negotiating sovereign debt restructurings and is therefore unlikely to be used in future debt restructurings. * Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School, Morgan 297, Boston MA, 02163, U.S.A (email:firstname.lastname@example.com). I thank Gaurav Toshniwal whose independent study project and numerous discussions shaped this document. I also thank Katelyn Barry, John Elden, and Hilary White for excellent editorial and research assistance.


Hematopoiesis, or blood cell formation, starts from hematopoietic stem cells and goes through many rounds of cell proliferation and a number of commitment steps that progressively restrict cells to a particular lineage. The generation and maintenance of stem cell pool and the regulation of lineage commitment are poorly understood. Right now there is only one reported zebrafish mutant, cloche, that has defects in early hematopoiesis. We have undertaken a chemical mutagenesis screen using ENU in the zebrafish to uncover mutants in early hematopoiesis. Haploid embryos from F1 females were screened by RNA in situ hybridization using a stem cell marker, core binding factor ? (cbfb), and a myeloid-specific marker, leukocyte-specific plastin (l-plastin). We have screened 510 F1 females and 47 putative mutants have been identified. Of these, 22 showed decreased expression of l-plastin, 3 for cbfb, 2 for both l-plastin and cbfb and the remainder were mutated for l-plastin and other non-hematopoietic markers. Right now, we have focused our efforts on two mutants.

The first mutant line, L32, displayed a blood-less phenotype and showed a significant decrease in the expression of the hemangioblast marker scl. In addition to the marked reduction in the expression of the myeloid specific markers l-plastin, c/ebp1 and mpo, these embryos also showed decreased expression of the erythroid specific marker gata-1. Linkage analysis has placed this mutant to the proximal region of linkage group 12. Currently, we are in the process of testing candidate genes to identify the mutated gene. The second mutant line, L63 also has a blood less phenotype and showed decreased expression of both l-plastin and mpo. Like L32, L63 homozygous embryos have significant developmental defects and die 3 dpf. Low resolution mapping has placed this mutant to LG 8. Through this approach, we hope to identify novel genes that play critical roles in the developmental process regulating early hematopoiesis.


The objective of the present study was to investigate the geographical distribution of theMimosaceae family In Sri Lanka. Some primary data for the study were obtained during fieldvisits to different places, through personal communications with Ayurvedic doctors and residentsof different geographical areas. Also incorporated were secondary data and information formseveral sources. The distribution of each genus and species was mapped by a GIS to show theirdistribution on a district basis, As the study revealed, the Family Mimosaceae contains ]6Genera (none of them endemic).~ine are indigenous (although they contain some exoticspecies); Acacia. Abarema, Aden mthera, Albizia, Cathormion, Dischrostachys, En tada ,Neptunia and Painteria .The remaining seven genera are exotic; Desmanthus, Leucaena,Mimosa, Pithecellobium, Prosopis. Famanea and Vachellia. The genera Acacia. Albizzia and Mimosa can be considered widely occurring in all zones.Cathormion and Prosopis are confined to the arid zone. Dischrostachys and Pithecllobium are inthe dry and wet zones. Desmanthus. Vachellia, Neptunia and Painteria are confined to the dryzone. Entada, Leucaena, and Samanea are in the dry and intermediate zones. Abarema andA denanthera in the intermediate and wet zones. Acacia is the genus having the largest number ofspecies (19), followed by Albtziatb). Both Abarema and Mimosa contain three species each.Adenanthera and Neptunia have 2 species each. The remaining 10 genera have one species ineach genus. Thus, altogether three are 45 species; six endemic, 19 indigenous and 20 exotic (including,naturalized species). Out of the s-ix endemic species five are in the wet zone. Abaremaabeywickramae, A. bigemina, Aca~ia lankaensis, Albizia lankaensis and A den anth era bicolor.One species, Painteria nitida is confined to the north central and eastern parts of the Dry zone.Out of the 19 indigenous species e.ght are Acacia species mainly in the arid and dry zones.There are four indigenous Albizia species occurring in all zones expect the arid zone. Two areNeptunia species both in the dry zone wetlands. The remaining five are Abarema subcoriaceaand Adanathera pavonina (mid country wet zone), Cathorimion umballatum and Dichrostachyscinera (dry zone) and Entada pusaetha in all zones except the arid zone. Of the twenty exoticspecies ten are Acasias growing in the hill country there is only one exoticA lbizia species and itclose in the mid and low country wet zone. There are Mimosa species one wide, one in the hillcountry and the third invasive (M. pigra). Of the remainning six, Desmanthus virgatus,Pithecellobium dulce and Vachellia farnesianar in the dry zone. Leucaena leucocephala occurswidely. Samanea saman is an avenue tree in dry and wet zones. Prosopis juliflora is invasive,although confined to the arid zone.


1 Muscarinic receptors from rat forebrain have been solubilized by Lubrol PX, lysophosphatidyl‐choline (LPC), digitonin and cholate/1 M sodium chloride. The overall level of solubilization was characterized using receptors prelabelled with an irreversible antagonist. The recovery of non‐denatured soluble binding activity was estimated using reversible tritiated antagonists. 2 All these detergents solubilized 60–85% of the total binding sites. In Lubrol PX most of the receptors were recovered in a denatured form. In the other detergents 30–90% of the solubilized receptors were stable and capable of binding reversible [3H]‐antagonists with high affinity. 3 The hydrodynamic properties of the soluble receptors have been examined by gel filtration and sucrose gradient centrifugation in H2O and D2O. 4 The soluble receptors in Lubrol PX, lysophosphatidylcholine and cholate were, in general, heterogeneous as regards their molecular size. Estimates of the molecular weight after correction for bound detergent, varied from 82,000 to 134, 000. Conditions were identified under which the receptor was largely monodisperse, and the estimates of molecular weight agreed with values (ca. 83, 000) from sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS) Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The amount of bound detergent could not be calculated for the digitonin‐muscarinic receptor complex which had an estimated overall median molecular weight of about 290,000. 5 It is concluded that a subpopulation of muscarinic receptors from the rat forebrain is capable of existing in a monomelic soluble form and binding ligands. There is also evidence that complexes with other proteins can exist, but their specificity and functional relevance are not known.


With the expansion of power grid scale, the performance bottleneck of traditional reliability assessment methods has gradually become prominent. How to improve the efficiency of reliability assessment has become an urgent problem to be solved. At the same time, the widespread access of distributed generation in the distribution network also affects the reliability of the distribution network. In view of these problems, this paper proposes an improved Warhall topology analysis method and an improved Monte-Carlo method to record fault sections, which improve the efficiency of reliability evaluation. On the basis of the improved method, the reliability index of a distribution network with DG access is calculated through a specific example, and the influence of DG access and access location on system reliability is further analyzed.


A liquid-cooled central board, comprising: one or more data processing components, which are mounted on the central board, wherein at least one or more of the data processing components is liquid-cooled or are; one or more conductive cooling components, which is mounted on the central board are or; and one or more convective cooling components, which is mounted on the central board are respectively, wherein the convective cooling components of the central board are removable without the conductive cooling components are removed from the central board.


In 1992, in the cultural climate that emerged in the Western world after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and of the East European socialist countries' system, Francis Fukuyama published a book entitled The End of History and The Last Man. These events seemed to inaugurate a new era and suggested an irreversible trend. In his book Fukuyama theorised that, with the end of communism, the world would unify under the hegemony of capitalism and liberal democracy. The supremacy of the market not only would end the social conflict — that conflict between owners and servants that Marx considered to be the motor of history — but it would create the conditions for the best of all possible worlds. On the one hand, the market economy and capitalism would meet fundamental needs and guarantee a rational allocation of resources. On the other hand, economic and technological development would progressively even out different national cultures and particularisms, unifying the world on the base of the cultural model of Western capitalism. These were the cornerstones of the hegemony of liberalism, which was rooted in the 1980s and in the so-called neocon revolution of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Economic globalisation furiously developed under the aegis of this basically uncritical and apologetic idea of capitalism. However, we shall recognise that the Left was affected by the influence of this culture too, which in particular arose in the formulation of the so-called Third Way. Actually, the world today looks rather different from the way the prophets of neoliberalism had envisaged it. The big 2007 and 2008 financial and economic crisis has exposed the weaknesses and contractions of unregulated globalisation. The world is neither reconciled nor evened out. Rather, the fear of a gradual cancellation of national, ethnic and religious identities has triggered tragic conflicts and strengthened nationalist impulses that seemed to belong to a very distant past. Paradoxically, on economics and trade, the most developed countries, primarily the United States, react to global competition with nationalist and protectionist retreats. It looks like the West appreciated globalisation only while this allowed relocating production in countries were labour is cheaper, and facilitated selling Western products everywhere, They did not realise that globalisation would increase the emerging economies' competitiveness and expose industrial nations in the West to competition.


Over the past several years, customer-sited cogeneration systems have been viewed as one way to mitigate electrical supply shortages. On the utility side, achieving this goal requires that cogeneration systems operate at a relatively high capacity factor, especially during peak periods. On the customer side, the cogeneration system must be capable of reducing operating costs. Our firm has recently completed an evaluation of operational customer-sited cogeneration systems installed during 2002 through 2004 under the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP). This paper will present the results of an in-depth performance evaluation that was conducted for the SGIP Working Group to evaluate the effectiveness of useful thermal energy recovery of on-site cogeneration systems receiving incentives from the program. In an earlier study, an initial evaluation of cogeneration system cost-effectiveness was performed for SGIP. This study raised some interesting questions regarding the actual operational efficiencies of cogeneration systems. Incorporating fuel consumption, thermal energy recovery and prime mover performance data obtained through the Program's measurement and evaluation monitoring efforts, actual measured performance was compared with the engineering estimates of performance for each project This paper will also explore some of the key drivers behind the unexpectedly low thermal energy recovery and overall plant performance. A stepwise approach to reconciling the estimated and actual performance was implemented. If common threads were identified, they were documented in an effort to guide future cogeneration system installations. Because the performance data include the actual timing (hour and month) of cogeneration system operation, the effects of this distributed generation resource is evaluated taking into account the large differences between peak and off-peak energy costs and benefits. This program-level distributed generation analysis can help program designers and policy makers to understand the limitations of smaller cogeneration applications relative to those systems envisioned under PURPA and thus may have important policy implications for the future of cogeneration and distributed generation programs throughout the U.S.


The introduction is modified in the revised version. Also, many typos and errors were corrected.
Let $W\to C$ be degeneration of smooth varieties so that the special fiber has normal crossing singularity. In this paper, we first constructed the stack of expanded degenerations of $W$. We then constructed the moduli space of stable morphisms to this stack, which provides a degeneration of the moduli spaces of stable morphisms associated to $W/C$. Using similar technique, for a pair of smooth variety and a smooth divisor $(Z,D)$, we constructed the stack of expanded relative pairs and then the moduli spaces of relative stable morphisms to $(Z,D)$. In the subsequent paper we will construct the relative Gromov-Witten invariants and prove a degeneration formula of Gromov-Witten invariants.


We have studied new features of semiconductor nano-structures in cyclotron resonance and magneto-optical spectroscopy under very high magnetic fields up to a few megagauss. The new features are attributed to the shrinkage of wave-functions of electrons, holes and excitons. In PbSe/PbEuTe quantum dots that are regularly arranged to form an fcc-like lattice, sharp cyclotron resonance peaks from PbSe quantum dots were observed. It was found that the peaks show a number of anomalous features such as splitting, a remarkable dependence of the intensity on the wavelength, or a peculiar angular dependence of the resonance field. In the photoluminescence spectra of excitons for CdSe/ZnSe quantum dots, GaP/AlP and GaAs/AlAs short period superlattices, a remarkable decrease of the peak intensity and a red shift of the exciton peak were observed with increasing magnetic field; these effects are attributed to the general nature of excitons consisting of spatially separated electrons and holes.


PURPOSE: An environment-friendly flame-retardant polyester resin composition is provided to secure the balanced physical and mechanical properties without decreasing the heat resistance. CONSTITUTION: An environment-friendly flame-retardant polyester resin composition contains 30~70wt% of polyester resin, 5~30wt% of phosphorous-based flame-retardant, 1~15wt% of nitrogen fire retardant synergist, 0.5~5wt% of layered silicate, 0.1~8wt% inorganic activation reagent, and 5~50wt% of filler. The polyester resin contains a compound selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene terephthalate, and polybutylene terephthalate.


We present a hybrid optical-electrical analog deep learning (DL) accelerator, the first work to use incoherent optical signals for DL workloads. Incoherent optical designs are more attractive than coherent ones as the former can be more easily realized in practice. However, a significant challenge in analog DL accelerators, where multiply-accumulate operations are dominant, is that there is no known solution to perform accumulation using incoherent optical signals. We overcome this challenge by devising a hybrid approach: accumulation is done in the electrical domain, while multiplication is performed in the optical domain. The key technology enabler of our design is the transistor laser, which performs electrical-to-optical and optical-to-electrical conversions efficiently to tightly integrate electrical and optical devices into compact circuits. As such, our design fully realizes the ultra high-speed and high-energy-efficiency advantages of analog and optical computing. Our evaluation results using the MNIST benchmark show that our design achieves 2214× and 65× improvements in latency and energy, respectively, compared to a state-of-the-art memristor-based analog design.


The brake is the key equipment to ensure the safe operation of the elevator. Failure of the elevator brake will lead to a slide accident. This paper takes the elevator brake shoe, which has been used for more than 15 years, as the research object, and systematically analyzes its wear characteristics. The research results show that most of the brake shoes have obvious scratches, and some of them even have cracks. Therefore, in the daily maintenance of the elevator, pay special attention to the wear state of the brake shoe to ensure the safe operation of the elevator brake.


Crimes related to illicit trafficking in firearms, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices, includes a set of operational and investigative actions aimed at establishing suspects and exposing their crimes, investigation and recovery of stolen state and citizens. Organization and tactics of the initial and subsequent investigative and investigative action on disclosure of such offences have some General provisions of crimes against property. This is a clarification of the conditions, under which it was committed theft, wanted criminals and stolen by signs with the use of investigative and other opportunities.


The species vernalis Cupania Cambess belongs to the family Sapindaceae, is used in landscaping, urban forestry and the restoration of degraded areas of permanent preservation, it is also used in medicine against coughs and asthma. Due to lack of knowledge about forest species Cupania Cambess vernalis, with the objective of this study was to evaluate the behavior of germination of this species at different salinity levels. The experimental design was completely randomized in a factorial design with five treatments (0, -0.4, -0, 8, -1.2 and -1.6 MPa) and four replications. In this study, we evaluated the germination percentage, germination speed index (GSI), mean germination time (MGT) and fresh weight and dry. Although there occurred a reduction in the percentage of germination, species vernalis Cupania Cambess germinated at all levels of NaCl used, indicating that the species is tolerant during germination. The species vernalis Cupania Cambess halophyte is tolerant to high concentrations of NaCl. There was a decrease in the values of the accumulation of fresh and dry shoot and root from -1.2 MPa NaCl. The salinity interfered in all parameters evaluated in the germination test, seeds were germinated in spite of all levels of NaCl.


TE00 and TE01 optical waveguide modes have been observed in GaAs stripe p−n junctions produced by zinc diffusion through SiO2 masks into n−type substrates. Excellent agreement was found between guided light profiles at 1.15 μm and those predicted on the basis of refractive index profiles given by the free−carrier plasma effects.


P G K Panikar Oil as a source of energy has certain unique characteristics which leads to periodic crises in the international oil market. How have different countries responded in the past? What has been the Indian response to the current crisis?


The paper deals with the goal of testing hypotheses about the slope parameters of a linear regression model when there is multicolinearity. A heteroscedastic method was recently derived based on a ridge estimator, but it does not guard against the deleterious impact of outliers. Several robust analogs of the ridge estimator have been proposed that might deal with this concern. The goal here is to find a robust method that performs reasonably well in simulations.


Potentiodynamic polarization curves and polarization resistance measurements were used to study the hot corrosion behavior of two intermetallic compounds, i.e., FeAl and Fe3Al with minor additions of Ni, Ce and Li exposed in a NaVO3 salt at 700 °C. The results showed that the intermetallic alloys with single additions or co-doped disclosed better corrosion resistance than the FeAl based alloys. On the whole, the FeAl-Li intermetallic alloy had the greater resistance to hot corrosion. Since the FeAl and Fe3Al intermetallic alloys without elements addition showed the greatest corrosion rate, the influence of the alloying elements on the corrosion behavior was of paramount importance.


Objective: Luteolin is a natural flavonoid abundant in many edible plants. The aim of this study is to explore the effect of luteolin(LU) on obesity-associated adipose tissue macrophage(ATM) polarization and its underlying mechanisms. Methods: Five-week-old C57BL/6 mice were fed with low-fat diet(LFD), high-fat diet(HFD), or HFD with 0.0l% luteolin(HFD+0.0l% LU) for 12 weeks, respectively. Macrophage infiltration and polarization were detected by immunohistochemical staining or real-time PCR in epididymal adipose tissue. The in vitro effect of luteolin on RAW264.7 macrophage inflammation and polarization in lipopolysaccharide(LPS) and/or PMA-stimulated conditions was also explored. The expression levels of proinflammatory cytokines and M1/M2 marker genes were detected by real-time PCR. Results: Dietary luteolin reduced HFD-induced ATM infiltration and mRNA levels of M1 macrophage marker genes. In LPSstimulated conditions, luteolin inhibited the expression of proinflammatory cytokines and M1 marker genes in RAW264.7 macrophages. In contrast, the expression of M2 marker genes was enhanced by luteolin. However, these effects of luteolin were aborted by protein kinase C(PKC) activator phorbol myristate acetate(PMA). Conclusion: Luteolin can inhibit obesityassociated ATM and RAW264.7 macrophage polarization in LPS stimulated-conditions through protein kinase C pathway.


Classification and data reconstruction using a restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is presented. RBM is an energy-based model which assigns low energy values to the configurations of interest. It is a generative model, once trained it can be used to produce samples from the target distribution. The D-Wave 2000Q is a quantum computer which has been used to exploit its quantum effect for machine learning. Bars-and-stripes (BAS) and cybersecurity (ISCX) datasets were used to train RBMs. The weights and biases of trained RBMs were used to map onto the D-Wave. Classification as well as image reconstruction were performed. Classification accuracy of both datasets indicates comparable performance using D-Wave's adiabatic annealing and classical Gibb's sampling.


Cloud computing offers a number of advantages for organisations looking to rent on-demand IT resources as a service. However, there are also uncertainties and challenges to cloud computing use that are tempering the rate of adoption. This paper contributes to our understanding of cloud computing adoption within South African firms by developing and testing a research model. Our model hypothesizes mimetic and normative institutional pressures, top management support, and the absorptive capacity of the firm as factors influencing cloud computing adoption. Data collected from 87 South African firms confirmed most hypothesized relationships, and supported institutional and absorptive capacity theories as explanations for adoption behavior. Top management support was found to be the most important factor influencing adoption and also partially mediated the effects of institutional pressures.


A high demand from the net Service suppliers to transmit transmission services over high speed wireless networks. These networks area unit are characterized by high quality receivers that perform frequent handoffs across undiversified and heterogeneous access networks whereas maintaining seamless property to the transmission services. so as to make sure secure delivery of transmission services to legitimate cluster members, the traditional cluster primarily based cluster key management (GKM) schemes for securing cluster communication over wireless mobile multicast networks are planned. However, they lack potency in rekeying the cluster key within the presence of high quality users that at the same time buy multiple multicast services that co-exist within the same network. To propose AN economical multiservice cluster key management theme (SMGKM) appropriate for top quality users that perform frequent handoffs whereas collaborating seamlessly in multiple multicast services. The users area unit expected to drop subscriptions once multiple cluster visits therefore inducement immense key management overhead thanks to rekeying the antecedently visited cluster keys. The already planned multi-service SMGKM system with utterly suburbanized authentication and key management functions is adopted to satisfy the strain for top quality setting with identical level of security. Through comparisons with existing GKM schemes, SMGKM shows resource economy in terms of reduced communication and fewer storage overheads in a very high speed setting with multiple visits. Storage overheads at the Domain Key Distributor (DKD), mobile receiver and space Key Distributors whereas providing intense security.


Hydrology originated as an engineering discipline mainly concerned with the estimation of floods and droughts. Since then, hydrology has evolved into one of the earth sciences and deals with water related issues in complex environmental systems at scales ranging from local to global. Current and future water issues, however, require new inter-disciplinary scientific approaches to provide solutions to engineering problems, often including significant social components. Climate and land use change introduce non-stationarities into the environment that many of the current engineering tools cannot consider, while a growing population continuously increase the stress on available water resources, particularly in less developed countries. Hydrology therefore remains an important part of the general civil and environmental engineering curriculum. However, the changes in the science of hydrology have not yet fully propagated into a changed approach to teaching this important subject in many engineering departments. We present the results of a three-semester long study in which we introduced real world case studies into a large (70-90 students) civil engineering undergraduate class to achieve this change. Over the past several semesters, students have expressed overwhelmingly positive thoughts on the course adjustments made, including the cases and other active learning elements utilized. We show and discuss evidence of the positive impact on student learning due to the closer link between the course material and real-world examples of a changing world.


On Friday, June 16, 2017, from Miami and in an act that seemed more typical of the Cold War, Trump put a brake on the process of distension with Cuba initiated in 2014 by Obama and Castro. Surrounded by the most stale of anti-Castroism, he displayed an aggressive, paternalistic and interventionist speech. In the following months, he deepened that line. On September 29, with the excuse of an alleged sonic attack on officials of the US Embassy in Havana, he removed 60% of the staff and restricted the granting of visas. What scope and limits has the (new) relationship with the island? What are the causes of the abandonment of this Obama's "legacy", which had received so much praise? What was the Cuban response? How will it impact in the United States and in the already complex and strained relations with Latin America and the Caribbean?


This paper presents a synthesized version of the silicon odometer aging sensor for measuring the frequency degradation caused by device degradation mechanisms in high volume semiconductor products. In the design, three ring oscillators (ROSCs) composed of inverter, NAND, and NOR gates are implemented in register-transfer-level (RTL), with the ability to be stressed in an AC or DC stress condition. The new odometer has product level features such as calibration-free operation, automatic frequency dead zone escape, and start-up glitch removal. The odometer verilog code was synthesized and automatically placed-and-routed in three different technologies using standard ASIC design tools. As a proof of concept, we show aging data collected from a 65nm test chip with 12 synthesized odometer instances. The open-source RTL files and testbench of the synthesizable odometer can be downloaded from https://github.com/reliability-research/odometer.


Although the notion of social capital has been extensively studied in various bodies of the literature, there is no universally accepted definition or measure of this concept. In this article, we discuss a new approach for measuring social capital which builds upon cooperative game theory. The new approach not only turns out to be a natural tool for modeling social capital, but also captures various aspects of this phenomenon that are not captured by other approaches.


We present a novel technique for editing motion captured animation. Our iterative solver produces physicallyplausible adaptated animations that satisfy alterations in foot and hand contact placement with the animated character's surroundings. The technique uses a system of particles to represent the poses and mass distribution of the character at sampled frames of the animation. Constraints between the vertices within each frame enforce the skeletal structure, including joint limits. Novel constraints extending over vertices in several frames enforce the aggregate dynamics of the character, as well as features such as joint acceleration smoothness. We demonstrate adaptation of several animations to altered foot and hand placement.


Spatial and temporal ocean colour data are increasingly accessible through remote sensing, which is a key tool for evaluating coastal biogeochemical and physical processes, and for monitoring water quality. Coastal infrastructure such as cross-sea bridges may impact ocean colour remote sensing due to the different spectral characteristics of asphalt and the seawater surface. However, this potential impact is typically ignored during data post-processing. In this study, we use Jiaozhou Bay (East China) and its cross-bay bridge to examine the impact of coastal infrastructure on water-quality remote-sensing products, in particular on chlorophyll-a concentration and total suspended sediment. The values of these products in the bridge area were significantly different to those in the adjacent water. Analysis of the remote-sensing reflectance and application of the Normalised Difference Water Index demonstrate that this phenomenon is caused by contamination of the signal by bridge pixels. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) products helped estimate the pixel scale that could be influenced by contamination. Furthermore, we found similar pixel contamination at Hangzhou Bay Bridge, suggesting that the impact of large coastal infrastructure on ocean colour data is common, and must therefore be considered in data post-processing.


California's Bay Area is home to nearly a third of the venture capital and internet businesses in the United States, generating a boom economy and a massive influx of well-paid workers that has transformed the face of San Francisco. Once the great anomaly among American cities, San Francisco is today only the most dramatically affected among the many urban centers experiencing cultural impoverishment as a result of new forms and distributions of wealth. A collaboration between writer-hiostorian Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg, "Hollow City" surveys San Francisco's transformation--skyrocketing residential and commercial rents that are driving out artists, activists, nonprofit organizations and the poor; the homogenization of the city's architecture, industries and population; the decay of its public life; and the erasure of its sites of civic memory. Written as a tour of the city's distinctive characters and locales, Solnit's text grounds the current evictions in earlier histories of urban renewal and the economic geography of artists, from Haussmann's impact on the Paris of Baudelaire, to the relationship between the Beats and San Francisco's African-American community during 'negro removal' of the 1950s. She investigates the ways wealth is now clear-cutting the cultural richness of American urban life, erasing space for idealism, dissent, memory and vulnerable populations. Schwartzenberg's photo-essays document the profusion of construction and demolition projects in the city, the imperial spaces of dot-com businesses, the proliferation of retail chains, and the rapid disappearance of areas in which artists can live and create. They feature works by more than a dozen San Francisco artists.


tory was very modem about the year 1739, but it is a little old-fashioned in 1939. People of the eighteenth century were so impressed by the new possibilities of science, and by technical inventions, that they dreamed of a new world of free individuals who would solve all contradictions by reason and inventions. Therefore, Mrs. Swabey tries to revive a certain very old theory of the liberal state. Nobody can hinder her from naming this system &dquo;democracy,&dquo; but the historian is compelled to confess that a &dquo;democratic state&dquo; as described by Mrs. Swabey never existed and probably never will exist. Many details and special observations in Mrs. Swabey's book are very valuable, but it is a pity that her system of democracy is outside the political and historic reality. ARTHUR ROSENBERG


: The pyridyldiazoles (L) used are 2,5-bis(l-pyridyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole and 2,S-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazole. The oxygen atom transfer reaction of [Re0Cl 3 (L)] with PPhzR (R = Ph, Me) and Ph 1 P(CH 1 lxPPhz (PxP, x = 1-4) has afforded meridional [Re(OPPh 1 R)Cl 3 (L)] and [Re(OPxP)Cl 3 (L)] respectively. These (R = Ph, x = 1) are oxidised by HN0 3 yielding [Re(OPPh 3 )Cl 3 (L)]Re0 4 and [Re(OP1P)Cl 3 (L)]Re0 4• Treatment of [Re(OPPhzR)Cll(L)] with PPhzR has furnished facial [Re(PPhzR)Cl 3 (L)]. The [Re(OPxP)Cl 3 (L)] species undergo spontaneous twin isomerization in solution leading to [Re(PxPO)Cl 3 (L)]. All compounds have been characterized with the help of spectral and electrochemical data. The X-ray structurr or a [Re(OPPh 3 )Cl 3 (L)]Re04 complex is reported. The rates and activation parameters of oxygen atom transfer and twin isomerization reactions have been determined and reaction models proposed.


This paper looks at the western notion of 'teacher as researcher', as originally developed by Lawrence Stenhouse and his associates, in the light of what Confucius had to say about education and learning. The paper demonstrates that the Confucian account of education and learning is similar in many respects to the notion of the 'teacher as researcher'. Both treat knowledge as provisional and open to question and discussion. It is argued that both Confucius and Stenhouse view learning as a personal and reflective creation of meaning from the cultural legacy, for the purpose of taking wise and intelligent action in the circumstances of everyday life. Moreover, both view learning as a socially interactive as opposed to an individualistic process. Although Confucius's idea of the 'teacher as a learner' does not explicitly acknowledge the learning of pedagogical strategies through teacher research, the authors point out the emergence of Lesson and Learning Studies in the Asian Pacific region, which are culturally saturated with Confucian constructs of education and learning. The paper concludes by arguing that western educationalists who advocate 'teacher research' would benefit from more dialogue with east Asian educators who are engaged with versions of educational action research that have been shaped by Confucian culture.


Abstract : The conference Frontiers in Human Information Processing (held 28-29 July 2007) goal was to synthesize the state of cognitive theory with focus on the formal, computational, and mathematical approaches that unify the areas of vision, attention, and memory. The conference also highlights several key applications of these approaches in medicine, engineering, and education.


A 41-year-old woman with a medical history of hormonal treatment for primary infertility eight years earlier and three subsequent operations for "recurrent uterine leiomyomas", was admitted to our hospital with suspected iliac vein thrombosis extending to the inferior vena cava in CT. Hysterectomy had been performed two weeks earlier for an enlarged heterogeneous uterus on MRI that raised the possibility of leiomyosarcoma. Indeed, although some MRI features can suggest malignancy, there are no specific imaging criteria differentiating leiomyosarcoma from other uterine tumours. The histopathological result of the hysterectomy specimen revealed uterine intravenous leiomyomatosis (IVL). The clinical picture pointed to the diagnosis of intravascular extension of the uterine IVL into the iliac vein and inferior vena cava (IVC). Excision of the intravascular mass was performed. The surgical specimen exactly fitted with the CT images (fig. 1a–b). There was no thrombotic component to the mass. Differential diagnosis of this IVC mass includes primary leiomyosarcoma or extension of adjacent tumours such as adrenocortical tumours, renal cell or hepatocellular carcinoma. In this case, the diagnosis of IVL was confirmed histopathologically, with characteristic smooth muscle spindle-shaped cells within a heterogeneous hyaline structure invading the vascular lumen without any atypical cellular signs. Immunohistochemical analysis was positive for smooth muscle actin. Interestingly, 80% of the cell nuclei were positive for oestrogen and progesterone receptors. IVL is a rare, benign tumour of the uterus first described in 1896 by BirchHirschfeld. It typically extends into the vascular lumen with various extension patterns. [1] Tumour progression can involve the iliac veins, the inferior vena cava and even the right atrium. [2] Unusual extension patterns of uterine leiomyomatosis include peritoneal masses, sometimes mimicking carcinomatosis, or "metastasising" leiomyoma with benign pulmonary nodules. [3–5] Symptoms and signs depend on the sites of tumour extension. Definite diagnosis is confirmed by histopathology. [6] Treatment consists of complete resection of the mass to prevent recurrence. There seems to be an increased number of IVL cases reported over the last few years, which could possibly be due to an increased incidence of this rare tumour. One hypothesis could be that the now widespread use of fertilisation methods may trigger tumour growth in hormone-sensitive tumours in which nuclear oestrogen and progesterone receptors can be demonstrated. The role of reproductive techniques as a risk factor has already been suggested in cases of leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata. [7] Interestingly, antioestrogens such as tamoxifen or raloxifene [8] or GnRH agonists [9, 10] have been used for treatment of IVL. The aromatase inhibitor letrozole has also been used in one patient. [11] However, these therapeutic non surgical options must still be considered hypothetical.


To reduce the active power and DC voltage fluctuation and accelerate tracking speed during system start, this paper proposes a new strategy setting reactive power reference based on the error between the instantaneous active power and its reference. When the error is less than given critical value, the reactive reference is equal to zero, otherwise it is equal to the error, Matlab/Simulink simulation shows the feasibility of the new direct power control strategy for voltage source PWM rectifiers.


Lepton pairs emerging from decays of virtual photons are one of the most promising probes of dense hadronic matter. The HADES experiment at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt studies dielectron radiation as well as strangeness production in various reactions, i.e. proton, deuteron and heavy-ion. The understanding of the corresponding experimental results calls for supporting studies from various model calculations. For a more model independent understanding of the dilepton cocktail the production cross sections of particles created during the freeze-out is crucial. In this contribution we will present results from a two photon analysis of Au+Au in 1.23 GeV/u collisions providing information on π0 and η mesons. Therefore the capability of HADES to detect e+e− pairs from external conversion of real photons will be explained and first results will be shown.


Suggested that only by the cooperation relations as the mechanism for supply chain profit distribution is neither a rational belief with the sharing principle,nor a practical thing.Based on the dialectical relations between structural factor and operation factor which should be included in the mechanism of the cooperation profit distribution,the mathematical model of the supply chain cooperative profit distribution mechanism is established.Through solving this model,the merchant and the channel profit mathematical expression are determined.The relations between the structural factor and the operation factor are quantificationally described as "the hardware" and "the software".The change region of various decision variable with its profit influence degree are analyzed.The application on the present return coefficient is discussed.Therefore,one kind of more effective mechanism for the supply chain cooperation profit distribution is suggested.


PICKUP AND DELIVERY SERVICES BY AIR CARGO INC. AND CAPE AIRFREIGHT BEFORE DEREGULATION NAFTA MEMBER SERVICES COMBINING P&D AND LINE-HAUL WITHIN SPECIFIC REGIONS


Qinbian Jilue is an very important book on territory. Burkhai, the son of Ismans and the younger brother of Dayan Khan, was a famous leader of Xihai Mongols. Being elbowed out of his native land, he was forced to move from Mongolia to Xihai,and finally he was conquered by Dayan Khan. The accounts on the descendants of Burkhai's in the Book of Qinbian Jilue not correct. Liang Fen ,the author of the book confused both Burkhai and Gushi Khan.


Based on D2 statistic, the forty genotypes of cowpea from different geographical origin were grouped into six clusters indicating wider genetic diversity. The clustering pattern indicated the absence of relationship between genetic diversity and geographical origin of genotypes. Based on genetic divergence, cluster means and per se performance, TC-2010-82, V-8981, JLCP-3, EC-343002, CP-105, Dhule Local, DLCP-1, PCP-23-2, Phule-CP-05040, KBC-1-M,RC101 and TPTC-1 have been found to be genetically diverse. Intercrossing among them would lead to upgrade genetic base in the base population and opportunities to obtain high heterotic effects. It will helpful to recover desirable transgressive segregants and wide spectrum of variability in subsequent generations.