The galvanic skin response (GSR) is the skin conductance, which influenced by a variety of factor, though the most important to be moisture. A low-level electric voltage will apply to the skin and the skin's conduction is measured. Skin conductance is considered to be a function of the sweat gland activity and the skin's pore size. The project is developed based on the polygraph test where the small amount of sweat released will make the GSR sensor reactive due to the change in conductance. The purpose of this project is to detect the blood glucose by using the GSR sensor and to establish a correlation between GSR and the blood glucose level. This project was divided into two parts, which are the hardware implementation and software implementation. For the hardware implementation, it is between the GSR sensor and human skin conductance which to detect the glucose level which contains in sweats. While for software implementation, the Arduino program is developed to collect and save the user data. Based on the analysis of data and the linear value, it can conclude that there is a correlation between the skin response and blood glucose level. The correlation between blood glucose and GSR is R2= 0.7342. This linear equation can be used to predict the value of blood glucose based on the GSR voltage value which had been measured.


INTRODUCTION The more I read Rushall and Jones's article, the more I was reminded of the fat boy in Pickwick Papers who crept up behind his mistress in a mysterious and agitated fashion, finally bellowing his intent, "I wants to make your flesh creep." [1] This is an interesting and important area, and Rushall and Jones make some astute challenges of WADA practice. However, the authors seem determined that we should be quite clear not simply about questionable practice but also about the heinous nature of WADA. In doing that, I would suggest that the authors mix up two quite distinct lines of argument, and the mixing up is not helpful to either. One line of argument is about practice that is inconsistent with core sporting principles. This might be followed through in detail to a conclusion that WADA needs to modify its practices or that for some reason the institution of WADA lacks integrity, and perhaps even that WADA does not have any moral authority. This is a proper line of argument, that would have to look at the express moral identity and purpose behind WADA, and how that relates to the other institutions and practice of sport worldwide. The second line of argument is in the territory of sociologists and historians, such as Baker [2] and Burleigh [3]. Both have looked at the power of narrow religious and quasi-religious groups and how thy have affected members of the groups and wider society. This is an ambitious task in itself, and a key part of this for Rushall and Jones has been to analyse the practice of WADA in terms of a particular kind of mission-centred religious institution, exemplified by the Inquisition. Who, indeed, as Michael Palin once observed, would have expected the Spanish Inquisition? [4] However, the appearance of the Inquisition is meant not to provoke mirth, but rather disquiet, accompanying accusations of victimization. Here is an institution that systematically rides rough-shod over the rights of athletes, all for the greater good. I am suggesting that there is a core in this article of some important challenges focused in the first line of reasoning and that the second line is inadequately pursued and runs the risk of sinking the first. In expanding these points, I will also reflect a little on moral meaning and doping.


This paper divulges at the Malaysian seaports management practices in adhering to environmentally friendly needs in line with global efforts in this field. It focuses mainly on seaport operations, which are lifelines for international trade linking the entire supply chain in one way or another, whereby, sustainability and green practices in Malaysia could lead to core competitiveness among the various players. Hence, strengthening in applying the concept of quality sustainable development, within the conceptual view of Resource Based View (RBV) which we believe will have an impact to the core competitiveness in Malaysian seaports. In addition, the research was conducted to provide a better understanding of the community, financial, and regulatory context that lead to the decisions that seaports make when implementing these new practices in aiming to achieve positive reinforcing between economic growth and environmental issues.


Porous organic polymers (POPs) possessed versatile advantages such as lightweight, excellent stability, and high porosity, which achieved an ideal functional platform. Here, two multifunctional M-POPs have been prepared via the...


Error correcting output code (ECOC) is a general framework of solving a multiclass classification problem via a binary class classifier ensemble. In this paper, a new enhanced heuristic coding method, based on ECOC (RACS-ECOC) is proposed. It reiterates the following three steps until the training risk converges. The first step employs the layered clustering-based approach [1]. The approach can construct multiple different strong binary class classifiers on a given binary-class problem, so that the heuristic training process will not be stopped by some difficult binary-class problems. The second measure is the weight optimization technique [2]. It ensures the non-increasing of the heuristic training process whenever a new classier added to the ECOC ensemble. [3], here a survey and analysis of various techniques in classification and how the ECOC technique performs best among existing techniques. In propose work instead of weighted optimization technique we would further like to work on recursive ant optimization scheme for classification


In cooperative networks using a decode-and-forward strategy, the multiple relays effectively transmit a distributed space-time code, the performance of which can be severely degraded when timing synchronization among the relays is not assured. Recent work by Xia et al. and Hammons et al. have investigated the design of distributed space-time codes that are delay tolerant, in the sense that full spatial diversity is achieved regardless of relative timing offsets. In this paper, new distributed space-time codes are introduced that are fully delay tolerant


The effects of autonomic nerve stimulation on rat gastric blood flow (GBF) were studied using a cross thermocouple method. Stimulation of the periarterial nerve bundles along the left gastric artery produced a decrease in GBF which was antagonized by phenoxybenzamine (0·05 mg kg−1 i.v.), but not by propranolol (1 mg kg−1 i.v.). Stimulation of the vagus nerves elicited an increase in GBF, within a latency of 20 s, which was not apparently affected by atropine (0·15 and 1·5 mg kg−1 i.v.) but was completely blocked by hexamethonium (10 mg kg−1 i.v.). The GBF increase due to acetylcholine (0·25 μg rat−1 i.a.) was markedly blocked by atropine (0·15 mg kg−1 i.v.). Vagal stimulation also produced both the cholinergic excitation and non‐cholinergic inhibition of gastric motility. The vagally induced GBF increase was little affected by any pretreatment with phentolamine, propranolol, indomethacin or aprotinin. These results suggest that sympathetic nerve stimulation decreases GBF through α‐adrenoceptors and parasympathetic nerve stimulation increases GBF through a non‐cholinergic mechanism in rats and that the GBF increase may result from a primary dilator effect of vagal stimulation on the blood vessels because of the immediate initiation of the response.


Summary In today's era, there exists a neck-to-neck competition between all the commercial organizations through E-Commerce to increase their sales and earn more profit. In order to gain more and more customer satisfaction each organization offer new schemes and proposals for regular Sales Promotion. For giving proposals and offering new schemes, the executives have to regularly analyze the purchases of the organization in order to find frequently purchased products. An organization can invest only on the group of products which are frequently purchased by its customers. So, it is a crucial Data Mining problem which can be a backbone to solve this problem for executives. This kind of problem lies under Sequential Pattern Mining domain in which we have to find the longest sequence of pattern which occurs frequently in database. In this paper, we suggests using data mining (DM) as a technique to support Sales Promotions System in E-Commerce by using Generalized Sequential Pattern Mining for the scanning and making pair of Item Sets. It is assured that the transactional database by this way can give the largest possible set of items frequently purchased. The Administrator can, thereby, propose a new scheme on this set of items to enable Sales Promotion time to time through E- Commerce.


Al2O3 was coated on spinel-type LiMn2O4.The structure and electrochemical properties of the material were studied.The results showed that Al2O3 coating can reduce Jahn-Teller distortion,improve electric chemical property.Discharge capacity and cyclic stability of the material were best when Al account for 3.0% of LiMn2O4.The initial discharge specific capacity was 113.5 mAh/g,after 20 cycles,specific capacity was 87.6 mAh/g.The capacity retained 77.2%.


ObjectiveTo observe the effect of bubble bath coordinating with functional training on the children with spastic cerebral palsy.Methods210 children with spastic cerebral palsy were randomly divided into the treatment group (n=118) and control group (n=92). All children were treated with functional training, acupuncture and other physical therapies. Children in the treatment group were added with bubble bath one time every day, twenty days as one course. Muscular tension was evaluated with modified Ashworth Scale and range of motion was measured before and after treatment.ResultsIn the treatment group, 55 cases were significant, 53 cases were effective, 10 cases were invalid, the total effective rate was 91.5%; in the control group, 26 cases were significant, 46 cases were effective, 20 cases were invalid, the total effective was 78.2%. There was a significant difference between the total effective rates of two groups ( P0.05).ConclusionBubble bath can significantly decrease the muscular tension of children with spastic cerebral palsy.


The purpose of the study was to determine the association among body composition, maturation stage and motor performance in children and young swimmers between the ages of 7 and 17 years. An anthropometric battery of 14 dimensions was taken of each subject for the attainment of the body mass index, body fat and somatotype of Heath-Carter. In relation to the maturation stage they had been observed the Tanner stage (self evaluation), the bone age, and the blood samples of the insulin-like growth factor -1 (IGF-1), IGF-binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) and Leptina. The motor performance measures had consisted of maximum consumption of oxygen (protocol of Bruce) and the isokinetic torque of quadriceps (protocol of Sapega in isokinetic dynamometer KinCom). The results showed that the percentage of body fat and the endomorphy had presented signifi cant difference between the means according to sex, where the female group presented a greater mean. Concerning the maturational variables represented by the secondary sex characteristics, were not found signifi cant differences between sexes, as well as they sho- wed not to have difference between the studied sample and the national representative data. Of the hormone variables, only the leptin presented signifi cant difference in the mean values in both sexes, where the female presented a greater mean. Already the variables IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 had not presented difference between sexes. As for motor performance variables, the maximum consumption of oxygen showed signifi cantly bigger mean for the male sex, while in the isokinetic torque of quadriceps, signifi cant difference between the sexes was not found. The motor performance of the swimmers in both sexes in the physical tests showed association with the bone age, the maturation and the physical growth.


C hapter 1 IN T R O D U C T IO N ......................................................................... 1 S tatem ent of the P rob lem ............................................................................................................... 3 G o a ls.................................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope of the P ap e r........................................................................................................................ 5 C hapter 2 CARTOGRAPHY A N D G IS ...........................................................................................................7 Inform ation System s........................................................................................................................ 8 Geography, Cartographic Theory, and G IS .............................................................................. 10 C hapter 3 OBJECTIVES A N D M E T H O D S ................................................................... 12 O bjectives...................................................................................................................................... 12 Study Design and P rocedures................................................................................................... 13 C hapter 4 R E SU L T S......................................................................................................................................... 39 Objective O n e ............................................................................................................................. 39 Objective T w o ............................................................................................................................. 62 Summary of R esu lts .................................................................................................................... 94 C hapter 5 R E C O M M E N D A T IO N S............................................................................................................... 97 Objective T h re e ........................................................................................................................... 98 Characterizing each Organization's GIS Educational R equirem ents...............................98 Characterizing Individuals' GIS Educational R equirem ents............................................120 Summary o f Objective T hree and C hapter 5 .............................................. 138


A brief overview on the status of experimental investigations into photoionization and fragmentation of fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes by absorption of a single short-wavelength photon is presented. The focus of this paper is on the endohedral Xe@C60 + molecular ion in which a xenon atom is centrally encapsulated inside a C60+ fullerene cage. Confinement resonances that result from the interference of Xe photoelectron matter waves emerging from the C60+ cavity were studied by exposing Xe@C60 + ions to synchrotron radiation of 60 to 150 eV energy which is the region of the well-known giant atomic Xe 4d excitation resonance. Photoions Xe@C n q+ (with final charge states q=2,3,4 of the product ions and numbers n=60,58,56,54 of carbon atoms left in the cage) were recorded as a function of photon energy and cross sections for the individual reaction channels were determined. In addition to previous work, new final channels ( q=2;n=60,58 and q=4;n=58,56 ) were observed, and thus, about 70% of the oscillator strength expected for the encapsulated Xe atom in the investigated energy range could be recovered. The present results establish the first and, so far, only conclusive experimental observation of confinement resonances in an endohedral fullerene. The data are in remarkable agreement with relativistic R-matrix calculations that accompanied the previous experimental work.


Islamic Education in Malaysia is a structured system of education with a systematic curriculum and is supported by capable teaching staff who have undergone teacher's training at government-regulated institutions. Generally, this education system aspires to produce human capital which is holistic, competent and excellent in all aspects of humanity. Lately, however, there has been news displayed in the national newspaper concerning the deterioration in moral character of adolescents, despite the fact that they have undergone this system of education. This article shows the outcome of research on the effectiveness of the Islamic education system among secondary school students in Malaysia. This research is conducted using data collection methodology through questionnaire survey, interview and observation. Research findings show that Islamic education in Malaysia has a good effect on the character formation of students involved. Findings also show that a good level of Islamic knowledge has increased the level of character internalization of students. However, the influence of social environment has made a significant impact at an average level on the level of character internalisation of students. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4p602


Messaging technology, such as e-mail, has become a vital part of the way people communicate. There is a growing demand for more intelligent messaging. One promising approach is agent based messaging, where messages are programs that move through communications networks.


This article based on research to description effort to be made preacher to Samin becomes muslim ( mullaf ) all this time not positioned object preacher. Usually Samin becomes muallaf because marriage by muslim. If not charged specially, Islam is not intact. Data of this article were collected through interviews, observations, documentations by Samin's in Kudus, central Java by descriptive qualitative approuch. Way of preaching by techniques lecture ( tablig ), guidance ( irsyad ), managerial ( tadbir ), social development ( tathwir ). The muallaf (ex-samin context) tablig and guidance are it succesfully islamic enhancement. This is due islamic approuch and humanities between preacher ( mubaligh ) by muallaf/ex-Samin ( mad'u ). Which must be done again are tadbir and tathwir. Islamic organization, islamic figure, Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), and Ministry of Religion Kudus through counseling must have an special agenda in order to be muallaf (ex-Samin) islamic understand step by step approuch by soft. All parties must work together for determine attidtude by a wise. Keywords : strategy, preacher, a wise, and sustainability.


Section 220.127.116.11 of the German Technical Code on Waste ("TA Abfall") requires that a percentage of organic matter of ≤ 3 % be maintained for waste incineration residues that are to be deposited in landfill sites. Slag which has a residual organic substance level of more than 3 % must be separately contained and thermally treated in accordance with the Technical Code on Waste [1]. What is meant in the Technical Code on Waste by percentage of "organic matter"?


The article is focused on the analysis of the statutory legal acts of Altai Krai for physical training and sports from the standpoint of compliance with the rules of legislative technology. The authors note that there is no single abridgement of such rules, and this, in particular, is the cause of many technical defects in the legislation. Therefore, the position of those researchers who propose to pass a special act is supported, which would enshrine in law the proper requirements and rules of legislative technology. The study has considered the criteria often mentioned by researchers in the relevant literature.Some of them are: compliance with the distribution of the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the subjects of the Russian Federation established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, lack of excessive duplication of federal legislation, provision of consistency, completeness and detail of legal regulation, present norms regulating relations with reference to regional specificity. The analysishas been applied to: Act of Altai Krai of 11.09.2008 N 68-ЗС «On Physical Training and Sports in Altai Krai» and Statutory Order of Altai Krai Administration dated 04.03.2011 N 100 «On the Strategy for the Development of Physical Training and Sports in Altai Kraifor the Period up to 2020».Overoll, they have received a positive assessment, both in terms of content and writing technique. Yet some problems have been identified. An inconsistency with the distribution of the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the constituent entities of the Russian Federation established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation has beennoted, and a proposal has been formulated to exclude the corresponding provision from the regional act. There has been revealed the presence of duplications of federal legislation that do not carry amessage. Examples of norms with their detailed analysis have been given, where the consistency, completeness and detail of legal regulation are not provided. Proposals have been formulated to expand the provisions aimed at addressing issueswith reference to regional specificity.


Owing to the limitation of optoelectric imaging systems' pupil, it is inevitable to generate the diffraction effect in laser propagation; however, the laser energy distribution causing by the diffraction effect can directly affect the jamming effect to optoelectric imaging systems. First of all, we began with the basal Huygens-Fresnel principle and Fresnel-Kirchhoff diffraction formula in this paper, and deduced the laser energy distribution formula on the optoelectric imaging systems' detector causing by the rectangular pupil, circular pupil and annulus pupil. Secondly, we simulated the laser energy distribution causing by the diffraction effect under the different pupil shapes, laser launch parameters, optical system's parameters and optoelectric detector's parameters, and investigated the laser energy distribution rule under the different conditions. The simulation results indicated that the range of intensity distribution increased with laser wavelength, laser incident energy, focal length and the size of pupil that also can affect the pattern of intensity distribution. The research fruits can provide the theoretical basis and technical support for evaluating laser jamming effect to optoelectric imaging systems.


A pair of primers based on N gene sequences of different strains of peste des petits ruminants virus(PPRV) and another pair of primers from ovine β-actin gene as control were designed for amplification of 687 bp and 493 bp-fragments respectively.Using PPRV Nigeria 75/1 strain and goat tissue RNA mixture as template,the two bands with expected size were amplified by RT-PCR and sequencing confirmed that the target gene was amplified.A RT-PCR assay was developed and the detection limit reached 12 TCID50/mL under the optimized conditions.The N gene could be detected from the blood samples of goat infected with PPRV Nigeria 75/1 strain,indicating that the developed RT-PCR was specific and sensitive.


Homologs of glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3), also called Shaggy-like kinases, are ubiquitous among eukaryotes, with functions ranging from regulation of the cytoskeleton to signaling in developmental pathways. In plants, GSK3 proteins have been implicated in hormone signaling and in responses to


This article describes and reviews mainly western education philosophy schools' research about the relations between teacher and student in 20th century, so as to understand and study the 20th century western education philosophy schools' major points of the teacher and student relation. These schools include progressivism, transformativism,essentialism,eternalism and so on. Thus we can establish a new view of teachers and students relation,which suits the situation of our country.


This research was supported in part by a Contract extended to Harvard University by the Office of Naval Research, Nonr-1866(14). R. C. Woods, III is a NIH Predoctoral Fellow.


MAKING SYBASE FULLY ACTIVE: SUPPORTING COMPOSITE EVENTS AND PRIORITIZED RULES Publication No.__________ Ganesh Ambalavanan Gopalakrishnan The University of Texas at Arlington, 2002 Supervising Professor: Sharma Chakravarthy A database management system (DBMS) is a software system for reliably and efficiently creating, maintaining, and operating large information repositories that can be accessed concurrently by a large number of users. Commercial RDBMSs used to be passive earlier, but currently support limited active capability. Active database management system is one that extends the passive DBMS with the ability to react to set of pre-defined situations or conditions (induced by the changes applied to the database). Event Condition and Action (ECA) rules are typically used to enhance the native active capability present in the RDBMS. The goal of this thesis is to generalize the mediated approach to support active capability. Introducing a generalized ECA agent between the Database Server and the client permits us to enhance the native active capability of RDBMSs. The architecture, design, and implementation of this approach are explained in this thesis. The system developed supports primitive and composite events in different contexts. The mediated approach used in this thesis is in contrast to the integrated approach for supporting active capability. This approach is useful when it is not possible to change or add code to the underlying system. This approach provides an alternative way to support complete ECA paradigm using a mediated approach by using the "trigger" capability available in the underlying DBMS. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................ iv ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................... v LIST OF FIGURES ……………………………………………………………………... x LIST OF TABLES …………………………………………………………………….… xi


This paper focuses on the problem of aircraft fuel measurement, a visual measurement method is introduced, which uses the optical camera to collect the fuel level images and calculate the fuel from the image data. Considering the redundant information in the image will reduce the processing speed, a contour extraction method based on HSV color model is proposed to simplify the image. The Convolution Neural Network (CNN) is used to extract the fuel image features, and the fuel prediction model based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network is constructed. The effectiveness of the visual measurement method is verified by simulation.


The cases of personal damage compensation by getting electric shock are different from different angles,and so are the legal application principles.The cases of these kinds should make clear the legal relationship and adopt correct principles to investigate the party concerned justly and legally.


ABSTRACT Equestrian sport is unique in many ways among the sporting disciplines, but is rarely inspected by theologians. The author undertakes one of the first studies of Christian theology, disability, and equestrian sports. She considers four themes (interdependence, vulnerability, mutual enabling, and normalcy) through case study and theory and highlights central features of equestrian sport. The author starts by investigating disability and equestrian sport, before using results of this study to re-examine frequently discussed theological issues such as inclusion, vulnerability, faith, trust, and healing. Bringing theology, disability, and equestrian sport into dialogue amplifies voices that support, challenge, and provoke important topics in academic and practical theology.


The continuing development of new converter technologies has meant a rapid evolution of the power supplies used in telecommunications equipment. Supplies using these new technologies operate at ever higher frequencies and are potential EMI sources. In concert with this technological development, regulatory bodies such as the FCC have set new or tighter standards to limit EMI problems. This combination of technology and limits changes has put a strain on the evaluation and testing process for new power supplies. For timely introduction of acceptable new power supplies, EMI must be considered during design. Iterations of the evaluation and redesign cycle must be performed quickly; therefore, in house verification of EMI becomes essential. This paper will review: -EMI requirements and measurement methods for power supplies -An "enclosed" open field test site used in the verification of compliance to EMI limits


Introduction Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally, with Blacks in the United States (U.S.) is proportionately affected. Healthcare access and utilization have been reported as risk factors for poorer cardiovascular health among several U.S. populations. Aims and Objectives The purpose of this systematic literature review was to examine the results of existing studies reporting on cardiovascular health and healthcare utilization by African-born compared to U. S. -born Blacks. Methods A systematic literature review was conducted using keywords and medical subject headings (MESHs) in the PUBMED, Web of Science and CINAHL electronic databases. Exclusion and inclusion criteria determined articles to be reviewed for eligibility and methodological soundness. A pooled analysis was performed on all studies. Results Only seven studies met inclusion criteria. Four compared U. S. -born with African-born Blacks residing in the United States, while three compared U. S. -born Blacks with Blacks residing elsewhere. None of the studies examined the associations between healthcare utilization and cardiovascular health for these populations. Conclusion The results of this review indicate a need to examine the impact of healthcare utilization for increasing awareness, prevention and treatment of CVD in Blacks who reside in the United States regardless of their nativity.


ABSTRACT This paper analyzes key motives and pivotal experiences—which I label driving forces—that turned non-experimental economists into early pioneers of experimental economics and kick-started a continuous style of experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s. The first driving force, integrity—the augmentation of what types of data are available to economists by introducing experimental data and advocating its advantages—is illustrated by the story of James Cox. The second, proximity, denoting the personal collection of data under controlled conditions, is illustrated by the experiences of Charles Plott. The third, data-theory symmetry, deals with the placing of experimental data on a par with economic theory and is illustrated by John Ledyard. Finally, the driving force of a virtuous circle—the realization that experimental research is most potent when it goes in tandem with economic theory—is introduced by Reinhard Selten's discovery of sub-game perfect equilibrium that eventually led to his Nobel Prize in 1994. These four protagonists, derived from an extensive oral history of experimental economists, were chosen to illustrate the driving forces. Their described experiences played no small part in the experimental life that they eventually embarked on.


New asynchronous adder structures with high performances and low cost have been designed. Previous work has only reported the design of carry-save and carry-ripple asynchronous adders. In this study, we have developed new asynchronous adders, Carry Select Adders, Carry Skip Adders, Carry Look Ahead Adders and we compare their potentialities in terms of speed and complexity. First, the functional properties of the conventional asynchronous carry ripple addition scheme are described so as to introduce the capabilities of asynchronous adders and to show how asynchronous operators can be far more efficient than synchronous ones. Then, starting from the well known architectures previously developed to accelerate the addition operation, we first describe their asynchronous equivalents and then show how they can be optimized to fully exploit the functional and electrical dependencies of the computation process with respect to the data.<<ETX>>


This paper provides a single process channel mechanism for both unicast and multicast in forwarding engine design, and the scheme can save logic and memory resources comparing with the former one. The analysis proves that it can keep the line-speed forward capability.


Significance Epidemiologic data consistently show strong protection for young children against severe COVID-19 illness. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this phenomenon, including cross-reactive immunity—in which prior exposure to non-SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses that commonly infect children confers some resistance to severe COVID-19 illness. We identified 3,126,427 adults (24% [N = 743,814] with children ≤18, and 8.8% [N = 274,316] with youngest child 0–5 years) to assess whether parents of young children—who have high exposure to non-SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses—may also benefit from potential cross-immunity. In a large, real-world population, exposure to young children was strongly associated with less severe COVID-19 illness, after balancing known COVID-19 risk factors. This epidemiologic signal suggests endemic coronavirus cross-immunity may play a role in protection against severe COVID-19 outcomes.


The main resource of the Republic of the Seychelles, founded in 1976, consists of significant parts of a natural environment which attracts visitors from worldwide. The fragile economy of this small island state depends primarily on the tourism sector. With a land area of 455 km², space is very limited. Since the end of the 1970s nearly half of the country has been under conservation status to protect that natural treasure. In order to minimize the potential negative impacts on the environment, the government decided in the 1980s to focus the development of the tourism industry on a five star level, with a restricted number of visitors, to avoid mass tourism. During the last 30 years the Seychelles Islands have proved their ability to tackle the conflicts arising from tourism and the conservation of a natural environment. Although the existing problems require further improvements, the Seychelles Islands are nevertheless a successful example for the compatibility between conservation and tourism.


Systolic arrays architecture is widely used as a hardware accelerator of convolutional neural networks(CNNs) due to its simplicity and effectivity of de-sign principles without requiring complex control and data flow. However, the amount of data storage and processing in this architecture increases exponentially as the complexity of algorithms for CNN increases, thereby limiting the overall accelerator efficiency. We demonstrated troublesome access conflicts raise in memory banks while storing input feature maps on the on-chip memory and the processing element(PE) loads the convolutional layer feature map, affecting the data supply speed. A dynamic computational memory address architecture according to the stride of the convolutional kernel of different input feature maps, was proposed to cope with access conflicts in the on-chip memory banks. This proposed model is capable of greatly reducing the number of memory access conflicts in the memory banks and optimizing the efficiency of the on-chip memory, which aims to reduce the data loading time and improve the bandwidth utilization of the on-chip memory. The computational simulation results confirmed that the storage access time of AlexNet, YOLO v3, and ResNet-50 decreases by 30.49%, 27.37%, and 18.46% respectively, only at the sacrifice of 10% additional cost in the hardware overhead.


The axial component of the drop velocity was measured by laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) within steady hexane-into-nitrogen sprays from a cylindrical nozzle at gas temperatures from 300 to 500 K. Also varied were the injection velocity and the gas-to-liquid density ratio. It was found that the gas temperature had no effect on the mean centerline velocity for distances smaller than 200 and greater than 650 nozzle diameters. At short distances, the core of the spray is not sensitive to the gas temperature; at long distances, the large amount of entrained gas renders inconsequential the degree of vaporization. Beyond 300 nozzle diameters, so much gas has been entrained that the mean axial velocity approaches the fully developed incompressible jet structure. The approach is accelerated by higher gas temperatures and gas-to-liquid density ratios. The axial drop velocity fluctuation amplitude responds to variations in gas temperature similarly to the mean axial drop velocity. Skewness and flatness indicate nearly Gaussian distributions near the axis and rapid increases beyond the half-radius and differ somewhat from those of incompressibl e jets, possibly because small drops vaporize fast and large ones do not follow the flow as closely as the small ones.


Primary intracranial germ cell tumors are rare heterogeneous group of neoplasms presented several histological types with different biological profile and response to therapy. Pure germinomas make up no more than 5 % of malignant tumors of the central nervous system in children, bifocal germinomas account for only 5–10 % of all germinomas. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are usually used in intracranial germ cell tumors. The choice of initial therapy options is dependent on the histological variants of tumors, and the prevalence of the process (M-stage). Vascular malformations of the brain is rare in childhood, in a large proportion of cases, which is a random finding and can significantly affect the treatment policy in the presence of a brain disease (eg, neoplasia). We present a rare case of a combination of clinical bifocal germinomas and arteriovenous malformations of the brain in a boy 13 years old


Abstract The thioamidato complexes C5H5(CO)2MoSC(R)NCH(CH3) (Ar), derived from acetic acid R = CH3 and benzoic acid R = C6H5, were prepared and characterized. The diastereo-isomers, differing in their 1H NMR spectra, were partly separated by fractional crystallization. After equilibration with respect to the labile Mo configuration the diastereoisomer ratio, a measure for the asymmetric induction from the chiral ligand on the formation of the two Mo configurations at equilibrium, was determined by 1H NMR integration. The asymmetric induction is very high for Ar = o-tolyl [76% (R = C6H3) and 84% (R = C6H5)] compared to Ar = phenyl [48% (R = CH3) and 56% (R = C6H5)] and Ar = m-and p-tolyl [52 and 44% (R = CH3)]. The (CO)3Cr complexed phenyl substituent with only 10% asymmetric induction does not show the β-phenyl effect, a weak attraction between aryl groups in β-position to the metal atom and the MC5H5 moiety.


Malnutrition is common among older people in nursing, care and residential homes. It is frequently unrecognised and is often under-treated in the UK (1) . Malnutrition costs an estimated £13 billion in the UK (3) . It is recommended that all patients admitted to a nursing, care or residential home, be screened for malnutrition (2) . Despite this, there remains little information on the prevalence of malnutrition in this population. However, there is a large body of evidence demonstrating that if malnutrition is identified, it is treatable, resulting in both clinical improvements and economical savings. Malnutrition has a negative impact on a patient's health, and in turn this has cost implications for the NHS. Even a modest one percent decrease in the annual expenditure attributed to malnutrition would result in a saving in the region of £130 million per year (4) . Therefore identifying and appropriately treating malnutrition can avoid knock-on healthcare complications and inflated costs. The audit aimed to establish whether the prevalence of malnutrition in the 6 nursing and care homes (5 nursing and 1 care home) initially screened using the 'Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool' (MUST) had remained the same, increased or decreased after a 6 month review. The study also aimed to determine how many residents were appropriately prescribed oral nutritional supplements (ONS), and by whom. The initial screening took place from January 2010 to May 2010. Results from the initial screening showed that of the 249 residents (mean age 84; 73% female), 58% (144 residents) were screened as being low risk, 19% (46 residents) were screened as medium risk and 23% (58 residents) were screened as high risk. The mean BMI for each risk group was as follows: low risk (26.0kg/m 2 ), medium risk (21


A control system for fluid-actuated apparatus 1 comprises a control valve 3 connecting said apparatus 1 with a source 2 of pressuring fluid, a magnetically actuated switch 4 to open the control valve 3 and permit fluid flow from the source 2 to the apparatus 1 and an external magnet 6, the magnetically actuated switch 4 comprising a valve biased into a closed position and actuated to an open position by the proximity of the magnet 6 to enable pressurized fluid to flow through the switch 4 and to actuate the control valve 3 and the valve 4 being biased closed upon removal of the magnet 6 from the proximity of the switch 4 to thereby cutting off the flow of pressurized fluid to control valve 3. Preferably, the magnet 6 will be worn by an operator of the apparatus. The control system is intended for use in place of a conventional dead man's handle arrangement and overcomes operator fatigue problems associated with the latter. The switch 4 may be a spool valve located in a blasting nozzle. Operation of the control valve 3 may also require a manually actuated valve 13 to be opened and a manually actuated emergency stop valve 25 to remain open.


The study aims to examine the effect of an innovative work environment on the innovative work behaviour of employees. To broaden the concept of the study, related literature was reviewed. The study used a descriptive assessment and correlational research design and the population of the study was all employees from the two colleges (DWCL and DWCV). The data was gathered through research questionnaires and used inferential statistics to analyze the data. The study found that the innovative work environment and innovative work behaviour are high but not very high. The ANOVA result suggests that there is a significant correlation between an innovative work environment and the innovative work behaviour of employees. It recommends that nurturing innovative work behaviour is to nurture an innovative workplace. The study recognizes its limitation and recommends further investigation concerning different dimensions of innovative work environments and their effect on work performance.


The WEDM is modern type electro discharge machining (EDM) generally used to produce very complex and intricate shape easily. Therefore, the present work is aimed to cryo-treatment followed by modelling and optimization of process parameters of WEDM during straight cut of Hastelloy C276. Hence, supperally by considering the input parameter as pulse on, pulse off, servo voltage and wire feed rate etc. The appropriate L27 orthogonal array design has implemented to find the best possible set of optimal setting in order to get the quality of machining during straight cut. Multi objective optimization as done to have responses of maximum MRR, minimum surface roughness (SR) and minimum kerf width (KW) measured by using MOORA based GRA method. The set of design data has taken and conducted the experiment by talking above input parameters considering three level of data to find the various responses such as MRR, SR and kerf width. The experiment has conducted for both cry-treated material as well as untreated one. The data has fitted for the ANOVA design in order to find the various curve fit among the combination of input parameter with responses. The ANSYS thermal model has done for the set of design data. However, the validation has done for experimental value of MRR and modelling value both for treated and untreated material. The extra hardness test has done in order to find the improvement of hardness after cryo-treatment specimens.


The southern Iberian Peninsula is characterized by evergreen oak woodlands (locally known as montado), which constitute an important savanna-type agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystem. This ecosystem is facing a progressive decline for several reasons, with the foremost being overgrazing. Better management tools are necessary to accurately quantify the systems' carrying capacity and the sustainable stocking rates that prevent land degradation. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the MOHID-Land model could adequately simulate soil water dynamics and pasture growth in the montado ecosystem. The study area was located in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal. The model successfully simulated soil water contents and aboveground biomass during the 2010–2011 and 2011–2012 growing seasons, producing acceptable errors of the estimates (0.015 ≤ RMSE ≤ 0.026 cm3 cm−3; 279 ≤ RMSE ≤ 1286.5 kg ha−1), and relatively high modeling efficiencies (0.481 ≤ EF ≤ 0.882). The model was further used to simulate the same variables for a longer period (1979/2009 seasons), to account for the effect of climate variability on model estimates. Water balance and dry biomass estimates were found to be significantly different between rainfed and irrigated pastures, as well as between the ten driest and ten wettest seasons, with the model responding well to climate variability. The results showed the potential of using the MOHID-Land model for improving pasture management in the montado ecosystem.


Previously the authors reported less than 5% of M was taken up during the first pass through the human lung. The low uptake of this basic lipophilic amine was further investigated in a single pass isolated perfused rat lung (IPL) in comparison to uptake of radiolabelled H/sub 2/O, antipyrine (A), aminopyrine (AM), nicotine (N) and phenylethylamine (P). The IPL was perfused for 5 min with each drug (5nmol/ml) and effluent collected in 10 sec fractions. Pulmonary extraction was calculated using indocyanine green dye as a non-extractable reference indicator. Accumulation of all compounds in the IPL reached an apparent equilibrium within 4 min. At equilibrium lung/perfusate conc. ratios for H/sub 2/O, A, AM, N, P and M were 1.04, 0.84, 0.85, 1.44, 2.57 and 1.13 respectively. The time course of M uptake differed from the other compounds since initial extraction of M was low (23%) compared to 75%, 53%, 35%, 82% and 86% for H/sub 2/O, A, AM, N and P respectively. Also, the half time to equilibrium for M was longer (50 sec) compared to 18, 21, 26, 19 and 22 sec for H/sub 2/O, A, AM, N and P respectively. The low initial pulmonary extraction of M compared tomore » these compounds followed by greater M extraction during the remainder of drug infusion suggests uptake mechanisms for M different than the flow limited uptake for water and other basic amine drugs.« less


Objective To preliminarily explore the 3-dimensional modelling of partial structure(329-572aa)of cytomegalovirus PUL97 protein and elementarily analyse the possibility of drug-resistance of new non-synonymous mutations.Methods Nested PCR was employed to amplify 776 bp fragment of UL97 gene.And some non-synonymous mutations in it were found by sequencing.After that,the online server of SWISS-MODEL and other related softwares were used for modelling and optimizing the partial structure of wildtype PUL97 protein based on the alignment mode.Then,the modelled structures were evaluated and screened by various classical indicators or online servers.Finally,the best structure was obtained and employed for preliminarily analysis of potential drug-resistant possibility of non-synonymous mutations.Results The finally-screened model was Model A based upon the template of 1YDTE and the alignment file of L1.FASTA.The whole energy of the structure was the lowest,while the prediction result of ProQ was on the top compared with the rest.Using the method of molecular docking,the potential binding sites of ATP and GCV were found in it.And most important,the mutation analysis based upon the modelled structure and positive/negative drug-resistant mutations confirmed that this structure was reasonable.Finally,the newly-found mutations(namely,point mutation C518Y and combined mutation E517G/C518Y)showed some evidences of having the possibility of drug-resistance under the benefit of the aboveestablished system.Such evidences were the significant differences in structural information before and after mutagenesis. Conclusion The above-described system of PUL97.structure modelling and mutation analysis is the valuable and alternative method for preliminarily predicting the possibility of drug-resistance of new mutations.It is more convenient and quick,and can be regarded as the screener before experimental verification.However,the accuracy of modelled structure itself is the big prerequisite for successful application of this system.


In many areas of the U.S., the supply of conventional aggregates meeting present specifications is rapidly being depleteed or has already become exhausted. This shortage is partly due to overly restrictive specifications and to a lack of technology and development to utilize those aggregates in a concrete pavement system. With the necessary advances in research and development, previously rejected aggregate sources could furnish a substantial amount of the aggregates needed in pavement construction in some parts of the U.S. With this in mind, the American Concrete Paving Association's Technical Subcommittee on Materials and Mix Design started work in 1973 on the development of a composite concrete pavement structure. The aim was to produce a high quality, skid resistant, durable concrete surfacing on top of a concrete designed for local environmental conditions and made from locally available commercial materials. The term Econocrete was coined to describe the concrete mixtures developed under this program, and this paper focuses on the uses of Econocrete as a composite, subbase, shoulder, and paving material in pavement structures.


This monograph examines the question whether subjects' altered behavior in response to the presence of video recording equipment constitutes a threat to the accuracy and fairness of observational research. The author criticizes methodological arguments that favor restricting subjects' awareness of and involvement in the videotaping process on the grounds that inspection of the visual record would contaminate naturally occurring behavior. Roth argues that this pursuit of invisibility compromises the ethical principles undergirding the subject/researcher relationship - specifically, the doctrine of mutually informed consent. In the final chapter he offers an alternative model of videotape-centered research wherein subjects' reactivity to observation is shown to enlarge the meaning and purpose of social inquiry.


In this paper, we formulate a dynamic theory of economic policy using concepts and axioms of mathematical system theory. First, the notion of a dynamic economic system is characterized axiomatically. Then the basic problem of the theory of economic policy as introduced by Tinbergen and Theil is expressed as a control problem for a dynamic economic system. In this way, a more general framework for the theory of economic policy than available so far can be developed in terms of mathematical system theory. Finally, we discuss some extensions of the framework, in particular to economic policy problems with more than one decision maker.


Devices, systems, and methods for measuring parallel tissue conductance, luminal cross-sectional areas, fluid velocity, and/or determining plaque vulnerability using temperature. In at least one embodiment of a method to obtain parallel tissue conductance, the method comprises the steps of inserting at least part of a detection device into a luminal organ, applying current thereto, obtaining a native temperature measurement, injecting a solution of a known conductivity into the luminal organ, detecting a temperature change indicative of the fluid within the luminal organ, measuring an output conductance, and calculating a parallel tissue conductance based upon the output conductance and the conductivity of the injected solution.


ABSTRACTTitle: "Dating Online. Self-Marketing Through Sweden's Biggest Dating Site – Match.com"Number of pages: 34Author: Joanna StokowskaTutor: Amelie HossjerCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Autumn term 2005University: Division of Media and Communication Studies, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/aim: The aim of this paper is to study the online dating phenomenon. The questions to be answered are: how do people form their personal profiles? Does the method of how one markets him/herself, within an online dating service, vary among different age groups?Material/method: 100 personal profiles have been downloaded and analysed from Sweden's largest dating website, Match.com. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used when analysing the data.Main results: Match.com gives clear instructions on how to form a profile. The company makes sure that the content of all the personal sites fulfils the company's policy. The differences in how people in different age groups and of different gender advertise themselves, through profiles, are relatively small. Most of individuals tend to focus on descriptions of their personality, favourite activities and body. Interaction through the profiles (seen as channels) tends to have an intimate form.Keywords: Dating online, personal profiles, mediated intimacy, mediated interaction.


Pre-service teacher student's preference of publil's developmental competences : A critical examination of educational restructuring and OECEs impact on "the learner".


A software was developed using Visual Basic 6.0 for the study and analyzing of the
experimental data for the dielectric laboratory. For this purpose, a numerical
computation of Kramers-Kronig relations, fitting various dielectric functions and
plotting dielectric graphical representations were created and was found to achieve
high level of accuracy when compared with the simple non-interacting Debye model.
The software was used to analyze the experimental data of rose extract diluted in
water. The experimental data of rose extract diluted in water shows that the
polarisation consists of two different mechanisms, represented by a characteristic
loss peak and a strong low frequency dispersion. The mechanisms were in consistent
with the Kramers-Kronig relations and equivalent circuits were proposed for the
material under study.


Received: 18 January 2019 Revised received: 13 February 2019 Accepted: 18 February 2019 Vertical garden applications have made serious contributions to the environment not only in terms of aesthetics but also in terms of functionality. In this study, vertical garden samples found in Konya city were examined by being photographed in their places. In order to examine the satisfaction of users, the questionnaire which includes questions under the determined headings (socio-economic structure, field uses, and plant elements, plant species) was applied on a voluntary basis. By calculating the universe size according to the population, a questionnaire composed of 28 questions was applied to 400 people randomly selected from people living in the city of Konya. Frequency distribution analysis of the obtained results was performed using SPSS 20 software. According to the results of the study, vertical gardens are perceived as an aesthetic element in Konya city. People accept that vertical gardens are high-cost applications. When the applications abroad are considered, it can be stated that the applications in Konya city are in the beginning phase.


This paper shows a solution for non-linear vibrations in a homogeneous elastic line consisting of three elements connected by non-linear elastic constraints. The solution obtained is a functional spectral series, each harmonic of which is determined analytically on the basis of a system of equations describing the vibration process when the same linear system is acted on by a series of forces. The process forces depend on the degree of elastic constraint non-linearity and on the vibration amplitude of the lowest-order harmonics. We show that the boundary frequency of each harmonic decreases in proportion to the order of harmonic, and the resonance spectrum of harmonics of the dynamic process contains a spectrum of natural frequencies lower than the natural boundary frequency and the spectrum of frequencies of lower-order harmonics located between the natural boundary frequency and the boundary frequency of the first harmonic. It is shown that the method of recurrent determination of the spectrum of a non-linear dynamic process can be extended to models with non-linear resistance and to the case of a complex-spectrum external force.


For the problem of various airborne electric counter measures device and complex data load/unload in air force army, de-sign method of act the airborne device as a peripheral device of PC104 embedded computer is proposed. By the multiple I/O inter-face technology, the problem of device generality has been solved for external field data load/unload and internal field data sending. The microminiaturization and the generalization for data load/unload device have been implemented.


The defects or precipitates in crystalline silicon may influence the properties of different silicon-base devices noticeably. The distribution or the morphology of grain boundaries, dislocations and precipitates in crystalline silicon were observed by scanning infrared microscopy (SIRM), and much useful information was obtained. In comparison with traditional research tools, SIRM has advantages of direct observation of defects or precipitates in crystalline silicon and no destruction to specimens.


Role based access control has been widely used in security critical systems. Conventional role based access control is a passive model, which makes authorization decisions on requests, and the authorization decisions contain only information about whether the corresponding requests are authorised or not. One of the potential improvements for role based access control is the augmentation of obligations, where obligations are tasked and requirements to be fulfilled together with the enforcement of authorization decisions. This paper conducts a comprehensive literature review about role based access control and obligation related research, and proposes a design of the augmentation of obligations in the context of RBAC standard. The design is then further consolidated in the PERMIS RBAC authorization infrastructure. Details of incorporating obligations into the PERMIS RBAC authorization infrastructure are given. This paper also discusses the possible nondeterminism caused by overlapped authorisation.


This paper presents the development of an improved Fuzzy Time Series (FTS) forecasting model with Cat Swarm Optimization based Clustering (CSO-C) algorithm. FTS forecasting is affected by some of the subjective decisions made at the fuzzification stage like size of interval length or universe of discourse, and approaches such as clustering, trend-mapping, have been adopted to address this. Traditional clustering techniques, such as fuzzy C-means (FCM) and K-means used to tackle the problems associated with the fuzzification stage encountered problems such as handling high dimensional data, sensitivity to noise and outliers and pre-mature convergence. In this paper, CSO-C algorithm was developed using MATLAB 2015a to address pre-mature convergence with a view to improving forecast accuracy in FTS forecasting. The developed model was tested on student enrolment of University of Alabama and Taiwan Future Exchange (TAIFEX). Also applied to forecast the student enrolment of University of Maiduguri (UniMaid) data. In all cases, Mean Square Error (MSE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) were used as the performance metrics. The developed model presents itself superior, with reduced prediction error when compared with previously existing models in the literature.


Most renewable energy sources, while contributing to the goals of the European Union's Green Deal to decrease the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, also create stability and control problems to power grids due to their variability. In order to handle this, the power grid relies on flexibility services, which can be performed by changing injection and/or consumption patterns. While consumption patterns can be modified using loads, to allow a smart grid to operate there is also a need of power firming and balancing services provided by energy producers. Present day developments in storage technologies and their cost decrease redefine storage systems as one of the most important ways to ensure a stable and secure, mostly renewable based, power system. A popular application of renewable energy is based on photovoltaic (PV) panels. Without controllable loads and battery energy storage systems (BESS), small communities comprised of buildings with PV generation will themselves become a source of variability. This paper is focused on converting smart energy residential and commercial communities from variability "troublemakers" into actual providers of power firming and flexibility services. Combining PV energy production with storage and controllable loads in smart energy communities and grouping together either physically close or virtually related buildings using an aggregation platform will enable this conversion process. In order to do this, issues like optimizing the operation of the PV system plus BESS and sizing of the storage depending on the services to be supplied by the smart energy communities have to be first addressed. This paper will propose a methodology to determine the optimal operation and sizing of a PV system plus BESS and will present the architecture of an aggregation platform used for grouping together buildings into smart energy communities in order to provide energy services, by extending the functionality of the SHEEDAP platform presented in previous papers. The improved platform, named SCHEEDAP (Smart Control Hub Electric Energy Data Aggregation Platform) will also include a EMS functionality, distributing active power reference set-points to each buildings local controller (smart inverter) based on close to real-time optimization results.


Abstract Changes in radioactive cesium (radiocesium) concentrations in winter rye (Secale cereale L.) and Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) grown in fields contaminated by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of the Tokyo Electric Power Company were examined to clarify the half-lives of weathering as an environmental process that removed radiocesium during the early stages after its deposition. The radiocesium concentrations in the rye plants that resulted from direct deposition of fallout in 2011 decreased greatly from 140.5 kBq kg–1 dry weight (DW) on March 31 to 13.2 kBq kg–1 DW on April 27, during the 27 d between the vegetative growth and heading stages. The amounts of rye radiocesium per unit area decreased simultaneously, from 69.8 kBq m–2 to 12.6 kBq m–2. The radiocesium concentrations in rye were half and a quarter of those in Italian ryegrass during the vegetative and heading stages, respectively, although the radiocesium concentrations in Italian ryegrass also decreased with plant growth. The values of the weathering half-life of 8.0 and 11.0 d for the radiocesium concentration per unit DW and amount per unit area in rye were approximately half those of Italian ryegrass, at 14.1 and 23.1 d, respectively. Therefore, less radiocesium-contaminated material seemed to be retained on the plant surface of rye than on Italian ryegrass. The radiocesium concentrations of rye harvested in the same experimental fields in the year following the accident were below the value defined in the February 2012 provisional regulation for cattle roughage (100 Bq kg–1 at a water content of 0.8 kg kg–1).


The objective of this study is to identify the relationship between study habits and academic achievements of Health Science Student's in Masterskill University College of Health Sciences. This study also identifies the different study habit used by health science students and the academic achievement of the health science students. The overall health science students who participated in this survey were 150 (125 female and 25 male). Survey method was used in order to collect data through questionnaire. Factor analysis was carried out to group the variables under three different construct (UON, MOS, and Reading). Descriptive statistic was used to determine the different study habit practiced by the health science students and to identify the academic achievements of the health science students. Pearson Correlation analysis was used to view the relationship between underlining, outline summary and note taking (UON), method of study (MOS), and Reading method with the academic achievement of the health science students. The results of this study discovered that majority of the students are using the three different study habits mentioned in the questionnaire and their academic achievement shows that most of them are getting average level of CGPA. In measuring the relationship, the results shows that there is no significant relationship between UON and reading towards the academic achievements of the health science students. Whereby the relationship between MOS shows that there is a significant relationship to the academic achievement but it does not assist the towards the student's academic performance as it shows a negative and weak relationship.


CASE REPORT Mrs. R. O'N., aged 68, was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital, under the care of Mr. Williamson-Noble on January 12, 1951. Her complaints were pain, redness, and diminished vision in the right eye since the latter part of December, 1950. History.-Her ophthalmologist stated that her left eye has been blind for 40 years after a traumatic retinal detachment. The right eye showed a dendritic ulcer when she first came to see him on December 27, 1950. The ulcer was carbolized and ung. atrop. 1 per cent. prescribed, but, the intra-ocular pressure rose and the cloudiness of the cornea became worse. The treatment was changed to gutt. eserine * per cent. and pilocarpine 2 per cent. The pupil became smaller and the pain was relieved but the tension remained high. Examination.-Right eye: visual acuity 3/60 with glasses. The lids were normal and there was no regurgitation from the lacrimal sac on expression. The general appearance of the eye was red and angry. The cornea appeared hazy on account of generalized oedema, and on staining with fluorescein revealed a central dendritic ulcer resembling the letter W with knobs at thQ junctions of the strokes. Striate keratitis was marked and corneal sensation was completely absent. The anterior chamber appeared deep and the pupil was moderately dilated, and inactive with posterior synechiae. The iris was difficult to see. A dull red reflex was present, but retinal details could not be discerned. Left eye: visual acuity no perception of light. The eye was white with retinal detachment present below. Schiotz reading on admission for the right eye were 4.5/7.5, 34 mm. Hg; 7/10, 32 mm. Hg. X rays of jaws, chest, and sinuses as well as blood investigations were negative. Treatment.-The patient was put to bed and given oily eserine 1 per cent. to the right eye every half-hour for 2 hours, then every 2 hours for 8 hours, and finally three times daily; gutt. aureomycin t per cent. every 3 hours; hot bathing to the right eye 4-hourly with continuous dry heat between; sedatives and laxatives as required. The following day a spastic entropion of the right lower lid was noted. The pupil was now smaller, about 3 mm. in diameter. Schiotz readings were 5/7.5, 32 mm. Hg; 8/10, 28 mm. Hg. The condition of the eye remained the same and the patient was started on a 5-day course of sulphatriad, 2 g. as the initial dose followed by 1 g. three times a day. This treatment was carried out until January 17, 1951, when the aureomycin drops were discontinued, the ulcer was carbolized, and gutt. albucid 1 per cent. OH3 substituted. Ascorbic acid orally 200 mg. three times daily was ordered. After 3 days the ulcer lost its characteristic appearance and was replaced by a few linear central stains. The generalized corneal oedema persisted, the eye was still angrily injected, and the Schiotz reading was 7.5/7.5, 22 mm. Hg; 10/10, 20 mm. Hg. The tension in the right eye continued normal and on January 22, 1951, it was decided


Mobile ad hoc networks use many different routing protocols to route data packets among nodes. Various routing protocols have been developed, and their usage depends on the application and network architecture. This study examined several different routing protocols, and evaluated the performance of three: the Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Protocol (AODV), the Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV), and the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). These three protocols were evaluated on a network with nodes ranging from 50 to 300, using performance metrics such as average delay, jitter, normal overhead, packet delivery ratio, and throughput. These performance metrics were measured by changing various parameters of the network: queue length, speed, and the number of source nodes. AODV performed well in high mobility and high density scenarios, whereas DSDV performed well when mobility and the node density were low. DSR performed well in low-mobility scenarios. All the simulations were performed in NS2 simulator.


Apparatus for stimulating otolith organs by linear acceleration, comprising: (A) a base portion (A) with a source of linear acceleration, (B) one of the base portion (A) carried by the rotary portion (B) attached to the base portion (A) is slidably mounted and is coupled to the source of linear acceleration so as the to perform linear reciprocating movements under the effect of source is arranged for linear acceleration, (C) one of the rotary section (B) carried by the tilting section (C) to incline from a horizontal plane of a head of a test object in the stereotactic Reid coordinate system, wherein a main rotary shaft (49), a pair of transmission gear mechanisms (54, 60 , 61, 66), which cooperate (with the main rotating shaft 49) via gear mounting plates (51), a handwheel (67) or handle for operating the transmission gear mechanism (54, 60, 63, 66) and means for rotating the main rotating shaft (49) the transmission gear mechanism (54, 60, 63, 66) in a desired angular position with the hand wheel (67) or ...


The paper focuses on comparing applicability, tuning, and performance of different controllers implemented and tested on a finless rocket during its boost phase. The objective was to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each controller, such that the most appropriate one would then be developed and implemented in real-time in the finless rocket. The compared controllers were Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG), and Proportional Integral Derivative (PID). To control the attitude of the rocket, emphasis is given to the Thrust Vector Control (TVC) component (sub-system) through the gimballing of the rocket engine. The launcher is commanded through the control input thrust gimbal angle δ, while the output parameter is expressed in terms of the pitch angle θ. After deriving a linearized state–space model, rocket stability is addressed before controller implementation and testing. The comparative study showed that both LQR and LQG track pitch angle changes rapidly, thus providing efficient closed-loop dynamic tracking. Tuning of the LQR controller, through the Q and R weighting matrices, illustrates how variations directly affect performance of the closed-loop system by varying the values of the feedback gain (K). The LQG controller provides a more realistic profile because, in general, not all variables are measurable and available for feedback. However, disturbances affecting the system are better handled and reduced with the PID controller, thus overcoming steady-state errors due to aerodynamic and model uncertainty. Overall controller performance is evaluated in terms of overshoot, settling and rise time, and steady-state error.


This article describes the positive influence of leadership in the processes of institutional self-evaluation in an organization that seeks to raise a diagnosis of participatory management, promoting the collaboration of all agents involved, whose goal is to correct the weaknesses and needs detected and then make collegial and distributed decisions. and agreed on for the benefit of people and therefore the organization. To achieve participatory management, it is necessary that the institution has a self-assessment methodology and, through qualitative and quantitative techniques, it is possible to implement it periodically, according to the processes of strategic planning and accreditation that each organization is obtaining.


Separate abstracts have been prepared for papers from this NBS sponsored workshop which was held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 23-24, 1985.


This study aims to identify the existence of a statistical relationship between rational choice and academic performance of undergraduate university students, based on Grinblatt, Keloharju and Linnainmaa (2011). With the use of questionnaires to collect data and logit regressions, the results show that Academic Performance (AP) has a direct relationship with the rationality of choices and alters cognitive biases in decision making. In this sense, students with higher AP made more rational choices than students with lower AP, which means a lower susceptibility to cognitive biases.


Pixel force field (PFF) is a novel image representation where at each pixel a two-dimensional vector is defined for representing interaction of pixels. The vector is oriented to the center of the region composed of pixels having the same qualitative property, such as color and gray-scale level. Using the pixel force field and improved live-wire segmentation technique the task of interactive road extraction from remote sensing images is solved


In today's Russian society there is increased interest in implementing an intelligent and strategically formulated social policy on childrearing. At the present time, the objective of supporting the Russian family has been elevated to one of priority, encouraging the hope that research in this field will be stepped up.


Problem and goal. The article analyzes and formulates the problems of teaching migrant students and their social adaptation in the process of education in educational institutions. Among them, the problem of learning due to language and socio-cultural barriers is highlighted. The purpose of the article: to identify and substantiate the problems faced by migrant students and teachers in the process of education in educational institutions.
The research methodology consists in the analysis and generalization of research works by foreign and domestic scientists, recognized by the scientific community, and the experience of teaching migrant students.
Results. On the basis of activity, competence and context approaches the main problems of teaching and social adaptation of migrant students in the conditions of teaching theoretical disciplines aimed at the formation of intercultural competence of migrant students are formulated.
Conclusion. The classification of problems of teaching migrant students and consideration of foreign experience with this category of students will allow to implement the educational module, the curriculum of which will help to prepare future teachers of physics to work with children in a multicultural class, as a result of which the intercultural competence of migrant students will be formed.


Based on the recent changes in the concepts of "Family" and "Marriage", this article focuses on the legal conditions of 1999 French "PACS" (registered partnership) contract and its legal effects, on comparison with the Belgian and German Family Laws. It figures out the possibilities for guaranties to the same-sex/ different-sex registered partnership in Family Law, beyond the traditional heterosexual marriage. In addition, this article demonstrates the importance to respect the "vested rights" acknowledged by the national Family Laws, in the theory and practice in International Private Law. Finally, it urges that the Taiwanese Family Law and the Internal Private Law as well need some revision to adapt to these changes in the social reality.


For a cloud service provider, it necessitates an emerging cloud ecosystem to consolidate the existing users and attract more potential users, further gaining its market share. Therefore, in this article, we design a price-incentive resource auction mechanism in cloud environment. In response to the cloud resource price, each user synthesizes her bidding budget and QoS requirement, and purchases cloud resources according to her resource demand in a strategic manner. The cloud service provider, meanwhile, can regulate the resource demands of users through conducting a market-based pricing strategy, against too low prices to cover the operational costs (i.e., energy costs) or too high prices resulting in user churn. In virtue of an elaborate market-based pricing strategy, the interests of users and the cloud service provider are balanced. Our price-incentive resource auction mechanism targets to stimulate maximum users willing to purchase resources and perform their applications at the cloud, on the premise of a minimum profit rate guaranteed for the cloud service provider. It is also able to provide budge balance and truthfulness guarantee, and satisfy the envy-freeness. In order to carry out the above objectives, we carefully design the user utility function reflecting the complicated user interest, and formulate our resource pricing and auction problem as a bin packing problem, which has non-polynomial computational complexity. Regarding the NP-hardness of optimization problem and the concavity of user utility, we present a computational-efficient ( $1+\epsilon $ )-approximate algorithm namely PIRA. Finally, we conduct simulations based on the real-world dataset to validate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.


[W]hat Quintus Horatius Flaccus said some 2000 years ago in his Ars Poetica ("Lectorem delectando pariterque monendo," which translates as "delighting the reader at the same time as instructing him") is also true today What is wrong with learning something while being entertained? In other words, why not use drama to smuggle (with a substantial dose of theatricality) important information generally not available on the stage into the minds of a general public?


The issue of good death or euthanasia and acceleration in death of incurable or dying patients to relieve the pain and suffering through fatal actions has always been a debatable matter in medical field. This has always been an important issue in different fields including legal, political, social, philosophical and medical. Euthanasia is a permitted and even moral action from the view of its supporters since they believe in a person's right to decide to die. According to religious and Islamic rules, such a right does not belong to human since they are not the owner of their souls and bodies; and that's in the power of God. Based on different verses of Quran, people are not allowed to commit suicide or kill others. Euthanasia is a taboo and an unlawful action. Abusing this word to achieve some humanistic goals is not acceptable; therefore, pain and suffering should not be used as an excuse or a legal and ethical permission to commit euthanasia. This study is aimed at studying permissibility or impermissibility of euthanasia based on Iran law and Islamic rules.


x Paid shop and office work in Victoria feminized between 1880 and 1939. The majority of workers were men in 1880 while the majority were women by 1939. But female labour did not simply replace male labour. There were changes within the sexual divisions as much as between them. While gender did divide the labour market, it was not the only division. As various groups of women were progressively employed in the shop and office sector, the jobs they performed were recast. At the same time, different groups of men were recruited and the nature of the jobs they filled changed. The feminization process involved transformations in work and workers. The theories usually employed to describe and explain feminization cannot adequately account for these developments In Victoria. They emphasize the uniformity of female labour. This thesis questions such homogenization theories as proletarianization, patriarchal state structuralism, reserve army of labour, and scientific management. It points to differentiation along many axes as changes in recruits' marital status, age and socio-educational backgrounds are examined. At the same time, I argue that while transformation in workers has been overlooked, transformation in work has been exaggerated. Most shop and office workers in Victoria in 1939 worked in small workplaces not dissimilar to the 1880s. The polarization of workplaces is another aspect of diversity. In brief, I have studied the processes which segmented, not unified, the retail and clerical workforces.


4 Introduction 5 Factors that Affect Condom Use 6 Cognitive Dissonance Theory 8 Online Safe Sex Interventions 11 The Current Study 13 Study 1 14 Method 14 Results 19 Discussion 23 Study 2 26 Method 26 Results 28 Discussion 32 General Discussion 33 References 38 Appendix 41 Tables 58 Figures 62 HYPOCRISY INDUCTION TO INCREASE 4


Chemical reactivity studies of the organotin(IV) carboxylates diphenyltin(IV) di-4-aminobenzoate (1) and triphenyltin(IV) 4-aminobenzoate (2) were conducted using cyclic voltammetry. Then, their antioxidant activities were tested by the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylshydrazyl (DPPH) method. Cyclic voltammetry was used to determine the kinetic constants of compounds 1 and 2 for the forward chemical reaction (kf). The constant values of the chemical reaction rate of 1 and 2 on cyclic voltammogram by experiment were obtained by comparing with the values from digital simulation methods obtained using Polar software 5.8.3. The results demonstrated that the constant value of the rate of the subsequent chemical reaction is a function of the rate of its potential (slope = kf/ν); that is, 6.481 and 6.069 1/V for 1 and 2, respectively. The type of chemical reaction mechanism that occurs around the surface of the working electrode follows reaction mechanism of electrochemical reaction is quasi reversible and chemical reaction is irreversible (EqCi). The antioxidant activities of compounds 1 and 2 produced IC50 values of 5.91 and 12.57 μg/mL, respectively. These results indicate that both compounds are active as antioxidants. However, their antioxidant activities were lower than that of ascorbic acid, which has an IC50 value of 0.66 μg/mL.

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Paper I: Perfekt, K.-M. and Putinar, M., Spectral bounds for the Neumann-Poincare operator on planar domains with corners, to appear in J. Anal. Math., (2012).
The boundary double layer potential, or the Neumann-Poincare operator, is studied on the Sobolev space of order $1/2$ along the boundary, coinciding with the space of charges giving rise to double layer potentials with finite energy in the whole space. Poincare's program of studying the spectrum of the boundary double layer potential is developed in complete generality, on closed Lipschitz hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. Furthermore, the Neumann-Poincare operator is realized as a singular integral transform bearing similarities to the Beurling-Ahlfors transform in 2D. As an application, bounds for the spectrum of the Neumann-Poincare operator are derived from recent results in quasi-conformal mapping theory, in the case of planar curves with corners.

Paper II: Perfekt, K.-M., Duality and distance formulas in spaces defined by means of oscillation, Arkiv for Matematik, (2012), pp. 1-17 (Online First).
For the classical space of functions with bounded mean oscillation, it is well known that VMO** = BMO and there are many characterizations of the distance from a function f in BMO to VMO. When considering the Bloch space, results in the same vein are available with respect to the little Bloch space. In this paper such duality results and distance formulas are obtained by pure functional analysis. Applications include general Mobius invariant spaces such as Q_K-spaces, weighted spaces, Lipschitz-Holder spaces and rectangular BMO of several variables.

Paper III: Aleman, A. and Perfekt, K.-M., Hankel forms and embedding theorems in weighted Dirichlet spaces, Int. Math. Res. Not., 2012 (2012), pp. 4435-4448.
We show that for a fixed operator-valued analytic function g as its symbol, the boundedness of a bilinear Hankel-type form, defined on appropriate cartesian products of dual weighted Dirichlet spaces of Schatten class-valued functions, is equivalent to corresponding Carleson embedding estimates.


The Untold History of Nevada's Shield Statute By Matthew Ward Dr. Stephen Bates, Committee Chair Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas The history of American journalism is replete with anecdotes about news reporters enduring jail and other penalties to protect the identities of confidential sources of information. Since as early as the American Revolution journalists have often found themselves at odds with established authority. In the political cauldron of the late 1960s and early 1970s, U.S. government intrusion into the news gathering process was widespread. The notion the First Amendment protected journalists from revealing sources was invalidated by the Supreme Court's 1972 decision in Branzburg v. Hayes. Many states throughout the nation reacted by codifying a reporter's privilege. Nevada did so in 1969, protecting members of the working media from having to divulge confidences to the government. The statute was revised in 1975 to cover former media members, but the law has remained unchanged since, despite much technological innovation and economic changes in the media industry. This study tells the untold story of Nevada's shield statute, the 1968 news story that sparked the quiet crusade for its


BACKGROUND
Few epidemiologic studies have investigated the use of venlafaxine (Effexor XR capsules, Product Monograph, Wyeth, Montreal, Canada), an antidepressant used to treat major depression and anxiety disorders in adults, during pregnancy. Our objective was to determine whether use of venlafaxine during pregnancy is associated with specific birth defects.

METHODS
We used data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS), a population-based, case-control study in the United States. Our analysis included mothers with pregnancies affected by one of 30 selected birth defects (cases) and babies without birth defects (controls) with estimated dates of delivery between 1997 and 2007. Exposure was any reported use of venlafaxine from 1 month preconception through the third month of pregnancy. We calculated adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% Fisher Exact confidence intervals (CIs) for 24 birth defect groups for which at least 400 case mothers were interviewed. Our adjusted analyses controlled for maternal age and race/ethnicity.

RESULTS
Among the 27,045 NBDPS participants who met inclusion criteria, 0.17% (14/8002) of control mothers and 0.40% (77/19,043) of case mothers reported any use of venlafaxine from 1 month preconception through the third month of pregnancy. Statistically significant associations were found for anencephaly, atrial septal defect (ASD) secundum, or ASD not otherwise specified, coarctation of the aorta, cleft palate, and gastroschisis.

CONCLUSIONS
Our data suggest associations between periconceptional use of venlafaxine and some birth defects. However, sample sizes were small, CIs were wide, and additional studies are needed to confirm these results.


COATING COMPOSITION FOR PAPER PARTICULARLY USEFUL AS PROTECTIVE COATING FOR PAPER RECORD HEAT SENSITIVE. RESPECT THE INVENTION COMPOSITION FOR PAPER COATING. COMPOSITION INVENTION INCLUDING RESIN POLYVINYL ALCOHOL GROUP CONTAINING acetoacetylated PREPARED IN PRESENCE OF PIGMENT WITH PH NO MORE 8 APPLICATIONS:. PAPER MANUFACTURING REGISTRATION SENSITIVE TO HEAT WITH IMPROVED DENSITY COLOR, EXCELLENT RESISTANCE PLASTICISERS AND LOW GRIP ON THE THERMAL PRINTING HEAD.


Objectives: The aim of this work is to study the relationship between the initial GCS and admission brain CT findings and MRI brain findings if indicated in head trauma patients at pediatric age group. Background: Trauma is a leading cause of death in children older than 1 year, with head trauma representing 80% or more of the injuries. In approximately 5% of head trauma cases, patients die at the site of the accident. Head trauma has a high emotional, psychosocial and economic impact because these patients often have comparatively long hospital stays. Methods: This prospective study included 100 patients with head trauma at pediatric age group; the patients were evaluated with respect to their initial GCS and admission brain CT findings and correlated with clinical data. Some patients were further evaluated with MRI of brain when needed. Results: Male to female ratio was 73:27, their ages ranged from 1 day to 18 years with a mean age of 9.1 years. Of the 100 cases included in this study 21 cases were with normal CT examination and 79 were with abnormal imaging findings. 54% of the cases classified as mild TBI, 8% of the cases classified as moderate TBI and 38% of the cases classified as severe TBI. Imaging findings such as subgaleal hematoma, skull fractures, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral contusion, intracerebral hemorrhage, extra-axial blood collection and diffuse cerebral edema were observed in 79% of the patients. Conclusion: Statistical significance was observed between GCS and the imaging findings, the lower the GCS score, the more severe were the TBI and imaging findings. MRI has been shown to be superior to CT in the detection of non-hemorrhagic brain injury and cases of diffuse axonal injury.


This article deals about dynamic voltage and cache reconfiguration online algorithm that dynamically adapts the processor speed and the cache subsystem to the workload requirements for the purpose of saving energy. The workload is considered to be a set of tasks with real-time deadlines. Our online algorithm is invoked as part of the OS scheduler, which performs standard earliest deadline first(EDF)task scheduling first. Then, our online algorithm, determines an ideal voltage/cache configuration for the current executing task.


Nothapodytes nimmoniana Graham; Syn. Mappia foetida (Icacinaceae) an endangered tree species of Western Ghats of India is an excellent source of quinoline alkaloids, camptothecin (CPT), used clinically as such or after derivation as anticancer agents for the treatment of solid tumors. Development of in vitro multiplication and conservation techniques are highly desirable, as there is no reported cultivation or conservation protocols of this endangered species. MS medium with different plant growth regulators (PGRs) were tried to optimize the protocol for in vitro multiplication of this species. Among the various explants tried, only the isolated seed embryos collected from Idukki district of Kerala, showed a positive response on MS with 0.91 μM thidiazuron (TDZ), 3% sucrose, 0.8% agar and pH 5.8 in Standard Culture Conditions (SCC). From regenerating callus, multiple shoots were regenerated and development of somatic embryos was observed on the same medium after 3 week of incubation. After one month of incubation in TDZ medium somatic embryos developed were small, inseparable and on an average of 70 per tube and 5 mm to 15 mm long. Shoot elongation of 2-19 mm was observed on MS basal medium after one month of incubation. One mg/L IBA was ideal for root initiation of the vitro plants. Some the cultures in (SCC) were shifted to low temperature (+10°C) for in vitro conservation. Under reduced temperature and light, in vitro plants grew well (without any subculturing) even after the six months of incubation. Cultures in MS basal medium showed shoot elongation of 5-10 mm compared to MS with TDZ (3-50 mm). The interesting results of growth response of the cultures in low temperature imply that it is possible to conserve the species under low temperature for a longer period without regular subculturing. Protocols for the establishment of in vitro gene bank for these species will be discussed.


This paper describes an overview of JCSAT-3, which was launched in August 1995. JCSAT-3 is located at 128 deg E longitude in geosynchronous orbit with a predicted service lifetime of 12 yr. JCSAT-3 is a multifaceted international communication satellite which covers most of Asia, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii in the Ku and C bands. Users can access and transmit with Ku to Ku, Ku to C, C to Ku, and C to C from any region. First, this paper presents the system performance for the JCSAT-3 payload subsystem and bus subsystem. Second, the ground segment for JCSAT-3 is described. (Author)


Electrical discharge machining (EDM) process is one of the most commonly used non- conventional precise material removal processes. Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a process f or shaping hard metals and forming deep complex shaped holes by arc erosion in all kinds of electro- conductive materials. Erosion pulse discharge occu rs in a small gap between the work piece and the electrode. This removes the unwanted material from the parent metal through melting and vaporizing in presence of dielectric fluid. In recent years, EDM researchers have explored a number of ways to impr ove EDM Process parameters such as Electrical parameters, Non-Electrical Parameters, tool Electrode based parameters & Powder based parameters. This new research shares the same objectives of achieving more efficient metal removal rate reduction in tool wear and improved surface quality. This paper reviews t he research work carried out from the inception to the development of die-sinking EDM, Water in EDM, dry EDM, and Powder mixed electric Discharge Machining. Within the past decade. & also briefly describing the Current Research technique Trend in EDM, future EDM research direction.


An hydraulic actuator comprises a first piston and a second piston both working in a bore in a housing and the actuator incorporates a pressure proportioning valve. The valve comprises a valve head for engagement with a seating, first and second stems projecting from the head and through the first piston in each of two opposite directions, each stem being of an area smaller than that of the head, a seal between the first stem and the first piston, a first spring acting between an abutment adjacent to the seal and a shoulder on the first stem to urge the head in a first direction away from the seating and into engagement with a stop, and a second spring acting on an enlargement on the second stem also to urge the head in the first direction and to augment the force in the first spring. The second piston is provided with a longitudinally extending recess into which the second stem and the second spring both project.


ABSTRACT
Priming Unaccusative Middles: Flexible Argument Structures and the Online Processing of Middle Constructions.
Juliana Meyohas, M.A.
Middle constructions, such as This book sells well, are formed with a transitive verb, but with an object figuring in subject position (This book). It has been proposed that these constructions either project a transitive structure (e.g., Bowers, 2002) or an unaccusative one (e.g., Rapoport, 1999). Recent studies (Di Sciullo, de Almeida, Manouilidou, & Dwivedi, 2007; Maia, Oliveira, & dos Santos, submitted) seem to suggest that middle constructions are more complex to process than their transitive counterparts. We contrasted middles constructions against syntactically simplex transitive constructions, and syntactically complex transitive and unaccusative constructions, namely passives and predicatives. We kept the verbs constant across conditions, and controlled for subject animacy. Results from Experiment 1 (self-paced reading) and Experiment 3 (eye-tracking) indicated a facilitation on the processing of middles when compared against their transitive counterparts. Results from Experiment 2 (an off-line rating task), indicated greater complexity associated with the comprehension of middles when compared against transitives, but not when compared against their passive and predicative counterparts. We suggest that, once materials were composed of two clauses in a contrastive coordinated relation (e.g., That stucco is rough, but this wall paints smoothly), information pertaining to the unaccusative predicative clause in the first conjunct (That stucco is rough) influenced the processing of the target sentences in the second conjunct. Our findings are consistent with the proposal that middle constructions project an unaccusative structure and that argument structure information is available during online processing.


The present research aims to enhance the biosurfactant (BS) production using agricultural by‐products as a low‐cost substrate with the statistical approach. BS production from Bacillus subtilis SASCBT01 was carried out with four different variables such as pH, incubation time, cassava peel waste (CPW) and palmira sprout (PS). The model expected the highest emulsification activity of 65 ± 1·2% after 96‐h incubation with 3·0 g l−1 of CPW and PS at pH 7·0. The SASCBT01 strain‐based BS was successful at retrieving up to 18% and the highest Pb removal rates were found at 65%. These BS have considered high quality in bioremediation applications.