Thorium-229 possesses the lowest nuclear first excited state with an energy of about 8 eV. The extremely narrow linewidth of the nuclear first excited state with the uncertainty of 53 THz prevents the direct laser excitation and the realization of the nuclear clock. We present a proposal using the Coulomb crystal of a linear chain formed by the 229 Th 3+ ions, the nuclei of 229 Th 3+ ions in the ion trap are excited by the electronic bridge (EB) process. The 7 P 1 / 2 state of the thorium-229 nuclear ground state is chosen for the EB excitation. Using the two-level optical Bloch equation under experimental conditions, we calculate that 2 out of 36 prepared thorium ions in the Coulomb crystal can be excited to the nuclear first excited state, and it takes about 2 hours to scan over the uncertainty of 0.22 eV. Taking the advantage of transition enhancement of the EB and the long stability of the Coulomb crystal, the energy uncertainty of the first excited state can be limited to the order of 1 GHz.


This paper described a method of establishing a coordinated simulation system of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). In order to increase the degree of similarity for simulation system and real environment of AUV, mechanical properties of the virtual prototype, which was created by Pro Engineer software, were defined in ADAMS software based on physical prototype. An interactive coordinated simulation system was established based on the ADAMS/Controls combined with MATLAB/Simulink. The results of the simulation offered references for establishing the control system of physical prototype.


Media Device Orchestration (MDO) makes use of interconnected devices to augment a reproduction system, and
could be used to deliver more immersive audio experiences to domestic audiences. To investigate optimal rendering
on an MDO-based system, stimuli were created via: 1) object-based audio (OBA) mixes undertaken in a reference
listening room; and 2) up to 13 rendered versions of these employing a range of installed and ad-hoc loudspeakers
with varying cost, quality and position. The programme items include audio-visual material (short film trailer
and big band performance) and audio-only material (radio panel show, pop track, football match, and orchestral
performance). The object-based programme items and alternate MDO configurations are made available for testing
and demonstrating OBA systems.


At the invitation of New Zealand and Australian Rotaries, a 4-member CAFIU delegation headed by Mr.Zhu Dacheng, Vice-President of CAFIU visited the two countries from March 6 to 18.


controversial (Millward 1998) and to date, there are no data available from prospective, randomised controlled studies. Their use should be considered in any patient having surgery who is at high risk of developing a venous thromboembolism. IVC filters are safe and effective in reducing the incidence of PE to 0.3–3.8% in high-risk patients (Kaufman and Geller 1995). The indications for placement of IVC filters include patients with transient contraindication against anticoagulation, PE despite anticoagulation, fulminant PE, preoperative implantation in patients with DVT (Linsenmaier et al. 1998) and application in patients undergoing anticoagulation or systemic or local thrombolytic therapy (Scholz et al. 1999; Zwaan et al. 1998; Kunisch et al. 1995; Neuerburg and Gunther 1994). Temporary vena cava filters can be left in place for up to 14 days to cover a high-risk period for venous thromboembolism. They are designed to avoid the disadvantages of permanent systems (perforation, penetration of the caval wall, or occlusion) (Ferris et al. 1993). They provide comparable protection against PE and several studies have proven the equal effectiveness of permanent and temporary filters in clot capturing (Lorch et al. 1998; Neuerburg et al. 1996). Frequently, these devices do not have hooks, barbs, or any other means for fixation to the wall of the vena cava, but are supported in place by tethers or catheters. The supporting elements frequently traverse long segments of the central venous system, are externalised and occupy a venous access site. Removal of these devices is required within several weeks before the filter and/or tether becomes adherent to the venous walls (Millward 1998; Watanabe et al. 2001; Lorch et al. 2000). This patient had previously had a laparoscopic subtotal hysterectomy. The subtotal operation was chosen, as the complication rate of this procedure is very low. Indeed, this patient is the only case of thromboembolism in our series of over 400 cases of day case LSH that we previously reported (Erian et al. 2008). The need for laparoscopic removal of the cervix after LSH is very low in our series and we have found no major adhesions from the bowel to the cervix and the cervix can usually be removed vaginally without a problem. However, in these patients it is useful to perform a laparoscopy to exclude epicloacal adhesions that we have found in some patients. This case report confirms that the use of temporary vena cava filters in high-risk patients is a safe and feasible option to prevent the risk of pulmonary embolism.


Performance is multi-factorial and individual events requiring a unique combination of traits.The key factors limiting the high-level sport performance is gene and environment.All functional capacities and physiological processes in mankind must have a genetically determined ceiling.There is individual difference in most performance phenotypes.The question arise as to what extent physical training can raise an individual's capacity above a certain level,towards human maximum value,which still needs to be more carefully established.


Background: The study concerns the inter-governmental dispute between the Polish and the Czech governments on the planned Turów coalmine expansion and its impact on the cross-border cooperation between the Polish and the Czech entities, particularly in the sphere of cross-border partnerships conducting microprojects financially supported by the INTERREG Program. The conflict went before the European Court of Justice in 2021 and was the cause of hostility between the two nations. the conflict was concluded in February 2022, with the signing of the agreement on the future of the Turów coalmine and compensation for the Czechs. Although the dispute has ended formally, but some problems in relations between the Polish and the Czech partners on the borderland still exist. Research problem and questions: The research problem concerns recognizing how inter-governmental disputes at a national level can impact on cross-border cooperation at a local level, and in particular the Polish-Czech partnerships conducting cross-border microprojects. It comprises of research questions concerning the impact of this inter-governmental dispute on the ongoing and future Polish-Czech institutional partnerships in cross-border projects and the factors necessary to improve the resilience of cross-border cooperation at a local level to political factors and actors. Methods: The authors used both qualitative research methods (in-depth interviews, media analysis, desk research) and quantitative research methods (survey CATI, CAWI surveys). Conclusions: The study shows slight changes in the intensity, efficiency and approach to the cross-border cooperation; it reveals the future activities essential to improving the Polish-Czech relations in the Nysa Euroregion. It points out the important factors necessary to improve the resilience of cross-border cooperation to political factors.


This paper presents the first ab initio conformational study of the Gal-β-1,4-[Fuc-α-1,3]-GlcNAc-β-OCH3 and Gal-β-1,4-[Fuc-α-1,3]-GlcNAc-β-OH trisaccharides (Lewis x) in the gas phase. Their lowest-energy conformers were selected first by the MM2*-SUMM conformational search technique. MM2* relative energies do not follow the same order for the two similar compounds. The molecular geometries and energies of the lowest-energy rotamers (7 of the acetal and 11 of the hemiacetal) were further analyzed at the HF/6-31G(d) level of theory. The ab initio method yields the same energetic order for the rotamers of the two molecules with considerably larger energetic differences for the first 7 rotamers:  the MM2* method provides 0.3−0.5 kcal/mol, whereas the HF/6-31G(d) method provides 4.5 kcal/mol. In the most stable MM2* structures the hydrogen-bonded chains of galactose (in counterclockwise direction) and fucose (in clockwise direction) are not connected. The Gal(O6H) is a hydrogen bond donor (in clockwise direct...


Kruschke [2018] proposes the so called HDI+ROPE decision rule about accepting or rejecting a parameter null value for practical purposes using a region of practical equivalence (ROPE) around the null value and the posterior highest density interval (HDI) in the context of Bayesian statistics. Further, he mentions the so called ROPE-only decision rule within his supplementary material, which is based on ROPE, but uses the full posterior information instead of the HDI.
Of course, if it is about formalizing and guiding decisions then statistical decision theory is the framework to rely on, and this technical report elaborates the decision theoretic foundations of both decision rules.
It appears that the foundation of the HDI+ROPE decision rule is rather artificial compared to the foundation of the ROPE-only decision rule, such that latter might be characterized as being closer to the underlying practical purpose than former. Still, the ROPE-only decision rule employs a truly arbitrary, and thus debatable, choice of loss values.


Breastfeeding mothers are critical for realizing a qualified and dignified Indonesian generation. However, mental health, such as anxiety, frequently appears on postpartum mothers during the first week of the delivery that decreases the breast milk production of postpartum mothers. It lowers the intention to breastfeed. This research aims to identify the implementation of non-pharmacological therapy to lose anxiety and improve the breastfeeding efficacy of postpartum mothers. This systematic literature review begins by searching articles, published from 2011 until 2021, via some databases, such as google scholar, national library, and sciencedirect. The applied keywords were such as non-pharmacological treatment, anxiety, breastfeeding self-efficacy, and postpartum mothers. The applied method was PRISMA. The researcher found 450 articles selected based on the keyword combinations. Then, the researchers screened the articles into 11 articles that met with the inclusion and exclusion criteria, Sinta, and DOI. The articles took the topic of non-pharmacological therapy to decrease anxiety and improve breastfeeding self-efficacy in postpartum mothers. The researcher found the non-pharmacological interventions were massage therapy, hypnotherapy, aromatherapy, progressive muscular relaxation, mother-to-baby skin contact, lactation consultation, and peer education. They were effective to lose the anxiety and improve the breastfeeding self-efficacy of postpartum mothers.


This is an introduction to the theory of Shimura varieties, or, in other words, to the arithmetic theory of automorphic functions and holomorphic automorphic forms.


Tokeda addresses both the challenge of viably preserving an unbounded amount of metadata without endangering Bitcoin itself and the challenge of introducing tokens within Bitcoin by weaving the two problems through aligned economic incentives. Tokeda is compatible with stateless wallets (which include SPV wallets) and requires no consensus change. As a token scheme, Tokeda relies on a trust-but-verify security model centered around the issuer. The issuer is trusted with the relay of inbound transactions from users. The issuer takes care of routing the metadata to remedy the lack of such capabilities within the Bitcoin script. As a metadata layer, Tokeda leverages the UTX set (unspent transactions) as a purposefully pruneable key-value store, which is a superset of the UTXO set (unspent transaction outputs). Tokeda creates a market signaling mechanism at the issuer level, to foster an ecosystem of nodes which can selectively persist the metadata in the UTX set depending on the originating issuer. The author argues that Tokeda is an economically superior form of tokens compared to the code-is-law approach adopted by some of the competitors of Bitcoin. The author also argues that Tokeda is a provable way to incentivize miners to foster a token-driven economy backed by Bitcoin, instead of expecting the miners to subsidize tokens operated over Bitcoin.


As a result of the events that occurred on October 1, 2017 in Catalonia in the framework of the referendum on independence called by the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights, through the System of Registration and Communication of Institutional Violence (SIRECOVI), it has received numerous communications from witnesses of several of the police interventions that took place in the 90 polling stations which were closed that day by National Police and Civil Guard. With this Report, It is intended to make a summary of all information received by SIRECOVI, information that was communicated at the time to all organizations that are part of the network of recipients of the system.


The majority of American children fall far short of meeting national nutrition recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption. Participation in home meal preparation has been associated with stronger preferences for fruits and vegetables and improved diet quality in school‐aged children, but this association has never been examined in younger children. This study investigated the association between involvement in food preparation and planning and fruit and vegetable intake in preschool‐aged children.


Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have enormous amounts of data that can be extracted and analyzed for various purposes. Stock market prediction is one of them. Previous research ...


The 2-0x0 acid dehydrogenase multienzyme complexes catalyze the oxidative decarboxylation of 2-0x0 acids, releasing COz and generating the relevant acylCoA. Three principal systems are known; these have as their respective substrates pyruvate, 2-oxoglutarate, and the branched-chain 2-0x0 acids related by transamination to valine, leucine, and isoleucine, respectively (for recent reviews of their structure, mechanism and genetics, see Refs. 1 and 2). The reaction catalyzed' is shown in schematic form in FIGURE 1. The constituent enzymes of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex are pyruvate decarboxylase (pyruvate dehydrogenase [lipoamide], Elp: EC 188.8.131.52), dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (E2p: E C 126.96.36.199), and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3: E C 22.214.171.124). The corresponding enzymes of the 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase (20GDH) complex are 2-oxoglutarate decarboxylase (Elo: EC 18.104.22.168), dihydrolipoamide succinyltransferase (E20: EC 184.108.40.206), and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3: E C 126.96.36.199). Similar enzymes constitute the branched-chain 2-0x0 acid dehydrogenase ~ o m p l e x . ~ During catalysis, the substrate is attached in thioester linkage to lipoyl-lysine residues (FIG. I ) , which form essentially freely rotating swinging arms. The lipoyllysine residues are themselves housed in small lipoyl domains which are located in the amino-terminal portions of the E2 polypeptide chains. The carboxyl-terminal portions of the E2 chains comprise larger folded domains that serve at least two known functions: they embody the acyltransferase activity that catalyzes the transfer of the acyl group from the lipoyl-lysine residue to coenzyme A and they aggregate with octahedral (24-mer) or icosahedral(60-mer) symmetry to provide the inner structural core around which the E l and E3 subunits are assembled. As reviewed elsewhere,' the lipoyl domains can move with respect to the bulk of a 2-0x0 acid dehydrogenase complex by virtue of the conformational flexibility found in the interdomain segments of the E2 chains, and this movement is an important contributor to the catalytic properties. Thus, the E2 chains are of particular interest in that they provide the central structural and mechanistic cores of the enzyme complexes. In this article, we review further recent advances in our understanding of the domain structure of the E2 chains, the dynamics of the interdomain segments of polypeptide chain, and the way these


Because of the constraints upon him as a philosophy and theology student in a small city (Dunedin) and small society (New Zealand), A.N. Prior wrote a series of letters and articles on religious and political matters for Tomorrow magazine and the Otago Daily Times under three nom de plumes: Richard Bramley, Independent Labour and (including, at least twice with Clare Prior) as John Everdean. This article discusses the content and context of these writings which enable us to gain a deeper and fuller insight into Prior's religious and political thought at this time of change in his life.


Experimental approaches work by comparing changes in a group that receives a development intervention with a group that does not. The difference is then attributed to the intervention. In a full experimental approach, units are randomly allocated to two groups – one that receives the intervention and one that does not. In a quasi-experimental approach non-random methods of assignment are used instead.


The Fresnel field of the arrangement consisting of two amplitude diffraction gratings illuminated by spatially coherent, plane and spherical waves is examined. The analysis is based on Kirchhoff-Fresnel diffraction theory. The problem of localization of the self-images of both gratings, as well as some properties of the moire fringes generated in the system are discussed in detail. All theoretical analyses are experimentally verified.


A new cobalt(II) compound, {(Me2NH2)4[Co(SIP)2]·2(DMF)·3(H2O)}n (1, H3SIP = 5-sulfoisophthalic acid), has been synthesized under solvothermal condition and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Compound 1 crystallizes in the tetragonal system, space group P 4 21m, with a = 14.3080(7), b = 14.3080(7), c = 12.1837(9) A, V = 2494.2(3) A, Z = 2, C30H58N6O19S2Co, Mr = 929.87, Dc = 1.238 g/cm, μ = 0.496 mm, F(000) = 982, flack parameter of 0.007(9), the final R = 0.0767 and wR = 0.2110 for 2391 observed reflections with I >2σ(I). The tetrahedral Co(II) ions are linked by carboxylate groups of the 5-sulfoisophthalate ligands to form an anionic two-dimensional (2D) layer displaying a (4,4) square network, which was charge-balanced by the [Me2NH2] + cations occupying the spaces between the 2D layers. Magnetic properties of 1 have been investigated in detail using direct-current and alternating-current susceptibility measurements.


We use a histogram Monte Carlo simulation method to calculate the scaling functions of the existence probability Ep and the percolation probability P of the bond random percolation model on honeycomb lattices with aspect ratios of 0.5 and 2.0. We find that such different aspect ratios give quite different scaling functions near the critical region. However, they give a consistent critical point, critical exponents, and the thermodynamic order parameter from renormalization-group calculations. Some interesting theoretical problems related to this work are discussed.


The nature of DNA's double helix makes it incredibly stable while ideally suited to exploiting change. If one of the strands of the DNA changes then the other remains unchanged, an 'insurance policy' to protect against undesirable changes. If, however, there is a change in the DNA that leads to a novel or enhanced character, this can be selected. In the wild this phenomenon underpins the natural selection of evolution, while in domesticated crop plants such genetic selection is the basis of plant breeding. Land plants have evolved over millions of years, in this context the selection of wild plants for cultivation is relatively recent, dating back to less than 10,000 years ago. Plant breeding is more recent still with a history of just a few hundred years.


On the Universal sees Francois Jullien focus on whether universal values exist and whether dialogue between cultures is possible. The book retraces the history of the concept of the universal from its invention as an aspect of Roman citizenship, through its neutralization in the Christian idea of salvation, to its present day manifestations. This is a valuable contrition to the field, writes Josh Jowitt.


Junctional rhythm is usually seen in the clinic with different causes. We report a case of bicuspid aortic valve accompaniedby sinoatrial node dysfunction. The junctional escape beat could accelerate with physiological needs and provided for the normal needs of daily life when dysfunction of the sinoatrial node occurred, which provides a new way for the treatment of sinoatrial node dysfunction. Our findings could be potentially significant for identifying causes and choosing appropriate treatment strategies by using ECG monitoring in the clinic in the future.


The Ni-Ti-Ta amorphous alloy was prepared by mechanical alloying. The Ni-Ti-Ta mixed powders with different ball-milling time were studied by X-ray diffraction. The results show that adding Ta into Ni-Ti can accelerate the transformation of Ni-Ti crystal alloy to amorphous. The mixed amorphous alloy according to the formula(Ni51Ti49)1-xTax (x = 0, 2, 4, 10, 15, 20) can be obtained by proper mechanical alloying.


The seismic phenomenon is the most damaging natural hazard known in the Mediterranean area. The western part of the Eurasia–Nubia plate boundary extends from the Azores to the Mediterranean region. The oceanic part of the plate boundary is well delimited from the Azores Islands, along the Azores-Gibraltar fault to approximately 12◦W (west of the Strait of Gibraltar). From 12◦W to 3.5◦E, including the Iberia–Nubia region and extending to the western part of Algeria, the boundary is more diffuse and forms a wider area of deformation. The boundary between the Iberia and Nubia plates is the most complex part of the margin. This region corresponds to the transition from an oceanic boundary to a continental boundary, where Iberia and Nubia collide. Although most earthquakes along this plate boundary are shallow and generally have magnitudes less than 5.5, there have been several high-magnitude events. Many devastating earthquakes, some of them tsunami-triggering, inflicted heavy loss and considerable economic damage to the region. From 1920 to present, three earthquakes with magnitudes of about 8.0 (Mw 8.2, 25 November 1941; Ms 8.0, 25 February 1969; and Mw 7.9, 26 May 1975) occurred in the oceanic region, and four earthquakes with magnitudes of about 7.0 (Mw 7.1, 8 May 1939, Santa Maria Island and Mw 7.1, January 1980, Terceira and Graciosa Islands, both in the Azores; Ms 7.1, 20 May 1931, Azores-Gibraltar fracture zone; and Mw 7.3, 10 October 1980, El Asnam, Algeria) occurred along the western part of the Eurasia–Nubia plate boundary. In general, large earthquakes (M ≥7) occur within the oceanic region, with the exception of the El Asnam (Algeria) earthquakes. Some of these events caused extensive damage. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake (∼Mw 9) on the Portugal Atlantic margin, about 200 km W–SW of Cape St. Vincent, was followed by a tsunami and fires that caused the near-total destruction of Lisbon and adjacent areas. Estimates of the death toll in Lisbon alone (∼70,000) make it one of the deadliest earthquakes in history. Measured in lives lost, the 1926, 1980 and 1998 Azores earthquakes (Portugal), the 1954 and 1980 El Asnam earthquakes (North Algeria), the 1994 and 2004 Alhoceima earthquakes (North Morocco), and the 2003 Boumerdes earthquakes (North Algeria) were the worst earthquakes in the past 120 years in the study area. Hence, this region has experienced many large and damaging earthquakes. The city of Cairo (Egypt) was struck in October 1992 by an Mw 5.8 magnitude earthquake, which caused large damage. In 1935, the Syrte region in Libya experienced an M6.9 earthquake with severe damage. Generally, North Africa has experienced moderate earthquakes. However, the region remains vulnerable due to the shallow seismicity, the poor mechanical properties of its soil and local site conditions, and the consequent strength of the ground shaking. Knowing the behaviour of a seismogenic area, particularly the fault zone, will lead us to better assess the hazard and risk in and around large urban areas. In order to mitigate the destructive impact of the earthquakes, the regional seismic hazard in North Africa is assessed using different approaches (ex. deterministic and probabilistic) using historical and instrumental seismicity, earthquake sources, seismotectonic zonation, structural models and attenuation laws. As a result, reliable seismic hazard maps are produced in terms of maximum displacement and in terms of maximum intensity map.


Lattice animals with fugacities conjugate to the number of cycles, or conjugate to the number of nearest neighbour contacts, go through a collapse transition at a-point at a critical value of the fugacity. We examine the phase diagram of a model which includes both a cycle-and a contact-fugacity with Monte Carlo methods. Using an underlying cut-and-paste Metropolis algorithm for lattice animals, we implement in the rst instance a Multiple Markov Chain simulation of collapsing animals to estimate the location of the collapse transitions and the values of the crossover exponents associated with these. Secondly, we use umbrella sampling to sample animals over a rectangle in the phase diagram to examine the structure of the phase diagram of these animals.


We consider two game‐theoretic settings to determine the optimal values of an issuer's interchange fee rate, an acquirer's merchant discount rate, and a merchant's retail price in a credit card network. In the first setting, we investigate a two‐stage game problem in which the issuer and the acquirer first negotiate the interchange fee rate, and the acquirer and the retailer then determine their merchant discount rate and retail price, respectively. In the second setting, motivated by the recent US bill "H.R. 2695," we develop a three‐player cooperative game in which the issuer, the acquirer, and the merchant form a grand coalition and bargain over the interchange fee rate and the merchant discount rate. Following the cooperative game, the retailer makes its retail pricing decision. We derive both the Shapley value‐ and the nucleolus‐characterized, and globally‐optimal unique rates for the grand coalition. Comparing the two game settings, we find that the participation of the merchant in the negotiation process can result in the reduction of both rates. Moreover, the stability of the grand coalition in the cooperative game setting may require that the merchant should delegate the credit card business only to the issuer and the acquirer with sufficiently low operation costs. We also show that the grand coalition is more likely to be stable and the U.S. bill "H.R. 2695" is thus more effective, if the degree of division of labor in the credit card network is higher as the merchant, acquirer, and issuer are more specialized in the retailing, acquiring, and issuing operations, respectively. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012


Nowadays, since the popularity of portable terminals, the demand of wireless video broadcasting is exploding. The application of wireless video has become an indispensable part of daily life. Conventional wireless video transmission systems do not accommodate the broadcasting scenarios because of the variety of channel conditions with different terminals. Recently, a joint source-channel coding scheme named SoftCast which can provide graceful degradation has been presented. But the protection for important data is not accuracy enough due to the lossy transmission. Besides, the whitening operation does not have enough flexibility which is caused by Hadamard matrix. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive wireless video coding scheme which uses quadtree partition method to achieve whitening operation. Compared with Hadamard transform, the quadtree partition method has more flexibility. Moreover, we use an adaptive module to resist the channel noise and provide more protection to important data which exist in low-frequency subband. The experimental results show that our proposed scheme is about 3–5dB better than SoftCast in reconstruction quality. And the capability of resistant to random packet loss is comparable with Hadamard transform.


Detailed descriptions and illustrations of the truncatellid nervous system are presented. The nervous system has concentrated ganglia and is similar to that of pomatiopsids, differing mainly in having a shorter pleuro-supraoesophageal connective and in lacking the fourth lateral nerve reported in some poraotiopsids A metapodial commissure is present in truncatellids and many other rissooideans, but it is not known whether this is a synapomorphy of Rissooidea. Statistical analysis revealed no sexual dimorphism, but pronounced asymmetry in some parts of the nervous system. The left pleural and parietal ganglia are larger than the right ones and the right cerebropedal and pleuropedal connectives are significantly longer than the left ones. Such asymmetry of the connectives has not previously been reported in nssooideans, although it is known among pulmonates Principal components analysis revealed two characters of potential systematic value within the Truncatellidae. On average, Truncatella subcyluidrica has a shorter pedal commissure for its size than do the other species, and Blandiella reclusa has shorter cerebropedal and pleuropedal connectives.


This survey study examines the association of family-rated quality of end-of-life care with stopping dialysis treatment and receipt of hospice services among veterans with end-stage renal disease.


This research examines the association between configurations of personal values and managerial incumbency among professionals in Brazil, the US, and Asia. Our research is different from classical leadership research as well as most cross-cultural studies in that it focuses on variance within countries first and then compares results between countries, while the great bulk of research looks at differences between means from one country or category to another. Accordingly, we use cluster analyses rather than analyses of variance or regressions as the major analytical tool. By generating comparable clusters of professionals in different countries, we obtain a novel view of the relationship between individual variables, cultural settings, and leadership. In each cultural setting sampled there is one cluster of personal values which is highly associated with managerial position, and particularly with upper management. These managerial clusters are similar in their overall profile, and are the smallest clusters in each of the three countries, suggesting a universalistic managerial personality like that identified by Miner over thirty years ago. At the same time, we find significant differences between countries in the absolute numerical levels of values held by managers and even greater differences in the levels of values which characterize their subordinates.


Using the in situ cell and other analytical facilities described in the preceding paper, we have carried out an in situ study of both the catalytic and stoichiometric conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide over the triple-layer defective perovskite YBa2Cu3O6 +x. Pre-treatment with CO was used to arrive at a well defined value of x. For both the catalytic and stoichiometric reactions a biphasic mixture of the orthorhombic and tetragonal forms of the non-stoichiometric oxide is observed. A 'biphasic', Rietveld refinement of the X-ray diffraction patterns was successfully employed: and it proved possible to determine the precise oxygen content of each phase during the course of the gas–solid reaction at elevated temperatures (300–360 °C). The details of the kinetics of the CO to CO2 transformation and the solid-state compositions associated with the process shed some light on the mechanism of catalytic reaction.


Genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C is associated with an impairment of glucose homoeostasis, especially in the advanced stages of the disease. Glucose tolerance is an independent predictor of liver‐related mortality in patients with cirrhosis because of chronic hepatitis C. However, no study has demonstrated so far weather hepatitis C virus clearance affects glucose tolerance.


Lamb waves are the most widely used guided ultrasonic waves for structural damage detection. One of the major problems associate with Lamb wave propagation is the effect of temperature on wave propagation parameters. It is important that these parameters are more sensitive to damage than to varying temperature. The paper demonstrates how amplitude and arrival time of Lamb waves are affected by temperature. The analysis is performed for the experimental data gathered from Lamb wave propagation in a damaged aluminium plate. A simple clustering algorithm is used to distinguish between "undamaged" and "damaged" conditions in the presence of changing temperature.


3GPP has recently started activities on joint scheduling across two HSDPA carriers to increase the peak data rates per user and better utilize the available resources by multiplexing carriers in CELL DCH state. This dual carrier approach called DC-HSDPA offers both higher resource utilization efficiency and frequency selectivity in order to achieve better performance gains particularly for UEs in unfavourable channel conditions. This paper gives an overview of the related study and work items on dual carrier operations. We discuss the changes required to support the flexible operation of dual carrier and highlight the expected gains. Furthermore, some preliminary technological proposals for future evolution of Multi-Carrier HSPA are introduced and briefly evaluated. Nomor Research has been involved in 3GPP standardisation, simulation and demonstrations since the establishment of the work item and offers related services. Introduction UMTS Release 99, based on dedicated resource allocation per user, was not well suited for IP packet data traffic. Therefore High Speed Packet Downlink Access (HSDPA) and Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) have been introduced as new features of UMTS for Downlink and Uplink in UMTS Release 5 and Release 6, called High Speed Packet Access. [1] provides an overview about the HSPA technology. Dual Cell (DC-)HSDPA is the natural evolution of HSPA by means of carrier aggregation. The initial UMTS deployments mostly aimed for coverage maximization, and hence, single carrier capacity was sufficient to meet the subscriber requirements. By now rapid subscriber growth took place due to several factors not limited to HSPA global deployments, better user experience for broadband multimedia applications, high speed internet and availability of cheap UMTS/HSPA handsets. Consequently, the


The Deciduous Seasonal Forest (DSF) in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) is fragmented and partially protected by environmental legislation [Legal Reservation (LR) and Permanent Preservation Area (PPA)]. The aim of this study was to characterize diversity of the arboreal species situated in LR and PPA of 12 dairy-producing properties in the Arroio da Seca micro-river basin. A total of 398 plots with 100m² were used, and height, perimeter, and species were recorded. Phytosociological parameters were calculated using an electronic spreadsheet. Richness of 130 species was recorded as well as a Shannon-Wiener index of 3.79 (0.04). Ninety percent of the sampled area is in the early and intermediate stages of regeneration and most species with high importance value are typical of secondary vegetation. The PPA had higher estimated richness and diversity than the LR; however, there was higher infestation of exotic species in the PPA.


Introduction:
 Sickle cell disease(SCD) is the most common genetic disease globally. It is an autosomal recessive disease that affects the β-globin chain which most often presents with anemia and vaso-occlusive symptoms. This condition includes multiples genotypes/phenotypes, the most common of which is HbSS (homozygosity for Hemoglobin S); others are compound heterozygosity with HbC variant (HbSC) and HbS-β-thalassemia (HbSβ+/HbSβ0). Stroke occurs in up to 25% of SCD patients and MRI screening is already recommended by the American Society of Hematology. Small case series have shown a higher prevalence of intracranial aneurysms (ICAN) in SCD, and MR angiography (MRA) may therefore be of benefit for the detection of arterial pathology.

 Hypothesis:
 There is an increased prevalence of ICAN in adults with SCD; Frequency of anevrysms is associated with SCD genotype and age.

 Methods:
 Adult patients from the SCD clinic of our institution were screened with 3T brain MR complemented with MRA in order to accurately determine the prevalence of ICAN.

 Results:
 Our study included 245 asymptomatic SCD adults (369 MRIs). Median age was 32; 52% were women. The overall prevalence of ICAN was 0.11 (0.95 CI 0.07-0.15). All aneurysms were saccular ≤ 10 mm. Forty-four aneurysms were detected in 27 patients with a third presenting with multiple aneurysms. Genotype subgroup analysis revealed a higher prevalence of ICAN in SS/Sb0 (0.17; 0.95 CI 0.11-0.25) compared to the SC/Sb+ (0.06; 0.95 CI 0.02-0.11) (p = 0.007). An association between age and ICAN was also statistically significant (p = 0.03) with stratification revealing a higher prevalence of ICAN for >30 years old, 0.15 (0.95 CI 0.09-0.21). In addition, in patients aged 18-30, the prevalence was 0.06 (0.95 CI 0.26-0.12).

 Conclusions:
 This is the largest cohort of SCD adults screened specifically with MRA. We confirm with higher confidence the increased prevalence of ICAN in this population which is in the range of other established indications for aneurysm screening such as Familial Intracranial Aneurysm and Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. This knowledge could therefore impact the existing screening guidelines for SCD patients via systematic inclusion of an MRA sequence in the recommended imaging protocol.


Blockchain or distributed ledger technology has attracted great interest from companies in the energy industry. The combination of blockchain and energy is undoubtedly one of the most striking technological innovations in recent years. A typical application area of blockchain in the energy industry is trading and credit. Stakeholders use blockchain technology to promote distributed or wholesale energy transactions and create virtual grids. Consumers can trade between their own devices and resources, with their neighbors and with the grid. The whole process can be automated through smart contracts. In this article, we will discuss some use cases related to the application of blockchain in the energy field.


Tracking global events through time would ease many diachronic analyses which are currently carried out manually by social scientists.
While entity linking algorithms can be adapted to track events that go by a common name, such a name is often not established in early stages leading up to the event. This study evaluates the utility of entity relatedness for the task of identifying related entities and textual resources that describe the involvement of the entity in the event. In a small study we find that simple relatedness methods obtain MAP score of 0.74 outperforming many advanced baseline systems such as Stics and Wiki2Vec. A small adaptation of this method provides sufficient explanations of entity involvement or 68% of relevant entities.


This paper develops two sets of concepts to theorize why students engage differently in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). These theoretical concepts are used as an analytical lens to explore empirical data on the experiences and engagement of students enrolled in an undergraduate GIS course in planning and management. The analysis shows that both the theoretical perspectives and the custom and didactical contract are important to understand students' engagement in GIS. However, it is the personal desiderata that are the key to understanding the students' different engagement. Further, a temporal dimension and contextual awareness are important in understanding students' engagement in a broader perspective.


Arndt's chapter on the Right is short because his definition is unduly restrictive. It includes anti-modernizers like Gandhi and the Ayatollah Khomeini and prickly skeptics like Jacob Viner and Peter Bauer, both of whom directed their animus against dirigisme and what they considered the facile argumentation of other development economists. Yet if one associates the Right with conservatism, and conservatism with tradition-bound ideas, then the Right in development economics should include all the champions of getting relative prices "right" and of the doctrine that even the most successful countries like Japan and Korea can grow still faster if they minimize government interference. Such economists hark from both the Third World and economically advanced countries, and they compose the dominant element in the Bretton Woods institutions, which Arndt barely acknowledges as a dominant feature of postwar development history. By failing to examine the concept of economic development in relation to the dominant ideology of getting relative prices "right," Arndt misses much of the spirit guiding (or misguiding) development economics after the events of the first energy crisis. In the final chapter, entitled "Assessment," Arndt identifies the key debate in development as whether Third World countries ought to modernize, and then he proceeds to provide a fine overview of this area of dissension. The selection of the key debate in development economics is a matter of taste, but to this reviewer Arndt's choice is an old chestnut. The abstraction of economic development is as useful as its ability to generate economic advance. One sees in the Third World today only a few countries advancing very quickly while the rest are stagnating. One wants, with the hindsight of history, to understand why. One wishes, therefore, that Arndt had not shielded his concept of development from such probing, but instead had shared his wisdom with us in what are difficult times for the world's poor.


Objective:To determine the clinical and microbiologic benefit of adding amikacin to a four-drug oral regimen for treatment of disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection in HIV-infected patients. Design:A randomized, open-labeled, comparative trial. Setting:Outpatient clinics. Patients:Seventy-four patients with HIV and symptomatic bacteremic M. avium infection. Interventions:Rifampin 10 mg/kg daily, ciprofloxacin 500 mg twice daily, clofazimine 100 mg every day, and ethambutol 15 mg/kg orally daily for 24 weeks, with or without amikacin 10 mg/kg intravenously or interamuscularly 5 days weekly for the first 4 weeks. Main outcome measure:Clinical and microbiologic response at 4 weeks; quantitative level of bacteremia with M. avium. Results:No difference in clinical response was noted with the addition of amikacin to the four-drug oral regimen, and only 25% in either group had a complete or partial response at 4 weeks. A comparable quantitative decrease in bacteremia was noted in both treatment groups, with 16% of patients being culture-negative at 4 weeks and 38% at 12 weeks. Toxicities were mainly gastrointestinal. Amikacin was well tolerated. Median survival was 30 weeks in both groups. Conclusions:The addition of amikacin to a four-drug oral regimen of rifampin, ciprofloxacin, clofazimine, and ethambutol did not provide clinical or microbiologic benefit.


Thromboplastin, a biological agent important to safe clinical management of patients who receive anticoagulant therapy, is obtained by extraction from mammalian tissues. Because of this natural origin, there is wide variation between successive batches. Therefore, a laboratory experiment must be conducted in order to calibrate each new batch of the material against a standard. In its advice on the statistical estimation of the calibration factor, but without presenting reasons or scientific justification, the World Health Organization uses a simple though crude rule on detecting outliers among the experimental data and deleting them. After a general survey of the nature and cause of outliers, this article offers a critical discussion of the principles of identifying and handling them. It suggests the need for extensive empirical studies before accepting a questionable practice that has ethical implications for patient welfare and scientific integrity.


This document describes Least Square Curve Fitting Technique in Frequency Domain to get Lower Order Equivalent System models for modern Aircraft Dynamics. Typical data sets and corresponding results are presented to substantiate the software developed.


In this article, a survey of techniques for tracking multiple targets in distributed sensor networks is provided and introduce some recent developments. The single target tracking in distributed sensor networks is reviewed. The tracking and resource management issues can be readily extended to MTT. The MTT problem is also briefly reviewed and describe the traditional approaches in centralized systems. Then focus on MTT in resource-constrained sensor networks and present two distinct example methods demonstrating how limited resources can be utilized in MTT applications. Finally, the most important remaining problems are discussed and suggest future directions


In a method for testing the function of a pressure sensor which is provided in a motor vehicle for determination of a pressure change due to a collision of the motor vehicle with an obstacle and which at least provides an electrical output signal, in the temporal environment of an audit event that occurs in the intended use of the motor vehicle, and be applied by that test stimuli to the pressure transducer, the output signal of the pressure sensor at least partially covered, there are at least characteristic quantities of the output signal is compared with characteristic sizes of a reference signal and from the result of the comparison, a the functionality of the pressure sensor is of respective derived status.


The Indian government's focus on education reform and economic expansion not only may help the country recognize its potential to become an economic power but also will facilitate the CFA Institute mission in that market.


Testability and BIT technique is an important approach to improve reliability and maintainability of weapons.In this paper,on the basis of analyzing the scheme of launcher test and maintenance,the design technique of testability on launcher control system is presented.Especially,the test point layout based on the three levels: the whole product,assembly and circuit board is presented.


This patent relates to the field of mold, discloses a telescopic casting mold, comprising a mold, plunger, with the ends of the internal mold cavity, opening into the pressurized molten metal inlet opening of the mold cavity, plunger provided with a piston, to mold an outer wall of the push rod through the piston and extending into the cavity and a contact cavity inner wall, the inner sealing sleeve is made between the ram and the outer wall of the mold frame, it is provided on the cross-sectional area greater than the plunger push rod shoulder, shoulder interposed between the shaft and the outer wall of mold sleeved on the outer periphery of the push rod spring, the push rod away from the mold cavity with a lever hinged at one end, is provided separately from the middle of the head lever, the lever away from the push rod the end portion of a limiting stage, the stage is provided with a plurality of stopper pin holes, pin hole extractable pin inserted. With this embodiment, as compared with the conventional screw drive, avoiding the stuck phenomenon, the adjustment of the size of the cavity more smoothly.


Combining adaptive Kalman filtering and fuzzy control theory,a fuzzy adaptive Kalman filtering is proposed based on the statistics of t distribution constructed by residual deviation.A fuzzy controller for adjusting adaptive factor α is set up according to the statistic,which can balance the contribution of dynamics model information and observation information to the state estimates.At last,it is shown,by calculation and analysis,that the proposed adaptive filtering is feasible and effective


Due to stringent constraints such as battery-powered, high-speed, low-voltage power supply and noise-exposed operation, safety-critical real-time embedded systems are often subject to transient faults originated from a large spectrum of noisy sources; among them, conducted Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and radiation. As the major consequence, the system's reliability degrades. In this paper, we present the most recent results involving the validation analysis of a hardware-based intellectual property (IP) core, namely Real-Time Operating System - Guardian (RTOS-G). This is an on-chip watchdog that monitors the RTOS' activity in order to detect faults that corrupt tasks' execution flow in embedded systems running preemptive RTOS. Experimental results based on the Plasma processor IP core running different test programs that exploit several RTOS resources have been developed. During test execution, the proposed system was aged by means of total ionizing dose (TID) radiation and then, exposed to conducted EMI according to the international standard IEC 61.000-4-29 (voltage dips on the VDD power pins). The obtained results demonstrate the proposed approach provides higher fault coverage and reduced fault latency when compared to the native (software) fault detection mechanisms embedded in the kernel of the RTOS.


In Australia investigation of submerged archaeological remains, apart from shipwreck, has been generally overlooked. There is a growing interest in the potential of this area of archaeology in Australia.


All types of companies government and private have to be innovative and creative to offer more value to their customers. This case is an excellent example of the health care service provider having non business objective and servicing public of the society. This case elaborates about the various innovative approaches adopted to make the health care services available to masses at lowest possible cost.


Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discover nurses understanding of loneliness in individuals living in long-term care and to discover what type of interventions are used to promote a satisfying psychosocial life. This knowledge is important to assure the best quality care of the lonely elderly resident. Literature review: In addition to research literature regarding loneliness in the elderly, Antonovskys theory of ―stress and coping‖ was used to describe the nurses understanding of relationship between coping with stress and the development of loneliness. Watsons theory of ―caring‖ was used to illustrate how nurses in different ways used themselves in a therapeutic manner. Method: This study has a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive design. In-depth interviews were done with seven nurses working in long term care. Data was analyzed by the method of qualitative content analysis. Results: Informants described their understanding of loneliness as a condition that arises when individuals lack the desired social contact. Nurses believed that the reason that elderly residents were lonely was the loss of spouse or partner, health, and personal dependence and that the residents were not able to cope with these losses. Nurses understood further that loneliness lead to feelings of sadness, alienation and aloneness. Residents that were seen to have adequate coping strategies were considered to have a satisfying psychosocial condition. Nurses expressed further that it was difficult to implement interventions to prevent loneliness due to time constraints and the fact that the phenomenon is difficult to identify due to its invisible nature. Systematic planning of such interventions was lacking. Interventions used to facilitate interaction between the elderly through the use of communication techniques and the establishment of personal contact between the nurse and the resident. The importance of providing the residents with feelings of positive self-regard was seen as important to prevent feelings of loneliness. Interventions to assist in the relief of the experience of loneliness were primarily based on their own observations, and earlier experiences of the effects of practical interventions. Intuition and their own practical experience determined the interventions that were provided. Systematic collection of information of the elderly individual's psychosocial needs and the prioritizing of the use of time for these needs from the management of the institution was lacking. Conclusions: The findings in this study are to a large degree in accordance with known literature and earlier research on the subject of loneliness. Loneliness was difficult to uncover and difficult to treat. Nurses described a situation where the psychosocial needs of the elderly in their care were under prioritized in the daily routines. This indicates that their exists a potential to improve the care of the lonely elderly individual if more emphasis was placed on the importance of meeting the psycho-social needs.


Structural and physiological investigations of a variegated plastome mutant of cotton (Gossyplum hirsutum L.) first found in 1964 were undertaken to determine the nature of the lesion in the mutant and possible reasons for the relatively long persistence of the variegation. Mutant plastids were much less structurally complex even at early developmental stages and large differences in chloroplast ribosome density were noted. Only single, or slightly doubled thylakoids were noted in the mature mutant plastid. At later stages the pigments from the mutant tissue were bleached and the thylakoid swelled to form small "plastid vacuoles." Numerous mixed cells, single cells with both mutant and clearly wild-type plastids, were present in much of the mosaic tissue. However, unlike other plastome mutants with persistent mixed cells, no fusions between wild-type and mutant plastids were noted. We suggest that the persistence of mixed cells in this cotton mutant is due to the sorting out of both chloroplast DNA molecules as well as the two chloroplast types. Electrophoretic studies of chloroplast proteins indicate that many chloroplast-encoded and nuclearly encoded polypeptides are present relatively less in the mutant but polypeptides in the Mr range from 55–100 kD are present in increased amounts compared to the green chloroplasts. Although some cyclic electron flow through cytochrome f was noted in the mutant tissue, the fluorescence transients and the lack of grana stacks indicate a lack of photosystem II activity.


In order to improve the efficiency of wireless network virtualization resource processing, this paper combines the dynamic resource allocation algorithm to construct a wireless network virtualization resource sharing model. This paper proposes a task-oriented resource management model and uses the task-oriented TRS model to describe resources and service processes, reducing the complexity of formulating resource allocation strategies. Moreover, this paper comprehensively considers factors such as centralized coordination control cost and limited domain topology visibility to improve the dynamic resource allocation algorithm. Through the abstraction and unified representation of network resources, resource sharing, and efficient reuse, the coexistence and integration of heterogeneous wireless networks can be realized. Wireless network virtualization can decouple complex and diverse network management and control functions from hardware and extract them to the upper layer for unified coordination and management, thereby reducing network management costs and improving network management and control efficiency


Artificial intelligence technology has been trying to bridge the gap between humans and machines. The latest development in this technology is Facial recognition. Facial recognition technology identifies the faces by co-relating and verifying the patterns of facial contours. Facial recognition is done by using Viola-Jones object detection framework. Facial expression is one of the important aspects in recognizing human emotions. Facial expression also helps to determine interpersonal relation between humans. Automatic facial recognition is now being used very widely in almost every field, like marketing, health care, behavioral analysis and also in human-machine interaction. Facial expression recognition helps a lot more than facial recognition. It helps the retailers to understand their customers, doctors to understand their patients, and organizations to understand their clients. For the expression recognition, we are using the landmarks of face which are appearance-based features. With the use of an active shape model, LBP (Local Binary Patterns) derives its properties from face landmarks. The operation is carried out by taking into account pixel values, which improves the rate of expression recognition. In an experiment done using previous methods and 10-fold cross validation, the accuracy achieved is 89.71%. CK+ Database is used to achieve this result.


The larva of Psaironeura is formally described for the first time, based upon reared specimens of Psaironeura angeloi from the Tirimbina Biological Reserve, Sarapiquí, Heredia Province, Costa Rica. Detailed illustrations are also provided. The larva is characterized by a slender dark brown body, premental setae 2+1, six palpal setae, male cerci globose, and caudal lamellae markedly slender, 3.5–4 times longer than wide, with tips bi- or trilobated.


The performances of moisture transfer,ventilating and air permeability,anti crease recovery,wear resistance and resistance to ultraviolet ray of three kinds PIRAY fiber fabrics are test.The result indicates that the fabrics show good moisture transfer and ultraviolet ray resistance because of the minerals added in PIRAY fibre.The Drill weave has better moisture transfer and anti-crease but poor wear resistance due to the fabric structure difference.The poplin has better ventilating and air permeability but less linear density and tightness;The San Li Ge fabric has good resistance to ultraviolet ray due to its greater tightness and darker color.


Hidradenitis Suppurative (HS) is a potentially debilitating chronic inflammatory condition affecting apocrine gland-bearing tissue found in the axilla and perineum. We describe the staged ablation and complex reconstruction of extensive HS involving the perineum, gluteus, scrotum, and perianal region in a paraplegic patient. Complete eradication of the disease required diverting colostomy, anal closure, and extensive subcutaneous tissue excision. At a second stage, reconstruction was performed with bilateral gluteal advancement flaps to cover the rectal stump, a rotation medial thigh fasciocutaneous flap to provide durable coverage for the perineum, and split thickness skin grafting to reconstruct the scrotum and denuded gluteal muscle. With this technique, the patient was successfully cured of his HS and was provided an excellent reconstruction. Michael R DeLong1 and Salah Rubayi2* 1Department of Surgery, University of California at Los Angeles, California, USA 2Department of Surgery, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, California, USA


The following article is a philosophical, spiritual, historical itinerary to modern Eleusis, Greece, site of the Eleusinian Mysteries of antiquity. Through Ancient Eleusis and its Mysteries, we trace the roots of democracy, poetry and philosophy, where the threads of myth and history, art and ritual, faith and reason start dismantling to new creations of humankind.Â


Glacial relict mysid and amphipod crustaceans are characterised by their affinity for cold and well-oxygenated waters and inability to disperse upstream or by external agents. These crustaceans occur in large and deep lakes of Northern and Central Europe and North America, their distributions shaped by glaciation events. In Europe, along the southern edge of their distribution (Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus), glacial relict crustaceans are threatened by eutrophication and global warming. This study assesses the status of three glacial relict malacostracan species in Lithuania; the amphipods Monoporeia affinis and Pallaseopsis quadrispinosa, and mysid Mysis relicta, and models their abundance as a function of environmental variables and the presence of invasive Ponto-Caspian mysids and amphipods. Our results revealed that M. affinis is likely extinct in the country, whereas M. relicta was found in only 9 out of 16 locations from which it was previously recorded. The distribution of P. quadrispinosa appears to be shrinking. Lake depth and water flowthrough intensity were significantly and positively associated with the relative abundance of relict mysids and amphipods, but no association was found with lake size or the presence of invasive Ponto-Caspian crustaceans. We conclude that urgent action to mitigate the effects of nutrient run-off is needed to improve the status of glacial relict and other species that require good water quality. We also propose the re-introduction of glacial relict species in Lake Drūkšiai, where they went extinct during the operation of the Ignalina nuclear power plant that heated the lake, but where deep-water environmental conditions have improved following the powerplant closure in 2010.


The present invention relates to a water supply line for a refrigerator ice maker, the present invention relates to a non water supplied to the ice tray in the supply line for a refrigerator ice maker can be prevented. The present invention in which the water is to ADD and open top used for a refrigerator comprising a supply pipe to both ends of the supply of water to and supported rotatably in the interior of the refrigerator freezer ice tray, wherein the ice tray, the end of the feeding tube in the water is fixed connected to the supply line for a refrigerator ice maker to drain to the top of the ice-making vessel, the water supply line extends from and the connecting connection portion being connected to the supply pipe has parts of drainage to drain the water to the upper portion of the ice tray the inner parts of the drainage is to be characterized mainly in that the protrusion is formed so that the water can be distributed. Also it characterized in that the further end of the supply pipe is formed with a projection extending from the end of the thin relative to the water supply line by a plurality of cut-out portion and the plurality of cut-out portion that is cut into a predetermined shape from above. In accordance with the present invention by distributing water for supply water to the ice tray of the refrigerator concentration is caused by dripping water prevents the water overflow of the small the chronic quality defects such as an ice agglomeration phenomenon and the size of the ice by the water overflow being less distilled product thereby improving the reliability.


This document gives advice on how to write good Starlink documents. It lists Starlink documents which users said they liked in the 1994 Starlink Software Survey, and identifies common characteristics of style and organisation which can be recommended to authors. Various features of documentation which the authors believe to be harmful are specified, including common problems with pages produced for the World Wide Web. Many of these will inevitably reflect the taste of the authors, and these may not correspond to your own. However, they derive from our belief that it is right for an author to spend time and effort on a document in order to save the reader time and effort in reading it.


Color device characterization involves deriving a mathematical description of the device response to a known input. This is known as the forward characterization transform. In the final application, this transform must be inverted to generate a mapping that determines the device input required for a desired response. This paper focuses on the inverse characterization transform for hardcopy devices. This can be discussed for two cases: (1) Devices employing 3 channels A colorimetrically unique inverse mapping exists provided the input signal is within the achievable domain of the device. When the forward transform is described by an analytic model, the inverse can be obtained by search-based techniques. When the forward transform is obtained empirically, the inverse transform is estimated by 3-D fitting or interpolation methods. (2) Devices employing > 3 channels. The inverse mapping is not colorimetrically unique, and therefore ill-posed. Additional constraints must be incorporated to ensure uniqueness. As an example, the case of CMYK printer characterization will be discussed. Constraints via undercolor removal and gray component replacement will be presented. Other methods that explicitly constrain CMYK combinations based on criteria such moire minimization will also be described. For both cases, the problem of out-of-domain mapping and noise considerations will be discussed.


THE potential number and cost of laboratory examinations in clinical medicine are enormous. Accordingly, it is a considerable responsibility for the physician to choose wisely the laboratory procedures that are to be performed. Certain tests have become "routine" because they have proved to give basic information rapidly and inexpensively in the screening of a large number of Systems of the body for detecting the presence of disease. These procedures include the determination of the hematocrit (or hemoglobin), white-cell count and differential white-cell count, analysis of urine, inspection of the stool, examination for occult blood and serologic test for syphilis. As . . .


Abstract This paper possesses two related objectives. The first is to unite the bid-rent model of von Thünen and urban theorists with historical analysis in the interest of providing a theoretical approach to the comprehension of regional land-cover and land-use change. The second objective is to deploy the theoretical approach in an attempt to account for a specific change process, namely loss of wetlands in South Florida. Recently, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers published a paper addressing this issue (Meindl, Alderman, and Waylen 2002). Meindl, Alderman, and Waylen describe the impact of claims making on efforts to drain and sell land in South Florida during a critical period in the early 20th century. The present paper is put forward, in part, to provide additional context. In particular, we identify claims making and the development discourse it legitimated as part of a complex evolution in the region's socionature, and the regimes governing land-cover and land-use change that led to wetlands reclamation. To explain these regime shifts, we criticize conventional bid-rent theory and develop a model integrating urban and agricultural land use whose structure is affected by development. We then deploy this model to the Everglades case, using historical narrative and remotely sensed land-cover data. We conclude the paper calling for integrated theoretical approaches in attempts to comprehend land-cover and land-use change and associated environmental problems.


Stratigraphic records in four basins in the central Black Hills in combination with hydraulic calculations show that all basins have experienced multiple large floods in the last 2,000 years with flow rates substantially larger than those gaged historically. Floodfrequency analyses for the study reaches account for 29 paleofloods inferred from interpretation of stratigraphic records locally extending back 1,000 to almost 2,000 years. The addition of paleoflood data to the gaged and historical data significantly reduced uncertainties related to flood-frequency. For all study reaches the 95-percent confidence intervals about the low-probability quantile estimates (100-, 200-, and 500-year recurrence-intervals) were reduced by at least 78 percent relative to those for the gaged records only. In some cases, 95-percent uncertainty intervals were reduced by 99 percent


ABSTRACT Palk Bay (PB) is an inlet in the Bay of Bengal. The 1974 Indo-Sri Lankan agreement that delimited the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in PB, brought Kachchu Thivu under sovereignty of Sri Lanka, thus limiting the fishing ground for Indian fishers. Indian fishers allege that their traditional fishing right in PB, recognised by the 1974 agreement, was cancelled by the subsequent 1976 Indo-Sri Lankan agreement. Presently 2650 Indian trawlers are fishing in PB, often in Sri Lankan waters. They are repeatedly attacked by the Sri Lanka navy. The Government of India has been initiating programmes to prevent the trans boarder fishing and to divert the mechanized trawlers for deep-sea fishing. Indian fishers demand the retrieval of Kachchu Thivu and the restoration of traditional fishing rights as the permanent solution. The study reveals that the perspectives and the programmes of the Government cannot solve the problem and also the demands of the fishers are not legally feasible. So joint governance and management of PB by both countries is proposed as a lasting solution.


Charismatic indicator species, which are defined by their sensitivity to ecosystem degradation and attractive traits, are often reintroduced or monitored in restoration projects to evaluate whether desired ecosystem structure and function has been restored and to attract public support for restoration projects. Hymenocallis coronaria is a charismatic and imperiled aquatic plant endemic to southeast U.S. fall line streams. Known for its blooms and sensitivity to flow modification, it provides an opportunity to incorporate the reintroduction of a charismatic indicator species into stream restoration projects. The goal of our research was to provide restoration practitioners with experimentally derived H. coronaria reestablishment best practices by investigating the effects of life stage and outplanting technique on establishment success, with additional considerations given to treatment efficiency. We used binomial generalized linear models to analyze H. coronaria establishment from experimental reestablishment efforts in a free‐flowing segment of Stevens Creek, South Carolina. Model selection showed a strong interaction effect between life stage and outplanting technique and that technique is more important than life stage. Interpretation of our top model indicated that the wedge technique was the most successful and that wedging spring bulbs was significantly more successful than wedging other life stages. However, we recommend that practitioners wedge seedlings or broadcast seeds into existing shoal crevices because of efficiency. Our best practices reflect the need to align reestablishment efforts with H. coronaria's life history to maximize efficiency and suggest that H. coronaria has utility as an indicator species for restored flow regimes of southeast U.S. fall line streams.


This paper analyzes the structure and modem scheme of chirp-BOK system. In additive white Gaussian noise channel, an approach of studying the performance of chirp-BOK is presented and the BER-SNR result is evidently improved compared with traditional BOK. Furthermore, the BER of multi-user chirp-BOK system is discussed.


Congestion is one of problems that must be solved by the Government of Bandung City. One of the projects are improving the public transport sector. Trans Metro Bandung (TMB) is one of public transport at Bandung. People's interest to use TMB is very low. This happens because TMB does not have a reliable bus schedule. The focus of this study is to build a TMB's corridor 2 schedule with headway based on the current passenger condition. The headway is determined using the max load method. This study will compare the current headway target set by TMB with the headway based on the passenger arriving pattern. After that, the schedule which is made from the choosen headway will be simulated. This study shows that the current headway set by Trans Metro Bandung management is better. Simulation shows that schedule can reduce passenger average waiting time quite significant.


Purpose: Operator volume is a determinant of quality of medical procedures. In the Netherlands minimum volumes are being introduced for certain cardiac procedures. The purpose of this study is to establish procedure volumes in current cardiac practice with regard to these (proposed) benchmarks.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of data reported to the Dutch Association for Cardiology during scheduled 5-yearly audits of cardiology practices between 2004 and 2011. The audits included self-reported procedure volumes over the preceding year. Data were anonymized before analysis. Cardiologists reporting performing at least one procedure were included in the analysis. Procedures evaluated were: (transoesofageal) echocardiography, pacemaker and ICD (implantable cardiac defibrillator) implantations, cardiac catheterization and PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention).

Results: Reported procedural volumes by 396 (80%) of registered Dutch cardiologists are displayed in the table. The number of cardiologists performing a procedure varied from 13% for ICD implantation to 79% for transthoracic echocardiography.

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Conclusions: Procedure rates differ greatly between cardiologists in the Netherlands. The majority of the cardiologists meet the (proposed) benchmarks, however more research is needed to determine why benchmarks are not achieved by 11-50% of the cardiologists.


Summary White rats were exposed to a temperature of 3-5°C for periods varying from 24 hours to 35 days. Adipose tissue from animals so exposed from 1 to 20 days or for 35 days produced 3 to 4 times more FFA than did tissue from animals maintained at room temperature. However, if the animals were fasted before the tissue was removed, these differences virtually disappeared. It is evident that studies of participation of the adipose tissue in the adjustment of the rat to a cold environment should be interpreted relative to the nutritional state of the animal at the time the studies are made.


The low-mass globular cluster luminosity function (GCLF) in the Milky Way and in two elliptical galaxies is investigated. We find that the power-law slope of the Milky Way GCLF depends on the cluster concentration c. The origin of this trend is explored within the framework of a GC mass-loss model. It is also found that the low-mass GCLF of the Milky Way is similar in slope to that of the elliptical galaxies M87 and NGC 4472. This seems consistent with a model like that of Fall & Zhang in which mass loss in advanced stages of GC evolution is driven predominantly by internal two-body relaxation effects.


Method of the oxidation containing disulfide bond polypeptide is purified the present invention relates to a kind of, the thick peptide of oxidation to be purified is separated on a column, while being aoxidized;It is to be rinsed thick peptide with B phases with mobile phase A phase, and the oxidation of disulfide bond is carried out while purifying, and what is obtained after purification is exactly the polypeptide after oxidation;Wherein, comprising the oxidant of oxidation disulfide bond in A phases.The liquid phase disulfide bond method for oxidation for providing is provided, conventional oxidation thinking is different from, the shortcoming that phase oxidative yield is low, Traditional liquid phase method for oxidation is wasted time and energy can be made up, greatly improve yield, and be easy to amplify production.


The 1612 and 1667 MHz OH maser lines have been measured in all four Stokes parameters in 47 proto-planetary nebula (PPN) candidates. Out of 42 objects detected, 40 and 34 are 1612 and 1667 MHz emitters, respectively. The spectral extent of the 1667 MHz line overshoots that of the 1612 MHz line in about 80% of the targets. 52% and 26% of the 1612 and 1667 MHz sources, respectively, show linear polarization in at least some features. Circular polarization is more frequent, occurring in 78% and 32% of sources of the respective OH lines. The percentage polarization is usually small (<15%) reaching up to 50-80% in a few sources. Features of linearly polarized emission are usually weak (0.5-4 Jy) and narrow (0.3-0.5 km s -1 ). The strength of the magnetic field inferred from likely Zeeman pairs in two sources of a few mG is consistent with values reported elsewhere for those classes of objects. An upper limit of the electron density in the envelope of OH17.7-2.0 derived from the difference in the position angle of polarization vectors for the two OH lines is about 1 cm -3 . Distinct profiles of polarization position angle at 1612 and 1667 MHz are seen in about one third of the sources and strongly suggest that the envelopes are permeated by structured magnetic fields. The geometry of the magnetic field is implicated as an important cause of the depolarization found in some PPN candidates. For the subset of targets which show axisymmetric shells in the optical or radio images we found a dominance of magnetic field components which are orthogonal to the long axis of the nebulae. This finding supports the hypothesis that such bipolar lobes are shaped by the magnetic field.


This paper is part of a project that investigates the possibilities of automating the assessment of joint damagein hand radiographs. Our goal is to design a robust segmentationalgorithm for the hand skeleton. The algorithm is
based on active appearance models (AAM) [1], which have been used for hand segmentation before [2]. The results will be used in the future for radiographic assessment of rheumatoid arthritis and the early detection of joint damage. New in this work with respect to [2] is the use of multiple object warps for each individual bone in a single AAM. This method prevents modelling and reconstruction defects caused when warping overlapping objects. This makes the algorithm more robust in cases where joint damage is present. The current implementation of the model includes the metacarpals, the phalanges, and the carpal region. For a first experimental evaluation a collection of 50 hand radiographs has been gathered. The image data set was split into a training set (40) and a test set (10) in order to evaluate the algorithm's performance. First results show that in 8 images from the test set the bone contours are detected correctly within 1.3 mm (1 STD) at 15 pixels/cm resolution. In two images not all contours are detected correctly. Possibly this is caused by extreme deviations in these images that have not yet been incorporated in the model due to a limited training set. More training examples are needed to optimize the AAM and improve the quality and reliability of the results.


Nanowires (NWs) are among the most important building blocks for many applications ranging from nanosensors to energy harvesting/storage to flexible/stretchable electronics, to name a few. Operation and reliability of the NW-based devices call for a thorough understanding of their mechanical behaviors. Dislocation nucleation from free surfaces has been identified as a dominant deformation mechanism in NWs, in contrast to the forest dislocation dynamics in bulk materials. Extensive studies have been reported for defect-free, single crystalline metallic NWs where surface dislocation nucleation is dominant [1-3]. Such NWs exhibit ultrahigh yield strength, but typically with limited or no strain hardening and low tensile ductility due to the absence of effective obstacles within the NWs that could block the movement of dislocations. On the other hand, as-synthesized NWs typically possess different types of preexisting microstructures such as twin boundaries (TBs) [2-4], and there is still a general lack of understanding on how preexisting microstructures interact with the surface-nucleated dislocations and affect the mechanical behaviors of NWs.


The CT technique can be used to accurately detect the structural conditions of bridge foundations. With the data acquired from the detection, the carrying capacity and stability of the foundations can be then analyzed. In this paper, the feasibility of application of the CT detection technique to bridge foundations is investigated, and the results of the investigation provide the theoretic basis for the design of the bridge engineering structures.


Abstract The human shoulder is one of the most complex joints of the human body, and due to the high range of motion and the complex soft tissue apparatus prone to injuries. Surgical therapies and joint replacements often lead to unsatisfactory results. To improve the understanding of the complex biomechanics of the shoulder, experimental investigations have to be conducted. For this purpose a new shoulder simulator with an innovative muscle force generation was developed. On the basis of a modular concept six artificial pneumatic muscles were integrated to represent the functionally most important muscles of the shoulder joint, whereby a free and controlled movement of the humerus can be conducted. For each muscle individual setpoints for muscle length control based on a user defined shoulder movement for any artificial or cadaver specimen are created by manual motion "Teach-In". Additional to muscle forces and lengths, optical tracking and a joint force measurement is used to enable different biomechanical studies of the shoulder joint. This paper describes the technical setup as well as the control strategy and first results of its experimental functional validation.


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The world is moving towards miniaturization of all systems to conserve space and energy. In this experimental investigation, small holes of 0.5 mm diameter were drilled in Ti-6Al-4V plates of thickness 0.4 mm. L18 orthogonal array, the signal to noise (S/N) ratio, and the analysis of variation (ANOVA) were employed to analyze the effect and contribution of process parameters, namely, spindle speed, feed rate, and the use of different lubricants. Drilling experiments were performed in dry, air cooled and wet lubrication (palm oil). Tool wear and hole circularity were evaluated for each machine setting using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Optimization was performed using Taguchi method and Grey relational analysis. The outcome of this study showed that palm oil can be used as an effective lubricant in order to minimize tool wear and circularity error. Multi performance optimization revealed that feed rate and lubrication were the most significant parameters in controlling circularity and tool wear.


Abstract : During tests of a chemical and/or biological protective shelter, concentration measurements are usually made within the shelter to determine if a contaminant can infiltrate from the outside and/or ensure that the shelter's filtration system is effectively removing any contaminant released within it. A Test Operations Procedure (TOP) is needed to provide guidance on where to sample for the highest contaminant concentrations within a protective shelter. Development of this TOP requires a mathematical model that can describe the air circulations within enclosures and the resulting contaminant distributions. Little information is available on the turbulence-driven diffusion processes within enclosures. Factors such as a biological receptor's intermittent exposure to high concentrations of toxic vapors and the resulting nonlinear physiological response must be considered during model development. Capabilities of available indoor air quality and fluid dynamics models are reviewed, and recently developed fast-response gas concentration and turbulence measuring instruments are tested in an enclosure. It is recommended that a working group consisting of both modelers and experimentalists be formed to address TOP modeling and measurement requirements. Protective shelter, Airborne contaminant, Dosage, Enclosure, Concentration, Dosement, Air distribution, Indoor air quality, Toxic load.


You are seeing a cranky 4-year-old boy who has a low-grade fever and symptoms of an upper respiratory tract injection. On examination he appears nontoxic but definitely has a left otitis media. He has previously been healthy and has no history of an ear infection. You want to prescribe antibiotics, but family finances are tight (both parents are laid off from work), and the child hates to take any type of medicine. As you discuss the situation with the parents, you remember an article published recently that suggested childhood otitis media could be effectively treated with a shorter course of antibiotics. You write a prescription for a 5-day course of amoxicillin and tell the parents you will telephone toward the end of treatment to determine whether a longer course is needed. In the meantime, you find the article titled "Treatment of Acute Otitis Media With a Shortened Course of Antibiotics - A Meta-Analysis.,,1 You have seen the term meta-analysis before but are unsure how to critique the article. The


Abstract Pyrrolopyrimidin-4-ylidene-malononitriles IIa–d were prepared as important intermediates for preparation of a new series of spiro-pyrrolopyrimidines. These intermediates undergo cyclisation via reaction with acetylacetone, guanidine hydrochloride or hydrazine hydrate. Elemental and spectroscopic evidences for the structures of these compounds are presented. The final compounds have been monitored for in vivo anti-hyperglycemic activity, compared with Amaryl as standard drug. Among 12 tested compounds, both spiro (pyrano IIIb and pyrazlo Va) derivatives exhibit promising anti-hyperglycemic activity.


Trehalose is the non-reducing alpha-alpha-1, 1-linked glucose disaccharide. The biosynthesis precursor of trehalose, trehalose-6-phosphate (T6P), is essential for plant development, growth, carbon utilization and alters photosynthetic capacity but its mode of action is not understood. In the current research, 6 days old seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana (Columbia ecotype) were grown in liquid culture containing 100 mM trehalose, sorbitol or sucrose for 24 hours. Changes in the genes expression patterns were studied by cDNA microarray analysis. In sucrose treatment expression of 1745 genes was significantly changed. But trehalose changed significantly the expression of only 162 genes compared to sorbitol after 24h treatment. Gene expressions profiles revealed that 100 mM trehalose altered 5% of the genes which are changed by 100 mM sucrose. Statistical analysis showed that only 4 genes which are induced by trehalose repressed by sucrose. Exogenous trehalose treatment did not down-regulate the expression of carbon catabolite genes, but up-regulates a specific combination of genes known from biotic stress responses. Trehalose induced gene expression responses related to ROS and secondary metabolism activation. The expression profile shows particularly up-regulation (8-fold) of a glutathione transferase (GST22) under trehalose but not sucrose. Also, trehalose treatment induced expression of the JA and ethylene signaling pathways factors. These findings revealed that trehalose or its precursor, T6P, are important in gene expression regulation of plants.


The current study included isolation and identification some pathogens from mouth and teeth and included the Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes and Candida albicans and test the effect of each of the ethanolic 70% extract and flavenoids extract of Moringa oleifera Lam.in different concentrations (1000, 500, 250, 125) µg/ml on these pathogens. The results showed that flavenoids extract had antimicrobial against these isolates higher than ethanolic 70% extract in all concentrations specially at 1000 µg /ml with diameter means of inhibition zones (27, 30, 35) mmeter for Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogeness Respectively compared with ethanolic 70 % extract (22, 29, 32) mm respectively with significant differences at p˂ 0.05. The isolates of Streptococcus pyogeness were more sensitive among tested isolates. The consequences of this investigation suggest that the extracts of M. oleifera Lam. can be used to discover antibacterial agent for developing new pharmaceuticals to control studied human pathogenic bacteria responsible for severe illness.


This work deals with a one-dimensional analysis of a rotating open loop subjected to a uniform heat flux per unit length. Fluid temperature is fixed at the inlet of the loop. Flow is driven by buoyancy as well as by a pressure gradient. The criterion for onset of motion is first determined. Steady-state motion is then analyzed and is found to exhibit both a positive and a negative branch. Linear stability analysis is performed to determine regions in parameter space over which the flow is unstable. Parameters varied for this analysis are those corresponding to rotational velocity, heat flux, and a modified pressure difference across the loop. One or both velocities may be stable. It is also possible to have an oscillatory state coexist with a time-independent solution. A perturbation method is used to evaluate the effect of gravity on flow characteristics. Nomenclature A = peak-to-peak amplitude of gravity perturbed oscillation a = real part of A b = imaginary part of A c = specific heat of fluid D — diameter of tube E = relative percentage error Fh = buoyancy force per unit mass Fp = pressure force per unit mass Fv = viscous force per unit mass / = friction factor /± = transcendental function for eigenvalue determination


In this work we present an implementation of a theorem prover for multi-agent normal modal logic systems, based on the modal resolution technique published by Nalon and Dixon [2007]. Differently from other approaches for resolution proof systems or methods in modal logic, where inference rules are developed for use in a particular system e.g. K, S4 or S5, the resolution method used as a basis for the implementation presented here focuses on the restrictions imposed on the accessibility relations between worlds for each modal system. Thus, we have specific inference rules for serial, reflexive, symmetric, transitive and Euclidean systems, as well as a set of inference rules for every normal modal system. Therefore, the implementation becomes comprehensive, since it can deal with several modal systems by combination of the inference rules mentioned above; and extensible, since we only need to implement new inference rules which capture another restriction in the accessibility relations to increase the range of systems included in the calculus, without compromising the soundness and completeness of the results for modal systems already covered before. The presented program, coded in the C++ language, automatically produces proofs for the fifteen distinct normal modal systems defined by the different combinations of the axioms Di, Ti, Bi, 4i and 5i, including systems like K(n), D(n), T(n), B(n), S4(n) and S5(n), where the (n) index indicates a multi-agent version of a system.


Aim: reduce the percentage of acute post-resection liver failure after major resection. Material and methods. From January 2013 patients who planned removal of more than 3 segments of the liver, in addition use computer liver volumetry used SPECT / CT of the liver with the definition of the scope and location of the pre-emptive functioning liver parenchyma on lobes. Identified two groups of patients. The first group included patients (n = 15) who were treated with up to January 2013 (SPECT/CT of the liver was not used), all patients in the first phase was completed preliminary portal vein embolisation (PVE). The second group included patients (n = 9), which, depending on the data of CT volumetry and the presence of precipitating factors to apply differential treatment when interpreting the data SPECT / CT. Results. In the first group of radical surgery in 9 patients. Acute postoperative hepatic failure occurred in one patient, who was stopped on a background of conservative therapy (Class A). In the second group of patients based on the results of pre FLR volumetry ranged from 25 to 35%. In 5 patients, the amount of functioning liver parenchyma in the FLR was 30% or more, they performed a liver resection: RHHE - 2 ERHHE - 2. In 4 patients the amount of functioning parenchyma in the remaining part was less than 30% of these patients has been applied a two-step method of treatment. Radical surgery in 3 patients: RHHE - 2 ERHHE - 1. Signs of acute post-resection liver failure in this group of patients was not. Conclusion. Patients with borderline FLR application of SPECT/CT allows differentiated liver choose the tactics of treatment and thereby reduce the likelihood of developing post-resection of acute liver failure, reduce postoperative mortality and improve treatment outcomes in this group of patients.


Ezhou Huanggang Changjiang River Highway Bridge is an extra large bridge by which No.106 national trunk highway crosses Changjiang river. The main span of 480 m prestressed reinforced concrete cable\|stayed bridge is adopted. The design conditions, general arrangement, construction design and technical characteristics of the main bridge, the main construction technology and the scientific tests of the bridge are specially introduced in this paper.


Range-gated synchronization control technique is one of the kernel techniques of Laser Range-Gated imaging system.Producing nanosecond pulse and controlling parts of the system accurately is the key of the imaging system working normally and achieving good image.Basing on FPGA and the precise-delay-device,the synchronization control circuit of the imaging system is designed,to modify improve the value of pulse width and delayed time,to control the imaging system scanning an Object underwater with Laser quickly.


Automatic Passenger Counting (APC) systems are designed to provide accurate ridership information by automatically recording the number of passengers that get on or off a vehicle at each stop and store data in a database for statistical analysis and reporting. This information is usually used to help measure progress of a transit agency's ridership growth, to help improve efficiency of operations through schedule and route changes, to improve quality of service through provision of amenities, and even for revenue distribution between multiple transit providers. This article describes the basic data elements collected by an APC system, details how they are stored, and provides examples of how this data is processed to match routes and schedules.


It is interesting that the complaints involved within the study by Lester et al ([2004][1]) were not subject to independent legal scrutiny. The reader therefore has no idea of their merits.

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A time-domain approach for the calculation of the active, reactive and distortion power components in power systems confronted with the presence of substantial voltage and current distortion as well as measurement noise is presented. This approach uses autocorrelation and third-order cumulants for estimating the power components. The third-order cumulant is defined in terms of its joint moment of order up to 3. The degree of quadratic phase coupling is carried out once the bifrequencies of the power spectra are identified. This analysis is applied to a signal extracted from a linear combination of the voltage, current, and voltampere waveforms. The triples (nf, nf, 2nf) where, n=1,2,. . .,etc., and where n is the harmonic order, are the bifrequencies in the analyzed waveform. This new technique is suitable for use in situations where the following are required: noise filtering in current and voltage waveforms, precise calculations of power components in single-phase or multiphase circuits, and presence of distorted voltage and current waveforms in the network.<<ETX>>


The purpose of this study is to investigate the implementation and effectiveness ofthe method of discussion at SMAN 2 Bekasi. Implementation of the discussions atSMAN 2 Kota Bekasi learning process to involve students actively using discussion,teachers form students in the class into 6-7 groups, then teachers present learningmaterials and provide opportunities for students to conduct scientific debate, thenstudents begin exchange opinions, ask and answer questions based on the knowledgeand experience gained, so that the results of these discussions could solve the problemand increase the knowledge of students. Discussion method has not been effective todevelop students' critical thinking skills. It can be seen only partially active studentsexplain, ask questions, answer questions, exchange ideas and work together to solve aproblem. While most of the other students are still embarrassed or do not dare toanswer and ask questions. Factors supporting the implementation of which is teacherleddiscussionsandtheirsupportinginfrastructure.Andobstacles/barriersfacing:first, the difficulty to encourage all students to actively argue, ask questions and seekinformation. Second, the discussion in a widespread discussion that requires aconsiderably long time. Therefore, teachers and students should be able to set thecourse of discussions in line with the time/hours of lessons available.  Keywords: Effectiveness, Method Discussion, Student Critical Thinking, Islamic Religious Education