This study investigated students' perceived competence to teach the National Curriculum for Physical Education (NCPE) to children aged 7 to 11 years old in England. Subjects were 24 students enrolled on a one year Postgraduate Certificate of Education course (PGCE). Four questionnaires were administered throughout the year of their training. Details were obtained of students' prior experiences and attitudes towards physical education. All physical education lessons taught by students were self evaluated. A sample was observed to see if levels of perceived competence matched actual competence to teach. The majority of students left the course perceiving themselves to be competent to plan, teach and evaluate athletic activities, games, gymnastics and dance. Students' prior experiences, and opportunities to teach affected their perceived competence to teach games and athletic activities. University courses were influential in increasing students' perceived competence to teach dance and gymnastic activities. The majority of students perceived themselves as needing additional support to teach outdoor and adventurous activities and swimming. This has implications for identifying the needs of primary school teachers in continuing professional development in physical education.


In this paper a neoclasical tax incidence model is used to analyze the effects of alternative methods of taxing income derived from products whose production process is long-lived. Forestry is selected as a classic case. Compared with a "neutral" income tax, two other types of income tax, which approximate those currently applying to the forestry sectors in Australia and the United States, respectively, bias production toward longer growth periods, increase land (site) values, and depress timber prices.


We present time-resolved and time-integrated measurements of optical gain and its effects in films and microcavities made from poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV). We demonstrate that PPV films yield net gain due to stimulated emission with a lifetime of about 20 ps when excited with 200 fs pulses. The short duration of this gain is shown to result from exciton- exciton annihilation. We present results showing how this gain leads to spectral narrowing of the emission from PPV films and discuss why it is unlikely cooperative phenomena play a role in this phenomenon. We present evidence that it results from waveguiding of amplified spontaneous emission. Newly developed high-finesse microcavities are described, for which it is possible to obtain lasing thresholds below the onset of exciton-exciton annihilation. We present measurements of the far-field emission patterns from these structures and also demonstrate a measurement of the coherence time of their emission.


I. For more than seven decades Roscoe Pound enjoyed the blessings and sustained the burdens of scholarship. He lived and worked for more than half a century after publishing his great articles on "The Scope and Purpose of Sociological Jurisprudence". And these articles themselves appeared nearly a quarter of a century after Pound began his study of law. Among the burdens of so long an incumbency, not the least are the implications of the passing of time itself. Succeeding generations have to be addressed in their changing idioms. Ambitious programmes offered fifty years before can be checked against later acts and events. The author who has stayed so long for an answer is liable to be disconcerted by what he hears. So that if Pound had not been the man of strong will, independence, rectitude and dedication of which his eulogists rightly speak, prudence might have led him (for he confidently relied on the record of longevity of his family) not to publish "The Scope and Purpose of Sociological Jurisprudence" as early as 1911-1912. But happily for us, Pound was not prudent when the tasks of the law beckoned; and happily for him and his memory, performance had nothing to hide, either. The gravest reproach which youthful mid-century scholarship has levelled at him is that he kept asking, of whatever legal matter he addressed—"What are you good for?" But this, in better perspective, was one of his achievements. He did, indeed, refocus the legal concerns of the first halfcentury on this question, "What are you good for?" And he did make it clear that in seeking answers the lawyer needs other tools than those in the traditional legal kit. He did, moreover, with this same question break through the insularities of thought, not only of American and English but also of many continental lawyers. The bridges which now exist, yielding the remarkable present mobility of both men and ideas, are the work of many hands, not to speak of the traumatic effect of two world wars in undermining local and national stability


Summary form only given. The Cygnus accelerators, based on a pulsed power Inductive Voltage Adder (IVA) architecture, coupled to a rod pinch source have been used successfully to conduct explosive driven hydrodynamic experiments for DOE laboratories. The rod pinch X-ray source produces a small spot size and is well suited for low energy experiments. Beam plasma interactions, which take place in the ns scale, as well as the material response of the target to the impinging beam dictate the dynamic behavior of the diode. A scintillation based Time Resolved Spot Size Diagnostic (TRSD) has been fielded on various rod pinch configurations, different diameter rods as well as tapered and un-tapered rods were used, on the Cygnus I accelerator. Time integrated spot sizes of 1 to 1.5mm, consistent with rod diameter and previous results were observed. Results of the temporal behavior of the spot size, time integrated spot, beam movement and dose rate are presented here.


Have you ever pictured yourself motoring solo along America's most legendary stretch of highway? Perhaps, you have dreamt of exploring the wonders of the sea. Or, maybe you have always thought about getting involved in animal rescue, but didn't know where to start.


Objective
To explore the association of angiotensin converting enzyme(ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism with left ventricular hypertrophy in Uygur hypertension-OSAHS patients.

Methods
Seventy-two Uygur hypertension-OSAHS patients without taking ACEI/ARB antihypertensive drugs and newly diagnosed of hypertension in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University between January 2015 and December 2016 were selected. All patients underwent polymorphic sleep monitoring, 24 h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, echocardiography, and PCR, agarose gel electrophoresis were applied to determine genotype and allele frequency of ACE gene.To group by computing left ventricular mass index, the differences of genotype and gene frequency were used and the riskfactors for left ventricular hypertrophy were analysed via Logistic regression.

Results
In hypertension-OSAHS patients, the frequencies of II, ID, DD genotypes were 37.50%, 20.83%, 41.67%, respectively, and I, D allele frequencies were 48.00%, 52.00% in LVH group. In NLVH group, the frequencies of II, ID, DD genotypes were 47.92%, 37.50%, 14.58%, respectively, and I, D allele frequencies were 67.00%, 33.00%. There were significant differences in ACE gene polymorphisms between LVH group and NLVH group in hypertension-OSAHS patients(χ2=6.75, 4.70, all P<0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that apnea hypopnea index (AHI)(OR=6.20, 95%CI: 1.44-26.77, P<0.05), DD genotype(OR=4.61, 95%CI: 1.05-20.31, P<0.05)were the independent risk factors for LVH in Uygur hypertension-OSAHS patients.

Conclusions
The ACE I/D polymorphisms are associated with the development of left ventricular hypertrophy in Uyghur hypertension-OSAHS patients and the DD genotype Uygur patients are more likely to have left ventricular hypertrophy.

Key words:
Angiotensin converting enzyme gene; Hypertrophy, left ventricular; Hypertension; Sleep apnea, obstructive; Polymorphism, single nucleotide


Image inpainting or completion is a technique to restore a damaged image. Recently various approaches have been proposed. Wavelet transform has been used for various image analysis problems due to its nice multi-resolution properties and decoupling characteristics. We propose to utilize the advantages of wavelet transforms for image inpainting. Unlike other inpainting algorithms, we can expect better global structure estimation of a damaged region in addition to shape and texture properties.


Olive green film,a widely used stealthy color,was electrolytically prepared on LY12 aluminum alloy in electrolytes of 0.2 mol/L NaOH at room temperature.The effect of the control parameters,i.e.cell potential and coloring time,on performance of color film were examined in detail.Two key parameters in the coloring process were optimized,i.e.5V cell potential and 4 min electrolytic period.The olive green film prepared by the optimized process was uniform and tightly bound to the metal substrate.The color film also showed pretty good heat resistance.


A technique for efficient vector quantization (VQ) design based on conjugate-gradient search methods is introduced. It is demonstrated experimentally that the new design algorithm performs better than the generalized Lloyd algorithm in many cases in terms of computation time and/or quality of the codebook it produces.<<ETX>>


A potential problem in the field release of transgenic plants is the spread of foreign gene products via pollen. Therefore, the use of the tomato pollen-specific lat52 gene promoter was investigated as a means of targeting antisense RNA to pollen without affecting transgene expression elsewhere in the plant. A transgenic tobacco line, T115, which showed GUS expression in pollen, leaves and roots was retransformed with a construct containing the pollen-specific lat52 promoter driving the GUS encoding uid A gene in antisense orientation. From 24 independent transformants obtained, 19 showed a significant reduction in pollen GUS activity. Of these lines, four showed a reproducible antisense effect in pollen in the next generation, while it was shown in one line that GUS activity in leaves and roots was also unaffected. To ascertain the effectiveness of the antisense strategy to down-regulate very high levels of pollen expression, a lat52-gus antisense construct was introduced into tobacco lines containing lat52-gus, which had pollen GUS activity of up to 250 times greater than in line T115. Results showed that 30 out of 34 independent lines exhibited a significant antisense effect in pollen, confirming the effectiveness of pollen-targeted antisense startegy to reduce undesirable expression in pollen independent of expression level in pollen.


Abstract The use of natural fillers as reinforcements for polymer plastics takes place in a variety of industrial applications. Henceforth, the use of theoretical models to predict the properties of such bio-composites is essential. In this work, we estimated the Young's modulus of poly-lactic acid (PLA) bio-composites reinforced with argan nut shell (ANS) chemically treated particles (successive alkali treatment, bleaching and silane treatments) using five theoretical models and compared the predicted results with our prior experimental results. These models allowed us to study the assumed spherical form of the ANS particles and the adhesion/distribution of these particles in a PLA matrix. The results indicated that the ANS chemically treated particles could be considered as spherical particles having good adhesion with the PLA matrix. In addition, three other mathematical models were used to predict Young's modulus of the ANS chemically treated particles. The results showed that the highest value of Young modulus among the three treatments was obtained for the ANS alkali-bleached particles. In addition, the silane treatment enhanced the adhesion between the ANS particles and the PLA matrix, but decreased the Young's modulus value compared to the other two treatments.


INTIL comparatively recent years the literature has contained little information on the basic theory and its application to the design, construction, installation, and operation of automatic control equipment. Engineers and technicians were trained by the instrument companies while plant and design engineers in general had inadequate knowledge of the apparatus they were called upon to specify, install, and operate. In some cases this resulted in the installation of equipment which was ill-suited to the job at hand. A few schools now offer "Instrumentation Courses" which deal with those factors that affect, the ease of control of an operation. Furthermore, almost all adequately equipped engineering laboratories have typical control apparatus permanently attached to specific apparatus and by such installations can show the student some general operating characteristics under a prescribed (usually an optimum) set of operating conditions. The authors feel that such "typical installations" are insufficient for...


Genetic code expansion through amber stop codon suppression provides a powerful tool for introducing non‐proteinogenic functionalities into proteins for a broad range of applications. However, ribosomal incorporation of noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) by means of engineered aminoacyl–tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) often proceeds with significantly reduced efficiency compared to sense codon translation. Here, we report the implementation of a versatile platform for the development of engineered aaRSs with enhanced efficiency in mediating ncAA incorporation by amber stop codon suppression. This system integrates a white/blue colony screen with a plate‐based colorimetric assay, thereby combining high‐throughput capabilities with reliable and quantitative measurement of aaRS‐dependent ncAA incorporation efficiency. This two‐tier functional screening system was successfully applied to obtain a pyrrolysyl–tRNA synthetase (PylRS) variant (CrtK‐RS(4.1)) with significantly improved efficiency (+250–370 %) for mediating the incorporation of Nϵ‐crotonyl‐lysine and other lysine analogues of relevance for the study of protein post‐translational modifications into a target protein. Interestingly, the beneficial mutations accumulated by CrtK‐RS(4.1) were found to localize within the noncatalytic N‐terminal domain of the enzyme and could be transferred to another PylRS variant, improving the ability of the variant to incorporate its corresponding ncAA substrate. This work introduces an efficient platform for the improvement of aaRSs that could be readily extended to other members of this enzyme family and/or other target ncAAs.


We show that under minimal competence strategy three (or more) cooperating context-free grammars are as powerful as three context-free grammars with only terminal productions, while two context-free grammars of such restricted form are less powerful than two general ones


The invention discloses a performance analysis method of a saturated reactor for a converter valve in a thyristor impedance state, particularly to the performance analysis of the saturated reactor in the impedance state comprising a forward impedance state and a backward impedance state of a protection thyristor. The converter valve needs to bear impacts in the types of operation, thunders and steep waves, under the working conditions, the thyristor is in the impedance state, and in the states, the target of greatly sharing the voltage strength applied to the thyristor can be achieved by regulating the electric parameter of the saturated reactor. According to the safety operation area of the thyristor in the impedance state, the thyristor is reasonably converted into a voltage strength curve in a transient state, and the relation between the parameter of the saturated reactor and the target of the protection thyristor thereof can be obtained through frequency-domain analysis. The analysis method provided by the invention has simple operation, clear physical conception and intuitive analysis result and lays theoretical and simulation foundations for further realizing the electric parameter design of the saturated reactor in the thyristor impedance state.


Even if the character of robotics is primarily technological, it was always closely connected with biology right from the beginning. However, most of the time this was only a one-way relationship, for biological insights were often used as a pool of approved ideas and methods to find solutions for rudimentary problems in robotics (walking machines in particular) with little in return. In contrast to this general habit, our project "Robo-Salamander" started with the attempt to gather evidence for the answer to an old query in biology from a technical point of view – the first step in the evolution of vertebrate walking. We found a simple principle which indeed helps to understand the locomotion of the first tetrapodes (that can still be observed today by watching salamanders and certain lizards), and its continuous development into more existing walking schemes. By transferring this quite simple idea to a first prototype robot, we could also find its interesting technological advantages referring to movability, efficiency, flexibility, robustness and redundancy of walking machines and their capability to cope with rough and demanding environments. These characteristics were very useful for testing our latest learning algorithms based on a combination of reinforcement learning and neural networks with very promising results. Furthermore they turned out to be the ideal tool for our research on evolving neural networks as controllers for complex walking machines by using incremental evolution. For the Robo-Salamander combines at least two independent, different complex methods of locomotion, it allows to evolve controlling networks stepwise beginning by few actuators and sensors with simple movements and rising up to the final complex robot with many degrees of freedom. Although the idea of using incremental evolution for handling high complexities is not new, it is still not completely known how previously gained functionalities of a network can be preserved while adding new actuators, sensors or even neurons in the next steps. This paper firstly discusses the properties of the Robo-Salamander that make it the ideal platform for our research on solving these problems and secondly shows the first results.


This paper describes an abbreviated testing temperature (ABBREV) approach for developing dynamic modulus (|E*|) master curves for hot-mix asphalt (HMA). The ABBREV approach uses three instead of the five standard temperatures required under AASHTO TP 62. Testing at the lowest and highest temperatures as specified under AASHTO TP 62 is not required. Potential savings in testing time were a key motivation for the study. Using a database of |E*| from up to 36 HMA mixtures, we developed regression models to estimate the |E*| at the lowest and highest testing temperatures. By combining the predicted |E*| at the lowest and highest temperatures with measured |E*| at intermediate temperatures (4, 21 and 38°C), we found the ABBREV master curves to be comparable with those of AASHTO TP 62. The results suggest that |E*| master curve for HMA could be developed without the need to conduct tests at the lowest and highest testing temperatures recommended under AASHTO TP 62.


Degassing the developing silsesquioxane resin, a positive resist composition, a resist laminate, a resist pattern forming method capable of reducing a is provided, is also provided a method of forming a desired silicon-containing resist composition and a resist pattern for immersion lithography. The silsesquioxane resin has the following general formula: wherein, R R R X is at least one hydrogen atom with a fluorine atom-substituted alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; m has a structural unit represented by the integer from 1 to 3]. The silsesquioxane resin, a positive resist composition


Parent's occupation is the most important obligation of the parents and should have a privilege to have a suitable work to raise their children. Student's self-esteem is an important aspect of the personality of the person. In this study sought to determine if there has an association between parent's occupation and student's self-esteem. The study was premised on the Stanley Coopersmith Self-esteem Theory proposed by Stanly Coopersmith. This was a descriptive design to determine whether there is a correlation between parents occupation and student's self-esteem. This study has a 245 respondents overall from the different strands (HUMSS, ABM, GAS, STEM and TVL). The tool used on this study for getting the information and data collection is checklist rating scale questionnaire. All the data was analyzed using ANOVA to Carried out the result. The result revealed the p=0.518 is greater than the significant level of 0.05 (p=0.518 <0.05). Therefore, the result of this study revealed that parent's occupation is not significantly associated to the self-esteem of the students. Parents that have low or high status of occupation cannot affect the self-esteem of the students. Student's self-esteem is not depending to the work of their parents.


Research has demonstrated the outcome and treatment effectiveness of a range of psychosocial interventions in the treatment of alcohol use disorders including, cognitive behavioural therapy, motivational enhancement therapy, and brief intervention. There do not appear to be any studies published regarding the effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy within an addiction setting. A case study detailing 17 sessions of cognitive analytic informed therapy conducted within an alcohol treatment unit with a 57-year-old female client who met the criteria for diagnosis of alcohol dependency is presented to illustrate the applicability of this approach to clients who relapse and for whom treatment as usual may not be beneficial in the first instance. The assessment and treatment procedures are reported and two year follow up data is presented. Considerations for clinical practice are highlighted.


Hyperthyroidism is invariably accompanied by nervous system dysfunction. Specifically, irritability, emotional lability, and hyperkinesia are the signs and symptoms most frequently observed. In rare instances, chorea and/or choreoathetosis are associated with hyperthyroidism. Full evaluation for the etiology of chorea is necessary prior to initiating treatment. We recently encountered a 42-year-old female who initially presented with hyperthyroidism and showed subsequent development of progressive generalized chorea. The patient was diagnosed with chorea secondary to Graves' disease after exclusion of other causes of chorea and improved after the initiation of pulse administration of intravenous methylprednisolone sodium succinate (Solu-medrol ® , 1000 mg for 5 days) and oral antithyroid medication. This treatment strategy resulted in the resolution of involuntary movements. The steroid administration was eventually tapered, and the patient has been maintained on antithyroid and steroid therapy with considerable success since the initiation of treatment. (J Korean Endocr Soc 23:342~346, 2008)


IRINS is an admirable source of acquiring information on experts working on various subjects at different academic institutions and involved in teaching-learning process, provides a platform for finding experts with parallel proficiency. This paper aims to explore the expert database of Library and Information Science particularly with their designation and states from where they develop their scholarly contents.


Tendering is one of the stages in construction procurement that requires extensive information and documents exchange. However, tender documents are not always clear in practice. The aim of this study was to ascertain the clarity and adequacy of tender documents used in practice. Access was negotiated into two UK construction firms and the whole tender process for two projects was shadowed for six to seven weeks in each firm using an ethnographic approach. A significant amount of tender queries, amendments and addenda were recorded. This showed that quality of tender documentation is still a problem in construction despite the existence of Co‐ordinated Project Information (1987) and British Standard 1192 (1984, 1990, 2007) that are meant to help in producing clear and consistent project information. Poor quality tender documents are a source of inaccurate estimates, claims and disputes on contracts. Six recommendations are presented to help in improving the quality of tender documentation. Further research is needed into the recommendations to help improve the quality of tender documents, perhaps in conjunction with an industry‐wide investigation into the level of incorporation of CPI principles in practice.


This paper describes powerful transformations for instrum enting and incrementalizing real applications, and composition o f transformation rules for improving both the transformed program s and the application of transformation rules. The example trans formations for instrumentation are for ranking peers in BitTorre nt. The example transformations for incrementalization are for op timizing the instrumentation of BitTorrent, for efficiently comp uting the quality of network hosts' connections using NetFlow, an d for generating efficient implementations from formal specifica tions for Constrained RBAC. We describe instrumentation and increme ntalization specified using a high-level language for invariant -driven transformations, and a method for composing transformatio ns by composing transformation rules and optimizing the compo sed rules. The method allows sophisticated transformations to be specified declaratively as separate transformation rules, and t he rules to be composed and applied automatically for efficient instrum entation and effective optimization. The method has been implem ented for transforming Python programs. We present experimental results that show the method's benefits and effectiveness.


A fundamental question that has concerned social scientists since Barrington Moore is the political transformations that accompanied agrarian societies' transitions to modern economy. One paradigmatic case is the peasant-based Communist revolution in China, the causes of which have been the subject of a long-standing debate. Scholars have emphasized peasant proletarianization, Communist leadership in peasant nationalism, the attraction of their socio- economic reforms, their effective mobilization, Nationalists' failures, and geographical conditions. Based on county gazetteers and administrative records of 154 counties in the most heavily contested region during the crucial years, we conduct the first multivariate local-level analysis of revolution. The results show little support for existing narratives. Instead, they substantiate what we call the "Tocqueville-Fei thesis", that state centralization in agrarian bureaucratic polities inadvertently facilitated social revolution. The state's effort to penetrate local communities undermined traditional governance structures, upsetting the balance between the state and local norms/elites and turning state agents into unbridled predators on peasants, which created favorable conditions for the Communists. This study has implications for understanding the modernization of agrarian societies and the dynamics of social change, and casts new light on the long-term trajectory of the state-society relationship in China.


Faculty are being held accountable these days for quality teaching, student learning, and student satisfaction like never before (Lowenthal, 2008). While research and publishing are in many ways still the sine qua non for faculty success and promotion as well as institutional prestige (Boyer, 1990), more emphasis is being placed on quality teaching these days (Lowenthal, 2008). At the University of Colorado Denver, like many other institutions, end-of-course student evaluations (called FCQ's) are one of, and unfortunately more often than not, the most often used method to assess how well individual faculty are teaching. And while research suggests that these evaluations can be useful and even improve aspects of teaching if used in certain ways (e.g., with a consultant or a peer) (McKeachie, 1997), these evaluations often suffer from a number of weaknesses (see McKeachie, 1997). For instance, researchers have expressed concern regarding how such things as class size, grading leniency, workload, and even learning environment and delivery format influence these evaluations (d'Apollonia & Abrami, 1997;; Greenwald & Gillmore, 1997;; Kelly, Ponton, & Rovai, 2007; Marsh & Roche, 1997). While the average faculty member tends to be suspicious of their value, these evaluations appear to do a decent job of measuring student satisfaction. Issues of selectively and inconsistently using these evaluations for tenure and promotion aside, perhaps the biggest problem we find with these evaluations is that faculty often do not receive their end-of-course student evaluations for weeks, if not months after the semester. This is too late to fix any problems with the course in question. Instead, faculty have to wait to make adjustments to the course and their teaching strategies until the next time they teach the course in question. In addition to this timing problem, in our experience, every group of students is slightly different. So, if we make revisions to the spring version of course B, based on end-of-course student evaluations from the fall version of course B, we may address a problem that does not exist. We may also make a change that creates problems with this different group of students. To address this problem, we began using periodic reflection surveys in our courses. We started using them a number of years ago in our face-to-face courses but over time we began using them in our online courses as well. Basically, we use these periodic reflection surveys to customize our courses to each group of students, to help students link new information to their prior experiences, and to encourage students to establish a reflective approach to their career. In the following chapter, we describe how we use reflection surveys, some lessons we have learned, and some tips for ways you can use reflection surveys in your courses.


ABSTRACT In this paper, finite-time consensus control method is presented for a robot nonlinear multi-agent system. To achieve the goal of finite-time consensus control in the presence of input saturation as well as external disturbance, a new adaptive-terminal sliding mode control method has been proposed. The adaptive method is used to handle an external disturbance with unknown bound, while the terminal sliding mode makes it possible to achieve finite-time consensus and reduce settling and reaching times. In the proposed method, the resulting control signals are always below the saturation range, and of course the external disturbance is estimated in a limited time. The simulation results on nonlinear multi-agent robot system show the optimal performance of the proposed method.


Taking the current demand of disk array application in the film TV production as consideration, the text analyses the principle of redundant array inexpensive disks, space utilization ration and the influence of security for the film TV production, afterwards drawing a conclusion that, with the N -1 disk utilization ration, read/write optimization speed for a great amount of continuous data, and higher security, RAID 3 better suit the demand of disk array application in the filmTV production. Furthermore, the text also analyses the problems of disk array application in the filmTV production, which is, the problem of mistake tolerance, as well as the issues of performance and management. After researching the characteristics of network attached storage, together with the superiority of direct attached storage, this text puts forward the solution schemes of network connection storage.


The Internet is now recognized as an important key technology that constitutes not only a communication infrastructure but a civil infrastructure. With rapidly increasing use of the Internet, it is estimated that the number of computers connected to the Net has doubled each year and that the number of users would be over 100 million in 1998 and reach a billion in another couple of years. As of 1998, the number of Internet users in Japan was estimated 17 million. When only five years has passed since its commercial use began, the distribution rate of households is said to account for over 10% and this is much faster and wider spread than that of telephones and faxes. In the meantime, the distribution of cellular phone as a personal information terminal is said to be about 50 million as of June 1999, which shows rapid growth of personalized information age. The Internet is what has been widespread and developed with a bottom-up approach, and the Next Generation Internet is what will play the leading role in the future network society. Therefore, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has poured huge sums into those projects such as a five-year plan since 1996 named 'Research and Development for the Next Generation CRL Next Generation Internet Project and APII-testbed Project


A librarian on the patient education committee of a large, urban, county hospital? You bet! Parkland Health & Hospital System, with about 900 beds, and located in Dallas, Texas, is the primary teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and has had a librarian from the UT Southwestern Library on the Parkland Housewide Patient/Family Education Committee (HP/FEC) for at least the past fifteen years. Parkland has a multi-cultural, generally low-literacy patient population, and patient education materials offered to these patients must take these issues into account. Forty-eight percent of the Parkland patient population is Hispanic, 32% are African-American, and 16.5% Caucasian. The literacy level of Parkland patients was assessed by studies in 1984 and again in 1998 (1,2). The 1998 study reinforced the findings of the 1984 study, and established that fully 40% of Parkland patients do not have adequate functional health literacy skills. Most patient education materials available either free or for a fee are written at a reading level too high (10th grade or higher) for many Parkland patients (3,4). Therefore, Parkland has a history of creating many of the materials used in patient teaching. This is a large part of the job of the HP/FEC. These


Digit recognition has been studied for four decades ago. Many approaches and techniques such as Hidden Markov Model, Neural Network, back-propagation and k-nearest neighbor have been applied to recognize the digit images. Recently, the triangle geometry method has been applied to extract features from triangle properties such as ratio, angle and gradient. However, a problem in determining points of a triangle was triggered due to the points' position in straight line. Thus, a method of extracting triangle features using triangle geometry based on the dominant of distribution foreground for digit recognition has been proposed. The dominant of distribution foreground is referred to the digit of '0' which is represented as a foreground image during the binarization process. The process to determine the triangle points are based on the dominant of distribution foreground. The classifiers of Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) are used to measure the classification accuracies for four types of digit datasets which are HODA, IFCHDB, MNIST, and BANGLA. The comparison results classification of accuracies demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method.


This paper presents the status of women rights in Pakistan and protection of these rights under the umbrella of legal reforms. After independence the women of Pakistan played an active role in nation building activities as well for their own social uplift. International organizations played special attention towards the issue of women empowerment During Ayub Era Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961 was promulgated which is regarded as a first step forward for the protection of women rights. During Zia regime discriminatory laws were introduced which disturbed the equilibrium between male and female in the society. These laws put a negative impact on the status of women. Women organizations protested against Hudood Laws and demanded to repeal it. During the period of Musharruf new laws were introduced for the protection of women rights(women Protection Act 2006),it is regarded as golden era in context of legislation made for women empowerment .The process of legal reforms is in progression .The women are still subjugated to many criminal acts like harassment at work place ,attempted rape and acid throwing. There is a need of devising effective implementation mechanism in true letter and spirit for the safeguard of women rights.


Abstract Quantitative scales to evaluate maturity of female gonads were compared for a temperate oyster, Crassostrea gigas and a tropical oyster, Crassostrea corteziensis grown in the same locality. C. gigas had well-defined maturation and spawning periods and a resting phase in winter; in C. corteziensis mature individuals occurred most of the year and there were several spawning peaks. Of the quantitative scales used here, average oocyte diameter and gonad coverage area, much used for C. gigas, and ovary maturity index, less used, were inadequate to distinguish the reproductive pattern of C. corteziensis, since they both skewed the degree of maturation in vitellogenic stages in favor of C. gigas. Maximum oocyte diameter and maximum cytoplasm area were different among species at vitellogenic stages and also in previtellogenic stages. Nucleus:cytoplasm ratio was significantly different in previtellogenic and spawned stages between C. gigas and C. corteziensis. The Index of gonadal development was skewed in favor of C. gigas in postvitellogenic stage. The only scale that was comparable between species was reproductive potential, but it also was one of the most laborious. Other ordinal scales commonly used, such as a visual external evaluation of the gonad, only classified correctly a quarter of the stages.


Every individual who works certainly be faced with insecurity in the working position. This can happened by individuals themselves or by environmental organizations where they work. The research have fifth purpose; first test empirically the influence of job insecurity on employee job satisfaction, Second to show empirically the effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment. Third demonstrate empirically the effect of job insecurity on organizational commitment. Fourth improved empirically the effect of organizational commitment on turnover intention and purpose. Fifth improved empirically the influence of job insecurity on intentions out. The data used in this research is primary data like  questionnaires that distributed to several BUMN banks in the Padang city. The technique sampling used in this research is method of non-probability sampling through purposive sampling. Number of questionnaires distributed to respondents amounted to 130 sheets, and the total questionnaires that can be college and used for  the analyzed are113 questioner. The data analysts is quantitate. The tool of the test used regression model and t-test statistical. These results of the test have funded job insecurity significant influence on job satisfaction, job satisfaction has no significant effect on organizational commitment, job insecurity has have significant influence on organizational commitment, and the last result organizational commitment and job insecurity each other has not significant effect on turnover intention, Keywords : Job Insecurity, Job Satisfaction, organization commitment, and Turnover Intentions


This research explores micromechanics modeling for the prediction of stiffness and strength properties of nanocomposites consisting of randomly oriented carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and an epoxy matrix, and multiscale composites consisting of unidirectional glass fibers, randomly orientated CNTs, and an epoxy matrix. For stiffness properties, including Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, and shear modulus, of CNTs/epoxy composites and glass fiber/CNTs/epoxy composites, the Mori-Tanaka model and Halpin-Tsai equations were used. To obtain the strength properties of the composites, including tensile and compressive strength, several empirical equations were employed. The estimated mechanical properties of nanocomposites were used as matrix properties in the micromechanical models for multiscale composites. The results showed that the stiffness and strength properties of nanocomposites and multiscale composites were improved by integrating CNTs in the systems.


Introduction : Paslop is Laos's traditional dancing which shows walking and twisting pattern of movement with music. The unique of Paslop is stability of one-leg position and leg-crossing position while dancing. Paslop may affect improvement of self's balance and core strength. Objectives : The purpose of this study was to compare between the effect of Paslop dancing and specific core stabilizing exercise on postural control and core3 strength. Materials and methods : Forty-eight subjects were recruited and divided into 2 groups, 24 subjects each group. Two men and 22 women (the average age=44.88±6.12 years) were participated in Paslop group, and were also same baseline characteristics as specific core stabilizing exercise group. The participants in both groups were trained and performed exercise for 45 minutes a day, 3 days per week for 4 weeks. The outcome measures consisted of one-leg with eyes closed test (OLST) was used to measure the improvement of body's balance and pressure biofeedback unit (PBU) was used to measure general core strength prior to training and at the 4 th week after training. The pair sample t-test was used to analyze data within group, whereas the independent t-test was used to analyze data between groups, respectively. Results : The results showed that the improvement of postural control in both groups were improved statistical difference when compared within group ( p <0.001) but did not show significant difference between groups ( p =0.186). The improvement of core strength in both groups were shown statistical difference when compared within group ( p <0.001). However, the core strength of Paslop group showed more effectiveness than specific core stabilizing exercise ( p =0.041). Conclusions : Four-week training of Paslop dancing and specific core stabilizing exercise can improve self's balance and core strength.


This study examines the relationship between hearing loss and psychiatric diagnosis in a geriatric population attending a hearing clinic. Major depression was the most frequent psychiatric disorder and was diagnosed in 30% of subjects. A sensorineural type hearing loss was diagnosed in 85% of the depressed subjects. More hearing loss was seen in subjects with onset of depression after age 55 years, in comparison to geriatric patients with depression onset before age 55 years, subjects with other psychiatric disorders and subjects without a psychiatric diagnosis (p <0.001). The audiogram and speech audiometry suggest involvement of auditory nerve and central auditory pathways in late onset depression.


A new preparation, BC105, related chemically to cyproheptadine, proved less effective than cyproheptadine in the prevention of frequent migraine headaches. Indeed, it did not give significantly superior results to placebo medication in a short-term controlled trial. Side effects of BG105 were similar to those of Cyproheptadine; Methysergide was the most effective preparation in reducing the frequency and severity of migraine attacks, cyproheptadine being of some value, particularly when methysergide could not be tolerated because of side effects. New antiserotonin agents should be tested for activity in potentiating humoral vasoconstriction as a means of predicting their possible value in the control of severe and therapy-resistant migraine headache.


Illustrations vii Preface ix 1 Life and the Riddle of Randomness 1 2 Time, Size, and Complexity 17 3 Small Organisms and Neutral Morphologies 40 4 The Evolution of the Decrease of Randomness 63 5 An Exception: Where Small Organisms Suppress Randomness 93 6 The Division of Labor: Two Cases of the Return of Randomness in Higher Forms 101 7 Envoi 118 Acknowledgments 121 Bibliography 125 Index 131


Let D be a positive integer which is odd. In this paper we prove that the equation x 2 − D = 2 n+2 has at most three positive integer solutions (x, n) except when D = 2 2m − 3.2 m+1 + 1, where m is a positive integer with m ≥ 3


This paper proposes an adaptive RCMAC system for a brushless DC (BLDC) motor. This control system is composed of a recurrent cerebellar model controller (RCMAC) and a compensation controller. RCMAC is used to mimic an ideal controller, and the compensation controller is designed to compensate for the approximation error between the ideal controller and RCMAC. The Lyapunov stability theory is utilized to derive the parameter tuning algorithm, so that the uniformly ultimately bound stability of the closed-loop system can be achieved. The stability analysis shows that the output of the system can exponentially converge to a small neighborhood of the trajectory command. Then, the developed adaptive RCMAC system is implemented on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip for controlling a brushless DC motor. Experimental results reveal that the proposed adaptive RCMAC system can achieve favorable tracking performance for the brushless DC motor control.


Summary form only given. The thermalization and energy conversion to radiation in high-energy-density plasma is a topic of broad interest in laboratory plasmas and in astrophysics. Knowledge of the ion temperature is of decisive importance, since this parameter determines the rate of various processes, including that of the energy transfer to electrons. We here report on the development of a novel spectroscopic method for determining the ion temperature in the stagnating plasma, based on the Stark broadening of hydrogenic-line emission from moderately-coupled ions in the stagnating plasma. We use a neon Z-pinch, imploding under a 500-kA, 500-ns current pulse. Two spectroscopic systems with ultra-high-resolutions in spectrum, space, and time are employed simultaneously. A major emphasis has been put on measurements of the spectra of two different optically-thin lines: satellites to Lyα and Lyδ. While the optical thinness is invaluable in diagnosing the ion velocity distribution, the electron density, and the ion temperature, the low-intensity of such lines required the use of toroidal crystals, for enhancing the light-collection efficiency. All data were axially imaged across the stagnation column. We demonstrate the first employment of the spectroscopic method, which yields an ion temperature that is compared to previous measurements that were based on Doppler broadening and energy-balance considerations1,2. In addition, the data allowed for observing temporal and spatial correlations between the shapes of the various lines that are used to infer details of the distributions of the electron density and temperature in the stagnating column.


This paper explores identification with the nation-state as homeland among young diasporic Armenians in France, Russia and the United Kingdom (UK). For dispersed Armenian communities worldwide, the emergence of a fragile nation-state since 1991 has represented a form of collective goal fulfilment accompanied at times by disillusionment in the national myth of the homeland as a place of sanctuary. We argue that the resulting shift in understandings of homeland markedly differentiates the diasporic experiences of Armenians of diverse backgrounds growing up in the post-independence era from those of previous generations. Key to this shift are ambivalent dynamics between memory and myth integral to personal struggles with the homeland. Analysing original interviews with Armenians aged 18 to 35 in three host states, we unpack how memories of contact with the Armenian state accumulated in youth interact with national myths about the homeland in the context of different family migration histories. The active engagement of young people with homeland myths is shown to play an important role in their recollections of first formative visits to Armenia. Through more regular contact with the state, disappointment in elements of politics and culture that clash with personal imaginings of the homeland can lead to ambivalence in identifying with Armenia. Ultimately, the state plays a key orienting role for many young diasporic Armenians, but clashes between recalled encounters and myths concerning the state can render it a place of partial belonging, unable to fulfil the ideals of the diasporic imagination. The findings highlight the value of attending to interaction between memory and myth in diasporic engagement with 'homeland' states more broadly.


As part of DISTILLATE, Project D will synthesise our understanding of how to overcome barriers within those decision-making processes that are designed to achieve more sustainable transport and local land use outcomes. It will follow specific policy processes with our DISTILLATE 'supersite' partners and also follow two other examples of successful policy implementations. Researchers will examine – based upon the conclusions of the scoping study and Project A's analysis of where barriers arise – where and how these barriers have been overcome and whether they may be overcome in a more rigorous manner through institutionalised good practice and understanding.


The effects of exposing titanium dioxide memristors to beams of heavy ions are investigated through the Monte Carlo simulation of particle transport. A model assuming ohmic electronic conduction and non-linear drift of oxygen vacancies in the memristor is utilised. The memristor is composed of a double-layer titanium dioxide thin film between two platinum electrodes. The obtained results suggest that significant generation of oxygen ion/oxygen vacancy pairs in the oxide is to be expected along the ion tracks. These can influence the device's operation by lowering the mobility of the vacancies and the resistance of the stoichiometric oxide region. Changes induced by heavy ion bombardment affect the current–voltage characteristic and state retention ability of the memristor. If the displaced oxygen ions reach the platinum electrodes, they can form the O2 gas and cause permanent disruption of the memristor's functionality.


From surveys of achievement i n reading, i t i s evident that many people in our soc ie ty do not learn to read adequate ly . It i s a lso evident that the majori ty of the ch i ld ren who have d i f f i c u l t y i n learn ing to read are boys who have emotional problems re la ted to t h e i r reading behaviour. Through a review of the l i t e r a t u r e on i d e n t i f i c a t i o n , sex ro le learn ing and the d i f f e r e n t i a l treatment of boys and g i r l s i n schools i t was suggested that the numerical predominance of male over female retarded readers i s re la ted to the d i f ference i n connotative meanings that boys and g i r l s attach to s i g n i f i c a n t f igures i n the i r home and school environments. I t was hypothesized that the connotative meanings that c e r t a in concepts have for boys would be s i g n i f i c a n t l y re la ted to t h e i r reading a b i l i t y . It was fur ther hypothesized that no such r e l a t i o n s h i p would e x i s t for g i r l s . To tes t the hypothesis measures were made of reading a b i l i t y and connotative meanings cer ta in concepts have for boys and g i r l s i n the second grade. Meaning was measured by means of the semantic d i f f e r e n t i a l . To assess the r e l a t i v e importance of the meanings of the concepts measured as pre d i c t o r var iab les of reading achievement, assessments of i n t e l l i g e n c e and socio-economic status were a lso made. Contrary to the hypothesis the f indings ind ica ted that fo r ch i ld ren i n general the concepts measured seem to be more h igh ly re la ted to the reading achievement of g i r l s than of boys. The one concept that appears to be s i g n i f i cant ly re la ted to the reading achievement of both boys and g i r l s i s the female c h i l d , Janet , a l i t e r a r y f igure i n the basal reading ser ies used i n the school d i s t r i c t se lected for the study. Ana lys is of the data from i n d i v i d u a l classrooms suggests fac tors a f f e c t i n g reading achievement may be p e c u l i a r to a p a r t i c u l a r classroom. Future research may attempt to analyse the complex i n t e r a c t i o n of teacher , students, and reading mater ia l and then t ry to i s o l a t e the factors most re levant to reading achievement. Mu l t ip le regression ana lys is ind ica ted that some of the concepts measured accounted for s i g n i f i c a n t l y more v a r i ance i n reading a b i l i t y than other fac tors such as i n t e l l i gence subtest scores and socio-economic status which are widely assumed to be re la ted to reading a b i l i t y . I t was suggested that the f a i l u r e to f i n d any s i g n i f i cant assoc ia t ion between connotative meaning and reading achievement for boys may have been due to the l e v e l of reading a b i l i t y measured by standardized reading t e s t s . I t was


Steven Biegalski, University of Texas-Austin Dr. Steven Biegalski is Director of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in the fields of nuclear instrumentation, neutron radiography, analysis of environmental media with nuclear methods, and modeling of environmental pathways. Prior to working for the University of Texas, Dr. Biegalski has utilized his expertise to support the development of technology in support of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). This includes the development and installation of environmental aerosol and xenon monitoring stations, the development of software to analyze data from the radionuclide monitoring systems, and investigation of the trends, sources, and origin of anthropogenic radionuclides in the environment. In the past, Dr. Biegalski has used this expertise for investigations of air pollution sources in the Arctic, assessing the toxic metal input into the Great Lakes, and working on global change modeling.


A technique of single-longitudinal-mode selection in a fiber laser by means of a fiber multiple-beam reflection interferometer (FRI) has been experimentally demonstrated for the first time. The laser is based on a semiconductor optical amplifier placed in a linear fiber cavity formed by a fiber Bragg grating (FBG), and the FRI generates at 1529.24 nm with output power of 1 mW in single-frequency regime with a linewidth of about 217 kHz and polarization extinction ratio of  >30 dB. The FRI technique potentially enables fast tuning (within the FBG bandwidth of ~0.9 nm in our case) by varying the base length of the FRI that can be used in a number of practical applications.


ABSTRACT The accomplished aim was to implement a methodology which allowed verification of microclimatic characteristics' impact on variations in density of use (frequency of use) and the length of time users stayed in urban public spaces. To do that, a square in Biskra city was selected. To define this impact, we developed an approach based on cross-referencing climatic data with the results of questionnaires and with monitoring of user behaviour at the site (video recordings). These results analysis allowed us to identify the areas of public space which were occupied most often, and to verify the impact of two climatic seasons (winter and summer) on the variation in occupancy density of the different areas of the public space studied and the length of time users stayed there.


BACKGROUND: violence against women, as its most severe form, homicide, is victimized women globally. In Brazil, female homicides, also defined as femicide, has raised its rates. Indistinctly of society in many countries this kind of death has changed health indicators and put in first position of the ranking among the external causes. OBJECTIVE: To identify the frequency of female homicide victims in the city of Recife / Pernambuco / Brazil. METHODS: A descriptive, observational study, the case series, prospective, from March / February 2009/2010, to describe the epidemiological profile, type of instrument used for lethal aggression and characteristics of death, including location and assistance provided will victim. 58 female murder victims residing in the city of Recife, subjected to necropsy at the Forensic Institute Persivo Antonio Cunha unit in Recife / PE (IMLAPC) were included, aged 10-49 years. The study was approved by the IRB / Instituto de Medicina Integral Integral Professor Fernando Figueira (iMIP). The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire with closed questions, including variables of the death certificate (DO) and relational variables: neighborhood where the victim resided, age, race, education, monthly income of the victim, had companion, number residents of the home where the victim lived, had brothers or sisters, place of death, was received some assistance before death, what type of assistance received and instrument used for lethal violence. Data were collected in IMLAPC and all family members responsible for the complaint of the bodies of victims who participated signed informed consent. Data were analyzed using the Epi Info 3.5.3 software, public domain. Simple frequency analyzes for categorical variables were performed and calculated the measures of central tendency and dispersion for quantitative variables. RESULTS: There were 60 total cases identified, 58 and the final sample. The age of the victims ranged between 12 and 48 years, with a mean of 27 years (SD = 8.7). Most were adults (75.9%), the mulatto and black prevailed on white, respectively, 73.3 and 15.5 %%. The education of the victims ranged between one and seven years of schooling. Data on the characteristics of death showed that the most common site for the occurrence of death was a public road, corresponding to 50.0% of the total and 15.5% occurred in health services. Only 17.2% of the victims received some assistance after deadly violence. In 69.0% of cases, the firearm was the instrument used to assault that led to death. CONCLUSION: predominated among the victims young adult and middle-aged, black and brown color, low education women with low


Globalisation is one of the most powerful worldwide forces transforming society. It dominates today's world as a major driver of change. Globalisation has brought about an agglomeration of cultures, where diverse cultures not only interact but also sometimes clash. It permeates through all spheres of life including the environment, politics, economy, prosperity, culture, religion, education, and human well-being in societies across the globe. The present " villagization " of the world has greatly affected many African countries in almost all aspects of life. It has done so in both positive and negative ways. With the emergence of a global society, social, cultural, economic, political, technological and environmental events in one part of the world quickly come to be significant for people in other parts of the world. This theoretical paper assesses the impact of globalisation for Africa and its implications to education.


Introduction In the previous studies, we measured the time evolutions of the SiO2 component in the Si 2p core-level spectrum during the initial thermal oxidation of Si(100). We concluded that, at temperatures below 650oC, the oxidation proceeds randomly without formation of twodimensional (2D) islands by the observation that the growth rate follows a first-order Langmuirian behavior, while at temperatures above 650oC, the oxidation proceeds via 2D nucleation because the growth exhibits some incubation time [1, 2]. Suboxide components in the spectrum, which exist at SiO2/Si interface, are also very informative. In this study, therefore, we focus on the temperature dependence of the suboxide components to investigate the surface reaction at the initial stage and verify the above oxidation behaviors.


A new compilation of Bouguer gravity data stemming from airborne, shipborne and terrestrial data set in the entire Dead Sea Basin (DSB) was reinterpreted by applying 3-D density modelling that incorporated independent information on other geophysical researches allowing for regional and residual filtering in the gravity field, carrying out curvature analysis and Euler deconvolution of the combined gravity field. 3-D density modelling enables us to detailed resolution of upper crustal structures from the southern to the northern subbasin below the saline Dead Sea. 3-D gravity modelling led to the identification of three salt structures, which are found beneath the Sedom area, the Lisan Peninsula and the Dead Sea. In the vicinity of the western margin of the Dead Sea, a salt diapir segment with a thickness of about 4 km has been identified at a top depth of about 2 km, which has not been recognised by any other geophysical interpretations. The thickness of the sedimentary infill overlying the basement in the DSB decreases from 14 km in the vicinity of the Lisan Peninsula to 8 km in the northern and the southern subbasins. Large negative gravity anomalies (lower than -100 x 10(-5) m s(-2)) observed in the DSB correspond with the spatial distribution of salt diapirism with an average density of 2 100 kg m(-3). The shallower microearthquakes registered in the DSB are related to the movement of salt diapir in the DSB.


Introduction In July 2020 the authors in this special issue assembled at a digital conference amidst a global pandemic-an experience that seemed in many ways to defy time. Bourdieu's theory of practice combines space and time, as bodily activity in part produces space, while also existing in relationship with time-lending habitus spatial and temporal dimensions (Bourdieu 1977 and 1990 [1980];Munn 1992, 106). Schatzki also brings futurity to bear on the question of time, space, and activity, emphasizing the teleological nature of practice as being oriented toward a particular imagined end or goal (2010). Capitalist time "acts as the basis for the universal measure of value in labour, debt, and exchange relationships" and so is in conflict with lived experiences of time, creating temporal textures that "thicken with ethical problems, impossible dilemmas, and difficult orchestrations" (Bear 2014, 6-7).


Electrolyte-gated field-effect transistor technology is an attractive candidate for printed low-power electronics due to its high field-effect mobility and extremely low-voltage operation. Relying on an additive process, inkjet-printed devices display large process variations due to ink-substrate interactions, sensitivity to environmental conditions, such as temperature and humidity, as well as intrinsic variations of the ink. All of these sources of variations may display themselves in non-Gaussian distributions as suggested by our experiments. In this paper, we therefore propose a generic methodology for variability modeling of printed transistors, based on the Gaussian mixture model, which can be used to model any arbitrary distribution of the transistor model parameters. The proposed methodology was tested on two different data sets and has been used to predict the behavior of a measured printed security circuit as well as transistor dc characteristics.


The issues of simple input mechanism and insufficient gross have restricted the rapid development of soil and water conservation cause for years, especially after abrogating "two kinds of labor" in rural area, it has become even more conspicuous. The paper discusses the attribute of public products of soil and water conservation and establishes a compensation mechanism for soil and water conservation ecology which suits to the market economic law according to the principle of "who destroy, who is responsible for treatment; the beneficiary should compensate". This is an effective means to change the simple input. Learning the outcomes of study on ecological environment compensation and combining with the practice on executing the law of soil and water conservation in recent years, it expatiates the necessity of establishing ecological compensation for soil and water conservation, the elements of compensation mechanism and the principle part, title, standard and scope of compensation and puts forward that soil and water conservation is a public product and the occupied (destroyed) by the corporation of non-public projects or natural person should compensate according to market price, giving the consideration to the value of the function and the scope is decided based on the jeopardization and influence to the local and surrounding areas.


The region of acceptable image as a potentially red and anthropometric values using the metadata associated with the image to be identified, provides a method for removing red-eye phenomenon from a digital image (filtering). The image in the preferred embodiment of the present invention is obtained by an external object is focused on the sensor array through the lens, the area, the focal length of the acquisition time of the lens, the array size, the distance to the subject , and it is defined as one or more functions of the depth of field. .The


The decolorization rate of telon fast green 5G dye was closely related with reaction time,solid-liquid ratio, influent concentration and microwave power when it was treated by microwave assisted catalysis. In static experiment, the decolorization rate reached 82% under the condition of 1:2 solid-liquid ratio, 12min reaction and 200mg/L influent concentration. The higher the solid-liquid ratio, the better the effect of decolorization; but the greater the microwave power, the lower the effect instead, because of heavy power causing loss of the catalyst. Decolorization rate kept about 87.5% at continuous operation under the conditions of 1:1 solid-liquid ratio, 200mg/L influent concentration, 10min HRT and 250W microwave power.


Significance Chemical defenses are known to protect some species from consumers, but it is often difficult to detect this advantage at the community or ecosystem levels because of the complexity of abiotic and biotic factors that influence species abundances. We surveyed the community of sponges and sponge predators (angelfishes and parrotfishes) on coral reefs across the Caribbean ranging from heavily overfished sites to protected marine reserves. High predator abundance correlated with high abundance of chemically defended sponge species, but reefs with few predators were dominated by undefended sponge species, which grow or reproduce faster than defended species. Overfishing may enhance competition between palatable sponge species and reef-building stony corals, further impeding the recovery of Caribbean coral reefs. Ecological studies have rarely been performed at the community level across a large biogeographic region. Sponges are now the primary habitat-forming organisms on Caribbean coral reefs. Recent species-level investigations have demonstrated that predatory fishes (angelfishes and some parrotfishes) differentially graze sponges that lack chemical defenses, while co-occurring, palatable species heal, grow, reproduce, or recruit at faster rates than defended species. Our prediction, based on resource allocation theory, was that predator removal would result in a greater proportion of palatable species in the sponge community on overfished reefs. We tested this prediction by performing surveys of sponge and fish community composition on reefs having different levels of fishing intensity across the Caribbean. A total of 109 sponge species was recorded from 69 sites, with the 10 most common species comprising 51.0% of sponge cover (3.6–7.7% per species). Nonmetric multidimensional scaling indicated that the species composition of sponge communities depended more on the abundance of sponge-eating fishes than geographic location. Across all sites, multiple-regression analyses revealed that spongivore abundance explained 32.8% of the variation in the proportion of palatable sponges, but when data were limited to geographically adjacent locations with strongly contrasting levels of fishing pressure (Cayman Islands and Jamaica; Curaçao, Bonaire, and Martinique), the adjusted R2 values were much higher (76.5% and 94.6%, respectively). Overfishing of Caribbean coral reefs, particularly by fish trapping, removes sponge predators and is likely to result in greater competition for space between faster-growing palatable sponges and endangered reef-building corals.


How a tranditional commercial bank to be reformed to fit the market competition under the impact of the internet finance is a problem needed to be solved. This paper is going to make some points on this subject. At the very beginning, it lists several popular financial products in internet financial industry in China. Then, by comparing the advatages between tranditional commercial banks and newly developing internet financial enterprises under this special background, the paper presents alternative solutions for the banks.


Looks at the differential method of pricing which arrives at a price by adding appropriate amounts to specific bases. Proposes that to realize the full benefits of such an approach price‐setters must have both intelligence and imagination as well as being aware of their industry's practices and traditions.


In the area of transportation industry, the benefits of telematics technologies are seen mostly in the company's productivity level. So far there has been little research on how truck drivers accept telematics. Therefore the aim was to investigate truck driver´s opinions and attitudes towards telematics in terms of satisfaction, stress, comfort, safety, and possible distraction and time pressure through questionnaires distributed to Czech and British truck drivers. Some conclusions are made concerning the comparison between two nationalities and their in-vehicle telematic technologiesacceptance. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.


The pelagic fishery in the southern Philippines is dominated by Sardinella lemuru . It is a year-round spawner that has its peak spawning period during the Northeast monsoon months of November to February. Lagrangian particle tracking was used to simulate sardine larvae dispersal and record the temperature and estimated prey density the larvae experience until the estimated recruitment age of 60 days. Temporally and spatially averaged conditions of recruited sardines show that sardines spawned during the northeast monsoon season experience higher chlorophyll-a, lower (more optimal) sea surface temperature, albeit higher advective loss, than sardines spawned during other months. Interannual differences show that during higher reported catch years, sardine larvae experienced lower temperatures and higher retention. Chlorophyll-a, which is a proxy of prey density, is estimated to be limited as a predictor for interannual sardine abundance since it is relatively at consistently high levels. Management efforts to increase sardine stocks are reviewed in the light of the variability of the sardine environment.


This paper introduces the merit of 3D control network and the characteristic of Laser Tracker measurement system.The principle of bundle adjustment and weighting schedule of different measurements is discussed.The simulation and actual results from the installation control network of 100MeV electronic LINAC are presented to elaborate the accuracy of 3D control network based on Laser Tracker.


As a reader, I initially nervously wondered about whether one volume of work on a subject as complicated as that of African sexualities can fully achieve this purpose. The task of reviewing Tamale's collection became less frightening when reminded that a ''Reader'', aims to expose the potential student to a framework around a particular subject, thus sparking enough questions and just enough information to stimulate rigorous independent thinking and questioning around the subject matter.


A mode of grain boundary precipitation in Fe-37.3wt.%Ni-3.58wt.%Al-3.3wt.%Ti-0.2wt.%C alloy aged at 823K has been investigated by transmission electron microscopy. Fine γ' particles of L1 2 -type ordering firstly precipitated within the γ matrix during ageing treatment at 823K. The aged matrix phases (γ and γ') were later encroached on by the grain boundary lamellar phases. Quite uniquely, these duplex fine lamellae are composed of alternately aligned ferrite and γ' platelets. These two phase constituents in the lamellae are separated by the interface arallel to both {110} a and {111} γ' planes.


Despite task-based assessment's popularity in many countries including Canada and America, there are not many researches that combine it with English writing teaching in China, especially researches on using task-based assessment to solve the problem of unsatisfactory writing teaching at colleges. In order to solve some existing problems resulting from traditional English writing teaching at colleges, the researcher attempts to introduce it into English writing teaching for nonEnglish majors at colleges to testify its effectiveness and practicality in qualitative and quantitative analysis. The researchers apply the model to the writing course of a group, and apply the traditional model for another group in Xi'an Peihua University for one semester. The results show that the assessment can exert a positive influence on students' writing and positive feedback on teaching. The teacher has a thorough understanding of students' writing; students can finish the task designed to reach the aim of communication; their interest in writing is aroused and their autonomy is cultivated in a harmonious atmosphere; their writing abilities are promoted. Keywords—Task-based assessment; Task; English writing teaching


There is mounting evidence that fans of science fiction/fantasy media texts are more likely to be socially stigmatized than sports fans, but the implications of this stigma for social interaction have not been established. To examine the roles of fandom community membership and social context in causing social perceptions of, and behavioral intentions toward, popular media culture fandom community members, we conducted a 2 (partner fandom type: science fiction/fantasy vs. sports) × 2 (task type: social task vs. technical task) between-subjects experiment. Results reveal that the science fiction/fantasy fan was perceived as less physically attractive and more task attractive compared to the sports fan. Participants' own science fiction/fantasy fandom interacted with partner fandom type in predicting social attraction, such that for those who were told they would be partnered with the science fiction/fantasy fan, there was a positive linear association between the participant's own fandom and social attraction. This finding did not hold for the sports fan condition. Social and task attraction, but not physical attraction, predicted behavioral intentions toward the fans.


A low-budget surface slope measuring instrument, the Developmental Long Trace Profiler (DLTP), was recently brought into operation at the Advanced Light Source Optical Metrology Laboratory [Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 616, 212- 223 (2010)]. The instrument is based on a precisely calibrated autocollimator and a movable pentaprism. The capability of the DLTP to achieve sub-microradian surface slope metrology has been verified via cross-comparison measurements with other high-performance slope measuring instruments when measuring the same high-quality test optics. In the present work, a further improvement of the DLTP is achieved by replacing the existing bulk pentaprism with a specially designed mirror based pentaprism. A mirror based pentaprism offers the possibility to eliminate systematic errors introduced by inhomogeneity of the optical material and fabrication imperfections of a bulk pentaprism. We provide the details of the mirror based pentaprism design and describe an original experimental procedure for precision mutual alignment of the mirrors. The algorithm of the alignment procedure and its efficiency are verified with rigorous ray tracing simulations. Results of measurements of a spherically curved test mirror and a flat test mirror using the original bulk pentaprism are compared with measurements using the new mirror based pentaprism, demonstrating the improved performance.


Cefepime is a broad-spectrum semi synthetic β-lactamase resistant fourth generation cephalosporin.  Looking to potential for clinical use, pharmacokinetics of cefepime following single intravenous and intramuscular (IM) dose (100mg/kg b. wt.) in healthy and experimentally Salmonella typhimurium infected broiler chickens were determined.  Cefepime concentration in plasma samples was determined by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography with mobile phase.  The mobile phase was a mixture of 10mM phosphate buffer (pH 7): Methanol; 75:25 was always freshly prepared.  Flow rates were 1 ml/min.  UV detection was performed at 256 nm, injection volume was 20 µl. After a single intravenous injection, cefepime reached its maximum serum concentrations of 4.28 ± 0.37μg/ml in normal chickens, while in the  infected chickens, the maximum serum concentration was 2.62 ± 0.72 μg/ml. Cefepime was eliminated after intravenous injection with half-life (t1/2 β) of 4.608 ± 0.145 h in normal which significantly longer than 4.19 ± 0.158 h in infected chickens. The mean residence time (MRT) was 6.51 ± 0.189h in normal vs 5.86±0.18 h in infected chickens.  After IM administration the drug reached its maximum serum concentrations of 193.06 ± 2.27μg/ml at maximum time of 1.138 ± 0.012 h in normal, while in infected chickens the maximum serum concentrations was 132.93 ± 1.53μg/ml attained at maximum time of 1.265 ± 0.013 h. In conclusion a cefepime at dose of 100 mg/kg administered intravenously or IM at 24 h intervals may provide successful treatment of chicken infected with Salmonella typhimurium.


In other work conducted by the authors (1), it was shown that sodium hydroxide, in a concentration four times as strong as that which was effective in destroying Salmonella typhi-murium in vitro, failed to prevent penetration of the intact egg-shell contaminated with this organism. The reason for this was not established but it was suggested that the failure to prevent penetration might be due to some physical property of the egg-shell which permitted rapid entrance of the organism or protected the organism while it was being dipped in the disinfecting solution. This has led to a study of some of the factors which might affect penetration.


Background: A 61-year-old female with a history of type-II (tablet-controlled) diabetes, obesity and dyslipidaemia presented with chest pain and dyspnoea Investigation: Physical examination, electrocardiography, laboratory tests, coronary angiography Diagnosis: Single vessel coronary artery disease with severe calcification of a dominant right coronary artery Treatment: Excimer laser and rotational atherectomy.


Changes of membrane lipid peroxidation,superoxide free anion generation rate,hydrogen peroxide(H 2 O 2 )content,and activity of some protective enzymes such as superoxide dismutase(SOD),peroxidase(POD),catalase(CAT)were measured in mangrove plant Kandelia candel and Bruguiera gymnorrhiza leaf during senescence.When the leaf grew from the tender stage to the senescence stage,malondialdehyde(MDA)and H 2 O 2 content increased evidently,superoxide free anion generation rate was also gradually raised,showing that membrane lipid peroxidation was enhanced during the leaf growth course,furthermore that itwas related to the raise of H 2 O 2 and superoxide free anion in the leaf.Among these three protective enzymes,SOD activity gradually decreased,while POD activity increased remarkably during growth course.CAT activity increased as the leaf matured,dropping sharply during senescence.Protective enzyme activity in the leaf had an immediate influence on the balance of activated oxygen metabolism.


In order to solve problems that the usage a human-managed test process caused, the reference company for this paper Italian branch of a multinational organization which works in the domain of large safety-critical systems evaluated the opportunity, as offered by major technology that the market provides, of using automatic test management. That technology resulted not sufficiently featured for the company's quality and productivity improvement goals, and we were charged for investigating in deep and eventually satisfying the company's test-management needs of automation. Once we had transformed those goals in technical requirements and evaluated that it was possible to realize them conveniently in a software system, we passed to analyze, construct, and eventually evaluate in field the "Automatic Test Management" system, ATM. This paper is concerned with the ATM subsystem's Common Core, CC. This allows the behavioral emulation of hard-soft components as part of a distributed real components scenario placed under one or more Unix standard operative systems once we describe those behaviors by using the Unified Modeling Language. This paper reports on the ATM-CC's distinctive characteristics and architecture overview. Results from a case study show that, in order to enact a given suite of tests by the ATM-CC, the amount of time required is more or less the same for the first test run, but it becomes around ten times less for the following test runs, than the time required for managing the execution of those tests by hand.


Background Relevant clinical studies have been small and have not convincingly demonstrated whether the perioperative initiation of beta‐blockers should be considered in patients with diabetes mellitus undergoing noncardiac surgery. Methods and Results In this nationwide propensity score–matched study, we included patients with diabetes mellitus undergoing noncardiac surgery between 2000 and 2011 from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. Patients were classified as beta‐blocker and non–beta‐blocker cohorts. We further stratified beta‐blocker users into cardioprotective beta‐blocker (atenolol, bisoprolol, metoprolol, or carvedilol) and other beta‐blocker users. To investigate time of initiation of beta‐blocker use, initiation time was stratified into 2 periods (>30 and ≤30 days preoperatively). The outcomes of interest were in‐hospital and 30‐day mortality. After propensity score matching, we identified 50 952 beta‐blocker users and 50 952 matched controls. Compared with non–beta‐blocker users, cardioprotective beta‐blocker users were associated with lower risks of in‐hospital (odds ratio 0.75, 95% CI 0.68–0.82) and 30‐day (odds ratio 0.75, 95% CI 0.70–0.81) mortality. Among initiation times, only the use of cardioprotective beta‐blockers for >30 days was associated with decreased risk of in‐hospital (odds ratio 0.72, 95% CI 0.65–0.78) and 30‐day (odds ratio 0.72, 95% CI 0.66–0.78) mortality. Of note, use of other beta‐blockers for ≤30 days before surgery was associated with increased risk of both in‐hospital and 30‐day mortality. Conclusions The use of cardioprotective beta‐blockers for >30 days before surgery was associated with reduced mortality risk, whereas short‐term use of beta‐blockers was not associated with differences in mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus.


Analysis Functional neuroimages were acquired in a subject, in concordance with the procedures of the institutional review board. The subject performed a visually-cued block-designed bilateral finger-tapping task with 7 epochs of 16 seconds rest, 16 seconds task, followed by 16 seconds of rest. Scanning parameters included TE 1 =47.0 ms, TE 2 =27.0 ms, TR=2 s, flip angle=90 degrees, acquisition matrix=64×64, field of view=24 cm, slice thickness=5 mm, 8 channel head receiver on a 3.0 T General Electric Signa LX imager. Activations were computed to find voxels active in only TE 1 data, only TE 2 data, and both TE 1 and TE 2 data. Chi-squared statistics were computed from the model through a likelihood ratio test, and were thresholded with an α=0.05, Bonferroni adjusted threshold. Contrasts of C 1 =(0 0 0 0 0 1), C 2 =(0 0 0 0 1 0), and C 3 =(0 0 0 0 1 1) were utilized to determine voxels which were active in the data acquired with the second echo time, first echo time, and either echo time, respectively.


In order to study the generation and distribution characteristics of the stagnation zone of the grating material in the mechanical ruling process. Firstly, Building the slip-line field model with stagnation zone in the plastic flow plane and putting forward the calculation method about calculating the dimensionless height and length of the stagnation zone based on the theoretical model of orthogonal cutting slip line proposed by LEE and SHAFFER. Then calculate the dimensionless height and length of the stagnation zone by using the three-way force from finite element analysis. The evolution curve of the stagnation zone is obtained by theoretical analysis and simulation which revealed the mechanism and distribution of the stagnation zone. Finally, the distribution characteristics of the groove surface retention area and its effect on the quality of the grating grooves are verified by the mechanical characterization test. Grating groove surface formed a clear line of demarcation which could separate the grating surface into plastic deformation area and stagnant area in a specific mechanical ruling process conditions. Due to the difference of forming mechanism and groove quality, the groove surface will be deformed nonlinearly in the second mechanical ruling which will affect the groove shape, and will ultimately affect the diffraction effect of the diffraction grating. The results of this study provide theoretical and experimental basis for controlling and optimization issues regarding of the groove shape and the groove surface quality from the perspective of stagnation zone.


This paper considers North Africa's recent trajectory of growth and considers critically its prospects for achieving inclusive growth in light of the recent political and social upheavals. It starts by reviewing the evolution of thinking on growth and distribution in economic theory and development policy showing how pro-poor growth strategies have given way to concerns about inequality in recent years. It then examines the concept of inclusive growth asking whether and to what extent it differs from pro-poor growth both analytically and in practice. After this, a wide range of performance indicators pertaining to growth and distribution in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia are examined in some detail. It analyses, where possible, the experience of these countries over time and in a comparative context with other developing regions. The following section 5 then offers a methodology for constructing a single combined score for measuring inclusive growth in these and a number of other Less Developed Countries for comparison purposes. It ends by critically re-examining prospects for inclusive growth in North Africa and challenges and opportunities this course of development strategy may entail in years to come.


BACKGROUND
Rehabilitation of unilateral neglect has focused on the ego-centric form of the disturbance. However, allocentric neglect is known to predict failure in the activities of daily life even more than egocentric neglect.

CASE REPORT
We submitted a patient with severe egocentric and allocentric left-sided neglect to an extensive prism adaptation training. After treatment, the patient persisted in errors on the left side of targets (allocentric neglect) and actually it increased in parallel with her increased exploration of left space (egocentric neglect). Despite the improvement in a number of cognitive and motor areas, the patient showed limited improvement in activities of daily living (ADL).

CLINICAL REHABILITATION IMPACT
These observations confirm the dissociation between egocentric and allocentric neglect and the selective efficacy of the prism adaptation method on the former form. There is a need to develop new rehabilitation methods for allocentric neglect as this limits the complete recovery of patients particularly in terms of ADL.


Letter from S. Menger to Mr. Huth regarding a shipment of soap and asking about Castro's planned action against him to take half of his 640 acres. Dated January 4, 1856 from San Antonio. Sign S. Menger.


Abstract Digital health technology, also known as eHealth, could help improve the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes by facilitating data exchange between patients and health professionals. Further, the use of digital health technology and mobile devices could improve disease monitoring and strengthen patient empowerment. However, not all healthcare professionals are comfortable with digital health technology, and several barriers limit their use, including patients' socio-demographic factors. Based on the results of a study assessing the eHealth profile of patients with diabetes, we will discuss challenges and opportunities in the use of digital health technology for chronic disease management.


As simple and quick methods for site characterization,the array microtremor survey as well as H/V observation is expected to play an important role in earthquake disaster prevention in China.In order to study the characteristics and applicability of microtremor survey,we have made microtremor observations and analysis over a wide area from the coast to the far inland.The result of field test is shown that the microtremor in Shanghai is much similar to that in Kanto Plane,Japan,inferring a high applicability of array microtremor for deep structure survey in the coast area.However,the energy of long-period microtremors in Xi'an,Lanzhou and Tianshui area are only some thousandth to some percents of that in Shanghai,inferring that further study on instrument and observation method are needed.


A trial of 60 cases of oral cholecystography and cholangiography using Biloptin and Solu-Biloptin is reported. A considerable reduction in reactions is found by substituting Solu-Biloptin for Biloptin for the morning dose. The advantages of the medium are reviewed, with particular reference to the visualisation of liver excretion and of the calibre of the common duct.


Where standard MLP-solvers fail to compute optimum objective function values for certain MLP-model formulations, lower bounds may be used as a point of reference for evaluating heuristics. In this paper, we compute lower bounds for the multi-level proportional lot sizing and scheduling problem with multiple machines (PLSP-MM). Four approaches are compared: Solving LP-relaxations of two different model formulations, solving a relaxed MLP-model formulation optimally, and solving a Lagrangean relaxation. Keywords:


This work presents an overview of comparative research on science and technology policy in order to illuminate the choices confronting decision makers. Contributors from various disciplines explore the relationship between science and the state and how governments support research and technology.


This paper makes a technical analysis of the transformation of the motor system for the cast straight machine,the transforma-tion of the motor and the modify of the parameter in the frequence conversion,which can improve equipment performance and meet the requirements of production process.


Abstract Selenoproteins are involved in antioxidant defense, the redox signaling pathway and cell homeostasis. Primary studies have shown that single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the selenoprotein gene (SEP15) are associated with cancer risk. However, conflicting outcomes warrant a meta-analysis to obtain more precise estimates. Literature search yielded 18 case–control studies from 12 articles. We calculated pooled odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of two SEP15 polymorphisms (rs5845 and rs5859) using standard genetic models (homozygous, recessive, dominant and codominant). Subgroup analysis was based on statistical power (80% cutoff) and cancer type (breast/respiratory/genitourinary/colorectal). Heterogeneity of the outcomes necessitated examining their sources (outlier treatment). Multiple comparison outcomes were corrected with the False Discovery Rate (PaF). Our core findings lay in the post-outlier recessive subgroup outcomes, where risks in the powered study (≥ 80%) was increased (OR 1.26, 95% CI 1.02–1.57, PaF = 0.047) while that in genitourinary cancer was protective (OR 0.29, 95% CI 0.20–0.43, PaF < 10−4). The potency of outlier treatment in unmasking significant associations and generating homogeneity provides good evidence of SEP15's role in cancer. In the clinical sense, selenium chemo-intervention may be of benefit among persons with particular SEP15 genotypes. AbbreviationsA number of unduplicated articles that contributed to instabilityAM analysis modelB number of robust comparisonsBC breast cancerBLC bladder cancercDNA complementary deoxyribonucleic acidCI confidence intervalCID confidence interval differenceCRC colorectal cancerD decreased riskEH eliminated heterogeneityF fixed-effectsFDR False Discovery RateGUC genitourinary cancersGS gained significanceHB hospital-basedHWE Hardy–Weinberg EquilibriumI increased riskI2 measure of heterogeneitykDa kiloDaltonLAC laryngeal cancerLUC lung cancermaf minor allele frequencyn number of studiesN number of comparisonsNM not mentionedNOS Newcastle-Ottawa ScaleOR odds ratioPa P value for associationPaδ P value for association (pre-FDR)PaF P value for association FDR-correctedPb P value for heterogeneityPB population-basedPC prostate cancerPRISMA Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-AnalysesPRO pre-outlierPSO post-outlierR random-effects[R] referenceRC respiratory cancersRNS retained non-significanceROS reactive oxygen speciesSEP selenoproteinsSEP15 selenoprotein geneSNP single nucleotide polymorphismSW Shapiro-Wilk testUSA United States of Americavv variantwv heterozygousww wild-type


A 49-year-old man presented with bilateral proptosis of 2 years' duration. He also complained of generalised bone pain, polyuria, and polydipsia. A physical examination was unremarkable except for bilateral proptosis—right eye 28 mm and left eye 26 mm (normal level, ≤20 mm) [Fig 1]. His eye movements, both fundi and intra-ocular pressures, were all normal. The thyroid gland was not enlarged and his baseline biochemical evaluation was normal. A water deprivation test confirmed that he had central diabetes insipidus and his bone scan showed multiple areas of increased uptake. What is the likely diagnosis?


Inventory is things or working equipment that is used in business management which isconducted or operational equipment of a company. Without an inventory, a business can not beperformed. Therefore, the exsistence of inventory is very important. CV. Aneka Ilmu Semarangconducts activities in producting and selling books. In managing its data, this company still usesmanual system, so that, the information that is produced is not quick and not careful. In on effort toimprove inventory information system which is formerly conducted manually to be a computerizedinformation system, planning and system analization are needed so that it will enable the company tomake information system from being manual into computerized.In compiling the final assignment, the writer performed effort to obtain concrete data which arereliable, so the objectives of the writing of this final assignment can be a chieved and this finalassignment can show a reliable informations in this observation, the writer used some methods whichare. Interview to some related section, the interview is conducted in oral questions or written ones,observation by performing observation to study objects, and literature study by compiling data and byreading relevant books which are related to observation matters.After the whole arrangement is made, it is kni\own that with inventory information system, thesearch for stock items will be easier and faster, because every transaction (buying or selling), availablestocks will be update (noted) automatically, so that ware house employee will find that he/she cancheck available stocks move easier and faster. Keyword : Information system, of inventory, data management


The invention relates to a line patrol robot capable of climbing poles and towers. A structure of a double-arm line patrol robot is adopted, and two mechanical arms are arranged on the same side of the robot. Each mechanical arm has three degrees of freedom and is capable of moving up and down along the arm length direction, rotating in the direction of a vertical plane of the mechanical arms, rotating along a horizontal plane of a robot body and integrally moving along a rail on the robot body; the upper portion of each mechanical arm is provided with two half rollers capable of opening and closing along the corresponding mechanical arm. The line patrol robot is capable of climbing poles and towers to inspect faults of the poles and the towers and capable of conveniently getting on and off lines to complete power transmission line inspection tasks. Further, obstacle crossing ways of the robot on power transmission lines are simple, posture control of the robot is easy, and accordingly patrol efficiency can be improved, and autonomous intelligence of the robot can be improved.