3D concrete printing is gaining ground in the construction industry. In concrete printing, fresh concrete layers are deposited layer by layer manner like fused deposition modelling process following a computer-aided design (CAD) model. The structural capacity of the printed part mainly depends on the bond strength between the old substrate and new overlaid concrete. Hence, it is essential to measure the inter layer bond strength and its influencing parameters. In this paper, a novel geopolymer ink is considered as reference material, that exhibits thixotropic property, suitable for 3D printing application. The said geopolymer thixotropic build up rate was altered by adding slag in two different percentages. From the experimental outcomes, it was found that, rapid structural build-up and long delay time can cause poor bonding in the interface properties of the printed structure. This delay time depends strongly on the thixotropic behavior, the thickness of the layers and roughness of the interface between the two layers.


For searching keywords against encrypted data, public key encryption scheme with keyword search PEKS, and its extension secure-channel free PEKS SCF-PEKS, has been proposed. In this paper, we extend the security of SCF-PEKS, calling it adaptive SCF-PEKS, wherein an adversary modeled as a "malicious-but-legitimate" receiver is allowed to issue test queries adaptively. We show that adaptive SCF-PEKS can be generically constructed by anonymous identity-based encryption only. That is, SCF-PEKS can be constructed without any additional cryptographic primitive when compared with the Abdalla et al. PEKS construction J. Cryptology 2008, even though adaptive SCF-PEKS requires additional functionalities. We also propose other adaptive SCF-PEKS construction, which is not fully generic but is efficient compared with the first one. Finally, we instantiate an adaptive SCF-PEKS scheme via our second construction that achieves a similar level of efficiency for the costs of the test procedure and encryption, compared with the non-adaptive secure SCF-PEKS scheme by Fang et al. CANS2009. Copyright © 2014John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


We present high-sensitivity 5-GHz MERLIN and 15-GHz VLA observations of the Seyfert nucleus of Markarian 3, with angular resolutions of 40 and 250 mas respectively. Our 5-GHz MERLIN map reveals the best example to date of a pair of highly collimated radio jets in a Seyfert nucleus. The jet system is 2 arcsec (∼ 600 pc) in extent and less than 50 mas across, and lies along P.A. 84°. Embedded in the jets are a number of compact components, and the western side terminates in a bright lobe containing a hotspot. The component at RA (1950) 06 h 09 m 48 s 423, Dec. (1950) 71°03'10″42 is unresolved and is the closest to the peak of the optical continuum emission


Derivatives are disclosed pyrido [1,2,3- de] quinoxaline of the formula (I) wherein R SUP {1}, {R SUP 2 YR} {SUP, 3} RESPECTIVELY hydrogen, - POXY, halogen or - COR, R {SUP, 4} is hydrogen or OH, R {SUP, 5}, R {SUP, 6} YR {SUP, 7} are identical or different and are hydrogen, halogen, nitro, NR {SUP, 12R {SUP, 13}, cyano, CF SUB {3}, C {SUB 1-6} - {SUB ALKYL OC 1-4 alkoxy}, {SUP OR, 5} {SUP YR, 6} OR {SUP , 6} {SUP YR, 7} REPRESENT BENZENE RING CONDENSATE AND LESS LESS SAME means a bond Single or dual also describes its preparation and use in pharmaceutical agents.


Due to various causes, pilot tone (pilot tone) is seriously blurred by the frequency phase-locked loop (Frequency Phase Locked Loop), which also to occur within a short time tracking (tracking) for the frequency and phase if that circuit and ATSC employing them It discloses a demodulator with respect to the DTV. The frequency phase-locked loop circuit, and a mean power frequency discriminating device, a mean value calculator, a Costas phase discriminator, a loop filter and an adder. The frequency phase-locked loop circuit, first the average power frequency discriminating device, the average value calculator and the second and using a first path leading to the first adder obtains the carrier frequency, then the Costas phase determination unit, wherein the loop filter and the and tracking the phase of the carrier frequency obtained by using a second route leading to the first adder. And the ATSC DTV demodulator, having an ADC, a multi-phase filters, multiplication block, a filter block, up-converter, a symbol timing recovery apparatus, a frequency phase-locked loop circuit, and the NCO phase mover.


Circular RNAs, a class of covalently closed transcripts, are generated from thousands of protein-coding genes or noncoding regions of the genome via non-canonical splicing, and serve as important controllers in a variety of biological events in eukaryotes. Emerging studies have shown that circular RNAs are enriched in animal brains, and involved in brain disorders. In this review, we will discuss recent progress on circular RNA biogenesis, nuclear export, stability control, molecular functions, and regulatory roles in brain functions.


REASON FOR PERFORMING STUDY
Information on antibiotic concentrations in the equine eye following systemic therapy is limited. Reports that Leptospira spp. are frequently present in the eyes of horses with recurrent uveitis, emphasises a need for studies on ocular concentrations of specific antibiotics.

HYPOTHESES
1) Enrofloxacin, administered i.v. at 7.5 mg/kg bwt q. 24 h, results in aqueous humour concentrations greater than the reported minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for Leptospira pomona. 2) Aqueous humour paracentesis sufficiently disrupts the blood-aqueous humour barrier (BAB) to cause an increase in aqueous humour protein and enrofloxacin concentrations.

METHODS
Aqueous humour enrofloxacin and total protein concentrations were determined in 6 healthy, mature horses after i.v. administration of enrofloxacin. Paracentesis was performed on the left eye on Days 3 and 4, 1 h following enrofloxacin administration, to determine enrofloxacin concentrations in healthy eyes and in eyes with mechanical disruption of the BAB. Paracentesis was also performed on the right eye 23 h after enrofloxacin administration. Blood samples were collected from the horses at identical times to determine enrofloxacin aqueous humour:plasma ratios.

RESULTS
Mean +/- s.d. enrofloxacin concentration in the aqueous humour 1 h post administration on Day 3 was 0.32 +/- 0.10 mg/l (range 0.18-0.47); and aqueous humour enrofloxacin, total protein and aqueous humour:plasma enrofloxacin ratios were higher on Day 4 than Day 3.

CONCLUSIONS AND POTENTIAL RELEVANCE
Following disruption of the BAB, enrofloxacin concentrations were above the reported MIC for Leptospira pomona.


The development of density functional theory and its applications made itnecessary to improve the relevant calculation accuracy.Based on analysis of the fac-tors influencing the calculation errors and adopting suitable techniques to treatthem,a scheme and the correspondent program for solving Kohn-Sham equationhave been presented.With this program,the accuracy of the calculated total energycan posses 8 digitals with reasonable computation efforts.This accuracy is higherthan that of the usual DVM results for 2 to 3 level,and can satisfy the requirementof up to date general quantum chemistry researches.In this paper,the scheme andprogram will be described in some detail.


Abstract 4-Quinolone and 4H-thiochromen-4-one derivatives are readily synthesized in a tandem one-pot manner in good to excellent yields. Starting from (Z)-β-chlorovinyl ketones, an intermolecular nucleophilic addition of amines or sodium hydrogen sulfide to (Z)-β-chlorovinyl ketones was followed by elimination of chlorine anion to give Z-enamine or thioenol intermediates, which can be transformed to 4-quinolone or 4H-thiochromen-4-one products through intramolecular SNAr reaction, respectively.


The current study investigates the variation and physicochemical properties of ambient particulate matter (PM) in the very important location which lies in the foothills of the Hindu Kush ranges in northern Pakistan. This work investigates the mass concentration, mineral content, elemental composition and morphology of PM in three size fractions, i.e., PM1, PM2.5 and PM10, during the year of 2019. The collected samples were characterized by microscopic and spectroscopic techniques like Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy. During the study period, the average temperature, relative humidity, rainfall and wind speed were found to be 17.9 °C, 65.83%, 73.75 mm and 0.23 m/s, respectively. The results showed that the 24 h average mass concentration of PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 were 64 µgm−3, 43.9 µgm−3 and 22.4 µgm−3, respectively. The 24 h concentration of both PM10 and PM2.5 were 1.42 and 2.92 times greater, respectively, than the WHO limits. This study confirms the presence of minerals such as wollastonite, ammonium sulphate, wustite, illite, kaolinite, augite, crocidolite, calcite, calcium aluminosilicate, hematite, copper sulphate, dolomite, quartz, vaterite, calcium iron oxide, muscovite, gypsum and vermiculite. On the basis of FESEM-EDX analysis, 14 elements (O, C, Al, Si, Mg, Na, K, Ca, Fe, N, Mo, B, S and Cl) and six groups of PM (carbonaceous (45%), sulfate (13%), bioaerosols (8%), aluminosilicates (19%), quartz (10%) and nitrate (3%)) were identified.


A highly effective wetting agent and emulsifier, Triton X-100 detergent is introduced to metalorganic solutions. When applied to a substrate, this detergent/metalorganic solution promotes the formation of a uniform spin-on thin film with good adhesion. The precursor, copper formate film, was spin-deposited with a metalorganic solution prepared by a solvent mixture of methanol and Triton X-100 (50:1 by volume). KrF laser (248 nm) direct writing of high-purity copper patterns on glass and polyimide substrates has been achieved. When the laser beam is imaged through a slit device, periodic copper metal structures with a linewidth of ∼2.5 μm are observed, which may be attributed to result from Fraunhofer diffraction. A general process for casting homogeneous amorphous films on substrates from a solution of molecular or ionic metalorganics dissolved in the neutral or charged micelles is proposed.


We present a visual object detector based on a deep convolutional neural network that quickly outputs bounding box hypotheses without a separate proposal generation stage [1]. We modify the network for better performance, specialize it for a robotic application involving "bird" and "nest" categories (including the creation of a new dataset for the latter), and extend it to enforce temporal continuity for tracking. The system exhibits very competitive detection accuracy and speed, as well as robust, high-speed tracking on several difficult sequences.


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One recent approach to the study of public policy has been policy design. And one component of this is the concept of target populations. Perhaps the strongest case for the importance of target populations as a focus for research has been advanced in the work of Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram. They have argued that target populations help to shape the construction of public policies. If target populations are politically weak and have negative constructions (for instance, drug users and drug dealers), then policies will tend to be harsh and punitive—penalties rather than benefits. In part, this serves political purposes, since one would get "political points" for being harsh with those who have little power and are perceived as "bad" people. In the process, bad policy may result, since the construction of target populations and policies aimed at them may have little to do with actually solving complex social problems.


EXPLANATION: In May 2007, The University of Montana was granted permission to offer higher education in the Bitterroot Valley through the auspices of the Hamilton Higher Education Center in a temporary arrangement. In spring 2009 a Steering Committee comprised of members of the Bitterroot community, The University of Montana, and the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education was established to develop a plan and oversee the delivery of higher education in the Bitterroot Valley.


This paper describes a vertical lifting control and level luffing control design for newly developed, fully hydraulic-driven floating cranes. Unlike lattice boom crawler cranes for land use, the floating cranes are affected by the pitching and rolling motions of the pontoons on which the crane machinery is installed. A control algorithm was developed, taking into consideration the dynamics of the pitching and rolling motions of the pontoons, as well as the motion controls for load hoisting and boom hoisting.


"Although the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular foundings has not captured the imagination of modern political thought," (1) begins Andreas Kalyvas. His book attends to this subject by way of a "highly selective and reconstructive" (11) reading of the work of Weber, Schmitt, and Arendt. According to Kalyvas, these three thinkers, while themselves not democrats, provide the resources to begin to think through the relation of extraordinary politics, i.e. popular foundings, to ordinary politics. Attending to extraordinary politics, Kalyvas believes, "allows rethinking ways of rectifying the problem of the legitimation deficit that unavoidably plagues the normal politics of any constitutional, representative democracy" and "reintroduces the normative ideals of political freedom and collective autonomy at the center of democratic theory" (8). Kalyvas' engagement with these thinkers leads him to develop a "theoretical framework" that explicitly ties the extraordinary to "a normative democratic theory with a radical intent" (4). He advances "a three-level model of democratic politics" according to which "[e]xtraordinary politics can be prior to and below instituted politics, within it, and on its fringes." A moment of founding (tied to "legitimacy" for Weber and Schmitt or "political freedom" for Arendt) precedes a moment of "institutionalized politics or normal lawmaking" (tied to "legality" for Weber, "representation" for Schmitt, and "augmentation" for Arendt). A third moment accompanies this second one at its "edges": the "politics of spontaneous and unpredictable forms of popular mobilization and informal participatory agitations" (12). Aside from the articulation of this model, Kalyvas invites a careful and systematic examination of the relation of these three moments to one another by providing one example of this examination in his selective reconstruction of Weber, Schmitt, and Arendt. Kalyvas ties the question of the vitality of contemporary democracies to their relation to, and conception of, their origins. By conceptualizing popular foundings as he does, he ties this vitality to the question of the persistence of the extraordinary in the ordinary. Kalyvas begins by reconsidering Weber's "concept of the political" (29, Chapter 1). Emphasizing the centrality of "belief" to Weber's account of legitimacy (35), Kalyvas distinguishes a "normal politics," "the 'art of the possible'," directed towards "seizing, preserving, and enhancing state power" (33) from an "extraordinary politics" (34) concerned with the "formation of collective subjectivities" and the "determination of the Book Reviews LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES


SummaryBesides its well known effect on nitrogen, potassium, sodium and calcium urinary excretion, growth hormone (G.H.) markedly affects phosphorus metabolism: it decreases phosphate excretion and increases the plasma level of phosphorus.Looking for an explanation of this phenomenon, we have studied the effect of G.H. on renal hemodynamics and tubular reabsorption of phosphate.We have observed that G.H. increased in man, after a four days treatment, the renal plasma flow and the glomerular filtration rate (G.F.R.), the filtration fraction remaining constant. We have also confirmed that bovine G.H. increased glomerular filtration rate in the dog.The effect on hemodynamics seems to be linked to sodium retention, for it is not observed in dogs put on a low salt intake.G.H. increased tubular maximal reabsorption of phosphate (TmPO4 and the ratio TmPO4/G.F.R., in man and dog.Statistical analysis of our results shows that there is a relationship between Tn.PO, and G.F.R. when G.F.R. varies spontaneously.The sa...


Abstract Protocol studies to compare interaction designers' sketch-based ideation were conducted in two countries. Participants' cognitive style was assessed and the two cohorts differed significantly. UK participants (UKP) used graphical sketching more than Botswana participants (BP), and UKPs used interaction-focused techniques while BPs used context-focused techniques. Eleven sketch function patterns were identified. Some were observed in both UKPs and BPs while others were observed in only one cohort. The findings have implications for ideation techniques, professional development and support tools. They highlight a complex relationship between cultural background, cognitive style and design setting, and their combined influence on sketch-based ideation.


There is the need of fast advancement and pervasive deployment in wireless communication technologies. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are expected to develop in the above advancement with the pervasive development. A key challenge to the successful deployment of vehicular communication is the implementation and efficiency of the medium access control (MAC) layer. Broadcasting and relaying the communication safely and alert the surrounding nodes about critical driving situations are considered to be timely reaction. To achieve the message dissemination timely and lossless medium access in vehicular ad hoc network is needed. In this paper we survey several aspects and role of Media Access Protocol in Vehicular Ad-Hoc


Ethical supply management is a critical issue due to the strategic dimension that is of the purchasing function within the company. The management of the supply chain must integrate issues related to sustainable development in procurement management. This article will seek the main levers of supply chain fair and ethical basis to establish, firstly, to promote best practices in supply management in the one hand and to assist procurement personnel to respond effectively to undesirable situations from an ethical point of view in the other hand. The paper also illustrates the problem of the selection of responsible suppliers through the application of the TOPSIS's method.


⎯ The meatball factory in Keputih, Surabaya produce meatball liquid waste with a COD value of 11,072 mg/L, so it requires special treatment before being discharged into the environment. This research was conducted to treat that meatball liquid waste by electrocoagulation method using aluminum electrodes. The variables were arranged using completely randomized design at pH variations of 5.5 and 9, residence time of 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes, number of plates of 4 and 8, and current density of 312.5; 375; 156.25; 187.5 A/m 2 in batches then will be analyzed for COD, TDS and Turbidity. This research has obtained results that optimal time for electrocoagulation varies from 15-45 minutes after that current density of 187.5 and 375 A/m 2 are slightly better than 156.25 and 312.5 A/m 2 after that pH 8 had better treatment results than pH 5.5, especially in turbidity then the use of 8 aluminum plates at the same electric current had far better results than 4 plates. So that the best efficiency in this wastewater treatment is obtained by removal of COD value up to 94.78%, Turbidity up to 98.68% and TDS up to 76.63% at a current density of 187.5 A/m2 and pH 8 for 30 minutes.


The transfer matrix method is employed to analyze the modal propagation within antiresonant reflecting optical waveguides (ARROW) implemented in InP/InGaAsP multilayer planar structures. The analysis provides an accurate picture of dispersion and attenuation of TE polarized waves at the operational wavelength of 1. 55 pm. The numerical results show the optimum values of system parameters for low loss operation and may be useful for designing various optoelectronic devices such as semiconductor lasers or optical amplifiers monolithically integrated with low loss passive ARROW guides which are suitable for coupling to external elements e. g. to optical fibers.


Examination of ugliness overstepping appreciation beauty and comedy overturning tragedy, which are the most obvious changes in aesthetical styles in comparison between western modernist literature and traditional one.


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Question) The title of the article states that the case is about a glandular odontogenic cyst (GOC) mimicking ameloblastoma. The history (slow expansion, no symptoms) and the radiographic appearance of the lesion (lobulated, well-defined margin, erosion and perforation of the lingual cortex, root resorption of the adjacent teeth) may suggest ameloblastoma, but this set of diagnostic factors is not specific to this particular type of lesion. Therefore, we believe this really isn't a case of "mimicry". Would it not have been more appropriate to define this lesion as mimicry in a case where there was another feature specific to ameloblastoma?

Answer) It has been reported that GOC and ameloblastoma show similar radiological features such as a lobulated margin, perforation of the cortex, and root resorption of the adjacent teeth , although these are not specific features. Ameloblastoma is the one of most common benign tumors of the jaw, and extensive root resorption is a characteristic feature of ameloblastoma. We made a tentative diagnosis based primarily on the prevalence of this benign tumor. But histopathological findings revealed that this case was a GOC. Our title is "Glandular odontogenic cyst mimicking ameloblastoma" because ameloblastoma is the representative benign tumor of the posterior mandible.

Question) Another point to mention is that the authors refer to the radiographic appearance of multiple foci and the cortical perforation as being helpful in distinguishing the GOC from ameloblastoma. But this radiographic feature also occurs in ameloblastoma, so with all due respect, we do not understand how it could be helpful in distinguishing between the two types of jaw lesions radiographically.

Answer) GOC and ameloblastoma may show common radiographic features of cortical perforation. The GOC has two clinically important attributes: a high recurrence rate and an aggressive growth potential.1

Our lesion showed multiple cortical perforation in the radiolucent lesion (26.0 mm×11.3 mm), which indicated some aggressiveness. Our view of the above distinction was based on this description from a previous study:

Radiological features which may be helpful in distinguishing multilocular GOC's from ameloblastomas include irregular loculations and a partially sclerotic border with foci of perforation.2

Question) As we read the article, we all agreed that it was not very clear when the histopathological examination was performed. It was either done on a biopsy taken before or during the operation or on the gross specimen, but it wasn't clear which. It is perfectly normal for a provisional diagnosis to be false, but we believe it would have been better if a biopsy were performed before the operation. If a biopsy was performed before surgery, can you clarify to us what biopsy method was used presurgically: a fine-needle aspiration biopsy or an incisional biopsy? Or was a frozen-section examination performed during the operation to decide if a more conservative or a more radical surgical treatment was appropriate? According to a study by Aronovich and Kim, ~90% of benign oral and maxillofacial lesions are correctly diagnosed and treated during surgery by frozen section histopathology, compared to the definitive histopathology done after the operation.3 Lastly, was the gross specimen sent for histopathological examination to confirm the diagnosis?

Some researchers advocate that an ameloblastoma-no matter the type-should be treated radically to prevent recurrences. 4 As for this case, it is not clear if the surgery was performed according to the ameloblastoma diagnosis. If that's the case, could a cyst not be distinguished from an ameloblastoma when the lesion was opened up? Did the authors consider the different treatments of these two lesions during the operation?

Answer) Another question was about whether we performed preoperative incisional biopsy, fine-needle aspiration biopsy, or frozen-section examination. We decided not to do a preoperative biopsy because the characteristics of the mass were suggestive of a benign tumor with locally aggressive behavior, which we mentioned in our report as "cortical perforation and erosion were also observed, suggesting its aggressiveness; however, the mild expansion of the lingual cortex represents the benign nature of the lesion."

We considered various treatment options such as enucleation, enucleation with peripheral ostectomy, and radical surgery such as segmental mandibulectomy. Most studies support radical surgery as a treatment for ameloblastoma to minimize the risk of recurrence of the tumor.3 However, considering the age of the patient, radical surgery such as segmental mandibulectomy was not advisable in this case because this operation takes a long time and should be accompanied by soft tissue and/or hard tissue reconstruction in almost all cases.

Several clinical studies have favored an enucleation operation with peripheral ostectomy as treatment for ameloblastoma, preserving mandibular continuity.4 Enucleation with peripheral ostectomy is thought to be an acceptable treatment option for a locally aggressive benign tumor such as ameloblastoma. We decided not to do preoperative biopsy because the histopathologic result could not change the treatment plan. After the operation, the gross specimen was sent for histopathologic examination to confirm the diagnosis, and the final diagnosis was glandular odontogenic cyst.


In the article points to the lack of proper management mechanism of influence in the regional agricultural sector, which led to negative structural changes in the production of agricultural organizations. On the example of sugar beet subcomplex shown that its efficiency is impossible without the formation of the system of state regulation and elimination of monopolies by the processor.


Overtime fine in library should be canceled,because it is against the law,violates the spirit of library and the belief of its educational management,and therefore causes many debates,putting library management into an embarrassing situation.In addition,the cancel of overtime fine is a significant exploration of people-oriented educational belief in the practical management in the library.At the same time,library should improve the system of book-lending by establishing the system of readers' integrity,achieving the fair share of information resources.


Multiphonon relaxation rates are analyzed for laser transitions in the 4-6 μm spectral range in fluorite type rare- earth doped laser crystals where they may have a dominant contribution to the relaxation rates of optical excitations.


(4E)-7-(4-Hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1-phenylhept-4-en-3-one (DPHB) derived from A. officinarum Hance has been reported to exert anti-inflammatory and anti-insulin resistance (IR) effects. We explored the molecular mechanism of DPHB ameliorating IR through network pharmacological prediction and in vitro analysis. The PI3K/AKT and TNF signaling pathways are the core pathways for DPHB to exert anti-IR, and the key proteins of this pathway were confirmed by molecular docking. In the IR-3T3-L1 adipocyte model, DPHB significantly promoted glucose uptake and the glucose transporter type 4 (GLUT4) translocation. In addition, DPHB significantly improved lipid accumulation, triglyceride content, and the mRNA expression of key adipokines [such as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors-gamma (PPARγ), CCAAT enhancer-binding protein alpha (C/EBPα), and sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1 (SREBP-1)]. DPHB inhibited the protein expression of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and phosphorylated nuclear factor-κB (NF-kB), as well as promoted the expression of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), protein kinase B (AKT), phosphorylated PI3K, and phosphorylated AKT. More interestingly, validation of the PI3K inhibitor LY294002 revealed that these changes were dependent on the activation of PI3K. Our cumulative findings thereby validate the potential of DPHB to alleviate and treat IR and the related diseases by regulating the PI3K/AKT and TNF-α signaling pathways.


A method of signal recovery of the pattern electroretinogram (PERG) from recordings contaminated with electrical artefacts resulting from eye movements and blinks is described. The single channel data are decomposed into statistically-independent components using the jadeR ICA algorithm preceded by a dynamical embedding matrix with dimensions dictated by the stimulus rate and sampling frequency. The PERG signal of interest is identified and scaled using a marker feature incorporated into the original record. The performance for artificial and real clinical data is presented.


An important objective in the framework of the European Space Agency (ESA) Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Programme is the acquisition of observations by federating existing sensors in Europe. Such observations will be required as input to currently developed SSA precursor services. Observations from a series of European optical sensors were acquired during a coordinated campaign and were used to emulate the build-up and maintenance of a temporally and spatially limited object catalogue. The catalogue was designed to concentrate on objects in the geo-stationary orbit region (GEO). Given the very different nature of the participating sensors both, in terms of their performance characteristics and operational use, a major challenge consisted in coordinating the operation of these sensors and fusing the heterogeneous data that was generated. The paper will present the procedures used to initiate and maintain a limited GEO catalogue without the use of external information. The discussion will include the scheduling of the heterogeneous sensor network, the processing of the observations from the observing sites and their integration into a successive catalogue. Results from the actual observation campaign will illustrate the performance of the very limited sensor network and the used cataloguing procedures, as well as the temporal and spatial limitations of such a catalogue.


Background—Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in human atherosclerosis manifest extensive DNA damage and activation of the DNA damage response, a pathway that coordinates cell cycle arrest and DNA repair, or can trigger apoptosis or cell senescence. Sirtuin 1 deacetylase (SIRT1) regulates cell ageing and energy metabolism and regulates the DNA damage response through multiple targets. However, the direct role of SIRT1 in atherosclerosis and how SIRT1 in VSMCs might regulate atherosclerosis are unknown. Methods and Results—SIRT1 expression was reduced in human atherosclerotic plaques and VSMCs both derived from plaques and undergoing replicative senescence. SIRT1 inhibition reduced DNA repair and induced apoptosis, in part, through reduced activation of the repair protein Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome-1 but not p53. Fat feeding reduced SIRT1 and induced DNA damage in VSMCs. VSMCs from mice expressing inactive truncated SIRT1 (Δex4) showed increased oxidized low-density lipoprotein–induced DNA damage and sen...


In the light of the historical facts in the modern Chinese culture evolution period,the paper identifies,generalizes,sorts ont and analyzes four types of ideological and political education during the evolution period,revealing the characteristics and concluding that the Marxist education is the new and correct route.


Palantir is an analytic platform currently used worldwide by both governmental and financial analysts. This paper provides a brief overview of the platform, examines our 2009 IEEE VAST Challenge submission, and highlights several key analytic and visualization features we used in our analysis.


Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of patient prosthesis mismatch on functional mitral regurgitation after mechanical aortic valve replacement. Patients and Methods: Total 59 patients were enrolled. All the echocardiographic assessments were performed by a single cardiologist. The patients were divided into two subgroups as per the presence of patient prosthesis mismatch. Group 1 comprised patients with mismatch, and group 2 included those without mismatch. Results: There were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of postoperative mitral regurgitation development, postoperative left ventricular mass regression, postoperative pulmonary arterial pressure, and postoperative functional capacity. Conclusion: Patient prosthesis mismatch is not a predictive factor for the development of functional mitral regurgitation after mechanical aortic valve replacement.


In the last decade, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) industry has a rapid progress in the development and optimization of UAV's autopilot systems. This paper proposes two flight control methods using the Aerosonde simulation model, which was modeled and simulated using Simulink/MATLAB software. The two methods are a self-tuning PID controller using genetic algorithm and Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Inference System controller (ANFIS). In a self-tuning PID controller, a PID is genetically controlled and utilized as an autopilot to optimize the controller parameters for the proposed UAV model. However, the second method is based on fuzzy logic controller tuned using neural network. For the main navigation system Three fuzzy logic modules are designed to monitor the altitude, speed and heading angle. Simulation results for the two methods reveal high robustness and durability of ANFIS controller response especially under windy conditions.


The most recent investigations of the discursive linguistics recognize the paper of the language, across the argumentative competition, in the interactive communication mediation of the persons, not only to guide the comprehension, but also to approach and to solve conflicts. This investigation took up office as intention to present the theory pragmadialectica as strategy of construction of written arguments, in articles of opinion, for a group of university students of the specialty of Language and Literature of the UPEL - IPR "The Macaro ". For it, this work this one theoretically sustained in the notions of the speech as social practice, (van Dijk, 2003); the argumentation pragmadialectica, (van Eemeren, Grotendoors y Henkemans, 2006); the critical pedagogy, (Freire, 1997) and academic literacy, (Carlino, 2003-2013). In the methodological aspect the investigation is considered of qualitative - interpretive character, since it developed in an educational royal context, of which the investigator forms a part, and in the one that was a question to understand and explain to him theoretically a social problematic. The experience allowed the students analyze opinion articles, published in the national press, and take a personal stand from the theory pragmadialectica. In addition, draft a body of arguments with the purpose of responding to the revised publication.


It is paramount for software engineers to develop the skills and background necessary to effectively work, communicate and innovate on an international scale. Our growing global world needs an increasingly diverse workforce. The effects of the globalization have been felt in the software engineering arena through software engineering projects realized by diverse professionals located in different continents with different industrial background, culture, time zone, and even language. During 2014 and 2015, Kennesaw State University (KSU) faculty from Marietta, GA, USA traveled to La Salle University in Arequipa, Peru to deliver special Software Engineering (SWE) winter programs. The programs provided opportunities to study the student's understanding of software engineering terms, knowledge, and practices in two different international arenas, KSU and La Salle. This paper discusses details and results of the winter programs executed by KSU bi-lingual faculty to La Salle participants with limited English understanding. A cycle of knowledge building emerged from the two cultures in the preparation and execution of the courses. The student participants aligned their knowledge and understanding of their Latin American software engineering practices to the new perspective given in the program. The experience educated faculty and participants of the agreements, differences, and challenges to the software architecture and game development curriculum, terminology, and development trends. The process of the collaborative knowledge distribution and assimilation that was built and experienced in the courses was surveyed with the student's views about pre-understandings, personal comprehension, opinions and final assimilation of the course content.


The invention discloses a low-temperature dry distillation and high-temperature quick thermal decomposition treatment process method for municipal domestic garbage, and belongs to the technical field of treatment and utilization of the municipal domestic garbage. The method uses flammable gas generated in the high-temperature decomposition process to pretreat and dry the garbage and to heat a thermal decomposition furnace, gets rid of the garbage and changes waste material into things of value without exterior energy consumption, and achieves cyclic utilization of the garbage regeneration energy. The successful research and development of the yin and yang cyclic high-temperature thermal decomposition furnace solves key technology problem of garbage high temperature thermal decomposition technology and device. An organic garbage pressing molding technology effectively guarantees garbage batch treatment and heat value of regeneration carbon. The high-temperature thermal decomposition in a close anoxia condition in the garbage treatment process and use of additive restrain and eliminate the generation of the dioxin, and no dust or exhaust gas is directly discharged, so that a secondary pollution problem is solved. A garbage volume reduction rate and a resource use ratio are maximized.


Several factors which effect the determination of 241Am by extraction-liquid scintillation counting are discussed.The interference of other α-particlcs and low energy β-particles and its elimination are studied. Organic phosphorus extractants such as HDEHP,HEHEHP are used as extractants.Several solvents are tested, and the results indicate that it is feasible to use hydrogcnated kerosene instead of xylene (or toluene) as solvent in the determination of α-particles.The method is accurate and less labor-consuming. Its detective efficiency is rather high.


The service life of the large primary mirror with aluminum coating can be effectively prolonged by a protective layer. The SiOx (1<x<2) protective material which is thermally evaporated from up to bottom is studied. Environmental adaptability experiment, spectral measurement and micro-morphology analysis are executed on bare SiOx coatings within different oxygen concentrations, and the repeatability verification is implemented by testing the SiOx protected aluminum coatings. The results show that the SiOx coatings can meet the protective qualification within oxygen flow of 50 sccm (p=5.6 \times 10-3 Pa). The fine compactness of the coating has excellent moisture resistance with the average molecular spacing of 0.335 nm. In addition, the average reflectivity of the SiOx protected aluminum coating is 90.47% in the band 400 -2 500 nm and the coating is confirmed to have good environmental performance.


In this thesis, I investigate the annual to interannual variability in the equatorial Atlantic and its impacts on other tropical oceans. There are three parts to this work. The first part (chapter 2) is to understand the seasonal cycle of ocean dynamics, which has been published in 2009. The second part (chapter 3) is to understand the mechanisms of interannual variability in the equatorial Atlantic, which is mainly associated with Atlantic zonal mode. This part has been accepted recently for publication and is in press. The last part (chapter 4) investigates the influence of Atlantic zonal mode on El Nino Southern Oscillation in a coupled climate model. This work will be submitted for publication. In chapter 2, the dynamics of the seasonal cycle in the upper equatorial Atlantic ocean are studied using observations and a hierarchy of ocean models. Distinctive features of the seasonal cycle are strong annual and semi-annual components; eastward (westward) propagating sea surface height (SSH) and thermocline depth at the equator (off the equator); and westward propagating surface zonal currents at the equator. Modelling results show that linear theory can explain the seasonal cycle in thermocline depth and SSH. While to first order linear theory can also explain the structure of the seasonal cycle of surface zonal currents at the equator, nonlinear terms are required. The linear solution is essentially determined by the four gravest baroclinic modes, and Kelvin and first meridional mode Rossby waves. The semi-annual cycle in zonal winds although much weaker than the annual component forces a strong semi-annual component in SSH and surface zonal currents, because it excites the basin mode of the second baroclinc mode. The second part of the thesis investigates the dynamics of the Atlantic zonal mode using observed sea surface height (SSH), sea surface temperature (SST), and heat flux and reanalysis wind stress and upper ocean temperature. Principal oscillation pattern (POP) analysis shows that the zonal mode is an oscillatory normal-mode of the observed coupled system, obeying the delayed-action/recharge oscillator paradigm for ENSO. Net surface heat flux anomalies generally act to damp SST anomalies. The zonal mode explains a large amount (70%) of SST variability in the east and a significant fraction (19%) of equatorial variability. Thus, the predictability potential in the Equatorial Atlantic on seasonal time scales may be considerably higher than currently thought. In the third part, a coupled climate model is employed to investigate the influence of Atlantic zonal mode on ENSO in the Pacific. Five ensemble member simulations forced with observed sea surface temperature in the Tropical Atlantic, but with full air-sea coupling allowed elsewhere, were performed for the period 1950-2005. Model results show that a warm phase of Atlantic zonal mode during boreal summer favours the development of a La Nina event during the boreal winter and vice versa. A warm SST anomaly in the Atlantic affects the Walker Circulation with anomalous rising and subsiding motions in the Tropical Atlantic and eastern Tropical Pacific, respectively. This causes an easterly anomaly to the west of subsiding region in the Pacific that is amplified by the Bjerknes positive feedback, favouring the following development of a La Nina event. In general, the coupled model has revealed the same mechanisms of how Atlantic zonal mode influence ENSO as found in observations and reanalysis. This is the first convincing evidence from a model for the existence of a physically robust influence of the Atlantic Zonal mode on Pacific interannual variability.


With the advancement of Information Technology, web is growing rapidly and it has became necessary part of our daily lives. It is mandate to study the navigation behavior of the user to improve the quality of web site design for personalization and further recommendation. Analysis of web navigation behavior heavily relies on navigational models. This paper is an effort to give insights of current state-of-the-art techniques used for web navigation prediction. These navigation models are broadly classified into three categories: sequential mining, classification and clustering. Analytical analysis is performed on all the categories used in web navigation prediction. Further empirical analysis is performed on popular techniques of each category Markov Model sequential mining, Support vector machine classification and K-means clustering on the common platform to measure the effectiveness of these techniques.


The author and his readers have been well served by the publishers' willingness to print a selection of 16 substantial complete pieces in a companion volume a gesture more than ever desirable with a repertory that would otherwise be difficult of access and to make performing copies available, for there is clearly music that should be known in sound, not just as illustration to a historical disquisition. In addition, there are many musical examples within the text of the main part of the book This is laid out in 12 chapters concerned mainly with the work of nine individual composers falling roughly between 1630 and 1700; each contains a biography relating them to social and musical life in the Netherlands and a well-organized treatment of their contributions to the Dutch motet repertory. Who are the dramatis personae in this narrative? Pride of place goes to the monk Benedictus a Sancto Josepho who worked at the Carmelite monastery at Boxmeer, with a musical establishment capable of doing justice to the often sonorous textures of his music. His output spans the last third of the century, and as he was by far the most prolific Dutch composer discussed (with eight sacred collections to his credit) he deserves the measured consideration Noske gives him in three separate chapters. Scarcely less interesting if not nearly as active are the composer and diplomat Constantijn Huygens 'uomo universale' as Noske characterizes him; Jan Baptist Verrijt, who achieved the fusion of Netherlands polyphonic and Italian concertato writing (though one might add that the most able Italians of the day well understood the value of counterpoint in giving substance to their concertato music); and lastly Carel Hacquart, working slightly later, who maintained a similarly high level in his motets. The author's stylistic discussions of individual works are always readable and never dry, and often call upon appropriate contemporary terminology (e.g. that derived from rhetoric), so that though the repertory may be provincial the comment is related to the main issues of the day. This is up to a point pioneering work, in that so little has been written in depth about continental sacred music and its musical language, in the latter half of the seventeenth century at least. The one chapter that deals with a genre rather than a composer is that on the sacred dialogue, a subject in which Noske has recently become interested in its own right a subspecies of motet that merits separate discussion. This is a pair of volumes that should be welcomed for bringing to our attention a repertory of music in a country whose culture is often overlooked, during a century whose musical activity receives only patchy treatment. To those used to the absolutism of the era and the domination of musical patronage by court or church, Holland's open, liberal, social and political system provides a salutary change of scene. And, it might be said, the idea that men of different faiths should forget their differences in the aesthetic pleasure of music-making represents for us today a glowing example of that true ecumenism which does not attempt to paper over sincerely held differences of belief.


The automatic drawing of equivalent line is one of the importance work to the secondary development of AutoCAD in geology work,ARX is a tool of the secondary development of AutoCAD,this article will give a short introduce to the structure of ARX Dynamic-Link Liabrary,the structure of AutoCAD AcDbDatabase,the save and load of the non-figure characteristic in AutoCAD,and describe how to draw equivalent line in rectangle net automatically under the develop environment of ARX.and provide a method of how to develop the automatic drawing of equivalent line in ARX environment.


A dialectical binumerical field reflecting the bipolar symmetry in nature is considered. A wave character of physical processes is presented by the wave binumerical field of real numbers repeating the geometry of these processes in three dimensional space, which is impossible to express by the conventional field of complex numbers localized in the plane of real and "imaginary" components. An essential distinction between an application of the dialectical binumerical field of real numbers and the conventional field of complex numbers is shown in the simplest examples. In particular, the advantage and completeness of nonconventional description by the dialectical field of binumbers is demonstrated by an analysis of harmonic oscillations. It is stated that the field of complex numbers is a particular case of this dialectical field. PACS Numbers: 01.70.+w, 02.10.-v, 01.55.+b


ABSTRACT Prolonged drought presents a serious challenge to the agricultural sector. The main concern of this work was to assess the phenotypical, physiological, and molecular responses of five teosinte (Zea mexicana Schrad L.) genotypes (Ba, Gm1, Gm2, Gm3 and Gm4). In a two-season (2020 and 2021) field experiment, fifteen-day-old teosinte plants were subjected to well-watered (15-day watering frequency) as a control, moderate drought (25-day watering frequency), and extreme drought (35-day watering frequency) treatments. Drought negatively affected growth, yield, chlorophyll, and POD activity of all genotypes, but promoted soluble sugars and proteins, osmoregulatory molecules (glycinebetaine, amino acids, and proline), non-enzymatic antioxidants (phenols, flavonoids, and alkaloids), and SOD activity. Furthermore, long-term water stress upregulated MOCOS, Rad17, NCED1, CAT1, and P5CS genes expression, with Gm3 and Gm4 being the most drought-tolerant genotypes. These findings could be employed in breeding programs to develop tolerant genotypes to address the challenges posed by climate changes like drought.


Pain excitation during myocardial ischemia and its electrostimulation were investigated by recording evoked potential and iris movement in cats. It has been demonstrated that pain perception of the heart declines at an early stage of ischemia, but increases noticeably after prolonged and repeated ischemia.


It is a new challenge to colleges'ideological and political education as the post 90's appear on campus.Communication has a strong enlightenment meaning for promoting people's universal growth and development in an all-round way.Communication is the result of the 90's own craving,the global demands,and the objective ideological and political education reflection.We should pay great attention to communication relationship between subjects,and link their emotion,and show concern for communication activity.We should tightly centre on the people-oriented way,the educatee's right to speak and real life in order to set up a communication mode of ideological and political education.


This thesis develops a method to simulate and visualize the fields and energy flows in electric circuits, using a simplified physical model based on an idealized geometry. The physical models combine and extend previously proposed models, to produce a rich array of interactive configurations of circuits. For example, both driven and undriven series RLC circuits can be simulated. The computation underlying the simulations is primarily the numerical solution of several first order differential equations and of a boundary value problem. The proposed visualization of these numerical results provide an appealing and physically meaningful representation of the fields and electromagnetic energy flows in these circuits. Thesis Supervisor: John W. Belcher Title: Professor of Physics Thesis Reader: Steven R. Lerman Title: Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering


This research was conducted to analyze the ellipsis of Japanese grammatical elements in Japanese-Korean translation. The characteristics may be summarized as follows. ① 'No' in the phrase 'A no B' was the most omitted grammatical element with 19.7% (375/1900) on the whole. ② In the 'Ko-so-a-do' system 'So-' was the most omitted grammatical element with 92% (23/25). Among Conjunctions 'Datte' was the most omitted grammatical element with 30% (3/10). Among Particles 'No' was the most omitted grammatical element with 75% (634/845). In the Voice category 'the Passive Voice' was the most omitted grammatical element with 70.3% (71/101). In the Aspect category 'Teiru' was the most omitted grammatical element with 89.1% (375/421). Among Giving and Receiving Expressions 'Teyaru' and 'Tekureru' were the most omitted grammatical elements with 42.9% (3/7) each. Among Modality Expressions 'Noda' was the most omitted grammatical element with 52.5% (85/162). Among Honorific Expressions 'Kun' was the most omitted grammatical element with 32.1% (70/218).


This research aims to determine the relationship between tele-education and adaptive behavior in autism spectrum disorder in children aged 1 to 5 years. To do this, a cross-sectional, descriptive and correlative non-experimental design study was carried out, the study population consisted of 120 people, and the sample was of a non-probabilistic census type. For data collection, a tele-education survey and an adaptive behavior survey were produced, both with high levels of reliability. Statistical treatment included connection tables, bar graph, analysis and interpretation. For validation, we used Spearman's confirmation coefficient, Rs=0.730, which shows a high positive confirmation with p=0.003. Therefore, it is concluded that in the National Institute of Rehabilitation-Chorrillos there is a significant relationship between tele-education and adaptive behavior in children from 1 to 5 years old.


Abstract: Place names that contain rich regional cultural connotations are "living fossils" of history and culture, and they are of great tourist value. Taking the main urban area of Chengdu City as an example, this paper analyzes the cultural characteristics and connotations of place names, as well as their tourist values. This value is believed to mainly include stimulating tourists' interest in traveling, presenting local tourism features, enhancing the travel experience of the visitors and serving the tourism economy. Then this paper discusses the problems of place name cultural heritage and puts forward the tourism development strategies for Chengdu's place name culture. Such strategies could include establishing a tourism place name system of Chengdu scenic spot names, using place names in the restoration and development of ancient scenery, combining place names with food tourism resources and high-quality tourism commodities, developing cultural and creative products related to Chengdu place names, strengthening the theoretical discussion on Chengdu place name culture and conducting dissemination activities for Chengdu place name culture.


The source of sulfur is vital to understand the ore-forming process and genesis of IOCG deposits.We summarize the data of sulfur isotope from the Lala deposit in Sichuan Province,and discuss sulfur isotope compositions of sulfide and their sources on the basis of geologic and ore microscopic studies.The large variability in sulfur isotope indicates that the ore-forming sulfur was multi-sourced.The δ34S value of pyrite ranges from-1.4‰ to 4.9‰ with a mean value of 1.8‰ and the δ34S value of chalcopyrite ranges from-5.9‰ to 9‰ with a mean value of 1.5‰.Together with sulfide formation analysis and comparison with some type IOCG deposits worldwide,these data demonstrate that sulfur from seawater evaporate is important to precipitation of pyrite and chalcopyrite.But there is no evidence to support that the variation of sulfur isotope composition is reduced during metamorphism in the Lala deposit.


Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt "From Heredity to Genetics: Political, Medical, and Agro-Industrial Contexts" Final version before proofs; published as: Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt, "From Heredity to Genetics: Political, Medical, and Agro-Industrial Contexts," in Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850-1930, edited by S. Müller-Wille and C. Brandt, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (= Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, edited by J. Z. Buchwald), pp. 3–25.


Italo Calvino's IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER collapses the distinction between "solid" fiction and "elusive" reality; his novel is not easily defined or enjoyed without risks, for it is, like the world the Male Reader tries to escape by reading fiction, discontinuous, fragmentary, debatable. The Male Reader, the main character in the novel, pursues an order, "an exact, taut trajectory" (27) by which to move through the books he reads, only to find that pursuit to be never-ending and impossible. He looks in fiction for a consolation for his disordered, uncontrollable existence, a way to step outside of time, to exist in "an abstract and absolute space and time" (27). But Calvino's novel serves to frustrate this, and other, manifestations of the desire for the One, for a nontemporal metaphysical ideal, whether it is the monolithic author who stands above his text, guiding the potentially disruptive characters and events into a neat resolution; or the critical reader who tries to gain a perspective above the text, playing detective in an attempt to tie themes together and arrive at the true and comprehensive interpretation of the book; or, most importantly, men and women in the world who may live as the characters in the story fragments do, reading their experience for signs


The W eylanom aly in the H olographic Renorm alisation G roup as im plem ented using H am ilton{Jacobilanguage is studied in detail. W e investigate the breakdown ofthe descentequationsin orderto isolate the W eylanom aly ofthe dual(cid:12)eld theory close to the (U V ) (cid:12)xed point. W e use the freedom ofadding (cid:12)nite term s to the renorm alised e(cid:11)ective action in order to bring the anom alies in the expected form . W e com m ent on di(cid:11)erent ways of describing the bare and renorm alised schem es, and on possible interpretations ofthe descent equations as describing the renorm alisation group (cid:13)ow non-perturbatively. W e (cid:12)nd that undersuitable assum ptions these relations m ay lead to a classof c -functions.


Let R be a complete discrete valuation ring, S=R[[u]] and n a positive integer. The aim of this paper is to explain how to compute efficiently usual operations such as sum and intersection of sub-S-modules of S^d. As S is not principal, it is not possible to have a uniform bound on the number of generators of the modules resulting of these operations. We explain how to mitigate this problem, following an idea of Iwasawa, by computing an approximation of the result of these operations up to a quasi-isomorphism. In the course of the analysis of the p-adic and u-adic precisions of the computations, we have to introduce more general coefficient rings that may be interesting for their own sake. Being able to perform linear algebra operations modulo quasi-isomorphism with S-modules has applications in Iwasawa theory and p-adic Hodge theory.


Objective:To establish a method for determination of the trace elements in yolk lecithin.Method:the samples were digested by closed vesselmicrowave system and analyzed using In as an internal standard by ICP-MS.Results:the linearities were good(r0.999),the precision of the method were good(RSD5%,n=6).and the elements recoveries were 92.9%-108.2%.Conclusion:this method is sensitivity and accuracy.It is a feasible method for yolk lecithin.


The material is presented in article on accumulation of the heavy metals (HM) in the soil of the territory of the city and in the country. HM existence in the soil was defined by a method of the nuclear and adsorptive spectral analysis which advantage is: high precision of definition of the HM various forms. The maintenance of HM in the soil is in limits of admissible maximum concentration limits.


There is a general requirement for inventories to establish the status of soils with respect to key indicator properties, and for monitoring to detect changes in these indicators. The design of sampling protocols for soil survey must meet these dual requirements. This paper emphasizes that the status and change of an indicator are different variables and so their variability may differ. We therefore may not assume that a sampling scheme that is suitable for inventory is also suitable for monitoring; this poses a practical problem since information on the variability of the change in soil is not in general available at present.


The paper surveyes both general theoretical considerations and concrete implementation problems of font development in 1995 computing environments, with a special focus on Old Church Slavonic (Cyrillc and Glagolitic), i.e. at the down of but before the widespread use of Unicode. Also included are the original slides from the Bulgarian conference of the same year.


Belief-desire reasoning is an important aspect of theory of mind,but there is no any systematic studies on children's second order belief-desire reasoning.Based on the dimensions of"true-false"and"approach-avoid" principles,this study subdivided children's second-order belief-desire reasoning ability into four aspects,and explored performance in these four aspects among children aged 5 to 8 years.It is a 4(ages)×4(tasks) between subjects design.The results showed that different second-order belief-desire tasks have different degrees of difficulty for children,which proceeds in an easy-difficult way:second order true belief approach desire,second order false belief approach desire,second order true belief avoid desire,second order false belief avoid desire.


Estimates of the percentage of the male population who are red-green color deficient have varied a great deal, particularly as the use of pseudoisochromatic tests has become widespread. The highest estimates of all have been associated with the use of the Dvorine Pseudo-Isochromatic Plates (1953). Peters ( 1954) reported a failure rate of 10.50% for 800 males between the ages of 20 and 42; and Dvorine (1955), for 114 males between the ages of 7 and 68, has shown a failure race of 12.28% (corrected figures). Figures of this magnitude are not likely to be encountered when more precise instruments, such as Nagel's anomaloscope, are used to evaluate a person's ability to discriminate between colors; however, these methods are too costly and time-consuming for practical mass application. Some attention, then, should be paid not only to the advantages of using pseudo-isochromatic plates diagnostically, but also to faccors which might inflate "color b l ind percentages thus derived. Research reported by Grunewald and Hapten ( 1954) clearly indicates that expressive difficulties associated with psychiatric problems can lead to the misclassification of some persons as color blind. Of 12 psychiatric patients thus classified by a pseudo-isochromatic test (apparently the Ishihara), eight were found to exhibit normal color vision when tested with Nagel's anomaloscope. It was stated that these patients would occasionally perseverate on an incorrect number or fail to formulate an answer within the 15-sec. time limit, but that it sometimes helped if the patient traced the required number with a finger before answering. It was felt by the present authors that perceptual impairment attributed to central factors, such as figure-ground confusion, might be an additional source of error in the "percent color blind" estimates based on pseudoisochromatic tests. The present research was designed to determine whether or not older males who scored in the "organic" range on tests which have been used as indices of cortical deterioration would appear color blind on a pseudo-isochromatic test.


&NA; A randomized study was conducted to evaluate the effects of single‐dose and daily vitamin D supplementation in pregnant women during the last trimester of a winter pregnancy in the Northwest of France. The women were divided into three randomized groups: one (N = 21) was given a vitamin D2 supplement of 1000 IU/day during the last three months of pregnancy, one (N = 27) was given a single oral dose of 5 mg at the seventh month of pregnancy, and one (N = 29) acted as a control. Venous plasma samples were obtained at delivery from the women and from cord blood, and levels of calcium, 25‐OHD, and 1,25(OH)2D were determined. No significant difference in plasma calcium concentration was found among the three groups, but within each group plasma calcium concentrations were higher in the cord samples than in the respective maternal samples. The levels of the two metabolites measured were consistently lower in the cord samples than in the respective maternal samples. Cord 25‐OHD concentrations correlated with those of maternal plasma. No significant modification of maternal calciuria or of the birth weight of term infants was observed. 25‐OHD concentrations were greater in maternal and cord plasma from treated mothers, but only a slight difference was observed between the supplemented groups. 1,25(OH)2D concentrations were not significantly different in the three groups. A single 5‐mg dose of vitamin D given orally at the seventh month of pregnancy provides effective prophylaxis in the authors' region. (Obstet Gynecol 68:300, 1986)


This study examined the quantification problem of a storm shape using the concept of equivalent ellipses. The equivalent ellipses of a storm event were estimated at every time step with respect to the several thresholds of rainfall intensity, which was also examined in terms of their size and number. In addition, the average equivalent ellipse was decided, and the confidence intervals of major axis, minor axis, and rotational angle were calculated to evaluate if the average equivalent ellipse could be the representative one. As results, the following results could be derived. First of all, the number of equivalent ellipses and the size of equivalent ellipses increase as the threshold increase. Secondly, the appropriate ratio of major and minor axises of equivalent ellipse is 2 : 1. Finally, the average rotational angle estimated with respect to several threshold rainfall intensities were all found not to be statistically different from that of all representative rotational angles.


The performances of SDRAMs with different pipeline architectures are examined analytically on the basis of the time required to refill the on-chip cache of a Pentium CPU. The analysis shows that the cycle time of the conventional pipeline structures cannot be reduced because of its difficulty in distributing the access time evenly to each pipeline stage of the column address access path. On the contrary, the wave pipeline architecture can make the access path evenly divided and can increase the number of pipeline stages to achieve the shortest cache refill time. But the wave congestion at the output terminal of the wave pipeline path caused by access time fluctuation narrows the valid time window. The parallel registered wave pipeline architecture can remove the effect of access time fluctuation so that the cycle time is defined only by the data pulse width. If the data pulse width t/sub w/<2 ns, even 500-MHz clock frequency can be obtained.


It has been known for a few decades that pure inner scaling does not collapse the characteristic parameters of streamwise stress such as peak value and peak position. Herein we show that this is also true for the Reynolds shear stress and the two other normal stresses. Even more, an analysis of the wall values of streamwise skewness and flatness indicates Kármán number dependencies of these parameters. Employing the alternative mixed scaling, which is based on uue instead on u, these dependencies are removed. Based on the general finding that both inner and outer scales are relevant throughout the entire wall layer, a model for the fluctuations is proposed. From this model all stresses and higher-order moments can be built up. INTRODUCTION Are there differences between confined and semi-confined canonical turbulent flows? Between boundary layers on flat plates (ZPG TBL) and flows in straight channels (CHF) or circular pipes (PF)? And if so, what are those differences? Is it just that some parameters such as peak positions and values of Reynolds and normal stresses are different, or are there different physical mechanism underlying the dissimilarities? To answer these questions is most important for understanding wall-bounded flows in general, to find proper scaling laws, and to find correct model assumptions that can be applied, e.g. in numerical simulations. The questions raised above—but not the answers—have been known for over a decade (Nieuwstadt & Bradshaw, 1997), but have attained intensified interest very recently (Buschmann & Gad-el-Hak, 2010; Jimenez et al., 2010; Marusic et al., 2010). Herein we extend our previous work on the subject. Specifically, we are looking for all peak values and positions of the stresses of ZPG TBL, and CHF and PF at moderate Kármán numbers. For that purpose we have compiled an extensive database of DNS and experimental results. 1 For details and the symbol colors employed in Fig. 1, see Buschmann & Gad-el-Hak (2010). Simple analysis reveals the differences of the flow types under consideration. Without claim of completeness, the two most distinct disparities are:  While confined flows are parallel in the mean, the streamlines of ZPG TBL are divergent.  Turbulent boundary layers do not experience the influence of an opposite wall, and conversely CHF and PF do not have a free stream. However, there might even be differences between CHF and PF. While in CHF, the space for turbulence to be transported and to develop is constant along the wall-normal coordinate, that space is successively reduced to zero toward the centerline in PF. This may lead to more and intense interactions between turbulent structures in the latter case. CLASSICAL INNER SCALING Figure 1 shows peak positions (left) and peak values (right) of Reynolds and normal stresses versus Kármán number ( =  u/). Due to the minute differences to be expected we have used only DNS results for precision. However, the results that are reported herein are mainly confirmed by carefully selected experimental data. Some of the plots clearly show two branches, one for ZPG TBL (semiconfined flow) and one for CHF and PF (both confined flow). The separate CHF/PF-branches are nowhere split into two sub-branches, which would indicate less significant differences between CHF and PF. The identified differences are marked with rose arrows or bands. While the arrows indicate a growing departure between the two branches, the bands indicate a more or less constant difference, independent of the Kármán number. Linear-linear, semi-logarithmic and log-log plots were tested. In case that one of the plot types leads to linearly-ordered data, this special plot was chosen for Fig. 1, otherwise semi-log plots were selected. This strategy confirmed that the peak positions of the Reynolds shear stress (Fig. 1a) and the streamwise stress (Fig. 1d) have a power-law dependency on the Kármán number.


Thermal-electric plant uses the water pump to circulate water system or water treatment system.The motor-driven pump is used in routine designs,but the power consumption and running cost are high.The steam turbine is characterized by the fact that its loading capacity can be changed or excesed.It is very beneficial for the fine water pump to change load.A dopting a steam turbine to drag a water pump can conserve the consumption of energy and reduce working cost.Siemens S7-200 series PLCs \ has characteristic,such as compact design,fine augmentability,cheap price,abundant functional module as well as strong instruction system.So it is easy to use it to compose powerful controlling system,which can control to the steam turbine.


Highly faceted wurtzite-type ZnS nanotubes with hexagonal cross-section morphologies have been self-assembled via a controllable high-temperature thermal-chemical reaction route in work reported by Yin and co-workers on p. 1972. The self-assembly growth along c-axis to highly hexagonal-faceted ZnS single-crystalline nanotubes is associated with the crystallographic characteristics, such as the non-central and polar surfaces of the wurtzite-type ZnS structure. The faceted ZnS nanotubes grow along the direction, and are closed by low-index faces of non-polar {1000} faces. The inside cover and insets show electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy images of the faceted ZnS nanotubes.


Based on published Area efficient VLSI implementation for parallel linear phase FIR digital filter of odd length based on fast FIR algorithm, this paper proposes a parallel FIR filter structure with less hardware complexity. In previous paper using carry save adder are replaced by ripple carry adder which can reduce the area.


Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among all infectious diseases. The emergence of resistant forms of tuberculosis, strong epidemiological coexistence of HIV, poor patient compliance due to extended chemotherapy and the associated side effects of the existing drugs highlight the fundamental need for new and more effective drugs to treat the disease. In this regard, the structural genomics of Mtb provides key information to identify potential targets for the design of newer antitubercular agents. In addition, the genome of Mtb encodes a series of targets that are unique in Mtb but are absent in mammalian cells. These targets can selectively inhibit the growth of Mtb, help to reduce side effects, prevent resistance development and eliminate latent disease. In this review, novel targets, particularly those widely cited in literature, with structures containing potential inhibitors or substrates for structure-based design of drugs, which can be explored in the development of antitubercular agents, are discussed.


Objective: We wanted to determine bursting pressure in normal and ischemic colonic anastomoses in rats as well as the frequency and type of complications w...


The right to the presence of a lawyer is divided into substance and form of the presence.Its content refers the suspect inquired by police officers first time should be informed of their right to hire a lawyer present,The presence of a lawyer have an important role for the strengthening to prevent torture and ensure the defendant testimony for the truth.There are still many issues to be resolved implement the right to a lawyer present in our country.Lawyers in specific operations should also be careful not to interfere with the normal police inquiry,and pay attention to confidentiality.


The Public Alpine Wireless Network (PAWN) is a complete wireless microwave communication system. It has been designed to be implemented economically in isolated mountainous terrains where there are only about 100 subscriber units in approximately 5000 km/sup 2/, PAWN works in the microwave frequency range of 1-9 GHz. PAWN is a digital communication network, Since individual terminals are far apart, PAWN need not transmit all signals in all directions. Repeaters are used for selecting the range of frequencies in its region. A volatile stochastic code is introduced to avoid illegal tapping of information. The repeaters and the receiver are described.<<ETX>>


The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a sports nutrition intervention on nutrition knowledge and dietary choices among adolescent female soccer players and their parents. Participants from this study were year-round, travelling soccer team members recruited from the Augusta Arsenal Soccer Club in addition to one parent of the minor (n=38). Adolescent athlete participants in the study completed a demographic survey including information on their age, school grade, position typically played, years in sport, whether or not they participated in any other sports, and if they had ever taken a nutrition class. In addition, a parent demographic survey was administered to obtain parents age, highest level of education, nutrition background, whether or not they previously played sports and who typically prepared meals at home. All participants completed a twenty-three item sports nutrition questionnaire (Zinn et al., 2005). The adolescent athlete participants also completed a three-day food record on two separate occasions. In a randomized design, participants were placed in the intervention group (n=18) or control group (n=20). Participants in the intervention group (n=18) attended nutrition education sessions for four weeks, lasting 20-30 minutes in duration. The following sports nutrition topics were discussed: carbohydrates, protein needs, vitamins/minerals, hydration, and recovery. After the intervention period, all participants were asked to submit a second set of three-day food records


It is generally put forth that Spanish has the subjunctive as the required mood in the complements of
 emotive-factives (alegrarse de que 'to be happy that'), desire verbs (querer 'to want'), verbs
 of uncertainty (dudar 'to doubt'), modals (ser posible que 'to be possible that'), causatives
 (hacer que 'to make that'), and directives (recomendar que 'to recommend that') (e.g., Real Academia Española 2011). However, in spite of these traditional rules, it has been
 observed that some of these environments allow for the indicative (Blake 1981; Crespo del Río 2014; Deshors and Waltermire 2019; Gallego and Alonso-Marks 2014; García and Terrell 1977; Gregory and Lunn
 2012; Kowal 2007; Lipski 1978; Silva-Corvalán 1994; Waltermire 2019). The current study explored one such environment;
 emotive-factive clauses. Results showed that the presuppositions that speakers hold regarding the knowledge that their addressees
 possess influence the mood that they select. This, thus, demonstrates the important role that pragmatics plays in the occurrence
 of mood variation.


New developments in progressive learning for stable adaptive control are presented. Progressive learning is a method that allows for stable adaptive control with a simple adaptation rule even when a system's relative order is three or higher. In the progressive learning method, a series of reference inputs are designed so that the system can learn control parameters stably and progressively, starting with the ones associated with low frequencies and moving up to the ones with a full spectrum. An averaging method is used to obtain stability conditions in terms of frequency contents of the reference inputs. Based on this analysis, we prove that the stable convergence of control parameters is guaranteed if the system is excited gradually in accordance with the progress of adaptation by providing a series of reference inputs having appropriate frequency spectra. A numerical example is provided to verify the above analysis.


Abstract : Splitting of the resonance line for CaF2 - Eu2+ was studied in both absorption and emission spectra. When the magnetic field was parallel to the fourth-order axis (H sub 0 parallel to (001)), the spectrogram plainly revealed asymmetry in intensity of the Zeeman component relative to the line not affected by the field. This asymmetry is clearly due to thermal freezing of the ions in strong magnetic fields. At low temperatures this occurs on Zeeman sublevels of the ground excited states.


In thinking about the potential of part-time study to the future of the Higher Education sector I have spoken with many individuals and received comments from a wide range of organisations including Birkbeck College, Guild HE, HEFCE, Million+, National Union of Students, NIACE, Open University, Oxford Brookes University, QAA, UniversitiesUK, UCAS, Standing Conference of Heads of School of Architecture and SURF (Staffordshire University Regional Federation).


We have used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to exam-me 5-fluorouracil (5FU)-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), both with and without modulation by IFN-a2a


Stemflow was measured in a planted young stand of Japanese cypress for four years from ages 9 to 12. Canopy cover increased with growth from 55% to 94% during the measurement period. The ratio of stemflow SF to rainfall R, SF/R (the funneling ratio FR that represents the efficiency in collecting stemflow), was 5.9% (81.3) at age 9 on an annual basis; however, it abruptly fell to 2.8% (30.0) at age 10. Following the drop, SF/R recovered gradually with growth, reaching 3.8% at age 11 and 4.3% at 12, while FR remained almost constant at values of around 30. The relation between R and SF/R analyzed quarterly on a rain event basis revealed that changes in canopy structure and/or tree architecture


Objectives: This study was carried out to investigate bone mineral density (BMD), blood pressure, age and biochemical index and nutrient intakes, and to analyze the relationship between BMD, blood pressure, biochemical index, nutrient intakes of Korean women. Methods: The study subjects were 499 women with a age range of 30-79 years living in Seoul and Kyunggi area who participated in 2011 KNHANES. The study subjects were divided into 5 age groups : 30 years (145), 40 years (110), 50 years (102), 60 years (85) and 70 years (57), and 3 BMD groups: normal 258 (50.4%), osteopenia 163 (32.9%) and osteoporosis 78 (16.7%). Results: The average waist circumference, BMI and body fat increased with age, but fat free mass decreased with age. Average BMD and T-score was decreased from 0.84, 0.74 g/cm in 30 years to 0.05, −1.05 g/cm in 70 years. The rates of osteopenia and osteoporosis increased significantly 22% in 30~40 years, 47% in 50 years and 56% in 60~70 years. Systolic blood pressure and cholesterol were significantly increased with age. The rates of hypertension was significantly increased 2.1% in 30 years, 30.4% in 50 years 89.5% in 70 years. Average nutrient intakes such as protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A and C were significantly decreased with age. There were significant negative correlations between age and calcium, systolic blood pressure, triglyceride. Conclusions: In this study, we found the risk of osteoporosis and hypertension were significantly increase with over 50 years age. Calcium and protein intake decreased with age. Therefore, in order to prevent osteoporosis and hypertension, adult women need to be educated regarding the importance of protein, calcium and other nutrients in their diet. Korean J Community Nutr 19(4): 328~341, 2014


This study was carried out to analyze the components of the Angelica dahurica root for the studies of the physiological function. General components of A. dahurica root were 71.7% moisture, 10.6% carbohydrate, 9.3% crude protein, 6.6% crude ash and 1.9% crude fat. The content of reducing sugar was 1,850 mg/100 g. The total amount of free sugar was 80 mg/100 g, in which 19.3 mg/100 g fructose, 27.8 mg/100 g glucose, 28.4 mg/100 g sucrose and 4.5 mg/100 g maltose were present. In the results of mineral analysis, the content of K was the highest(2,145.03 mg/100 g) followed by 286.35 mg/100 g Mg and 145.23 mg/100 g Ca. The total amount of hydrolyzed amino acid was 71.68 mg/100 g, in which 20.98 mg/100 g essential amino acid and 50.70 mg/100 g of non-essential amino acid were present. Among them, proline(11.74 mg/100 g) was the highest. Total free amino acids were contained 17.04 mg/100 g, in which 6.67 mg/100 g of essential amino acids and 10.37 mg/100 g of non-essential amino acids were present. Among them alanine(5.96 mg/100 g) was the highest. Total content of amino acid derivatives was 3.37 mg/100 g.


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Detached Concern and its core dimensions – employees' concern toward and detachment from their clients – are important facets of the emotion-generative process during client interaction in people-oriented work environments. We studied the intra- and interpersonal effects of Detached Concern on professionals' burnout (N = 1411) and patient-centered care quality (N = 332 patients; 43 physicians). Our findings indicate different Detached Concern types. Balanced employees (scoring high on concern and detachment) yielded lower burnout levels compared to imbalanced professionals. Patients' perception of care quality was positively related to their physicians' concern and detachment, and was significantly higher for the balanced than for the imbalanced physicians.


Three novel metal complexes of 2-aminobenzonitrile (ABN) and octanoate ion (OC) with Mn 2+ , Co 2+, and Ni 2+ have been prepared by using microwave irradiation. The DNA-binding properties of the free ligand 2-aminobenzonitrile and its Mn 2+ , Co 2+ and Ni 2+ complexes have been investigated by fluorescence measurements. The results suggest that ABN, Mn 2+ , Co 2+ and Ni 2+ complexes both bind to DNA via an intercalative binding mode and the affinity for DNA is more strong in case of Mn 2+ , Co 2+, and Ni 2+ complexes when compared with ABN. The intrinsic binding constants (Kb) of the Mn 2+ , Co 2+ and Ni 2+ complexes and ligand with DNA were 2.75 × 10 4 M −1 , 3.08 × 10 4 M −1 , 3.80 × 10 4 M −1 and 1.96 × 10 4 M −1 , respectively. Ni 2+ complex is strongly bound to DNA compared to other complexes and the ligand. Furthermore, the free radical scavenging activity of the free ligand and their complexes has been determined by measuring their interaction with the stable free radical DPPH. The complexes have larger antioxidant activity as compared to the ligands. INTRODUCTION: In recent years, binding studies of transition metal complexes have become very important in the expansion of DNA molecule probes and chemotherapeutics 1 . DNA is the pharmacological target of many of the drugs that are at present in clinical use or advanced clinical trials. Targeting DNA to control cell functions by modulating transcription or by intrusive with imitation seems logical, instinctively appealing, and conceptually straightforward. Small ligand molecules bound to DNA artificially alter and/or inhibit the functioning of DNA.


The main aim of this paper is to clarify some of the questions that statisticians attempt to answer. For example, does a given sequence of outbreaks of a rare disease exhibit clustering suggestive of contagion? Does a sequence of monthly figures for road accident fatalities, before and after the introduction of the breathalyser test, indicate a remedial effect? More generally, to what extent does a given data set exhibit some designated characteristic of interest? Such questions are normally seen as problems of statistical inference with the characteristic under study given meaning through a probabilistic model which typically generates data like that then at hand.


This study was conducted to measure the personality traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Openness to Experiences) and communal orientation among Afghan and Indian students. For this study, 100 students were contacted studying in Indian Universities. The sample was divided into 50 Afghan and 50 Indian students. To measure communal orientation, Communal Orientation - (Clark et al. ,1987) scale was used and to measure personality traits, Ten-Item Personality Inventory - (Gosling et al.,2003) scale was used. The research found significant differences on different variables of personality and communal orientation among Afghan and Indian students. The outcome of the study helps to make international programs for individuals who are staying away from home.


Agriculture is an important sector of the economy in the European Union (EU) and milk production is one of the most significant agricultural sectors in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania (Baltic countries). It has proven itself as the sector with stable development and future perspective and these countries are substantial producers of milk and milk products. During the last years farms involved in commercial milk production often had substantial modernization, the farmers are motivated to improve animal welfare, feeding and also genetics and hygiene standards, which leads to higher productivity and milk quality, thus providing economic gains to farmers. The purpose of this study is to analyse the dairy sector in the Baltic countries and trends in its historical development. To reach these purposes research tasks were set, which helped analyse the key elements of the dairy sector in the Baltic countries. After joining the EU, the dairy sector in all Baltic countries has changed small dairy farms could not complete the new technological requirements and hygiene standards of milk production and left the business, thus reducing the amount of dairy cows countrywide, however, farmers generally choose cows with higher genetic potential that can produce more milk in lactation and improve the feeding and welfare conditions that lead to higher productivity. The sector is also heavily influenced by milk price changes in the key markets in the EU and the EU support. However, the dairy sector in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania is still the most important agricultural commodity production sector besides grain production.


When it comes to securing IoT communication, it is critical to employ secure communication technologies that can ensure that sensitive information exchanged between IoT devices and fog/edge/cloud services remains confidential. Since typical IoT devices are resource-constraint, it is challenging to use and deploy secure IoT protocols on such devices: It is thus critical to study the overhead of such protocols for resource-constrained devices, as it significantly affects the performance of an overall IoT solution. In this paper, we analyze the secure variants of the widely used messaging protocol MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT), namely MQTT with TLS and MQTT with AES. We report the results of our performance evaluation in the context of an IoT solution for Precision Agriculture using an STM32 microcontroller with an NB-IoT module to compare these variants with plain MQTT and determine the most appropriate options based on the amount of data transmitted and achieved security level.


The seeming mis-match between the needs, goals and aspirations of employees and what the organizations have to offer necessitated this study. The broad objective of the study was to examine the type of relationship that exists between Person Job Fit (PJF) and Employee Performance in Selected Commercial Banks in Anambra State. The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study was 1063 and sample size was 282 determined using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) formula. Data was collected using questionnaire and was analyzed with the aid Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient. The hypothesis was tested at 5% level of significance.  The result revealed that there is a statistically significant positive correlation existing between Needs-Supplies Fit and employee commitment (r= .964, p-value < 0.05) . It was therefore concluded that how aligned and fitted the employee's needs and aspirations are to what they obtain from the organization greatly influence the commitment level of the employees. It was thus recommended that the studied organizations should not just focus on what the employees have to offer while recruiting, that they should also be concerned with the interest of the employees and that the management of the focused firms should not only evaluate the performance of the employees but from time to time also evaluate the performance of the organization in terms of how they have met the needs of the employee so as to engender loyalty and engagement. Keywords: Person Job Fit , Needs-Supplies Fit, Employee Performance and Employee Commitment


Training deep networks that generalize to a wide range of variations in test data is essential to building accurate and robust image classifiers. Data variations in this paper include but not limited to unseen affine transformations and warping in the training data. One standard strategy to overcome this problem is to apply data augmentation to synthetically enlarge the training set. However, data augmentation is essentially a brute-force method which generates uniform samples from some pre-defined set of transformations. In this paper, we propose a principled approach named introspective transformation network (ITN) that significantly improves network resistance to large variations between training and testing data. This is achieved by embedding a learnable transformation module into the introspective network, which is a convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier empowered with generative capabilities. Our approach alternates between synthesizing pseudo-negative samples and transformed positive examples based on the current model, and optimizing model predictions on these synthesized samples. Experimental results verify that our approach significantly improves the ability of deep networks to resist large variations between training and testing data and achieves classification accuracy improvements on several benchmark datasets, including MNIST, affNIST, SVHN, CIFAR-10 and miniImageNet.


William Gilbert, another medical author, was the father of a more famous son, W. S. Gilbert, the dramatist and librettist. The former wrote a number of non-fiction works, usually concerned with the conditions of the poor, and then achieved considerable success with the novel Shirley Hall Asylum ,


New curricalum reform calls for good relations between teachers and students.Good relations between students and teachers anr characterized by harmony and interation.


Evaluating the relationships between bacterial (BP) and phytoplankton production (PP) is a fi rst step to understand carbon fl uxes through pelagic food webs. In the present study, BP and PP were compared at two tropical coastal systems infl uenced by distinct eutrophication processes in order to assess the main regulating factors of particulate organic carbon (POC) production rates. The waters of Cabo Frio region (23 o 00'S; 42 o 00'W) present high nitrate (N-NO 3 ) levels and low temperatures resulting from the upwelling of deep water masses – thus, a natural eutrophication process – while the waters in Guanabara Bay (22 o 54'S; 43 o 09'W) present high temperatures and levels of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), nitrogen (DON) and nutrients (other than nitrate), resulting from anthropogenic eutrophication, mainly because of sewage wastes. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) elemental composition indicates lower autochthonous contribution in Cabo Frio (C:N ~ 42), probably due to lower phytoplankton production. The elevated temperatures in Guanabara Bay yielded higher PP rates, increasing the phytoplankton contribution to the DOM pool which improved BP. No coupling between BP and PP was observed, and POC production was mainly due to phytoplankton in both systems.


The objective of this study was to identify the potential of salvia hispanica as protective and therapeutic agent against Alzheimer's disease. The learning and memory enhancing activity of saliva hispanica seed extract were investigated in rats by using the ethanol induced cognitive impairment and diazepam induced amnesia and its effects on learning and memory were examined by using Morris water maze (MWM) test and 8-radial arm maze (8-RAM) test. For Morris water maze test all groups showed significantly (P value is < 0.01 &< 0.05) decreases transfer latency time at all periods as compared to ethanol and diazepam inducing group & for radial arm maze test all groups showed significantly (P value is< 0.0001) decreased in the time taken to reach the paired arm and number of entries in baited arm and non-baited arm as compared to ethanol inducing group. Therefore seed extracts of salvia hispanica exhibited significantly learning and memory activity in Alzheimer's disease.


Modern education techniques have played an increasing important role in TCM clinical teaching.The resource databases for this are divided into file-based and date-based ones.Their disadvantages are inconvenience in data communication and lack of integrity.The advantages of the clinical medical case teaching resource platform,which is based on network resources,lie in optimized resources,greater classroom information and increased teaching quality.Teachers should pay attention to self-study and cultivation,selection of appropriate materials,making proper teaching design and carrying out teaching reform.