An eigenspace, achievable by gain output feedback, is proposed by Andry et al. (1983). One example contradicting the above conclusion is given by Kang and Lee (1992). The contradiction is due to the limitation of the result presented by Andry. This note derives the complete specification of the eigenspace which can be achieved by gain output feedback. >


Background: Molecular changes in ovarian cancer are recently observed as a biomarker of tumor growth, one of them is angiogenesis, in which tumor cannot increase their size without angiogenesis. Objective: To determine cut-off value of urinary angiostatin as a malignancy predictor for epithelial ovarian tumor. Method: This diagnostic research took place in Obstetric and Gynecology Department of Faculty of Medicine of Universitas Sumatera Utara, Adam Malik General Hospital, and Pirngadi General Hospital Medan, started from August 2015 until May 2016. Patients with ovarian tumor who had been planned to undergo an elective surgery were taken as samples (consecutive sampling). The research material of this study is 30 cc of mid-stream urine which was taken one day prior to surgery. Data analysis is using Mann Whitney test and Chi Square. Statistical analysis is done to determine the AUC value, cut-off value, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of urinary angiostatin. Confidence interval is 95% and p-value <0,05 that is significance statistically. Results: From 80 subjects, there are 74 persons with epithelial ovarian tumor and 34 of them with malignant and another 40 persons with benign form of epithelial ovarian tumor. Mean value of urinary angiostatin in malignant epithelial ovarian tumor is 33.38 ± 20.77 ng/mL that is higher than what we found in benign epithelial ovarian tumor with 10.32 ± 9.85 ng/mL (p<0.05). AUC value is 83,3% (95% CI 73.7-92.9%; p<0.05) and cut off point of urinary angiostatin is ≥21.08 ng/mL with sensitivity 76.5%, specificity 77.5%, positive predictive value 74.3% and negative predictive value 79.5%. There is a relationship between the increase of urinary angiostatin with the event of malignant epithelial ovarian tumor with OR 11.194 (95% CI 3.78-33.15; p<0.05). Conclusion: Urinary angiostatin could be used as a diagnostic modality to screen a malignant epithelial ovarian tumor.


Hamlet ... the rest is silence Presented by Synetic Theatre Company at the Rosslyn Spectrum, Arlington, Virginia. October 9-November 9, 2003. Adapted and Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili. Set and costumes by Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili. Choreography by Irina Tsikurishvili. Lighting by Colin K. Bills. Music selected from works by Giya Kancheli. With Paata Tsikurishvili (Hamlet), Irina Tsikurishvili (Ophelia), Irakli Kavsadze (Claudius), Catherine Gasta (Gertrude), Armand Sindoni (Polonius, Gravedigger), Greg Marzullo (Laertes), Philip Fletcher (Horatio, Player), Jonathan Leveck (The Ghost, Player King, Jester), Irinia Koval (Gertrude), and others. Hamlet ... the rest is silence. Not quite. There are no words in Synetic Theater's interpretation of Hamlet but it is performed to the vivid music of Giya Kancheli, and the action indeed speaks at least as loud as words. This unique troupe hunched its first season independent of the Stanislavski Theater with a reprise of the 2002 production that garnered three Helen Hayes Awards. Synetic's hallmark is storytelling through movement. The principals, Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili are trained, respectively, in mime and classical dance. They bring an approach to theater that combines, in their words, "synthesis, kinetics, synergy, ethics and cinema." Hence, their choice of the word "Synetic" to describe their corps. The story is condensed into twelve scenes that run ninety minutes. Despite the absence of words, this intensely physical production makes bold interpretive choices. The production takes place in a simple empty box, and all the characters are dressed in black except for the ghost, who wears white. In the opening scene, the set consists of a ladder with a skull sitting on it and a single hanging incandescent light. Dead bodies are all over the stage. Hamlet enters and looks through the rungs of the ladder. The ladders in later scenes, held by various characters, serve as doors. The lights fade, and as they come up again, the scene is now the court celebration of Claudius' coronation. Hamlet enters brooding upon the skull of his father. He places the skull on his shoulder as he moves among the courtiers. When Gertrude tries to engage him, he shows her the skull. Then he hands the skull to Claudius, who visibly shudders. Ophelia enters and broods with Hamlet. She wipes a tear from Hamlet's cheek; he in turn wipes a tear from the skull. The music becomes slow and haunting like the sound of howling wind. Hamlet blows into the skull to conjure up the Ghost. After his encounter with the Ghost, Hamlet no longer carries the skull around but the Ghost is an ever-present companion to his melancholy son--rather like Hamlet's alter ego or super ego. …


Background: Bacterial toxins are well known to cause a variety of infections and diseases, which can lead to toxic shock and sepsis. A link has been proposed between pathogenic microorganisms and the development of chronic, autoimmune conditions like the immune complex disease, RA. Potential pathogenic mechanisms include the hygiene hypothesis and molecular mimicry. Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontal pathogen, has been shown to be able to citrullinate host and bacterial proteins. This foreign proteolytic processing and post-translational modification produces epitopes to which the body has no immunological tolerance. For example, anti-CCP antibodies are present in the majority of RA patients. Staphylococcus aureus has also been suggested as a candidate organism that could play a role in the initiation and development of RA. Our unpublished data have suggested that immune complexes are detectable in urine. Therefore, a method for the rapid detection of common staphylococcal enterotoxin fragments needs to be developed. The first aim was to enzymatically digest staphylococcal enterotoxins B and C (SEB/SEC), toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) and alpha haemolysin (AH). Secondly, we aimed to validate a method for the rapid identification of toxin peptide fragments by mass spectrometry. Methods: Toxins were dissolved in water and incubated with proteolytic enzymes. Optimum temperatures and minimum incubation times for each toxin were confirmed by Coomassie stain, western blot and ELISA. Following the confirmation of digestion, peptides were separated by HPLC and analysed using a Bruker HCT ultra electrospray ionization mass spectrometer. Peptide identification was performed using the MASCOT database. Results: Trypsin completely digests SEB and SEC after 4h of


Abstract The urban parks and gardens are usually surrounded by busy streets, commercial buildings and areas of high noise levels due to human activities and heavy traffic. These parks and gardens therefore have a unique function of providing relatively quiet areas to get away from the hustle and bustle of city lives. In this study, the sonic environment of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, which was the first UNESCO Heritage site in Singapore, was measured on various occasions and benchmarked with various urban gardens and parks around the world, namely the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, Real Jardín Botánico in Madrid. St James's Park in London, Old Botanical Gardens Hamburg, and Carlton Gardens in Melbourne. The Leq noise level was found to be compatible with the respective Leq noise level of the other urban parks and gardens. The sonic environment of the Singapore Botanic gardens was found to be dominated by cicada sound, human activities and water features. The sound level of various water features such as mini waterfalls and water fountains were also measured and analysed.


This paper proposes a scheme based on an algorithm for synchronising OFDM systems. Different types of synchronisation techniques are discussed. It is found that every existing synchronisation scheme has certain advantages and disadvantages. An alternative scheme based on an algorithm is proposed. In the proposed scheme, the best features of each existing synchronisation scheme are integrated into a whole, yielding an optimum approach to OFDM synchronisation. The implementation retains the inherent simplicity of OFDM systems, without any circuit complications and is therefore, suitable for hardware realisation.


Many studies have shown that circRNAs play essential roles in various biological processes. With the development of technology, the associations between circRNA and diseases have been discovered, and these associations will help diagnose and treat diseases. However, it is time-consuming and costly to detect the associations between circRNAs and diseases with the experimental methods. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a feasible and effective computational method for predicting circRNA-disease associations. In this paper, we propose a new computational framework called VLCDA to identify the potential circRNA-disease associations. Initially, we construct features by fusing circRNA expression profile features and circRNA protein-coding ability features, disease semantic features, circRNA and disease GIP Kernel features, and use VGAE to mine its deep latent features. Finally, we use the fusion features to train the LightGBM classifier and the trained LightGBM to identify the circRNA-disease associations. The main contribution of VLCDA is that we firstly add circRNA protein-coding ability feature to the circRNA-disease association prediction model. In addition, VLCDA uses variational graph auto-encoders to extract the latent features of circRNA-disease associations to improve the prediction model's accuracy further. VLCDA obtained the area under the ROC curve (AUC) scores of 0.9783 in 5-fold cross-validation. In addition, in the case studies, 16 of the top 20 circRNA-disease associations predicted by VLCDA have been confirmed by relevant literature.


A number of studies have investigated the mechanisms that determine changes in precipitation, including how a wet region gets wetter. However, not all monsoon areas get wetter—there is a need to understand the major factors behind changes in regional monsoon precipitation, in terms of external forcing and internal variabilities in the last six decades by a combination of different observed datasets and model runs. We have found that time of emergence of anthropogenic signals is robustly detected in the northern African monsoon before the 1990s with the use of the CESM Large Ensemble Project. From CMIP5 model runs and three reanalysis datasets, the results found are that the change in rainfall over African monsoon (AFM) is mainly due to anthropogenic forcing and that over Asian-Australian monsoon (AAM) is affected by internal variability. Moreover, the cause of American monsoon (AMM) rainfall change cannot be known due to a discrepancy among observed datasets. Here we show that the asymmetry between Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (SH) parts by green-house gas (GHG) is detected over the AFM and AAM regions. However, the land monsoon rainfall in the northern AMM is decreased by a combination of GHG and aerosol forcing. In general, the aerosol forcing causes a decreasing rainfall over the monsoon regions. In future projection, the land rainfall over the AAM and AMM are expected to increase and decrease in the future from most models' results. The asymmetry between an increase in NH and a decrease in SH is dominant in the future from most models' future simulation results, which is well shown over the AFM and AAM. This study suggests that the physical process of GHG and aerosol effects in rainfall should be explored in the context of regional aspects.


Due to the high hardness of SiC ceramics, the wear of the arc-shaped metal bonded diamond wheels is very serious during the grinding process of large-aperture aspheric SiC mirrors. The surface accuracy and surface/sub-surface quality of the aspheric mirror will be affected seriously if the grinding wheel is not timely dressed. Therefore, this paper focus on the in-process dressing of the arc-shaped metal bonded diamond wheels. In this paper, the application of the asymmetric arc profile grinding wheel in the grinding of aspheric mirrors is discussed first. Then a rotating cup-shaped electrode in-process electro discharge dressing device for the arc-shaped wheels is developed based on the analysis. The dressing experiments are carried out with the device. The experimental results show that the in-process dressing device can did the dressing for the asymmetric and symmetric arc-shaped wheel. The profile error of the arc can reach to 3μm with the in-process dressing device.


Recent results which show several ways to improve the photorefractive time response in strontium barium niobate and barium strontium potassium sodium niobate tungsten bronze crystals are presented. The techniques used were thermal, applied fields, self-generated internal fields, and focusing. Orders-of-magnitude improvements in the time response were demonstrated for beam fanning, self-pumped phase conjugation, and double phase conjugation.<<ETX>>


This paper describes an effect of articulatory Δ and ΔΔ parameters on automatic speech recognition (ASR). Articulatory features (AFs) or distinctive phonetic features (DPFs)-based system shows its superiority in performances over acoustic features based ASR. These performances can be further improved by incorporating articulatory dynamic parameters into it. In this paper, we have proposed such a phoneme recognition system that comprises two stages: (i) DPFs extraction using a multilayer neural network (MLN) from acoustic features, local features (LFs) and (ii) incorporation of dynamic parameters (Δ and ΔΔ) into a hidden Markov model (HMM) based classifier for more accurate performances. From the experiments on Japanese Newspaper Article Sentences (JNAS), it is observed that the proposed method provides a higher phoneme correct rate and phoneme accuracy over the method that does not incorporate dynamic articulatory parameters. Moreover, it reduces mixture components in HMM for obtaining a higher performance.


ABSTRACT Divided wall column (DWC) configurations were simulated and optimized for five different feed's compositions to demonstrate the effect of feed composition and location of dividing wall in DWC in optimum operating conditions, energy requirement, operating, capital and total annualized cost (TAC) to produce market-grade benzene, toluene, and xylene. Operating conditions and cost for each DWC strongly depend on feed composition. Middle DWC (M-DWC) requires significantly lower energy compared with top and bottom DWCs except for feed dominated with xylene where energy requirement is comparable in studied configurations and M-DWC seems the best for ternary mixture separation.


At the end of 2005 the process of European integration seems to have reached a serious crisis. The aim of the paper is a preliminary exploration of factors that have lead to the situation. The main emphasis is given to the European Union's Lisbon Strategy. Although the strategy represents a healthy theoretical shift towards a dual emphasis on innovations as the basic engine of economic growth and on social cohesion in order to mitigate the uneven economic growth that necessarily follows in a dynamically innovative society, the shift also carries several problems of theoretical, contextual and didactical nature. Therefore, the author is in the opinion that the present situation of Europe requires more than the Lisbon Strategy's list of good intentions focusing around innovations – it needs to bring back economic thinking and economic tools that dominated the period after World War II.


Policy implementation is a significant field of public policy studies, and the study of the policy implementation is actually meaningful to China which is in a transformational period. Studies in policy implementation now are growing annually in quantity, and have a strong practical orientation. But one can easily find a vacuum in fieldwork and experimental research. What has to be emphasized is utilization of theory and scientific institutionalization of the research methods, impact of the information network on the theory of policy implementation, and studies in policy measures. One of its targets is the Chinese characterization of the studies in policy implementation.


Undertaking a professional doctorate or Stage 2 independent training equivalent provided by the British Psychological Society enables training as an applied psychologist, using evidence-based practice to provide services to the public. Securing a work placement is one of the most important prerequisites for successful application to entry to some courses, including those specialising in health, occupational and sport and exercise psychology. This article will discuss key elements to consider when aiming to find a placement, including role and trainee contribution, organisational support, training and development opportunities, inter-professional collaboration and funding to appraise suitability for placement.


The utility model relates to a things internet exhibition information media service system. The things internet exhibition information media service system comprises a management server, a plurality of door phones, an electronic map guide system device, an electronic voice guide system device and a plurality of RFID (radio frequency identification device) identity cards, wherein the door phones, the electronic map guide system device and the electronic voice guide system device are connected with the management server; the door phones read the information of the RFID identity cards in the way of a wireless passage; the door phones are arranged at entrances of an exhibition stadium; the management server is arranged in a machine room of the exhibition stadium; the electronic map guide system device and the electronic voice guide system device are arranged at each passage of the exhibition stadium; and the RFID identity cards are carried by exhibitors. The things internet exhibition information media service system is used in the exhibition stadium to provide services of registration, identity identification, seat arrangement, route guidance and the like for the exhibitors.


Breathing and speech planning in spontaneous speech are coordinated processes, often exhibiting disfluent patterns. While synthetic speech is not subject to respiratory needs, integrating breath into synthesis has advantages for naturalness and recall. At the same time, a synthetic voice reproducing disfluent breathing patterns learned from the data can be problematic. To address this, we first propose training stochastic TTS on a corpus of overlapping breath-group bigrams, to take context into account. Next, we introduce an unsupervised automatic annotation of likely-disfluent breath events, through a product-of-experts model that combines the output of two breath- event predictors, each using complementary information and operating in opposite directions. This annotation enables creating an automatically-breathing spontaneous speech synthesiser with a more fluent breathing style. A subjective evaluation on two spoken genres (impromptu and rehearsed) found the proposed system to be preferred over the baseline approach treating all breath events the same.


Because of temperature independence, high resolution and noiseless outputs, brushless resolvers are widely used in high precision control systems. In this paper, at first dynamic performance characteristics of brushless resolver, considering parameters identification are presented. Then a mathematical model based on d-q axis theory is given. This model can be used for studying the dynamic behavior of the resolver and steady state model is obtained by using dynamic model. The main object of this paper is to present an approach to identify electrical and mechanical parameters of a brushless resolver based on DC charge excitation and weight, pulley and belt method, respectively. Finally, the model of resolver based on the obtained parameters is simulated. Experimental results approve the validity of proposed method.


The present invention relates to a remote monitoring apparatus and method for a distribution board using a mobile application (App) and, more specifically, to a remote monitoring apparatus and method for a distribution board using a mobile App, for which an administrator who is located at a distance can receive information on temperature and leakage current of the distribution board and abnormality of sequence control via the mobile App.


Prunasin and pomolic acid together with a mixture of ursolic and oleanolic acids, (-)-epicatechin and β-sitosterol glucoside were isolated from the roots of Chaenomeles japonica. Among these compounds, the isolation of pomolic acid and prunasin is the first report from the genus Chaenomeles.


ZrB2-based laminates were produced by tape casting and pressureless sintered at 2150°C in argon atmosphere using silicon nitride as sintering aids. Two different configurations were considered: planar (tile) and tubular (roll). After sintering, the laminates reached different relative densities depending on their composition (with or without SiC additions as secondary phase) or the final shape (tiles or rolls). Traces of the formation of oxygen\xE2\x80\x90free crystalline phases such as B4C and BN were found in all samples. The RT flexural strength of bars cut from the tile configuration was mainly affected by the coarse microstructure, residual porosity, and layer stacking sequence. A very low scattering of the flexural strength values was registered in ZrB2–SiC laminates because of the homogeneous microstructure and the absence of any defects between the layers. Tape casting allowed the production of thin homogenous laminates with a significant reduction of weight and a careful microstructure control.


Visualization of 3D images is becoming more commonplace for a variety of applications including online games and e-commerce. For efficient online visualization of 3D objects it is necessary to quickly adapt 3D models (including the wireframe and texture) to the available computational or network resources. In this paper we propose enhancements to 3D model simplification based on interactive level-of-detail (LOD) update with foveation. Our technique differs from the others in that simplification is based on both surface curvature surface and the region of interest. Data structures to implement model simplification are also described. Experimental results comparing the simplified models and the computational time demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.


A series of acyclic pyrazole derivatives was prepared by condensation reactions. These compounds were covalently immobilized on silica gel through a flexible 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane spacer arm. These materials were used as sorbents for the recovery of heavy and alkali metal ions from aqueous solutions. They exhibit good selectivity between heavy metal ions and alkali ions with an affinity especially high towards mercury. The comparison with liquid-liquid extraction shows that the capacity is not affected by the grafting of the pyrazole rings on the surface of silica. In addition, the solid-liquid process is more convenient in terms of facility of use.


A capillary gas chromatography-atomic emission detection (GC-AED) method was developed for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory in Las Vegas, NV, for determination of selected organotin compounds. Here we report on an interlaboratory study to establish whether these compounds can reliably be detected and quantitated by this method and to establish the interlaboratory precision and accuracy with currently available instrumentation. A blind, balanced-replicate design was selected for this study, based on a recommendation of AOAC INTERNATIONAL. Ten laboratories volunteered for this study. Each laboratory received 5 calibration standards (pentylated organotin compounds), 3 pentylated soil or sediment extracts (prepared in our laboratory by an in situ complexation/supercritical fluid extraction method), and 1 pentylation blank. The participating laboratories analyzed the extracts according to our instructions and submitted the data to us for statistical analysis. Of 720 individual sample results, the number of outliers identified with the Cochran test was 60 (8.3%). Two laboratories accounted for most of the outliers. Results indicate that good chromatographic performance was achieved regardless of the type of injection inlet ; however, electronic pressure control was needed to achieve acceptable chromatography for tetracyclohexyltin and tetraphenyltin. The intralaboratory precisions of the GC-AED method ranged from 1.3 to 22% relative standard deviation (RSD), depending on the compound. The interlaboratory method precisions ranged from 11 to 40% RSD over the concentration range tested.


Africa. New York: Friendship Press, I945. $0.25. A colored wall-map for missionary education. BERNARD, THEOS. Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personal Experience. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. xii+68 pages+37 collotype illustrations. $3.50. An account, with photographs, of the way in which mental control of the body may be achieved with a view to securing tranquillity. BRAISTED, PAUL J. Cultural Cooperation: Keynote of the Coming Age. ("Hazen Pamphlets," No. 8.) Haddam, Conn., 1944. 30 pages. Single copies, $o.io; fifty or more, $o.o5. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 95. October, I944. 95 pages. $1.oo per year. CALVERT, W. D. Remember Now..... Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, I944. 224 pages. $i.oo. Freshly presented devotional readings for youth.


I am an Ironman. For the uninitiated, this means that I have completed a 140.6-mile triathlon. Mine consisted of a 2.4-mile ocean swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile marathon run. As you ca...


The invention discloses an anti-counterfeiting structure for driving card. The marked pattern composed of microstructure is set on the plastic packaged film of the card. The said marked pattern comprises at least three pattern area. A first pattern area is composed of sub-wavelength structure raster of orientated orthogonal structure and the double vision channel forms single color effect. A second pattern area is composed of light spot with body shape of square. The light spot shape of the pattern edge is determined by the outer outline of the pattern, with gliding property. The interference fringes are set in the light point. A third pattern area is composed of bar speckle microstructure, with oriented achromatization effect for white light reflection. The vision character of pattern is notable, easy to recognize in public places and conveniently and quickly distinguish the card. At the same time, the structure data is computed using rigid coupled wave. The said microstructure is produced using electron beam or laser interference optical lithography, and the means is advanced and the difficulty of technique is high with high safety.


The chapter explains the "Partee paradox"— the observation that the temperature is rising and the temperature is ninety does not entail ninety is rising—and the solution it received in formal semantics. It is shown that the predication in the temperature is rising takes an "individual concept" argument and involves an "intensional verb" of a kind; it states a change of the value of a timedependent function. Constructions known as "concealed questions"—for example know the price— are shown to be closely related. Partee's observation and the phenomenon of concealed questions are taken as the point of departure into taking a closer look at the three components of the constructions: intensional verbs, individual concept nouns, and the definite article. The construction provides a bridge to a general theory of types of noun and their interaction with definiteness. In addition, the particular class of functional nouns and concepts figures in the center of Barsalou's cognitive theory of concept modeling. Thus the understanding of the puzzle is connected to fundamental issues of semantics and cognition.


This article inquiries into the deformation of elastic cylinder within gravity field under the small disturb,and gets the relationship between the stable condition of cylinder and constant of Lame according to the field of displacement.


Construction of the SuperKEKB has been progressed in KEK. The mechanical designs of the cryostats for the superconducting magnets in the interaction region are also being studied. In the cryostat designs, the mechanical strengths of the components were calculated, and the configurations of the cryostats were optimized. Because the vertical beam sizes need to be 50 nano-meter, vibration of the magnets due to the ground motion has been evaluated. We will present the cryostat designs and these vibration studies in this paper. INTRODUCTION Construction of the SuperKEKB has been progressed in KEK [1]. The target luminosity of the SuperKEKB is 8×10 cms, which is 40 times larger than the KEKB. The vertical beam sizes of electron and positron must be squeezed to the level of 50 nano-meter at the interaction point. The beam final focus system for the SuperKEKB consists of 4-superconducting (SC) quadrupole doublets, 43 SC-correctors, 4 SC-compensation solenoids [2]. Interaction region of the SuperKEKB is shown in Fig. 1. The designs of the cryostats in the left and right side with respect to the beam interaction point are being studied with the progress of the magnet designs. The superconducting magnets are assembled into the two cryostats, QCS-L and QCS-R, and the assembled cryostats are installed inside of the Belle detector. In the design works, the support structure of each cryoTable 1: Force Specifications for the Cryostats


This study considers the effects of Utah's Dual-Credit Enrollment (DCE) and Early College High School (ECHS) programs on underrepresented students' performance via an examination of the Utah Data Alliance longitudinal public education dataset. The study assesses standardized testing scores, high school graduation rates, dual course credits earned, higher education enrollment, time-to-completion, and degree attainment outcomes for various minority and low income student groups enrolled in DCE and ECHS programs.To limit the endogeneity and self-selection bias present in non-experimental data, the study employs Propensity Score Matching method (PMS) as a quasi-experimental design methodology. Although PMS offers many advantages, its strength as an estimator is dependent on the existence of complete and quality matching variables. To assure accurate model specifications given the available data, Receiving Operator Characteristic (ROC) Analysis is applied to variations on the PMS models.Estimated outcomes reflect positive effects for each of the examined student populations differentiated by gender, race, income and English Language Learner status. The economic effects of accumulating higher education course credits and decreases in higher education time-to-completion may yield the most interesting outcomes, enjoy the strongest causal claims, and result in measurable household and state level savings. These outcomes may also reveal potential weakness in the structure of higher education course and major programming, and the difficulty presented as high school students make higher education decisions.


weakest of the lot, but it has the advantage of highlighting this deficiency of the volume as well as the tendency to completely ignore the comparative work done by historians. Amenta, whose field is American welfare provisions, makes no mention of the transnational and comparative work on industrialism and welfare by Alan Dawley and Sonya Michel or that on the international circulations of ideas about social policy by James Kloppenberg and Daniel Rodgers.


We studied the state of cardiac hemodynamics in patients with chronic pyelonephritis with and without arterial hypertension according to echocardiographic study (EchoCG). We have examined 149 patients with chronic pyelonephritis aged from 17 to 70 years (men-51, women-98). The average age of the patients was 43.9 years.


In this paper the interface developed for real-time communication, DINEMO (Digital Network Model), is described. It has been used for different applications in the last five years. This digital network model comprises all necessary power system hardware components and communication between different computers and any real equipment. Furthermore it is possible to perform digital real-time simulations for hardware-in-the-loop testing of real equipment.


Anorectal melanoma in an uncommon tumor that has a poor prognosis. We present a case of anorectal melanoma and review the literature pertaining to prognosis and treatment. Although no controlled trials of treatment of anorectal melanoma have been done, the evidence suggests that conservative excision confers comparable survival with less morbidity than radical surgery.


A 3 × 3 Latin square design experiment was conducted with three ruminally-cannulated Hereford steers (605 ± SD 98 kg) to determine the effects of changes in reticular contraction characteristics on the distribution of fecal particle size of cattle fed at maintenance. Addition of 0 (control; C) 9 (low weight; LW) or 18 (high weight; HW) kg weight to ventral sac of the rumen of steers linearly increased (P = 0.03) the geometric mean size of fecal particles. During the 1.5-h feeding period, duration and amplitude of reticular contractions linearly increased (P = 0.04) and decreased (P = 0.08), respectively, with the addition of weights. Frequency of reticular contractions increased linearly (P = 0.05) and quadratically (P = 0.07), reaching a maximum of 1.7 min−1 in LW steers, 1.6 min−1 and 1.4 min−1 in HW and C steers, respectively. Duration of reticular contractions, but not amplitude or frequency, was linearly related to the proportion of large particles and to the geometric mean size of fecal particles (r...


We consider a one-dimensional lattice system of unbounded, real-valued spins with arbitrary strong, quadratic, finite-range interaction. We show the equivalence of the grand canonical ensemble (gce) and the canonical ensemble (ce), in the sense of observables and correlations. A direct consequence is that the correlations of the ce decay exponentially plus a volume correction term. The volume correction term is uniform in the external field, the mean spin and scales optimally in the system size. This extends prior results of Cancrini & Martinelli for bounded discrete spins to unbounded continuous spins. The result is obtained by adapting Cancrini & Martinelli's method combined with authors' recent approach on continuous real-valued spin systems.


Friction and wear behaviors of graphite-like carbon (GLC) films in aqueous environment were investi- gated by a reciprocating sliding tribo-meter with ball-on-disc contact. Film structures and wear scars were studied by scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and a non- contact 3D surface profiler. A comprehensive wear model of the GLC film in aqueous environment was established, and two feasible approaches to control critical factor to the correspondingwear failurewere discussed. Results showed that wear loss of GLC films in aqueous environment was characterized by micro-plough and local delamination. Due to the significant material loss, local delamination of films was critical to wear failure of GLC film in aqueous environment if the film was not prepared properly. The initiation and propagation of micro-cracks within whole films closely related to the occurrence of the films delamination from the interface between interlayer and substrate. The increase of film density by adjusting the deposition condition would significantly reduce the film delamination from substrate, meanwhile, fabricating a proper interlayer between substrate and GLC films to prevent the penetration of water molecules into the interface between interlayer and substrate could effectively eliminate the delamination.


As shown in hep-th/9709081, non-BPS saturated solitons play an important role in the duality transformations of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories. In particular, a massive spinor in an SO(N) gauge theory with massless matter in the vector representation appears in the dual description as a magnetic monopole with a Z_2 charge. This claim is supported by numerous tests, including detailed matching of flavor quantum numbers. This fact makes it possible to test the phase of an SO(N) gauge theory using massive spinors as a probe. It is thereby shown explicitly that the free magnetic phase which appears in supersymmetric theories is a non-confining phase. A fully non-abelian version of the Dual Meissner effect is also exhibited, in which the monopoles are confined by non-BPS string solitons with Z_2 charges.


A multi-loop design insensitive to external uniform magnetic fields is suggested for a dc SQUID. The SQUID has a meander-shaped coupling coil, which show promise both for LTc and HTc biomagnetic measuring systems. The 16- and 32-loop versions of the SQUID were manufactured using niobium technology and were tested experimentally. On the basis of the experimental data it was shown that the use of LTc multi-loop SQUIDs makes it possible to develop biomagnetic measuring gradiometers with a resolution of the order of 3-4 fT/spl radic/Hz. A multiloop SQUID may be used with a flux transformer in the form of a first-order gradiometer free from conductor crossings. Such a gradiometer has a single-layer design and can be easily fabricated from HTc materials.<<ETX>>


Abstract Magnetorheological materials are a class of "smart materials", where mechanical material properties can be tuned by the application of externally applied fields. To accomplish the magneto-sensitive quality, magnetic particlesare distributed in a host matrix. In the last year's interest gained in materials based on solid matrices. In contrast to fluid systems, within a solid matrix, the particles are fixed within the material. This enables an evaluation of the structures formed by the particles by means of computed X-ray microtomography. As known from past investigations, the arrangement and movement of the magnetic particles within the matrix play a major role in determining the overall material properties. Computed X-ray microtomography proved to be a convenient tool, providing important new knowledge about those materials. This paper gives an overview of the application of the method of computed X-ray microtomography on several kinds of solid magnetorheological materials, the broad possibilities of data evaluation, and fundamental results obtained with this method and the described materials.


ABSTRACT This brief report describes the first time a recovery home organization has both developed and evaluated an educational workshop aimed at encouraging the use of medication-assisted treatments (MATs) and NARCAN (naloxone) to prevent/reduce opioid overdoses. The one-hour program involving the use, misuse, and recovery potential of MATs and the opioid overdose reversal properties of NARCAN occurred for Oxford House residents who participated in 2019 (N = 522) and in 2021 (N = 887). Post-intervention ratings indicated that resident ratings indicated that recovery home residents acknowledged that they were able to recognize and reverse an opioid overdose, properly administer naloxone, and potentially save the life of someone who is overdosing on opioids. The findings suggest that this program might be effectively administered in recovery homes, and future studies will need to determine if the program is able to change attitudes and behaviors of residents.


Two individual difference characteristics, need for cognition and argumentativeness, are investigated to determine their impact on persuasive message processing and attitude‐behavior relations. Results indicate that although these characteristics moderate message perception and the relationship between attitudes and behavioral intentions they did not significantly influence message processing.


Topics covered (1) Why Governance and Why Now? (2) Characteristics of Architecture Governance (3) Strategic Elements (3a) Architectural Principles (3b) Architecture Board (3c) Architecture Compliance (4) Architecture Governance Infusion Process. Governance is concerned with decision making (i.e., setting directions, establishing standards and principles, and prioritizing investments). Architecture governance is the practice and orientation by which enterprise architectures and other architectures are managed and controlled at an enterprise-wide level


(57) Abstract: The present invention relates to an ophthalmic composition for glaucoma treatment in the form of a suspension gel of the free acid of diclofenamide. The present invention is the use of a liquid suspension gel containing the free acid of diclofenamide treatment of primary open angle glaucoma and / or secondary open-angle glaucoma, lowering of intraocular pressure, and to the treatment of ocular hypertension on.


This article aims to describe the social and economic situation faced by the native population of the state of Nayarit in relation to the production of maize for self-consumption. The research focused on maize production as an essential element for access to food and reduction of food poverty in this population. The results and analyzes are the product of a socioeconomic diagnosis belonging to the project: "Institutional Model for Sustainable Production of the University of Nayarit". This is a mixed study (quantitative - qualitative), with a multidisciplinary approach. The ethnographic method was used, with participatory planning tools, with analysis of latent structures and analysis of the social discourses of the participating actors in the study communities, under an evaluative research design. It was concluded that maize has been an active element in the social production of native peoples because it represents the ways of relating between settlers and communities, as well as the method of internal organization for production, resource management, family activities and of each native people.


Notation in appendices In all appendices, and in line with [Van den Oord et al., 2018, Löwe et al., 2019], the context vector, from which the prediction is performed, is denoted ct and the feature vector being predicted is denoted zt+ t (or zt 0 for negative samples). In general, the loss function of CPC and CLAPP are therefore defined with the score functions ut = z⌧>W predct. Throughout the vision experiments and when training the temporal convolutions of the audio processing network, it happens that c and z denote the same layer (see Appendix B for details). However, when processing audio, the highest loss uses the last layer as the context layer c and the one before last for z.


Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum is the main etiologic agent of visceral leishmaniasis in American continent. We report a rare case of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by viscerotropic specie in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis on treatment with adalimumabe and methotrexate. The patient presented no signs of visceral involvement. PCRRFLP and genetic sequencing demonstrated Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum. The patient was treated with Nmethyl- glucamine (20 mgSbV/kg/day) for 20 days. Despite of interruption of treatment due to elevation of transaminases (TGO 48 U/L and TGP 62 U/L) for a week, the lesions healed completely. Leishmania infection in patients who are on anti-TNF alpha treatment has to be remembered as an opportunistic disease associated with immunosuppression caused by biological therapies, especially in endemic countries. We consider that the use of immunosuppressive drugs may lead to atypical cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis even by viscerotropic agents.


Today consumers are facing different advertisements and cause marketers to be increasingly concerned with advertising effectiveness. Banks are spending a considerable amount of money on advertisement to introduce their services to consumers in order to attract their attention and persuade them to prefer their services. Consequently, marketers and advertising companies exploring advertising effectiveness are always looking for more effective and newer communication media and evaluation methods of advertising effectiveness that technological development could provide .The purpose of this study is to establish a theoretical and empirical basis that shows the impact of advertising effectiveness on attraction of deposit accounts of Ansar Bank in the City of Isfahan .The citizens of the city who have watched the target advertisements include the population of the study. Random sampling method was used for collecting data. In this study, Structural Equation Modeling (path analysis and confirmatory factor analysis) has been used for data and hypotheses analysis. The results indicate that TV advertisements were effective. In fact, a TV advertisement was successful from the in attention of audience point of view, creates interest and desire for action, and eventually was effective in absorption deposit accounts of Ansar bank.


Symbiotic stars are wide binary systems consisting of a hot compact star (usually a white dwarf) and a mass losing giant. Symbiotic activities are believed to occur through gravitational capture of a fraction of the slow stellar wind from the giant. Raman scattered features of O VI resonance doublet 1032 and 1038 appearing at around 6825 Å and 7082 Å are a unique spectroscopic diagnostic tool to probe the mass transfer process in symbiotic stars. The Raman O VI features often exhibit multiple peak structures and in many cases the blue peak of 7082 features is relatively more suppressed than that of 6825 features. We propose that the disparity of the two profiles is attributed to the local variation of optical depths of O VI, implying that the accretion flow is convergent in the red emission region and divergent in the blue emission region. It is argued in this presentation that Raman scattering by atomic hydrogen is a natural mirror to provide an edge-on view of the accretion disk and a lateral view of the bipolar outflow in symbiotic stars. We discuss the spectropolarimetric implications of this interpretation.


The present invention discloses a handling system for heavy equipment manufacturing production line, the system comprising a production line that extends to the processing equipment of the main track, a plurality of main rail and the unloading rail disposed in the same direction , vehicles running on the main track, the at least one loading station and at least one unloading station, wherein: the plurality of vertical feed rails are positioned at the end of said primary rail, and each of said upper and lower feed rail reciprocally moved in the direction perpendicular to the main track, for implementing the unloading rail respectively abutting to the main track; at least one of said at least one loading station and said unloading station respectively is secured to the respective upper and lower feed rails; corresponding unloading operation of the transporter along the track to the main track docked to the loading station or the unloading station. Handling system provided by the invention solves the lower loading and unloading of the prior intelligence level, high labor intensity, poor security.


Over the years, the spate of water pollution has assumed an alarming dimension globally because of rapid urbanization, aggressive economic development and geometric population growth. This has given rise to acute shortage of freshwater resources. The need for appropriate and efficient treatment technologies to achieve effluent quality that complies with acceptable standard has become imperative. Conventional wastewater treatment technologies are not only costly to build, but also have combined functional and maintenance problem. As a result, forward-looking innovative technologies which are cost effective such as Domestic Multi-Recycler (DMR) is desperately needed to restore poor water pollution that poses serious health threat to most people in developing countries and to improve the soundness of water and wastewater recycling system. Also enhance the quality of treated water discharged from the source to the municipal in a wastewater treatment method anaerobically without requiring electricity and the sludge generated is utilize as fertilizer. Since functional wastewater collection and treatment are of vital importance from the perspective of both environmental and public health. In this paper, the technology application is aimed at contributing immensely to attain goal 6 of sustainable development goals (SDGs). "Ensuring availability and sustainable management of clean water and sanitation for all."


In the PBS film series Black in Latin America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes on the ambitious task of depicting blackness in six countries – the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru – to a primarily 'American' audience. Given that Latin America and the Caribbean have the largest concentration of persons of African descent outside Africa, the documentary is an important one. Gates' coverage of 'blackness' in these countries is comprehensive, spanning from the time of slavery to the present, with a primary focus on the cultural contributions, social experiences, and identities of individuals of African descent in these regions. However, Gates' research traditionally has not focused on race in Latin America and, as scholars positioned more centrally in this field, we found some of his characterizations and treatment of the topic to be problematic. In this and the following commentary articles, scholars of race in the featured countries engage in a critical analysis of the documentary. We begin with an examination of Gates' presentation of blackness in Mexico and Peru. In contrast to the other countries featured in the series, Mexico and Peru fall within mestizo America; their populations are mainly comprised of mestizos and Indigenous peoples and they have relatively small populations of African descent. Moreover, blackness is marginalized in the historical narratives and national ideologies (state-sponsored belief systems) of these countries. Consequently, many people are unaware of the nations' African heritage. The film endeavors to expose this hidden history. Replete with rich visual displays, the Mexican portion of the documentary addresses a range of issues that contextualize the Afro-Mexican experience. Gates discusses the historical context, cultural influences, and the contemporary situation of this population. Regionally, he focuses on the two areas of Mexico with the largest concentration of Afro-Mexicans – Veracruz and the Costa Chica, a region that runs along the coasts of Guerrero and Oaxaca. Also incorporating dynamic visual imagery, the Peru segment delves into the Afro-Peruvian experience, placing substantial emphasis on the history of slavery. Gates highlights the fact that at least 100,000 African slaves were brought to Peru and that, in colonial times, Africans and their descendants made up between 30 and 40 percent of Lima's population. The film makes note of the urban character and more relaxed nature of slavery in Lima, as Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2013 Vol. 8, No. 1, 76–82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2013.768462


The invention discloses a combined piston of a carbon material and a metal material, comprising a piston head part which is made of the carbon material and a piston skirt part which is made of the metal material, and the piston head part and the piston skirt part are fixedly connected; the top surface of the piston head part is designed with a combustion chamber and the outer circle surface is designed with a piston ring groove; the connection between the piston head part and the piston skirt part can be one of threaded connection, bolt connection, metallurgical connection or chemical cohesion; the carbon material at the piston head part is one of a carbon matrix material or a carbon fiber material. The carbon matrix material adopted in the invention has a plurality of advantages of light weight, high heat intensity, low friction coefficient and expansion coefficient, low contamination degree, renewability and the like, thus greatly improving the service life of the piston and the system stability of engine.


After determining that the low productivity of indigenous breeds, Turkey was started the animal imports in the early years of the Republic to increase the yields of animal and the development of the country livestock. These projects started in 1925 and continued with imports in 1937 and 1947. Cattle breeding activities in Turkey were carried out with Brown Swiss and Simmental breeds brought from abroad. In this regard, the Karacabey farm was chosen as the centre and with the breeds bring to the region have been tried to increase the yields of the animals of the region and country. This was followed in 1986 by imports of 300,000 pregnant heifers from the Holstein breed as the largest foreign purchase. As a result, importing animals from abroad has become a state policy. In recent years, many private enterprises continue to import animals. In this study, which aims to show the principles and the manner of implementation of this application within a plan, this procedure will not explain whether this issue is right or wrong but will explain the procedure to bring for private enterprises with special permission from abroad of breeding animals.


5 We report a measurement of the bottom-strange meson mixing 6 phase βs using the time evolution of B 0 s→J/ψ(→μμ)φ(→KK) 7 decays in which the quark-flavor content of the bottom-strange meson 8 is identified at production. This measurement uses the full data set of 9 proton-antiproton collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV collected by the Col10 lider Detector experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron, corresponding to 11 9.6 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. We report confidence regions in the 12 two-dimensional space of βs and the B 0 s decay-width difference ∆Γs, 13 and measure βs ∈ [−π/2,−1.51] ∪ [−0.06, 0.30] ∪ [1.26, π/2] at the 14 68% confidence level, in agreement with the standard model expec15 tation. Assuming the standard model value of βs, we also determine 16 ∆Γs = 0.068 ± 0.026(stat) ± 0.009(syst) ps−1 and the mean B0 s life17 time, τs = 1.528 ± 0.019(stat) ± 0.009(syst) ps, which are consistent 18 and competitive with determinations by other experiments. 19


The application of environment-friendly oil TDAE and RAE instead of aromatic oil by equal weight in the carcass ply compound of PCR tire was experimentally investigated.The results showed that,by using TDAE and RAE instead of aromatic oil by equal weight,the Mooney scorch time and t90 of compound extended slightly;the physical properties of vulcanizate changed little;the performance of finished tire met the requirements of national standards.


Objective To evaluate the role of nursing in promoting curative effect of patients with intracalvarium haemorrhage caused by delayed Vitamin K deficiency.Methods The nursing effects of 18 cases with intracalvarium haemorrhage caused by delayed Vitamin K deficiency were retrospectively analyzed.Results Seventeen of the 18 patients were cured and one patient died.The patients were followed up for 1 year and 14 were normal and 3 had sequelae,including 2 with secondary epilepsy and one with slightly low intelligence.Conclusion Early diagnosis,timely treatment,effective attending are the keys to raise the curative rate.Strengthening guidance for breast feeding,education on feeding knowledge for artificial milk feeding,and music listening and gentle touching can prevent cerebullar palsy and decrease incidence of sequelae for the disease.


In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph. "Many authors have toyed with the notion of the elusiveness of truth. Even those who would hold for an ultimate, stable truth, admit the difficulty of human comprehension of it. Human subjectivity reduces almost all statements to mere opinion. At any rate, the author's epistemological bias is certain to affect his attitude towards his characters' motivation, freedom, dignity, and convictions." Cover Page Footnote Appeared in the issue: Volume 6, Spring, 1961. This prose is available in The Angle: http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/angle/vol1961/iss1/25


Objectives To evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness of introducing the RTS,S malaria vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa compared with further scale-up of existing interventions. Design A mathematical modelling and cost-effectiveness study. Setting Sub-Saharan Africa. Participants People of all ages. Interventions The analysis considers the introduction and scale-up of the RTS,S malaria vaccine and the scale-up of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs), indoor residual spraying (IRS) and seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC). Main outcome measure The number of Plasmodium falciparum cases averted in all age groups over a 10-year period. Results Assuming access to treatment remains constant, increasing coverage of LLINs was consistently the most cost-effective intervention across a range of transmission settings and was found to occur early in the cost-effectiveness scale-up pathway. IRS, RTS,S and SMC entered the cost-effective pathway once LLIN coverage had been maximised. If non-linear production functions are included to capture the cost of reaching very high coverage, the resulting pathways become more complex and result in selection of multiple interventions. Conclusions RTS,S was consistently implemented later in the cost-effectiveness pathway than the LLINs, IRS and SMC but was still of value as a fourth intervention in many settings to reduce burden to the levels set out in the international goals.


Teaching-learning innovation has always been one of the national and educational leaders' political goals. "True learning, true career" has been known as a tough goal in Vietnam's latest national policy in education. Our research means to incorporate highly practical and hands-on projects involving 21 work-readiness skills and 8 intelligences to boost motivation in English presentation courses. Core concepts from Vietnamese Party's latest education reform policies, global education trends and WEF workforce forecast in 2018 have shed light on this 3-year study which then engaged 05 classes of English non-majored Advanced Program students in Vietnam National University. The data were exploited through online questionnaires, print questionnaires, indepth interviews and teaching logs. The results show an encouraging progress in all target skills among which creative skills, listening skills, language skills dominated, thereby increasing learners inspiration. The teachers also get more proactive and sense more opportunities for innovation. Hopefully, the article may be a friendly and easy implication for practitioners still confused when applying new concepts, contribute to innovative tertiary education and proudly and delightedly share the achievements of our hands-on courses.


Abstract With the gradual usage of carbon dots (CDs) in the area of antiviral research, attempts have been stepped up to develop new antiviral CDs with high biocompatibility and antiviral effects. In this study, a kind of highly biocompatible CDs (Gly‐CDs) is synthesized from active ingredient (glycyrrhizic acid) of Chinese herbal medicine by a hydrothermal method. Using the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) as a model, it is found that the Gly‐CDs inhibit PRRSV proliferation by up to 5 orders of viral titers. Detailed investigations reveal that Gly‐CDs can inhibit PRRSV invasion and replication, stimulate antiviral innate immune responses, and inhibit the accumulation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) caused by PRRSV infection. Proteomics analysis demonstrates that Gly‐CDs can stimulate cells to regulate the expression of some host restriction factors, including DDX53 and NOS3, which are directly related to PRRSV proliferation. Moreover, it is found that Gly‐CDs also remarkably suppress the propagation of other viruses, such as pseudorabies virus (PRV) and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), suggesting the broad antiviral activity of Gly‐CDs. The integrated results demonstrate that Gly‐CDs possess extraordinary antiviral activity with multisite inhibition mechanisms, providing a promising candidate for alternative therapy for PRRSV infection.


The specific processes through which people manage relational uncertainty are not fully understood. Imagined interactions were hypothesized as a cognitive process associated with experiencing relational uncertainty following a conversation with the partner. An online survey of 177 undergraduates examined the association between three types of relational uncertainty (self, partner, and relationship) and the attributes and functions of imagined interactions. Results revealed negative associations between relationship uncertainty and the valence attribute and the catharsis function, as well as a positive association between self-uncertainty and the conflict management function. Canonical correlation analyses revealed relational uncertainty was associated with the functions of conflict management, catharsis, relational maintenance, and compensation. Implications, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.


The composition of blood preparation "Glunat" samples from different producers and a number of model systems were investigated by 13 C NMR spectroscopy. It was established that 13 C NMR spectra of lyophilized samples solutions of preparation "Glunat" is identical to the spectrum of dextrose autoclaved at the same conditions with sodium hydrocarbonate without addition of donor's plasma. It were founded C1-C4, C1-C6 types condensation of D-glucopyranose molecules, they rearrangement and fragmentation. About 30% part of the condensation products was determined. The composition of preparation - Glunat" did not characterized fully in normative documentation. It's required to include the chapter "Accompanied compounds". It's necessary to determine the active substance in this preparation.


(57) Abstract: wire and cable useful silicone oligomer as a coupling agent in the curable composition of the filler-containing organic polymer used for the insulating material is disclosed. These oligomers are also useful as crosslinking agents and adhesion promoters, in other compositions such as curable adhesives and coatings, radical / humidity - providing a dual cure mechanism, and / or, coating moisture resistance imparted to the film.


it would be this: Given the critical assessments of evangelical race relations by other scholars (people such as Rudy Busto and Antony Alumkal), why is she so optimistic about the possibilities for a multi-racial, multi-ethnic evangelicalism? In both the introduction and the conclusion, Ecklund provides us with a possible answer, twice noting that non-white Americans will make up more than 50 percent of the population by the year 2050. Imagine a day when minorities make up 50 percent of American evangelicalism and the notion of a new evangelical racial consciousness becomes more plausible. In the same chapter, Ecklund reports that the number of Asian Americans enrolled in American seminaries increased 60 percent in the years 1991 through 1995. Yet demography does not tell the whole story. For demographic shifts to make a difference, they must be interpreted through new cultural schemas (like the ones Ecklund discusses in the book). Whether these new models will be adopted by other evangelicals remains to be seen. It may take a generation or two before the evangelical subculture comes to grips with the new religious immigrants. In the meantime, Ecklund has helped us imagine the possibilities for a new, multi-racial evangelicalism.


The natural forests of South Minahasa (as of North Sulawesi) are generally distributed within a mosaic pattern subjected to logging concession in the past This might have some impact on the successional pattern of the forest owing to the species composition shown by the remaining forest structure. This research was aimed to study the remaining stand structure of the natural forest found in Poigar, South Minahasa. Quadran method was employed where vegetation analyses were conducted on each quadran distributed throughout the forested area. Results showed that the stand structure is relatively uniform among all growth stages (seedlings, saplings, poles, and mature trees). Among those, groups of seedling and sapling are higher, however, the difference can be negligible. On each of the growth stages, the dominance of primary tree species still prevails over the secondary species; nevertheless, less sound forest management might change this surressional direction into a secondary forest in the future.


The diameter of non-thermal arc plasma is one of the main parameters that determine the current density of arc, so as to the temperature and the density of electrons. The imagines of gliding arc discharge driven by magnetism at atmosphere are captured observed and its dimension is measured by commercial CCD. The diameter projecting in the direction of motion of the arc (diameter in positive direction) is attained. And the relationship between diameter and current, magnetic field is analyzed, too.


Recurrent invasive high-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the larynx and hypopharynx is a rare occurrence. These tumors have been commonly associated with salivary gland tumors, most commonly the parotid gland. The patient usually presents with the following symptoms: hoarseness (if larynx is involved), or changes in voice character, sore throat, cough, odynophagia, dysphagia, otalgia, difficulty breathing, weight loss, lymphadenopathy. Here we present a case of a recurrent invasive high-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma of larynx and hypopharynx. The patient was a 67-year-old male that originally presented in 2006. At that time he underwent a wide field laryngectomy, right thyroid lobectomy, and biopsy of the right digastric node. He was a clinical stage III, pT3N0M0. No adjuvant radiation therapy was given at that time. The patient remained asymptomatic until February 2014, when he presented with dysphagia and neck swelling. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography showed evidence of recurrence. The patient was treated with definitive intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) with concurrent chemotherapy. Treatment for this disease is gathered by scattered case reports. If surgery is a possibility it is considered as first line therapy. Post-surgical radiation is then offered. However, in this case the recurrent tumor was located near the carotid artery, and thus surgery was not a possibility. Therefore, concurrent chemotherapy and radiation with IMRT and weekly cis-platinum was given. While the optimum combination of treatment has not yet been established because of the rarity of this cancer's location site, the current patient appeared to have an excellent response from the definitive IMRT and chemotherapy treatment.


This study builds on previous research that investigates the nature of engagement as it occurs 'in the moment' in urban classrooms (Goldin, Epstein, Schorr, & Warner, 2011). In this article, we report on a young male student, Eric, who called out an answer in front of all his peers in response to a question posed by the teacher. Almost immediately, his peers challenged his response. Upon hearing their comments, he retorted that he "didn't care anymore" and withdrew from the discussion. Nonetheless, moments later he reentered the discussion, reiterating his response. In a later interview, Eric noted that he called out the answer in order to impress others, but felt disrespected when they disagreed. In this examination, we attempt to characterize his reactions with specific reference to his momentary engagement in order to discuss the implications for learning.


(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)1IntroductionStudent exchange programs and international mobility have resulted in the increased number of international interactions between representatives of different countries. Simultaneously, it must be underlined that a perfect command of English does not guarantee successful intercultural communication. Since it is widely accepted that one of the primary goals of learning foreign languages is to reach the level of effective participation in intercultural interactions, it should be emphasized that it is hard to be successful in the aforementioned contacts without being aware of cultural differences (Gal'skova, & Gez 2009: 69). Accordingly, foreign language teachers should be aware of the important role of culture in teaching and learning and include it in their curricula. All the evidence suggests that students ought to be familiar with differences and similarities existing between their own culture and other cultures. Accordingly, it may be assumed that the fundamental step made towards reaching the level of effective intercultural communication is to understand the significance of gaining intercultural communicative competence, the concept of which has been abundantly analysed and studied by various researchers over the last decades. Unfortunately, no common definition of the notion in question has been agreed upon (Perry, & Southwell 2011:455).2Intercultural communicative competenceIn this paper one follows the model by Elizarova (2004), who defines intercultural communicative competence as a set of fine grained units of learning including knowledge, attitude and skills (Elizarova 2004:193). According to the above researcher, intercultural communicative competence is not identical to the communicative competence of a native speaker as the acquisition of intercultural competence enables learners to gain qualities of a cultural mediator, i.e. an individual who realizes his or her own cultural identity, can go beyond their own cultural identity and discover the differences and similarities between his/her indigenous culture and the foreign one (Elizarova 2004:193).Intercultural communicative competence comprises such elements as culture-general knowledge (what is culture, components of culture, how culture is embedded in language, cultural self-awareness, the role of one's own culture in the perception of foreign culture), attitudes (empathy, being respectful of differences) and skills (the ability to act in accordance with the ideas characteristic of foreign culture, the ability to identify cultural elements of lexical units and the ability to act as a mediator of cultures (Elizarova 2004:193).3Language as a special reflection of cultureThe basic assumption of the view under analysis is that any language is perceived not only as a tool or means of communication but also as a reflection of culture (Wierzbicka 2001; Elizarova 2004, 2009; Ter-Minasova 2008; Leontovich 2003). In other words, a national language reflects reality within the framework of native culture (Elizarova 2009; Maslova 2007; Telija 2004; Kubrjakova 1988). The meaning people attribute to linguistic forms is, therefore, affected by their native cultural background.In order to exemplify the aforementioned problem, one can refer to the concept of privacy. In American culture it definitely does not signify loneliness, whereas in the Russian one there is even no word that relates to the notion in question (Leontovich 2003). The aforementioned American idea of privacy is clearly noticeable in the poem "Mending Wall" written by the American poet Robert Lee Frost:Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after them and made repairWhere they have left not one stone on a stone,But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,To please the yelping dogs. …


Media such as Twitter has become a platform for contemporary Americans to express their opinions and allow for reaction to public opinion. Climate change is a topic of ongoing social concern. Machine-automated processing facilitates big data analysis and is suitable for analyzing a large corpus of tweets. This paper uses R tools to conduct sentiment calculation and emotion analysis on the tweet corpus from 2015 to 2018 to present the overall tendency of citizens' attitudes toward climate change topics. The keyword analysis finds that people focus on the message's source; CLIMATE CHANGE and GLOBAL WARMING make an association. Supporters express FEAR and SURPRISE about extreme weather and opponents' behavior, while opponents show ANGER, DISGUST and SADNESS about politicians manufacturing climate change stories about which they have no real feelings. This study also reveals that the automatic annotation tools are still inadequate, with limited emotion lexicon and identification of negation and sarcasm.


The CCD digital microscope camera system for workpiece hole heart distance measurement is established through carrying out number transfrom for the 19J model universal tool microscope.The basic principle of CCD measurement is discussed and brief introduction is given to the software system.Testing result indicates that a fast,effective,economic channel for the precise measurement of workpiece hole heart distance can be attained with the method.


A new connection network is presented to provide fault tolerance through reconfiguration in WSI. The connection network C/sub k/-gives a high probability of survival in the presence of faults with little delay and a small hardware overhead. C/sub k/ is a switched bus network implementing a mesh-connected array. It is flexible, powerful, and has small hardware overhead cost in comparison to two other fault tolerance enhanced mesh-connected arrays-the double rail and symmetric networks. The authors demonstrate that these three networks are similar in their power for surviving clusters of faults but overall, the C/sub k/ is both more effective and more efficient than the double rail and has significantly less cost in hardware overhead than the symmetric network.<<ETX>>


The Bitter-like high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet, stacked by ReBCO annular plates, has the advantages of no current leads and bulky or expensive power supply, so that it is attractive for development of strong magnetic field with full HTS materials. In this paper, a zero-field cooling method is proposed to supply power for the Bitter-like HTS magnets. The background field is generated by a pulsed current source and a solenoidal coil, which is doubly wound by an insulated copper wire. This paper focuses on the characteristics between the height of solenoidal coils and the magnetic field induced in the Bitter-like magnet.The solenoidal coil functioning as primary winding is inserted coaxially into the Bitter-like HTS magnet, and Bitter-like HTS magnet is equivalent to the secondary winding. The power of the current source is provided by a pulsed current source with triangular waveform. The solenoidal coil was designed and analyzed for pumping energy into the Bitter-like HTS magnet. The relationship between the height of the solenoid and the excitation duration was obtained experimentally in 77 K at the specified pulse current amplitude and frequency. The results conforms the pumping principles and feasibility for HTS magnet with persistent current mode.


In this Article, Professor Paredes considers the implications of behavioral corporate finance, and of CEO overconfidence especially, for corporate governance. To date, corporate governance has focused on solving conflicts of interest and on motivating managers to work hard—in other words, on traditional agency problems. Corporate governance has not emphasized the need to remedy the kind of "good-faith mismanagement" that results when CEOs are overconfident, although well-intentioned and hard-working. In addition to detailing the effects of CEO overconfidence, Professor Paredes theorizes that CEO overconfidence is actually a product of corporate governance. First, Professor Paredes explains that high executive compensation gives positive feedback to a CEO and signals that the chief executive is a success. Studies show that positive feedback and recent success can result in overconfidence. Indeed, the very process of winning the tournament to become the top executive probably makes a CEO more confident. Stressing the possible link between CEO pay and CEO overconfidence offers a new behavioral approach to executive compensation that emphasizes the impact of executive pay on managerial psychology and decisionmaking. Second, a CEO-centric model of corporate governance is predominant in the United States as boards, subordinate officers, gatekeepers, judges, and shareholders defer to the chief executive, even in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era. Professor Paredes suggests that CEOs can become overconfident as a result of the extensive corporate control concentrated in their hands and the fact that they are rarely seri-


Gene mappi ng in nonhuman mammal ian s pec ies is a field of inc reas ing importance in man' s efforts to understand genome organization, to develop a nimal models for human genetic diseases , and to i nves tigate phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary mechanisms . The primates are of particular i nterest in these s tudies because of the i r morphological and phys iolog ical s imilarit ies to man. The avail ability and convenient s i ze of the baboons ( Papio species ) make them the primates of choic e for various areas of res earch having appl icat ions to man . The baboons also appear to have many chromosomal and genetic homolog ies to man as we ll as to the other primates , al though the ir precise taxonomi c relat ionship to some of these other primates is not yet c lear . In order to evaluate some of the proposed chromosomal homolog ies between the baboons and other s pec ies , to shed add itional l ight on the taxonomi c relationships , and t o further explore the baboons as model s for human diseas e , this study sought to develop or extend the gene maps of two s pecies of baboons , Papio papio and P . hamad ryas . Baboon x mouse or Chinese hamster somatic cell hyb rids seg regating baboon


Angsana is a roadside plant a many planted   in Banjarmasin. Although it has no broad leaves but angsana has compound leaves with enough dense canopy that is expected to be  agents for the bioremediation of pollutans, especially metals Pb. This  research  aims to determine the potential of plants angsana to absorb and accumulate heavy metals Pb, also to know the structure of the leaf  angsana related to its function as a roadside plant. The method used is descriptive that is observations directly to the field with determine the 3 research sites namely  A. Yani street,   Belitung street and  Kapten  Tendean street. From each street is selected 5 angsana tree. Leaf samples taken from each tree for its Pb content was analyzed using AAS (Atomic  Absorption  Spectrophotometery)  and total chlorophyll  were analyzed using aspectrophotometer  (UV-vis). Measured  leaf structure includes   leaf area and number of stomata. The results  showed that the leaf angsana  growing  at  A.Yani street Belitung street and  Kapten Tendean street undetectable levels of Pb metal, while the total amount of chlorophyll ranged  70.4673 mg/l - 93.9153 mg / l.The structure of leaf  surface angsana  slippery,  with leaf area ranged from 255.72cm2-314.41 cm2  and the number of stomata ranged from 304 pieces -384 pieces. Key words : Lead (Pb), angsana, roadside


In this article, we derive the quintuple, Hirschhorn and Winquist product identities using the theory of elliptic functions. Our method can be used to establish generalizations of these identities due to the second author.


Papers are presented on the nonlinear dynamic analysis of quasi-symmetric anisotropic structures, the analysis of large deformations of membrane shells by the generalized finite difference method, the vibration of shear-deformable laminated plate structures by the finite strip method, and Coon's surface method for the formulation of finite elements for plates and shells. Other topics include an evaluation of higher-order modal methods for calculating the transient structural response, a nonlinear dynamic analysis of frame structures, and a nonlinear analysis of a truss by energy minimization. Also considered are an incremental Galerkin method for plates and stiffened plates, a comparison of the postbuckling behavior of plates and shells, and a general solution of bending in a cylindrical shell.


1. A biosensor system for determining the concentration of an analyte in a sample, comprising: a reaction means for selectively implementing a redox reaction of an analyte, wherein the reaction means includes a binder, a buffer salt, a mediator, containing not more than 20% (w / w.. ) non-transition metal inorganic salt and the enzyme system; iizmeritelnoe means for measuring the speed of the redox reaction of the analyte, wherein the measuring means comprises at least two conductors; iizmeritelnoe means is adapted to measure the output signal value from the reaction means at a maximum kinetic effectiveness for no longer than 7 seconds from introduction of sample to the reaction means and an output signal value responsive to the concentration of analyte in the sample, the measuring means is arranged to determine at least one value ΔS, responsive to at least one error parameter iizmeritelnoe means is adapted to additional th determine the analyte concentration in the sample from the compensation equation including at least one reference relationship, and at least one value ΔS; wherein the compensation equation has a value R, equal to at least 0,5.2. The system of claim 1, wherein the reaction means comprises a reagent composition which has an average reagent composition surface area and comprising: a binder, a buffer salt present in the reagent composition at concentrations


Some Investigations on the Probable Enzymatic Nature of Complement MICHELE GERUNDO, University of South Dakota Medical School, Vermillion, S. D., South Dakota, and ALLEN GOLD, Lattimore Laboratories, Topeka Much has been said about the nature of complement, as is usually the case concerning things about which we know little. Perhaps our investigations do not add any new knowledge, but we hope they will focus attention upon some aspects of the problem which have been overlooked by recent workers in the field. We began first to use enzymes in connection with our investigations (7) on the nature of the Forssman antigen-antibody complexes of rabbit blood, but we soon became aware that the enzymes had a definite influence upon the complement. The enzymes used were lipase, pepsin, pangestin, trypsin, and amylase. Pangestin, of course, is a mixture of pancreatic enzymes and its action is complex on account of their conflicting activities. In our first series of investigations we added each enzyme directly to the hemolysin, but it was soon noted that the action varied not only with the enzyme used, but also with the length of time it had been allowed to act. We


This paper describes the development of a robot prototype for intervention, sampling, and situation awareness in CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) missions. It outlines the mission requirements, design specifications, the solutions that were developed and integrated, and the final tests done. The solution addresses one of the most important mission requirements in CBRN scenarios: the capability to decontaminate the robot once it has been used in real missions. As microdoses of CBRN contaminants are sufficient to cause significant damage to human beings, prevention of robot contamination is always of top priority. If there is a potential danger of real contamination, it can only be removed by effective decontamination. The way to deal with this problem imposes significant design conditions; the proposed design allows an easy and fast decontamination of the robot. The work presents a new way to approach this kind of robot, based on modular component architecture over a robot operating system that permits the attachment and detachment of robot components via unique electromechanical interfaces. The resulting modular robot introduces an innovative kinematic solution that can be dynamically configured for the different mission requirements.


In order to realize the calibration measurement of universal turntable in high precision, a calibration device is designed and realized. The device was mainly composed of horizontal capacitance sensor, mental circular grating, ultrasonic motor, and double-row angular contact bearings was selected as its slewing mechanism, so rotation precision of calibration instrument can be improved. Finally, this paper put the error testing results of calibration instrument each system, which satisfy the demand for calibration measurement and provide references for carrying out uncertainty analysis.


Distance learning geography at one Tawangsari State High School uses the Google classroom, which still has several shortcomings that make learning geography less interesting. Increase interest in learning geography using Google Sites learning media. The research method used descriptive research method with a quantitative approach. The data collection technique used by giving tests and observations. giving pretest and posttest, for data analysis the post test is used. Observation is used to collect data on student activities in accessing google sites. Learning is considered successful if the learning outcomes of students with the provision that at least 80% of students in one class reach the minimum completeness criteria, namely 75. The results of student observations in accessing learning media google sites can be seen that from 36 students, very good information there are 19 students with a percentage of 53% then increase in posttest test results by 11 students who completed with a percentage of 31% increased to 32 students who completed with a percentage of 89%. So it that google sites-based learning media can increase the learning interest of eleventh grade Social Sciences three students learning geography at  one Tawangsari State High School in 2021.


According to the testing craft and requirements of CNC Lathe about main spindle box, testing system of hardware and software structure was designed in this paper. It adopts sensors, data acquisition cards, industrial control computer, frequency converter and so on as hardware, good data analysis methods, and LabVIEW as software tool, to realize real-time monitoring of main spindle box testing conditions.


Blasting is one of the main methods of rock destruction and accounts for approximately 20% of the cost of mining operations. Given that the efficiency of the explosion for crushing does not exceed a few percent, it becomes obvious that further improvement of explosive destruction is necessary, taking into account the new achievements of science and technology. One of the main ways to improve the efficiency of underground mining is to improve the conduct of drilling and blasting operations with the use of the stemming plays a significant positive role in the operation of the explosion.


We construct explicit compact solutions with non-zero field strength, non-flat instanton and constant dilaton to the heterotic string equations in dimensions seven and eight. We present a quadratic condition on the curvature which is necessary and sufficient the heterotic supersymmetry and the anomaly cancellation to imply the heterotic equations of motion in dimensions seven and eight. We show that some of our examples are compact supersymmetric solutions of the heterotic equations of motion in dimensions seven and eight.


Abstract The volcanic ash of the Mount Pinatubo in Philippines was used in this study. The major drawbacks of this ash for growing agricultural crops are nitrogen (N) and iron (Fe) deficiencies with low organic matter contents. The main objective of this study is to investigate the wheat grown on the volcanic ash to and determine the nutrient status across its rhizosphere using a rhizobox system. Either oxamide or polyolefinresin‐coated urea (PORCU) along with potash and phosphate fertilizers was applied to each rhizobox containing the volcanic ash. Plants were grown on the central compartment (CC) of the rhizobox. The nutrient status was examined by the assessment of distribution patterns of NH4 +‐N, NO3 ‐‐N, Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, Cl‐, SO4 2‐, PO4 3‐, and associated pH. Although NH4 +‐N in both oxamide and PORCU treatments was accumulated to a somewhat considerable extent of the rhizosphere. The rhizosphere effect was more prominent in oxamide treatment. While NO3 ‐‐N concentrations in either of the treatment was low with a mere rhizosphere effect in PORCU treatment and a rugged distribution in oxamide treatment. Dominant anions and cations accumulated in the CC and the near by compartments of oxamide treatment were Cl‐, SO4 2‐ and Ca2+, respectively. In contrast, SO4 2‐ and K+ were accumulated in the CC and the adjacent PORCU treated compartments. Thus the overall distribution of nutrients and pH across the wheat rhizosphere was rugged. Despite of this, it seems that with a rugged nutrient distribution and pH, the effects of slow releasing N fertilizers may well ensure the N benefit on plants while growing on the volcanic ash under circumstances of low N content.


In July 2019, Bruce Miller, CEO of Investure, LLC (Investure), an outsourced chief investment office (OCIO), is preparing a proposal for Franklin and Marshall (F&M), a small liberal arts college located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with an endowment of $350 million. F&M recently began a search to find a new endowment manager in hopes of improving its investment returns and access to alternative assets (AA), such as private equity (PE) and hedge funds. Investure offers outsourced investment-management services to endowments and foundations (E&Fs) with assets less than $2 billion and is one of several companies competing to win the mandate to manage F&M's assets. Investure's approach is to pool the assets of like-minded institutions and significantly increase their allocations to PE. Miller and his team are preparing to meet with the F&M board's investment committee to describe Investure's services and approach to investment management.This case is designed to introduce students to AA and the distinctions among PE, hedge funds, and private capital within this asset class. It focuses primarily on why PE is a difficult asset class to manage and describes several channels available to small endowments like F&M to access PE. The case introduces students to the core vocabulary of PE investing and limited partnership agreements. To make the concepts and terms more concrete, it provides a simple exercise that asks the students to calculate the expected internal rate of return (IRR) on an investment made through a traditional limited partnership (primary fund commitment) and a fund of funds and compare those to Investure's approach. Students must evaluate and discuss the feasibility and attractiveness of each alternative to F&M. In doing so, the case creates an opportunity for students to discuss the current trends and issues many E&Fs confront as they attempt to increase allocations to PE.The case is appropriate for use in an introductory or early class in courses focusing on PE, venture capital (VC), and entrepreneurial finance, as well as in specialized courses for fund trustees interested in AA. The case can be used for the following purposes:1. To introduce students to AA and how they differ from public equities and fixed income.2. To introduce students to the core vocabulary of PE investing and limited partnership agreements.3. To introduce the channels of access to PE investment and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each.4. To analyze the returns to limited partners who choose to pursue PE investment under a traditional limited partnership and a fund of funds and compare those to Investure's OCIO model.5. To familiarize students with the current trends and issues motivating the growth in outsourcing of endowment management.

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Investure, LLC: Investing in Alternative Assets

In July 2019, Bruce Miller, CEO, of Investure, LLC (Investure), an outsourced chief investment office (OCIO), was reviewing the proposal his team would make in an attempt to gain its newest client, Franklin and Marshall College (F&M), a small liberal arts college located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. F&M had recently started a process to select a new manager for its $ 350 million endowment. In learning more about F&M, Miller felt it was the kind of like-minded endowment and foundation (E&F) his firm targeted, but knew he would face stiff competition to win the mandate. Miller had been recruited to Investure shortly after its founder, Alice Handy, started the firm in 2003. At her previous position as CEO of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO), Handy had produced a successful track record by increasing the endowment's investments in alternative assets, such as private equity (PE) and hedge funds. Together they had worked to land Investure's first client, Smith College, with a nearly $ 1 billion endowment in 2004. From there, the firm had grown to 12 clients and $ 14 billion in assets under management (AUM) (Exhibit 1).

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P237 New MT Survey across Trans European Suture Zone in Poland – Examples of Initial Results J. Miecznik* (AGH - University of Science and Technology) T. Czerwinski (PBG Geophysical Exploration Company) & J. Pokorski (Polish Geological Institute) SUMMARY The paper presents results of interpretation of newest magnetotelluric survey data along a profile crossing the TESZ at Poland's territory. Based on analysis of amplitude and phase MT sounding curves and tipper parameter a geoelectric model of the TESZ was constructed to a depth of 50 km. The model brings new structural elements which are important to construction of a seismic model


A quadrature ring oscillator designed for wireless communications has been and implemented in 0.5 μm GaN-on-Si HEMT technology. Based on the large-signal GaN HEMT and the transmission line models on silicon substrate, the oscillation frequency and output power can be predicted accurately in the simulation. The operating frequency of the two-stage ring oscillator is close to 5.76 GHz. By using a spiral inductor to be a resonated load in the differential pair, the measured output power of 9.9 dBm can be achieved for each output port without using buffer amplifiers at a 10-V dc supply. The oscillator has an output phase noise of -116 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset frequency. A 2nd-order subharmonic injection technique was used to further improve the phase noise performance. The improved phase noise is -131 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset under injection locking status.


When Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister six months ago, our Timorese neighbours thought there might be an opportunity to draw a line on the past and to kick start the negotiation of a permanent maritime boundary between Australia and Timor-Leste. For the moment, they find themselves sadly mistaken.


Haematological investigations have been carried out on ten cases of carcinoma undergoing radium therapy, in order to discover whether there is any difference between the lymphocyte content of the blood at the periphery and at the site of irradiation before and after treatment. Virtually identical figures were found in each area before and after therapy, and it would appear that radium-induced lymphopenia is not to be accounted for by migration of these cells to the irradiated area. Various findings and theories connected with the whole problem have been discussed, and an attempt has been made to put forward a rational explanation of the processes involved in the light of present-day knowledge.


The emergence of a Catholic civil rights movement in the mid-1960s presented the Unionist government of Northern Ireland with its most perplexing challenge since the state's founding in 1921. Unlike earlier anti-Partition campaigns, in this instance civil rights advocates initially sought equal treatment within the state. The Campaign for Social Justice and its successor, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) demanded an end to gerrymandered voting districts and discrimination in government housing and public employment. In 1968 the NICRA took its protest into the streets. Large-scale, peacefully intended marches jolted the Unionist establishment and provoked a Protestant backlash. Successive leaders of the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland scrambled to find a middle ground on which to construct a sustainable solution to the growing crisis. None proved successful. Scholars have extensively chronicled the early reform efforts of leading male Unionists and the subsequent collapse of the political center. Little has been forthcoming, however, on women involved in this same struggle. Diane Urquhart has written in depth on women in the Unionist Party, but her studies do not extend beyond 1940.1 Rick Wilford andYvonne Galligan's analyses of women in Irish politics concentrate on the 1980s and 1990s. but do not address directly the early years of the "Troubles."2 Rachel Ward's recent and illuminating volume on Unionist and loyalist women as political actors focuses on the