Weighting technique is applied to detection and location of targets using the time reversal-reverse time migration mixed method and obtain the better focusing effect. In this paper, two different weighting techniques are weighting of distance between emission and reverence element and time-gate weighting, used to obtain better focusing effect. Therefore, weighted technology can effectively make the main peak more prominent, better location of the target.


Abstract In this paper, a connection between Bellman's spheres for piecewise continuous and measurable controls is considered. The investigation is conducted for linear controlled objects of the second order with a rather complicated two–dimensional control region. A collection of examples is included to illustrate the obtained results.


This article refers to some problems of the environmental management system in the European Union and world community. In the article it is a question about the Standards of environmental management systems which founder is the United Kingdom. The environmental management system is defined as a part of the overall management system that includes organizational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, methods, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving environmental policy objectives. The authors analyze the features of the present process of interaction between the economic systems with natural environment. It can be concluded that the most important global challenge is the process of changing the economic paradigm with the concept of sustainable development problem, taking into account the environmental problems of the world community.


The aim of this paper is to provide measurement results of data transmission over symmetrical DSL out of all DSL technologies. The paper looks at the symmetrical services with virtual private network (VPN) connections, security and end-to-end quality of service (QoS), thus offering a guideline to service providers and end-users to select the services that best suite their needs. CPEs based on the symmetrical DSL technology are widely deployed, however there are no published results of their performance measurements. Our aim is to fill these gaps, as the work of benchmarking DSL modems with different protocol stacks is of interest to network operators. This article reports upon benchmarking results, i.e., presents a series of measurement results of five CPEs using symmetrical DSL lines for connection to the central office. Throughput, IP packet latency and IP packet-loss statistics of these transceivers are analyzed and compared. Bridged, routed, and PPP configurations are investigated in details. The overhead due to L2TP tunneling, IP security and encryption is measured in case of one modem. FTP file transfer performance is shown for all different protocol stacks. Finally, the maximum distance (loop reach rate) vs. line transmission rate is also indicated for each tested equipments.


Breakthrough is an India and U.S.-based international human rights organization that mainstreams discussions about violence against women and girls, and its relationship to HIV/AIDS, by harnessing the power of pop culture, media and community mobilization to inspire people. Breakthrough's campaigns use popular multimedia message formats including billboards, music videos, print ads, radio spots, Public Service Announcements (PSAs) and internet channels such as blogs and online video games.


The development of a numerical code for the modeling of negative ion sources requires the knowledge of a lot of processes occurring both in the gas phase and at the surface. The present work concerns the effect of surface processes (in particular atomic wall recombination) on the kinetics of production/destruction of negative ions. Especially in the pressure regimes useful to produce negative hydrogen ions for thermonuclear applications, wall processes can strongly affect the negative ion production acting on the vibrational distribution of molecular hydrogen.


A scheme of a single photon source for quantum informatics applications based on the spontaneous parametric scattering effect is proposed and a quantum cryptography setup using it is presented. The system is compared to the alternative ones that operate with attenuated classic light.


S.aureus infection was found to be around 5%-35% and cases of S.aureus resistance increased by 22.8% due to people being less compliant in treatment. One of the preventions of resistance is to return to the use of natural materials, especially plants that have been scientifically and empirically proven, one of which is Mahkota Dewa Fruit (Phaleria macrocarpa) and Green Meniran Herb (Phyllanthus niruri L.). The study was conducted using the True Experimental method using S.aureus bacteria. 3 treatment groups were used, namely positive control (Amoxicillin), negative control (DMSO), as well as Mahkota Dewa extract (Phaleria macrocarpa) and Green Meniran Extract (Phyllanthus niruri L.). Using the disc diffusion method and the dilution method to determine the magnitude of the inhibition zone, the value of MIC, and MBC. The extract of the Crown of God Fruit, The Green Meniran Herb, as well as the combination of the two extracts have successive bacterial inhibitory power with an average of 18.02 mm; 15.95 mm; and 15.09 mm against S.aureus. Testing by the dilution method obtained a KHM value of 60% (0.06g/mL) in each extract. KBM is not obtained in each extract.


Over the past two decades society has demanded more public participation and public input into decision-making by governments. Accordingly, development of the Canadian concept for deep geological disposal of used nuclear fuel has taken into account the requirements for social acceptability as well as technical excellence. As the agency responsible for developing the disposal concept, AECL Research, the research and development arm of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, has included, in its program, consultation with the various publics that have an interest in the concept. This interactive and consultative process, which has been underway for some 14 years, has attempted to ensure that the public has had the opportunity to become familiar with the technical development of the concept and to provide input into it. This process will continue throughout the concept assessment and review currently in progress.


Two simple, accurate, precise, reproducible, requiring no prior separation and economical procedures for simultaneous estimation of Amlodipine besylate (AML) and Benazepril (BEN) in tablet dosage form have been developed. The first method is simultaneous equation method; in this method 360.0 nm and 240.0 nm were selected to measure the absorbance of drugs at both wavelengths. The second method is Q-value analysis based on measurement of absorptivity at 227.50 nm (as an iso-absorptive point) and 360.0 nm at maximum wavelength of AML, 360.0 nm and at isoabsorptive point 227.50 nm both AML and BEN shows linearity in a concentration range of 5-40 µg/mL. Recovery studies range from >99.41% for AMD and >98.93% for BEN in case of simultaneous equation method and >100% for AMD and >99.55% for BEN in case of Q-analysis method confirming the accuracy of the proposed method. The proposed methods are recommended for routine analysis since it is rapid, simple, accurate and also sensitive and specific (no heating and no organic solvent extraction is required).


Introduction Efficient recruitment of first responders (FRs) is crucial for long-term success of any FR project. FRs are laypersons who are trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), medical professionals, and firemen, police officers, and other professions with a duty of help. As social media are widely used for rapid communication, we carried out a prospective observational study to test the hypothesis that recruitment of FRs via social media is more efficient than recruitment via direct face-to-face contact. Methods Following ethics committee agreement, we informed 600 medical students about becoming FRs when they attended a didactic lecture about the FR project or during their mandatory CPR-course. Furthermore, recruitment was opened to medical students through Facebook, which accessed ∼1,000 medical students to see if they expressed interest in becoming FRs. All of the recruited students successfully completed the FR training. We then used an online questionnaire to ask these students how they had been recruited. Results Out of 63 registered student FRs, 59 responded to the online questionnaire. Overall, 15.3% of these FR students were recruited via social media. The majority (78.0%) were recruited through direct contact. Conclusions Despite widespread use of social media, over three-quarters of these medical students were recruited to the FR project via direct personal contact. This suggests that the advantage of a larger reachable population using social media does not outweigh the impact of personal contact with experts.


: The nutritional value of perishable food items, such as fruits and vegetables, depends on their freshness levels. The existing approaches solve a binary class problem by classifying a known fruit \ vegetable class into fresh or rotten only. We propose an automated fruits and vegetables categorization approach that first recognizes the class of object in an image and then categorizes that fruit or vegetable into one of the three categories: pure-fresh, medium-fresh, and rotten. We gathered a dataset comprising of 60K images of 11 fruits and vegetables, each is further divided into three categories of freshness, using hand-held cameras. The recognition and categorization of fruits and vegetables are performed through two deep learning models: Visual Geometry Group (VGG-16) and You Only Look Once (YOLO), and their results are compared. VGG-16 classifies fruits and vegetables and categorizes their freshness, while YOLO also localizes them within the image. Furthermore, we have developed an android based application that takes the image of the fruit or vegetable as input and returns its class label and its freshness degree. A comprehensive experimental evaluation of proposed approach demonstrates that the proposed approach can achieve a high accuracy and F1score on gathered FruitVeg Freshness dataset. The dataset is publicly available for further evaluation by the research community.


It discloses a sterilization apparatus equipped with a plasma treatment module, it is possible without the help of adjuvants, of the elongated tube is easily sterilized. The disinfection apparatus comprises a disinfection chamber (10) for receiving therein sterilization objects. Disinfectant delivery pipe is provided (20) with a sterilization chamber (10) are connected, comprising a disinfectant hydrogen peroxide solution (21) for evaporation by heating the disinfectant (21) is injected into the heater (22) and means for controlling the injection amount of the vaporized hydrogen peroxide mass flow controller (23). Air in the set (10) via an exhaust pipe (13) and the sterilization chamber (10) a vacuum pump (14) is connected for discharging the sterilization chamber to form a vacuum state. The plasma treatment module (31) disposed in the exhaust pipe (13) for plasma treatment using hydrogen peroxide vapor is discharged from the sterilization chamber.


A decomposed discrete-time model of the dual active bridge (DAB) converter is proposed in this article, which has significantly simplified the conventional discrete-time model without affecting the calculation accuracy of the exponential matrix. Therefore, the decomposed discrete-time model is also applied to the design of the digital controller to compensate the digital control delay, which could deteriorate the stability of the system. Besides, the comprehensive and systematic analysis of all the possible unstable phenomena of the DAB converter is conducted to reveal their intrinsic mechanism. The corresponding multiscale oscillations and the sudden jump phenomena are also presented to exhibit their dynamic characteristics. In addition, the closed-form expressions of the state variables are obtained, which are utilized to explicitly express the analytical relationships among the state variables, system parameters, and the Floquet multipliers. Accordingly, the parameter spaces of the selected crucial system parameters are obtained, which can provide the guidance for the parameters design of the DAB converter.


The article presents the results of a pilot sociological study of migration perceptions of the population, the reasons for their formation, as well as the factors and conditions under which the willingness to live and work in the Khabarovsk Territory is realized. The analysis of the results of the survey, which according to the research methodology was conducted in two target groups ("residents of the region" and "student youth"), indicates the stability and reproduction of migration intentions as a determined willingness and desire to leave the place of permanent residence in the Khabarovsk territory. The sociological approach to the study of migration perceptions of the target groups under study consists in determining the target attitudes, guidelines and expectations from moving, due to the status-role set and personal attitudes of respondents.


Response surface methodology (RSM) is a powerful tool in the area of process and product improvements. It is a collection of experimental designs and optimization techniques that enables the investigator to determine the relationship between independent variables and the obtained responses. This study focuses on the osmotic dehydration of pumpkin slices using response surface methodology investigating the influences of operating conditions on water loss and solute gain The operating conditions were varied by changing the independent process variables in a range e.g. salt concentrations from 5% to 25% (w/v), salt solution temperatures from 30°C to 70°C and processing time from 30 to 150 minutes. Results showed that all the process variables had significant influences on both water loss and solute gain. However, the solution concentration was observed to be the most influential parameter followed by processing time and solution temperature. The optimum operating conditions that caused maximum water loss and minimum solute gain were found to be at solution temperature of 65.8°C, salt concentration of 25% and processing time of 63 minutes. In conclusion, this study provides a strong guideline for efficient drying of seasonal crop (e.g. pumpkin) in industrial application without compromising quality.


Providing a low electrical conductivity of the surface of non-conductive object (20) to be coated (21), and the free ions simultaneously minimize (21) has been charged with a negative charge is applied to the coating surface by electrostatic coating.


ARIKARA and Hopi skulls were studied to ascertain the correlations between A< the components of structure and function in the masticatory apparatus. This skeletal material was located, respectively, in the Museum of the University of South Dakota, in Vermillion, South Dakota, and in the Field Museum of Natural History (now the Chicago Museum). The Arikara material came from old village sites in the Missouri River Valley in South Dakota. Most of the material is well preserved. The Arikara skulls vary in length from 164 mm. to 194 mm., a range of 30 mm., and in width from 130 mm. to 158 millimeters. The mandibles range in length from 88 mm. to 118 mm., a range of 30 millimeters. The bi-condylar diameter varies from 96 mmn. to 139 mm., a range of 43 millimeters. The Hopi skulls and mandibles which were studied were collected by the McCormack Expedition in Arizona in 1901. They came from Old Walpi, Old Mishonovi, and Chukubi. The shortest skull is 143 mm., the longest 180 mm., a range of 37 millimeters. The transverse diameter of the narrowest skull is 125 mm., of the widest 151 mm., a range of 26 millimeters. Many of the teeth had been lost post mortem, and it was not possible to get as extensive data on them as was desired. The longest Hopi mandible was 112 mm., the shortest, 91 mm., a range of 21 millimeters. The greatest bi-condylar diameter was 128 mm., the least, 102 mm., a range of 26 millimeters. Arikara and Hopi skulls present striking differences in general appearance. The former are more variable in size, and give cephalic indices of dolico-, meso-, and brachycephalic types; the Hopi group contains no dolico-, and only a few mesocephalic skulls. Only six Hopi skulls have a cephalic index as low as 76 to 80, the majority of the skulls being extremely brachycephalic, with the index running up to 102. Pronounced development of the muscles of mastication is indicated by the powerful mandibles, wide rami with mandibular angle approaching that of a right angle, and roughened surfaces for attachment of the masseter and pterygoid muscles. The zygomatic arches are large. The height of the temporal ridges indicates that the temporal muscles were particularly well developed. In most of the skulls the bite was end to end. In each series many of the skulls have wormian bones. The incidence of such skulls is higher among Hopi than among Arikara. The mean values of the dimensions which were correlated with length of mandible are shown in Table I. The numbers in parentheses indicate number of observations. All measurements are recorded in millimeters (Figs. 1-5).


The article gives a criminal-legal description of violence as a category of the General part of the legislation of Ukraine on criminal responsibility. The author's definition of the concept of criminal violence is given in the work. It is emphasized that the latter characterizes the circumstances that exclude the criminal illegality of the act. According to the author, the meaning of violence in these circumstances is as follows: characterizes the factual and legal basis of the circumstances that exclude the criminal illegality of the act; the use of violence against a person is a ground for "unlimited" use of force for protection; in some cases, excessive use of force may lead to criminal responsibility.

Special attention is paid to the criminal and legal characteristics of violence in Art. 38 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. It is noted that the latter characterizes the legal basis of criminal detention of a person who has committed a criminal offense and determines the legality of such detention. It is reasonably stated that the legal basis for detention should be a socially dangerous infringement, but not a criminal offense. This approach will allow the application of the relevant criminal law norm to cases of such acts by persons who do not have the characteristics of the subject of the crime (have not reached the age of criminal responsibility or non compos).

It is determined that the legal basis for detention is the committing of any socially dangerous act that has the characteristics of a criminal offense. Such conclusions are made on the basis of a systematic analysis of the current legislation of Ukraine on criminal responsibility.

The author argues the erroneousness of the position establishing in the law an exhaustive list of criminal offenses, in the case of which criminal detention is possible. In his opinion, this is possible in case of committing any criminal offense. Based on the analysis of theoretical exploring in the relevant direction and the practice of application of criminal responsibility legislation, a reasonable conclusion is made that murder in excess of the limits of detention of a person who has committed a criminal offense can be committed with both direct and indirect intent.

It is emphasized that the provisions of Art. 36 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on taking into account the state of strong emotional excitement in the qualification of a person's actions should be extended to cases of lawful detention by a person against whom a criminal offense was committed.

The article provides the author's version of Part 3 of Art. 38 of the legislation of Ukraine on criminal responsibility.


Problems of highway construction parallel those of pipeline industry; highway and pipeline design and construction should be coordinated; mutual notification, discussion and cooperation is needed; examples given and illustrated. (ASCE -- Proc v 84 (J Pipeline Div) n PL2 June 1958 pt 1 Paper n 1666 9 p)


ATPase activity of myofibrils and Ca2+ binding ability of sarcoplasmic reticulum isolated from the hearts of spontaneously hypertensive rats (OkamotoAoki strain, SHR) and normotensive Wistar rats (NR) were measured. Myofibrils isolated from both the hearts of SHR and NR showed essentially the same activity either in the absence or presence of Ca2+. On the other hand, Ca2+ activated ATPase activity of relaxed preparation of myofibrils from SHR was significantly lower than that from NRThe maximum Ca2+ binding capacity of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) from SHR (8.80±0.33nmoles/mg) was significantly lower than that from NR (11.95±0.55). Also, SR from SHR had significantly elevated Ca2+ activated ATPase activity (0.171±0.009μmoles/mg/min) compared with that of NR (0.100±0.009). Values were expressed as mean±s.e.m.Reduction of Ca2+ binding capacity of SR may result in increase of intracellular free Ca2+ concentration which probably be one of the important factor for muscle contraction. If the abnormal intracellular distribution of Ca2+ is associated with the smooth muscle of cardiovascular system, it would cause the increase of vascular resistance resulting in hypertension.


Composting is one of the potential waste reduction strategies of solid waste management. It represents waste not as a problem but as a potential resource in the sustainable development paradigm. A number of community-based composting projects are being piloted in the cities. Some projects are successful to produce lasting impacts; however, many projects could not support themselves or expand further. This paper is an attempt to study the state of sustainability and replication potential of four community-based composting projects in Bangladesh. Main findings of the projects show that to achieve sustainability and replication of the community-based composting projects, it needs an integrated approach of community, government and business.


The cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is affected by several of diseases of which late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans ((Mont.) de Bary), being the most severe under epidemic condition. Wild tomato species have proven as continuing source of resistance to this disease. The reaction of 152 tomato genotypes including 4 wild relatives, i.e. Solanum chilense, S. pimpenellifolium, S. cheesmaniae, S. peruvianum, against late blight was determined using whole-plant scoring. These genotypes were screened and evaluated in two different conditions (open field and side open poly house) at the Department of Horticulture (Vegetable and Floriculture), Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur (Bihar) in autumn-winter season of 2013-14. Of the 152 genotypes, none of the testgenotypes showed immune reaction. Moreover, the genotypes Arka Rakshak, Arka Alok, BRDT-1, Kashi Anupam, Arka Ananya, Azad T-5, C 6 T and Kashi Vishesh high yield potential and lower incidence for late blight. Moreover, wild species S. chilense, S. pimpenellifolium, S. cheesmaniae and S. peruvianum showed resistance reaction for late blight. The genotype EC 538380 showed highly resistant disease reaction against late blight besides bearing more fruits. Moreover, significant effect of temperature and relative humidity was established on occurrence late of blight. In general cool, wet, cloudy weather with rainfall and ambient relative humidity favour late blight development andnatural epidemics of P. infestans in the field which can be useful in screening large populations. The highest disease infestation and severity occurred during the month of January – February when the maximum temperature ranged from 10.4–10.8°C and maximum relative humidity ranged from 90 – 95%.


The implementation of multi-material concepts, for example, in automotive engineering or aerospace technologies, requires adequate joining techniques. The Magnetic Pulse Welding (MPW) process allows for joining both similar and dissimilar materials without additional mechanical elements, chemical binders, or adverse influences of heat on the joining partners. In this process, an electro-conductive at ('flyer') part is accelerated by Lorentz forces and impacts the inner ('parent') part under high velocity and high pressure, leading to the formation of a metallurgical joint. Besides joining of sheets and tubes to solid cylinders, the connection of two tubes is of particular interest due to the increased lightweight potential. The present paper focuses on the MPW of aluminum (EN AW-6060) to steel (C45) tubes. An experimental study was performed, in which the wall thickness of the parent part was reduced successively. The deformation behavior of both the flyer and parent parts was recorded during the experiments by a two-probe Photon Doppler Velocimeter (PDV). The final shape of the joined specimens was analyzed by a 3D digitizer. An instrumented peel test was used for the determination of the weld quality. It was found that defect-free MPW of aluminum tubes on steel tubes without supporting mandrel is possible.


This paper reviews the role of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the environmental regulatory process for the dredging of U.S. ports. Fish and Wildlife operates through some 60 field stations throughout the country, many of which are concentrated in port areas. The field station supervisors have authority and responsibility to comment on permit type applications dealing with ports. Also, they may write biological opinions, with the exception that jeopardy opinions, where a species may be jeopardized, must be signed by the regional director. They work cooperatively with authorities at the local, state, and federal levels. Basically, every permit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issues, or a great majority of them, get reviewed, to some extent, by Fish and Wildlife. Two classes of issues are addressed: (1) new port development, including deepening existing channels; and (2) maintenance dredging. In dealing with these issues, Fish and Wildlife considers two things to be of special importance: early planning and focusing on the disposal site issues.


This work presents a wireless system that operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band for concurrently sensing the vital signs and positions of multiple individuals. Characterized by low complexity and high accuracy, the proposed system consists of two main parts. One is a self-injection-locked (SIL) tag carried by a subject, which emits a sinusoidal frequency-modulated (SFM) signal with vital sign information. The other is a group of injection-locked (IL) I/Q receivers, which performs arctangent demodulation of the SFM signal to obtain the position information without using RF reference signals, and simultaneously extracts the vital sign information of the subject. In the experiment, the system is capable of sensing multiple individuals based on frequency division multiple access (FDMA) technique. Moreover, fidgeting effect on the detection of vital signs has been greatly reduced by a spectral product approach. Accordingly, it is demonstrated that the experimental prototype provides accurate information about the vital signs and positions of different individuals in an indoor environment.


Aerobiological studies are very important as they provide with qualitative and quantitative information about airborne fungi in a given region .Fungi are diverse group of organisms and are found in large number and amount in the indoor and outdoor environment. The study deals with the survey of the fungal diversity at the Railway station of Bilaspur (C.G.). The present study has been done for analysing the aeromycoflora of winter season, from November 2015 to February 2016. The culture plate method has been adopted for trapping the mycoflora. After sampling slides were mounted with glycerine and observed under microscope. In this study 44 fungal species and 31 fungal genera were obtained in which Aspergillus, Penicillium, Rhizopus, Cladosporium, Alternaria and Fusarium was most dominant. Environmental factors plays important role for the dispersal of the fungal spores. The main aim of the aerobiological survey is the biotic particles present in the atmosphere especially fungal spores.


Three isoproteic and isoenergetic diets containing fish meal as a protein source (control diet) or incorporating 10 and 20% of protein from mycelia Penicilium sp. as a fish meal substitute were tested during three months for eel fingerlings growth.

Some preliminary "in vitro" experiments on the L-Lysin intestinal absorption in the presence and in the absence of Penicilin (500 mg/l) after 17 h of contact show a positive effect of this antibiotic. No residues of Penicilin were detected in carcass of eels fed 7 days with 100 mg/kg Penicilin in the food.

The present results show that the use of Penicilin mycelia in eels diets will have the advantage of increasing growth without any appreciable change in the quality of the carcass and also, eventually, reductions of nitrogen excretion with a positive effect in effluent quality.


The question of whether or not the monophosphate metabolites DRB2′P and DRB5′P of the transcription inhibitor 5,6-dichloro-1-β-d-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole (DRB) constitute the active form of the inhibitor was investigated in intact salivary gland cells of Chironomus tentants. The intracellular phosphorylation of DRB to DRB2′P as well as to DRB5′P could be lowered to a considerable extent by addition of a 15-fold excess of adenosine or 3′-deoxyadenosine without lowering the intracellular concentration of unmetabolized [3H]DRB. Nevertheless, the inhibition of hnRNA synthesis remained essentially unaffected. The addition of excess guanosine interfered only with the formation of 3H-labelled DRB5′P isomer while uridine was without any detectable effect on the metabolism of DRB to any of the DRB monophosphate isomers. When in another type of experiment with DRB-inhibited cells the unmetabolized DRB was washed out, whereas the monophosphate isomers, formed before removal of DRB, remained trapped intracellularly, it was found that the inhibitory activity was abolished and the initiation of RNA synthesis was resumed. The experimental data taken together strongly indicate that the DRB metabolites DRB2′P and DRB5′P are not involved in the inhibitory activity, and that it is the unmetabolized compound that acts as active transcription inhibitor.


Visual media domain applications are a kind of complex applications which are computation intensive and bandwidth exhausting.This paper described a heterogeneous multicore SoC named EVMP-SoC,which is specially optimized for embedded visual media applications.The chip was implemented using SMIC 0.13μm CMOS standard cell library technology.We evaluated this chip with some micro application kernels.After exploiting the parallelisms on the chip,optimization based on high level transformation was done to improve the performance of execution of nested loops.Finally,through a case study,the chip shows high efficiency and availability.


H.J. Neamah and A.A.Houbi Department of Animal Production, Agricultural Engineering Sciences, College, University of Baghdad, Iraq Corresponding author: email@example.com Abstract This study was carried out at the animal farm\ Department of Animal Production\ Agricultural Engineering Sciences, College \ University of Baghdad, Iraq, during the period from 3\2 -28 \9\ 2019, to explore the effect of the adding astaxanthin and taurine to Tris extender on post-cooling semen characteristics of Awassi rams for different periods. In this experiment, used three mature Awassi rams. The semen was divided into nine experiments. Control group (without addition), T1 (1μМ astaxanthin), T2 (0.5 μМ astaxanthin), T3 (35 mM taurine), T4 (45 mM taurine), T5 (1μМ (astaxanthin and 35 mM taurine), T6 (1μМ astaxanthin and 45 mM taurine), T7 (0.5 μМ astaxanthin and 35 mM taurine) and T8 (0.5 μМ astaxanthin and 45 mM taurine), individual sperm motility, acrosome integrity, sperm abnormality and live sperm percentage were investigated following different periods. Using a combination of astaxanthin and taurine improved the individual sperm motility after dilution and after 72 hours. The addition of 45 μМ taurine has improved the percentage of acrosome integrity during different cooling periods. While the sperm abnormality was decreased after dilution and after 42 hours in group T6 and after 24, 48 in group T1. The results were showing that added astaxanthin and taurine separately or as a combination improve the live sperm percentage after dilution and after 24 hours. Through this study, we conclude the importance of adding astaxanthin and taurine in improving the qualities of diluted semen of Awassi rams.


This chapter aims to consider the developments of the herring fisheries in the three maritime provinces, Flanders, Zeeland and Holland, in a comparative perspective. It focuses on the influence of war and violence on the regional developments of the herring fishery. This is believed to be of crucial importance in explaining the shift of the main centre of the herring fishery from the south to the north of the Low Countries, and the later decline of the industry. The chapter discusses the developments of the fifteenth century, when three methods to protect the herring fishery against violent attacks came into being. It looks at the consequences of the Habsburg-Valois wars for the herring fishery. It then analyzes how the start and the subsequent phases of the so-called Dutch Revolt or Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) affected the Dutch fishery. Keywords: Dutch Revolt; Flanders; Habsburg-Valois wars; herring fishery; Holland; low countries; violence; Zeeland


The article deals with the tensions presents in the Ezequiel Martinez Estrada's lecture of Nietzsche. We will trace two different possibilities that emerge from a philosophy that accept the unavoidable character of appearance. The first one, identifiable with Nietzsche as apostate or heretic, encourage a practice of denouncement as false all that presume to be truth. The second one, identifiable with Nietzsche as utopist, admits the necessity of appearance and therefore displace the truth/falsehood problem to the judgement between types of appearances. Finally, we will analyze if Martinez Estrada's lecture resolve the tension choosing one of the poles.


Like other chapters, the author takes the reader on a journey of a combat social worker beginning in his childhood as the son of a Vietnam veteran with severe PTSD. With the valuable lessons learned from his father's mental health treatment journey with the help of the early 1980s Vet Centers. The author shares his life experiences and lessons gleaned from a career as a trauma therapist and finally a 16-year career as an Army social worker, including lessons from Iraq combat tour and the Army's comprehensive soldier fitness program. Research-based theories, books, and interventions are described critical to healing PTSD and empowering the holistic well-being of today's service members. The author, currently an Army lieutenant colonel behavioral health officer concludes with a call for reinforcements due to increasing attrition of combat social workers, and the corresponding traits and mindset required for this dynamic career opportunity in today's military mental health community.


To have critical perspective, some of the performances of transition economies are compared with BRICS countries, which have been particularly focused as major economies of the emerging markets. Finally, the case countries are presented.


State-of-the-art spoofing speech detection methods highly depend on hand-crafted features like LFCC, MFCC, CQCC, FFT spectrum, etc. But almost for all the features, during extracting procedure, some information will be lost permanently, which may be of vital importance to spoofing detection task. Most speeches on the web, are often accompanied by music or noise. Using monaural speech separation to get human voice and then doing spoofing detection later may be a natural idea, but it has two shortcomings: two models must be trained, and during first separation step, some voice will be filtered out while noise will be kept. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end anti-spoofing model which fully consists of one-dimensional convolutional neural networks for spoofing detection under noisy conditions. The proposed system achieved an EER of 1.50% on the ASVspoof2019 logical access evaluation set. Under noisy conditions, we proposed a novel approach based on knowledge distillation, and our proposed method achieved great performance improvements compared to multi-condition training method.


Traditional microbiology analysis is usually hindered by the long time-cost and lack of portability in many urgent situations. In this work, we developed a novel electrochemical DNA biosensor (E-biosensor) for sensitive analysis of 16S rRNA gene of five bacteria, using a consecutive adenine (PolyA) probe. The polyA probe consists of a polyA tail and a recognition part. The polyA tail can combine onto the gold surface with improved controllability of the surface density, by conveniently changing the length of polyA. The recognition part of the capture probe, together with 2 biotin-labeled reporter probes, hybridize with the target DNA and form a stable DNA-tetramer sandwich structure, and then avidin-HRP enzyme was added to produce a redox current signal for the following electrochemical detection. Finally, we realized sensitive quantification of artificial target DNA with a LOD of 10 fM, and excellent selectivity, reusability was also demonstrated. Importantly, the detection capability was equally good when facing bacterial genomic DNA, due to the base-stacking force of our multi-reporter-probe system which can help to break the second structure and stabilized the probe-target complexes. Our biosensor was constructed on a 16-channel electrode chip without any PCR process needed, which took a significant step toward a portable bacteria biosensor.


Untreated acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) is a rapidly lethal blood cancer. Conventional treatment consists of all-trans retinoic acid and chemotherapy. Standard chemo-therapy-containing treatments necessitate the use of blood products. This is a case report of typical APL in a 32-year-old female patient, who due to religious conviction refused supportive therapy with blood products. A treatment regimen consisting of all-trans retinoic acid and arsenic trioxide was successful without the use of blood transfusions.


In this paper a review of the Heidelberg Polyp multiprocessor project is given which began at the Physics Institute of the University of Heidelberg in 1979, was ongoing until spring 1991, and has influences on the current multiprocessor projects. The Heidelberg Polyp is a parallel computer of the MIMD type which allows up to two hundred 32–bit microprocessors to be mounted in a standard rack. The largest current systems consist of 30 Motorola 68000 CPUs with 16 kBytes of cache memory and 1 MByte of main memory each. One of these systems has recently been upgraded to 48 processors (68020/68882 Motorola VME boards with 4 MBytes main memory each). In contrast to many other multiprocessor systems, the Polyp uses a multiple bus intercon-nection network, the Polybus, with an adjustable number of 32–bit buses allowing a bus bandwidth from 10 to 200 MBytes/s. The Polybus interconnects modules consisting of several units. Typical units are processors, memories, I/O and error correction units. Such units are connected by a module bus. Modules and buses constitute pools that are managed by a decentralized hardware independently of the pool size. To establish an optimal dynamic load distribution, pool–size independent system management as well as hardware scheduling is done using two resource sharing inter-connection networks (RSINs). The first one, the Polybus, allows to address pools as a whole and to request random selection of a member by hardware. The second RSIN, the Syncbus, allows to distribute priority queues of waiting tasks and uses a non–empty queue status as a distributed programmed interrupt to a certain pool. The pool–size independent management allows to adjust the computing power and bus bandwidth without software modifications. New members, e.g., can be added to pools for speed–up or faulty members can be shut–down software transparently. Whereas standard bus systems as VME, MultibusII, and Futurebus+ provide single–bit transfer error detection only, the Polyp system supports forward and backward hardware error recovery (FHER and BHER) for addresses and data. Fault tolerant operation is provided by the multiple bus system and distributed error correction controller (ECC) hardware. Addresses and data are transferred by the bus system together with an error correction code, which is generated and checked by the ECC hardware. FHER is possible for all single–bit errors. Overlapping bus protocols allow the distributed ECC operations to be executed concurrently to the transfer. Double–bit and multi–bit transfer errors as well as arbitration errors are …


Temporary layoff (the firing and later rehiring of workers by the same employer after a spell of unemployment) is found in all spheres of the economy. Companies use this flexibilisation strategy not just to counterbalance the boom and boost cycle but also to adjust to internal factors of relevance for their human resources policy. Temporary layoff is the strategy of choice for small-scale operations characterised by high turnover rates, a low ratio of women employees, a higher average age of their staff, a greater share of blue-collar workers and a medium wage level. Accordingly, temporary layoff is used not just to cushion sector-specific seasonal variations but also to compensate for business-cycle dependent changes in demand for employees. Males, persons of medium to higher age and persons from traditional guestworker countries are among those most strongly affected by temporary layoffs.


The income-tax discrepancy between foreign and domestic invested enterprises results in the problems which will have negative effect on the development of economics and society,including serious disequilibrium both in regions and industry development nowadays,larger dependence on foreign capital,foreign capital′s tax evasion and tax dodging through preferential revenue policies and the unfairness of external jumping-off between foreign and domestic invested enterprises.In order to solve these problems,the preferential revenue policies should be adjusted,the tax rate should be unified,the income-tax should be standardized,preferential revenue policies for industries should be stressed and the preferential revenue policies should be combined with adjusting and optimizing of industry structure.


We appear to be on the threshold of an exciting new era in which a variety of human tissues are routinely harvested for toxicological research as well as transplant.'1 However, despite the well-documented need for more studies to be undertaken using human tissues, so that interspecies similarities and differences in responses to test chemicals can be investigated, and to provide mechanistic toxicological data which are directly relevant to human hazard evaluation and risk assessment, many human tissues are very difficult to obtain for research purposes, especially for toxicology studies. Some progress has been made in this respect in the United States, through the establishment of organisations which


The future of the ocean rests on the effectiveness of good governance, holistic management, and most importantly, urgent and sustained action to address complex marine issues. Conservation practitioners and resource managers struggle to keep pace with the growing threats to marine ecosystems, such as climate change, ocean acidification, overfishing, habitat loss, and marine plastics. In response to these ecological crises and insufficient management actions, the number and diversity (as well as total memberships and revenues) of environmental non-governmental organizations (engos) focused on ocean health has grown rapidly since the beginning of the environmental movement in the early 1960s.1 Arguably more active than ever before, engos have expanded their participation in ocean governance processes in recent decades, alongside many other key rights-holders (i.e., Indigenous communities) and stakeholders (e.g., industry, coastal communities, various levels of government), and have adopted a greater breadth of roles and responsibilities.2 These roles may include influencing policy development and implementation, promoting community engagement and marine stewardship, and directly or indirectly contributing to scientific knowledge acquisition and dissemination.3 An important consideration is how engos will respond to the


Airborne horizontal traverses were made in 1975 along a line from New York City to Washington, D.C. in attempts to observe and measure concentration changes in total particulates, particulate sulfate, and SO/sub 2/ occurring downwind of several urban plumes along the flight path. Measurements were made when the wind flow was at right angle to the New York City--Washington, D.C. line (northwest or southeast). During these periods, flights parallel to the line pass through individual urban plumes and each can be studied as a separate case. Measurements were also made when the wind flow was parallel to the line (southwest or northeast). During these conditions, each urban industrial area contributes its individual share to one of the largest anthropogenic regional plumes known in which little distinction can be made from one urban plume to another. Furthermore, during periods of stagnating high pressure, which occur frequently along the east coast with southwesterly wind flows, some of the highest concentrations of particulates and sulfur compounds are found below the mixing level over large regional areas.


The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 was the first major piece of federal legislation passed in the United States to focus on infant and maternal health. Following its implementation, the U.S. infant mortality rate dropped significantly. A central factor leading to passage of the Act was a body of research conducted by the U.S. Children's Bureau. This research—largely conducted by early social workers—included detailed field studies, analyses of national and state trends in child and maternal health, and cross-national comparisons. This article discusses how the research led to the development of the Act, analyzes the relative importance of the research in the legislative debate, and remarks upon the lessons that this history offers for social workers today.


The process plant having a database and server located in a remote location, the system for providing remote diagnostic and maintenance services. The database has a plurality of applications. The server has a data collection unit, analysis unit, and control unit. The data collection unit collects data about the process plant via a communication link such as the Internet. The analyzing unit analyzes the collected data, to detect the state of the process plant. Based on the detected state, wherein the control unit determines the parameters to be transmitted to the automatic remote implemented to process plant one or more applications, the process plant one or more applications over the Internet automatically downloads, and / or by activating a web page that provides information to guide the correction of the detected state to the operator, located in the plant, automatically implement one or more applications to.


Looking south west from the Kaiwharawhara Toll Bridge in the 1860s. The wrecked bow of the `Oliver Lang' is on the left. Thorndon can be seen in the background. Taken by an unknown photographer.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).


Objective:To establish a method to determine total alkaloids in Keliling Granula.Methods:In this paper,the content of total alkaliod in Keliling Granula was measured by acid dye colorimetry,the absorbability of sample was determined at the wavelength of 415 nm.Results:The calibration curve of the absorbency was linear with the concent ration of emodin in the range of 2.064-10.320 μg/ml(r=0.999 3),the average recovery of the sample was 102.68% with a RSD of 1.74%.Conclusion:This method is simple,accurate,sensitive,and can be used as a quality control for the preparation of Keliling Granula.


For cutting velocity from 118 m/min to 463 m/min, feed per tooth from 0.078 mm/z to 0.2 mm/z and depth of cut from 0.2 mm to 1 mm, the characteristics of cutting forces in high speed dry machining of high strength steel(42 HRc,σ b1.2 GPa) were studied, the scale effect of cutting forces and the influences of cutting parameters on milling force were observed. In addition, the high speed cutting deformation mechanism was also discussed. The empirical formula of cutting force was established by statistic analysis tools as residual analysis and least square algorithm. It was concluded that depth of cut, feed per tooth and the interaction effect of both of them were the main influence factors; the unit cutting forces during high speed milling of this high strength steel were 1.0729~1.7917 times of that measured on quenched and tempered 45 median carbon steel; non-free cutting could introduce the scale effect of cutting forces in high speed milling process.


SWIFT is the name of the Belgian based financial company that handles 80% of all international financial transactions from some 208 countries. After 9/11 SWIFT information became a target for the…


Improved understanding of the damage mechanics of composite laminates is an important scientific goal. Simple cross-ply laminates are suitable for model studies of the details of failure mechanisms. The purpose is to understand the essential parameters so that simplified design methods based on damage mechanics can be developed. The crack opening displacement was measured on transverse cracks subjected to a remote tensile stress. Effects of matrix toughness, crack interaction and ply thickness were investigated. Experimental results were compared with predictions from analyses based on the finite element method and linear elastic fracture mechanics. Deviations between predictions and experimental results were observed and possible reasons are discussed.


PURPOSE: A surface velocity measuring system using the associative analysis of space time images and a method thereof are provided to enable 2D velocity analysis by calculating a displacement of an image through associative analysis. CONSTITUTION: A test point designating and image extracting unit (1200) designates test points (p,g) from n pieces of images and extracts an image having a size designated for each direction based on the test points. An extracted image synthesizing and time space image composing unit (1210) extracts an image from an image photographed at t + Δt time to compose a time space image. An image displacement calculating unit (1230) calculates an image displacement of four directions by using a parabolic peak interpolation. A main flow direction determining unit (1240) determines a main flow direction based on the calculated image displacement. A 2D velocity distribution determining unit (1250) determines 2D velocity distribution by selecting a direction vertical to a main flow direction and calculates the coordinate conversion of a slope image and the velocity (u,v) of directions (x,y). [Reference numerals] (1200) Test point designating and image extracting unit; (1210) Extracted image synthesizing and time space image composing unit; (1220) Inclination and correlation coefficient calculating unit; (1230) Image displacement calculating unit; (1240) Main flow direction determining unit; (1250) 2D velocity distribution determining unit


In spite of high-dose corticosteroid therapy the colectomy rate is high in a severe attack of ulcerative colitis (UC). The introduction of second-line treatments, first cyclosporine A and recently infliximab,1 have sharply reduced the risk of colectomy in the short perspective. The risks with rescue therapies are 2-fold: 1) increased morbidity and mortality caused by the agents as such, and 2) increased morbidity and mortality because of delayed surgery. Knowledge about factors predicting outcome has existed for many years, but were less important with the lack of rescue therapies. Only in the infliximab study1 were factors predicting outcome of highdose corticosteroid treatment considered in the design. The first step is recognition of an acute attack of UC as severe. In 1955 Truelove and Witts2 defined a severe attack as 1) 6 bloody bowel motions daily; 2) fever (meaning evening body temperature 37.5°C or a temperature of 37.8°C or more on at least 2 days out of 4); 3) tachycardia with pulse rate 90/min; 4) anemia, meaning Hb 75% of normal value; 5) erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) 30 mm/hr. Later these Oxford criteria were modified to 6 daily bloody bowel motions in combination with 1 or more of the other 4 signs.3 Other indices exist, but only the Seo et al index4 has been validated against the original Truelove and Witts index.2 The advantage with the Seo et al index is that it is more sensitive to changes during the course of treatment than the Truelove and Witts index. Factors predicting outcome can be described as 1) imaging, 2) laboratory findings, and 3) clinical symptoms.


The apoptosis of osteosarcoma cells treated with irradiation by 153Sm-EDTMP was studied. The morphological changes in osteosarcoma cells were observed by fluorescence microscopy. It was found that osteosarcoma cells exposed with 153Sm-EDTMP displayed significant nuclear fragmentation and marked pyknosis. With the prolongation of observing period, the membrane bound apoptotic bodies formation was observed. It should be noted, that with the lengthening of irradiation time by 153Sm-EDTMP, the inhibition rate of proliferation of osteosarcoma cells increased progressively.


PurposeClaims have become an inseparable part of construction projects across the world. Construction claims often tend to result not only in time and cost overruns but in case of a dispute arising from the claim, it may result in erosion of the brand value and the working relationship between the parties. Thus, construction claim prediction is important but is complicated because of a large number of dependent factors and the complex inter-relations between them. With the aid of machine learning techniques, claim tenability assessment for real estate projects in India is attempted in this paper.Design/methodology/approachIn this research, artificial neural network (ANN) and decision tree models are used for assessment of claims in the Indian real estate sector using project and claims data from 275 real estate projects.FindingsThe developed ANN model assesses the claim tenability in a project with a high degree of accuracy. Both ANN and decision tree models identify that "inconsistency between drawings and specification" as the most influencing factor in claim tenability assessment.Research limitations/implicationsNotwithstanding the claim tenability assessment, the model, in its current form, cannot be used to predict the "extent of claim" in the real estate projects.Originality/valueClaim tenability assessment in real estate projects, especially in India, is scantily discussed in literature. This research, by adding to the body of knowledge, helps in both claim assessment and identification of factors that need to be controlled to reduce the claim tenability in real estate construction projects in India.


In order to develop an active human interface that realizes heart-to-heart communication between intelligent machine and human being, we've been undertaking the investigation of method for improving the sensibility or "KANSEI" communication by using facial expressions. To express 6 basic facial expressions dynamically by computer graphics (CG) in a similar manner to that in human being, we develop the method of dynamic control of the movement of grid points of wire frame model of human face by applying a neural network. Using the experimental data obtained from dynamic facial expressions, time-dependent change in the magnitude of AUs needed for expressing each of 6 basic facial expressions is formulated by the neural net mapping technique. And the face components in the wire frame model are dynamically forced to move through the time-dependent AUs, resulting in success to display the dynamic facial expression of 6 basic emotions at the rate of 30 pictures per second.<<ETX>>


[Objective]To measure human cartilage glycoprotein ( HCgp-39) level in serum of patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( RA) ,and study the relationship between HCgp-39 and the activity of RA ,as well as early diagnosis.[Methods]Serum samples of 84 RA patients and 40 health people were collected and measured for HCgp-39 level and rheumatoid factor ( RF) C reactive protein level by ELISA method and the rate scatting immunity method,respectively. The results were comparatively analyzed.[Results] HCgp-39 level of RA patients were significantly higher than that of non-RA patients and health people,and highly related with activity indexes of ESR,C reactive protein,IgM rheumatoid factor level. [Conclusion]HCgp -39 levels correlates with RA activity. The surveillance of the change of its concentration can help to identify bone and joint destruction and early diagnosis.


Abstract:The pharmacokinetics of orally administered amoxicillin and ampicillin were compared in a crossover manner among healthy volunteers. All subjects received four one-week regimens consisting of 500 and 250 mg of amoxicillin, each given every eight hours, and 500 and 250 mg of ampicillin administered every six hours. Blood and urine were assayed for antibiotic activity on the first and eighth day of each drug course. In the 250 mg trial, the peak levels of amoxicillin in serum were twice those of ampicillin (4.3 and 5.6 µg/ml vs 2.4 and 2.8 µg/ml) and were associated with greater retrieval in the urine of the former drug. At the higher dose level, however, the maximum concentrations in blood of amoxicillin (7.8 and 7.6 µg/ml) were not significantly greater than those of ampicillin (5.9 and 6.3 µg/ml). In addition, their rates of urinary recovery were similar. The antibacterial spectra of the two are found to be quite alike in their marked in vitro activity against strains of penicillin G-sensitive S. aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, D. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, Salmonella, P. mirabilis, N. gonorrheae and enterococci. Isolates of Klebsiella, indole-positive Proteus species, enterobacter and penicillinase-producing S. aureus were highly resistant to both compounds.


A substructure approach is used to estimate the stiffness and damping coefficients of structures from measurement of dynamic responses. The structures are decomposed into smaller subsystems for which state and observation equations are formulated and solved by the method of extended Kalman filter with a weighted global iteration algorithm. Substructural identification methods with and without overlapping members are proposed. In both methods, the convergence of the structural parameters to the optimal values is improved significantly with less computation time as compared to a complete structural approach. Numerical simulation studies are performed for three types of structures, namely a shear building, a plane frame building and a plane truss bridge. The effects of measurement noise and response observations required for identification of system parameters are also investigated.


The research aim is to know the effect of social responsibility on the value university's leadership in light of research's problem ,which representative presented in management risk when there isn't social responsibility, this was presented in following question:
What is the extent of the effect of social responsibility by its two dimensions(economic and discretionary) on the Management by value in collage's Depts. ?
The research 's hypotheses' explained there was significant existing effect of social responsibility on the Management by values
Depending on (SPSS 20) program to measure the effect of social responsibility through its dimensions : discretionary ,ethical ,legal, economic , on the Management by value through its dimensions(survival, Ethical, wellbeing),the research achieved to existing of significant effect of social responsible by its two dimensions(economic and discretionary) on the management by variables and recommended to promote the values of the three dimensions and Devoting the concept of social responsibility through the quality units in collages by adopt seasonal evaluation of extent of social responsibility of departments synchronize with studies periods and establishing social responsibility prize to create competition .


Abstract : In order to support its continuous modernisation process, the Australian Army requires analytical Support in determining the effectiveness of their conceptual Enhanced Combat Force (set fifteen years ahead). Central to this is how new and emerging technologies might impact on how the land force operates, and, consequentially, how the Army's operational concepts might need to change. Agent Based Distillations (ABD) have been employed to analyse a problem based on Manoeuvre Operations in a Littoral Environment concept. Specifically, the hypothesis tested was whether a small, mobile force with high situational awareness coupled with effective reach-back munitions could defeat a significantly larger force. This paper illustrates the application of one such ABD, EINSTein, in support of the analysis of this hypothesis, and highlights the potential utility of ABDs for land operations analyses.


Computational models of interstellar gas-grain chemistry have historically adopted a single dust-grain size of 0.1 micron, assumed to be representative of the size distribution present in the interstellar medium. Here, we investigate the effects of a broad grain-size distribution on the chemistry of dust-grain surfaces and the subsequent build-up of molecular ices on the grains, using a three-phase gas-grain chemical model of a quiescent dark cloud. We include an explicit treatment of the grain temperatures, governed both by the visual extinction of the cloud and the size of each individual grain-size population. We find that the temperature difference plays a significant role in determining the total bulk ice composition across the grain-size distribution, while the effects of geometrical differences between size populations appear marginal. We also consider collapse from a diffuse to a dark cloud, allowing dust temperatures to fall. Under the initial diffuse conditions, small grains are too warm to promote grain-mantle build-up, with most ices forming on the mid-sized grains. As collapse proceeds, the more abundant, smallest grains cool and become the dominant ice carriers; the large population of small grains means that this ice is distributed across many grains, with perhaps no more than 40 monolayers of ice each (versus several hundred assuming a single grain size). This effect may be important for the subsequent processing and desorption of the ice during the hot-core phase of star formation, exposing a significant proportion of the ice to the gas phase, increasing the importance of ice-surface chemistry and surface–gas interactions.


Aqueous polyurethane (PU) adhesives are nontoxic and nonflammable and do not pollute the air. However, they have low adhesive strengths compared to solvent-based PU adhesives because of a low affinity with rubber substrates. In this study, PU adhesives were synthesized from isophorone diisocyanate with dimethylol propionic acid as the ionic center in the main chain, triethylamine as the neutralization agent, and hydrazine as the chain extender. The polyol was modified with hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) and hydroxyl-terminated acrylonitrile–butadiene copolymer (HTBN). The effect of the HTPB and HTBN content on the adhesive strength was investigated. The effect of the prepolymer molecular weight was also investigated. Increases in the HTPB and HTBN contents led to an increase in the adhesive strength because of the increase of chemical affinity between the adhesive and the substrate. The adhesive strength increased as the prepolymer molecular weight increased. This was due to an increase in the tensile strength and modulus. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 95: 1062–1068, 2005


The present study is to explore the nature of isscanha as a discourse marker in terms of topic organization. For this purpose, we began our discussion by proposing attention-calling as the basic property of the discourse marker isscanha. This means that the speaker uses isscanha to draw the hearers attention to the subsequent informative segment, i.e., treating what precedes isscanha as the topical portion of the discourse segment. It is in this sense that it has been labeled as a topic marker. Consequently, this study argues that depending on the discourse context, the functions of isscanha helps to establish or introduce a topic or to shift from one topic to another.


Preface..Introduction..Part 1 Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore..1. The People's Action Party: the national party..2. Creating a democracy that works..3. Managing national development..4. Leadership renewal and succession..Part 2 Goh Chok Tong's Singapore..5. Continuity and change..6. The parliamentary elections of 1991 and 1997..7. Continuing national development..Conclusion: national development and democracy..Endnotes..Index


Speech Delivered by Professor W. O. Ellis, Vice-Chancellor of KNUST on the Occasion of Commissioning of Vodafone Internet Cafe on Thursday, 22nd September, 2011 at 1.00pm


In this presentation we consider a wide class of immersed surfaces in some special projective--metric spaces -- Weingarten surfaes. The ambient space for studying these surfaces are the Euclidean, Minkowski and the Galilean space. Weingarten surfaces are surfaces having non-trivial functional connection between their Gaussian $K$ and mean curvature $H$. They include surfaces of constant curvature, as well minimal surfaces and surfaces of constant mean curvature. A sphere is a linear Weingarten surface in all mentioned spaces. In Euclidean space the only ruled non-developable Weingarten surface is a piece of a helicoidal surface, in particular a ruled non-developable minimal surface is a right helicoid, whereas in Minkowski space there are several surfaces with that property: a piece of a helicoidal surface with non-null rulings and a ruled surface with null rullings satisfying $H^2=K$. In particular, a ruled non-developable minimal surface in Minkowski space is either a piece of a Cayley's ruled surface or a piece of a three Lorentzian helicoids. In Galilean space ruled non-developable Weingarten surfaces are helicoidal ruled surfaces, hyperboloids of one-sheet and hyperbolic paraboloids. Furthermore, in the mentioned spaces it is possible to consider Weingarten surfaces with Gaussian curvature which was generated as the inner curvature of the second fundamental form of the surfaces. Finally, some tranformations between pseudospherical surfaces (surfaces with constant negative curvature) connecting surfaces of these kind will also be considered in the mentioned spaces (B\"{; ; a}; ; cklund transformations). They can be extended to transformations between Weingarten surfaces as well.


This article talked about the relationship between self-esteem and loneliness of college freshmen.It conducted the survey of 350 college freshmen by using the Self-Esteem Scale and emotional and social loneliness scale.Results showed that their feeling of loneliness varied much in terms of gender,boys score higher than girls;their esteem varied remarkably in terms of whether be an only child or not and children with siblings score higher than the only child;no significant difference appeared in other areas.All these above showed that the self-esteem and emotional and social loneliness were significantly positive correlated,which indicated that there was a close relationship between the two and people should pay enough attention to guide and intervene students.


We consider the control of a stochastic manufacturing system executing capital assets repair and remanufacturing in a closed-loop system. A simple suboptimal control policy in class of multi-hedging point policy is proposed. This policy consists of inventory thresholds related to different predefined repair and replacement modes, depending on the replacement parts availability. This paper focuses on estimating the optimum control policy parameters in terms of total cost by means of simulation tools. A flexible combined discrete event and continuous modelling is introduced and simulation experiments are conducted for a numerical example to achieve a close approximation of the optimal policy.


We describe a paradigm for integrating EDA tools running on distributed platforms under a common user interface. We focus on interactive remote execution more than on simple information retrieval. Minimum support is required on the user side to access the features offered by a large and diverse set of tools: the user's WWW browser is the interface for all interactions. Integrating new tools in the environment is a straightforward process that does not require any effort from the end users. The learning curve is extremely short because the well-known user interface provided by the WWW browser is exploited. PPP is a prototype we implemented to show the feasibility of WWW-based tool integration. We describe the features of PPP, its architecture and its implementation.


This paper uses data from interviews with representatives of national and state organisations that have a policy interest in student-working in Australia. The interviewees included representatives from employer bodies and trade unions as well as government organisations. The data are used to discuss these stakeholders' perceptions of the main advantages and disadvantages of working by young full-time students and the ways in which organisations in the business and educational sectors have adapted their policies and practices for student-working. The analysis is then used to inform a discussion about whether this is a legitimate area for public policy formulation and if so, what principles might underpin such policy and what some policies might look like.


A urea-functionalized chemoreceptor 1,5-bis(2,4-dinitrophenyl)carbonohydrazide (BDC) with versatile applications has been reported in this work. BDC displayed ditopic sensitivity toward toxic indus...


ABSTRACT In this essay, the author takes us viscerally into the personal and professional dimensions of the war experiences of our Ukrainian colleagues. These observations are folded into the broader context of how mental health services have been viewed in this culture and how the events of the war created changes in those views. The author also describes the challenge of helping people with a variety of problems that the therapists themselves were experiencing.


Objective To illustrate the role of hypermethylation of p15 and p16 genes in the pathogenesis and prognosis of multiple myeloma(MM).MethodsForty-seven patients with multiple myeloma were tested for methylation status of p15,p16 genes by nested-methylation specific PCR(n-MSP),and the clinical data and prognostic factors of the 47 patients were analyzed.Results Twenty-eight (59.57%)cases of methylation of p15 gene were observed,and twenty-seven(57.45%)cases of methylation of p16 gene were observed.p15.p16 genes methylations were frequently detected in cases of stageⅡand ⅢMM than stage Ⅰ MM.Conclusion There Was a strong correlation between methylation of p15 and p16 gene.which might be related with the pathogenesis and prognosis of MM.

Key words:
Multiple myeloma; Gene; p15; Gene; p16; Methylation; Prognosis


bekew the transition temperatuTe. The iiC-NMR spectru of the a-MSHDMPC:DMPG=1:O and e:1 bilayer systems indicated that a-MSH in the vicinily of Phe' took raiidom-coil confoEmation. On the othet' hand, one of a-MSHDMPC/DMPG=3/1 bi]ayer systems indicftted thut a-MSH teek a-hettx cenfc)rmation, In addilion, thc Lhree-diniensional sLrucLurc ef a-MSH and the jntcraction bcl,-'ccn a-MSH and phuspholipid bilayer under the ph.vsiule.gical condition that is closc to tbc ]jying system will bc prcscntcd using POPC and POPI bilayersystems, IP346Conformation and interaction of P-endorphin with a model membrane consisting of unsaturated lipid bilayers as studied by selid-state NMR OEmiTaniguehi'.KatsuyukiNishimura:,AkiraNalto' iGrad. Sch. Eng., Yokoharna Natl. Univ., 2Inst. Mol. Sci,


In the specific literature, success may be achieved by two important attributes: competitiveness and sustainability. Competitive advantage represents an essential criterion for surviving on the tourist market and defines the ability of one destination to use these resources effectively and in the long term. The paper work continue a study begun last year by the same authors about tourist perception of attractiveness of the two tourist SPA destinations (Buzias and Băile Felix) on a different market segment (18-35 years old people). This time, we undertake an analysis on SC Turism Felix SA in order to determine and underline the tourist competitiveness through sustainability and financial efficiency (tourism performance indicators evolution, market share, turnover, investment volume, financial returns and costs).


Based on the field survey data and relevant literatures, the evaluation index system of plant priority protection, which consists of threatened coefficient, genetic coefficient and species coefficient was established. Quantitative study and comprehensive evaluation of plant resources in Liangzi Lake Nature Reserve were carried out, and protection levels were classified. The results showed that there were 254 plant species in nature reserve, including 18 endangered species, 46 vulnerable species, 76 lower risk species and 114 safety species. The coefficients of threatened, genetic and species were analyzed and calculated by the indexes and proportion weights. The priority protection order of plants was determined, including 12 species of the first class conservation, 18 species of the second class conservation, 33 species of the third class conservation and 191 species of the delayed conservation. The corresponding protection suggestions were put forward. The purpose is to provide theoretical guidance for plant protection work and to help protect biodiversity of Liangzi Lake Nature Reserve.


The Constitution of India in its propositions via Part III of the Constitution i.e., Fundamental Rights guaranteed the citizens of the country for Right to Information. Following to series of judgments of various High Courts and the Supreme Court of India as well as haunted need for a special enactment providing provisions relating to the procedure and nature of information that required by the information seekers, the Right to Information Act was evolved in the year 2005 with certain guidelines applicable for both Public Information Officers and Information Seekers. When such intricacies and constraints are taking place in the implementation of the Act thereby the very objective of the Act is remaining with a question mark, the present study is carried out with the objectives to trace the evolution of the people's movement for the emergence of Right to Information Act, to analyze the nature and scope of the application of the Act, to review intricacies and issues in the implementation of the Act thereby to recommend measures to bridge the gap between the legal position of the law and existing scenario for strengthening and improving the effective implementation of the RTI Act. Since, the entire study is qualitative one and case study method, no empirical data study was adopted.


The utility model provides a constant magnetic field spoon shape bone-setting board used for the internal fixation of fracture of the area of the metaphysis of four limbs. The utility model is in a spoon shape which is in coincidence with the structural shape of the cut area of the metaphysis of four limbs. When the existing bone-setting board carries out internal fixation in the bone fracture area of the metaphysis of four limbs, the problems of the artificial bent, easy breakage of the bone-connecting board, the easy movement and displacement of the bone fracture end can be solved. With the constant magnetic material, the utility model can continually produce constant magnetic field to promote the immediate union of the bone fracture. The utility model has a function of alleviating pain and detumescence, which does not need gypsum to carry out the auxiliary external fixation.


The rise of mobile services (e.g., electronic book, video streaming) and the prevalence of mobile devices reveal the needs for mobile reading/watching and the booming business opportunities in mobile service developments. However, there are different challenges among those services. For reading books on mobile devices, incompatible e-book readers, non-uniformed e-book formats, or even limited screen size causes the inconvenience of reading documents on handheld devices. Meanwhile, it is difficult to read physical magazines that do not have the corresponding digital copies. Therefore, we propose a system, Snap2Read, that can automatically segment the captured document images (i.e., from the physical magazines) in mobile phones into readable patches (e.g. text, title, image), and then scale them into suitable size so that users can easily browse the digitalized magazine pages via the mobile phone with simple clicks. Another popular activity on mobile is watching videos, but the small mobile screen size, low bandwidth, and fragmented watching time also hinder the user experiences: they either interrupt the watching process or limit users to browse many contents at the same time. Traditional video summarization techniques are suffering the small screen issue. Therefore, we propose a system, Comp2Watch, which is pronounced like "come to watch". It implies the meaning of "composing the frames into a collage" and "compressing the watching time". It puts ROI factors into consideration in order to help users take a quick glance at videos. Also, we modify the cost function to incorporate the templates with variable aspect ratios. We also address the monotone layout problem caused by the limited space. The experimental results show that users can obtain clearer subject without losing many contexts.


There were approximately 24,000 young people who received specialist drug and alcohol treatment in the UK in 2008-09. This is defined as "a care planned medical, psychosocial or specialist harm reduction intervention". As set out in the Drug Strategy 2010 such treatment is aimed at preventing escalation of use or harm and should "respond incrementally to the risks in terms of drug use, vulnerability and, particularly, age." Most of these young people were treated primarily for alcohol (37%) or cannabis (53%) misuse, with the remaining 10% misusing Class A drugs, including heroin and crack. Apart from using drugs and alcohol, these young people had experienced a range of other problems, including involvement in crime (shoplifting, theft, assault); being NEET (not in education, employment or training); or housing problems.


Cumulative meta-analysis (CMA) is a process of updating the results of existing meta-analysis to incorporate new study results. This is a popular way to present time-varying evidence. We investigate the properties of CMA, suggest possible improvements and provide the first in-depth simulation study of the use of CMA and CUSUM methods for detection of temporal trends in random-effects meta-analysis. We use the standardized mean difference (SMD) as an effect measure of interest. For CMA, we compare the standard inverse-variance-weighted estimation of the overall effect using REML-estimated between-study variance $\tau^2$ with the sample-size-weighted estimation of the effect combined with Kulinskaya-Dollinger-Bjørkestøl (2011) (KDB) estimation of $\tau^2$. For all methods, we consider type 1 error under no shift and power under shift in the mean. To ameliorate the lack of power in CMA, we introduce the two-stage CMA, where the heterogeneity variance $\tau^2$ is estimated at stage 1 (first 5-10 studies), and the further CMA monitors a target value of effect, keeping the $\tau^2$ value fixed. We recommend the use of this two-stage CMA combined with cumulative testing for positive shift in $\tau^2$.


Spinal epidural hematoma (EDH) can occur after substantial spinal trauma, originating from thinwalled venous plexus lying to the spinal cord. Clinically significant traumatic spinal EDH occurs uncommonly. Guillain-Barrésyndrome (GBS) is a postinfectious autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy mainly involving motor and/or sensory and autonomic nerves. Clinical manifestations 길랭-바레증후군으로 오인된 외상 척추경막외혈종에서 신경학적 합병증 없이 회복된 소아 1례


provides patient services and educational activities and conducts clinical research. The patient population and routes of access to one such clinic are described, and the effect of direct and indirect costs influencing patient com-pliance are analyzed. It was found that the program cost of such a facility greatly exceeds the administrative cost. Alternatives to such high-cost facilities are considered. to document the cost of the by these and to define their to patients


This study investigates the differential learning opportunities in 5 on 5 versus 3 on 3 basketball game play. Video-analysis of the game performance of thirty basketball players (10-11 years) resulted in significantly higher scores on all game performance components (GPC's: cognitive decision making component (DM), motor skill execution efficiency (MSEfficiency) and motor skill execution efficacy (MSEfficacy) component), indicating more learning opportunities during 3 on 3 game play. The actual game performance level, showed only significantly higher scores for the percentage of positive decisions for cutting actions in the 5 on 5 condition. Future research is needed to indicate to what extent learning results are easier or faster attained when using small sided games, based on the nonlinear pedagogy framework, and second which is the optimal game play situation to assess game performance, and this for players of a different game performance level or for different stages.


The application of the nonlinear mathematical methods to the electroencephalographic signals (EEG signals) began in 1985. One of the most promising approaches to define and determine, complexity, nonlinearity and nonstationnarity of EEG signals is recurrences method initiated by Eckmann, Kamphorst and Ruelle in 1987 under RP name then by Webber, Zbilut and Chau under RQA name. Implementation of recurrences method in biomedical field, was initiated by J. P. Zbilut then N. P. Chau in cardiovascular field. Their work concerned the variability of heartbeat rate in diabetic dysautonomy. For several years, our engineers team of research has been in collaboration with other doctors and clinicians. We use RQA method applied to EEG signals and we observe the RQA variables variations while hoping to detect a significant dynamics changes which can inform us on the arrival of epileptic seizure at convenient period


With adoption of questionnaire and expert interview,this paper studied the status quo and the development of rural school sports in poverty-stricken counties in Hubei province.It was found that most schools had changed the sports classes into health classes.Some schools had tried teaching reform.In most schools,the students did morning exercises,class-break exercises and ex-curricular exercises.However,in some schools,there were no ex-curricular exercises.Most schools were in great need of more funds in sports.The sports funds in these schools reached less than 1% of the school education funds.The sports grounds and facilities of these schools could not meet the class and the ex-curricular sports needs.Most schools had young and middle aged P.E masters.Their educational levels were not high.


Let T ? B(H) be a bounded linear operator on a Hilbert space H, and let T =
 U|T| be its polar decomposition. Then, for every ? ? [0,1] the ?-Aluthge
 transform of T is defined by ??(T) = |T|?U|T|1-?. In this paper, we
 characterize the invertible, binormal, and EP operators and its intersection
 with a special class of introduced operators via the ?-Aluthge transform.


Thermoplastic vulcanizate(TPV)based on high impact polystyrene(HIPS)/high vinyl polybutadiene rubber(HVPBR)blends were prepared by dynamic vulcanization,and the influences of blending ratio and heat-treatment temperature on the reversible recovery of compression set,together with the mechanism and model construction of the reversible recovery of the TPV,were investigated systematically.The results showed that increasing the content of HVPBR in TPV and increasing heattreatment temperature would lead to the fast recovery of compression set;moreover,the TPV had fully reversible deformation ability when the heat-treatment temperature was close to the Tg of HIPS.The reversible recovery mechanism was discussed based on the characteristics of the reversible recovery curves of compression set.A mathematical model to explain the reversible recovery of compression set was established via the fitting of the experimental data,and the influences of blending ratio and heat-treatment temperature on the relaxation time in each stage of the recovery course were discussed.


In this paper we explore some challenges, constraints and possibilities for creating inclusive multicultural practices in previously monocultural education settings. Two sites are examined: one a regional high school in Australia, which has become more ethnically heterogeneous through an increase in predominantly African students of refugee origin; the other, a Swedish-medium primary-school setting in Finland with a slow but significant increase in the number of immigrant students. Utilising the theoretical lens of practice architectures, we focus on the key role that educators' practices play in ethnically diverse learners' identity formation, as part of the process of 'multiplicity in the making'. We suggest how schools can foster more inclusive classroom practices, through adopting a praxis-oriented approach to teachers' professional development.


This paper presents research focusing on visualization and pattern recognition based on computer science. Although deep neural networks demonstrate satisfactory performance regarding image and voice recognition, as well as pattern analysis and intrusion detection, they exhibit inferior performance towards adversarial examples. Noise introduction, to some degree, to the original data could lead adversarial examples to be misclassified by deep neural networks, even though they can still be deemed as normal by humans. In this paper, a robust diversity adversarial training method against adversarial attacks was demonstrated. In this approach, the target model is more robust to unknown adversarial examples, as it trains various adversarial samples. During the experiment, Tensorflow was employed as our deep learning framework, while MNIST and Fashion-MNIST were used as experimental datasets. Results revealed that the diversity training method has lowered the attack success rate by an average of 27.2 and 24.3% for various adversarial examples, while maintaining the 98.7 and 91.5% accuracy rates regarding the original data of MNIST and Fashion-MNIST.


This is the third quarterly report of progress at LLL on assessment methodologies and tools to assist the NRC in the development and enforcement of performance based regulations pertaining to special nuclear material safeguards at licensed facilities. The first quarterly report presented an overview of LLL's approach as of February, 1977. The second quarterly report describes the design of a hypothetical material control system referred to as the ''test bed design'' which is being used at LLL in the development of techniques for the assessment of material control system effectiveness. This report describes one of these techniques, a specialized computer simulation program for determination of material control system responses to particular adversary action sequences that constitute a material diversion attempt. The report contains an overview description of the Material Control System Simulator (MCSS) program and its role in the LLL assessment procedure. The complete MCSS User's Manual is available in the LLL report UCID 17727. This and the previous quarterly are detailed topical reports and do not present progress made in other areas of this program. Future quarterly reports will resume broad coverage of all aspects of LLL's assistance to the NRC on Safeguards Material Control at Licensed Processing Facilities.


Objective:To research into the result of blood group serological test and the morbidity of clinical HDN in the neonates with maternal-fetal ABO incompatibility.Methods:According to the detection rules,the serology with umbilical blood of the 1 199 neonates with maternal-fetal ABO incompatibility were determined to study the morbidity of hyperbilirubinemia in group in 7 days after birth.Results:①The positive rate of antibody-released test,DAT,IAT and the morbidity of clinical HDN were extremely higher in the maternal-fetal O/A(B)combination than those of the A/B,A/AB,B/A,B/AB combinations(P0.01).②There was a remarkable positive correlation between the result of blood group serological test and the morbidity of clinical HDN(P0.01).③The antibody of Ab-A(B)had no remarkable effect on morbidity of clinical HDN(P0.05).Conclusion:The clinical HDN in the ABO blood group,the maternal-fetal O/A(B)combination accounts for 89.19%,and the other 10.81%.The free antibody in the neonates whose antibody-released test is positively help to estimate the developing trend of HDN.


Research a prediction method for spare parts' consumption based on ARIMA model,put forward a method that regards the number of spare parts' consumption as time sequence during expenditure,and establishes the relevant ARIMA(p,d,q) model to forecast.Using the method to predict the consumption number of one aeronautical material spare part,the results show that the method can enhance the prediction accuracy up to 15%.That proves the method is applicable to the prediction of spare parts' consumption.


Hydroxylated monoterpenes (HMTPs) are differentially emitted by tomato plants efficiently resisting a bacterial infection. We have studied the defensive role of these volatiles in the tomato response to bacteria, whose main entrance are stomata apertures. Treatments with some HMTPs resulted in stomatal closure and PR1 induction. Particularly, α-terpineol induced stomatal closure in a salicylic (SA) and abscisic acid-independent manner, and conferred resistance to bacteria. Interestingly, transgenic tomato plants overexpressing or silencing the monoterpene synthase MTS1, which displayed alterations in the emission of HMTPs, exhibited changes in the stomatal aperture but not in plant resistance. Measures of both 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol-2,4-cyclopyrophosphate (MEcPP) and SA levels, revealed a competition for MEcPP by the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway and the SA biosynthesis activation, thus explaining the absence of phenotype in transgenic plants. These results were confirmed by chemical inhibition or activation of the MEP pathway. Besides, treatments with BTH, a SA functional analogue, conferred enhanced resistance in transgenic tomato plants overexpressing MTS1. Finally, plants overexpressing MTS1 induced PR1 and stomata closure in neighbouring plants. Our results confirm the role of HMTPs in both intra and inter-plant immune signalling, and reveal a metabolic crosstalk between the MEP and SA pathways in tomato plants. Graphical Abstract Metabolic crosstalk between hydroxylated monoterpenes and salicylic acid in tomato defence response against Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato. Created with BioRender.com.


This two-volume Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) was prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in accordance with regulation 10 CFR Part 51, which implements the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Volume 1 contains the assessment of the potential environmental impacts for licensing the construction and operation of a proposed gaseous centrifuge enrichment facility to be built in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, by Louisiana Energy Services, LP. (LES). The proposed facility would have a production capacity of about 866 metric tons annually of up to 5 weight percent enriched UF{sub 6}, using a proven centrifuge technology. Included in the assessment are construction, both normal operations and potential accidents (internal and external events), and the eventual decontamination and decommissioning (D&D)- of the site. Issues addressed include the purpose and need for the facility, the alternatives to the proposed action, potential disposition of the tails, the site selection process, and environmental justice. The NRC staff concludes that the facility can be constructed and operated with small and acceptable impacts on the public and the environment. The FEIS supports issuance of a license to the applicant, Louisiana Energy Services, to authorize construction and operation of the proposed facility.


In a provocative article published recently in Archaeological dialogues (23(2)), Olivier Gosselain proposes 'to get rid of ethnoarchaeology once and for all, and join forces with other, more serious, disciplines'. In this reaction article, I challenge Gosselain's sweeping statements about ethnoarcaheology. In particular I argue against the notion that methodological weakness is unique to ethnoarchaeology, that the questions under study ignore the complexity of the social context, and that the search for cross-cultural regularities denies the historical dimension of technical practices. In conclusion, I suggest that rather than getting rid of ethnoarchaeology, it would be more helpful to meet the ambitious goals of ethnoarchaeology by improving and strengthening the methodology.


Efficient utilization of pericarp of fruits of Bixa orellanaa major byproduct from the annatto color extraction industrieshas been mentioned here. The lower calorific value (LCV) had been experimentally determined for the postharvest dried pericarp of fruits of B. orellana by ultimate analyses. The experimentally determined LCV is compared with the calculated fuel value index (FVI). The higher LCV of annatto pericarp than the LCV of some plant biomass that are prominently used as a fuel source, viz., tamarind shell, paddy husk, coconut font, paper waste, and groundnut husk, indicates their utility as a potential fuel. Thus, annatto color extraction industries can utilize the major byproductpericarpas a fuel source, and it can also be used as a supplementary source of fuel mainly for third world countries, which can grow this plant primely for the purpose of fuel and with annatto as a secondary benefit in the near future.


With the network and information technology consecutive development,a dramatically increasing number of industries and sectors tend to the use of network management aids.As one of the main driving forces in social development,colleges and universities are supposed to mount forefront of the period,integrable ware platform that plays one of the aided institution systems for teacher and students should be towards networking and diversification.This article mainly focuses on the importance of building network integrable ware platform,besides based on integrable ware view,using ASP.NET 2.0 and XML technology,states the design ideas and implementation of building network integrable ware platform.


For the system of phosphite flame retardant glass-fibre reinforced PA66,the effect of Fe2O3 on flame retardant performance of the system was studied. TGA analysis,cone calorimeter analysis and surface morphology analysis were performed. It was found that Fe2O3could promote the decomposition of phosphite flame retardant glass-fibre reinforced PA66 system. Fe2O3could reinforce the carbonized layer and block the release of flammable gases and heat transfer in the burning process,significantly reduce the heat release rate peak. When the content of Fe2O3was 0. 5%,the phosphite flame retardant was 15%,the flame retardancy of this system could achieve UL94 V-0.


Key Points Little is known about the type and nature of viruses that get trapped in commercial filters on swine farms due to a lack of sampling methods. The first part of this study established effective methods for eluting and identifying PRRS and IAV viruses in MERV filters under lab conditions. The second part of the study tested the verified method on used filters from swine farms, verifying the presence of both PRRS and IAV


We reflect on the idea that programming languages and environments are tools for the craft practice of building software. By using the metaphor of computers as pencils, we explore the lack of deep diversity in the ecosystem of computational tools, and propose a potential route towards craft-built programs.


Objective To investigate care on patients with esophageal carcinoma with intensity modulated radiation therapy( IMRT),to prevent and alleviate the side effects of radiotherapy on patients with esophageal carcinoma,to ensure the smooth completion of the radiotherapy treatment planning of patients and to improve quality of life of patients. Methods To careful nursing,from mental nursing irradiated skin care,diet nursing care,nursing of radiation esophagitis,prevention of bone marrow suppression and nursing care of radioactive were conducted. Results The results of all 45 patients successfully completed the entire process of radiotherapy,had recently reached 95. 6 percent efficiency. While all the patients with lower radioactive esophagitis and pneumonitis and cutaneous radiation reaction of light,also with lower incidence of myelosuppression. Conclusion Careful clinical nursing was one of the key factors to alleviate the side effects of radiotherapy and ensure the smooth completion of the radiotherapy treatment planning of patients.