In-depth interviews were conducted with 83 residents of the dental profile of graduates of medical universities in Moscow, Krasnoyarsk and Ufa. As a result of studying the opinions of graduates of medical universities, certain difficulties were identified in the prospective development of professional growth and the passing the accreditation procedure. The dissatisfaction of the respondents was associated with the imperfection of the system of training and motivation of graduates to improve their professional skills and competencies. In this regard, measures are needed to improve the quality of training of medical personnel, as well as ways to improve and increase the availability of quality medical education.


The development of novel solid electrolytes, which can be processed using solvent-free methods, is one of the keys for successful industrialization of solid state batteries and their further implementation in electrical vehicles. Here, we study thermoplastic solid state electrolytes based on polyethylene oxide (PEO), 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(tri fl uoromethanesulfonyl)imide (PYR 14 TFSI), lithium bis(tri fl uoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) and two inorganic fi llers with different morphology and nature (modi fi ed sepiolite (TPGS-S) and garnet-type Li 7 La 3 Zr 1.75 Nb 0.25 O 12 (LLZNO) prepared by solvent free extrusion method. Several thermoplastic polymer electrolytes (TPEs) are prepared and comprehensively studied. Composite thermoplastic electrolyte TPE-S10G10 containing 10 wt% of TPGS-S and 10 wt% of LLZNO fi llers shows the best electrochemical performance in Li-LiFePO 4 solid state batteries operating under 0.2C/0.5D cycling conditions at 60 °C. Solid state cell with TPE-S10G10 electrolyte retains 80% of initial discharge capacity after 540 cycles. Thus, a synergetic effect of using two different fi llers, which can be exploited during the development of TPEs, is clearly demonstrated.


On 21 August 2017, a total solar eclipse crossed North America. Two Vertical Incident Pulsed Ionospheric Radar ionosondes were operated, one deployed under totality at Lusk, Wyoming, and another south of totality, 313 km away from the geomagnetic meridian in Boulder, Colorado. The two Vertical Incident Pulsed Ionospheric Radar systems were synchronized for precise observation of both vertical and oblique group and phase paths. Hand‐scaled values of virtual heights and critical frequencies are presented. Arrival angles were computed using phase interferometry and used to compute equivalent vertical critical frequencies at the oblique midpoint. Oblique propagation geometry and horizontal gradients allowed measurement of F2 layer during ionosphere G condition where foF1 exceed foF2 after totality.


ABSTRACT Through a constant interaction with sociology and psychology, the works of Leslie Kaplan convey a vision of the world that relies on individual perception. Her writing privileges empirical fragments as the means of reclaiming one's experience of the world, while creating at the same time a playful confusion through the narrative voice. With this renewed art of the "romanesque," Kaplan invites us to question all authoritative discourse, restoring the novel's and the reader's critical power.


Factors causing damage of vertical shaft's lifting steel rope are analyzed.From the viewpoint of ensuring mechanical performance of steel rope,some precautions are suggested that can increase the service life and safety coefficient of steel rope.


To evaluate whether 4D US gu i dance (4D b i ops y mode) i n RFA therap y i s effect i ve, we conducted per-cutaneous RFA us i ng a newl y developed 4D-US probe for 5 subjects (5 HCC les i ons) between Januar y and Ma y 2011. We used Apl i o XG (Tosh i ba Med i cal S y s-tems) as the US s y stem and PVT-375MV (3.5MHz) as the newl y developed 4D US probe. RFA needle was i nserted i nto the target les i on under 4D US gu i dance (b i ops y mode). Us i ng 4D b i ops y mode, we could s i multane-ousl y conf i rm whether the needle t i p i nserted at the center of the target from two d i fferent sect i ons i n all cases: therefore, adequate RFA eff i c i enc y could be ach i eved i n all 5 subjects. Us i ng a real-t i me 4D US de-v i ce for RFA, more accurate i nsert i on could be ach i eved and more effect i ve therap y could be per-formed. Therefore, 4D US would be a more useful tool for RFA therap y .


The structures of the $^{4}E$, $^{4}T_{2}$, and $^{4}T_{1}$ states of ${\mathrm{Mn}}^{++}$ in the axial centers of ZnS polytypes are compared to the structures observed in cubic sites, and a unified model for all vibronic states considered is elaborated which provides a coherent description of a complex spectral distribution in a polymorph. First, from a detailed analysis of recent experimental results obtained from site selection spectroscopy and uniaxial stress experiments, it is shown that the structures of the $^{4}E$ states are identical for the cubic and axial sites and that all the observed structures for the orbital triplet states associated with the cubic and axial sites can be analyzed in terms of a Jahn-Teller coupling to degenerate or almost degenerate $E$ vibrational modes. The strength of the Jahn-Teller coupling and the Jahn-Teller shift with respect to the electronic states is determined for each level of ${\mathrm{Mn}}^{++}$ in the cubic and axial centers. Then, the shifts of the electronic states $^{4}E$, $^{4}T_{2}$, and $^{4}E$ for ${\mathrm{Mn}}^{++}$ in axial symmetry with respect to the electronic states in cubic symmetry are analyzed in terms of totally symmetric electronic interactions with local strains and with the ligand field of distant neighbors. The $^{4}E$ states of a ${d}^{5}$ configuration being most likely sensitive to the ligand field of the first neighbors only, the shifts of the $^{4}E$ electronic states for the axial centers are interpreted in terms of local strains of ${A}_{1}$ symmetry acting on the Mn${\mathrm{S}}_{4}$ clusters. By interpreting the stress-induced shifts of the $^{4}E$ states and the shifts in axial centers in a molecular cluster model it is shown that the local ${A}_{1}$ strains most likely correspond to dilatations of the Mn${\mathrm{S}}_{4}$ clusters for axial centers. Finally, the shifts of the $^{4}T_{2}$ and $^{4}T_{1}$ electronic states are interpreted in part in terms of the local ${A}_{1}$ strains and in part in terms of the variation of the ligand field of ${A}_{1}$ symmetry in stacking faults. The energy levels of the ${\mathrm{Mn}}^{++}$ in wurtzite are also tentatively analyzed in the framework of the proposed model.


Experience with preoperative therapy for other cancers has led to an assumption that borderline resectable pancreatic cancers can be converted to resectable cancers with preoperative therapy. In this study, the authors sought to determine the rate at which neoadjuvant therapy is associated with a reduction in the size or stage of borderline resectable tumors.


Insurance is essential for a modern economy. Yet, achieving real progress on insurance market liberalization and increased cross-border trade in insurance services has been extremely difficult, hampered by the failed negotiations in the Doha Round. However, a few bilateral successes have provided lessons and the hope for future success. This chapter examines the major weaknesses that have occurred in the WTO insurance services negotiations and the role that bilateral negotiations can play in improving the prospects for multilateral negotiations in the financial services sector. The analysis suggests that progress in multilateral negotiations will not occur until trade negotiators accept the premise that liberalising trade in insurance services can only be beneficial for a country's economic development and the desire to create national champions and to protect the local market can result in devastating economic costs for an economy, especially for developing economies. Keywords: cross-border trade; Doha round; financial services; insurance services; trade liberalization; trade negotiations; World Trade Organization (WTO)


Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) are one of the key components of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) programme. ASHA being the grass root level worker, the success of NHM depends on how efficiently is ASHA able to perform. The study has been conducted with aim of exploring the problems faced by ASHAs in performing their duties. A semi-structured interview schedule has been prepared. Purposive sampling was employed to identify 08 (eight) ASHAs. Data was collected using 2 (two) self-reporting methods, that is focused group discussion (FGDs) and in-depth interviews. The following were the themes that emerged from the study: (1) Awareness and perception of ASHAs regarding their duties, (2) Challenges—A ASHA Faces, (3) Communication with Higher Authority, Peer Group and Community, (4) Credibility in the Community. Conceptual Framework for problems faced by ASHAs was developed from themes, on the basis of discussion of the themes in relation to the theories, studies and literature already available.


In this paper, we analyze the increase in education levels of young generations in France between 1980 and 1993. We insist on three factors that could have explained this increase: i) increasing returns to education in the labour market including its protective role against unemployment; ii) decreasing costs, either objective or subjective, of education that families or students have to pay; iii) decreasing 'selectivity' of the education authorities. Using data from a survey on educational histories and on employment and by estimating a structural model of educational choices, we show that the third factor bears the principal burden of the increase in the education level. We however cannot distinguish in the influence of this factor what are the respective roles of opening new educational tracks, such as vocational tracks and, of rendering selection less severe by making repetitions less frequent.


In order to promote teacher development more effectively and improve the teachers' teaching ability of informatization,this paper bases on the analysis of the status of teachers' teaching ability of informatization,raises the basic requirements of teachers' information literacy,then discusses the strategy of training it.


[1] Feeding, respiration, and excretion rates (ammonium and phosphate) of mesozooplankton from the equatorial Pacific upper water column (0–100 m) were measured along the 180th meridian at different stations between 8°S and 8°N, and more repeatedly, at two time series stations, located at 3°S (TSS1) and the equator (TSS2). Only particles of size >8 μm were grazed by the organisms used for the experiments. Grazing rates were higher at TSS1. Ammonium excretion was also maximum at TSS2, resulting in lower O/N values. This suggests that food particles were richer in terms of protein content at the equator, as is also indicated by the lower C/N ratio of particles and the higher proportion of heterotrophic protozoans. Some variations in mesozooplankton specific composition (more carnivorous copepods being present in the equatorial samples) could also explain these O/N differences. Diel variations were observed. Significantly higher grazing, respiration (only at TSS1), and excretion rates were recorded during the day, suggesting that feeding activity was related to the daytime increase of primary production. Using the grazing rates determined under experimental conditions, the grazing pressure on the stock of food particles >8 μm was very low ( 8-μm food particles would reach 14% of the standing stock d−1.


Decision support system is basically a computer system which aims to
help decision-makers to take decisions in accordance with specific conditions
such as organizations, institutions, or companies are faced with the problem of
semi-structured and unstructured by providing information, models or devices to
analyze a number of information and existing data.
The author's research focused on the implementation of the ELECTRE
method as a method of solving multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) on the
design of decision support system of selection of scholarship recipients. In this
study, the authors use data collection methods such as interviews and literature
studies. While the research stage is divided into several steps that business
modeling, data modeling, process modeling, application development, and system
functionality testing and replacement.
The final results of this research in the form of a decision support system
for the selection of scholarship recipients is able to provide solutions in the form
of the selection ELECTRE ranking results of a number of alternatives proposed
by a number of criteria proposed by decision makers.


The present study was carried out to determine the influence of treated barley grain with sodium hydroxide, urea and formaldehyde on degradability of crud protein and dry matter using in situ technique in Gizel sheep. Two fistulated sheep with average BW 45±2.5 kg were used in a complete randomized design. The ruminal dry matter (DM) and crud protein (CP) disappearance was measured at 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 36 and 48 h. The experimental treatments were A: barley grain treated with 3.5% sodium hydroxide and 1.5% urea, B: barley grain treated with 3.5% sodium hydroxide and 0.4% formaldehyde, C: barley grain treated with 3.5% urea and 0.4% formaldehyde. Parameters of crud protein (CP) for soluble fractions were (a) 41.063, 9.58 and 45.9% and fermentable fractions were (b) 51.16, 85.13 and 51.77% for treatments A, B and C, respectively. According to the survey results, it is clear that grain treated with chemical digestion has high feed potential and if further investigation in ruminant diets can be used as an alternative feed. Key words: Barley grain, Formaldehyde, In-situ, Sodium hydroxide, Urea.


Athenian legal life. Professor Bonner looks at his subject from the point of view of a lawyer accustomed to Anglo-American procedure, but he is too well acquainted with his authorities to fall into the facile condemnations of the Athenian system to which most common lawyers would be tempted. Indeed he even says (p. 95) that criminals were brought to justice more surely in Athens than in America. We think that the avoidance of Greek technical terms has in some cases been carried a little too far. For one class of readers at any rate—boys in the upper classical forms at school and undergraduates—these technical terms would often be easier to understand than their necessarily inexact English equivalents. Many of us who learnt at school that Tcocpaypâ -y) was the Greek for' demurrer' obtained but little light from that explanation. Even some lawyers in this country might be puzzled by such words as ' docket' for list of cases and ' continue ' for adjourn, though the latter is a good old English use of the word. As the title shows, the author is in part concerned to show that there was something very like a legal profession at Athens, and quotes, for instance, the employment of Archidemus by Crito and others in support of his view. Of course there were people at Athens who knew more about the law than the bulk of their fellow-citizens, but they can really be better compared to those members of the House of Commons who are experts in Parliamentary procedure, than to a legal profession such as existed at Rome or exists among modern nations. The Athenian community was small enough for a considerable fraction of the citizen body to be concerned personally with the business of government (as, of course, Professor Bonner does not fail to point out), and law was simply part of that business with which some made themselves more familiar than others. Indeed the reasons why no true legal profession could develop are sufficiently clear from the book itself. But this criticism is perhaps a matter of words rather than facts, and we have to thank Professor Bonner for a valuable addition to the lighter literature of the classics.


Rosenblat E. S. Jews of the BSSR in the 1944-1950s. ethnic identity problem
in the context of social transformation of society


Wetland archaeology is uniquely well placed to investigate questions of chronology, temporality, life-cycles and seasonality. Beyond the usual archaeological approaches to time (eg seriation, typology and stratigraphy), most wetland archaeological investigations have access to a ready supply of samples (ie wood, peat and organic deposits) for absolute scientific dating, particularly radiocarbon and dendrochronology. Indeed, the success of dendrochronology in revealing dynamic sequences of site and regional occupation, use and abandonment are well known. Investigating wetland archaeological sites, environmental archaeologists have used the evidence of insects' plant remains, seeds and even testate amoeba to establish the season, or months, of a site's occupation. Soil micromorphologists have carried out innovative studies of settlement deposits to reconstruct the chronological sequences of processes and events leading to their formation. In brief, wetland archaeology has become adept at calibrating past times.


Recent numerical simulations have suggested the probability of a fraction of the primordial stars being ejected from the cluster of their origin. We explore the possibility that some of these can remain on the main sequence until the present epoch. We develop a semianalytical model guided by results of cosmological simulations to study the mass accretion by these protostars as a function of the original stellar mass and other parameters such as angular momentum and gravitational drag due to ambient gas. We also explore whether some of the protostars remain sufficiently low mass and long-lived to survive to the present day. This requires that the protostars are ejected from the star-forming region while their mass is less than . Assuming that the protostars gain mass via the spherical Bondi–Hoyle accretion from the ambient medium, we show that Population III protostars that initially form within a certain range of mass and are ejected with velocity larger than the escape velocity may survive to the present day on the main sequence. Thus, they may even be found in our Milky Way or its satellites. Our calculations also reveal that protostars that do not get ejected from the parent gas clump accrete a large amount of gas. We predict that these can become massive enough to be progenitors of black holes.


It has been shown previously that when adsorbates act as single component complexes, i.e. behave as single substances in complex force fields, volumetric mean adsorbate and mean adsorbent stress intensities can be calculated from adsorption isotherm data. When potentials of surface regions in the micropore system of a porous adsorbent are statistically independent of pore structure, linear mean stress intensities of the solid are related to volumetric means through an equation containing a structure factor which is independent of the nature and pressure of the adsorbed gas.In this paper we present adsorption extension data for an active carbon rod when exposed to helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, argon, krypton, and water at pressures up to 1600 p.s.i. The data suggest that the potentials of the capillary regions are not independent of structure. An empirical correlation factor is introduced and the resulting semiempirical equation describes the data probably within the experimental error.The results suggest th...


An 8-year-old girl with severe allergic rhinitis is admitted for an asthma attack in May. A 17-year-old football player practicing on a 95-degree August afternoon is treated in the emergency department for heat exhaustion. A 6-year-old has aggressive behavior in a new school and city after her home


This report is based on the analysis,research and investigation,serving as guidance purpose for main engine engineers and maintenance man,mainly focusing on the solution to abnormality of easily starting when start air pressure is below 2.2 MPa,difficulty starting when start air remains between 2.2~2.8 MPa,and failure to start when start air pressure exceeds 2.8 MPa for of main engine(Type: 6S60MC-C).


Accelerometer metrics of performance include higher dynamic range, lower noise, lower bias instability and lower power. As with all systems, these trade-offs compete. Achieving large dynamic range in accelerometers drives design trade-offs of sensitivity and survivability at the high end and low noise and drift at the low end of the range. CMOS-MEMS technology enables deployment of system-on-chip designs comprising an array of hundreds of individual accelerometer cells integrated with low-noise readout circuits and on-chip temperature, stress, and scale-factor sensors to compensate drift. These systems range to 50 kg shock measurement with 3 mg bias instability and a path toward micro-g bias instability.


When welding the hot-rolled high strength steel manufacture by thermal-mechanical controlled process(TMCP),there has a soften zone in the heat affected zone(HAZ).Evaluate the welding quality though the research on the influence of softened zone's width,hardness,strength by the different heat input. Take the 8mm thickness QSTE700TM that produced by Baosteel as an example and used the gas metal arc welding(GMAW,the CO_2 and Ar as the shield gas) welding method choose the high strength welding wire ER76-G(GB)、ER110S-G(AWS) as the welding consumer.Adjust the welding heat input range from 6.8 kJ/cm to 43.6 kJ/cm and found that as the heat input increased the tensile strength,fatigue strength of the welding structure and the hardness of the HAZ will decreased.But when using the lower heat input the quality of the welding structure can fulfil the usage request splendidly.And give the advise to increased the welding quality in detail:when keep the heat input in the scope of Q =6.8 -20 kJ/cm the good welding quality can be achieved successful.And the further research approve that when usage the lower strength welding consumer such as the ER50-6(GB)、ER70S-G(AWS) the welding structure can also achieved high quality for which the tensile strength can get about 700 MPa when use the lower welding heat input.Thus not only keep the welding quality,but also decreased the cost.


Two new genera and species of Pteronemobiini crickets (Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae: Nemobiinae) are described fromsouthern Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Kevanemobius paulistorum gen. n. et sp. n., and Pepoyara jagoi gen. n. et sp. n. The position of these genera among other Pteronemobiini is briefly discussed.


Since they were introduced by Poincare in his thesis, Normal Forms have become a common and useful tool in the local qualitative study of dynamical systems. Consequently, the literature about this subject is very rich, not only because of the people working on it (Poincare, Dulac, Birkhoff, Stenberg, Chen, Arnold, Moser, Tokarev, Bibikov, Belitskǐi, Bruno, Walcher, Cicogna, Gaeta, Bambusi and many others) but the also the amount of publications (see, for instance 1,2,6,3,7 and references therein). Let us consider a real planar analytic system


This paper shows the implementation of the system redesign sands separation process for preparing additives for cements, together with its manufacture and installation. The objective of this project is to design an online system that allows separate different grit sand and also store them in warehouses for immediate use. The system redesign study must satisfy a production of 50 tons per hour. Mechanical equipment will be manufactured, as well as structural described in project engineering, which will comply with the standards parameters used in the manufacturing stage, It is necessary analyze the stipulated time of the project through an activities schedule. Finally, you must perform a cost analysis for the project detailing each used resource. In conclusion, it is indicated that the new system installed meets the required production capacity and allows to separate and store the sands of different grain sizes immediately, getting comply production time and satisfy the market demand.


This paper aims to present a systematic literature review (SRL) on Managerial attitudes toward export performance. Literature reviews have been considered an essential practice to assess the nature of the wide range of knowledge in different fields of inquiry, allowing future development. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) are used to study and assess the nature and quality of the systematic review paper published on the managerial attitude toward export performance. All systematic reviews published across 112 managerial attitudes on export performance journals 2016-2022 were considered for this review. The studys results portray multiple limitations in the design, organization, and execution of current systematic reviews. This search found that 15 out of 112 papers specifically analyze. In particular, this work highlights 15 documents that are direct or indirect. This papers descriptive review results emphasize that none of the contributions considers the qualitative analysis of the managerial attitude on export performance. This paper suggests that managers, entrepreneurs, and investors with the power to make executive decisions must consider the contributions of managerial attitude on export performance. The study contributes to having more knowledge of the managerial attitude toward export performance from the literature review.
KEY TERMS: - Systematic literature review, managerial attitude, export performance


A cyclic finite automaton is a finite automaton which is generated by one single state, and each finite automata is the union of some cyclic finite automata. In this paper, in order to further investigate more insightful properties underlying cyclic finite automata and reveal the relationship between general finite automata and cyclic finite automata, by using the algebraic fashion we analyze the endomorphisms of cyclic finite automata, and propose an algorithm for finding the endomorphism semigroup and the automorphism group of a cyclic finite automaton. Moreover, the homomorphisms of general finite automata are discussed, and it is proved that every finite automaton is a homomorphism image of a direct sum of cyclic finite automata.


The NOL vector airborne magnetometer type 2A (VAM-2A) measures the direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic field from aircraft. Like the earlier type 1A, it continuously records the total intensity of the field and the magnitudes of a number of angles which specify its direction, but the 2A can be used in all latitudes and requires fewer steps in the reduction of results. Electronic circuits are used to average continuously the always varying angular magnitudes over predetermined intervals of time so as to minimize errors arising from the deflection of the pendulously suspended magnetometer mechanism by accelerations of the aircraft. The total-field measuring system of the magnetometer has a temperature coefficient of about 0.5 γ/°C. Drift due to causes other than temperature change is about one gamma in 12 hr. Magnetic compensation virtually eliminates the necessity for correcting the data for the field of the aircraft. In a region where the angle of dip is about 60°, F, H, Z, I, and D are measured under average conditions with estimated probable errors of 15, 40, and 30 γ and three and five minutes of arc, respectively.


Legumes including red lentils have soluble and insoluble fibers, resistant starch, folate and proteins. The functional properties of these nutrients may reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and promote the well-being of pulse consumers. Roasting of red lentils can be used to produce flour, high protein and starch fractions. Dehulling of red lentils may be improved by roasting. Roasting may improve the flavor and palatability of red lentils, and may reduce anti-nutritional factors associated with legume consumption. Little is known regarding the effects of roasting temperatures and storage on the quality characteristics such as breakage susceptibility, color and hardness of roasted red lentils. 'Robin' red lentils at initial moisture content of 15 to 16% were roasted at temperatures of 160, 180, and 200C for 15, 30, and 45 minutes. The roasted lentils were cooled immediately. The lentils were placed in Ziploc bags and stored at temperatures of 5C and 25C. The breakage susceptibility, color and hardness of the stored lentils were measured periodically. The color of the samples was determined using Hunterlab spectrocolorimeter. The Stein breakage test was used to determine the breakage susceptibility of the lentils. The hardness of the roasted and stored lentils was measured using a texture analyzer. The results of the quality characteristics of the roasted and stored red lentils will be presented.


JUN Family Genes encode nuclear leucine zipper JUN Family Proteins (JUN, JUNB, and JUND) that can homodimerize, or heterodimerize with nuclear leucine zipper FOS Family Proteins, to form the specific promoter/enhancer DNA binding AP-1 transcription factor complex that regulates target gene transcription in cell proliferation, differentiation, and transformation. (NCI)


The modeling method of the rolling bearing simulation,the simulation contents and the key technology in the simulation are introduced by using Adams,the dynamic measurement of the ball bearing and the corresponding signal processing are stated,and the research works on the dynamic performance in the design and manufacture of rolling bearing are summarized.


Nowadays, where the renewable energies are the new trend and sustainable technologies are starting to play a big role in the society in order to eliminate the dependence on fossil fuels, finding the way to collect these clean energies and to convert them into electricity at their highest performance is without any doubt essential. Nevertheless, the way to link the power generated from these renewable sources to the main grid is as well significant.
The present project studies step by step the design, modelling, control and simulation of a microgrid based on several elements with a special focus to the Photovoltaic (PV) System and to the Voltage Source Converters (VSC).
Modelling of the equivalent electric circuit model to simulate the working principle of a PV cell is studied in detail and a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control algorithm to force the PV system works at its highest operation point is applied.
A complete review of the two level VSC simplified model is elaborated and implemented to connect two DC sources (PV system and Battery system) to the main AC three-phase grid. Additionally, examples using the two level VSC real model based on six Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBT) are tested, where the voltages modulation are obtained by applying Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM).
The control methodology for the several elements of the microgrid, most of them based on Proportional – Integral (PI) controllers to reduce the steady-state error to zero, ensures that a change in an input parameter of the system alters other components in order to reach a new balanced state in a small amount of time. The operation and behaviour of the entire microgrid is checked using software MATLAB Simulink and the results show a proper performance.


Radioactivity data in food and farm soil in sedimentary rocky areas like Ayetoro, Nigeria, are scarce. Maize, cassava and the underneath soil samples were collected from Ayetoro. The 40K, 226Ra and 232Th activity concentrations in the samples were measured with a gamma ray spectrometer. The soil-to-food crop transfer factors, ingestion effective dose rates due to the crops and the outdoor effective dose rates due to soils were evaluated. The mean 40K, 226Ra and 232Th activity concentrations in maize were 160.3 ± 66.5 Bqkg−1, 18.1 ± 7.1 Bqkg−1 and 15.0 ± 8.0 Bqkg−1 respectively and the soils were 671.5 ± 352.9 Bqkg−1, 66.8 ± 25.3 Bqkg−1 and 62.1 ± 27.9 Bqkg−1 for 40K, 226Ra and 232Th respectively. The mean activity concentrations in cassava were 294.6 ± 137.2 Bqkg−1, 28.6 ± 14.9 Bqkg−1 and 18.2 ± 13.0 Bqkg−1 for 40K, 226Ra and 232Th respectively and the soils were 679.5 ± 281.1 Bqkg−1, 66.8 ± 32.7 Bqkg−1 and 49.7 ± 46.9 Bqkg−1 for 40K, 226Ra and 232Th respectively. The results indicated that the activity concentrations, ingestion effective dose and outdoor effective dose are low and no serious radiological health impact is expected.


Statistics on annual crop production for the Canadian prairies, Canada's largest agricultural region, were summarized by crop, soil zone, and province for the period 1976-1998. A brief discussion, demonstrating how these data can be used by agronomists and policy analysts to derive other information of interest to society (e.g., how much raw material is available for ethanol or strawboard production, or for C storage in soils), was presented. The results show that land seeded to cereals has remained fairly constant, but there has been a sharp decrease in the summerfallow area, with the rate of decrease on the Canadian prairies being 1.26% yr-1 in the Brown soil zone, 7.5% yr-1 in the Dark Brown, and 14.3% yr-1 in the combined Black, Gray and Dark Gray soil zones. The rate of decline in summerfallow area was greater in Saskatchewan than in Alberta, and Manitoba (Black soils only) for unknown reasons. The decline in summerfallow area was accompanied by a steady increase in oilseed crops, especially canola (...


S11 Figure 1 A - Principal Component Analysis (PCA) shows PC1 and 2 explaining 28.7% and 11.3% of the variance, respectively. Ellipses represent 95% CI poten-tial to be developed into future clinical diagnostic biomarkers of pleural disease, and may further our understanding of the disease processes leading to pleural effusion formation. Valida-tion of these findings and identification of the specific metabolites is underway.


Facilitation occurs when an increase in the density of one species causes an increase in the population growth rate or the density of a second species. In plants, ample evidence demonstrates that one species can facilitate another by ameliorating abiotic conditions, but the hypothesis that pollination facilitation – in which the presence of one flowering species increases pollinator visits to a second species – can also occur remains controversial. To identify the necessary conditions for pollination facilitation to occur, we constructed population models of two plant species that share the same pollinator and compete for establishment sites, and we assumed that heterospecific pollen can interfere with successful seed set. We found that facilitation for pollination occurs only when the pollinator visitation rate is an initially accelerating function of the combined numbers of flowering plants of both species in a patch. The presence of a second species can allow populations of a focal species either to persist for a longer amount of time before going extinct ("weak facilitation") or to persist indefinitely at a stable equilibrium density ("strong facilitation"). When only a single plant of either species can occupy a site, the plant species with the higher initial density can experience strong facilitation but will eventually out-compete the other species. However, when site occupancy was not exclusive, strong facilitation sometimes led to coexistence of the two species. Increasing the extent of pollen carryover increased the range of initial population densities leading to strong facilitation. In light of our theoretical results, we discuss the apparent rarity of pollination facilitation in nature.


The determination of the Sea Surface Temperature (SST), as well as the Land Surface Temperature (LST), is typically achieved through the algorithm called Split Windows (SW). This method is compatible with detectors whose Noise Equivalent Delta Temperature (NEDT) is on the order of 0.1 °K or less. The method increases the observation error by a factor of 4 or 5 on the SST determination. The NEDT of un-cooled micro-bolometers detectors (used in small and medium satellites) is in the range of 0.5°K to 1.5°K. To achieve a SST error less than 0.7°K it is necessary to search for other algorithms. In [1] an alternative method is presented, but in this work a new algorithm is presented, based on the theory of perturbations and stochastic process, compatible with the new generation of areal micro-bolometer detector, that allows one to meet the accuracy requirement.


In this manuscript the life and times of the poet, Charles Lloyd are reviewed. In particular attention is paid to his seizures, and the development of what was probably an epileptic-related psychosis. It is pointed out how the development of the psychosis essentially destroyed his poetic career, and his life is set alongside theories of creativity and mental illness, as has been reviewed recently in the literature. It is suggested that while there may be links between creativity and bipolar disorder, sadly epilepsy is probably destructive to the creative writing process, particularly the writing of poetry. 1. Andreasen, N. C. (1987), 'Creativity and mental illness', American Journal of psychiatry, cxlvi, 1288-92. 2. Post, F. (1994), 'Creativity and psychopathology: a study of 291 world famous men', British Journal of Psychiatry, clxv, 22-34. 3. Post, F. (1996), 'Verbal creativity, depression and alcoholism', British Journal of Psychiatry, clxviii, 545-55. 4. Ludwig, A. M. (1995), The Price of Greatness (New York: The Guildford Press). 5. Jamison, K. R. (1995), Touched with Fire (New York: Free Press). 6. Juda, A. (1949), 'The relationship between highest mental capacity and psychic abnormalities', Americart Journal of Psychiatry, cvi, 296-304. 7. Jamison, K. R. (1989), 'Mood disorders and patterns of creativity in British writers and artists', Psychiatry, xxxii, 125-34. 8. Ludwig, A. M. (1994), 'Mental illness and creative activity in femal writers', American Journal of Psychiatry, cli, 1650-6. 9. Lennox, W. G. and Lennox, M. A. (1960), Epilepsy and Related Disorders (Boston, Little Brown and Co). 10. Gastaut, H. (1956), 'La maladie de Vincent van Gogh', Annales Médico Psychologiques, cxiv, 196-238. 11. Trimble, M. R. (1991), The Psychoses of Epilepsy (New York: Raven Press). 12. Lucas, E. V. (1898), Charles Lamb and the Lloyds (London: Smith Elder). 13. Lloyd, H. (1975), The Quaker Lloyds in the Industrial Revolution (London: Hutchinson). 14. Letter, Charles Lloyd Senior to his wife, May 1794. 15. Letter, Charles Lloyd Senior to his wife, 4 July 1794. 16. King-Healy, D. (1963), Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802 (New York: Macmillan). 17. Kellogg, J. (1938), Life and Works of Charles Lloyd to 1800. PhD Thesis. 18. Lloyd, C., Poems on Various Subjects (F. Jollie, 1795). 19. Letter, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (STC) to Poole, 28 November 1796. 20. Coleridge, S. T. ( ), Poetical Works, Coleridge, E. H. (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1912). 21. Letter, S. T. C. to Poole, 24 September 1796. Letters I, 169-70. 22. Letter, S. T. C. to Charles Lloyd Senior, 15 October 1796. 23 Letter, S. T. C. to W. L. Bowles (date unknown), see reference 17, page 18. 24. Letter, S. T. C. to Charles Lloyd Senior, 14 November 1796. 25. Letter, S. T. C. to J. Thelwell, 17 December 1796. 26. Letter, S. T. C. to Poole, 15 November 1796 (unpublished letters I, 62). 27. Letter, S. T. C. to Charles Lloyd Senior (14 November 1796 - Lucas p. 30). 28. Athenaeum, 2 March 1895. 29. Letter, S. T. C. to J. Thelwell, 17 December 1796. 30. Letter, S. T. C. to Cottle 12 March 1797 - see 17 page 44. 31. Tirebuck, W. (1887), The Selected Works of Bowles, Lamb and Hartley Coleridge (London: Walter Scott). 32. Letter, S. T. C. to Wade, 16 March 1797. 33. Letter, C. Lamb to S. T. C. (15 April 1797) Lamb Letters I, 106-7. 34. Poems by S. T. Coleridge to which are added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd (1797). 35. Letter, C. Lamb to S. T. C., September 1797. 36. See 31, p.155. 37. Charles Lloyd (1798), Edmund Oliver (Bristol). 38. Coleridge, S. T., Poetical Works, Coleridge, E. H. (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1912), II, 964. 39. Lloyd, C. (1810), Isobel. A Tale (London: Soutby). 40. Letter, Charles Lloyd to Manning, 2 February 1799. 41. Letter, Charles Lloyd to Manning, 28 May 1799. 42. Letter, Charles Lloyd to Manning, February 1805. 43. Lloyd, C. (1815), The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri (translation) (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown). 44. De Quincey, T. (1907), Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets (London: J. M. Dent). 45. Letter, S. T. C. to John Morgan, 18 March 1815. 46. Lloyd, C. (1823), Poems (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown). 47. Impy, M. and Melanby, J. (1992), 'Epileptic phenomena as a source of creativity: the work of Alfred Kubin', International Journal of Moral and Social Studies, vii, 153-71. 48. Waxman, S. G. and Geschwind, N. (1976), 'Hypergraphia in temporal lobe epilepsy', Neurology, xxiv, 629-36. 49. Nielsen, H. and Kristensen, O. (1981), 'Personality correlates of sphenoidal EEG foci in temporal lobe epilepsy', Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, lxiv, 289-300. 50. Trimble, M. R. (1986), 'Hypergraphia'. In: Trimble, M. R. and Bolwig, T. G. (eds), Aspects of Epilepsy and Psychiatry (Chichester: J. Wiley and Sons), 75-87. 51. Yamadori, A., Mori, E., Tabuchi, M., Kodoy, Y. and Mitani, Y. (1896), 'Hypergraphia: a right hemisphere syndrome', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, lxix, 1160-4. 52. van Vugt, P., Paquier, P., Kees, L. and Crass, P. (1996), 'Increased writing activity in neurological conditions: a review and a clinical study', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Ixi, 510-14. 53. L'Hermitte, F. (1983), 'Utilisation behaviour and its relation to lesions of the frontal lobe', Brain, cvi, 237-55. 54. Okomura, T., Motomura, N. and Asaba, H. (1989), 'Hypergraphia in temporal lobe epilepsy, compared with stroke of the right cerebral hemisphere', Japanese Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology, xliii, 524-5. 55. Schmitz, B. and Trimble, M. R. (1992), 'Epileptic equivalents in psychiatry: some nineteenth- century views'. Acta Neurologica, lxxxvi, Supplement 140, 122-6. 56. Slater, E., Beard, A. W. and Glithero, E. (1963), 'The schizophrenia-like psychoses of epilepsy', British Journal of Psychiatry, cix, 95-150. 57. 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【Objectives : The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of oral health education conducted by a dental hygienist in order to provide some information on intensive oral health education to elementary school students. Methods : Subjects were the students of J and M elementary schools in Seoul from October 28 to November 16, 2011. Oral health education was provided by a dental hygienist, and then they took the PHP test again to verify the effect of the oral health education. Results : Concerning changes in PHP scores after the oral health education, the scores of the students dropped from 2.34 in the pretest to 1.85 in the posttest(p】


Aim:  The hormonally controlled mobilization and release of fatty acids from adipocytes into the circulation is an important physiological process required for energy homeostasis. While uptake of fatty acids by adipocytes has been suggested to be predominantly protein‐mediated, it is unclear whether the efflux of fatty acids also requires membrane proteins.


During the past decade, one of us (Brooks) has made extensive investigations of new methods for combating infections. In the course of this study, the following hypothesis was formulated: 1 In the blood and blood-forming organs are found the various chemical structures, cellular or otherwise, which are responsible for the production of the antibodies, formed in the immunity response to infection. Consequently the blood should be good material from which to isolate immunifacient antigen bodies. Acting upon this theory, a protein was carefully prepared by shattering the fibrin of ox-blood with hydrochloric acid and pepsin. The residue was fractionated by precipitation with ammonium sulfate, retaining the lower secondary proteoses, which are the most active components. These proteoses, he found, were multiple in number and varied in nature, but their very complexity may explain their service in combating infections of different etiology. A host of workers has searched for a protein which would be efficient therapeutically, and yet rid of the disagreeable concomitants of protein action; namely, fever, chills, sweating, etc. The above mentioned proteose seems to fill this requirement. Brooks and Stanton 2 noted the absence of the so-called "characteristic protein reaction" and at first, on this account, were inclined to doubt the efficacy of this shattered hemo-protein antigen, but this view was dispelled by the remarkable success of this protein in a large series of cases of acute and chronic arthritis. The general opinion heretofore is best expressed by quoting Petersen 3 : "There is a probability that … the positive phase or mechanism of recovery after non-specific injections is a function, or at least very closely related to the degree of the negative phase or the intensification of the disease process that is clinically manifest in the reaction of the patient.


The goal of this research was to obtain quality control parameters for the identification of the plant drug of Pimenta pseudocaryophyllus (Gomes) L. R. Landrum that occurs in Brazilian savannah. So, two samples were collected, one in Minas Gerais state - Brazil, and the other one in Brasilia city - DF - Brazil, and the vouchers were deposited in the UFG Herbarium code number UFG-27159 and Ezechias Paulo Heringer Herbarium code number 21745-0, respectively. Part of the botanical material in both samples was prepared for microscopic analysis. The other one was air-dried, crushed to powder and used for phytochemical screening. The study has shown that P. pseudocaryophyllus leaves are hypostomatic, there are abundant unicellular trichomes in abaxial surface, there are secretory cavities with oily content and epidermal cells have thick wall. Tannins, phenolic compounds and flavonoids were detected in the phytochemical screening. The tannins had been quantified by different methods involving colorimetric and protein precipitation reactions, getting different results. This fact calls the attention for the necessity of specifying the method used together with the minimum tannins limit established. The results configure as important parameters for the quality control of the plant material and denote that the species in study take an important potential as herbal medicine that it deserves to be investigated in pharmacologic and toxicologic studies.


Career education of college student is conducive to build the powerful country of human resources,improve the quality that higher education trains talented person.Career education is conducive to the college student growing up well and developing optimally.Colleges and universities should promote with current vocational counsel for the systematic,the wholly career education.We should research and practice career education of college student thoroughly with the following aspects such as knowing incisive,perfect course,excellent teachers,integrating social resources.


A high-power microelectronic switching circuit is interfaced with a fiber optic data link, whereby inductive or resistive loads up to 20 amperes are switched, with a forward voltage drop of less than one volt. An input signal of one-half milliwatt is passed to the gate of a VMOS FET power device, which drives P-N-P output transistor to switch power supply to load circuits such as a window lift motor, a seat lift motor, a windshield wiper motor, headlights, and turn indicators. Also the switch is useful in nonautomotive control applications. For the purpose of achieving remote switching, the automotive manufacturer has used mechanical relays. Until recently the power required to activate an electromechanical relay was not itself recognized as a problem. Moreover, the electromechanical interference generated by mechanical relays was not particularly objectionable. However, today there is a clear incentive to reduce the power requirement to drive remote switching devices; and moreover, electromechanical interference can be extremely troublesome because, for example, it may cause other sensitive electronic controls to function erractically. The power switch of this design helps to solve these problems because it permits a direct interface with a very low input power command signal, such as is typical of a low-power microprocessor-fiber optic output and the electromechanical interference is eliminated.


The module cancellation problem asks whether, given modules X , X 0 and Y over a ring ƒ, the existence of an isomorphism X ̊ Y ŠX 0 ̊ Y implies that X ŠX . Whenƒ is the integral group ring of a metacyclic groupG.p;q/, results of Klingler show that the answer to this question is generally negative. By contrast, in this case we show that cancellation holds when Y Dƒ andX is a generalized Swan module. Introduction Let ƒ be the integral group ring ƒD ZŒG of a finite group G. For ƒ-modules X , X 0, Y we consider the following cancellation question: If X ̊ Y ŠX 0 ̊ Y is it true that X ŠX 0‹ (*) In this paper we focus on this question when G is a metacyclic group G.p;q/ defined as the semidirect product G.p;q/D Cp ÌCq where p is an odd prime, q is a positive integral divisor of p 1 and Cq acts via the canonical imbedding Cq ,!Aut.Cp/. We first analyze the group ringƒ; the projection G.p;q/ Cq induces a surjective ring homomorphism W ƒ ZŒCq . The twosided ideal Ker. / has the following non-obvious description; take A to be the fixed ring A D ZŒ p Cq under the Galois action of Cq on the ring of cyclotomic integers ZŒ p ; A is a Dedekind domain in which p ramifies completely. We take 2 A to be the unique prime over p. Then Ker. / can be identified with Tq , the subring of quasitriangular matrices in the ring Mq.A/ of q q matrices over A; thus, Tq D ® X D .xrs/1 r;s n 2Mq.A/ ˇ̌ xrs 2 . / if r > s ̄ : A generalized Swan module X is one which occurs in an extension of the form 0! Tq!X! ZŒCq ! 0: (X) In particular, given the above description of Ker. /, we see that ƒ itself is a generalized Swan module. We shall prove the following: Illinois Journal of Mathematics Vol. 63, No. 1 (2019), 103–125 DOI 10.1215/00192082-7600042, © 2019 by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Received June 6, 2018. Received in final form January 18, 2019. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 16D70; Secondary 20C10. 104 F. E. A. Johnson THEOREM A Let Z, Z0 be ƒ-modules such that Z ̊ ƒ Š Z0 ̊ ƒ; if Z is a generalized Swan module, then Z ŠZ0. We note that Tq decomposes as a direct sum Tq D R.1/ ̊ ̊ R.q/ where R.i/ consists of elements in the i th-row of Tq . The modulesR.i/ are isomorphically distinct and Ext.ZŒCq ;R.i//Š Fp , the field with p elements. The extension X is classified up to congruence by a sequence c D .ci /1 i q where ci 2 Fp D Ext.ZŒCq ;R.i//. We write ı.X/D 1i j ci D 0o: The set ı.X/ is called the degeneracy of X; we will show that ı.X/ is an invariant of the isomorphism class of the module X not merely of the congruence class of the extension X. Consequently, we may write ı.X/D ı.X/. We say that the generalized Swan module X is degenerate when ı.X/ ¤ ; and nondegenerate when ı.X/ D ;. Nondegenerate modules are necessarily projective and for these the conclusion of Theorem A already follows from the theorem of Swan–Jacobinski (cf. [4, 12]). However, the (more numerous) degenerate modules are not projective and lie outside the scope of the Swan–Jacobinski theorem. In these cases, Theorem A is a consequence of the following, which can be viewed as a rigidity property. THEOREM B Let X , X 0 be degenerate generalized Swan modules; then X ŠX 0" ı.X/D ı.X 0/. In formulating our approach we make use of the derived module category; that is, the quotient of the category of ƒ-modules, by setting projectiveD 0. The salient features are reviewed briefly in Section 1. A fuller account can be found in Chapter 5 of [7]. There is already a considerable literature on the general question of cancellation; see, for example, [13]. In the case of the metacyclic groups considered here, the results of Klingler [9] show that the question (*) has a generally negative answer. Thus, the cancellation statement of Theorem A is atypical and, to that extent, unexpected. 1. The derived module category In what follows, ƒ will denote the integral group ring ƒD ZŒG of a finite group, as yet unspecified. As a ring, ƒ is both left and right Noetherian. The category of right ƒ-modules is denoted by Modƒ. If f WM ! N is a morphism in Modƒ, we write f 0, when f can be written as a composite of ƒ-homomorphisms f D ı via a projective module P ; thus,


Web crawlers are automated computer programs that visit websites in order to download their content. They are employed for non-malicious (search engine crawlers indexing websites) and malicious purposes (those breaching privacy by harvesting email addresses for unsolicited email promotion and spam databases). Whatever their usage, web crawlers need to be accurately identified in an analysis of the overall traffic to a website. Visits from web crawlers as well as from genuine users are recorded in the web server logs. In this paper, we analyse the web server logs of NRIC, a health related portal. We present the techniques used to identify malicious and non-malicious web crawlers from these logs, using a blacklist database and analysis of the characteristics of the online behaviour of malicious crawlers. We use visualisation to carry out sanity checks along the crawler removal process. We illustrate the use of these techniques using 3 months of web server logs from NRIC. We use a combination of visualisation and baseline measures from Google Analytics to demonstrate the efficacy of our techniques. Finally, we discuss the implications of our work on the analysis of the web traffic to a website using web server logs and on the interpretation of the results from such analysis.


In Sweden there is approximately 690 000 holiday cottages. These temporary housings consumes together a large amount of energy, 2.6 TWh. Moreover, if the owners of these homes have the desire to change these temporary housings to permanent habitable buildings, what can be done? This study investigates what should properly be made in respect of a building envelope in order to gain more energy disposal design. The type of building being investigated is a summer house, dating from the 1920s. The holiday cottage in the study consists of a "out-air"-ventilated crawl space with associated basement. Bearing part of the structure is of a plank body. The current insulation material at the bottom and attic floor consists of sawdust. The study used an energy simulation program, VIP energy. This program can simulate any specific energy of a building, depending on its envelope, which climate zone the building is in as well as indoor climate that a home must have.The study tested two different options, one with a total insulation thickness of 90 millimeters and one with the greater thickness of 115 millimeters.It was found that 115 millimeters of mineral wool was the most suitable option. To insure that the work itself would also include a good environmental thinking several different types of insulation tested were tested. These different types is cellulose insulation, foam, hemp insulation and mineral wool. These four have been compared to investigate what the most appropriate choice is given the ecological footprint, cost, and energy requirements.Environmentally speaking the options made to insulation were all recommended by Sunda Hus, with the exception of hemp insulation that Sunda Hus not treated in its data bank.The study also includes an examination of what happens with the supporting plank frame when additional insulation concerning moisture. All insulation materials are tested in a stationary calculation of heat- and moisture transfer through the wall's different layers. The preferred option was determined here to 115 mm mineral wool.The study was then summed by a decisive part, an LCC calculation. This is a financial calculation to determine whether the investment is viable in the longer term. The most appropriate option for the summer cottage was 115 mm mineral wool, due to the relatively cheap cost and advantageous abilities. This option has a payback period of approximately 18 years.


A case is reported of basal cell nevus syndrome in a 9-year-old girl, presenting multiple jaw cysts, broad nasal base, ocular hyperterolism, incomplete osseous bridging of sella turcica and abnormal ribs. From the family investigations, it turned out that the syndrome occurred also in her mother and the mother's brother. The syndrome of these cases was familial, but chromosome aberration was not confirmed. In these three cases, common symptoms were multiple jaw cysts and abnormal rib. Such familial cases are considered rare in Japan.


Utilizing curtain wall systems as outer covering of a building has been enormously increasing for the last years. Past earthquakes have revealed the wrong design of curtain wall systems connections that can seriously endangers human life. In this study, design procedures proposed by different international and national earthquake codes and specifications to compute the forces in the connection of curtain wall systems are summarized. As a real example, a regular 30-storey reinforced concrete building is considered, and a Finite Element Model is created for this structure. A detailed model for the building and the curtain wall systems and their connection anchors are considered. The axial and shear forces in the anchors are computed using the average results of seven sets of time history analyses. The results are compared with the results of building model using spectrum modal combination analyses and the forces in the connection anchors are proposed by different Specifications; Turkish Earthquake Code 2007, Turkish Earthquake Code 2018, Federal Emergency Management Agency, European Standard. As a result, it can be concluded that the seismic forces used for the design of anchors of the curtain wall systems are better estimated by the specification suggested by Turkish Earthquake Code 2007 compared to the detailed model results.


Speaking is an essential skill to master in every foreign language learning. It even can be used to measure a foreign language learner's success. However, learning to speak a foreign language, particularly English, is extremely difficult for beginners and to help them using storytelling is highly recommended (Haven, 2000; Caine, et al., 2005). However, learners' perception is one of the most important success factors in any learning technique, including storytelling, because they are among the main stakeholders of learning. This study aims at exploring students' perception of storytelling techniques use to improve speaking. Involving 74 students of SMPN 143 North Jakarta, the data was collected using a set of questionnaires. The results show that the participants had a positive perception of the use of storytelling techniques. They found the technique interesting, beneficial, and easy to use.


Adaptive processes are processes that adapt to the environment in which they are situated by abstracting input taken from the environment and applying those abstractions to act on the environment and to determine what next to take as input. They involve a continuous oscillation between an inductive aspect of generalization and a deductive aspect of application. This thesis proposes a minimal model for such processes in terms of three key notions: finiteness, invariance, and analogy. I take cognition to be a prototypical example of an adaptive process and examine logic from the perspective of this model. In three early traditions of logical thinking—in ancient China, ancient India, and ancient Greece—both aspects of adaptive processes can be seen to be present. Classical logic, on the other hand, focuses solely on the deductive aspect. Finally, the wider applicability and explanatory value of the model are considered, as well as other instances of adaptive processes.


Homochirality is a ubiquitous feature in living systems and plays a crucial role in biological processes. In the biosphere, many naturally occurring biochemical molecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates are homochiral.[1] In comparison, homochirality in the lithosphere and the inorganic world is a quite rare phenomenon. For example, even though quartz is chiral, it is found in nature in both right- and left-handed forms.[2] Also, unlike homochiral organic molecules,[3] chirality in the inorganic system often depends on the crystallization process which allows the generation of chirality through the organization of achiral inorganic units into the enantiomorphous space group. This crystallization process, however, almost always generates a mixture of right- and left-handed crystals, even though statistical fluctuations may occasionally result in enantioenriched bulk samples.[4]


The optimum quantity in the protein assimilation wih selenium powder as catalyst has been studied.The result Shows that the optimum quantities by single factor analysis are 1.5g of Se powder,1g of K2SO4 and 10 ml of thick H2SO4.The present method is compared with the standar method and by test the results are agreement.


Abstract One of the most frequently occurring terms in Paul Tillich's theology is meaning (in his English writings) or Sinn (in his German writings). But Tillich used both in multiple senses, without acknowledging or even appearing to be aware that he was doing so. He wrote only in German till he immigrated to the United States at the age of forty-seven. He used the German Sinn abundantly in his native tongue, and with a variety of meanings: a universal medium for understanding the world; "sense," as in "making sense" or what is missing in "senseless" (sinnlos) statements; "the unconditional" ("das Unbedingte"); a "thing pointed at" (in Tillich's theory of symbols and signs); a grand metaphysical quality of some undefined sort; the object-correlate of an act of cognition; and "God." He drew on the German Sinn when he began to write in English but, because of the grammatical status of meaning as a verbal noun, the English term allowed Tillich to ascribe agency to things that in his view bear meaning, for example the thing that grasps us when we are in the state of faith. In addition, the English word meaning for Tillich meant "comprehensibility," "value," "direction," from existential philosophy (what is missing when life is meaningless); "ultimate concern" (the "meaning which gives meaning to all meanings"); in the plural, something undefined that the human person "lives in"; and "God." The change from German to English accompanied a change in his conception of faith, raising the possibility that the new language moved Tillich's theology in a new direction.


Next-generation biofuels have been widely investigated because they have particular advantages compared to first-generation biofuels. Pyrolysis is an example of a thermochemical route extensively used in oil and coal industries worldwide to produce these biofuels. Strategies for low-cost upgrading are among the biggest challenges facing the adoption of bio-oils in the development of commercial biofuels. Specific biomass sources could be the best option for generating bio-oil with the required properties. For this, it is necessary to understand the composition of these biomasses and their bio-oils. Here, we analyzed bio-oil samples from the fast pyrolysis of different biomasses collected during two different steps of the process by direct-infusion high-resolution mass spectrometry. First, a comparative study of two common high-resolution mass spectrometers, quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (Q-TOF MS) and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS), was performed to va...


At the beginning of NEP, the Soviet leadership somewhat eased the pressure on religion. At the same time, it was not going to give up the struggle with "religious prejudices". A characteristic feature of the anti-church campaign organized at the turn of 1922 and 1923. It became that the main emphasis in its organization was placed on means affecting the emotional sphere. Its central event was the "Komsomol Christmas". Its core was carnivals, during which the customs and traditions of different religions were ridiculed. According to the same scenario, it was supposed to hold the "Komsomol Easter". But in March 1923, the Central Committee of the RKSM banned "the organization of any kind of street demonstrations and carnivals", recommending that anti-religious campaigns be given a more "in-depth propaganda character". Nevertheless, at the very end of the 1920s, the authorities began to return to those practices that had previously been rejected as "rude" and "harmful". In particular, anti-Christmas and anti-Easter carnivals were organized in the image and likeness of the Komsomol Christmas of 1923. Using materials from the Smolensk archives and the local press, it is possible to reconstruct the process of organizing and holding anti-religious processions, identify their regional characteristics, and trace the reaction of the population to them.


...............................................................................................iv List of Tables.......................................................................................xiv List of Figures.......................................................................................xvi List of Schemes......................................................................................xx Chapter One: Introduction .......................................................................1 References............................................................................................37 Chapter Two: Two Dimensional Bimetallic Carbonyl Cluster Complexes with New Properties and Reactivities..........................44 References............................................................................................74 Chapter Three: Structures and Bonding of η 2 -bridging CO Ligands and Their Influence on the Structures and Rearrangements of Higher Nuclearity Metal Carbonyl Cluster Complexes....................76 References..........................................................................................119 Chapter Four: Iridium-Ruthenium-Gold Cluster Complexes: Structures and Skeletal Rearrangements....................................122 References..........................................................................................146 Chapter Five: Structures and Transformations of Bridging Aryl Ligands in Triosmium Carbonyl Cluster Complexes.....................148 References..........................................................................................197 Chapter Six: Rotational Behavior of Bridging Aryl Ligands in Unsaturated Metal Carbonyl Cluster Complexes .........................199 References..........................................................................................217


Self-powered, high detectivity, solution-processed near-infrared (NIR) quantum dot photodetectors based on novel alloyed AgAuSe quantum dots (QDs) are fabricated for the first time and their photoelectric properties are explored. AgAuSe...


Serbian constitutional judiciary, established in 1963 in the conditions of socialist social order celebrates its 50-year jubilee. A little bit over ten years after the establishment of today's most important constitutional judiciary institutions in Italy and Germany, in the conditions of the system of unity of powers, Yugoslavia was the first socialist country to adopt the Constitutional court. Recent decades were characterized by ever more perfect constitutional solutions which complemented the constitutional definition of the Constitutional court, upgraded the modality of justices' elections, widened the jurisdiction and secured the direct access of citizens to the Constitutional Court through the constitutional appeal. Today, constitutional judiciary in Serbia, both by its characteristics and results, shares the standards of European constitutional judiciary space.


Grain size analyses of three sets of sedimentary rocks totaling thirty-two samples were performed by thin-section and sieving techniques. The total distributions and the statistics derived from these distributions are compared for the two techniques; distributions of average samples are similarly compared. Conversion factors which will make the results directly comparable are empirically determined and are found to vary within samples, between samples, and between rock types. Analytically derived correction factors for sectioning and for weight-to-number frequency fail to bring the results of the two techniques into agreement. Based on experimental results it is concluded that, at present, there is no generally applicable correction factor but that empirically derived conversions with statistically determined confidence limits may be used within a single study.


It's that time of year again. The temperature is falling, respiratory viruses are multiplying by the minute, and your emergency department is at 160% capacity. You scan the white board at the start of your shift and note that almost half of the rooms are occupied by children with respiratory symptom


This paper undertakes a comparison and theoretical unification of two recently proposed philosophical accounts of human affectivity: Bennett Helm's theory of felt evaluations, centered on the idea of a sui generis emotional rationality as the standard of intelligibility of affective evaluation, and Matthew Ratcliffe's phenomenological account of existential feelings (or 'feelings of being'), which are encompassing affective background structures that comprise the foundation of all sorts of directed experiences – crucially including emotional and cognitive states. While these two proposals seem – at least on the surface – to focus on radically different aspects of our emotional lives, I will argue that they can (and should) be reconciled. While Helm is right in stressing and elaborating the intricate networks of emotional intelligibility, his approach needs to be supplemented by an understanding of affective background structures which form the indispensable starting conditions of an individual's evaluative perspective on the world. Only a consideration of these affective backgrounds will give us the information needed to adequately reconstruct and assess an individual's emotional evaluations as well as the evaluative judgments based upon them. Thus, overall this paper works towards a philosophical synthesis so far rarely achieved. An analytical, rationality-based approach to the normative structure of human forms of life (Helm) is brought into fruitful alignment with the descriptively rich accounts of human experience offered by the phenomenological tradition (Ratcliffe). These two approaches are shown to converge in their underlying aim: To outline the contours of a descriptive metaphysics of personhood and to stress the importance and indispensability of affectivity.


The Eco-industrial Park, an application of the theories of Industrial Ecology and Circulation Economy to industrial practice, is a new model of sustainable development. It is of great importance that a suit of evaluation index system and evaluation mode be set up to promote the perfection and development of it. Based on the investigation of such parks, the assessment indicator system of the Eco-industrial Park is established in the paper through seeking counsel of experts. According to the established assessment indicator system and relevant standards, the Eco-industrial Park is analyzed and evaluated scientifically by the grey clustering method.


SUMMARY Objective: This study was carried out with the objective of tracing and knowing the profile of patients having diabetes mellitus who live in the coverage area of the Family Health Program III in the municipality of Condado – PB. Material and Methods: This is a quantitative and qualitative research, whose data collection occurred by structured interview, followed by oral clinic examinations accomplished at home visits. During this study, blood pressure of the interviewers was verified, as well as their glycemic levels. Results: The main results were: 56% showed alteration in blood pressure and 76% had their glycemic levels above standard values. It was verified that 56% of patients was supported by public service, and among elderly tooth pain (44%) was the chief-complaint; 73% of the patients did not feel they needed any dental care, which must be associated to the high edentulous level (59%), as well as to the feelings of fear (38%), anxiety and tension (14%), rising before and during dental treatment. Among the oral manifestations found in these patients, are: presence of decay lesions (6%), root remains (9%) and periodontal diseases (20%), as well as presence of lesions in lip commissure, lower lip and nose. Conclusion: The pursuit for oral health care by elderly diabetic people occurred, mainly, in public services, and the pain was the main reason for this pursuit in the last appointments. Most of the interviewed people (59%) were toothless. Delay in looking for dental services is due to several factors such as physical incapacity of some of the interviewed; fear and anxiety before and during the treatment, and also geographical barriers. The characterization of the users' profile and the knowledge about their needs have contributed to structure a service which encourage the adhesion to treatment and maintenance of oral health.


A robust operator for natural-texture recognition, which works as a model of texture visual perception and enables a scale-and-orientation independent image interpretation, is presented. The visual cell behavior is modeled as a set of frequency-and-orientation selective filters in accordance with cortical channel characteristics and with the signal theory. The bandpasses of our frequency-and-orientation separable filters agree closely with psychophysiological experiments. Such a frequency filter may be any function with same frequency properties as visual system ones. Each 2D bandpass filter is constructed by crossing a 1D frequency selective filter with an orientation selective 1D filter. The output energies of those 2D filters enable a texture characterization which is especially interesting for a continuous multiresolution representation. This method allows us to compare textures with different orientations and scales by means of a simple translation in the response plane. The advantage of our model is its ability to process continuous variations while avoiding information redundancy.


This paper presents an experimental investigation of how a systematic variation in the cognitive demands on subjects affects the optimal play. The innovation of this paper is the choice of a game, which we call the Game of Position. This is a two-player zero-sum game characterized by a dominant-strategy solution that involves iterative steps of reasoning. The equilibrium play is independent of mutual beliefs of players; hence inability of a subject to play the dominant-strategy unambiguously implies the failure of human reasoning prowess. We alter the two parameters of the game to vary the cognitive constraints, as represented by these steps of reasoning, on players. Our main substantive conclusion is that the frequency of the dominant-strategy play sharply increases as we limit the cognitive demands on players.


High chrome grinding media has been used in the mining industry for quite some time, as it often proves economical on a wear basis. However it is un usual for an operation to change to high chrome solely due to its metallurgical benefits. Ka gara's Mount Garnet operation made the change from forged steel to high chrome media after laboratory testwork indicated that copper grades and recoveries would improve. The outcome was remarkable with positive changes in pulp chemistry throughout the circuit accompanied b y marked improvements in copper, lead and zinc grades and recoveries. Reagent dosage rates we re reduced, often by more than half, and the grinding media wear rate dropped to less than a thi rd of the wear rate of the forged steel media. The economic analysis showed that out of the total increase of revenue and savings from metallurgical improvements and reagent and media consumption reductions the metallurgical improvements made up approximately 73 per cent, the reduced reagents saved 25 per cent and the savings through reduced media wear contributing by just over one per cent. This indicates that the popular view of high chrome media only bei ng trialled in the plant for wear economics is outdated and the focus of operations should be shif ted to using high chrome media for the metallurgical benefits.


Social stereotypes serve to the socialization of the language. They have various forms. It is possible to approach from various sides to the stereotypes as it is flexible. Social norms play an important role in the formation of social stereotypes. Social stereotypes are expressed with the help of various texts and language unities. Expressions, proverbs and sayings also express social stereotypes besides lexeme. It is the requirement of the era to clean the process of communication from resources that lead to the outrage of one social type by another one.   A person is universal creature. The social property is characterized by a personality, acquired and cultivated. The social qualities of the individual develop and change on the basis of the environment, educational and personal (subjective) factors. The role of education in shaping and developing the personality of a person is important. Social environment changes social roles. Key words: stereotype, social type, social factor, expression, proverb, socio-biological factor.


Abstract The ionizatiou produced by 27 electron-positron pairs with energies between 80 and 2000 Bev, recorded in stacks of emulsion, has been studied. The energies were estimated from the development of the soft cascades in an auxiliary experiment. Suppression of the ionization near the origin of the pairs waa obsorved, and the measured effect found to be in satisfactory agreement with theoretical predictions. The observations allow an independent estimate of the energy of the individual pair from the initial ionization, and for pairs with energy ∼300 Bev most of the values thus obtained were in good accord with those from other methods. There is a corrolation between the suppression effect and the disparity in energy of the two particles of a pair. This suggests that ionization measurements give information similar to that provided by studies of the relative seattering of the two components of a pair.


Despite increasing focus on the importance of self–regulated learning for undergraduate students in universities in recent years, very little is known about its specific features in universities in developing countries, in general, and Ethiopia, in particular. This study examined the relationships of self-regulated learning strategies (SRLSs) with perceived learning and further assessed the relationships within the SRLS components in Ethiopian public universities. For this, the authors adopted Pintrich's self-regulation theory as a guiding framework and used structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis. The sample used in the analysis pooled survey data from three randomly selected public universities and included volunteer undergraduate students having a major in Business and Economics and Engineering and Technology fields (n = 1142; male = 700 and female = 442), with mean age = 21.98 and SD = 2.50. The results indicated that the student SRLS and perceived learning gains scores were average values in terms of the magnitude of those measured variables. A two–step hierarchical regression analysis showed that the five components of SRLS that emerged from SEM analysis significantly predicted students' perceived learning over and above the control variables (ΔR2 ≥ 0.38 and 39%) for the total samples. Moreover, the regression results showed that greater predictions were observed for the help–seeking component (0.35 ≤ β ≥ 0.47) than others, significantly positively predicting the perceived learning for the total samples. Overall, the findings of this study indicate that the SRLSs are relevant mechanisms to aid student success in higher education. The implications of the study are highlighted.


In this work an alternate pathway is demonstrated to form ultrathin cobalt ferrite (CoxFe3−xO4) films by interdiffusion of Fe3O4/CoO bilayers. Bilayer samples with different Fe3O4/CoO thickness ratios have been prepared by reactive molecular beam epitaxy on Nb-doped SrTiO3(001) substrates to obtain cobalt ferrite films of varied stoichiometry. Subsequently, oxygen-assisted postdeposition annealing experiments for consecutive temperature steps between 300 ◦C and 600 ◦C have been conducted monitoring the interdiffusion process by means of high-resolution x-ray reflectivity, soft and angle-resolved hard x-ray photoelectron, and x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Magnetic properties were characterized using superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry. The interdiffusion process starts from 300 ◦C annealing temperature and is completed for temperatures above 500 ◦C. For completely interdiffused films with Co:Fe ratios larger than 0.84:2 a thin segregated CoO layer on top of the ferrite is formed. This CoO segregation is attributed to surface and interface effects. In addition, multiplet calculations of x-ray absorption spectra are performed to determine the occupancy of different sublattices. These results are correlated with the magnetic properties of the ferrite films. A stoichiometric CoFe2O4 film with partial inversion has been formed exhibiting homogeneously distributed Co2+ and mainly Fe3+ valence states if the initial Co:Fe content is 1.09:2. Thus, for the formation of stoichiometric cobalt ferrite by the proposed postdeposition annealing technique an initial Co excess has to be provided as the formation of a top CoO layer is inevitable.


Legal practice has been broken by criminal conduct of legal officials which has been supported by devil advocate for pragmatic aims. It has raised a broken legal dignity in public view. The community begun to view negatively law enforcement that give raises civil disobedience covered to community. It has even been a tragic in the legal state, when communities disobeyed of law. However, because of that it is required to reform the legal system, especially legal culture. Law enforcement is not only concerned solely at present condition but also must consider the future of law, if we pass on very dirty of the legal culture, it will be the laughingstock of next generation, because of the current generation cannot afford to pass on a society which uphold the law as one of the pillars of public order. Legal culture has great contribution to access to justice, the meaning of law by legal officers determined face of law on public view.This paper work offers a solution to build a criminal justice system that oriented to sustainable development for embodied a regeneration of legal culture is an honest and clean. It can be done by starting a legal reform that can be done by changing the substance of the criminal law to build a pure legal culture. The colonial legacy which contains the values of western society has conflicted with the values trusted by Indonesian society. Law is a reflection of the values believed by the public to be formulated into the body of law in order to create an harmony between the values of the legal product that want to be enforced. This is offer a value approach and political approach to reform the criminal law as a law that most influential in public life because of his coercive and threatening.


The development of a full-vertical GaN p-i-n rectifier on a 6H n-type SiC substrate by employing a conducting AlxGa1−xN:Si (x=∼0.1) buffer layer scheme is reported. In this vertical configuration, the n contact is made on the backside of the SiC substrate using a Ni∕Au metallization scheme. Epitaxial layers are grown by low-pressure metal organic chemical vapor deposition. The AlxGa1−xN:Si nucleation layer is proven to provide excellent electrical properties while also acting as a good buffer layer for subsequent GaN growth. The reverse breakdown voltage for a relatively thin 2.5μm thick i region was found to be over −330V. The devices also show a low on resistance of Ron of 7.5×10−3Ωcm2. This full-vertical configuration provides the advantage of the reduction of sidewall damage from plasma etching and lower forward resistance due to the reduction of current crowding in the bottom n-type layer.


Preliminaries There is a difference between anticipation and guessing. Even between anticipation and prediction there are distinctions impossible to ignore. We shall examine these differences and distinctions as we try to explain what anticipation is. Let us start with a simple observation: The distinction between good and bad leadership becomes apparent after the fact. Pretty much like cooking. But what distinguishes between bad and good leadership is the anticipation involved in all aspects of a leader's work. The goalkeeper who prevents his team's defeat by catching a penalty kick, or the tennis player who returns a very fast serve, or the skier who makes it down the steep slopes of the devilish slalom is in the same situation. So is the cook − the famous chef as well as the hobbyist kitchen artist. It is anticipation that, after the fact, explains their performance. If their anticipation is right, they will Mihai NadiN


There are many mode on education practice such as centralized practice,decentralized practice,entrust practice and mixed-up practice.According to the research,the mixed-up practice has some superiority such as cooperation between students in different majors,save up resources,and cultivate the independent abilities of students.So this is an ideal and practical mode for the teaching practice.The Multiple Physical Education Teaching Mode could break up the disadvantage of centralized practice mode such as at a period of time and at the fix place before graduation.School should connect students future career with the practice of school,society and the practice unit.Let students participate in different practice and make them qualified person with social sports.


Abstract In this paper we study a semilinear elliptic equation in all ℝN. This equation depends on a parameter λ, and we obtain, for small λ < 0, solutins which are small in H1(ℝN). In this sense we have solutions bifurcating from the origin and, as the differential operator involved is the laplacian, we say that we have solutions bifurcating from the bottom of the essential spectrum of the laplacian. By a change of variables we transform the original bifurcation problem into a perturbation one. We adopt a variational procedure, looking for critical points of a suitable functional. We apply a recently developped reduction method, which allows to reduce the original variational problem in H1(ℝN) to a variational problem in a finite-dimensional manifold, and then we solve this last problem. In this way we are also able to manage the presence of critical nonlinearities, in the sense of Sobolev embedding.


Background: Today's nursing students and future nurses make up the backbone of the health care forces in every country, whose attitudes are influential on other health care providers. Aim of this study: was to investigate the relationship between the attitude toward nursing profession, achievement motivation and academic performance of baccalaureate nursing students. Methodology: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized in the study. Setting: The study was conducted at Faculty of nursing, Minia University. A stratified random sampling procedures were employed for selection of 50% from the students in each of the four academic years enrolled in Faculty of Nursing, Minia University during the academic year 20122013 with total number (n=385). Tools of the study: 1st tool was attitude toward nursing profession scale to assess students' attitude toward nursing profession. 2nd tool was achievement motivation scale prepared by Khalefa (2006). 3rd tool was an auditing checklist for students' academic performance at the end of the academic year. Results: indicated that the majority of the subjects had positive attitude toward the nursing profession and more than two thirds of them had high achievement motivation. There was statistically significant positive correlation between students' attitude toward nursing profession and their achievement motivation. However, there was no statistically significant correlation between students' attitude toward nursing profession or achievement motivation and their academic performance. Conclusions: Nursing students' attitude tended to be positive towards their future profession. First year students appeared to have more positive attitude and higher level of achievement motivation than other academic years. Recommendations: Nursing educators should strengthen curriculum reform, enhance their own quality as teachers, try new teaching strategies and allow students to experience appropriate clinical environment. Nursing social status in Media needs to be improved.


Magnetorheological fluids are intelligent materials that can be used in many technical fields because of their rheological properties.Magnetorheological fluids can be used in the critical speed passing technique for rotor-bearing systems which is important in centrifuge development.To explore a new method of critical speed passing technique of centrifuge,the magnetorheological fluid is used in the centrifuge lower damper.Theoretical and experimental studies of the vibration characteristics of a centrifuge rotor with a magnetorheological fluid damper show that the centrifuge rotor-bearing system can smoothly pass through the second-order critical speed without resonance by adjusting the magnetic field intensity in the magnetorheological fluid damper.The magnetorheological fluid damper is,therefore,more efficient than traditional centrifuge dampers for vibration control.


This proposal recommends restoration of the passive foreign investment rules to controlled foreign corporations. Its 1997 removal, on the grounds of simplification, allowed many billions of profits siphoned from the United States to be accumulated in low tax jurisdictions and then, in an incredibly complex provision backed by multinationals, brought back to the United States without tax.The proposal is made as a part of the Shelf Project, a collaboration by tax professionals to develop and perfect proposals to help Congress when it needs to raise revenue. Shelf Project proposals are intended to raise revenue, defend the tax base, follow the money, and improve the rationality and efficiency of the tax system. Shelf Project proposals follow the format of a congressional tax committee report in explaining current law, what is wrong with it, and how to fix it. This is one of a series of Shelf Project papers on international taxation by the author. Kingson wants to express admiration and gratitude to Calvin Johnson, who created the project, appreciation to Reuven Avi-Yonah for support; and thanks to Peter Canellos for his clarifying comments on this proposal.


A novel nickel pincer cofactor was recently discovered in lactate racemase. Here, we report three synthetic nickel pincer complexes that are both structural and functional models of the pincer cofactor in lactate racemase. DFT computations suggest the ipso-carbon of the pyridinium pincer ligands act as a hydride acceptor for lactate isomerization, whereas an organometallic pathway involving Ni-mediated β-H elimination is less favored.


The utility model relates to a cleaning brush, in particular to a turning cleaning brush driven by the water power, which comprises an outer shell, a handle, a water passing tube and a circular turning brush. The utility model is characterized in that the circular brush is provided with a disc-brush gear, the circular-brush gear is engaged with a central shaft driving gear, the transmission gear arranged on the central shaft is matched with the driving blade wheel through a plurality of transmission gears that are engaged with each other, a high-pressure water spraying nozzle is arranged at the water passing tube port, the high-pressure water sprayed out from the high-pressure water spraying nozzle drives the central driving shaft through the blade wheel and the transmission gear that is engaged with the blade wheel, thereby driving the circular turning brush to rotate so as to realize the washing. The utility model is simple and convenient and has favorable effect and high efficiency, which is particularly suitable for washing the automobiles, the wall and the ground.


According to the features of field ecosystem in the land consolidation project of the specified area,the paper chose 6indexes for evaluation,including CO2 fixation and O2 production,air purification,climate regulation,water storage,soil and water conservation,agricultural tourism.Quantitative evaluation methods,including market value method,reference method,shallow engineering method,production cost method,were used to evaluate the ecological benefits for Xiuhui town's land consolidation project of Zhangqiu city.The results showed that the ecological benefits were increased by 163.53×104 yuan.Of the six chosen indexes,five indexes were increased except water storage.The implementation of land consolidation project can effectively increase the ecological benefits,but the reverse development of the ecosystem should not be ignored.The ecological idea should be throughout the stage when designing the project,engineering construction and later management and protection.


In an embodiment, a fluid ejection device includes a thin-film layer formed over a substrate. A primer layer is formed over the thin-film layer, and a chamber layer is formed over the primer layer that defines a fluidic channel leading to a firing chamber. The fluid ejection device includes a slot that extends through the substrate and into the chamber layer through an ink feed hole in the thin-film layer. The fluid ejection device also includes a particle tolerant extension of the primer layer that protrudes into the slot. In some implementations, the particle tolerant primer layer extension extends across a full width of the slot.


Banking services management in the current economic context, should be directed to actions focused on customer satisfaction, service transparency, more active and deeper banking management in the communication.


This paper documents a set of in-depth diagnostic test cases for multi-zone heat transfer models that do not include the heat and mass transfer effects of airflow between zones. The multi-zone non-airflow test cases represent an extension to IEA BESTEST (Judkoff and Neymark 1995a).


This article systematically studied on the Gastrodia elata f.glauca of Changbai Mountains bionic cultivation techniques under woods,it mainly introduces the processing of sprouting strain and symbiotic fungi associated with Gastrodia elata f.glauca,especially introduces the Gastrodia elata f.glauca of Changbai Mountains bionic cultivation techniques under woods.It can provide theoretical basis for normalized and industrialized cultivation of Gastrodia elata f.glauca in Changbai Mountains.


A novel computerized tomographic (CT) imaging structure based on the theory of compressed sensing (CS) is proposed. The main goal is to mitigate the CT imaging time and thus x-ray radiation dosage without compromising the image quality. In this study, we propose to use a novel dictionary in compressed sensing algorithm. Our dictionary is an optimal combination of Wavelet Transform (WT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), and Total Variation (TV) transform. We utilize three quality assessment metrics including mean square error (MSE), peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity (SSIM) indices to quantitatively evaluate the reconstructed images. The results show that the proposed method can generate high quality images with less artifacts while preserving edges when fewer number of view angles are used for reconstruction in a CT imaging system. This is in comparison with those results obtained from other reconstruction algorithms in view of the reconstructed image quality.


The focus of this article is on Dalit Christian experience in India. It strives to understand the milieu and framework of religious expression within the Dalit Christian community in South India. This article consists of three sections. Firstly, it develops a comprehensive perception of what it means to be a Dalit and a Christian simultaneously; the notion of multiple belonging in practice. Secondly, it weaves the lived reality of Dalit Christians by using Gillian Rose's socio-philosophical concept of 'the broken middle'. Thirdly, through the paradigm of the 'broken middle', this article furthers certain facets of a locally relevant church. In brief, by drawing upon fieldwork from various Dalit communities in South India, this article gives a perspective and a glimpse into the wider Christian experience, in order to elucidate a contextually appropriate theological framework and the need for a locally relevant church.


One importance of the marvel that the States made a steady increase in economy in the 1990s is that the States government adopted the structural finance policies.There is increase and decrease in tax and decrease and increase in payment.The States' structural finance policies have served as a great source of inspiration for our carrying out positive finance policies.Using the expanding finance polices expands the government's expenditure and remedies the insufficiency of private expense and enterprise investment:Using the policies of tax and shift payment regulates the distribute gap of social income and enlarges the income level,increases private expense and investment:Using the finance policies adjustable effects on the supply solves our country's effective demand insufficiency,at the time,solves the difficulty of effective supply insufficiency.