An improved RF CMOS transistor design is described. Local, narrow interconnect lines, which are located substantially above the active area of the transistor, are each connected to either a source terminal or a drain terminal. The source and the drain terminal are arranged orthogonally to the local interconnect lines and each terminal is significantly wider than a local interconnect line. In an example, the local interconnect lines are formed in a first metal layer and the source and drain terminals are formed in one or more subsequent metal layers.


In today's world, the human population is growing by the day. As the population grows, so does the demand for technology. So, there is a necessity in implementing advanced technologies in cities to make a smart one. Smart city is the future of urbanization. Revolution in cities with digital technology provides sustainable and efficient life through smart city. For a smart city, a large network must be built and maintained involving devices, sensors and software. Technologies like machine learning, deep learning, internet of things and communication technologies are involved in implementing smart city. In this paper, various technologies used in smart cities are discussed and few applications such as smart transportation, smart communication technology, smart medicine, smart environment, smart waste management, smart water monitoring systems are summarized. By implementing these technologies in a city, we can transform it into a smart one, resulting in a balance between economic growth and population growth. These technologies help people to make their life smarter and easier and improves the quality of life.


Electric utilities and grid operators face major challenges from an accelerated evolution of grids towards an extensive integration of variable renewable energy sources, such as solar photovoltaic (PV). An opportunity exists to incorporate probabilistic risk analysis into the design and operation of photovoltaic systems to deal with rapidly evolving design and configuration techniques. This could potentially achieve greater design reliability through prediction and remediation of failure modes during design and testing project phases, before project implementation or construction. However, because these systems are novel, detailed component level reliability models are difficult to characterize. In this paper, an approach to the prioritization of PV failure modes extending Colli (1), (2) using a Shannon information-weighted reliability approach is demonstrated. We call this information-weight the "surprise index." The surprise index approach facilitates the prioritization of failure modes by weighting the consequence of their failures by the information in the failure generation model. The surprise index may potentially aid in systematic evaluation of deep uncertainties in PV module design, as failure modes that might be overlooked using traditional PRA may be addressed using the information-based approach.


Forests provide multiple benefits such as goods and services important to people's livelihoods, economic growth, foreign exchange earnings, and environmental services. The range of actors involved in the production and consumption of forest-based goods and services include governments, private industry, local communities, individual forest owners and their associations, and nongovernmental organizations. But too often the state formally manages, regulates, and prices these forests as an undervalued capital resource subject to the control of certain politically powerful groups and individuals. The design of instruments to implement forestry policy, including forest fiscal systems, consequently needs to take into account the multiple roles involved in forestry and the political process of directing toward the same overall goals a large number of actors with diverse and sometimes conflicting objectives and vested interests. This workshop was designed to contribute to the learning process among a selected group of tropical countries that are actively trying to implement forestry policies to achieve sustainable forest management where the forestry sector could potentially have a significant impact on poverty reduction. The workshop on which this report is based, 'reforms of forest fiscal systems to promote growth, poverty reduction, and sustainable forest management,' focused especially on the politics of the reform process, taking into account situations of vested interest, corruption and poor governance, and weak institutional structures.


: This study explored the relationship between the exposure level of COVID-19 and risk propensity and its potential mechanism. The DOSPERT-7 scale, perceived threat questionnaire and coping effectiveness questionnaire were used to investigate 3459 participants from 31 provincial administrative departments in China (2987 valid samples). The results showed that: (1) the exposure level of COVID-19 negatively predicted the risk behavior tendency, that is, the higher the exposure level, the lower the risk behavior tendency; (2) Perceived threat and coping effectiveness have intermediary effects on exposure level and risk propensity respectively; (3) Perceived threat and coping effectiveness play a chain intermediary role in exposure level and risk propensity.


The bolts for the reactor coolant pump are planned to be made of the forged 316 stainless steel. Prior to use, the stress corrosion cracking (SCC) resistance of the material requires investigation in simulated primary water at 320 °C. The crack growth rates (CGRs) of two duplicate compact tension (CT) specimens are measured using direct current potential drop method. The effects of stress intensity factor (K, changes from 21 to 41 MPa√m), dissolved oxygen (DO, changes from <10 to 2000 ppb) and dissolved hydrogen (DH, 2800 ppb) on CGRs are comprehensively examined. The results indicate that CGR increases with increasing K. The forged 316 stainless steel is sensitive to SCC in oxygenated water. Changing oxygenated water to hydrogenated water leads to more than one order of magnitude decreases of CGR. The fracture surface, crack path, and the influence of the crack branching on CGR are discussed.


The article deals with one of the aspects in researching the Paschal icon of the Orthodox Church. The author differentiates the image of the Descent into Hell (Descensus ad Inferos) accepted in Western Europe and the image of the Resurrection "Ανάστασις" as viewed in the Eastern Christianity. They are compared and the main differences are defined. Careful study of the inscription on the gate of Sophia of Novgorod allows the author to come to important conclusions.


A case of maple syrup urine disease is presented. The patient lived for 20 months, the longest survival so far reported.
 There were increased amounts of leucine, isoleucine and valine in plasma and urine, indicating a block in the metabolic degradation of these amino acids.
 There was an accumulation in the urine of the respective keto acids, but not of the aldehydes or of the simple acids. This locates the block at a step common to all three amino acids, that of oxidative-decarboxylation.
 The alpha-hydroxy-acid derivatives of these amino acids are probably present, but the evidence is still incomplete.
 Animal experiments indicate that oxidative decarboxylation of the branched-chain amino acids is a metabolic step which is found generally in tissues, including leukocytes but probably not erythrocytes.


Summary Statement Help Received Muchang Bahng How Do Different Types of Sweeteners Affect Yeast Growth? J1501 Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to find out how different kinds of sweeteners may affect yeast growth. Methods/Materials Ten doughs with different kinds of sweeteners and two doughs for control were made. The doughs were put into jars and sealed. The height of the doughs were recorded after one hour and two hours. Each experiment was repeated 3 times. Results The average height (in cm) of glucose is 13.0; fructose 13.2; D-(+)-galactose 10.8; sucrose 12.3; D-(+)-maltose 10.3; lactose 10.5; saccharin 8.6; aspartame 10.9; honey 11.8; maple syrup 13.1; control 1 10.7 and control 2 10.9. Conclusions/Discussion The results suggest that glucose, fructose, and maple syrup are the best kinds of sweeteners for yeast fermentation while artificial sweeteners, D-(+)-galactose, and lactose are not good for yeast fermentation. This project is about observing the growth of yeast when it is fed with different types of sweeteners. Father helped me with research CALIFORNIA STATE SCIENCE FAIR 2014 PROJECT SUMMARY Ap2/14 Name(s) Project Number


Education platform system in the social and economic development of the environment, all parties have put forward the implementation plan can be in a variety of complex conditions. Now, from the perspective of system design, the system principle of designing the education platform system is described, and the technology and the overall composition are adopted to adapt to the interactive teaching and teaching management under the mode of online network and on-site education, and the tool or method is used to replicate the current education process to the greatest extent. This paper introduces the components and functions of the design education platform system in detail, and explains the mechanism of using algorithm in the design education platform system based on association rule algorithm. This paper studies the related contents of the design education platform system based on association rule algorithm, and focuses on the role of the design education platform system based on association rule algorithm to improve the performance of the education platform system. The data show that the system research of design education platform based on association rule algorithm is more excellent in response time and efficiency than other system research of design education platform.


. Entrepreneurship has a significant role in a country's economy. Entrepreneurs such as Indonesia SMEs have a workforce absorption of up to 116.6 million people or 97.02% in 2017, reaching 64 million units in 2018, able to contribute more than large-scale businesses to Indonesia's GDP amounted to 61.07% in 2018 and is predicted to increase to 65% in 2019. However, Jokowi (2018) during his meeting with HIPMI said that the number of Indonesian entrepreneurs is still 3.1% while the standard in developed countries is more than 14%. This statement indicates the urgency of the need to increase the number of Indonesian entrepreneurs. The increasing number of women and men entrepreneurs who are oriented towards business growth is very important for the economy because they are the ones who create jobs, absorb unemployment, reduce poverty, involve the community, have high productivity, innovation and export. In contradiction, Deputy Chairman of The Entrepreneur Markplus. Inc. & President of the ICSB Indonesia and Chair of APINDO said that SMEs play a very important role in the Indonesian economy but not many SMEs competing for scaling up and even sustainability.


Earlier investigations at the Engler-Bunte-Institute, Division of Gas, Oil and Coal, University Karlsruhe, showed that supercritical water is a good solvent for the extraction of solid fuels. Now investigations have been carried out with supercritical mixtures of water and tetralin. Using the H-donor tetralin hydrogen transfer takes place at high temperature and decomposition products produced by thermal cracking of this fuel used can be stabilised. The experimental studies have shown that conversion degree and yield of extract increase when water-tetralin mixtures are used as solvent


Incorporation of biotinylated racemic three-legged d6-piano stool complexes in streptavidin yields enantioselective transfer hydrogenation artificial metalloenzymes for the reduction of ketones. Having identified the most promising organometallic catalyst precursors in the presence of wild-type streptavidin, fine-tuning of the selectivity is achieved by saturation mutagenesis at position S112. This choice for the genetic optimization site is suggested by docking studies which reveal that this position lies closest to the biotinylated metal upon incorporation into streptavidin. For aromatic ketones, the reaction proceeds smoothly to afford the corresponding enantioenriched alcohols in up to 97% ee (R) or 70% (S). On the basis of these results, we suggest that the enantioselection is mostly dictated by CH/pi interactions between the substrate and the eta6-bound arene. However, these enantiodiscriminating interactions can be outweighed in the presence of cationic residues at position S112 to afford the opposite enantiomers of the product.


ABSTRACT Using a participatory action research approach, community-based older adult service providers and university researchers partnered to explore older adult care transitions through the health care system, specifically from a hospital stay to home with rehabilitative services. Qualitative findings of transitioning home from both older adult and service provider perspective included three major themes: social support, communication, and adjusting to home and planning for the community. In addition, resources developed through the project are discussed with implications to practice.


The invention discloses a preparation method for monodisperse plate-like gold powder, namely the preparation method for micron-grade monodisperse plate-like gold powder containing part of near-spherical particles, and belongs to the field of electronic paste of new materials with an informational function. The method can be used for preparing the micron-grade monodisperse plate-like gold powder containing a small part of the near-spherical particles. The size of the near-spherical particles of the gold powder is about 0.5-0.8 [mu]m, the plate-like gold powder is in the shape of an irregular polygon, the plate diameter is 4-6 [mu]m, and the plate thickness is 300 nm. The gold powder is good in dispersity, moderate in particle size and particle size distribution, good in sintering property and capable of being used for preparing various kinds of gold-based electronic paste and pigment.


We discuss the SM Higgs discovery potential of the LHC in the channel pp ! H + W=H + t t ! + lepton when the lepton is observed at suuciently high pt and a small rapidity to be reliably identiied. We calculate all the signal subprocesses and the irreducible background with realistic kinematical cuts. The reducible background is also considered. We conclude that with an integrated luminosity of 165 fb ?1 in both channels pp ! W + H and pp ! t + t + H about 100 signal events with less than 20 events of the background could be observed in the case of low photon transverse momentum cuts pt > 20 GeV. For the high photon transverse momentum cuts pt > 40 GeV about 50 signal events are expected practically free from the background. At a low luminosity only few clean signal events are expected.


Previous analyses of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) identified four main dietary patterns (DP). The aim of this study was to explore the association between the previously defined DP and renal function (RF). A cross-sectional study using the ELSA-Brasil baseline data was carried out. DP ("traditional", "fruits and vegetables", "bakery", and "low sugar/low fat), metabolic syndrome (MS) using the Joint Interim Statement criteria, microalbuminuria (MA), and glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) through the CKD-EPI equation were evaluated. Abnormal RF was defined as eGFR<60 mL·min-1·(1.73 m2)-1 and MA≥3.0 mg/dL. Factors associated with RF were determined and mediation analysis was performed to investigate the association between DP, MS, and RF. A total of 15,105 participants were recruited, with a mean age of 52±9 years; 8,134 participants (54%) were females. The mediation analysis identified indirect associations between "bakery" and "fruits and vegetables", and both were associated with decreased eGFR and albuminuria in both genders, compared with "traditional" and "low sugar/low fat" patterns in the general population. There was a direct association of the "bakery" pattern with MA in men (OR: 1.17, 95%CI: 1.92-1.48). The "fruits and vegetables" pattern also showed a direct association with reduced eGFR in women (OR: 1.65, 95%CI: 1.28-2.12), although there was no significance after adjustment. The "fruits and vegetables" and "bakery" DPs were associated with renal dysfunction. The only independent, direct association was between "bakery" DP and MA in men, raising concerns about DP and renal damage in men.


Malate dehydrogenase isozymes were studied in cell-free extract (crude extract), cytoplasmic, and mitochondrial fractions of yeast and mycelial phases of Blastomyces dermatitidis. All 3 fractions were subjected to disc electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels. Different molecular forms of malate dehydrogenase were clearly demonstrated in both cytoplasmic and mitochondrial fractions of the yeast phase. The isozyme patterns in the yeast and the mycelial phases were different in number of bands.


In this paper will be described the new way of using cognitive cryptography in data security applications. Cognitive features and personal information may be used in creation of advanced data security techniques, and communication protocols. Such personally oriented procedures may play important role in advanced secure management applications and authentication tasks. Additionally some perception and behavioural features allow to generate unique sequences, which also may be used in modern cryptographic application. Such possibilities will be described in this paper.


Abstract Spiders are the most successful and diversified group of venomous animals. Currently, there are more than 49,000 species distributed almost all over the world. This broad distribution suggests that they have efficient strategies to improve their survival; one of them is the production of highly elaborate venoms, which are a heterogeneous mixture of molecules like inorganic salts, peptides, proteins, and enzymes. Considering this, this study aimed to analyze the venom of the spider Avicularia juruensis (Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) searching for proteolytic enzymes. Using zymography, electrophoresis, transcriptomics and proteomics approaches we identified one neprilysin able to degrade casein, that we named "Ajur_Neprilysin". Neprilysins are metalloendopeptidases whose presence has already been described in animal venoms, however, its function has not yet been elucidated. Our results showed for the first time one non-bacterial neprilysin which can cleave casein and suggest that its role in envenomation is to degrade the extracellular matrix, facilitating the access of other toxins to their targets, as well as digestive fluids. Moreover, this discovery contributes to increasing the knowledge about little-studied species, since the Ajur_Neprilysin is the second neprilysin found in the venom from a mygalomorph spider.


An inorganic microfluidic fuel cell (i-μFFC) was integrated in a glucose sensor LOC device. This device was constructed by using a mini CNC and evaluated for energy harvesting from glucose. The i-μFFC with PLD electrodes exhibits the highest performance compared to the i-μFFC with spray electrodes microfluidic fuel cell for the three conditions, obtained the best performance in alkaline conditions (3.53 μW), which is enough energy to power low-consumption microelectronic chips or microsensors.


This work builds a monthly econometric model of the main markets in sovereign bonds. It then estimates the model for the 1983-88 period by looking at the supply and demand of Italian sovereign bonds. The model gives special emphasis to the central bank's interventions in the options, and to open market operations in the secondary markets. JEL Codes: C54, E44, H62 Keywords: Italian sovereign bonds, Central bank interventions


The purpose of this study was to analyse the effects of youth depression and aggression and the effects of peer alienation in the process. To that end, the hierarchical regression analysis was used for 869 male teenagers and 800 female teenagers based on the data 7th wave of Korean Youth Panel Survey. Filly, In order to verify the meadiating effect of Peer Reject, bootstrapping method was used. The first seven panels Major analysis results are as follows. First, depression directly affected school adjustment of male and female adolescents. it turns out that the more depressed the young men and women are, the more aggressive they are. Second, In terms of depression and aggression among young men, peer alienation plays a role as a medium and that it does not work in the case of female. It also demonstrated that men's peer rejection has a media-effect in both gender depression and aggression and recommended discriminatory intervention based on gender


6539Background: In many instances, trials may offer the best or only therapeutic option for patients with rare findings. However, conducting clinical trials of novel therapeutics targeting rare molecular variants is challenging. Patient populations are small, distributed, and predominantly in community settings where trial access remains limited by awareness and site availability. These challenges increase costs of drug development and approval, delaying widespread patient access. Methods: Foundation Medicine deployed a trial education and access program, "Precision Enrollment," with Ignyta (a trial sponsor) and Pharmatech (a site management organization, or SMO, enabling "Just-In-Time" clinical trials) (Wiener, JCO 2007). Infrastructure and algorithms developed at Foundation Medicine ("SmartTrials Engine") matched sequenced patients (avg n = 800/wk) with activating NTRK, ROS1, or ALK fusions to the phase II study of Entrectinib (NCT02568267). Oncologists at Foundation Medicine, through peer-to-peer outre...


Although the content of Dy in the polycrystalline compounds La1.3 yDyySr1.7Mn2O7 (y 1⁄4 0:05 and 0.1) is very small, the effects of Dy ions on the magnetic and transport properties are quite evident at low temperatures due to the large size difference between Dy and La. In contrast, at intermediate temperatures, their magnetizations are independent of the Dy content, by and large, and the M(T) curves are quite similar. This contrast can be understood by considering the Dy preferential occupancy. r 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 73.43.Qt; 71.30.+h; 75.50.Lk


The branch of medicine is dynamic and keeps changing with each day, and thus, it is a big responsibility of the teachers to train medical students to fulfill the roles expected of them. The current review was carried out to understand the role of movies in medical education and the working model that can be adopted for its smooth integration within the existing curriculum. An extensive search of all materials related to the topic was carried out in the PubMed search engine, and a total of 10 articles were selected based upon the suitability with the current review objectives and analyzed. The employment of cinemas or movies in medical education has a special place, considering the rationale that watching and listening a video establish a sense of reality that is more conducive to learning. The use of movies creates a platform for the delivery of medical care in a humanistic, empathetic, and patient-centered manner and that makes the entire process of teaching efficient and effective. The introduction of movies and videos as a part of the medical curriculum delivery is a positive approach to ensure that students learn both cognitive and noncognitive skills. Considering the need that we have to appeal to all the learning domains, all the medical colleges should formulate a potential plan to introduce the use of movies and videos in teaching-learning and thereby benefit all types of learners.


An enzyme preparation containing mainly pectinolytic activity was used to increase the hydrolysis of agricultural feedstock for production of biogas at lab and industrial-scale bioreactors under mesophilic conditions. Bioreactor performance was evaluated by determining lignocellulose degradation efficiency and specific methane yields over a residence time of 65 days for various substrates. Additionally, enzymatic activity assays were carried out in laboratory trials to investigate the hydrolytic potential of the enzyme preparation. During industrial-scale trials the viscosity (shear stress from torsion) was measured in fermentation media. At an applied concentration of 200 g enzyme preparation/t DM of maize silage in lab-scale biogas processes, the degradation of hemicellulose was enhanced and the specific methane production was increased by 42 l N /kg ODM (15%) in comparison to untreated maize silage. Using enzymatically treated rye silage, the hemicellulose was utilized to a higher degree and the specific methane production enhanced by 26 l N /kg ODM (10%). Results from the industrial trial showed that enzymatic pretreatment (100 g enzyme/t DM of substrate) of different substrate mixtures containing mainly maize silage increased the lignocellulose degradation, in particular hemicellulose and a substantial increase in specific energy production was obtained. In addition, the viscosity in the fermentation media was significantly reduced up to 18%. In conclusion, the addition of an enzyme preparation as biological treatment led to an economical operating improvement in efficiency of the biogas process.


To the Editor. — Mr Rhodes' 1 thoughtful essay entitled "Man-made Death: A Neglected Mortality" highlighed a significant concern, but overlooked a fundamental connection. Humanity has not "progressively mastered biologic death," but has instead become artful at using technology to manipulate the time and appearance of death. How technology is used, whether to prolong life, improve the world's food supply, or hasten death, is a matter of human judgment. A world accustomed or acceding to the driving force of technology will succumb to the urge to do something simply because it can be done. The dereliction of our responsibility to exercise judgment concerning the use of technology, whether nuclear or medical, makes up a good portion of the problem whose threat prompted Mr Rhodes' timely and justified concerns.


Soap bubbles occupy the rare position of delighting and fascinating both young children and scientific minds alike. Sir Isaac Newton, Joseph Plateau, Carlo Marangoni, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, not to mention countless others, have discovered remarkable results in optics, molecular forces and fluid dynamics from investigating this seemingly simple system. We present here a compilation of curiosity-driven experiments that systematically investigate the surface flows on a rising soap bubble. From childhood experience, we are familiar with the vibrant colors and mesmerizing display of chaotic flows on the surface of a soap bubble. These flows arise due to surface tension gradients, also known as Marangoni flows or instabilities. In Figure 1, we show the surprising effect of layering multiple instabilities on top of each other, highlighting that unexpected new phenomena are still waiting to be discovered, even in the simple soap bubble.


The presence of side-lobes which are adjacent to main-lobe are serious concern in radar systems. The amplitude distributions across the array aperture improves the side-lobe performance at the cost of directivity and hence aperture efficiency. The current two-way array pattern optimization techniques reveals that if the receive pattern nulls are placed along transmit pattern side-lobe peaks and by using two weight amplitude distribution, side-lobe levels (SLL) can be suppressed up to −50dB. In this work, these techniques are further investigated using three weight amplitude excitation to achieve the best design of a radar array resulting in SLL less than −57dB. These solutions has been validated by parametric optimization and supported by two case studies.


The development objective of the Decentralized Health System Development Project for Sudan is to improve access to basic health services by conflict-affected and underserved populations in four target states while increasing the capacity of the decentralized health system to establish the basis for health sector reform, sustainable financing, and development. This is resettlement policy framework (RPF) document defines roles, responsibilities, procedures and compensation rates to guide the preparation of the individual Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) during implementation for the subprojects that will cause involuntary displacement and mandatory land acquisition of land owned or used by individuals, families or other entities. The Sudanese legal requirements comply with the World Bank OP / BP 4.12 directives in the sense that both require fair compensation for the impacted persons and set procedures to resolve conflicts starting from the lowest level to the court of law. The RPF document includes arrangements for monitoring and responsibility of the project to conduct such monitoring in case of resettlement operation. Such monitoring must be participatory involving local leaders and representatives of the impacted persons. For smooth land acquisition and resettlement of project affected peoples (PAPs) the following are recommended : involve the local leadership particularly, Native Administration (Nazir, Omda, Sheikh) when selecting sites for public utilities; comply with customary land tenure regulations; pay attention to nomadic usufruct rights and avoid corridors set for the nomads; within government lands, consider right of use given to local communities; and finally, in deciding the market value of land, it is important to involve experienced persons to decide on the land value.


Estimation of sediment yield is needed to study the reservoir sedimentation, river morphology and taking up any soil and water conservation measures. Soil erosion due to accelerating runoff poses a serious threat to the long term sustainability of the fragile Chotanagpur landscape characterized by subsistence farming. The study was aimed at delimitation of the zones of high runoff and consequently soil erosion in the agriculture dominated Chotki Berghi watershed in Eastern India. Identification of such zones could help in the implementation of better land management practices. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was applied to simulate stream flow and sediment yield. The model was calibrated for the period 2004–2006 and validated for 2007–2008. Nine highly sensitive parameters were identified of which base flow alpha factor was the most sensitive. The results were satisfactory for the gauging station with R = 0.75 and NSE = 0.78 for calibration and R = 0.62 and NSE = 0.68 for validation period. Sub-basin 5 contributed highest sediment load to the outlet and thus need immediate attention. The SWAT model could be effectively used to predict stream flow and sediment yield in order to effectively design irrigation system and water resources planning and management at large scale.


This paper analyses the work of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932), urban Bengali Muslim educator and writer, placing her in the wider context of women organising themselves in associations to create social change through education for women, in the province of undivided Bengal in colonial India, from c. 1900 to c. 1932. A subject of the British Indian Empire, Rokeya, and many of her colleagues, wrote back to the empire against both colonialism and patriarchy, and created innovative educational discourses and practices. The history of education is inscribed not merely in the formal school that Rokeya founded, but in her larger career as writer and builder of women's associations. An analysis of the enmeshing of women's writing and women's networks thus yields a creative, nuanced history of women's education. This paper also connects micro‐histories and macro‐histories of women's education, correlating macro‐level data about Indian non‐governmental agency in advancing female education with the work of individual figures such as Rokeya. The paper analyses Rokeya's novella Padmarag ("The Ruby"), showing that the integrated paradigm of women's educational and welfarist work found here has many similarities with the actual educational‐welfarist work done by women such as Ramabai, Sarala Ray, or Abala Bose. Through her activities and writing, often made in alliance with other educating women such as Sarala, Rokeya gave voice to ideologies and views widely at variance with conservative Indian nationalists and hegemonic British colonial officialdom. The paper also shows that women of different races and religions formed networks and alliances, in the transnational British Empire, to further women's emancipation and education, in bodies such as All India Women's Conference and Bengal Women's Education League. The paper recognises how much women such as Rokeya were able to actually be and actually do in achieving social change in education.


The experimental studies of flat and relief glass-plastic reinforcement bond with concrete were conducted. The comparative analysis of obtained experimental data with results of other researchers in field of reinforcement and concrete bond was made. It was identified that composite reinforcement with flat winding has better bond characteristics in comparison with steel reinforcement and other winding types composite reinforcement. The analytical dependencies, allowing to simulate the process of fiber-plastic reinforcement bond with concrete, were obtained. The finite element modeling of deformation process of concrete foundation of transport constructions with fiber-plastic reinforcement were made.


Abstract : The benefits of architectural analyses are only achieved if one can guarantee that the implementation conforms to the architecture. We propose an approach for checking and measuring the structural conformance of a software system's implementation to its execution architecture. In contrast to existing approaches, our approach uses static analyses, and works with existing Java-like programming languages, existing object-oriented designs and existing integrated development environments. We address the problem with a multi-pronged approach, as follows: "a" express and enforce architectural intent related to object encapsulation and communication directly in code using ownership domain annotations; "b" extract a sound execution architecture from the annotated program semi-automatically; and "c" compare the as-built extracted architecture to the as-designed architecture semi-automatically; and "d" obtain a measure of conformance. We present an initial evaluation of the approach on two extended examples. In both cases, we extract as- built execution architectures that convey meaningful abstractions, convert them into standard component-and-connector architectures, and obtain measures of conformance between the as-designed and the as-built architectures that seem consistent with our intuition.


We examine the role of FM radio in mitigating violent conflict. We collect original data on radio broadcasts encouraging defections during the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency. This constitutes the first quantitative evaluation of an active counterinsurgency policy that encourages defections through radio messages. Exploiting random topography-driven variation in radio coverage along with panel variation at the grid-cell level, we identify the causal effect of messaging on violence. Broadcasting defection messages increases defections and reduces fatalities, violence against civilians, and clashes with security forces. Income shocks have opposing effects on both the conflict and the effectiveness of messaging.


Simple Summary Until now, only a limited number of studies have addressed the influence of combining grazing with total mixed rations (TMRs), in Jersey cows, on milk biocomponents and antioxidant capacity. Thus, the main objective of this study was to compare fatty acid (FA) profiles and antioxidant capacity in milk yielded by cows fed either using a TMR or a partial mixed ration (pTMR) combining a TMR and grazing. The second objective consisted in evaluating FA profiles and changes in lipophilic antioxidants in milk during the grazing period and related to pasture chemical composition. Although the pTMR feeding system led to a decreased daily milk production, milk quality was improved. By comparison, cows having access to pasture (pTMR group) yielded a milk with a higher fat and protein content, but with lower saturated FAs (SFA) and a higher content of unsaturated FAs considered benefic for human health (vaccenic acid (VA), conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), and omega-3 FA (n-3 FA)). Similarly, lipophilic antioxidant (α-tocopherol, retinol, and β-carotene) content was higher in the pTMR group, resulting in a higher total antioxidant capacity in milk. The grazing period showed a significant influence on milk quality; in the milk from the pTMR group, the highest concentrations of benefic FAs (VA, CLA, and n-3 FA), the highest concentration of fat-soluble antioxidants, and the best antioxidant activity, respectively, were obtained in the first grazing period (May), in accordance with the pasture's chemical composition. Abstract This study was carried out to assess the effect of using pasture combined with total mixed ration (TMR) on milk production and composition, fatty acid (FA) profiles, fat-soluble antioxidant content, and total milk antioxidant capacity (TAC). In addition, the effect of milk pasteurization and storage at 2 °C for 4 days, lipophilic antioxidants and TAC were assessed. Two homogeneous groups of Jersey cows (n = 8) were constituted, which were randomly assigned to one of the two treatments: TMR (without access to pasture), or partial mixed diet (pTMR: grazing 8 h/day + TMR indoors). To establish FA profiles and lipophilic antioxidants' changes in milk during the grazing period, in case of the pTMR group the experimental period was spilt in three grazing periods: P1 (May), P2 (June), and P3 (June/July). Milk yielded from cows having limited access on pasture (pTMR diet) showed an improved FA profile, with higher concentrations of FAs considered benefic for human health (vaccenic acid (VA), conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), omega-3 FA (n-3 FA)) (p < 0.01) and a lower concentration of FAs with hypercholesterolemiant potential (C12:0, C14:0, and C16:0) (p < 0.05), compared to that of the TMR diet. This change in FA profile was correlated with improved sanogenous lipid indices of milk fat (n-6/n-3 FA atherogenic index and thrombogenic index). Milk yielded during the P1 grazing period had higher concentrations of VA, CLA, and n-3 FA (p < 0.05) and lower concentrations of C14:0 and C16:0 (p < 0.01); it exhibited the best values for the main sanogenous fat lipid indices of fat. Moreover, pTMR milk showed a higher α-tocopherol, retinol, and β-carotene content (p < 0.05), positively correlated with TAC values in milk (P1 ˃ P2 ˃ P3). By comparison, cows fed using the TMR diet yielded a higher quantity of milk (p < 0.05), but a lower fat and protein content (p < 0.01), and also a higher saturated FAs and n-6 FA content (p < 0.05) together with a lower concentration of lipophilic antioxidants in milk. Thermal treatment showed no effect on α-tocopherol and retinol content in milk, but their concentrations decreased during the storage, at the same time a TAC decrease. The results of this study prove the positive effect of using pasture combined with TMR on FA profiles, milk antioxidant content, and antioxidant capacity, with beneficial effects on nutrition and health in humans.


The reductive exsolution of metallic Ru from fluorite-type solid solutions Ln2Ru0.2Ce1.8O7 (Ln = Sm, Nd, La) leads to materials with metal–support interactions that influence the electronic state a...


A real-time Lee-type computer-generated hologram (CGH) using a TFT-LCSLM is presented. The LCSLM is very well suited for recording a CGH because of its high resolution, low cross talk and high contrast ratio. We examine both amplitude and phase characteristics of the LCSLM. We consider the effects of contrast ratio and phase shift in twisted nematic (TN) mode operation, and clarify the optimum configuration between the LCSLM and two polarizers to obtain a high-quality image.


Antibacterial textiles are widely used in terms of providing hygiene and comfort by protecting human health. Due to its
importance in the health sector and increasing customer demands, the trend towards these textiles is increasing day by
day. In this study, the antibacterial properties of cotton and cotton/polyester woven fabrics which had applied
impregnation and coating processes were examined and compared. For this purpose, nano silver-containing chemicals
were applied to the fabrics by impregnation method to give antibacterial properties. After this, the fabrics were coated
with tungsten and barium sulphate which have different properties, and coating fabric with antibacterial and radiation
shielding properties is obtained. To examine some properties of these antibacterial fabrics, tensile strength, washing
fastness, friction fastness tests and SEM analysis were applied to the fabrics. The coating and impregnated fabrics were
compared with the fabrics that had been coated only.


We introduce the probably approximately correct (PAC) version of the problem of Battling-bandits with the Plackett-Luce (PL) model – an online learning framework where in each trial, the learner chooses a subset of k ≤ n arms from a pool of fixed set of n arms, and subsequently observes a stochastic feedback indicating preference information over the items in the chosen subset; e.g., the most preferred item or ranking of the top m most preferred items etc. The objective is to recover an 'approximate-best' item of the underlying PL model with high probability. This framework is motivated by practical settings such as recommendation systems and information retrieval, where it is easier and more efficient to collect relative feedback for multiple arms at once. Our framework can be seen as a generalization of the well-studied PAC-Dueling-Bandit problem over set of n arms Szörényi et al. [2015], Busa-Fekete et al. [2013]. We propose two different feedback models: just the winner information (WI), and ranking of top-m items (TR), for any 2 ≤ m ≤ k. We show that with just the winner information (WI), one cannot recover the 'approximate-best' item with sample complexity lesser than Ω (


Injection-molded blends composed of two liquid-crystalline polymers (LCPs) based on 60/40 p-hydroxybenzoic acid/ethylene terephthalate (R3) and 73/27 p-hydroxybenzoic acid/2,6-hydroxynaphthoic acid (VA) copolymers, respectively, were obtained across the whole composition range. The two amorphous phases of the blends contained only slight amounts of the minority component, and the occurrence of some chemical reaction, mainly at high VA contents, was detected by Fourier transform infrared. Synergisms in the modulus of elasticity and in the tensile strength were seen in most of the blend compositions. The largest synergism was in the 50/50 R3/VA blend, which showed a modulus of elasticity 26% higher than that of either of the two components and a 17% positive deviation in the tensile strength with respect to the rule of mixtures. The different orientation of the LCPs in the blends explains the differences in the mechanical behavior. However, contrary to previous works on LCP blends and despite the almost complete immiscibility, the observed negative volume of mixing appears to be the main parameter that determines the synergistic mechanical behavior. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 41: 1022–1032, 2003


We theoretically and numerically investigate a low-power, ultrafast, and dynamic all-optical tunable plasmonic analog to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in two nanodisk resonators side-coupled to a metal-insulator-metal plasmonic waveguide system. The optical Kerr effect is enhanced by the slow light effect of the plasmonic EIT-like effect and the plasmonic waveguide based on graphene-Ag composite material structures with giant effective Kerr nonlinear coefficient. The optical Kerr effect modulation method is applied to improve tuning rate with response time of subpicoseconds or even femtoseconds. With dynamically tuning the propagation phase of the plasmonic waveguide, π-phase shift of the transmission spectrum in the plasmonic EIT-like system is achieved under excitation of a pump light with an intensity as low as 5.85 MW/cm2. The group delay is controlled between 0.09 and 0.4 ps. All observed schemes are analyzed rigorously through finite-difference time-domain simulations and coupled-mo...


Objective To clone the cDNA of the gene encoding special AT-rich sequence binding protein (SATB1) and to subclone it into eukaryotic expression vector pEGFP in order to investigate the function and mechanism of action of SATB1. Methods SATB1 cDNA was cloned from pCMV6-XL6-SATB1 by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and then the target gene was subcloned into pGEM-T and subsequently into the eukaryotic expression vector pEGFP-N1 to give pEGFP-SATB1. Results The complete cDNA sequence of SATB1(2312 bp) was consistent with the reported sequence(Genbank BC001744.1).Sequencing and restriction digest analysis re-vealed the target gene to be inserted in the expression vector in the correct orientation. Conclusion The SATB1 cDNA was success-fully cloned and used to construct recombinant eukaryotic expression vector pEGFP-SATB1.


Gaston Bouthol founded a particular sociology known as polemology. Skeptical about the pacifism and critic of the juridical illusion of the international regulation of the peace-phenomenon, he studied the war-phenomenon without moralising prejudices. Polemology, that involves a critic of culture, is focused on the social function of war, known as the most important institution of destruction. The study of major wars enabled him to raise an hypothesis that foresees the periodicity of wars.


Introduction: The three-phase bone scintigraphy exam is an imaging method in the field of Nuclear Medicine, which uses radiopharmaceuticals in order to analyze the distribution of bone formation and / or remodeling activity in certain points of the human body. This work aims to evaluate the accuracy of three-phase bone scintigraphy in the differential diagnosis of primary bone tumors through qualitative analysis, together with a literature review. Case description: F.B.P., female, 12 years old, complaining of a tumor mass, painful and incapacitating for nine months in the distal third of the right femur, suddenly, with no history of trauma. On physical examination, the presence of a tumor with regular and well-defined limits in the region of the right femur, with no phlogistic signs and secretions, associated with a slight difficulty in performing passive movement of the affected limb. Examination of three-phase bone scintigraphy showed hyperflow, hyperemia and increased osteogenic activity in the distal third of the right femur, which suggested a diagnosis of Ewing's Tumor and Osteosarcoma. Conventional radiography showed permeative and destructive margins, suggesting a diagnosis of Ewing's Sarcoma, while anatomopathological evidence showed a pattern for Histiocytosis. According to the results of imaging and anatomopathological exams, the patient was referred to the Pediatric Oncology Service at Hospital da Baleia in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, for specific treatment. Discussion: In the case of conventional radiography, the most common morphology was observed by the type of presentation, however, due to the specificity of the three-phase bone scintigraphy, it was possible to analyze the interaction between the radiotracer, 99mtc-MDP (technetium 99-m methylene diphosphonate) , with bone metabolism allowing a more accurate analysis and diagnosis of clinical changes. Performed in 3 phases flow phase, immediate static phase and late static phase -, the test can infer differential diagnoses, such as primary bone tumors, which alter bone metabolism in a heterogeneous way and are sensitized with the passage of the radiotracer through the flow local blood. Conclusion: The case report in question showed the difficulty of imaging tests to confirm the diagnosis of primary bone tumors. However, it is concluded that three-phase bone scintigraphy helps in the differential diagnosis, due to its high sensitivity in the analysis of patterns of changes in bone metabolism. 575 Brazilian Journal of health Review Braz. J. Hea. Rev., Curitiba, v. 3, n. 1, p. 573-579 /feb. 2020. ISSN 2595-6825


The safety and health problems of an experimental magnetic fusion facility for a static magnetic field and variable electric and magnetic fields were considered. Static magnetic field strength was measured with a gauss meter in a large helical device (LHD) hall and outside of the 2-m concrete wall used as the radiation shield. In the case of 1.5T plasma operation, the magnetic field strength was 70mT near the cryostat and 0.05mT outside of the radiation shield. The measured magnetic strength values almost agreed with those calculated. The magnetic field strength of extremely low frequencies was measured using some commercially available monitors at the LHD site. All measured values were less than the occupational regulation levels proposed by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). Reasonable management of electromagnetic workplaces based on guidelines should be proposed for occupational safety, and active continuous survey is recommended for the facility.


The second isomer (T 1/2 = 25.1 d) in 179 Hf is one of a number of nuclear states that is interesting from the point of view of triggering a release of clean nuclear energy because it stores a specific energy of about 0.5 MJ/mg. The yield of this isomer in nuclear reactions is restricted due to its high spin, I π = 25/2 - . The productivity of previously known methods was enough for the creation of experimental amounts but not for potential applications. In this paper, we show that irradiations in a reactor by the fast neutron flux within the fission spectrum are useful for the accumulation of 179m2 Hf in an amount of 10 16 nuclei. In an experiment performed in the Dubna IBR-2 reactor, the yield, cross-section σ m , and isomer-to-ground state ratio σ m /σ g were measured for the 179 Hf(n, n'γ) 179m2 Hf reaction. The systematics of the σ m /σ g values deduced from the experimental data available for this isomer are discussed.


Resveratrol, an ingredient in grapes, has been reported to exhibit anti‐cancer activity, anti‐inflammatory activity, and cardiovascular protection property. Interestingly, resveratrol has been recently reported to have neuroprotective effect. This study reports the neuroprotective effect of a resveratrol derivative, 3‐[2‐(3,5‐ Dimethoxy‐phenyl)‐vinyl]‐furan (DPVF). This synthetic DPVF conferred more protection than resveratrol against neuronal cell damage induced by oxygen and glucose deprivation in a rat hippocampal slice culture. In addition, DPVF inhibited ATP depletion following oxygen and glucose deprivation in the adult hippocampal slice. Moreover, we found that DPVF is neuroprotective against ischemic damage in rats. DPVF showed potent neuroprotection on a 4‐velssel‐occusion model and inhibited iron‐induced malondialdehyde (MDA) formation in the rat brain tissue. These results demonstrate that DPVF might be a useful agent in reducing ischemic neuronal damage.


Zinc is essential for all biological systems i.e., humans, animals and plants. In plants, Zn serves in a variety of biochemical processes such as nucleotide, cytochrome synthesis, chlorophyll production, auxin metabolism, membrane integrity, and enzyme activation (Broadley et al., 2007). Similarly in humans, it plays an essential role in normal growth and reproduction. However, almost half of the world's human population is thought to be affected from Zn insufficiency as a result of low Zn intake (WHO, 2002; Assunção et al., 2010). In Pakistan, one third of children and 40% of mothers are Zn deficient and occurrence of Zn insufficiency in Pakistan is more frequent in rural community (MINH, 2009). Zinc insufficiency in soils is also recognized as widespread nutritional problem throughout the rice growing countries. This is often related to low phyto-availability and high fixation of Zn due to high pH, calcareousness and submerged soil conditions (Alloway, 2009; Hussain et al., 2011; Rehman et al., 2012). In Pakistan, soil Zn deficiency in rice growing areas of the country is well established and about 70% of rice belt is estimated to be Zn deficient (Hamid and Ahmad, 2001). Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important staple food and provides about 20% of total calories consumed by the world's population (FAOSTAT, 2014). Like other cereals, it is a poor source of various minerals like Zn. In addition to reduction in yield, low supply of Zn from soils also related with low grain Zn concentration (Alloway, 2009). To produce economical yields and rice grains high in Zn concentration, Zn application is recommend for soils low in Zn availability (Rehman et al., 2012). Zinc can be applied by different methods; such as soil application, foliar application and root dipping (Johnson et al., 2005; Cakmak, 2008). Soil application is most successful for continuous supply of nutrients which are required in greater amounts. On the other hand, foliar Zn sprays are more effective for achieving a quick remedy to plant Zn deficiency in conditions of low Zn supply from soils. Seed priming is also reported to increase paddy yield and grain Zn concentration in cereals (Harris et al., 2008; Farooq et al., 2006). Previously, many researchers have compared various Zn application methods for optimum paddy yield of rice (Rehman et al., 2012). However, comparative efficiency of different Zn application methods for Zn biofortification in rice grains is rarely reported for alkaline calcareous soils. In flooded conditions, Zn Pak. J. Agri. Sci., Vol. 52(1), 169-175; 2015 ISSN (Print) 0552-9034, ISSN (Online) 2076-0906 http://www.pakjas.com.pk


The continuous fermentation of D-xylose to ethanol by free cells of Clavispora opuntiae was studied in a continuous stirred tank reactor at 25 ± 0.5°C and pH 4.2 ± 0.2. The maximum 89.8 ± 0.04% ethanol yield was obtained as compared to theoretical yield and about 96.00 ± 0.05% sugar was utilized at a dilution rate of 0.014 h–1. The maximum values of volumetric ethanol (Qp) and biomass (Qx) productivity were found to be 0.67 ± 0.04 gp l–1 h–1 and 0.18 ± 0.007 gx l–1 h–1, respectively, at a dilution rate of 0.09 h–1. The maintenance energy coefficient for C. opuntiae was found to be 0.21 ± 0.005 gs gx–1 h–1, whereas the values of specific ethanol production rate (qp) and specific sugar uptake rate (qs) were found to increase almost linearly with the increase of dilution rate. The maximum specific ethanol productivity (qp max) and maximum specific sugar uptake rate (qs max) were 0.50 ± 0.004 gp gx–1 h–1 and 4.00 ± 0.006 gs gx–1 h–1, respectively.


The concern that has arisen in recent years over the excessive use of oil-based materials has made the development of new materials with low environmental impact imminent, in this context. In this study, environmentally friendly composites were obtained with a thermoplastic polylactide matrix (PLA), and jute fibers (fabrics and non-woven mats) as reinforcement. PLA/jute bio-composites were manufactured by thermocompression. The effect of the amount of jute fibers reinforcement (in the 30-50 wt.% range) on the tensile and flexural properties of these composites was analyzed, and the fiber-matrix interaction was assessed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results show that thermocompression moulding is a simple technique to obtain high environmental efficiency bio-composites with high reinforcement loading (up to 50 wt.%). As expected, the tensile properties are directly related to the amount of fiber loading, as well as the directionality these fibers have in the composite. Mechanical performance is also highly dependent on fiber-matrix interactions. These bio-composites could be attractive as lightweight interior panels in automotive industry, case/covers in electric-electronics applications, shovels' components in the wind energy industry, among others, due to their balanced mechanical properties, and the rather complex shapes that could be obtained by thermocompression.


The stepwise biosynthesis of Escherichia coli ribosomes can be characterized by a number of precursor ribonucleoprotein particles. It has been shown that 5 S RNA exists as a precursor, pre-RNA 5 8, prior to its integration into the 40 S relax particle. The present study is concerned with the regulation of 5 S RNA biosynthesis. We report here that: a) the pre-5-S-RNA fraction containing the precursor of 55 RNA is heterogeneous and consists of a mixture of three (or possibly four) RNA's each precursor to 5 S RNA and each corresponding to a different step in the pathway of 5 S RNA biosynthesis; b) amino acid starvation of an auxotrophic strain of Escherichia coli arrests the maturation of ribonucleoprotein and of5 S RNA. 23 S and 16 S ribosomal RNA appear in 25 S and 18 S particles and in 38 S and 21 S particles, depending on whether RCrelaed or RCstringent strains were used. 5 S RNA accumulates as 5 S relax RNA or 5 S stringent RNA. The electrophoretic, chromatographic and denaturation analysis of these accumulated RNA's reveal that 5 S relax RNA is less mature than 5 S stringent RNA. The results demonstrate that the maturation of ribosomal particles and 5 S RNA are coordinated together, as the arrest of ribosomal particle maturation is accompanied by the arrest of 5 S RNA maturation at a comparable stage ; c) by utilizing Werent methods of cell lysis one can demonstrate that the precursor of 5 S RNA and the immature ribonucleoprotein particles are not found free in the cell but are attached to cellular structures which may be involved in the coordination of the maturation of5 S RNA and ribosomes ; d) kinetic studies of uridine incorporation into RNA during amino acid starvation of an Escherichia coli RCstringent auxotrophic strain reveals that an equimolar amount of 23 S RNA and 5 S RNA are synthesized and one may conclude that these syntheses are coordinated.


Some of the best performing local stereo-matching approaches use cross-bilateral filters for proper cost aggregation. The recent attempts have been directed toward efficient approximations of such filter aimed at higher speed. In this paper, we suggest a simple yet efficient coarse-to-fine cost volume aggregation scheme, which employs pyramidal decomposition of the cost volume followed by edge-avoiding reconstruction and aggregation. The scheme substantially reduces the computational complexity while providing fair quality of the estimated disparity maps compared to other approximated bilateral filtering schemes. In fact, the speed of the proposed technique is comparable with the speed of fixed kernel aggregation implemented through integral images.


Filial piety is the moral rule which deals with Parent-child relationships by piety rule.It is the internal intention and the subjective motive of piety and the core of piety culture.The moral baseline is a vivid description of the most basic moral regulation that regulates the social life.Nowadays,school moral education in our country ignores the education of the moral baseline,which leads to the low effectiveness of school moral education.Therefore,the moral baseline education which starts with the piety education is a significant measure to improve the effectiveness of school moral education.


Accuracy unsupervised This paper shows the importance of combining remote sensing techniques and GIS tools to quantify the quality of unsupervised classification in addition to determining the land cover classes. In order to quantitative understanding of the allocation of different types of land, it's necessary to perform validation or assessment of the accuracy of the classification. The validation of the unsupervised land cover classification for the valley of river Treska (SJCE vol 9, issue 1) is performed by comparing the corresponding points placed on the reference surface (satellite image), from which the classification is obtained and the thematic map. The validation results showed an overall accuracy of the classification of 89%, while based on the Kappa coefficient - 85% which is an indicator of high compatibility of the classified thematic map with the actual ground information.


The article gives a general description of the phenomenon of populism and political demagoguery through the prism of their historical development. The author pays special attention to the disclosure of the essence of the concepts of "populism" and "political demagoguery", while defining their common features and differences. In particular, it is noted that despite their outward resemblance, populism and demagoguery are not identical. Thus, populism provides a much less negative way of gaining popularity among the masses than demagoguery, because demagogues speculate on the real problems of their audience, present events, views of the opponent in a false light, resort to falsification of facts. In modern political practice, populism is a much more complex and ambiguous phenomenon, and demagoguery is only one of its many tools and strategies. In this aspect, the concept of "politicking" is close in meaning, which, along with demagoguery, is one of the negative manifestations of populism.
The article also makes one of the first attempts to identify the main periods of historical development of populism and political demagoguery, while determining the main directions of their evolution. At the same time, examining populism and political demagoguery in historical retrospect, we can also conclude that the objective conditions for the emergence of these socio-political phenomena were related to the social trend, according to which the masses are only the object of politics. Subjective preconditions for the emergence and spread of populism are caused by the imperfection of the relationship "domination – subordination", the dominance of mass society. In general, the study concludes that the functioning and prevalence of populism and political demagoguery in modern political systems is characterized by its determinism of cultural, historical, political characteristics of countries.


We show that any polarized K3 surface supports special Ulrich bundles of rank 2. Given an n-dimensional closed subvariety X ⊂ P , a coherent sheaf F on X is Ulrich if H(F (−t)) = 0 for n consecutive values of t . We refer to [Cos17,Bea18] for an introduction. We mention that Ulrich sheaves are related to Chow forms (this was the main motivation for they study in [ESW03]), to determinantal representations and generalized Clifford algebras, to Boij-Söderberg theory (cf. [SE10]) to the minimal resolution conjecture, and to the representation type of varieties (cf. [FP15]). Conjecturally, Ulrich sheaves exist for any X , see [ESW03]. Œey are known to exist for several classes of varieties e.g. complete intersections, curves, Veronese, Segre, Grassmann varieties. Low-rank Ulrich bundles on surfaces have been studied intensively, and Ulrich bundles of rank 2 (or sometimes 1) are known in many cases. We refer to [Cas17,Bea18] for a survey and further references. Let us only review some of the cases that are most relevant for us, namely among surfaces with trivial canonical bundle. In [Bea16], Ulrich bundles of rank 2 are proved to exist on abelian surfaces. In [AFO17], it is proved that K3 surfaces support Ulrich bundles of rank 2, provided that someNoetherLefschetz open condition is satisfied. Œe case of quartic surfaces was previously analyzed in detail in [CKM12]. Œe main techniques used so far are the Serre construction starting from points on X and Lazarsfeld-Mukai bundles. In this note, we show that any K3 surface supports an Ulrich bundle E of rank 2 with c1(E) = 3H , for any polarization H . So these bundles are special, cf. [ESW03]. We allow singular surfaces with trivial canonical bundle. Œe main tool is a sort of enhancement of Serre's construction based on unobstructedness of simple sheaves on a K3 surface. Let us state the result more precisely. We work over an algebraically closed field k. Let X be an integral (i.e. reduced and irreducible) projective surface with ωX ≃ OX and H(OX ) = 0. We denote by Xsm the smooth locus of X . Fix a very ample divisor H on X . Under the closed embedding given by the complete linear series |OX (H )| wemay view X as a subvariety of some projective space P . A hyperplane section C of X is a projective curve of arithmetic genus д with ωC ≃ OC (H ), where H also denotes the restriction of H to C . We may choose C to be integral too. A locally Cohen-Macaulay sheaf E on X is arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay (ACM) if H(E(tH )) = 0 for all t ∈ Z. A special class of ACM sheaves are Ulrich sheaves, which are characterized by the property H(E(−tH )) = 0 for a pair of consecutive integers t . Sometimes these integers are required to be 1 and 2 in which case we speak of an initialized Ulrich sheaf. Of course all these notions depend on the polarization H . We call simple a sheaf whose only endomorphisms are homotheties. ‡eorem 1. Let X and H be as above. Šen there exists a simple Ulrich vector bundle of rank 2 on X whose determinant is OX (3H ). 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 14F05; 13C14; 14J60.


To determine whether helium‐3 diffusion MR can detect the changes in the lungs of healthy nonsmoking individuals who were regularly exposed to secondhand smoke.


The semiempirical free-energy relation for hydrostatically compressed isotropic solid was written for body-centered-cubic (bcc) vanadium as a function of the specific volume and temperature with the phonon component and the contribution of the electronic subsystem. According to the thermodynamic rules the thermal as well as caloric equations of state are defined through the partial derivatives of free energy. A thermal equation of state gives the pressure as a function of volume and temperature. Caloric equation of state specifies the energy as a function of volume and temperature also. The proposed equations of state of bcc vanadium have been verified by comparison of calculated high-pressure isotherms, heat capacity, volume thermal expansion coefficient and Hugoniot with experimental data. The developed equations of state allow to calculate thermal properties of compressed bcc vanadium under static pressure and shock pressures 0-70 GPa and temperatures 100-1000 K.


Conventionally, the heliospheric termination shock (HTS) is regarded as a sharp MHD discontinuity. More recent models suggest that the back‐reaction of energetic cosmic rays accelerated at the HTS will create a broad shock with an extended precursor. Here we suggest that a combination of upstream solar wind disturbances interacting with the HTS, the presence of cosmic ray gradient‐driven instabilities and their coupling to the pickup ion population yields a termination shock that is highly dynamical in both structure and location. We also suggest that the diffusive cosmic ray transport equation used to model particle acceleration at a shock may require modification to account for a highly turbulent velocity component.


Zeylanicobdella arugamensis is one of the marine parasites that attacks Hybrid grouper fish (E. fuscoguttatus x E. lanceolatus) rearing. Death of infested fish occurs in a period of 3 days after infestation due to secondary infections caused by pathogenic bacteria such as Vibrio alginolyticus. Severe infestation of Zeylanicobdella arugamensis occurs in Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and in hybrid groupers the prevalence is 59%. This research used survey method by sampling 50 hybrid groupers. The study aimed to determine the anatomic and histopathological pathology of the gills and skin of the hybrid grouper at different degrees of infestation. The pathology of gill and skin anatomy of the hybrid grouper infested by Zeylanicobdella arugamensis are red, thickening and pale. The highest histopathological damage of the skin at severe infestations of 2.4a ± 0.87 results in erosion, inflammation, congestion and hemorrhage. The highest histopathological damage to the gills at the degree of severe infestation 2.8a ± 0.87 had fusion, telangeactasis and hyperplasia. The Kruskal Wallis test showed a significant degree of infestation on the severity of histopathological changes in the gills and skin of the grouper that is 0.00 (p≤0.05).


A solid phase extraction technique has been developed for purification of nitrate in environmental solutions for isotopic analysis. Three materials, C18, silica gel and cross linked poly-vinylpyrrolidone, were used to remove non-polar, slightly polar and humic compounds from solutions with high dissolved organic loads. The clean up procedure does not impact the isotopic composition of the nitrate analyte for samples in the 2–6 mg ( ) range and improves accuracy and precision of the oxygen and nitrogen isotope analysis using the AgNO3 decomposition and thermal conversion elemental analysis techniques.


[Objective]The project aimed to explore the heritability of major economic traits of Holstein milch cows in Hutubi Catde Farm.[Method]This study collected the lactation production performance record of Hutubi Cattle Farm over the past 15 years(1996 -2010).The data included 9,901 cows'milk production records.SAS(8.1 ) and least squares analysis process were used to analyze the effects of the four nongenetic factors;the field,the year,the season and the parity on Holstein cows 'milk yield.[Result]The results showed that the four non -genetic factors;the field,the year,the season and the parity,have a very significant effect(P0.01) on the milk yield.[Conclusion]Fixed effect was divided according to various factors.MTDFREML Software was used to estimate Holstein cattle genetic parameters,thus estimating the variance components and heritability of milk yield.The milk yield heritability was 0.4.


Based on the divergent beam system of lens,the fully-leaky guided mode characterization of liquid crystal layer have been studied by means of the prism-coupling technique.The guided wave figures of a parallel aligned nematic liquid crystal cell with cell gap 4.6 μm,in which the liquid crystal E7 is filled,have been given through experiment.By comparing the guided wave pictures with the theoretical simulation results,the guided modes of the liquid crystal waveguide predicted by theory are well consistent with the guided wave figures obtained through experiment.


(1931), Frederick Lewis Allen declared that "in all 1930 there was not one first-class murder trial of nation-wide interest," 1 he was commenting on what may have been the most prominent topographical feature of the preceding decade's cultural landscape. The Fatty Arbuckle trial, the Leopold-Loeb trial, the Parker-Hickman trial, the Rosenbluth trial, the Hall-Mills trial, the Snyder-Grey trial, and a host of lesser trials that have since faded from memory dominated public attention in the twenties in a way rivaled by no other category of public or private events except sports and the movies. By the end of the decade the intensity and breadth of public interest in murder trials and the frequent regularity with which individual trials transfixed public attention was a matter of common discussion. Charles Merz, for example, observed in Harper's Magazine, "A nationally famous trial for homicide is no longer a startling interruption in a more lethargic train of thought. It has become an institution, as periodic in its public appearances and reappearances as the cycle of the seasons." 2 As Merz's contemporaries knew, public preoccupation with murder and murder trials was in large measure a phenomenon of the press. In some instances, such as the reopened Hall-Mills case, the connection was direct. Imitating London's Daily Mirror, Robert McCormick and Joseph Patterson in June of 1919 had begun the New York Illustrated Daily News, America's first "tabloid picture paper." Because of their success, William Randolph Hearst launched the New York Daily Mirror, and Bernard


Water is a resource that plays an important role in supporting the human activities and human. Until now, its function and role for human beings cannot be replaced by other resources. However, the excess of water at the wrong time and place can cause a range of problems for our life and livelihood as well as the decline in the quality of the environment. For years and until recently, floods has not only experienced by developing countries, such as in Indonesia, but also by developed countries. Floods can be caused by many factors, which are grouped into natural and human factors, but this problem is mainly caused by human activities which do not take the carrying capacity of the environment and the variability of climatic condition into consideration. Contribution of each factor to flooding in different areas will be different, one of the important factors related to urban and regional planning is the change in land use. The impact of flooding on the environment, economy, and social are also varied among one region to another. This paper discusses the phenomenon of flooding, causes, impacts, and mitigation with illustration case on flooding in some areas, especially areas of Bandung. Keywords: water resources, disaster, flood areas, land use.


This bibliography records the 88 papers published by Australian and New Zealand authors in the Proceedings of the first nine International Symposia on the History of Anaesthesia (ISHA). Each ISHA has produced a published Proceedings of each symposium and these form an extremely valuable medical history research resource of over 850 papers. These have been published by a variety of anaesthesia societies, medical publishers and other bodies from around the world. Nearly all of these Proceedings had one small print run and most are now out of print and often unavailable. There is a definite need for all ISHA Proceedings to date to be available at one online site for ease of access for future historians studying the history of anaesthesia, intensive care, pain medicine, resuscitation and related fields. Scanning of early Proceedings with appropriate publisher, author and editorial approval would facilitate this.


There is a theory of continued fractions for formal power series in x−1 with coefficients in a field Fq. This theory bears a close analogy with classical continued fractions for real numbers with formal power series playing the role of real numbers and the sum of the terms of non-negative degree in x playing the role of the integral part. In this paper we give a family of formal power series in Fq((X−1)) of algebraical degree qn − 1 with unbounded partial quotients. Mathematics Subject Classification: 11A55, 11R58


The two-component Novikov equation is investigated for group classification and non-trivial local conservation laws. In addition to Lie group analysis, the existing classification of 4-dimensional Lie algebra is used to improve the classifications of Lie algebra of Novikov equations. Apart from this, the direct method is used in the construction of conservation laws using multipliers.


Objective
To report the experience of the arterial switch operation(ASO) for Taussig-Bing anomaly and late outcomes.

Methods
From January 2001 to December 2015, 57 patients were underwent arterial switch operation for Taussig-Bing anomaly in Fudan university affiliated children' s hospital cardiac center, Median age and weight at operation was 63(37.5-88.5)days, 4.1(3.4-5.0)kg, respectively.29 patients with Arch anomalies(50.9%), 23 patients with unusual coronaries(40.3%), according to have arch anomaly or not and surgery time, dividing the patients into two groups, group A(have, n=29)and group B(not have, n=28), earlier experience into group 1(2001-2008, n=27), later experience into group 2(2009-2015, n=30), respectively .

Results
The Mortality was12.3%, the mortality of group A and group B was 13.8%, 10.7%(P>0.05), group 1 and group 2 was 22.2%, 3.3%(P<0.05) respectively, follow up was complete in 47 patients with a mean follow-up of(6.2±3.5) years , three patients lost, there was no late mortality, the actual survival at 1, 5year was 87%, 87%, respectively. Reintervention was required in 10 patients(21.3%), the aorta-PA valve diameter ratio was a risk factor for reintervention(group A P=0.02, group B P=0.04) , and 1, 2, 5year free of reintervention was 95.6%, 86.6%, 77.2%, respectively.

Conclusion
The ASO approach can be applied to Taussig-Bing anomaly with acceptable mortality , and it is the procedure of choice at our institution. One stage to repair TBA with aortic arch abnormalities did not influence outcomes. The aorta-PA valve diameter ratio<0.5 was a risk factor for reintervention.

Key words:
Great vessel transposition; Cardiac surgical procedures


Abstract Two trials were performed on Coturnix quail carcasses to document the effects of aging and deboning on tenderness of the pectoralis muscle. Carcasses were aged 2 or 24 hr. Half of all carcasses were deboned prior to aging and the rest after the appropriate aging interval. All samples aged before deboning were significantly (P≤.05) more tender than those deboned prior to aging as assessed by Warner-Bratzler and Allo-Kramer shear results of the cooled product. The addition of 2.5% salt to the aging solution further increased tenderness. The toughness associated with deboning the pectoralis major before aging could be partially offset by longer aging times after deboning or using salt or phosphate in the aging solution. The addition of salt to the aging solution also resulted in better cooked yields. The results from this study suggest a minimum aging of 2 hr prior to deboning Coturnix quail carcasses to allow for tenderization to occur.


Pancreatic cancer has shown a marked increase in both incidence and mortality over the last 4 decades in Japan (Lin et al., 1998). It is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among males and the seventh among females, accounting for over 16,000 deaths annually (Lin et al., 1998). The etiology of pancreatic cancer remains largely unknown. To identify factors that increase the risk of pancreatic cancer is important, not only to understand the etiology of the disease, but also to improve its detection, treatment and prevention at last. In European countries and the United States, a considerable number of epidemiological studies have been conducted to identify environmental factors that contributed to pancreatic cancer development. According to these studies, cigarette smoking has been consistently reported as a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. Other possible risk factors include family history of pancreatic cancer, long-standing An Epidemiological Overview of Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer


Introduction Community-based organizations (CBOs) have provided critical resources during the pandemic, particularly for marginalized communities, and are trusted liaisons who connect socially and linguistically isolated community members, such as the highly diverse Asian American population, to care during public health emergencies. Stereotypes such as the model minority myth have permeated public perception of Asian Americans' health status and health care access needs, fueling widespread belief that Asian Americans do not experience health disparities, and mask the high rates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, hospitalization, and mortality among Asian Americans. The unequal burden of COVID-19 on Asian American communities has largely remained absent from the public health and national discourse, with exceptions such as community voices that have directed news media coverage and leading roles of CBOs in offering culturally adapted, in-language programming on COVID-19 infection prevention and control. Methods CBOs and their staff are well-equipped with the cultural acuity, language capacity, and familiarity with local norms to improve structural gaps affecting health outcomes and support health care delivery. Results We discuss the roles and responsibilities of CBOs in strengthening the health care workforce and expanding community-clinic linkages and provide two case studies illustrating the efforts of two community organizations serving Asian American and immigrant communities, who have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion CBOs are essential to supporting health service coordination and care delivery for structurally vulnerable populations, and are vital to sustaining the coordinated, multilevel public health response to improving community health. Conclusion Bolstering the current infrastructure to support CBOs is necessary to facilitating immediate responses to serve community needs.


Objective To investigate the expressions of oncogenes bcl 2,c myc and p53 in colorectal adenoma and adenocarcinoma,and the relationship between the expression of oncogene and clinical pathological features.Method Expression of oncogene bcl 2 were determinated in 33 cases of colorectal adenomas and 47 cases of colorectal carcinomas by the immunohistochemical method(ABC method).Expression of p53 in 40 cases of colotectal adenomas and 63 cases of colorectal carcinomas,in addition to c myc protein in 37 cases of adenoma and 39 cases of colorectal adenocarcinomas were also determinated.Results The positive expression rates of bcl 2 in colorectal adenoma and adenocarcinoma were 72.2%(24/33) and 24.2%(16/47) respectively,and those of p53 were 45.0%(18/40) and 84.1%(53/63) respectively.The Positive staining rates of c myc in colorectal adenoma and adenocarcinoma were 62.7%(23/37) and 82.1%(30/39) respectively.There were significant differences between the expressions of these three oncogenes in colorectal adenoma and in adenocarcinoma( P 0.01).However,the expression of these three oncogenes were not correlated with clinical pathological features.Conclusions The abnormal activation in bcl 2 takes place earlier during the development and progression of colorectal adenocarcinoma.But c myc and p53 express later and cooperate with each other in progression of colorectal adenocarcinoma.


The analysis of slender thin-walled structures, as a launcher, is a challenging problem. When these structures are discretized using solid FE models they require a large number of degrees of freedoms (DOFs) and therefore the analysies are very computationally expensive [1]. The present work use a refined 1D model based on the Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF)[2] to analyze slender structures. The present refined one-dimensional model has only displacements as unknowns therefore a complex structure can be easily analyzed connecting simpler one-dimensional structures, this approach is called Component-Wise (CW) (see [3]). The performances of the model in static and dynamic analyses are investigated. Simple and reinforced structure are considered. Finally a simplified launcher structural model, inspired to the Ariane 5, is analyzed. The results of the analyses show the quasi-3D capabilities of the present model and the CW approach has been proved to be a competitor of the solid FE models. In conclusion the refined one-dimensional model introduced in this work appears suitable for the analysis of slender reinforced thin-walled structures, it provides accurate results reducing the computational costs with respect the classical approaches.


The maximum spreading is the maximum extent to which a drop can spread after impacting on a surface. It is one of the crucial factors determining the spraying performance in many applications. In this study, the existing maximum spreading models for a Newtonian liquid droplet impacting on a dry solid surface were reviewed and compared with the experimental results over the ranges of , , and . The surface wettability was found to have only a minor influence on the maximum spreading, compared to the liquid viscosity and impact velocity. Among the models tested, the Roisman (2009) model showed the best agreement with the experimental results, matching 80% of the measured data within .


The numerical approach using the multi-frequency one-dimensional whirling orbit model and Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solution was proposed for prediction of rotordynamic coefficients of pocket damper seal (PDS). By conducting the multiple frequencies one-dimensional whirling orbit for rotor center as the excitation signal, the unsteady RANS solutions combined with mesh deformation method were utilized to calculate the transient response forces on the PDS rotor surface. Unlike the single frequency whirling orbit models which require a separate computation for each frequency, the multi-frequency whirling orbit model yields results for multiple frequencies and therefore requires only one computation for different frequencies. The rotor motion signal and response force signal were transformed to the frequency domain using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), then the eight rotordynamic coefficients of the PDS were determined at fourteen different vibration frequencies 20–300Hz. The numerical results of rotordynamic coefficients of the PDS were in good agreement with experimental data. The accuracy and availability of the proposed method was demonstrated. The effects of vibration frequencies and pressure ratios on the rotordynamic coefficients of PDS were also investigated using the presented numerical method. The multi-frequency one-dimensional whirling orbit model is a promising method for prediction of the rotordynamic coefficients of the PDS.Copyright © 2012 by ASME


The article provides a brief overview of Data Mining methods and algorithms which are used in solving various tasks where both quantitative and qualitative data have to be processed. The purpose of the review is a brief description of the methods and algorithms, as well as a list of sources in which they are described in detail. The features of existing approaches to solving such problems are considered, the analysis of modern methods for solving Data Mining problems is carried out.


Every set $\Lambda\subset R$ such that the sum of $\delta$-measures sitting at the points of $\Lambda$ is a Fourier quasicrystal, is the zero set of an exponential polynomial with imaginary frequencies.


1-D ZnO nano-materials have became a hot topic due to their great properties.This article reviews the latest development of 1-D ZnO nano-materials,described the preparation and mechanics of 1-D ZnO nano-materials,and summarized their applications in electro-optical,field emission and nano-dynamo.


We investigate elastic wave propagation in finitely deformed dielectric elastomers in the presence of an electrostatic field. To analyze the propagation of both longitudinal (P-) and transverse (S-) waves, we utilize compressible material models. We derive explicit expressions of the generalized acoustic tensor and phase velocities of elastic waves for the ideal and enriched dielectric elastomer models. We analyze the slowness curves of the elastic wave propagation, and find the P-S-mode disentangling phenomenon. In particular, P- and S- waves are separated by the application of an electric field. The divergence angle between P- and S-waves strongly depends on the applied electrostatic excitation. The influence of the electric field is sensitive to material models. Thus, for ideal dielectric model the in-plane shear velocity increases with an increase in electric field, while for the enriched model the velocity may decreases depending on material constants. Similarly, the divergence angle gradually increases with an increase in electric field, while for the enriched model, the angle may be bounded. Material compressibility affects the P-wave velocity, and, for relatively compressible materials, the slowness curves evolve from circular to elliptical shapes manifesting in an increase of the reflection angle of P-waves. As a results, the divergence angle decreases with an increase in material compressibility.


Fuel oil is a natural resource, due that needsare very important. Fuels are nonrenewable energy sources. Bio-oil is one of thealternative energy solutions that can be used as a subtitute for petroleum. Riau province has palm plantation area of 75459.26 Ha and is also rich in natural resources such as the potential of natural clay. Bio-oil can be produced from a palm frond by using pyrolisis process with catalyst Ni/clay. This study aimed to determine the effect of the catalyst Ni/clay variation toward the biomass, the influence of variations developing of metal toward clay and characterization of physical and chemical properties to the yield of bio-oil product. in this study the pyrolisis process carried out at a temperature of 320°C, 500 ml silinap, biomass 50 grams with the size of -100+200 mesh sieve and the variatio of catalyst Ni/clay by 0,4%, 0,5%, 0,6% w/w to the biomass and Ni metal carrier variation 0f 0%, 1%, 2%, 3% w/w of the clay. The research product bio-oil 72.072% of yields in 0,6% of catalyst and 1% of metal. The result of the analysis of physical properties of bio-oil obtained is the 0.924 gr/ml density, 2.351 cSt viscosity, acid number 70.218 mg NaOH/gr sample and 50°C flash point. Chemical properties analysis of bio-oil using GCMS (Gass Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy) on the use of catalyst 0,6% and metal 1%obtained five dominant chemical compound that is 2-Methylpropene 2.84%, 2,4,4-Trimethyl-1-pentene 3.84%, 2,2,4,4-Tetramethylpentane 6.78%, cyclohexane,1bromo-4-methyl 8.13% and 2,4,4-Trimethyl-2-penten 5.11%.   Keyword: Bio-oil, pyrolysis, sheath Nipah, catalyst Ni / clay, Yield.


A conceptual model of the working college students' well-being was developed and tested. This study extends existing research and investigated the process by which rolebalance, role-conflict and affect are associated with a student's well-being. Data were obtained from a sample of 320 full-time college students (18-23 years old) who had either a full and a part-time paid job. The model was tested using structural equation modeling. Results supported the proposed conceptual model as well as the enrichment and depletion arguments of students' engagement in multiple roles and their well-being.


Apparatus has been developed using the pulse technique for measuring sound propagation constants in the temperature range -100 to 150°C, at frequencies of 400 and 700 kc/s and in the pressure range 2 to 0.025 atm. Calibration measurements in argon are in agreement with theoretical calculations. Preliminary measurements of the vibrational relaxation time of sulphur hexafluoride in this temperature range are reported.


Based on the analysis of travel survey data,this paper developed and appliesd the recursive simultaneous bivariate probit modeling method to model the relationship between trip chaining and travel mode behavior of home based commuting trip chain.The analysis is carried out from two directions,namely trip chaining to travel mode,and travel mode to trip chaining.The developed model takes into consideration the effects of interdependencies between trip chaining and travel mode choice on each choosing behavior,which emphasizes the guidance of decision mechanism on travel behavior forecasting.The results show the pattern that trip chaining drives mode choice is the dominating trend.This means travelers first decide how to organize different activities and travel into trip chains based on individual and family needs and then make travel mode choice condition under the limit of trip chaining.These findings have important implications for travel demand forecasting and for the design and carrying out of demand management measures.


This paper presents an overview of ESA's on-going technology and mission concept developments for future SAR missions beyond Sentinel-1. On the mission concept development side, six candidate Earth Explorer Core Mission ideas are studied at phase 0 level. Two of the candidates - BIOMASS and CoRe-H 2 O - are SAR mission ideas using observations at respectively P- and dual frequency X/Ku-bands, addressing fundamental Earth system science issues. The sounding of terrestrial and planetary ice-sheets is an area where some concerted effort is focussed for enabling future Earth observation and planetary missions. An airborne P-band ice sounding demonstrator has been developed for assessing the feasibility of various clutter cancellation techniques. On the technology development front, specific risk-retirement actions are described in the areas of antennas and highpower amplifiers.


A system (40) for diagnosis and staging of early stages of cancer in the tissue of a patient is provided. The system- is configured to combine information from a Polarized Light Scattering Spectroscopy measurement (70) having a first probe depth, and a Differential Path Length Spectroscopy measurement (60) having a second probe depth, wherein the second probe depth is set larger than' the first probe depth. By comparing the results of the Polarized Light Scattering Spectroscopy and Differential Path Length Spectroscopymeasurements early stages of cancer, such as dysplasia may be detected. Also hyperplasia, carcinoma in situ, and carcinoma may be detected. A computer-readable medium, method and use are also provided.


The construction and use of apparatus for the determination of Young's Modulus by means of transverse vibrations of specimens in strip from four inches long are described. Two vacuum chambers are employed, one for immersion in liquid nitrogen and the other incorporating a small furnace for operation at temperatures up to 700? C, the electronic units being common to both. Typical results are included to illustrate use of the equipment, the accuracy of which is claimed to be within ?1% for absolute values.


The hydrogen storage materials are the functional materials that can absorbing and release the hydrogen gas in the reversible way,and have immense application prospects in the exploitation and transportation of hydrogen energy.Hydrogen storage alloy is one kind of up-and-coming hydrogen storage material.This paper discusses the operating principle and present state,and also review the application field and research direction.


Identification of speech acts provides essential cues in understanding the pragmatics of a user utterance. It typically helps in comprehending the communicative intention of a speaker. This holds true for conversations or discussions on any fora, including social media platforms, such as Twitter. This article presents a novel tweet act classifier (speech act for Twitter) for assessing the content and intent of tweets, thereby exploring the valuable communication among the tweeters. With the recent success of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), a newly introduced language representation model that provides pretrained deep bidirectional representations of vast unlabeled data, we introduce BERT-Caps that is built on top of BERT. The proposed model tends to learn traits and attributes by leveraging from the joint optimization of features from the BERT and capsule layer to develop a robust classifier for the task. Some Twitter-specific symbols are also included in the model to observe its influence and importance. The proposed model attained a benchmark accuracy of 77.52% and outperformed several strong baselines and state-of-the-art approaches.


A stay point of a moving entity is a region in which it spends a significant amount of time. In this paper, we identify all stay points of an entity in a certain time interval, where the entity is allowed to leave the region but it should return within a given time limit. This definition of stay points seems more natural in many applications of trajectory analysis than those that do not limit the time of entity's absence from the region. We present an $O(n \log n)$ algorithm for trajectories in $R^1$ with $n$ vertices and a $(1 + \epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for trajectories in $R^2$ to identify all such stay points. Our algorithm runs in $O(kn^2)$, where $k$ depends on $\epsilon$ and the ratio of the duration of the trajectory to the allowed gap time.


Although it is common in many cultures, cross-dressing is often considered an exceptional phenomenon because it involves not only dressing as a person of the other gender but also the adoption of a non-traditional role in society. This essay examines cross-dressing as a performative practice of women artists of the avant-garde. The emerging Lebensreform movement and women's liberation led to changes in the role of women in society and to a new awareness of the body. Cross-dressing is a way to overcome gender stereotypes and promote a creative individuality that would otherwise not be acceptable in a woman; this can be seen in the self-representations of Natalia Goncharova, Zinaida Gippius, Elisaveta Kruglikova, Elsa Lasker-Schüler, and


A series of hybrid, magnetic, and luminescent silica nanoparticles (SNP) have been synthesized and their photophysical properties characterized. The nanoparticles contain, on average, one iron oxide nanoparticle as a magnetic core. The embedded dyes include fluorescein, Alexa Fluor 546, tetramethylrhodamine (TMR), and 4,4-difluoro-5-(2-pyrrolyl)-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (Bodipy), which are known to have a singlet excited state, and 5-(dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonyl (dansyl), 7-(diethylamino)coumarin-3-carboxy (coumarin), and tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II) dichloride (Rubipy) derivatives, which have a charge transfer excited state. In general, the photophysical properties of the magnetic-core dye-doped silica nanoparticles, SNPdye, where dye is one of the seven dyes studied in this project, are dictated by homogeneous energy transfer between dye molecules and by dye aggregation. Molecules with a small Stokes shift and affinity for aggregation upon silica encapsulation (TMR and Bodipy derivatives)...


The relationship of gastric hypermotility to mucosal hemodynamics, lipid peroxidation and vascular permeability changes was investigated in the pathogenesis of indomethacin-induced gastric lesions in