Introduction:
 E-cigarette use is known to induce vascular impairment by altering vasomotor and cellular functions of the vascular wall, but the molecular mechanism of e-cigarette-induced vascular impairment is largely unexplored. We investigated whether inhibition of RAGE prevents impairment of vasomotor function from acute e-cigarette exposure

 Hypothesis:
 Impairment of endothelial vasodilatory function requires the activation of RAGE.

 Methods:
 Anesthetized rats (n=8/group) were exposed to aerosols from flavorless tank style e-cigarettes with and without freebase nicotine (12 mg/ml) or air in a single session of 10 cycles of pulsatile 5s exposure over 5 minutes. For each exposure condition, groups received either 1 mg/kg of RAGE inhibitor FPS-ZM1 or vehicle i.p. 1 hour before exposure (i.e., total of 6 groups). Femoral artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) was measured using micro-ultrasound before and after exposure.

 Results:
 Exposure to e-cigarette aerosol with and without nicotine impaired FMD in vehicle groups (8.3±2.7% pre-exposure vs 4.7±2.4% post-exposure, p=0.01; 9.3±4.6% pre- vs 4.8±2.7% post-, p=0.03, respectively), with no change in air control (9.7±3.2% pre- vs 9.3±3.5% post-, p=0.81). Post-exposure FMD in both aerosol groups with vehicle was lower than that in the air group with vehicle (p=0.01 for each aerosol vs air). However, FPS-ZM1 prevented the FMD impairment by aerosol exposure (with nicotine 9.1±3.5% pre- vs 8.9±2.1% post-, p=0.90; without nicotine 9.5±4.3% pre- vs 7.1±2.0% post-, p=0.17), with no change in air control (7.6±2.7% pre- vs 7.4±3.1% post-, p=0.86). Post-exposure FMD values in both aerosol groups receiving FPS-ZM1 were comparable to the air control (p=0.4 and 0.8, respectively). There were no significant difference in post-exposure FMD in the air groups receiving FPS-ZM1 or vehicle (p>0.99).

 Conclusions:
 RAGE mediates e-cigarette-induced acute impairment of endothelial vasodilatory function.


BACKGROUND
Dietary supplements providing physiologic amounts of several micronutrients simultaneously have not been thoroughly tested for combating micronutrient deficiencies.

OBJECTIVE
We determined whether a beverage fortified with 10 micronutrients at physiologic doses influenced the iron and vitamin A status and growth of rural children (aged 6-11 y) attending primary schools.

DESIGN
In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled efficacy trial, children were assigned to receive the fortified beverage or an unfortified beverage at school for 6 mo.

RESULTS
There were nonsignificant differences at baseline between children in the fortified and nonfortified groups in iron status, serum retinol, and anthropometry. At the 6-mo follow-up, among children with anemia (hemoglobin < 110 g/L), there was a significantly larger increase in hemoglobin concentration in the fortified group than in the nonfortified group (9.2 and 0.2 g/L, respectively). Of those who were anemic at baseline, 69.4% in the nonfortified group and 55.1% in the fortified group remained anemic at follow-up (RR: 0.79), a cure rate of 21%. The prevalence of children with low serum retinol concentrations (< 200 microg/L) dropped significantly from 21.4% to 11.3% in the fortified group compared with a nonsignificant change (20.6% to 19.7%) in the nonfortified group. At follow-up, mean incremental changes in weight (1.79 compared with 1.24 kg), height (3.2 compared with 2.6 cm), and BMI (0.88 compared with 0.53) were significantly higher in the fortified group than in the nonfortified group.

CONCLUSION
The fortified beverage significantly improved hematologic and anthropometric measurements and significantly lowered the overall prevalence of anemia and vitamin A deficiency.


Korea shipbuilding industry virtually started at 1970s,which overtook Japan to be world No.1 shipbuilding country a he beginning of the new century,Since then,while continuing to improve its building capacity,Korea shipbuilding industry focusas on pushing ahead with intensive development pattems,resulting in changing from big to strong.


ZnO films were prepared on glass substrates by a sol-gel spin-coating method from 3 to 9 layers. The effects of doping Li , spin-coating layers, sol concentration and heat-treatment temperature on (002) orientation of ZnO films were investigated by XRD patterns and SEM photos. The results indicate that doping Li could promote the grains of ZnO growing along (002) plane, and for 3 layers(0.45 mol/L) or 7 layers(0.25mol/L) samples, there exited other peaks besides (002) in the XRD patterns even when doping Li, it due to the films too thin. It also showed that heightening heat-treat temperature to 610℃ was helpful for preferred orientation along (002) plane.


Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are instrumental in promoting and facilitating the spread of malignant diseases and in the de novo formation of blood vessels. This study has mapped the immunoreactivity of a novel, angiogenesis‐related metalloproteinase – MMP‐19 – in normal breast tissue and in benign and malignant breast lesions and compared this pattern of expression with that of MMP‐2. In the normal resting mammary gland, MMP‐19 was strongly expressed in the myoepithelial layer of the ductal system; the alveolar and ductal epithelia displayed considerable, but lobule‐specific, variations in labelling intensity. MMP‐19 was also present within the smooth muscle and endothelial layers of large and medium‐sized blood vessels, as well as within capillary walls. In benign lesions, all tumour cells and their surrounding vasculature were uniformly and strongly immunoreactive for MMP‐19. Progression towards an invasive phenotype and neoplastic dedifferentiation led to the disappearance of MMP‐19 from tumour cells and blood vessels and a concomitant rise in the levels of MMP‐2. In vitro experiments conducted with isolated smooth muscle cells cultivated on a solid substratum, or within the interstices of a collagen matrix, indicated that the expression of MMP‐19 is influenced by the architecture of the surrounding extracellular matrix. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is one of the commonest clinical tests used to screen for the presence of a disease state or to follow up its activity. It is a standard test for monitoring inflammatory disease processes. However, factors unrelated to the presence or absence of inflammation may limit its usefulness. This is often the case in ch ronic renal disease where the ESR may be persistently elevated. 1 •


The success of therapeutic games has received recent attention in the research literature, particularly for health issues frequently experienced by adults over age sixty-five. However, less is known about the experience of older adults after interaction with these games and what may promote their adoption and use. We measured the development of flow in a study of over 100 older adults who played a video game for 15 hours across three weeks. Findings indicate that flow development was affected by both individual differences between participants, measured prior to any game experience, and to characteristics of the game, particularly those related to usability of the interface and input device. We conclude with discussion of the flow experience in games for older adults and guidelines for the design of engaging and immersive therapeutic games.


Monitoring of traffic flows on road infrastructures is an increasingly common practice: different type of sensors and devices for counting and classifying vehicles have been tested and installed on the European roads in the last years, contributing to the growing of the availability of several databases. On the other hand, methodologies for the assessment, in transport field, of the energy consumption and the consequent emissions require several data sets, that are not always available. Consequently, it is interesting to investigate an innovative approach able to represent the energy dissipation, starting from traffic monitoring, with related parameters. The presence of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) may, as well-known, influence a traffic flow. Therefore different scenarios based on actual or simulated data allow us to estimate the energy use of a vehicle flow, also when influenced by an ITS application. As concerns the approach presented in this paper, it takes into account both a mechanical model, which provides an easy evaluation of energy consumption, and a traffic microsimulation approach, starting in both cases from the measurement of the classical traffic flow parameters.


Ethical and evidentiary rules governing the disclosure of confidential information are interrelated in many respects. Nevertheless, these rules are generally developed independently through different legal channels. Different approaches to the inadvertent disclosure of confidential information have emerged, leading to uncertain results in different jurisdictions. Uncertainty persists with regard to metadata available from electronic document formats. This paper explores the tension between the competing approaches this emerging problem. It argues that ethical and evidentiary principles addressing the protection and discovery of metadata should be coordinated in order to avoid creating incentives to maximize litigation costs.


To THE EDITOR, The Journal of Laryngology and Otology. SIR,—In July 1937 you were good enough to publish (in The Journal of Laryngology (Vol. LII, No. 7)) a critical review of the treatment of Intrinsic Laryngeal Cancer wherein I contrasted the results obtained by Surgical excision (Laryngofissure) with those which could be obtained by Radiation (Finzi-Harmer operation). In this review, when discussing Radiation therapy, though I mentioned that a five-year period was preferable, I adopted a three-year symptom-free rate to enable comparison with the survival rates following Laryngofissure as published by StClair Thomson and others. Since the date of this review many of the cases included in the statistical tables then recorded, have now passed the five-year period. It occurred to me, therefore, that some of your readers might be interested to know the further history of those cases treated by Radiation. In presenting these new figures of a " five-year symptom-free rate " I must point out that the original article, though written at the end of 1956 was not published until July 1937, and so it comes about that in estimating the three-year symptom-free rate then adopted (vide Table B, page 466) only those cases, eighteen, treated between the period 1931-33, were included. At the present date twenty-three cases (of the full total of twenty-six cases—vide Table A, page 465) fall within the period 1931-34. Of these twenty-three cases, seventeen (73-9 per cent.) are alive and well to-day, free of recurrence, five have died of their disease, and the sixth died of cancer of the palate twenty months after treatment. This five-year symptom-free rate of 73-9 per cent., gives some impression of the results which can be achieved by the modern technique of Radiation in limited Intrinsic Laryngeal Cancers.


PURPOSE: To make possible the simultaneous pick-up of a multiplicity of wafers by disposing a pick-up device having plural pick-up recesses built-in with a multiplicity of vacuum suction holes over a a multiplicity of the wafers placed in predetermined positions in opposition thereto. COPYRIGHT: (C)1977,JPO&Japio


The influence of air in MEMS devices can be divided into two categories: slide-film damping and squeeze-film damping, slide-film damping occurs in laterally moving devices (e.g. comb drives), while the squeeze film damping is characteristic for MEMS devices, in which a microstructure moves or bends towards a rigid surface with a thin air film in-between (as in microswitch).For MEMS devices with a plate that moves against a trapped film, squeeze film damping is a very important problem which substantially affects the system frequency response. This phenomenon occurs because when the flexible microplate vibrates, the fluid underneath the plate begins to move outward the medium gap, which is resisted by the viscosity of the air.


In this paper a high-voltage sinusoidal power supply controlled by Arduino DUE micro-controller is described. This generator can feed a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) load with sinusoidal voltages up to 20 kV peak and frequencies in the range 10–60 kHz, with a maximum output power of 200 W. Output voltage can be produced either in a continuous mode, or with on/off modulation cycles, according to treatment/application requirements. This power source is equipped with on-board diagnostics used to measure the output voltage and the charge delivered to the load. With a sample frequency of 500 kHz, Arduino DUE allows to evaluate both the high voltage and the average power feeding the discharge without the use of an expensive external measurement setup. Lissajous techniques are utilized to calculate discharge average power in a quasi-real-time manner. When a load is connected to high-voltage terminals, a self-tuning procedure is carried out to obtain the best working frequency. This parameter allows to minimize power-electronic component stress and to maximize generator efficiency.


The paper considers processes of the atmospheric pollution with industrial and energy emissions. A technique for the thermodynamic analysis of these processes that is based on the application of models of extreme intermediate states of physico-chemical systems is described. Analytical dependencies of the atmosphere sensitivity to emissions on the oxidizing capacity of primary pollutants, which allow laborious computations to be reduced, are presented. The effect of basic anthropogenic emissions on formation of secondary pollutants in the atmosphere is shown.


The most rational way to reduce the eutrophic load on reservoirs-coolers of energy enterprises, in which the technological processes of energy production and growing fish products are not disrupted, is the introduction of fish-reclaimers into the reservoir. In this regard, full-system fisheries of this type include the production of fish-planting material of herbivorous species, in particular grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella in their work plan. In the production conditions of Belovsky Fisheries LLC, a technology for growing planting material and commercial products of the white Amur has been developed, which has fully justified itself. At the same time, certain difficulties are associated with obtaining high-quality sexual products of herbivorous fish. Due to the technological features and hydrochemical regime of the reservoir, the production of plant-eating fish planting material is carried out with a high risk of over-aging of sexual products. Analysis of the results of spawning campaigns revealed a number of problems, including: zero percent of fertilization, early maturation and release of part of the eggs by females after a permissive injection, and gonad thrombosis. To solve the problem of low fertilization rate, special attention should be paid to sufficient oxygen concentration in water during pre-spawning operations with producers of Cupid. The problem of over-aging of sexual products and gonad thrombosis is proposed to be solved by using a flexible scheme of hormonal stimulation of producers.


Abstract There has been a lot of publicity in recent times of the movement of survey marks and the boundaries which they recover. This is not new and it is most interesting to reflect on the attitudes of past civilizations to this problem.


Delta doped carbon acceptors in molecular-beam-epitaxy-grown GaAs were investigated on the atomic scale with scanning-tunneling microscopy in cross-sectional configuration. Monolayer-sharp spatial distributions were found at the intended positions of the delta layers in a wide range of dopant concentrations from 3×1012∕cm2 up to 1×1014∕cm2. The carbon concentrations were checked independently with secondary-ion-mass spectroscopy. All distributions had full widths at half maximum around 0.85nm and were symmetric up to the highest concentration investigated. These results point out that even at the elevated growth temperature of 590°C, and for very high dopant concentrations, neither segregation nor diffusion plays an important role in delta doping of GaAs with carbon acceptors. The observed small spreading of the dopant distribution is attributed to the generic surface roughness during growth.


The purpose of this study was to evaluate the plaque removal effects of an electric interdental toothbrush and a conventional manual interdental toothbrush at the proximal surfaces of model teeth. The electric interdental toothbrush was composed of a main body with a motor that generated the vibrations and a PROSPEC interdental toothbrush attachment. The manual interdental toothbrush did not vibrate. The mean plaque removal rate of the electric interdental toothbrush was 26% and 32% after 5 and 10 cleanings, respectively, and these removal rates were significantly higher(p<0.01)than those for the manual interdental toothbrush. Based on these findings, it is concluded that the plaque removal effect of the electric interdental toothbrush was greater than that of the manual interdental toothbrush. Nihon Shishubyo Gakkai Kaishi(J Jpn Soc Periodontol)54(1):31-37, 2012. 31


A series of Sm-doped Ca2Sb2O7 samples is prepared by solid state reaction of CaCO3, Sb2O3, and Sm2O3 (air, alumina crucible, 1150 °C, 16 h).


Background: Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) is a widespread infectious chronic lung disease especially in Endemic region like India which is one of the leading causes of mortality, particularly residing in low socio-economic status and poor hygiene condition. Inspite of 3 decades of launching Revised National Tubercular Control Programme (1997 to 2020), still Tuberculosis is most common infection in India which causes significant morbidity and mortality even after completion of treatment of tuberculosis which affects quality of life of patients. The radiological modalities and physical check-up periodically are widely used in evaluation of any residual pulmonary /pleural disease and Quality of life. The aim of present study is to assess Quality of Life in patients who have completed the 9 months course of treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study of 220 patients who were enrolled in the study. The study participants were the individuals who had been suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and declared cured after completing treatment for tuberculosis. The inclusion Criteria were Age group of 14-60 years, who were able to perform lung function test using Spirometry, while the exclusion criteria were the patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis and MDR-TB and patients with history of heavy smoking in past or present. Result: Total 220 patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were enrolled into the study. The mean age of the patients was 27.22. The number of Male patients were 130 (59.09%) and females were 90 (40.90%). Among the enrolled patients, majority of Patients were resided in the rural areas 173 (79%) as compared living in urban areas 47 (21%). The Mean BMI of the patients in the study was 18.66. 60 patients had a normal BMI and 157 patients were underweighted. Majority of patients were smokers 114 as compared to non-smokers 106. The number of patients consuming Alcohol were 68 while non – alcoholics were 152 in numbers. The mean time taken to start treatment was 33.73 days ± 27.8 (7 - 180) with Interquartile Range 15. Conclusion: It was concluded that patients who had suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis have poor quality of life scores. Health related quality of life scores (Saint George's Respiratory Questionaire) had good correlation with chest X-ray/C.T. Scan Chest findings and spirometric analysis. Thus, all post pulmonary tuberculosis patients should undergo pulmonary rehabilitation with routine follow-up and Pulmonologist's consultation for leading better quality of life.


Triply differential photoelectron spectroscopy has been performed on hydrogen cyanide in the photon energy range 14.5 to 24 eV, using synchrotron radiation. Photoelectron branching ratios and asymmetry parameters are presented for the two outermost molecular orbitals. The vibrationally resolved branching ratio X2 Pi (v3=1)/(v3=0) exhibits strong non-Franck-Condon behaviour from threshold to approximately 19 eV. The results are discussed in relation to similar studies on the isoelectronic molecules, N2, CO and C2H2. The evidence suggests that the prominent non-Franck-Condon feature observed in the HCN+ X2 Pi channel may arise, at least in part, from a shape resonantly enhanced autoionising state converging to a higher ionisation potential.


Oral formulation of effective bromelain in the treatment and prevention of diarrhea caused by pathogenic microorganisms. This formulation does not kill pathogenic microorganisms, do not promote the growth of for antimicrobial resistant organisms. The present invention is bromelain, Blanose sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, citric acid anhydrous, require blending an aqueous oral suspension of Epikuron 135F lecithin oil and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disodium salt dihydrate ( "EDTA").


Marketing analysis is an indispensable step to establish strategies for the condominium supply for developers. In this context, it is crucial to grasp the potential buyers' behavioral characteristics as "rule" or "pattern" extracted from historical transaction data. The question that is often asked by developers is what kind of condominium customers are pursuing and who they are. So far, strategies in housing supply side rely mainly on the experience or intuition of the marketers/developers, and not from the comprehensive data analysis. In this paper, a new approach is demonstrated to extract informative and unexpected rules/patterns from a database with relatively small contract records but massive attributes. This approach can summarize information targeted to unexpected patterns in data structure using data mining methodology. For the validity of the proposed method, real data of about 800 condominium purchasers in Tokyo metropolitan area is analyzed. Our approach may contribute to develop the decision support systems that can provide managers with more innovative ideas from collected data in generating marketing strategies.


This paper describes camera steering for bringing in focus the active speaker using microphone array. Automatic camera steering has many important applications such as video conferencing, surveillances and monitoring. The system proposed here uses a linear microphone array to capture speech signal from the speakers and a stepper motor based camera steering unit (CSU). The captured speech signals are analyzed to estimate direction of arrival (DOAs) of the speakers using multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm. The estimated DOA is further inputted to the CSU which contains a stepper motor for steering the camera to the estimated direction. The experimental results suggest that high resolution MUSIC algorithm can be effective in steering camera in the noisy environment too if the number of sensors in array is increased. However, it also ups the computational cost.


The continued expansion of computer networks and the miniaturization of computers increase the desire to use one's computer in a consistent computational environment, regardless of location and time. In this situation, host migration transparency is very important. This paper introduces a new network architecture which provides host migration transparency in large interconnected networks and proposes a protocol based on the propagating cache method. We introduce the concept virtual network and divide the conventional network layer into two sublayers to realize host migration transparency. Virtual Internet Protocol, or VIP for short, is derived from DARPA-IP as an example of the architecture. We estimate the overhead of VIP. Host migration transparency can be realized without signi cant processing and tra c overhead. This architecture also preserves host migration transparency across virtual circuits in radio networks.


The membrane based planar Schottky diode process has been utilized to design a family of triplers to cover the astronomically important 1400 to 1900 GHz range.


The experiment was carried out to study the effect of eCO2 (550ppm), eT (+3 0C) and interaction (eCO2+eT) on rooting (fine root production) of cuttings of three grape varieties (Thompson Seedless, Bangalore Blue, and Dogridge). The objective of this study was to investigate the proportion of production of fine roots of grape varieties under high CO2 and temperature. Destructive sampling was done and the data on root diameter and length was recorded by scanning and analysis of roots using win RHIZO software. Analysis of data revealed that there was a significant difference between varieties and treatments for the characters under study. Root diameter is one of the important factors in terms of root growth for better water absorption. It is known that lower the root diameter higher will be the water absorption. The average root diameter was lowest (i.e. production of fine roots were higher) in cuttings grown under eCO2 alone or in combination with eT (eCO2+eT). Increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperatures associated with future climate are expected to affect positively on root diameter of grape cuttings.


In this work, we present a large-scale community structure detection and analysis of Facebook, which gathers more than 500 million users at 2011. Characteristics of this social network have been widely investigated during the last years. Related works focus on analysing its community structure on a small scale, usually from a qualitative perspective. In this study, we consider a significant sample of the network. Data, acquired mining the web platform, have been collected adopting two different sampling techniques. We investigated the structural properties of these samples in order to discover their community structure. Two well-known clustering algorithms, optimised for complex networks, have been here described and adopted. Results of our analysis show the emergence of a well-defined community structure inside Facebook, that is characterised by a power law distribution in the size of the communities. Moreover, the identified communities share a high degree of similarity, regardless the adopted detection...


On the morning of 6 July 1395, the city council of Valencia met in the council chamber. Plague had been in the city since March, and despite the council's best efforts, the death toll continued to rise. This morning, the councilmen authorized several new measures to combat the epidemic. They organized charitable donations "to placate divine anger," and a procession to the chapel of Our Lady of Mercy to "beseech divine mercy for the said plague." Immediately thereafter, they authorized funds for the removal of "dead dogs, cats, rats, and other dead things that people throw in the streets and squares, and which in these times of summer and epidemic give great corruption to the city." Almost in one breath, the council addressed both the immediate, material source of the plague and the divine anger that was its ultimate cause. Both hygienic and ritual approaches to public health have received considerable attention in the last few decades, but rarely together. Scholars of medieval public health have established beyond doubt that medieval and early modern city governments were concerned about issues of hygiene and devised measures to limit the spread of disease. They have also made clear that sacred and secular medicine were closely


Abstract:  Purpose:  Based on the data of clinical trial CHI‐F‐02 comparing the efficacy and safety of basiliximab (Simulect®) vs. anti‐thymocyte globulin (Thymoglobulin®) in renal transplant induction, we carried out an economic evaluation.


Study on application of dehydration of trial product of highly efficient dehydrant,abbreviated to CPAM,for treatment of sludge dehydration and flocculent treatment of effluent from papermaking and dyeing and printing has been carried out.The results show that CPAM could be well solubilized and it also has high efficiency in sludge dehydration.Moreover,it has significant effect on the removal of COD and chroma from effluent produced from papermaking and dyeing and printing with its complex combined with inorganic flocculent.


The 2002 Newark mayoral election represents a new trend in contemporary politics: a contest between an older African-American incumbent and member of the new generation of African-Americans politicians, who often hold different views and political attitudes than their older counterparts. In the end, the older incumbent won using his formidable political organization and against an inexperienced challenger. Mayor Sharpe James drew on a deep well of relationships—both local and national—that he established over decades as a Newark politician and effectively branded the insurgent Cory Booker as an outsider. The author concludes that younger African-American politicians, who tend to be more moderate than their older counterparts, have difficulty winning support among older African-American voters.


Cashew is predominantly cultivated in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is a native of Brazil, which was introduced in India by the Portuguese during 16th century. It occupies the status of an important export-oriented plantation crop. Cashew is described as 'poor man's crop' and 'rich man's food'. Cashew is popular for its greater nutritive value. India is rated as the largest exporter of cashew kernels and Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL). Considering the importance of this plantation crop in Tamil Nadu, providing the right informations to cashew growers about the latest technologies in cashew cultivation can help them to increase the production and productivity of cashew. An efficient management of informations can enable the cashew growers to enhance the yield of cashew. A study was undertaken to analyse the factors influencing Information Management Behaviour of cashew growers in cashew cultivation. The study was taken up at Cuddalore, one of the cashew predominant districts in Tamil Nadu State. A sample size of one hundred and twenty cashew growers were selected based on proportionate random sampling method. This study revealed that educational status, experience in cashew cultivation, extension agency contact, mass media exposure, innovativeness, riskorientation and scientific orientation of the cashew cultivators play a significant role in influencing the information management behaviour of the cashew growers.


The research is designed as a case study. Peter Drucker (1993:45) acknowledged that 'Knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource'.

Based on this premise, the aim of this research is to see if a certain type of organizations - the management consulting firm, is a knowledge-intensive firm or not.

This study analyses the intensity in which the features of knowledge-intensive firms exist in the analysed organization, characteristics that can show if the firm fits in the category of knowledge-intensive firms or not.

The research comprises two main aspects: the development of an assessment instrument for the management consulting firm so that the potential of being a knowledge-intensive firm can be determined and the application of this model on the organization on which the study is conducted. Based on the idea that addressing a specific problem or aspect should be realized taking into account the specific organizational context (idea adaptated after Cruywagen et al, 2008:101), an approach that takes into consideration the specific organizational context was taken into account.

More precisely, there was developed a research instrument – a questionnaire that contains items taking into consideration the type of organizations that we are interested in this research – management consulting firms. The instrument can be used for small and medium management consulting firms.

The research hypothesis is that the management consulting firm is a knowledge-intensive firm.

Two questionnaires were developed – one for the company's employees and a synthetical questionnaire for the company's management team.

The items are grouped in seven dimensions, or levels that are taken into consideration for analyzing an organization: organizational culture, specificity of the activity in the organization and work environment, management and structure of the organization, value creation, human resources, image of the organization and identity of the employees, knowledge transfer.

The research results have shown that the analyzed company is a knowledge-intensive firm but the intensity of the presence of some characteristics that are specific to knowledge-intensive firms are not very high, so improvements are necessary in some areas.

The research conclusions contain a series of recommendations for the analyzed firm that could be taken into consideration in order to improve its activity in the future.


In this paper, considering multiple surveillance regions in a dynamic environment, we investigate an optimal antenna deployment problem for distributed multistatic radar. The problem is solved by proposing a prediction based particle swarm optimization (PBPSO) algorithm. Unlike the traditional particle swarm optimization (PSO) method, which needs completely recomputation when the environment changes, the proposed method uses the information about the previous optimal deployment schemes to predict and optimize the current one. So it greatly increases the solving efficiency and computational load of the optimal problem. Firstly, by dividing a continuous time period into several scenarios, we use the previous optimal scheme and a Kalman prediction model to predict an approximate optimal scheme for the current scenario. Then, to obtain the real optimal scheme, we can use the predicted optimal scheme and PSO method to optimize. Numerical results are provided to verify the advantages of PBPSO in optimizing the antenna deployment scheme in a dynamic environment.


Based on conventional Chaozhou style beef ball formula,the formula and process of instant beef balls were investigated with organoleptic investigation.The results indicated that the optimal formula for the instant Chaozhou style beef balls was consisted of beef 1 kg,sweet potato flour 100 g,compound phosphate 8 g,salt 25 g,trehalose 30 g,monosodium glutamate 4 g,five spices power 1 g,black pepper powder 8 g,prickly ash powder 1 g,ginger juice 20 mL,garlic juice 20 mL,and water 200 mL.The optimal process of the beef balls was grinding meat,whisking and mixing supplementary materials,sizing balls,removing the excessive water of balls,vacuum-packing the balls with aluminium foil compound bag,and sterilization at 121 ℃ for 15 min.The instant beef balls could maintain the original flavour for six month under the condition of normal temperature (25 ℃ to 35 ℃).


Abstract: The purpose of this study was to increase student activity and learning outcomes using audio-visual media in fourth-grade students of SD Negeri 15 Lubuklinggau. This research method is classroom action research. This study's data collection techniques used tests, checklist (Ö) observation sheets, and documentation. Classroom action research is a cycle whose activities consist of 4 stages, 1) planning, 2) implementing actions, 3) implementing observations, 4) data reflection. The subjects of class IV SD Negeri 15 Lubuklinggau totaled 23 students consisting of 14 boys and nine girls. Based on the results of data analysis, it is known that the use of audio-visual media in online learning can increase the activity and learning outcomes of fourth-grade students. In the pre-action, students' completeness was 26.08%, with an average value of 65.43. Students' completeness increased to 52.17% in the first cycle, with an average value in the first cycle of 69.34. In the second cycle, students' mastery increased with a percentage value of 91.30% with an average value of 75.65. Thus the classical mastery value of students has reached learning mastery of 75%. Student learning activities also increased with an average percentage in the first cycle of 63.69% and 70.34% in the second cycle. In conclusion, audio-visual media can increase student activity in class IV SD Negeri 15 Lubuklinggau, with the average score of student learning activities increasing from the process I to cycle II.

Keywords: Learning Outcomes and Activities, Audio-Visual Media, Improvement


The involvement of Cysteine-cysteine chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) in the protection or stimulation of bone resorption associated with apical periodontitis that occur as consequence of endodontic infection has not yet been elucidated. The present study proposes to characterize the involvement of CCR5 in the genesis and progression of apical periodontitis, using animals deficient for this molecule. Experimental induction of periapical lesions was performed in CCR5 −/− (knockout) or wild type transgenic mice through the coronary opening of the lower 1st molars and exposure of the root canals to the oral environment for their contamination. After the death of the animals (at 0, 7, 21 and 42 days), the samples obtained in different experimental periods were evaluated by conventional microscopy and fluorescence (morphometry and characterization of the lesions), histoenzimology (TRAP for osteoclasts), immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and real-time PCR, to characterize the inflammatory cell in the presence or absence of CCR5 (neutrophils, macrophages and CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes), expression of cytokines (IL-1±, TNF-±, IFN-³, IL 4, IL-6 and IL-10), their ligands (RANTES and MIP- 1±) and factors involved in bone formation and resorption (RUNX2, NFATc1, ALP, RANK, RANKL, OPG and cathepsin K) and infection of tissues. Our results shows that CCR5 knockout mice developed more extense and severe inflammation and alveolar bone destruction at periapical region at 21 and 42 days after endodontic infection. It was concluded that CCR5 deficiency results in development of more severe periapical alveolar bone resorption associated to endodontic infection.


The invention relates to a method for improving coarse grains on the surface of non-oriented silicon steel. The method comprises the following steps: 1) smelting and casting, wherein the non-oriented silicon steel comprises the following components by weight percent: 0.001-0.005% of C, 0.1%-1.80% of Si, 0.10%-0.80% of Mn, not more than 0.04% of P, 0.20%-0.80% of Al, not more than 0.005% of S, not more than 0.005% of N and the balance of Fe; and further performing smelting and RH (Ruhrstahl Heraeus) refining treatment, and casting molten steel into a blank; 2) carrying out hot-rolling to form a steel plate; 3) normalizing, wherein the normalizing temperature is 800-900 DEG C and the normalizing and uniform heating time is 15-30 seconds; controlling the oxygen content in a normalizing furnace below 0.5%; and controlling the ratio of maximum grain size in the steel plate after normalizing to average grain size below 3; and 4) acid-cleaning, cold-rolling, annealing and coating so as to get a non-oriented silicon steel product. Under existing conditions, the problem of the coarse grains on the surface of the non-oriented silicon steel can be solved under the situations of not increasing the heat treatment process step and not performing parallel heat processing.


Agents insecticides and / or acaricides containing an effective content of an active ingredient combination comprising as components (a) at least one amide anthranil of formula (III-a) according to the following table Table ** ** and as component ( b) at least one compound of improved compatibility with crop plants selected from cloquintocet-mexyl, fenchlorazole-ethyl, isoxadifen-ethyl, mefenpyr-diethyl, furilazole, fenclorim, cumyluron, dymron, dimepiperate and one of the compounds mentioned in the following table with the general formula (IV-e).


No satisfactory formula has so far been derived theoretically for the photoelectric absorption of X-rays and γ-rays. The empirical law has hitherto been generally accepted as giving approximately the variation of the photoelectric absorption coefficient per electron, with atomic number Z and wave length λ for X-rays of wave length greater than 100 X.U., and the validity of this law has often been assumed for γ-rays also.


We present experimental results on 9 reduced-scale fuel assemblies arranged in a
network of 3 by 3, subjected to an axial flow. The objective is to analyse the fluid force induced by the motion of the central fuel assembly on the others fuel assemblies. The displacement of the central fuel assembly is imposed, while the others are fixed. Fluid forces acting on fuel assemblies are measured with force sensors. We observed that the coupling between fuel assemblies increases with the fluid velocity, and that the coupling in the transverse direction is not negligible compared to the coupling in the direction of excitation. We also observe that the fluid flow induces a stiffening of the central fuel assembly.


A modified artificial bee colony(ABC) algorithm based blind source separation(BSS) method is proposed in this paper,aiming at the problems of slow convergence and low computational precision of existing blind source separation methods.The modified ABC algorithm can adjust the step size function of the selected neighbor food source position adaptively.On the other hand,it takes advantage of the information of the global best solution to guide the search of candidate solutions to improve the exploitation.The modified ABC algorithm balances the exploration and exploitation which contradict with each other well,so it can achieve good optimizate performance.The new BSS improves the separation precision and the stable performance.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed BSS can separate linear and instantaneous mixed signals effectively.Compared to the other approaches,the proposed method not only obtains better separation performance,but also has a faster convergence speed.


WALTER ULLMAN. Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages. Pp. 320. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961. $6.00. This is a very readable book, and the author is deservedly well known for his previous studies of The Origins of the Great Schism, Medieval Papalism, and The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages. The present book is-like its predecessors-interesting and instructive, but it is compounded very largely of abstractions, only the slightest references


The self-protecting multipath (SPM) is a simple protection switching mechanism that can be implemented, e.g., by MPLS. We present a linear program to optimize the SPM load balancing parameters for network dimensioning. Our study shows that the SPM is a very efficient mechanism in the sense that it requires only little backup capacity since it outperforms the p-cycle approach and the shortest path rerouting by far. The investigation of the computation time and the memory consumption recommends the Simplex method as an LP solver rather than an interior point method (IPM). The computation time of the program depends mainly on the number of links in the network and it is well feasible for small and and medium size networks. For large networks, however, fast heuristics are required.


The electroreduction of trichlorofluoromethane (CFC 11) on lead cathodes, in combination with a hydrogen diffusion anode in an undivided cell using methanol-water mixtures at 15°C, was studied by constant-current electrolyses, chronocoulometry, gas chromatography. scanning electron microscopy, inductively coupled plasma, and energy dispersive X-ray microanalyses. The base electrolyte was a CFC-saturated methanol (70 vol %)-water mixture containing ().75 mol dm -3 NH 4 Cl. In this solution, and also with the addition of Cu 2+ or tetrabutylammonium perchlorate, the current efficiency for the CFC II electroreduction was about 96%. When PdCl 2 was added to the base solution, Pd black was electrodeposited on Pb and the current efficiency decreased with time up to about 80% (smaller for MeOH concentrations less than or equal to 60 vol %). The current efficiencies found for additions of Fe 3+ , Al 3+ , or Zn 2+ were also smaller. Under all conditions, the gas volume collected from the cathode increased with time, and dichlorofluoromethane was the main product in the gas and in the liquid. The use of electrodeposited Pd black on the cathode slightly favored the formation of fluoromethane compared to chlorofluoromethane, in particular at 200 mA cm -2 2 . The mechanism of the process, the effect of the cations employed, and the possibilities to increase the extent of CFC 11 electrodechlorination are discussed.


Halite-plugged carbonate "stringers" in the South Oman Salt Basin (SOSB) are enclosed in large domal bodies of Ara Salt and are buried to a depth of 3 to 5 km. The stringers represent an intra-salt petroleum system of Infracambrian age, known as the Ara carbonate stringer play, which represents a six-cyclic carbonate to evaporite sequence. Transitions from carbonate facies to salt and from salt to carbonate facies are commonly characterized by the occurrence of a roof and a floor anhydrite.


The fast development of science and technology and the workforce competition in this globalization era, require education academy to produce a competent and good quality of human resources in their field. Vocational high school is an education academy that is expected to create professional and productive human resources to fulfil every skill pursuit that is needed in the workforce.Computer and network engineering program and mathematics have a role in science and technology development and in the workforce competition.Productive subject in computer and network engineering will produce productive and professional graduates that can compete in the workforce.Since the activity that include mathematics could develop logical reasoning, logical thinking, systematic, critical, neat and objective, mathematics could help computer and network engineering graduates in solving the problem in the workforce. This paper will deliver the relevancy between mathematics and productive subject in computer and network engineering program at vocational high school.


As the Danube approaches the last stage of its long journey to the Black Sea it forks into two branches the Chilia (120krn) and the Tuleea (17-krn). The Tuleea branch further divides to the Sulina channel (63.7krn) and the Gheorghe channel (109-krn). These channels, together with 400 freshwater lakes of varying size and a network of interconnecting waterways, form the largest delta in Europe and sustain a unique pattern of closely tied habitats and ecosystems.


In this study, a novel in-line impactor with the flowrate of 1000 lpm and d50(50% cut size) of 19.5㎛ was designed to be conveniently connected to a wet cyclone. The novel in-line impactor has an orifice unlike previously developed in-line impactors. The collection efficiency of our impactor was predicted through numerical analysis using DPM module in ANSYS 14.5 FLUENT solver. CFD simulations were conducted at a fixed Stokes number varying the size of orifice width (d o ) and distance between an orifice and a nozzle (L n,o ). From the results, it was found that the larger L n,o makes d 50 larger. When d o and L n,o equal to 4.2 mm and 32 mm, respectively, our newly designed impactor has the lowest wall loss rate and a very steep collection efficiency curve like conventional impactors.


Traditional static anaerobic digestion technology presents the disadvantages of a low gas production rate and long digestion cycle, which is not conducive to the treatment of livestock manure. A 12 m3 multiphase flow anaerobic digester (MFD) was developed in this study to improve the biogas production rate and maintain constant temperature digestion during winters. Full-scale field experiments were conducted on the biogas production rate at different temperatures, the dynamic digestion effects, and the dynamic heating digestion effects of the system at Sichuan, China. A comparison of the dynamic and static digestion results of 50 days indicated that the biogas production for the dynamic digestion (DD) group was 115.22 m3 or 127.1% higher than that of the static digestion (SD) group with the same digestion temperature. The results of the heat transfer performance experiment revealed that the heat transfer rate of the system increased significantly, and the temperature of the biogas slurry increased rapidly. The optimization analysis of the system was based on the experimental results of the relationship between the slurry temperature and biogas production rate, and the economical digestion temperature of the system was proposed and calculated. Different insulation materials or insulation thicknesses have an influence on the economical digestion temperature. Additionally, the economical digestion temperature of the system in which the polystyrene insulation layer with a thickness of 90 mm was used, was found to be 27.2 °C. When digestion temperature was 22.3 °C, the energy efficiency ratio (EER) of dynamic anaerobic digestion system is 1. The advantages of MFD are low biogas production unit cost and high heat and mass transfer rate. However, the disadvantage of high operation energy consumption needs further improvement. And additional energy was required when system digestion temperature below 22.3 °C. The proposed MFD and dynamic anaerobic digestion system can play a significant role in using biomass resources and promoting the development of biogas projects.


Introduction: The active shimming methods developed for NMR spectroscopy in a uniform sample are known to be less effective for high field in vivo MR imaging studies because of the local higher-order gradients in regions near air-tissue interfaces, such as the paranasal sinuses and ear canals. Attempts have been made to address this issue with a passive shimming approach, but there are requirements that make implementation for general use difficult [1]. Here, we present a synergistic shimming algorithm that simultaneously optimizes the linear active shim coil settings and the higher-order local passive shimming configurations for a specific sample. This approach is expected to be applicable to standard high-field MRI systems for both animal and human studies.


Zaganjor et al. preview work from Webb et al. that shows that the liver-specific isoform of the glycolysis enzyme PFK1 can assemble into filaments and localize to distinct puncta near the plasma membrane.


The invention belongs to the technical field of aircraft oil tank ventilation and relates to a universal ventilation system for aircraft wing oil tanks. The universal aircraft ventilation system comprises an aircraft wing oil tank, an oil collection tank and ventilation tubes, wherein the oil tank comprises symmetrically disposed oil tanks with an integrated structure; the oil collection tank is disposed on the lower part of a cockpit and lower than the aircraft wing oil tank; the oil tanks on left and right sides are connected by the ventilation tube; positions on the left and right sides close to the outer side of the oil tank communicate with the external environment via the ventilation tube; the ventilation tube of the oil collection tank is connected to communicating tubes of the left and right oil tanks; and the communicating tubes of the left and right oil tanks also communicate with oil supply pipelines of left and right aircraft wings respectively. Hence, the universal aircraft ventilation system provided by the invention has the advantages that excessive overpressure or negative pressure of the oil tank on one side can be avoided; oil mixing of the left and right oil tanks is avoided; the structure is simple; weight is light; and the system is highly reliable.


For many years, domestic violence has been stereotyped as violence against women and girls, with men as perpetrators. However, in recent times, men have also become victims. Domestic violence is a violation of human rights and should not be condoned. Nyeri County has experienced tremendous development and, therefore, changes in terms of education, occupation, and economic activities, making it one of the richest counties in Kenya. With these changes in society, there is a high level of education, strong cultural adjustments, and economic endowment, and the expectation is that there should be harmony in the homes. To the contrary, there is a lot of domestic violence, as captured by scholars and the media. The objective of the study was to assess the challenges and opportunities resulting from domestic violence in Nyeri County, Kenya. Data was collected using questionnaires, interviews, and focus group discussions. The study was underpinned by the frustration-aggression theory and the social learning theory. Descriptive and evaluative research designs were used. The study was conducted in Nyeri County, which has a population of 759,164. The study used random, purposive, convenience, and census sampling techniques. The following respondents were sampled to participate in the study: 384 household heads, 12 assistant chiefs, 15 police officers, 30 religious leaders, 12 NGOs/CBOs, 3 sub-county administrators, and 20 village elders. The primary methods of data collection were questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussions, and observation. Quantitative data was analysed using SPSS version 25 to give frequency distributions, means, and percentages, and findings were presented using tables, graphs, and charts. Qualitative data was analysed using thematic narrations, and findings were presented using narrations and descriptions. Challenges to domestic violence include a lack of political will (16%), modernity (15%), the influence of social media (20%), societal victimisation (29%), and high poverty levels (20%). There are some opportunities for enhancing the resolution of domestic violence, such as boosting moral values, strengthening the justice system, enacting social programmes and sensitization, and providing psychosocial support. The study recommends that the government, civil society, and the general public should work together to end domestic violence in the county, as it is a major threat to human rights.


The oven comprises: a vessel (3) covered by a vault containing a bath of molten material; a combustion zone (5) provided with heating means, particularly burners (6); an inlet (8) located upstream of the furnace for charging materials to be heated; a recovery zone (9) between the inlet and the combustion zone wherein the majority circulate an oxy-combustion flue gas; a downstream outlet for the heated or melted material; at least one opening (13) for discharging combustion gases provided upstream of the recovery zone; and the average height of the recovery zone is such that it promotes the vertical radiation of fumes to the surface of the mat at the expense of horizontal beam parallel to the surface of the carpet.


Development of strategic planning depends on governments' requirements,market demands,and social needs.According to exploration of two rounds of strategic planning in the last decade,along with China's development being shifted from rapid growth to transformed development,the strategic planning has been also shifted from focusing on "quantitative promotion" to "qualitative enhancement." The research pays more attention to comprehensiveness and applicability;the research methodology strengthens the political orientation and public investigation,strengthening the cooperation between departments and public participation.In regard to the development tendency,strategic planning should focus more on the "people-oriented" values;strengthen the study on spatial policy and economic feasibility;focus on structural analysis and flow analysis,as well as the exploration of new technology application,such as "space information";strengthen the exploration of the integration of "national socio-economic development plan," "city master plan," and "land-use plan";and attach importance to the public and enterprise participation in the planning process.


Purpose: To investigate the effect of taspine hydrochloride and the regulatory involvement of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signal on skin wound healing in rats.
Methods: Wound model rats were assigned to 3 groups (n = 15 each): untreated control, taspine hydrochloride high-dose treatment, and taspine hydrochloride low-dose treatment groups. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and keratinocyte growth factor receptor (KGFR) were determined using qPCR, while immunoblot assay was used to assess protein levels of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) and other inflammatory factors.
Results: There were significantly down-regulated levels of KGF, KGFR, TGF-β1, VEGF, EGF, HGF, IL-6, IL-8 and TNF-α in control group on the first day, relative to high- and low-dose taspine hydrochloride treatment groups (p < 0.05). Wound repair took more time in control rats than in the 2 taspine HCL-treatment rats. However, healing time was significantly shorter in rats given higher level of taspine HCL (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: Taspine hydrochloride down-regulates the high expression of FGF and inhibits inflammatory response in rats with skin trauma. Moreover, it accelerates skin wound healing. These findings support the clinical application of taspine hydrochloride for skin wound healing.


This paper discusses the standardization work carried out in Qin dynasty around its "farming and war" policy: first,Qin summarized die agricultural production experience of Guanzhong Plain,and drafted and implemented the standards,including iron tools,cattle farming,agriculture management,etc.,to promote the development of Qin' s agriculture.Second,Qin developed the standardized weapons manufacture, developed the military recruitment and management standards,and through national legislation to promote these standards implementation,which created the invincible Qin Army.These work laid a solid material and technological foundation to Qin to conquer the other six Warring States.Finally,this paper summarizes the experiences of Qin implementing standardization.


The key element of socio-economic security of individuals and households is security in the world of work. For the majority of people it is paid employment or self employment that on the one hand provides the main source of income and on the other hand constitutes a vital sphere of self-realization. The position in the world of work to a large extent determines one's social status, self-appraisal, general well-being and satisfaction with life. Increasing insecurity of work situation negatively impacts motivation and productive activity and worsens human development prospects. Moreover employed population spends at work the largest share of overall active time fund. In Russia market reforms were accompanied by a pronounced growth of insecurity. Pre-reform situation was characterized by over-full employment ensuring stable jobs for everybody. Legally guaranteed minimum wage exceeded subsistence minimum and was supplemented with a package of free or heavily subsidized social goods in the spheres of health, education, culture, housing and transport. Thus, although real incomes of the majority of population were low their socio-economic situation was secure and predictable. In the post-Soviet Russia flimsiness of available safety nets and lack of public commitment to basic social income strengthen the dependence of household income security on employment related characteristics of its members. Thus the socio-economic security aspects linked to employment are especially important. In the theoretical discourse socio-economic security in the world of work is interpreted as a scarce resource unevenly distributed among labor market participants. The 'security share' falling on each individual worker depends upon a complicated tangle of factors some of which fell outside individual control, while others could be to a certain extent influenced upon. Factors may also be internal to the person in question (e.g. demographic characteristics, educational attainment, health) or external, being a part of the environment, such as type of job, terms and conditions of contract, place of living. To this day the majority of research dealing with labour and employment situation in Russia (as well as the key policy measures elaborated by the government in this sphere) is focused upon the task of combating unemployment. Meanwhile the equally pressing problem of improving quality of jobs as regards such characteristics as fair remuneration, decent work conditions, stability and career prospects and other vital aspects constituting overall socio-economic security of working population remain in the backlight. This paper deals with measuring work-related security in Russia at different stages of reforms, trends in security/insecurity profiles for different categories of working population and factors affecting share of work-related security falling on individual worker and distribution of working population among privileged and vulnerable zones. The empirical base is formed by two rounds of People's Security Survey carried out in three Russian regions in 2002 and 2007. The research is based upon the ILO methodology elaborated in the framework of decent work indicators (see Economic Security for a Better World (2004) Geneva: ILO for details) emphasizing seven key aspects of work-related security which are as follows: Labour market security adequate employment opportunities, through state-guaranteed full employment Employment security protection against arbitrary dismissal, regulations on hiring and firing, employment stability Job security a niche designated as an occupation or 'career', the opportunity to develop a sense of occupation, barriers to skill dilution Work security protection against accidents and illness at work, through safety and health regulations, regulated limits on working time, unsociable hours Skill reproduction security widespread opportunities to gain and retain skills, through apprenticeships and employment training programs Income security ensuring regular and decent wage/salary income and work-related benefits Representation security protection of collective voice in the labour market, through independent trade unions and other bodies able to represent the interests of workers Each aspect can be measured by different sets of indices on micro and macro level. It is demonstrated that macro-level indices designed by ILO experts for cross-country comparisons are good for measuring socio-economic and institutional context in which workers perform but less suited for measuring security/insecurity outcomes. Moreover, they tell us little about distribution of work-related security among different categories of population within countries and of factors impacting such distribution. Thus for the purpose of this research a set of micro level indices is constructed which allows grasping both objective base and subjective perceptions of socio-economic security among different groups of employed population. When constructing the indices the emphasis is made upon subjective indicators reflecting how people perceive the extent of their security or insecurity at the workplace. Proposed micro-level indicators: Labour market security estimated chances of finding another employment in case of job loss Employment security Type of contract Confidence in keeping job for next 12 months Protection against unfair dismissal Job security Active usage of skills and competences Satisfaction with work contents Promotion/downgrading in the past 3 years Satisfaction with career prospects Work security Overtime Access to regular leave Perception of work conditions as dangerous Existence of enterprise safety department or committee Skill reproduction security Rate of devotion to one's profession/occupation Training/retraining in the past 3 years Access to training/retraining Income security Regularity of wage-payment Satisfaction with wage/salary Satisfaction with social benefits provided by enterprise (social package) Representation security TU membership Reliance on TU to protect workers interests The main results obtained are as follows. 1. During the period of economic stability (in between the two survey rounds), a considerable strengthening in five out of seven aspects of work-related security was observed. The most prominent loss was in skill reproduction security reflecting opportunities to master one's profession, to gain and retain skills through professional education and training programs. 2. In both rounds man proved to be more vulnerable than women as far as work and representation security were concerned while women lacked labour market security being less sure of finding another employment in case of job loss. 3. Public sector employees experienced the largest gains in work-related security with those employed by privatized enterprises falling slightly behind and employees in the new private sector being the main losers. 4. With the help of cluster analysis five work-related security profiles characterized by different zones of vulnerability were distinguished: three clusters represent reasonably well-to-do groups while the other two are outsiders. It is demonstrated that, on the one hand, well-paid jobs not necessarily guarantee high level of socio-economic security. In many cases they provide poor opportunities for skill-development or for strengthening labor market competitiveness. On the other hand employment in poorly paid jobs in most cases leads to deskilling, worsening of health and eventually to being trapped in unattractive and insecure labor market segments. 5. The key factors determining individual work-related security profiles are sector of employment, enterprise size, age, and health. The profiles are less dependent upon place of living, gender, family size and education and not dependent upon marital status and number of children. Lastly a brief discussion of possible impact of the recent financial crises on workrelated security profiles in Russia is presented. Available information from official and expert sources and some results of a labour-relations survey conducted at industrial enterprises in 2007 and 2009 point not only to labour market but also to skill reproduction security as areas being most affected in the negative way, while work and representation security seem to be the least affected areas and the consequences for job security appear controversial. It is also argued that it is the oldest and the youngest cohorts of the workforce who are likely (for different reasons) to be most affected.


The biological characteristics of flowering of Dendrocalamus latiflorus Munro including flowering signs,flowering period and duration,flowering season and first blooming time,types of flowering branches and their structures,shape and structure of spike,floral structure and development as well as floral opening order were studied.Meanwhile,controlled pollination was carried out by using 90 poles,29 clumps of D. latiflorus Munro planted in the State Nursery of Nanjing County,Fujian Province of Southeast China.The results indicate that there is no significant difference in seed setting rate under different weather conditions and on different flowering branches.It is suitable to carry out controlled pollination during the natural flowering period in bamboo field.


Curvature is a popular attribute that has been widely used to delineate faults and fracture zones in seismic structural interpretation; however, observations from 3D pre-stack depth-migrated seismic data at Teapot Dome (Wyoming) indicated that many seismically-visible faults have no curvature expression, while many curvature anomalies do not correlate to any seismically-visible faults. Instead, major seismically-visible faults are typically located at the maximum absolute gradient of curvature. From these observations, we extend the curvature algorithm and construct a new flexure algorithm by calculating the derivative of curvature along the reflector. We then extract both curvature and flexure attributes to describe the Teapot Dome fractured reservoirs. Our results indicate that the maximum absolute flexure is more descriptive of the northeast-trending transfer faults and the northwesttrending thrust faults that are seismically visible; whereas the maximum absolute curvature is more descriptive of the coherent portion of folds with no faults that are seismically visible. These observations from seismic data, integrated with image logs, cores, and outcrops from previous studies, lead to our interpretation that curvature might be more indicative of tensile fractures whereas flexure be more indicative of shear fractures. Although directly observed on image logs, cores, and outcrops, tensile fractures usually fall below the limit of seismic resolution. In contrast, shear faults give rise to significant offset of reflectors such that they are easily recognizable on seismic images. We propose using a combination of curvature and flexure attributes for discriminating tensile from shear fracture facies, evaluating reservoir storage capacity and caprock integrity, and modeling fracture networks at Teapot Dome.


Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos is a language that has developed lexical tones rather recently, from the point of view of language history. One of the main dialects of this lang ...


Reasonable suggestion behavior can stimulate the strategic thinking of the organization, improving the working process, improve the effectiveness of decision-making within the organization, prevent the crisis, and thus improve the organizational efficiency. It is also a way for employees to participate in management. In this paper, the author takes the hotel staff as the research object, in-depth study of the relevant factors affecting their suggestion behavior. On the basis of references, this paper puts forward research hypotheses, designs a questionnaire, and uses multiple statistical regression analysis to verify the hypotheses. The conclusions are as follows: (1) cognitive style, organizational justice and leadership behavior have a significant positive impact on hotel staff's suggestion behavior. (2) the influence degree of each influencing factor on employee's suggestion behavior is in the order of leadership behavior, cognitive style, organizational justice and psychological contract.


The invention relates to a method for preparing polypropylene formed material by using water as forming agent. The method takes the polypropylene as raw material, water as the forming agent, selects montmorillonite, diatomite, cellulose, starch, polyacrylamide and the like as water carriers, and uses a directive extrusive method to prepare the polypropylene formed material. The method does not use organic forming agent; therefore, the production process of the technique is safe and environmentally friendly and the continuous production can be realized. The plastic forming multiplying power ofthe prepared polypropylene foam is 1-15 times.


Laser manipulation techniques were applied to the control of molecular assembling in D2O. An amphiphilic random copolymer, which has hydrophilic and hydrophobic segments in a single chain and forms a monopolymer micelle through self-organization, is demonstrated to receive photon pressure of a focused near-infrared laser beam. Upon prolonged irradiation with the beam, a single microparticle is formed at a focal point, and it dissolves very quickly after switching off the laser beam. The behavior indicates that electrostatic repulsion between micelles is overcome by photon pressure. The assembling processes were examined as a function of irradiation time and polymer concentration and are discussed.


Translating was crucial to the missionary project everywhere, especially after the Protestant Reformation. In their competition to expand their reach, various denominations of missionaries not only translated the Scriptures into the various local languages where they went, but also mediated various modern institutions like the school system, health-care and print-technology in those traditional societies. These institutions and the activity of translation were often the means to achieve the ultimate goal of proselytization. Their rate of success in achieving their goal in different places varied for several reasons. In places like Orissa where there was a deep-rooted cultural and religious tradition, their rate of success was very low. Even the forces of modernity they tried to mediate were regarded with suspicion for a long time on account of the peculiar political condition prevalent in Orissa at that time. Their activism in Orissa during the early part of 19th century was conflated with colonial hegemony. Moreover, the racial and cultural pride of missionaries prevented them from respecting the local condition and culture. Therefore, the translations they undertook were perceived as ridiculous and were summarily rejected. Orissa already had a long literary-cultural and translatory practice. The missionary challenge, however, helped in reorienting and galvanizing this tradition in a specific way. Although the missionaries largely failed in achieving their primary goal, their activism ironically helped in the growth of a new synthetic translational and literary culture in Orissa, long after their influence had waned. Keywords: sub colonialism, cultural coding, translational activism, bhāsā language, oral culture.


As a theoretical basis of computerized adaptive test, item response theory (IRT) has been the focus point of research on test theory of education at present and broken through the limitation of the classical test theory. The ability of examinee is related with his response in examination, and all of them are parameterized by IRT. At present, the research on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) based on IRT is limited in lonely study for dichotomous scoring model alone or multi-scoring model. A mixed-scoring CAT system based on the three-layered B/S model structure is developed in this thesis. The research on mixed-scoring model, which both including dichotomous scoring and multi-scoring, is still in development. This research tries to research on mixed-scoring CAT model based on two-parameter logistic model, and give a resolving method. The functional model and structure of the system is provided. The structure of CAT system and the process of test implement are described in details including the module of the system, the structure of the item-bank, the estimate of parameter, the test flow and so on. The test results show that this system has a better performance in calculating the ability of examinee and the test efficiency. The exposure of items is controlled, and the exposure excess of items is reduced. The ratio of superposition in test is lower, and the security of test is better.


The problem of this research is an attempt to improve the learners' learning activities by using inquiry method in teaching Science Class V in Public Elementary School 05, Sungai Raya. This research method is descriptive, Classroom Action Research form, and nature of the research is collaborative. The Research subjects were teachers and fifth grade learners of Elementary School 05 Sungai Raya that amounted to 6 people. The technique used in this research was the technique of direct observation and data collection tool used was the observation guidelines. The result based on the observation by using inqury method in the Natural Science learning can improve students learning activities. Based on these description, the general use of the inquiry method can improve classroom learning activities of the students of SDN 05 V Sungai Raya. Thus the inquiry method can be used during the learning process to improve the Natural Science learning activities.


The method of modernized ion-plasma sputtering produced metastable states, including nanocrystalline and amorphous phases in films of Fe-Ag, Fe-Bi, Fe-Ag-Bi, Fe-Co-Ag and Ni-Ag alloys whose components do not mixed in the liquid state. The periods of the crystal lattices and the dimensions of the crystallites of the nonequilibrium phases in the fresh-sputtered state and after the heating are determined. The temperatures of the beginning and the end of the decomposition of metastable phases are established when heated at a constant rate. The electric and hysteretic magnetic properties of films in freshly dusted and thermally processed states are measured. The compositions and conditions for obtaining films with low values of the temperature coefficient of electrical resistivity (~ 10-5 K-1) and high coercive force (HC ~ 150 kA/m) are established. Such films can be promising for use as thin-film precision resistors and magnetic information carriers with an increased recording density.


The opening for authority and teachers of the School of Basic Education Dr. Luis Poveda Orellana, allowed to develop this research has generated expectations in the context that served as the basis for its realization, its conceptual theoretical content points out issues that define the importance the family of the student within the educational process, and within it the first knowledge she being the first school of human life are taught.


We have been designing and implementing an object-relational multimedia database. A new data model was first developed, which represents various types of media entities, and temporal/logical relationships among these entities. Thereafter, a three-layer object-relational database infrastructure was proposed in our project, in order to support the proposed data model. In this paper, we concentrate on the search and query mechanisms designated for our database infrastructure. In particular, we discuss a new query language, which is developed as a multimedia extension of SQL3. This query language provides a greater expressive power, not only on simple/complex media entities, but also on various relationships among different entities. Consequently, it supports both content-based and structure-based queries. We are currently implementing the query language in our object- relational multimedia database prototype system based on the Illustrar. The fundamental structure of our query language, as well as main features of Object Manager and Query Manager of our prototype system, are also presented in the paper.


Beekeeping is a labor intensive job which requires the daily inspection of every frame of every hive in an apiary. Apiaries are easily scalable via the addition of new hives or the expansion of existing hives but human labor cannot so easily be scaled to meet the added need as human labor is costly, often political, and time consuming. HiveSpy is a proposed and under research and development automated Internet of Things (IoT) solution for monitoring and reporting the weight of every frame of a hive effectively, efficiently, and remotely. Existing beekeeping and monitoring systems on the market are very costly and do not provide per-frame information to their users. Thus, although they are successful in generating a slew of useful information regarding the health, status, and even overall yields of a hive, they fall short in enabling beekeepers the luxury of only inspecting and harvesting the frames that are ready. As a result, the existing systems do not contribute to harvest related labor reduction nor are as effective as HiveSpy in the prevention of swarming.


Olivine-type LiMnPO4 has been considered as a promising cathode material for the next-generation high-power lithium ion batteries. Preparing high-performance LiMnPO4 cathodes by a simple approach has been a subject of much scientific inquiry for several years. Here, we report a simple solvothermal synthesis of LiMnPO4 nanocrystals using LiOH·H2O, H3PO4 and MnSO4·H2O as the precursors and ethylene glycol as the reaction medium. We found that the ratio of the starting materials exerts a significant influence on the morphology, size and crystal orientation of LiMnPO4 nanocrystals. We confirmed the critical role of H+ concentration in altering the crystallization characteristics of LiMnPO4. The results showed that after carbon coating, the plate-like LiMnPO4, which was synthesized from the precursor with a LiOH/H3PO4/MnSO4 ratio of 3 : 1.1 : 1, exhibited the best electrochemical performance, yielding a discharge capacity of 108.2 mA h g−1 at 10 C and maintaining a discharge capacity of 133.5 mA h g−1 after 100 cycles at 0.5 C. This simple, one-spot solvothermal preparation method sheds light on the synthesis of high-performance LiMnPO4 cathode material.


Objective To explore the relationships between dietary behaviors and urinary inorganic salts of college students, and to provide bases for nutritional health education. Methods By using a self-designed questionnaire, 802 medicos were investigated on living expense, milk intakes and dietary categories. The urinary calcium, phosphorous and creatinine contents were detected and the ratios were calculated. Results No statistical significance of urinary calcium and phosphorous were found between students of different genders (P0.05). There were statistical significance between the students in the groups of milk frequency, dietary categories and living expenses (P0.01). Conclusion Urinary calcium and phosphorous is influenced by the constitution of diets. The awareness of college students of nutrition should be enhanced and their unhealthy habits of dietary should be correct.


The methodology of applying Liapunov second method to the stability study of a nonlinear rotor system is presented.The differential equation of the rotor system is modeled as a mathematical model with an isolatable nonlinear term.It is showm that the Liapunov second method can solve the stability a certain nonlinear rotor dynamic system.


Interest in retributive theory, and emphasis on proportionality between crime and punishment as a requirement of justice, revived in English-speaking countries in the 1970s. After less than a half century, however, retributivism's influence is waning. It is beset by challenges. Some, such as difficulties in scaling crime seriousness and punishment severity, and linking them, are primarily analytical and of interest mostly to theorists. Others, such as trade-offs between proportionality and crime prevention, relate to real-world applications. Both sets of challenges can be explored in their own terms, and solutions can be sought. The bigger question, though, is whether the challenges are epiphenomenal and portend displacement of retribution as the most intellectually influential normative frame of reference for thinking about punishment. Only time will tell whether retributivism is in terminal decline. Most likely, the difficulties contemporary philosophers face are as much a reflection of a change in the zeitgeist, in prevailing sensibilities, in mentalités as of sudden realization that retributive ideas offer less guidance for thinking about punishment than was widely understood.


Catalytic trimerization of isobutene to produce triisobutenes has been performed over cation-exchange resin and zeolite catalysts. Resin catalysts have the advantage of long lifetime and high trimers selectivity even though the regeneration of an aged catalyst is not satisfactory. On the contrary, zeolite catalysts can be regenerated facilely by simple calcination in air even though the lifetime is short and trimers selectivity is low probably due to small pore size and strong acidity, respectively. It is, therefore highly desirable to develop an inorganic acid catalyst with macro- or meso-pores to show catalytic performances similar or superior to those of macroporous resin catalysts.


The teaching-learning situation in many schools is hard due to poor acoustics, the problem is often high sound levels. When teachers complain the landlord make room acoustic measurements. In many standards the requirement is reverberation time (RT) according to ISO 3382-2 [1], the meaning in the standard is that a short RT is equal to low sound levels. Quite often the measured RT is short but the sound level is perceived as high by teachers and pupils. The problem is that the relation between short RT and low sound level needs a diffuse sound field and that is seldom the situation in class rooms today. Therefore other measurement is needed. I suggest that we measure how the sound reflections from the surfaces in the room affect the sound level. This can be measured with G according to ISO 3382-1 [2]. The problem with G is that teachers, landlords and architects have problems to relate to the reference level; "10 meters away from the sound source in free field conditions". Therefore we need another reference level. My suggestion is to use "5 meters away from the sound source outdoors on a grass lawn" as a new reference level. This is easier for teachers, landlords and architects to understand and relate to.


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Reviewers for Volume 9, Number 2
Adriana F. Sestras, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Romania
Alejandra Matiz, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fardausi Akhter, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Khyati Hitesh Shah, Stanford University, United States
Kirandeep Kaur Mani, California seed and Plant Labs, USA
Malgorzata Pietrowska-Borek, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
Massimo Zacchini, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Md. Asaduzzaman, Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh
Melekber Sulusoglu, Arslanbey Vocational School Kocaeli University, Turkey
Milana Trifunovic-Momcilov, Institute for Biological Research "Sinisa Stankovic", Serbia
Mohamed Ahmed El-Esawi, Tanta University, Egypt
Rakesh Ponnala, Zoetis Inc, United States
Romina A. Marc, Univ. of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Slawomir Borek, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Tomoo misawa, Donan Agricultural Experiment Station, Hokkaido Research Organization, Japan


Defines a set of allowed access points advertise its ability to be used between the access point and the client, configuration and / or parameter of a new information element, the information element is associated with an access point prior to allowing the clients, adjust these parameters during or after. If the access point to adjust these parameters, the variation is in the advertisement response and a subsequent beacon frames, and in response to a parameter containing the changed response frame or the beacon receiver, the client change its parameters. If the station to change its operating parameters, it transmits the change message to the access point notifies the access point.


[Objective] To analyze the clinical features of afebrile convulsion combining rotaviral enteritis.[Methods] A total 34 infants with afebrile convulsion combining rotaviral enteritis who were treated in our hospital were observed and followed up.[Results] The age of onset in the 34 cases was(18.3±3.6) months;the highest incidence of afebrile convulsion was observed in children of 1 to 2 years old;most of cases were found in autumn and winter;convulsion in 29 cases(85.3%) took place in 3 days after onset,the duration of 28 cases(82.4%) less than 3mins,no cases with status epilepticus;the results of serum biochemistry,CT scan and cerebrospinal fluid were normal.[Conclusion] The course of afebrile convulsion combining rotaviral enteritis is relatively benign.


Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(OFDM) technology is multi-carrier modulation technique,the transmission rate is high,inter-symbol interference and selective fading channel has a strong resistance and other characteristics,so the technique of OFDM has a high theoretical value and practical value.However,OFDM technology also has its disadvantages which can not be ignored.The peak average power ratio is higher.In this paper,by researching on clipping and filtering method and selective mapping method to reduce PAPR,through a combination of two methods to improve the formation of a new PAPR reduction algorithms,without additional damage to the overall system performance,the OFDM system's PAPR is effectively reduced.


Dear Editors, In a recent study published in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, we in‐ vestigated the effects of the novel bispecific antibody emicizumab on a variety of in vitro laboratory coagulation tests.1 Emicizumab provides effective bleed prevention in persons with hemophilia A (PwHA),2 but due to its mechanism of action, we reasoned that it may affect tests commonly used to monitor coagulation. The goal of our study was to inform the selection and interpretation of co‐ agulation assays for PwHA receiving emicizumab prophylaxis.1 We showed that emicizumab has a strong interference effect on assays based on the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), such as one‐stage assays for FVIII, protein C, and protein S activity; a weak effect on the prothrombin time and derived fibrinogen assays; and no effect on various chromogenic and immunologic assays.1 However, there are no data currently available on the effect of emicizumab on functional assays to detect lupus anticoagulants (LAs). LAs are immunoglobulins that inhibit phospholipid‐dependent coagulation tests by binding to phospholipid cofactor proteins. While rare, the presence of LAs in PwHA is significant in that they can interfere with the ability to detect and monitor FVIII inhibitors by Bethesda assays based on aPTT, and in a few instances even with chromog‐ enic Bethesda assays (which are recommended for management of emicizumab patients).3 Therefore, it is valuable to explore the effect of emicizumab on several functional assays for LA detection based on different assay principles. The intent of this letter is to supple‐ ment the findings of our previous study1 by investigating the effect of emicizumab on the results of LA detection assays. To this end, we used patient plasma samples to assess the ef‐ fect of emicizumab therapy on three different LA detection assays. Frozen plasma samples were sourced as follows: two from persons with severe hemophilia A without FVIII inhibitors (Precision BioLogic Inc), two samples positive for LAs (George King Bio‐Medical Inc and Precision BioLogic Inc), and CRYOcheckTM pooled normal plasma (Precision Biologic Inc). In addition, individual samples from 12 healthy plasma donors were generated (menal GmbH) via blood col‐ lection into plastic tubes containing 0.109 mol/L sodium citrate as an anticoagulant, centrifuged (2000 × g, 15 minutes at room tem‐ perature) and the resulting plasma was transferred to another plas‐ tic tube for a second spin. Plasma was then aliquoted, immediately frozen (−70°C), and thawed in a water bath at 37°C immediately before testing. Analyses were performed in duplicate using the commercially available diagnostic kits according to manufacturer in‐ structions; results presented are means of the two determinations. In each experiment, emicizumab was spiked into the samples to pro‐ duce final plasma concentrations of 0, 50, 100, and 150 μg/mL. Three LA detection assays were evaluated: the aPTT‐based STA‐Staclot LA assay (Stago); the Dilute Russel Viper Venom Time (DRVVT; STA‐Staclot DRVV Screen and Confirm LA assays, Stago); and the Taipan venom time (TVT; Diagnostic Reagents Ltd). The aPTT assay is based on hexagonal phase phospholipid neu‐ tralization of LAs.4 An LA‐sensitive aPTT is performed with and without the addition of hexagonal phase phospholipids, and the difference in clotting time is calculated. LAs interfere with throm‐ bin generation in the aPTT assay by disrupting the formation of two phospholipid‐dependent coagulation factor complexes (tenase and prothrombinase). Shortening of the detected clotting time by ≥8 sec‐ onds (as per manufacturer recommendations) with the addition of hexagonal phase phospholipids was indicative of the presence of LAs. However, the assay cannot be used with plasma samples con‐ taining anti‐factor antibodies (inhibitors), as these will prolong the clotting time regardless of the presence of LAs or addition of hexag‐ onal phase phospholipids. The DRVVT assay is based on the activation of FX and FV using the snake venom of Daboia russelii (Russell's viper) with the addition of a low (DRVV Screen) versus high (DRVV Confirm) concentration of phospholipids. The assay detects LAs by their ability to interfere with thrombin activation by the prothrombinase complex. By acti‐ vating coagulation downstream of factors VIII and IX, the test is not subject to being affected by their deficiencies or specific inhibitors. Per the test manufacturer's recommendation, a DRVVT screen ratio of >1.2 (test sample ÷ normal plasma pool) was indicative of the pres‐ ence of LAs. The TVT assay is based on the activation of prothrombin to thrombin by the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus (Taipan snake), which is dependent on the presence of phospholipids and free calcium ions5; LAs prolong the TVT. TVT was performed by mix‐ ing 100 μL of sample with 100 μL of Bell and Alton phospholipid (Diagnostic Reagents, reconstituted with 5 mL of water, diluted 1:6


Zengyu, a scholar in the flourishing Ming Dynasty in Su, had wrote a preface for the works of 《Yuefu Yuyin》which was wrote by Yangting He--Zengyu's father, in the invitation of a friend called Yangshen Zhi. This paper presents a philological study on the related problems of the works of Preface of《Yuefu Yuyin》》such as the revising the text, comments on the literature and artistic opinions of Zengyu, explorations of resume and friends as well as the discrimination of gist and artistic style of the non-dramatic songs wrote by Yangting He.


Resonance Raman scattering was suppressed by 50% via ground state depletion in Tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II). This concept of Raman suppression is of high interest for enhancing the resolution of Raman microscopy to below the diffraction limit.


A liquid crystal display comprises a main base (13), a lamp housing, a printed circuit board, an upper housing (20) and a bottom cover (14). The printed circuit board is arranged on a rear face of the main seat (13) .The upper housing (20) has on one side of the protruding parts. The bottom cover (14) has raw parts extension (14a) bent upwards opposite to the projecting pieces (20a) for electrical connection with the upper housing (20) and a second part bent downward extension to an underside of the main seat (13) for electrical connection with the circuit board imprime.L'agencement allows a last safe mass of the components of the liquid crystal display


The paper introduced the concepts and basic characteristics of digital mine,discussed the technical basis for the implementation of information integration and virtual visualization of digital mine,proposed the composite framework of digital mine based on previous work and prospected the future development of digital mine.


This paper is devoted to the study of nonlinear difference equations subject to global nonlinear boundary conditions. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions based on properties of the nonlinearities and the eigenvalues of an associated linear Sturm–Liouville problem.


The current state of size and weight parameters and age structure of silver bream in the upper part of the Volga stretch of the Kuibyshev water reservoir show persistence of a negative trend at the beginning of the current century: a decrease in the size and weight parameters of the silver bream and an increase in the number of younger fish. The current situation can be considered as an indicator of the general negative state of fish resources in the study area.


We use a new configuration-based version of linear response theory to efficiently solve self-consistent mean field equations relating an effective single particle potential to the induced density. The versatility and accuracy of the method is illustrated by applications to dewetting of a hard sphere solute in a Lennard-Jones fluid, the interplay between local hydrogen bond structure and electrostatics for water confined between two hydrophobic walls, and to ion pairing in ionic solutions. Simulation time has been reduced by more than an order of magnitude over previous methods.


With the scaling of CMOS technology, critical paths in digital circuits have become largely sensitive to process, voltage and temperature variations as well as to aging effects, generally resulting into a mismatch between the simulated path delay of the circuit obtained with CAD tools and the actual path delay on the manufactured chip. In order to solve this issue and to also avoid conservative strategies based on increasing time margins, adaptive techniques are the most desirable solution because they should automatically sense and correct timing variations online. Implementing such adaptive strategies requires accurate, high resolution and compact delay measurement devices. In this work we propose an effective, fully-digital, online delay measurement circuit that can be entirely implemented in a standard cell technology without the need of custom elements. Our design provides low-cost multi-paths delay monitoring while achieving high accuracy of the measurements (in the order of 30ps).