We show that in a Complementary two-Higgs doublet model(C2HDM) CP violating phase in CKM matrix can be spontaneously generated, dangerous FCNC can be naturally suppressed and meanwhile the strong CP problem can also be avoided. The two Higgs doublets in the model are complementary in the sense that none of them is enough to describe masses of a given type of quarks. We find that the strength of FCNC is determined by the sub-dominant Yukawa coupling and is suppressed by the strength of Yukawa couplings of the first generation so that tree-level FCNC is sufficiently small. Using an explicit example, we show that radiative correction to the assumed Yukawa couplings can modify the discussion about the strong $\theta$ but the correction to strong $\theta$ is estimated to be less than around $10^{-13}\sim10^{-12}$ which is much smaller than the experimental bound.


Provides a multi‐criteria performance measurement model to measure the profitability performance of a manufacturing system. In developing the model, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and its extension system‐with‐feedback (SWF) approaches are used. The SWF approach, an extension of the AHP method, is recommended when independence among different elements of a system assumption is violated. In a manufacturing system, the system's performance criteria are interrelated. When the level of a single system criterion is changed, other criteria must be considered simultaneously. Also, the relative importance of these criteria with respect to each other and their contribution to the overall profitability is directly affected by the competitive strategy applied by the manufacturing system. The performance evaluation model developed in this study includes the competitive strategy and interdependence between the system criteria in its hierarchical structure and achieves a more realistic and accurate representation of a manufacturing system.


Comment on Lu Ji as the Poet Laureate comes from "Poem Appreciation" by Zhong Rong.But many critics disagree with the appraisal.Some think Pan Yue surpasses Lu Ji,others consider Zuo Si overtakes him.In a final analysis,Poet Laureate should get away from Lu Ji.The author holds the reputation belongs to no other person than Lu Ji whether from Lu Ji's personal charm,Literature writing,literary theory or the influence to the literature of the later generation.Zhong Rong's comment stands forever in the coming future.


With increasing urbanisation, urban green spaces are expected to be crucial for urban resilience and sustainability, through the delivery of ecological, economic and social benefits. In practice, however, planning, management and evaluation of urban green spaces are rarely structured and evidence-based. This represents a missed opportunity to account for, track and foster the multiple benefits that green spaces are expected to deliver. To gain insight into this gap, this study assesses the availability and uptake of relevant evidence by city governments. Interviews, focus groups and quantitative surveys were applied in four medium-sized European cities: Coimbra (Portugal), Genk (Belgium), Leipzig (Germany), and Vilnius (Lithuania), covering the main governance and climatic gradients in Europe. Using straightforward data exploration and regression, we analyse which ecological, economic and social indicators are typically chosen by cities and why. Together with the city stakeholders, we derived a common set of benefit categories and key performance indicators which can be adapted to diverse local contexts. We conclude that cities tend to make pragmatic decisions when composing their indicator sets, but nevertheless cover multiple urban green space dimensions. Finally, we explore how indicator choice could be optimised towards a complementary and credible indicator set, taking into account a realistically feasible monitoring effort undertaken by the cities.


This letter presents a compact dual-polarized chipless tag. The chipless tag consists of nested concentric coplanar square loops, and adjacent loops are connected by two stub lines at the center of the opposite sides, respectively. There are two critical factors in achieving small size. One is due to the integration of multiple square loops in a nested structure, sharing the same sides. The structure is designed to obtain the following function relationship between the loop number <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$</tex-math></inline-formula> and resonant mode number <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$N: N\,= \,2(n- 1)$</tex-math></inline-formula>. The other critical factor for minimization is that it is the coupling of adjacent loops that responds to resonances. The gap size only influences the coupling strength, and shifts resonance frequency a little, and does not influence the sharp-edged resonance in spite of small gap. This is one highlight. The other highlight is that four variations can be independently adjusted on the basis of the proposed reference tag, and a lot of different encoding identifications can be obtained. In addition, the proposed tag also has the following advantages. The proposed tag is magnetic, and the radar cross section (RCS) magnitude is insensitive to the medium where it is pasted. High RCS magnitude is realized at the condition of minimization. The connected coplanar square loop resonators are reused in both vertical and horizontal polarizations to double the encoding capacity within a fixed bandwidth. The RCS curve keeps unchanged until the orientation angle rotates up to 35°. An 18-bit tag is developed by the proposed nested loops, and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\text{19bits/cm}}^{2}$</tex-math></inline-formula> data density is obtained.


An experimental and numerical model to determine the exergy balance based on flow availability and availability transfer in the process of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)/air combustion in mesoscale gas turbine combustor is developed to elucidate the second law efficiency and total thermodynamic irreversibility. In terms of developing an energy and exergy-efficient combustor design, the present work highlights the influence of vortex shedding and recirculation in the volumetric entropy production and the exergy efficiency. It is performed in a heat recuperative high-intensity LPG-fueled mesoscale combustor for mini-gas turbine applications. The combustor is operated at different thermal inputs ranging from 0.2 to 1.0 kW under range of equivalence ratios of ϕ = 0.4–1.23. The Favre-averaged governing equations are solved by using finite volume-based approach. The standard k–ε turbulence model with modified empirical constant, [Formula: see text], is considered to model the turbulence quantities. The volumetric reaction-based eddy-dissipation concept model and a reduced skeletal model (50 species and 373 reactions) are used for turbulence–chemistry interaction. The design methodology, total volumetric entropy generation, destructive exergy due to thermodynamic irreversibility, exergy efficiency, flow recirculation, and mixing characteristics (reacting and non-reacting) are reported. The entropy generation rate due to thermal conduction is approximately 50% of the total entropy generation, while its contribution percentage due to chemical reaction is the smallest. The exergy efficiency reaches its peak with [Formula: see text] = 79.41% at 1.0 kW under fuel-rich condition, while its minimum value of 41.49% is obtained at 0.2 kW under fuel-lean (ϕ = 0.8) condition.


A partial discharge counter device for diagnosing a GIS(Gas insulated Switchgear) is provided to detect the generation and size of GIS partial discharge in counting the number of GIS partial discharge times by using a reference level setting unit. In a partial discharge counter device for diagnosing a GIS, a partial discharge sensor(1) detects partial discharge of a UHF(Ultra High Frequency) when partial discharge is generated due to internal defects of the GIS. A surge input preventing circuit(20) protects the counter device by separating a surge signal from an output stage of the partial discharge sensor. A low frequency converter(21) filters a low frequency signal by filtering a high-frequency output signal of a UHF band detected by the partial discharge sensor, through a band pass filter(21-a) and holds a peak value of a peak holding circuit(21-c) by forming a low-frequency signal by detecting only a peak value of a peak detecting circuit(21-b). The low frequency converter resets the peak holding circuit by a peak reset circuit(21-d). An ADC(Analog-Digital Convert) circuit(22) converts a peak holding signal outputted from the low frequency converter into a digital signal. A synchronizer(27) synchronizes an output signal of the ADC circuit with the frequency of phase voltage(4) by converting the phase voltage into a square wave signal of TTL(Transistor-Transistor Logic) level and then outputs synchronized partial discharge data. A digital signal processing unit(23) reads the synchronized partial discharge data in a predetermined cycle and then applies reset pulse to the peak reset circuit. The digital signal processing unit compares the read synchronized partial discharge data with a set value and counts the number if the read synchronized partial discharge data is over the set value. A set displayer(24) sets the set value by a set button(5) and displays the set value to the user. Counters(28,29) display values counted by the digital signal processing unit.


A combination of three psychiatric screening tests was used to uncover the extent of affective‐psychotic symptoms, the indications of "chronic brain syndrome," and the perceptual limitations among two selected populations of elderly persons. It was found that 25 percent of 48 residents in a home for the aged, and 9 percent of 45 members in a social club, had four or more affective‐psychotic complaints. In the former group, 75 percent had symptoms of moderate to severe "chronic brain syndrome," versus 7 percent in the latter group. Among the residents of the home, 10 percent had serious disturbances as measured by all three tests. The significant number of affective‐psychotic symptoms found in this population with extensive manifestations classifiable as "chronic brain syndrome" indicates that this diagnosis should not be allowed to preclude regular psychiatric evaluation of these elderly patients. When a specific diagnosis is established, available treatment modalities should be provided as needed.


A theory has been developed for the waveguiding characteristics of dual-tunable multiferroic magnonic crystals (MCs). The crystals are constructed as periodically width-modulated microwave transmission slot-lines placed in between thin ferrite and ferroelectric films. Dispersion characteristics of the spin-electromagnetic waves (SEWs) in the investigated periodic waveguiding structure were derived using the method of approximate boundary conditions and the coupled-mode approach. The transmission-loss characteristics (TLCs) were calculated by the transfer-matrix method. The results show that the TLCs of the structures consist of pass-bands and stop-bands. The stop-bands are due to Bragg reflections in the structure. The magnetic and electric fields control the stop-band frequencies. The ferroelectric film polarization produced with the application of control voltage to the slot-line electrodes reduces its dielectric permittivity and provides up-shift of the stop-band frequencies. The most effective electri...


A real-time observation of the microstructure evolution of irregularly shaped silicon carbide powders during solid state sintering is realized by using synchrotron radiation computerized topography (SR-CT) technique. The process of sintering neck growth and material migration during sintering are clearly distinguished from 2D and 3D reconstructed images. The sintering neck size of the sample is presented for quantitative analysis of the sintering kinetics during solid state sintering. The neck size-time curve is obtained. Compared with traditional sintering theories, the neck growth exponent (7.87) obtained by SR-CT experiment is larger than that of the two-spheremodel. Such condition is discussed and shown in terms of sintering neck growth, in which the sintering process slows down when the particle shape is irregular rather than spherical.


In this paper, a weighted directed random graph is used as network model. The graph contains a fixed number N of nodes and a variable number of edges: in particular, each edge is present with probability p. Some statistical properties (such as strong connection, global and local efficiency, cost, etc) are computed and their reliance on probability p is studied. Some probability distributions (such as shortest path, edge (node) load) are also drawn and, by using the method of stages, the best fitting curves are computed. Finally, the way as parameters characterizing such curves change when p varies is investigated.


Objective To examine the characteristics of polymerase gene in patients with lamivudine resistance.Method Two hundred and forty-seven chronic hepatitis B patients treated with lamivudine were studied.PCR-RFLP was applied for the screening of YMDD mutant.The polyerase genes of some serum samples with YMDD mutation were sequenced.Result Forty two patients were infected with YMDD mutant and the genes from nineteen patients were sequenced.Apart from YMDD mutation,mutations in the domains A to E were found in ten patients.Four types of point mutations,namely rtL80I,rtG172E,rtG174C and rtG172E/rtG174,were found.Conclusion Apart from YMDD mutation in C domain and the rtL180M mutation in B domain,there are some other mutations in domains A to E of polymerase gene in patients with lamivudine resistance.Further study is required to confirm the relationship between these mutations and lamivudine resistance.


In a context of climate change and potential intensification of the hydrological cycle, improving representation of water fluxes within river basins is of paramount importance both for hydrological sciences and operational forecasts. New integrated approaches are required for exploring synergies between spatially distributed flow models and datasets, combining in situ observations with high-resolution hydro-meteorology and satellite data. To take advantage of this unprecedented observations of the critical zone, innovative approaches integrating hydraulic-hydrological modeling and multivariate assimilation methods are needed. They should enable ingesting spatially distributed forcings, physiographic descriptors hydrodynamic signatures from remotely-sensed and in situ observables, and tackle calibration problems in integrated hydraulic-hydrological models. Crucially, the pertinence of the information assimilation relies on model-data coherence: water surface observables are valuable to constrain hydraulic models of river reaches (Larnier et al. (2020) and references therein) and complex river network portions, forced by spatially distributed inflows (Pujol et al. (2020), Malou et al. (under redaction)). Since hydraulic modeling at the scale of a river basin can be computationally costly, a combination of effective 1D and 2D representations, complemented by hydrological modules, may be useful. Complex river-floodplain interaction zones may be modeled in 2D zooms, while 1D approaches can fit simpler reaches. This contribution presents the development of a complete hydraulichydrological toolchain based on the 2D hydraulic model and variational data assimilation platform DassFlow. A 1D effective modeling approach based on a 2D shallow water model is tested. Then, the implementation of hydrological modules within the DassFlow VDA framework is presented.


A huge number of optical spectra have been measured in the ultraviolet, violet, visible, infrared and far-infrared regions. However transmittance and reflectance can only be measured by the use of a spectrometer, it is very difficult to measure the transmittance and reflectance with the same accuracy. Our STAR GEM (Scatter, Transmission and Absolute Reflection using a Geminated Ellipsoid Mirror) is the first realization not only to overcome the difficulty but also to make the absolute measurements of transmittance and reflectance at any incident angle. The STAR GEM is a new optical accessory and is designed so that it can be incorporated into commercial Fourier-transform infrared spectrometers. Although the STAR GEM is used for infrared spectral measurements, the measurement methods, design principles, and features are generally applicable to other wavelengths as well.


Transient scattering properties of dipole array with reflector are analyzed in this paper by FDTD and PML methods. The scattered waveforms, patterns defined by peak-amplitude of scattered pulses, and patterns defined by scattered energy are given. In order to reduce the peak-amplitude of the scattered pulses in backward direction, the edges of the reflector are loaded with resistance. The results of array with reflector edge loaded are compared with those of array without loading.


The concentration of uranium is determined in order to obtain basic data useful for preventing occupational diseases. A large electrostatic precipitator with a flow rate of 50 l/min is used to collect samples at various locations where different functions are performed, crushing, melting, and cutting. The concentration of uranium in collected dust particles is determined by measuring the fluorescence of uranium due to irradiation by ultraviolet rays from an ultra- high-pressure mercury vapor lamp. An interference filter is used to allow a peak fluorescence at 543 m ation to be detected by a photomultiplier 931A. The sensitivity of the system is 5/10,000 . Impurity interference is found to be negligible. The results indicate that the maximum concentration is found in the crushing chamber with 3.22 /m/sup 3/ and the minimum in the ore selection room with 0.15 /m/sup 3/. (JPRS)


In various fi elds of large or small machinery, rolling bearing in which the status is indispensable, can be said to play an important role in production and life. For such an important rolling bearing, its fault diagnosis must be paid attention to. Need to be specifi c to the rolling element fault, inner ring fault or outer ring fault, so that we can carry out subsequent improvement [1]. If only one standard is used for inspection and maintenance, it will not only have low accuracy, but also consume manpower and material resources. If accurate fault diagnosis can be carried out, prevention fi rst and moderate maintenance can be carried out at the same time to avoid bad effects. It is boundto play a very importantrole in promoting economic and social development.


In this paper, we propose a novel approach for reconstructing 3D face in real-life scenarios. Our main objective is to address the most challenging issue that involves reconstructing depth information from a video that is recorded from frontal camera of the smartphone. Such videos recorded using smart-phones impose lot of challenges, such as motion blur, non-frontal perspectives and low resolution. This limits the applicability of state-of-the-art algorithms, which are mostly based on landmark detection. This situation is addressed with the Scale-Invariant Feature Transformation (SIFT) followed by feature matching to generate consistent tracks. These tracks are further processed to generate a 3D point cloud using Point/Cluster based Multi-view stereo (PMVS/ CMVS). The usage of PMVS/CMVS will however fail to generate a dense 3D cloud points on the weak surfaces of face, such as cheeks, nose and forehead. This issue is addressed by multi-view reconstruction of these weakly supported surfaces using Visual-Hull. The effectiveness of our method is evaluated on a newly collected dataset, which simulates a realistic identification scenario using a smartphone.


Benefitting from the exponential I-V characteristic curve of CMOS transistors operating in the subthreshold regime, we propose a logarithmic digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for neural recording systems. The reported 8-bit logarithmic DAC converts small voltages with lower resolution and as the input signal increases the resolution of the conversion also increases. The step size changes from 65 mV for the first step to 0.15 mV for the last step. The DAC is designed and implemented in a 0.18-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> CMOS technology. Operating at 5 MHz the circuit consumes 3.11 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{W}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> from a 1.8-V supply. The input-output characteristic of the DAC resembles a logarithmic curve with the difference between measurement results and the ideal logarithm function having a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 2.4 mV.


This article analyses the working of Joint Forest Management and Community Forest Management in Orissa with a view to understand the incentive and disincentive mechanisms available in these institutions and how these influence the protection of forests and the livelihood of forest dwellers.


Morphology is the study of internal structure of words and is an essential early step in many NLP applications such as parsing and machine translation. Researchers working in Hindi NLP have either used the widely popular paradigm based analyzer (PBA) or extensions of it. In this work, we undertook a comprehensive evaluation of PBA using the data from the Hindi Treebank (HTB) and presented a new morphological analyzer trained on the HTB. Our morphological analyzer has better coverage and accuracy when compared to the existing analyzers for Hindi. An oracle system that takes the best values from the PBA's output achieves only 63.41% for lemma, gender, number, person and case. Our statistical analyzer has an accuracy of 84.16% for these morphological attributes when evaluated on the test section of the Hindi Treebank.


A certain amount of water needs to be maintained in the stratum corneum of the skin in order to maintain the skin barrier function. Therefore, it is important to supply water to the stratum corneum of the skin to reduce trans epidermal water loss (TEWL). However, because normal water has large clusters, it is difficult to penetrate the stratum corneum of the skin. Therefore, it was considered that the use of Ultra-fine bubbles (UFB) water, which is said to have small water clusters, promotes penetration into the stratum corneum of the skin, and is useful for improving the skin barrier function. The artificial skin to which O2-UFB water was dripped had the highest water content and the lowest TEWL. It also had a high affinity for human skin. From these results, improvement of skin barrier function by O2-UFB water can be expected.


A damper (60) and an upper air duct (54) in a combustion system (10) having a combustion arrangement which forms a flue gas channel (14) are provided, wherein the damper and the upper air duct comprises: an inlet (58) of the upper air passage and an outlet the conduit, the overfire air into it emits into the flue gas duct, said damper (60) to the axis of the upper air duct (54) is aligned, and an open position (60) which is arranged axially removed from the inlet, and a closed position (60a ), which is located at least partially within the inlet and the duct, said damper between the open and the closed position in the axial direction is movable.


We propose noise-predictive maximum-likelihood (NPML) detection with a pattern-dependent distortion canceller (PDDC) to cancel nonlinear distortion. NPML detection and NPML/PDDC detection were applied to a Blu-ray disc with a capacity of 27 Gbytes. The detection performance was investigated. And the results are reported. Both the NPML detector and the NPML/PDDC detector lower bit error rate (BER), and improve the radial-tilt margin and spherical-aberration margin. Only the NPML/PDDC detector could improve tangential-tilt margin, however.


A flour was prepared from "sweet"cassava tubers. Cyanogenic acid content was 24.4 mg/kg of flour. Proximate analysis was made; crude protein content was 2.1%. Soy flour with 53.8% protein was used to fortify cassava flour at 5, 10, 15, and 20%. Quality of the cassava flour protein was very low; addition of soy raised the quality. Protein efficiency ratio of 80% cassava-20% soy composite flour was 1.55 when fed to rats. Rats receiving diets with 100% cassava, and 95% cassava-5% soy lost body weight. Diets with 90% cassava-10% soy caused no change in body weight. Soy softened the dough made from cassava-soy flours. Therefore, the smaller amounts of water needed to maintain a uniform dough consistency with increased levels of soy were determined. Dough became darker, more red and more yellow with increased amounts of soy. Panel scores for dough were increased with increased levels of soy up to 15%. Scores for appearance and eating quality for dough with 20% soy were lower than scores for dough containing no soy.


Motivation: With the rapid emergence of technologies for locating cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) genome-wide, the next pressing challenge is to assign precise functions to each CRM, i.e. to determine the spatiotemporal domains or cell-types where it drives expression. A popular approach to this task is to model the typical k-mer composition of a set of CRMs known to drive a common expression pattern, and assign that pattern to other CRMs exhibiting a similar k-mer composition. This approach does not rely on prior knowledge of transcription factors relevant to the CRM or their binding motifs, and is thus more widely applicable than motif-based methods for predicting CRM activity, but is also prone to false positive predictions. Results: We present a novel strategy to improve the above-mentioned approach: to predict if a CRM drives a specific gene expression pattern, assess not only how similar the CRM is to other CRMs with similar activity but also to CRMs with distinct activities. We use a state-of-the-art statistical method to quantify a CRM's sequence similarity to many different training sets of CRMs, and employ a classification algorithm to integrate these similarity scores into a single prediction of the CRM's activity. This strategy is shown to significantly improve CRM activity prediction over current approaches. Availability and Implementation: Our implementation of the new method, called IMMBoost, is freely available as source code, at https://github.com/weiyangedward/IMMBoost. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


This article provides an analysis of the work of Russian Turkestanologists on the conquest of Central Asia by the Russian empire. The authors of most of the works were the top officers of the Russian army, or military figures who were active participants of military campaigns in Central Asia. Both the special works on general history of the conquest of Central Asia as well as the works on the history of seizure of specific khanates, cities, or battles are brought to the historiographical analysis. These works were composed from the 60-s of the 19th century, up to the beginning of the 20th century, and formed the basis of one of the areas of Russian Oriental studies Turkestan studies. An analysis of these works makes it possible to identify the reasons for the start of active hostilities by the Russian Empire, a description of the course of events, military skills of the howling sides and the consequences of these events for the peoples of the Central Asian region.


This celebration of Naga culture, art, music and way of life provides a comprehensive examination of the tribes that comprise the "World of the Naga". It contains many never-before-published images of landscapes and peoples, as well as Naga artworks from museums and private collections. For centuries the Naga, composed of more than 30 individual tribes, have lived in relative isolation in the mountainous area of Northeast India and upper Burma. The book explores the art and culture of the Naga peoples living in a remote region known as the "Last Great Mystery of Asia". Looking beyond the Nagas' past as fierce headhunters, it focuses on their unique way of life that rarely separates the spiritual from the social. Images of important festivals and ceremonies reveal a proud people whose animist beliefs and shamanic practices are displayed in gorgeous artwork, jewellery, costumes, traditional architecture and musical instruments. An enclosed CD offers readers a chance to experience first-hand the haunting music of the Naga and enhances this book's exploration of a fascinating culture in danger of disappearing.


A method is put forward to determine Burger's parameters by dynamic modulus test. A procedure is suggested to apply Burger's model to the analysis of the fatigue process of bituminous mixtures and overlays. A fatigue and stress function is obtained. A fatigue failure criterion based on the dissipated energy density is proposed. For the covering abstract of this conference see IRRD number 872978. (A)


from saltwater (Balboa et al., 2015). Desalinated seawater can also be used to create an endless supply of potable water.


Tax collection is the pillar of public spending, which affects the execution of programs for the development of the country without the creation of new taxes, in accordance with this, in September 2019, was presented within the Package Fiscal 2020 the proposal to regularize the collection of value-added tax on products and services marketed online.In recent years, this type of trade has grown exponentially, representing 4.6% of Mexico's gross domestic product, the tax referred to was already provided under our legislation, however, it was not Effectively regularized, the tax package proposal includes taxing services and goods, that is, platforms such as UBER, NETFLIX, UBER EATS, as well as those that offer lodging services in Mexico, are subject to the tax indicated. The purpose of this investigation is to determine the benefits and cons with respect to the aforementioned proposal, through the review of similar taxes in other countries, in order to analyze the behavior and contrast with the reform of said tax


The main objective of this article is to assess the carbon footprint of Brazilian families based on the Household Expenditure Survey (POF), 2008-2009, from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The methodology used to quantify the Brazilian households' carbon footprint has comprised three data sources: i) Household expenditure Survey, 2008-2009; ii) Leontief matrix of Brazilian accounts, year 2010; and iii) 2009 World InputOutput Database (WIOD) environmental inventory. Initially, an input-output (IO) model was created. Next, the results from the IO model were combined with the information of the POF. The poorest families, with a monthly income of up to $ 415.00, emit less than 1.5 metric tons per year, in contrast, the wealthiest families, with a monthly income above $ 5,187.50, release around 18.5 tons, almost 12 times more. It was found that an increase in income, results in an increase in CO2eq emissions. Thus, while the poorest families, which represent more than 20% of the total Brazilian families, cause 7% of the total emissions, the wealthiest families cause 16% of the total emissions although they represent only 4% of the total families. It was observed that the food category loses importance as income increases, while the opposite occurs in the services category. For the poorest families, there is great importance in the housing category, mostly caused by the consumption of electricity and LPG. Therefore, important measures for economic growth supported by actions become particularly relevant.


Sometimes very diferent positions overlap in unsuspected but signiicant ways. Lukács and Heidegger are important, but dissimilar twentieth century thinkers. Lukács is a Hegelian Marxist, and Heidegger is a post-Husserlian phenomenologist. hey share a supericial similarity in their respective predilections for political dictatorship, Lukács for Stalin and Heidegger for Hitler. Yet there is a deeper link since, as Lucien Goldmann pointed out a half century ago, Heidegger's phenomenological ontology is apparently intended as a response to Lukács' Hegelian Marxist conception of reiication (see Goldmann 1982). his paper will explore this link. I will be suggesting that both propose unacceptable views of human lourishing as lying beyond the reiication, or again alienation, typical of modern industrial society.


Abstract : The ability to control balloon descent rates has been improved through use of a modified gas valve which has a range of openings. The descent rates obtained with this valve are more constant than those obtainable with the standard gas valve. Atmospheric temperature lapse rate and other thermal and aerodynamic influences are unquantifiable factors affecting balloon vertical motion, but are better compensated for when use is made of a variable opening gas valve. Even with this valve, slow descents on the order of 200 fpm or less will have oscillations with short periods of time when ascents and leveling off will occur. (Author)


Objective To investigate the effect and indication of TiNi shape memory alloy embracing fixcator in the treatment of metacarpal and phalangeal fracture. Methods From 2002 to 2005,32 cases with metacarpal and phalangeal fracture were treated with TiNi shape memory alloy embracing fixcator. Results All the patients were followed up with an average of 10.3 months( from 5 to 24),all cases obtained bone union.Accoding to the TAM evaluation system,excellent and good results were 29 cases,the excellent and good rate was 90.6%. Conclusion The TiNi shape memory alloy embracing fixcator is an easy and effective way in treating the metacarpal and phalangeal fracture.


Underfloor heating has long been perceived as a luxury item, however a new solution from Auspex aims to dispel this perception and provide a more energy efficient alternative to traditional heating. Callum Fitzpatrick reports.


Burnout is high among health care professionals. In physicians, burnout is linked to suboptimal well‐being and patient care, but the overall landscape of pharmacist burnout is unknown. Synthesis of available data regarding pharmacist burnout is needed to better understand its effects on well‐being and professional practice. This systematic review sought to determine the prevalence and intensity of burnout in pharmacists. The aim of the study was the systematic review of articles on pharmacist burnout. PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and PsycINFO were searched for articles through February 13, 2019. Search strategies combined terms for pharmacists and burnout (including job satisfaction, stress, and resilience). The primary outcome was the proportion of pharmacists who met criteria for burnout. Secondary outcomes included the mean scores for Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) subscales, difference between pharmacist practice settings, and factors contributing to burnout. Raw scores and threshold proportions were pooled using a Hartung‐Knapp random‐effects model. Five articles reported the proportion of high emotional exhaustion (EE) and depersonalization (DP) and low personal accomplishment (PA), and nine articles reported individual MBI subscale scores, which were included for quantitative analysis. The proportion values of pharmacists with MBI subscale scores consistent with burnout were 41% (95% CI 27%‐54%), 20% (95% CI 7%‐32%), and 32% (95% 14%‐50%) for high EE, high DP, and low PA, respectively. Mean MBI subscales scores were 23.53 (95% CI 21.68‐25.39), 7.07 (95% CI 6.22‐7.92), and 36.51 (95% CI 34.34‐38.67) for EE, DP, and PA, respectively. Substantial heterogeneity was observed. The burnout prevalence among pharmacists is lower than previously reported, but notable. The average MBI subscale scores for high EE or DP or low PA in pharmacists did not meet criteria for burnout.


Colliding winds of massive stars in binary systems are viable candidates for non‐thermal high‐energy photon emission. Long since, coincidences between massive star systems/associations and γ‐ray sources have been noted. Now, with the sensitivity of the Fermi Gamma Ray Observatory and current very‐high‐energy (VHE) Cherenkov instruments, will it be possible to sensibly probe these systems as high‐energy emitters.We will summarize the characteristics and broadband predictions of generic optically thin emission models in the observables accessible at GeV and TeV energies. The ability to constrain orbital parameters of massive star‐star binaries through GeV‐to‐TeV observations is discussed. As an example we will present orbital parameter constraints for the nearby Wolf‐Rayet binary system WR 147 based on recently published VHE flux limits. Combining our broadband emission model with the cataloged binaries systems and their individual parameters allows us to conclude on the population of massive star‐star syst...


The important relationships between energy, transportation, and transportation safety that must be considered in the development of policies, plans, and programs for dealing with long-range energy problems are described.


With the advent of internet of things (IoT), IP mobility has become an inexorable service to wireless sensor networks (WSN). Existing mobility support protocols suffer extra packet loss due to conventional mobility operations, hence are not applicable to critical mobile applications. Therefore, this paper proposes a packet buffering mechanism (PBM) to reduce extra packet loss occur during Layer 2 (L2) mobility. In the mechanism, hand-off (HO) is anticipated and triggered before the actual movement of the mobile node (MN) and domain gateway routers assisting mobility will buffer packets for the MN during L2 mobility when the MN is not able to hear from any of the access networks (ANs). The advance HO initiation leads to Layer 3 (L3) HO before L2, thus eliminating L2 channel scanning process. The evaluation of proposed PBM shows improvements against existing solutions with HO-delay of 15ms and average packet loss of 2-4%.


The impressive performance of George Wallace in the 1968 presidential election, as well as his victories in several presidential preferential primaries in 1972, exemplify a development which Burnham (1970: 189) has described as the &dquo;southernizing of national politics.&dquo; A nationwide potential for racial conflict was created by the migration of black southerners into the urban centers of the North and West, and &dquo;George Wallace was the first political entrepreneur who perceived this reality and acted upon it, in the process becoming a figure of national significance and quite possibly a portent of things to come&dquo; (Burnham, 1970: 142). Wallace's excursions into national politics have quite properly inspired a substantial literature,1 1 but political scientists have given less attention to Wallace's political career within his native state of Alabama (for two exceptions, see Strong, 1972; Black and Black, 1973b; for good journalistic treatments, see Frady, 1968; Sherril, 1968: 255-301). The objective of this paper is to examine the evolution of the Wallace vote in Alabama. Like studies of Huey Long in Louisiana (Sindler, 1956; Howard,


This paper presents a distributed object transportation technique using a virtual object. Previous methods of object transportation have been required to have a global navigation function with a feedback controller. In other words, all robots should have the goal position to manipulate the object when using those methods, and with them it was difficult to guarantee the wrapping condition of the object during transportation. The proposed technique, however, enables the object to be transported without a global navigation function by means of a new technique termed a virtual object. The proposed technique is divided into three phases: the approaching phase, the enclosing phase, and the transporting phase. Simulated experiments are presented to test the validity and practicality of the proposed method.  Index Terms—object transportation, virtual object, object closure


The thesis explains the importance of the service process optimization, based on the analysis of service process. It mainly discusses the services principles and methods of process optimization through an example of hotel seivice process.


A field experiment was conducted during winter (rabi) season of 2005-06 and 2006-07 in the Agronomy Research Farm of Amar Singh College, Lakhaoti, Uttar Pradesh to study the effect of levels of irrigation and fertility on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and mustard (Brassica juncea L. czernj & coss.) in sole and intercropping systems. The experiment was conducted in split-plot design with 3 replications. The combination of treatments consisted of 3 cropping systems, namely sole mustard (C 1 ), sole chickpea (C 2 ) and chickpea + mustard intercropping (C 3 ) (4:1 raw ratio) and 4 irrigation levels [no irrigation (I o ), irrigation at pre-flowering (I 1 ), at pod formation (I 2 ), at both pre-flowering and pod formation (I 3 )] for chickpea allotted to main plots and 3 fertility levels [F 1 (20: 40: 10 kg N, P 2 O 5 and S/ha), F 2 (40: 60: 20 kg N, P 2 O 5 and S/ha) and F 3 (recommended dose of fertilisers (RDF)] for both the crops on row length basis to sub-plots. The sole Indian mustard recorded higher seed yield compared to intercropping. The yield reduction in mustard was to the tune of 58.9% and 60.0% in the first and second year, respectively, due to intercropping chickpea. Irrigation, on an average increased the mustard yield by 6.47% (I 1 ), 12.18%(I 2 ) and 13.18%(I 3 ) compared to no irrigation (I o ). Similarly fertilizer treatments F 2 and F 3 on an average increased mustard yield by 10.17% and 18.46%, respectively, over the F 1 . The intercropping of chickpea and mustard in 4:1 raw ratio was significantly superior to sole crops of either chickpea or mustard in terms of yield and economics. Between the sole crops, chickpea was better as compared to mustard. Application of recommended dose of fertilizers (20: 60: 20 kg, N, P 2 O 5 and S/ha) on area basis was superior.


Abstract : This report describes the live-fire testing (LFT) that was performed by the Advanced Munitions Concepts Branch (AMCB) of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the Fuzes Technology Branch (WM/MNMF) at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, in support of the Battle Damage Assessment Telemeter (BDAT) project. In this testing, three aluminum canisters were instrumented with an ARL p-band telemetry system. Each canister was inserted into the aft end of a penetrator vehicle and launched from a gun into a 1-ft-thick concrete target 500 ft from the gun muzzle. The objective of this testing was to determine if the telemetry system would be able to operate during the high shock of impacting a concrete target. The data acquired from these tests were less than ideal. The amount of noise present in the data was a result of the weak RF link between the telemetry and receiving antennas and the broad-band noise near the transmitter frequency. Since the subcarrier oscillator was detected on all the canisters after impact the telemetry components, other than the antenna that was damaged in each of the three tests, will survive multiple shocks caused by launch and impact.


Jiangya hydropower project will provide huge environmental benefits,but meanwhile,due to large amounts of excavation and sewage discharge,there also exists adverse impact.As partial investment coming from loans of the World Bank,the World Bank pays special attention to the environmental impact of the project.In the process of the project construction,according to the environmental impact report and the requirement of the World Bank,the owner has strengthened the environmental management and monitoring,regularly reported the environmental management and monitoring condition to the World Bank.The monitored results of environment in the construction process of Jiangya project demonstrate that the environmental quality meets the high standard.


Knowledge of the fluid dynamic characteristics in a stirred vessel is essential for reliable design and scale-up of a mixing system. In this paper, 3D hydrodynamics in a vessel agitated by a Rushton turbine were numerically studied (with the help of a CFD computer program (CFX 13.0)). The study was carried out covering a wide Reynolds number range: 10 4 – 10 5 . Computations, based on control volume method, were made using the k-e model. Our main purpose was to investigate the effect of vessel configuration and agitation rates on the flow structure and power consumption. Three types of vessels were used: unbaffled, baffled and a vessel with slots placed at the external perimeter of its vertical wall. The effect of slot length has been investigated. The comparison of our predicted results with available experimental data shows a satisfactory agreement.


1. Crystalline tiotropium benzenesulphonate, in particular crystalline anhydrous tiotropium benzenesulphonate, preferably crystalline anhydrous tiotropium benzenesulphonate which is characterized by an orthorhombic elementary cell. ! 2. Crystalline tiotropium benzenesulphonate according to claim 1, characterized ortorombichesoy elementary cell with the parameters a = 10.6460 (7) Ǻ, b = 12,8410 (10) Ǻ, c = 36.605 (3) Ǻ, and volume of 5004 cells 1 (6) Ǻ3, defined by a single crystal X-ray analysis. ! 3. The crystalline tiotropium trifluoromethanesulfonate primarily crystalline anhydrous tiotropium trifluoromethanesulfonate, trifluoromethanesulfonate, preferably crystalline anhydrous tiotropium which is characterized by a monoclinic elementary cell. ! 4. The crystalline anhydrous tiotropium trifluoromethanesulphonate according to claim 3, characterized by a monoclinic elementary cell with the parameters a = 12,4500 (7) Ǻ, b = 13,1090 (9) Ǻ, c = 17.9840 (14) Ǻ, β = 129.176 (2) °, and cell volume 2275.3 (3) Ǻ3, defined by a single crystal X-ray analysis. ! 5. The crystalline tiotropium salicylate, particularly crystalline tiotropium salicylate monohydrate. ! 6. Crystalline tiotropium salicylate monohydrate according to claim 5, characterized by a triclinic elementary cell. ! 7. Crystalline tiotropium salicylate monohydrate according to claim 6, characterized by a triclinic unit cell with parameters a = 10,8380 (3) Ǻ, b = 10,8610 (3) Ǻ, c = 12.2310 (4) Ǻ, α = 76.199 (2) °, β = 71,878 (2) °, γ = 74,220 (2) °, and the volume of the cell 1297.95 (7) Ǻ3, defined by a single crystal X-ray analysis. ! 8. Crystalline tiotropium salicylate monohydrate according to claim 5, which is characterized by a powder rentgenog


The paper traces the roots of Leif Johansen's 1960 monograph A Multi-Sectoral Study of Economic Growth, recognized as the first computable general equilibrium (cge) model. Although Johansen might have been much attracted towards a purely theoretical study of a multi-sectoral equilibrium growth process he chose to construct an empirical model, calibrated to fit the Norwegian economy in 1950. Johansen's Model combined Leontief 's input-output analysis with Solow-type production functions and a Frisch-influenced specification of consumption demand. His work became influential on the further cge development. Johansen died at the age of 52 in 1982 and is regarded as the (only) intellectual heir of his teachers Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo in originality and profoundness.


In this paper, a novel scheme to extract the watermark data embedded in FRFT domain is presented. The watermark data (FRFT coefficients of the watermark image) is embedded by adding in FRFT coefficients of a host image at pre-determined locations. A non-blind extraction scheme is the main contribution of this paper. To the best of our knowledge, most of the existing work deals with the watermark detection in FRFT domain and only limited efforts are made for extraction of image watermarking in FRFT domain. But, in this paper, extraction of the watermark was performed in images using original host image. The watermark is extracted by subtracting the FRFT coefficients of the watermarked image from the FRFT coefficients of the original host image. Then the watermark is obtained by performing inverse FRFT of difference FRFT coefficients. Simulations results show that the extracted watermark image is very close to the original watermark image.


A kind of novel macrolides N,O-containing heterocyclophane was successfully synthesized by the reaction of o-phthaloyl chloride with substituted diols at high dilution condition,wherein the diols can be obtained by hydroxyethylation of the naphthylamine and the substituted arylamine.The structure of title compounds has been confirmed by IR,1HNMR,and ESI-HRMS.The X-ray diffraction analysis indicated that the crystal structure of compound belongs to the monoclinic system,P2(1)/c space group.


Objective To explore the effect of Carvedilol,Metoprolol,and their combination on the expression of IL-6 of cardiac fibroblasts.Methods Primary cardiac fibroblasts(CFs) were isolated by trypsin digestion method and identified by morphology and immunocytochemistry.Metoprolol or(and) Carvedilol with different concentrations were been used to intervention the growth of cells,proliferation and cell number weremeasured by 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diph-enyltetrazolium bromide(MTT).The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was employed to measure interleukin-6(IL-6)levels.Results The inhibition effect of different concentration Carvedilol on the cardiac fibroblasts proliferation was different.There was a dose-dependent relationship in the effect of Carvedilol inhibition in cardiac fibroblasts proliferation.Compared with the control group,the IL-6 levels in Carvedilol group was statistically different.Similarly,Metoprolol group was statistically different,but the combination group didn't show any statistically difference contrasted Carvedilol or Metoprolol group.Conclusion The combination of Carvedilol or Metoprolol do not have any Combined Effect on the IL-6 levels of cardiac fibroblasts.


Once compromised, server firmware can surreptitiously and permanently take over a machine and any stack running thereon, with no hope for recovery, short of hardware-level intervention. To make things worse, modern firmware contains millions of lines of unnecessary code and hundreds of unnecessary modules as a result of a long firmware supply chain designed to optimize time-to-market and cost, but not security. As a result, off-the-shelf motherboards contain large, unnecessarily complex, closed-source vulnerability surfaces that can completely and irreversibly compromise systems. In this work, we address this problem by dramatically and automatically reducing the vulnerability surface. DECAF is an extensible platform for automatically pruning a wide class of commercial UEFI firmware. DECAF intelligently runs dynamic iterative surgery on UEFI firmware to remove a maximal amount of code with no regressive effects on the functionality and performance of higher layers in the stack (OS, applications). DECAF has successfully pruned over 70% of unnecessary, redundant, reachable firmware in leading server-grade motherboards with no effect on the upper layers, and increased resulting system performance and boot times.


Bandung is committed to contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Indonesia. One of the efforts that can be made to support the 13th pillar of SDGS regarding climate change is to forecast the air temperature of Bandung City in the future. One of the models that can be used for forecasting air temperature data in Bandung is the Autoregressive (AR) model. Based on BMKG data, often the time series data obtained has missing data. Therefore, in order to do a good time series analysis, it is necessary to make an effort to correct the missing data. The purpose of this research was to examine the procedure for overcoming missing data in the AR model using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method and Interpolation with Weighting, which was applied to forecasting the average air temperature data in the city of Bandung. The research methodology followed the Box-Jenkins 3-step procedure. The first-order AR estimation parameter model was estimated using the OLS method and then used to overcome missing data using both methods with weighting using R software. Both methods resulted in an estimated value of 0.9991 and the same Mean Average Percentage Error (MAPE) value of 2,459% with very accurate criteria. Therefore, to overcome the missing data on the average air temperature data in the city of Bandung with a parameter estimator close to one, we got the same result for both methods.


Greater attention is paid to the association between language and culture.in the present college English teaching.In various kinds of new college English textbooks,the imput of cultural knowledge of target language is more creatively designed than those previous ones.But cross-cultural communication involves both English culture and Chinese culture.One of our aims of learning English is to spread Chinese culture.so it should be of interaction.This paper gives some personal perspectives on Chinese culture in College English teaching.


Infection by any of the four serotypes of dengue viruses (DEN‐1, ‐2, ‐3 and ‐4) may result in either a relatively benign fever, called dengue fever (DF), a fatal disease, such as dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) or dengue shock syndrome (DSS). Several lines of evidence suggest that soluble immune response mediators may be involved in the severity of dengue infections. For instance, elevated seric levels of IL‐8 are a common feature in DHF patients. Because other chemokines, cytokines, adhesion molecules, chemokine and cytokine receptors, as well as cytokine‐related molecules may also be involved in dengue virus pathogenesis, we aimed at analysing the gene expression of such molecules in the course of an in vitro DEN‐2 infection of human peripheral blood monocyte‐derived macrophages, a cell type regarded as a primary target for DEN. Nylon membrane gene arrays containing 375 different human cytokine‐related genes were used as a first step to search for differentially expressed genes upon infection. Transcripts for IL‐8, IL‐1β, osteopontin, GRO‐α, ‐β and ‐γ, I‐309, and some other molecules showed to be upregulated upon infection, whereas others such as MIC‐1, CD27L and CD30L, were downregulated. Four genes were selected for reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction based gene‐expression analysis as a way to partially confirm microarray results. This approach pointed out 25 macrophage‐expressed cytokine‐related genes that could be relevant in DEN‐2 pathogenesis.


The objectives of this work were to optimize the medium composition for improved production ofγ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) by the fermentation of Lactobacillus brevis BS2 with Zinc-enriching ability and to clone and sequence the glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) gene of this strain. GABA quantification was performed using pre-staining paper chromatography method. The optimal medium composition was determined as follows:carbon source,glucose; nitrogen source,soybean peptone plus beef extract; carbon/nitrogen ratio,1:1; and substrate concentration,1%,and the maximum GABA production reached up to 6.32 g/L under such conditions. CTAB method was used for the extraction of genomic DNA from stain BS2,and the extracted genomic DNA was used as the template for the amplification of a 1407 bp gad gene by touch down PCR. The gad gene was finally cloned into the T vector. The sequencing analysis showed that the gene had 98% homology with that of Lactobacillus brevis BH2,suggesting that the obtained target gene is the gad gene of Lactobacillus brevis.


The author, in this paper,uses the approaches of long-term experiment and short-term experiment on 210 students and 179 students of Xinxiang Medical College respectively in order to verify the impact of recitation on students' English study. It shows from the experiments that both the short-term and long-term recitation can bring positive impact on English study, thus some enlightenment being gained for English teaching reform.


Rambiara River basin, a sub-basin of the Upper Indus, is dotted with fluvial and glacial geomorphic landforms. The presence of large number of glacial landforms like moraines, cirques, aretes, U-shaped valleys, etc. reflects the enormous erosive power of the past glaciers. During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), glaciers on average were 200 m thick and extended more than 10 km from the present-day cirque marks. Rock glaciers outnumber the clean glaciers that cover an area of 0.22 and 1.25 km2, respectively, in the basin. Glacial lakes are the prominent features in the higher reaches of the basin and occupy an area ranging from 0.01 to 0.70 km2. Downstream, the river is characterized by large channel width, anomalous sinuosity, braided pattern, and the presence of unpaired fluvial terraces. The large channel width depicts the enormous discharge from the glacial- and snow-melt during the Late Pleistocene when glaciers covered most of the Pir Panjal. After LGM, the glacier cover and the river discharge significantly decreased as highlighted by a large number of braided bars and the narrow stream to which the river is reduced. The warming trends observed across the Himalayas encompassing the Pir Panjal Range since the last century has further contributed significantly to the glacier recession in the basin.


Tungsten silicide (WSix) thin films have been deposited by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition using silane (SiH4) and tungsten hexafluoride (WF6) at different fluxes ratio ranging from 44 to 745 onto planar Si(100) wafers covered by 130 A of SiO2 and 2000 A of phosphorus-doped polysilicon layers to reproduce the control gate structure of a FLASH-EEPROM. The deposited films have been annealed in oxygen ambient at 900 °C. The composition of as deposited films as well as annealed films has been studied by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, and secondary ion mass spectroscopy. Cross section scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy have been employed to study the thickness and the surface morphology of the deposited layers. The resistivity and the mechanical properties of the films have been also investigated. The as-deposited films have shown, growing the SiH4/WF6 ratio, an increase of the Si/W stoichiometric ratio (until 3), a decrease of the film th...


In the context of program comprehension, learning and working in teams, e.g., via pair programming, shared documentation, and discussions, can facilitate the comprehension tasks. So far, team collaboration is a relatively unexplored aspect in software visualizations, in particular approaches which are designed and explored to enable collaborative program comprehension.In this paper, we introduce our collaboratively usable software visualization environment for program comprehension. Related approaches are often limited to single-user modes, therefore neglect the advantages of multi-user collaboration, or allow only the use of a single type of device. Our approach addresses this topic and allows users to collaboratively explore software visualizations in a device-heterogeneous environment. User events, e.g., sharable pop-up information windows, are synchronized between each session participant, regardless of the employed device.To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first approaches that combines on-screen, virtual reality, and augmented reality modes in a single web-based SV tool for program comprehension. We conducted a user study to collect initial results regarding the perceived usefulness and enjoyment of co-explored software cities In that study, 20 participants collaboratively solved program comprehension tasks while using each mode consecutively. The results indicate that the majority of participants find our approach useful and enjoyable, with AR being the least favored mode. We provide each participant's video recording, the study's raw results, Jupyter Notebooks, and all steps to reproduce our evaluation as supplementary package. Furthermore, a live demo of our tool is available online.1 We invite other researchers to extend our open-source software and jointly research this novel approach.Video URL: https://youtu.be/MYAkRMWLVD8


The $437 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for the Idaho Cleanup Project is helping to achieve at the Idaho National Laboratory Site "base" footprint reduction and environmental cleanup that would have been deferred based on competing funding priorities, is accelerating other priority cleanup work, and is providing numerous lessons learned for potential application throughout the U.S. Department of Energy Complex. Notably, CH2M♦WG Idaho, the managing contractor of the Idaho Cleanup Project, was staging in early 2009 to lay off a large number of highly skilled deactivation and decommissioning workers because of funding priorities. But the influx of ARRA funds allowed this skilled workforce to be retained and ultimately resulted in the creation of 550 jobs. ARRA funding also has allowed accelerated disposition of excess, highly contaminated, Site nuclear facilities and radioactive waste; has accelerated processing and shipping off-Site of large quantities of remote-handled transuranic waste and ultimately will double the capacity to characterize and repackage the waste; and has accelerated exhumation and retrieval of additional targeted transuranic buried waste. Most importantly, the ARRA investment at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory Site will help reduce overall Site human health and environmental risks.


This paper analyzes the current situation of Database Principle and Application course under the background of non computer major.The integration course design schema based on CDIO is proposed,which includes the modular theory course teaching system,the project content design,the exercises class design of task-driven,and staged examination system.The proposal makes the design of database principle and application course much more reasonable,and therefore,the ability of engineering practice of student is improved.


Having the knowledge and that this knowledge has a form approved by everyone are related to meaning attributed to knowledge and the limits set by it. What can be called "knowledge" within the limits of knowledge is shaped pursuant to the standards set for this. However, one of the types of knowledge, which can make the way for the possibility of religious knowledge and which can especially show that the objectivity of knowledge is not such a good attitude, is the imagist knowledge, over which there are studies done in the recent years. Because this type of knowledge suggests that knowledge can have a quality that may vary not only from a time to another, and from a culture to another, but also even from a person to another with its quality that prevails rational knowledge which comes innately, and empirical knowledge which is obtained later.


Well, the Chairman need not have worried. Time is not my problem. I am one of the nation's few antitrust lawyers who can tell everything he knows about the antitrust laws in less than twenty-five minutes! No, the problems I have with this talk do not include the time limit. They are two other things. One is ego damage. I have a lawyer friend who used to go regularly to Bar Association affairs. He has stopped going to them. It had begun to erode his self-confidence. He said, "You know, I suddenly realized that I never met a lawyer at one of those affairs who was earning less than $100,000 a year or who had ever lost a case!"


The study evaluates the effect of corporate financing on shareholders wealth, in Nigerian Pharmaceutical Industry. The study used 5 out of the 15 firms listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange based on judgmental reasoning while composite multiple regression model analysis was applied. Findings of the study are that retained earning has a negative and significant effect on economic value added of firms in Nigerian Pharmaceutical Industry and also that equity capital as well as debt capital each has a negative and significant effect on the economic value added of firms in Nigerian Pharmaceutical Industry whereas only trade payable has a positive and significant effect on economic value added of firms in Nigerian Pharmaceutical Industry. The study therefore recommends that firms in Nigerian Pharmaceutical Industry should strive to increase their turnover so as to improve their cash flows from operating activities. Again, that total assets of firms in Nigeria Pharmaceutical Industry should be enhanced in order to increase their production capacity and avoid the use of equity as a major source of finance among others.


Using shear Z-shape specimens composed of young and old concrete, t he bonding shear strength and failure mechanism of young to old concrete were co nducted where the old concrete had been exposed to freezing-and-thawing cycles . The old concrete were experienced zero, 25, 50, 75 and 100 and 125 freezing cy cles. Freezing cycles, interfacial roughness (0.23-6.9mm )and interfacial adhes ion agents including cement paste, cement mortar and cement paste with 10 per ce nt UEA expanding agent were also investigated. The results indicated that the bo nded shear strength decreases with the increase of the numbers of freezing-and-thawing cycles, and that the shear strength performs slightly decreasing at th e early stage of freezing and declines suddenly after a certain freezing-and-t hawing cycles. The sharp degenerate point occurs at 75 freezing cycles, which al most accords with the critical point of relative dynamic modulus of elasticity i n frost resistance standard. The interfacial roughness and adhesion agent have d ifferent effects on the bonding strength. In three kinds of handling interfacial methods, to a certain numbers of cycles, the adhesive effectiveness of chipped surface combined with cement mortar is the best.


In this talk, I will discuss the main methodological features of the bivariate dynamic probit model for panel data. I will present an example using simulated data, giving special emphasis to the initial conditions problem in dynamic models and the difference between true and spurious state dependence. The model is fit by maximum simulated likelihood.


I WELCOME the opportunity to present this paper because the choice, application and -L combination of articles which, in varying degrees, come to the architect in manufactured form, are equally the concern of the architect and the manufacturer. How the architect integrates them into a building obviously has considerable influence on its final appearance, both externally and internally, and the general standard of finish and serviceability of the building is influenced by the manufacturer's own standards. The more proper the manufactured goods are, the more economical the building design


Wheat(Triticum aestivum L.) as the main food crop, studying its utilization of heterosis and male sterility is the matter that has been tried to overcome in the world. To deeply research the mechanism of the physiological male sterility of wheat, the relationship between the ubiquitination of histones and the physiological male sterility was studied, which based on the research front of histone modifications. Used physiologically male sterility induced with chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1 and corresponding normal lines of complete fertility as experimental materials in wheat, investigated the rate of the physiological male sterility as well as their pistil fertility. The histones were extracted from the two lines' flowers. The ubiquitination levels of the histones were monitored with Western blot, and then cloned the cDNA functional sequence of RAD6, which was identified as an ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme of histone H2B. Bioinformatics technique was applied to analyze RAD6 such as sequence multiplication, constructed a phylogenetic tree, forecasted secondary structure and 3D structure of RAD6. Lastly, qRT-PCR was performed to analyze the expression of the RAD6 gene. The results showed that the chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1 had a sound effect on mile-killing. The ubiquitination level of histone H3 was almost the same between the male sterile and fertile lines. During mononuclear period, the ubiquitination of histone H2A was seemed to be existing in fertility, but disappearing in the sterility ones; the ubiquitination level of histone H2B in physiological male sterile wheat was seemed to be significantly less than that in fertile ones, meanwhile, the expression of the RAD6 gene in sterility wheats was apparently suppressed. These data indicated that SQ-1 distinctly restrained the ubiquitination levels of histones H2A, H2B as well as the expression of the RAD6 gene in the mononuclear period, which may be influencing the translation of some key genes and evently result in physiological male sterility in wheat. Thus, it can be seen that there is a close relationship between the ubiquitination of the histones on chromosomes and the physiological male sterility induced by the chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1 in wheat. The research supplies scientific evidence for the ubiquitination of histones involve in the wheat physiological male sterility, meanwhile, it establishes the solid epigenetics study foundation for wheat physiological male sterility mechanism.


What does corporate bankruptcy law aim to achieve and how should it achieve its aim? In this paper, I comprehensively review and analyze the theoretical debate and the existing empirical evidence that aspire to answer these two questions. I study what various country-specific and cross-country empirical studies have shown, and what they have failed to prove so far. By highlighting the findings and methodological limitations of these studies, I formulate a research agenda whose final purpose is to provide a decisive answer to the debate on what are, or should be, the goals and means of bankruptcy law.


Building upon the concepts that: 1) efficiency can be achieved by a better integration between operations and marketing functional units; 2) the intensity of competition is depicted by the correlation between service frequency and price dispersion, this empirical investigation intends to explain how airlines apply an operations and marketing alignment strategy to achieve a competitive advantage. Using US domestic carrier competition behaviours as an example, the methodology involves applying the Pearson product moment correlation (PPMC) to analyse 241,230 observations from panel data of real-life service frequencies and price dispersion from 2014, 2016 and 2017. The findings show that to align internal processes with external events, firms may wish to: 1) increase marketing efforts to gain market share or maintain competitiveness in markets shielded by historical rigid endogenous barriers or long-established reputations; 2) reduce operational resources and fall back from entrenched primary markets that are strategically guarded by powerful incumbents; 3) increase integration of operations and marketing to potentially expand into new secondary markets, since fare structures and services are increasingly indistinguishable between strategic groups.


This paper provides an overview on the state-of-the-art of grid-connected photovoltaic system technology. The most important system components are presented. Recent developments are described and problems to be solved are raised. General questions on the contribution of gridconnected photovoltaics to sustainable development are addressed. Information on the life cycle of photovoltaic cells and modules is provided. Expectations for future developments are presented.


This paper provides a theoretical model to analyse public funding of family elderly care when two severity type are present (the high and the low), under asymmetry of information and increasing costs. The social planner can redistribute between households by means of lump sum transfer, but because of incomplete information he is prevented from observing the type of household. The welfare optimum is characterized both under full and asymmetric information. Under complete information it turns out that the transfer has to be set in such a way to induce equality in the marginal utility of income. Under asymmetric information a second best can be attained by a categorical block grant on care with unconditional block grant.


University of Minnesota Ed.D. dissertation. January 2012. Major: Educational Policy and Administration. Advisor: Jennifer York-Barr, PhD. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 158 pages, appendices A-P.


Abstract This article analyses the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) fleet personnel's responses to survey questionnaire items on the knowledge creation processes, in order to identify the current extent of processes within the fleet. Through knowledge creation, new knowledge is created, starting with the discovery of knowledge and eventually, new and additional knowledge creation. Saving this created knowledge from dissipating is crucial to remain relevant. Hence, a survey was conducted on 214 of the fleet's personnel utilizing the Knowledge Creation Process SECI Model. The results revealed that knowledge creation processes are being practised in the fleet. However, the extent varied and most of the RMN fleet personnel participated at a moderate level in the processes. Socialization and internalization process dimensions are more actively utilized than externalization and combination process dimensions in knowledge creation within the fleet. Respondents with different demographic profiles had differences in their opinions, perceptions, and attitudes towards the knowledge creation processes. This needs to be looked into further since a sophisticated fleet with state-of-the-art inventories worth billions has many stakeholders concerned with safeguarding the sovereignty of the nation's maritime interests. Therefore, this study is the foundation to assist the organization to assess issues and differences related to knowledge creation in order to improve organization performance.


An abundance of literature on transformational learning and teacher professional learning communities (PLCs) exists; yet, few, in any, have linked the presence of one within the other. We believe Mezirow's Transformational Learning Theory should be acknowledged as a viable theoretical framework for better understanding the power of how teachers work together. Evidence of its presence can be identified within the current school practices of PLCs and other collaborative activities. In this paper, we will first overview Mezirow's theories of transformational learning and then attempt to show how the work of professional learning communities specifically and teacher collaboration generally provide a platform for transforming teachers' understandings of pedagogy and their roles as teachers. After outlining the concept of transformational learning, we provide two specific research examples to support the existence and relational significance of Mezirow's Transformational Learning Theory as it relates to advancing teacher practice through collaboration. We trust that our paper adds to a better understanding of why teachers believe collaboration with their peers represents their best professional learning.


The dynamics of a probabilistic neural network is characterized by the distribution \ensuremath{\nu}(x'\ensuremath{\Vert}x) of successor states x' of an arbitrary state x of the network. A prescribed memory or behavior pattern is represented in terms of an ordered sequence of network states ${\mathit{x}}^{(1)}$,${\mathit{x}}^{(2)}$,...,${\mathit{x}}^{(\mathit{l})}$. A successful procedure for learning this pattern must modify the neuronal interactions in such a way that the dynamical successor of ${\mathit{x}}^{(\mathit{s})}$ is likely to be ${\mathit{x}}^{(\mathit{s}+1)}$, with ${\mathit{x}}^{(\mathit{l}+1)}$=${\mathit{x}}^{(1)}$. The relative entropy G of the probability distribution ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}_{\mathit{x}}^{(\mathit{s}+1)}$,x' concentrated at the desired successor state, evaluated with respect to the dynamical distribution \ensuremath{\nu}(x'\ensuremath{\Vert}${\mathit{x}}^{(\mathit{s})}$), is used to quantify this criterion, by providing a measure of the distance between actual and ideal probability distributions. Minimization of G subject to appropriate resource constraints leads to ``optimal'' learning rules for pairwise and higher-order neuronal interactions. The degree to which optimality is approached by simple learning rules in current use is considered, and it is found, in particular, that the algorithm adopted in the Hopfield model is more effective in minimizing G than the original Hebb law.


SPF chickens laying feed, poultry feed technology involved in the field to address the nutritional needs of SPF chickens laying period in question. The SPF chickens laying of feed, in percentage by mass comprising the following components: Corn 56.28%, 46% dehulled soybean meal 19.31%, 55% corn gluten meal 6%, DDGS26 protein 5% stone tablets 8.9%, calcium hydrogen phosphate 1.1 % soybean oil 1.84%, 0.36% salt, 0.1% to 60% choline chloride, 65% lysine 0.55%, methionine 0.16%, mineral premix poultry M-P0.2%, large chicken multidimensional LV62H0.2 %. SPF chicken egg feed of the present invention has obvious advantages, SPF chickens egg laying rate of increase of 2.79%, 1.29% fertilization rate increase, hatching eggs utilization increased 1.11%.


Design considerations for a compact acousto-optic triple-product-processor are presented. This system, using Te02 Bragg cells operating in the slow shear wave mode, does not require the use of anarrnorphic (cylindrical-spherical lens) optics. The designs for the two Bragg cells are carried out in detail. Measurements of their performance are also reported. Good agreement was obtained between theory and experiment. The bandwidth of the overall system is 47 MHz, each Bragg cell having a time-bandwidth product of 470.


Early planning to craft a comprehensive real-world evidence generation strategy can help support the real-world safety and effectiveness of biosimilars.


This paper is based on a project entitled "International Benchmarking of Value Management" funded under the EPSRC IMI programme. The paper outlines the prime objectives of the project which is to benchmark the performance of the value management methodologies described in the textbook "Value Management in Design and Construction: 2nd edition" by Kelly and Male against those practised in the UK and overseas, in order to arrive at a conclusion of best practice.


We consider the problem of covering a graph with a given number of induced subgraphs so that the maximum number of vertices in each subgraph is minimized. We prove NP-completeness of the problem, prove lower bounds, and give approximation algorithms for certain graph classes.


We present the overall user experience de- signed for supporting rehabilitation of stroke patients at home. Patients use a robotic hand (orthosis) to control therapeutic games and a touch screen for the UI. They are supervised remotely by a therapist who uses a similar interface from their desk. The system includes therapeutic games and user interfaces (UIs) for both patients and therapists. The concept and design of these UIs were implemented during the first year of the SCRIPT project


Plant hormones are naturally occurring organic signaling molecules, playing central roles in coordinating almost every aspect of plant growth, development and stress adaptations at vanishingly low concentrations. Plant hormones often synthesize in one cell/tissue and function in a different cell/tissue. Within the last seventy years, Chinese scholars have made significant contributions to our better understanding the biological functions, biosynthesis, catabolism, cross-talks, and signal transduction of plant hormones through a number of distinctive approaches such as tissue culture, mutant analysis, and identification of altered agronomic traits in rice and other crops under various growing conditions. The knowledge obtained from these studies will be used to improve crop productivities and stress adaptions in the future. In this review article, we are trying to put together some of the major discoveries made by Chinese scholars in ten major groups of plant hormones, including auxin, cytokinins, brassinosteroids, gibberellins, ethylene, abscisic acid, jasmonates, salicylic acid, strigolactones, and peptides. This review is written in Chinese, our purpose is to provide a reference to our undergraduate and graduate students.


Ectopic thyroid tissue very rarely occurs in the buccal region. Even more rarely encountered is the papillary carcinoma arising in the ectopic tissue.


Architecture and painting - the biological connection, John Onians seeing through architecture - pictorial frames of ancient Roman experience, Bettina Bergman the architecture of power in the mosaics of the great mosque of Damascus and its antecedents, Maria Georgopoulou picturing interiority in western Himalayan Stupa architecture, Robert Linrothe the representation of Maya architecture, Mary Miller Abbot Suger and the temple in Jerusalem -a new interpretation of the sacred environment in the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Jacqueline Frank and William Clark falling through the cracks - the fate of painted palace facades in 16th-century Italy, Monika Scmitter verbal and visual abstraction - the role of pictorial techniques of representation in Renaissance architectural theory, Caroline van Eck architecture and the narrative dimension of two Albert frontispieces of the 16th and 18th centuries, Desley Luscombe and Jeffrey Mueller Pieter de Hooch's revisions of the Amsterdam Town Hall, Martha Hollander Andrea Pozzo's "Propettiva de pittorie architetti - architecture as a system of representation, John Pinto Romanticism's piranesi, Erika Naginski "the baseless fabric of a vision" - civic architecture and pictorial representation at Sir John Soane's museum, Sean Sawyer history and the image - from the Lyons School to Paul Delaroch, Stephen Bann.


The pharmaceutical industry is facing a productivity crisis in which, despite the increasing expenditures in drug R&D, there is no clear correlation between investments and number of new drugs entering the market. The inefficiency of the process leads to extremely high investments costs, which are then reflected in the high prices of the few successful drugs that reach the market. In this context, the productivity crisis has not only negative consequences for the pharmaceutical sector, but it also harms patients that cannot access or afford effective treatments, and society, which has to deal with the elevated costs. The reasons behind this problem are multiple, complex and they involve factors related to the R&D, regulatory and business processes. One major issue is the high drug attrition rate during the clinical and post market phases, which is two to four folds higher in the oncology field than in other therapeutic areas. In this regard, safety and efficacy matters are the two main reasons for promising compounds to be finally discarded. Thus, high drug attrition rate echoes predictivity deficiencies in preclinical models. One solution might be represented by the use of alternative and complementary tools to improve the overall predictive output and so, reduce the posterior drug attrition rate. Zebrafish has emerged as a really promising model since it shows unique biological properties for a vertebrate, in addition to have high genetic and physiologic homology to humans. It is characterized by small size, fast life cycle, large progeny, transparency, ease of maintenance and genetic manipulation, and the ability to absorb molecules from the surrounding water. All these peculiar aspects, allow its utilisation in high throughput studies.
On these bases, during my PhD project, I improved the use of zebrafish for the evaluation of drug safety and antitumoral efficacy. Two different methodologies have been developed and validated: the ZeGlobalTox and the ZeOncoTest.
ZeGlobalTox is a middle-high throughput system in which zebrafish larvae are used to sequentially evaluate the three most important organ toxicities that are the main cause of drug attrition: cardio-, neuro-, and hepato-toxicities. Results have demonstrated high sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of the model, compared to human data. Furthermore, our assay integrates for the first time the analysis of these three organ-toxicities in the same larvae; reducing animal usage, experimental time and costs, and quantity of compound needed. In a context where animal utilisation in research is being contested, such an alternative fulfilling the 3Rs principles (Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement), is very welcomed.
ZeOncoTest is a methodology for the evaluation of antitumoral drug efficacy through an optimised zebrafish larvae xenograft model. Previously published reports presented contrasting data probably due to differences in incubation times and temperatures, image acquisition and analysis, cell labelling methods prior to transplantation and site of injection. With the ZeOncoTest we to optimised, standardised and automated the zebrafish larvae xenograft assay for anti-cancer drug discovery. Our results demonstrate that with this methodology, human tumour cells are able to engraft, grow and disseminate into zebrafish larvae and that they respond to known drugs as expected. Also, we showed that our system is suitable to investigate drugs mode of action.
Our work helps to validate zebrafish as a promising preclinical model, bridging the gap between high throughput but low predictive in vitro models and more predictive but low throughput in vivo mammalian models. We propose it as a filter of molecules coming from in vitro models and entering in vivo studies, thus improving the rationale of selection. Finally, it is envisioned that zebrafish consolidation in R&D processes will improve drug safety and efficacy predictions during preclinical phases, therefore reducing the high drug attrition rates and ameliorating the productivity crisis.
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Ridge orientations and ridge spatial frequencies in various regions of fingerprints represent its intrinsic characteristics.In this paper,we proposed a new fast algorithm for fingerprint identification based on Haar-wavelet,which accurately extracted the fingerprint features based on the original gray scale image.The proposed algorithm requires less computational effort than conventional algorithms which are based upon minutia features extraction.The algorithm can achieve high recognition rates when tested in the standard FVC2000 fingerprint database,and complete a whole process of identification in about one second on an embedded platform based on Arm-7(Primary Frequency: 100MHz) CPU.


Solar magnetic field is a key paramters to understand the solar activity and its influence to the interplanetary space in the solar system. The solar magnetic field measurement is always an enormous challenge to the solar community. We firstly overview the history of solar magnetic field measurement since last early century and analyze the difficulty and progress of pratical methods. Then we introduce an infrared system for the accurate measurement of solar magnetic field (AIMS) and its current progress, which is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and also the current ongoing space based projects (ASO-S/FMG) to measure the solar magnetic field in China.


Introduction:
 Although preoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in patients undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation, how AF affects clinical outcomes remains unclear.

 Objectives:
 We aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of LVAD implantation in AF patients

 Methods:
 Statistical analysis was performed using
 meta-package
 for R version 4.0 and Rstudio version 1.2. Mantel Haenszel Odds ratio (OR) random effects model (DerSimonian and Laird method) was used to summarize data. Outcomes studied were - (1) all-cause mortality; (2) systemic thromboembolism; (3) stroke (ischemic and hemorrhagic); (4) pump thrombosis; (5) gastrointestinal (GI) bleed.

 Results:
 Nine retrospective studies with a total of 6,782 patients (AF=2,170 and non-AF =4,612) were included in analysis. When compared with non-AF group, AF group patients were older (57.9±2.9 vs 52.2±5.8 years, p<0.001) and had less proportion of patients with INTERMACS profile 1, 2 (50.2% vs 54.3%, p<0.001). Preoperative AF was not associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality at 6 months (OR 1.20,95% 0.91-1.57, p=0.19), 12 months (OR 1.35, 95% CI 0.74-2.47, p=0.33) and 24 months (OR 1.23, 95% CI 0.95-1.60, p=0.12). Preoperative AF did not increase the risk of thromboembolism (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.75-1.43, p=0.81), stroke (OR 0.89, 95% CI 0.74-1.08, p=0.24), and pump thrombosis (OR 1.28, 95% CI 0.97-1.70, p=0.08) after LVAD implantation. However, AF was associated with increased risk of GI bleeding (OR 1.28, 95% CI 1.12-1.47, p<0.001) [median follow up 11.5 months (9.6, 24)].

 Conclusion:
 Our study demonstrates a significantly increased risk of GI bleeding in LVADs recipients with concomitant AF, with no significant effect on all-cause mortality, stroke, or thromboembolic events (likely driven less sick patient population in AF group).


Ketorolac shows reduced photohemolytic activity and low phototoxicity against human skin fibroblasts when compared to ketoprofen. The low decarboxylation quantum yield together with the efficient non-radiative deactivation of the triplet and singlet excited states of ketorolac are believed to be responsible for this behaviour.


The reactions of N-chlorocarbamoylethyl starch with simple monoamines were investigated in order to elucidate the mechanism of the reaction of an isocyanate group with amines in an aqueous alkaline medium. It was confirmed that the N-chloroamide group reacts with amines through the formation of an isocyanate group. The reactions of the isocyanate with amines in the presence of sodium hydroxide obeyed the following equation: (rate of isocyanate–amine reaction)/(rate of isocyanate–OH− reaction)=ku[amine]/ka[OH−] showing no catalytic effects of reactants or products. The reactivities of most of the primary amino groups attached to primary carbon with the isocyanate are comparable to that of the hydroxide ion. The relative rates of the reactions of amines with the isocyanate are not always correlated to their basicities, even when differences in steric hindrance are not great. Both the enthalpy and entropy of activation for the isocyanate–amine reactions are smaller than those for the isocyanate–OH− reaction.


ABSTRACT This study aimed to explore the factors that lead to the intention to stay and the intention to switch in the banking industry. The research adopted a qualitative, inductive approach to data collection using a sample of 19 Australians customers who use banking services, and two Australian bank managers. The factors that are important to the customers' decision to change banks or to diversify their accounts include: (a) customer service and customer intimacy; (b) response to service failure; (c) effect of advertising; (d) reputation; (e) ease of banking; and (f) customer value.


A Mobile Telemetry feature was a data gathering tool used by Bell Laboratories during the Service Test phase of the Chicago Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) Developmental Cellular System. This feature was the result of a need to gather basic data on performance of the mobile telephone equipment and, in particular, on certain interactions of the user with the system. For this purpose, the mobile monitors many of its own actions and telemeters information to the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO). When a telemetry equipped mobile is enabled, it can make autonomous requests for the system's retrieval of telemetry information at periodic intervals determined by the system. Upon receiving the request, the MTSO commands the mobile unit to transmit the telemetry information. The actual telemetry data, along with any of the events associated with the request and retrieval process, is recorded by the Data Retrieval System (DRS). The DRS is a mini-computer based system connected to the MTSO for collecting and recording events occurring within the cellular system's No. 1 ESS switch. This paper addresses the specifics of the telemetry function, as implemented in the mobile unit and in the system, as well as the types of data that can be obtained or derived from this operating feature.


A wave soldering system has been used for more than 50 years in the process of circuit board assembly, but the needs for maintenance-free operations, high solderability, and downsizing of the solder capacity have still not been met. To meet these requirements, the authors made practical use of a wave soldering system in which a direct thrust is applied to the molten solder by means of a linear electromagnetic pump, thus realizing maintenance-free system, a 1/10 to 1/20 reduction of the defect rate, and a 57% reduction of the solder capacity.


Objective To investigate the effects of bronchoplasty on mucociliary clearance (MCC) in the early period after operation.Methods Sixteen adult mongrel dogs were divided into two groups.Dogs in the group A underwent left upper sleeve lobectomy and bronchoplasty,while those in the group B received standard left upper lobectomy.The mucociliary clearance was determined by observing the movement of carbon particles through a bronchoscope before and 3,7,10 days after operation.The bronchial mucosa blood flow was measured by laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) before and 3,7,10 days after operation.All dogs were sacrificed on the 10th postoperative day and bronchial samples including the anastomoses were taken out for microscopic (light and electron) analysis.Results MCC of the operated respiratory tract in group A was decreased markedly in the early period after operation (P0.01).The bronchial mucosa blood flow distal to anastomosis on 3,7 and 10 day after operation was decreased to nearly 60%,67% and 76% of the preoperative level.Light and scanning electron microscopic studies showed marked focal denudation of ciliary epithelium and scatteredly arranged cilia distal to anastomosis.Conclusion Bronchoplastic procedures cause significant depression of MCC in the operated respiratory tracts in the early postoperative period.MCC impairment was mainly attributed to structural and functional disorders of the components of mucociliary apparatus resulting from bronchial dissection and bronchial devascularization related to bronchoplasty.


Introduction The monometallic Ni/support catalysts are usually used in processes of partial oxidation of CH4 (POM), but unfortunately they are susceptible on carbon deactivation during long term reaction. The gold doped nickel supported catalysts are highly active, selective and resistant for carbon deactivation during CH4 reforming processes. Up to now the characterization of nickelgold catalysts is not clearly describe as well as gold influence on catalytic performance of Ni catalysts. The aim of this work is the catalyst characterization and finding the correlation between physicochemical properties and catalytic performance of 5%Ni and 5%Ni2%Au/support (CrAl3O6, Al2O3).