Geographical indications is a trade name associated on the packaging of the product function shows the origin of a product, where the place of origin of the product quality hinting strongly influenced by place of origin so that the product is unique value. Small and medium industry Sangiran is one of a small industrial area of Sragen which has a special quality because it is affected by natural factors, human and combinations that are able to create products unique and special characters. The prospect of the registration of a geographical indication on the small and medium industry handicraft product  Sangiran Sragen is very promising because small and medium industry totaled sixty scattered in Sragen variations craft products products generated. For that, the indispensable role of Government in the implementation of the registration of a geographical indication on the small and medium industry handicraft products Sangiran Sragen to get legal protection and has a reputation that can enhance competitiveness of the region Sragen. Keywords : Geographical Indications, Small Medium Industry, Legal Protection, Sangiran.


Virtualization and Cloud Computing is getting more and more popular nowadays. The author's purpose with this thesis is to investigate what restrictions a regulative bound company has to deal with in a conversion to virtualizing the operative system and which Cloud solutions is the most preferable. The author has used qualitative interviews and literature studies. The interviews were held at the company with the appropriate people for the survey and literature studies consist of education literature, scientific articles and websites in the area of the subject. The result shows that the investigated company can virtualize their operating system and that a Private Cloud is the best solution.This thesis can be used by companies that are regulative bound and where security is a major factor as well as companies that are considering virtualize their systems and using cloud computing. This investigation is limited to whether a specific company can virtualize the most central and regulative system they have. If and how other companies can apply the same solution is not something this thesis will answer to, nor how the question is answered from cloud providers.


The goal of the NEXT collaboration is the sensitive search of the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc. A first large-scale prototype of a high-pressure gas-Xenon electroluminescent TPC, NEXT-White, was operated from 2016 to 2021. This 4–kg radiopure detector has proven the outstanding performance of the NEXT technology in terms of the energy resolution (<1% FWHM at 2.6 MeV) and the topology-based background rejection. After measuring the relevant backgrounds and their spatial origin, the NEXT-White data collected with 136Xe-enriched and 136Xe-depleted gas have been used to perform a measurement of the two-neutrino mode of the double beta decay. A novel technique based on a direct background subtraction yields a half-life of 2.34−0.46+0.80(stat)−0.17+0.30(sys)×1021yr . This result is consistent with the half-life derived from a background-model-dependent approach. Scaling the technological solutions of NEXT-White, the NEXT-100 detector is being constructed during 2022 and will start the physics data taking in 2023. Holding 100 kg of 136Xe and with a background index below 5×10−4 counts/keV/kg/year, NEXT-100 will perform the first competitive search for the neutrinoless double beta decay within the NEXT roadmap. After 3 years of data taking, a sensitivity to the half-life of 6×1025 yr at 90% C.L. will be achieved. The design for a future ton-scale detector, NEXT-HD, is being carried out in paralel. Operating with low-difussion gas mixtures and a reduced background budget, NEXT-HD will reach sensitivities above 1027 yr. A promising R&D line aims at eventually equiping the NEXT techonlogy with 136Ba-tagging capabilities, opening the doors for a truly background-free experiment.


The paper presents a corpus of spontaneous spoken Czech called ORAL2013, its design principles and practical solutions adopted during the data collection. The corpus is designed to represent contemporary spontaneous spoken language used in informal, real-life situations across the whole of the Czech Republic. The corpus consists of audio recordings and their transcriptions aligned with time stamps; it features manual annotation and broad regional coverage with a large variety of speakers. ORAL2013 contains 835 recordings from the period 2008 to 2011 made with 2,544 speakers (of whom 1,297 speakers are unique); the total length of the audio tracks is almost 300 hours and the total size of the transcriptions exceeds 3.28 million tokens. ORAL2013 is made publicly available by the Czech National Corpus at http://www.korpus.cz/.


Remote sensing has proven to be an adequate tool for observation of changes to the Earth's surface. Especially modern space-borne sensors with very-high spatial resolution offer new capabilities for monitoring of dynamic urban environments. In this context, clustering is a well suited technique for unsupervised and thus highly automatic detection of changes. In this study, seven partitioning clustering algorithms from different methodological categories are evaluated regarding their suitability for unsupervised change detection. In addition, object-based feature sets of different characteristics are included in the analysis assessing their discriminative power for classification of changed against unchanged buildings. In general, the most important property of favorable algorithms is that they do not require additional arbitrary input parameters except the number of clusters. Best results were achieved based on the clustering algorithms k-means, partitioning around medoids, genetic k-means and self-organizing map clustering with accuracies in terms of к statistics of 0.8 to 0.9 and beyond.


Abstract This paper investigates the performance of customer-oriented service activities in the Taiwanese public sector. Customer orientation is one of the most important components of total quality management (TQM). Although TQM has been popular in manufacturing industry since 1980, the suitability of using it in the public sector has been debated for years. However, no empirical studies have been conducted in this area. The present study uses a customer-oriented service-enhancement system (COSES) model (Chen et al. 2004) as a conceptual framework to investigate 24 Taiwanese public agencies. The study reveals significant performance gaps among the five phases of the customer-oriented service system. Because the linkage of the performance gaps looks like a big bird flying, the present authors refer to this phenomenon as 'roc flying'. The implications of these findings are discussed in the paper.


This paper presents a simplified approach for the analysis of shallow landslides triggered by heavy rainfalls, which occur after a rainy period. On the basis of some analytical solutions, this approach combines a simple infiltration model to calculate the change in pore water pressure caused by rain infiltration within the slope, with a sliding-block model to assess whether a slope failure occurs owing to a prescribed rainfall. If this is the case, the method also allows the time at which the landslide is triggered and the subsequent slope movements to be readily evaluated.


A novel polymer based on the molecular imprinting technique was prepared using ethylene glycol maleic rosinate acrylate acid glycol ester as the cross-linker,caffeine as template and methyl acrylic acid as functional monomer.A molecularly imprinted polymer membrane was synthesized in vacuum drying oven by free radical polymerization.The electrochemical behavior of the membrane was characterized by cyclic voltammetry(CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy(EIS).Under the optimal conditions,the peak currents and the analytical concentration have a good linear relationship over the range of 3.00×10-3 to 2.73 mmol/L(R=0.9966) with a detection limit of 1.12×10-4 mmol/L(S/N=3).The electrochemical sensor displayed excellent repeatability,high sensitivity,long-term stability,and good selectivity.The developed sensor was successfully applied to the determination of caffeine in coca-cola samples with average recovery of 98.7%.


The study and use of solid state transformers (SST) has grown exponentially, and new technologies are being developed every day. The application of a series resonant converter in a SST allows improvement of its efficiency, through soft switching of the power switches. The present paper proposes a bidirectional topology capable of receiving an AC voltage in its input, and delivers the same AC voltage on its output through a series resonant converter and a push-pull AC-AC converter, with all switches operating with soft switching. The converter has three different switching elements and is capable of adjusting the output voltage level by changing the switching frequency. In this paper, the description of the converter's operation and simulation results are presented. A prototype is being built to be tested in laboratory.


Overall corporate governance relating to the system and discussion of discussions on the company. The agent has a behavior that tends to side with the stakeholders as a principal that benefits the company. If more and more stakeholders are harmed, the company's reputation will become worse and no one will cooperate with the company. The role of the audit committee on the principle of equality is an important role for parties who are in line with the company so that it is fair to all companies so that no one is harmed. The role of the audit committee is based on the principle of responsibility, which plays an important role in running a good / healthy business, not in its own interests.


The purpose of the study is to enhance the efficiency of the silicon solar cell via plasmonic caterrig. Au nanoparticles with diameter range from 20.09 to 41.07 nm are deposited on the top of silicon solar cells and annealed under vacuum at different temperatures. The thermal treatment promotes the morphological modification of the particles leading to a discrete structure of Au particles. The particle sizes, shape, height, and inter-particle distance depend of the initial deposition condition and annealing temperature. Structural modifications lead to changes in the optical properties of the samples. Maximum absorption occurred at 520 nm, with intensity varying due to the particle size. Variation of capacitance as a function of reverse bias voltage in the range of (0-2) Volt at frequency equal to 100 kHz has been studied. Overall fill factor is increased from 0.5388 for bare Si solar cell to 0.629 for cells with Au nanoparticles annealed at 200 o C, mainly resulting in the improvement of the photocurrent as a result of enhanced absorption of the photoactive due to the high electromagnetic field strength in the vicinity of the excited surface Plasmon.


Lung cancer is worldwide the second death cancer, both in prevalence and lethality, both for women and men. The applicability of machine learning and pattern classification in lung cancer detection and classification is proposed. Pattern classification algorithms can classify the input data into different classes underlying the characteristic features in the input. Early identification of lung cancer using pattern recognition can save lives by analyzing the significant number of Computed Tomography images. Convolutional Neural Networks recently achieved remarkable results in various applications including Lung cancer detection in Deep Learning. The deployment of augmentation to improve the accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network has been proposed. Data augmentation is utilized to find suitable training samples from existing training sets by employing various transformations such as scaling, rotation, and contrast modification. The LIDC-IDRI database is utilized to assess the networks. The proposed work showed an overall accuracy of 95%. Precision, recall, and F1 score for benign test data are 0.93, 0.96, and 0.95, respectively, and 0.96, 0.93, and 0.95 for malignant test data. The proposed system has impressive results when compared to other state-of-the-art approaches.


With the rapid growing of users in the SNS environments, their network relationships in Internet have become as complex as in the real world. On the other hand, the user's social role plays an important role in providing individualized services, such as information recommendation in the SNS environments. However, as we know, people will switch or change their social roles dynamically in the real society, which is also true in the cyber network space, such as SNS. In this paper, we present a basic model to describe social roles in both the real world and the SNS environment, in which a set of attributes and factors are considered and introduced to represent the time-changing social roles in different situations and contexts. The mechanism that we develop to identify the roles is twofold: mapping of real world situations to cyber space, and analyzing social role attributes based on the mapping and synthesizing. We further describe an application scenario in regard to how to map the different situations and analyze the role attributes, in order to dynamically identify roles in the cyber space.


We report on the six-body van der Waals interactions within Rydberg atoms. Specifically, we focus on the octahedron case. The results are compared with previous calculations for two to five bodies' interactions. This research is useful for crystal structure in condensed matter physics, such as p-type doping in Silicon or other types of semiconductors. This research is also useful for studying big molecules in chemistry, chemical engineering, and other fields. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


This paper presents a simple strategy for the formation of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) hot spots, or regions with extraordinary large electric-field enhancements, by depositing a silver nanocube on a metal substrate. Our experimental and theoretical results show that hot spots form at the corners of a nanocube in contact with the substrate and the hot spots derived from a single silver nanocube are capable of detecting SERS from a single molecule. By varying the electrical property of the substrate, and the distance between the nanoparticle and the substrate, we show that the substrate can dramatically affect the SERS from a supported nanoparticle. In addition, by comparing the SERS for nanocubes and nanospheres of similar sizes, we show that this effect is also sensitive to the shape of the supported nanoparticle, and enhancement factors of 9.7×106 and 2.1×108 were obtained for a nanosphere and a nanocube on a metal substrate, respectively. This new approach requires minimum fabrication efforts and offers great simplicity for the formation of robust and fully accessible hot spots, providing an effective SERS platform for single-molecule detection.


Air Force armament maintainers like their beer and they definitely love their beercans. Prior to loading live weapons on an aircraft, maintainers are required to verify that no stray voltage is present and that the firing signals are functioning properly. In the Air Force world, this is done with a small, battery-operated tester called an Armament Circuits Pre-Load Test Set (ACPTS), commonly referred to as a "beercan" due to its shape and size. The typical beercan is a rudimentary test set with few capabilities and limited performance. The beercan's function is to verify that there is no stray voltage on the critical firing lines (squibs), and to verify the presence of firing signals including magnitude and timing during a valid launch procedure. The typical beercan only has one or two measurement channels, necessitating the manual switching of various adapters to enable testing of multiple signals. The typical beercans also lack the ability to emulate weapon signals, precluding any effective "smart" weapons testing by beercans. If any type of fault is detected by the beercan, a different test set is required to troubleshoot and repair the fault. In the F-16 world, this is achieved by the 75501 tester and other aircraft have similar flight-line testers. These testers emulate the weapons and perform a complete test on the weapon system from the cockpit's Multi-Function Display (MFD) to the launch rails and are also capable of troubleshooting the faults. If the flight-line tester identifies a failure with the launcher or bomb rack, these are removed from the aircraft and taken to the shop for further testing by back-shop testers such as the 75501 (now SST). This test process requires three types of testers which in turn, complicates the maintenance logistics and increases maintenance costs. A new breed of beercans has been recently introduced to address this deficiency by improving the test capabilities of the beercan, thus eliminating the flight-line testers and simplifying the maintenance logistics while increasing performance and reducing test and maintenance time. This paper discusses the requirements of flight-line armament testers and introduces a universal beercan with capabilities previously unavailable for the flightline.


This paper discusses on how boron stabilises the friction and wear behaviour of the brake pad at various temperatures. A total of 16 samples were prepared and a friction test machine was used in the experiment. The friction and wear tests were conducted at the pressure of 125 MPa with temperatures ranging from 100°C to 350°C. The results showed that the friction coefficient and wear rate of samples that were mixed with boron constantly changed with the increment of temperature. The findings suggested that boron can be used as part of the brake pad composition as it could effectively stabilise the friction and increase wear resistance.


This paper presents a triangular-lattice photonic crystal fiber for analysis of nearly zero ultra-flattened dispersion like 0.96 - -0.86 ps/nm/km with very low confinement loss less than 10 -5 db/km, moderate effective area, lower splice loss & nonlinear coefficient property of photonic crystal fibers. A five-ringed photonic crystal fiber have be designed using Comsol 4.2 with the finite element method and perfectly matched absorbing layers boundary condition is used to investigate the guiding properties .


This paper presents a novel solution to the control problem of end-effector robust trajectory tracking for space robot. External disturbance and system uncertainties are addressed. For the considered robot operating in free-floating mode, a Chebyshev neural network is introduced to estimate system uncertainties and external disturbances. An adaptive controller is then proposed. The closed-loop system is guaranteed to be ultimately uniformly bounded. The key feature of this proposed approach is that, by choosing appropriate control gains, it can achieve any given small level of gain disturbance attenuation from external disturbance to system output. The tracking performance is evaluated through a numerical example.


A case study is presented in which a two-stage stochastic modeling approach was employed for modeling heterogeneities in a deep-water Gulf of Mexico field. The hydrocarbon-bearing intervals of this field were deposited as turbidites and exhibit high net sand/gross interval (net/gross) ratios. In the first stage, a new facies indicator geostatistical method was used to model uncertainties associated with facies maps derived from seismic amplitudes. The concept of pseudo-wells is introduced for capturing geologic features and constraining the stochastic realizations. In the second modeling stage, synthetic stratigraphic columns based on whole core descriptions were used to capture fine-scale heterogeneities in cross-sectional panels. These cross-sections were subjected to flow simulations, yielding scaled-up values of single and two-phase flow parameters. Results from both stages were combined into a full-field 3-D reservoir simulation model.


Sri Lanka has experienced the most devastating economic crisis since its independence in 1948. The island nation of 22 million people has suffered by high inflation, fuel and food shortages, and a lack of foreign reserves. This economic stress led to multiple fronts such a political and social crises. Most families are being negatively impacted by this situation and are feeling anxious and stressed out. Citizens use social media platforms to express their views and give their feedback through media platforms by sharing information and ideas about this social issue. This paper discusses the social influence of Twitter hate users and identifies the most influential hate users by ranking them. The analysis reveals that Eigenvector Centrality can find influential users, resulting in a ranking close to PageRank with little alterations. With more mentions and retweets during the crisis, the influence of hate users has increased. Furthermore, the network diameter and average path length indicate lower values while higher values are indicated by the average degree, average weighted degree, connected components, edges, and average cluster coefficient. There are more interpersonal connections, relationships, or ties among hate users now than there were before the crisis. Furthermore, hate users express more negative sentiments than positive ones. The "anger" and "fear" emotions rank higher than "trust" and "joy". To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first study on the influence, sentiment, and emotion analysis conducted during the political and economic crisis of Sri Lanka in 2022 with the Twittersphere.


This study aims to analyze the methods used by teachers in learning the Qur'an. This study used a qualitative method with a case study type, the data source was taken from forty-two informants through in-depth interviews who were selected using purposive sampling and observation techniques. All results of interviews and observations were analyzed thematically with Miles and Huberman's qualitative data analysis. The research findings show that there are nine methods used by teachers in teaching the Qur'an including; i) Iqra', ii) Tartil, iii) Baghdadiyah, iv) Tahsin v) Recitations, vi) Lamma, vii) As-Sahl, viii) Talaqqi, ix) Peer tutor. The results of this study can be used as initial data for future researchers in examining different issues related to this problem and various other issues that are relevant to this context.


Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 decay but persist six months post-vaccination, with lower levels of neutralizing titers against Delta than wild-type. Only 2 of 227 vaccinated healthcare workers experienced outpatient symptomatic breakthrough infections despite 59 of 227 exhibiting serological evidence of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 as defined by development of anti-nucleocapsid protein antibodies.


The present invention ensures data consistency between separate sets of resource development information relating to the same event, and allows these separate sets of information to be used together for analysis. The data correction system 100 according to the present invention comprises a calculation device 104 which: compares a plurality of sets of information of different types relating to predetermined resource development, identifies any data inconsistencies between these sets of information relating to an event, and performs a correction process for correcting the identified inconsistent data in accordance with a predetermined algorithm based on constraints 135 that are imposed on a process sequence for the resource development.


This paper deals with the ultimate strength and design of fixed-ended lipped channel columns experiencing local-distortional buckling mode interaction. First, the paper reports the results of an experimental investigation involving a set of 26 columns with several cross-section dimensions and yield stresses that were tested to determine their failure loads and also to provide experimental evidence of the occurrence of local-distortional mode interaction. These results consist of the column geometries, material properties, initial geometric imperfections, nonlinear equilibrium paths, and ultimate strength values. Then, after comparing the experimental column ultimate loads with the estimates provided by the current direct strength method (DSM) design curves against local and distortional failures, which clearly show that they lead to inaccurate and often very unsafe ultimate strength estimates, the paper presents and assesses the quality of DSM-based design procedures based on approaches providing nominal strengths against local-distortional and distortional-local interactive failures. Next, an in-depth comparison is made between all the experimental ultimate strength results available in the literature and their estimates provided by the preceding DSM design procedures. Finally, the paper closes with design considerations and recommendations, motivated by the conclusions drawn from this investigation.


Indexing terms: Digital communication systems, Digital filters, Frequency-division multiplexingAbstractIn this paper, a digital structure is designed for use as the phase-splitting filter in the 'A' channel-ban f.d.m. ksystem. Subject to the theoretical considerations given, a digital approach is proposed for the realisatio a n ofsequence asymmetric polyphase network for f.d.m.-system applications. It is shown that the multipliercoefficients of an appropriate realisation may be suitably designed such that a wideband approximation to theconstant n/2 phase-difference response is produced. This structure is competitive with other already proposedstructures after comparisons regarding multiplier complexities and roundoff noise performances are made.1 IntroductionIn a recent paper


The Library of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (ca. 35,000 vol.) dates from shortly after the establishment of the Conservatory in 1865. It originated in student need of music for purposes of study and practice, and has grown larger with this in mind. Purchases depend almost entirely upon requests of teachers. As a result, the collection is anything but a balanced one, and tends to have a number of copies of a given title. It functions as a circulating library and allows most titles to b-e kept out for the period of the entire school year. Reserve-shelf books (used in connection with histQry and theory courses) circulate for an hour at a time or overnight. This collection is supplemented or complemented by several others on the campus, including a separate choral music library (supervised by the Library but not as yet coordinated with it), the material owned by the Musical Union (mostly choral in nature), and the entirely separate Public School Music library. The most important collection on the campus from the standpoint of reference is that in the Carnegie Library. It contains most of the important dictionaries, a number of bibliographical books, a fair representation of Denkmaler series (e.g. DdT, DTB, DTO, Erbe deutscher Musik, Tudor Church Music, Paleographie Musicale, etc.) and complete works (Bach, Schubert, Palestrina, etc.), and an adequate selection of periodicals, histories, biographies and musical scores. Cooperation among the libraries in the form of messenger service and reserve-shelves make for ease in the use of all facilities. However, the sitVation cries for a much closer coordination of our resources.


Determining in-place concrete strengths is particularly important for the seismic evaluation of existing bridges and buildings. Underestimating the concrete strength in a seismic rehabilitation design by adopting a lower-bound estimate of the in-place concrete strength can undervalue component resistances, potentially triggering inappropriate rehabilitation solutions. The objective of this article is to review assessment requirements and guidelines and identify ways of setting core sampling requirements appropriate for seismic evaluation. Recommendations are based on a review of statistical methods to select sample size for an acceptable error level and assessment of outlier data.


The current development of global warming and CO2 emission problems cannot be overlooked. Thus, global scale measures of efforts are becoming crucial. Thermal properties of insulation materials need to be considered as high performance thermal insulation systems are crucial for efficient energy saving. The most important parameter as indicator of a thermal insulation material is the effective thermal conductivity, but elements that affect the thermal insulation performance are rather complicated. Generally, conduction and radiation heat transfer are needed to be separately considered in precisely evaluating the thermal insulation performance as they coexist in the heat transfer process inside a multilayer insulation system. In this paper, numerical analysis of a complete diffusive enclosure model as a thermal insulation is observed to investigate the radiation effects by its dispersive heat transfer mechanisms. View factor of each relatively large dispersed material is derived in the enclosure model, where it is applicable to various shapes and any particular arrangements of dispersed materials. As this paper is the first part of a three-part working research paper, numerical analysis in this paper is carried out by assuming that the medium within the space inside the insulation system is taken to be nonparticipating, therefore conduction and convection effects during the heat exchange are negligible. This paper will be continued with application of the numerical analysis in observing radiation heating effects by wall-ceiling integration towards indoor environment and radiation–conduction heat transfer mechanisms in one-dimensional multilayer insulation system.


The article constitutes a preliminary attempt at reading from literature the condition of the survivors – people interned in German displaced persons' camps immediately after WWII. In that context, the author considers the saturated with satire, grotesque, and sarcasm novel by Tadeusz Nowakowski entitled Oboz Wszystkich Świetych. Nowakowski's vision is supplemented with Tadeusz Borowski's story entitled Bitwa pod Grunwaldem, as well as his poems, e.g. Dary demokratyczne, and Jerzy Podgorski's reports in the series W poludniowych Niemczech, in which DP camps were compared to an etching by Henry Moore presenting human-like figures sleeping in a tunnel. A separate consideration was applied to the fortunes of Ida Fink, interned in the Ettlingen camp. The writer reminisced on the time in her novel entitled The Journey, and in interviews. The analyses of the texts led the author to the conclusion that the discussed narratives indicate the inability to experience solace during (apparent) acquittal, and the inability to return to pre-WWII times.


Employee motivation and job satisfaction are the subject of numerous studies.
 This topic is an inexhaustible source of new knowledge and due to its
 relevance, it occupies the attention of many researchers. Modern business
 flows dictate the conditions from which new factors arise that encourage
 employee motivation and satisfaction. A satisfied worker is driven by
 enthusiasm that motivates him to achieve more effective work results. Such
 workers affect higher productivity, which contributes to more efficient
 achievement of organizational goals. The subject of this paper is the
 analysis of the impact of motivation and job satisfaction on business
 performance of employees. The results of the correlation analysis confirmed
 the existence of statistically significant relationships between the
 variables of motivation and job satisfaction and the variables of
 employee performance. The regression model indicated that employee motivation
 factors had the greatest impact on taking the initiative as
 employee performance. The variables of employee motivation that have made the
 largest individual contribution to employee performance are satisfactory
 remuneration and fair organizational policies and rules. The results of the
 regression analysis confirmed the greatest influence of job satisfaction
 factors on the variables innovation and creativity, while the greatest
 individual contribution was made by the variables effective communication
 with management, organizational culture, as well as interesting and exciting
 work. Based on the results of the t-test, a statistically significant
 difference was found when it comes to employee performance in relation to
 differences in years of service. The results of the research indicate the
 key factors of motivation and job satisfaction, the improvement of which can
 significantly improve the performance of its employees and make their work
 more productive.


A survey of Peregrines in the breeding season of 1991 gave an estimated total of 1283 pairs occupying known nesting territories in Britain and Northern Ireland. 1214 territories were found occupied, 53 by apparently single birds, and 141 known territories (9%) were not visited. Overall territory occupancy was 83%. The figure of 1283 pairs represents 147% of the overall population level believed to exist in 1930–¸39, and 167% of that counted during the previous national survey, in 1981. The net increase was geographically uneven, being greatest in a broad zone from the eastern Grampians to South Wales, whereas numbers were still well below pre-war level in coastal south-east England. In coastal and western inland areas of the northern Highlands, numbers have declined since 1981. Throughout the UK, many coastal populations have substantial proportions of territories occupied by nonbreeding birds. Population growth has involved both an increase in breeding density and expansion of breeding distribution, the ...


Abstract The relationships between the initial area expansion rate of tropical convective systems and their total life duration are analyzed during the period of the Wet Season Amazon Mesoscale Campaign/Large-Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere (WETAMC/LBA) experiment over tropical South America, using an objective tracking of convective systems during their life cycle from infrared Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) images. The results show that it is possible to estimate the probable lifetime of a convective system, within certain error bars, considering only its initial area expansion. This result shows that the initial area expansion could be used as a predictor of the life cycle of convective systems. The area expansion is also a good indicator of convective activity such as the diurnal cycle of convection. Over the southwest Amazon, the maximum area expansion occurs close to the time of maximum precipitation and about 4 h before the maximum cold cloud fraction at the same threshold (235...


Abstract : A pattern recognition system applicable to two dimensional data is presented, and training algorithms for generating pattern classifiers are surveyed. The method of moments is used by the system as a feature extractor. The Mahalanobis distance measure is presented as a criterion for the selection of moment pairs to be used as descriptors. Experiments conducted using simulated high resolution radar images demonstrate the effectiveness of the system using unstructured data. Classification results for the system are compared to those of human interpreters.


The development of multidisciplinary Islamic scholarship at UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung emphasizes the integration of religious and general science in the curriculum and learning model that is carried out. The development of an integrative scientific paradigm is certainly a very large scientific project, however, it must be admitted, the success of reconstructing the new paradigm is still not enough, because it must still be supported by the availability of functional and effective methodologies. This article intends to offer a methodology for developing sociology learning based on an integrative paradigm, which is not only functional and effective, but also guarantees productivity, while being safe from the bondage of rough pseudoscientific practice and excessive practice of ideological science. The reconstruction of the methodology for developing religious-based sociology is urgently needed to be carried out considering that many sociological theories are raised by western experts who tend to be secular.


Experimental research was made in compressed soil block (BTC) piles. These specimens were reinforced with hexagonal mesh and welded wire mesh to determinate its mechanics characteristics by means of axial and diagonal compression, and flexion tests. We made experimental assays in accord with Mexican Code specifications of NTCM(1) and UNAM(2) Engineering Institute researchers. In axial compression test, the piles reinforced with welded wire mesh had a significant increase in maxim admissible load (39%) but had not in masonry strength (4%). In diagonal compression test, the reinforced groups had significant increases in both, load capacity (90-125%) and masonry strength (60-83%). The strength and deformation capacity were higher in specimens reinforced with welded wire mesh. In the flexion test had similar results. Although the compression, shear and flexion design parameters was determinate, it's important and necessary to make more tests to corroborate these results.


Cyclodextrins (CDs) and their derivatives are used to suppress unpleasant tastes and odors or to achieve a controlled release of certain food constituents. This article describes the synthesis by nonconventional methods of (1) crosslinked, insoluble CD polymers and (2) water-soluble, CD-grafted carboxymethylchitosan and carboxymethylcellulose. The CD polymers were obtained by the reaction of β-CD with one of the following crosslinking agents: epichlorohydrin, diphenyl carbonate, or hexamethylene diisocyanate. Their preparations were usually carried out under high-intensity ultrasound, which resulted in much shorter reaction times and narrower distributions of particle size (as determined by scanning electron microscopy measurements). A novel, insoluble CD polymer was obtained by reticulation under microwaves of propargyl-p-CD with 1,3-bis(azidomethyl)benzene through Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. Short columns packed with the insoluble polymers were found to efficiently sequester naringin from aqueous solutions; successively, they could be easily regenerated by a counter-current ethanol wash that also achieved an excellent recovery of the flavonoid. Differential scanning calorimetry thermograms showed that the crosslinked CD polymers formed inclusion complexes with naringin. The soluble polymers also interacted with bitter flavonoids of citrus fruits (naringin and limonin), as shown by the results of sensorial panel tests, in which they behaved as bitter-masking agents.


Every year there are numerous cases of individuals becoming lost in remote wilderness environments. Principles of search theory have become a foundation for developing more efficient and successful search and rescue methods. Measurements can be taken that describe how easily a search object is to detect. These estimates allow the calculation of the probability of detection-the probability that an object would have been detected if in the area. This value only provides information about the search area as a whole; it does not provide details about which portions were searched more thoroughly than others. Ground searchers often carry portable GPS devices and their resulting GPS track logs have recently been used to fill in part of this knowledge gap. We created a system that provides a detection likelihood map that estimates the probability that each point in a search area was seen well enough to detect the search object if it was there. This map will be used to aid ground searchers as they search an assigned area, providing real time feedback of what has been "seen." The maps will also assist incident commanders as they assess previous searches and plan future ones by providing more detail than is available by viewing GPS track logs.


Few other managerial innovations have become popular as quickly as has business process reengineering (BPR); however, probably no other innovation has been interpreted in so many different ways either. This paper seeks to discover whether there is a conceptual core which both identifies and differentiates BPR from other practices adopted for organizational change and, also, what value it may really have. After illustrating how the concept of BPR, which was initially elaborated in the context of strategic management of information technology, has been ably reconstructed and transformed into the managerial revolution of the 1990s, this paper goes on to show how this reconstructed BPR cannot be considered to be an innovative and distinct approach to organizational change. Furthermore, it will be highlighted how BPR has served to spread a simplistic and Utopian vision of organizations and of organizational change, and how this requires careful reflection and re‐assessment of management fads.


In the 1917 Code, the Church was understood not as a community of the faithful but as an institution, a societas perfecta. The 1983 Code uses the title "People of God" from Lumen gentium as its title for Book II. This article presents some reflections on the dual reality of the Church as both community of the faithful and as hierarchical institution by examining canonical notions and institutes in the 1983 Code that reveal something about how the Church is understood in canon law. Particular attention is devoted to associations of the faithful and their regulation by Church authority.


Traditionally, Hardware is considered as root of trust. Software generally builds on top of the hardware. By emerging Hardware Trojan attacks, this trust seems to be violated. Hardware Trojan is any addition or modification to a circuit or a system with malicious intention. Trojan can cause change or control over functionality in circuit or it may leak sensitive information from inside the chip and hence reduce circuit reliability. In this paper, we analyze threats caused by hardware Trojan attacks and type of hardware Trojans. We have discussed state-of-art hardware Trojan protection schemes. The limitations and challenges related to those trojan detection schemes are described. We also propose simple but effective probabilistic method to detect and find the location of hardware trojan in combinational circuits. The experimental results for a series of ISCAS85 benchmark circuits show that better trojan detection rate or coverage can be achieved with proposed technique.


The utility model discloses a sintered porous membrane filtration element which is convenient to manufacture and can guarantee the high filtration efficiency. The sintered porous membrane filtration element is platy. For the platy sintered porous membrane filtration elemen if the planar length is L, the planar width is W, a filtration area is S, and the thickness is H, the planar length L and the planar width W meets an equation: L:W=(1-5):1; the filtration area S is more than or equal to 0.25 square meter and less than or equal to 3 square meters; and the filtration area S and the thickness H meets an equation: S1/2:H=(200-800):1. The sintered porous membrane filtration element with the structure has a reasonable length and width ratio and a thin relative thickness, is convenient to manufacture, mount and use and can guarantee the high filtration efficiency.


Bioceramics are widely used as impl ant materials in orthopaedics. Previously known to be materials in oxidized state, their use is well establi shed now-a-days. In the present review main focus is on their compositions and types. Their behaviour upon implantation is discussed along with the chemical reactions taking place. Variou s factors affecting the interface formation are also discussed. These clinically important materials are being lI sed in ear surgery, orthopaedics as drug carriers,and for controlled release of certain trace elements. The clinical applications of these materials are also described.


This paper proposes an oscillation model for analyzing the dynamics of activity propagation across social media networks. In order to analyze such dynamics, we generally need to model asymmetric interactions between nodes. In matrix-based network models, asymmetric interaction is frequently modeled by a directed graph expressed as an asymmetric matrix. Unfortunately, the dynamics of an asymmetric matrix-based model is difficult to analyze. This paper, first of all, discusses a symmetric matrix-based model that can describe some types of link asymmetry, and then proposes an oscillation model on networks. Next, the proposed oscillation model is generalized to arbitrary link asymmetry. We describe the outlines of four important research topics derived from the proposed oscillation model. First, we show that the oscillation energy of each node gives a generalized notion of node centrality. Second, we introduce a framework that uses resonance to estimate the natural frequency of networks. Natural frequency is important information for recognizing network structure. Third, by generalizing the oscillation model on directed networks, we create a dynamical model that can describe flaming on social media networks. Finally, we show the fundamental equation of oscillation on networks, which provides an important breakthrough for generalizing the spectral graph theory applicable to directed graphs. key words: spectral graph theory, coupled oscillators, node centrality, resonance, flaming, quantum theory


The use of a probabilistic approach for pile design is described and its importance is discussed. The paper illustrates the effect of the uncertainties in pile capacity analysis methods on the reliability of a design. Suggestions are made for the value of model uncertainty to use with different analysis methods. Special emphasis is given to the American Petroleum Institute (API) RP2A approach (Ref. 1). Relevant model tests for calibration of the model uncertainty are few and exhibit scatter. It is therefore difficult to assign values to the parameters describing the model uncertainty. In the latest API RP2A guidelines. designers are encouraged to use all research advances available to them. The designer is therefore encouraged to use substantiated alternative analysis methods. Probabilistic analyses is one of the tools that will help judge the soundness of a design.


2-Fluoropodophyllotoxin (11) and several 4beta-anilino-2-fluoro-4'-O-demethyl analogues were synthesized and evaluated in both antineoplastic and antiviral assays. These compounds were moderately active against some cancer cell lines, but they were less active than the corresponding nonfluorinated analogues. Compound 11 exhibited the best activity against KB carcinoma with a GI(50) of approximately 30 nM. Most compounds exhibited moderate activity against HCMV with ID(50) and ID(90) values in the range of 1 microM and 4 microM, respectively. Both 9 and 11 showed an unusual 10-fold selectivity for HSV-2 compared to HSV-1.


Background. The problem of comorbidity is becoming increasingly important in modern medicine and healthcare. A combination of infl ammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and spondyloarthritis (SpA), the genesis of which is closely related to immune infl ammation, can be attributed to the number of comorbid mutually aggravating pathology. In real clinical practice, there is often a late diagnosis of these comorbid processes, which aff ects the quality and eff ectiveness of treatment and worsens the outcomes of diseases.Aim. In order to attract the attention of specialists of various profi les to immuno-i nfl ammatory comorbidity, the article presents current data on the association between IBD and SpA with an analysis of the frequency of joint and spine lesions in ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), as well as the frequency of detection of intestinal lesions in various SpA phenotypes.Basic provisions. It has been shown that joint lesions in IBD and intestinal lesions in SpA, as a rule, occur in severe and moderate forms of these diseases, occurring with high or moderate activity. The HLA B27 genotype is more typical for individuals with manifest SpA, including developed against the background of IBD. The combination of IBD and SpA is caused by similar disorders of immunoregulation, the functional state of cells of native and adaptive immunity, and an imbalance of cytokines. These mechanisms have become the basis for the use of biological and targeted therapy in IBD and SpA, as well as in their combination. It has been shown that approximately half of patients resistant to standard drugs can achieve clinical remission on biological therapy.Conclusions. Thus, in order to objectify the severity of the immuno- infl ammatory process and improve outcomes, it is advisable to diagnose the most likely comorbid pathology in a timely manner and take this factor into account to optimize treatment.


Imbibition is one of the most common physical phenomena in nature, and it plays an important role in enhanced oil recovery, hydrology, and environmental engineering. The imbibition in a capillary is one of the fluid transports in porous media, and the effect of a dynamic contact angle that changes with the imbibition rate on liquid-liquid imbibition is not clear. In this paper, the molecular kinetic theory (MKT) is used to study the effect of a dynamic contact angle on spontaneous capillary-liquid-liquid imbibition at a micrometer scale. The results show that:
 Using a scaling time, the effects of various forces in different imbibition systems can be compared, the influence of a dynamic contact angle on imbibition can be characterized by a frictional effect of the three-phase contact line, and the proposed model considering the effect of a dynamic contact angle is better than the model neglecting the effect of a dynamic contact angle. As the displacing phase viscosity increases, the influence of a dynamic contact angle on imbibition strengthens, which is attributed to a decrease in the viscous effect and an increase in the frictional effect during the imbibition process; as the displaced phase viscosity increases, the influence of a dynamic contact angle on imbibition weakens, which is attributed to an increase in the viscous effect and a decrease in the frictional effect during the imbibition process. As the interfacial tension increases, the frictional effect increases, with the result that the effect of a dynamic contact angle on imbibition increases. As the capillary becomes more hydrophilic, the effect of a dynamic contact angle on imbibition becomes stronger because of a decreasing viscous effect and an increasing frictional effect. As the capillary length increases, the viscous effect increases, whereas the frictional effect decreases, leading to a decrease in the dynamic contact angle effect. As the capillary radius increases, the frictional force decreases, whereas its proportion in total resistance or the frictional effect increases, resulting in an increase in the effect of a dynamic contact angle.
 This work sheds light on the effect of a dynamic contact angle on capillary-liquid-liquid imbibition, including displacing phase viscosity, displaced phase viscosity, interfacial tension, capillary wettability, length, and radius. It will provide new insights into manipulating a capillary imbibition process and provide a fundamental theory for enhanced oil recovery by imbibition in conventional or unconventional reservoirs.
 Supplementary materials are available in support of this paper and have been published online under Supplementary Data at https://doi.org/10.2118/205490-PA. SPE is not responsible for the content or functionality of supplementary materials supplied by the authors.


Amphoteric PVA hydrogels were made from mixed aqueous solutions of poly(acrylic acid), poly(allylamine) hydrochloride and poly(vinyl alcohol) by repetitive freezing and thawing. The hydrogen bond induced gelation produced an elastic and tough microporous hydrogel which generated tension as high as 0.3MPa corresponding to the solvent exchange from water to acetone. In this paper we show the microscopic structure of hydrogels determined by means of cryo-SEM technique and X-ray analysis.


Hu Yuan,a well-known teacher in Song dynasty,contributed much to views on teachers' ethics in the perspectives of morality-and capacity-based talents use,practical instruction,and strict and relaxed talents training.In this sense,teachers' personality influence is typical of instructional practice and strategies.


This paper reports on an investigation into the implementation of a plagiarism policy and the perceptions of plagiarism among lecturers in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at a university in South Africa. A questionnaire was administered to explore these perceptions and a total of 52 completed questionnaires were collected. Unstructured interviews were also conducted in a faculty board meeting and a total of 16 written responses were collected, bringing the total number of responses to 68. The findings indicate that despite the existence of a plagiarism policy there is no comprehensive and integrated approach to addressing plagiarism. Although many lecturers admitted to being familiar with the policy, most did not implement the actions and processes suggested in the policy. To be more effective in addressing plagiarism, the author makes a number of recommendations.


During the execution of precise ranging in the time domain, the most important fact to consider is how to achieve an accurate estimate of the time corresponding to first arrival of the transmitter. However, it is difficult to extract an estimate of the time-of-arrival (TOA) through use of a simple correlator due to degradation on correlation, and in the case where the pulse repetition interval (PRI) is less than the maximum excess delay (MED). In order to enhance the correlation capability, this paper proposes a TOA estimation method that obeys a threshold predetermined in a non-coherent system using multiple-mask operation (MMO). The performance of the proposed scheme is verified by conducting simulations under two different types of channel situations. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs well even in a dense indoor multipath environment and with the existence of multiple simultaneously operating piconets (SOPs).


This paper addresses the problem of frequency estimation of sinusoidal signal submerged in hybrid noise (chaotic signals and Gaussian noise). Our algorithm uses the phenomenon of chaos synchronization, and utilizes the knowledge of invariance principle. First, we construct a master-slave chaos synchronization system and using the mixed signal as driving signals. When the synchronization occurred, the signal of received system has small error with driving chaotic signal. Then we subtract the received signal from the driving signals, so the sinusoidal signal is left in the arithmetical compliment, and the frequency is estimated using power spectrum method. The simulations show that the method is effective and feasible.


The philosophy for the accident-resistant container (ARC) design concept and the evaluation of the candidate structures and materials are described. Structures evaluated were (1) inner and outer metallic shells, (2) energy-absorption end structures, and (3) closure joints. Materials evaluated were those believed capable of providing the fire-barrier protection, energy absorption, and payload nesting. Also evaluated were the thermal properties of the structure and of the candidate materials to be used for fire barrier and nesting of the payload.


The sensitivity of canopy climate to the air's CO2 level increment is investigated using a canopy flow model based on the mean turbulent field (MTF) closure models. Leaf processes in the model are highly parametrized using the experimental results obtained from the dependence of stomatal diffusion resistance on the CO2 level. An increase in stomatal resistance with the CO2-level was greater in C4 plants (maize) than in C3 plants (rice), indicating that changes in maize canopy climate are more significant than in rice canopy. In a model maize canopy, daily sensible heat loss increased along with CO2 levels, with concomitant decreases in daily latentheatloss. Somewhat hotter and drier air conditions within maize canopies at higher CO2-level are anticipated to be unfavorable for the growth and yield of maize crops.


The present paper develops the idea of the boundary strip method, and presents its fundamentals, merits, applications and also some closed-form or non-element solutions based on it. The present approach combines the Boundary Integral Equation Method (BIEM) and the finite strip method, taking the advantages of both. The finite strip method is installed into the BIEM by expanding the unknown parameters of problems in terms of trigonometric series. This combination creates a new powerful numerical method with three advantages over other numerical methods, namely, a shorter computation time, a better accuracy and a reduction of one and a half dimensions in mesh generation. Applications in two-dimensional potential and field problems demonstrate the efficiency and the accuracy of the proposed method. Finally, closed-form presentations for Laplace equation and elastostatics are given, along circular segments.


Trans-cultural communication refers to the communication between people with different cultural backgrounds. The difference of cultural backgrounds makes it difficult for trans-cultural communication. Sport is conductive to promoting the establishment of national diplomacy and international relationship,boosting the development of relationship between China and Taiwan,shortening the inadaptable period in trans-cultural communication, and effectively minimizing the difference between cultures.


Since social development and inclusive education call for high-quality teachers,it is urgently needed to establish a high-quality contingent of special education teachers.This study,by using questionnaires to survey teachers from 19 special education schools in Henan Province,aims to explore the professional quality of special education teachers in Henan Province.The results show the following:Half of the special education teachers recognize their professional status;they believe they have a good ability in professional practice,but they lack educational concepts,professional hnowledge and research ability.It is suggested that measures be taken to improve their professional quality.


Management of financial policies is a public issue and important to public policies in general 0and for the financial field in particular. Managing information which compose the sets of financial policies and the information generated by the application in reality of financial policies is an important component of management in the financial sector. The design of specific procedures on sub-domains of the financial sector is influenced by the level of optimization of strategic decisions in the financial field. The combination of direct control measures, regulations, from top to bottom with indirect measures influencing financial environment and the behaviour of those targeted in their quality of taxpayers or consumers is necessary but insufficient to ensure the operation of financial mechanisms. To ensure proper functionality of the budgetary and monetary mechanisms such decisional measures require a scientific substantiation in the context of interdependence of our economy and society to the European Community.


It has been common, at least since 1945, to exaggerate and to overreact to foreign threats, something that seems to be continuing with current concerns over international terrorism. This paper sketches threat exaggeration during the Cold War and applies the experience from that era to the current one. Alarmism and overreaction can be harmful, particularly economically. And, in the case of terrorism, it can help create the damaging consequences the terrorists seek but are unable to perpetrate on their own. Moreover, many of the forms alarmism has taken verge on hysteria. The United States is hardly "vulnerable" in the sense that it can be toppled by dramatic acts of terrorist destruction, even extreme ones. The country can, however grimly, readily absorb that kind of damage, and it has outlasted considerably more potent threats in the past.


The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for facilitating an ad-hoc conference. More specifically, a ''join-us'' concept is employed that links functionality in non-real-time messaging systems with real-time ongoing state of calls information in a communications network. This combines the spontaneity and security of an ad-hoc conference call with the join-as-you-can nature of messaging and reservation of conference bridges.


The Greco-Turk border is one of the deadliest of the southern European Union. There, the measures to control migration established since the 2000s receive particular attention from the authorities. They sometimes result in death, which is a feature of these plural contexts. What happens to the bodies of migrants found dead in the prefecture of Evros thus differs from what happens to those found dead on the Island of Rhodes. In this comparative study, I attempt to identify the constants and particularities of procedures for handling the bodies of deceased migrants. In addition to the interest of this subject, about which little information is collected in Greece, I seek to understand how border controls extend beyond their initial function to create new (mortuary) spaces that at once produce and reproduce the inequalities that characterize them.


A method is proposed to determine the change in surface topography during running‐in of rolling contacts. Two types of experiments have been conducted in the present work to study the running‐in of the pure rolling contact situation: repeated moving and general free rolling using a high accuracy measurement setup. The results show that the surfaces run‐in with the proposed repeated moving contact method gives a fast running‐in when compared with the general free rolling contact method. The proposed repeated moving contact method appears to be a good method to study the ideal or pure rolling contact situation because wear, as present in the general free rolling contact method, is avoided. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


It relates the invention to the ion implantation apparatus using a plasma. And the second chamber the ion implantation apparatus using a plasma according to the present invention is formed with a first chamber and the inlet so as to be plasma is spread to the interior of the first chamber in which plasma is formed in the plasma ions to be injected into the sample, includes a sample and a conductor disposed is grounded to the opposite position seated in the second chamber, the first chamber is formed of the first is 2 formed in an annular shape for a predetermined in the chamber air upper edge side width is mutual communication, wherein since the first chamber is formed in an annular shape and can be a reliable plasma generation in the pressure conditions of a large area, and the second in the plasma diffuse into the chamber to provide a plasma suitable for the ion implantation process because it has a low electron temperature and a suitable density of plasma effect And, it is possible to prevent contamination caused by sputtering of plasma ions due to the charging of the second secondary electron emitted from the wafer.


Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) loaded with Bacoside were prepared by microemulsion probe sonicator method. Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) have been proposed as suitable colloidal carriers for delivery of drugs with limited solubility. Bacoside as a model drug was incorporated into SLNs prepared from stearic acid using Tween 80 emulsifiers. SLNs in the rage of 33.3-257nm.with mean particle size of 56 nm was obtained. The characteristics of the SLNs with various lipid and surfactant composition were investigated. The mean particle size of drug loaded SLNs decreased upon mixing with Tween 80 as well as upon increasing total surfactant concentration. The zeta potential of these SLNs varied in the range of –25 to –26 (mV), suggesting the presence of similar interface properties. High drug entrapment efficiency of 74.1% revealed the ability of SLNs to incorporate a poorly watersoluble drug such as bacoside. In vitro drug release study showed upto 84.68% drug release from Solid lipid nanoparticles. The drug release from Solid lipid nanoparticles follows zero order kinetics of drug release.


Dataset belonging to PLOS ONE article "Selection based on indirect genetic effects for growth, environmental enrichment and coping style affect the immune status of pigs".


The analysis of metaphoric structure cannot be lumped together simply .Having depending on basic metaphoric composition and material,connecting with the analysis of grammar and semantic,the metaphoric structure could be explained reasonably.In simile structure"A Like B,C"form,different composition of "C",different its function.It concerns the problem how to understand correctly the connotations of concepts of the noumenon,metaphoric subject and its meaning.


The first European Social Forum (ESF) held in Florence, Italy from 6 to 10 November 2002 brought together a diverse array of so-called 'anti-capitalist' movements including trade unions, new, radical unions and social movements to contest the agenda of neoliberalism as it is presented within and beyond processes of European integration. This article evaluates the ESF and the possibilities for cooperation between labour and social movements in forming joint strategies against neoliberalism. It is often assumed—rather than demonstrated—that established trade unions are an obstacle to more radical contestatory practices of direct-action social movement resistance. With detailed empirical analysis, the article assesses whether there was a continuation of reformist practices within unionist activities at the ESF allied with a focus on the often-contrary sensibilities of social movement opposition. The activities and joint strategies of labour and social movements at the ESF are therefore examined, not least th...


Research in the United States has shown that extracurricular activities at the high school level are beneficial for students. One type of extracurricular activity common in U.S. high schools is journalistic, including production of a student newspaper, involvement with student radio and television, and production of a yearbook. Little is known about the lasting effects of participation in high school extracurricular communication activities. This article examines the impact of participation in high school extracurricular communication activities on initial success in the job market, using data from a national sample of journalism and mass communication graduates.


Abstract During May and early June of 1963, 88 tetroon-transponder flights were made at relatively low level in the Los Angeles Basin. Five different tetroon release sites were utilized, extending from Point Dume northwest of Los Angeles to Sunset Beach southeast of Los Angeles. The tetroons, and attached transponders, were positioned at 3-min. intervals by means of the newly installed Weather Bureau WSR–57 radar on Blackjack Mountain, Catalina. Through the use of transponders the problem of ground clutter was eliminated, and tetroon positions were obtained at ranges exceeding 50 mi. even when the tetroon was only a few feet above the ground. More than 400 hr. of tetroon-tracking time were obtained, with the longest single track of 21 hr. duration. In general, the wind speeds derived from successive tetroon positions were small, averaging 4.4 kt. for all flights and only 2.4 kt. for flights released from Corral Beach. Aircraft tracking on more than 20 of the flights confirmed that the mean tetroon floatin...


Objective: to establish the specific features of changes in the levels of heat shock proteins (HSP), chemokines, and a marker for collagen degradation in the blood of patients with osteoarthritis (OA) depending on the stage of the disease. Subjects and methods. 99 patients with knee OA were examined in the rheumatology room, Vladivostok Polyclinic Three. The diagnosis was verified in accordance with the 2010 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) criteria. This group comprised 87 (88%) women and 12 (12%) men; the patients' mean age was 66.7±7.9 years; the disease duration was 5.9±4.0 years. A control group included 21 apparently healthy women and 9 men; their mean age was 59.6±8.3 years. Enzyme immunoassay was carried out to determine the concentrations of query molecules in the blood of the patients included in the investigation. The investigators used ELISA kits for HSP70, HSP27 (SunLong Biotech Co. Ltd, China), CRTAP (cartilage-associated protein, CAP), TNF-α (tumor necrosis factor-α), and CXCL17 (chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 17) (Cloud-Clone Corp., USA). Results and discussion. The levels of HSP27 and HSP70, their ratio, and CAP in OA were significantly lower than those in the control group. Those of TNF-α and CXCL17 were, on the contrary, considerably higher than those in the control group. In the patients with OA, HSP70 demonstrated an inverse correlation with the levels of CAP and TNF- α. CAP was statistically significantly correlated with TNF-α. The latter was directly related to CXCL17. When the duration of the disease was 10 or more years, the level of CAP was significantly higher than that in patients with a 5–9-year history of OA (p 0.05). The level of CXCL17 reduced statistically significantly with longer disease duration (p < 0.05). In a group of patients with a 1–4-year history of OA, the disease duration had a direct significant correlation with the levels of CAP and TNF-α. When the history of the disease was 5–9 years, there was a significant direct relationship of the duration of OA to CAP and CXCL17. In the patients who fell ill 10 or more years ago, the duration of the disease was directly correlated with the levels of CAP, TNF-α, and CXCL17.


A novel high pressure polymorph of anisole has been discovered and investigated with respect to the known low temperature form.


ABSTRACT In the 1980s and early 1990s, as relational psychoanalysis was gaining ground in the United States, French Caribbean poet and writer, Édouard Glissant, used the same term, Relation, to describe his creolized human experience of the flow of the world. Glissant's relational subject is a beachwalker, parsing the shoreline with his footsteps, traversing the edge between land and water in a mixture of grounding and flow that he also termed errantry. In Stacey Novack's discussion of Marion Milner's psychoanalytic account of creativity and self-immersive states in her 1950 work, On Not Being Able to Paint, a sense of aliveness that comes from an experience of the relational flow of the world is likened to the plunge into a body of water. For Glissant, however, the sea is part of a landscape that is corrugated, punctuated, staggered and staged. Even the most inward state is lapped and tickled by the tendrils of the Other, and this interlapping interplay is generative and creative. Novack's discussion offers an occasion for thinking about how both Caribbean and psychoanalytic relationality understand immersive inward states, as frightening, oceanic, and boundless or as a staged descent, a dipping one's toes in-and-out of the waters on, as Glissant termed it, the burning beach of reality.


The Yellow River Basin is an important ecological function zone in China, and it plays an important role in the national economic and social development pattern. However, the over-utilization of water resources has made the ecological and environmental problems in the river basin more and more serious. For this reason, the coordinated governance of the areas along the Yellow River basin has become very important. Based on the static game model, this paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the coordinated governance of the Yellow River basin in the upstream and downstream areas, constructs a static game model of ecological compensation between the Shanxi and Henan governments under coordinated governance, and studies the feedback equilibrium strategies of the Shanxi and Henan governments. This article provides theoretical basis and suggestions for collaborative governance to achieve sustainable development. The game results show that: reducing the cost of protecting the ecological environment of the upstream basin, increasing the benefits of protecting the ecological environment, and increasing the amount of ecological compensation can promote the implementation of the ecological compensation policy between the upstream and downstream in the basin.


Objective To study the protective effect of ischemic preconditioning on myocardial contractile function in isolated ischemia/reperfusion rat. Method The model of Langendorff perfused isolated rat heart was used to study the effects of ischemic preconditioning on LVEDP, DP, +dp/dt, -dp/dt, CF, protein contents, activities of LDH and SOD, concentration of MDA and ATP level pre- and post-ischemia/reperfusion. Result Compared with the ischemia/reperfusion group, ischemic preconditioning enhanced the recovery of cardiac hemodynamics. During ischemia period, ischemic preconditioning significantly delayed the onset time of ischemic contraction. And it promoted the recovery of contractile function, ATP level and SOD activity, and alleviated leakage of intracellular lactee dehydrogenase and MDA product in myocardium during reperfusion period. Conclusion The ischemic preconditioning has protective effects on ischemia and reperfusion injury, and may play and important role in future clinic practice.


We present the design and development of a Liquid Crystal Polymer receiver module at Ka-band. Liquid crystal polymer (LCP), an emerging organic material, has permeation close to glass and can be used to construct near-hermetic cavities for housing monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs). Using LCP, we have developed an integrated band-pass filter on the substrate. Furthermore, we have packaged a low noise amplifier (LNA) and a driver amplifier using chip-on-board with bond wires. We have developed a custom lamination process to seal a lid on the substrate to protect the MMICs.


When looking at the average citations of our manuscripts, Acta Physiologica's outperforming nations of 2014 are Hungry, Switzerland, England, China and Finland. To many, this may surprise, however, it reflects the globalization of science, which is gradually taking place. The largest proportion of our submissions originates from the United States. The amount of citations going to these manuscripts from the United States is only slightly above our impact factor. Are other countries taking over in science? This would be a far-fetched assumption. The financial resources invested in science are only one aspect of research globalization. There are many others to be considered, such as publishing expenses. Most journals have high entry thresholds for less privileged countries, as substantial costs must be covered by the submitting authors. This does not only hold true for open access journals (where reading is at no expense, in contrast to publishing), but also for several of the journals that are not open access. Often, thousands of dollars must be paid before one's research finally goes to press. Just having your manuscripts reviewed may often inflict costs of around $100, irrespective of your manuscript finally being accepted or not. What is the fairest way to go, free access for the readers or free publication for the authors? Acta Physiologica has a particular policy: publishing is free for all authors, there are no submission fees, and the reading is also at very low or no expense for nearly all of those living in under privileged regions of this world. In fact, Acta Physiologica distributes more licenses via philanthropic initiatives than it sells licenses! Perhaps the fact that publishing is free for all authors is one key for the success that Acta Physiologica has been experiencing over the latest years. Our impact factor has now been well above four for some time, making us a top-notch Journal in physiology. Our submissions are steadily increasing (Persson 2014) at a remarkable rate of almost 100 manuscripts per year. This is an unusual development in physiology publishing. Impact factor mania persists (Alberts 2013, Casadevall & Fang 2014). For most journals, the build-up of the impact factor heavily relies on very few manuscripts that attract vast attention. This does not hold true for Acta Physiologica. Less than 5% of the articles receive more than three times as many citations as the average, no manuscript received over 40 citations. On the other hand, only around one of 10 manuscripts go without any citations, which is a remarkably low fraction. Taken together, it seems that our peer-reviewed evaluation is working very well. As a result, Acta Physiologica publishes a well-balanced variety of scientific findings. Of course, Acta Physiologica is not totally different from other journals in the field. We may have a different spectrum of outperforming nations, and our manuscripts are cited particularly evenly, but when looking at the top cited papers of the last two years (Birder et al. 2013, de Groat & Wickens 2013, Gronros et al. 2013, Kennedy-Lydon et al. 2013, Nyberg et al. 2013, Palei et al. 2013, Phalitakul et al. 2013, Porkka-Heiskanen et al. 2013, Singer et al. 2013, Wei et al. 2013), it is clear that reviews receive more attention than original articles. Although four out of the five top cited items are original articles, reviews are overrepresented. On average, reviews are cited 1.8 times more than other citable items (e.g. regular submissions, certain editorials, etc.). What may be most promising is the increase in downloads that Acta Physiologica has been experiencing over the latest years. We have now reached 200 000 downloads per year. The United States and Europe still make up more than 60% of our readers, but the other regions of the world are catching up quickly.


OBJECTIVE
Anecdotally, topical application of diphenylhydantoin sodium (DpH) (phenytoin) has been shown to aid wound healing. We previously reported improved healing following topical infiltration of DpH in a healthy animal wound model. This study evaluates its effect on an incisional wound model in diabetic animals.

METHOD
Twenty-five male Sprague-Dawley rats were rendered diabetic by a single intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin. Two caudal and two cephalad wounds were made on the dorsal surface. A polyvinyl alcohol sponge was placed in a subcutaneous pocket created proximal to both cephalad wounds. Each wound was either treated topically with 10mg DpH in a 200microl carrier or an equal volume of the saline vehicle (control) on the day of wounding and days 3 and 6 post-incision. The animals were sacrificed on day 10. The breaking strength of fresh and fixed wounds was determined by tensiometry, and the hydroxyproline content was determined spectrophotometrically.

RESULTS
There was a significant overall increase in both fresh (24%) and fixed (18%) wound-breaking strength of the DpH-treated wounds when compared with the controls (p<0.05). This was associated with an increase in collagen synthesis as indicated by the increased hydroxyproline content in the DpH-infiltrated sponges when compared with the controls.

CONCLUSION
Our data suggest that topical DpH improves healing in a diabetic wound model. Topical administration of DpH has the potential to accelerate diabetic wound healing and should be evaluated in human diabetic wounds.


Signal converter characterized in that in the neutral position of the armature 12, the throttles 18, 20, 19, 21 are closed and when the armature 12 is moved out of its neutral position, the throttle furthest from the armature 18, 20 or 19, 21 is open. This invention relates to electrohydraulic converters signals.


Rates for aquation of ion in aqueous acidic solution have been measured by spectrophotometric method at various temperatures and pressures. The volume of activation for the aquation is small negative and lies in the limited range -2.76 ∼ -3.65 . The entropy and compressibility coefficient of activation are small negative values. From the results of thermodynamic activation parameters, it can be inferred that the aquation of ion proceeds through an associative interchange() mechanism.


Predicting gene function is usually formulated as binary classification problem. However, we only know which gene has some function while we are not sure that it doesn't belong to a function class, which means that only positive examples are given. Therefore, selecting a good training example set becomes a key step. In this paper, we cluster the genes on integrated weighted graph by generalizing the cluster coefficient of unweighted graph to weighted one, and identify the reliable negative samples based on distance between a gene and centroid of positive clusters. Then, the tri-training algorithm is used to learn three classifiers from labeled and unlabeled examples to predict the gene function by combining three prediction result. The experiment results show that our approach outperforms several classic prediction methods.


Optical fibre sensors, such as Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBGs), are growing in their utilisation, although very niche in their applications. To enable a more diverse range of end users, expensive application-specific optical fibre interrogation hardware needs to be made compatible with and, ideally, easily incorporated into existing instrumentation and measurement hardware. The Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is an ideal example of hardware used for data acquisition in many industries. As such, a module that can be connected into an existing PLC slot to collect data from electrically-neutral, EMI-immune and versatile FBG sensors is of significant advantage to the growing optical fibre sensing market. In this work, we show that both digital and analogue signals can be collected from FBG sensors and integrated seamlessly into the PLC-based control system using a transmit-reflect detection system. This technique enables fibre optic sensors to be compatible with standard industrial automation controllers in a relatively low cost and plug and play manner.


The following article was written in 1938 and is the first known professional paper to discuss social work in private practice. Inasmuch as private social work practice was unknown at that time, Lee Steiner established a private practice as a two year experiment. This paper reports her findings and recommendations. The article originally appeared in The Family, October, 1938 and is presented here in its entirety. The article is reprinted by permission of Family Service America.


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Considering the recent trends of the increasing globalization of the market economy and the diffusion of democracy, the modern world needs to pay closer attention to pro-women and pro-girls policies if gender discrimination is to be challenged. Such policies could mark an era of building greater gender equality across the world by strengthening domains of women's well-being that have been shown to decline in the initial years of the democratization and globalization of countries.

Women, who have more complex societal roles than men and whose employment is more tenuous, are more vulnerable to the rapid restructuring in macro-political and economic systems and bear more of the costs of systemic changes. My world-scale analyses show that women and men benefit unequally from the growth of democracy and the global economy – men's well-being improves with the growth of democracy and globalization but women's well-being declines. According to my follow-up studies, the decline lasts for over a decade (2014). These findings suggest that prior results of research proposing that democracy and the global economy improve people's well-being are most likely biased when gender and the level of development in countries are not accounted for. To protect women and girls and to avoid gender discrimination, globalizing and democratizing countries should prioritize gender mainstreaming in their policies.


— The ascularencephic is a disease in which blood flow is interrupted, being caused for ischemic reasons, when blood flow is obstructed in the vessels, or for hemorrhagic reasons, when the vessels are ruptured, causing hemorrhage in or near brain tissue. Objective: report the experience of members of an academic league of urgency and emergency interactive educational interventions were carried out, using realistic simulation about the identification maneuvers on ascularencephic in the in the municipality Ananideua/PA, Brazil. Method: This is an experience report with a qualitative approach and participatory method, elaborated from actions carried out in extension activities, of the Interdisciplinary Academic League in Urgency and Emergency. Results and Discussions: The educational action proved to be effective in raising the awareness of the participants, aiming to evaluate the efficacy of playful interventions as mediators in health education on the theme addressed. Conclusion: The use of educational practices as a disease prevention strategy is a positive means of strengthening communication with professionals and users of health services through active listenign.


Matured gold fish and 2-month-old nile tilapia were fed with fish meal based diet containing 1%, free gossypol for four months. There were no significant differences in the net weight gain, feed conversion ratio, specific growth rate, gonad weight and the gonad weight ratio (gonad weight/body weight) between gossypol treated fish and the control, which showed that the content of free gossypol at this level(0. 03% ̄0. 05%) in the diet containing cotton seed cake would neither inhibit the normal feeding and growth of the two fish species,nor bring impact on their normal sexual maturity and reproduction.


E.s.r. spectra of a series of Cu(acac)2 adducts of aza-aromatic compounds and azacyclohexanes (L) were measured. The 1 : 1 adduct Cu(acac)2L is formed almost exclusively in chloroform solution, L occupying an apical site. Their g∥ and |A∥| values were determined in order to investigate the steric and electronic effects on co-ordination. When the frontal steric hindrance of the base is not large, the |A∥| values of Cu(acac)2L are linearly related to the pKa values of L. Since the nitrogen atoms in 2,6-dimethylpyridine, 2- and 8-methylquinoline, acridine, and N-methylazacyclohexanes have considerable frontal steric hindrance, remarkable deviations from the straight line are observed for these compounds. The presence of two 1 : 1 adducts is shown for N-methylmorpholine, the O-adduct being more favourable than the N-adduct because of steric hindrance.


The utility model discloses a current basbar insulation structure that can reduces distributed inductance, which comprises a positive plate and a negative plate, with an insulating plate between said positive plate and negative plate; the positive plate, insulating plate, and negative plate are coupled together tightly. Said positive plate or negative plate is arranged with a connecting hole through which a connecting bolt can be inserted; the negative plate or positive plate is arranged with a pole spacing hole accordingly; wherein, said structure further comprises a insulated ring; the cavity of said pole spacing hole is in a stepped form, with the aperture smaller at outer side and larger at inner side; said insulated ring is also in stepped form on the circumference, with the outer diameter matching the aperture of the pole spacing hole, so as to fit into said pole spacing hole tightly. The busbar insulation structure can effectively reduce the adverse effect of drilling to the busbar, reduce the voltage spike impact from the power semiconductor component connected to the busbar during the switching process, and improve system reliability. The utility model can also be used in a variety of DC busbar structures of electric or electronic switching circuits.


This paper describes a clustering methodology developed to analyze hourly residential electricity load data to be able to simulate the impact of different rate designs on the adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs). To calibrate the simulation model for DER adoption, we used a dataset of 30 minute electric load intervals for a full year from 44,185 households in Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) service territory in Chicago. Due to computing constraints, we developed a segmentation of the households' data or 'clustering approach' to identify key groups or clusters of households in order to create a smaller number of representative customers of the larger data set.


Anadolu University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry 26470 Eskişehir, TURKEY Abstract Spectrophotometric, potentiometric and conductometric methods are developed for the determination of bupropion hydrochloride (BUP) in pharmaceutical tablets. For the first method, original UVspectrophotometry, 252 nm was determined as the optimum wavelength and used for the determinations. For the other method, second derivative UV spectrophotometry, the absorbances were measured at 217.4 and 221.8 nm and the distance between these extremum values was determined according to peak to peak method. Two spectrophotometric methods were validated over the concentration range of 5.72 20.03 Hg/mL. The limit of detection and limit of quantitation values of original UV-spectrophotometry were 0.75 ng/mL and 2.28 pig/mL. Also, these parameters were determined as 0.23 pig/mL and 0.68 pig/mL respectively, for the second derivative UV spectrophotometry. Developed methods were fully validated and the applicability of the methods for the determination of BUP in pharmaceuticals were demonstrated. Also, simple potentiometric and conductometric methods were developed and the applicability of these methods were demonstrated. The results of four analytical methods were compared with ANOVA test and no significant difference was found statistically. As a result, the developed methods could be proposed to the rutin content analysis to be simple, cheap, accurate, and precise.


Your article about physicists who have been involved in the search for gravitational waves before going into industry covered only rather recent history (August p45). In fact, Robert L Forward, who was the first person to receive a PhD for work on the detection of gravitational waves, also won a lucrative job in industry.


A comparison of serum immunoglobulin levels in children with Wiskott‐Aldrich Syndrotne (WAS) and in children with chronic eczema demonstrated lower IgM, higher IgA and lower IgG concentrations in WAS patients. Seven patients with WAS were studied for in vitro lymphocyte function by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) stimulation and by one‐way mixed cell cultures. Lymphocytes from WAS patients were significantly depressed in their response to PHA when compared with lymphocytes from a control population of children of similar age. In contrast to this, lymphocytes from WAS patients and from their normal siblings and parents responded equally well to mitomycin‐blocked homologous cells.


Superimposed basins in China are characterized by multiple-stage superposition of tectonic,multiple-stage charging and late-stage orientation.The formerly accumulated native reservoirs usually have undergone adjustment to a certain extent due to the neotectonics movements at Xishan epoch in the hinterland of Junggar basin.For being impersonally cognizant of the adjustment models and re-accumulation rules of oil/gas reservoirs,data analyzing,logging/testing outcome contrasting,reservoir physical property relationship studying and numerical experiment simulating are applied.Results show the adjustment of formerly accumulated subtle reservoirs would lead to the occurrence of a series of genetically-related oil layers with complicated oil/water or gas/water contacts and physical property relationship.Three models of adjusted preservation,adjusted residue/remnant and adjusted dissipation subtle oil/gas reservoirs have been identified.The main adjusting track are simulated.The re-accumulation mechanism and distribution rules of adjusted reservoirs in the hinterland of Junggar basin are discussed.


The rate of performance of technology contract reflects the running state of technology market in a country or area,and it is of value as the indication of quality of technology transaction.In reality,the low rate of performance of technology contract can be attributed to factors like information asymmetry and opportunism.However,in technology transaction,opportunism seems to be reasonable to some extent.Therefore,we should analyze them concretely and carefully.


Teachers' insight into misconceptions about simple circuits. Many studies on learners' misconceptions about electricity have been published internationally, but studies on teachers' awareness of these misconceptions are few. This article reports on a case study to investigate to what extent South African teachers understand learners' misconceptions about series and parallel circuits, and to what extent such understandings are integrated into their pedagogical content knowledge. Nine teachers from public schools were purposefully selected to participate in the study. Qualitative data were collected from questionnaires and interviews. It was found that teachers often indicate simple misconceptions as sources of learners' mistakes, but that misconceptions related to incorrect analysis are seldom mentioned. Furthermore, it was found that these teachers' knowledge about misconceptions was fragmented and not integrated with their understanding of basic concepts. The results indicate that these teachers display inadequate pedagogical content knowledge regarding misconceptions about series and parallel circuits. It is recommended that pedagogical content knowledge regarding misconceptions should be developed during teacher training.


The palladium-catalyzed aminofluorination of styrenes using novel N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide (NFSI) derivatives with deprotectable substituents, and the selective deprotection and transformation of the resulting products into amines under mild reaction conditions are herein disclosed.


AISI-D6 steel is widely used in the creation of dies and molds. In the present paper, first the electrical discharge machining (EDM) of the aforementioned material is performed with a testing plan of 32 trials. Then, artificial neural networks (ANN) and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) were applied to predict the outputs. The effects of some significant operational parameters—specifically pulse on-time (Ton), pulse current (I), and voltage (V)—on the performance measures of EDM processes such as the material removal rate (MRR), tool wear ratio (TWR), and average surface roughness (Ra) are extracted. To lead the process operators, process plans (i.e., parameter–effect correlations) are created. The outcomes exposed the upper values of pulse on-time caused by higher amounts of MRR and Ra, and likewise lower volumes of TWR. Furthermore, growing the pulse current resulted in upper volumes of the material removal rate, tool wear ratio, and surface roughness. Besides, the higher input voltage resulted in a lower amount of MRR, TWR, and Ra. The estimation models developed by using experimental data recounting MRR, TWR, and Ra. The root means the square error was used to determine the error of training models. Furthermore, the estimated outcomes based on the models have been proven with an unseen validation set of experiments. They are found to be in decent agreement with the experimental issues. The investigation shows the powerful learning capability of an ANFIS model and its advantage in terms of modeling complex linear machining processes.