The application of transitivity system in analyzing characterization, which is an important element in narrative discourse, is addressed in this study. The writer aims to analyze the lexicons that appear to be able to determine the characterization of the character through the Halliday's transitivity system theory. The data were taken from the novel "Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine" by Gail Honeyman. To obtain the data, the writer used the non-participant observation and documentation method. The data that were taken from narrator discourses and conversations based on Eleanor Oliphant as an active participant, were annotated manually and processed with the help of the corpus linguistics. The results show that there are six transitivity processes found, which are: material, mental, relational, behavioral, verbal, and existential processes and seventeen circumstances. Each process has lexicons that frequently occur, such as work, drink, read, think, thought, remembered, felt, decided, smiled, laugh, said, stood, and sit. The lexicons can show the characterization of the Eleanor representing her appearance, trait, behavior, identity, and psychology. This can be concluded that the transitivity system can be used to analyze the characterization of Eleanor, who is a hard worker and a drinker who has a trauma and clinical depression, but she tries to live a better life in the present.Keywords: characterization; Eleanor Oliphant; transitivity system; corpus linguistics; lexicon


In this study, the hybrid authorization quotation technique is based on the device ID for the integrity of the source region guarantee of user certificate, in order to improve the convenience and security for user in the hybrid PKI certificate Mechanism for authentication. The feature of the model in which it is presented from this paper is 5. First, because the user can select the policy himself in which it matches with each authentication situation and security level, the convenience can be improved. Second, the integrity of the source region of the user certificate can be guaranteed through the comparison of the DLDI Key, that is the hash-value of the device ID. Third, the security can be improved by continuously changing an encoding, and the value of the key in which it decodes through the EOTP Key. Fourth, the index value is added to a certificate, and the storage of a certificate is possible at the Multi-Device. Fifth, since the addi the inan aratus for the integrity of the source region guarantee of a certificate is not needed, the authentication process time can be reduced and the computational load of the certificate server can be reduced also.


This special 'Arab Spring'-themed issue of ICMR brings together a diverse range of papers that speak to each other in interesting ways. ICMR regularly publishes papers dealing with Islam, Muslim society and modernity, including secularism and democracy, and papers dealing with Muslim–Christian relations. This issue is no exception. In approaching matters associated with, or arising from, the 'Arab Spring', however, this issue of ICMR does make a temporary deviation from past practice in considering political and socio-economic factors that are not intrinsically tied to religion at all. At ICMR we believe that religion is vitally important and that contemporary social-science too often overlooks the role of religion and religious communities. Nevertheless, it is important to recognize that, when we examine phenomena as complex as the current social and political upheavals at the heart of the Muslim world, religion is but one part of the story. In his article, 'Challenges for democracy in countries affected by the Arab Spring', Borna Zguric gives due consideration to the challenges facing Islamist parties to transform initial success in the polls to sustained legitimacy and relevance. But, looking beyond that, he maps out the scale of the challenge faced by newly democratized societies to consolidate democracy in institutional and cultural terms. Muslim Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia, he suggests, point to what is possible, but it is in Catholic Latin America that we find the most compelling parallels for democratic transition. Burcu Kaya Erdem picks up on some of these same themes in her study of the relevance of Turkey's experience of secular democracy to the nations of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Each nation has its own story, she concludes, and the 'Turkish model' cannot be imposed on others. Nevertheless, Turkey's experience does demonstrate that it is possible to uphold simultaneously secular values, engagement with the West and a strong sense of Muslim identity in the framework of a modern democracy led by an Islamic party. In their article, 'Will the revolution be tweeted?', Francesca Comunello and Guiseppe Anzera chart a course between an exaggerated emphasis on social media driving and controlling social change and an appreciation of the socio-economic, demographic and political factors behind the ongoing upheavals in MENA. Not dismissing the importance of culture and religion, they nevertheless remind us that this is but part of the story. At the same time, while new social media did not, of themselves, produce the 'Arab Spring', they are part of a phenomenon that has broad implications that go well beyond the states in which it began. Ben Rich's article explores some of these implications for geo-political relations and the potential for state-on-state conflict in the Persian Gulf region, while Maher Abu-Munshar and Hakan Coruh explore in their articles a very different set of implications arising from the recent successes of Islamist parties in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and the likelihood of a much greater role for Islamists in future Syria, potentially resulting in increased discrimination against the region's Christian minority communities. Radical Islamists often invoke Q 5.51 to justify antagonism towards Christians. Coruh examines the scholarly reasoning that speaks against such a reading of this text, while Abu-Munshar addresses the same issues in a broader context, setting out a normative framework for upholding good relations between Muslims and People of the Book. Finally, Ilan Shdema, in his study of 43 years of inter-communal relations, approaches this issue from the direction of the lived experience of Israel's 1.5 million Arab citizens. His findings remind us that, while religious sentiment can certainly be


The authors discuss the investment of pension and other institutional funds. stressing a theme of investing to meet liabilities . Their aim is to stimulate debate by actuaries and the investment community, leading to the development of better approaches to pension fund investment and its monitoring. The first part of the paper considers the matching of assets to liabilities, concentrating on a major principle applicable to actuarial valuations where assets and liabilities are mismatched. The paper goes on to consider principles of institutional investment and includes discussions of the meaning and measurement of risk, the setting of investment objectives, decision-making, asset allocation and investment performance monitoring.


e15206Background: Immunotherapy targeting immune checkpoints has shown significant benefit in many cancers. However, systemic delivery can result in severe auto-immune toxicities, the risk increasi...


Locum tenens physician takes an engagement in Pacific Northwest at hospital for criminally insane. At end of contract he travels with family to Hawaii.


Using the radioactive indicators Ca 45, Fe 59, Ni 63, Cu 64, and Zn 65 the yield of extraction (%E) of Ca(II), Fe(III), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II) with quadridentate Schiff bases, which are products of condensation of salicylaldehyde and its derivatives with ethylenediamine, 1,3-propylenediamine and o-phenylenediamine has been investigated as a function of the pH of the electrolyte.


Ticket sales, booking, inspecting and collecting, and behind-the-scenes activities, which include reports on ticket issues or statistics preparation, have been mechanized or computerized for Japan's railways.


Purposes To investigate the pathogenesis and clinical significance of exotropic drift by studying the clinical characteristics of spontaneous consecutive extropia.Methods To review the case reports of eight children with spontaneous consecutive exotropia who attended the Strabismic and Amblyopic clinic of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center,Sun Yat-sen University in recent 10 years.Clinical data were analyzed including birth history,visual acuity,refraction,binocular vision and therapeutic means.Results All cases of spontaneous consecutive exotropia in the study had an early onset of accommodative esotropia associated with amblyopia,poor or loss of fusion and full or near full correction to the hypermetropic refractive error.Conclusions Exotropic drift is not uncommon and has clinical significance in the treatment of strabismus.It is suggested that exotropic drift may be caused by a combination of fusion,innervational and anatomical factors.

Key words:
Consecutive exotropia; Esotropia; Drift; Fusion


The framing of climate change in media coverage has been widely studied but the journalists' role in frame building has not been sufficiently examined. This study identifies journalist frames on climate change: shared patterns of interpretation among journalists that may shape news content. The study surveyed climate journalists from 24 leading newspapers and online outlets in five countries (Germany, India, Switzerland, UK, and the USA). It follows an integrative approach to framing analysis, taking into account broader generic and issue-specific frames. It finds that climate journalists form an interpretive community built around a common master frame and five (sub-)frames.


Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has usually been associated with business contexts. However, it has recently been pointed out that its principles and applications are also very appropriate for non-profit making organisations. In this article, we defend the broadening of the field of application of CRM from the business domain to a wider context of relationships in which the inclusion of non-profit making organisations seems natural. In particular, we focus on analysing the suitability of adopting CRM processes by universities and higher educational institutions dedicated to electronic learning (e-learning). This is an issue that has much potential but has received little attention in research so far. Our work reflects upon this matter and provides a new step towards a CRM solution for managing relationships of specific customers, such as students. Indeed, the main contribution of this article is specifically characterised by the proposal and empirical application of an e-monitoring system that aims to enhance the performance of relationships in e-learning environments.


The harvesting of wind power to cope up with the energy demands of the world makes a paradigm shift from the conservative energy resources to non-conservative energy resources. This work focuses on the performance variation of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine by changing the various parameters with a view for its application to marine vehicles. Different blades were considered during the analysis. CAD models were constructed using SOLIDEDGE V2019. ANSYS R21 was used for the CFD analysis. Aspect ratio, number of blades and drag are found to be some of the leading factors affecting the performance of a turbine. Turbine blades which have lower aspect ratio produce a greater power output and vice-versa. Increasing the number of blades does not necessarily increase the performance of the turbine and it entirely depends on the blade profile. Increasing the number of blades in the turbine increase the overall drag and vice-versa. Reducing the number of blades increases the fluctuation in the power output because wind is not able to strike the blade continuously.


The Web is an information repository that grows and evolves fast. Traditional data management systems are based on a persistence model that are not suited for management of Web data. In this paper, we propose a semi-persistence model to capture the evolving nature of the Web. By semi-persistence, we mean data with relaxed persistence requirement where obsolete data may be moved to somewhere or removed implicitly and autonomously. In a semi-persistent data management system, data and the associated statistics have to be maintained efficiently to support trend-report queries and age estimation. We propose a space-efficient data structure, called moving bloom filters (MBF) to maintain time-sensitive statistics of underlying data. The preliminary experiments show that the optimized MBF achieves considerable improvement on space usage while maintaining the same precise estimation of frequency statistics.


We propose a hybrid cavity magnomechanical system to realize and transfer the bipartite entanglements and EPR steerings between magnons, photons and phonons in the regime of the stability of the system. Satisfying the PT -like-symmetry relevant to the passive-active-cavity structure and the proper Stokes/anti-Stokes nonlinear processes, the system can enhance the robust distant quantum entanglement and generate the relatively obvious asymmetric (even directional) EPR steering that is useful for the task with the highly asymmetric trusts of the bidirectional local measurements between two entangled states. It is of great interest that, based on such a tunable magnomechanical system, the perfect transfer between near and distant entanglements/steerings of different mode pairs is realized by adjusting the coupling parameters; especially, the transfer scheme of steerings is first proposed here. These transferring processes can suggest a novel method for the quantum information storage and manipulation. In addition, the entanglements and steerings can also be exchanged between different mode pairs by adjusting the detunings between different modes. This work may provide a potential platform for distant/asymmetric quantum modulation.


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Despite the fact that all women in some way must face the shortand long-term health consequences of postmenopau sal estrogen deficiency, many avoid hormone replacement therapy (HRT), primarily because of concerns related to safety and side effects. To date, clinicians have been limited in their ability to address these concerns through dosage adjustments due to a lack of adequate clinical data on the safety and effectiveness of lower-dose regimens. This is why the recent publi cations of the findings of the Women's Health, Osteoporosis, Progestin, Estro gen (HOPE) Study are so important. This study is the first large-scale, con trolled clinical trial to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of lower-dose estro gen and estrogen/progestin regimens. More importantly, the efficacy and safety of lower-dose regimens were found comparable to those of the regi men most commonly prescribed today, with the added benefit of an improved bleeding profile. Based on the results of this trial, the sponsor has submitted a New Drug Application for conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) 0.45 mg/medro xyprogesterone actetate (MPA) 1.5 mg. The focus of this review are the publi cations from the Women's HOPE Study on menopausal symptoms [1] and endometrial bleeding [2]. The results will be reviewed in the context of pre vious trials of lower-dose regimens and then discussed in terms of their appli cation to clinical practice. Subsequent reviews will address the publications of the Women's HOPE Study data on endometrial safety [3] and metabolic profile [4] and the findings related to preservation of bone mass [5].


The formation of self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) on GaAs substrates has attracted much interest as a growth technique to fabricate promising nanoscale devices such as QD lasers [1] and QD infrared photodetectors [2, 3] without an additional lithography process because QDs have discrete atom-like energy levels with good optical properties [4]. Self-assembled QDs in lattice-mismatched systems, such as InAs/GaAs and SiGe/Si, can be achieved by using the StranskiKrastanov (SK) growth mode [5]. In the SK growth mode, the mismatched layer grows on the substrate twodimensionally at first, then, above a critical thickness, strain-induced and dislocation-free QDs are formed on a residual two-dimensional wetting layer. An appropriate regulation of the respective growth conditions may provide the possibility for controlling precisely the size and the density of the QDs. The structural properties of grown films are generally investigated by using such methods as transmission electron microscopy [6], atomic force microscopy [7], scanning tunneling microscopy [8], and X-ray diffraction [9, 10]. However, reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) [11] is a powerful tool to investigate in situ growth processes during molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) because the diffraction pattern provides information on the growth mode, the oscillation intensity provides information on the growth rate, and the spot position provides information on the surface lattice parameter [12, 13]. In spite of this, few studies concerning the time evolution of dot formation and the strain relaxation of QDs by using RHEED have been performed. Furthermore, detailed work on the formation process and lattice parameter of InAs/GaAs QDs are very important for enhancing the uniformity of the QDs. This letter reports on the formation process and the lattice parameter of the QDs in lattice-mismatched InAs


Debate on the antimafia movement has placed the phenomenon mainly in the urban civil society tradition of new Italian social movements. While acknowledging the resonance of antimafia mobilization in this context, this article explores a different tradition, wherein struggles against the mafia in Sicily are analysed alongside, and in constant interconnection with, the development of the agrarian cooperative movement of the island. Focusing on the Alto Belice area of western Sicily, the article argues that antimafia politics evolved from an association with agricultural workers' cooperativism in an anti-middleman direction after the 1950s land reform. Moreover, it assesses ethnographically how this tradition has influenced actors in the contemporary, largely successful, movement of antimafia cooperatives that cultivate land confiscated from the mafia by the Italian state. It examines how these actors link to this genealogy, associating their contemporary activity, in largely imaginary ways, to this history of struggles, and claiming inheritance over it.


This excellent monograph, a reworked Marburg dissertation, thoroughly examines the Type VII oinochoe (jug) in painted Attic, Etruscan and Faliscan pottery. Chapter 1 starts with a review of the scholarship. J.D. Beazley, as early as 1947, and L. Donati in 1993, noted the similarity between Attic Type VII oinochoai and Etruscan oinochoai of similar form, while G. Hafner in 1957 thought the shape was derived from Eastern prototypes, a view that has not been accepted. A. Waiblinger, meanwhile, in 1980 saw that late fifth-century Etruscan painted oinochoai were modeled on Attic red-figure type VII oinochoai, and she became the first to suggest a direct relationship between the Attic and Etruscan oinochoai. Since then, considerable work has been done on the typological analysis of Etruscan and Faliscan type VII oinochoai, but no complete analysis of them in relation to the Attic examples exists. This is the goal of this book. The chapter concludes by providing a clear definition of the characteristics of a Type VII oinochoe, a comparison of the shape with other related types of oinochoai, a typology of Type VII oinochoai (two main types, each of which has two variants: Types 1A, 1B, 2A and 2B), and a short description of how they were made. The Attic red-figure examples are the subject of Chapter II, which consists primarily of a stylistic and iconographical analysis of the 41 known (cat. nos. A1-A40 and addendum on p. 289). All were made between 470 BCE and the end of the fifth century and were decorated by a limited range of painters who specialized in small vases. The author carefully analyses the drawing on each oinochoe while reviewing earlier attributions to specific vase-painters. In several cases she proposes a new attribution. She also examines the oeuvre of several artists, such as the Painter of the Brussels Oinochoai and


As a new type of generator, an asynchronized high-voltage generator has the characteristics of an asynchronous generator and high voltage generator. The effect of the loss of an excitation fault for an asynchronized high-voltage generator and its fault diagnosis technique are still in the research stage. Firstly, a finite element model of the asynchronized high-voltage generator considering the field-circuit-movement coupling is established. Secondly, the three phase short-circuit loss of excitation fault, three phase open-circuit loss of excitation fault, and three phase short-circuit fault on the stator side are analyzed by the simulation method that is applied abroad at present. The fault phenomenon under the stator three phase short-circuit fault is similar to that under the three phase short-circuit loss of excitation. Then, a symmetrical loss of the excitation fault diagnosis system based on wavelet packet analysis and the Back Propagation neural network (BP neural network) is established. At last, we confirm that this system can eliminate the interference of the stator three phase short-circuit fault, accurately diagnose the symmetrical loss of the excitation fault, and judge the type of symmetrical loss of the excitation fault. It saves time to find the fault cause and improves the stability of system operation.


To comply FDA strict regulatory requirements, it is necessary to design the bioprocess so that the process performance satisfies the specifications not only at set points but also in a wide range of set points, and limit for the process failure occurs needs to be defined as well. It is crucial to understand the bioprocess feasibility under uncertainty in order to design safe and robust manufacturing process for the new generation therapeutic products arising from advanced life science discovery. Motivated by the needs for feasibility studies of bioprocess operational variables, a new feasibility index to indicate the robust operating ranges for the process has been defined in the sense of worst case scenario, i.e., the operating point is robustly feasible if it is feasible under all of the range of variations of the variables. A largest hyperrectangle centred at the operating point is sought to define the process feasibility and its upper and lower bounds for the variations of operating variables. Up to date, the process feasibility under uncertainty is often formulated as complicated max-min-max problem e.g. Swaney and Grossmann's work, which posts a great computational challenge because of the non-smoothness of the objective functions and non-convexity of the feasible space. A different problem formulation for the problem was presented in our earlier work (Kim et al, 2005). In stead of searching for the largest hyperrectangle, a largest hypersphere inscribed in the feasible space is sought so that the difficulty over non-convexity of feasible space can be overcome. Hence, a hyperrectangule can be defined within the hypersphere. The solution obtained is a lower bound approximation of the true solution. By discretisation, the problem can be formulated as finding the minimum distance between a point and a point set so that the complexity of the algorithm has been reduced significantly. Such algorithm can be utilised to find the feasibility index for a given operating point and the optimal operating point with largest feasibility index in the feasible space. In this paper, a general feasibility problem is investigated and a method for solving such a problem has been indicated.


Abstract : The hypothesis that a pronounced bar-trough surf zone topography favors resonance of standing waves with antinodes located over the bar is examined. Numerical and field investigations of standing waves in a bar-trough surf zone suggest a selective trapping of wave energy at specific resonant frequencies in the subharmonic and the high frequency infragravity bands and a possible suppression of lower frequencies. The resonant frequencies predicted by the numerical model remain fairly constant throughtout the tidal cycle due to the small tidal range typically associated with a bar-trough beach. Cross-shore bar migration changes the resonant frequencies. Numerical simulations show that an onshore bar migration is accompanied by a reduction in the period of the resonant wave and a decrease in the longshore wavelength of the possible edge wave mode.


In accordance with Prime Minister Nakasone's proposal to encourage students from abroad to study in Japan, "The International Student 100,000 Plan" was launched in 1983. Although the Ministry of Education has taken various measures to realize this quantitative goal, in 2001 there were still only 78,812 international students enrolled in Japan. Why was this Plan not realized? Were the Ministry of Education's measures effective or ever fully implemented? In order to answer these questions, this paper aims to analyze the policy processes involved in, and the measures for, the Plan between 1983 to 1999, using Fowler's classical stage model framework. Also, the paper will examine the model of political decision-making of the Plan in the light of one of Swanson's six models—the elite theory.


Deformities of the head and neck region after radical oncosurgery can have devastating effects on the appearance of the patient with significant impact on patients quality of life. Reconstruction of such defects continues to be an extremely demanding challenge for plastic surgeons who aim to restore form and function with minimal surgical morbidity. The purpose of this communications is to highlight the various interventions and the protocols that are adopted to decrease the free flap failure rate.


Complexes of tridentate ligands containing oxime, imine and amine donor groups have been prepared both by complexation of the preformed ligands and by condensation reactions between added dionemonoxime ligands and coordinated amine ligands. Higher yields of the bis(tridentate) complexes result from the former method, while the latter method produces other complexes that may prove synthetically useful as well. Many of the complexes have been characterised by X-ray crystallographic techniques.


Intermetallic alloys and compounds undergoing diffusionless solid–solid phase transformations are an important class of high-damping materials. Some representatives of these alloys and compounds also possess good magnetic properties. For such materials, a combination of the magnetoelastic coupling and a high mobility of the martensitic variants can bring about new features of the internal friction and allows one to control the damping capacity by an external magnetic field. Here we review damping properties of magnetically ordered shape memory alloys.


Xiao Tong compiled the Anthology of Literary Works,first of all,the reclusion poetry,included two categories of"recruit hermit"and"opposition to recruit hermit".This classification reflects the rise of the Six Dynasties hermit ethos,reclusion poetry had the enormous influence of compiling on later generations,and has pioneering significance to the development of this kind.Reclusion poetry included by the Anthology of Literary Works is the inevitable outcome of the development of the Six Dynasties hermit poems,which are also associated with family reclusion thought,Xiao Tong liking hermit is the direct reason.Because Xiao Tong emphasized on reclusion poetry,reclusion poetry was established,Xiao Tong highlight the important characteristics of this type of poetry,with the far-reaching influence of the Anthology of Literary Works,the reclusion poetry image deeply rooted into the Chinese collective memory,established the position of reclusion poetry in literary history.


BACKGROUND: The roles of the emergency services are challenging and often physically demanding. Readiness to meet these challenges and demands is a fundamental requirement for staff to deliver their roles safely and effectively. Furthermore, employers are required by law to demonstrate every reasonable effort to protect their staff from undue risk of work-related injury. Implementing Physical Employment Standards (PES) enables employers to assign staff to roles for which they are physically-suited whilst contributing to such duty-of-care. However, for PES to be successful and legally-defendable, standards must reflect the demands of those job-tasks which are truly critical to the readiness of these services. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a standardised approach to identifying critical job-tasks exists in the development of PES for the emergency services. METHODS: Studies which conducted analysis of job-tasks to develop PES within the emergency services were reviewed. RESULTS: Forty-two reported studies (i.e. records) met the inclusion criteria. Methods to determine job-tasks varied but were typically criteria-based incorporating one, or all, of 9 reported techniques. Methods were subjective and based upon reference to past or present job-task performance. CONCLUSION: Correctly determining critical job-tasks is essential for effective, legally-defendable PES. A standardised method to define job-tasks remains to be established.


This chapter addresses the puzzling question of why informal work is widespread in the Republic of Korea despite the presence of a wide variety of protective policies under labour law and a universal social insurance system. The informal work may occur because of the lack of relevant regulation or the lack of compliance. This study explores whether the main cause of informal work is lack of regulation – exclusion by law; orlack of compliance – exclusion in practice. This chapter finds that about 80 per cent of informal work in the Republic of Korea occurs under the relevant regulation, and that the low level of policy enforcement is the key to understanding the lack of compliance. These findings emphasize the need to reinforce the enforcement of protective policies.


Corporate social responsibility has attained a high level of discourse among practitioners and scholars around the world and more recently in a new dimension in Nigeria. However, CSR remains an equivocal construct with divergent views on its relationship with firm performance and firm value. This study therefore examines the relations between CSR expenditure on firm performance and firm values. Data were sourced from the annual reports of quoted firms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange using exploratory research design. The Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and OLS method of regression analysis were used to estimate the relationship in the variables of study. Return on Asset (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE) were used to proxy firm performance while Earnings per Share (EPS) and Dividend per Share (DPS) were used to proxy firm value. The study reveals that CSR has impact on ROA, ROE, DPS and EPS at varying degrees. The study therefore concludes that there is positive relationship between CSR and firm performance and firm value. It is recommended that the banks should make substantial investment into the environment where if operates for improved performance.


Public health and public administration literature speaks to the fact that smoke-free policy has been steadily diffusing within and between states for the last decade. The literature suggests common strengths and challenges associated with advocacy efforts in tobacco control. The similarities suggest that policy activity in this area fits with policy-making theory of the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). After reviewing relevant literature on tobacco control advocacy and theories of policy making, this study discusses a grounded theory qualitative analysis of focus group data to examine to what degree the themes and grounded theory derived from the data conform to the advocacy coalition framework and concludes by looking at an emerging issue in tobacco control, regulating the use of electronic cigarettes and how the modified version of the advocacy coalition framework could be applied.


The morbidity and mortality of esophageal carcinoma showed an upward trend in recent years. Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy is the main mode of treatment for advanced esophageal carcinoma, including neoadjuvant chemotherapy, neoadjuvant radiotherapy and neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy. However, there are still many controversies on efficacies and advantages or disadvantages of treatment mode. In this article, authors will investigate the present situations and future direction of neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced esophageal carcinoma.

Key words:
Esophageal neoplasms; Neoadjuvant therapy; Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy; Surgical resection


The concept of electronic war and aircraft survivability and susceptivity is introduced,a quantitative evaluation hiberarchy system of aircraft survivability is designed.The effect of electronic jamming to radar detection probability and the standard deviation of missile missing distance is qualitative analyzed,the calculation example shows the increase of jamming efficiency causes the reduction of the missile guide precision and the increase of missing distance,which indicates that the electronic jamming makes great influence to aircraft susceptivity and survivability.The jamming efficiency factor is brought forward as a new concept,and the ratio proved to be looked as one type of jamming efficiency factor.The electronic countermeasure methods of reducing the aircraft susceptivity are given at the end.


Abstract This is the second part of a two-volumespecial issueof Open Geoscience (formerly Central European Journalof Geosciences) that aims to be instrumental in providingan update of Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks and Alkaline-Carbonatitic Magmatism and Associated HydrothermalMineralization. Together, these two volumes provide a detailedand comprehensive coverage of the subjects thatare relevant to the research work of P.Comin-Chiaramonti(Italy) and LiaN. Kogarko (Russia) towhomPart-I and Part-II have been respectively dedicated.To a significant extent, the development of advanced samplingtechnologies related to alkaline and carbonatiticmagmatism by Lia N. Kogarko, has allowed geoscientiststo measure and sample the deep crust of the planet notonly for the exploration for the mineral deposits, but alsoto answer basic scientific questions about the origin andevolution of alkaline rocks (kimberlites, lamproites and relatedrocks associated with carbonatites). The papers presentedin this Part-II of the special issue cover the petrologyand geochemistry of the rocks collected from the surfaceand penetrated by drilling. Lia Kogarko proposed anew theory for the evolution of alkaline magmatism in thegeological history of the Earth – that the appearance of alkalinemagmatism at the Archaean-Proterozoic boundary(~2.5 – 2.7 Ga), and its growing intensity, was related tochanges in the geodynamic regime of the Earth and oxidationof the mantle due to mantle-crust interaction.


Leishmaniasis is a protozoal disease capable of causing a spectrum of clinical syndromes ranging from cutaneous ulcerations to systemic infections. The protozoa are transmitted to mammals specially dogs via the bite of the female sand fly. Humans generally are considered incidental hosts. For most species of Leishmania, an animal reservoir is required for endemic conditions to persist. Infections in wild animals usually are not pathogenic, with the exception of dogs, which may be severely affected [1,2].


This Viewpoint describes why knowledge of a child's environment is critical for optimal care and why it is important that this information be documented in a child's electronic health record.


ABSTRACT TRING, as a collector to sample liquid spray patterns, and a unique filter fluorometer door, designed to enhance the string fluorescence, were evaluated. String and paper tape collectors were compared for treatment combinations involving two nozzle types, four application rates and three dye concentrations. The fluorometric response from the string collector was equal to or better than that from the paper tape. The spray application rate was highly correlated with collector fluorescence. Optimum dye concentrations for the string and paper tape collectors were determined to be 100 and 300 ppm, respectively.


The coastal salt marsh grass, Spartina foliosa Trin., was grown in nutrient solution at different salinites (0%—125% sea water; sea water =33%) for 8 weeks. Growth and survival was greatest in fresh water although the plant grows in sea wate in its natural habitat. Protein (17.9% ± 0.8%, dry weight) and lipid (16% ± 0%, dry weight) were higher in fresh water cultured plants than in sea water cultured plants (12.4% ± 0.5% protein, 3% ± 0% lipid). Fresh water plants contained less sodium (0.25%) and more potassium (3.52%) than sea water plants (4.82% sodium, 1.80% potassium). See full-text article at JSTOR


OBJECTIVES: Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is very common in older people and is known to be associated with complaints of impaired daily functioning, including excessive daytime sleepiness and cognitive impairments. As part of a larger study on SDB and aging, it became possible to examine the relationship between SDB and cognition in older men and women.


The present design of a process management system was made in Espinosa Paez, located in Quito. The company is dedicated to the advising and sale of weighing solutions. The main problem that was found in the company is that for different reasons, not all customers that enter in the company buy something. This reduces the opportunity for the organization to continue expanding and catch new customers. To solve this problem, a process management system was designed, which gives an order to the organization and all kinds of repetitive tasks will be avoided or time losses that have been generated. In order to create the proposed design, we began by carrying out the current diagnosis of the company, reviewing the available bibliographic material and carrying out the survey of the current processes, later improvements were made in each of the processes, delegating leaders and making strong work teams, finally we proposed policies, indicators of processes and methods to implement continuous improvement in the organization.


Rational management is required for the profitability of the Japanese aquaculture industry and to promote investment in the industry. Although bioeconomic modeling could facilitate rational aquaculture management, it has not been applied in Japanese marine aquaculture. In the present study, we developed a bioeconomic model for oyster farming in Miyagi prefecture, Japan, and determined the optimal harvest schedules under labor constraints. Low, moderate, and high temperature scenarios were simulated to investi-gate the effects of changes in seawater temperature on farm productivity. Early initiation of harvest, particularly from late October or early November, achieved the maximum profit under the environmental and economic conditions in the present study. The moderate temperature scenario (current temperature conditions) had a high total profit (962,890 JPY) when harvest was initiated on October 29. The high temperature scenario had lower profits than the profits under current conditions, indicating that climate change could have adverse effects on oyster farming profitability in Miyagi prefecture.


: Disaster reduction is one of the most important keys towards sustainable development. Using a number of case studies, the present work was intended to elucidate the need for improved communication between the urban flood management community and the road planning sector for better flood risk management. These cases were classified in three categories: (1) Road tragedy during evacuation, (2) Why some roads are vulnerable to flooding, (3) How to quickly evaluate the potential impact of road construction on surface drainage characteristics. These cases provided strong evidence that insufficient dialogue between water and road sectors may hinder sound flood risk management by recommending wrong flood evacuation routes that are life threatening and neglecting the impact of road construction on the alteration of surface drainage characteristics. These cases were selected purposively but not comprehensively. Based on findings from these case studies, it can be stated that evacuation safety should be improved through better communication between flood risk and road management professionals, which in turn will lead to better road planning.


We study the gravitational dressing of renormalizable two-dimensional field theories. Our main result is that the one-loop [beta] function is finitely renormalized by the factor ([ital k]+2)/([ital k]+1), where [ital k] is the central charge of the gravitational SL(2,[ital R]) current algebra.


3+ takes high-spin state for x 0.7.[2] Therefore, it is important to reveal the relationship of these two magnetic structures with Co-site electronic structure to give information about the Co valence and spin states which produce the peculiar magnetism in this system. We have done Co L2,3-edge resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSXS) measurement of La1.5Ca0.5CoO4 to study these two magnetic structures precisely. Experimental and Results Experimental Monocrystalline samples of La1.5Ca0.5CoO4 were cut and polished to make mirror-like [100] surface. We set the ac plane as the scattering plane to measure the two magnetic structures. We measured Co L 2,3 XAS and RSXS at BL16A of Photon Factory. Results


a microelectrode array (MEA) chip for in-vitro signal recording and stimulating of neurons assemble is presented. The chip comprises 4×4 active sensor cells and ESD protection circuits. Each sensor cell is 60μm×60μm in dimension, including a 15μm×25μm stimulating electrode, a 15μm×25μm recording electrode and two NMOS switches which can linearly transfer signals with peak-to-peak values from 50 μV to 500 mV. The final chip is realized in a standard 0.5 μm DPDM (double-poly double-metal) CMOS technology. It covers an area of 1.0mm×1.0mm. The results of on-wafer electrical test indicate the independent electrical characteristic of the stimulating electrode and the recording electrode and verify the functionality of the NMOS switches. The tests carried out in the NaCl solution for the packaged chip have verified the electrical functionality of the MEA chip.


To evaluate whether positional MR images of the lumbar spine, obtained with a horizontally open‐configuration MR unit, demonstrate positional changes of the dural sac, and to assess whether there are significant differences in positional changes between healthy volunteers and patients with chronic low back pain.


We study the arithmetic properties of higher Weierstrass points on modular curves X 0 (p) for primes p. In particular, for r ∈ {2,3,4,5}, we obtain a relationship between the reductions modulo p of the collection of r-Weierstrass points on X 0 (p) and the supersingular locus in characteristic p.


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This project is to design the antenna array for the use of ultra wide band frequency range spectrum.In the ultra wide band frequency,the microwave imaging has been used to detect the unusual tissues in the human body for example a tumor cell,cancer cell and other cells which uncompatible with normal tissue in human body.In addition,the microwave imaging also can provide an accurate detection and a good treatment with low cost for the early detection.The main thing about the microwave imaging technique is to observe microwave frequencies and conductivity between the normal and the malignant tissues.Therefore,an antenna was designed in an array design by using a suitable substrate in order to detect the unusual tissue in the human body.A substrate
called Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 was used in this project as the thickness is just about 1.575mm which can easily flexible to all type of parts in the human body shapes.The
antenna was designed by using a Computer Simulation Software (CST) to achieve a simulation result.The ultra wide band frequency for unusual tissue detection for microwave imaging is between the range of 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz.However,after done doing the simulation test,the result obtained was between the range of 3.5942 GHz until 8.1836 GHz with a bandwidth of 4.5894.While,for the two lowest return loss shows the simulation result of -17.594 and -16.724 with frequencies of 4.4750 GHz and 7.0565 GHz respectively.A lots of parameter sweep already done to make sure that the frequency of the antenna is between the bandwidth of the ultra wide band frequency range spectrum. Therefore,this antenna is practical used in the medical sector which helps the doctors and nurses applied this technology to the patients s ince the structure is flexible to all type of body shapes and the resulting frequency is still in the range of reading frequency microwave imaging.


Rats with lesions in the parietal cortex or hippocampus as well as cortical lesion and sham-operated controls were tested for acquisition or retention of a cheese board spatial task (dry land version of a water maze task). Results indicated that, relative to controls, rats with hippocampal or parietal cortex lesions were impaired in both acquisition and retention of the spatial task as measured by increased distances traveled to find the correct food location. It is suggested that both the hippocampus and parietal cortex subserve spatial representations required for optimal learning and performance of the cheese board spatial task.


Research on the development of learning media for Android-Based Interactive E- modules on colloidal material aims to produce valid, practical and effective learning media. The floating model used is a 4D development model. The trial of the learning media developed was carried out on students of SMAN 1 Kotabaru for the 2020/2021 academic year. The trials carried out were individual trials, small group trials and limited trials. Data collection techniques used validation sheets, readability questionnaires, response questionnaires and test assessments. Data analysis used descriptive analysis. The results showed that the developed media had met the following criteria: (1) Valid, based on a feasibility test by a group of experts with an average of 91.66% (very valid); (2) Practical, based on individual, group readability tests, as well as student and teacher response questionnaires with successive scores of 3.30 (very good); 3.40 (very good); 3.34 (very good) and 3.70 (very good); (3) Effective, based on the results of a limited trial, it can be seen from the average n-gain score of 0.73 (high). Overall, the e-module developed is able to improve students' conceptual understanding skills and as a form of renewal in chemistry learning


There is, however, the further fact that men frequently orient themsleves to groups other than their own in shaping their behaviour and evaluations, and it is the problem centered about this fact of orientation to non-membership groups that constitutes the distinctive concern of reference group theory. Robert K. Merton and Alice S. Rossie (1957) The controversy over the intellectual life of Catholic America was brought into the public arena by John Tracy Ellis's 1955 article in Thought. He asked why a rich and powerful national church with an extensive network of educational institutions had contributed so little to American intellectual life.1 Subsequently, this public self-criticism was further elaborated by such prominent Catholic scholars as Thomas O'Dea, Gustave Weigel and Walter J. Ong.2 The controversy was fired by studies that indicated that Catholics were not sharing in the general upward mobility or attending post-secondary institutions to the same degree as their fellow Americans, that Catholic...


We are first introduced to Léonce Pontellier in the opening scene of Kate Chopin's The Awakening, as he lounges outside the resort cottages that pepper Grand Isle, Louisiana. Léonce reads a day-old newspaper because "the Sunday papers had not yet reached the Grand Isle" (3). Léonce's day-old paper hints that Grand Isle, along with its preserved slave quarters, now serving as resort cottages for the vacationing Creole elite, is just slightly behind the rapidly progressing New South. This racially varied and multilingual New Orleans society is represented by a disruptive parrot preventing Léonce from reading his paper or enjoying his cigar in peace:


This paper presents an idea for an Electromagnetic Engine. It is a modification of conventional internal combustion engine. As the fossil fuels are prone to extinction, thus this proposed idea is an attempt to get rid of the conventional fossil fuel engines. Proposed work uses the electromagnetic force to drive the piston and produce power. The concept of changing the direction of current and hence the polarity of magnetic field thus producing attractive and repulsive forces in succession has been used by which we get reciprocating motion which will drive the crankshaft and the motion will be converted into rotary motion as given by any conventional engine. Proposed engine's working is similar to a two-stroke internal combustion engine as power at piston head is generated in each cycle revolution of shaft. Keywords—2-Stroke Engine, Electromagnet, Electromagnetic Engine, Microcontroller.


Background: Traumatic birthing mothers may expose more susceptible to experiences posttraumatic mental disorder such as anxiety. This study aimed to determine the effect of midwifery counseling intervention on the anxiety level after traumatic childbirth of primiparous women. Methods: In a randomized control trial 180 woman who had experienced traumatic childbirth based on DSM-IV criteria have been selected. The subjects were randomly divided into an intervention (n=90) and control (n=90) groups. The intervention group received midwifery counseling during two sessions and control group just received routin health care after childbirth. Both groups were followed up with partial – blind technique and compared 4-6 weeks and 3 months post partum. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics by SPSS software. Results: Demographic characteristics, pregnancy complications and social support level were the same in both groups. In addition, there was no significant difference between two groups according to stress, depression and anxiety level before intervention (P>0.05). There was significant difference between two groups in anxiety level after 4-6 weeks and 3 months followup (P<0.001). Conclusion: Findings of this research shows that performing midwifery-counseling program may have significant effect on decreasing of anxiety level after traumatic childbirth.


We used immunohistochemical staining of p53 protein to detect micrometastasis in regional lymph nodes that were judged tumor-free by conventional histopathological methods in 58 patients with stage I or II (pT1 or 2, N0) epithelial ovarian cancer. Overexpression of p53 protein in the primary lesions of ovarian cancer was observed in 31 patients (53%), and p53 protein-positive cells were detected in the regional lymph nodes (micrometastasis-positive) in 19 of 31 patients with p53 protein overexpression (61%). In patients with micrometastasis, the prognosis was significantly poorer than that in those without micrometastasis (p < 0.05). Detection of micrometastasis of the regional lymph nodes of ovarian cancer by immunohistochemical staining of p53 protein may be useful in predicting the prognosis of patients with stage I or II epithelial ovarian cancer.


The aim of the current study was to evaluate NFY-C and RORA expression and investigate the correlation of NFY-C expression with p53 status in patients with colorectal carcinoma.
NFY-C protein is one of the three subunits of nuclear factor Y, which binds to the promoters of many eucaryotic genes, including cell cycle – related genes, inducing their transcription. p53 tumor supressor protein binds to NFY and induce gene expression. RORA protein is a steroid hormone receptor, which is implicated in many cellular processes.
In the current study NFY-C and RORA mRNA levels were evaluated by quantitative RT-PCR in 81 neoplastic colorectal tissue specimens and 53 normal tissue specimens from patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma and were analysed in relation to clinicopathological parameters of the patients. Protein expression of NFY-C was assessed by immunochemistry in 92 malignant and 36 normal samples from patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma. p53 status of the exons 5, 6, 7 and 8 was detected using PCR-SSCP method.
NFY-C mRNA and protein levels were elevated in malignant tissues compared to normal tissues and were related to the primary site of the tumor. Elevated mRNA levels of NFYC of stage B patients were significantly correlated with time to disease progression. NFY-C protein was detected only in the cytoplasm and not in the nucleus and its expression was correlated with the stage of the disease. RORA mRNA levels were decreased in normal tissues compared to malignant tissues and were related to the primary site. Protein expression of NFY-C in combination with p53 status is associated with overall survival and time to disease progression of the patients.
In conclusion, the differential expression of NFY-C and RORA indicates a possible role for these molecules in colon carcinogenesis.


Hippocampal place cells are activated sequentially as an animal explores its 15 environment. These activity sequences are internally recreated ("replayed"), either in the same or 16 reversed order, during bursts of activity (sharp wave-ripples; SWRs) that occur in sleep and awake 17 rest. SWR-associated replay is thought to be critical for the creation and maintenance of 18 long-term memory. In order to identify the cellular and network mechanisms of SWRs and replay, 19 we constructed and simulated a data-driven model of area CA3 of the hippocampus. Our results 20 show that the chain-like structure of recurrent excitatory interactions established during learning 21 not only determines the content of replay, but is essential for the generation of the SWRs as well. 22 We find that bidirectional replay requires the interplay of the experimentally confirmed, 23 temporally symmetric plasticity rule, and cellular adaptation. Our model provides a unifying 24 framework for diverse phenomena involving hippocampal plasticity, representations, and 25 dynamics, and suggests that the structured neural codes induced by learning may have greater 26 influence over cortical network states than previously appreciated. 27


Oral Sub Mucous Fibrosis (OSMF) is a crippling disease that impedes the normal functions of the oral cavity. It is a slowly progressive disease characterized by epithelial atrophy, abnormal accumulation of collagen fibers in the sub-epithelial tissues. It predominantly affects people of South-East Asian origin where chewing of areca nut and its commercial preparations is high. The prevalence in India has been reported as being from 0.2 to 0.5 per cent.


PHM (Prognostic and Health Management) is a new concept, which is to ensure the normal operation of the complicated system, to achieve its functionality and reliability better. In this situation, the remaining useful life (RUL) prediction has aroused more and more concerns. Although the life prediction methods are many, there are not a set of systemic of evaluation parameters to evaluate the accuracy of the prediction method. The existing parameters have different limitations. Therefore, due to the shortage of the existing parameters, this paper presents the systemic prediction evaluation parameters to evaluate the prediction ability of the method. Then, some parameters are applied to the BP neural network in a power supply system of the evaluation.


Following the first racially inclusive democratic elections in 1994, the government efforts to eliminate poverty have been frustrated by the continued shedding of jobs from the formal economy. The tourism industry is one industry that has grown in leaps and bound since the watershed moment in 1994. The tourism industry has developed to become a priority sector in every government policy related to economic growth and sector strategies since 1994. The fact that the tourism industry is labour intensive, employs a multiplicity of skills, allows the entry of locally owned small and medium enterprises and the tourism industry is an export product that earns foreign exchange par excellent. The dramatic rise of tourism as an economic sector has been also associated with the aviation as a dominant transportation sector. The pioneering LCC in South Africa, kulula.com increased aviation traffic, lower fares and increased completion, beneficial to business and society. 1Time was the second airline, a LCC to file for liquidation in 2012 after Velvet Sky, and this raised questions about the sustainability of the LCC model for airlines. The grounding of planes by 1Time and the application for liquidation were the last option for 1Time as business rescue was initiated due to high debt levels and the failure to conclude the sale of the airline in the eleventh hour. The case study presents the demise of 1Time, challenges facing aviation in general and the LCC aviation model specifically and lessons for potential aviation entrants. This article is based on based on a descriptive literature study (desk research) of the aviation industry in South Africa, to add to the paucity of academic literature on the demise of low cost carriers. This article seeks to trace, identify the causes of low cost carrier failure, and suggest suggestions on how low cost carriers can be better managed and how the business environment for low cost carriers can be improved. The article would create a body of knowledge that could be used for analysis in planning empirical research.


The first part of this article gives a summary of some of the most important results obtained by single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques in the study of antibody structure. In the second part, recent result obtained in the authors'laboratory are discussed.


The tribological properties and mechanical strength of boron nitride films were investigated. The BN films were predominantly amorphous and nonstoichiometric and contained small amounts of oxides and carbides. It was found that the yield pressure at full plasticity, the critical load to fracture, and the shear strength of interfacial adhesive bonds (considered as adhesion) depended on the type of metallic substrate on which the BN was deposited. The harder the substrate, the greater the critical load and the adhesion. The yield pressures of the BN film were 12 GPa for the 440C stainless steel substrate, 4.1 GPa for the 304 stainless steel substrate, and 3.3 GPa for the titanium substrate.


Within 2 years, two sisters, aged 23 and 33, were operated on for a craniopharyngioma. With regard to this exceptional feature, relation between neuroectodermal affections and craniopharyngiomas is discussed, and genetic determination of the occurrence of those tumors is evoked.


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Purple eggplant have methanol, flavonoids, saponins, and tannins compounds which have potential as antibacterial. Escherichia coli (E. coli) is one of the germs that cause various kinds of infections and currently many are reported to have experienced resistance to a number of conventional antibiotics. The purpose of this study was to explore the antibacterial activity of purple eggplant ethyl acetate extract against Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. This research is an experimental study using the microdilution method to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the spread-plate method to determine the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). This study used various doses of purple eggplant ethyl acetate extract (5-40 mg/mL) as the treatment group and the control group that was not given purple eggplant ethyl acetate extract. Purple eggplant ethyl acetate extract has a MIC value of 20 mg/mL and a MIC value of 20 mg/mL. The percentage of inhibition of purple eggplant ethyl acetate extract against E. coli bacteria was greater with the higher concentration used. Purple eggplant ethyl acetate extract has potential as a antibacterial against E. coli


Heat resistance steel 15CrMo and 12Cr1MoV pipes were joined by high temperature brazing and transient liquid-phase diffusion bonding(TLP) using BNi2 amorphous alloy as filler in argon atmosphere.Microstructural evolution and composition distribution as well as mechanical properties of the heat resistance steel tube during high temperature brazing and transient liquid phase bonding were investigated.The results indicate that,using BNi2 as filler,12Cr1MoV steel pipes can be joined by TLP bonding,and the tensile strength of the joint at room temperature is equal to or greater than that of the substrate;but the welded joint of 15CrMo steel pipe with high temperature brazing has poor performance because of the generation of brittle compounds.


Objective To observe the platelet change after splenectomy because of different diseases and to discuss the clinical significance.Methods The platelet changes before and after splenectomy in 94 cases(70 cases with traumatic splentic rupture,17 cases with hyperspenism by hepatic cirrhosis and 4 cases with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura) were compared.Results All the patients showed relatively similar dynamic change of platelet.Conclusion The quantity of platelet of the patients receiving splenectomy because of different disease rose obviously;correspondent prevention and treatment should be given to those with obvious increase of platelet after splenectomy so as to prevent the occurrence of thrombosis and embolism.


We report on our latest progress in spatial selective, high-resolution ion implantation for applications in quantum computing, sensor technology and photonics. On the basis of a well-known light-emitting defect in silicon, called G-center, we explain how our setups help to fabricate and investigate such optical centers for future generation techniques.


The impact of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) leadership style on the profitability of an organization has been a major concern of much academic research work in the past. However, there seems to be no consensus on this issue. It is generally believed that leaders influence organizational performance through those they lead. Therefore, employee job satisfaction is hypothesized to have a mediating effect on the relationship between the CEO leadership style and the profitability of an organization. This study, conducted among 136 employees of 17 finance companies in Nepal during December 2013, found a very weak relationship between the CEO leadership style and the profitability of an organization. The study also refuted the mediating effect of job satisfaction on the relationship between the CEO leadership style and the profitability of an organization. The findings support the contextualists view on the leadership-performance debate. The probable reasons and implications of the findings are discussed. Journal of Business and Management Research Vol.1(2) 2016, pp.1-16


Black economic empowerment (BEE) share-purchase schemes are the biggest untold corporate fraud in 20 years of democracy in South Africa. Vendor companies deliberately misrepresent these schemes as discounts to unsuspecting potential BEE participants, who lack the financial aptitude to understand the prospectus. Worse, BEE shareholding is deliberately overstated. This is fraud, because a company's BEE shareholding meets a legal requirement, promotes the vendor company and provides opportunities for new business, in particular state and parastatal business.


The utility model discloses a composite thermal insulation system of external walls. The composite thermal insulation system of external walls includes an external substrate, wherein the external substrate is successively provided with a leveling mortar layer, a bonding layer, a first insulation board, a second insulation board, a coating mortar layer and an external finish coat from inside to outside. A waterproof and bonding mortar layer is arranged between the first insulation board and the second insulation board and the coating mortar layer comprises a mortar layer and a gridding cloth layer. Accordingly, the composite thermal insulation system of external walls has the advantages of good heat conservation effect, waterproofness and fireproofness through the combination of two insulation boards.


The present message is devoted to search of physiological markers of a condition of an electric sleep. Transcranial electric sleep is artificially generated by using the electric current analogue of natural sleep. On healthy volunteers athletes it is shown that the condition of an electric sleep is followed by increase in values of indicators of respiratory and warm activity, more characteristic for a condition of a relaxation, than for a condition of a natural dream. Along with it introduction of a Paroxetine (a selective inhibitor of reuptake of serotonin (SIRS)) before training and procedure of an electric sleep promotes change of dynamics and improvement of indicators of course of physiological processes. Application of a Paroxetine in controlled research improves a sleep, promotes turning on of relaxation mechanisms of an electric sleep. The melatonin role as possible intermediary in processes of a relaxation is discussed.


Change ● July/August 2016 I t is unfortunate that Lyndon Johnson is remembered as much for the Vietnam War as for the Great Society. His vision of an expanded federal role in fighting poverty, defending civil rights and countering racism, and expanding the social safety net was as bold and admirable for its time as Roosevelt's New Deal was a generation before. A crucial element in Johnson's vision and program was an expanded national commitment to education, pre-K-college. The two quotes from Johnson illustrate a common, perhaps rhetorical, aspiration and a more sober view of limits and possibilities. Reading the first quote one might simply say, "Well, no, not really." We may hope that education might help eliminate poverty and lessen inequality, create a more responsible citizenry, and promote mutual understanding, but it is unclear and even doubtful that education is "the answer." Inequality is a function of many things, including public policies and market forces. Educational efforts to promote civic virtues and respect for diversity often exist in a hostile environment—see campaign 2016. By the same token, our education system ought not be tasked with or blamed for doing things it cannot do. For example, the 1983 report "A Nation at Risk" predicted dire economic consequences if our K-12 schools did not perform better. In 2006, the Spellings Commission made similar claims about colleges and universities dragging down the economy. And yet, three decades after the first report and a decade after the second, the United States remains the most powerful and innovative economy in the world. This is not because of some dramatic change in our schools, which are performing only a little better if at all, rather it has to do, again, with a host of other political and economic factors. The schools are neither the primary cause of our economic performance nor the cure for economic woes. Johnson's second quote provides a better, more sober sense of limits and possibilities. Although neither the answer nor the cure to our problems, education can help us deal with them. If education cannot eliminate poverty, it can provide greater opportunities for students of all ages and backgrounds to be better prepared to enter the job market. If education cannot rid us of incivility and intolerance, it can stand in opposition to them in the hope that we will eventually have a more humane politics and culture. If education is not "the answer," it is at least part of the answer. But this partial answer requires us to do our jobs well as educators. Fulfilling even the most modest promise of education cannot happen if we don't fully engage our students in their work and growth. The articles in this issue suggest there is a lot we can do better in this primary task, from more ground level class and course changes to broader ways about how we think about what we do and organize ourselves to do it. They offer commonsensical, even obvious (though not practiced) ideas for improvement at several levels. The lead article by Charles Blaich, Kathleen Wise, Ernest T. Pascarella, and Josipa Roksa makes a compelling case for one seemingly simple improvement in classes and courses. Using evidence from the longitudinal Wabash National Study of Undergraduate Learning Outcomes, Blaich and colleagues found, "one good practice that had a powerful effect on many important learning outcomes was clear and organized instruction. Unfortunately, almost half of the students in the study did not experience high levels of clarity and organization in their classes." And, as the article by Michael S. Palmer, Lindsay B. Wheeler, and Itiya Aneece persuasively argues, at least part of being clear and organized is having a "learning focused syllabus," as opposed to the more "traditional, content-focused" syllabus. A learningLIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES


The devastating impact of COVID-19 has highlighted global vulnerabilities to high-consequence biological events. The international community was woefully unprepared for a pandemic that has led to millions of deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses, and has upended daily life. However, notwithstanding the severe damage caused by COVID-19, it should be viewed as a warning shot. It will not be the last pandemic humanity faces, and the next high-consequence biological event could be as destructive or substantially worse. We define global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs) as biological events of tremendous scale that could cause severe damage to human civilization, potentially jeopardizing its long-term survival. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has also developed a working definition of GCBRs, and this term is part of a broader discussion about global catastrophic risks that could arise from a variety of sources, including nuclear war, anthropogenic climate change, and advanced artificial intelligence that has not been sufficiently safeguarded. GCBRs could be caused by a naturally emerging infectious disease outbreak, an accidental release of a pathogen, or a deliberate attack. Naturally emerging infectious disease outbreaks that can grow into pandemics are likely to increase in frequency due to urbanization, globalization, and environmental degradation, and the world faces an increasing risk of highconsequence biological events resulting from accidental or deliberate misuse of the tools of modern bioscience and biotechnology. Not all outbreaks or global pandemics will grow to the scale of a GCBR as we define it in this article and as others have defined global catastrophic risks more broadly, because the threshold for this type of event is extremely high. Although COVID-19 does not rise to the level of a GCBR-scale event, it has demonstrated that a biological event can have a devastating global impact, and it should serve as a warning to global leaders that the world needs much more robust protections against high-consequence biological events that could emerge in the future and be substantially worse.


In 1857 the US Supreme Court issued its now-infamous Dred Scott judgment, decreeing that the constitutional guarantee of equal treatment under the law did not apply to slaves. The decision by Canada's Supreme Court on June 9, 2005, to permit private health insurance in Quebec[1][1] — and by


In this paper were described the characteristics of sandy, sandy loam and loamy soil forms which belong to fluvisol soil type in the inundation of the Danube. The soil characteristics: particle size composition, water-air, physical, and chemical properties were presented. Granulometric composition is feature which is of the most significance for the tested physical and chemical properties of these forms. Different properties of the investigated forms of fluvisol soil resulted in their different ecological values.


INTRODUCTION One of the perplexing problems for all nations is the housing of its people. The development of sophisticated public housing schemes is costly and involves significant public resources. The success of mortgage backed securitization in the US as a generator of housing finance is unquestioned. Commentators observe that since the mid-1980s, the techniques of securitization had begun to be introduced into an increasing number of national markets, including Australia. However, securitization has remained largely of marginal significance outside the US, and more recently, Australia. Why is this the case? While this question may be answered empirically in some years hence, a comparison of securitization in the US and Australia may shed some light on the answer. It is often argued that one of the prominent factors in the growth of the market for mortgage backed securities in the US, has been the involvement of Government. This involvement occurred through the establishment of government agencies which actively supported secondary mortgage market activity, in addition to the development of the mortgage backed securitization process in 1970. The US Government's intervention aimed to achieve housing policy objectives through the operation of private housing and related markets, and it did this by providing underlying support for private housing finance markets. However, there were also other factors, which appear to be important in the development of the US market. For example, the legal, institutional and economic environments needed to support a successful secondary mortgage market, and subsequently mortgage backed securitization, had to be developed and maintained. Securitization activity in Australia was, by comparison with the US, late in developing to any degree of sustainability. There were legal, institutional and economic factors inhibiting progress towards an Australian secondary mortgage market. While the technology of securitization was available from 1970, only during the 1990s, did Australian securitization activity achieve some degree of persistence, despite earlier attempts. Consideration of the reasons for this, relative to the US market, and an assessment of factors which impacted its move to market maturity, may provide us with some indication of the conditions required for the development of securitization as a useful and sustainable form of housing finance in any economy. From this comparison, contextual success factors are determined. In this paper, through a comparison of the development of mortgage backed securitization in the US and Australia, an assessment of the importance of these factors is undertaken. Section 1 contains a comparison of the direct involvement of government in the mortgage market in each country. The role of government in the development of the housing finance markets in each country is then discussed in the light of the legal, institutional and economic frameworks, including market conditions, in Sections 2 and 3. In Section 4, the contextual success factors are identified. The final section provides a summary. GOVERNMENT AND HOUSING FINANCE MARKETS Governments have approached housing policy objectives in many diverse ways. US government housing policy since the 1930s has had two objectives: to provide a stimulus to the housing sector and thereby improve productive activity in the economy, and to provide adequate housing for its constituents. These objectives moulded the government's approach to housing and housing finance policy. The establishment of institutions and mechanisms that work in concert with the private sector, and the focus on a national market, have been hallmarks of the US government's approach. The consequent reliance on the private sector for home building and maintenance activity as well as the financing of housing, was a desirable outcome, which assisted in the reinforcement of the national approach to housing finance. …


Submitted for the MAR05 Meeting of The American Physical Society Mn clusters: a nanoscale magnetic transition SUDHA SRINIVAS, KOBLAR A. JACKSON, PETIA BOBADOVA-PARVANOVA, MIHAI HOROI, Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 — Small Mn clusters exhibit remarkable magnetic behavior. Early ESR experiments[1] found the smallest clusters (n=2-5) to be ferromagnetic (FM), while later Stern-Gerlach measurements[2] found larger clusters (n>12) to have very small net moments. Our calculations show that these data reflect a transition in magnetic ordering as a function of cluster size, occurring at n=7 atoms. Specifically, the FM arrangements of the atomic spins favored in smaller clusters give way to antiferromagnetic (AF) arrangements in larger clusters. We find that the FM → AF transition occurs at n=7, in agreement with experimental data, and is driven by a large change in the relative energies of the FM and AF structures. We present results for the structures and magnetic properties of Mnn (n = 2-13), focusing on correlations between the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of the clusters and discuss the effect of substitutional impurities on the magnetic properties of the clusters. 1. C. A. Baumann et al., J. Chem. Phys. 78, 190 (1983). 2. M. B. Knickelbein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5255 (2001). Sudha Srinivas Department of Physics, Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 Date submitted: 07 Dec 2004 Electronic form version 1.4


Radiation therapy for advanced head and neck cancer has developed from the Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy 3DCRT to intensity modulated radiation therapy IMRT and Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy VMAT. Remaining Volume at Risk RVR is clinically important in plan evaluating process. RVR is useful for assisting and estimating the risk of late effects. Aim: The aim of the present work is to compare dosimetric evaluation factors and dosimetric data remaining volume at risk for both IMRT and VMAT in the treatment of large volume head and neck cancer patients. methods: Eleven retrospective patients with advanced head and neck tumors were selected for the planning study. The patients' treatments are planned by using the two different techniques (IMRT and VMAT) and optimized to evaluate highly conformal target coverage and sparing organs at risk OAR. Standard fractionation is 33 fractions with 5 fractions weekly, the prescribed doses 70Gy, 59.4Gy and 54Gy for the high, intermediate, and low risk targets by simultaneous integrated boost. Results: The study showed that VMAT and IMRT are comparable in target volumes homogeneity index HI, while VMAT is more superior (0.76, 44.4and 589) and (0.68, 55.6 and 1989) in conformity number CN, gradient index GI and Monitor Units (MU), respectively. Furthermore, VMAT has an advantage over IMRT in RVR volumes that received 15Gy, 10Gy and 5Gy, which are (4327, 5281 and 6703cc) and a 1019cGy mean dose in the VMAT technique, while in IMRT are (4435, 5311 and 6543cc) and a 1051cGy mean dose. Conclusion: The results of comparing dosimetric evaluation factors of both techniques showed that VMAT had a priority over IMRT in 3 factors of RVR evaluation parameters. Additionally, to other comparison points, especially the time on the machine, makes VMAT a first choice in the treatment plan selection.


The cooperation between the sculptors Juan Bautista Vazquez, the Old Man, and Jeronimo Hernandez with the painter Antonio Mohedano created a masterpiece of the Spanish mannerism. With regard to polychromy, it shows a very rich technical and ornamental repertory, thus following the last third of the 16th century's style. The Spanish Renaissance tradition meets in these traveling masters coming from Avila, in Castilla, where they worked before moving to Andalucia and having previously lived in Toledo. The role of both artists in introducing Italian mannerist innovations in Andalucia was tremendously far-reaching. The work by the IPHE in the conservation of the Lucena tetabule allows us the rare opportunity to study it in cooperation with a multidisciplinary professional team. The data contained in the preserved documents have been compared with the results of the laboratory tests; the gilding and polychromy were analyzed.


Objective: To date, few studies have evaluated frailty in older adults with hypertension and the most appropriate tool to quantify frailty in this population has yet to be identified. The present study aimed to investigate the prognostic impact of frailty on decline of functional autonomy in a sample of hypertensive older adults. Design and method: We performed a longitudinal observational study including patients aged 75 or older evaluated at the Hypertension Clinic and Memory Clinic of the Division of Geriatric and Intensive Care Medicine, Careggi Hospital, Florence. Participants underwent a multidimensional geriatric assessment including frailty evaluation using three frailty scales (Fried Frailty Phenotype, Clinical Frailty Scale [CFS], Frailty Index) and two physical performance measures (gait speed and Short Physical Performance Battery [SPPB]). The primary outcome was reduction of autonomy in daily activities according to the Barthel Index (functional decline). The predictive performance of different frailty measures was evaluated based on ROC curve analysis, sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. Results: Among 99 hypertensive older adults (mean age 81, 59% women, median follow-up 13 months), functional decline occurred in 39% of patients. Participants with functional decline had a higher prevalence of cognitive impairment and frailty according to all the frailty scales used and a worse physical performance. Frailty Index and CFS showed the best predictive performance (AUC 0.715 and 0.708, respectively), followed by physical performance measures (AUC 0.691). All frailty measures showed good specificity (66-79%) and moderate sensitivity (54-70%). Gait speed showed the highest accuracy (71%) and achieved 57% sensitivity and 79% specificity, resulting in better predictive performance than the SPPB. Conclusions: The CFS and gait speed - easily applicable even in non-geriatric settings – may represent useful instrument to detect frailty and predict functional decline in hypertensive older adults.


The implementation of the new Law on Lawyers has influenced the detection of Jobbery Crime deeply.In view of the conflict of the new Law on Lawyers and the relevant provisions of Criminal procedure law,this paper elaborates some suggestions to deal with the new Law on Lawyers during the detection of Jobbery Crime.


YOU MIGHT THINK 2014 WAS A BAD YEAR FOR FLYING. There were four highly publicized accidents–the still-mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March, the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in July, AirAsia Flight QZ8501 falling into the Java Sea in December, and finally, in July, the Air Algerie Flight 5017 crash in Mali, for a total of 815 dead. · But according to Ascend, the consulting branch of Flightglobal that monitors aircraft accidents, 2014 in fact had the best accident rate in history: one fatality per 2.38 million flights, compared to the previous best of one per 2.37 million in 2012. True, Ascend did not count the downing of MH Flight 17, which was an act of war, not an accident. · In any case, it's better to personalize the problem by putting it in terms of the risk per passenger per hour of flight. The necessary data are in the annual safety report by the International Civil Aviation Organization, which covers large jetliners as well as smaller commuter planes. · In 2013, 32.1 million domestic and international flights carried 3.1 billion people, logged 5.8 trillion passenger-kilometers, and experienced 90 accidents, causing 173 fatalities. With the mean flight time at about 2.2 hours, this implies roughly 6.8 billion of passenger-hours or 2.5 × 10–8 fatalities per person per hour in the air. For large jetliners—dominated by Airbuses and Boeings and regional jets made by Canada's Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer–the risk that year was just 1 × 10–8. In 2014, large jetliner accidents (excluding the MH17) would have pushed the latter rate to about 8 × 10–8, but the mean for the past decade remains at historic lows.


This paper reports the emission spectra at room temperature and presents an optimum concentration for each of the dopants in GdPO4:Eu3+, LaPO4:Tb3+ and LaPO4:Ce3+ powder phosphors for the observation of bright reddish-orange, green and UV emission, respectively. FT-IR and a thermal analysis of these phosphor materials have been carried out. Scanning electron microscopic investigations were also conducted to understand surface morphological features (shape) and the grain size in the powder phosphor systems. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.


The effects of 1.2 MeV gamma radiation and 20 MeV electrons on the operational characteristics of CCDs are studied. The effects of ionizing radiation on the charge transfer efficiency, dark current, and input/output circuitry are described. The improved radiation hardness of buried channel CCDs is compared to surface channel results. Both ion implanted and epitaxial layer buried channel device results are included. The advantages of using a single thickness SiO2 gate dielectric are described. The threshold voltage shifts and surface state density changes of dry, steam, and HCl doped oxides are discussed. Recent results on the recovery times and total dose effects of high dose rate pulses of 20 MeV electrons are reported.


Background: Early-age cardiometabolic disorders have a profound impact on adult health status. Studies indicated elevated blood pressure and increased adiposity among children and adolescents to be significantly correlated with adult cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Aim: The study aims to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and adiposity indicators and their association among children and adolescents of Meghwal community, Rajasthan. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 150 boys and girls of 10–18 years. Anthropometric and physiologic variables were collected and categorized into adiposity indicators and blood pressure traits. Results: Prevalence of adiposity indicators in terms of both body mass index (BMI) and waist to height ratio (WHtR) was 2.67%, while almost half of the study participants had underweight BMI (46%). The study observed 16% and 8.67% prevalence of systolic hypertension stages I and II, respectively. Prevalence of diastolic hypertension stages I and II were 26.67% and 6.67%, respectively. The study indicated a range from 22% to 27% of high blood pressure traits attributable to increase in BMI. Further, overweight/obese BMI posed increased risk for systolic hypertension and diastolic pre-hypertension, albeit with no statistical significance. Conclusion: Findings from the present study throw light on the need for routine blood pressure measurements among children and adolescents for early detection and to prevent the risk of CVDs in adults.


This research seeks to deepen understanding of the mentoring practices used, in an initial phase of this process in Chile, to accompany, support and facilitate the professional insertion of novice teachers into their educational communities. The investigation is based on a qualitative and exploratory, descriptive-interpretative approach, that considers the study of four cases, consisting of four pairs of mentors and novice teachers. This strategy permitted a detailed and in-depth investigation of this type of accompaniment, which considered the characterization of the reflection and knowledge promoted as well the strategies used by the mentors during the mentoring process. The findings show the mediation of contextual and relational elements that are linked to the organization of the mentoring process. Likewise,  the study identifies the preeminence of certain thematic focuses, frameworks as well as knowledge and resources that the mentor uses during the accompaniment. This study aims to contribute to the National Induction System, which has recently emerged in Chile, by promoting recommendations that will help improve mentor training, strengthen the mentoring process, and generate guidelines and proposals for educational policy in this area.


One of the most popular winegrapes (Vitis sp.) for red wine production in the midwestern United States is 'Chambourcin', a French-American hybrid. It is typically produced on own-rooted vines in the region, but the potential benefits of grafting it to improved rootstocks are becoming better-known. Nematodes present occasional serious winegrape production challenges in the midwestern United States, and are capable of transmitting pathogenic viruses. New rootstocks developed by University of California, Davis (UCD GRN series) are resistant to several species and races of nematodes, but have not been evaluated under midwestern U.S. production conditions. A study with 'Chambourcin' grafted to four of these new nematode-resistant rootstocks ('UCD GRN-2', 'UCD GRN-3', 'UCD GRN-4', and 'UCD GRN-5') and 'Couderc 3309', along with own-rooted vines was established in 2010 in southwest Missouri, and fruited in 2013–15. Three of the nematode-resistant rootstocks (GRN-2, 3, 4) performed as well as the standard 'Couderc 3309' and own-rooted vines, with yields among all rootstocks ranging from 10 to 13 kg/vine. The rootstock 'UCD GRN-5' generally performed poorly, however, manifested by low pruning weights and a high Ravaz index value (25) in 2013 that necessitated defruiting the vines in 2014. Fruit yields on 'UCD GRN-5' rootstocks were satisfactory in 2013 and 2015, but the vines eventually deteriorated, with 99% shootless nodes by 2017. Although more evaluations of these new rootstocks are needed in the midwestern United States, we conclude that 'UCD GRN-2', 'UCD GRN-3', and 'UCD GRN-4' show promise, whereas 'UCD GRN-5' does not appear suitable for growing conditions in southern Missouri.


The patient dose delivered by six C.T. Scanners operated in both head and body modes has been assessed. Surface and internal doses have been measured as well as scattered dose to the gonads. Estimates of the integral dose to the patient have been made on these data. Differences in delivered dose of up to a factor of eight are found between different models.


Carlos Patino; Daene C. McKinney; David R. Maidment, Tim Whiteaker Center for Research in Water Resources – University of Texas at Austin email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT An extension of the ArcHydro data model and tools developed at the Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR) of the University of Texas has been successfully applied to the Rio Grande/Bravo basin geodatabase, a binational dataset created at the CRWR, automating a process called "raster – network regionalization." This process allows determination of reach catchments for each individual river segment and delineation of watersheds draining to points on a river network by first splitting the network at those points, labeling all the lines upstream of a given outlet point with a unique number called a HydroID of that outlet point, and then invoking the watershed delineation function in ArcHydro to delineate the area draining to this set of lines. Once done for individual raster regions, the results can be integrated using the HydroID assignment process in ArcHydro so that accumulated drainage areas are automatically determined over a whole river basin. Because the geodatabase created for the Rio Grande/Bravo basin is binational, drainage areas and properties can be determined for the United States side only, for the Mexican side only, or for both sides of the river together.


Effervescent atomization namely the air-filled liquid atomization comprehends
 certain complex two-phase phenomenon that are difficult to be modeled. Just a
 few researchers have found the mathematical expressions for description of
 the complex atomization model of the two-phase mixture air/diesel fuel. In
 the following review, developing model of twophase (air/fuel) droplet of
 Cummins spray pump-injector is shown. The assumption of the same diameters of
 the droplet and the opening of the atomizer is made, while the air/fuel mass
 ratio inside the droplet varies.


A method for transmitting N-bit data (2) by means of a plurality of light emitting diodes (5), wherein: - the data (2) are transmitted by means of a non-visible modulation of the intensity of the light-emitting diodes (5); - the light-emitting diodes (5) to at least 2 - the light-emitting diodes (5) of a respective group (6 ... 8) are collectively and identically modulated; - the modulations of the groups (6 ... 8) are matched to one another such that the data (2) are coded in the context of the modulations; - for the coding of the data (2) 2 and - the light-emitting diodes (5) in such a manner to form groups (6 ... 8) are combined, the light emitting diodes (5) of a respective group (6 ... 8) uniformly over the entire extent of a lamp (3) which they form, distributed and the light-emitting diodes (5) of the groups (6 ... 8) evenly blocks (4) and are distributed over the ceiling of the room.


Beginning with the study of the generation of waterfall and its classification, the basic forms of falling water, and the constitution of waterfall landscape, this paper probes into the nature of theoretical essentials of waterfall landscape design. Pursuant to the basic principle of "treatment of the water "in landscape and garden, namely the principle of "the restrain of temperament, the design of form, and the adoption of meaning", this paper makes a design of waterfall landscape to actualize the combination of science and art throughout the design and thus creates a waterfall landscape that is "generated from nature, but is supreme than nature".


Richard Kearney Prelude: Traversing the Imaginary THE DIALOGICAL IMAGINARY 1. Paul Ricoeur On Stories and Mourning 2. Jacques Derrida Terror and Religion 3. Charles Taylor On Social Imaginaries 4. Martha Nussbaum Ethics of Narration 5. Noam Chomsky Intellectuals and Ideology THE POLITICAL IMAGINARY 6. Dennis Dworkin Intellectual Adventures in the Isles 7. John Rundell Imaginings, Narratives, and Otherness: On Diacritical Hermeneutics 8. Anne O'Bryne Traumatized Sovereignty 9. James M. Smith Re-Imagining Ireland, Britain, and Europe 10. Jerry Burke ""I Tell You No Lie"": Truth Commissions and Narrative THE NARRATIVE IMAGINARY 11. David Wood Double Trouble: Narrative Imagination as Carnival Dragon 12. Jeffrey A. Barash Beyond Postmodernism 13. Terry Eagleton Heretic Adventures 14. E. Rizo-Patron Garcia Marquez and Richard Kearney on the Role of the Oneiric in Testimonial Narrative 15. Mark Dooley Truth, Ethics, and Narrative Imagination: The Postmodern Challenge Richard Kearney Postlude: Traversals and Epiphanies in Joyce and Proust.


This paper provides a survey of the theory of patchy feedbacks, and its applications to asymptotic stabilization and optimal control. It also contains two new results, showing the robustness of sub-optimal patchy feedbacks both in the case of (internal and external) deterministic disturbances, and of random perturbations modelled by stochastic Brownian motion.


Introduction 1. Discourses of misogyny 2. Irony and the sexual other 3. Anonymity and the poetics of regendering 4. The women in Montaigne's life 5. Sexual marginality Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.


This mixed push and pull production system defines that all stages are not ordered by either of the production systems. Some stages are ordered by a push-type production system and the other stages are ordered by a pull-type production system. A decision support system is built by using a combination of optimization program and the "tunable" SIMAN discrete-event simulation for the implementation of an optimally mixed production system. Finding this optimal system requires 6 CPU hours for the case study on a Pentium. Both the simulation and optimization model are validated with a case study of Phoenix company that manufactures transmitters. This paper uses survey from experts in this company for evaluation and validation of this system.