Certain antimetobolites have been shown to be effective as antiviral agents. The author has used one of these effectively in viral disease of the cornea.


Introduction: A FEMIINST TURN IN PHILOSOPHY Section one: Oppression and Resistance 1. Gayle Rubin, The Traffic in Women: Notes on The Political Economy of Sex 2. Marilyn Frye, Oppression 3. Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Cannot Dismantle The Master's House. 4. Sandra Bartky, On Psychological Oppression" 5. Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" 6. Maria Lugones, "Playfulness, 'World' Traveling, and Loving Perception" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources Section two: Sex and Gender 1. Simone de Beauvoir, "Introduction to The Second Sex" 2. Judith Butler, " Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" 3. bell hooks, "Reconstructing Black Masculinity" 4. Anne Fausto-Sterling, "Should there only be two sexes?" 5. Judith Halberstam. "Transgender Butch" 6. OyewA'mi Oyeronke , "Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources Section three: Race and Racism 1. Elizabeth Spelman, "Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought" 2. Kimberle Crenshaw, " Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color" 3. American Anthropological Association, "Statement on 'Race' 4. Annette Jamies, "Some Kind of Indian" 5. Maria Lugones, "Purity, Impurity and Separation" 6. Alison Bailey, "Locating Traitorous Identities: Towards a Theory of White Character Formation" 7. Aileen Moreton-Robinson, "Tiddas Speakin' Strong: Indigenous Women's Self-presentation within White Australian Feminism" 8. For Further Reading 9. Media Resources Section four: Sexualities 1. Luce Irigaray, "The Sex which Is Not One" 2. Jessica Benjamin, " A Desire of One's Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space" 3. Catherine MacKinnon, "Sexuality" 4. Ann Ferguson, "Sex War: The Debate between Radical and Libertarian Feminists" 5. Kiss and Tell, "Questioning Censorship" 6. Evelynn Hammonds, "Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality" 7 Chris Cuomo, "Religion and the Right to be Gay" 8. For Further Reading 9. Media Resources Section five: Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms 1. Chandra Talpade Mohanty " Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and The Politics of Solidarity" 2. Ofelia Schutte, "Feminism and Globalization Processes in Latin America" 3. Angela Davis, "The Prison Industrial Complex" 4. Andrea Smith, "Sexual Violence As A Tool of Genocide" 5. Aihwa Ong, "Experiments with Freedom: Milieus of The Human" 6. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources Section six: Feminist Ethical theories 1. Carol Gilligan, " Moral Orientation and Moral Cevelopment" 2. Seyla Benhabib, "The Generalized And The Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory" 3. Virginia Held, " Taking Care: Care as Practice And Value" 4. Kelly Oliver, "Conflicted Love" 5. Sarah Hoagland, "Separating from Heterosexualism" 6. Margaret Urban Walker, "Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics" 7. Claudia Card, "The Moral Powers of Victims" 8. For Further Reading 9. Media Resources Section seven: Feminist Political Philosophies 1. Marilyn Friedman, "Autonomy, Social Disruption and Women" 2. Eva Kittay, "Taking Dependency Seriously: The Family Medical Leave Act Considered in Light of The Social Organization of Dependency Work and Gender Equality" 3. Susan Okin, "Vulnerability by Marriage" 4. Nancy Fraser, "After The Family Wage: Gender Equity And The Welfare State" 5. Iris Marion Young, "Difference and Social Policy: Reflections in The Context of Social Movements" 6. Cynthia Enloe, "Updating The Gendered Empire: Where Are The Women in Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq?" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources Section eight: Feminist Epistemologies: 1. Susan Bordo, "Purification and Transcendence" 2. Alison Jaggar, " Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology" 3. Linda Martin Alcoff, "How Is Epistemology Political?" 4. Lorraine Code, "Taking Subjectivity into Account" 5. Sandra Harding, Strong Objectivity" 6. Uma Narayan, " The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from A Nonwestern Feminist" 7. Nancy Tuana, "Coming to Understand: Orgasm And The Epistemology of Ignorance" 8. For Further Reading 9. Media Resources Section nine: Feminist Ontologies 1. Mary Anne Warren, " The Moral Significance of Birth" 2. Ann J. Cahill, "A Phenomenology of Fear: The Threat of Rape and Female Bodily Comportment" 3. Susan Wendell, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability" 4. Mary Daly, " Be-longing: The Lust for Happiness" 5. Rosi Braidotti, "Mothers, Monsters and Machines" 6. Gloria Anzaldua, " La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Toward A New Consciousness" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources


The frame of data broadcasting protocol and the position of OC protocol in the frame were presented.The technique of partitioning data for translating in channel by using OC protocol in DVB-C is studied.In addition,for the traditional CATV system,a software solution is proposed to parse data in the receiving system.By using the software,the digital Set Top Box(STB) can carry out extracting and parsing information of service data being transmitted in cable.After being applied in embedded system,this solution has been certified to be feasible.


Deep X-ray observations of the post-explosion environment around the very nearby Type Ia SN 2014J (dL = 3.5 Mpc) reveal no X-ray emission down to a luminosity Lx < 7 × 1036 erg s−1 (0.3–10 keV) at δt ∼ 20 days after the explosion. We interpret this limit in the context of inverse Compton emission from upscattered optical photons by the supernova shock and constrain the pre-explosion mass-loss rate of the stellar progenitor system to be (for wind velocity vw = 100 km s−1). Alternatively, the SN shock might be expanding into a uniform medium with density nCSM < 3 cm−3. These results rule out single-degenerate (SD) systems with steady mass loss until the terminal explosion and constrain the fraction of transferred material lost at the outer Lagrangian point to be ⩽1%. The allowed progenitors are (1) white dwarf–white dwarf progenitors, (2) SD systems with unstable hydrogen burning experiencing recurrent nova eruptions with recurrence time t < 300 yr, and (3) stars where the mass loss ceases before the explosion.


This essay explores the dynamics of church, women's rights, and race that animated Tanner's commentary by focusing on two key chapters in the history of women's rights in the nineteenth century. The first is the end of the 1840s, a moment frequently associated with the inaugural women's conventions held in Seneca Falls and Rochester, New York. This essay reframes those conventions by examining a contemporaneous campaign for church women's rights being waged in black Methodist churches. The second is the 1870s, a period often understood as shaped by disagreements over the terms of the Fifteenth Amendment and a resulting rupture of an antebellum woman's rights–abolitionist coalition. Here, this moment is recast through consideration of how African American church women injected the question of women's rights into debates over black Methodist law and polity in the wake of the Amendment's ratification. In both cases, black and white women generally worked apart from one another, with lines of denomination and of race dividing their movements. They did share, however, a critical vantage point that centered on churches as contested terrain and church women as among the activists in a women's movement. There is little question that these activist women were mindful of one another, even as social distance led to diluted or distorted understandings. All these women were covered in the spray of women's rights. Standing at separate places along the seashore, they waded into confrontations that gave their discrete campaigns broad-reaching significance. Whether all women who called for the rights of church women were part of one wave is difficult to say until we recall that any wave is the by-product of many cross-currents.


In recent years,the electromechanical accident in coal mine has become an important factor restricting our coal mine production.Therefore,to prevent the electromechanical accident in coal mine is one important link for the safety work of coal mine and the sustainable development of the coal mine production.The author induces and analyzes the principal reasonvs of the recent electromechanical accident,and then proposes some corresponding improved measures and countermeasures.


To observe the clinical efficacy of HD hepatic equipment in the treatment of hepatitis and liver cirrhosis,three groups were set:group A in which 50 cases were treated by the equipment and medicines,group B in which 50 cases were treated by only equipment and group C in which 50 cases were treated by mere medicines.Results:The total effective rate of symptom relief was 94% in group A,70% in group B and 46% in group C,with significant differences between any two groups (P0.05);the total effective rate of overall conditions was 86% in group A,62% in group B and 56% in group C,with differences between group A and other two groups(P0.05).It is indicated that HD hepatic equipment is quite effective for hepatitis and liver cirrhosis,with better effects in combination with compound Danshen tablets.


The effects of simultaneous use of recycled aggregates and ground blast furnace slag as a percentage of cement-constituting materials on different properties of fresh self-compacting concrete (SCC) are investigated in this study. To this end, three series of SCC mixtures with a fixed volume of cement paste equalling 380 ltr/m3 (2.36 gal/ft3) and the replacement ratio of coarse aggregates (fifty percent and one hundred percent) and total aggregates (zero percent, fifty percent and one hundred percent) were prepared. The water content ratios in the first, second and third series were 0.4, 0.45, and 0.5, respectively. The results of the compressive strength tests for 7-day, 14-day and 28-day cubic specimens and compressive strength and Brazilian test results for 28-day cylindrical specimens were used as control parameters governing the SCC resistive quality. The results of fresh SCC tests (including slump-flow and T50 tests, V-funnel test, and L-box test) showed that the negative effect of recycled fine aggregates on fresh SCC properties is significantly more than that of recycled coarse aggregate. However, recycled SCC with acceptable properties can be obtained with a slight increase in the amount of superplasticisers used in the presence of slag.


In order to know the level of perceived mental health and emotional competence of psychology students at the University of Cadiz, we selected a sample of 190 students of psychology degree (average age of 21.16, SD = 4.33; 81.6% were women). The level of perceived mental health was assessed by the short list of symptoms (LSB-50, Abuin & Rivera, 2012). Besides emotional competence was measured with a test of perceived emotional intelligence IEP (ESCQ, Tacsic, 2002), with a test of coping strategies or coping (CERQ, Garnefski, Kraaij, & Spinhoven, 2001), affective style (ASQ Hofmann and Kashdan, 2010) and the positive mood vs. negative (BMIS, Mayer, 1988). The main results of the study revealed that about 5% of the sample perceived themselves with clinical symptoms in depression, anxiety, fear, hostility and somatization. The IEP is negatively and significantly related with hostility; participants with a better ability to adjust emotions were associated with a lower perception of symptoms of depression and fear. Regarding coping strategies, most of them scored in catastrophism, blaming others and rumination were the most commonly perceived as depressed, anxious, hostile and afraid too. The both positive and negative mood was associated with clinical symptoms. This research suggests the idea that appropriate mental health is related to adequate training in emotional competencies.


In order to use the IoT technology to realize the practical application of intelligent monitoring, this paper constructs an IoT data acquisition monitoring and remote control system for Android mobile platform through the integration of a variety of related technologies. Firstly, we explain the overall framework of the IoT mobile terminal according to the demand analysis of the system. Then, combined with the design of specific functions, the implementation schemes of various key technologies are provided from the aspects of hardware and software. Integrated with the Android mobile client and the data server designed in this paper, the data is collected and analyzed through network communication, and uploaded to the server, to realize the monitoring of different collection nodes widely distributed in a wide range. Finally, through the actual operation and testing, the integration functions of data acquisition, transmission, monitoring and display are verified.


The experimental situation presents a complex stochastic intertemporal allocation problem. First, two initial chance moves select one of three possible termination probabilities which then determines whether life lasts 3,4,5, or 6 periods. Compared to Anderhub et al. (1997) participants are allowed to invest into a risky, but profitable asset. We investigate whether the willingness to invest can help to explain saving behavior, i.e. experimentally observed intertemporal decision making.


We originally developed QOP with the desire to provide a more comprehensive measurement for individual pitches that could be used by pitching coaches for player development and by scouts to identify player potential. The analytical and medical applications in our presentation came later. Before we can go about the business of developing QOP for such high-level applications, however, the MLB analysts with whom we have spoken are asking for evidence of the validity of QOP. How does it compare with conventional statistics like ERA and WHIP and FIP, or BABIP and OPS? Other results? Is it consistent? Is it better? This paper presents that comparison. I will make a case that while QOP values can be shown to associate with traditional pitch classification at a macro level, direct comparisons of QOP with conventional statistics have low correlation due to the difference between the statistics and the loss of variation inherent in averaging hundreds of pitching and hitting events. However, when QOP is compared with raw results data -number of bases earned per hit -and conditioning by pitch designation, it is shown to strongly associate with results. Additionally, I demonstrate a positive way to relate QOP to ERA is as a predictor. QOP has a 76 to 97% success rate for predicting a pitchers' drop in ERA or FIP in subsequent seasons for pitchers with QOP average over 5.0.


There is an urgent need for streamlining radiology Quality Assurance (QA) programs to make them better and faster. Here, we present a novel approach, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based Quality Assurance by Restricted Investigation of Unequal Scores (AQUARIUS), for re-defining radiology QA, which reduces human effort by up to several orders of magnitude over existing approaches. AQUARIUS typically includes automatic comparison of AI-based image analysis with natural language processing (NLP) on radiology reports. Only the usually small subset of cases with discordant reads is subsequently reviewed by human experts. To demonstrate the clinical applicability of AQUARIUS, we performed a clinical QA study on Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) detection in 1936 head CT scans from a large academic hospital. Immediately following image acquisition, scans were automatically analyzed for ICH using a commercially available software (Aidoc, Tel Aviv, Israel). Cases rated positive for ICH by AI (ICH-AI+) were automatically flagged in radiologists' reading worklists, where flagging was randomly switched off with probability 50%. Using AQUARIUS with NLP on final radiology reports and targeted expert neuroradiology review of only 29 discordantly classified cases reduced the human QA effort by 98.5%, where we found a total of six non-reported true ICH+ cases, with radiologists' missed ICH detection rates of 0.52% and 2.5% for flagged and non-flagged cases, respectively. We conclude that AQUARIUS, by combining AI-based image analysis with NLP-based pre-selection of cases for targeted human expert review, can efficiently identify missed findings in radiology studies and significantly expedite radiology QA programs in a hybrid human-machine interoperability approach.


The integration of renewables into power systems is a key transformation for mitigating climate change and reducing fossil-fuel dependence. Among the different resources, wind participation has become crucial in recent decades—both onshore and offshore wind power plants. However, assuming the useful life of the wind turbines at approximately 20 years, different solutions should be discussed to overcome the turbine's aging problem. In the coming years, some countries within the wind sector will face the decision of partially or totally repowering or dismantling their turbines. This paper reviews different repowering strategies and contributions from a multifactorial perspective. A set of categories is defined by the authors and those multifactorial parameters are then classified according to such categories: technical, economic, environmental, social, and political. From each category, the most relevant factors to be considered for repowering decision-making purposes are identified and discussed. According to the specific literature, more than 90% of the reviewed contributions are focused on onshore wind power plant repowering actions. This percentage is in line with onshore and offshore wind generation units installed in recent decades. The reviewed studies show that Germany has a major number of contributions. Regarding offshore repowering strategies, all contributions propose a multifactorial analysis, in contrast to onshore repowering strategies where only 68% of the authors carry out a multifactorial analysis. The revised repowering methodologies and the categorization of factors can also be used by the repowering market, as a useful tool in the near future.


The literature on organizational justice is concerned with understanding the relation between people's perceptions of fairness and their attitudes and behaviors at work. Commitment has long been an outcome of interest in the study of organizational justice (e.g., Folger and Konovsky, 1989; Lind and Tyler, 1988). Thus, it is not surprising that numerous studies beginning in the 1980s have demonstrated a robust relation between justice perceptions and organizational commitment. Much of the early research conducted between 1980 and 2000 was guided by two conceptual paradigms. In one stream of research, which we refer to as the 'differential effects paradigm', researchers focused on examining the unique effects of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice perceptions in predicting commitment and other work outcomes. Distributive justice perceptions (e.g., Adams, 1965) refer to people's perceptions of the fairness of outcomes that they receive from the organization, such as their pay. Procedural justice perceptions (e.g., Leventhal, 1980; Lind and Tyler, 1988; Thibaut and Walker, 1975) refer to people's perceptions of the fairness of the procedures by which decisions are made. Interactionaljustice (e.g., Bies and Moag, 1986) comprises people's perceptions of the quality of information and interpersonal treatment that they receive from agents who make decisions. 1 The differential effects research was summarized in several meta-analyses published in 2001-2002 (e.g., Cohen-Charash and Spector, 2001; Colquitt et al., 2001; Viswesvaran and Ones, 2002). Overall, the findings indicated that distributive, procedural, and interactional justice perceptions are each significantly related to employee commitment, although typically procedural justice is most strongly associated with organizational commitment (also see Meyer et al., 2002). In the other stream of research, investigators were guided by the 'interaction effects paradigm', in which researchers examined the combined effects of information regarding outcomes and information regarding decision processes (with procedural and interactionaljustice sometimes combined) on employees' support for decisions, authorities, and the organization.2 The results of an early meta-analysis (Brockner and Weisenfeld, 1996) indicated that outcome and process information have joint effects, such that fair process mitigates the otherwise adverse effect of receiving unfair or unfavorable outcomes on employee support and commitment. These findings had important practical implications because they suggested that organizations could garner support for unfavorable decisions and maintain employee commitment to the extent that they used fair procedures, explained decision processes, and treated people respectfully: the hallmarks of process fairness. Between 2001and2015, research on justice and commitment has continued to flourish. Many studies have examined separate predictive effects of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice on commitment. For example, researchers have examined the


The corrosive rates of 4 types of metals as well as epoxy-coated metal in a variety of preservatives derived from different copper sources and ingredients were measured in this paper.The main results show that:CCA is less corrosive to red brass and Q235A steel than other copper formulations;Copper-based preservatives such as ACQ and CuAz derived from basic cupric carbonate or cupric hydroxide are much less corrosive to Q235A steel than those from cupric sulfate;Ethanolamine is less corrosive to Q235A steel than ammonia in ACQ derived from cupric hydroxide,while other ingredients are the same;Epoxy resin coating could be used for protecting red brass,Q235A steel and zinc hot-dipped galvanized mild steel from corrosion.


Aiming at problems of lack of theoretical research and existing resources, etc., in equipment's combat resilience design for the chinese military, a new kind of equipment's combat resilience design theory-TRIZ contradiction maters are used to describe the technical conflict in practical problem, the conflict resolving matrix is used to analysis problem, and the principle to solve the contradiction is given at last. This theory is strongly to solve the contradiction problem. For these reasons, the equipment's combat resilience design process is proposed in this paper, and then taking the battlefield maintenance of radar phased array antenna as an example, this paper analyses the improvement design method to introduce the design of phased array antenna by using the TRIZ conflict matrix. The results show that, TRIZ conflict matrix can effectively guide the equipment's combat resilience design, and can indicate the direction for the equipment's combat resilience design to improve design efficiency.


Dengue being one of the current global epidemic diseases currently is mainly found in tropical and large swamp areas. A fast diagnostic method is required to give an accurate result of a suspected dengue patient in order to save lives. Long period grating -LPG (or sometimes known as long period fibre grating-LPFG) has a fast detection method almost to real time gives an immediate result and it is highly sensitive towards its ambient refractive index. Long period grating is a modified fibre optic with grating at a specific portion of the optical fibre; the fibre optics signal transmission does not decay easily and remains almost ideal for all application. This paper aims to study an alternative approach to screen patient who are suspected with dengue and results obtained will be used as a future guideline for subsequent research.


Nano-TiO2 thin film was prepared using TiO2 (P25) powder by colloidal spray coating. The microstructure of TiO2 thin films was characterized and analyzed by SEM and it is found that the TiO2 film is porous, the size of TiO2 granule is 20-30 nm, and the thickness of the film can be well controlled at 5-20μm. The TiO2 film was used to assemble a dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC). The DSSC was tested in the standard simulation sunlight (AM 1.5G). The short-current density is 7.78 mA/cm2 and the photoelectric conversion efficiency reaches 1.94%. The impact of preparation technology on DSSC performance was discussed.


Due to electrification of vehicle drive trains brought about by electromobility increasing demands on reliability and longevity are confronted with increasing loads. Detailed modeling of the voltage distribution along stator windings is therefore becoming increasingly important in the design process in order to identify increases of voltage peaks and to design a robust insulation system. Since a great deal of effort is usually required to create a model that represents a reference machine, this paper presents an advanced concept that is generally valid for all types of stator winding topologies. In this concept an increase in efficiency is achieved by implementing the inductive and capacitive couplings matrix-wise. The matrices are calculated by means of an FEM simulation. Furthermore, the model can be calculated automatically and the used equivalent circuit can be changed or extended if necessary. Finally, simulation results of a reference machine are shown and the voltage distribution is discussed.


In this paper we consider a problem of public transport arrival time prediction for a large city in real time. We propose a new prediction algorithm based on a model of an adaptive combination of elementary prediction algorithms, each of which is characterized by a small number of adjustable parameters. Adaptability means that parameters of the constructed combination depend on a number of control parameters of the model, which includes the following factors: weather conditions, traffic density, driving dynamics, prediction horizon, and others. Adaptability is achieved by the use of a hierarchical regression (similar to a regression tree). The proposed arrival prediction algorithm has been tested with the data of all the public transport routes in Samara, Russia.


Today we are much concerned with the problem of church-state relationships, primarily from the standpoint of separation of church and state. In sixteenthand seventeenth-century Western Europe the matter of church-state separation hardly existed as a recognized problem; for with the exception of a few small and relatively uninfluential minorities, everyone assumed a close official connection between church and state. But on the question of who should be the dominant partner of this arrangement there was considerable difference of opinion. Since the rise of the national state was one of the most important developments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is not surprising that the state was more often than not the victor in the inevitable test of strength, and this was as true of Catholic as of Protestant states. Nowhere was the political domination of ecclesiastical affairs more clearly exemplified than in the Spanish Emp're of America. It is the purpose of this paper to explore briefly the political domination of the church-state relationship in the Spanish Empire in America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with special emphasis upon the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico). The ecclesiastical organization was an integral part of the Spanish political system in colonial Mexico, and was as fully an agency of the political authority of the Castilian monarch as the civil government itself. No adequate conception of the constitutional system of viceregal New Spain is possible without an understanding of the part which the Catholic Church played in it.! The legal basis for this church-state relationship was the papal bulls which gave the Spanish sovereigns ecclesiastical authorization for the conquest and occupation of the Americas. Fundamentally, this ecclesiastical-civil relationship was based on a contractual agreement between the


Abstract : Cardiac output and mean arterial blood pressure measurements were performed on anesthetized dogs during exposure to bromotrifluoromethane. Left ventricular end diastolic pressure was recorded from anesthetized open-chested dogs and monkeys during exposure to CBrF3. A significant decrease in total peripheral resistance and myocardial contractility were shown to combine to produce a reversible hypotension during exposure to CBrF3.


Adequacy, nutrition, and clinical outcomes are three separate and independent aspects ofperi toneal dialysis (PD). They are related, one to the other, but perhaps not as closely as was once thought to be the case. Five years ago, a commonly cited unifying hypothesis was that inadequate clearance on dialysis was the major cause of malnutrition, typically expressed as hypoalbuminemia, and that this malnutrition in turn was the most powerful predictor of adverse outcomes in dialysis patients. Therefore, if higher clearances could be delivered, malnutrition could be re versed and outcomes substantially improved. It is clear that this hypothesis oversimplified a very complicated process. Inadequate dialysis is only one of many causes ofmalnutrition, and it is poorly related to hypoalbuminemia. Outcomes in PD will likely improve when clearances are increased, as appears to have been the case with hemodialysis (HD), but, as presently understood, increased clearances will not cure most malnutrition. If the high rates of morbid ity and mortality seen in dialysis patients are to be improved, a broader approach arising from a better understanding of the pathogenesis of malnutrition and adverse outcomes will be required. In this paper, major developments in these three areas of adequacy, nutrition, and outcomes since the last International Society ofPeritoneal Dialysis meeting in 1995 will be highlighted to put our present state of knowledge into perspective.


The aim of this paper is to analyze the new questionnaire designed by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) to evaluate its teaching staff (SET). To do it, the responses of a 941 students sample were analyzed and the following aspects of the questionnaire were studied: its reliability, dimensionality, construct and criterion validity; concluding with a differential study considering variables such as gender, disciplinary field, perceived difficulty level or subject interest. The results suggest high internal consistency that fits to the theorical dimensions: planning, process and results, enabling a formative use of information.


It is necessary to assess solid waste generation to identify the rate by which we generate waste. A rapid increase in solid waste generation constitutes a significant challenge for developing countries such as Malaysia. Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is the primary source of solid waste generated in Malaysia and covers 64% of the total waste composition. 45% of the average composition of Malaysian MSW is dominated by organic waste (e.g. food, vegetable and fruits). This is followed by recyclable waste (e.g. plastic, paper and metal) at 30% with the remaining made up of non-recyclable waste (e.g. polystyrene). The Fresh Market in Kundasang town, Sabah is a major contributor to the increase of organic waste generated in the Ranau district. As such, it has the potential to implement effective composting practices. This study was conducted to determine the total amount of organic waste generated as well as the organic waste generation rate in the Fresh Market. The sampling was conducted among 148 sellers in the Fresh Market over a period of two weeks (5th August - 18th August 2017). Total organic waste generation was 13,147.50kg, while the organic waste generation rate was 6.35kg/premise/day. The value for municipal solid waste generation recorded by Majlis Daerah Ranau (MDR) in three varied routes of Kundasang during August 2017 (Jalan Pekan Kundasang, Jalan Mesilou and Jalan Kota Kinabalu) were 17 tonnes, 15 tonnes and 13 tonnes respectively. This shows that the solid waste generated in Jalan Pekan Kundasang was the highest compare to Jalan Mesilou and Jalan Kota Kinabalu. This study presents the current status of organic waste generation which can serve as preliminary baseline information.


Ceramics of Bi1−xPrxFeO3 (x = 0–0.1) were fabricated using the nanocrystalline powders obtained via sol–gel route. X-ray powder diffraction studies confirmed that these belonged to rhombohedral perovskite structure associated with R3c space group. The dielectric properties of the ceramic samples as a function of frequency (100 Hz–10 MHz) and temperature (30 °C–250 °C) were studied. The dielectric constant increased while the loss decreased with the increase of Pr content. Dielectric dispersion in these samples was found to be poly dispersive Debye type relaxation as confirmed by invoking Cole–Cole relation. Impedance spectroscopy was employed to determine the electrical parameters associated with the grain and grain boundaries. Grain and grain boundary resistances were found to decrease with the increase of temperature for all the samples under study. The activation energies for the dielectric relaxation were evaluated by electric modulus spectra and these increase with the increase of Pr dopant level. The frequency dependent conductivity at various temperatures demonstrated the involvement of correlated barrier hopping conduction mechanism. The electrical conduction in these ceramics was ascribed to long and short range migration of oxygen ion vacancies as demonstrated by temperature dependent ac conductivity studies.


Chapter 1 describes the rise of universal banks in the U.S. during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Large commercial banks in New York and Chicago entered the securities business in the late nineteenth century by forming alliances with leading investment banks. In 1902, the federal regulator of national banks (the Comptroller of the Currency) told national banks that they could not underwrite or trade in securities except for government bonds. Large national banks evaded that prohibition by establishing securities affiliates. Securities affiliates of national banks survived challenges from the Justice Department, Congress, and the Comptroller of the Currency between 1911 and 1920. Universal banks and their securities affiliates prospered during the 1920s with the enthusiastic support of the Harding and Coolidge administrations. The survival and growth of universal banks during the early twentieth century demonstrated their ability to overcome political and regulatory obstacles.


We point out that, in the paper proposing Anisotropic Suspension Display, the electric fields were not estimated to be three orders of magnitude lower than required. We also point out that the angle‐of‐view problem is minor.


Almost all countries obtain significant and multidimensional challenges of COVID-19. Various countries possess varied responses and policies regarding COVID-19. Since the Indonesian government affirmed COVID-19 a national emergency on March 2, 2020, it is necessary to have official information that can be accessed by the public, which at that time did not yet have the Central Government Website. Moreover, the importance of the availability of public information/data contained in official online pages can be used by governments to formulate data-based policies. Jakarta is a pioneer in developing a government website related to COVID-19. This paper provides lessons learned from developing an official COVID-19 website of the Provincial Government of Jakarta. This paper outlines different aspects of developing an official COVID-19 website and an ideal solution to the challenges involved in developing one. This paper uses agile development methods as an evidence base to develop a website. The most interesting finding is that the corona website has been successful in attaining 27,569,404 visitors, 120 collaborators who donate 151,567 pcs of social aid. This finding confirms that this study provides a better understanding of common elements in building an official COVID-19 website. The no-nonsense method of developing an official COVID-19 website can be easily replicated and followed by other cities to consider the model in developing a similar website.


The subjects of research in this article are games in medieval polish cities. The purpose of this article is show how people relaxed in the middle ages in cities. The study focuses on games in the medieval polish cities. The main purpose in cities was work. People had different ways to spend free time. Games in the middle ages have seen as a gamble. Monks and priests thought that game comes from the devil. Games were present in taverns, baths. The most common games in medieval were cards, chess and cheekers. Adults played games with elements of competition for example tournaments, shooting competition or horse racing. In the middle ages authorities and church forbade game.


Introduction This panel continues the series of  Stiegler  themed panels mounted in previous Film and Philosophy conferences (London 2012, Warwick 2010, Bristol 2008).  Stiegler's work in becoming increasingly significant in film and media studies, philosophy and critical and cultural theory spheres and this panel seeks to consolidate and strengthen the film-philosophy community's engagement with his important interventions in the philosophical rethinking of film and media. The panel sets out to explore and extend principle aspects of  Stiegler's  account of film as ' mnemotechnical ' medium and the 'post-cinematic' digital forms that inherit and modify its particular characteristics. This account represents a substantial response, alternative and in some instances more or less explicit critique of major 'film philosophical' positions and approaches including phenomenological, analytical and Deleuzian  ones. Drawing on Kant, Husserl,  Leroi-Gourhan , Barthes and  Simondon , among others,  Stiegler  develops a systematic and significant reassessment of the nature and importance of cinematic media as well as a polemic about the  importance of coming to terms with the current trajectory of post-cinematic mediatisation. For Stiegler  this must be understood as having profound, global implications, not the least of which is t he overturning of the cultural  and historical coordinates through which the notion of the global, of the world – as the 'empyrean of the human '  – functions today  conceptually, culturally, politically, and so on. Paper Abstracts Patrick Cro gan:  Industrial  Technicity  and Global Cultural Transformation: Reposing the Question of the Future of World Cinema  in Bernard  Stiegler's Terms. T his paper  will examine from a fresh perspective recent  efforts  ( eg .  Najib , Martin-Jones, Mills)  to ( re)think  the transnational and transcultural aspects of film beyond static conceptions of ethnic or national cinema cultures or established binary oppositions like Hollywood and non-Hollywood.  Stiegler's  account of the  technicity of i ndustrial cultural production will be mobilized to address what I argue is  an underexplored theme in considerations of cinema's globa l diversity. Q uestion s  of the cultural and individual specificity of industrially produced objects  and their role in the future of cultural identity are tied up with the  technicity  of cinema as industrial form . With reference to  Achipatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century  (2006)  and Gaspar  Noe's Seul contre tous  [I Stand Alone] (1998 ) I will examine this theme of the industrial  technicity  of cinema.  The particular, the singular and idiomatic character of film must each be understood as arising from and composed with the 'global' industrial technics of cinema, and as part of the globalizing tendency born with industrial technology more generally.  I  will consider how these films  have something to say about the possibilities of cinema's negotiation of what  Stiegler  characterizes as the disorienting and  disindividuating  tendencies of contemporary  hyperindustrial technicity  and towards the prospect of what I propose to call , tentatively,  a post-territorial idiom. Ben Roberts : An 'exemplary contemporary technical object': thinking cinema between  Stiegler  and Hansen This paper looks at the arguments of Mark Hansen about cinematic temporality in Stiegler . It is through cinema as exemplary 'industrial temporal object' that  Stiegler demonstrates the technical constitution of time in  Technics and Time.  Turning Husserl's account on its head,  Stiegler  argues that primary retention is in fact derivative from forms of tertiary memory such as cinema. In '" Realtime  Synthesis" and the  Differance  of the Body' (2012) Hansen on the one hand sets out to defend  Stiegler  from 'certain ( Derridian ) detractors', arguing that his work can forge a path from cultural to  technocultural  studies. On the other hand, he argues that  Stiegler  gives the technical synthesis too large a role in th e construction of temporality. This is s omething that Hansen wants to correct by rooting it in embodiment. According to Hansen,  Stiegler  does not understand that retention is not just  a  (discrete) intentional act of consciousness but also the 'bodily production of the continuous' and therefore that we have to think the  technocultural  on the basis of embodiment and not vice versa. Cinematographic consciousness has to be rethought in terms of the 'body differential'. (In this sense the argument here is similar to Hansen's earlier critique of  Deleuze's  cinema as 'disembodying' the centre of indetermination  in Bergson). Modified in this way,  Stiegler's  work opens up a new way of thinking the 'transnational media system'. In this paper I examine critically Hansen's account and argue that he simplifies the nature of the difference between  Stiegler  and Derrida. I go on to argue that his appeal to embodiment as an apparently more primordial source of continuous temporality is in fact a retrogressive step and not, as Hansen presents it, an advance on  Stiegler's account. Marcel  Swiboda :  Diasporic  Memory and Disorientation: Critical Dialogues between Bernard  Stiegler  and Black Atlantic Audiovisual Culture With a mind to exploring some of the contemporary issues in need of address regarding the film-philosophy nexus in a globalising context, this paper will take as its case-based focus the  diasporic  films of the Ghanaian-born British filmmaker and artist John  Akomfrah , including his early collaborative experiments as part of the Black Audio Film Collective - notably  Handsworth  Songs  (1987) and also his more recent solo outings including  The Nine Muses  (2010) and  The Stuart Hall Project (2013) .  These cases will be considered in terms of their multivalent critical mobilisations and examinations of archive, memory and myth, by way of the work of the French philosopher, media theorist and activist Bernard  Stiegler , in an attempt to ascertain the prescience of some of his key concepts specific regard to Black Atlantic diasporic  film. The primary aim will be to unfold some of the critical implications of the concepts of ' mythogram ', ' orthogram ' and 'disorientation' (Bernard  Stiegler , Technics and Time  2 : Disorientation ,  2009 ) as conceptual vehicles for exploring the extent to which contemporary Western philosop hical discourse can enter into productive critical dialogue with the phenomenological and epistemic complexities and specificities pertaining to Black Atlantic cultural diaspora post-World War 2, sounded here through the filmic and televisual representations in the work of Akomfrah /the Black Audio Film Collective.


The cast shadows on the background of the object will distinctly affect the recognition of the foreground objects. Due to the limitation of shadow removal methods utilizing texture, a novel algorithm based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and HSV color space is proposed. Firstly, moving regions are detected using GMM. Secondly, we make two pre-classifiers accurate and adaptive to the change of shadow by using the features of shadow in RGB and HSV color space. Experimental results show that the proposed method is efficient and robust.


The use of power electronics has led to a growing importance of higher time-harmonic content in electrical machines. To gain insight in phenomena related to these higher harmonics, such as noise and losses, a good understanding of the magnetic field's harmonic content is mandatory. Moreover, the development of highly-accurate analytical models requires a qualitative knowledge of the machine's harmonic content. Therefore this work aims at studying the harmonic content of synchronous electrical machines. To do so the three aspects that determine the harmonic content of the machine's magnetic field are discussed: the excitation source, the stator-current density and the geometry. Based on that discussion, general expressions for the time- and spatial-harmonic combinations are formulated. These expressions are proven to be valid for a very broad range of synchronous machines.


BACKGROUND: Adherence with maintenance drug therapy such as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) is typically analyzed from the perspective of patient characteristics. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of physician and pharmacy characteristics in addition to patient characteristics on variation in adherence rates for 4 statin drugs (atorvastatin, pravastatin, rosuvastatin, and simvastatin) for patients who patronized only 1 pharmacy and 1 prescriber of a statin. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study of 6,436 patients who initiated statin therapy was performed from computerized pharmacy records of 2 large national pharmacy chains. Adherence was defined as the number of 30-day refills within 12 months after initiation of statin therapy. Physician, pharmacy, prescription, and patient covariates were considered in a cross-classified hierarchical regression model. RESULTS: The average number of refills dispensed was 4.75 per patient. Patients younger than 50 years had, on average, 13.6% fewer refills per year than did patients older than 70 years (P less than 0.001). Women were 4.4% less adherent than men (P=0.041). Patients residing in southern states were significantly less adherent than were other patients; they had 19.4% fewer refills per year than did patients from western states (P less than 0.001). Each prescription dispensed for comorbid conditions increased adherence by 2.0% (P=0.002), and patients with a history of cardiovascular drug use were 14.1% more adherent than were other patients (P less than 0.001). Patients on a higher statin dose appeared to be 8.4% less adherent than were patients on a lower dose (P less than 0.001). Adherence was greater as the number of prescribed refills increased, with a rate of 2.1% per refill (P less than 0.001). Adherence was lower for patients with higher copayments, with a rate of 2.2% per each additional $10 of copayment (P less than 0.001). For patients treated by physicians in the top 2.5 percentile and bottom 2.5 percentile of statin adherence, mean refill counts per year were 6.1 and 2.9, respectively. For patients who patronized pharmacies in the top 2.5 percentile and bottom 2.5 percentile of statin adherence, mean refill counts per year were 6.6 and 2.5, respectively. Adherence increased at a rate of 28.4% per each additional 100 statin patients per patronized pharmacy (P less than0.001) and decreased at a rate of about 6.5% per each additional 10 statin patients per treating physician (P less than 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Because of the variability in adherence rates across pharmacies and physicians, further assessment of pharmacy and physician characteristics in addition to patient characteristics may be of value in improving adherence.


Marxist analysis of wage labour and its contradictions in the capitalist mode of production provides the guiding framework for theoretical and empirical understanding of the emergence of the working class and its struggle in Africa. Shivji's book, Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania (1986) thoroughly documents the evolution of wage labour, its exploitation and struggle against colonial and immediate post colonial state in Tanganyika. Whereas this book had previously been reviewed by Gutkind (1987) and Nimtz (1989), the current work depart from these previous literature by employing Human resource Management, as an alternative theoretical approach for examining the influence of labor management in the process of proleritarianization in Africa and Tanzania in particular. Arguably, it was the introduction of human resource management practices and capitalist industrial exchange relations on Tanganyika pre-colonial socio-economic system that constituted to the emergence of the system of wage labour known today.


Gerda Boyesen died on 29 December 2005 after a long illness during which she continued to teach and gave talks as her health permitted. She was the founder of Biodynamic Psychology, a major branch of body psychotherapy, and is regarded as a significant pioneer of body psychotherapy. Gerda is survived by husband Dan, a strongly supportive stalwart, and her children Ebba, Mona-Lisa, and Paul who carry on her work. In my twenties, which coincided with the 1970s, I found my way by word of mouth, the way that things happened then, to the Centre for Biodynamic Psychology (also known as the Boyesen Centre) in West London. I was told that they offered a 3-year training programme which involved the ''body and energies.'' At the time I was working in a psychiatric hospital and wanted to extend my capacity to work with those who had mental health problems. I had little idea of the world that I was entering and how it would change my life. I first set eyes on Gerda at a selection for training weekend. She was wearing a characteristic, long flowing dress with very large, dramatic earrings and extravagant makeup. She immediately commanded attention and was charismatic. This was not my idea of a director of a training institute and I had


TRACES of Aeschylus and Sophocles are few and far between in the sixth century after Christ (cf. Schmid-Stahlin, Gesch. Gr. Lit. i. 2 [1934], 304 f., 504 f.), and on the face of it a backwater like Epirus is not the first place in which one might have expected to find any even in more propitious days. Hence the following dedication, set up in Apollonia in the mid sixth century, deserves more attention than it has so far received:


The invention provides a protection strategy for operating and controlling a hybrid power gearbox oil pump drive motor. The protection strategy is applicable to a hybrid power vehicle hydraulic system. The hydraulic system comprises the oil pump motor providing power for a hydraulic executing system, a coupler connected with the oil pump motor, a pressure sensor connected with an energy accumulator, a temperature sensor for collecting oil temperature, a control unit and the like. The oil pump motor is connected with the coupler and provides power for an oil pump through the coupler. The control unit collects oil temperature and pressure in real time through the temperature sensor and the pressure sensor. By the protection strategy, the on and off time of the oil pump motor is calculated, and on and off control signals are transmitted to the oil pump motor.


Strained In,Ga,_,As/GaAs superlattices have been grown on GaAs(lOO) substrates using a metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) apparatus. Fabricated heterostructures have been investigated by the selected area XPS depth profiling technique. The measurements have been carried out using optimized Ar+ ion sputtering conditions. The width of the heterointerfaces has been studied after correction of the experimental profiles (In3ds,2, Ga2ps/2 and Auger Ga LMM, In MNN peaks) for the influence of electron escape depth. The linear dependence of depth resolution AZ on the sputtering depth, caused by sputtering induced surface roughening, is determined from experimental profiles. The initial depth resolution AZ z 3 nm is degraded to AZ z 8nm at depth z x 100nm. Quantitative depth profiles of the investigated heterointerfaces are derived using calibrated elemental sensitivity factors and ion sputtering rates. The results are found to be in good agreement with X-ray diffractometry and transmission electron microscopy data.


Merapi has become the most active volcano in Indonesia. The last
period of eruption of Merapi Volcano was occurred from October 26
th
until
November 5
th
. The VEI value of the last eruption is four which describes the big
and explosive type of eruption. Approximately 130 million m
3
of volcanic material
was released from the eruption and affecting surrounding environment especially
farming activities. The purpose of this study is to measure and to analyse the
impact of Merapi Volcano eruption to the farming activities.
DaLA (Damage and Loss Assessment) method which developed by
ECLAC is used within this study to measure the value of damage and loss of
impacted farming activities. Several components used in this method are changes
in the farming area and changes in the amount of farming production between
pre- and post-eruption period.
The results of this study show that most of the farming areas were
impacted partially, which located in the centre and the south part of study area.
Meanwhile, the total impacted farming area mostly located on the north part of
the study area. From the other aspect, the percentage of loss suffered by farming
activities ranging from 70 to 100 %. The high percentage of loss mostly found on
plantation which located on the north part of study area.


In this paper, I will try to present an overview of the Tamil diasporic communities of the French islands (Guadeloupe, Martinique and La Reunion) and the functions of the Tamil language. The communities of Tamil descent of these French islands migrated from South India some 150 years ago under the colonial powers. These islands are basically multilingual and multicultural. French is the official language whereas, French-lexified creoles are used as vernacular and medium of every day communication. The Tamil diasporic communities are part of such a complex sociolinguistic context. Isolated from their land of origin for more than a century, the Tamil diasporic communities reflect the intricate relation between identity construction and retention of ancestral language and culture. In this paper I will discuss about 1) Social dimensions of language use and the substitution of Tamil, 2) The emergence of Tamil as a "sacred language", 3) Weakening of traditional Tamil rituals in the context of Brahmanic Hindu religious globalisation, and 4) The process of cultural and linguistic re-appropriation by the Tamil diasporic communities.


The mild conditions allow high conversions in a short time and the α-isomers are obtained as main or exclusive products.


Abstract : 1-Dichlorophospha-3,5-perfluoro-n-heptyl (or perfluoroalkylether)-2,4,6-tri azines were synthesized by interaction of imidoylamidines with phosphorus pentachloride. In a parallel approach, 1,3-bis(phenylchlorophospha)-5-perfluoroalkyl (or perfluoroalkylether)-2,4,6-triazines were obtained from the reaction of amidines with imido-diphenyl-diphosphinic acid pentachloride. Replacement of chlorine by thiophenyl and azido groups proceeded readily. Di-(phenylchlorophospha)-s-triazine was found to undergo further reaction with amidine in a 1:2 ratio. The existence of stereo-isomerism was indicated. The thiophenyl-substituted phospha-s-triazines functioned as corrosion and oxidation inhibitors in perfluoroalkylether fluids; however, their thermal and thermal oxidative stability was lower than that of the phenyl analogues. Both the mono- and diphospha-s-triazines were completely degraded in 24 hr at 316 C in nitrogen; diphenylsulfide was one of the major products. Mass spectral analysis of the phenyl-free phospha-s-triazines revealed that the specific breakdown patterns are ring specific not phenyl-substituent dependent. Perfluoro-n-octanonitrile was found to react with aniline both in the absence and presence of solvents. Treatment of perfluoro-n-octanonitrile with phenylphosphine gave tetraphenyltetraphosphine and a spectrum of reduction and interaction products of perfluorooctanonitriles, as well as phenylphosphine addition compounds.


The design of filters is a core problem in signal processing.MATLAB software is widely used in many research fields.This article introduces the method of using window function to design FIR digital filters based on MATLAB and its differences from the traditional design methods.And it gives a design example.The simulation shows that the design results can meet the requirements very well and the design procedure is very simple and practical.


A novel method for designing linear-phase two-dimensional (2D) FIR (finite impulse response) digital filters is presented. The method is based on minimizing an appropriately defined least-squares error function taken over the continuous passband and stopband frequency regions. The optimization problem reduces to that of computing the eigenvector corresponding to the minimum eigenvalue of a real symmetric and positive definite matrix. For symmetric fan filters, a closed-form solution is obtained that leads to a simple design procedure for this class of filters. The design method is general enough to incorporate both time- and frequency-domain constraints.<<ETX>>


An enterprise group is an organizational fo rm different from general enterprises,and its human capital investment has its sp ecial characters and factors of influence. Whether the decision making of human capital is correct or not relates to the existence and development of an enterpr ise group. It is very important to seek correct decision-making methods and ways . The paper puts forward a new decision-making model of human capital investment based on fuzzy sets and analyzes its practical use.$$$$


The article deals with the problem of pedagogical conditions for putting o practice interactive methods of teaching in primary-school classes. The ways of improving the lesson, which are in the close interrelation with the organizational forms of younger schoolchildren learning activities in modern didactics are shown.


An 8.5-km (5-mile) conveyor has gone into operation in western Turkey to economically transport crushed lignite from the mine area to a power plant. This conveyor has replaced trucks as the principal mode of transporting the lignite. One principal element of Turkish government policy is the country's commitment to increase electricity supplies for mining and other industries. Lignite is an important source of electric power supply in Turkey. Production was about 48 Mt (53 million st) in 1987, amounting to more than 20% of the total power supply in Turkey. In the western Anatolia supply network, it plays a major role for power generation. Deposits are located in the Soma region of western Turkey. The lignite is of low quality, deposits are scattered, and the terrain is difficult and hilly. These conditions demand an economical and technically feasible method of transporting the raw material from mining areas to the central thermal power plant. The Soma power plant is located about 120 km (75 mile) northeast of Izmir, near the coast of Aegean Sea.


Objective: The objective of the research was the preparation and evaluation of methotrexate nanoemulsion to improve its solubility, permeability, and bioavailability. Methods: The formulation components were selected based on the solubility study, and the pseudo-ternary phase diagrams were constructed by the aqueous phase titration method. Result and discussion: The prepared nanoemulsions were exposed to several thermodynamic stability studies and then to many characterizations tests for the selection of the best formulation. F 11 is the best formula since it has a 57 nm globule size, 0.21 polydispersity index, +23.67 zeta potential, and 99.57% light transmittance. FTIR study confirmed no incompatibility between drug and excipients. Conclusion: F 11 was a promising nanoemulsion formula that improved methotrexate permeability and bioavailability.


The Advent Of Social Media Has No Doubt Liberated The Communication Space, Deepened Participatory Democracy And Granted Citizens Platform To Ventilate Their Anger On National And Important Discourse. Twitter Have Gained Prominence In Recent Years Because Of Nature And Quality Of Information Available On Them. Policy Statements That Are Sourced On The Conventional Media Are Replete On Twitter. However, The Platform Has Also Become Breeding Ground For Obfuscation Of Many Absurdities. Therefore, This Study Investigates The Prevalence Of Hate Speech On Twitter In Nigeria From 2015 To 2019. Using Twitter Api As Data Mining Method, The StudyContent Analyzed The Mined Tweets By Categorizing The Tweets Under Political, Religious, Ethnic, Region, Gender And Disability Categories. Findings Of The Study Show That Hate Speech On Twitter Is More Frequent During The Electioneering Years. Also, Unverified Handles On Twitter Tend To Tweet More Hate Speech Than The Verified Handles. Findings Show That Twitter Users Tend To 'Like' Hate Tweets Than 'Retweet' Them. Similarly, Political Hate Speeches Are Dominant On Twitter. The Study Therefore Recommend For Regulatory Legislation On Hate Speech Within The Confinement Of Freedom Of Speech In Order Not To Infringe On The Fundamental Human Right Of The People.


Environmental arts design,based on the modern environmental research, is a newly interdisciplinary subject,which closely keeps in touch with the strategy of sustainable development.In order to adapt to the development of industry,the talents in the environmental art design should possess applied capability.So three steps in training applied talents should be taken as follows: changing the teaching concept in the course system,optimizing the content of practice training and reforming the methods of practice training,strengthening teaching resources.


Application monitoring the ow of goods is made by using Oracle 9i and MS. Visual Basic 6.0. manufacture of goods ow control application is started by learning the- ories are used. After that process is continued by knowing the processes that are running, the rules a regulatory ling in the manufacture of barcode, the relationship between the process with the existing data store, designed the database to be used, design the interface and the output of the ap- plication and perform program coding. The nal stage of manufacture of goods ow control applications is carried out tests of the program to determine program results. Appli- cation monitoring the ow of goods is made by using the method of the ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). This applica- tion also uses the Microsoft ODBC driver for Oracle's ap- plication to control the ow of goods and Oracle 9i database can interact with each other. Penamaan File: 50400038


Smart computing has a big role to play in the development of the smart cities. The advanced networking paradigms such as programmable and virtual networks, growth in communication technologies like 5G, and use of advanced computing infrastructure such as fog/edge/cloud computing can all contribute in the applications related to smart cities. With the penetration of Internet of things (IoT) devices in smart city applications, smart computing has become all the more relevant in terms of managing and processing the data. The applications in smart cities can be computing‐intensive, network‐intensive, disk‐intensive, data‐intensive etc., which require different solution sets in order to effectively solve the issues pertaining to these applications. The computing and communication aspects in smart computing are of great relevance in the wider domain of smart cities, which consists of smart metering, smart homes, smart building, smart industries, connected vehicles, and tackles various problems ranging from data reporting to providing smart services. Hence, the aim of this special issue is to bring together researchers working in the broad area of smart cities using smart computing. A number of authors from the 2nd International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities were invited to expand and submit their papers to this special issue alongside papers received from our open call for papers. The summary of each paper is provided below. Please read the full papers if you are interested in more details. Nassar and Simon, in their paper 'Wavelet‐attention‐based traffic prediction for smart cities', proposed a wavelet‐attention based traffic prediction system to predict the temporal correlations between the traffic flow and the weather factors, so as to reduce the traffic congestion problem in smart cities. Often the traffic is affected by external factors, such as weather, which makes traffic prediction more complicated. Their proposed paper modelled the interactions between traffic and these external factors such as temperature, visibility, wind speed, rain, and humidity, based on which the important features are then calculated and compared to each other to get the attention weights that describe the importance of each external factor on traffic. Fitwi et al., in their paper 'Lightweight frame scrambling mechanisms for end‐to‐end privacy in edge smart surveillance', investigated a very interesting and timely problem of smart surveillance and provided a lightweight frame scrambling mechanism for ensuring end‐to‐end privacy in such systems. The authors rightly pointed out that existing cryptographic schemes are computationally expensive if data is to be processed at the resource constrained network edge devices. Keeping this in mind, they designed a lightweight sine‐cosine chaotic map solution for enciphering frames at edge cameras and ran dynamic chaotic image enciphering scheme in real time at the edge along with a lightweight region of interest masking scheme to ensure the privacy of sensitive attributes such as face in the surveillance feeds. Dudeja et al., in their paper 'An optimal content indexing approach for named data networking in software‐defined IoT system', touched upon another important aspect of smart cities, that is, Internet of things (IoT). To fulfil the demand by allowing the content to be directly addressable and routable, the authors leveraged a content‐centric networking‐based named data networking technique in the IoT ecosystem. The authors proposed a novel content storage/indexing approach for the selection of appropriate nodes and red‐black tree‐based content storage and retrieval from the available caching memory to work on the software‐defined controller deployed over the named data network. The papers in this special issue shed light on different aspects of smart computing in smart cities. We would like to thank the authors for submitting their work to this special issue, reviewers for timely review and suggesting improvement comments, and the editorial team of IET Smart Cities for smooth handling of the whole process.


The government of Kim Dae Jung in the Republic of Korea has made its mark by initiating a sea change in relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north, nearly five decades after the breakdown in relations following the North's invasion of the South. Taking the new government's shifts in policy as a starting point, Dr Yang Sung Chul discusses the ROK's perspective on the regional security environment, and the continuing harsh conditions in North Korea, especially the serious food shortages. He explores the different aspects of the government's new security policy, highlighting the importance of the country's on‐going relationship with the United States, increased engagement with the North and regional cooperation initiatives. The ROK faces two major challenges: the long‐term question of unification, and the more immediate and difficult financial crisis, both of which, Dr Yang concludes, given the new government's wide‐spread support, and the goodwill and help of the international com...


Abstract The lethal neurotoxins, paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs), and tetrodotoxin (TTX) have recently been found in marine shellfish from many coastal states. Herein, we applied a sensitive and reliable ultra-performance hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC)-tandem mass spectrometry (MS) method to determine 13 PSTs and TTX in marine shellfish using a porous carbon solid-phase extraction (SPE). This in-house validation study required the development of a novel chromatographic separation using a HILIC-Z column, which was necessary to retain highly polar compounds. Using acetonitrile as the organic phase and ammonium formate-formic acid buffer as the aqueous phase, the quantitative analysis was carried out with an external standard method in the multiple reaction monitoring modes using positive electrospray ionization. To reduce interference, 1% aqueous acetic acid extracts of the shellfish samples were cleaned up by ion-pair SPE using a porous graphitic carbon cartridge. The calibration curves for PSTs and TTX were linear (R 2 > 0.995), and the sensitivity was good, with limits of detection (LODs) of 1.7–13.7 µg/kg, and limits of quantitation (LOQs) of 5.2–41.0 µg/kg. The recoveries were 76.5–95.5% with RSDs of 3.1–12.0%. Finally, We applied the method for the determination of PSTs and TTX in three batches of Nassarius showing excellent method accuracy against expected values.


Objective: To study the effect of denervated muscle extract on soleus in rats. Methods: 40 rats were divided into five groups randomly. Normal muscle extract (NME) and denervated muscle extract (DME) were obtained respectively from five normal soleus and five soleus denervated 5 days beforehand. The extract from denervated muscle was intraperitoneally injected in rats everyday. Meanwhile, the rats from control group were injected in the same way with normal saline. After six days, all the rats were killed and the histochemistrical and morphometric analyses of the soleus were performed. Results: The diameter and cross section area of the muscular fibers in animals that were given intraperitoneal injection of extract from denervated muscle were remarkably larger than those in control group,or rats that receive the extract from normal muscle(P0.05). Vigorous regeneration of muscular fibers was observed in the soleus from the rats treated with denervated muscular extract. Conclusion: Hypertrophy and regeneration of muscular fibers caused by DME may berelated to the changes of secretion and metabolism in muscle from denervated rats.


Aim: This research aimed to determine whether supplemental nutrition is useful to the well-being of pediatric patients or in improving their effectiveness of nutritional status and overall health. Moreover, we also examined whether nutritional supplements can be used to treat malnutrition in pediatric patients. Method: The study involved 200 children aged 5-10 years (affected pediatric patients). Before the trial began, none of the subjects had taken vitamin B6 supplement. Parameters like, height, weight, and bone density were assessed. Statistical analysis was done by IBM SPSS 25.0. Result: Treatment with the vitamin B6 supplement went well in most cases, and dosages were gradually increased to achieve the highest level of benefit for individual patients. Vitamin levels rose, indicating better adherence and absorption. Because of the dramatic rise in weight and height showed a significant (p<0.005) effect on the afflicted children. After taking vitamin supplements orally, bone density steadily increased. Conclusion: Oral vitamin B6 supplementation has a positive effect on children's nutritional and metabolic health. The result shows that for the majority of malnourished children, taking a vitamin supplement is an acceptable supplementary treatment.


The existence of Colo Volcano on the southwest side of the North Arm of Sulawesi Magmatic Arc show evidence of evolutionary difference plate under Tomini Bay. Colo Volcanism activity indicated a product of slab rollback final extension of the Gulf Gorontalo. This study aims to investigate the alterated vulcanic rocks of the Colo Volcano. In this study, petrographic analysis is used to determine mineral composition based on petroscopic. Several lava and pyroclastic outcrops, indicating an alteration of the Colo Volcano product. The analysis showed andesite lava on gray-green thin incisions, subhedral-anhedral shape, mineral composition consist of hornblende (10%), biotite (10%), quartz (15%), pyroxene (10%), orthoclase (10%), Plagioclase (10%), opaque minerals (20%) and glasses (15%). The Orthoclase, is white-blueish-gray, orthorhombic, low cleavage, twinning altered look. Locally shows colorless-blue-grayish, subhedral-anhedral shape, mineral composition consisting of hornblende (10%), biotite (10%), quartz (50%), pyroxene (5%), orthoclase (5%), opaque minerals (15%) and glasses (5%). It might consist of cholorotisation of biotite. The lava exposed on Mount Ambu shows the presence of smectite alteration and pyrite mineralization, on thin incisions including blue-gray-brown, subhedral-anhedral shape, mineral composition consist of hornblende (10%), biotite (5%), quartz (10%), Olivine (5%), plagioclase (20%), orthoclase (15%), opaque minerals (15%) and glasses (20%). Key Word : Petrography, Colo Volcano, Indonesia, volcanic rock, alteration.


The 2017 Microblog Cultural Contextualization task consists in three challenges: (1) Content Analysis, (2) Microblog search, and (3) TimeLine illustration. This paper describes the use of cosine similarity, which is characterized by the comparison of similarity between two vectors of an inner product space. This research used two approaches: (1) word2vec and (2) Bag-of-Words (BoW) for extracting all relevant tweets to each event related to the four festivals: Charrues, Transmusicales, Avignon and Edinburgh.


In previous studies, an air-blocking shelf has been shown to be successful in reducing respirable dust leakage from the drill shroud in a laboratory setting. Dust reductions of up to 81% were achieved with the shelf under operating conditions consisting of a 1.9:1 collector-to-bailing airflow ratio and a 5.1-cm gap between the shroud and ground. Recent research focused on evaluating the shelf on two actual operating blasthole drills, in much more severe environments. In the field, the shelf reduced dust levels in the areas surrounding one operating blasthole drill by 70%. Dust reductions measured in the immediate vicinity of the shroud were reduced by 66% at one mine and 81% at the other mine. These field tests confirm that the air-blocking shelf is useful for reducing respirable dust generation from blasthole drills.


An electromagnetic plunger-cylinder device including two alternately energized solenoid coils wound about the cylinder to reciprocate the plunger therewithin, the inner end of one coil being wrapped around the inner end of the other coil, thereby to control the stroke or air gap of the plunger.


A satellite's absolute attitude and angular rate are both im portant measurements for satellite missions that require navigation. Typically, th ese measurements have been made by separate sensors, with star cameras being used to determi ne a satellite's absolute attitude, and gyroscopes being used as the primary rate sensors. Recent ly, there have been multiple efforts to measure both of these quantities using only the st ar camera, however the work primarily involves solutions where the optical sensor and t he unit that processes the images are separate integrated circuits. Operation in this modali ty requires the use of chip to chip communication in order to estimate angular rate from star tr acker images, which can lead to an increase in system power, a degradation in performance , d increased latency. The goal of this thesis is to consolidate the sensing and process ing into a single integrated circuit. The design and simulation of a digital processing u it that estimates angular rate and facilitates the realization of image sensor and process r integration is presented. The processing unit is implemented in UMC's 130 nm process, has an area of 10 mm × 200 μm, and consumes 8.253 mW of power.


1. 3-Hydroxypropylmercapturic acid has been identified in the urine of rats dosed with cyclophosphamide, isophosphamide, and trilophosphamide and was isolated as its dicyclohexylammonium salt from the urine of rats dosed with cyclophosphamide.2. Rats excreted in their urine 55·5% of the 14C of an i.p. dose (200 mg/kg) of [4-14C]cyclophosphamide during the first 24 h after administration, and a further 6·6% during the subsequent 24 h. Of the total radioactivity excreted during the first 24 h, unchanged cyclophosphamide represented 19·3% or less, 41·6% was due to the major metabolite, carboxyphosphamide, and 3-hydroxypropylmercapturic acid represented 11·9%. The 14C label in the mercapturic acid was located in the S-substituent.3. 3-Hydroxypropylmercapturic acid was the only sulphur-containing metabolite of cyclophosphamide found in the blood and liver of rats, but 3-hydroxy[14C]propylmercapturic acid and S-(3-hydroxy[14C]propyl)-L-cysteine were tentatively identified in the bile of a rat dosed with [14C]cy...


The present invention manufactured at a lower cost to the stator are two coil star is driven in the winding method is composed of a one-piece two-phase full-wave driving method, a very simple and at the same time the structure suppressing the torque ripple and remove the loss of unnecessary coils in a two-phase it is available on the star winding manner integral stator and Biel, DC (BLDC) motor using the same. BLDC motors of the present invention each of the plurality of protrusions and the plurality of being wound in a star shape comprising parts of the groove, together with a predetermined phase difference (θ) disposed with the first and second and the stator consisting of a stator coil, the stator in the axial direction as is has a predetermined air-cost with a gap supported by a shaft at least one disk-shaped multi-pole rotor, each the same phase difference and the phase difference between the first and second stator coils disposed in the stator to detect the magnetic pole of the rotor is the rotating first and second position detection by means of the said first and second response to the stimulus detection of the position detection means consists of a drive control means for driving the first and second stator coil, the phase difference (θ) for is characterized in that it is set to θ = 360 / 2P ± 360 / P (where P is the rotor pole numbers).


In a CMAJ research letter, Norman Epstein described 8 patients with acute muscle spasm.[1][1] The diagnosis appears to have been based on subjective measurements of range of motion and pain; Epstein did not state how range of motion and tenderness were measured.

There is no proof that pain


Summary Para-aminobenzoic acid has anti-gray-hair activity in the nutritional achromotrichia of the mouse. It is a dietary factor necessary for the demonstration of the anti-alopecia effect of inositol.


© 2015 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. The aim of the present paper is to elucidate the transition from collective to random behavior exhibited by various mathematical models of bird flocking. In particular, we compare Vicsek's model [Vicsek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1226-1229 (1995)] with one based on topological considerations. The latter model is found to exhibit a first order phase transition from flocking to decoherence, as the "noise parameter" of the problem is increased, whereas Vicsek's model gives a second order transition. Refining the topological model in such a way that birds are influenced mostly by the birds in front of them, less by the ones at their sides and not at all by those behind them (because they do not see them), we find a behavior that lies in between the two models. Finally, we propose a novel mechanism for preserving the flock's cohesion, without imposing artificial boundary conditions or attractive forces.


These notes are an extended version of lecture notes prepared for the 3-hour mini-course "An introduction to cyclic Higgs bundles and complex variation of Hodge structures" that the author gave at University of Illinois at Chicago.


Our paper is a complement to a recent article by D. Azagra and C. Mudarra (2021). We show how older results on semiconvex functions with modulus $\omega$ easily imply extension theorems for $C^{1,\omega}$-smooth functions on super-reflexive Banach spaces which are versions of some theorems of Azagra and Mudarra. We present also some new interesting consequences which are not mentioned in their article, in particular extensions of $C^{1,\omega}$-smooth functions from open quasiconvex sets. They proved also an extension theorem for $C_{\mathrm B}^{1,+}$-smooth functions (i.e., functions with uniformly continuous derivative on each bounded set) on Hilbert spaces. Our version of this theorem and new extension results for $C^{1,+}$ and $C_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,+}$-smooth functions (i.e., functions with uniformly, resp. locally uniformly continuous derivative), all of which are proved on arbitrary super-reflexive Banach spaces, are further main contributions of our paper. Some of our proofs use main ideas of the article by D. Azagra and C. Mudarra, but all are formally completely independent on their article.


The effects of wild game feeding have been widely investigated, but little consideration has been given to it in Hungary. Feeding places for capturing and shooting wild boar (so-called bait sites) are spreading in some regions and they have a growing impact on vegetation. The aim of our study was to assess the extent of weed invasion in two different aspects. For this purpose, we selected two types of bait sites, located in forest and clearing areas, in the Mátra Landscape Protection Area. Four transects were arranged from the centre of the bait sites, each consisting of 22 1×1m quadrats, where vegetation surveys were carried out in May and August 2016, 2018. The results revealed a stress gradient along the transects: the proportion of weeds decreased further from the centre, while indigenous plant species increased. Bait sites in clearing areas were most invaded by weeds, possibly due to its greater accessibility. Here we detected a significant difference between plant communities as T4 weeds dominated in August. Conversely, bait sites in the forest were less weedy with similar vegetation states between the two surveys which had a sparse understory cover.


Introduction: Diabetic foot is a common problem in this part of the country. In patients with diabetic foot and pressure ulcers, early intervention with biological therapy will either halt progression or result in rapid healing of these chronic wounds. So here we compare the effectiveness of hydrogel dressing versus conventional dressings in the healing of diabetic foot ulcerations in terms of healing rate, safety, and patient satisfaction.
Material and methods: Prospective case–control study enrolling 40 patients, divided into two groups. Cases (patients treated with hydrogel) and Controls (patients treated with conventional dressings), with an equal number of patients in each group over 12 months period. Diabetic foots were treated until wound closure, either spontaneously, surgically, or until completion of the 8-week period.
Result: 85% study and 90% control group patients were between the age of 41–70 years. Male to female ratio in study group and control group was 2.33:1 and 4:1 respectively. Duration of stay, amputation rates were statistically significantly reduced as compared to control and after 8 weeks of dressing. In study group complete responders were 80% and in control group 30% patients were complete responders.
Conclusion: Hydrogel dressings appear to be more effective, safe, and patient satisfactory compared to conventional dressings for the treatment of Diabetic foot.


This thesis discuss about the implementation of land procurement for toll construction to realizing the act no. 2 of 2012 in Malang. This procurement raises a problem which causing society cant receive compensation. That problem occurs because the value of compensation isn't commensurate with cost which society spent before the land acquisition happened. Empirical approach is used for solve this problem. The writing is do with basic study litelature and interview. The result of research on the implementation of land procurement. hasn't been implemented maximally. That was caused an error from assessment team who calculate the value of compensation. That error causing misunderstandings between the parties who has right and the assessment committe and also excecutive committe. The completion of the implementation of restitution begins with discussion between the assessment committe and society. If the discussion didn't successful, then the completion can did with consignment in court.


A conceptual engineering approach for low cost management of production water from coal bed methane recovery wells is presented. The approach is applicable for production water that contains no toxic contaminants, but contains total dissolved solids (TDS) at concentrations that present potential receiving stream impacts. The management approach consists of production water containment during critical stream low flow periods, followed by controlled release into receiving streams during periods of high flows. Environmentally acceptable receiving stream TDS concentrations, and methods for estimating a design low flow regime, and allowable discharge rates and associated storage requirements are assessed.


A simulation study was carried out for a separable fish stock assessment model including commercial and survey catch-at-age and effort data. All catches are considered stochastic variables subject to sampling and process variations. The results showed that the Bayes estimator of spawning biomass is a useful but slightly biased estimator for which the frequentist variance can be estimated by the posterior variance. Comparisons further show that the Bayes estimator is better than the maximum likelihood in the sense that it is less biased and, surprisingly, has a much lesser variance. The catch simulations were based on the North Sea plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) stock and fishery data.


A game engine is a computational tool that consists of general purpose codes for game development, which provides features for rendering and audio, techniques for artificial intelligence and physics, among many other functionalities. In general, scenario editors and script languages are also available. Just as the automotive industry can take advantage of the design of an engine, different games can reuse the same game engine, making the development process simpler and faster. The focus of this project is the development of a rendering engine, since this is one of the most important component of a game engine. C++ programming language and OpenGL graphics package were used to build a Voxel Game Engine (or Block Engine). Height maps were generated procedurally using Perlin noise, as well as the creation of two types of camera: (i) first person (FPS camera) through perspective projection and (ii) isometric camera by means of isometric projection. In addition, the project allowed the interaction with the map to generate new blocks on those already generated.


Copyright © 2015 ISCA. The form of hidden activation functions has been always an important issue in deep neural network (DNN) design. The most common choices for acoustic modelling are the standard Sigmoid and rectified linear unit (ReLU), which are normally used with fixed function shapes and no adaptive parameters. Recently, there have been several papers that have studied the use of parameterised activation functions for both computer vision and speaker adaptation tasks. In this paper, we investigate generalised forms of both Sigmoid and ReLU with learnable parameters, as well as their integration with the standard DNN acoustic model training process. Experiments using conversational telephone speech (CTS) Mandarin data, result in an average of 3.4% and 2.0% relative word error rate (WER) reduction with Sigmoid and ReLU parameterisations.


Abstract: Semantic web technologies are gaining momentum in the WoT (Web of Things) community for its promising ability to manage the increasing semantic heterogeneity between devices (Semantic Web of Things, SWoT). However, most of the approaches rely on ad-hoc and static knowledge models (ontologies) designed for specific domains and applications. While it is a solution for handling the semantic heterogeneity issue, it offers no perspective in term of ontology evolution over time. We study in this poster several approaches allowing: (1) to handle the semantic heterogeneity issue; (2) to capitalize the knowledge contributions throughout the life of the system allowing it to potentially better assist people in their environment over time. One of the approaches is validated on a real use-case. Key-words: Semantic web of things (SWoT); Knowledge modelling; Knowledge capitalization, Ambient services selection. 1 Laboratoire I3S –Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis firstname.lastname@example.com


A study of the off-axis Gaussian beam propagation through an inhomogeneous planar optical waveguide with hyperbolic secant refractive index profile is carried out using the model of Kogelnik and Li. Beam half-width evolution with refractive index parameters, wavelength and displacement of the Gaussian beam from the axis is analysed. Similarly, a comparison with beam propagation in square-law media is presented.


Liquid Membrane (LM) based processes, as Supported Liquid Membranes (SLMs), have been proposed, for over 30 years, as effective methods for the selective separation of inorganic/organic species from different water streams. The industrial use of SLMs has been limited mainly by their insufcient stability. To investigate on the main cause of system destabilization and the optimal conditions for mass transport, a good reference system is the traditional SLM. To this aim the recovery of neodymium (Nd) from acidic media by a traditional SLM has been studied, giving particular attention to permeation and stability. The results clearly evidenced that system stability was strongly influenced by the solubilization of the carrier in the aqueous phases. The consideration and the experimental results reported in this work give useful information to shift the next research step versus the development of a 2nd generation of SwLM able to give satisfactory system performance in view of industrial application, such as Nd as well as rare earth elements or salt recovery from aqueous media.


In general thrips pest species are difficult to control. This is especially true for Western Flower Thrips (WFT), Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Thus, the most recommended management tool is through the use of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), i.e. by combination of different control strategies. A good example is the combination of different predatory antagonists with entomopathogenic fungi or nematodes, which could help to obtain synergistic effects, covering gaps in efficacy and reliability on single antagonistic species. Among the most successful antagonists of this pest are the predatory mite Amblyseius cucumeris (Acarina: Phytoseiidae) and the predatory bug Orius laevigatus (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae), both targeted on plant-dwelling developmental stages (EBSSA et al., 2006) and Hypoaspis aculeifer (Canestrini) (Acarina: Laelapidae), targeted on soil-dwelling developmental stages of thrips (BERNDT et al., 2004). Additionally, several studies report on entomopathogenic fungi, i.e. Beauveria bassiana (Bals.), Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.), and Paecilomyces fumosoroseus (Wize), as efficient thrips antagonists (JACOBSON et al., 2001). Unfortunately, these fungi are generalists and therefore potentially able to infect non-target insects or mites, like predatory antagonists (HOLDER and KEYHANI, 2005). However, the virulence of different EPF strains shows considerably variation and therefore it is necessary to screen for negative impacts on each particular insect/mite species.


The exact solutions of the linear Pochhammer-Chree equation for propagating harmonic waves in a cylindrical rod, are analyzed. Limiting velocities of the Pochhammer-Chree waves are discussed. Spectral analysis of the matrix dispersion equation for longitudinal axially symmetric modes of the Pochhammer-Chree waves is performed. Analytical expressions for displacement fields are derived.


This was a community-based, double-blind, randomized, controlled therapeutic trial undertaken at the municipality of Roxas to determine the efficacy, safety and tolerability of triclabendazole (10 mg/kg, single dose) versus praziquantel (25 mg/kg, three times daily) for three days at 30, 60, and 90 days posttreatment. This study concludes that triclabendazole administered at 10 mg/kg single dose has comparable efficacy, safety, and tolerability with praziquantel 25 mg/kg given three times a day for three


ISFOL, Bastianelli M., Di Francesco G., Giancola O., Roma F., The PIAAC Italy Survey. Intervento a "Competence 2016 Wageningen. International Conference on competence theory, research and practice", Wageningen, 19-21 ottobre 2016. Isfol OA:


Some dispersion relations are derived directly from governing equations of sound in air.The properties of the dispersion relations at low frequency and VHF are investigated respectively through simplification.


Marriage and labor immigration is one of the key demographic trends in Korea that provides insight for understanding cultural beliefs and attitudes...


One represented data on infection rates among birds attributed to family Anatidae in the periods of spring and autumn migrations and related those values with infection of domestic poultry.


Graphical user interface (GUI) element permits a user to control the application due to the rough manner, and fine way how the both. When matching the moved display a GUI element in the cursor or overlapping, to be made of a rapid change to the target parameter (e. G., The displayed zoom level, image rotation or playback volume) parameters adjusted to the particle size a first (coarse) the achieved. When the cursor is moved away from the displayed GUI, it is made as a second (fine) adjustment parameters as the particle size to be fine changes to the target parameter. In one embodiment, the longer move further away from the GHI element the cursor is displayed, the control becomes more fine. Graphical user interface (GUI), application, large particle size (granularity)


As a high efficiency separation technique, capillary electrophoresis has been widely used in various fields of analytical science. In 21st century, CE will face new challenges. In this paper, the new trends on detection, micromachined CE system, and separation mode are discussed. Special emphasis is paid to the topics on the hyphenation of CE and mass spectrometry (CE MS), the integrated capillary electrophoresis chip (ICEC) and the capillary array electrophoresis (CAE). A discussion on the present status, the future progress of these problems and application of CE is also given (with 46 references).


Life expectancy is increasing around the world, and this is likely to have profound effects on many aspects of society, particularly if these extra years are to be associated with ill health. Lifestyle plays most important role on healthy ageing. An active and controlled lifestyle plays 99% role in healthy ageing. The study focuses on effect of lifestyle on healthy ageing. The present study was conducted on a sample of (N=20) Age above 60 years. The instrument used was a questionnaire comprising questions such as Life achievements, Source of inspiration and Role of life style in healthy ageing. An anxiety test (self-designed) was also given to assess the anxiety levels of these subjects. It was found that people, who followed simple life, ate simple food and exercises had fewer problems and were generally satisfied with life and had healthy social wellbeing.