Hybrid inorganic-organic solar cells using vertically aligned ZnO nanorod array forming a core with nanocrystalline ZnO1-xSx shell integrated with polymeric P3HT+PCBM semiconductor blend are investigated. ZnO nanorod array over SnO2:F coated transparent conductor glass substrates are capped by sulfur chemiplating to create ZnO/ZnO1-xSx core-shell 3-dimensional electron transport electrode nanostructure. Dense array of vertically aligned nanorods help mitigate the short exciton diffusion length limitation in polymeric donor-acceptor blend by enhancing surface area and proximity with electron collector. The ZnO nanorod core via anion substitution at oxygen sites with sulfur increase p-type dopability of ZnO1-xSx shell and create a junction electric field. With low p-doped ZnO1-xSx shell in contact with P3HT+PCBM blend, this junction field is favorably directed to facilitate charge exciton dissociation, carrier separation and fast electron transport and minimize interface recombination. With large junction area, inclusive electric field and direct pathway through ZnO core for electron collection, the expected photocurrent enhancement is seen. Hybrid solar cells exhibit an overall conversion efficiency of 3.58% and strong dependence of photocurrent on the length of ZnO nanorods. The results indicate that the efficiency of such hybrid solar cells is significantly improved due to the unique morphology of the ZnO/ZnO1-xSx core-shell layer.


I present an empirical model for predicting a star's radial velocity jitter from its B - V color, activity level, and absolute magnitude. This model is based on observations of ∼450 well‐observed stars from Keck Observatory for the California and Carnegie Planet Search Program. The model includes noise from both astrophysical sources and systematic errors, and describes jitter as generally increasing with a star's activity and height above the main sequence.


The lay-up of cross laminated timber (CLT) leads to significant differences in properties over its cross-section. Particularly the out-of-plane shear behavior of CLT is affected by the changes in shear moduli over the cross-section. Results from laboratory shear tests are used to evaluate the shear stiffness of 3- and 5-layer CLT panels in their major and minor strength direction. The results are compared to calculated shear stiffness values on evaluated single-layer properties as well as commonly used property ratios using the Timoshenko beam theory and the shear analogy method. Differences between the two calculation approaches are pointed out. The shear stiffness is highly sensitive to the ratio of the shear modulus parallel to the grain to the shear modulus perpendicular to the grain. The stiffness values determined from two test measurements are compared with the calculated results. The level of agreement is dependent on the number of layers in CLT and the property axis of the CLT panels.


Conditions for biosynthesis of lipase by yeasts Yarrowia lipolytica Y-3153 were studied. It is established that inorganic sources of nitrogen are not used by the culture for growth and lipase production. It was determined that good sources of nitrogen to the crop are peptone, untrimmed and defatted soy flour. The optimal concentration of sources of nitrogen was obtained. It was demonstrated that the introduction of tween20 in the composition of the culture medium increases the lipase activity of the culture. It is established that the maximum activity of the enzyme appeared on the following nutrient medium: olive oil – 1%; glucose – 5 g/l; yeast extract – 5 ml/l; defatted soy-bean flour – 40 g/l; tween-20 – 0.001 mg/ml. cultivation temperature being 30°C and biosynthesis duration – 24 hours.


It remains a challenge to model numerically profile evolution across the shore-face from deep water to the shoreline with stability and accuracy. At long time scales, attempts to date typically utilise equilibrium profile shapes or bed slopes, with profile change based on the degree of disequilibrium and wave/current forcing, primarily for the surf zone in erosion events. Simulation of shoreward bar migration and beach recovery after erosion events is generally poor. Here we present an effective integrated framework and process-based dynamics in the form of a new software package that successfully models the whole shore-face zone seamlessly from relative deep water to the beach. It incorporates analytical procedures, including some simplified empirical relationships, that describe the forcing of waves and currents and the sedimentation responses that change the profile. It is shown to simulate profile evolution satisfactorily, with shoreward as well as seaward sand transport, bar development and migration and beach erosion and accretion, in a manner and at time-scales consistent with measured data, for both small scale laboratory and prototype modal and storm conditions. The model caters for water level variations due to tide, storm surge and/or sea level rise. It may be used to assess beach nourishment deposition at the beach berm, lower shore-face or across the surf zone.


Abstract A study of photochromic dihydroindolizines and diarylethylenes was carried out. The photochromism for these molecules is based on an electrocyclic 6π-process. Photochromic films were prepared by embedding these molecules in polythiourethane matrices and their potential as holographic recording material was evaluated.


Abstract Biographical information is provided for Dr. Jules Desneux, prominent entomologist of the early 20th Century who contributed not only considerably to the study of termites (Isoptera) but also to our knowledge of Paussidae (Coleoptera), ancient Greek numismatics, art criticism from a scientific perspective, as well as his professional field of dermatology.


An instrument for performing Simultaneous Multiple Sample Light Scattering (SMSLS) is introduced, which allows multiple, independent polymer samples to be analyzed simultaneously. Three demonstrations of SMSLS capabilities are made; proof of the SMSLS ability to make absolute Rayleigh scattering ratio measurements on well- defined standards, the monitoring of a biopolymeric degra- dation process (hyaluronate degradation using hyaluroni- dase), with subsequent determination of the Michaelis-Men- ten constant, and an aggregation process (low concentration gelatin solutions). It is hoped that SMSLS will become a valuable tool for rapid screening and characterization of both equilibrium properties and nonequilibrium processes in polymer solutions. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 92: 2724 -2732, 2004


hoofs drop off if saturated with water. Evidence to this effect is provided by the existence to this day of a large number of places by the sea named 'Oxford'.


Ureteral stent is commonly used to provide urinary drainage after urological practice. Preliminary investigation on fibrous assembly degradable ureteral stent is conducted in this study. The stent is composed of PGA and PLGA multifilament. The stent has a bamboo-like structure to provide better mechanical properties and the abilities of self-degradation within 8 weeks in vitro. The stent degradation process was smooth and well controlled.


The aim of this research paper is to assess the applicability of the payment system data provided by the Bank of Russia for a prompt monitoring of the labor relations situation. Considering the growth of precarization, the change in the dynamics of labor relations is considered in the article as an operational indicator of the onset of potential economic crises. Taking the Bank of Russia payment system data as a basis, it is possible to use the volatility of cash flows information in the field of labor relations to determine the state of the economy. A methodological approach to determining critical values of this indicator by applying the three-sigma rule is also given in the article. In addition, the research paper investigates the relationship between the emergence of non-standard practices of interaction between economic actors in the labor market and values of the cash flow in the field of labor relations.


In this paper, we experimentally demonstrated a 40 Gbps optical single sideband (OSSB) modulation, direct detection (DD) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system over 80km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) transmission using a cost-effective integrated electro-absorption modulated laser (EML)


In the context of the current emphasis upon evidence-informed practices, the future evolution of social work education, including its accreditation and practice standards, relies on the use of rigorous evidence from studies of the efficacy of various teaching and learning practices. Yet research into social work education tends to occur in an ad hoc way with little strategic attention to identifying specific information needs and how they might build to form a picture over time. The creation of research strategies that address integrated evidence needs can help to structure potential research responses ensuring that the best possible advantage is gained from current and future research. This paper discusses the development of a research framework for Australian social work education that captures key research domains across service user, academic workforce and institutional systems settings.


According to the related laws and regulations in China, the authors point out that the implementation of the system of borrower overdue penalty is a piracy behavior in the library, which has no legal gist and surpasses related stipulations. The authors have discussed their own views on reader's service work as well as propaganda and education on library regulations and rules.


The short comings and limitations of traditional inspection method of sheet metal parts were described in this paper. Aiming at the inspection method based on the 3D models of sheet metal parts, the method of the inspection information extraction was introduced also. The actual shape of the sheet metal was obtained by the portable photoelectric equipments and then the 3D model was formed. The inspection information was extracted from the 3D model by the system which developed by VC++ tools on the CATIA platform. The characteristics of this method are high accuracy, environmental protection and high efficiency.


Uncertain scattering coefficients are still a weak point in room acoustical computer simulations and predictions. The definition of the scattering coefficient s, their values as well as the simulation model are uncertain. Not only the roughness of infinite walls but also the edge effect are included in a combined diffusivity coefficient ray tracing models utilize. Most interesting in practical room acoustics is the influence on the uncertainty of the reverberation time (RT), which depends very sensitively on s. However, there is no analytical formula for the RT for only partially diffusely reflecting surfaces. In non-diffuse sound fields, the RT depend on the room shape, the distribution of absorption and especially on the scattering coefficients, too. A crucial example is a long rectangular room with totally absorbing side walls and partially scattering front walls. For this case a semi-analytical approach had been found. These and other typical cases in 2D and 3D have now been investigated numerically b...


The dihydrophenazine-based covalent triazine frameworks (CTFs) were prepared via a zinc chloride mediated ionothermal synthesis. The obtained dihydrophenazine-based CTFs exhibit high surface areas of up to 1213 m2/g with a high nitrogen content of 8.35 wt%. Electrochemcial test of dihydrophenazine-based CTFs shows a high specific capacity of 256 F/g in an aqueous electrolyte at a current density of 0.8 A/g with excellent rate capability and cycling stability.


[Bales et al(2011)][1] advance the understanding of soil moisture dynamics in response to water input, especially snowmelt, in the mixed conifer zone of the Sierra Nevada, California. In particular, we appreciate the authors" conclusion that regolith deeper than 1 m is important in supporting base


Advocate is a free and independent profession. According to the Constitutional Court Decision number 112/PUU–XII/2014 & 36/PUU–XIII/2015. It is interesting that the decision has decided the issue of oath in Article 4 Paragraph (1) Advocate Law, but affects Article 28 Paragraph (1) concerning Advocates Organization. This research is a normative research that uses conceptual approach and legislative approach, which hopefully can dig up and find out the position of Advo- cates Organizations after the Constitutional Court Decision number 112/PUU–XII/2014 & 36/PUU– XIII/2015. It is known from the research that the Constitutional Court is unauthorized to decide which organization is legitimate, although Advocates Organization can also be named as state institution.


Indonesia has a number of people with disabilities who work as professional national athletes that achieve in the international arena and the number is increasing from year to year, but pandemic era greatly affects for achieving achievement of the national athletes, especially in terms of psychological well-being, mental health, physical health, so that performance and achievement have greatly decreased. This study uses a multidimensional factors point of view by using literature review to determine a personal factors of champion mentality so that it can play a role in achieving achievement of national disabilities athletes during the pandemic era at the Indonesian National Paralympic Committee (NPCI) which is explained from internal (intrapersonal) variables and variables interpersonal to behave [14]. The results of the literature review also show that research on achieving achievement in para (disabilities) national athletes is concentrated in the individual context of a champion mentality person. The champion mentality mechanism may be different in the situation in the current pandemic era from "high status professional athlete performance" to the performance standards of Indonesian professional athletes. Practically, the urgency of this research is related to efforts to breaking down factors of a champion mentality in Indonesia national disabilities athletes to be able to achieving achievement and compete at the world level during the pandemic era.


An intensive search has failed to locate a proximal centriole in the neck of the rat spermatozoon. This centriole is present in late spermatids but disappears before spermiation. The distal centriole also degenerates during spermiogenesis, though more gradually; it is no longer demonstrable by the time the spermatozoa reach the cauda epididymidis (except as a few remnants in a small minority of the cells). The rat spermatozoon is thus exceptional among mammals in being effectively acentriolate. The implications of this are discussed. Since there are no centrioles, the activity and control of the flagellum cannot depend on a centriole as a kinetic center. Furthermore, since no centrioles are introduced by the rat spermatozoon at fertilization, there can be no paternal inheritance of a formed centriole through the cytoplasm. And, in this species at least, paternal centrioles have no role in the first cleavage of the fertilized egg.


In this article it is shown that high quality single crystalline Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) films could be achieved on ac-plane sapphire using conventional rf magnetron sputtering. High-resolution x-ray diffractometry, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and scanning electron microscopy investigations clearly confirmed that the GZO films with low Ga doping levels up to 1wt% were of high quality single crystal, which is featured by the (0002) rocking curve as narrow as 0.14°, symmetric six poles in pole figure, sharply defined spot pattern in the TEM diffraction diagram of the interfacial region, and the flat surface. It was also estimated from the Hall measurements and photoluminescence spectroscopy that these single crystalline GZO films possessed good optical and electrical characteristics including the narrow band-width and higher intensity of exciton-related emission peak, Hall mobility as large as 66 cm2 V−1 s−1, and the resistivity as low as 1.69 × 10− 3 Ω cm.


Many efforts have been made to develop effective chemical inhibitors for struvite scale, which causes a range of operational problems in the wastewater treatment industry. Herein, the inhibitory capacity of polyaspartic acid (PASP) on the spontaneous precipitation of struvite at pH 9 was investigated. Struvite precipitates were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Precipitation experiments dosed with PASP revealed that PASP is effective in the growth inhibition of struvite and its inhibitory capacity is proportional to its concentration and that PASP also plays a role in the morphological modification of struvite crystals. The effect of several key parameters, including pH, mixing energy, reaction time, and calcium ions, on PASP inhibition performance was examined for potential practical applications. The results showed that the inhibitory capacity of PASP is sustainable and efficient. Dissolution experiments dosed with PASP were also conducted, and the results showed that PASP can accelerate the dissolution of preformed struvite, and this capacity increases with an increase in its concentration. Therefore, PASP can potentially act as a feasible and environmentally-friendly inhibitor and cleaning agent for struvite scale.


Ties of the Wrestling at Sizhai village,Shuangjiang Township,Liping County,Guizhou Province,is a sports activity mixed with Wushu and recreation.It has cultural background and connotation of its own.We must make a key research in the birthplace of the wrestling of the Dong nationality,Sizhai Village,study the original culture of the wrestling of the Dong nationality systematically and enrich further the study of Dong nationality.


Indonesia is involved in accelerating the mobilization of people between countries as a result of the rapid growth of globalization. However, the circulation of the world's population raises some serious problems, one of which is human trafficking. Human trafficking has become a successive problem in the international arena that has not been found to be resolved. International conventions and the Indonesian government have issued several regulations that are used to combat human trafficking. World problems that occur especially in border areas involve the role of immigration in neutralizing world crime, in this case the problem of human trafficking, which is reflected in the immigration function in Law No. 6 of 2011. This cross-border crime is a crucial problem that poses a challenge to immigration in particular. Indonesian immigration authorities in optimizing the selective policy. Selective Policy is one of the implementations of the immigration function in maintaining state security and upholding state sovereignty. This selective policy is used by immigration officers in carrying out their duties and functions to regulate the entry and exit of a person from a country, especially Indonesia.


It is widely acknowledged in hospitals that the quality of design and environment can influence the quality of patient care, the sense of therapeutic security and the experience of staff. This women's PICU collaborated with the charity Hospital Rooms to realise the valuable role of
 art within the clinical environment. Experienced artists were commissioned to work in genuine partnership with patients and staff to re-envision the physical environment with the installation of eight imaginative, inventive and PICU compliant art works. The implementation, and both
 patient and staff perspectives were evaluated. There was no disruption to clinical care and engagement and participation was enthusiastic. There were 35 patient encounters and 32 staff encounters, including creative workshops and an exhibition. Patient Experience Data Intelligence
 Centre (PEDIC) reports showed an improvement following artwork installation. Patients were more likely to recommend the ward, felt more involved in their care and that the ward was comfortable. The art transformed clinical spaces creating opportunity for patients to have exceptional experiences:
 'being here feels like sitting in the park'. Staff evaluation through a 'visual matrix' method that explores shared experience, revealed that the art has introduced further possibility of 'respite and escape' for both patients and staff. There is a sense that 'you feel like it is
 leading you to somewhere, you feel like there is something more'. It has also engendered 'ownership and pride': it 'feels like pushing boundaries, things you thought could never be considered at all, are now being considered'.


This paper describes a communication model to integrate repositories of programming problems with other e-Learning software components. The motivation for this work comes from the EduJudge project that aims to connect an existing repository of programming problems to learning management systems. When trying to use the existing repositories of learning objects we realized that they are mainly specialized search engines and lack features for integration with other e-Learning systems. With this model we intend to clarify the main features of a programming problem repository, in order to enable the design and development of software components that use it. The two main points of this model are the definition of programming problems as learning objects and the definition of the core functions exposed by the repository. In both cases, this model follows the existing specifications of the IMS standard and proposes extensions to deal with the special requirements of automatic evaluation and grading of programming exercises. In the definition of programming problems as learning objects we introduced a new schema for meta-data. This schema is used to represent meta-data related to automatic evaluation that cannot be conveniently represented using the standard: the type of automatic evaluation; the requirements of the evaluation engine; or the roles of different assets tests cases, program solutions, etc. In the definition of the core functions we used two different web services flavours SOAP and REST and described each function as an operation for each type of interface. We describe also the data types of the arguments of each operation. These data types consist mainly on learning objects and their identifications, but include also usage reports and queries using XQuery.


Also most important things for libraries are selection and acqusition of the periodicals and serials. Because, the preodicals content current information published in the world and they are more expensive then the other type of library materials. In recent years, by the increasing costs, many libraries cancelled subscribtion of the periodicals in their own collection. When the cancellation of any periodical is done, librarians have to give attantion to some techniques or methods in their works. In addition to, they have to know main princible of the cancellation methods or techniques and they have to test the reliability, validity and economic feasibility at the same time. These techniques or methods are known as; reshelving, faculty advice, prepared cancell / subscribtion lists, taking method citation analysis, librarian's profession judgement, cost-per-use methods. In this research, selection of the best technics or methods in the different libraries are examined closly.


Abstract An eight year sample of cold-season (1 October through 31 March) extratropical cyclones in the, Pacific Ocean basin is used to study central pressure changes and life cycle characteristics. We find that over 90% of the cyclones passing through the area of the Kuroshio Current intensify in this region. Corresponding percentages in excess of 60% extend from the Kuroshio, south of 45°N, eastward to 130°W. Mean 24-h central pressure falls of all cyclones exceed 9 mb through the entire basin west of 140°W in the latitude band 30° to 50°N. A statistical analysis of 24-h central pressure changes is performed on all cyclones within our domain. A frequency distribution of 1996 cases of 24-h maximum deepening reveals statistically significant departures from a Gaussian distribution, with the coefficient of skewness substantially negative. We also find similarly significant departures from normal in a frequency distribution of all 24-h central pressure changes, in spite of the fact that this distribution wo...


Interview conducted by Dr. Wei Tan, Managing Director, Mingde Economic Research Inc., Washington, D.C. Can you explain the reason why the Chinese government wants to establish a fair competition…


The Federal Emergency Management Agency is currently conducting a major evaluation of the goals and performance of the National Flood Insurance Program. This report contributes to that evaluation by developing more reliable estimates of the proportion of single-family homes that have flood insurance (the market penetration rate); by identifying factors that determine the market penetration rate; and by examining some of the opportunities for, and the potential benefits of, increasing the market penetration rate.


The modal‐style approach for representing the exterior radiation characteristics of structures generally seeks to find a set of orthogonal functions, or acoustic modes, that diagonalize a radiation operator in the exterior domain of the structure. The choice of basis functions for the modal representation is arbitrary, though use of the natural modes of structural vibration tends to provide some physical insight. The acoustic modes are found through an eigen analysis or singular value decomposition analysis of the radiation operator. The eigenvalue or singular value associated with a given mode is directly proportional to the radiation efficiency of that mode. The dependency of the radiation efficiencies and mode shapes on the number of degrees of freedom permitted in the derivation of the radiation operator is investigated for a baffled finite rectangular plate. The accuracy of the acoustic modal representation depends on the number of degrees of freedom permitted in the derivation of the radiation opera...


This paper states the necessity of the survey on the public opinions about inspection and acceptance minitoring of construction projects.Based on current construction projects acceptance monitoring of construction projects,it puts forward the object,content,method of the survey on the public opinions about inspection and acceptance minitoring of construction projects,and the solution and implementation of public opinions.


Chlorobutyl rubber (CIIR) is similarly manufactured to butyl rubber (IIR). The insertion of chlorine atom in isoprene group represents an improvement in its properties, such as: high vulcanizing speed, low permanent stress and compatibility with other types of rubber. The presence of reactive chlorine in butyl chlorate allows a variety of vulcanizing techniques, being the cure via sulfur, the most conventional. In these compounds carbonhalogen bonds are weaker than carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds, and the main effect of radiation is to break the carbon-halogen bond to give an organic free radical. Irradiations of certain alkyl chlorides can bring about isomerism in which the location of the halogen atom is changed, the carbon skeleton of molecule remaining unaltered. Irradiation of n-butyl chlorides gives high yields of tertiary carbon. The major effect of high energy photon, such as gamma rays, in organic polymers is the generation of free radicals, along changes in mechanical properties. This work aims to the study of irradiation effect on mechanical properties of a sulfur cured chlorobutyl rubber compound, gamma irradiated within 25, 50, 100, 150 e 200 kGy doses range. The techniques used in their characterization were: strength – stress analysis and elasticity modulus. Results obtained were investigated, demonstrated and discussed. Key-Words: Chlorobutyl rubber, mechanical properties, gamma radiation, sulfur-cured.


Abstract:  Prevention of conditions, such as osteoporosis, requires an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of bone resorption. The understanding that cells of the myeloid lineage are osteoclast precursors suggests that macrophage colony‐stimulating factor (M‐CSF) plays an important role in osteoclast biology. Signals generated by the binding of M‐CSF to the cell‐surface receptor c‐Fms appear to trigger events leading to osteoclast differentiation. We have created a chimeric variant of the c‐Fms receptor, which has allowed study of downstream events activated by M‐CSF in a model more relevant to normal physiology than prior studies, which have relied on myeloid tissues. Our studies suggest novel regulatory signaling pathways initiated via the c‐Fms receptor.


This part describes how to apply the new solution of the problem of variational-experimental method, demonstrated the efficacy of the use of the method. Part 1 cm. [2].


The present investigation was carried out to understand the interrelationship and degree of dependence of grain yield on its components and gall midge incidence and to elucidate their relative importance. The experiment was conducted using 42 rice hybrids developed by crossing 6 CMS lines and seven testers in Line X Tester mating design, their parents and four checks. Observations were recorded on gall midge incidence, grain yield and fourteen component characters. Correlation coefficient analysis suggested that grain yield per plant had highly significant and positive association with panicle length (rp = 0.4600**, rg = 0.5545**) followed by number of grains per panicle (rp = 0.4219**, rg = 0.5125**) and number of productive tillers per plant (rp = 0.4006**, rg = 0.4942**) and negative non significant association with gall midge incidence (rp =-0.1154, rg =0.1430). Panicle length had the highest positive direct effect (0.9688) followed by the number of grains per panicle (0.5748). Gall midge incidence showed a negative direct effect at the phenotypic level and a positive direct effect at the genotypic level on the grain yield per plant. Further, it showed indirect negative effects via plant height, number of productive tillers per plant, number of grains per panicle, spikelet fertility, hulling percentage, milling percentage, kernel length and kernel breadth as Original Research Article Begum et al.; CJAST, 40(2): 33-45, 2021; Article no.CJAST.65381 34 revealed from path analysis. The result of multiple linear regression exhibited that only the number of productive tillers per plant and the number of grains per panicle contributed significantly towards grain yield per plant. The step-wise regression analysis revealed that the panicle length, number of grains per panicle and number of productive tillers per plant were the most important characters having R=0.6505 and thus, could explain 42.31% of the total variation of grain yield. Gall midge incidence contributed to only 0.95% of the variation for grain yield, which might be due to the low incidence or resistance of the hybrids to the gall midge.


The aim of this article is to introduce how culture and economics intertwine in urban re-structuring before and after the 1990 recession in New York City by using the case study of Flushing, Queens. My research will bring in a cultural perspective to contribute to the understanding of gentrification as economic, social and cultural restructuring under the impact of international immigration. First, this case of neighbourhood transfiguration was initially triggered by a private immigrant developer, not a cooperation, whose successes were based on factors including Taiwanese immigrants' residential and housing preferences in the 1980s and 1990s. Ethnic residential preference and cultural tastes are cultural factors which accelerated gentrification during the early 1990s recession. The residential pattern of Asian immigrants in New York has showed the continued concentration of ethnic enclaves since the 1980s. Secondly, there has been diversification in Flushing since the 1980s, which is different from the kind of gentrification which creates a social, economic, and racial hegemony in a neighbourhood. The diversification of races and ethnicities in this neighbourhood has increased since the 1980s through the contribution of post-1965 and later post-Cold War immigrants, especially the settlement of Asian immigrants. We need to distinguish between gentrification that creates homogenous racial or ethnic communities that push immigrants out, and this new form of super-diversity gentrification, based on a transnational flow of capital that fosters diversity and uses diversity as a form of investment capital.


Various face recognition methods are derived using local features among them the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) approach is very famous. The histogram techniques based on LBP is a complex task. Later Uniform Local Binary Pattern (ULBP) is derived on LBP, based on the bitwise transitions and ULBP's are treated as the fundamental property of texture. The ULBP approach treated all Non-Uniform Local Binary Patterns' (NULBP) into one miscellaneous label. Recently we have derived Prominent LBP (PLBP), Maximum PLBP (MPLBP) and Smallest PLBP (SPLBP). The PLBP consists of the majority of the ULBP's and some of the NULBP's. The basic disadvantage of these various variants of LBP's  is they are basically local approaches and completely failed in representing features derived from large regions or macrostructures, which are very much essential for faces. This paper derives PLBP's on the large region. The rectangular region of this paper is assumed with a size of multiples of three and PLBPs are evaluated on dividing each region into multiple regions. The proposed Multi Region-PLBP (MR-PLBP) approach is tested on three facial databases namely Yale, Indian and AT&T ORL. The experimental results show the proposed approach significantly outperforms the other LBP based face recognition methods.


The worldwide success of the Three-Body Problem, thanks to the absorption and innovation of world literature. In addition to the science fiction writer Arthur Clarke, Tolstoy is one of the largest foreign influence on liu's literary creation, however,there are very few domestic related research. This article attempts through the Three-Body Problem and the comparative study of war and peace, explore the Three-Body Problem winning world art elements, in order to provide some references for the creation and overseas spreading of the Chinese contemporary science fictions.


Angular distributions of photoelectrons from both C and O K-shells of a fixed-in-space CO molecule have been calculated using a continuum multiple scattering method with partially overlapping spheres. The calculations have been performed at several photon energies from the ionization thresholds up to about 30 eV above them, where the σ* shape resonances occur. Comparison with recently published experimental results (Motoki S et al 2000 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 33 4193) shows that this simple method gives a rather reliable description of the most sophisticated experimental data.


Now that the alimentary canal has become accepted as a proper object for clinical research, we stand at the threshold of new discoveries and new concepts, but enough information has not yet accrued to let us know whether the malabsorption syndrome, so-called, is an entity, an inborn error of structure and of function of the alimentary canal which leads to a bewildering array of secondary deficiencies or whether a nutritional deficiency actually is an essential precursor or trigger mechanism which has to be sprung in order to bring the clinical discorder into an active and recognizable stage. Despite the great amount of work which has been done on absorption in man and animals, many basic problems are far from solved, and it is against this background that Adlersberg and his colleagues have brought together this symposium. One shortcoming of the book is the lack of a detailed historical review, though


Background: Porphyromonas gingivalis is one of the bacteria that cause pulp necrosis, NaOCl is an irrigation solution that has become the gold standard in endodontic treatment, however NaOCl is toxic, so other alternative materials are needed. One usable material is papaya plant (Carica papaya L.) which has antibacterial properties. Objective: to know the differences in the activity of papaya leaves extract, papaya seed extract, and papaya fruit juice in inhibiting P.gingivalis. Methods: This study is an in vitro experimental laboratory of agar well diffusion method used papaya seeds extract, papaya leaves extract and papaya fruit juice in several consentrations (6.25%,12.5%,25%,50%, and 100%) and NaOCl 5,25% as positive control. Results: This study showed that the diameter of inhibitory zone against P.gingivalis was found on 2 concentrations of papaya seed extract, a concentration of 100% with an average 23,43 mm and concentration of 50% with an avarege 16,43 mm. The inhibition zone test of papaya leaves extract and papaya fruit juice against P.gingivalis was not found around the well. Conclusion: Papaya seed extract was able to inhibit P.gingivalis in certain concentration, while papaya leave extract and papaya fruit juice were not able to inhibit the growth of P.gingivalis.


Many conservatives, including some conservative scholars, blame the ideas and influence of John Dewey for what has frequently been called a crisis of character, a catastrophic decline in moral behavior in the schools and society of North America. Dewey's critics claim that he is responsible for the undermining of the kinds of instruction that could lead to the development of character and the strengthening of the will, and that his educational philosophy and example exert a ubiquitous and disastrous influence on students' conceptions of moral behavior. This article sets forth the views of some of these critics and juxtaposes them with what Dewey actually believed and wrote regarding character education. The juxtaposition demonstrates that Dewey neither called for nor exemplified the kinds of character-eroding pedagogy his critics accuse him of championing; in addition, this paper highlights the ways in which Dewey argued consistently and convincingly that the pedagogical approaches advocated by his critics are the real culprits in the decline of character and moral education.


Web Applications (WAs) are complex systems and it is difficult to understand their architecture without proper documentation. Due to high pressure of meeting deadlines and short time to market, WAs are liable to be poorly structured and are rarely well documented. Even if documentation is present, it often does not comply with code because code is updated without updating documentation. This leads to problems during maintenance. To improve understanding of a system, attempts can be made to recover architecture from the source code by analyzing the relations and dependencies between a system's components. Architecture of WAs revolves around its web pages (WPs). In this paper, we present a tool for extracting relations between WPs within WAs. WAFE is capable of extracting a large number of relations, and uses combination of procedural language analysis and object oriented language analysis along with WP identifiers (name terms). Another important feature of WAFE tool is its language independence i.e. one can make it functional for any server side language by writing a few regular expressions.


Taking the women's horse vaulting finalists at the 44 th World Championships and the London Olympics as the objects of study,this paper analyzed the development trend and the level of the world women's horse vaulting competition of the Chinese and foreign players.The results showed that the difficulty of movement world-class horse vaulting did not decrease because of the replacement of the old players with the new ones.The average point was above six.There was space for improvement of medal obtaining players.The levels of the players were close.Two trial jump were mainly"Yurchenko Twist"and"Arab Spring Small Flip Body"groups,accounting for above two thirds out of there."Handspring"and"Cartwheel"groups were seldom used due to its low difficulty.Movement quality of the American players was the best,which enables the players the major vault gold medal competitors to be learnt by players from other countries.The Chinese players'movement difficulty was close to the world level.There was a big gap in the completion of quality,and action groups needed to be more diversified.


For Tuberculosis (TB) detection beside the more expensive diagnosis solutions such as culture or sputum smear analysis one could consider the automatic analysis of the chest X-ray (CXR). This could mimic the lung region reading by the radiologist and it could provide an inexpensive solution to analyze and diagnose pulmonary abnormalities such as TB, a disease which often co-occurs with HIV. This software based pulmonary screening can be a reliable and affordable alternative solution for rural populations in different parts of the world such as the Indian subcontinent, Africa, etc. The fully automatic system we are proposing is processing the incoming CXR image by applying image processing techniques to detect the region of interest (ROI) followed by a computationally cheap feature extraction involving edge detection using Laplacian of Gaussian which we enrich by counting the local distribution of the intensities. The choice to "zoom in" the ROI and look for abnormalities locally is motivated by the fact that some pulmonary abnormalities are localized in specific regions of the lungs. Later on the classifiers can decide about the normal or abnormal nature of each lung X-ray. Our goal is to find a simple feature descriptor, instead of a combination of several ones, -proposed and promoted in recent years' literature, which can properly and simply describe the different pathological alterations in the lungs. Our experiments report results on two publicly available benchmark data collections11https://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/repos/chestImages.php, namely the Shenzhen and the Montgomery collection. For performance evaluation, measures such as area under the curve (AUC), and accuracy (ACC) were considered, achieving AUC = 0.81 (ACC = 83.33%) and AUC = 0.96 (ACC = 96.35%) for the Montgomery and Shenzhen collections, respectively. Several comparisons are also provided to other state-of-the-art systems reported recently in the field.


Midkine (MK) has been reported as the potential novel diagnostic biomarker for cancer in several studies, but their results were controversial. Therefore, we performed a diagnostic meta-analysis to assess the diagnostic value of serum MK in cancer patients. A systematic electronic and manual search was performed for relevant literatures through several databases up to June 1, 2017. The quality of the studies included in the meta-analysis was assessed using the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS-2) tool. All analyses were conducted using stata12.0 software. Ten studies collectively included 1119 cancer patients and 1441 controls met the eligible criteria. The summary estimates were: sensitivity 0.78 (95% CI = 0.68–0.85), specificity 0.83 (95% CI = 0.72–0.90), positive likelihood ratio 4,54 (95% CI = 2.64–7.80), negative likelihood 0.27 (95% CI = 0.18–0.40), diagnostic odds ratio 16.79 (95% CI = 7.17–39.33), and area under the curve 0.87 (95% CI = 0.84–0.89). Publication bias was suggested by Deeks' funnel plot asymmetry test (P = 0.92). According to our results, serum MK has greater diagnostic value in diagnosing cancer, however, more reliable studies in larger cohort should be conducted to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of serum MK.


Introduction: A soil pit from the Prospect Mesa Formation (PMF) near Wright Valley, Antarctica, was investigated using sequential sulfur extraction, stable isotope analysis, and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The Antarctic Dry Valleys (ADV) have previously been used as a potential Mars analog due to their cold and dry environment. The PMF exhibits a varied stratigraphy with layers ranging from morainal gravel deposits, lodgement till, and fossil-rich marine sediments [1]. Seven samples, from the Pit #1, Core 72 Site in the PMF and collected during a 1979/1980 Antarctic campaign [2], were analyzed. Samples were taken at 2-4 cm intervals from the surface sediment layer down to 12-16 cm in depth (Table 1). These samples have high sulfate and evaporite mineral abundances, and their sulfur isotopic compositions were analyzed to assess the origin of the sulfate and potential sources of depletion of δS. We present a potential depletion process that supports the hypothesis that the sulfate was deposited from atmospheric sources that have experienced microbial interactions.


This paper presents a novel method for modeling internal faults in a power transformer. This method uses a distributed computing approach for analysis of internal fault in transient stability (T/S) studies of electrical networks using Diakoptics and large change sensitivity (LCS) concepts. The combination of these concepts by phase frame model of transformer will be used here to develop an internal fault simulation of transformers. This approach leads to a model which is compatible with commercial phasor-based software packages. Consequently, it enables calculation of fault currents in any branch of the network due to a winding fault of a power transformer. The proposed method is implemented successfully and validated by time domain software and GEC group measurement results.


Folklore claims of the therapeutic effect of garden slug (Diplosolenodes occidentalis) extract relieving brochoconstriction in asthmatic individuals were never validated scientifically. Preliminary findings confirmed this effect. The aim of this study was to isolate the compound associated with this effect. Purification of the crude garden slug extract was done by flash column chromatography and Thin Layer Chromatography methods. Structural details were confirmed mainly by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopic data. The pure compound (GT) was identified as a triglyceride of linolenic acid. In vitro pharmacological studies showed that GT acted in a dose‐dependent manner. Doses of GT, (3.61 x 10−6M), (7.20x10−6M), (1.4x310−5M), (2.9x10−5M) and (5.7x10−5M) given cumulatively produced statistically significant relaxation (p<0.05, n=8) of histamine‐ induced tracheal tension; non‐competitive antagonism was displayed. GT is an antagonist at H1 receptors since it produced relaxation in tracheal contractions induced by the H1 agonist histamine trifluoromethyl toluidide dimaleate (200μg).These results classify GT as an antihistamine which acts specifically as an H1 antagonist. This work was funded by Graduate Studies and Research section of The University of the West Indies


In recent years, in most developed countries, the use of dietary supplements in
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Multiscale progressive failure simulations have been performed for a 3D woven composite considering six length scales, spanning from the woven composite repeating unit cell to the matrix material containing voids. The Multiscale Recursive Micromechanics approach, which enables micromechanics models to call other micromechanics models (or themselves recursively) to consider finer and finer length scales, has been employed. The multiscale model uses both the generalized method of cells and Mori-Tanaka micromechanics theories and considers failure and damage at the lowest length scale. A simple subvolume elimination damage model, as well as the crack band model, are employed for the matrix and their predicted composite responses compared with and without a preexisting binder tow disbond. Results are also compared with experimental data for an AS4 carbon fiber/RTM6 epoxy matrix 3D orthogonal woven PMC, with good agreement in terms of global stiffness and global failure stress.


Data augmentation strategies are increasingly important in NLP pipelines for low-resourced and endangered languages, and in neural morphological inflection, augmentation by so called data hallucination is a popular technique. This paper presents a detailed analysis of inflection models trained with and without data hallucination for the low-resourced Canadian Indigenous language Gitksan. Our analysis reveals evidence for a concatenative inductive bias in augmented models—in contrast to models trained without hallucination, they strongly prefer affixing inflection patterns over suppletive ones. We find that preference for affixation in general improves inflection performance in "wug test" like settings, where the model is asked to inflect lexemes missing from the training set. However, data hallucination dramatically reduces prediction accuracy for reduplicative forms due to a misanalysis of reduplication as affixation. While the overall impact of data hallucination for unseen lexemes remains positive, our findings call for greater qualitative analysis and more varied evaluation conditions in testing automatic inflection systems. Our results indicate that further innovations in data augmentation for computational morphology are desirable.


A wide variety of carbonyl compounds can be converted smoothly to the corresponding acetals on treatment with alcohols or diols and triethyl orthoformate in the presence of a catalytic amount of (bromodimethyl)sulfonium bromide at room temperature. Similarly, various carbonyl compounds can be transformed into the corresponding dithioacetals on reaction with thiol or dithiols at room temperature by employing the same catalyst without any solvent. Moreover, O,O-acetals can also be converted into the corresponding dithioacetals under identical conditions. Some of the major advantages are mild reaction conditions, a high degree of efficiency, compatibilty with other protecting groups and the lack of solvents, particularly for thioacetalisation. In addition, no brominations occur at the double bond or α to the keto position or even in the aromatic ring under these experimental conditions. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2004)


Objective: Abrus precatorius is a universal panacea in herbal medicine. In view of this, phytochemical screening, proximate analysis, median lethal dose (LD50), hematological and biochemical effects of extracts of A. precatorius seed was studied in Mus musculus.
Materials and methods: Nineteen (19) mice were used for the study. Four (4) mice were used for determination of median lethal dose of the aqueous and ethyl acetate extracts respectively. The LD50 of aquous and ethyl acetate extracts was estimated at 187.5±62.5 mg/Kg and 175±75 mg/Kg respectively. The remaining fifteen (15) mice divided into 3 groups of 5 each were used for hematological and biochemical studies. Group 1 was administered 1 mL of distilled water while groups 2 and 3 were administered 1/10th (18.75 mg/Kg) of LD50 (187.5 mg/Kg) of methanolic and ethanolic seed extracts, for a period of 4 weeks.
Results: Proximate analysis showed the presence of moisture, ash, crude protein and crude fiber. Carbohydrate and organic matter were calculated. Phytochemical screening showed alkaloids, flavanoids, tannins, saponins, and reducing sugars in both ethanolic and aqueous extracts. Cardiac glycosides were present in aqueous extract. Hematology revealed increased packed cell volume (PCV), hemoglobin (Hb), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) whereas red blood cell (RBC) and white blood cell (WBC) were significantly (P


The first report of nephropathy associated with methicillin appeared in 1961. By 1968, David Baldwin and his colleagues at the New York University School of Medicine found 13 case reports in the literature. The clinical picture included fever, rash, eosinophilia, eosinophiluria, variable renal insufficiency, and spontaneous resolution. Light microscopy showed interstitial nephritis. Baldwin identified additional cases of methicillin-associated nephropathy; in all cases, large doses of methicillin for prolonged periods had been administered for sepsis, endocarditis, or osteomyelitis. Biopsies from two patients showed ''tubular damage and interstitial accumulation of mononuclear cells and eosinophils without glomerular abnormalities or arteritis.'' More importantly, immunofluorescent studies (an infant technology at the time) were performed in the case of a 37-year-old man with osteomyelitis who had received 24 g of methicillin daily over a period of 32 days (1):


We address scaling of the "dynamic systems" approach for robot planning to multi-agent cooperation. To accommodate this extension it is necessary to carefully consider how individual behaviors contribute to the vector field. To avoid spurious minima and related problems a competition dynamics is introduced and its stability is analyzed. A system of two cooperating agents is designed, and examples are presented to illustrate the utility of this approach.


Gold nanoparticles were obtained by the method of three-stage growth from a seed solution. Scanning electron microscopy images as well as comparison of extinction spectra to the results of numerical simulations prove the formation of prolate nanoparticles. Such particles with localized plasmon resonance in the NIR region are much-needed for the plasmon-enhanced overtone spectroscopy.


Highway Interstate System and Society Dakota Bosler, Secondary Education, Social Studies, School of Education, Indiana University Southeast This study seeks to examine the economic opportunity costs involved with the construction of the United States' Highway Interstate System. Started by President Eisenhower through the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, America's Interstates have proven to have great costs to the environment, people, and neighborhoods in which they pass through. However, without this system of highways, America's road network would look much as did at the beginning of the previous century consisting of poorly maintained, indirect routes. Has the economic surge and push forward into what is now considered modern society through the construction of America's highway system been worth the costs to the environment, people, and neighborhoods? Mentor:  James Hollenbeck, School of Education, Indiana University Southeast


There are a few statistics testing the homogeneity of odds ratios across strata. Asymptotic statistics lose their power in the "sparse-data" setting. Both asymptotic statistics and exact tests have low power when the sample sizes are small. We created a set of U statistics and compared them with some existing statistics in testing homogeneity of OR at different data settings. We evaluated their performance in terms of the empirical size and power via Monto Carlo simulations. Our results showed that two of the U-statistics under our study had higher power for testing homogeneity of odds ratios for 2 by 2 contingency tables. The application of the tests was illustrated in two real examples.


Throughout the Mediterranean world in the Middle ages, Jews, Christians and Muslims interacted in streets and in marketplaces, shared meals, undertook joint economic ventures, traveled together. These interactions were, in theory, governed by a host of legal strictures. Yet the clerical elites who were often the guarantors of these religious/legal traditions often reacted with realism and pragmatism, adapting the seemingly rigid constraints of religious law to specific needs. Two examples are used to illustrate this, from the writings of twelfth-century ifriqiyan mufti al-Māzarī and thirteenth-century canonist Raymond of Penyafort.


I discuss the flow of excitation probability along a multistate chain of resonant excitations as driven by coherent photoexcitation, in particular the gated interruption of this probability flow caused by a strongly coupled side branch. If the side branch is itself a chain, not a single transition, then flow inhibition occurs if the number of branch transitions is odd, but no inhibition occurs if the number is even. The inhibition provides a limiting bound on the intensity of amplified stimulated emission.


This research aims to determine the effect of learning style, emotional intelligence, and adversity quotient on the second-grade students' mathematics learning achievement of Islamic Senior High School. The type of this research is ex post facto, where the total sample used is 100 students selected using random sampling technique. The data was obtained through a learning style questionnaire, emotional intelligence, adversity quotient, and mathematics learning achievement tests. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics using multiple linear regression analysis. The result showed that: (1) There is no difference in the type of learning style in affecting students' mathematics learning achievement. (2) Students' emotional intelligence has a positive but not significant effect on their mathematics learning achievement. (3) Students' Adversity quotient has a positive but not significant effect on their mathematics learning achievement. (4) Learning style, emotional intelligence, and adversity quotient have no significant effect on students' mathematics learning achievement.


The carbonate-evaporite sequences of the Upper Jurassic Arab and overlying Hith formations in the southern and southwestern Arabian Gulf form many supergiant and giant fields that produce from the Arab Formation and are excellent examples of a classic reservoir/seal relationship. The present-day sabkha depositional setting that extends along most of the southern and southwestern coasts of the Arabian Gulf provides an analog to these Upper Jurassic sedimentary rocks. In fact, sabkha-related diagenesis of original grain-supported sediments in the Arab and Hith formations has resulted in five distinct lithofacies that characterize the reservoir/seal relationship: (1) oolitic/peloidal grainstone, (2) dolomitic grainstone, (3) dolomitic mudstone, (4) dolomitized grainstone, an (5) massive anhydrite. Interparticle porosity in grainstones and dolomitic grainstones and intercrystalline porosity in dolomitized rocks provide the highest porosity in the study area. These sediments accumulated in four types of depositional settings: (1) supratidal sabkhas, (2) intertidal mud flats and stromatolitic flats, (3) shallow subtidal lagoons, and (4) shallow open-marine shelves. The diagenetic history of the Arab and Hith formations in the southern and southwestern Arabian Gulf suggests that the anhydrite and much of the dolomitization are a result of penecontemporaneous sabkha diagenesis. The character and timing of the paragenetic events are responsible for the excellent porosity of the Arab Formation and the lack of porosity in the massive anhydrites of the Hith, which together result in the prolific hydrocarbon sequences of these formations.


T h i s i s a r epo r t o f s pee c h p r odu c t i on c hange s i n a pa t i en t w ho l o s t r i ng due t o b il a t e r a l a c ou s t i c neu r o m a s and r e - c e i v ed an aud i t o r y b r a i n s t e m i m p l an t t o provide some "auditory" stimulation. Speech production and perception and neurological status were measured mul- tiple times before and after onset of hearing loss. "Postural" parameters, such as average vowel SPL, duration, and F0 changed with hearing status, whereas phonemic parameters, such as fricative s pe c t r a and V O T w e r r s ab e


Soybean and maize seeds were selected as experiment material.The effect of different types salts stress and calcium on the seeds germination has been researched.The results showed that seed germination inhibition under alkali salts were significantly greater than neutral salt.Applied calcium could effectually improve the activity of α-amylase and protease and the soluble carbohydrate content,alleviate organic matter decomposition process of seeds under salt stress.Further,applied calcium could improve the germination rate,the length of root and shoot,biomass and water content under salt stress.This alleviation under alkali salts stress was more significant,and more obvious to the salt sensitivity of legumi nous plant.


In the course of a series of investigations on the structure and composition of the fluids and tissues of the eye in which I and my co-workers 1 have been engaged for some time, attention was directed to the possible occurrence of vitamin A in the retinal tissue. The technic employed was essentially that which has become familiar in recent years to students of nutrition. PLAN OF INVESTIGATION Preparation of Retinal Tissue .—Fresh ocular tissue procured at the abattoir was brought to the laboratory, where all the fat and adherent tissues were cut away, the sclera being left clean and dry. The eyeball was then cut in two with a sharp razor blade. The halves were inverted and the vitreous peeled from the retina. The retinal tissue was then removed from the choroidal layer. A few strands of choroidal pigment were found adherent to the retina ; hence the


Strengthening the Education of Humanity Quality and raising the students' humanity quality has become the urgent task of higher vocational education.This article,based on the analysis of the present conditions of vocational college students' humanity quality,puts forward some proposals and countermeasures to the task.


Our study sites were located at the Marvin Klemme Research Range (MKRR) and the Stillwater Research Range (SRR). The MKRR is located approximately 15 km South of Clinton in west-central Oklahoma and is predominantly a mixed-grass prairie. We used the MKRR to evaluate pan trap effectiveness at sites with and without floral resource removal via herbicide applications. An aerial application combining 2,4D (2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid), picloram, and AllyH XP herbicide (0.7 kg acid equivalent/ha) was applied 15 May 2009. Herbicide applications reduced forb species richness by 63.6%, 100%, 88.9%, and 83.3% during June, July, August, and September, respectively, within the study plots. Forb abundance also was reduced by .95% each month in the herbicide treated plots. Four separate pastures (two treated with herbicide and two untreated controls) ranging in size from 40 to 50 ha were sampled at the MKRR, with two sampling areas located a minimum of 200 m apart in each pasture. The SRR is located approximately 21 km southwest of Stillwater in north-central Oklahoma and is predominantly a tallgrass prairie. We used the SRR to evaluate the effect of low and high floral resource availability generated by annual variations in precipitation on pan trap effectiveness. 2006 was a drought year with 30.5% less rainfall than normal based on the 30 year average from 1971–2000, whereas 2007 was a wet year with almost twice as much rainfall as normal (data obtained from a Mesonet station located on the SRR; http://www.mesonet.org/). Although no formal estimates of floral resource availability were recorded, flower resources were very limited in 2006 and abundant in 2007 (KAB, pers. obs.). Three separate pastures


A special feature of the Caspian depression is the large stratum of the sedimentary basin and, accordingly, its early age of source rock(s) (SR). The likelihood of finding new HC prospects in this region, despite good knowledge, remains high in both subsalt and post-salt complexes. In this paper, complex geochemical analysis ( mass spectrometry analysis on GCMS-SIM, GCMSMS-MRM, gas chromatography on HRGC, isotope analysis of carbon on GC-IR-MS) of roughly 700 crude oil samples obtained from 45 different oil-fields and structures of Southern Caspian depression, was carried out in the laboratory of geochemical studies of oil, water and rocks of subsidiary of LLP "SRI" KMG " Caspimunaigas " in 2016-2018 to characterize the possible source rocks of oil samples and discern their genetic relationship. Biomarkers in oils allowed determining the organic matter type(OM), bio-organisms that served as source of OM and environmental conditions that prevailed at the time of sedimentation, possible age of source rock and also thermal maturity. According to the research results, all oils were derived from marine OM, as indicated by the presence of C30-sterane, the sterane and hopane ternaries, the distribution of n-alkanes and isoprenioids. Based on biomarker distributions, source rocks with clays and carbonate lithology were predicted: the presence of high ratios of C29 hopane / C30 hopane , C35 homohopanes, DBT/Phen , and high C24 tetracyclic terpanes in oils obtained from some fields are indicators of carbonate source rock, while low values of these ratios in oils from other fields suggest shaly (clastic) source rock. It should be noted that massive carbonate sediments are found only in the subsalt complex, and clays (shales) can be identified both under and above the salt deposits of the region, depending on the age of sedimentary rocks. In consideration of integration of lithology of reservoirs and source rocks of oil samples, based on biomarker analysis a map of the sedimentary basin of the southern part of the Caspian depression was made (Figure 1), where three distinct groups of fields were identified, which are characterized in the following order:


This paper presents a form of concentrating the solar radiation-employing multi-mirror to reflect the sun's radiation continuously on to the solar cell module. First, the basic structure, tracking control principles and methods of the Multi-Mirror concentrating solar radiation photovoltaic system are described. By the analysis of Multi-Mirror array of solar radiation concentrating system omnidirectional tracking control, the tracking movement equations of azimuth angle, tilt angle, space position of solar cell module and Multi-Mirror array are deducted. By establishing the tracking motion relationship between solar cell module and Multi-Mirror array, the tracking coordinated control between solar module and Multi-Mirror is achieved. The correlative quantitative analysis and numerical calculation are done for this system.


Background: Being one of the major texts in Ayurveda herbal pharmaceutics, Sharangadhar Samhita contributes a very significant part in the world of Ayurveda. It is a major book for reference to academicians as well as physicians. It is an ancient text written by Acharya Sharangadhar in fourteenth century. It is divided into three parts, which are called Khanda. The Khanda includes Prathama Khanda (first part)—7 chapters, Madhyama Khanda (second part)—12 chapters, and Uttara Khanda (last part)—13 chapters, that is, total chapters in Sharangadhar Samhita are 32 and comprises 2600 verses. Materials and Methods: In this work, the review of relevant literature of Lepa Kalpana was carried out from Hindi and English commentary on Sharangadhar Samhita by Pandit Durgadutta Shastri and P. Himasagar Murthy, respectively. In Uttara Khanda, 11th chapter is described as Lepadi Vidhi Adhyaya (chapter on topical dosage formulations) and the same chapter was considered for review. Observation and Results: Total 94 types of Lepa formulations are narrated, of which 80 Lepa formulations contain herbal ingredients, whereas remaining 14 formulations contain herbo-mineral ingredients. Most of these formulations are indicated in skin disorder, hair disorder, migraine, abscess management, anti-inflammatory, and so on. Conclusion: Under the heading of Lepa, Acharya Sharangadhar has provided medicament for local application in common skin diseases. There is a huge scope for research as well as drug discovery and development in the context of Lepa formulations such as Stana and Lingavriddhikar Lepa (breast and penis enlargement), Kurandaghna Lepa (hydrocele), and Suryavarta Ardhavabhedakahara Lepa, mentioned by Acharya Sharangadhar.


This study aims to investigate the relationship between work-family conflict (i.e. work-to-family and family-to-work) and work-related attitudes (i.e. job satisfaction, affective commitment and turnover intentions) among academician in Malaysia. Mediation effects of stress reactions which are behavioral stress, somatic stress and cognitive stress were also tested. A survey method using questionnaire was utilized to obtain the data. A total of 267 respondents were participated, giving the return rate of 20% from the entire of population. Research data were analyzed using PASW18 and AMOS SPSS18. Result indicated that only work-to-family conflict was significantly related to stress reactions. While, behavioral stress mediates the effects of work-to-family conflict on job satisfaction, affective commitment and turnover intentions. Cognitive stress only mediates the effects of work-to-family conflict on affective commitment. This paper also discusses the implication of this study to the organization and future research


The aim of this paper is to investigate the discrete-time fractional systems from the following aspects. First, the discrete-time fractional unified system in Caputo sense is established with the help of Euler's discretization method. Furthermore, the dynamic behaviors of the discrete-time fractional Lü system (DFLS) which is deemed as a representative for unified system are observed. Then, the correlation dimension ([Formula: see text]) and Kaplan–Yorke dimension ([Formula: see text]) of the DFLS are evaluated by the aid of Grassberger–Procaccia algorithm and the Lyapunov exponent spectrum, respectively. Finally, the intrinsic connections between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are analyzed by the statistical modeling idea when the DFLS is in chaotic vibrations. The main results show that [Formula: see text] shares a positive correlation with [Formula: see text] for the chaotic DFLS, while the differences between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are not only related to the ratio of the largest and smallest Lyapunov exponents, but also closely tied up with the fractional order [Formula: see text] itself.


The level of analgesia has been investigated in mice of two genotypes C57BL/6J Bl/6j and CBA/CaLac with the somatic pain caused by the formalin test after irradiation of acupuncture point E-36 by microwaves of low intensity (30-300 GHz, density of a stream of capacity of 3-10-9 B(T)/cm2) on a background entered corvitin (20 mg/kg). It is shown, that the action of these two factors causes significant analgesia with different levels: 43% in C57BL/6J Bl/6j mice and 33% in CBA/CaLac mice. The intensity of analgesia after action of microwaves and corvitin exceeds the level attained during separate use of these factors.

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A new species of Archiannelida, Mesonerilla prospera, is described from inland marine caves of Bermuda. This new species is particularly interesting in that it was collected from thin layers of mud on and under stones in totally dark areas of the caves, whereas all other marine Archiannelida (except one deep- water species) are members of the interstitial sand fauna. Recent studies of island marine caves in the Western Atlantic have revealed the presence of rich marine faunas. Comprehensive cave faunal surveys are now underway in Bermuda (Sket and Iliffe 1980) and on San Salvador Island, Bahamas (Carpenter 1981). Additionally, spot collections have been made from a number of sites (Peck 1973). Significant marine troglobites discovered include Remipedia, a new class of Crustacea from Grand Bahama Island (Yager 1981), a variety of caridean shrimps from diverse localities (Hobbs et al. 1977), and a mysid from Jamaica (Bowman 1976). Further collections from anchialine pools, as yet un- classified ecologically, have produced representative~ of the amphipod suborder Ingolfiellidea (Stock 1977a), hadziid amphipods (Stock 1977b), an amphipod of the genus Psammogammarus (Stock 1980), the isopod family Microparasellidae (Stock 1977c), and the order Thermosbaenacea (Stock 1976). The Bermuda Islands, site of the current survey, consist of Pleistocene and Recent eolian and marine limestones completely capping a mid-ocean volcanic seamount. The islands' limestone caves were primarily formed during low stands of sea level corresponding to periods of Pleistocene glaciation (Bretz 1960, Palmer et al. 1977, Iliffe 1981). As postglacial sea levels rose, much of the former extent of the caves was flooded by sea water. Approximately 200 inland caves are known from Bermuda, over half of which contain tidal, sea level pools. Bermuda's long- est cave is the 1.8 km, totally underwater Green Bay Cave system (Iliffe 1980). A biological survey of the terrestrial and marine caves of Bermuda was begun in 1978 (Sket and lliffe 1980). Although most of the animals collected from marine caves were more or less regular immigrants from open littoral habitats, a number of new species including blind and probably subterranean ones were found. Two new species of caridean shrimp, Somersiella sterreri and Typhlatya iliffei (Hart and Manning, 1981); an isopod, Atlantasellus cavernicolus, representing a new family (Sket, 1979); and a new calanoid copepod, Miostephos leamingtonensis (Yeatman, 1980) have so far been described from Bermuda's caves. We here describe a new species of Archiannelida collected from the Walsingham Caves, Bermuda. Mesonerilla prospera, new species Fig. 1


The principal objective of this project is the development of a high quality, large size, light colored dried fig, as similar as possible to the Calimyrna fig variety. In contrast to the Calimyrna, this new fig would not need to be caprified (pollinated) and would have a small closed ostiole (eye), restricting insect access to the interior of the fig fruit. Hybridizations directed at the project goals began in 1991 and continued in 1992. By the end of 1993, about 2400 hybrid fig seedlings had been planted in seedling rows at the UC Kearney Agricultural Center (KAC), Parlier, California, USA. From 1994 through 1996, 45 seedlings were initially selected as having some promise of development into the desired type of cultivar. From 1997 through 2000, evaluation of the 45 selections has continued, primarily from fruit produced in the original seedling block. In addition to the oldest seedling block, additional plantings of the advanced selections have been made in a consolidated selection block at KAC and in three grower test plots in Madera County, CA. The primary characteristics under evaluation are fruit size, skin color, skin quality, ostiole size, fruit flesh quality and density, fungal decay potential and tree productivity. During the 2000 season, fruit was observed at KAC and in grower trials. Although production was light to very light in some of the grower locations, the 45 selections were reduced to 12 primary candidates by the end of the year 2000, using the seven criterion listed above. Evaluation of fungal decay potential was carried out during 1999 and 2000. A field test planting of a row of 50 trees of the most advanced fig selection 6-38W was established in spring of 1999. Although too young yet to produce much fruit, the growth and production characteristics of this selection will be observed over the next several years. An additional test planting of three advanced fig selections will be established in grower trials in spring of 2001. ● Full Text (PDF format, 21587 bytes) ● Citation Download Adobe Acrobat Reader (free software to read PDF files) Websites www.pubhort.org/actahort/ www.actahort.org www.pubhort.org www.ishs.org Hosted by K.U. Leuven ©ISHS http://www.pubhort.org/actahort/books/605/605_2.htm [7/8/2008 9:03:08 PM]


Swedish urban traffic signal systems are normally coordinated with fixed time plan selection. Within this framework local traffic actuated signal timing adjustments are applied based on detector inputs aimed to reduce the number of vehicles in the dilemma zone. Active bus priority is also achieved with the aim to display green signal at the arrival of the bus to the stop line. Due to lack of knowledge of traffic performance impacts of these techniques a major research study was undertaken funded by the Swedish Road Administration. The aim was to evaluate the following control strategies using Stockholm as case study: 1) Fixed time coordination (FTC); 2) Fixed time coordination with local signal timing adjustment (FTC-LTA); 3) Same as 2) + active bus priority (PRIBUSS); 4) Self-optimizing control (SPOT). The methodologies for the study included field data collection using mobile and stationary techniques, offline signal timing calculations with TRANSYT; microscopic simulation modeling using the HUTSIM model. The study obtained the following results: (1) Local traffic adjustment with the manual FTC reduced total delay with 1%. (2) Signal timings determined using TRANSYT reduced the average intersection delay with 9% compared to manual signal settings. (3) Local traffic adjustment reduced total delay with a further 5%. (4) Bus travel time was reduced by 11% using PRIBUSS, and 28% using SPOT. (5) Travel time for all vehicles did not increase using PRIBUSS, and was reduced by 6.5% with SPOT. Results of comparing PRIBUSS and SPOT to FTC-LTA were shown to be statistically significant.


This paper represents a mutate resample method to modify the particle impoverishment problem, which increase the diversity of particles to ensure a better estimate of posterior density. A precise observation model is necessary to track target robustly and accurately, which integrate the intensity and gradient cue base on the characteristics of the target image sequence. An adaptive fusion method is proposed that a log likelihood ratio of sample densities from target and background is computed. Finally, we use a model updating strategy to change observation template appropriately. Experiments show that the modified algorithm has a better tracking performance, which can deal with the occlusion and severe background interference in the tracking process.


Along the Yarlung-zangbo River valley,the Yarlung-zangbo Suture zone in Southern Tibet lasts along more than 2,000 kilometers from west to east,which is also the longest ophiolite belt in China.This ophiolite belt has drawn more and more attention from the geologists,due to its younger age and better reservation.But limited by the past analytical technology,the precise report about its formation time is singularly.And as product of the magmatic event during the extension period of the middle ocean ridge,the gabbro in ophiolite possess a formation age corresponding to the extension time,and this age also represents the formation time of the ophiolite.In this paper,zircon SHRIMP U-Pb technique was applied to the gabbro in Qunrang ophiolite,west of the Yanglung Tangbo suture zone.A 206Pb/238U mean age 125.6±0.88Ma(2σ,MSWD=1.9)was obtained,which is the crystallization time of the gabbro.Compared with the former reported ophiolite ages in the Yanglung Tangbo suture zone(122.3±2.4Ma for Xiugugabu ophiolite in the western part,126±1.5 Ma for the Dazhuka ophioilte and 123±1.8Ma for the Jiding ophiolite in the middle part,while 162.9±2.8Ma for Luobusha ophiolite in the eastern part),this age suggests that the extension time of Tethys oceanic basin in Qunrang region was consistent with the formation time of the Dazhuq and Tiding oceanic basin in the middle part,which indicates that the development of the oceanic basin was isochronous both in the middle part and the western part while was later than the development of oceanic basin in the eastern part of the Yanglung Tangbo Suture zone.From the geochronology data,we can deduce that the open time of the eastern tethys basin was characterized by the east earlier and the west later.


Fourth roots of the natural numbers from 1 to 30 have been calculated by Bisection method inthe interval [0, 3] using stopping tolerance 0f 0.00001. Calculated roots have been comparedwith the actual values of roots to obtain error and percentage error in the calculated roots.Numerical rate of convergence has also been calculated in the determination of each fourthroot. The highest numerical rate of convergence of Bisection method has been observed in thecalculation of fourth root of 2 and is equal to 1.754385964912. The lowest numerical rate ofconvergence of Bisection method has been observed in the calculation of fourth roots of 1, 3,4-8, 10, 12 and is equal to 1.333333333333. Average error, average percentage error and averagenumerical rate of convergence of Bisection method have been found to be 0.000000062635,0.000003048055 and 1.458082183940 respectively


This paper first explain the necessities of enhancing the campus culture construction at vocational institutions, then points out some existed problems, and finally proposes some suggestions and countermeasures on how to strengthen the campus culture construction at vocational institutions.


To obtain high quality crystals, it is desirable to maintain a diffusion-limited transport process in a planar solidification surface between the solid and the melt during the crystal growth process. Due to the presence of buoyancy-driven convection, however, this situation is difficult to maintain on Earth. The microgravity environment of an orbiting space laboratory presents an alternative worth pursuing. With reduced gravity, convections very much suppressed in a space laboratory, making the environment more conducive for growing crystals with better quality. However, a space laboratory is not immune from any undesirable disturbances. Nonuniform and transient accelerations such as vibrations, g-jitters, and impulsive accelerations exist as a result of crew activities, space maneuvering, and the operations of on-board equipment. Measurements conducted on-board a U.S. Spacelab mission showed the existence of vibrations in the frequency range of 1 to 100 Hz. It was reported that a dominant mode of 17 Hz and harmonics of 54 Hz were observed and these were attributed to antenna operations. The vibration is not limited to any single plane but exists in all directions. Some data from the Russian MIR space station indicates the existence of vibration also at this frequency range.


According to the investigation of hundreds of parks and greenbelts in Fuzhou City,the species,the quantity,the plant configuration and applying of fragrant plants were studied and concluded.Some special attributes and fuctions of the fragrant plants were introduced,and the shortages and suggestion of application were discussed.


The British Gas 'Autovent' system utilises the constant concentration technique and was developed for measuring ventilation rates in dwellings. It has recently been used in two large open-plan buildings, and the opportunity was taken to carry out special tests to assess its validity in such buildings. The reason why these tests were needed, the nature of the tests and the results obtained form the main content of the paper. The evidence from the tests strongly indicates that the system is suitable. This evidence is supported by the ventilation measurements themselves, examples of which are presented.


New data are presented on chromosome numbers for 36 species, two varieties, and two hybrids ofCirsium (Compositae). These include first reports forC. rhothophilum (2n = 34),C. andrewsii (2n = 32),C. crassicaule (2n = 32),C. quercetorum (2n= 32, 112),C. pascuarense (2n= 32),C. douglasii var.canescens (2n = 30, 34),C. hydrophilum (2n = 32),C. neomexicanum (2n = 30),C. cymosum (2n = 30, 34),C. acantholepis (2n= 34),C. radians (2n = 34), C.grahami (2n = 32),C. nigriceps (2n = 36),C. andersonii (2n= 32, 64),C. anartiolepis (2n = 34), andC. subcoriaceum (2n= 34). The published data on chromosome numbers of Eurasian and AmericanCirsium are summarized. In Eurasia, speciation has taken place primarily at the diploid level but is occasionally reinforced by polyploidy. The ancestral base number of 17 has been preserved in almost all species, and there is little evidence that reduction in chromosome number has played a significant role in speciation. In America speciation has proceeded exclusively at the diploid level, but the ancestral genome of 17 chromosomes has been retained in only about half of the species examined. In the remaining species, restructuring of the genome has occurred resulting in a reduction in number from 17 to 9 in extreme cases. Polyploidy, when seen, is of no significance. It is suggested that all species with greatly reduced numbers may represent products of a single reduction series.


Are digital assistants sensitive to the values of their users? In this paper, we report the results of ten interviews with users of Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant about how they use these digital assistants. Our thematic analysis led us to identify three key themes across the ten interview transcripts: functionality of the technology, trust in the manufacturer, and privacy versus convenience. We conclude that the manufacturers of digital assistants need to be sensitive to users' values when designing and deploying these technologies.


The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), an accelerator-based user facility to be built in Oak Ridge, is presently being designed by a multi-laboratory consortium. The SNS uses a high-energy beam of protons (1 GeV) interacting with a flowing liquid mercury target to produce neutrons that will be used for scattering research. The target will be constructed of stainless steel while flowing liquid mercury is required to cool both the target structural material as well as remove internal heat generated by the spallation process. Total energy deposition within the 24- x 9- x 65-cm target is {approximately}600 kW. Cooling of the target must be ensured to prevent overheating and potential damage to the target structure. The authors discuss the Mercury Thermal Hydraulic Loop (MTHL), an experimental facility designed to study the heat transfer characteristics of liquid mercury under prototypic SNS conditions.


The main aim of this study is to investigate about citric acid production by ETGP12 and ETGP18 strains of Aspergillus niger with the inclusion of certain nutrients along with the substrates. The substrates (rice chaff and sesamum oil cake) were fermented in the presence of different nutrients like ammonium carbonate and potassium dihydrogen phosphate at concentrations ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 mg/100g of substrates for a period of 72 and 96 hours and the same were tested even in mixed combinations of nutrients. In both the cases it was observed that these nutrients enhanced the rate of citric acid production initially but at higher concentrations the yield of citric acid is reduced.


This study aims to test empirically the influence of local tax contributions to Local Revenue in Kerinci District. The data used  in this study is a realization local tax revenue on 2009 – 2015 from the Kerinci District of Badan Pusat Statistik. Type of research that used is quantitative study. Technique analyse data used contributions analyse, technique analyse data, classic assumption The hypothesis of this research were tested using multiple regression analysis.. The results showed that contributions of restaurant tax, street lighting tax and land and building tax is very less . While contribution of restaurant tax and street lighting tax is does n't significant effect and land and building tax is significant effect on the Local Revenue. Key Words : Local Revenue, Restaurant tax, Street lighting tax, Land and building tax


INTRODUCTION Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome (FCMS), is characterized by a loss of voluntary control of facial, lingual, pharyngeal and masticatory muscles, in the presence of preserved reflexive and automatic functions (Automatic Voluntary Movement Dissociation) of the same muscles. Also known as Opercular Syndrome , Facio- Labio-Pharyngo-Glosso-Masticatory Paralysis has varied aetiology and presentation with Vascular causes being chief among them.We present here five cases of FCMS admitted in our institute with etiological and clinical spectrum analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Five patients of FCMS provisionaly diagnosed based on clinical features of cortical pseudobulbar palsy features admitted in our Madras Istitute Of Neurology between 2008 -2011 were analysed on history, clinical forms and imaging with CT or MRI. Routine investigations were done to screen for etiological factors. DISCUSSION All the patients had classical features of facio-labiopharyngoglosso- masticatory paralysis with automatic -voluntary dissociation as evident by preserved movements of facial muscles and opening of mouth during yawning, coughing and smiling. Among five patients three had their onset before 40 years. Stroke was the etiology in four of the patients and in one patient Takayasus arteritis was diagnosis which has been rarely reported and one case presented after encephalitis. Based on site of lesion three were bilateral Anterior Opercular, two were unilateral Anterior Syndrome Involving Frontal Operculum. CONCLUSION FCMS is a syndrome which is less recognised by many physicians. These patients invariably land up in gastroenterolgy department for dysphagia. Early.diagnosis of patients with CT,MRI, SPECT is a must for appropriate assessment and therapeutic approaches. Takayasu's Arteritis presenting as FCMS is an unusual etiology. Apart from vascular cause, HSV encephalitis, seizures, neuronal migration disorders also present as FCMS


Abstract The objective of the present study is to de-fine adiposity patterns in women. Thestudy was conducted at a municipal healthcare center in Belo Horizonte, MinasGerais, with 827 women aged 12-65 years.All participants performed several anthro-pometric measurements and answered aquestionnaire with socio-economic, de-mographic, obstetric and life style vari-ables. Factorial analysis was used as a mul-tivariate technique to identify clusteringand independence of anthropometric vari-ables. Factor analysis identified three fac-tors that explain 85.97% of the total vari-ance. The first component was repre-sented by skinfolds, the second by theBody Mass Index (BMI) and arm circum-ference (AC), and the third by the waist tohip ratio (WHR). These factors explained38.42%, 29.03% and 18.52% of the variance,respectively. Positive associations wereobserved among all variables. Cluster as-sociations were observed between thigh,chest, bicipital, sub-scapular and supra-iliac skinfolds (Factor 1) and AC and BMI(Factor 2) and WHR as a third factor. Wemay conclude that factorial analyses haveadequately identified three adiposity pat-terns in this group of women: peripheral,global and central. The strong associationbetween BMI and AC demonstrates that ACcould substitute with advantage BMI inpopulation screening for obesity. The di-agnosis of obesity would be more preciseif AC, WHR and thigh skinfolds were in-cluded simultaneously.Keywords: Obesity. Adiposity. Factorialanalysis. Women. Anthropometry.


what he calls the Byzantine Administration of Nixon and Kissinger, he shared Secretary Laird's view that disengagement was the only politically possible course for the United States, even in the face of blatant North Vietnamese violations of their agreements with us. In both areas, Zumwalt's book is a dazzling portrayal of the human and political forces always mobilized against rationality. As Cornford pointed out long ago, there is only one reason for doing something. All the rest are reasons for inaction. Admiral Zumwalt is a passionate democrat. He understands that public opinion is the only legitimate source for policy in a democracy, and that wise public opinion must be based on public understanding. Nothing offends Zumwalt more than politicians, officials, or bureaucrats who refuse to tell the public the truth, but seek to manipulate opinion by playing up to what pollsters and other gurus tell them the public wants to hear. The most important data in Zumwalt's book are damning contemporaneous memoranda of conversations on this subject with Nixon and Kissinger. During a talk with Nixon in 1970 about the rise of Soviet naval power, for example, Nixon agreed with Zumwalt's gloomy evaluation of our chances of winning a naval war with the Soviets. "Isn't it, therefore, important that we tell the people ?" Zumwalt asked. "No," Nixon replied. "I think we have first to nail down, through negotiations, our advantage which now exists in the strategic field, get ourselves out of the war in southeast Asia which is making defense expenditures so unpopular, and then, after the 1972 election, go to the people for support for greater defense budgets."


The innovation germplasm material of wheat were synthetically evaluated and quantitativly analysed according to the correlation analysis of the grey system theory in this paper.The result showed that the good and bad of the innovation germplasm on wheat can be evaluated objectivly,accuratly and rationally by using grey correlation analysis.The synthetical characters of CA9550 is optimum,Linhan 205 is the second among tried materical.


PurposeStainless steel has different advantages when compared to conventional carbon steel. The corrosion resistance and aesthetic appearance are the most known; however, its better behaviour under elevated temperatures can also be important in buildings design. In spite of the initial cost, stainless-steel application as a structural material has been increasing. Elliptical hollow sections integrate the architectural attributes of the circular hollow sections and the structural advantages of the rectangular hollow sections (RHSs). Hence, the application of stainless-steel material combined with elliptical hollow profiles stands as an interesting design option. The purpose of the paper is to better understand the resistance of stainless-steel-beam columns in case of fireDesign/methodology/approachThe research presents a numerical study on the behaviour of stainless-steel members with slender elliptical hollow section (EHS) subjected to axial compression and bending about the strong axis at elevated temperatures. A parametric numerical study is presented here considering with and without out-of-plane buckling different stainless-steel grades, cross-section and member slenderness, bending moment diagrams and elevated temperatures.FindingsThe tested design methodologies proved to be inadequate for the EHS members being in some situations too conservative.Originality/valueThe safety and accuracy of Eurocode 3 (EC3) design methodology and of a recent design proposal developed for I-sections and cold-formed RHSs are analysed applying material and geometric non-linear analysis considering imperfections with the finite element software SAFIR.


Abstract Cellulosic welding consumables are widely used for shielded metal are (manual) welding of pipeline steels. The hydrogen present in the plasma promotes a forceful are that results in deep penetration and allows one-sided girth welding. However, the high hydrogen environment enhances the potential for development of the weld defects: hollow bead, solidification cracking and cold cracking. This chapter examines the effect of welding conditions on formation of these defects with the aim of elucidating operative mechanisms and defining strategies to minimise or eliminate their occurrence. Special attention is paid to the role of hydrogen in the generation of these weld metal defects.


The United States Department of Energy's Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Development and Qualification Program will be irradiating up to seven separate low enriched uranium (LEU) tri- isotopic (TRISO) particle fuel (in compact form) experiments in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) located at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The ATR has a long history of irradiation testing in support of reactor development and the INL has been designated as the United States Department of Energy's lead laboratory for nuclear energy development. The ATR is one of the world's premiere test reactors for performing long term, high flux, and/or large volume irradiation test programs. These irradiations and fuel development are being accomplished to support development of the next generation reactors in the United States, and will be irradiated over the next several years to demonstrate and qualify new TRISO coated particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors. The goals of the irradiation experiments are to provide irradiation performance data to support fuel process development, to qualify fuel for normal operating conditions, to support development and validation of fuel performance and fission product transport models and codes, and to provide irradiated fuel and materials for post irradiation examination (PIE) and safety testing. The experiments, which will each consist of at least six separate capsules, will be irradiated in an inert sweep gas atmosphere with individual on-line temperature monitoring and control of each capsule. The sweep gas will also have on-line fission product monitoring on its effluent to track performance of the fuel in each individual capsule during irradiation.


Scientific community is focusing on the effect of lightning activity on people safety and infrastructures security because of the dangerous consequences of this kind of phenomenon. Each study of safety and security associated to lightning flashes needs as input reliable data in terms of lightning activity related to the analyzed territory. In this framework, the analysis presented in this work focuses on the lightning activity measured in the Italian territory for the period 2013-2014 thanks to the use of the Lightning Location System provided by the Meteorological Service of the Italian Air Force. The results show the differences between seasons, stroke polarity and stroke locations in terms of some parameters such as the Ground Flash Density and seasonal daytime distribution, as well as the channel-base current peak.


To make the planning of distribution network better meet modern society's various needs, this paper puts forward an architecture of urban distribution network planning support system based on GIS, develops main modules using Visual Studio .Net 2010 and ArcGIS Engine 9.3 development platform, and realizes basic functions including the distribution network load prediction, the auto-arranging of substations, the network topology planning and the wire path planning. The system has been put into operation in Huanggang district, Hubei after successful system testing. Practical results show that the system can not only decrease the workload of distribution network planners, but also provide advanced work means to improve the planning level.