The projective reduced-order synchronization of two different chaotic systems with different orders is investigated based on the observer design in this paper.According to the observer theory,the reduced-order observer is designed.The projective synchronization can be realized by choosing the transition matrix of the observer as a diagonal matrix.Further,the synchronization between hyperchaotic Chen system(fourth order)and Rssler system(third order)is taken as the example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed observer.Numerical simulations confirm the effectiveness of the method.


Archaeological survey indicates the Dark Ages of Greece extended from the eleventh to the eighth Century BCE. Bizarre reasons including an increase in population were attributed to be the cause of most of the changes during this archaic period. It seems most of the palaces of the Mycenaean civilization were destroyed around 1200 BCE. The only palace left un-destroyed was in Athens. But even Athens seems to have had a hard time for the next several hundred years. There were no more kings, but from time to time tyrants (the present equivalent of dictators) ruled. Taxes were not collected. The roads were neglected in an un-repaired state. Trade and commerce suffered badly. The population fell from disease, death. Greeks migrated mainly to the shores of and further inland into Asia Minor (Anatolia) and Egypt. Because Greece was in such bad shape during the Dark Ages, and could not defend herself, it also seems that some of their neighbors to the north invaded Greece and began living in some of the Greek cities. The Greeks called these invaders the Dorians, and called the old Mycenean Bronze Age Greeks, the Ionians. Since a large number had settled along the coast of Turkey people began to call that place Ionia (the Yonas of the Iranian Golden Age). Here the knowledge of how to make tools and weapons out of iron had spread from the Hittites around the Mediterranean Sea.


The elimination of H2 from the dissociation of four methyl-substituted silane molecules, including monomethylsilane (MMS), dimethylsilane (DMS), trimethylsilane (TriMS), and tetramethylsilane (TMS), on a heated tungsten or tantalum filament surface has been studied using laser ionization mass spectrometry. Two complementary ionization methods, i.e., single photon ionization (SPI) using a vacuum ultraviolet wavelength at 118 nm (10.5 eV) and a dual ionization source incorporating both 10.5 eV SPI and laser-induced electron ionization, were employed to detect the production of H2. Examination of the intensity of the H2+ peak from the four molecules has shown that it increases with temperature until reaching a plateau at around 2000−2100 °C on both tungsten and tantalum filaments. These methyl-substituted silanes are dissociatively adsorbed on tungsten and tantalum surfaces by Si−H bond cleavage, and as the temperature is raised, by C−H bond rupture. Experiments with the isotopomers of MMS, DMS, and TriMS ha...


Groundwater management faces a growing number of complexities and uncertainties including: the impacts of climate change, increasing demand, and socio-economic and ecological outcomes of management policies. To help deal with these issues, social learning is an interactive process which brings together scientists, policy makers, and stakeholder groups in order to share their views and develop a common framework for managing the system. This project aims to use a participatory modelling approach to support social learning about the future of groundwater management in South Australia. This paper reports on the data collection and analysis methods used in the scoping phase of the study. The central focus is on the process undertaken rather than the content of the results.


Adenotonsillectomy is the most common surgical procedure in pediatric patients. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical datas of 2730 pediatric patients who underwent adenotonsillectomy in our Institution between 2003 and 2008. After preoperative coagulation tests we found in 30 patients a bleeding disorder (von Willebrand Disease, Lupus Anticoagulans, factors IX, X, XI deficit and Vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors deficiency); after adequate informations only 24 patients accepted the surgical procedure. We used a hemostatic-support therapy as a preparation for the adenotonsillectomy. The incidence of postoperative hemorrhage in the population with bleeding disorders who had a correct diagnosis and management is 9% (all secondary hemorrhages). These results appear to be in accord with datas described in the scientific literature on a non-pathological population; however, they remain in an high range of the several described bleeding incidence casistics. In conclusion, we found the pediatric patients with bleeding disorder a high-risk population for post-adenotonsillectomy hemorrhage.


The Bimodal Optical Computer (BOC) is considered for Adaptive Phased Array Radar (APAR) data processing. The effect of the errors in the BOC on the optimum weight calculations for the interference canceling are studied. Computer simulations for five and nine element APARs are presented.


"Auto-immune disease" is in danger of becoming as meaningless a label as psychosomatic illness and collagen disease, terms which have also been used to name disease groups poorly understood. The naming usually fails to clarify and may result in a mistaken notion that the real basics of the disease are understood. The belief that naming gives power is not limited to primitive man. The internist who wants to find out where we stand with the concept of autoimmune disease will find it useful to read "Autoantibodies and Disease" by Kunkel and Tan in this volume. Antinuclear, anti-cytoplasmic, and anti-immunoglobulin antibodies are discussed generally and this is followed by specific disease categories associated with autoantibodies. No attempt is made to tie everything up in a sweeping, unitary theory; in fact, no summary statement is made. A review which should fascinate most readers regardless of specialty is that by Good and Papermaster,


Abstract We compare manual stripping to pen spawning for production of hybrids of female channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus × male blue catfish I. furcatus, as well as to aquarium spawning of channel catfish. The ovulation rate for manually stripped females (91%) was not significantly different from that of females spawned in aquaria with channel catfish males (67%; P > 0.05); however, ovulation rate of manually stripped females during week 10 (80%) was superior to that of females spawned in pens (15%; P < 0.05) with blue catfish males. Female channel catfish spawned in aquaria with male channel catfish produced more (P < 0.05) eggs per kilogram body weight (6,607) than manually stripped females (4,587). Pen spawning of female channel catfish and male blue catfish also produced significantly more (P < 0.05) eggs per kilogram (7,950) than hand-stripping females (3,448) during week 10. Hatching rate (21%) and fry per kilogram (1,065) of female body weight were higher (P < 0.05) for channel catfish spawned ...


Background and Aims: There is a new phenotype called asthma COPD overlap (ACO). In bronchial asthma patients with smoking history, the number of patients with ACO was determined. In our previous study, we obtained high percentage of eosinophilia in elderly ACO. Therefore, we analyzed the ratio of eosinophil counts and the disease severity. Methods: In this study, 213 patients (male 116, female 97; age 72 ± 21 years (SD) were extracted in the ACO diagnostic criteria of the Japan Respiratory Society among asthma patients in Erimo town clinic in Hokkaido. We performed a retrospective analysis of eosinophil counts, severity, medication history, smoking history, etc. Results: The severity of ACO was judged as follows. Grade 1: 61, Grade 2: 93, Grade 3: 42, and Grade 4: 17 The number of eosinophils in each grade is shown. Grade 1: 294 ± 183 / μl, Grade 2: 327 ± 167 / μl, Grade 3: 311 ± 241 / μl Grade 4: 308 ± 211 / μl The medication history was ICS single agent 51, ICS + SABA 48, ICS + LABA 57, ICS + leukotriene antagonist (LA) 17, ICS + SABA + LA 14, ICS + LABA + LA 20, others 6. Conclusions: There was a tendency for ACO with eosinophil counts to increase in the elderly, but there was no direct correlation between severity and eosinophils. There are also reports indicating eosinophils decrease due to the effect of smoking. Prospective clinical trials of eosinophil counts are necessary for multifaceted assessment of ACO in future.


The computerization of government transactions results in dramatic increase in growth of data across government agencies. This data is presented, generated, maintained and used independently in each government department and agencies which leads to poor decisions and isolated planning. This environment hinders effective access to data, reuse and aggregation, so that decision makers can get useful information at the right time and in the right format, which can guide them in decision making process. Given the turbulent environment and complex decision situations that the government decision is characterized, there is need to extract useful knowledge from these data to enable decision makers to access useful and sufficient knowledge. Therefore, there is need for effective techniques and tools to integrate the data from different sources into a consistent format, which permit the decision maker to access a cleansed and consistent data, and also derives useful knowledge. Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) is such techniques that extracts and identifies useful Knowledge from huge data sets; hence assist decision makers in the process of effective decision making. This study explore the perceived usefulness of the knowledge discovered through the knowledge discovery in database (KDD) in the decision making process of government agencies. The empirical findings collected from Sweden Government Agencies have attempted to explore the perceived usefulness of knowledge on the decision making process therefore add to the understanding of knowledge discovery and use of such knowledge by decision makers in the government.


The aim of this article is to present a case study of bio-centres in three slums in Nairobi: Korogocho, Kibera and Mukuru in an approach developed by Umande Trust (UT) which is seeking to improve access to basic urban services to affected communities. To-date, 49 bio-centres have also been constructed in Kisumu and Nairobi. It is hoped that this approach will attract future replication of the technology in other parts of the country. This article gives a background to the Trust and outlines the objectives, strategies, successes and challenges experienced in the course of this slum upgrading effort.


Although it is known that some of the high‐Tc phases react rapidly with water, CO2, CO, and acids, no systematic comparison of the relative reactivities of the various cuprate superconductors is available. In this letter, x‐ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, x‐ray photoemission spectroscopy, and electrochemical measurements are utilized to establish a comprehensive comparison of the intrinsic reactivity characteristics of the common copper‐oxide superconductors. Consequently, the following reactivity scale has been determined: YBa2Cu3O7≳Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10≳Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 ≥La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 ≳Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4≳Nd1.85Th0.15CuO4.


An international consortium conducted a safety review of nuclear power plants equipped with RBMK reactors; the review was funded by the Commission of the European Union within the Tacis Program. It served to examine all major aspects of the design and operation of these reactors, assess the effectiveness of past backfitting measures, identify safety deficits, and arrive at recommendations for further upgrading measures. On the basis of information and documents from the RBMK operation countries, the Western consortium mainly examined the two most modern plants, Ignalin-2 and Smolensk-3. The identification of numerous shortcomings, some of which had already been recognized by the participating Eastern organizations, resulted in some 300 specific recommendations to reactor designers, operators and licensing authorities. These recommendations are to be acted upon at once; only a small number did not meet with the approval of the Eastern partners. The safery review provided the Western consortium with a profound insight into the design and safery of third- generation RBMK reactors; the Eastern partners were able to accumulate experience in working with Western safery philosophy


for instance, that hundreds of nomadic campsite foundations recorded in the Rıḡista ̄n probably predate the twentieth century, or may even be the remains of the early Islamic nomadism upon which the Ghūrid Empire was built; ongoing comparative research has, however, shown this to be extremely unlikely. In avoiding the trope of nomadic ephemerality, Thomas risks backing right into the trope of nomadic timelessness. A final, related issue is that Thomas strongly implies that the decline of the Ghūrids marks the effective end of significant urban life in Afghanistan. This impression leaves later periods largely undiscussed, including historically attested early modern (Safavid and Mughal) urbanism in Afghanistan. While Timurid Herat has certainly received plenty of attention elsewhere, the elision of the early modern is perhaps an artefact of the period classifications used by the ASAGE remote sensing, which struggled to differentiate the 'premodern' bracket between Timurid (ending early sixteenth century) and Modern (marked by Corona Satellite imagery dating to the 1970s).


Abstract Before it was colonized a century ago, Palauans were largely isolated and constrained to living within the limitations of their environment. Foreign governments brought a trade-based economy that eroded traditional practices, beliefs, and values, but did not remove their core. This paper describes the traditional belief structure in terms of stories, customs, and language. From 1885 to 1994, Palau was strongly influenced or controlled successively by the Spanish, the Germans, the Japanese and the Americans. With independence, the government is promoting tourism, but this is likely to bring many disruptive influences, including an increase in foreign laborers that makes more difficult any collective efforts at environmental protection. Despite initiatives by many, including NGOs and neighborhood groups that have traditional roots, to promote environmental values, development pressures remain somewhat out of control in Palau.


Photonic frequency quadrupling utilizing a lithium niobate phase modulator and a Brillouin-assisted optical filter was experimentally demonstrated for generation of microwave/millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signals. A mm-wave signal having the frequency of 48 GHz was successfully generated using the photonic frequency quadrupling with an electrical source of 12 GHz. Phase noise of the mm-wave signal was −85 dBc/Hz at the offset frequency of 10 kHz.


Near-field microscopy of scattering type (s-SNOM) has well-known merits in chemical recognition at 20-nm spatial resolution, using infrared vibrational-fingerprint resonances of molecules or crystal lattices. Here we report on s-SNOM application in semiconductor technology and correlated-metal physics, performed both at 10 mum and 118 mum wavelength.


The Husseys discuss their experience working to develop the Botanical Gardens on the grounds of UNC Asheville. They describe their efforts to make use of public land, to save endangered plants and transplant them into the gardens, and to raise money as well as the interest of the community. They discuss several different kinds of plants that are in the gardens and various garden clubs that have been involved. The difference between native plants and imported plants is also discussed. Dorothy describes her involvement with abused children and Head Start, and various activities to help the poor and the elderly. William describes his involvement with maintaining the Appalachian Trail, and with Habitat for Humanity. They both describe changes that have occurred in the city over the years.


From its origins in the automotive industry, Lean Thinking is increasingly being seen as a solution to problems of efficiency and quality in other industries and sectors. In recent years attempts have been made to transfer Lean principles and practice to the higher education sector, with indications of mixed consequences and debate over its suitability. This paper contributes to the debate by drawing evidence from 34 interviews conducted across two UK universities that have implemented Lean in some of their activities, and we pay particular attention to the role of the human resource function in facilitating its introduction. The findings suggest that there are problems in understanding, communicating and transferring Lean Thinking in the higher education context; despite human resource systems being vital facets of Lean, human resource professionals are excluded from participation; and as a consequence the depth and breadth of Lean application in the two institutions is very limited.


At the macroscopic level, ferromagnetism is a quantum mechanical phenomenon. To describe magnetic materials, it is necessary to create a heuristic model that in terms of continuum mechanics describes the interaction between the lattice continuum, which is a carrier of deformations, and the magnetization field, which is associated with the spin continuum through the gyromagnetic effect. According to the laws of quantum mechanics, each individual particle is associated with a magnetic moment and an internal angular momentum – spin. Electrons mainly contribute to the magnetic moment of the atom. Therefore, the continuum is continuously associated with the discrete distribution of individual spins in a real ferromagnetic body known as the electron spin continuum. In addition, it is necessary to formulate field equations that, together with Maxwell's equations, describe the electron spin continuum. After that, it is necessary to consider the interaction between the lattice continuum and the electron spin continuum. Elastic ferromagnets should be described with due regard to the spin density and couple stresses. The spin system is a carrier of the magnetic properties, and the mechanical properties are associated with the lattice. Thus, spin–lattice interactions indicate the relationship between magnetic and mechanical properties.


We address the problem of computing IMSE-optimal designs for random field interpolation models. A spectral representation of the IMSE criterion is obtained from the eigendecomposition of the integral operator defined by the covariance kernel of the random field and integration measure considered. The IMSE can then be approximated by spectral truncation and bounds on the error induced by this truncation are given. We show how the IMSE and truncated-IMSE can be easily computed when a quadrature rule is used to approximate the integrated MSE and the design space is restricted to a subset of quadrature points. Numerical experiments are carried out and indicate (i) that retaining a small number of eigenpairs (in regard to the quadrature size) is often sufficient to obtain good approximations of IMSE optimal quadrature-designs when optimizing the truncated criterion and (ii) that optimal quadrature-designs generally give efficient approximations of the true optimal designs for the quadrature approximation of the IMSE.


Likeness of God and the restoration of humanity in Julian of Norwich's "Showings" image of God - contrasting configurations in Julian of Norwich's "Showings" trinitarian hermeneutic in "Revelation of Love" St Cecilia and St John of Beverly - Julian of Norwich's early model and late affirmation genre approach to Julian of Norwich's epistemology point of coincidence - rhetoric and the apophatic in Julian of Norwich's "Showings" "I wolde for thi loue dye" - Julian, romance discourse and the masculine Julian's diabology "In the lowest part of our need" - Julian and medieval gynaecological writing a question of audience - the Westminster text and 15th-century reception of Julian of Norwich leaving the womb of Christ - love, doomsday and space/time in Julian of Norwich and Eastern orthodox mysticism.


An undirected graph G is called a VPT graph if it is the vertex intersection graph of a family of paths in a tree. The class of graphs which admit a VPT representation in a host tree with maximum degree at most h is denoted by [h; 2; 1]. The classes [h; 2; 1] are closed by taking induced subgraphs, therefore each one can be characterized by a family of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs. In this paper we associate the minimal forbidden induced subgraphs for [h; 2; 1] which are VPT with (color) hcritical graphs. We describe how to obtain minimal forbidden induced subgraphs from critical graphs, even more, we show that the family of graphs obtained using our procedure is exactly the family of VPT minimal forbidden induced subgraphs for [h; 2; 1]. The members of this family together with the minimal forbidden induced subgraphs for VPT [12,15], are the minimal forbidden induced subgraphs for [h; 2; 1], with h 3. Notice that by taking h = 3 we obtain a characterization by minimal forbidden induced subgraphs of the class VPT\ EPT=EPT\ Chordal= [3; 2; 2] = [3; 2; 1] (see [7]).


A consultant surgeon who plagiarised 12 assignments on a distance learning course for the postgraduate certificate of medical education has been suspended from practice for four months by the General Medical Council.

Gordon Shepard, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Royal Bolton Hospital, was a member of the specialist training committee of the North Western Deanery when he plagiarised the work for the University of Dundee course which had previously been submitted by another student.

His dishonesty was discovered when he left the name of the student on a piece of …


A solid-state crystal structure laboratory exercise for undergraduates in either a general chemistry course or a more advanced inorganic chemistry course is described. Students explore the lattice arrangement of atoms in unit cells by building models supplied by the Institute for Chemical Education. Emphasis is placed on building three-dimensional visual models of various crystal systems to display close packing of atoms, to identify tetrahedral and octahedral holes, to reveal number of atoms per unit cell, and to highlight ion coordination numbers and size differences. The relationship between solid-state bonding and a material's physical properties is emphasized for elemental carbon.


This cohort study describes COVID-19–related symptoms persisting 8 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection among Swedish health care workers and self-reported effects of the residual symptoms on respondents' home, work, and social function.


In addition, the MCM concern about damage is caused by a low complexity pattern of mass application of composite FIR filters. To obtain an identical filter period and thus the same block size, the projected structure requires thirteen sets of much less ADP and 12. EPS is eight percent less than that of the FIR block's direct victory form. To support these results, we generally tend to provide a subject for direct shape selection and transform shape configuration that is mainly based on filter lengths and block period to obtain location delay and maximum strength and inexpensive block FIR structures. The ASIC synthesis indicates the final result indicating that the projected model for block length four and filter length sixty-four contains less than 40 days of ADP product (ADP) and four hundred less EPS than the most effective FIR rate. The variable-shaped finite impulse response (FIR) structures are inherently tubular, and the manual multiple fixed multiplexers (MCM) ultimately culminate in the bioavailability of the computation. However, the configuration of the transfer form may not immediately direct the assessment block technique to direct configuration. We have currently obtained a form multiplier that is mainly based on the expected mass of the conversion form scanned for the reconfigurable packages.


Recently, I spent a day at the LuxLive Show in London and left with two overwhelming impressions. One was that there is a lot of commercial interest in human-centric lighting. The other was that many lighting designers are nervous about accepting responsibility for human-centric lighting. There are a number of reasons for this anxiety. First is the question of definition. Depending on who you talk to human-centric lighting can mean many different things. At its simplest, it means delivering sufficient vertical illuminance and a spectrum that stimulates the non-image-forming system. At the next level, it involves controlling both the illuminance and spectrum over time, and these are just the stimulus variables. When it comes to what responses to expect, the claims range even wider; from increased alertness in the morning, to better sleep at night, to more positive moods, to enhanced well-being, to greater happiness and to improved productivity. The only certainty is that it will cost more. Given the certainty on costs and the uncertainty on the lighting conditions required and what the benefits might be, a degree of nervousness is understandable. Second is the possibility that there might alternative means to achieve the same ends. As the saying goes, 'If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail', so if you are devoted to lighting then lighting is always the answer. But is it? Surely there are other methods to increase alertness in the morning, how about a cup of coffee? Or how about having a formalized break time to be spent outdoors. Or how about improving the design of daylighting in buildings. Third are the consequences for other desirable social aims. One characteristic often mentioned in the context of humancentric lighting is dramatically increased illuminances indoors. Indeed, it is sometimes claimed that current lighting practice ensures that many people are living in biological darkness. But such an increase runs counter to the enthusiasm for reduced power demands to mitigate climate change. So what is required to resolve this confusing picture? I believe three actions are required by authoritative lighting bodies like the CIE, the SLL and the IESNA. The first is to show some leadership. At the very least, they should issue an agreed definition of human-centric lighting but, ideally, it would involve working with researchers in the field to identify the necessary lighting conditions to achieve specific aims. The second would be to support a series of critical experiments designed to test the validity of the identified lighting conditions and to compare them with alternative means to achieve the same ends. If these experiments showed that exposure to light was the most effective way to improve people's health, wealth and happiness, then, as a third action, a complete revision of current lighting guidance should be prepared. Unless this is done, people who promote such lighting run the risk of being considered eccentric rather than human-centric.


Objective:To detect the plasma levels of nm23-H_1 protein in children suffering from acute leukemia and analyze the relationship between the expression level of nm23-H_1 protein and clinical features.Methods:The plasma level of differentiation inhibitory factor nm23-H_1 protein was measured by ELISA method in 100 AL patients and 30 healthy volunteers.Results:nm23-H_1 protein level in the plasma of AL children was higher than that in volunteers.The drug-resistant patients had a higher nm23-H_1 protein than the drug-sensitive patients.Conclusion:nm23-H_1 protein level in the plasma of AL patients is significantly higher than that of health volunteer.The plasma level of nm23-H_1 protein may be used as a predicator of outcome.


This work proposes a demonstration to introduce first-order reactions using the CBL system. It then presents the analysis of two consecutive first-order reactions. The values of the rate constants that govern each reaction's rate are determined using the graphing and statistical capabilities of a TI-83 calculator.


Optical data processing is often thought of as a relatively new and promising discipline. There are those who believe that this field is a product of the science and technology of this last decade. The more knowledgeable shake their heads wisely and are confident that they know that the work really started in the early 1950's. However, the real officianados are aware of many important forerunners of the current techniques of optical processing. These forerunners include the development of the knife-edge test by Foucault, the introduction of the Schlieren system by Tbpler, the theoretical work of Abbe on image formation in a microscope, and the subsequent illustrative experiments by Porter. Perhaps the real classic is the phase contrast microscope invented by Zernike.


The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de-facto routing protocol between various autonomous systems (AS) on the internet. In the event of route failure, a considerable delay in BGP convergence has been shown by empirical measurements. In the event of failure, a considerable delay in the BGP convergence has been shown by empirical measurements. During the convergence time the BGP will repeatedly advertise new routes to some destination and withdraw old ones until it reach a stable state. It has been found that the KEEPALIVE message timer and the HOLD time are tow parameters affecting the convergence speed. This paper aims to find the optimum value for the KEEPALIVE timer and the HOLD time that maximally reduces the convergence time without increasing the traffic. The KEEPALIVE message timer optimal value founded by this paper is 30 second instead of 60 second, and the optimal value for the HOLD time is 90 seconds instead of 180 seconds.


The use of a solar furnace to produce elemental phosphorus by the reaction of phosphate rock, silica, and carbon has been demonstrated. All experimental runs were characterized by a considerable amount of impurities evolving from the reaction vessel at higher temperatures that condensed on the quartz window and other cooler surfaces. (LEW)


BACKGROUND
Parents can influence their children to live healthier lifestyles by modeling healthy behaviors and/or trying to persuade their children to engage in healthier activities. Adolescents and their parents tend to have similar eating and exercise patterns, but less is known about the simultaneous influence of parent's health behavior and social control on adolescents' self-efficacy and health behaviors, including whether their effect is moderated by parenting style.

PURPOSE
We examine the degree to which parents' social control and health behaviors are associated with their adolescent's self-efficacy and health behaviors, including whether parenting styles moderate these associations.

METHOD
We analyzed data from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating project.

RESULTS
We found that parents' own health behaviors are positively and strongly associated with their adolescent's health behaviors across four domains: fruit/vegetable consumption, junk food consumption, physical activity, and nonacademic screen time. We found positive, moderate-to-strong associations between parents' use of social control and their adolescents' fruit/vegetable and junk food consumption, small negative associations with screen time, and no associations with physical activity. The effects of social control for junk food consumption and screen time, however, depended on parents' own behavior in those domains. Parent responsiveness moderated the relation between parents' social control and their adolescent children's self-efficacy and health behaviors.

CONCLUSIONS
The health behaviors parents model and their social control efforts are associated with their adolescents' beliefs and behavior. Efforts to leverage parents as sources of influence must consider the context in which influence is enacted.


This manuscript presents an investigation of human perception on colors using the Electroencephalogram (EEG) device. Studies of the human perception using EEG is expanding in various discipline that links electronics to many fields of study interest. The aim of this study is to observe the human perception and its level of calmness in the brain. Observation was made on the alpha band that was generated from various kinds of colors to different human. This study further focused on the EEG frequency of Alpha brainwaves and its relation to the brain lobes. In this experiment, the low-cost Emotive Epoch EEG neuroheadset device with 16 channels of electrodes were used. Subjects were instructed to look into different colors displays during the experiment. The EEG data was analyzed using the Fourier transform of Power Spectral Density (PSD). The results were observed from all the lobes but focusing were made on the occipital lobe and the averages of the alpha waves Power Spectral Density in two channels of the occipital were obtained. The analysis result from this study showed that the alpha wave produced from different participants are affected through different colors. This observation further depicted that human are calm through their color of interest.


This letter investigates design considerations and impact of technological parametric variations on microwave performance of gate electrode workfunction engineered recessed channel (GEWE‐RC) MOSFET using ATLAS.Results reveal significantly enhanced microwave performance of GEWE‐RC over bulk in terms of intrinsic delay, gains, cut‐off frequency, S‐parameters proving its effectiveness in radio‐frequency‐wireless, and RFID technology. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 52: 652–657, 2010; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.25008


early Christianity. There is a di¶erence of opinion about the Council of Elvira, with Vilella supporting Meinecke's view that the canons as we now have them are a compilation of various councils, while Ubiña and Marcos see them as the product of a single council. Ubiña provides an overview of the church in its entirety during this period and the tensions produced by its transformation from a sect into a state religion. Marcos, on the other hand, concentrates on the impact of ascetic movements within the church, examining both the problems these caused for the church and in the wider social arena, particularly among the upper classes and women. Overall, the collection provides a stimulating discussion about the Iberian peninsula in this period and also contains much of interest for students of late antiquity in general.


IT United is a cliche States we to state take water that in supply the United States we ak water supply for granted. Travelers are certain that they can find water available at the tap anywhere in the United States and that the water will be of satisfactory quality. Participants in this meeting from water works agencies can be confident that the water supply services at home for which they are responsible are of their usual high quality. The service is reliable. It is prompt. It breeds confidence among the populace. Few cries of inefficiency in water works operations disturb us.


Among the adverse effects of anticancer drugs, critical effects have attracted the most attention. However, non-critical adverse effects that lower the quality of life of cancer patients have been gaining recognition. For example, the package insert of tegafur ・ gimeracil ・ oteracil potassium (S-1) was modified and lacrimal duct obstruction was added to the list of critical adverse effects on September 25, 2012. In a similar vein, this study aimed to examine the awareness of healthcare professionals regarding the adverse effects of anticancer drugs on the eyes. A web-based questionnaire survey was administered to medical doctors and pharmacists. We received responses from 38 doctors and 123 pharmacists. Only 39.5 % (15) of the doctors and 33.3 % (41) of the pharmacists were aware of the adverse effects of anticancer drugs on the eyes. Among respondents who had observed these adverse effects, only 12.5 % (1/8) of doctors and 11.1 % (2/18) of pharmacists reported them to the authorities or the pharmaceutical companies. The results suggest that the adverse effects of anticancer drugs on the eyes should gain more recognition among healthcare professionals. Therefore, we would like to encourage them in obtaining information concerning the safety of medicines and to report all observed adverse effects regardless of their severity.


In common cases, the entropy of multi-source information depends only on the source itself, or put it another way, during the process of fusion information, any introduction of algorithm or model to the system cannot reduce the entropy below the minimum of system entropy, which is the intrinsic problem of probability assignment function. In this paper, we provide a way to implement the allocation of reliability based on synergy principle, which not only reduce the impact of measuring error on allocation of reliability, but minimize the uncertainty of the system composed of multi-source information as well. The algorithm redistributes the multi-source information system according to overlapping conditions of confidence interval, and quantifies the reliability by utilizing the principle that different pieces of consistent information increase the reliability of others mutually and the synergy principle. Thus, this synergistic allocation way of reliability will both reduce transmission error produced by the fusion and calculation process of information markedly and improve the reliability of classification results. We will show how the algorithm improves the performance of fusion process of sea surface temperature measured by multiple satellites in this paper.


This paper proposes an enhanced particle swarm optimization with gradient information (GPSO) for unconstrained optimization. Newton's method and mutation operation are embedded in the velocity update equation to improve the effect of cognition influence and social influence, respectively. Based on numerous test function taken from the literature, computational results via a variety of experimental study showed that the GPSO approach outperformed the other techniques in terms of solution quality and convergence rate. The new algorithm proves to be extremely effective and efficient at locating best practice optimal solutions.


The education of law as the foundation stone of the humanities and occupation accomplishment of the police, profoundly affects the legitimacy, legitimacy, effectiveness of the police law enforcement. At the same time, the disadvantages of the traditional mode of legal education to cultivate police has demonstrated. At present, one-sided police law enforcement phenomenon has universal existed, the police image has damaged,and credibility has gradually lost. In view of the current police information and police law education problems,scientific construction of public security colleges clinical legal education model helps the police law enforcement to provide a correct orientation in education, cultivateing" establishing police for the public, law enforcement for the people, excellent quality" of the new era of composite type of people's police.


With more and more Internet of Things based healthcare systems being developed in hospitals, community clinics and individual homes for medical and healthcare applications, issues of information security have become increasingly critical. Entity identification is a basic and important security mechanism for access control of an information system. As a kind of must-have physiological signals in most Internet of Things based healthcare systems, electrocardiogram (ECG) has its potential as a type of biometric traits for human identity recognition. This work focuses on the recognition performance analysis with ECG signals acquired from healthy subjects and those with cardiovascular diseases. The stability of ECG based identity recognition was also analyzed with signals captured within one month interval. Experimental results indicate that a better recognition accuracy for healthy subjects has been achieved compared to elderly unhealthy subjects. As ECG signals collected from subjects with cardiovascular diseases change more dramatically over time compared to those from healthy ones, more ECG signals from different session of recording are needed to improve the identification accuracy. With ECG records from different session of recording being supplied in the model training process, accuracy rates at 95.62% and 98.14% were achieved for unhealthy and healthy subjects, respectively.


. Asymptotic estimates are obtained for a complete linearly independent set of solutions of a linear system of differential equations of the form


The article provides an assessment of the effectiveness of technical solutions to strengthen the beams of spans of road bridges and indicates the advantages of using alternative reinforcement options in comparison with known solutions. The necessity of considering the collaboration of concrete and reinforcing elements on the principal planes of the webs of beams of the span is revealed. A method for determining the period of serviceability of a span is presented, as well as the dependence of this parameter on the strength characteristics of concrete beams. Calculated data are presented that allow critically assessing the effectiveness and the possibility of using various options for increasing the period of serviceability of the span of road bridges. The obtained results allow drawing conclusions about the validity and effectiveness of the proposed solutions for strengthening the span, as well as the prospects for using typical structures of previous generations in modern operating conditions.


The TriQuint HBT process is based on InGaP/GaAs with 2 /spl mu/m or 3 /spl mu/m emitter lengths. The DC current gain for the new HBT3 is set to 130, breakdown voltages BVcbo, BVceo and BVbeo are 24 V, 14 V, and 7 V, respectively. F/sub T/ and F/sub max/ of 40 GHz and 65 GHz are ideally suited for the hand-set market and WLAN business from cellular bands to 802.11a/b/g frequencies. Power densities at 1.9 GHz of 0.3 mW//spl mu/m/sup 2/ are used in current power amplifiers. The cost of GaAs HBT modules has been proven to be more cost effective than SiGe based modules.


This article summarizes the theoretical results in Laboratory economy,defines the model of the laboratory economic of schools and enterprises to build,analyzes its organizational model and elaborates its operational mechanism,so as to provide a reference for School-enterprise cooperation,laboratory-economic development and innovation performance of Laboratory economy established by university and enterprise.


Soon after the development of "closed" techniques for the surgical repair of acquired cardiac valvular lesions, a postoperative syndrome characterized mainly by the development of fever and pleuropericarditis was recognized in many of the patients undergoing these procedures.' The advent of "open" cardiac surgical procedures employing cardiopulmonary bypass has resulted in the recent recognition of another puzzling postoperative syndrome."' Some patients undergoing these procedures have developed a self-limited postoperative episode of fever, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, lymphocytosis and eosinophilia. In the present report the clinical and laboratory manifestations of this new post-cardiotomy syndrome are described in three children following open-heart repair of congenital cardiac defects.


PURPOSE: To study for clinical and morphological point of views, the effects of a chalcone in allergic conjunctivitis induced by ovalbumim in guinea pig. METHODS: Fifty-four white male guinea pigs weighing approximately 400 g were used in the study. All animals were sensitized by intraperitoneal injection of ovalbumin suspended in Freund's complete adjuvant solution. Conjunctivitis was induced by the ovalbumin by instillation of ovalbumin in conjunctival sac of right eye´s. The animals were randomized in 3 groups agreement with the proposed treatment: chalcone,corticoid and saline. The clinical analysis were recorded at 5, 10 e 40 min, 7 e 24 h after induced and daily until 7 days after induced. Morphologic analysis consisted in evaluating edema, necrosis, vascularization and exocytosis at the 1, 3 and 7 days following induction of conjunctivitis. RESULTS: Clinical alterations were more accentuated 24 h after induction. Inflammatory signs were less apparent in chalcone group as compared to saline Corticoid group presented less inflammatory signs when compared to chalcone and control groups. Morphologic analysis disclosed that chalcona effect is similar to corticoid effects. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that chalcona had therapeutic effect in the allergic conjunctivitis induced by ovalbumine in guinea pigs.


The UHF adjacent channel combiner is in a great demand because of the shortage of the frequency resource along with the development of the "China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB)" system and the "Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting (DTTB)" system. The high-selectivity band-pass filter is a must for the adjacent channel combiner. The characteristics of the frequency drift caused by the temperature of the coaxial and waveguide resonators, which were used to construct the filter, were investigated in this paper. Two types of the coaxial resonator and two types of cylinder waveguide resonator were studied. The main reason of the coaxial resonant frequency drift was found out. Some frequency drift compensation methods were proposed as well in this paper.


The doctors who have cared for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of last week's shooting deserve more credit than they've been getting for their heroic efforts.


We give a simple characterization of Mackenzie's double Lie algebroids in terms of homological vector fields. Application to the `Drinfeld double' of Lie bialgebroids is given and an extension to the multiple case is suggested.


With theoretical probes to the distribution law of correlation coefficients between two n-length sequences,this paper concludes the normal distribution and with a variance of 1/n,aiming to indicate the examination rooms with overall scorekeeping mistakes which commonly occur in large-scale tests.Based on the correlation analyses of examination results,the coefficients can be used to point out almost all examination rooms with such mistakes by sampling the data of just less than 0.5 per cent rooms,which can raise the efficiency of error check dramatically.


Objective To investigate the safety and efficacy of Nobori stent in the treatment of Macau Chinese patients with coronary heart disease.Methods 50 Chinese CHD patients were randomly assigned into Nobori group(n=20)and Xience V group(n=30)and were implanted with these stents above respectively.Stent thrombosis,cardiogenic death,myocardial infarction,coronary artery bypass graft surgery(CABG),target lesion revascularization(TLR),target vessel revascularization(TVR),target lesion failure(TLF)and major adverse cardiovascular events(MACE)were observed in the follow-up.Results In the follow-up of 2 years,the rate of early and late stent thrombosis were the same in the 2 groups.The rate of very late stent thrombosis was a little higher in Nobori group(5.0% vs.3.3%,P0.05).In the follow-up of 1 year for primary end points,the rate of MACE was a little higher in Xience V group,but no significant difference(3.3% vs.0.0%,P0.05).In the follow-up of 2 years,the rate of MACE was a little higher in Xience V group,but still no significant difference(6.7% vs.5.0%,P0.05).Conclusions Implanting Nobori stent is a safe and effect way to treat Chinese.It is not inferior to Xience V stent and deserves promotion in practice.


Accra Agenda for Action: Donors agree to use country systems as the first option for aid programmes in support of activities managed by the public sector... Should donors choose to use another option and rely on aid delivery mechanisms outside country systems (including parallel project implementation units), they will transparently state the rationale for this and will review their positions at regular intervals. Where use of country systems is not feasible, donors will establish additional safeguards and measures in ways that strengthen rather than undermine country systems and procedures... donors will aim to channel 50% or more of government-to-government assistance through country fiduciary systems, including by increasing the percentage of assistance provided through programme-based approaches. Benefits of using country PFM systems Policy brief 1: Aid effectiveness community


This work presents the results of the formation of the blade due to the intersection of microreliefs of the side surfaces, moreover, the microgeometry influenced by not only the technological parameters of the grinding, but also the physical and mechanical properties of the material, as well as the forces that arise during grinding.


Chloroplast DNA variation in 96 Prunus avium L. cultivars was assessed and compared with the results of a previous study of cpDNA diversity in 23 wild populations of the species. The polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method was used in these studies. Approximately 9% of the chloroplast genome was analyzed, using five universal primer pairs and three restriction enzymes. Ten polymorphic fragments were common to both the wild and sweet cherry; eight polymorphic fragments were found only in the wild cherry. In the cultivars, all mutations were small (5-30 bp) indels. In the wild populations, a point mutation was also detected in addition to indels. The mutational combinations revealed three haplotypes in the cultivars, which are the main haplotypes in the wild cherry populations. Chloroplast DNA diversity in wild cherry is higher (16 haplotypes) than in sweet cherry cultivars (three haplotypes). The probable wild origin of the sweet cherry cultivars in the maternal line, on the basis of haplotypic similarity, was discussed.


Graduation design process involves topics selection,open discussion,process management,and other aspects of the respondent. There is reliance on manual workload management and work procedures cumbersome and other issues. Based on the ASP. NET platform,using MVC4( Model-View-Control) framework,this paper achieves a three-tier architecture graduation design management system. System representation layer uses JQuery,Ajax and other technologies to achieve page display,business layer uses a template class that implements the business logic of the package,data layer uses LINQ to SQL and relational databases to achieve O / RM( Object / Relation Mapping). Flexible system architecture is of good scalability,the system is applied in Nanjing university of science and technology,and improves the quality and efficiency of graduation management.


This report examines the relationships between selected variables of economic strength and crime. It begins with an overview of crime rates during times of economic recession in the United States. It then reviews the existing literature in the field analyzing various data sets that examine whether the unemployment rate and foreclosures can be related to increases in the national crime rate.


In this paper, fluent numerical simulation is used to solve the air flow in the 90 bend pipe with RNG k   epsilon model. The vortex and the secondary flow loss in the bend can be greatly reduced by adding a proper deflector. In this paper, 7 deflectors are respectively arranged along the radial direction of the elbow. According to numerical simulation, we find the flow of a single 90 degree guide plate at the 2# position (0.5D) is best. The loss is reduced by 39.7% compared to the pressure drop without adding any deflector.


Due to the quantum correlation between the pair‐produced D0 and D0 from the decay of the ψ(3770), the time‐integrated single and double tag decay rates depend on charm mixing amplitudes, doubly‐Cabibbo‐suppressed amplitudes, and the relative strong phase δ between D0 and D0 decays to identical final states. Using 281pb−1 collected with the CLEO‐c detector on the ψ(3770) resonance, we measure the absolute branching fractions of D0 decays to hadronic flavored states, CP eigenstates, and semileptonic final states to determine the relative strong phase cos δ and to limit the mixing amplitude y.


'The Garage Fordist' was a solo exhibition of work that took place at Tramway, Glasgow. It paired a new series of paintings collectively titled 'Testbeds' with an ongoing series of sculptures that reference gallery furniture. More specifically these sculptures reference barriers custom designed by specific artists to prevent the audience from touching their artworks. The 'Testbed' paintings referred to aircraft chassis developed by Lockheed Martin's so-called 'Skunkworks' covert research division. Their purpose was to explore parallels that can be drawn between the aeronautic industry and contemporaneous abstract colour field painting, which privileged optical speed as a central criteria. In attempting to blend these two disparate sources these works propose reductive abstraction a form of endless prototyping or signal tuning.


Based on Oliver's loyalty theory,this study builds a model to explain the mechanism of website interactivity effects on e-loyalty. The results indicate that three dimensions of interactivity( Two-way communication,Control,and Synchronicity) all have significant positive effects on e-loyalty,and satisfaction has partially mediating effect on the relationship between interactivity and e-loyalty. We also find the type of consumer shopping behavior has significant moderating effect on the relationship between perceived control and satisfaction,and consumers' e-shopping experience moderates the relationship between satisfaction and e-loyalty. This paper provides new theoretical basis for the explanation of the inner mechanism of interactivity effect on e-loyalty,and offers e-retailers decision basis for the website design and internet marketing practices.


We already know that those ISP commericials promising superfast broadband speeds don't generally deliver the digital power as advertised. By the time it gets to your PC it seems to slow to a trickle just as you need to download a huge document or upload that stunning piece of video.


. The purpose of this study is to examine the formulation of connectivity cases in Indonesian positive law and the implementation of judges' decisions on connectivity cases in the criminal justice system. The approach used in this research is a normative approach. The data collection technique used is conventional and online literature search. The data analysis method used in this research is qualitative because the data is presented in a descriptive-narrative way. The results showed that before the birth of the Criminal Procedure Code, a joint decision was made between the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Defense and Security, and the Attorney General, Joint Decree Number B/16/XII/1971 regarding wisdom in the examination of criminal acts carried out jointly by people who are included in the Criminal Procedure Code. military court environment. The basis for connectivity is contained in Article 22 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 14 of 1970 concerning the Basic Provisions of Judicial Power. The examination of connectivity in the Criminal Procedure Code is regulated in Chapter XI concerning Connectivity in Articles 89 to 94. In principle, all connectivity cases are examined and tried by a court in the general judiciary, except for the decision of the Minister of Defense and Security with the approval of the Minister of Justice, the case can be examined and tried by the court. in the military courts. However, in practice irregularities are often found, namely connectivity cases are resolved separately, meaning that general civilians are examined and tried by the general district court, while members of the military/armed forces are examined and tried by the military court.


The well-known tax results obtained in the traditional model of investment are re-examined in a model of imperfect corporate governance. The corporation tax, the dividend tax and the capital gains tax have unconventional stock market and real effects which operate through the managerial compensation scheme.


Introduction My interest in the autonomic nervous system was stimulated by Dr. Comroe during my research training under his guidance. As a cardiovascular fellow, I learned of the many pulmonary, as well as cardiovascular, effects of nicotine (1). My next "exposure" to lungs occurred in a physiology class. The medical students and I found that inhalation of cigarette smoke increased airway resistance (2). To my astonishment, atropine sulfate (a drug purported to have no significant effects on airways) prevented bronchoconstriction after cigarette smoke. Dr. Comroe encouraged me to engage in more basic studies to determine the nervous pathways involved, and before long, I was a genuine pulmonary research fellow! Dr. Comroe's conviction that research knowledge should be applied to problems of patients influenced our studies on airways, and soon we were studying mechanisms in asthma. It is these studies relating to asthma that I will describe. Asthma is a disease characterized by recurrent attacks of bronchoconstriction, due largely to contraction of airway smooth muscle. In addition, some asthmatic patients develop progressive bronchial narrowing that is relatively unresponsive to bronchodilator drugs. Postmortem examination of the airways in such patients reveals obstruction of airways due to inspissation of mucus. I will present evidence that the cho-


There are errors in the " Results " section in the Abstract of the published article. Duration of anesthesia should read 154 ± 69 minutes, and the value for perioperative urinary excretion should read 0.3 ± 0.2 L. The headings for Table 3 are misaligned. Please view the correct Table 3 here. open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, model order reduction is the key to processing measured data. This chapter outlines philosophy of model order reduction along with the concepts of total least squares and singular value decomposition. It introduces a critical component in solving a total least squares problem called the singular value decomposition. The singular value decomposition is one of the most important concepts in linear algebra. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues play crucial roles in linear algebra ranging from simplifying matrix algebra such as taking the 500th power of to solving differential equations. Diagonalizing a matrix not only provides a quick way to extract eigenvalues but important parameters such as the rank and dimension of a matrix can be found easily once a matrix is diagonalized. The method of total least squares is a linear parameter estimation technique and is used in wide variety of disciplines such as signal processing, statistics, physics, and the like.


The present study aims to explore the experiences of marginalization amongst young Turkish migrants in the UK. It pays particular attention to the ways in which marginalizing experiences and practices are reproduced, normalized and resisted across different ethnic/national contexts, namely, in encounters with the British/English majority, mainland Turks and other diaspora members. A narrative-based analysis of semi-structured interviews reveals that participants do not experience to be sharing an equal status with British/English majority despite their strong attachments to the UK, and that their experiences of otherness are also extended to their relationships with mainland Turks in Turkey and encounters in the diasporic community. However, Turkish migrant identity is not constructed as a fixed position, that of an inferior other. Rather depending on the net of power relationships characterizing the encounters, being of the Turkish minority also becomes a base for marginalizing others and is marginalized by participants themselves.


This regional dossier aims to provide concise, descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education in a specific region of the European Union-Alsace, a part of France along the German border. Details about the features of the educational system, recent educational policies, divisions of responsibilities, main actors, legal arrangements, support structures, and qualitative information on a number of schools, teachers, pupils, and financial investments. This information is designed to serve the needs of policy makers, researchers, teachers, students, and journalists as they assess the developments in European minority language schooling. This information may also serve as a first orientation towards further research (additional readings are suggested and contact information provided). Specifically, information is provided on preschool, primary, secondary, vocational, higher, and adult education, as well as a review of educational research, summary statistics, and overall prospects for the use of the language under study. The subject of this dossier is the German, called Elsaesser-Ditsch by Alsatians, spoken in Alsace region of France. The language has two distinct dialects: Fraenkisch and Alemanish. Alemanisch is the focus of this inquiry. The language does not have official status in the France, though it has had a special status in education since 1985. (Contains 39 references.) (KFT) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 1 MERCATOR-EDUCATION information documentation research/recherche German The German language in education in Alsace, France


The IT industry has been one of the major drivers of change in economy over the last few decades and has contributed significantly to the digital revolution. New electric and electronic equipmantys have infilterated all aspects of our daily life providing us with more comfort , health and security. The same technology that has made our lives better is on the downside creating more toxic problems for our society. With the growth of IT and related industries the usage and disposal of electrical and electronic equipment is all set to increase, which in turn will increase the quantity of ewaste generated, therefore it has become imperative to study the ewaste management practices that are being adopted. Coimbatore is set to become the next important IT destination after Chennai in Tamil Nadu, with the growth of IT industry and the economic growth the use of electric and electronic products are stet to increase, as the usage increases so will the quantity of ewaste generated. Ewaste is of immense interest owing to the following factors such as increase in volume of ewaste due to changes in technology, it is relatively new form of waste that has to be dealt with when compared to municipal or biomedical wastes. The technique for safe disposal is still being evolved, the quantity of waste is enormous, and the components present in ewaste is not uniform for all kinds of wastes. The types of wastes that come under this category are varied. There are plenty of useful materials that can be recovered and reused. Most importantly the health and environmental effects due to the toxic substances that are a result of improper handling and disposal of ewaste is a cause for major concern.


Introduction The COVID lockdown has posted a great challenge to paediatric patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and their caregivers on the disease management. This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to compare the glycaemic control among paediatric patients with T1D (aged under 18 years) pre- during, and post-lockdown period. Methods and materials We did a systematic search of three databases (PubMed, Embase, and the WHO COVID‐19 Global literature) for the literature published between 1 Jan 2019 to 10 Sep 2022. Studies meeting the following inclusion criteria were eligible for this study: (1) a COVID-19 related study; (2) inclusion of children aged 18 years old or under with established T1D; (3) comparing the outcomes of interest during or after the COVID lockdown with that before the lockdown. Study endpoints included mean difference (MD) in HbA1c, blood glucose, time in range (TIR, 70-180 mg/dl), time above range (TAR, >180mg/dl), time below range (TBR,<70mg/dl) and glucose variability (coefficient of variation [CV]) between pre-lockdown and during lockdown and/or between pre- and post-lockdown period. The MD and its corresponding 95% CI of each endpoint were pooled using random-effect model considering the potential between-study heterogeneity in COVID restrictions and T1D management. Results Initial search identified 4488 records and 22 studies with 2106 paediatric patients with T1D were included in the final analysis. Compared with pre-lockdown period, blood glucose was significantly decreased by 0.11 mmol/L (95%CI: -0.18, -0.04) during lockdown period and by 0.42 mmol/L (95%CI: -0.73, -0.11) after lockdown. The improvement was also found for TIR, TAR, TBR, and CV during and post-lockdown (all p values<0.05) except for the post-lockdown TBR (p =0.35). No significant change in HbA1c was observed during and post- lockdown period when compared with the pre-lockdown value. There was moderate to high between-study heterogeneity for most of the analyses. Conclusion Compared with pre-lockdown period, there was significant improvement in T1D paediatric patients' glucose metrics during and post-lockdown. The underlying reasons for this positive impact warrant further investigation to inform future paediatric diabetes management. Systematic Review Registration https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/, identifier CRD42022359213.


Abstract The paper builds an integrative framework of the moral dimensions of the employment relationship by linking the core specificities of the employment relationship, i.e. the meaningfulness of work, its relational components, the incompleteness of the labour contract and its authority character, to the four moral motives identified by the Moral Foundations Theory, namely care, fairness/reciprocity, in-group/loyalty and authority. We show that due acknowledgement of the moral dimensions of the employment relationship entails making institutional transformations, namely strengthening rather than discarding employment law and reforming corporate law. Recognizing these moral dimensions would epitomize a radical break with mainstream economics and neo-liberal thought.


The objective of this study was to perform a systematic review on the effects of morphology and wettability of surfaces on the osseointegration of dental implants. A bibliographic search of articles published in the last tem years was conducted on PubMed database. The following search terms were applied to select the most relevant studies: "wettability" OR "surface energy" OR "BIC" OR "hydrophilic" AND "dental implants". Several modifications of implant surfaces resulted in na increase of hidropholicty and wetabllity for the osseointegration process. The morfologic aspects at micro- and nano-scale of the implant surfaces can promote the wetabillity and therefore to stimulate platelets and osteogenic cells. Nowadays, the enhancement of topography and hidrophilicity of implant surfaces are key factor to accelerate the osseointegration process.


Really critical editions are still rare in Indian studies. The present edition of the Yuktid¥pikå, which makes full use of all the surviving mss known to exist, will therefore be welcomed by all those working in the field of Såμkhya and related studies. Two earlier editions of the text exist. The first one, by Pulinbehari Chakravarti (1938), was based one just one ms (P). The one by Ram Chandra Pandeya (1967) was based on two of them (A, P). The edition under review is based on five mss (A, B, D, K, P), whose interrelationship has been analysed and presented in the following stemma codicum (p. XX).


Computing Research Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba,305-0801, JapanWe present the first report of the LatKMI collaboration on the the lattice QCD simulation per-formed at the KMI computer, "ϕ", for the cases of 4 flavors and 8 flavors, the latter being ex-pected to be a candidate for the walking technicolor having an approximate scale invariance nearthe infrared fixed point. The simulation was carried out base d on the highly improved staggeredquark (HISQ) action. In this proceedings,we report preliminaryresults on the spectrum, analyzedthrough the chiral perturbation theory and the finite-size hyperscaling. We observe qualitativelydifferent behavior of the 8-flavor case in contrast to the 4-flavor case which shows clear indicationof the hadronic phase as in the usual QCD.The XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - Lattice 2011July 10-16, 2011Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California


We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a map to be countably compact preserving (countably compact) and use it to give a new characterization of sequential subcontinuity (inverse sequential subcontinuity) for a closed (continuous) map. It is also proved as a consequence that under appropriate restrictions on the domain and the co-domain of a map, preservation of countably compact sets is a necessary and sufficient condition for an inversely sequentially subcontinuous map to be sequentially subcontinuous.


Abstract Suppose that $\widetilde{G}$ is a connected reductive group defined over a field $k$ , and $\Gamma$ is a finite group acting via $k$ -automorphisms of $\widetilde{G}$ satisfying a certain quasi-semisimplicity condition. Then the identity component of the group of $\Gamma$ -fixed points in $\widetilde{G}$ is reductive. We axiomatize the main features of the relationship between this fixed-point group and the pair $\left( \tilde{G},\Gamma \right)$ , and consider any group $G$ satisfying the axioms. If both $\widetilde{G}$ and $G$ are $k$ -quasisplit, then we can consider their duals $\widetilde{{{G}^{*}}}$ and ${{G}^{*}}$ . We show the existence of and give an explicit formula for a natural map from the set of semisimple stable conjugacy classes in ${{G}^{*}}\,(k)$ to the analogous set for $\widetilde{{{G}^{*}}}\,(k)$ . If $k$ is finite, then our groups are automatically quasisplit, and our result specializes to give a map of semisimple conjugacy classes. Since such classes parametrize packets of irreducible representations of $G(k)$ and $\widetilde{G}\,(k)$ , one obtains a mapping of such packets.


Introduction: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains one of the major health-care problems in Georgia. In 2014 DR-TB was found in 11, 6% of new TB cases. Successful treatment outcome with second line anti-TB drugs was only 41% in 2013 cohort. The severity of the problem has led to the implementation of the new DR-TB treatment program. Aim: To overview the steps of implementation Bedaquline (Bdq) for the treatment of DR-TB in Georgia. Interventions: Georgia was one of the first countries which started use of Bdq through compassionate use program (CU) in 2011 and from 30.07.14 continued in the framework of new DR-TB treatment program with the support of MSF-France. Georgia developed a National Bedaquiline Implementation Plan based on the latest recommendations of WHO. To decentralize the DR-TB patients9 enrollment in new regimens and to monitor the treatment implementation an innovative approach of "Mobile Consilium" was elaborated. Early adoption of the new treatment regimens made Georgia a primary candidate to receive free courses of Bdq through USAID and Janssen Therapeutics Bdq Donation Program in July 2015 for programmatic use. Results: From 2011 to July 2014, 12 patients were enrolled in Bdq CU program. All of them finished course with successful outcome. From 30.07.14 to 01.02.16, 192 patients were discussed for new regimens and 165 started treatment with Bdq, among them - 12 from penitential system. Bdq showed good safety and tolerability-only in 3% of cases treatment was temporary stopped due to severe side effects. Conclusion: Administration of the new DR-TB treatment regimens in line with active drug safety monitoring, seem to have promising effects on the treatment outcomes and epidemiological situation in Georgia.


This paper presents an improvement of inspection maintenance actions to reduce common cause failures of k-out-of-n redundant structures. Improving maintenance tasks for the programmable logic controllers with 1002 voting configuration and the control valves with 2003 voting configuration in a thermal power plant is described as an illustrative case study. The proposed improvement is based on common-cause avoidance in replacement and repair procedures. Performances of the proposed technique are verified through reliability modeling of two interested voting configurations. The suggested maintenance improvement can increase the system reliability for redundancy as needed to maintain critical functions.


With fatty acid methyl esters produced with waste oil and sucrose as raw materials,sucrose esters were synthesized by solvent-free method.Through single factor experiment and orthogonal experiment,the optimal synthesis conditions were determined as follows: molar ratio of fatty acid methyl esters to sugar 2.5∶1,anhydrous potassium carbonate dosage 3%(based on the total mass of raw materials),potassium stearate dosage 15%(based on the total mass of raw materials),reaction temperature 135 ℃,reaction time 4 h.Under the optimal conditions,the yield of sucrose esters reached 78.9%,the HLB value was eleven,and IR verified the synthesis of sucrose esters.


6590Background: Chemotherapy (CMT) use near death, based on US national guidelines, is an indicator of aggressive treatment and poor quality of end-of-life (EOL) care. US law also decreased Medicar...


Evidence for the greater susceptibility of seeds of higher oil content to methyl bromide is reviewed. Oils increase the sensitivity of seeds to the fumigant at higher moisture contents by making the water more readily available, probably by blocking sorptive substrates. The oil may also act as a reservoir for methyl bromide, so that oily seeds are subject to more severe delays during germination than are less oily seeds. The conditions of moisture content and dosage under which the oily seeds, carrot, rape, cabbage and radish, may be treated, are established, as is the range of oil contents in lucerne, a seed not subject to selection for this character.


Objective To discuss the relation between BPV of elder hypertension and cerebral stroke.Methods The clinical materials of 112 cases of hypertension group and 83 cases of control group were BVP of systolic and diastolic stage and incidence of cerebral stroke.Results The incidence of cerebral stroke in test croup was higher than control group P0.01.Conclusion With increasing BPV,the greater sBPV the more incidence of stroke.The BPV might be the isolated risk factor and predicting factor.


A white balance correction apparatus and method are provided to compensate an area detected as a specific target by a second white balance compensation unit and compensate an area except the area of the specific target by a first white balance compensation unit, thereby performing white balance compensation according to the light source of a subject to photograph a natural image under plural light sources. A white balance correction apparatus includes an image input unit(10), an input signal processor(12), a CPU(Central Processing Unit)(20), an image recording unit(24), an operation input unit(26), a communication unit(28), a display unit(30), a specific target detector(40), and a white balance compensator(50). The specific target detector detects a specific target included into an inputted image signal with the estimation value of the specific target indicating the feature of the specific target. The white balance compensator includes first and second white balance compensation units. The first white balance compensation unit acquires a first white balance compensation value in an area excluding the specific target from an image displayed with the inputted image signal. The second white balance compensation unit acquires a second white balance compensation value in an area of the specific target detected by the specific target detector. When the first white balance compensation value and the second white balance compensation value are different, the area excluding the specific target is compensated by using the first white balance compensation value, and the area of the specific target is compensated using the second white balance compensation value.


FIELD: personal use articles. SUBSTANCE: chamber for food storage comprises a storage compartment for storing products which temperature should be regulated. This storage compartment can be communicated with a source of cold air; thereby the cold air can enter the compartment. In addition to air duct designed to provide air recirculation discharged from the storage compartment back to this compartment, the said chamber comprises a mixing zone where the cold air and recirculated air may be mixed in selected quantities; and a user interface that provides the user the ability to select the temperature control mode in the interior space of the storage compartment from the available modes of temperature control. The chamber for food storage may include a controller for managing the implementation of temperature control mode which is selected by the user. EFFECT: group of inventions enables to provide not only fast cooling and thawing food, but also preservation of food at any desired temperature. 25 cl, 8 dwg


An incremental theory of diffraction (ITD) formulation is applied to the prediction of the field scattered by moderately sized, local circular cylinder-shaped structures. Explicit, closed-form, ITD dyadic scattering coefficients are used. The main advantage of the proposed approach is that it overcomes difficulties in applying ray methods close and at caustics, yet smoothly recovering the ray-field description where the latter is applicable and effective.


The propositions of "Development serves human being" and "To regard human being as root" are the proposition of traditional humanitarianism,and it can't resolve new questions suggested by our era. Our time needs a new humanitarianism. This new humanitarianism suggests a question regarding "What should human being be?" while this is just a basic question of developmental ethics. New humanitarianism realized a switch of historicity,from "individual standard" to "human standard", from "absolute subjective consciousness" to "limited subjective consciousness", from "consciousness of enjoyment" to "consciousness of existence", from "consciousness of secularism" to "future consciousness".


This paper proposes the use of several ontological techniques to provide a semantic level solution for a search agent so that it can provide fast, precise, and stable search results in ubiquitous information environments. An ontological focused-crawler had been developed according to these techniques, which can benefit both user requests and domain semantics. Equipped with these techniques, the crawler can manifest the following interesting features: ontology-supported construction of Website models, Website models-supported Website model expansion, and Website models-supported Webpage retrieval.


Purpose: to evaluate visual functions, accommodation, and local tolerance in children instilled with Phenylephrine hydrochloride 2.5 % and sodium hyaluronate solution (Stelphrin Supra). Material and methods. 30 children (60 eyes) aged 8 to 12 (ave. 10.04 ± 0.24) with low (28 eyes) and moderate (32 eyes) myopia (ave. -2.96 ± 0.17 D) were tested. Refractometry, subjective and objective accommodation, optical biometry, anterior corneal surface examination, Norn test, and polling were performed prior to one-time instillation, 30 minutes after it, and after 1 month of daily bedtime instillations of Stelphrin Supra. Results. We noted a significant decrease in the tone of accommodation in the open field by 90 % from the initial value, an approximation of the nearest point of clear vision by 27 %, an increase in the volume of absolute accommodation by 57 % and the objective amplitude of accommodation by 20 %, which indicates an increase in the accommodation ability. The pupil width increased 30 minutes after a single instillation of Stelphrin Supra, which coincided with an increase in the relative accommodation reserve by 25 % from the initial one. After a month, the pupil width significantly decreased, and the positive relative accommodation reserve decreased to a level only 12 % higher than the original one. Tear film break time significantly increased by 0.89 sec, singular spot stainings disappeared in 2 out of 6 patients, lacrimation — in 6 out of 10, pain — in 1 out of 2, blurring in 4 out of 6, feeling of "sand" — in 7 out of 9 patients who had these symptoms before instillations. Conclusion. Regular instillations of Stelphrin Supra reduce the habitual tone of accommodation, increase the accommodation ability, and improve the condition of the eye surface.


An apparatus (1) for controlling NOx emissions, the wall 114 and the chamber having an interior 110, a flue gas inlet 100 and a flue gas outlet is provided to the inlet and outlet for the flue gas to the interior of the chamber 108, a gas quenching zone to lower the temperature of gas 102 and the ozone injection and retention zone 104, one or more spray nozzles 200 for spraying a liquid towards the wall surface in the chamber It comprises a liquid spray zone (106) having.


In this study, tomato fruit was treated with 50, 100 or 200 µM melatonin and then stored at 5°C for 28 days to investigate the effect of melatonin treatment on chilling injury, nutritional quality and changes in the antioxidant system. Tomato fruit developed chilling injury, manifested as surface pitting and irregular red color development during storage. These chilling injury symptoms, ion leakage and malondialdehyde content were significantly reduced, and proline and carotenoids contents were significantly increased by melatonin treatment. Meanwhile, melatonin substantially reduced O2- production rate and H2O2 content, which result from significantly higher activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase, and peroxidase than control during the storage. These results suggest that melatonin treatment can effectively enhance chilling tolerance and reduce chilling injury. The reduction in chilling injury by melatonin may be associated with enhanced enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants, in favor of membrane integrity and thus low cellular and tissue damage.


Combining work from the related but distinct fields of sociology of knowledge and sociology of education, we explore the effects of the changing landscape of higher education on the academic knowledge production system. Drawing on 100 interviews with faculty members from 34 disciplines at an elite private research university, we show that faculty members perceive exponentially increasing pressures to produce, and identify the ways that those pressures can negatively impact the knowledge creation process. We then examine the ways those pressures to produce influence how faculty evaluate their colleagues' work, leading faculty to extend the benefit of the doubt, rely on reputation, and emphasize the peer review process, even as they simultaneously critique its weaknesses. Finally, we show that faculty members ultimately reconcile their perceptions of weaknesses in the current knowledge production system with their belief in that system by emphasizing their own and their colleagues' commitment to resisting structural pressures to produce. While much of the existing body of scholarship on the changing higher education landscape has focused on teaching and learning outcomes, this study contributes to our understanding of how those changes impact the research process, underscoring the relationship between institutional structures and evaluative processes.


Plant sample preparation for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is very time consuming which has limited its application for the diagnosis of plant virus diseases. With the help of microwave irradiation sample preparation time can be drastically reduced to a few hours. Thus, it is now possible to visualize ultrastructural alterations induced by viruses and to clearly identify the virus through cytohistochemical immunogold labelling in plant leaves in less than one day by TEM.


ABSTRACT Eolian deflation of marine beaches is sometimes affected by presence of a surface crust of salt-cemented sand which is here called a salcrete. Rapid and complete drying of saturated beach sand results in salcrete formation. A salcrete, up to a few millimeters in thickness, that had formed along the berm on Rockaway Point Beach Long Island, New York, was eroded subsequently by sand-laden wind from the backshore. Local removal of the salcrete allowed growth of sastrugi-like deflation furrows up to about one meter long and one-half meter wide. Locus of maximum deflation was the berm crest which represented the largest obstruction to wind flow across the beach. The deflation furrows were rimmed by a scarp about 1 cm high but under ideal conditions the scarp would be absent from upwind sid of the furrow. Coarse particles banked up against the downwind scarp would reveal wind direction even if the scarp completely rimmed the furrow. Half-oval shaped heavy-mineral borders up to a few centimeters wide were observed around sand mounds deposited on the salcrete to the lee of shells. Apparently of streamline-flow origin, these borders were especially striking because of the relative scarcity of heavy minerals in sands of Long Island barrier beaches. Because deflation furrows and heavy-mineral borders are excellent indicators of wind direction and velocity, a greater knowledge of their present-day occurrence might be of great value in paleo-wind studies of fossil beaches showing analogous forms.


In physical modeling, especially in the field of wind tunnel tests, dimensional analysis is essential, but the existing dimensional analysis methods are difficult to select the appropriate physical quantities. Therefore, based on the improvement of existing dimensional analysis methods for wind tunnel tests, a set of optimized dimensional analysis methods for wind tunnel tests based on Buckingham Pi theorem was derived in this paper, and then we put forward an aerodynamic simulation experiment based on fluent to verify this method.


The total amount of pottery collected during the investigation of the Faurholm kilns in 1974 makes up about 1 cubic metre. By far the largest part of this was found in the western kiln, KILN 1, and it consists of all or most of the last pottery firing in that kiln. The Faurholm potter did not make grey- or black-fired kitchenware, such as that which made up most of the pottery from Farum Lillevang (see article on the Farum Lillevang pottery). Even though globular and tripod pots occur in the Faurholm material, the production there - apart from some bowls which are unique in Danish medieval pottery - consisted mainly of large jugs, up to 32 cm in height, with handles and pinched-out spouts. Some jugs have a decoration painted with iron oxide - either a chevron pattern or vertical stripes. The Danish Technical University undertook a number of analyses of the sherd material in 1974, with a view to determining the colours and composition of the glaze, and the firing temperature and technique. These analyses show for instance that the green glaze used did not contain copper, as expected, but only iron compounds and, of course, lead. The sought-after green colour of glaze was therefore achieved by first firing the pottery in an atmosphere with oxygen present, and then finishing the firing with a phase where the temperature would have to reach about 900 degrees Celsius, in order to form the glaze, and with reduced oxygen in the atmosphere. To carry out this complicated firing technique with a relatively primitive kiln construction must have made heavy demands on the potter's craftsmanship and skills, but it is also the explanation for the frequent failures of the firings at Faurholm with the collapsing of the kiln as the result.


Aim: Nowadays, insufficiency and deficiency of vitamin B12 and folate are seen as an important health problem. The purpose of the present study was to determine the frequency of vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies in pregnant women and their babies at birth. Materials and Methods: The study group consisted of 117 pregnant women and their single, term babies in İzmir Ege Maternity Hospital. Analysis of vitamin B12, folate and homocysteine levels were performed from venous blood samples which were obtained from the mother and cord blood at birth. Additionally, a questionnaire using a face-to-face interview method was performed with the pregnant women included in this study. The mean duration of pregnancy was 39.1±0.89 weeks and the mean age of the mothers was 28.2±6.2 years. Results: Vitamin B12 deficiency (<130 pg/mL) was present in 88.9% of mothers and 56% of babies. Folate deficiency (<4 ng/mL) was found in 6.8% of mothers, but not found in any babies. The homocysteine levels were high (>8 μmol/L) in 58.1% of mothers and 63.2% of babies. There was a significant correlation between maternal and cord blood vitamin B12, folate and homocysteine levels (p<0.01). However, there was no correlation between maternal vitamin B12 and homocysteine levels (p=0.016, p=0.354). Conclusion: Low maternal vitamin B12 levels are strongly associated with low cord blood vitamin B12 levels. This data reveals that vitamin B12 deficiency which can occur from the neonatal period is a preventable public health problem. Pregnant women and physicians should be made aware of the importance of vitamin B12 intake during pregnancy.


In order to develop sonar systems that are non‐image‐based and that take advantage of target structural acoustics features, broadband capabilities have to be created to operate in shallow water and in the nontraditional frequency band below 30 kHz. Here, source wavelength–aperture ratios are high, resulting in significant source divergence and multipath. At the lowest frequencies, evanescent wave penetration is important in the detection of structures buried below the sediment–fluid interface. Further, the recovery of scattered energy requires nontraditional vertical apertures and synthetic array techniques that have both similarities and differences when compared to high‐frequency imaging‐based systems. The differences include relatively large resolution cell sizes, robustness to vehicle motion, and the clear potential for higher coverage rates. Towards this end, we discuss the precise measurement of low‐frequency scattering cross section in shallow water using an UUV‐based synthetic array approach. Broa...


Negatively charged low-density lipoprotein (LDL), generated via multiple processes such as oxidation, acetylation, or glycosylation, plays a key role in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis and related diseases. Anion-exchange high performance liquid chromatography (AE-HPLC) can subfractionate LDL into LDL-1, LDL-2 and LDL-3 based on LDL particle charge, but the clinical significance of LDL subfractions has not yet been elucidated. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical significance of these fractions with particular regard to atherogenic risk in hypertensive patients. Ninety-eight patients with essential hypertension (age, 67.0 ± 10.7 years; 54 males) were enrolled in the present study. The relationships between LDL subfractions and atherogenic risk factors, including lipid profiles, blood pressure and plasma 8-isoprostane as a marker of oxidative stress, were examined. LDL-1 levels significantly and negatively correlated with body mass index (r = -0.384, p < 0.001), systolic blood pressure (r = -0.457, p < 0.001), non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (r = -0.457, p < 0.001) and 8-isoprostane levels (r = -0.415, p < 0.001). LDL-3, which is the most negatively charged fraction of total LDL, significantly and positively correlated with these parameters (r = 0.267, 0.481, 0.357, and 0.337,


The aim of bachelor thesis is comparison Microsoft Office and Open-source alternative in business practice. I focus on the three biggest competitors of Microsoft Office and it is an Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice and Google apps. Just thanks for this three products opens to company and organization possibility quality selection and considerable savings of money. In the theoretical part I introduce readers basic concepts in this issue. Also i try present various alternatives office package Microsoft Office. In the practical part i have done comparison aforementioned office packages how in the creation documents so in work with already created documents. A major benefit of my bachelor thesis I consider warning on big shift in development open-source alternatives, which became equal compe-titors in this issue.


The far infrared drying furnace temperature control system is hard to be expressed accurately by mathematical model. When using the traditional proportion integration differentiation( PID) control,the control parameters cannot meet the time-varying requirements of the system,and therefore it is hard to get satisfying dynamic performance. The fuzzy control does not depend on the model and is not sensitive to environmental disturbance and parameter changes,but it cannot eliminate such defects as steady-state error. This paper proposes a hybrid controller combining fuzzy control and PID control,giving full play to the advantages of fuzzy control and PID control to achieve optimal temperature control of the drying furnace. In the laboratory environment,the actual test was carried out on the test furnace,showing that the hybrid controller is superior to the traditional PID control in such aspects as adjusting time and overshoot amount.


Procedure to obtain compounds of high added value from olive leaf. By means of the process of the invention, high added value compounds are obtained from olive leaf. In a first stage, the sheets are subjected to solid-liquid extraction with organic solvents, preferably hexane or ethanol, and the crude extract obtained is concentrated in vacuo. In a second stage, a fractioning of this crude extract is carried out by countercurrent extraction in column with supercritical CO {sub, 2} and separation in two cells in which different pressure and / or temperature conditions are set that change the solvent power of CO {sub, 2}, precipitating different compounds. The process of the invention allows natural products of interest to the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to be extracted from the olive leaf, such as waxes, squalene, {be} -carotene, {al} -tocopherol, oleuropein, hydroxytyrosol and other phenolic compounds, {be} -sitosterol, {al} and {be} -amirine, erythrodiol, uvaol and other terpenic alcohols, oleanolic acid, ursolic acid and maslinic acid, among others.


One of the main challenges of any control (or image processing) paradigm is being able to handle complex systems under unforeseen uncertainties. A system may be called complex here if its dimension (order) is too high and its model (if available) is nonlinear, interconnected, and information on the system is uncertain such that classical techniques cannot easily handle the problem. Examples of complex systems are power networks, space robotic colonies, national air traffic control system, and integrated manufacturing plant, the Hubble Telescope, the International Space Station, etc. Soft computing, a consortia of methodologies such as fuzzy logic, neuro-computing, genetic algorithms and genetic programming, has proven to be powerful tools for adding autonomy and semi-autonomy to many complex systems. For such systems the size of soft computing control architecture will be nearly infinite. In this paper new paradigms using soft computing approaches are utilized to design autonomous controllers and image enhancers for a number of application areas. These applications are satellite array formations for synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) and enhancement of analog and digital images.


The object of this work has been to obtain charged dielectric films, electrets, that retain their charge over periods of years when left open circuited. Such films are receiving increasing attention because of their potential use in practical devices such as condenser microphones, electrostatic recorders, air filters, etc. Procedures have been devised to form highly charged thin films and to measure their decay rates. Charge decay comparisons are made among different materials at various temperatures, charged in different ways. A procedure is developed that enables long lifetimes of electrets at room temperature to be predicted by extrapolating short charge decay times at elevated temperatures. A number of materials are identified as suitable for very longlived electrets.


Humans observe the behavior of others and exhibit conforming behavior according to the situation. In this study, we propose a method to change the user's walking behavior and attention by changing the ratio of multiple virtual agents in action. We verified whether the attention to a poster on the wall and the walking behavior of a pedestrian changed according to the type and proportion of actions exhibited by multiple agents presented to a particular pedestrian. The results showed that the participant's walking speed and attention to the wall advertisement changed according to the agents' walking behavior, such as deceleration and stopping.


Microstrip wraparound atennas, very convenient for uses in the fuselage of missiles and rockets, have been recently examined [11 [ 4 1 . Of particular interest was the minimum of the space wave excitation efficiency, observed in reference 141 , for antennas with carefully chosen geometrical dimensions. To this minimum should correspond a maximum of surface wave excitation effi ciency. The conditions under which this maximum should occur will be examined in this paper. In addition, the dielectric substrate is assumed to have a finite length and the radiation pattern of the radiated surface wave from the dielectric truncation region is obtained.