A landmark event in Australian political, legal and constitutional history, the parliamentary privilege case of 1955, whereby two men, Raymond Fitzpatrick and Frank Browne, were sent to gaol on a vote of the Commonwealth House of Representatives is normally understood to have been driven more by the vindictive machinations of Prime Minister R.G. Menzies than by their 'crime' of contempt of Parliament. This article examines the extent to which Dr Evatt and ALP members were also responsible for the fate of Fitzpatrick and Browne and highlights the principled stand of one ALP parliamentarian, Allan Fraser MHR, in opposing the gaolings and seeking to have a travesty of justice set right.


Background : Sulfur miners in Ijen mountain that work in do have many risks endangering the workers health. Based on observation that doing in sulfur miners in ijen mountain about musculoskeletal disorder that most often experience is neck pain, low back pain and knee pain.
Purpose : This research was conducted to find out the relationship between body position and work mass with incident osteoarthritis knee in sulfur miners ijen mountain.
Subjects : 56 people sulfur miners in Ijen mountain.
Research Methodology : 56 people sulfur miners in Ijen mountain as respondent. This research is an observational with cross sectional approach, sample were chosen by using accidental sampling technique. Analysis using spearman correlation.
Result : Based on results 38 people (68%) positive osteoarthritis knee and 18 people (32%) negative osteoarthritis knee, the classification of osteoarthritis knee using characteristic based on altman, while the result correlation between body position with accident of osteoarthritis knee obtained (p value= 0,006) and (p value= 0,000) for correlation mass of work with accident osteoarthritis knee.
Conclusion : So that can be conclude there was correlation between body position and mass of work with accident osteoarthritis knee in miners worker on ijen mountain.


This work focuses on the development of novel strain gauges, which are suited for the operation in autonomous wireless condition monitoring systems. For this purpose, capacitive as well as highly resistive strain gauges were designed and fabricated. The Cand R-sensors were utilised in combination with demonstration circuits, which integrate the circuits for instrumentation, A/D-conversion and furthermore comprise a microcontroller with a wireless transceiver system, all on a small separate printed wiring board. The authors will also be able to present a small demonstration system in operation during the oral presentation.


Objective
To explore the resilience and mental health of recruits during training, and to investigate mutual prediction of resilience between mental health and psychological stress to provide the scientific evidence for the mental health training and psychological selection of recruits.

Methods
Connor-Davidson resilience questionnaire (CD-RISC), symptom checklist(SCL-90), psychological stress self-evaluation test(PSET), satisfaction with life scale(SWLS), positive and negative affect scale(PANAS) were applied to 650 recruits in 2011 before starting training and after two months of training.

Results
① Chinese recruits had good resilience, and the CD scores of pre-and post-test were (61.60±14.36) and (61.41±14.55) respectively.②Mental health (SCL-90) of two tests were good in recruits. ③ Correlation analysis showed that the same premise of phase correlation, resilience (pre-test) could significantly predict mental health (post-test) (β=0.070, P 0.05). Resilience (pre-test) could significantly predict psychological stress (post-test) (β=0.075, P 0.05). ④ Compared with high resilience group, low-resilience group of recruits had higher total score of SCL-90 and psychological stress and less positive emotion, more negative emotion and lower life satisfaction.

Conclusion
The recruits training have good resilience. Resilience of recruits have predictive ability to mental health, psychological stress during training.

Key words:
Training; Recruits; Resilience; Mental health; Cross-lagged regression analysis


A quantum-cascade laser operating at λ=66 μm is demonstrated. It consists of a three-quantum-well chirped-superlattice active region embedded in a waveguide based on a single interface plasmon and a buried contact. A threshold current density of 210 A/cm2 at T=12 K, a maximum peak optical power of 4 mW, and operation up to T=44 K are achieved in a 2.7 mm long device with a high reflectivity backfacet coating.


Virtual Remanufacturing (VRM) is an application of Virtual Reality in the Remanufacturing field in order to upgrade level of VRM technique. VRM has been applied to predict performance index of its product and accident during its implement process. The decision and optimization program can be established to achieve the whole optimization of VRM product. The development prospect of VRM technique is very broad. The effective training and low training cost can be obtained by using VRM technique. The virtual implement of surface engineering is the emphasis of VRM. The processing model building technique and processing technique of VRM in virtual environment are the key techniques, which should be solved at present.


The molar heat capacity of the azeotropic mixture composed of water and benzene was measured by an adiabatic calorimeter in the temperature range from 80 to 320 K. The phase transitions took place in the temperature range from 265.409 to 275.165 K and 275.165 to 279.399 K. The phase transition temperatures were determined to be 272.945 and 278.339 K, which were corresponding to the solid-liquid phase transitions of water and benzene, respectively. The thermodynamic functions and the excess thermodynamic functions of the mixture relative to standard temperature 298.15 K were derived from the relationships of the thermodynamic functions and the function of the measured heat capacity with respect to temperature.


The constitutional law written in the Everson' and McCollum2 cases is obviously not what is called learned law; consequently one who is not a lawyer, learned in the law, may speak his mind on it. In fact, to do so is a matter of civic duty, since, as the Journal of the American Bar Association pointed out, these decisions contain "a pronouncement by our Supreme Court on a fundamental principle, not only of national policy but of our civilization and way of life."3 Reasoned civic judgment on such a pronouncement is very necessary. Obviously, as embodying a rule of law, these decisions impose themselves on the collective will as norms of action; but by the same token they present themselves to the individual intelligence as matter for reflection; for law, I take it, ought to be reason and not arbitrary will. My concern is with the reasoning of the Court in support of its new rule of lawwith this reasoning in itself and as it reveals a concept of the problem of separation of church and state. These decisions represent the first formal efforts of the Court to work out an official contemporary philosophy of the political principle enshrined in the "establishment" clause of the First Amendment. Such an essay in philosophy is a much more crucial matter than the simple laying down of pragmatic rules to govern the relations between religion and government; it therefore deserves close scrutiny. No one who knows a bit about the literature on separation of church and state, that for centuries has poured out in all languages, will be inclined to deny that hardly another problem in the religious or political order has received so much misconceived and deformed statement, with the result that the number of bad philosophies in the matter is, like the scriptural number of fools, infinite. As I see it, the original American philosophy that inspired the First Amendment was fundamentally sound; it is therefore important to see that it is not corrupted, under the pretext, for instance, of "development." A second reason for close scrutiny of the Court's reasoning in these cases derives from the absoluteness of the rule of law that has emerged from them: "no aid of any kind to religion in any form." I have been given to understand that the present Court has a certain horror of absolutes, and is disinclined to give room for them in its jurisprudence; if this is so, it is somewhat ironical that the Court should suddenly have come up with one: "absolute separation of church and state, as an absolute principle." At all events, dogmas that pretend to be absolute must rest


Localized states (LS) of electrons are studied in clusters and in periodic arrays of graphene quantum dots (GQD) formed using narrow graphene stripes with either armchair or zigzag shape of atomic edges. Basic electronic parameters of the system such as the LS energies En , inter‐level splitting Δn , wavefunction coherence, and the inter‐dot coupling are controlled by applying the electric potentials φlg to the electrodes. The electron density of states N(ε) of the periodic quantum dot array regarded as 1D crystal (GC) represents a sequence of very sharp peaks corresponding to LS levels. The spatial coherence parameter ΞGC=1/(d·ℑκ) (d is the GC period and κ is the electron wave vector) is estimated as ΞGC≃5to20 , suggesting that the electron coherence involves large clusters of GQD by spreading over 5–20 periods in the artificial crystal. Furthermore, the coherence time τc, which is determined by inelastic electron–phonon collisions is remarkably long, τc≈2to100 ns even at temperatures T≈300 K. The above properties of GC open new opportunities for building of the all‐electrically controllable multi‐qubit circuits operating at high temperatures.


This workshop comprised a diverse group of African construction experts, ranging far wider than RSA. Each of the attendees had attended the annual ASOCSA conference and was additionally provided with a short workshop pre-brief. The aim was to develop a view of their 15-20 year vision of construction improvement in RSA and the steps necessary to get there. These included sociological, structural, technical and process changes. Whilst some suggestions are significantly challenging, none are impossible, given sufficient collaboration between government, industry, academia and NGOs.
The highest priority projects (more properly, programmes) were identified and further explored. These are:
1. Information Hub ('Open Africa'). Aim – to utilise emerging trends in Open Data to provide a force for African unity.
2. Workforce Development. Aim – to rebuild a competent, skilled construction industry for RSA projects and for export.
3. Modular DIY Building. Aim – to accelerate the development of sustainable, cost-efficient and desirable housing for African economic immigrants and others living in makeshift and slum dwellings.
Open Data is a maturing theme in different cities and governments around the world and the workshop attendees were very keen to seize such a possibility to assist in developing an environment where Africans can share information and foster collaboration. It is likely that NGOs might be keen to follow up such an initiative.
There are significant developments taking place around the world in the construction sector currently, with comparatively large savings being made for taxpayers (20% plus in the UK). Not all of these changes would be easy to transplant to RSA (even more so to much of the rest of Africa). Workforce development was a keen plea amongst the attendees, who seemed concerned that expertise has leaked away and is not being replaced with sufficient intensity.
It is possible today to develop modular buildings in such a way that even unskilled residents can assist in their construction, and even their appropriate design. These buildings can be sited nearly autonomously from infrastructures, thus relieving the tensions on cities and townships, whilst providing humane accommodation for the economically disadvantaged. Development of suitable solutions could either be conducted with other similarly stressed countries or developed in-country and the expertise exported.
Finally, it should be pointed out that this was very much a first step. Any opportunity to collaborate from an Australian, QUT or CIB perspective would be welcomed, whilst acknowledging that the leading roles belong to RSA, CSIR, NRF, ASOCSA and the University of KwaZulu-Natal.


A 8-9 ha (22 acre) catchment at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in western North Carolina was cleared of hardwood forest in 1958 and 1959 and seeded to Kentucky 31 fescue grass in 1959 and 1960. Grass production was high in years when fertilizer was applied and water yield was very similar to that expected from the original forest cover. As grass production declined, so water yields rose, with important increases in the magnitude of both low frequency flows and, particularly, in baseflow. In 1967 and 1968, when all vegetation was deadened in the catchment, the discharge levels in all flow frequency classes were higher. Natural revegetation was then allowed and water yields gradually declined towards the expected level, although there remained a tendency for winter flows to remain higher, and for summer flows to be lower than expected. This paper updates the earlier work of Hibbert (1969) and uses flow duration curves to extend his results.


Fenoterol hydrobromide was administered as a 5 mg tablet to 10 patients in oxytocin‐induced labour and the effects on uterine activity and on the cardiovascular system of mother and baby were evaluated. The drug took effect within 30 minutes in 8 of the 10 patients and it reduced uterine activity to less than 30 per cent of the original. Fenoterol caused a moderate maternal tachycardia, raised systolic and decreased the diastolic blood pressures.


New possibilities were established for controlling the characteristics of a YAG:Nd3+ solid-state ring laser (SSRL) by inserting a resonantly absorbing medium—a nonpumped YAG:Nd3+ crystal—in the resonator. A new multimode lasing regime was observed for a rotating SSRL. A strong dependence of the amplitudefrequency characteristics of a rotating SSRL on the detuning of the gain and absorption lines was established. "Spiky" instability of the emission from a rotating SSRL was observed in the range of frequency splittings of the opposite waves near the relaxation frequency. It was found that this instability was eliminated in the forced mode-locking regime. A change of the lasing regime in an SSRL was accompanied by strong hysteresis and memory effects.


The invention discloses a co-generation type micro-grid economy coordination and optimization dispatching method. A co-generation type micro-grid system comprising a wind turbine generator, a photovoltaic cell, a micro gas turbine, a fuel gas boiler, a storage cell and a thermoelectricity load is constructed, and then on the basis of predicting wind power, photovoltaic power and the thermoelectricity load in the future day (24 hours), a multi-objective optimization dispatching model for co-generation micro-grid economy coordination is constructed and can take the operating cost and the thermoelectricity coordination cost of the co-generation type micro-grid system into comprehensive consideration; moreover, a step-size control original pairing interior point method is used for solving. The co-generation type micro-grid economy coordination and optimization dispatching method can improve the comprehensive economy of co-generation type micro-grid system operation, and has certain significance in guiding energy management of a co-generation micro-grid containing renewable energy sources.


The nesting of the Fermi surfaces of an electron and a hole pocket separated by a vector Q commensurate with the lattice in conjunction with the interaction between the quasiparticles can give rise to a rich phase diagram. Of particular importance is itinerant antiferromagnetic order in the context of pnictides and heavy fermion compounds. By mismatching the nesting the order can gradually be suppressed and as the Néel temperature tends to zero a quantum critical point is obtained. A superconducting dome above the quantum critical point can be induced by the transfer of pairs of electrons between the pockets. The conditions under which such a dome arises are studied. In addition numerous other phases may arise, e.g. charge density waves, non‐Fermi liquid behavior, non‐s‐wave superconductivity, Pomeranchuk instabilities of the Fermi surface, nematic order, and phases with persistent orbital currents.


The aim of this study is to design parameters of tablet coating processes through quality engineering with Taguchi Methods. Firstly, by using the zero point proportional model of dynamic characteristics, the S/N ratio of robustness and efficiency of coating processes were studied from the view point of increment of tablet weight. Then, coated tablets were evaluated from the perspectives of release pattern and appearance. The visual conditions of the coating operation were also reviewed. With these three points, we determined and optimized the critical parameters of the coating process.As a result, the followings were found. 1) Concerning process robustness, the critical process parameters are baffle plate, liquid-solid concentration, drum rotating speed and spray speed. 2) The optimal operating condition of this process can be estimated from release control manipulation. 3) The results of release pattern evaluation are nearly equal to those of appearance assessment from the view point of S/N ratio trends.In this study, the authors revealed that designing parameter is an effective approach to develop a Design Space and implement Quality by Design.


successful in studying low energy hadron physics. Nevertheless, when the energy goes higher, up to roughly 500 MeV, chiral expansion breaks down since it is an expansion in terms of pseudo-goldstone boson mass and external momentum. Much efforts have also been made in exploring physics beyond the validity domain of chiral expansions. However, due to the non-perturbative nature it is very difficult to study the problem in a model independent way.


Abstract Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country presents a surface rarely disturbed by signs of its coded structure. The characters and the world they inhabit seem real; the emotional and physical problems they face familiar. Much of the commentary on the novel, in fact, focuses almost exclusively on the novel's characters—Sam and Emmett particularly—as if they were real people whose lives continue beyond the novel. Sam perhaps forgets about the wounded and impotent vet Tom and advances toward her college degree at the University of Kentucky. Emmett likely goes on to live a happier life while flipping burgers at Burger King rather than flipping out during flashbacks to his Vietnam experience.


DESPITE the well-known and striking effects of lathyrism on the skeleton, relatively few reports are available concerning the possible relationship of experimental lathyrism to the oral and maxillofacial regions. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of various levels of sweet peas, with and without dietary supplementation, on skeletal growth of the mandibular ramus and articulation. Utilizing pair-fed controls and nonsupplemented (P.D. I) lathyrus-fed controls, this study also attempted to evaluate the influence of protein and amino acid supplementation on the changes observed. It has long been known that rats fed on diets containing large amounts of Lathyrus odoratus seeds develop bone deformities. These are due to the formation of numerous exostoses, especially at muscle-insertion sites, and to irregular proliferation of cartilage, particularly in the rapidly growing epiphyseal plates." The active principle was first extracted in impure form4 and, subsequently, it has been possible to demonstrate that A (gammaL-glutamylamino) propionitrile is present in the seeds of Lathyrus odoratus and duplicates the effects of this plant upon the skeleton.5 6, In view of the many similarities between experimental lathyrism and specific diseases occurring in man, it appears of practical importance to establish whether the skeleton can be rendered resistant to the actions of a drug such as BAPN.t Dasler,8 in 1954, found that in odoratism the percentage of ash in the whole incisors actually showed a significant increase, while the level of ash in the femurs decreased. The most important oral and cranial changes found in lathyrism are periosteal new bone formation, as voluminous exostoses at sites of muscle insertions to the mandible of rats, the most obvious being at the coronoid, condyloid, and angular processes (Gardner and co-workers,9 Dasler,' 10 1 and Selye'2, 13). Other changes are gross bone deformities of the cranium and


It is frequently assumed that perception and production develop in tandem during non-native speech sound acquisition. However, several previous studies have suggested that simply producing tokens during training can disrupt perceptual learning (e.g., Leach & Samuel, 2009). Here, I present several experiments examining some sources of such a disruption. Further, I ask how learning in production progresses when listeners fail to learn in perception. In the first set of experiments, I examine performance on a discrimination task after training in perception alone, or training perception + production, in which listeners repeat tokens on every trial. In follow up experiments, rather than repeating the training tokens, listeners read an unrelated letter aloud between each perceptual training trial or respond to the unrelated letter with a button press, rather than reading the letter aloud. In a second set of experiments I examine how production learning progresses when learners produce tokens during training. T...


To reduce line passage and be satisfied with electromagnetic environment,the level of electromagnetic environment of pole conductors vertical arrange is measured and analyzed for designing DC power transmission line.In trial performance period of 500kV San-Hu DC power,the total electric field and radio interference level in the both conductors arrange were measured.Under the line,the maximum total electric field of pole transmission conductors vertical arrange is 15 kV/m;radio interference is 51.0 dB V/m at position of projecting 20m under positive pole conductor;pole conductors horizontal arrange is 8.2 kV/m(side of positive pole conductor);radio interference is 53.3 dBμV/m at position of projecting 20m under positive pole conductor.Measurement results show that the level of the electromagnetic environment of ±500kV SanHu DC power transmission line is accorded with specification of design.


Systematic direct observations of the small, fast‐moving, and wide‐ranging stoat are rarely practicable. The simplest indirect methods of observation are kill‐trapping, live‐trapping, and footprint recording. The data obtainable and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods are reviewed. Two new kinds of traps and a footprint recording system are described; they are especially suitable for use in rugged field conditions far from base facilities. When operated together in suitable habitat, these techniques can provide useful information on the population structure, feeding habits, and natural movements of stoats. Together or singly they also have potential as management tools, especially in identification of nest predators and in faunal surveys of islands.


Perspective 1. A different view of the Poisson process. We think of the Poisson process as generated from the random scatter of points on [0,∞). The process N then counts the points in any set. That is, for a (measurable) set A, N(A) is a random variable counting the number of points in A. N becomes a random measure. To formalize this, consider the collections of random variables N(A) for all (Borel) sets A, where N(A) counts the number of "points" in the set A. Let Λ be a measure on [0,∞) such that Λ(A) < ∞ for every bounded set A. And assume that for every collection of disjoint, bounded Borel sets A1, . . . , Ak, we have


While studying Cvetkovski's book "Inequalities: Theorems, Techniques and Selected Problems", we noticed a pattern from several three variable cyclic inequalities with sums of fractions. Using mathematical induction and AM-GM inequality, we proved our assertion of this pattern. We also used rearrangement inequality, Chebyshev's sum inequality and a weighted Hölder's inequality to generalize our results to the case when the exponents in these fractions are positive real numbers. Mathematics Subject Classification: 26D15


I t has for many years been an open question whether light exerts any influence upon the respiratory exchange. MOLESCHOOT X (1855) experimenting on frogs showed that these produced more carbon dioxide in the light than in darkness; however, as he paid no attention to whether the muscular activity of the animals was increased in the light, which it probably was, these experiments cannot be considered conclusive. Neither in a number of more re cent experiments by various authors were standard conditions in this respect ensured. In the experiments in which this source of error has been reliably excluded, and where care has been taken to keep the animals as far as possible under uniform conditions of temperature in the light and darkness, no appreciable difference in the respiratory exchange under the two conditions could be detected. This obtains for the experiments made by JAC. L O E B 2 in 1888, and by EWALD 3 in 1892. JAC. LOEB worked on various insects in the pupal stage . which must be said to afford perfect standard condi tions, as the animals do neither Jake food nor perform muscular contractions. He determined the metabolic exchange of the pupae by measuring their loss of weight in definite periods; it is true that the values he found showed considerable variation, but there was no indication of any regular relation between the findings for light and darkness. EWALD in a series of very careful experiments on curarized frogs could not detect any difference of effect either. Re ferring to these experiments KKOGH 4 points out that with regard to the fundamental problem they are not convincing, for, as the ani-


Mount Barujari is an active volcano on Lombok Island located within the Mount Rinjani Complex. This spot is suspected of having had a massive eruption, hence the spread of pumice, with deposits assumed to have buried previously existing royal sites. The phenomenon of the distribution of volcanic sediments, especially pumice deposits, has not been studied qualitatively and quantitatively concerning the eruption dynamics in this complex. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyze the spatial distribution of pumice to determine the plume column dynamics and effects of the Samalas eruption 1257, and it was verified by the Kelud eruption in 2014. The results showed that the ballistic terminal velocity without atmospheric effects was 914.09 m/s, while the impact velocity was 955.50 m/s. These are both equivalents to 2.69 Mach (supersonic speed), resulting in a huge eruption explosion, which is heard up to a distance of 3000 km, often caused by the drag coefficient. Furthermore, the calculated drag coefficient shows the dynamics of current plume flow, including the transition zone between stable (Stoke's Law) and turbulent flow (Newton's Law). Simultaneously, the Samalas eruption's kinetic energy was established as equivalent to 7 on the VEI scale. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the magma Chambers and their dynamics in the future.


This paper concentrates on evaluating current econometric practices for estimating parameters of the Phillips curve (price stickiness, back-looking component, etc). Standard practices do not recognize the key role that monetary policy may have on shaping the results obtained


nkjet printing has proven to be a promising and flexible process methodology for low cost and drop-on-demand pattern formation in small-scale devices with a functional material. In this paper, micro droplet deposition using 80 micron diameter nozzle with micro piezoelectric printhead was investigated using a mixture of three fluids, distilled water (DW) and solutions of two different percentage of glycerine (G) as an operating fluids. The droplet formation capability and stability was studied according to the influence of pulse amplitude, dwell time and fluid viscosity. The results show that the optimal drop velocity to obtain a stable printing range from 0.5 ~1.5 ms-1 which corresponds to pulse amplitude range of 25 to 100V and dwell time 15 to 35 μs. Respectively droplet formation and dispensing performance give benefit in dispensing application and build a solid background to inkjeting functional polymer material.


The immediate family history of Ṣāhib al-Ṭuyūr illustrates a pattern of migration starting in the seventeenth century that was to expand the Jamal al-Layl family- and religious networks southwards from the Swahili coast, via the Comoro Islands to Madagascar and Mozambique. By the nineteenth century, reformist impulses were to be transmitted along the same routes, generating a geography of reform that was both multi-local and interconnected. This chapter outlines simultaneous events in time, to establish an outline of the geography of Islamic intellectual exchange in the southwestern Indian Ocean in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It navigates a set of simultaneous sunrises across the southwestern Indian Ocean. The imagery of light (and implicitly, the sun) is a central one in Islamic literature in general, where light is connected to knowledge, religion and, ultimately, access to Paradise.Keywords: Islamic literature; Luminescent Sun; Madagascar; Mecca; Sufism


In order to determine the effect of different loads on fatigue damage, a strength degradation model is proposed according to the law of residual strength degradation of metal materials. The model is verified with the strength degradation test data, and the results show that the model can describe the strength degradation process of general metal materials well. Combined with the strength degradation model, an improved equivalent damage model for different loading sequences is proposed. On this basis, a nonlinear fatigue cumulative damage model based on strength degradation is derived. The cumulative damage model is applied to the estimation of fatigue residual life under two-, three-, and four-stage loads to investigate the effects of different loading sequence on fatigue damage under various loading conditions. Combining with experimental data, it is verified that the cumulative damage model can accurately estimate the fatigue life under two-, three-, and four-stage loads.


Requirements analysis includes activities that acquire and compile users' needs into a baseline document (a software requirements specification), and validate the document. This document is generally used as the road map for later phases during software development. It is widely accepted that prototyping is a useful approach for extracting users' needs, and that formal and semi-formal specification languages are valid approaches for creating rigid requirements specifications. However, both have some short-comings for requirement analysis. The authors present an approach that achieves a balanced mix of prototyping and formal specification languages to enhance requirements analysis. In addition, they introduce a supporting environment, called ROAD/EE, that facilitates prototyping based on object-oriented specifications. The basic idea behind ROAD/EE is that of executing object-oriented specifications directly and animating its result with shape and movement of icons. ROAD/EE also helps users interact with the prototype so that users can easily find errors in the specification.


Background: Race and ethnic disparities in cancer incidence rates and the prevalence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) are known to exist in the United States (U.S.) but also across broad geographic expanses. CMV prevalence seems to inversely contrast tumor incidence rates both in ethnic groups and globally. Is there a biological link between cancer and CMV infection? Most recent clinical results seem to certify it. Methods. Global cancer data were retrieved from the World Health Organization (WHO) database. Incidence of cancer and CMV seroprevalence (73 countries) were subjected to Spearmans correlation test. The Bayesian framework was adopted for CMV seropositivity variables. Relevant data for the U.S. were extracted from publications based on the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), 1988-2004. Results. An inversely directed coupling between cancer and CMV seropositivity across diverse ecologies and cultural domains suggest a global oncoprotective effect of the CMV (Spearmans {rho} = -0.732; p<0.001). Rates of all cancers combined and CMV seropositivity show an opposite association (p<0.001) among the races and foremost U.S. ethnic groups. Conclusion. The racial/ethnic incidence of cancers and CMV seropositivity are inversely proportional both in the U.S. and globally. This would support a view that CMV is a potential driver against tumorigenesis. An absence of CMV infection abrogates protection against malignant clones afforded to an infected host. Abating CMV seroprevalence may relate causally to the buildup of malignancies in U.S. and the West world countries with thriving hygiene and healthcare systems.


Information on the transport of pulse/special crops has been very limited. Aside from aggregate export data, published information is unavailable on the method of transport used to move these crops from origin to destination. Primary data collection was undertaken by the Transport Institute to ascertain the volumes and methods of moving products to export position for the 1996 crop year. A survey of 33 pulse/special crop exporters was developed with the assistance of the Canadian Special Crops Association, Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, Pulse Canada and other industry associations. A telephone interview and faxed questionnaire were extended to each company. In total, 20 companies cooperated fully. Most of the 13 companies that refused to cooperate are minor players. Based on comparison with 1996 crop year export figures, the survey captured approximately 81% of all movements. It was found that, by using a variety of transportation modes, pulse/special crops exporters increase the likelihood of reliable service.


Stephanie L. Kwolek, a retired chemist from DuPont, wiJl receive the 1997 Perkin Medal for her outstanding achievements in applied chemistry. She is only the second woman to receive the prize in its 91-year history. The medal especially recognizes her inventions of liquid-crystal aromatic polyamides. In particular, her pioneering research on poly- p -aminobenzamide (PBA) resin and fibers paved the way for understanding of that liquid crystalline polymer and for the development of poly- p -phenyleneterephthalamide, which DuPont markets under the trade name Kevlar. The American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry awards the Perkin Medal annually to an outstanding chemist chosen by officers of the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the American Section of the Societe de Chemie Industrielle, and the American Institute of Chemists. Stephanie Louise Kwolek was born in 1923 in New Kensington, Pa. She received a bachelor's degree from Carnegie Institu...


Directly starting from D,L-lactic acid (LA) and L-menthol, poly(lactic acid-co-menthol) (PLAM) as potential solid mint flavor was synthesized via melt polycondensation. The synthetic conditions, including type and dosage of catalyst, temperature and time of copolymerization, were discussed. The structure and properties of the copolymer were systematically characterized with FTIR, 1H-NMR, GPC, DSC, TG, and XRD. The influences of molar feed ratios on the properties of PLAM were also discussed. The copolymer PLAM with the biggest Mw of 11,600 Da was obtained. The Tg of PLAM is lower than the Tg of homopolymer poly(D,L-lactic acid) (PDLLA), and all copolymers have higher thermal decomposition temperature. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2012


FROM the early years of this century, otologists have believed in the possibility of influencing the course of aural symptoms and disease through the autonomic nervous system, and have attempted to do so both by drugs and by operation. While the histological picture in Meniere's disease was still unknown, many authors postulated that the cause of the symptoms was a dilatation of the endolymphatic system and inferred that this dilatation arose from vasomotor disturbances which were probably brought about through the sympathetic nervous system. Portmann, G. (1928) says, "Whether it be Quincke, Wittmaack, Mygind or Hwidt, for whom it is a question of endolymphatic hypertension which can but be closely connected with the vascular phenomenon, or Kobrak, who considers the direct cause to be in the vagosympathetic system, the vasomotor disorders—vasoconstrictor or vasodilator—seem really to constitute the pathological primordial element ". Lermoyez (1919), in particular, pointed out the importance of angiospasm of the vestibular or cochlear branches of the internal auditory artery in certain cases of deafness or vertigo.


In accordance with the principle of superposition,for the teleportation of an arbitrary three-particle state via three pair nonmaximally entangled particles, the system state of particles can be expanded by Bell bases and transformation operator, and the teleportation can be realized only by performing a inverse transformation. The relation of transformation operators with unitary operation is discussed. The necessary condition to realize the teleportation is that the transformation operators have inverse operators.


In this paper, some phenomena which lead to the failure of the domestic helium cadmium lasers of the positive column type were given. The related mechanisms were discussed. In addition, some improvement ideas as well as repairing techniques also were given.


Region of imaging subject 20 that is to be imaged is longer than the imaging imaging field 40 along the translation axis 36. Both the imaging subject 20 and the radio frequency coil 30, along a translation axis 36, is moved parallel to the inner direction to the scanner 10. Inward translation of the radio frequency coil is stopped at the mounting position Ziso. After the stop, the imaging object is moved further parallel inward. On the other hand, the radio frequency coil remains stationary, as a result, the area of the object to be imaged, and arresting as parallel imaging field 40 moving the stationary radio frequency coil. During further translation, using a radio frequency coil and the magnetic resonance imaging scanner stationary, the area is imaged.


One hundred rice genotypes released for different ecologies such as upland, irrigated, lowland and saline were evaluated for 12 quality characters like Hulling(%), Milling(%), Head rice recovery(%), Kernel length(cm), Kernel breadth(cm),Length breadth ratio, Volume expansion ratio, Elongation ratio and Amylose content(%) etc. Analysis of variance showed high significant difference among the genotypes. Milling(%) is very good in all the genotypes and ranged from 74.5(PR113) to 81.3 (Improved Lalat). HRR (%) is highest in Bhanja (72.0) and lowest in Konark(42.5). Intermediate amylase content are in most of the genotypes except GR 103(27.1),IR 64 MAS(27.86) WGL32100(27.3), WGL32183(27.5)and Purnendu (27.9). Water uptake ranged from 77.5(WGL 32100) to 342.5(PR116) indicating very wide variation. Elongation ratio is > 2.0 in Sudhir, Sashi, Bindli. PCV is always greater than GCV indicating less influence of environment. Hulling (%) is positively significantly correlated with Milling (%) and kernel breadth and negatively significantly correlated with L/B ratio, volume expansion ratio.


In order to overcome the drawbacks of traditional fault diagnosis based and combat readiness centered maintenance decision method,a new mission successness oriented maintenance strategy is put forward.An evaluation index system reflecting mission successness in future tasks is established on the basis of the combat readiness evaluation index system.The deficiencies of traditional fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method are pointed out.And a new dynamic fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is presented considering the temporal varieties of interior parameters.It can provide the future quality and mission successness for complicated equipments,which is the basis of the preventive maintenance before training or battle tasks.


James A Coffman speaks to Adam Price-Evans, Commissioning Editor: James A Coffman is a scientist at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and Director of the Maine INBRE, a NIH-sponsored program to promote biomedical research. He holds a doctorate in zoology from Duke University and a bachelor's in biology from Carleton College. He is currently studying the mechanisms by which chronic early-life stress increases adult disease risk, using zebrafish as a model organism to ask how such stress affects immune system development and regulation.


The purpose of this study was to analyze technology-assisted course delivery methods to determine their overall effectiveness as it pertains to mathematics courses. This study analyzed both current and historical data in the areas of achievement, retention, and grade distribution for mathematics classes. The study included 14,562 students enrolled in Pre-Calculus Algebra at a Southeastern University. Significant differences were found in student achievement as determined by course grade point average with students in the traditional course scoring higher in average course grade point average. Students in the traditional courses also had a significantly higher number of A's and a significantly lower number of F's in the grade distribution. There was no significant difference in the overall retention rate between the 18-week traditional courses and the technology-assisted courses, but there was a significant difference between the 9week traditional and the technology-assisted courses. In general, the students enrolled in the technology-assisted courses did not perform at the same level as the students in the traditional setting. ______________________________________________________________________________ Distance education has grown at an amazing rate throughout the last 40 years (Ashby, 2002). One area where distance education has become a widely used method is in mathematics. While previous distance learning mediums were not conducive to success in mathematics, the introduction of online services, multimedia tools, and tutorials have proven invaluable (Juan, Huertas, Steegmann, Corcoles, & Serrat, 2008). Currently there are a significant number of universities offering portions of their mathematics instruction via distance learning methods. In addition to courses taught entirely through distance education, there are new methods of instruction including traditional/internet hybrid courses and computer-assisted courses. One area of mathematics where the trend has been significantly pro-distance education and pro-internet instruction is the area of developmental studies (Ashby, Sadera, & McNary, 2011). Recently many universities have found it necessary to increase remedial mathematics course offerings. While students have the necessary criteria for admittance into the college, their mathematics skills are frequently substandard and must be enhanced prior to taking a credit course. The rationale behind the use of these instructional methods are varied, including student needs for self-paced instruction, lack of available faculty, need for quick response on assessment, and significantly varied student educational backgrounds. The tool utilized most frequently in these mathematics courses is the course management system, which allows mathematics instructors to identify skills that students must learn, provide quality instruction, assign problems Journal
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A 66-year-old man presented with voiding symptoms, a serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) of 7.24 ng/ml, a benign-feeling prostate and normal erections. His medical history included chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Trans-rectal ultrasound-guided biopsy revealed Gleason 4+3 prostate adenocarcinoma. Staging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan illustrated bilateral disease, T2c pN0 M0 (Figure 1). He underwent a laparoscopic radical prostatectomy two months later with a trans-peritoneal approach and bilateral nerve spare. Histology revealed pT3a Gleason 4+3 disease with negative margins. At 14 days he presented with spontaneous moderately painful erections every two hours without sexual stimulation along with urinary tract infection. Examination was normal. Urine microscopy and culture revealed an extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL)producing E. coli organism, and antibiotic treatment was commenced. By day 28, his erections occurred mainly in association with voiding and straining. A computed tomography (CT) scan identified an organised haematoma in the prostatic bed (Figure 2), and a flexible cystoscopy revealed complete closure of the proximal urethra so a suprapubic catheter was inserted. His stuttering erections fully resolved and the haematoma was managed conservatively. He underwent a delayed optical urethrotomy. At six months, his PSA level was un-recordable. He reported improved continence and partial return of sexual function. Stuttering priapism after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: A case report


The Word Comprehension Test of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test uses an analogies format to assess a pupil's knowledge of word meanings. Poor performance on the Word Comprehension test may be a function of confusion with the analogies format, as opposed to inadequate word identification skills or lack of word meanings. The effect of presenting 15 additional sample items prior to administration of the Word Com prehension subtest was examined using a Solomon-Four Group Design. Statistically significant increases in Word Comprehension standard scores were found for low performing seventh-grade pupils.


As a kind of participatory management mode, co-management mode is more effective than the other traditional top-down bureaucratic management modes, either for the managers or for the participants, which is thought to be the trend of worldwide marine resources development and management. On the basis of China's fisheries management situation, combined with the demonstration analysis of "co-management" mode of Chile's fishery, this paper has emphasized how to improve China's fishery management system, especially its maneuverability from many points of views, including (1) improving relations between the fishermen and the state, (2) enhancing awareness among fishermen on ecology and economy management, (3) establishing cooperation between fishermen and scientists, (4) unity between fishermen.


One important view of the nature of facts in science sees the validity of factual claims as resting upon intersubjective agreement through observation, yet the conditions underlying such intersubjectivity are rarely explored.1 In this paper I should like to inquire into the role of shared method in arriving at intersubjective agreement concerning fact. One useful way of exploring this issue is to examine the methodological element in factual disputes in science, since such controversy may indicate important aspects of factual agreement.2


Shackleton's voice, which attempted to explore Antarctica 100 years ago, was vividly restored with voice-processing technology. The restored voice was used as a restoration criterion after restoring the sound quality to a sound quality by applying noise processing technology to the voice of Shackleton who finished the exploration and gave a speech at a university. The basic voices of the voices are similar to those of family members and relatives because of the similarity of the gene structure and the body structure. Using Shackleton's great-grandson voices, he restored Shackleton's voice by adjusting the rate of speech, intensity, intonation, duration, tone changes, and tone averages as analyzed in Shackleton's voice. The subjective evaluation of the restored voice showed a similarity of more than 90% in the spectral SNR compared to the original voice, and when MOS evaluation was performed by the linguistic expert, 4.5 / 5 was obtained and the restoration of the voice of Shackleton was successful respect...


The structures of fac-N,N'-methylenedipyridinium trichlorotrifluoroosmate(IV), (I), and mer-N,N'-methylenedipyridinium trichlorotrifluoroosmate(IV), (II), fac- and mer-[(C 5 H 5 N) 2 CH 2 ][OsCl 3 F 3 ], have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction at room temperature. The complex anions are completely ordered. The Os-F distances in (I) are equal to within 3 e.s.d.'s, as are the Os-Cl distances. The mean Os-F distance of 1.948 A and Os-Cl distance of 2.3199 A are typical for bonds altered in length by the trans influence. The asymmetric Cl-Os-F coordination axis in (II) has a longer Os-F distance [1.976 (3) A] and a shorter Os-Cl distance [2.2782 (13) A] than the symmetric F-Os-F and Cl-Os-Cl axes, which have mean bond lengths of 1.944 and 2.307 A, respectively.


OBJECTIVES
To determine NKX3.1 expression in prostatic adenocarcinoma and benign prostate hyperplasia on Immunohistochemistry at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi.
METHODOLOGY
74 prostatic specimens were recruited in this comparative cross-sectional study at the Department of Pathology, Pakistan Navy Station Shifa Hospital, Karachi, from January 2018 to February 2019. Of these, 37 specimens were of prostatic adenocarcinoma, and 37 were benign prostate hyperplasia. All specimens were subjected to immunohistochemical staining with NKX3.1. Statistical analysis was done by using SPSS version 23.0. The association of the extent of NKX3.1 staining between the adenocarcinoma and hyperplasia group was assessed using the Chi-square test x2.
RESULTSOf the 37 cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia subjected to NKX3.1 staining, 32 showed positive staining with strong to moderate intensity. No staining was observed in 5 cases. 37 cases of adenocarcinoma prostate stained for NKX3.1 revealed positive staining in 30 cases with strong to moderate intensity. Negative staining was seen in 7 cases. The prostatic adenocarcinoma showed a statistically significant association of NKX3.1 positivity compared to benign prostatic hyperplasia cases. The p-value was found to be 0.03.
CONCLUSION
NKX3.1 staining was highly specific for prostate epithelium, as it was positive in most cases. This immune marker was useful for distinguishing prostatic origin in the context of metastatic lesions. Adding NKX3.1 protein staining to a panel of features may add value to the diagnosis if applied in the appropriate clinicopathologic context.


Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate clinical and radiographic outcomes of mini-implants versus conventional diameter implants for 4-implant-supported mandibular overdentures after one year. Materials and methods: 12 edentulous patients with insufficient retention of their conventional mandibular dentures and reduced mandibular ridge width were assigned into 2 groups; group 1 (conventional implants group, control); received four conventional diameter implants using flap surgical approach, group 2 (mini-implant group): received four mini-implants in the interforaminal area of the mandible using flapless surgical approach. For both groups, implants were loaded immediately with mandibular overdentures via O-ring attachments. Plaque index, Gingival Index, probing depth, implant stability and marginal bone loss was assessed at baseline, 6 months and 12 months after overdenture insertion. Results: The survival rates were 95.9% and 91.7% for conventional implant and min-implants groups without difference between groups. For both groups, Plaque index, gingival index and implant stability did not differ significantly between observation times. Probing depth and marginal bone loss significantly increased with passage of time. Conventional diameter group showed significantly higher plaque, gingival indices, probing depth, implant stability and marginal bone loss than mini-implant group after six and 12 months. Conclusion: Within the limitation of this randomized trial, mini-implants may be a suitable alternative to conventional diameter implant in patients with reduced buccolingual bone thickness as it was associated with reduced Plaque index, Gingival Index, probing depth and marginal bone loss after one year. However, conventional diameter implants provided more implant stability than mini-implants.


In the Netherlands, biomass is envisaged to play a major role in fulfilling national ambitions concerning the reduction of CO2-emissions and the introduction of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). Co-firing of biomass is one of the most important options to realize these ambitions. Ambitious targets have been set in the Long-Term Energy Research Strategy (EOS-LT) programme of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, including targets of 25% and 40% biomass co-firing in 2020 and 2040 respectively. To meet these targets, not only existing fossil-fuel-fired power plants will have to be considered, but also new plants involving new conversion technologies aiming at higher overall efficiencies and a lower environmental impact. Furthermore, the targets cannot be met with state-of-the-art technology. Technology developments are thought to be required in the following areas: biomass upgrading, pre-treatment and feeding technology, assessment and solution of technical bottlenecks in direct co-firing, indirect co-firing technology, process monitoring and control, and residues management. ECN, KEMA and TU Delft, have formed an R&D consortium to address these biomass co-firing R&D requirements. Furthermore, there is a close involvement of the Dutch power generation sector, ensuring that the R&D activities are well targeted to market needs and facilitating the implementation and exploitation of the results. Within the areas mentioned above, the consortium has made a careful selection of specific R&D topics, which are of particular relevance to the Dutch power generation sector and where the consortium has clear added value based on available expertise and R&D facilities. Of these topics, the following eight are covered within the EOS-LT biomass co-firing consortium projects: fate of trace elements in biomass co-firing, development of indirect co-firing technology, sustainable ash management and development of new utilisation options, biomass co-firing in oxy-fuel combustion, fouling monitoring/boiler diagnostics and wet biomass processing and heat utilisation, pneumatic transport of biomass and biomass/coal blends and optimisation of numerical models for slagging and fouling. In this report, the results on these eight R&D topics throughout the five consortium years are presented. Also a brief summary is given of the undertaken efforts to come to a joint valorisation of the obtained results and the dissemination of the generated knowledge.


Introduction: Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular Apicomplexan parasite that can infect a wide range of warmblooded animals including humans [1]. Toxoplasma gondii was initially discovered by accident, in 1908, by a scientist, Charles Nicolle, who was working in North Africa and searching for reservoir of Leishmania in a native rodent, Ctenodactylus gundi. The gundis live in the foothills and mountains of Southern Tunisia and were commonly used to study Leishmania at the Pasteur Institute in Tunis. The name Toxoplasma means 'arc-form' in Greek and was named according to the crescent-shaped morphology of the tachyzoite and bradyzoite stages of the organism observed by the scientists. At about the same time, Alfonso Splendore working in Sao Paulo discovered a similar parasite in rabbits. This pathogen is one of the most common in humans due to many contributing factors that include: (1) its complex life cycle allows it to be transmitted both sexually via felid fecal matter and asexually via carnivorism. (2) Toxoplasma has an extremely wide host cell tropism that includes most nucleated cells. (3) In humans and other intermediate hosts, Toxoplasma develops into a chronic infection that cannot be eliminated by the host's immune response or by currently used drugs. In most cases, chronic infections are largely asymptomatic unless the host becomes immune compromised. Together, these and other properties have allowed Toxoplasma to achieve infection rates that range from ~23% in the USA (2) to 50-70% in France (3). There are two major reasons that new drugs are needed to treat Toxoplasma infections. First, the drugs currently used to treat Toxoplasma infections are poorly tolerated, have severe side effects, and cannot act against bradyzoites (4). Second, there are reports that Toxoplasma is developing resistance to the current generation of drugs (5, 6). How resistance to these drugs has developed is not known but is critical to understand because it will lead to improved drug design and will increase our understanding of the biological functions of these drug targets. One way to understanding mechanisms of resistance is to compare the transcriptional profiles of wild-type and resistant Virtual screening of Threonine synthase as a target for antimicrobial resistance in Toxoplasma gondii Budhayash Gautam, Gurmit Singh and Satendra Singh 1 Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Jacob School of Biotechnology and Bio-engineering, Sam Higgin bottom Institute of Agricultural, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad 211007, U.P, India. 2 Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Shepherd School of Engineering and Technology, Sam Higgin bottom Institute of Agricultural, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad 211007, U.P, India.


The fiber Bragg grating(FBG)sensor was widely used in the composites structure health monitoring.The double FBG sensors were embedded in the prepreg glass fiber/epoxy laminate composite structure to monitor the variable of temperature,viscosity,internal strain in the hot-press curing processing and the residual strain after curing,analyze the FBG sensor performance affected by the residual strain.The experiments indicated that the FBG sensors could monitor the temperature internal strain and viscosity calculated from temperature in the curing processing of composites and provide a basis for intelligent curing control.The same sensor cured in the composite could be used for health monitor of the composites structure in full life service.


When 5 per cent of butter fat or cod liver oil is added to a bread and milk diet, in itself adequate to promote the breeding and rearing of a healthy stock of mice through a period of years, the resistance of these mice to per os infection with the paratyphoid mouse typhoid bacillus (B. pestis caviæ), as compared to that of mice on the unmodified diet, is definitely increased. A similar effect may be obtained with a McCollum "complete" diet, even when the butter fat is omitted, and with a bread and milk diet in which the milk used has been rayed with a mercury vapor lamp. When an inactive fat like Crisco is added to the bread and milk diet, the results obtained are not very clear-cut. While seasonal fluctuations in resistance to mouse typhoid were not completely eliminated by the various modified diets, they were nevertheless reduced, the modified diets tending to stabilize the death rate at a point lower than that usually reached by the mice on the control diet.


For minimizing a scalar-valued function subject to equality constraints, we develop and investigate a family of gradient transformation differential equation al- gorithms. This family includes, as special cases: Min-Max Ascent, Hestenes' Method of Multipliers, Newton's method, and a Gradient Enhanced Min-Max (GEMM) al- gorithm that we extend to handle equality constraints. We apply these methods to Rosenbrock's function with a parabolic constraint. We show that Min-Max Ascent is locally and (experimentally) globally asymptotically stable but extremely stiff and has extremely slow convergence. Hestenes' Method of Multipliers is also locally and (experimentally) globally asymptotically stable and has faster convergence, but is still very stiff. Newton's method is not stiff, but does not yield global asymptotic stability. However, GEMM is both globally asymptotically stable and not stiff. We study the stiffness of the gradient transformation family in terms of Lyapunov exponent time histories. Starting from points where all the methods in this paper do work, we show that Min-Max Ascent and Hestenes' Method of Multipliers are very stiff and slow to converge, but with the Method of Multipliers being approximately 2 times as fast as Min-Max Ascent. Newton's method is not stiff and is approximately 900 times as fast as Min-Max Ascent and 400 times as fast as the Method of Multipliers. In contrast, the Gradient Enhanced Min-Max method is globally convergent, is not stiff, and is approximately 100 times faster than Newton's method, 40,000 times faster than the Method of Multipliers, and 90,000 times faster than Min-Max Ascent.


Since traffic is aggregated to a MPP that acts as an Internet gateway, if traffic load is not balanced among the MPPs in a WMN, the overall performance of a WMN becomes poor even though the total traffic load is far below the capacity of the WMN. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a stochastic load balancing scheme where each MP (Mesh Point) probabilistically selects its serving MPP according to the congestion levels of MPPs. Through extensive simulations using ns-2, we have verified that our scheme can stabilize a WMN fast when congestion occurs and reduce packet loss rate by distributing traffic load of a congested MPP to multiple MPPs in the inverse proportional to their congestion levels. Compared to queue-based load balancing scheme, our method can decrease network stabilization time by 34 seconds, and reduce packet loss rate by 7.6%. Since the proposed scheme can reduce network stabilization time by efficiently using network resource, it is expected to contribute to the reliable operation of a WMN.


In order to analyze the influence of grounding conditions on the shielding effectiveness (SE) of shielded room, numerical simulation is done by applying parallel Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method on the coupling problems between shielded room and lightning electromagnetic pulse (LEMP) environments. Inner coupled electromagnetic (EM) fields are calculated when the shielded room is with different grounding locations and schemes. The results indicate: (1) the farther the distance between the grounding location and the aperture, the better the SE of shielded room, the nearer the worse. (2) The SE is related to the different grounding schemes (single-point grounding and multipoint grounding). For a better SE to LEMP, shielded room should use single-point grounding.


Experimental VLSI techniques and an architectural concept are described which permit the realization of an experimental single-chip private automatic branch exchange (PABX) for switching voice and data. Analysis indicates that up to 40 telephones and 40 data terminals could be interconnected with a single chip. The architecture makes it possible to interconnect multiple PABX chips to form a larger system. The single-chip concept is made possible by distributed switching near the subscriber, digital interface, a new `orthogonal' RAM, and a low-power line-driving technique, all of which are included in this investigation.


The transportation sector is generally thought to be contributing up to 25% of all greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions globally. Hence, reducing the usage of fossil fuels by the introduction of electrified powertrain technologies such as hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), battery electric vehicle (BEV) and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) is perceived as a way towards a more sustainable future. With a seemingly more significant shift towards BEV development and roll-out, the research and development of BEV technologies has taken on increasing importance in improving BEV performance and ensuring its competitiveness. Numerical simulation, using MATLAB, is performed as a tool to investigate and to improve the overall performance of BEVs. This study provides an overview of the possible technology outcome and market consequences for future compact BEVs along with HEVs, FCEVs and internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEV). The techno-economics of BEVs, market projection and cost analysis up to 2050 are investigated, as are important BEV characteristics alongside those of other types of vehicles. Well-to-wheel analysis of BEVs is also studied and compared with HEV, FCEV and ICE.


Great successes of exploration and research have been achieved in the petroleum exploration in the marine deposited regions in southern China in the past 40 years.A great number of surface hydrocarbon, bitumen showings and many ancient oil gas reservoirs of different ages as well as Jiannan and Chishui fields have been discovered.Shichuan Basin has become an important natural gas provinces.Petroleum resource evaluation shows that there are nearly 8000×10 6 equivalent oil tons of total resource extent in the marine strata in Southern China except Sichuan Basin.The wide spreading marine strata are the potential petroliferous areas in China.Researches have proved that the primary hydrocarbon generating conditions are excellent and there are several suits of source reservoir caprock assemblages in the marine sequences in Southern China.Owing to the intensive tectonic movements during the late geological time,the preservation of hydrocarbon is the critical condition for the petroleum accumulation in southern China.At present,the largest obstacle to exploration breakout is that the available exploration technologies and methods have been unable to solve the existing problems in exploration in Southern China.It is suggested that the following work is necessarily to conduct:(1)take further steps to tackle the key problems in technologies and methods in seismic,non seismic and chemical explorations; (2) develop the comprehensive exploration and comprehensive evaluation technology; (3) take up reasonable exploration procedure; (4) pay attention to and develop the technology and methods of natural gas exploration;and (5) full carry out the second development for the past information data.Generally speaking,it should be gradually formed that the research of tectonic evaluation must be stressed along with the studies of sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy based on the exposure,well and seismic data.Evaluation and seeking of favourable exploration targets may be carried out by means of dynamic numerical simulation of marine residual basins in Southern China.


Pathogenic enteric bacteria are a main cause of drinking water related morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Solar disinfection (SODIS) is an effective means to fight this problem. In the present study, solar disinfection of two important enteric pathogens, Shigella flexneri and Salmonella typhimurium, was investigated with a variety of viability indicators including cellular ATP levels, efflux pump activity, glucose uptake ability, polarisation and integrity of the cytoplasmic membrane. The respiratory chain of enteric bacteria was identified to be a likely target of sunlight and UVA irradiation. Furthermore, during dark storage after irradiation, the physiological state of the cells continued to deteriorate even in the absence of irradiation: apparently bacterial cells were unable to repair damage. This strongly suggests that for Salmonella typhimurium and Shigella flexneri, a relatively small light dose is enough to irreversibly damage the cells and that storage of bottles after irradiation does not allow regrowth of inactivated bacterial cells. In addition, we show that light dose reciprocity is an important issue when using simulated sunlight. At high irradiation intensities (> 700 W m) light dose reciprocity failed and resulted in an overestimation of the effect whereas reciprocity applied well around natural sunlight intensity (< 400 W m). This chapter has been published in Microbiology 155, 1310-1317 by F. Bosshard, M. Berney, M. Scheifele, H.-U. Weilenmann and T. Egli


The construction of the image of Carlos Chagas after the discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi in illustrated magazines in Rio de Janeiro between 1909 and 1920 is provided. The discourse of the magazines Fon-fon , Careta and Illustracao Brasileira is analyzed with regard to the Brazilian scientist and his discovery. Characterized by humor, the magazines are investigated with regard to the construction and the constitution of the scientist´s image.


Demographic Variables as Moderators Between Relationship Satisfaction and Benevolent Sexism by Dawna Campbell MA, Sam Houston State University, 2005 BA, Sam Houston State University, 1992 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Psychology Walden University August 2017


In this paper, we consider the multi-leader following problem of a second-order multi-agent system with random switching topologies. This problem can also be viewed as a tracking problem of a target set specified multiple leaders. The interaction topology between agents is described by an irreducible Markov chain. A necessary and sufficient condition is obtained to make all the mobile agents almost surely asymptotically converge to the static convex target set determined by multiple leaders. Moreover, results are also given for the moving target set with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random switching, too.


Abstract The gas-phase infrared spectra of the noble gas difluorides KrF2 and XeF2 have been studied in the region of the bending fundamental ν2 near 235 and 215 cm−1, respectively, with a resolution of 3.5 to 6.5 × 10−3 cm−1. Samples with natural isotopic abundance and also one highly enriched in 136Xe were employed. Rotational structure was resolved in the P, R, and Q branches. Ground and v2 = 1 excited state parameters were determined for various Kr and Xe isotopomers. Assignments were made for the v2 = 1 ← 0 and 2 ← 1 transitions of 84KrF2 and 136XeF2 and excited state parameters were determined by their simultaneous fits. The v2 = 3 ← 2 transitions were also assigned for 136XeF2. Due to the smallness of gll (ca. 0.085 cm−1) with respect to q2 (ca. 2.2 × 10−4 cm−1) strong 1-type interactions occur, which give rise to marked intensity perturbations and to an avoided level crossing in the v2 = 3 state. The vibration-rotation parameter α2 was found to be positive, 1.611 × 10−4 cm−1 in 84KrF2 and 0.525 × 10−4 cm−1 in 136XeF2.


The phase equilibrium diagram has been determined for the liquidus surface of the portion of the system CaO-"FeO"-SiO2 between fayalite, dicalcium silicate, wustite, and lime. Five ternary peritectic points have been located, but no true eutectics have been found. The primary fields of wuUstite and dicalcium silicate cover most of the area studied (ignoring free iron, which is actually the primary phase in all compositions investigated). The boundaries of smaller fields of olivine solid solution, a parallel-twinned modification of dicalcium silicate, tri-calcium silicate, lime, and calciowustite solid solutions also are delineated. X-ray data show that lime may contain up to 10%"FeO" in solid solution, whereas wustite may contain as much as 28% CaO in solid solution. Equilibria involving tricalcium silicate explain earlier observations on open-hearth slags and furnace-bottom refractories.


Coal mine automation systems are independent each other,and have diverse interfaces and protocols.For the problem,a system design scheme was proposed which achieved integration of informatization and automation of coal enterprise by collecting coal industry field data through ARIOC controller and its modules ARI201,and integrating the collected data through real-time monitoring platform ARIDT.The application showed the system is of strong adaptability and stability,simple construction,and easy maintenance.


This paper reports a unique method of fabricating microstructures made up of polymeric microparticles. By combining the technical power of both electrospray and microfabrication, particulate microstructures with controlled dimensions and spatial positions are created. Such structures have an immediate use in live cell patterning, where cells can be confined within desired regions on planar and curved surfaces, and in three-dimensional (3D) porous scaffolds. This study will help the development of parallel on-chip cell assays for miniaturized total analysis.


Background—Coronary artery disease is a significant risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF), but the basis for this association is incompletely understood. The present study evaluated the hypothesis that atrial ischemia can create a substrate for AF maintenance. Methods and Results—Atrial ischemia was induced by occlusion of an atrial arterial branch that did not provide blood flow to the ventricles. Atrial-arterial occlusion increased the duration of AF induced by burst pacing from 57±32 seconds (control) to 803±214 seconds (P <0.001) after 0.5 hour of occlusion and to 887±209 seconds (P <0.001) after 3 hours of occlusion. Prolonged AF (>20 minutes) was induced in 0 of 16 dogs (0%) under control conditions, 7 of 16 (44%, P <0.01) at 0.5 to 3 hours, and 5 of 13 (38%, P <0.01) 3 to 5 hours after occlusion. Atrial conduction was slowed substantially within the ischemic zone: eg, conduction delay was 8±1 ms at a cycle length of 200 ms, control, versus 22±5 ms (P <0.01) after 0.5 hours and 27±5 ms (P <0.001) after 3 hours of ischemia. Refractoriness was initially unaffected but was prolonged 5 hours after occlusion. Phase-delay analysis and high-density mapping confirmed severe conduction slowing in the ischemic zone. Histological examination confirmed the location of ischemic regions and revealed extensive ischemia-induced necrosis at sites of conduction delay. Conclusions—Experimental atrial ischemia creates a substrate for AF maintenance, apparently by causing local conduction slowing that promotes reentry. These results suggest that atrial ischemia may significantly promote AF, and may be relevant to AF mechanisms in association with coronary artery disease.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank Lena Koppka for her very useful support particularly with respect to the modeling and self-written codes incorporated in the Abaqus user subroutines. In addition, the authors gratefully acknowledge the computing time provided on the Linux HPC cluster at TU Dortmund University (LiDO3), partially funded in the course of the Large-Scale Equipment Initiative by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as project 271512359. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The online version has been corrected.


Brucellosis is one of the zoonotic diseases of major concern and can cause huge economic losses to livestock industry. Serological tests and bacterial isolation are considered as the gold standard assays for diagnosis of Brucella spp. but they are time-consuming, hazardous and lack specificity. To control and eradicate a disease, a confirmatory diagnostic method which is sensitive, quick and specific is the foremost requirement. Therefore, in this study three real time TaqMan PCR assay to detect (IS711 gene based) and differentiate B. abortus (BruAB_0168 gene) and B. melitensis (BMEII0466 gene) were designed and evaluated in singlex and multiplex formats.


The invention discloses a preparation method of an epoxy resin system for a nanometer modified carbon fiber prepreg. The preparation method comprises the following steps: uniformly mixing a nanometer material with solid particles including a curing agent, an accelerant and the like in liquid bis-phenol A epoxy resin by a grinding method of a three-roller grinder to prepare a mixture A; and preparing the epoxy resin system for the carbon fiber prepreg by using the mixture A as the material to melt and co-extrude with solid bis-phenol A epoxy resin under 40 DEG C-100 DEG C. Firstly, the nanometer material is uniformly pre-mixed in the liquid epoxy resin by the grinding method of the three-roller grinder, and then secondary dispersion is carried out. According to the preparation method of the epoxy resin system for the nanometer modified carbon fiber prepreg disclosed by the invention, not only can the use of an volatile organic solvent be avoided, but also the better dispersion effect of the nanometer material in an epoxy resin base body can be achieved, and therefore, the process is relatively environment-friendly, and the harms to the body of a worker are smaller. Moreover, the nanometer material is good in dispersion effect, simple in process, high in efficiency and convenient for being applied to modifying and preparing the epoxy resin system for the carbon fiber prepreg in a large scale.


The article contains the analysis of the current ecological situation in the Republic of Bashkortostan as an oil production region of Russia. It was emerged that the decrease in emissions from means of transport caused by change in the calculation methodology. The statistical data on environmental control costs and payments for the use of natural resources in the Russian Federation for the period from 2008 to 2016 years have been analyzed. The measures aimed to create favorable conditions for the sustainable social and economic development of the region have been determined. The authors proposed alternative sources of financing the environmental protection: the issuance of ecological («green») bonds and the attraction of ecological deposits to finance environment-oriented investment projects. The main significant investment directions of the funds, obtained due to the emission of domestic ecological loan bonds, corporate ecological bonds and concessional environment-oriented bonds have been identified.


As broadcast encryption is prone to collusion attacks,traitor-tracing schemes have become an important tool for copyright protection.Using the Chinese remainder theorem Lyuu and Wu proposed an EIGamal-type broadcast en- cryption algorithm and a black-box traceable scheme for stateless receivers,each of which generates its own private key.We first investigate several security threats to the scheme from the perspectives of group encoding and parameter configuration.Then an adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack is launched via a decryption oracle.Finally,in accordance with the characteristics of the key management and tracing algorithm a method of collusion attack is presented so that the scheme can trace down neither all traitors nor the factual pirate,indicating that there exists the security risk of wrongly accusing innocent users when applying the approach of fully public keys in the real world.


The water treating problems encountered in railroad practice vary to some extent from those usually given consideration in municipal service. The bacteriological feature is generally considered of minor importance and the question of turbidity is subordinated to the influence of the scale forming or corrosive salts. Although water supply is one of the prime essentials in the operation of a steam railroad, it is of interest to know that the details and problems, especially with regard to quality, were formerly given but minor consideration. In the building of railroads, the major interest was expended in the construction of the roadbed and the operation of trains. Nothing was said of water supply, if it was adequate and not too muddy and water stations were installed where necessity and expediency demanded. These facilities consisted merely of some means of supplying water to the engine tank for steam consumption. However, with the alleviation of construction problems, conditions changed and greater attention to possible economies has become necessary under the strict regulations which now govern the operation and financing of our railway properties. The quality of the water supply is closely associated with the operating efficiency of a railroad and its result has a marked influence on the locomotive maintenance expense. Only recently two prominent railroads have undertaken the reorganization of their water supply department and instigated treatment based primarily on the remarkable savings made by such refinements on adjacent first class railroads.


The present investigation focused on the Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3, which has an perovskite structure. The ferroelectric ceramic Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 powders doped with trivalence La and Bi ions (BLFN、BBFN) were synthesized. The experimentation consists of three parts as: Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 powders prepared using sol-gel method, Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 prepared by solid state reaction, synthesis and characterization of Ba1-xLax(Fe0.5Nb0.5)1-x/4O3 and Ba1-xBix (Fe0.5Nb0.5)1-x/4O3. The Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 ferroelectric ceramic has been successful synthesized by sol- gel method. In experiment, the crystallization of Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 powders begins at 550℃ and the pure perovskite phase was obtained as the powder heat-treated at 850℃. The average grain size of Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 powders were about 35 nm. The activation energy of crystallization and grain growth for Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 is 64.25 kJ/mol and 32.94 kJ/mole, respectively. In addition, increase sintering temperature can be found a large grain size and it has better ferroelectric properties. As the samples were sintered at 1250℃, a dielectric constant, e'max, of ~12000 and loss tangent of ~0.3 were obtained at 100 Hz. The Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 gel was then spin-coated on the Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates. The single phase was obtained as the thin films annealed at 550℃ for 30 min. The Ba(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 ferroelectric thin film annealed at 550℃~ 700℃, the remnant polarization keep around 0.3 μC/cm2, but coercive field decreases from 160 kV/cm to 120 kV/cm. The complex perovskite oxides, Ba1-xAx(Fe0.5Nb0.5)1-x/4O3 (A=La,Bi), were fabricated by two stages solid-state reaction. In this experimental data obtained show very high values of dielectric permittivity in a wide temperature range that is inherent to so-called high-k materials. The dielectric constant is about 4x104~8x105 at 300~440K with a low dissipation factor for the sample with La=8 mole% sintered at 1350℃ for 4h, measured at 1 kHz. For the sample with Bi=10mole% sintered at 1250℃ for 1h the dielectric constant of about 2x104~3x105 with a low dissipation factor were obtained. The dielectric behavior of both the BLFN and BBFN increase with decreasing frequency. The dielectric behaviours of these materials were contributed by orientational and space charge polarizations. High oxygen diffusion coefficient at the grain boundaries leads to the extent of oxidation and higher resistivities in the grain boundary layers. The grain boundary-layeral capacitance was thus produced.


The Russo-Turkish and Second Serbo-Turkish Wars Just before Russia declared war on Turkey, Ristic on April 11/23, 1877 decided to send an envoy to the Tsar so as to remain in close touch with Russia and ascertain its intentions towards Serbia. He was instructed to state Serbia's readiness to enter the Russo-Turkish War and to explain that Serbia needed two to three million rubles to complete military preparations and one million per month during the war to support its army. Where should Serbia direct its military operations? If Russia did not agree to Serbia's participation in the war, the envoy was to state that Serbia, wishing Russia full success, would not cause problems for it with Europe. If need be, Serbia would refrain from participation, hoping the Tsar would recall Serbia's huge sacrifices when Russia arranged peace. (1) Selected as Serbia's envoy was Colonel Dj. Katardzhi, Prince Milan's uncle. He departed immediately with Milan's messages for the Tsar and Count Ignat'ev. Milan expressed joy at the Tsar's decision for war on behalf of the oppressed Christians and hoped his glorious army would triumph swiftly. (2) Completing his mission quickly, Katardzhi returned on April 27th with the Tsar's and Ignat'ev's replies to Prince Milan. Wrote Alexander: "It is difficult for you to be simply an observer of the struggle which I had to undertake to defend the holiest interests of our coreligionists in Turkey." He advised Serbia to remain neutral until Russian forces had crossed the Danube and could aid Serbia. Subsequently, the Tsar would provide Milan with the advice required by events. Alexander II, Katardzhi reported, had accepted Serbia's military cooperation promising to defend it against Turkey. Ignat'ev advised the Serbs to be satisfied now with a million rubles; later, a second million would come. Serbia could acquire lands in Old Serbia, "but for now not in Bosnia because of Austria." Grand Prince Nikolai wanted Prince Milan to retain command of the Serbian army, but both armies would be subject to Russian Headquarters. Serbian operations should be directed between Nis and Vidin toward Sofia. This did not resolve fully the question of Serbia's participation in the Russo-Turkish War which continued on a circuitous path. On April 26/May 8, 1877 Gorchakov telegraphed Consul Kartsov in Belgrade: It is the will of the Tsar that Serbia remain on the defensive, refraining from any provocative or aggressive step. It remains for the Prince to consider measures he will adopt according to his resources and on his own responsibility. (3) What did that signify after Alexander II's favorable response from Kishinev? Did this stem from Vienna's pressure? Indeed Protic's telegram from St. Petersburg the next day confirmed that supposition: I learned reliably that last evening in the Council of Ministers was discussed the question of sending a general to Belgrade and about what position Serbia should adopt. It was decided that for now to adopt a position which Turkey and Austria could respect ..., even remaining at peace, Serbia can count on having its sacrifices taken into special account and worthily assessed. Protic explained on May 3rd that a defensive posture was necessitated by Serbia's interests "and the inconsistency of our neighbor [Austria]." Such dubious reports failed to discourage either Milan or the Ristic cabinet, which remained in close touch with St. Petersburg and the Tsar's Headquarters. (4) Approving a visit by Prince Milan and Foreign Minister Ristic, the Tsar received them at his Ploesti headquarters in Romania on June 4/16th in the presence of the Grand Princes, ministers, and generals. Receiving Milan warmly, Alexander II was hostile towards Ristic and his government and refused to give his hand to the Foreign Minister. The Tsar told Prince Milan that he had no confidence in his cabinet. He was still displeased at Serbia's unauthorized war declaration in 1876, which he ascribed to Ristic. …


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Krasnoselskii's fixed-point theorem in a cone is used to discuss the existence of positive solutions to semipositone right focal eigenvalue problems,,,,, where, is fixed, is continuous with for some positive constant.


The paper has discussed the common evaluation indicators(Impact Factor,Fund-sponsored Thesis Ratio,Total Cites,Immediately Citing index,Other-citing Rate,Peer Review,Reprint Rate,recruited by Authority Retrieval Tools) of academic periodicals and their limitations.It has provided reference for different kinds of journals choosing correct evaluation indicators.


Prognosis for patients with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) continues to be poor as a result
of the difficulty in distinguishing malignant from benign bile duct disease, late stage
diagnosis and a lack of sufficiently sensitive and specific diagnostic markers. These
factors underlie the pressing clinical need for novel disease biomarkers.
The utility of bile as a proximal fluid for biomarker discovery (compared to serum) was
investigated using two dimensional difference gel electrophoresis (2D DIGE).
Significant differences between the proteomes of bile and serum were identified,
supporting the hypothesis that bile offers a potentially enriched microenvironment of
proteins shed/secreted by tumour. However, as with serum, a few major abundant
proteins dominate the bile proteome, therefore an albumin/IgG depletion technique was
optimised to improve biomarker identification.
The bile proteome was initially characterised in samples from patients with hilar CCA. A
protein mastermap was generated by two dimensional polyacrylamide gel
electrophoresis (2D PAGE) and a catalogue of proteins by liquid chromatography –
tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), which identified 80 and 813 unique proteins
respectively. This represents one of the largest compendiums to date and forms a
basis for future proteomic-based biomarker studies.
A comparative analysis of biliary proteins in CCA and benign biliary disease was
performed using a label-free proteomic approach to identify potential diagnostic
biomarker(s). Comparative analysis of bile protein profile in 5 patients with CCA versus
benign biliary disease identified 13 proteins which were at higher levels in malignant
disease of which metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), Rho GDP-dissociation inhibitor 2 (also
known as Ly-GDI), Annexin A3 and pre-B-cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF) were
taken forward in immunoblotting-based validation. MMP-9 was shown to be
overexpressed in bile of CCA and represents a potential diagnostic marker. In addition
analysis of bile samples showed lipocalin-2 and its complex with MMP-9 were present
in greater amounts in CCA compared to benign biliary disease.


The reaction of aniline with succinic anhydride, a low molecular weight poly[styrene-co-(maleic anhydride)], and a high molecular weight poly[styreneco-(maleic anhydride)] were used to determine if these polymer reactions are diffusionor reaction-controlled. Kinetic study protocols were developed to determine the rate constants for the succinic anhydride/aniline model reaction and for the 50/50 and 86/14 copolymers. These protocols were then used to gather kinetic data. The succinic anhydride/aniline reaction was determined to be exothermic and to have an induction period. The succinic anhydride/aniline reaction was also determined to have an experimental rate constant of 13 L/molmin 25% at 67 1 .5 degrees Celsius. For the copolymer/aniline reactions, the experimental rate constants at 67 + 1.5 degrees Celsius were determined to be .051 L/molmin 15% for the 50/50 polymer and .008 L/molmin 18% for the 86/14 polymer. The model reaction was found to be 250 times faster than the 50/50 polymer/aniline reaction and 1600 times faster than the 86/14 polymer/aniline reaction. The 50/50 polymer/aniline reaction was determined to be 6 times faster than the 86/14 polymer/aniline reaction. At 20 1.5 degrees Celsius, the theoretical diffusion-controlled rate constant for the succinic anhydride/aniline reaction was determined to be 7.09 x 1011 L/molmin and the experimental rate of reaction was determined to be 0.72 L/molmin 25%. Thus, these reactions were determined to be reaction-controlled.


The present study was undertaken with the objective to determine the nature and magnitude of variability, degree of association between yield and it`s component characters and their direct and indirect effects on grain yield in rice. The experiment was conducted on rice in year 2013-14 at Borlaug Crop Research Center of G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. All the traits had positive correlation to seed yield per plant of rice except days to flowering at genotypic level and at the phenotypic level. At phenotypic level panicle length (0.2145) and harvest index (0.4713) had highly significant level and positive correlation to seed yield per plant. Grain number per panicle (0.1550) and panicle number per plant (0.1398) showed positive and level of significant correlation with seed yield per plant. The days to flowering (-0.1879) have highly significant level with negative correlation to seed yield per plant. Path analysis showed the positive and direct effect on seed yield per plant at genotypic and phenotypic level for panicle number per plant (0.393 and 0.380 respectively), panicle length (0.236 and 0.198), grain number per panicle (0.646 and 0.112) and harvest index (0.443 and 0.448). While days to flowering (-0.175 and -0.167) and plant height (-0.037 and -0.008) had negative direct effect. The traits which showed positive correlation and positive direct effect on seed yield per plant can be used to increase seed yield for further breeding programs and may be given due importance in selection during rice breeding programme.


In order to solve the problem of fast and efficient graph query in graph database,this paper proposed a new data sieving algorithm.It introduced a new pruning rules and modified the form of DFS code,and used the improved gSpan mining the frequent graph of DFS codes for index and classification.Finally,applied the algorithm to the chemical database.The experimental result demonstrates that the approach is correct and effective.


In the emerging technology security identification is one of the major challenges in various sectors because it is used to eliminate the unauthorized access while accessing the secure information. During the authentication purpose, various biometric features such as ear, fingerprint, knuckle, voice, iris are used. Among the different biometric features, in this work utilize the finger knuckle and ear features are utilized for performing the identification process. Based on the different features, the biometric authentication system is implemented with the help of the Graph based Geometric Approach and the Principal Curvature approach and Rapid Segment Analysis Feature Transform (RSAFT) method. Thus in this paper compares the different identification method for authenticate the user information. Then the best identification method is analyzed in terms of different metrics such as false acceptance rate, false rejection rate, equal error rate, and accuracy metrics.


Present paper investigates the interactions between firm's key financial decisions and its fair employee treatment and welfare policies. Fair employee treatment has two components—measurable and unmeasurable. Certain ratios like employee compensation to sales, employee compensation to total assets, and total employee welfare to sales are computed to capture the measurable part of fair employee treatment. To envisage the unmeasurable component, a dummy variable for fair employee treatment is used which is based on the listing of the firm in India's Best Companies to Work for 2017: The complete List prepared by Great Place to Work and published by Economic Times. Linear multiple regression analysis is conducted using firm's leverage, price to book value, and enterprise value to EBDITA as dependent variables, and fair employee treatment, and employee compensation to sales as independent variables. Results indicate a negative relationship between employee compensation and firm valuation, and confirm that high leverage firms are more likely to cut-down on employee compensation but ensure better and fair treatment of employees. The result of binary logistic regression model predicts that firm's dividend policy, employee stock options, and firm leverage positively impact the probability of fair employee treatment.


In this work the relevance of face and gesture detection in images in the area of people detection is emphasized. The existing methods were analyzed, as the result the combination of Viola-Jones method and color segmentation algorithm was chosen. The comparison of color spaces shows best results for YCbCr color space, excluding «Y» as a brightness component. Two strategies for color image segmentation were proposed: on the base of priori methods, and nonparametric methods (Bayes classifi er). The experiments show priori methods work faster, but they require manual parameters setting. The nonparametric methods work slowly than priori, but indicate more accurate results for the large scattered data (for faces with light and dark skin). Algorithm with previous color segmentation and then Viola-Jones detection shows the best results during both hand and gesture detection.


The traditional role of the medieval latin church in legitimising warfare tends to fall into two main categories. On the one hand, there are the secular political wars, in which the church can perhaps be seen as a third force: while called on to legitimise and support partisan conflict between supposedly Christian antagonists, it could also work as a force for peace. On the other hand, there are the religious wars, to which the church was itself a party, either in warfare against infidels, or against those who, in their obstinacy, refused to recognise and accept the authority of the Roman church.


A depleted gas reservoir was converted into an underground gas storage in the sensitive Chiemsee lakeshore area east of Munich, Germany. Throughout the project considerable attention had to be given to environmental precautions and noise control. The project involved drilling five horizontal wells to a vertical depth of 1,950 m, with a horizontal displacement through a low-pressure reservoir of about 1,500 m. For the horizontal sections, stable foam was used to ensure safe drilling conditions and prevent formation damage. The foam system was employed for the first time in such horizontal drilling project in Europe. LWD systems for use with foam were not available. In the horizontal sections, paleontological and lithological methods were employed for steering through the narrow sandstone reservoir. This technology was first tested successfully in a pilot well and then applied to the other four wells. The limited availability of disposal sites and high associated costs made it necessary to minimize the amount of contaminated fluids and cuttings. The liquid phase of the foam was therefore recirculated.