We quantify the ability of B-Factories to observe supersymmetric contributions to the rare decays B ! Xs and B ! Xsl + l . A global t to the Wilson coecients which contribute to these decays is performed from Monte Carlo generated data on B(B ! Xs )a nd the kinematic distributions associated with the nal state lepton pair in B! Xsl + l .T hist is then compared to supersymmetric predictions. Evaluation of the Wilson coecients is carried out with several dierent patterns of the superpartner spectrum. We nd thatB-Factories will be able to probe regions of the SUSY parameter space not accessible to LEP II, the Tevatron, and perhaps the LHC. We also employ the recent NLO calculation of the matrix elements for B ! Xs and nd the bound mH > 300 GeV in two-Higgs-doublet models using present data.


Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and chronic kidney diseases (CKD) are highly prevalent in Western populations and account for a substantial proportion of mortality. We recently found that apolipoprotein C-3 (ApoC3), a constituent of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, induces alternative NLRP3 inflammasome activation leading to sterile inflammation. In the present study, we aimed to assess post-translational modifications (PTMs) of ApoC3 in patients with CKD, to determine the effects of post-translationally modified ApoC3 in vitro and in vivo, and to test the relevance in a prospective clinical trial.

 Using mass-spectrometry, we screened ApoC3 for PTMs We determined the effects of modified ApoC3 on monocyte inflammatory response in vitro and assessed its effects in humanized mice subjected to a vascular injury model and unilateral ureter ligation. Finally, we assessed the association of post-translationally modified ApoC3 and cardiovascular and renal events in a prospective clinical trial of 543 CKD patients.

 We identified post-translational guanidinylation of ApoC3 (gApoC3) in patients with CKD, which augments the proinflammatory effects of ApoC3. Mechanistically, guanidine and urea induced guanidinylation of ApoC3. gApoC3 accumulates in kidneys and plasma of mice subjected to a CKD model as determined by 2D-proteomic analyses. In humanized mice, gApoC3 promotes kidney fibrosis and impedes vascular regeneration. In the clinical trial, higher gApoC3 blood levels as determined by mass spectrometry were associated with increased mortality as well as cardiovascular and renal events.

 Guanidinylation of ApoC3 represents a novel pathogenic mechanism in CKD and CKD-associated vascular injury, rendering gApoC3 a potential therapeutic target.


This paper describes experimental results on controlling flow separation by periodic excitation on the flap of a generic high-lift configuration. The slotted flap of the 2D test model is equipped with a newly designed actuator that meets the desired requirements of frequency and amplitude range but is still fairly small, very robust and reliable. It consists of fast switching solenoid valves connected to compressed air which produce a periodically pulsating jet at the flapt's leading edge. This actuator mechanism enables the control of the separated flow on the flap in terms of lift gain an drag reduction resulting in a lift/drag ratio enhancement of 20-25%. Because of the actuator assembly with individually controllable segments the separation can be forced to attach only on certain parts of the flap. This can be utilized to generate a roll moment without the need of a mechanical aileron. 1 Nomenclature α angle of attack η flap deflection angle cmain chord length main airfoil cf lap chord length flap F+ nondimensional forcing frequency cμ nondimensional momentum coefficient Re chord Reynolds number cL lift coefficient cD drag coefficient cp pressure coefficient cL/cL0 lift coefficient with excitation versus unexcited lift coefficient x c nondimensional length 2 General Introduction Flow control technology is of immense importance in modern aerodynamics [1]. The present experimental investigations were carried out with the aim to enhance the lift of a two dimensional generic high-lift model by periodic excitation. The intention was to locally actuate the flow at the leading edge of the slotted flap to suppress turbulent flow separation or to get the already separated flow to reattach and regain the full lifting force. This can be especially useful for minimizing the complexity of high-lift systems of modern passenger aircraft concerning multiple trailing edge devices. If the aerodynamic performance can be significantly improved by a small amount of energy for active flow control, the landing distances of large aircraft could be reduced due to slower approach speeds which would also result in a quieter approach. As will be shown in this paper the local excitation has a global effect on the complete flow field around the high-lift configuration. It has been demonstrated in a number of experiments that oscillatory flow control is an effective tool to delay boundary layer separation. These experiments show that it is possible to control the flow in a variety of ways (regarding flow separation) mostly on single element airfoils [2]


The influence of grain size, grain orientation, film thickness, impurities and imperfection of CVD diamond on thermal conductivity of CVD diamond film prepared by Direct Current Plasma Jet Deposition Method was studied. The results showed that the thermal conductivity increassed gradually with increasing of grain size. When diamond films became thicker, thermal conductivity gone up sharply at first, but it became stable after the grain size reaching a certain value; the grains of (111) orientation were most favorable for the thermal conductivity and then the (110) orientation. The non diamond carbon phases and lattice imperfections lowered the thermal conductivity, but cracks and gaps within diamond grains influenced thermal conductivity more strongly than non diamond carbon phases.


Native intermediate filament (IF) preparations from the baby hamster kidney fibroblastic cell line (BHK-21) contain a number of minor polypeptides in addition to the IF structural subunit proteins desmin, a 54,000-mol-wt protein, and vimentin, a 55,000-mol-wt protein. A rnonoclonal antibody was produced that reacted exclusively with a high molecular weight (300,000) protein representative of these minor proteins. Immunological methods and comparative peptide mapping techniques demonstrated that the 300,000-mol-wt species was biochemically distinct from the 54,000-and 55,000-mol-wt proteins. Double-label immuno-fluorescence observations on spread BHK cells using this monoclonal antibody and a rabbit polyclonal antibody directed against the 54,000-and 55,000-mol-wt proteins showed that the 300,000-mol-wt species co-distributed with IF in a fibrous pattern. In cells treated with colchicine or those in the early stages of spreading, double-labeling with these antibodies revealed the coexistence of the respective antigens in the juxtanuclear cap of IF that is characteristic of cells in these physiological states. After colchicine removal, or in the late stages of cell spreading, the 300,000-mol-wt species and the IF subunits redistributed to their normal, highly coincident cytoplasmic patterns. Ultrastructural localization by the immunogold technique using the monoclonal antibody supported the light microscopic findings in that the 300,O00-mol-wt species was associated with IF in the several physiological and morphological cell states investigated. The gold particle pattern was less intimately associated with IF than that defined by anti-54/55 and was one of non-uniform distribution along IF, being clustered primarily at points of proximity between IF, where an amorphous, proteinaceous material was often the labeled element. Occasionally, "bridges" of label were seen extending outward from such clusters on IF. Gold particles were infrequently bound to microtubules, microfilaments, or other cellular organelles, and when so, IF were usually contiguous. During multiple cycles of in vitro disassembly/assembly of the IF from native preparations, the 300,000-mol-wt protein remained in the fraction containing the 54,000-and 55,000-mol-wt structural subunits, whether the latter were in the soluble state or pelleted as formed filaments. In keeping with the nomenclature developed for the microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs), the acronym IFAP-3OOK (intermediate filament associated protein) is proposed for this molecule. Intermediate filaments (IF) ~ are a family of cytoplasmic fi-~Abbreviations used in this paper. anti-54/55, rabbit antiserum against the 54,000-and 55,000-mol-wt BHK IF structural proteins; brous elements that show similar ultrastructural morphologies , e.g., a 7-12-nm diameter, a coiled-coil, a-helical sub-structure, and a tubular cross-sectional profile (25, 26). In contrast to the evolutionary conservatism of …


The formation of a high anisotropic photoelectron distribution, as a result of the interaction of a powerful ultra‐short laser pulse with a nonequilibrium and a collisionless plasma, in some aspects fundamentally changes the laser‐material interaction mechanisms compared with a long pulse. In this work, using the initial conditions, the analytic solution of the Vlasov equation linearised with respect to the bi‐Maxwellian distribution function is presented. To unsure the conservative properties, we have added formally the Krook collision term in the limit of a vanishing collision frequency. We have deduced the generalized transport coefficients, witch constitute very reliable closure relations for the collisionless anisotropic fluid equations.


A few months ago I was sitting in my interview for the job of Editor, flicking through this Journal and reading headlines such as 'Waterbirth debate', 'How long is too long in labour?' and 'Midwifery across the world'. I found myself smiling as I remembered a time when this Journal used to be delivered regularly to my house and was read not just by myself but also by at least three other student midwives. We had essays to write on subjects such as fetal monitoring or oral intake in labour and the BJM was always much in demand.


Using the manmade even-aged stand of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook as selected group,and the number of trees,ground diameter,average diameter of main bine,average length of bine as selection traits,combining the small sample plot method and the index selection method,the selection of the superior individual tree of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook was studied.The results showed that the reasonable compared strain numbers of the selection of superior trees of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook were 16;the selection criteria of the number of trees of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook were 1.5 times,the selection criteria of ground diameter was 1.45 times,and the selection criteria of average diameter of main bine was 1.45 times,and the selection criteria of average length of bine was 1.85.By jointing the selection of multiple characters,there were 23 superior individual trees selected from 36 candidates,which selection rate was 1.05%.The selection intensity were 1.388 9~1.756 2.Each growth trait of superior individual tree were 1.47~1.8 times of the average stands level.


Intrinsically stretchable organic solar cells (IS‐OSCs) have been recently spotlighted for their omnidirectional stretchability, seamless integrability to any surface, and facile fabrication. Due to these attributes, IS‐OSCs are ideal off‐grid power sources, especially for wearable electronics in real‐life. However, under human body elongation as high as ≈40%, cracks in IS‐OSCs are considered inevitable, and the origin of the mechanical failure is rarely identified. Herein, the crack‐initiation and the propagation mechanism are first clarified. Based on this, a crack‐free substrate/transparent electrode platform for stretchable electronics is also suggested. A double‐locking scheme, which reinforces the physical/chemical adsorption within the most mechanically fragile layer, a poly(3,4‐ethylene dioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) and also with thermoplastic polyurethane substrate, is introduced. As a result, the crack‐onset strain of double‐locked IS‐OSCs surpasses 40%, while that of pristine ones is less than 20%. The IS‐OSCs with the double‐locked system exhibits an efficient power conversion efficiency of 10.2%, and the absence of cracks allows the IS‐OSCs to maintain 79.7% of the initial PCE at 40% strain.


A basic model of the combustion of the mixture of two hydrocarbons is considered. On the basis of the developed approaches of parametric analysis, the dependences of steady states of all dimensionless parameters are built. Bifurcation curves of multiplicity and neutrality are calculated that has highlighted areas of multiplicity of steady states and of changes of their type of stability in the parameter space. Conditions for the appearance of three and five steady states have been found as well as self-oscillating combustion modes. It has been shown that the quality of a mixture of hydrocarbons (ratio of the partial pressures) significantly affects the stationary and oscillating combustion modes.


In order to reduce decision rule effectively, a decision rule reduction method based on core value and a decision rule prioritizing method were provided. The results show that effective decision rule reduction can be gotten through above methods and all of these help to improve decision ability.


Despite increasingly shrill public spats between Alliance partners since the 2009 elections, was John Kane-Berman, head of the South African Institute of Race Relations, correct to suggest that "staying in the alliance was the better strategy to push the political centre of gravity of the African National Congress (ANC) further to the left" (Business Day 31/1/11)? Kane-Berman was lamenting the influence of the Congress of Trade Unions of South Africa (Cosatu) over impending labour legislation, but his fears chimed with broader concerns from within the business community regarding future economic policy. Government"s New Growth Path, launched in November 2010, suggests greater state intervention in the economy, and calls for the nationalisation of sectors of the economy are growing within the ANC. Left critics, by contrast, argue that the Alliance, through its National Democratic Revolution (NDR) ideological discourse, fulfils an important legitimating function. It glues together disparate social classes under the hegemony of conservative class interests – a coalition of white and emerging comprador black capital (enmeshed in ever-expanding networks of patronage and corruption), and a professional black middle class that has done rather well out of this transition. In other words, the organized working class is being deceived – by their leadership also implicated in patronage politics into supporting the ANC against its own class interests. They believe that the time has come to build a "Left Opposition" outside the Alliance. The Alliance left, however, insist that since Jacob Zuma assumed the leadership of the ANC at the December 2007 Polokwane conference, space has opened for further contestation within the ANC and government. To leave the Alliance and build a Left Opposition outside it would, on the one hand, abandon that space to predatory rightwing forces, and on the other, relegate the left to the political fringe, no more than what ANC general secretary and SA Communist Party (SACP) chairperson Gwede Mantashe calls a "debating society". 1 Alliance supporters also argue that, despite slow progress towards reducing inequality and eradicating poverty, the Alliance remains essential to holding the centre together by preserving national coherence through an increasingly tension-ridden but nevertheless persistent "non-racial" discourse, and preventing South Africa from splitting into a dangerously fractious contestation over resources. The working class understand that this is in their interests, and they are influencing their leadership in the unions and SACP, as much as leadership is influencing them. In other words, despite its class biases and its acknowledged "sins of incumbency", is the ANC-Alliance the only hope for putting the country onto an inclusive developmental path? Or, does there need to be greater political uncertainty, that is, credible electoral challenges from the Left (or, for liberal pluralists, from the Right as well) to prevent the ruling party from taking citizens for granted? Indeed, are the two mutually exclusive? This chapter examines the state of the Alliance since the 2007 Polokwane National Congress of the ANC. It then considers the various events since the 2007 Polokwane conference that seemingly threaten the stability of the Alliance, a recent survey of Cosatu members" political attitudes, and,


Introduction: The Dutch Solid Start program aims to improve the collaboration between the medical and social sector to offer every child the best start in life. Municipalities form local coalitions of partners within the medical and social sector to support parents and children during the first thousand days. The aim of this study was to develop an indicator set for coalitions to monitor their local Solid Start program. Methods: A modified Delphi study with three rounds was carried out among Dutch experts in Solid Start practice, policy and research (n = 39) to reach consensus. Results: The indicator set included 19 indicators covering the three phases of the Solid Start program: preconception, pregnancy and after birth (up to two years). Prioritized indicators included both social and medical topics, among which poverty, psychological/psychiatric problems, stress, smoking, cumulation of risk factors, preconception care, low literacy, premature birth, and intellectual disability. Additionally, a development agenda was established with topics and indicators that lacked data or clear operationalization (e.g. stress, unintended pregnancy, loneliness). Discussion and conclusion: The developed indicator set enhances the conversation between policymakers, managers, professionals and other stakeholders about the local situation and developments in order to prioritize interventions and policies. Next, the indicator set needs evaluation to assess its usefulness.


This chapter assesses stock corporate arbitration. Corporate arbitration has distinct features compared to other segments of Commercial Arbitration. This is particularly true if listed corporations provide mandatory shareholder arbitration in their bylaws. In order to serve as an effective dispute resolution mechanism, one capable of providing consistent decisions and legal certainty, corporate arbitration needs to fulfil two conditions: first, to produce, at least in some cases, an award with erga omnes or extra partes effect; and second, to exclude conflicting awards on identical disputes referring to the same company and identical facts. Developing an effective framework for stock corporation arbitration is one of the biggest challenges for Commercial Arbitration in Brazil today. According to the listing rules of Brazil's sole equity exchange (B3), corporations listed in the market segments Novo Mercado or Level II must adopt arbitration clauses in their corporate bylaws. Hence, over 150 Brazilian stock corporations impose mandatory shareholder arbitration on their shareholders. The Brazilian Corporation Law (BCL) explicitly permits these arbitration clauses. The chapter then explains why the core principles of Commercial Arbitration do not straightforwardly justify the erga omnes effect of arbitral awards, and discusses several proposals aiming to create collective shareholder arbitration in Brazil.


The reaction of 1,2-epoxyalkylsilanes with azidotrimethylsilane or sodium azide provided 1-azido-2-hydroxyalkylsilanes stereoselectively, one of which was successfully converted into a 2-aza-1,3-diene by a three-step reaction sequence.


Using the information technology,the author compared and analyzed the world record breaker Boulter's height,the average length of stride and the average pace launch with the first 8 athletes' relevant data from the 29th Olympic Games man 100 meter finals champions.The research pointed out that 'the length of stride','the pace' or 'holds out the ratio' are not the whole factors for the speed of the male 100 meters.Before finding the motion rules of human body,the movement technology combined with individual characteristic to form the individual technical style should be the guiding ideology for the sprint technical training.


This paper develops a novel robust finite time adaptive parameter estimator for motorized cylinder of the Electro-Hydraulic Braking system to estimate the faults extent. For the purpose of designing the fault estimator, the fault dynamics model of the motorized cylinder combined with disturbances and uncertainties is constructed. Then, a novel robust finite time adaptive parameter estimator based on the parameter estimation error is proposed via a exponential power form to achieve finite time convergence. Moreover, the finite time convergence property with disturbances is proved by input-to-state stability(ISS) theory in this paper. Finally, the simulation results of the fault estimation are demonstrated to validate the effectiveness of our estimator algorithm.


Meteoric smoke particles have been proposed as a key player in the formation and evolution of mesospheric phenomena. Despite their apparent importance still very little is known about these particl ...


A new mechanism is proposed to explain the " anomaly " in Z → b ¯ b resulting in a prediction of a new, non-sequential fourth family whose masses could all be below M W , thus opening up an exciting prospect for near-future discoveries at LEP2 and possibly at the Tevatron.


(57) Abstract: are effective transparent to visible light, nanoscale UV-absorbing particles having a high UV absorption cross-section is described. These particles can be used to protect humans from harmful UV radiation. These particles also by creating a photoresist edges of the material (502) having a high aspect ratio, in particular can be used in industrial processes for manufacturing a solid-state electronic device. UV-absorbing particles may also be used as a photocatalyst comprising a strong oxidizing agent when exposed to UV radiation. Laser pyrolysis provides an efficient method for the production of appropriate particle.


Learning disabled and nondisabled children were videotaped while being administered a standardized interview by a young adult female. Half of the children in each group received instructions to ingratiate themselves with the interviewer, while the remaining children were told to "act naturally". The videotapes were subsequently used in three experiments in which the nature of the observers was varied. College students, mothers, and children served as observers and were asked to rate the videotaped child on a variety of items. Videotapes were presented without sound such that the ratings were based on nonverbal behaviors. In general, it was found that observers judged learning disabled children more harshly than nondisabled youngsters.


Color images and other multispectral information can be recorded on black-and-white film through the use of a unique spatial carrier for each spectral band. (Ref. 1,2,3,4,5) This paper will describe the technique and its applications and discuss the results of its implementation in a laboratory facsimile system.


In the field of non‐fullerene organic solar cells (OSCs), most of the promising polymer donors are based on benzo[1,2‐b:4,5‐b′]dithiophene (BDT) units while benzo[1,2‐b:4,5‐b′]difuran (BDF)‐based polymers have drawn less attention since the efficiencies of BDF polymer‐based devices are generally lower than those of BDT polymer‐based ones. In this contribution, the BDT unit in a polymer donor named D18 is replaced with a BDF unit, and a new polymer named D18‐Fu is synthesized. As a highly‐crystalline molecule named Y6‐1O is chosen as the acceptor, the efficiency of binary devices based on D18‐Fu can reach 16.38%. Furthermore, when one of fullerene derivatives PC71BM is added, the ternary devices based on D18‐Fu achieve an efficiency of 17.07% and a high fill factor (FF) of 80.4%, both of which are the highest values among those of BDF polymer‐based devices. For comparison, D18‐based ternary devices show an inferior efficiency of 15.61% mainly due to the lower FF of 73.9%. Subsequent characterization reveals that D18‐Fu possesses a more coplanar molecular geometry, leading to better morphology and higher charge mobility for a promising FF. The high performance shown in this work demonstrates the potential role of BDF units in the design of polymer donors for highly efficient OSCs.


In this paper the results on the isolation of organic water pollutants by nonionic sorbents are presented. Polish active carbon Z4S, Amberlite XAD‐2, XAD‐4, XAD‐7 and Polish nonionic macroporous sorbents were used. Adsorption effectiveness, as influenced by organics polarity and concentration, by contact time and by filtered water volume was examined. The best parameters for isolation with macroporous nonionic sorbents were established. For the desorption of organic substances, a Soxhlet extraction for 12hrs with dichloromethane is proposed. The investigated sorbents give total recoveries very close to those obtained by Amberlite XAD resins.


Objectives Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) are a common healthcare-associated infection and therefore targeted by surveillance programmes in many countries. Concerns, however, have been voiced regarding the reliability and construct validity of CRBSI surveillance and the connection with the current diagnostic procedures. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of infection control practitioners (ICPs) and medical professionals with the current CRBSI surveillance in the Netherlands and their suggestions for improvement. Design Qualitative study using focus group discussions (FGDs) with ICPs and medical professionals separately, followed by semistructured interviews to investigate whether the points raised in the FGDs were recognised and confirmed by the interviewees. Analyses were performed using thematic analyses. Setting Basic, teaching and academic hospitals in the Netherlands. Participants 24 ICPs and 9 medical professionals. Results Main themes derived from experiences with current surveillance were (1) ICPs' doubt regarding the yield of surveillance given the low incidence of CRBSI, the high workload and IT problems; (2) the experienced lack of leadership and responsibility for recording information needed for surveillance and (3) difficulties with applying and interpreting the CRBSI definition. Suggestions were made to simplify the surveillance protocol, expand the follow-up and surveillance to homecare settings, simplify the definition and customise it for specific patient groups. Participants reported hoping for and counting on automatisation solutions to support future surveillance. Conclusions This study reveals several problems with the feasibility and acceptance of the current CRBSI surveillance and proposes several suggestions for improvement. This provides valuable input for future surveillance activities, thereby taking into account automation possibilities.


This paperintroduces andanalyzes a newserial resonalt converer derived fromtheclassical SRC, withcontrolled switches attherectifier stage.Theoutput current isconltrolled andregulated bythe abovementioned stage, allowing tokeeptheresonant magnituLdes bounlded. We perform thefirst harmonic capproximation analysis tothestructure andobtain the statespacemodelsolution. Experimental results from aprototype arealso presented tosupportthedeveloped analysis. I.- Introduction


The main trend in the 21th century in the teaching of Computer Application is to let the students be real masters in their study, improve their independent study ability and lead them to study actively , So it is vital to choose corresponding teaching methods.


ABSTRACT Learning trajectories are built upon progressions of mathematical understandings that are typical of the general population of students. As such, they are useful frameworks for exploring how understandings of diverse learners may be similar or different from their peers, which has implications for tailoring instruction. The purpose of this teaching experiment was to explore a diverse learner's understandings about equipartitioning and relational reasoning. Across eleven 45-min individualized sessions, the equipartitioning learning trajectory (EPLT) served as the framework for investigating the student's thinking and learning. Findings illustrate how a student's actual trajectory can be focused on developing a many-to-one meaning for fractions and relational reasoning, rather than strictly adhering to the sequence of proficiencies hypothesized by the EPLT. Further, the student's engagement with cognitive elements which characterize mental activity reveals ways instruction might be tailored to support a student's relational reasoning. Implications include a more nuanced perspective on individual learning of equipartitioning and important considerations for educators who support relational reasoning in diverse learners.


Use of a device with two molding tools (1, 2) of chucks which can be entered from two sides openings of tubular hollow profiles, to expand and warp bodies (5) can, with the sectional profiles of the ends of the two molding tools (1, 2) of identical or complementary type mandrel to shape.


This paper considers several practical heuristics for the design of good, if not optimal, partial-match data bases in situations which are typical of real life information retrieval systems. (Submitted to Information Processing Letters) * Work supported in part by U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration under Contract E(Oh.-3)-515. ** Work supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant GP-8557. -2


Development of sport and moral relationships have their new humanism and aesthetic ideals of society, and also can become the formative the system components of culture of a new society hereupon. The physical training and sports originate and educe owing to comprehension of self-worth of human individuality. It is system of methods of reproduction and perfecting of human abilities. The physical training originates as one of essential methods socialization.


Read before the East Line Medical Society, and by vote of the Society con tributed to Daniel's Texas Medical Journal for publication. Fungar vice cotis, acutum reddere quae ferrumvalet, exsors ipsa secandi.* THE words of Bacon, "I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men oi course, do seek counten ance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and an ornament thereto"—written of the legal, hold w'th ten fold force when applied to the medical


Thermal convection in an inclined plane layer rotating about an axis oriented perpendicular to the plane is studied experimentally. The threshold of convection excitation and the structure of supercritical flows depending on the angle of axis inclination, the temperature difference and the rotational speed are studied. The results are compared with the limiting cases of the rotational axis orientation. It is found that the excitation of average thermovibrational convection is possible at α < 0◦ (heating of layer from the top). The results of investigation of the quasiequilibrium stability and heat transfer in the supercritical region are plotted against the dimensionless parameters: gravitational Rayleigh number, vibrational parameter and dimensionless rotation velocity.


ABSTRACT The laser ablation of boron-nitride (BN) ceramic was employed for the preparation of thin films in high vacuum and nanoparticles and nanocrystals generated in water. The obtained plasma was investigated using ion detectors to determine the ion velocity, the energy per charge state and the plasma temperature and describing the acceleration mechanism. The kinetics of laser ablation in water and the comparison of different ablation rates in the vacuum and in water, and the possible applications of the BN thin film and nanoparticles are presented and discussed.


Conventional frequency domain beamforming (FDBF) relies on the measured cross-spectral matrix (CSM). However, in wind tunnel tests, the CSM diagonal is contaminated by the interference of incoherent noise after long-time averaging which leads the source map to poor resolution. Diagonal removal (DR) can suppress the noise in beamforming results via the deletion of CSM diagonal, but this method leads to the underestimation of source levels and some negative powers in source maps. Some advanced methods, such as background subtraction, make use of background noise reference to counteract the effects of contamination; however, the results usually become unreliable, because the background noise is difficult to keep constant in different measurements. Diagonal denoising (DD) beamforming is a recent approach to suppress the contamination effects, but it attenuates the noise suppression performance. To overcome the limitations of the above methods, a new method called denoising weighting beamforming (DWB) is proposed in this study on the basis of CSM DD and an iterative regularization method is applied to solve the acoustical inverse problem. Besides, in order to correct the phase mismatch caused by the influence of flow on sound propagation, the shear flow correction is added before using DWB. Experiments on sound source reconstruction are conducted in the environment with the flow. Acoustics data obtained via this method show the successful removal of incoherent noise and the corrected phase mismatch. Furthermore, the sound source localization results are promising and the proposed method is simple to implement.


In this paper a divider-multiplier reusable library cell is presented. The division is implemented by means of an algorithm based on successive multiplications. The resulting structure uses a fixed-point format and two's complement arithmetic for operands of any size. It is coded with the VHDL synthetizable subset for the Synopsys/sup TM/ Behavioral Compiler. The performance results in terms of area and time delay for different operand sizes and technologies are presented and discussed.


The Stock Market GameTM (SMG) is an investing simulation that is played nationwide by students in grades 4-12. Some researchers have provided empirical data defending the lessons students draw from the game, while others have expressed concern that the goal of short-term profit in the game teaches students the wrong lessons about financial risk. This study investigates the factors that feed into students' changing views of risk after they have played the SMG, including stock market performance and knowledge of investment concepts. The study found that students with higher learning gains in the SMG (as measured by pre/post-tests) are also more likely to report that the game changed their view of financial risk. Implications for teaching are discussed in the conclusion.


Personal Communication Network (PCN) is an emerging wireless network that promises many new services for the telecommunication industry. The high speed backbone network (asynchronous transfer mode, ATM or wavelength division multiplexing, WDM) is one possible approach to provide broadband wireless transmission with PCN's using the ATM switches for interconnection of PCN cells. The wireless ATM backbone network design (WABND) problem is to allocate backbone links among ATM switches such that the effects of terminal mobility on the performance of ATM-based PCN's can be reduced. In this paper, the WABND problem is formulated and studied. The goal of the WABND is to minimize the location update cost under constraints. Since WABND is an NP-hard problem, two heuristic algorithms and a simulated annealing algorithm were proposed and used to find the close-to-optimal solutions. The simulated annealing algorithm was able to achieve good performance as indicated from the simulated results.


The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the palatability of 10 formulations (the original manufacturer's formulation and nine generics) of amlodipine orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs) by means of human gustatory sensation testing, disintegration/dissolution testing and the evaluation of bitterness intensity using a taste sensor.


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Modern technologies radically simplify the availability of the latest scientific literature and offer new possibilities for sharing knowledge. Yet, most higher education institutions still rely on traditional face-to-face teaching and use e-courses 'only' to supplement it. Such a combination of teaching methods is known as blended learning and is also used at the Faculty of Administration (FA), a member of the University of Ljubljana. The paper presents the results of a survey among FA students. The study's aim was to identify which aspects of blended learning increase students' knowledge level. Students evaluated 23 different aspects of blended learning on a 7-level scale. As a measure of the level of students' knowledge gained from each course, we used their final grades. Applying principal component analysis, we extracted six dimensions of blended learning which represented predictor components in a multiple linear regression with final grade as the dependent variable. Since courses at FA vary in many aspects, we performed the regression analysis for each obligatory course individually. Our analysis revealed for which courses the final grade can be reliably predicted from the aspects of blended learning. The study also showed that the aspects of traditional face-to-face learning are more strongly linked to better grades than the aspects of e-courses. However, for some courses certain characteristics of e-courses play a significant role in the final grade received.


In Mobile Ad-hoc Network routing is a very challenging task because of the dynamic topology and lack of pre-existing infrastructure network. In these type of network, each mobile node communicating with each other and can be able to move expeditiously in any direction. In MANET routing protocols must adapt to frequent or continual changes in the topology. Dynamic Mobile Ad-hoc Network On-demand (DYMO) routing protocol is one of the protocols which is intended for the use by the mobile nodes. In this paper, we simulated the Wormhole Attack on DYMO routing protocol using NS-2.34 simulator and analyse the performance of network by using the parameters like Packet Delivery Fraction, end-to end delay and throughput and finally plot the graphs for packet loss and throughput by using the xgraph.


This paper shows how the error-free computation properties of finite fields can be used to eliminate aperiodicity and SNR degradation problems in digital oscillators. Galois fields are used to eliminate representation and truncation errors in the values of sinusoid samples. Theorems are presented that characterize the fields which admit all operands necessary for a given phase resolution. Two oscillator architectures (exponential feedback and direct form) are presented and various design issues associated with each are discussed. It is also shown how field arithmetic can be replaced by arithmetic in the direct product ring associated with a set of specially chosen small fields. This is important in high-speed applications where the loop delay must be minimized. We also present analytical estimates of clocking frequency, latency, phase and frequency resolution, along with an example design in an Altera 7256 CPLD.


The paper deals with non-negative stochastic processes X(t, w ) (t 2 0) with stationary and independent increments, continuous on the right sample functions, non-degenerate to 0 and fulfilling the initial condition X(O, w) = 0. The main aim is to study the probability distribution of the functional jr ee-UXo."'dt for u > 0. In particular, the multiplicative infinite divisibility of such functionals is discussed and a description of corresponding spectral measures is established. 1, Preliminaries and notation. We denote by A the set of all non-negative bounded measures defined on Bore1 subsets of the half-line R+ = [0 , ao). By A+ and 9 we denote the subsets of A' consisting of measures M with M ( R + ) > 0 and M ( R + ) = 1, respectively. Further, by A, we denote the subset of A consisting of measures M fulfilling the condition 1," eax M (dx) < a~ for all a < 1 . Given M E k we denote by M and (M) the Laplace transformation and the Bernstein transformation of M, respectively, i.e. 00 m a ( ~ } = j e ~ ~ ( d x ) and ( M ) ( z ) = ~ ~ 0 M (dx) for z 2 0. For x = 0 the last integrand is assumed to be z. It is clear that for z 2 0 . Moreover, it is well known ([4], Chapter XIII,7) that infinitely divisible measures from 9' are of the form e+ (M) with M EA and (1.2) e+ IM) A (4 = exp ( ( M ) tz)). The uniquely determined measure M is called the spectral measure of e+ (M). It is easy to verify that the following statements are true. PROPOSITION 1.1. M E dl if a d only if the Jirnction ( M ) has an analytic extension in the ha&-plane Rez > -1.


Single-input multiple-output (SIMO) channels can arise from radio propagation between a single transmitter and multiple receivers/sensors. The transmitter precoding strategy introduces algebraic redundancy to transmitted symbols, which can be exploited to facilitate channel estimation. In this paper we propose a zero prefix precoder-based blind SIMO channel estimation method. Compared to the existing blind estimation methods, the proposed method is highly data efficient in that it achieves blind multichannel identification using only a small size of observation data.


Under this consideration there is a process of potable water purification, where the chemical and physical characteristics (water turbidity and color, aluminum and chlorine content, etc) are monitored. To work with correlated characteristics it is necessary to apply to multivariate methods. The peculiarities of Hotelling charts plotting for individual observations are well known, but generalized variance charts plotting causes some problems connected with the assessment of covariance matrix for individual observations. Solving this problem one question arises: how often is it necessary to update the limit lines on the charts? We suggest applying to the test methods of the hypothesis on the equality of the mean.


Method for detecting the theft of at least one solar module (5) of a photovoltaic system, endonde the at least one solar module (5) by means of connecting lines (9, 10) is connected to at least uninversor (1) and the tension of the at least one solar module (5) is monitored and operation monitoring cuandose measures a defined voltage of at least one solar module (5) an electrical signal is generated and applied to atleast one of the connecting lines (9, 10) of at least one solar module (5) and the signal received by the atleast one solar module (5) I measured and processed for determination of theft, characterized in that elfuncionamiento monitoring a control device (8) of an inverter (1) a deconmutacion device (11) is activated and the at least one solar module (5) is separated from an inverter (1) and connected to a drive desenales (19) and for fixing a reference signal for determining a theft of at least sun unmodulo (5) from the signal unit (19) an adapted to the type signal used of at least unmodulo is generated Solar (5), thanks to that from data stored in a memory for different types of solar module (5) are sequentially generate different electrical signals which differ in their signal form yamplitud and applied between the connecting lines (9, 10) or between one of the connecting lines (9, 10) and ground and seenvian to at least one solar module (5) and each electrical signal dereference for the determination of a theft which causes is automatically selected as signal in the presence of at least one solar module (5) depending on the respective type of at least one solar module (5) a received signal processable and this reference signal stored inthe memory and a calibration is performed on this reference signal the electricaseleccionada as reference signal signal is sent at periodic intervals of time and if a variation of the shape of the signal received from the signal received in response to the reference signal theft of atleast a solar module is detected ( 5) and an alarm signal is generated.


Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems guide navigation of ships (100) that can extract energy from air and / or water streams, primarily in offshore environments. The exemplary SCADA system (102) embodies remote control central service records and energy distribution facilities, as well as server and client software applications running on microprocessor systems (200, 204, 209) on the ship itself. The central server accesses geographic information to track the location of the vessel based on, for example, transmitted global positioning satellite (GPS) data (202) from the vessel. The central server also has access to performance models related to ship speed and energy efficiency. Another SCADA system provides navigation for offshore vessels. This analyzes the cost of the course based on the performance model of the ship, and communicates data for guiding navigation to the ship so as to avoid the costly course.


We consider constraints from flavor physics on two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDM) with general, flavor-diagonal, Yukawa couplings. Analyzing the charged Higgs contribution to different observables, we find that b{yields}s{gamma} transitions and {Delta}M{sub B{sub d}} restrict the coupling {lambda}{sub tt} of the top quark (corresponding to cot{beta} in models with a Z{sub 2} symmetry) to |{lambda}{sub tt}| or approx. 300 GeV in models of type II and III, while no lower bound on m{sub H}{sup +} is found for types I and IV.


Research on the importance of flora in the perception of the attractiveness as a tourism destination of Ojców National Park was conducted in the second half of July 2021 with a direct diagnostic survey method using a questionnaire. A total of 205 people w


In this work, the effect of post NH3-plasma treatment on trap density of high-k/metal-gate nMOSFETs with gadolinium (Gd) cap layers was investigated. We found that the device had high drain current and low gate leakage after NH3-plasma nitridation. Moreover, we used charge-pumping measurement with various frequency to extract the depth profile of trap density. It was observed that NH3 plasma nitridation devices could have fewer trap density. Thus, we deduce that the nitrogen incorporation can reduce the Gd-induced trap densities due to the suppression of Gd diffusion into the high-k gate dielectric.


To build modern rural systems is the key to China's rural modernization. So we discuss here the concepts, core, basis of modern rural systems, and also the great impacts, concrete measures of building these systems are proposed in this article.


In any organization, the human is one very important component. How perfect an organization in planning, policy, technology owned by an organization can not run smoothly if not supported by reliable labor. With qualified human resources, organizations are able to manage employees effectively and efficiently and be able to support the achievement of organizational research was conducted at CV Mandiri Supermarket Group Medan . This study uses Work Discipline,and Motivation as independent variables and employee performance as the dependent variable. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of Work-discipline and motivation to work on Employee Performance. The samples used were employees of CV Mandiri Supermarket Group Medan where the number of samples determined in this study as many as 52 respondents. The analysis used include test validity, test reliability, test classic assumptions, test the multiple linear regression, hypothesis testing and the coefficient of determination (R2). Based on the F-test is performed and the results of multiple linear regression analysis above can be seen that the simultaneous work discipline and motivation to work have a positive and significant impact on performance, Based on the results of t tests, proved that partial  Work Disciplne does not affect and no significant effect on performance, while motivation has positive and significant impact on performance. Keyword : Work Discipline, Motivation, and Employee Performance


We present a simplified single optical reference error correction method for dual-comb gas detection. Standard deviation of measured H13C14N transmittance spectrum is merely 1% compared to conventional method over 4 THz spectral range.


Biological traits of the sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa (Gunnerus) relevant to both ecological and management perspectives were investigated in the Newfoundland region. Abundance, size and fitness of adults were maximal on hard substrates. Larvae settled ∼5 weeks post-spawning and juveniles reached a maximum length of 6 mm after 24 months. Additional size classes of sea cucumbers kept under natural environmental conditions exhibited slow seasonal growth attuned to phytoplankton blooms, indicating that ∼25 years may be required to reach market size. Juveniles of the predator sea star Solaster endeca (L.) readily fed upon 1.5-2 mm long sea cucumbers. Predation rates on adult C. frondosa by adult S. endeca were modulated by temperature and biased towards injured specimens, suggesting that trawling may exacerbate predation pressure. The combination of slow growth and high predatory pressure enhanced by fishing activities emphasises the need for precautionary management of this emerging fishery in Atlantic Canada.


Metastatic melanoma involving the epidermis and/or upper dermis may show significant histological overlap with primary cutaneous melanoma, especially the nodular subtype. Proper histopathological classification is crucial to appropriate staging and management, but is often challenging. The aim of this study was to identify helpful histopathological features for differentiating epidermotropic/dermal metastatic melanoma (EDMM) and primary nodular melanoma (PNM).


Victor Aguayo and Kajali Paintal review the nutritional status of adolescent girls in South Asia and suggest ways to accelerate improvement of their nutrition


Traditionally \1 is used to stand for both the mathematical wavefunction (the representation) and the quantum state (thing in the world). This elision has been elevated to a metaphysical thesis by advocates of wavefunction realism. The aim of Chapter 10 is to challenge the hegemony of the wavefunction by calling attention to a littleknown formulation of quantum theory that does not make use of the wavefunction in representing the quantum state. This approach, called Lagrangian quantum hydrodynamics (LQH), is a full alternative formulation, not an approximation scheme. A consideration of alternative formalisms is essential for any realist project that attempts to read the ontology of a theory off the mathematical formalism. The chapter shows that LQH falsifies the claim that one must represent the many-body quantum state as living in 3n-dimensional configuration space. When exploring quantum realism, regaining sight of the proverbial forest of quantum representations beyond the \1 is just the beginning.


The authors examine how allocentrism, or the importance placed on ingroups, relates to the perceived homogeneity and entitativity (groupness)of relational (interpersonal) and collective (categorical) ingroups. In two studies (Ns = 198, 90), allocentrism is shown to be positively related to perceptions of ingroup entitativity and homogeneity. This pattern was obtained, however, only for perceptions of collective ingroups. Ethnic differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White participants' perceptions of ingroups were mediated by allocentrism (Study 1). Participants in Study 2 were members of a laboratory task group and their levels of allocentrism predicted their perceptions of the group's homogeneity and entitativity regardless of the actual homogeneity of the group. The effects of allocentrism on perceptions of ingroups are discussed in terms of self-esteem, group identification, and responses to ingroup members' deviations from norms.


Nowadays, with the widespread use of technology, fake news and rumors are spreading too. People and society are greatly impacted by fake news, which also can be used as phishing attempts and a way of stealing their information. In many areas of our lives, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have demonstrated their effectiveness. Furthermore, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has shown promising results in text classification applications. In this study, we proposed an experimental study for detecting fake news using ML models. The proposed model analyzes the main text of the news using NLP techniques and then classifies the news into fake or real news. We used a new dataset that combined multiple fake news datasets. Moreover, we studied the impact of features extraction methods on the performance of the developed models. Eight experiments were performed using Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) models, each with a different features extraction technique. The SVM model resulted in the best performance with an accuracy level of 98%. This result proves the model ability to be deployed and used in real-world with high reliability, to detect fake news.


Several investigatorsi-4' have indicated that shikimic acid can be synthesized from glucose through glycolysis and the pentose phosphate cycle in bacteria and in fungi. The important role of the Embden-Meyerhof system for the biosynthesis of shikimic acid and lignin was suggested by Hasegawa and Higuchi5~ using Eucalyptus nitens cuttings. Hillis and Caries' reported that shikimic acid might be synthesized in shaded leaves of Eucalyptus sieberiana. Yoshida and Towers7' recently found that shikimic acid is synthesized from phosphoenolpyruvate and erythrose-4-phosphate through dehydroshikimic acid in Pinus resinosa. The present work attempts to determine whether the course of biosynthesis of shikimic acid in green leaves is similar to that found in micro-organisms or not. The results of investigations, particularly those under dark conditions of the biosynthesis of shikimic acid, are reported in this paper.


This paper proposes a new method to optimise trajectory for the robot arm. Quadrinomial and quintic polynomials are utilised in joint space to describe point to point trajectory. The ant lion optimiser (ALO) is introduced to ensure searching the global optimal. Dynamic weight is adopted to improve the search ability of the new algorithm. Considering a maximum pre-defined joint torque of the robot manipulator and the ability to avoid obstacles in the work space, the objective function is given for ALO to minimising motion space and time. The simulation is accomplished for different situation with or without obstacle in the workspace to verify the validity of the new algorithm. The different simulation results generated by ALO, GA and QPSO are given to inspect ALOs accuracy. The results show ALO has extremely strong ability to find the global optimal and even less time consumed compared with GA and QPSO.


We propose a method for promoting human-robot interaction based on emotion recognition with particular focus on tension emotion. There are two types of emotions expressed in a short time. One is autonomic emotion caused by a stimulus, such as joy and fear. The other is self-reported emotion, such as tension, that is relatively independent of a single stimulus. In our preliminary experiment, we observed that tension emotion (self-reported emotion) obstructs the expression of autonomic emotion, which has demerits on speech recognition and interaction. Our method is based on detection and moderation of tension emotion. If a robot detects tension emotion, it tries to ease it so that a person will interact with it more comfortably and express autonomic emotions. It also retrieves nuances from expressed emotions for supplementing insufficient speech recognition, which will also promote interaction.


In this paper we consider the one-dimensional version of thermoelasticity with two porous structures and porous dissipation on one or both of them. We first give an existence and uniqueness result by means of semigroup theory. Exponential decay of the solutions is obtained when porous dissipation is assumed for each porous structure. Later, we consider dissipation only on one of the porous structures and we prove that, under appropriate conditions on the coefficients, there exists undamped solutions. Therefore, asymptotic stability cannot be expected in general. However, we are able to give suitable sufficient conditions for the constitutive coefficients to guarantee the exponential decay of the solutions.


Since situation awareness (SA) plays an important role in many fields, the measure of SA is one of the most concerning problems. Using physiological signals to evaluate SA is becoming a popular research topic because of their advantages of non-intrusiveness and objectivity. However, previous studies mainly exploited the use of single physiological signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG) or eye tracking. The multi-modal SA recognition is still a research gap. Therefore, this work conducts a pilot study to investigate SA recognition by using two modalities: EEG and eye tracking data. Specifically, an optimized Stroop test that is more compatible with the definition of SA was used to induce different states of SA and collect physiological data. Furthermore, a random vector functional link-based stacking (RVFL-S) model was proposed to perform the multi-modal SA recognition. Experiment results showed that using the combination of EEG and eye tracking data can boost the performance of SA recognition. Moreover, the proposed RVFL-S model can effectively integrate the classification information from two modalities. It showed better performance than baseline methods, achieving 77.62% leave-one-subject-out (LOSO) average accuracy. This was around 5% improvement compared with the baseline classification models with input of only one modality. This pilot study demonstrated that the use of multi-modality is a potential strategy for SA recognition.


Based on the extended Duesenberry consumption function,from the perspective of regional differences,this paper studies the long-short-term effect of social security expenditure and economic growth on people's consumption in the Eastern,Central,and Western region in our country from 1997 to 2009.The result shows that there is a cointegration relationship between social security expenditure,economic growth and people's consumption.The correlation of people's consumption and social security expenditure is positive and significantly.Western region's social security expenditure makes the greatest contribution to the people's consumption,the central region follows it,and the Eastern region comes last.The results imply that increasing the support to the social security,advancing the balanced regional public service,and reducing people's uncertain anticipation is helpful to realize the stability of people's consumption and the sound development of economy.


Significance Oceanography and gravity data of northeastern Greenland reveal ocean temperature and bathymetry in front of Zachariae Isstrøm (ZI) and Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79N), which hold a 1.1-m sea level rise ice volume equivalent but underwent different evolutions. Subsurface, warm, salty water of Atlantic origin has easier access to ZI than to 79N because of bathymetric barriers. We reconstruct ice removal by the ocean at the grounding line and flotation retreat from thinning to explain the observed grounding line retreat since 1979. The agreement between observed and calculated retreat demonstrates that ocean thermal forcing is a major control on the glacier evolution, and undercutting of grounded ice must be included in numerical ice sheet models to reproduce the high rates of retreat. Zachariae Isstrøm (ZI) and Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79N) are marine-terminating glaciers in northeast Greenland that hold an ice volume equivalent to a 1.1-m global sea level rise. ZI lost its floating ice shelf, sped up, retreated at 650 m/y, and experienced a 5-gigaton/y mass loss. Glacier 79N has been more stable despite its exposure to the same climate forcing. We analyze the impact of ocean thermal forcing on the glaciers. A three-dimensional inversion of airborne gravity data reveals an 800-m-deep, broad channel that allows subsurface, warm, Atlantic Intermediate Water (AIW) (+1.25○C) to reach the front of ZI via two sills at 350-m depth. Subsurface ocean temperature in that channel has warmed by 1.3±0.5○C since 1979. Using an ocean model, we calculate a rate of ice removal at the grounding line by the ocean that increased from 108 m/y to 185 m/y in 1979–2019. Observed ice thinning caused a retreat of its flotation line to increase from 105 m/y to 217 m/y, for a combined grounding line retreat of 13 km in 41 y that matches independent observations within 14%. In contrast, the limited access of AIW to 79N via a narrower passage yields lower grounded ice removal (53 m/y to 99 m/y) and thinning-induced retreat (27 m/y to 50 m/y) for a combined retreat of 4.4 km, also within 12% of observations. Ocean-induced removal of ice at the grounding line, modulated by bathymetric barriers, is therefore a main driver of ice sheet retreat, but it is not incorporated in most ice sheet models.


This paper presents a primary impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) radar system for real-time short-range localization, e.g., for smart traffic and automotive applications. The radar system consisting of an integrated radar transceiver (TRx) using 45-nm SOI CMOS technology and an FPGA-based signal processing. The efficient transmitter (Tx), which complies with the regulations for both indoor and outdoor applications, modulates and emits a seventh derivative Gaussian pulse. In the receiver (Rx), echo signals will be amplified and sampled in real-time. The echo pulses are recovered by signal processing hardware on the FPGA, which is also used to perform simple classification tasks like user warning. The radar system is compact, portable, and power efficient. The Tx has a high-energy efficiency of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathrm {11~ \text {p} \text {J} /pulse}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. The proposed radar system achieves very high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and range precision. It has a maximum detection range of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathrm {15~m }$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and a range resolution down to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathrm {3~ \text {cm}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Moreover, a target of interest can be warned with a latency as fast as <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathrm {16~\mu s }$ </tex-math></inline-formula> by using 1-bit real-time sampling.


Fuzzy estimate method on automobile ride comfort is proposed, with conception of automobile ride comfort established, in which a fuzzy vibration parameter synthesized from multi- -working cases and multi-measuring positions by a weighting matrix function to estimate the ride performance, is put forward. This medod is also used to classify the automotive ride quality. The fuzzy estimate method meliorates the inconsistent conclusions from subjective, objective, different working cases and measuring positions estimate in some conventional methods such as ISO2631, therefore can be performed to evaluate a single or compare the ride qualities between several automobiles. The estimate results of a sample light bus show that the fuzzy estimate method is precise and feasible, and may become a supplement one of the ISO2631, GB4970, GB/T12477 methods after standardization.


Bhatt et al's paper provides a good argument for ensuring that ventilation is established before clamping the umbilical cord (1). The possibility that very early clamping could explain the increased occurrence of intraventricular hemorrhage was proposed in 1988 by Hofmeyr (2) who showed that in human babies there was a marked rise in arterial pressure when the cord was clamped as late as 35 s after birth. He proposed that the sudden rise in cerebral circulation was the underlying mechanism for the higher incidence of intraventricular hemorrhage after early cord clamping (ECC) in preterm neonates. Our computer simulation of transitional circulation supports Hofmeyr's finding (3). The simulation demonstrates that a sudden rise in cerebral pressure and blood flow is inevitable if the placental circulation is closed before the increase in pulmonary blood flow has occurred as a result of respiration. In the experimental lamb, Bhatt et al. have now provided further evidence of this adverse effect of early clamping (4). The instability in the circulation shown in their lambs may also be the result of loss of the blood volume (5) known to be redistributed from the placenta to the neonate (placental transfusion) and from the loss of the oxygenated blood from the umbilical vein. Long-term harms for the neonate may also result from loss of the stem cells capable of quickly repairing vital organ injury.

Charles White an eminent obstetrician in Manchester, England (6) could not have put it better in 1773

… the common method of tying and cutting the umbilical cord in the instant the child is born, is likewise one of those errors in practice that has nothing to plead in its favour but custom. Is it possible that this wonderful alteration in the human machine should properly be brought about in one instant of time, and at the will of a bystander? Let us leave the affair to nature, and watch her operations and it will soon appear that she stands not in need of our feeble assistance, but will do the work herself at a proper time, and in better manner. In a few minutes the lungs will gradually be expanded and the great alterations in the heart and blood vessels will take place. As soon as this is perfectly done, the circulation in the umbilical cord will cease itself… By this rash, inconsiderate method of tying the umbilical cord before the circulation in it is stopped, I doubt not but many children have been lost, many of their principal organs have been injured, and foundations laid for various disorders.

The practice of ECC has become so established it is often considered the physiological norm. The title "Ventilation before umbilical cord clamping improves the physiological transition at birth" concurs with this view. A statement such as "Umbilical cord clamping before ventilation is established destabilizes physiological transition at birth" focuses attention on the physiological starting point. While there has been debate about the timing of cord clamping for over 2000 years, it is only in recent times that the cord could have been routinely clamped within seconds of birth. One hundred fifteen years ago, the first umbilical cord clamp was devised by Magennis (7). He specifically advised practitioners to wait until the function of the cord had ceased before applying the clamp.

For those babies, who failed to breathe within a short interval, routine ventilation was only introduced quite recently (8). Although ECC by obstetricians may have already been common, most births were still at home. However, the finding in 1960s that post-partum hemorrhage (PPH), a major cause of maternal death, could be reduced by active management of the third stage of labor (AMTL), established ECC into obstetrical and hospital midwifery practice (9). With the majority of births now in hospital, AMTL became very common. ECC was included as one of the essential elements of active management included without any evidence of efficacy. The established practice of ECC as part of AMTL made neonatal research difficult. Since 1960s, studies have shown that ECC has no role in reducing maternal hemorrhage but ECC was by now recommended worldwide as good routine obstetric practice. The trials of DCC vs. ECC had small numbers and measured only short-term outcomes, so the realization by clinicians that ECC was an unnecessary and potentially harmful intervention for the neonate was very slow. Of significance was the exclusion of all neonates requiring resuscitation from the randomized controlled trials, and this was the very group most likely to show serious harms.

Concern was initially voiced by the few midwives who cared for women still birthing at home, and followed by a few neonatologists and obstetricians who recognized the importance of avoiding sudden interruption of the placental circulation. The first neonatologist to recognize the importance in recent times was Professor Peter Dunn. Working in several hospitals in England between 1961 and 1971, he commenced resuscitation of preterm infants as they lay on their mother's legs before the cord had been clamped or the placenta delivered. This resulted in more than a threefold fall in perinatal mortality of these preterm neonates (6). This was well before the era of antenatal steroids.

One minute is usually long enough for the healthy term neonate to establish respiration and so for the majority simply waiting is all that is required. For the preterm or asphyxiated term neonate, the most effective way of initiating ventilation before clamping off the placental circulation has still to be established. It may not be so simple to achieve in practice without design and preparation. Modern ventilation requires pressure and volume to be carefully controlled to avoid injury to the lungs and ensuring the equipment is portable enough to reach the side of the mother is the challenge. Intubation may often be required, and hypothermia needs to be prevented. Thus, a more specialized approach is necessary, which is being met by a modified mobile neonatal resuscitation trolley (10). Clinical trials are already underway.


though some blemish is reported on the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function, TCG (Trusted Computing Group) still choose it to be the encryption of the latest published specification. SHA-256 and SHA-512, being considered to be safe so far, is the best choices for the next generation of the trusted computing, since they both are the SHA series functions and qualified by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). For the reasons mentioned above, it is necessary to implement a TPM (Trusted Platform module) encryption core which can not only perform the SHA-1 function fulfilling the trusted computing requirement now, but also offer the SHA-256 and SHA-512 functions when the trusted computing guideline is updated. In this paper, an implementation is introduced to obtain all of these three functions by adding limited resources on the Xilinx's FPGA. (Abstract)


Based on a 300MW Oxy-fuel pulverized coal boiler,this paper established a dynamic mathematical model of air separation system distillation column, and compiled simulation procedure with the Fortran language on the platform of IMMS. With distillation column as the object of the research, it carried on a disturbance experiment about the outlet air flow of purifier and extractable volume of liquid nitrogen in lower tower. The results demonstrate that when the outlet air flow of purifier decreases, the nitrogen purity in gas is reduced by 0.39%, and the oxygen purity in liquid is reduced by 1.5%;when the outlet air flow of purifier is constant and extractable volume of liquid nitrogen decreases, the nitrogen purity in gas is increased by 0.2%, and the oxygen purity in liquid is increased by 0.06%.


Within the ISL railgun design, discrete supports in the form of steel bolts uniformly distributed along the length of the railgun counteract the repelling magnetic forces acting on the rails. In the past, numerical simulations on the structural mechanics of these setups have been performed. A significant rail displacement was calculated. Yet, the establishment of the displacement amplitude during an experiment is the final goal. The first task to manage in this respect is the application of a sensor capable of sensing vertical rail displacements. Experimental investigations started at the ISL at a short circuited railgun employing an optical (non contact) method. However, this sensor turned out not to be suitable for the job due to its lack of a preferred axis. This became clear when comparative measurements with an accelerometer (a single axis measurement device) were carried out. Consequently, our experimental investigations continued employing accelerometers and first experimental results are reported. These results were in turn confirmed by numerical calculations basing on a 1D model of the system.


An empirical model is presented which relates incidents with congestion and travel time prediction. Incident and travel time data from the Attica Tollway (AT) in Athens, Greece have been studied according to the framework and the following conclusions are drawn: 1) There is significant time-of-day variability in the effect of incidents on delay; 2) There is significant route-to-route variability in the effect of incidents on delay. Delay characteristics, especially maximum delay observed for the route, is strongly correlated (with correlation coefficient of 0.68) with the incident-delay correlation; 3) Breakdowns and accidents have largest impact on delay and thus need to be managed with high priority, while other incidents have small impact; and 4) The real-time travel time prediction, such as what is displayed on a CMS, could be improved by bias-reduction using the knowledge of an accident that has just happened. These results imply that it is critical for incident management plan and real-time travel time prediction to be based on empirical study using site-specific data on incidents and congestion. The proposed empirical modeling framework can facilitate development of such incident management plan and improve real-time travel time prediction reflecting incident information.


The electrogastrograms of a cohort of normal controls and a group of functional and postvagotomy dyspeptic patients, recorded under conditions of varying gastric distension applied via a gastric barostat, have been captured and stored on a portable PC. Retrospective quantitative and qualitative analysis of the waveforms have been carried out in the frequency domain. Gastric distension induced a reduction in gastric baseline frequency levels, which recovered after removal of the bolus. Controlled distension at a moderate level (240-480 ml) caused more symptoms in patients than in controls, but did not seem to affect the electrogastrograms However, under conditions of high gastric distension (>480 ml), there was a significant difference between the controls and patients predominant electrogastrographic frequencies (meandifference=0.013 Hz; 95%Cl=0.001 Hz to 0.025 Hz to 0.025 Hz; p=0.014). The authors conclude that functional and postvagotomy dyspeptic patients have greater gastric electrical instability than controls, which seems to be more apparent under conditions of high gastric distension.


The utility model relates to the technical field of stamping dies, in particular to a continuous stamping die for an end cover meson of a fuel filter, which comprises blanking dies, empty step dies, center hole stamping dies, drawing dies, reverse drawing dies, stamping dies, forming dies, blanking and finished product dies, wherein each die of all the dies comprises an upper die plate connected with an upper mounting plate, an unloading plate, a guide plate, a lower mounting plate, a template, a support block and a lower die plate in sequence from top to bottom. The continuous stamping die is characterized in that the eight-step dies including the blanking dies, the empty step dies, the center hole stamping dies, the drawing dies, the reverse drawing dies, the stamping dies, the forming dies, and the blanking and finished product dies are arranged between the extended upper die plate and the extended lower die plate in sequence from left and right, and a front-row eight-step die and a rear-row eight-step die are arranged irregularly in left and right positions. Compared with the prior art, the continuous stamping die improves the production efficiency, ensures the product accuracy, reduces the number of operators and increases the safety of the operators.


Abstract— –An attempt was made to identify some of the ultraviolet (u.v.) photoproducts of 5‐bromouracil‐labeled DNA (BrU‐DNA). Two synthetic dinucleotides, 5‐bromodeoxyuridylyl‐(3' →5 ')‐thymidine (BrdUpT) and 5‐bromodeoxyuridylyl‐(3' → 5')‐deoxycytidine (BrdUpdC), were prepared. Each gave a single u.v. photoproduct which in turn gave a single acid hydrolysis product. 2‐14C‐BrU‐DNA. prepared from E. coli B3, was irradiated (275–280 nm), hydrolyzed, and paper chromatographed in four systems. Comparison with the two synthetic photoproducts showed that if present at all, BrdUpT and BrdUpdC photoproducts could account for no more than 10 and 3.5 per cent respectively of the total photoproducts. At 55 per cent conversion of BrU into photoproducts, the major 14C‐photoproduct was uracil (78 per cent); the remaining 22 per cent was made up of at least six products, three of which were reversed by 232 nm irradiation.


To evaluate the impact of the silt-crush blast in the Majishan port, the article first analyzes the rule of the under-water blast,affirming the earth shock wave to be the main factor,and then performes a-nalysis of its embedded principle and impact-mechanism. In the analysis, the rock-cranny simulation technique exposures the macroscopical character of the rock-cranny between the blast point and the evaluation point. Then the results are utilized to analyze the impact of this blast quantitatively. At last the numerical modeling is adopted to simulate the process,calculating the most dosage of the detonator,and makeing the qualitative analysis of the blasting-impact on the sight.


Excised sorghum root segments (5-10 mm in length) were cultured for 50 d in four different liquid media containing mineral salts, vitamins, amino acids, glucose, and IAA. The roots were removed and the remaining medium was solidified with an equal volume of warm 1-6% water agar. Dry unconditioned or conditioned Striga asiatica seeds were transferred to the medium. Some of the seeds germinated and developed into parasitic-type seedlings. These seedlings had haustoria, tubercles, dense root hairs, branched shoots, and multiple shoot-borne adventitious roots. The plumule pole developed into a shoot, but the radicle pole displayed only rudimentary development


Understanding the impacts of climate change projections on the hydrological cycle is a great challenge for the hydrometeorological community. The RIWER 2030 project aims at evaluating the impacts of climate change on two French watersheds with major issues of water management. Climate change impact studies use a mixture of GCM, RCM and downscaling methods to generate local watershed climate input time-series for hydrological models to generate streamflow time-series. This modelling chain is rather complex and each step can strongly impact hydrological projections. Before using such a chain, we consider that downscaling methods must be validated on past observations. This paper aims to assess the ability of downscaling methods and hydrological models to reproduce past climate and hydrological observed series and trends. Three downscaling methods (based on analog approaches) were applied on a reanalysis of atmospheric pressure fields over the 1953―2002 period to generate climate time-series. Then, downscaled precipitation and temperatures were coupled to two hydrological models (lumped and semi-distributed) to generate streamflow time-series. Downscaling methods performances were assessed on precipitation and temperatures at different spatial and temporal scales. Hydrological model simulations were also used for a complete assessment on potential evapotranspiration, snow water equivalent and streamflows. The results show a relatively good ability of downscaling methods to reproduce climate observations and to yield good hydrological simulations. However, low flows depend strongly on downscaling methods and hydrological model performance. Downscaling methods are sometimes not able to reproduce an observed trend, which is highly questionable when used for climate change impact studies.


In 2008, the use of bat boxes of two models (standard and flat) by Nathusius' pipistrelle (Pipistrellus Nathusii) bats was investigated in eight protected territories in southeastern Lithuania. In each locality, 18 bat boxes of both models were observed. The groups of three boxes were erected on separate trees. The rate of occupancy of standard boxes by Nathusius' bats was found to be nearly six times higher than that of flat boxes. The absolute majority of bats used both models during the nursery and autumn migration season. Standard boxes were used by Nathusius' pipistrelle, soprano pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus), pond bat (Myotis dasycneme), brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) and noctule (Nyctalus noctula), whereas flat boxes were used only by Nathusius' pipistrelle and pond bat.


The treatment of industrial enzyme preparations with ionizing radiations to reduce microbial contamination demands a thorough characterization of these enzymes in order to identify possible changes in their physico-chemical properties. Fungal and bacterial proteases were fractionated with respect to their charge and size properties by means of thin-layer isoelectric focusing and gel filtration, respectively.

Both enzymes were highly heterogeneous on focusing: the protease from A. oryzae consists of at least fifteen multiple forms mainly in the acid pH range, the predominant component having an isoelectric point of 5. 7, whereas the protease from B. subtilis exhibited about 10 components in the alkaline pH range 7–10 with the main zone at pH 8. 2. The molecular weights of the main enzyme fractions separated by gel filtration were estimated to be 22,000 for the fungal and 16,000 for the bacterial protease.

Irradiation treatment with doses up to 1 Mrad of 60 Co-γ-rays and doses much in excess (up to 20 Mrad) revealed no changes in the charge and size properties of these proteases, thereby confirming the attraction of the irradiation process for the reduction of microbial contamination of industrial enzyme preparations.


This article focuses on the involvement of Palestinian women in video documentation as part of the project of the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem. It claims that the house/home is a site of anti-colonial struggle and that this development results from a specific socio-political situation and techno-ethical position. Based on analyses of the political situation in the West Bank, as well as consideration of films and interviews with Palestinian women who have been given cameras by B'Tselem, this article examines the 'spatialization' of visual activism: that is, the ways that Palestinian women's participation is allied with sites where political resistance intersects with a gendered setting.


Introduction We all have the innate ability to tell our story and the way we do it can determine the impact that each problem has on our lives. Storytelling can play a critical role in psychiatric practice and, from this premise, a new way of practicing psychiatry has recently emerged: narrative psychiatry. Objectives The objective is to offer a unified vision of narrative psychiatry, providing details on the historical and academic context of this approach. Methods A narrative-type literary review focused on narrative psychiatry will be presented. Results Narrative psychiatry is an innovative clinical approach in line within narrative medicine and with a specific subtype of postmodern psychotherapy, the narrative therapy of Michael White and David Epston. This novel way of practicing psychiatry arises from critical movements within the discipline but it is an integrative and collaborative perspective: the position of each problem in the patient's personal narrative is discussed and different therapeutic proposals are addressed, including for instance psychotropic drugs. This integrative posture gives the narrative psychiatrist enough flexibility to equally integrate the scientific achievements of biological psychiatry and the humanizing component of narrative practice. In this literature review, the key tools proposed by the main narrative psychiatrists worldwide for the narrative clinical interview will be exposed. Conclusions Narrative psychiatry is a novel approach that narrows the therapeutic relationship and that puts in evidence the history of resistance of the consultant, healing through its own storytelling.


The present study was performed on 153 Iraqi cow buffaloes, suffered from ovarian inactivity after 60 days from calving, in Babylon province in period from November 2012 to August 2013. The affected animals were divided into four groups randomly according to the hormonal treatment regime, 48 cow buffalo treated with 1000 I.U/I.M of PMSG in one does in day 60 postpartum, which represents the 1 group, while the 2 group include 45 cow buffalo treated with 0.021mg/I.M of GnRH (Receptal) in one does in day 60 postpartum, but the 3 rd group (36 cow buffaloes) treated with hCG 1500 I.U/I.M in a single dose also after 60 days postpartum, while 4 group (24 cow buffalo) was represented the control group(without treatment). The response animals for different hormonal treatment were 87.2%, 80%, 69.4% and 54.1% for the 1, 2, 3 and 4 group respectively. The 1 group which treated with PMSG give higher significant differences (p<0.01) compared with other groups, also the 2 group (treated with GnRH) record significant differences (p<0.01) compared with 3 and 4 group. The duration of response also record higher significant differences (p< 0.01) between 1 and 2 group compared with 3 and 4 group, while the number of services per conception was no different between all groups, but the pregnancy rate record superior significant differences (p<0.01) for the 1 group compared with other groups and reached to 85% but the 4 group (control group) record low ratio compared with treated groups. Finally the days open was recorded superior significant differences between 1 and 2 group compared with 3 and 4 group, also 4 group record long postpartum period (175.82± 13.56 days). They concluded in this study that the hormonal treatment still an important method to treated the ovarian inactivity and this fact depends on the many reproductive parameters which involve the rate of response animals, duration of response, number of services per conception, pregnancy rate and days open.


SUMMARYTheefficacy of topically applied Polybactrin spray (Note 1), cephaloridine or povido~e iodine in preventing abdominal wound In fection was compared in 317 patients. These were allocated randomly to treated and control groups and included patients undergoing the common elective and emergency abdominal operations performed in British general surgical practice. No significant difference was found between treated and control groups.


Compared to conventional distributed winding configurations, the fractional-slot non-overlapping (concentrated) windings exhibit advantages such as short end-winding length, high copper packing factor (particularly with segmented stator structure), low cogging torque, good field weakening capability owing to relatively large d-axis inductance, and better fault tolerant capability due to low mutual inductance. However, one of the key problems of employing concentrated windings in Permanent-magnet Synchronous Machines(PMSMs) is the high eddy-current losses in rotor magnets and/or rotor iron due to the presence of a large number of lower and higher order space harmonics in the stator Magneto-Motive Force(MMF). These MMF harmonics also result in other undesirable effects, such as acoustic noise and vibrations, and localized core saturation which tend to reduce reluctance torque. This paper reviews the current state-of-the-art of the MMF harmonic reduction techniques for concentrated winding configurations in PMSMs, including winding split and shift, delta-star connected windings, multiple 3-phase windings, multilayer windings, uneven turn numbers, and stator flux barriers. Their concepts, advantages and disadvantages are presented and assessed.


— In high technologies today, wearable devices have become popular. Wearable technology is a body sensing system that supports application of health observance and tracking through a wearable Global Positioning System (GPS). The design of the patch antennas is highly significant for the brilliance of the wearable patch antennas. This paper focuses on analyzing the bending effect on return loss and frequency between three types of GPS patch antenna. Types of GPS patch antennas that have been designed in this project are with different substrates and different designs. The wearable patch antenna has been designed and analyse using CST software. As a result, able to analysis the reflection coefficient (S11), radiation patterns, and analytical approach for patch antenna bending effect were obtained.


According to roadbed construction requirements of express special railway of passenger transportation in severe cold area,combined with engineering examples,the construction technological points of bottom layer of subgrade,embankment under subgrade and subgrade were illustrated,therefore satisfied the geo-structure with stringent specification and strict requirements,and guaranteed the roadbed quality reach the standard.


A ROI(Region Of Interest) image coding algorithm is proposed.By using different wavelets and bit rate to transform and code the original ROI and BG(BackGround) separately,combined with the SPIHT(Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees),the compression quality between ROI and BG can be controlled flexibly.Since the BNC17/11 wavelet and CDF9/7 wavelet are employed to perform the wavelet transform,the capability of ROI image compression algorithm is improved.Further,the proposed algorithm needs not to calculate the ROI mask.


In his article "The Indispensable Role of Nuclear Power in Sustainable Energy Policies" published in NuPower, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1998) presented a detailed analysis of all greenhouse gas emissions from the full chains of energy sources. Here he presents an update through 2002.


In an indoor environment where global positioning system (GPS) signals are severely attenuated, ultra-wideband (UWB) and 2D lidar are widely used in the autonomous positioning of mobile platforms. However, the presence of nonline-of-sight (NLOS) environments can lead to large errors in UWB positioning, and 2D lidar will increase the cumulative error due to the loss of accuracy in sparsely textured scenes. In order to reduce the positioning error, a UWB and 2D lidar fusion positioning algorithm based on the assistance of a few landmarks is proposed in this paper. Considering the colored noise of lidar location data, a Kalman filter algorithm based on cumulative error analysis is proposed. First, the lidar error curve is fitted by the least-square method, and then the relationship between the noise covariance matrix and the lidar cumulative error function is established by introducing the scale factor, which is substituted into the Kalman prediction equation. Experimental results show that the proposed multi-sensor fusion localization algorithm is feasible, and compared with the single localization method, the proposed fusion algorithm can significantly improve the localization accuracy; matching landmarks can achieve a positioning accuracy of 0.15 m, which is about 24.4% lower than the root mean square error of traditional Kalman filter.


Objective
To discuss the value of amplitude integrated electroencephalographic (aEEG) monitoring in early neonatal brain injury and prognosis of asphyxia neonatal.

Methods
Seventy-two subjects of asphyxia children were divided into mild asphyxia group and severe asphyxia group. We selected 45 cases of full-term healthy children born in our hospital as control group in the same term. All the objects were observed by aEEG monitoring within 6 hours. According to the aEEG results, all the samples were redivided into normal aEEG group, mildly abnormal aEEG group and severely abnormal aEEG group. All subjects were followed-up to observe their physical growth and the nervous system development at one-year-old.

Results
Incidence of abnormal aEEG in mild asphyxia group and severe asphyxia group was significantly higher than that of control group (χ2=26.996, 47.07, P 0.05), all of their mental index and developmental quotient were lower in severely abnormal aEEG group (χ2=13.450, 15.285, P<0.01, respectively).

Conclusion
aEEG can be used to assess the early neonatal brain injury of asphyxia neonatal, and it can be used to predict the prognosis of neonatal asphyxia based on the abnormal degree of aEEG.

Key words:
Amplitude integrated electroencephalography; Neonatal asphyxia; Neonate; Prognosis


The photoinduced dynamics of two DTE-BODIPY conjugates A, B with carboxylic acid anchoring groups coupled to the surface of TiO2 were studied by ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy. For compound A, with an orthogonal orientation of the BODIPY chromophore and the photoswitchable DTE unit, a charge separated state could not be reliably detected. Nevertheless, besides the energy transfer from the BODIPY to the closed DTE, indications for an electron transfer reaction were found by analyzing fluorescence quenching on TiO2 in steady state fluorescence measurements. For compound B with a parallel orientation of chromophore and photoswitch, a charge separated state was conclusively identified via the observation of a positive absorption signal (at λpr > 610 nm) at later delay times. An electron transfer rate of 7 x 1010 s-1 can be extracted, indicating slower processes in the dyads in comparison to previously published electron transfer reactions of DTE compounds coupled to TiO2.


Introduction Section I: Orientations to English Language Inclusion Chapter 1: Why Must I Do This? The Drawbacks, Benefits and Challenges with EL Inclusion and the Impetus for General Educator Preparation in EL Inclusion. Chapter 2: I Just Want to Teach Math! Language is a Foundation for all Content Areas. Chapter 3: A Framework for General Educator Development in EL Instruction. Section II: Models of English Language Inclusion Chapter 4: Models: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model. Chapter 5: Models: Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA). Chapter 6: Models: Response to Intervention (RTI). Chapter 7: Models: Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE). Chapter 8: Models: Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) Standards and the Expediting Comprehension for English Language Learners (ExC-ELL). Chapter 9: Models: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLiL) and Content-Based Language Learning through Technology (CoBaLTT) Models. Chapter 10: The "Winner": Which Model Should Be Chosen? Appendices Glossary


Differential pressure fluctuations in gas-solid fluidized beds were analyzed by chaos analysis (construction of attractors, correlation dimension, Kolmogorov entropy) and mutual information. Experimental fluidization tests of three different particles were conducted. Two of them are from Geldart group B and one from Geldart group D. The fluidization experiments were performed in a cylindrical bed with 0.07 m i.d. and 1.0 m high. Pressure fluctuations were measured by three pressure transducers, and their signal time series were analyzed in the time domain (mean and standard deviation) and in the frequency domain (power spectra) for comparison and complementation of chaos analysis. Analyses in the time domain allowed a good estimation for determining whether or not the system is fluidized. The Fourier spectra provided more detailed information that could identify other phenomena such as the presence of bubbles. The chaos tools produced sensitive results, offering a qualitative and quantitative analysis for identification of the phenomena that occur in fluidization. Three different fluidization regimes could be indentified: multiple bubble bed, slugging bed, and exploding bubble bed.


Optimized method of sections investigated phase equilibria at 25°C in ternary water-salt systems containing urea and ammonium salts of the following: sulfate, phosphate and chloride. The system CO(NH2)2 (NH4)2SO4 H2O at 25°C has a simple evtonic type studies established the compositions of phases involved in the nonvariant equilibria, studied lines of univariant equilibria. The system CO(NH2)2 (NH4)2HPO4 H2O at 25°C has a simple evtonic type studies established the compositions of phases involved in the nonvariant equilibria, studied lines of univariant equilibria. In the system CO(NH2)2 NH4Cl H2O at 25°C is formed incongruently soluble compound of NH4Cl·CO (NH2)2, the studies established the compositions of phases involved in the nonvariant equilibria peritonicheskom and evtonic, studied lines of univariant equilibria. The data obtained can be used as reference or to select the optimum compositions of liquid fertilizer.