We have developed a significantly improved understanding of thermal TEOS (tetraethylorthosilicate, Si(OCH{sub 2}CH{sub 3}){sub 4}) surface chemistry at CVD (chemical vapor deposition) temperatures and pressures. This was accomplished using GCMS (gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy) and FTIR (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy) to examine how TEOS reaction rates are influenced by factors critical to the heterogeneous reaction. This included determining the TEOS pressure dependence, testing if reaction by-products inhibit TEOS decomposition, evaluating functional groups on the SiO{sub 2} surface as potential reaction sites, and establishing the functional group coverage dependencies. Our results show that TEOS decomposition rates are first-order in TEOS pressure and independent of the surface reaction by-products and the relative coverages of siloxane bridges (Si-O-Si) and hydroxyls on SiO{sub 2}. These conclusions suggest that a precise knowledge of functional group coverages on SiO{sub 2} is not essential for modeling thermal TEOS decomposition rates at 1000K. In the absence of gas-phase reactions, growth rates should be directly proportional to TEOS pressure. Therefore, it is likely that non-uniform SiO{sub 2} depositions observed in thermal TEOS CVD are due to depletion of TEOS in the gas-phase and/or thermal gradients on the surface.


In accordance to the advancement in the field of technology, modern society has privilege to have access to multifunctional devices. Indeed, the life has become surprisingly easier than preceding era, where as it brings its own consequence in terms several lifethreatening diseases due to lack of physical activity. One of the most oozing out concern of the world is heart disease facilitated by cholesterol deposition in the arteries. In preceding years several researchers have put enormous effort to deepen understanding of this disease. Here in this study, computational fluid dynamics based finite element method commercial software COMSOL is used for numerical simulation of blood flow through the stenosed artery. The incompressible Navier Stokes equation is used for modeling blood flow in constricted channel. The blood is modeled as non-Newtonian fluid with the help of Carreau model. Various shape of constricted channel is considered to depict several biological occurrences of the blockage. Wide range of parameters such as blockage ratio (B = 10-50%), blood viscosity and blood velocity are evaluated to explore the phenomena of flow skewness and to explore the recirculation phenomena in the blood flow stream past partially blocked artery.


To realize the next generation of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) with less radio resource consumption, methods relying solely on the addition of redundancy do not suffice. An alternative is to monitor the wireless channel and prevent outages due to small scale fading by allocating users to suitable radio resources based on the channel gain. To overcome monitoring delays, predicted channel information is utilized. In this paper we are analyzing the outage probability of a max-min radio resource allocation (RRA) approach when Gaussian errors are present in the channel state information (CSI). As a communications channel, a Rayleigh fast fading channel is assumed. The outage probability is lower and upper bounded to get analytical performance approximations. Furthermore, the performance is also empirically evaluated by means of extensive Monte-Carlo simulations. The analysis shows, that the achievable outage probability mostly depends on the size of the resource pool and the quality of the CSI.


A system has been developed for the classification of road vehicles based on the output characteristics of coupled coils structure. When a vehicle moves over a sensor the irregularities in the undercarriage are reflected as a time- varying voltage known as the "signature". Convenient features are subsequently extracted from the signature for the classification process. Due to the real- time operational requirements of the system, a multi- microprocessor system based on the simd structure has been implemented for the determination of the proximity measure between an unknown signature vector and stored reference vectors. The performance efficiency for this approach is approximately proportional to the number of parallel processors. Since the processors are basically identical in both software and hardware organization, expansion of the system can readily be implemented. Problems associated with bus contention and synchronization have been addressed and suitable solutions have been provided. (TRRL)


English has been the language of choice for several international scholarly journals. In most cases research papers are often rejected assist to lack of excellent writing skills in English and lack of using appropriate words/vocabulary or sentence structures. English utilized in everyday situations or general purpose is sort of different from English utilized in academic writing. Academic English is purposely used for reading and understanding the study materials, and writing about the topic


Pekanbaru often get a power outage from PLN. It is make disruption of activities and learning process at building C of the Faculty of Engineering University of Riau. At building C of the Faculty of Engineering University of Riau supply of electricity from PLN and genset. Genset installed in the building currently only supplies the third floor of the building. So if the energy supply of PLN is dead then the second floor and the first floor does not get supply of electrical power from the genset. This study discussed about the needs and usage scheme automatically loads. Analysis of load usage based on need. Results of analysis are used to determine the priority use of the power generator. From the simulation results ETAP 12.6 are that the emergency power requirement of first priority is 12.8 A, second priority is 1.7 A, third priority is 1.5 A, fourth priority is 1.7 A, fifth priority is 1.7 A, sixth priority is 1.9 A, seventh priority is 1.9 A, eighth priority is 5.6 A. The user schema automatically load was simulated using Proteus 8 professional. Keyword: automatic load usage scheme.


In 1989 UK Papers' New Thames Mill set up a scheme to investigate and subsequently reduce their energy consumption. Following an initial investigation into energy management techniques, it was decided that the existing SCADA should be used for data analysis, with a communications link to a personal computer where the more complex mathematics could be performed. >


The earliest representation of the Prophet Muhammad known to us today appears in a mid-thirteenth century illustrated manuscript in Persian entitled "The Poem of Warqa and Gulsha."' Several Arabic texts dated as early as the tenth century mention the existence of painted portraits of Muhammad, as well as of Jesus and several figures from the Old Testament. The setting for these paintings is the Byzantine realm at the time of the emperor Heraclius (r. 610-641) and during the lifetime of the Prophet (d. 632) when Islam took over most of the Near East. The purpose of this essay is to define the story and its variants, to make suggestions for its visual and literary sources, and to outline some of its implications for the history of art and culture.


Centria University of Applied Sciences Date December 2016 Author/s Jahangir Chawdhury Degree programme Business Management Name of thesis POLITICAL INSTABILITY A MAJOR OBSTACLE TO ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BANGLADESH Instructor Birgitta Niemi Pages 31+3 Supervisor Birgitta Niemi This article examined the relationship of political instability and Economic growth of Bangladesh. Political stability plays a crucial role in economic development, integration of economic modes and in maintaining natural development in the national economy. An unstable political environment can be detrimental to the speed of economic development for any country of the world. Any kinds of lingering inactivity can be barrier to international or domestic trade. That can cause an obstruction for commercial organizations that import or export perishable goods. Opposition political parties and interest groups in Bangladesh organize hartals, one kind of strikes as a form of protest against the ruling parties that last an entire working day though the duration could either be shorter or even longer. Hartal has a history of civil disobedience against colonialism in South Asian countries, but that is increased dramatically in Bangladesh in last decades. It is observed carefully at various forms of political instability, such as, civil-war onset, social unrest, coups d'état, and transitions to and from democracy and its connection to economic growth. The effect on different arena of economy like Export, Price level, Activity of port, Tourism sector, Human right etc. is considered as well. This paper provided strong evidences of substantial productivity loss by firms when multiple hartals occur in a week. Though it has been found that firms re-optimize in response to political strikes, they became able to substitute among factors inputs, mostly by decreasing costs on wages and capital consumptions. Obviously small firms suffer the most due to hartal because it is harder for them to re-optimize those factors to reduce the expenditures in the short-run. Another disappointing fact that hartal imposes a large cost on the whole economy. It has the negative impacts on GDP, revenue collection and some other crucial economic factors. These findings suggest that the relationship between economic growth and political stability are more complex than is widely presumed.


It is showed that an increase of temperature and duration of holding time at termodiffuznom galvanizing in powder medium garttsink-Al2O3 leads to the layer thickness and the size of the samples growth. Coating thickness increases due to δ1k-compact phase having a fine crystalline structure, is in the range of 400-500 °C, with the most intensive growth of layer inside the sample due to the increase of δ1k-compact phase after 3 h-exposure.


The present research analyzes the identity of the Neighborhood Sports Leagues of Riobamba and its communicative relationship with the neighborhoods of the city in the period October 2016 – March 2017. This project is based on the Cultural Anthropological and Structuralist communicative theories, which are based on the study of society and its forms of communication, for that they have as their main axis the relationships of the social groups that exist. It is important to indicate that the Federation of Sports Leagues of Chimborazo is the regulator of neighborhood sports in the province. The leagues, 19 de Octubre, La Panaderia and Tapi are three of the affiliated leagues on which the research was based. The methodology focuses on the descriptive method where the stratified sample was used for the five parishes of Riobamba; surveys, interviews and observation cards were applied to the people involved in the soccer neighborhoods. In the surveys conducted 91% of the people surveyed believe that soccer is part of the identity of the riobambenos, the same that in 52% qualifies as regular the communicative relationship of Fedelibach with its external people. So it is concluded that soccer is a representation of identity and at the same time, the communicative relationship between the institution and its people that must be worked. According to the results obtained and the analysis carried out, it is necessary to propose a printed product that improves the communicative relationship between the institution and its internal and external audiences.


We demonstrate that the space formed by the star formation rate (SFR), gas-phase metallicity (Z), and stellar mass (M⋆) can be reduced to a plane, as first proposed by Lara-López et al. We study three different approaches to find the best representation of this 3D space, using a principal component analysis (PCA), a regression fit, and binning of the data. The PCA shows that this 3D space can be adequately represented in only two dimensions, i.e., a plane. We find that the plane that minimizes the χ2 for all variables, and hence provides the best representation of the data, corresponds to a regression fit to the stellar mass as a function of SFR and Z, M⋆= f(Z, SFR). We find that the distribution resulting from the median values in bins for our data gives the highest χ2. We also show that the empirical calibrations to the oxygen abundance used to derive the Fundamental Metallicity Relation have important limitations, which contribute to the apparent inconsistencies. The main problem is that these empirical calibrations do not consider the ionization degree of the gas. Furthermore, the use of the N2 index to estimate oxygen abundances cannot be applied for 12 + log(O/H) ≳ 8.8 because of the saturation of the [N ii] λ6584 line in the high-metallicity regime. Finally, we provide an update of the Fundamental Plane derived by Lara-López et al.


The chemical and structural properties of Mg smectites in the Vicálvaro sepiolite deposit have been studied in detail. The characterization was performed on different size-fractions of selected smectitic samples (5−2 µm; 2−1 µm; 1−0.5 µm; <0.5 µm and <0.1 µm). The chemical compositions of individual particles (5−1 µm) and of bulk undifferentiated fine fractions (1−<0.1 µm) were determined by energy dispersive spectroscopy-scanning electron microscopy and interpreted with the aid of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and infrared spectroscopy (IR) methods. The XRD and IR data demonstrate that all of the Mg smectite materials studied are mainly composed of a complex mixture of stevensite, saponite and mica-type minerals. Although the presence or absence of saponite cannot be confirmed absolutely, stevensite is a significant component of these Mg smectites. This is proven by the calculated layer charge reduction after the Hofmann-Klemen effect. The results are in close agreement with the suggested mechanism of topotactic overgrowth of stevensite on pre-existing phyllosilicate templates. This characterizes clay diagenesis in saline-lake systems.


Critically ill children require nutritional support that will give them nutritional and non-nutritional support to successfully deal with their disease. In the past few years, we have been able to better understand the pathophysiology of critical illness, which has made possible the establishment of nutritional strategies resulting in an improved nutritional status, thus optimizing the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) stay and decreasing morbidity and mortality. Critical illness is associated with significant metabolic stress. It is crucial to understand the physiological response to stress to create nutritional recommendations for critically ill pediatric patients in the PICU.


We introduce a new class of nonstationary covariance functions for spatial modelling. Nonstationary covariance functions allow the model to adapt to spatial surfaces whose variability changes with location. The class includes a nonstationary version of the Matérn stationary covariance, in which the differentiability of the spatial surface is controlled by a parameter, freeing one from fixing the differentiability in advance. The class allows one to knit together local covariance parameters into a valid global nonstationary covariance, regardless of how the local covariance structure is estimated. We employ this new nonstationary covariance in a fully Bayesian model in which the unknown spatial process has a Gaussian process (GP) prior distribution with a nonstationary covariance function from the class. We model the nonstationary structure in a computationally efficient way that creates nearly stationary local behaviour and for which stationarity is a special case. We also suggest non‐Bayesian approaches to nonstationary kriging.


Abstract— This study is aimed at investigating the relationship between stu-dents' perceived effect (PE) and their intention to use (IU) one of the English language learning mobile applications which is called Hello English, and also the differences of students' PE and IU based on gender and experience. There are 24 male and 73 female students who completed the online survey which was admin-istered to several universities in Indonesia. The result of a bivariate correlation analysis shows a statistically significant positive relationship between students' PE and IU, where gender differences do not have any significant influence on their PE and IU. On the other hand, students who have experienced using Hello English for more than three months perceived the effect of Hello English on their communicative competence better than those who only use it less than three months. Besides, the experienced users also show a higher intention to use Hello English to learn English in the future.


The present invention provides a method of Clindamycin Hydrochloride Injection and preparation method. Clindamycin Hydrochloride Injection provided by the invention comprises 7.5% by weight of clindamycin hydrochloride, 0.1% to 3% by weight of sodium metabisulfite, 0.05% to 0.1% by volume of acetic acid and 0.1% to 0.5% by weight of acetic acid sodium, having a pH of 4.0 to 5.0. Preparation method of the injection include the use of sterile 0.22μm membrane filter twice a sterilization step and the secondary nitrogen of dispensing steps. Clindamycin Hydrochloride Injection present invention provides a stable and content preparation process is simple, low energy consumption of the production process, the animal experiments proved that with security and no significant stimulation.


Even bird species which do not nest or feed arboreally may be affected by elm death and felling, when understorey growth ceases to be depressed by the tree canopy. Yet assessment of the impact of Dutch elm disease is complicated by the way birds seem to prefer to remain within the area they know, even when the habitat is altered.


Objectives: Present literature supports the importance of final alignment and soft tissue balance in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) on implant survivorship and clinical outcomes. Current soft tissue balance techniques mostly depend on subjective static measures that don't allow for quantitative determination of ligament tension. Sensor guided technique (Verasense, Orthosensor) allows demonstration of the magnitude and location of load in a dynamic way providing quantitative data about knee balance. The aim of this study is to test the accuracy of the surgeon's manual assessment in judging knee balance in comparison to Verasense. We also aimed to determine whether Verasense can assist in achieving soft tissue balance from the unbalanced state. Methods: 58 patients were enrolled in this prospective cohort study. The level of agreement between SDA and Verasense at 10, 45, 90 degrees was recorded. Initial trial pressures and final pressures after release or re-cut were recorded and compared. Final pressure measurements were then documented to assess whether appropriate knee balance (differential compartmental pressure of 15 lb/inch on 2 or more angular positions) had been achieved. Results: The mean age of the cohort was 67.5 years with deformities ranging from -16 degrees of varus to +20 degrees of valgus (mean -1.26 degrees varus). The capacity for the surgeon to manually identify an unbalanced knee was low with a test sensitivity of 33.3%. Manual test specificity to define a balanced knee was better with a specificity of 77.3%. The manual test had a positive predicitive value of 59.2% and a negative predictive value of 54%. There were 46.5% (27 of 58) of cases where the Verasense lead to a different surgical plan to that initially determined by the manual assessment. In 23 cases, either ligament release or tibial bone recut was performed. In the remaining 4 cases, the Verasense prevented a ligament release being performed. 95% of cases achieved a balanced state within 15lb/inch of pressure between compartments, with 100% balanced within 25 lb/inch. Conclusion: Manual surgeon assessment of soft tissue balance is a poor predictor of unbalanced knees. Verasense has the capacity to subsequently balance the knee within an acceptable pressure range as defined by prior studies. Further analysis to determine the impact on patient outcomes and implant survivorship is warranted.


German scientific forestry is generally referred to as a starting point for the concept of sustainability and the variety of interpretations it has found in recent public and scientific discourses. Its early history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, is treated, more or less, as a 'founding narrative' with all the typical aspects of this literary device: simplicity, a degree of mysticism and a teleological relation to the current state of the art. But there is more insight to be gained from the history of scientific forestry, and sustainability in particular, than the affirmative creation of tradition. The origins of sustainability were fraught with conflict. Focusing on timber production and financial revenue for the state treasury, scientific forestry simplified the biological composition of forests, re-organized their internal structure along the lines of legibility and accountability, and restricted access for users other than scientifically trained personnel. The modernization and streamlining of Central European forests provoked resistance and violent clashes. After about four decades, foresters also noted environmental changes in the forests such as increased vulnerability to drought, storms and forest pests. The history of forest management planning, introduced in the 1820s, and of experimental forestry in the 1860s, exemplifies how techno-scientific systems communicate with socio-cultural and natural environments. However strongly a science-based reform programme tries to disentangle itself from the politics of nature, such programmes, as well as the terminology by which they are fed into and received by public discourse, are subject to historical change and power struggles.


If facilities managers are to have an impact on the performance of buildings it is vitally important that they appreciate the links between day‐to‐day use of a building component or element and its durability. Facilities managers play an important role in providing a body of expertise and feedback to design professionals who frequently only have a limited association with the building in use. This article examines the impact of dynamic loads on raised access floors located in general office areas. In particular it highlights and discusses rolling loads, an area surrounded by controversy.


The following paper presents the results of the examination of archaeological wood from excavations carried out in the gardens of Wilanow Palace. The main purpose of the research work was to determine its state of preservation. In order to accomplish this, chemical and physical examinations were carried out on wood samples taken from the level of the grotto foundations.


In this paper,the results of bilingual education are summarized and problem of the practice is discussed and analyzed based on the author's practice in bilingual education of engineering mathematics.


In the IEEE 802.15.3 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol, Simultaneously Operating Piconets (SOPs) are linked by the parent/child (P/C) or parent/neighbor (P/N) configuration, which work on a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) basis. This provides interference mitigation but the overall throughput is limited because the SOPs share the channel time exclusively. The protocol is not efficient for SOPs if we focus on the combination of interference mitigation and high throughput maintenance. In this paper Public Channel Time Allocation (Public CTA) is proposed, which is able to greatly reduce the inter-piconet interference (IPI) and achieve greater throughput without much loss of link success probability (LSP) in the SOPs. The simulation results based on the SOPs of Direct Sequence Ultra Wideband (DS-UWB) system demonstrate that the proposed scheme effectively supports the coexistence of SOPs, and it can not only significantly improve the overall throughput of SOPs but also maintain high LSP.


— The abundances of the chemical elements heavier than iron can be attributed in about equal parts to the r and to the s process, which are taking place in supernova explosions and during the He and C burning phases of stellar evolution, respectively. So far, quantitative studies on the extremely short-lived neutron-rich nuclei constituting the (n, γ) network of the r process are out of reach. On the contrary, the situation for the s-process is far advanced, as the reaction path of the s process from C to the Pb/Bi region is located within the valley of stability. Accordingly, a comprehensive database of experimental (n, γ) cross sections has been established. While for many stable isotopes the necessary accuracy is still to be reached, reliable cross sections for the involved unstable isotopes are almost completely missing. Because of the intrinsic γ background of radioactive samples, successful time-of-flight measurements are depending on intense pulsed neutron sources. Such data are fundamental for our understanding of branchings in the s-process reaction path, which carry important model-independent information on neutron flux and temperature in the deep stellar interior.


In this study we present a new method of measuring magnetostriction with an atomic force microscope adapted for the application magnetic fields. The experiment allows us to visualise, in an elegant and educational way how the lateral magnetoelastic shape changes take place on the sample surface when a magnetic field is applied. We have, furthermore, used this technique to observe magnetically induced strains as small as 5*10-8, and have measured Ni, permalloy and commercial Cu wires and films, as well as pure Cu and Pt wires, where results are in agreement with other methods of measurement. The applications are, moreover, relevant to studies of ballistic magnetoresistance, where we can draw conclusions involving the effect of the magnetically induced strains on magnetoresistance measured at the same time as magnestostriction.


Traveling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are well-studied for Lipschitz continuous monostable and bistable reaction functions. These special solutions play a key role in mathematical biology and in particular in the study of ecological invasions. However, if there are more than two stable steady states, the invasion phenomenon may become more intricate and involve intermediate steps, which leads one to consider not a single but a collection of traveling waves with ordered speeds. In this paper we show that, if the reaction function is discontinuous at the stable steady states, then such a collection of traveling waves exists and even provides a special solution which we call a terrace solution. More precisely, we will address both the existence and uniqueness of the terrace solution.


WEB This is a Web exclusive article. ongenital absence of the portal vein is a rare anomaly of the portal venous–mesenteric vascular system. Sixty-one cases, mostly in girls, have been documented [1–4]. Most cases have been discovered with sonography or angiography. In many cases, hepatic nodular lesions have been associated with this abnormality, as have cardiac defects and hepatic neoplasms, which bring most cases to medical attention [4]. In this report we describe this rare anomaly found incidentally in a middle-aged man with symptomatic ureterolithiasis.


1 . Mission Archives Series This series of guides to the material on Africa in German mission archives is the result of a two-year pilot project directed by Adam Jones (University of Leipzig) and Gudrun Miehe (University of Bayreuth) with financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation. The aim is to make it easier for anthropologists, historians, linguists and others to find written or photographic material. The guides are in German, as is most of the material; but it is hoped to publish an English summary (excluding the lists of photographs) in the Internet. No. 1: Afrlkabestande Im Landesklrchllchen Archlv NUrnberg Bearbeitet von Anette Volk., 1998. ISBN 932632-27-3 A guide to archival material in Nurnberg relating to Lutheran German missionaries in East Africa (southern Kenya and northern Tanzania). Most of it concerns the papers of Johannes Raum (1875-1936), Fritz Warthl (18841965) and Elisabeth Warthl (1886-1975), all of whom worked for the Leipzig Mission. There is also some material on Matthias Ittameier, who founded the Hersbruck Mission in 1886. Pp. vii, 22. No. 2: Afrikabestitnde Im Archlv des Evangellsch-Lutherlschen Mlsslonswerkes Leipzig e.V.: I. Personalakten, Nachlasse Bearbeitet von Adam Jones et al., 1998. ISBN 932632-28-1 A guide to the personnel files and two collections of papers relating to Northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya in the archive of the Leipzig Mission. They cover the period from the 1880s to the present. Pp. xxii, 33. No. 3: Afrikabestande Im Archlv des Ev.-lutherlschen Mlssionswerkes Leipzig e.V.: II. Kamba, Nord-Tanzanla, Allgemelnes


This paper describes the conceptual thinking behind the choice of track transit system, details of the system itself and the design and construction of the track transit structure required to carry the driverless computer-controlled vehicles.


Background:Mutationsofthegenesencodingthe αsubunit of the stimulatory G protein (Gs) and of the inhibiting Gi2 protein (GNAS1 and GNAI2 genes, respectively) have been described in various endocrine neoplasias, including pituitary tumors. Aim: To search for mutations of GNAS1 and GNAI2 in a continuous series of non-functioning pituitary adenoma (NF- PA) patients neurosurgically treated. Subjects and methods:The surgical samples of 22 patients who have been defined and char- acterized on a clinical, biochemical, histological, and immunohistochemical point of view have been processed for investigating the presence of the above mutations by PCR amplification of the hot spots exons 8 and 9 of GNAS1, and exons 5 and 6 of GNAI2, followed by direct sequencing. Moreover, the promoter region of GNAI2, in order to assess the prevalence of single nu- cleotide polymorphisms (SNP), was investigated in the same series. Results:A CGT>TGT mutation at codon 201 of GNAS1 gene in a single case of NFPA was found, but no mutation of GNAI2A was demonstrated. Conclusions:This finding suggests and con- firms that G-protein mutations are rare and not crucial in NFPA development. Additionally, we found a silent SNP at codon 318 in the promoter of the Gi2αgene in one out of the 22 NFPA. (J. Endocrinol. Invest. 31: 946-949, 2008)


In two preceding notes,1 2 the writer has studied mapping and fixed-point theorems for a class of noncompact nonlinear mappings in Hilbert spaces, including the contractions, using the ideas and techniques of the theory of monotone operators. It is our object in the present paper to extend this discussion to the more general context of Banach spaces and to obtain sharper conclusions in certain useful directions. In section 1, we consider a monotone nonlinear mapping T from a locally convex linear space X to its dual space X* and show that for each fixed w0 in X*, the set of solutions of the equation Tu = w0 is a closed convex subset of X. One corollary of this fact is that the set of fixed points of a contraction U in a Hilbert space is a convex set. In section 2, we consider semimonotone mappings T from a Banach space X to its dual X*, where T is said to be semimonotone if it is obtained from a mapping f of X X X into X* where f(x,y) is monotone in x for fixed y and completely continuous in y for fixed x. For such mappings, we obtain results which contain as special cases the extension to semimonotone operators in reflexive Banach spaces of the results of references 2-4 on the Borsuk theorem and other existence theorems for monotone operators. In section 3, we restrict ourselves to monotone and semimonotone operators T from X to X*, where X is reflexive and locally uniformly convex and X* is strictly convex. Here we obtain sharper existence theorems for monotone operators than in reference 3 with the condition on (Tu,u) at infinity replaced by the weaker condition that the inverse image under T of bounded sets is bounded. The results of the section conclude with extensions (Theorems 9 and 10) of the Invariance of Domain Theorem and the Leray-Schauder Continuation Principle. A more detailed and more general form of the present discussion will appear in a longer paper of the writer.5 1. Let X be a locally convex linear topological space over the reals, X* its dual space, i.e., the space of continuous linear functionals on X. For w in X*, u in X, we denote the value of w at u by (wit). If G is a subset of X X X*, G is said to be a monotone set if for each pair [u,w I and [ul,w1 ] in G, we have


XLIM, French research institute based at the University of Limoges, develops a patented project which is called "Michelson project". The objective of this study is to measure a high electromagnetic field in a selected location by using the diffraction of a target. To realize this measurement, a target, a receiving antenna and a system of acquisition are needed. This method allows to measure high electromagnetic field without risk of receiving antenna breakdown, and disturbs less the field in the zone of the measurement, because no cables are used and the dimensions of the target are small. According to the source and so according to the chosen receiving antenna, the Michelson method can measure as well harmonic signals as transient signals.


The plurality of information management device to update system processing information to MDR from FCMDB to manage MDR, and meta-information management unit information managed stores the meta information indicating came from any of MDR, the meta information narrow down the MDR have the information that is the source of the update system processing of information in the registration / update / delete, etc., only to the narrowed down MDR, carry out the request of the update system processing of the registration / update / delete, etc. update system and a processing unit.


A modern officer is not only the backbone of the army and navy, but also a highly qualified, purposeful military specialist with clear and precise career guidelines. The training of officers in the military magistracy contributes to the development of a professional career. It seems expedient to consider this problem in the context of global trends and changes in the field of military security on the basis of the acmeological approach. Since the onset of the era of hybrid and network-centric wars poses serious tasks for countries to transform their armed forces and create modern, mobile, professional and well-equipped troops capable of quickly and effectively solving tasks in military conflicts of low, medium and high intensity. In these conditions, the face of the officer corps is rapidly changing, to which high demands are made by society and the state. I have conducted a sociological survey of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is noted that the professional development of officers is increasingly viewed from the perspective of a career approach. In the course of the study, it was found that the master's degree plays an important role in the professional life of an officer: it enriches it with new knowledge and ideas, contributes to meeting the needs for prestige and career. Modern trends indicate an increasing need for the elaboration of the methodology of this problem. The author presents his own view on the formulation of a number of concepts, such as "career and professional development of an officer", "professional career of an officer", "the readiness of graduate students of a military university to design and develop a career." Thus, the training of officers in the military magistracy in the context of the development of their professional careers has acquired the status of the most important problem of modern military education and a key task of educational reforms in the present and near future.


We construct finite size, supersymmetric, tubular D-brane configurations with three charges, two angular momenta and several brane dipole moments. In type IIA string theory these are tubular configurations with D0, D4 and F1 charge, as well as D2, D6 and NS5 dipole moments. These multi-charge generalizations of supertubes might have interesting consequences for the physics of the D1-D5-P black hole. We study the relation of the tubes to the spinning BMPV black hole, and find that they have properties consistent with describing some of the hair of this black hole.


Much attention is focused on the mutually pumped phase conjugators (MPPCs). Their unique ability to operate with mutually incoherent pumping beams makes them ideal candidates for applications in communications, laser locking, fiber optic gyros, and optical information processing. In the simple physical picture of MPPCs, the conjugate beams result from gratings that form between each pump beam and amplified scattering from that pump beam. Therefore, one might expect that the phase of the grating is determined by the relative phase between the pumping beams and their scattering. That is, the scattering acts as a seed beam that interferes with the pumping beam to determine the phase of the grating. The situation is complicated by the possibility of moving gratings, multiple reflections, and the sharing of holograms written simultaneously by both pump beams and their corresponding scattering. The problem of MPPC driven by an external seed beam was analyzed by Kroli- kowski et al.1 They predicted temporal instabilities for low intensity seed beams and stable solutions for high intensity seed beams. However, it has not been demonstrated (at least experimentally) that a seed beam can control the phase of the diffracted beam without destroying its conjugate nature. To investigate this question, we have set up a MPPC with a variable (phase and amplitude) seed beam and an interferometer to measure the relative phase between an incident and diffracted beam, and thus the phase of the grating. The same interferometer is used to determine whether the seed beam is influencing the wavefront of the diffracted beam and therefore destroying the conjugation process. This effect might be used as a nonmechanical means of biasing phase conjugate interferometers.


In August and September of 1998 the Oxford Archaeological Unit (OAU) undertook a watching brief at 1-2 Folly Bridge, Abingdon Road, Oxford (NGR SP 5143 0550). Dumping and levelling deposits of probable 19th century date were identified.


A cubic spline is fitted directly to the integral function

where f is continuous in [a, b]. This method is applied, with the derivative boundary condition, to determine ship stability from a curve of righting levers (a curve relating a ship's righting lever to the angle of heel). This direct-fit method is extended to two-dimensional integrals and applied to obtain the buoyancy curve and hence the underwater ship volume.


plyometric training has evolved into a widely accepted and greatly effective tool to improve power,and it also can improve the neuromuscular characteristic of skeletal muscle,and plays a great role in prevention of sports injury.This paper reviews the mechanism of plyometric exercise,and its function of improvement of power and neuromuscular characteristic and injury prevention.


Abstract : This study presents the results of a statistical analysis of the spectral shapes of power spectral density (PSD) functions, G(omega), in the 0.006- to 10-Hz range for 421 horizontal ground accelerograms (all records processed to the same duration of 163.83 sec, i.e., 1/163.82 = 0.006 Hz) from 89 earthquakes, mostly in the western United States and Japan. The analysis shows clear differences in spectral shapes for different soil and geological conditions. Within the high-frequency range of 2.5 to 10 Hz, the spectrum for the rock sites contains the highest energy or intensity; the spectrum of the stiff soil sites is slightly less than for the rock sites; and the spectra of the soft clay and sand sites and the deep cohesionless soil sites are almost the same and are lower than those for stiff soils. However, in the low-frequency range of 0.006 to 2.5 Hz, the reverse exists: the soft sites indicate the highest energy, the deep cohesionless soil sites are next, the stiff soil sites are third, and finally, the rock sites. A qualitative comparison was made on the spectral shapes of the PSD calculated in this study with the acceleration response spectra (ARS) of Kiremidjian and Shah (1978), Seed and Idriss (1971), and Seed, Ugas, and Lysmer (1976). There is general agreement in the shapes of both types of spectra, except the relative amplitudes for the rock sites for the ARS were less than those of the PSD in the high-frequency range. The average and average plus one standard deviation power density spectra functions for different site conditions have been normalized to a unit area.


Abstract : Since the implementation of the Total Force Policy in the 1970's, there has been an increased reliance upon the National Guard as the largest, best equipped and most combat ready reserve component of the Total Force. Several years ago, opposition to a National Guard deployment to Central America for field training created a controversy between the Federal and some state Governments. LTG LaVern E. Weber(Ret), Executive Director of the National Guard Association of the United States, has characterized this controversy as the most significant issue to affect the National Guard since the end of WW II. This paper examines this issue from both the state and Federal perspective concentrating on the Montgomery Amendment and the Minnesota legal action. Keywords: Command guidance; Military training; State government; Federal government; United States government. (kt)


In order to increase our understanding of the chemistry of molybdenum (Mo) in spent oil shale disposal environments, predict fate and behavior, and assess the effectiveness of proposed mitigation techniques, we feel that is imperative to understand the processes controlling Mo aqueous- and solid-phase distribution. Recent research supports the significance of alkaline earth and alkali metal ion pairs with molybdate in aqueous solutions. The objectives of this study were to measure the ion association constants (log Q) for the formation of calcium and magnesium molybdate ion pairs by potentiometric titration at pH 7 and 25{degree}C in NaNO{sub 3} ionic media. The measured values were then used to examine the equilibrium solubility of powellite (CaMoO{sub 4}) in KNO{sub 3} solutions and spent oil shale systems. Powellite solubility data were evaluated using log Q for CaMoO{sub 4}{sup 0} formation, resulting in a calculated log K{sub sp} for powellite dissolution of -7.84. Application of an ion association model that used the molybdate ion pair formation data shows that spent oil shale leachates are undersaturated with respect to powellite. The results of this study show that molybdate ion pair formation in spent oil shale solutions may be significant and that soluble Mo concentrations maymore » not be supported by powellite dissolution. 31 refs., 10 figs., 4 tabs.« less


The product group of cleaning agents is characterised by a great number of commodities which can differ considerably in their chemical composition as well as in their cleaning efficiency. As a result of an inventory in the German paper industry an average consumption of 0.35 kg commodities per ton paper was determinated. The proportion of organic cleaning agents was in the range of 60 %. Cleaning agents are applied continuously and -more frequently - discontinuously. This paper shows the mass balances of discontinuous cleaning of paper machine clothings with tensid-containing acid and alkaline cleaning agents. The process water load resulting from the application in the production of corrugating papers bears no risk either for anaerobic or for aerobic waste water treatment plants if the cleaning agents are used in an appropriate manner and the washing liquor is buffered sufficiently. The tensid concentrations in the treated waste water are far below critical concentrations for aquatic organisms.


A new kind of UV curable adhesive for glass artware? crystal glass?optical glass etc, was developed. It has good strength and water resistence.


The utility model discloses an automatic air-condition mosquito net which belongs to bedroom articles, mainly comprising a partial ventilation mosquito net, an automatic air conditioning device and a dual-purpose mosquito net support whose one end is fixed on a bed. The utility model can automatically ventilate the mosquito net and adjust the air temperature in the mosquito net. Using the automatic air-condition mosquito net, people can keep favorable sleep state in hot summer and cold winter. The automatic air-condition mosquito net which can be supported conveniently and retracted conveniently to stick on a wall surface as a picture frame has the advantages of simple structure, reasonable design, and convenient use. In the daytime, the light ray can not be stopped off by the automatic air-condition mosquito net, and a beautiful hanging picture is added to make the living room spacious, beautiful and neat.


Hereditary crystalline corneal dystrophy of Schnyder, in which cholesterol or cholesterol ester deposit in the centers of the bilateral corneas, is rare, and co-existed frequently with familial hyperlipidemia and/or hyperlipoproteinemia, Xanthelasma or active genu valgum. We report two cases of Graves' disease and another three subjects in a family who have abnormal thyroid hormone concentrations accompanied with Schnyder's corneal dystrophy. Case 1: A 48-year-old man was referred for studying the relation between the corneal turbidity and the hormonal dysfunction. He had noticed a decreased bilateral visual acuity several years ago. He was diagnosed with Schnyder's corneal dystrophy because of deposits of white crystalline-like substances in his corneas. Both a son and two daughters had similar opaque corneas with in a few years. From last year, he had a fine hand tremor, but no difficulties in his working. His serum levels of T3, free T4 (FT4) and TSH were 3.5 pmol/L, 39.7 pmol/L and less than 0.4 mU/L, respectively, and TRAb was positive. He was diagnosed with Graves' disease, and then treated with an oral anti-thyroid drug (300 mg/d of Methimazole). Case 2: A 14-year-old girl (the eldest daughter of the subject in Case 1) developed the bilateral Schnyder's corneal dystrophy within a few years. When her father began treatment for Graves' disease, her thyroid hormone concentrations were almost within normal ranges except for less than 0.4 mU/L of TSH. One year later, she suddenly had a palpitation, nausea and a swelling of the anterior neck, and was referred to a pediatric hospital. Her serum levels of T3 and FT were 3.3 pmol/L and 75 pmol/L, and TRAb and TSAb were positive. She was also diagnosed with Graves' disease and then treated with an anti-thyroid drug (150 mg/d of PTU). In his family, the father, a son and two daughters had Schnyder's corneal dystrophy, and co-existing genu valgum, congenital coxal luxation, or hyperlipoproteinemia. The Graves' disease was occurred in Case 1 and2, and the other cases had partly elevated concentrations of thyroid hormones and TSH level. The cases of Graves'disease or other thyroid disease accompanying with hereditary Schnyder's corneal dystrophy, however, have not been reported. Although they had similar HLA typings, A24 (9) in locus A, BW52 (5) or BW61 (40) in locus B, CW3 in locus C, and DR9 in locus DR, no specific TSH receptor gene was found in all subjects. This is a first report of the occurrence of Graves' disease with the hereditary Schnyder's corneal dystrophy.


A crystalline anhydride of citric acid has been produced for the first time. The compound was shown to be the unsymmetrical monomolecular anhydride. Details of the preparation are presented along with some of its chemistry. The rate of hydrolysis of the anhydride was found to decrease over the range pH = 1–6. Possible uses in pharmaceutical formulations are suggested.


Background: Oral cancer is strongly associated with the habit of tobacco chewing, alcohol, and betel quid consumption in India. However, sometimes, majority of the population develop oral cancer without exposure to these risk factors and are sometimes cautious about their fitness, suggesting that additional causes such as genetic predisposition, diet, and viral agents may be associated which need to explored. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to establish a possible correlation between clinical types of leukoplakia with their histopathological features of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the presence or absence of HPV and expression of p53through immunohistochemistry (IHC). Materials and Methods: Sample comprised of 40 cases of leukoplakia and 10 cases as control group. Three sections were prepared from each biopsy and subjected to IHC and hematoxylin and eosin (H and E) stain, respectively. IHC-stained slides were used to evaluate the expression of p53 and HPV and then correlated with the features of HPV infection using H and E staining. Chi-square test with a statistical analysis software package (SPSS software Version 20.0) was used. Observation and Results: The P value for p53 against HPV (IHC) was 0.012, which indicates a significant difference between positivity proportion of P53 and HPV (IHC), whereas the P value for koilocyte and HPV (IHC) is 0.311, which is nonsignificant and indicates no significance of difference between proportion of positivity between koilocyte and HPV (IHC). Conclusion: The expression of p53 was proportionally significant to the expression of positivity of HPV, but there was no significant association between koilocyte and p53 expression.


The article draws attention to the fact that the current trends in the development of democratic foundations, the transformation processes of political, economic and social development make it necessary to reform the system of public administration. All this affects the public administration's goals and objectives, forms and methods of activity, leads to changes in rights and responsibilities, functions, mechanism of legal regulation, application of administrative and legal norms, which is inevitably linked to the  administrative and legal status of public administration. On the basis of the analysis of doctrinal opinions and current normative legal acts, the author investigates the legal analysis of the category «administrative and legal status of public administration», which is characterized in the legal literature through the following legal institutions: public subjective rights and legal obligations; legal personality; subjects and objects of management; administrative and legal guarantees; state coercion and the like. Attention is drawn to the fact that the rules of administrative law play a leading role in the system of legal rules that determine the administrative and legal status of a public administration entity. It is stated that the function of administrative law becomes manifest in influencing public relations by establishing a legal regulator, where the regulatory and protective functions of adminitrative law, along with other functions of administrative activity, occupy a key place in the activity of public administration, which ensures the protection of intellectual property rights. It is emphasized that the administrative and  legal status of public administration entities, the regulatory and protective functions of administrative law, along with certain powers, are decisive in protecting the protection of intellectual property rights.


The authors present here a way to utilize MATLAB for the solution of a class of static and dynamic solid mechanics problems. In particular, the authors demonstrate with simple codes that complicated problems of bending, buckling and beam vibration can be solved with high accuracy and, in the case of beam vibration, can also be animated.


The cost of processing imagery that exhibits a large data burden can be reduced by compressive processing, which computes over a compressed image versus the corresponding (uncompressed) source image. When the compressive result is decompressed, one obtains an approximation to the corresponding operation over uncompressed imagery. In previous publications, we have shown that compressive processing can lead to computational efficiency (e.g., a sequential speedup) that approaches the compression ratio. In certain cases, computational speedup that exceeds the compression ratio can be achieved with sufficient parallelism. We have also derived techniques for computing pointwise arithmetic operations, global reduce operations such as image sum or image maximum, and selected image- template operations over imagery compressed by several blockwise transformations. In particular, our previous research has emphasized the processing of imagery compressed by block truncation coding, vector quantization (VQ), and visual pattern image coding (VPIC). In this paper, we extend our previous work by deriving algorithms that more accurately simulate the operations of Prewitt, Sobel, and Kirsch edge detection over imagery compressed by VQ and VPIC transforms. We also derive morphological operations of erosion and dilation with the von Neumann template over VQ- and VPIC-compressed Boolean imagery. Analysis of each operation includes a model of computational complexity and theoretical/experimental assessment of information loss incurred by computing over a lossy compressed image representation. We show that edge detection over VPIC- compressed imagery can be implemented in terms of a simple codebook transformation. Thus, if an uncompressed (source) image has N pixels and the compression ratio is denoted by CR, approximately O(N/CR) substitutions of exemplars from the transformed codebook are required. This technique is extensible to certain morphological operations with the von Neumann template and can be implemented in SIMD-parallel fashion.


In this paper, we investigate the hyperbolic Fibonacci sequence and the hyperbolic Fibonacci numbers. Furthermore, we give recurrence relations, the golden ratio and Binet's formula for the hyperbolic Fibonacci sequence and Lorentzian inner product, cross product and mixed product for the hyperbolic Fibonacci vectors.


The study identifies three modes of group behaviour: one which secures members' adherence to the group objectives via power and control, in a hierarchical way; one which operates by the use of financial incentives; and one which operates through co-operation among members to achieve the often shared objectives. It is suggested that external norms, and other conditions in the society in which the group is located, are an important influence on mode of behaviour. A review of some existing empirical literature of behaviour in firms, in local government and health services, and in co-operatives and community organizations found a variety of modes of operation and also outcomes within each category. However, groups rarely fall completely into one category or another but frequently combine elements. Co-operative modes of behaviour are often as efficient as the alternatives, because they save on transactions/supervisory costs; but although groups operating in a co-operative mode are often associated with more equity among their members, and sometimes also have a more equitable impact on the economy, this is not always the case. External conditions-not only prevailing norms, but also the distribution of assets and income-seem to be an important influence on group behaviour, and, in particular, on the equity of within group relationships. These suppositions are being examined further in the research project that is underway


Although the term for "apocalypse" is not attested as a title or genre definition in the extant corpus of Hebrew or Jewish Aramaic documents, some early Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic texts may contain rudimentary evidence in favor of the existence of a Hebrew or Jewish Aramaic equivalent for the term. Moreover, its reconstruction can contribute to better understanding of certain wide spread apocalyptic imagery, which must be closely connected to the semantics of this term.


The author of the article presents the key components of the complex providing activities of local authorities. She also shows complications preventing the effective realisation of this complex.


Abstract A new approach was described for the synthesis of substituted 2-carboxyindole using 3-(2-aminophenyl)-2-bromo-acrylates through a CuI-catalyzed intramolecular coupling. The reactions were mild, rapid and with good to excellent yields.


Whether quark- and gluon-initiated jets are modified differently by the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has thus far eluded a definitive experimental answer. A crucial complication for quark-gluon discrimination in both proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions is that all measurements necessarily average over the (unknown) quark-gluon composition of a jet sample. In the heavy-ion context, the simultaneous modification of both the fractions and substructure of quark and gluon jets by the quark-gluon plasma further obscures the interpretation. Here, we demonstrate a fully data-driven method for separating quark and gluon contributions to jet observables using a statistical technique called topic modeling. Assuming that jet distributions are a mixture of underlying "quark-like" and "gluon-like" distributions, we show how to extract quark and gluon jet fractions and constituent multiplicity distributions as a function of the jet transverse momentum. This proof-of-concept study is based on proton-proton and heavy-ion collision events from the Monte Carlo event generator Jewel with statistics accessible in Run 4 of the Large Hadron Collider. These results suggest the potential for an experimental determination of quark and gluon jet modifications.


Most of fracture analyses often require an accurate knowledge of the stress/displacement field over the investigated body. However, this can be sometimes problematic when only one (singular) term of the Williams expansion is considered. Therefore, also other terms should be taken into account. Such an approach, referred to as multi-parameter fracture mechanics is used and investigated in this paper. Its importance for short/long cracks and the influence of different boundary conditions are studied. It has been found out that higher-order terms of the Williams expansion can contribute to more precise description of the stress distribution near the crack tip especially for long cracks. Unfortunately, the dependences obtained from the analyses presented are not unambiguous and it cannot be strictly derived how many of the higher-order terms are sufficient.


Self-adaptive control has good robustness,high regulating speed and excellent anti-interference. The combustion system of the supercritical unit is a complex nonlinear time-varying system. Considering the characteristics of the combustion system of the supercritical unit in the thermal power plant,the self-adaptive control system is adopted to realize optimal control over the boiler combustion system to ensure high efficiency and stability of system operation. The simulation results show that this method can effectively handle the coupling between system variables. Control can be realized according to current load variation so that effective regulation of the main steam pressure can be made quickly in a steady and accurate way to ensure sufficient combustion of fuels to maintain furnace draft within the specified range. In the case of changes of coal quality and equipment characters,the system can operate steadily and the combustion efficiency is increased greatly. This method can maintain the complex production process in optimal operation,reduce coal consumption and ensure system security and reliability.


This thesis examines the relationships between society, politics and economy and environmental degradation. The study area on the central Philippine island of Bohol has experienced a reduction in agricultural productivity and sustainability, and acute social upheaval. Critical to our understanding of the process of eco-social change are patterns of transformation in landholding patterns in concert with change in the quality (productivity) of land owned both locally and in absentia. In concert with these are issues of population change and shifts in characteristics of land management under continued ecological transformation. An historical perspective is used to embody pre-colonial, colonial, early independent and contemporary periods. In the pre-colonial period there is evidence of a sophisticated Boholano culture. This period underpinned contemporary agroecological, social and political development. During the colonial period Hispanization of the local culture was not complete because of periodic revolts-one extending for 85 years. The pace of change increased during the American colonial period. Settlement patterns were disrupted during the conflict between the United States and the Philippines at the turn of the century. Again during World War Two and in the recent conflict between the peasantry and the state displaced persons migrated to fragile environments. Besides the impact of war there were changes in land ownership and demographic patterns. Throughout the twentieth century a large percentage of land was transferred to absentee (coastal) ownership. Population pressure on resources has ebbed and flowed throughout this period. These complex issues are in a constant state of flux and result in both ecological and social decline. 'Downstream' environmental (hydrological) change associated with conversion of upland forested to agricultural land became evident in the early 1950s. A dramatic rise in out-migration coincided with this period of environmental decline, as did rates of conversion of land from local to absentee ownership. Pressure on local forest resources increased in the 1970s. By the mid1980s the local peasantry and the state were in armed conflict. A new period of heavy out-migration occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The study concludes that local social, political and economic issues are intimately related to eco-social sustainability, and are strongly correlated with the rapid transformation of the complex eco-social situation. Therefore, one policy, programme or social construct cannot be conclusively implicated, i.e. 'reduced', as the cause of eco-social degradation. Prospects for improvement in the local eco-social situation are poor in the short to medium-term. Various time related issues of environmental rehabilitation and the human perception of change will militate against concerted social action. Structures of power, resource ownership and cultural dominance will need to be addressed at the micro level. Therefore, only direct intervention in the social, political and economic way of life, with an emphasis on poverty alleviation in the most marginal areas, could possibly mitigate further human suffering.


This paper covers the development and testing of a high temperature electronics platform for integration with sensor elements to provide digital outputs that can be utilized by the FADEC (Full Authority Digital Electronic Control) system or the EHMS (Engine Health Monitoring System) on an aircraft engine. The developed system includes a reference voltage generator, biasing circuit, signal conditioning for multiple types of sensors, an Analogue to Digital converter, and an ARINC 429 transmitter for communication to the FADEC or EHMS. This system was designed and realized on 1 um Silicon-on-Insulator CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology and has been shown to function up to 250 degrees Celsius with low temperature coefficients for the bandgap voltage and reference current.


Abstract Complexes of Y(III), La(III), Pr(III), Nd(III), Sm(III), Gd(III), Tb(III) and Dy(III) with salicylaldehyde benzoyl hydrazone, (C6H5CONHN˭CHC6H4OH), abbreviated as H2L, have been synthesized and characterized. The analytical data are suggestive of 2:3 metal: ligand stoichiometry in the complexes except in the case of Y(III), which is a 1:1 complex. A dehydration study at two temperatures, 110° C and 150° C, indicates water molecules both in the lattice and co-ordination sphere of the metal ions. Magnetic moments, IR spectra, electronic spectra and 1H NMR spectra have been recorded to establish the bonding sites of the ligand. The complexes are coloured, soluble in methanol, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethyl formamide and insoluble in benzene, chloroform and acetonitrile. Solid state conductance at various frequencies shows the semiconducting nature of the complexes. Solution state conductance indicates their non-electrolyte nature. Optical band gap measurements on a representative complex, Dy2(L)3.12H2O show that the complex is a direct band gap material. X-ray analyses show that the structures of most of the complexes are orthorhombic.


With the rapid development of computer network and the increasing processing ability of personal computer,Peer to Peer technology has attracted much attention for its new feature. But high dynamic features and broadly distributed resources in Peer-to-Peer system make it difficult to share resources. Resource Search Mechanism in Peerto-Peer System is discussed. Several approaches are described and analyzed. The requirements and goal about search mechanism are given.


This article explores the use of religion in three different Christian Cold War era comic books, with particular focus upon their reflection of the social borders reconstruction of American identity. Two of the comics are dramatic what-if scenarios of communist takeovers of the United States printed by Catholic educators. The third comic is an anti-Catholic tract linking the Vatican to the communist party. Engaging the relationship between Catholicism and communism, these comics reflect different perspectives concerning American's religious landscape and its relationship to the nation's changing identity.


In order to optimize the general database transaction processing capabilities,an algorithm of parallel processing database transaction is proposed.A parallel transaction processing model of database is established based on multi-agent technology.The model can automatically identify the type of database transaction and then assign the corresponding transaction agent.Using multi-agent tool jade implements the basic functions of the model such as the identification of transaction type,the allocation of the agent,transaction processing of the agent,returning methods of the results and so on.Simulation results show that,compared with traditional single-task of transaction processing methods,this model is an effective way of improving the database transaction processing capability.


Part I: Concrete Dreams 1. Street, Subway and Mall: Spatial Politics in the Bull Ring 2. Shopping for the Future: The Re-Enchantment of Birmingham's Urban Space 3. Developing an Aesthetic for Birmingham 4. Making the Ordinary Extraordinary 5. Acts of Madness - An Interview Part II: Interventions 6. Making Mansions 7. Public Art, Civic Identity and the New Birmingham 8. Off-Site 9. Intervening in Birmingham, Reinventing Ourselves 10. Merge Part III: Imagineering Birmingham 11. Birmingham, Photography and Change 12. Take Me Higher: Birmingham and Cinema 13. The Altered Eye: The European Capital of Culture Bid and Visual Images of Birmingham 14. Without Borders 15. Into the New, New, Old City.


During face-to-face conversation, human eyes always rotate irregularly. Therefore, it is essential to synthesize such complex eye movements for the achievement of realistic human facial animation. In the conversation, there are two kinds of eye movements, Saccades and Fixation Eye Movements (FEMs). Saccade is a relatively large scale motion in eye movements compared with FEMs' smaller one. Gu et al [2007] mainly focused on saccades and suggested probability models based on their measurements. In their research, they treated FEMs as a part of saccades, even though saccades and FEMs are totally different kinds of eye movements. Thus their approximation is insufficient and brings unnatural appearance especially in conversations. Moreover, they avoided to provide an approximation of blinks' motions.


Introduction: The International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) recommends use of the IKDC score to document subjective, objective and functional ACL outcome. To further improve knowledge concerning patient QOL after ACL reconstruction, an additional specific QOL questionnaire was developed. Using a combination of univariate and multivariate analysis the patient factors and surgical factors that influenced QOL 5- years after ACL reconstruction were determined. Materials: 500 patients operated on for arthroscopic ACL reconstruction at our institution between 1997 and 2001 were prospectively enrolled. Patient psychosocial profile, sport expectations, knee exam, type of graft, associated lesion, type of anesthesia, complications, IKDC, KT 2000 at 6 moths, 1 year and 2 years were recorded. At five years, patients were asked to complete a 5-subscale validated QOL questionnaire for ACL deficiency. A multivariate analysis was performed to identify the factors influencing 5-year QOL. Results: 203 patients completed the 5-years QOL questionnaire. Responders did not statistically differ from non responders. Patient subjective factors such as: patient expectations, pre-operative symptoms, work-school concerns, recreations concerns, social and psycho-social concerns were significantly (p Discussion: In this large prospective study, most of the factors influencing the 5-year QOL results after ACL reconstruction were related to patient expectations, psycho-social, symptoms and work-sport concerns. The presence of a meniscus tear and greater KT 2000 laxity also contributed to poorer 5-year QOL results.


Three coordination compounds [K(H2TDA)H2O] n (1), [K(H2TDA)(H3TDA)2H2O] n (2), and Mn2(phen)2(HTDA)2(H2O)4 (3) have been synthesized and characterized structurally by X-ray diffraction, where H3TDA = 1,2,3-triazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid and phen = 1,10-phenanthroline. Their solid-state structures have been characterized by elemental analysis and IR spectroscopy. In 1, a 3-D (4, 8)-connected metal-organic framework has been constructed using dinuclear potassium clusters as eight-connected nodes and the ligands as four-connected nodes; it represents the fluorite topology network. Compound 2 exhibits 1-D chains along c-axis, which are connected by strong hydrogen-bond interactions in 2-D layers; the layers are further stacked via hydrogen bonds in the b-direction. In 3, two neighboring Mn(II) ions are bridged by two 1,2,3-triazole-4,5-dicarboxylic groups, forming a binuclear structure, with Mn(II) ··· Mn(II) distance of 4.356 Å, which is further linked to generate a 2-D layer structure via interdimer hydrogen bonds. The fluorescence for these compounds was investigated.


Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is a powerful programming paradigm combining the advantages of Logic Programming and the efficiency of constraint solving. However, CLP presents some limitations in dealing with temporal reasoning. First, it uses an "arc consistency" propagation algorithm which cannot be changed by the user and it is too weak in many temporal frameworks. Second, CLP is not able to deal with qualitative temporal constraints. In this paper, we show how to overcome these limitations. In particular, we present a way of performing a path-consistency check without changing the propagation algorithm of the constraint solver. In addition, we show how to integrate qualitative and quantitative temporal reasoning by using a two module meta CLP architecture. Each module is a finite domain constraint solver (CLP(FD)). The object system (extended with the path-consistency algorithm) performs quantitative reasoning, while the meta-level reasons on constraints of the underlying system thus performing qualitative reasoning. In this way, we can benefit of the efficiency of the constraint handling mechanism of CLP and the modularity, flexibility and scalability of meta-architectures.


Abstract Sky radiance measurements in the wavelength bands of ultraviolet-B (0.28–0.32 μm), ultraviolet-A (0.32–0.40 μm), and photosynthetically active radiation (0.40–0.70 μm) were made under obscured overcast skies in a rural area. Radiance distributions were modeled for seven measurement scans with solar zenith angles varying from 19° to 49°. For the seven scans, the atmospheric transmittance of photosynthetically active photon flux density varied from 0.16 to 0.25. The corresponding fraction of cloud-free sky photosynthetically active photon flux density ranged from 0.21 to 0.32. The corresponding fraction of ultraviolet-B cloud-free sky irradiance was between 0.20 and 0.34, with typically lower fractions of cloud-free sky irradiance in the ultraviolet-B than in the photosynthetically active photon flux density. The sky radiance was modeled from the ensembled measurements according to the standard overcast sky radiance distribution for each of the wavelength bands. Although the ultraviolet wave bands ...


The study of college choice among all students continues to be crucial in higher education. More importantly, a critical examination of understanding the influences of college choice for ethnically diverse groups may provide better guidance for colleges and universities particularly in increasing and diversifying their student populations. This exploratory qualitative study examines the college choice of Southeast Asian American college students (SEAA). Implications for future practice and research are also presented.


Municipalities are responsible for providing basic household services to residents, and for building municipal infrastructure. Municipal bonds can offer a way of helping local governments to fi nance infrastructure with domestic private capital. This article aims to determine what conditions are important for private capital to contribute meaningfully towards the provision of  additional capital to address the current municipal infrastructure backlogs in South Africa. A comparative study between South Africa, the United States (US) and India is conducted and followed by a survey among metropolitan municipalities to establish the conditions under which bond instrumentscan be used successfully in South Africa.


The present invention discloses a method for measuring concrete pump output and its equipment. Said method includes the following steps: making one end of pressure sensor be mounted on the oil-feeding oil circuit of hydraulic oil cylinder; fixing and mounting the displacement sensor on the water tank by means of supporting frame; making one end of displacement sensor be fixed on the end surface of piston rod connection flange of concrete pump piston rod, another one ends of pressure sensor and displacement sensor are respectively connected with signal collecting card; then inputting the measurement analogue signal into computer software by means of signal collecting card; utilizing pressure sensor and displacement sensor to simultaneously measure pressure of concrete pump hydraulic oil cylinder and concrete cylinder piston stroke; utilizing pressure signal to trigger concrete pump piston displacement signal removing concrete pump piston idle stroke so as to obtain concrete pump effective displacement and can obtain the actual output of concrete pump.


This paper reports preconcentration and separation of trace elements with silica gel bonded by acid chrome blue K(ACBK·SG).ACBK·SG is stable in the range of 6 mol/L HCl to pH=8.0 and in common organic solvents such as ethanol or acetone,Maximum adsorption capacity of Pd(Ⅱ)on ACBK·SG is 172 μmol/g,Pd(Ⅱ)and Pt(Ⅳ)of 10-9/g can be separated from transition metal ions on ACBK·SG column and measured by spectrophotometry.


Part 1 Domestic stategy: MITI - Prospero's world neo-zaibatsu and the cartels - command and competition bands and policy companies - market conformity strategic corporations - public production. Part 2 International strategy: global presence - structures of implementation production as power - tending the gate operations abroad - export campaigns. Conclusions: Schumpeter, Napoleon, and others.


The principle of balancing of interests introduced by some judges has played an important role in balancing interests between the administrative subject and the private party in the administrative process.This article has done a tentative note from public and private interests conflict,the alienation of administrative discretion and the realization of a case justness.


Addresses the study of coastal swells by SAR imagery. The principles for the determination of swell parameters from image data are recalled. Then, the author presents results on swell events observed by ERS1 off Arguin Bank (Mauritania). These results are analyzed and compared with estimates from the wave prediction model of Meteofrance and from a model of swell propagation in finite-depth water. The study leads the author to conclude that SAR can be considered as a quasi-operational instrument for swell monitoring, and that scientific applications, in addition to economical applications, can henceforth be envisaged.<<ETX>>


Marshall E. Dimock was a self-confessed non-conformist who valued individualism and individual self-development above all other values. For him a philosophy of administration is more than a science or art and "must deal with institutional goals and objectives, with social values and individual growth, as well as with the paraphernalia of organizing and running things, which are only "incidental."(1) He warned that "over specialization of the individual makes him dull and lacking capacities for administrative growth"(2)and decried the parochialism of behaviorists, logical positivists and other methodologists. At the core of his thinking about problems of administration, management and organization was what he regarded as the fundamental importance of "moral philosophy" although he recognized that "the political economist who epitomizes moral philosophy is regarded as a regrettably nonconformist and excessively individualistic relic of a past age."(3)


This paper presents NOy and O3 seasonal mean distributions as a function of equivalent latitude and height from more than 140 ER-2 flights. The observations span a height range of 360–530 K (∼150-45 hPa) and have nearly pole-to-pole coverage in most seasons. These climatologies are intended to support efforts to evaluate the chemistry and dynamics of assessment models. Reasonable model representations of NOy, O3, and their seasonal variations are necessary to assess the effects of aircraft exhaust on the stratosphere. ER-2 measurements of N2O are combined with the NOy data to examine their lower stratospheric relationship and to identify regions of denitrification. Measurements of these species above ER-2 altitudes in the Arctic vortex support the interpretation of some of the ER-2 NOy-N2O data, which suggest that transport rather than chemical denitrification causes deviations from the normally linear relationship. This places constraints on the use of a linear relationship to calculate denitrification. The observed relationship between N2O and O3 is also presented. The spatial gradients in lower stratospheric O3 photochemistry are used to explain observed variations in the N2O-O3 relationship. The N2O-O3 relationship above ER-2 altitudes in the Arctic vortex, much like the case of NOy-N2O, also differs in slope from lower altitudes. This points to the difficulties in using tracer correlations to infer O3 values in the vortex prior to polar stratospheric cloud processing. It is necessary to understand the photochemical and transport history of the air that descends into the lower stratospheric vortex in order to correctly quantify O3 depletion.


SUMMARY The goal of the present study is a bibliographic revision of longliner fisheries off south and southeast Brazil. The yield, effort and CPUE data of the main species, like tuna, shark and swordfish, from Santos longliner catches in the 1971-2001 period, are also included. Some people were interviewed, using the human memory in order to complement the information related to different results of this analysis. The importance of the Fishing Terminal, and its history, shows the great value of "Baixada Santista" for the tuna fisheries in the studied region, as well as the fisheries in a general way. In the studied period, comprising 30 years, the analysis was done by decades. In the 70s the tuna yield was the highest, comprising three main species: yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), albacore (Thunnus alalunga) and bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus). It has decreased dramatically in the following decades. In those years there was an advance in the fishery strategy, including the choice of better fishing areas and the use of more sophisticated equipment. All these changes stimulated the exportation of these species. In the 80s the shark yield was the highest, specially the blue shark (Prionace glauca). It was followed by new ways of commercialization and a raise in the commercial value of the fins. In the 90s, and also in 2000 and 2001, the swordfish (Xiphias gladius) was the most important species in the longliner fisheries, followed by blue shark. The increasing swordfish exportation, contributed to this high yield. It can be also considered the highest yield in the studied period of 30 years, and therefore the most important. As the mentioned species are widely spread all over the Atlantic Ocean, and are caught in different areas by many countries, it is believed that this historical analysis for the period of 30 years will contribute to the conservation of these species in the ocean. RESUME


In a previous paper, we have considered multi-brane solutions in the context of superstring field theory. The evaluation of the energy for these solutions was based on an extension of a recent work by Murata and Schnabl where they computed the energy for a class of solutions which describe multiple coincident D-branes in open bosonic string field theory. Furthermore, these bosonic multi-brane solutions were recently analyzed by Hata and Kojita using the concept of the winding number. The present paper studies the generalization of the bosonic results to the superstring, described by the so-called modified cubic superstring field theory.


This paper presents segmentation of hemorrhage from the computed tomography image. Fuzzy rule-based technique constituting three parameters namely mean difference, mode difference and grey level intensity is used. These parameters are fuzzified into four fuzzy regions with trapezoidal membership functions. The segmented arbitrary shaped region of interest information is employed in JPEG2000 encoder while encoding the image. It encodes ROI with highest priority in allocating bits as well as in transmission. 15 CT image slices with hemorrhage were used in the experiment. Experimental results shows good segmentation of hemorrhage region from CT images and allows encoding image at any desired bit rate, while maintaining lossless in ROI and lossy/lossless in non-ROI.


Co-production systems simultaneously produce a number of vertically differentiated products that perform the same task but at different performance levels and permit downward substitution. When the manufacturing decision is made under demand uncertainty, the downward substitution performed after the demands are observed leads to increased revenue. However, the production of these products in relatively rigid fractions results in redundant manufacturing of at least a few products leading to increased costs. We analyze the net benefit of these two effects, and discuss the implications for the value of downward substitution, part commonality, and quality improvement efforts in co-production systems. The manufacturing decision problem is similar to the multi-item inventory problem of vertically differentiated products where each product can be manufactured independently. However, the manufacturing of all products in fixed ratios relative to each other results in unique properties and managerial insights for co-production systems. We obtain these properties and insights using a novel analytical solution of the single-period co-production problem for up to four levels of downward substitution.


 Current usage of artificial insemination (AI) is low in Irish suckler herds and this has implications for the speed of genetic improvement.  Beef farmers can use a specific breeding programme especially to produce quality herd replacements.  AI should particularly be targeted at the beginning of the breeding season when heat detection is easiest.  A timed AI programme should be considered where labour requirements of heat detection are impractical.


THE ANTISEPTIC ACTION OF HYPOCHLORITES. IL .1 7o -wz A few experiments sliowed that the ammonia fraction was entirely responsible for tlhe symptoms produced, and tlhat pure ammonium salts, in dose and concentration equivalent to those of the ammonium salts in the "' toxin," produced all thje effects described, botlh local and genieral, in perfectly clharacteristic manner. Young guinea-pigs slhowed, in proportion to their weiglht, tho sanme excessive sensitiveness to tihe general, convulsant actioni of amnmonium salts as to tlhose of the toxic culture-filtrate. Neitlher tlhe organic bases, in tlhe proportioni present, nor the fatty acids contributed materially to tlhe effect. There seems, tlhen, to 'bo no grounid for supposing tllat thle bacillus of malignant oedema, in aln artificial culture of tlle type described, produces anythiing in the nature of a specific toxin. The prodtuction by it of a toxic solution from meat dep)ends oni its intenise proteoclastic and desaminating action. The proteins are rapidly brokeln down to amiino-acids, and fromn tlhese the amino-groupinigs are tlen split off, yielding am-noniumi salts of fatty acids, wljich atccunmulate in surprising concentration. To these must be attributed at least the greater part of the acute symptoms produced by the cutlture-filtrate in the guinea-pig; tlhoughi doubtless ilntermiediate products of proteolysis mnay play somie part, especially in thie delayed deathi whlicil sometinmes follows recovery from the iinmediate acute symlptomns. The chief interest of thle observation seems to us to be the hiint it furniishes as to one of the factors favouring spread of infection witlh the bacillus, in the tissues of an animial in wllich it hias once obtained a hold. It is well kniowu that -with washed spores, or even with a broth culture of this organismi, it is practically impossible to produce an experimental infection. Some local tissue injury is needed to give the infection a clhance of success. This may be mechanical injllry, as by contusion of tissue, or irritation by soil particles; or chemical injury, as by lactic or acetic acid. Among such clhemical inijuries we may now, witlh somle reason, include the effect of the toxic juice formed by the bacillus from meat, whichl is essentially tllat of a strong solution of ammonium salts. Given injured tissues in which the growth may start, it is evident that the localized production of aimimoinium salts will soon be sufficient to create in the neighbouring tissues conditionis favoturing the spread of the growth, whichll may tllen go on indefinitely. As to how far the production and absorption of ammonium salts, from a large area of infected tissue, muay play a part in the general svmptoms attending sucll an infection, we are not in a position to express any opinion. Nor lhave we studied the production of ammonia in culture by other members of tlle group. We hope that these points may receive attention from those wlho are studying the effects of this group of organisms in the laboratory or at the bedside, and that this publication of observations, so unexpectedly simple in their outcome, may at least save others the trouble of a similar investigation. Our conclusion slhould, further, make clear the futility of attempting to obtain an antitoxin to the products of the organism with which our observations deal.


I will start this Essay by saying that it is fundamentally misleading to assume that the disagreement over the shape and content of the agenda for the World Trade Organization's ("WTO") negotiations that broke-up the Seattle's Conference is either the only or the real stumbling block to maintain the pace of trade liberalization. It also is misleading to assume that the present business as usual look that has prevailed since February 2000 in Geneva, means that the substantive problems are over and that everything is just fine. In my view, we face other kinds of conflicts. The first is the strong competitive reforms that should be implemented in an important number of Members of the System. The second is the existing political obstacles to putting together an acceptable comprehensive agenda of negotiations. The third is the lack of political will to rethink the present state of play to overcome these fundamental problems without weakening or neglecting WTO's genuine role. TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND DANGEROUS POLITICAL GAMES


Abstract 3,3,4,4-Tetraethoxy-1-butyne, available in high yield in four simple steps from ethyl vinyl ether, is a highly functionalized alkyne, which appears to be a versatile starting material for the synthesis of a range of alkylated, more-or-less deoxygenated carbohydrate mimics. However, many of the reactions used to achieve extension and subsequent structural modification of the carbon chain as well as removal of the protecting groups turn out to be rather sensitive to the substituents' steric and electronic influence. As a result, the reactivity pattern that emerges is somewhat complex.


two kinds of order' (p. 127) in the poem solely in modern terms, the teacher might find time to suggest that similar balances and tensions existed in Milton's world. He might even generate some curiosity as to what they were. Ultimately, a study such as this one could lead the student to a greater appreciation of the hermeneutical question. Historical scholars often fail to appreciate that we cannot help but view all literature from the window of our own times and concerns. But this fact does not invalidate historical study any more than Heisenberg's principle has^ invalidated the study of sub-atomic particles. It is precisely the inevitability of our own subjectivity that causes the past to remain 'relevant.' It is meaningless to say that historicism does not allow a poem to touch our lives. The study of history can be done well or poorly, but history remains our home. If students of the culture perceive a gap between the past and the present, it is in this gap that criticism should occur, repairing the ruins. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH Bruce Henricksen


Painting psychoanalysis is to allow artists to use nonverbal tools to present their subconscious self and personality characteristics in a safe and acceptable way of painting. College students need to have a correct understanding of them and know whether their personality characteristics are suitable for starting a business. In order to enable college students to better carry out entrepreneurial activities, painting psychological analysis can be integrated into the course of innovation and entrepreneurship education to guide students to analyze their own personality characteristics and better analyze and deal with psychological obstacles that may be encountered in entrepreneurship. This article starts with the lack of education and guidance for students' entrepreneurial psychological quality in existing innovation and entrepreneurship education courses, aims at studying the education and guidance of students' entrepreneurial psychological quality in innovative projects and existing entrepreneurship, and tries to help cultivate college students' entrepreneurial interest through the method of drawing psychoanalysis. Due to the psychological barriers to entrepreneurship in business activities, many students begin to feel fear or frustration about entrepreneurship. Psychological analysis of painting helps to cultivate students' commercial psychological quality. This article proposes a method of drawing psychoanalysis to speculate on students' entrepreneurial desires, and to a certain extent encourage them to take the steps of entrepreneurship bravely in order to contribute to the country's economic development. The experimental results of this article show that more than 70% of college students have a strong interest and desire for entrepreneurship, but less than 30% can put it into practice in the end. Therefore, this article hopes to help students through the psychological analysis of painting psychology and cultivate the psychological quality of entrepreneurship.


Quantum transient currents are obtained after the sudden release of a particle initially confined in a nanoscopic circuit. We extend the 1D theory of diffraction in time to particles released from nanoscopic circuits with cylindrical cross‐sections. For a circular cross‐section, the particle's free time evolution is described by cylindrical waves with their amplitudes showing diffraction in time. For large observation distances, the time‐dependent probability density current looks similar to the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern by a circular aperture. A temporal quantum Airy disk can be defined.


Background: Initial CDC recommendations for passive monitoring of COVID-19 related symptoms among staff may not be sufficient in preventing the introduction and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare settings We therefore implemented active monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare workers (HCWs) at an academic medical center during the COVID-19 epidemic in northeast US Methods: We recruited a cohort of HCWs at Yale New Haven Hospital who worked in COVID-19 units and did not have COVID-19 related symptoms between March 28 and June 1, 2020 During follow-up, participants provided daily information on symptoms by responding to a web-based questionnaire, self-administered nasopharyngeal (NP) and saliva specimens every 3 days, and blood specimens every 14 days We performed SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR and an anti-spike protein IgM and IgG ELISA to identify virological and serological-confirmed infection, respectively Results: We enrolled 525 (13%) amongst 4,136 HCW of whom daily information on symptoms and NP, saliva, and blood specimens were obtained for 66% (of 13208), 42% (or 1977), 44% (of 2071) and 65% (of 1099), respectively, of the follow-up measurement points We identified 16 (3 0% of 525) HCWs with PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and an additional 12 (2 3% of 525) who were not tested by PCR or had negative PCR results but had serological evidence of infection The overall cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was 5 3% (28 of 525) amongst HCWs Cases were not identified by hospital protocols for passive staff self-monitoring for symptoms Amongst 16 PCR-confirmed cases, 9 (56%) of the 16 PCR-confirmed HCW had symptoms during or after the date of initial detection We did not identify an epidemiological link between the 28 confirmed cases Conclusion: We found that a significant proportion (5 3%) of HCWs were infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 epidemic In the setting of universal PPE use, infections were possibly acquired in the community rather than stemming from patient-HCW or HCW-HCW transmission Passive monitoring of symptoms is inadequate in preventing introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into the healthcare setting due to asymptomatic and oligosymptomatic presentations


Ultrasound (US) imaging is a promising sensing technique in the field of human-machine interface, and many positive results have been reported in literature on hand gesture recognition or finger angle prediction based on US imaging. However, in most of these studies, linear array ultrasound probes were used to generate US images, which made the US device expensive and bulky. In this paper, a method of extracting forearm muscle information via multiple single-element US transducers is proposed. By using this kind of transducers, a low-cost and small-size human-machine interface can be expected. Preliminary results show that an average recognition accuracy of 96% can be achieved for six motions, including five finger flexions and rest state.


The psychological support relationship intervenes in influencing the parenting capacity, on the way in which parents judge and evaluate the disability event and the situations connected to it. In fact, support is related to the perception that parents have of their children's limitations, social limitations and behavior problems. The goal is to enhance the experiences of the families themselves starting from a reassessment of the value of their narratives in order to involve families in a process of awareness. The hypothesis that guided this work is the belief that helping families is essential to allow children with autism a future in which they are concretely protagonists of their lives and participate in social life. Three individual meetings were planned first and then group meetings. The model used is the integrated Gestalt model, in particular attention has been focused on the contact cycle and the mechanisms for interrupting its flow, with the aim of involving them concretely from the beginning to the end of the processes. The work highlighted that it is possible to reduce sources of stress, refine evaluation and coping skills, strengthen the network of extra-family social supports, improve relationships within the family, improve relationships between parents and professionals. The innovative aspect is to have paid particular attention to parents within the field theory.
Keywords: family, autism, gestalt


Electrochemical capacitor has been applied to electrochemical fields such as electrical vehicles to support lithium ion battery due to their high power density, long cycle ability and good cycle efficiency. Carbon materials such as activated carbons, carbon nano tube, graphite and carbon nano fiber have been widely studied for use as electrode materials of electrical capacitor because of their accessibility, easy processibility, relatively low cost, chemical stability and electrical and thermal conductivity in different solutions and wide temperature range. [1]