ABSTRACT When Old Dominion University Libraries conducted the LibQUAL+ survey in 2015, results indicated a lack of satisfaction in effectively discovering and using our electronic resources. This article is based on a presentation from the 2017 North Carolina Serials Conference describing how Old Dominion University Libraries used data from the LibQUAL+ survey results to help our users connect more effectively with information resources, resulting in an improved user experience and an increased level of satisfaction.


The Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD high-definition movie broadcast initiative has received lavish attention from the mainstream press and rave reviews from audiences. Academic circles, however, have yet to undertake more critical analysis of the content and structure of these complex musical-cinematic events. This essay proposes some preliminary terms for such discussions and a provisional analysis of this unique adaptation of opera for the screen. I will show how the broadcasts have moved beyond previous cinematic incarnations of opera to enact an adaptation of the operagoing experience itself. Even as they function effectively to bring opera to audiences across the world, the broadcasts are simultaneously put to use by the Met to offer a reality television–style organizational documentary that both capitalizes on and raises its own institutional stature. I draw upon observations from my own attendance at several screenings and from accounts of the initiative reported through the mainstream media, with particular attention to statements attributed to Met President (and broadcast executive producer) Peter Gelb. In the end, The Met: Live in HD represents much more than an innovation in cinematic opera, but a compelling new means through which prominent arts organizations such as the Met are learning to leverage new media to advance their institution-building agendas.


Magnesium silicide (Mg2Si) is one of the few thermoelectric materials that is composed of high Clark number elements and exhibits an optimum temperature near 700 K. The advantage of Mg2Si is that i...


Sustainable Development Goals (ODS) were adopted at the Summit of Heads of State and Governmentat United Nations in 2015 year. The 17 goals, faces great challenges for been adapt to the context of each countries, in order to translate it into concrete actions for universal applications.
His approval meant a commitment for member countries. Its implementation provides tracking mechanisms, control and "accountability" to regional organizations.
The international process, since its primary conception, empowered countries to adopt their own indicators. In the case of environmental indicators, national proposals must act in accordance with the implementation of its environmental policies, the National Environmental Strategy and its Annual Action Plan, and the Guidelines for Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution.
The work, suggests an organizational framework for environmental indicators and a valid tool for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in a particular sector of the economy.
On the basis of national priorities, an analysis was performed by approved objectives, in order to facilitate the conduct of this process in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment or other Central State Administrations.
I was recommended to validate that, through scientific research and environmental management you can reach a first national approach about this process.


Air Cushion Vehicle, often called hovercraft, is one of the advanced transport vehicles in today's maritime arena. Besides being modern, it deviates from other conventional vehicles as it needs no surface contact for traction. ACV can achieve higher speeds and use much less fuel as compare to other conventional ships of same weight. With a characteristic of hovering above multiple surfaces (water, land, mud, etc.), can be used for various purposes, for instance transportation purpose, rescue operations and military surveillance near coastal areas. This paper comprises detailed design of Air Cushion Vehicle which includes preliminary sizing, overall weight approximation, total resistance calculation, propulsion power estimation and lift power estimation of an ACV based on requirements. Pertaining to design of hovercraft, following aspects such as size and weight of hovercraft, required lift and propulsion power, speed and hull structure strength to sustain such weight were considered. Total resistance was calculated at different speeds to investigate the hump drag, where ACV experiences maximum drag. Subsequent to the determination of principal dimensions and all possible drag forms due to resistance of Air Cushion Vehicle, CAD model was developed based on preliminary sizing. Henceforth, assessment for velocity and pressure distribution, drag and lift force were carried out through conventional CFD Analysis Software. The purpose of the CFD analysis was to optimize the ACV drag force through proper study of velocity, flow and pressure distribution. Results obtained from flow simulation were compared with the results obtained from theoretical calculations.


Deep-sea bathymodioline mussels gain their nutrition from intracellular bacterial symbionts. Their sulfur-oxidizing (SOX) symbionts were recently shown to encode abundant toxin-related genes (TRGs) in their genomes, which may play a role in beneficial host-microbe interactions. Here, we compared TRGs in the genomes of SOX symbionts from 10 bathymodioline mussel and two sponge species to better understand their potential functions and evolutionary origins. Despite the close phylogenetic relatedness of these symbionts, the number and classes of encoded toxins varied greatly between host species. One of the TRG classes, YDs, has experienced gene expansions multiple times, suggesting that these genes are under adaptive selection. Some symbiont genomes contained secretion systems, which can play a role in host-microbe interactions. Both TRGs and secretion systems had a heterogeneous distribution, suggesting that these closely related bacteria have acquired different molecular mechanisms for interacting with the same family of animal hosts, possibly through convergent evolution.


This paper presents a new approach for the non-destructive evaluation of concrete, covering both strength prediction and damage assessment, using the electro-mechanical impedance technique. A new empirical method is proposed to determine in situ concrete strength non-destructively using admittance signatures of surface-bonded piezo-impedance transducers. This is followed by the 'identification' of appropriate impedance parameters for concrete. The identified parameters are found to be sensitive to structural damages as well as to concrete strength gain during curing. Comprehensive tests were conducted on concrete specimens up to failure to empirically calibrate the 'identified' system parameters with damage severity. An empirical fuzzy probabilistic damage model is proposed to quantitatively predict damage severity in concrete based on variation in the identified equivalent stiffness.


The difficulty in fault diagnosis and detection is the fault information extraction. In order to overcome the heavy computation drawback of traditional Fourier transform and wavelet transform, the Hilbert-huang transform and EMD was used to detect the fault information in this paper. The simulation model of three-phase short-circuit fault information detection system was established using Matlab/simulink, and the fault detection based on Hilbert-huang transform result was verified by programming. The results show that the method not only can detect the fault information accurately, but it is simple also. This method has more practical value.


Active antenna arrays working at higher frequencies result in higher packaging densities. The antenna array under consideration operates at about 30 GHz and will be installed in an aircraft. Commercially available power amplifiers at these frequencies have an efficiency of typically 20 %, which results in high amounts of dissipated heat for the required high radiated power. The dissipated power, up to 9.5 kW as a worst
case for a 50 × 50 element array, has to be transfered from the antenna to a heat exchanger or to the ambient air. Several cooling techniques including forced air and liquid cooling as well as heat pipes will be presented in this work, always considering the packaging density and the little space available. Simulations based on the software Flotherm led to the result that a liquid cooled cold plate is the most feasible approach while meeting all requirements. Experiments on a simplified model and comparison with simulations confirmed the results. Additionally, a forced air convection fin heat sink based on standard components was proposed, which can be used for an antenna demonstration model with 4 × 4 elements.


Chemistry professor Leonard V. Interrante of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been selected to be the first editor of the American Chemical Society's newest journal, Chemistry of Materials . The bimonthly journal will cover fundamental research with a molecular level perspective at the interface of chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science. The journal was approved by the ACS Board at the national meeting in Denver a year ago, and its premier issue is scheduled for January 1989. Interrante expects that chemists working in a variety of areas such as solid-state chemistry and polymer science will be the major contributors to Chemistry of Materials . The journal will give them, as well as chemical engineers and materials scientists, a forum for presenting investigations of the synthesis and properties of solid-state materials, polymeric solids and thin films, and the preparation and chemical processing of electronic and optical materials and devices. "This journal will emphasize the chemistr...


SUMMARY Two types of heuristic capacity-control policies are evaluated using a simulation model of a materials-requirements-planning production system. The control-policy decisions are based solely on the size of the queue, as measured in standard hours of work, at each work centre in the production system. Several classes of product mixes and product structures and several levels of the control parameters of each policy, are investigated. The results indicate that each control policy gives rise to a unique population of weekly labour, work in process and intermediate inventory level. Product structure is identified as a major variable in materials-requirements-planning systems performance. Sensitivity analysis of the cost functions for each policy indicates the conditions under which it will minimize the sum of labour costs, work-in-process holding costs and inventory holding costs.


Intraventricular infusion of pentosan polysulfate (PPS) as a treatment for various human prion diseases has been applied in Japan. To evaluate the influence of PPS treatment we performed pathological examination and biochemical analyses of PrP molecules in autopsied brains treated with PPS (one case of sporadic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease (sCJD, case 1), two cases of dura mater graft‐associated CJD (dCJD, cases 2 and 4), and one case of Gerstmann‐Sträussler‐Scheinker disease (GSS, case 3). Six cases of sCJD without PPS treatment were examined for comparison. Protease‐resistant PrP (PrPres) in the frontal lobe was evaluated by Western blotting after proteinase K digestion. Further, the degree of polymerization of PrP molecules was examined by the size‐exclusion gel chromatography assay. PPS infusions were started 3–10 months after disease onset, but the treatment did not achieve any clinical improvements. Postmortem examinations of the treated cases revealed symmetrical brain lesions, including neuronal loss, spongiform change and gliosis. Noteworthy was GFAP in the cortical astrocytes reduced in all treated cases despite astrogliosis. Immunohistochemistry for PrP revealed abnormal synaptic deposits in all treated cases and further plaque‐type PrP deposition in case 3 of GSS and case 4 of dCJD. Western blotting showed relatively low ratios of PrPres in case 2 of dCJD and case 3 of GSS, while in the treated sCJD (case 1), the ratio of PrPres was comparable with untreated cases. The indices of oligomeric PrP were reduced in one sCJD (case 1) and one dCJD (case 2). Although intraventricular PPS infusion might modify the accumulation of PrP oligomers in the brains of patients with prion diseases, the therapeutic effects are still uncertain.


ABSTRACT This paper focuses on current European employment policy, promoting the individual's responsibility for remaining employable. Within this supply-oriented framework, general political responsibilities of both increasing the demand for labour and facilitating the development of human capital through training and education opportunities are less emphasized than the individual's own responsibility to remain attractive for employers. In an analysis of perceived opportunities among European employees, we argue that the concept of 'employment security' can lift the individualized perspective on employability skills and attributes to a more structural and institutional perspective. To enhance individuals' chances of finding a job, educational and lifelong learning policies and active labour market measures are believed to be important factors, besides general demand in the labour market. Through multi-level modelling, we analyse the significance of individual and contextual factors on employees' perception of their chances in the labour market. The data used are from the European Social Survey (2010), including data from 21 countries. Our results indicate that employability cannot solely be regarded as an individual phenomenon relying on individual characteristics. We also need to focus on the institutional context enabling the individual to remain in employment in the existing mobile and risky labour market.


To discover the method of enrichment and purification of total terpenoid components from Alisma Orientalis with macroporous resin.Spectrophotometer was used for detecting the contents of total terpenoid components in the extracts of Alisma and various parts of elution with different kinds of macroporous resin,compared with acetylalisol B.The results showed that the resin AB-8 is the best in character of enrichment and purification of total terpenoid components from Alisma Orientalis.The optimal parameters were radius:height 1∶10,the ratio of condensing 1∶1,the speed of loading and eluting 10 ml/min,the amount ratio of raw herb and resin 4.6∶1,70% alcohol as the elution solvent,the elution volume 4BV.Conclusion: The macroporous resin AB-8 could be effectively used to enrich and purify the total terpenoid components from Alisma Orientalis.


Illuminated (150 µmol m-2 s-1 PAR) sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) leaves were exposed to 15N-labelled NH3 gas (30 or 300 µl NH3 l-1) or supplied with NH4Cl (2, 20 or 200 mM) through the cut leaf base for up to 1 h. The photosynthetic carbon dioxide uptake and the transpiration were continuously monitored. The leaves were extracted and the concentrations of ammonia, glutamine, glutamate, glycine, serine and alanine were determined as well as the patterns of 15N incorporation. Although the rates of CO2 uptake and transpiration were unchanged in intact leaves, the ammonia level increased from 3 to 42 µmol g fresh wt-1 during feedings of 300 µl NH3 l-1 for 25 min. In contrast, NH4Cl (20 and 200 mM) inhibited photosynthesis immediately and increased the evaporation rate while the total ammonia level was still less than 10 µmol g fresh wt-1. The 15N-labelling pattern suggested that the NH3 assimilation proceeded via glutamine synthetase and glutamate synthase. 15N was transferred into glycine and serine presumably by the activity of glycollate pathway enzymes. The experiments demonstrate that the photosynthetic CO2 uptake and ammonia assimilation by intact sunflower leaves were not inhibited by NH3 concentrations orders of magnitudes above typical concentrations of this compound in the atmosphere. NH3 feedings through the gas phase provide a tool for the examination of nitrogen metabolism in intact leaves.


Michael Amoah. Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana. International Library of Africa Studies 19. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. vii + 248 pp. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95. Cloth. Based on the title, I expected this book to be a study of the institutions and politics through which Ghana's successive governments since independence built the nation and helped create the sense of "Ghanaianness" so pervasive to many observers, particularly as the nation celebrates the Jubilee of its independence. However, Amoah offers neither an analysis of "top-down" nation-building nor of "bottom-up" nationalism, nor does he discuss how colonial policies intertwined with precolonial state-making and shaped the independent state. Instead, the reader is presented a decidedly anticonstructivist account of theories on nation and nationalism, including essentialist definitions of "tribe," "ethnic group" and "ethnonationalism" as "natural" (50) and "organic" (29) identities that ignore the past twenty years of scholarly discussion on ethnicity; a lengthy treatise on the supposed origins of most present-day Ghanaians in "Ancient Ghana"; a brief discussion of the "rationalization of ethnonationalism" (114ff); the results of a survey on political attitudes, home ties, and "ethnonationalism" that the author conducted among five hundred Tema urbanites in 1999; and, finally, a rather cursory analysis of the results of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. The author's verdict on the current state of the Ghanaian nation is contradictory. On the one hand, he acknowledges that "a single Ghanaian national identity has [developed] despite ethnonational heterogeneity" (187). On the other hand, he laments that in the post-Nkrumah era, the "national construct [is] dissipating" (3) because genuine leadership is lacking, economic resources are not equitably distributed, and politics, including voting behavior, are dominated by the "politics-of-the-belly" syndrome - a concept borrowed from Bayart's work on Cameroon and assumed to be relevant to Ghana even in the absence of actual empirical analysis. However, to "bring back lost national feeling" (3), so Amoah believes, requires "passion"; economic development and good governance alone will not suffice. The necessary "psychological ammunition" derives from the "common past glory" (3) that Ghanaians supposedly share - a notion that takes up primordialist theories of the premodern roots of nationalism and the ethnic origins of nations. …


AbstractHis [Marshall's] analysis of the Laws of Return brought order and meaning to the theories of Smith, Ricardo and Marx. But his reconciliation of decreasing cost and competitive equilibrium via the notions of external economies, monopolistic competition, and the representative firm,...., raised false problems that took the best efforts of a generation of economists to solve. (Blaug, 1962, p.399).


It has been known that shallow-water regions, such as tidal flats, sea grass and sea weed beds have water purification capability, and they also serve as nursery grounds for many fishes. On the other hand, tidal flat areas are economically attractive sites for reclamation, to be used for developing industries. When developing shallow-water areas, we have to propose a plan to mitigate the environmental impact associated with such a development plan. However, it is difficult to estimate the affects on the ecosystem and water purification, and the literature related to this matter is insufficient. In order to evaluate the ability of coastal tidal flat and to predict the future changes, it is necessary to develop a reliable prediction technique and construction of data by using a field investigation. In this study, we carried out a numerical model test for the tidal flat ecosystem, using the pelagic system and the benthic system, simultaneously, in order to show a change in the tidal flat ecosystem. The flow of nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon has been identified as a primary consideration of marine ecosystem components, and the capability of water purification and the change of the tidal flat were predicted using this flow. In order to make a more reliable prediction, a field investigation to determine tide, current and creatures of the object coastal area has been done. The purification capability of this shallow-water region is estimated from the model results. According to the results of experiments, the tidal flat has a capability of water purification (Sink) of 11㎎N/m2/day, but the other area has a load (Source) of 20㎎N/m2/day. As a result, we could confirm that the tidal flat of an object coastal area plays an important role in water purification.


Families, especially parents , give an example to their children and also give good treatment to the children in learning in order to obtain a good learning result and can achieve the desired goals, and can be useful for their families in the days to come. However, of the phenomena that occur in the field can be seen many deviations behavior of children and adolescents . One reason is the lack of parenting good parenting on children , such as failure to adequately monitor children , disciplining children are less effective, and the lack of parental affection to their children and lack of responsibility to provide for the actions of their children. This study classified quantitative descriptive correlational study. This sample is 2 Padang SMP students numbering 125 people. This research instruments such as questionnaires about parenting parents and student learning outcomes in the form of grades 1 semester of school year 2013/2014. Data were analyzed using statistical techniques Product Moment Correlation through assistance programs Microsoft Office Excel and SPSS version 16.0


Over the last few years, we have seen an increase in the number of Anonymous Social Networks (ASNs). What many internet users may not know is that their writing style can be tracked across the internet and even through an ASN. The good news is that by using a technique referred to as Adversarial Stylometry one can effectively imitate the writing style of another or even obfuscate their own writing style in an effort to conceal their true writing style - for the short term. The bad news is that recent research has shown that Adversarial Stylometry is not effective in concealing ones writing style over the long term. In this paper, we introduce a number of underlying concepts that will allow users to conceal their writing style over the long term. One such concept we refer to as Adversarial Authorship. In Adversarial Authorship, authors are provided an AuthorWeb which allows them to see graphically how their writing style compares with others in the AuthorWeb. The AuthorWeb presented in this paper uses Entropy-Based Evolutionary Clustering (EBEC) in an effort to cluster writing styles. Our results show that EBEC outperforms a number of other machine learning techniques for author recognition. Users of an AuthorWeb can then write to user-specified clusters in an effort to conceal their writing style.


In the public sector (particularly in the UK in light of recent reforms i.e. the Local Government Act 2000, etc.) a greater degree of accountability and public involvement or intervention has become the norm in public infrastructure projects, partially under the rubric of "stakeholder engagement". This paper seeks to discuss public involvement in a law-enforcement technology (Isis), which operates on a covert basis in the detection and prevention of child abuse activities across a number of social networking facilities. Our contribution to the development of Isis is to perform an ethics centered consultation process with stakeholders who will contribute to the design and deployment of the end software package. To that end, we have sought to develop a "Modified Participatory Design" approach, utilizing the knowledge gained from the HCI community with regards to more traditional design projects and adapting this body of work to questions of ethics, privacy, corporate and civic responsibility, monitoring and awareness issues, etc. in an effort to create a fluid and agile communication process between stakeholders and designers, thus taking account of the ethical issues around Isis as design occurs.


ABSTRACT Administration of growth promotants with estrogenic activity via hastening closure of the growth plate could have an economic impact on lambs because closure results in ovine carcasses being classified as yearlings. Twelve wether lambs approximately 12 mo old were given silastic implants filled with estradiol-17P and allotted randomly to be slaughtered 30, 60,W or 220 d after implantation to determine time of growth plate closure in relation to date of implanting. Seven comparable wethers not implanted served as controls. Four wethers implanted at 2 mo of age and slaughtered 220 d later also were included. Implanted wethers had serum concentrations of estradiol averaging 13.9 pg/ml over the 2204 implant period; controls averaged 2.7 pg/d Estradiol implants increased carcass maturity scores but fat deposition was not altered. Growth plate widths decreased (P < .05) as wethers grew older and implants were in place for longer periods of time. Metacarpal growth plates in 12-mo-old lambs were completely ossified 220 d after implanting, but control wethers and wethers implanted at 2 mo maintained growth plate widths. Neither metacarpal nor metatarsal bone lengths differed


Tom1 is a 374 kDa E3 ubiquitin ligase found in yeast, and is highly conserved from yeast to humans. Several forms of cancer and intellectual disabilities have been associated with disruption of the human homolog HUWE1, and this enzyme has become a potential therapeutic target in the treatment of cancer. Although it has been found to play a role in several discrete cellular processes, the major enzymatic preference of the protein appears to be directed at RNA-binding proteins which are removed from their RNA binding partners. The large n-terminal alpha-solenoid upstream of the catalytic HECT domain gives Tom1/HUWE1 it's substrate-specific catalytic activity, but it remains unclear how substrates are selected and how catalytic activity is regulated. Additionally, the development of inhibitors to be used in cancer treatments has been limited without an understanding of the structure of the regulatory region of Tom1/HUWE1 which lies N-terminal to the HECT domain. Although both the yeast and human homologs were too large to be included in the first AlphaFold Protein Structure Database release, an AlphaFold2 prediction of the zebrafish HUWE1 has been deposited. This prediction includes many large unstructured loops with low-confidence scores, and even the well-characterized c-terminal HECT domain is incorrectly predicted, instead appearing as a series of low-confidence unstructured loops. However, the general form of the HUWE1 body is predicted with much higher confidence and indicates a structure in which a succession of ARM-like repeats connects the N-terminal and C-terminal regions in an alpha-solenoid fashion. Using single-particle cryo-EM, we reconstructed a map of apo-Tom1/HUWE1 in its most well-ordered closed-conformation form to 3.0 Å overall, allowing the confident modeling of most of the well-ordered alpha-solenoid portion of the molecule. However, many domains protruding between the ARM-like repeats of the solenoid are more flexibly tethered, increasing the difficulty of modeling residues in-register with high confidence. AlphaFold2 was used to predict small regions


This research paper is aimed at developing a mathematical model to determine species and number of plants to be grown in a plot of land to establish forest in the CDM (clean development mechanism) project. Previously, tree planting aiming to reduce carbon in the atmosphere was unsystematically designed and it is usually based on self preference or available seeds on-hands. As a result, a total carbon absorption by the plants is not according to the requirement. Thus, a 0-1 integer programming is developed to solve the mentioned problem. The developed mathematical model therefore provides the optimal solution that ensures required amount of carbon sequestration from the trees and also obtains maximum profit determining between carbon credit revenue and expenses from tree planting. The developed model is flexible enough to allow users to specify amount of required carbon sequestration or even a number of certain plants needed to grow. In addition, the model is also taken into account efficient planting pattern with mixture stand to avoid competition among planting trees. The numerical results show the practical solutions which are verified by experts. In brief, the developed mathematical model is useful for forest establishment project as it provides both systematic design and optimal solution in terms of expected carbon absorption.


The hydrolysis of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine ethyl ester catalyzed by a polycationic derivative of chymotrypsin, polyornithylchymotrypsin (POCH), was studied in the presence of varying concentrations of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine, the product of the enzymic reaction. The values of kcat (lim) and Km (app) for polyornithylchymotrypsin increased hyperbolically with increasing concentrations of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine. Increase in the values of kcat (lim) and Km (app) of polyornithylchymotrypsin was also observed in the presence of other organic anions, e.g. acetate, propionate, benzoate and l-anilino-8-naphthalene sulfonate. The hyperbolic dependence of kcat (lim) and Km (app) of polyornithylchymotrypsin on the concentration of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine suggested that the data could be treated as a saturation phenomenon. The activation of polyornithylchymotrypsin could be attributed to the cancellation of charge resulting from the binding of organic anions to the positively charged side chains of the enzyme derivative.


Before I address the question of the apostrophe to the reader in Paradiso 2, it may prove helpful to give some orientation to my approach by briefly discussing the relationship between Paradiso 19's and 20's responses to the problem of reconciling divine justice with the orthodox Catholic creed "extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" [no salvation outside the Church].1 In Paradiso 19, the Eagle of Divine Justice asks the pilgrim's question for him:


Chemotherapy is the main treatment for immune diseases and cancer, but chemotherapy drugs may cause ovarian dysfunction in female. Amenorrhea, infertility, vasomotor symptoms, sexual dysfunction, osteoporosis and other problems caused by ovarian dysfunction bring great suffering to the patients. These also impact on patients ′ psychosocial and sexual psychology. It is very important to find relevant prevention measures to reduce ovarian damage and meantime retaining reproductive and endocrine function in patients. This article summarize the relevant literature, the protection of ovarian function and fertility methods, for example, Gn RH analogues, embryo cryopreservation and oocyte cryopreservation, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, apoptosis inhibition, free radical scavenger, therapy of traditional Chinese medicine are described.


Abstract : The purpose of this study was to determine what models or techniques exist that can assist DLA Supply Centers in identifying and maintaining optimum supervisory/employee ratios within their first-line organizational elements. Basic objectives of the study were 1) to identify all existing simulation models or other techniques, 2) assess their adaptability or suitability to governmental organizations, 3) compare existing DLA first line supervisory/employee ratios with those obtained from applying suitable models or techniques, and 4) survey first line DLA supervisors to obtain their reaction to the products of the models or techniques. Results of the research revealed four existing models (Lockheed, waiting line, Keren/Levhari, and Dewar/Simet) for determining optimum supervisory/employee ratios. All were judged suitable for application to DLA organizations, but because of complexity, the Keren/Levhari and Dewar/Simet models were eliminated form further consideration in this study. Application of the Lockheed and waiting line models to DLA first-line organizations produced optimum ratios that were very close to those actually existing in the organizations.


ABSTRACT Survey elicitation of consumer preferences for product attributes where survey-taker inattention bias exists can lead to irrational product choices. Survey-taker inattention measures, such as screen reading time, can be confounded by repeat product purchasers taking the survey. This study estimates consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for farmstead milk attributes, including pasteurization type (VAT, HTST, Ultra), packaging (plastic, paper, glass), and homogenization/milkfat content (low-fat, whole, full-fat homogenized, and full-fat cream-line) while controlling for respondent inattention. These attributes entail key equipment purchase decisions to enter the milk processing business. The survey design accounts for effects of survey-taker inattention and prior product purchases. Attribute premiums and discounts were estimated using a random parameter logit model estimated in WTP-space. The Attentive/Repeat-purchase group of 817 respondents prefers VAT or HTST pasteurized, low-fat farmstead milk, packaged in plastic or glass containers. Inattention effects were confounded with product familiarity, with inattention effect being strongest among new customers.


A self-advancing high-pressure cavitating jet washing device mainly solves the problems that the existing hydraulic power cavitating jet washing device does not have the function of reverse discharging in vertical pipelines, only can clean pipelines without diameter variation and has low washing efficiency, and is characterized in that a skid-mounted body (1) is fixed with a high-pressure pump (2), a self-control cabinet and a distance displayer (5), wherein the high-pressure pump (2) is communicated with a high-pressure rotating joint (6) through a connecting pipe (3); a driving motor (4) is connected with a high-pressure hose deploying and retracting coiling drum (7) by a belt; the high-pressure hose deploying and retracting coiling drum (7) is wound with a high-pressure hose (8) and communicated with the high-pressure rotating joint (6); the high-pressure hose (8) is communicated with a high-pressure cavitating jet spray-head (11) in an oil pipe column (9) by a well-head high pressure hose steering device (10); and the side wall of the oil pipe column (9) is communicated with a sewage pump (12). The device is characterized by reverse discharging function, wide cleaning range and high cleaning efficiency.


Forensic mental health professionals may be asked by attorneys or judges to evaluate defendants' capacities to have waived Miranda rights and offered admissible confessions during police interrogations. This chapter reviews two major psycholegal issues related to confessions during custodial interrogations. First, this chapter focuses on the right to avoid self-incrimination, with emphases on case law and empirical research on suspects' abilities to provide knowing, intelligent, and voluntary rights waivers. Forensic assessment methodology for evaluating defendants' Miranda waiver capacities is provided. Second, this chapter reviews issues related to psycholegal questions about false confessions. It provides information about the appropriate scope and admissibility of such testimony, and empirical research findings on false confessions are described. Assessment methodology is presented for evaluating characteristics that might have contributed to a defendant's likelihood of having offered a false confession. A case example is provided to illustrate the forensic mental health evaluation process in the context of a possible suppression hearing.

Keywords:

Miranda;
interrogations;
confessions;
forensic evaluations;
Constitutional rights


The evolution of the information systems (IS) profession as well as the IS educational environment has resulted in student project teams becoming an increasingly important component of IS education. Negative behaviors within these project teams result in less than optimal project outcomes and confound attempts to fairly evaluate individual efforts within the team. These negative behaviors can also result in unfavorable perceptions of the educational experience for many students. An information technology-based application consisting of an online interactive activity log and an online peer review system was developed to mitigate the common negative behaviors of social loafing and free riding and provide more accurate and useful information for evaluation. Its successful implementation in a specific classroom environment is discussed and evidence of its efficacy is supplied in the form of subjective assessment by the instructors and the results of a survey measuring student perceptions of


I. The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art II. The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art III. Deep Interpretation IV. Language, Art, Culture, Text V. The End of Art VI. Art and Disturbation VII. Philosophy as/and/of Literature VIII. Philosophizing Literature IX. Art, Evolution, and the Consciousness of History


The Arab diaspora in Brazil refers to the movement of people from countries with Arab populations to Brazil, a process that began in the last decades of the 19th century and reached its height during the years leading up to WWI and the subsequent dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. This diaspora was part of a larger movement of people from the Greater Syria area to the Americas, with the United States, Argentina, and Brazil serving as the first, second, and third most popular destinations for these populations. Due to scant record-keeping and a lack of uniformity in travel documents and demographic classifications, it is difficult to find reliable estimates of the number of Arab people who made their way to Brazil. Today, many Brazilians trace their roots to Arab countries. In addition to árabes (Arabs), other common terms for this population that researchers and students should be aware of include sírios (Syrians), sírio-libaneses (Syro-Lebanese), and turcos (Turks), the latter being an older term that was often used pejoratively and has thus fallen out of favor in more current sources. In Arabic, the South American countries to which Arabs migrated are often collectively referred to in the scholarship as al-mahjar al-janūbī (the Southern Mahjar, with "mahjar" meaning place of emigration). Scholarship on this topic has traditionally been divided along linguistic lines, with researchers relying on either Portuguese-language or Arabic-language primary sources. In fact, early primary sources exist in both languages, and more recent scholarship has attempted to bridge this divide by offering translingual and transnational perspectives on the Arab diaspora in Brazil.


Photograph of Oliver Maxwell Gardner, 1929. Image from the North Carolina Museum of History. [4]Oliver Maxwell (O. Max) Gardner, attorney and governor, was born in Shelby. His father, Dr. Oliver Perry Gardner, had two children by his first wife and ten by his second, Margaret Young. Max was the youngest of the twelve children. The father, a farmer, served as a Whig [5]and Anti-Secessionist in the state legislature, fought in the Civil War [6], and then, having lost his property as a result of the war, made his livelihood in the hard life of a country medical doctor. Max's mother died in 1892 and his father seven years later, and he was brought up by his older sisters.


This article briefly highlights the problems of student immigrants and the potential value of transition support groups as a mechanism for addressing these problems.


Next-generation wireless services are characterized by a diverse set of requirements, to sustain which, the wireless access points need to probe the users in the network periodically. In this regard, we study a novel multi-armed bandit (MAB) setting that mandates probing all the arms periodically while keeping track of the best current arm in a non-stationary environment. In particular, we develop \texttt{TS-GE} that balances the regret guarantees of classical Thompson sampling (TS) with the broadcast probing (BP) of all the arms simultaneously in order to actively detect a change in the reward distributions. The main innovation in the algorithm is in identifying the changed arm by an optional subroutine called group exploration (GE) that scales as $\log_2(K)$ for a $K-$armed bandit setting. We characterize the probability of missed detection and the probability of false-alarm in terms of the environment parameters. We highlight the conditions in which the regret guarantee of \texttt{TS-GE} outperforms that of the state-of-the-art algorithms, in particular, \texttt{ADSWITCH} and \texttt{M-UCB}. We demonstrate the efficacy of \texttt{TS-GE} by employing it in two wireless system application - task offloading in mobile-edge computing (MEC) and an industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) network designed for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT).


To effectively master the current situation of major change of undergraduate students majoring in textiles in institutions of higher learning,this paper takes the College of Materials and Textiles,Zhejiang Sci-Tech University for example and thinks about the current situation of students changing majors and finds some similarities and inevitable factors based on the analysis on data of students changing majors in recent three years in combination with document literature so as to enhance the pertinence of professional ideological education;and makes suggestions on teaching or work reform in related departments or fields.The analytical result finds that most students applying for major change are freshmen and majors into which they apply for transferring are mainly machinery and economic management.The interest in major is the primary cause.Therefore,how to improve students' confidence in major has become the key of management.


AbstractThe puzzle of why Northeast Asian countries do not have any environmental cooperation comparable to Europe's successful regulatory regime even though both regions have borne similar conditions of the atmospheric problem has been explored. In order to answer this question, the author shed light on some of the conditions in Northeast Asia that would be necessary for regional cooperation to take place, by examining the factors that shape the environmental foreign policy of sovereign states. The success of Europe's regional cooperation in dealing with acid rain has been investigated, through the lens of interest-based and epistemic community approaches. The interest-based approach provides two factors - ecological vulnerability and economic cost - to show why some countries have taken more active positions than others. In addition, the author argues that one more factor is necessary, the existence of an epistemic community, out of the knowledge-based community perspective, because even self-interested states have difficulties in defining their interests due to high uncertainty and complexity about developing goals and preferences. After applying the two perspectives to the cooperation of Northeast Asian countries, it is found that lack of domestic and regional consensus on ecological vulnerability to transboundary acid deposition and the high economic costs of reducing emission have contributed to slow development of the cooperation of Northeast Asia. In addition, the lack of solid expert communities in Japan, as a leading country, could hinder Northeast Asian countries from speeding up the transition toward regulatory regime formation from the current information sharing cooperation.


Summary Effects of agitation, temperature change, blood serum and heparin on lipolysis and on distribution of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in cold-stored cows' milk were measured. All individual milks (n = 135) were susceptible to activation treatments. With 'gentle' treatments, induced lipolysis was strongly correlated to spontaneous lipolysis (r ≥ 0·74). In contrast, induced lipolysis in response to 'vigorous' treatments was more variable (0·7 > r > 0·34) and levelled off in milks with high spontaneous lipolysis. Induced lipolysis always resulted from an increase in LPL associated with cream. Strong correlations (0·79 ≤ r ≤ 0middot;94) were found between free fatty acid levels and cream LPL. All treatments (except heparin addition) also promoted lipolysis/unit cream LPL.


We demonstrate the synthesis of high-surface-area, low-density refractory aerogels. The monolithic hafnium boride (HfB2) and zirconium boride (ZrB2) aerogels are prepared via borothermal reduction of precursor hafnia and zirconia aerogels, respectively, consisting of a fine mixture of boron nanoparticles and the metal oxide. This precursor boron–metal oxide (B–MO2) composite aerogel was synthesized by modifying the pure ethanol solvent typically used in the epoxide-initiated sol–gel synthesis of metal oxide aerogels with an ethanolic boron nanoparticle suspension. After reduction, precursor aerogels are converted to metal boride aerogels containing primary particles in the sub-100 nm regime. The relative densities of the HfB2 and ZrB2 aerogels are 3 and 7%, respectively, and could be tailored by simply changing the density of the precursor aerogels via modifying the reagent concentrations or the drying conditions. Thermal conductivities of the ZrB2 monoliths ranged from 0.18 to 0.33 W/(m K). The surface a...


Active Vibration Control (AVC) has recently emerged as a superior technique in vibration suppression of flexible structures. Due to the complexity of the dynamics system of flexible structures, the development of its vibration control algorithm is a very challenging aspect. This paper describes the development and experimental evaluation of an Active Force Control (AFC) and high gain active vibration controller (AVC-P) strategies for vibration control of the flexible structure. The performance of both algorithms in vibration suppression of flexible structure is evaluated experimentally utilizing smart materials as the sensor and actuator of the system. The dynamic model of the flexible structure system considering the collocated placement of the piezoelectric sensor and actuator is derived within the LabVIEW environment in both time and frequency domains. The first five modes of vibration were obtained and the attenuation achieved at these modes of vibration using both AFC and AVC-P methodologies were tabulated. The experimental results indicated comparable result of AFC algorithm in comparison to AVC-P in the vibration suppression of the flexible structure.


Camera modelling, especially parameter calibration, is a crucial problem for further progress in robot vision applications. Simply stated, the problem of calibration is how to evaluate the position...


The study was conducted in the cooperative of credits and services (CCS) Reytel Jorge of the Jesus Menendez municipality Las Tunas province, Cuba, in order to evaluate, on a Brown soil without carbonates, the productive performance of three sorghum cultivars: CIAP 132-R, CIAP 29 and CIAP 2E-95. A randomized block design was used, with four replicas per treatment in 9-m2 plots and a distance of 1 m between replicas. The sorghum seeds, with 98 % germination, were from the Central University of Las Villas. Seeding was done at a depth of 4 cm and the distance between furrows was 40 cm. Regarding plant height at 45 and 60 days all the cultivars differed among themselves, and the highest value corresponded to cv. CIAP 29 and the lowest to CIAP 132- R. Cv. CIAP 2E-95 showed the highest dry mass, while CIAP 29 had a moderate one. Likewise, the highest grain yield was obtained with cv. CIAT 2E-95 (14,4 t ha-1), while CIAP 132 -R and CIAP 29 had lower yields, without differences between them. It is concluded that the three cultivars can be used for animal feeding.


Unsealed roads are the backbone for many countries' growth and development. Given low traffic volumes, economic considerations cannot justify higher class paved roads, as a result, are prone to distress. Research studies have shown that the targeted application of additives and specific techniques to unsealed pavements can improve its engineering and geotechnical properties. This paper covers a comprehensive up to date literature review of various techniques for improving unsealed road durability. The literature is categorised based on non-chemical and chemical additive techniques. These techniques are reviewed and discussed to provide a critical overview of the stabilisation mechanisms, properties, performance, durability, and suitability in unsealed roads. This review highlights the shift towards sustainable stabilisation without considerable impact to current unsealed pavement practices, but at the effect of a sound understanding of stabilisation approaches and longterm performance data. The review captures the current state-of-knowledge in the field of unsealed road pavements.


This paper argues that a strong thesis of divine providence, whereby God is understood as in complete control of all things, entails pantheism, the thesis that the universe is not ontologically distinct from God. In normal discourse, we distinguish a plan from, on the one hand, the state of affairs which realizes that plan — its execution or expression — and, on the other hand, the person or group whose plan it is. However, with respect to an omnipotent God who displays complete providence, neither of these two distinctions holds. We cannot separate person from plan, or plan from world, and in consequence, neither can we separate person from world, ergo pantheism. Accordingly, the argument of this paper comes in two parts maintaining, first, the impossibility of distinguishing between God ' s plan and its execution and, second, the impossibility of distinguishing God himself from his plan.


Cavitation was calculated in the heat exchanger test-bed.The generation of cavitation was simulated when fluid flows through throttle pipe.Variety results of water content and pressure were obtained under different outlet pressure.The position where cavitation would occur and disappear is predicted and some throttle equipment will be benefit from the results.


Confocal scanning laser microscopy has been used to make three‐dimensional observations of the spatial distribution of cytoskeleton intermediate filaments in rat liver hepatocytes, at various stages during foetal development and in the adult. Single and double immuno‐labelling with fluorescein and Texas Red fluorescence have been used to study the intracellular spatial distribution of C18 cytokeratin and vimentin. Simultaneous confocal imaging with double‐fluorescence emission requires an image processing step for the correction of 'contamination' effects due to the overlap between fluorescein and Texas Red emission spectra.


While FPGAs are well-established in the field of CNN inference, there is a lack of research regarding CNN training. To mitigate this, we develop an easy-to-use framework for CNN training on network-attached FPGA clusters. Tightly pipelined layer parallelism promises to facilitate a high utilization across a whole cluster. This comes with challenges, which we discuss in this paper.


The Hainan Island is quite rich in geothermal resources and has discovered 32 hot mineral springs(hot spring),whose distribution is mainly controlled by the crevasse structure.In the Tertiary basin of the southern island and in the whole of northern island,there exist low temperature hole layered geothermal resources.The degree of the exploration and exploitation of geothermal resources has been relatively low.Based on a good planning,exploitation and protection should be realized simultaneously in the future exploration and exploitation of geothermal resources,achieving the unification of the resources,the environment,the economic efficiency and strengthening the development the dynamic management of geothermal resources.


The invention relates to a liquid heat energy circulating system. The system comprises a liquid heat energy generation device and a heat exchange system, wherein the liquid heat energy generation device consists of a motor (11), a cavitation generator (12) and a frame (2); the cavitation generator (12) consists of a turbine mechanism and a shell (27); the turbine mechanism comprises a turbine (26) and a turbine shaft (24) and is arranged in the shell (27); the motor (11) is connected with the turbine shaft (24); and the cavitation generator (12) is provided with a water outlet valve (5), a water outlet pipe (14), a water return pipe (13) and a water return valve (9) and forms a hot water circulating loop together with external pipelines and the heat exchange system. The liquid heat energy circulating system has the advantages of safety, environmental protection, complete separation of water and electricity, zero emission, no pollution, high efficiency, energy conservation, large heating load, low operating cost, no requirement on heating water quality, simple structure, small equipment volume, small occupied area, simple and convenient installation and reliable use.


CIRCE is a near-infrared (1-2.5 micron) imager, polarimeter and low-resolution spectrograph intended as a visitor instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias 10.-4m telescope. It was built largely by graduate students and postdocs, with help from the UF astronomy engineering group, and is funded by the University of Florida and the U.S. National Science Foundation. CIRCE is intended to help fill the gap in time between GTC first light and the arrival of EMIR, and will also provide the following scientific capabilities to compliment EMIR after its arrival: high- resolution imaging, narrowband imaging, high-time-resolution photometry, imaging- and spectro- polarimetry, low-resolution spectroscopy. In this poster, we review the lab testing results for CIRCE from 2013 and describe the instrument status (currently in shipment to GTC).


Negative stigma attached to people living with HIV & AIDS make the sufferers or the potentially infected people are reluctant to check their health. People with HIV must be given information about how to lead a healthy life. HCT (health counseling & test) is the only way to detect whether a person is infected with this virus or not. So, the presence of HIV & AIDS counselors is needed to persuade someone in a risk group of potentially infected people to follow HCT. It may lead to a good health communication planning for HCT that can run optimally. The research method used in this research is a qualitative approach, to investigate in depth about health communication planning counseling HIV & AIDS in reaching the community at risk of contracting the virus. The paradigm used in this research is constructivism. The subject of research in this study is the counselor of HIV & AIDS KPA Padang city which became the object of research from this research is health communication counseling counsel HIV & AIDS. Communication activities between counselors and clients are conducting using interpersonal communication approach, to generate feelings of empathy, intimacy, and openness. Counselors are expected to have good interpersonal communication skills to build client confidence and to raise the awareness of clients for HIV. This matter also cannot be separate from strengthening the resilience and welfare of families and communities in religious and cultural values through dialogue and discussion.


Since the early 1990s, Henri Lefebvre's theory of the social production of space has become widely used by Anglophone academics to understand contemporary urban processes in the Western world. This article argues that care must be taken in transporting Lefbevre's theoretical framework from one context to another. When applied in places like U.S. cities, it must be contextualized in relation to significant sociospatial processes, especially race. It is also argued that when the racialized geographies of U.S. cities are taken into account, Lefebvre's work—with its focus on the role representation plays in the production of space—aids our understanding of contemporary urban processes. The article develops this argument through an engagement with the racialized public spaces in and around downtown Lexington, Kentucky. The killing of an African-American teenager by a White police officer and the ensuing violence and commentary, especially two editorial cartoons, provide the opportunity to contextualize Lefebvre's theory. Furthermore, the case allows us to understand the role racialized representations of space play into the construction of urban geographies. The paper concludes by emphasizing the role of the body in Lefebvre's understanding of space and suggests that his twin notions of "the right to the city" and "the right to difference" hold out hope for the grassroots development of antiracist urban public spaces.


For the refinement of a systematic two-, three-, ... beam system, the higher-order reflexions to be considered should be carefully chosen. In particular for calculations on the second-order critical voltage effect (C.V.E.), the system 0, g, 2g, should be extended to a (2N + 1)-beam system containing the reflexions -(N-1)g to (N + 1)g. Another choice (e.g. the system - Ng to Ng) may lead here to serious errors unless N is very large.


In the Methods section, the authors found a mistake regarding the dose of diphtheria toxin (DT) used to challenge the mice described in the methods section: "In vivo Treg Cell Ablation Treg cell ablation in adult Foxp 3DTR mice was accomplished by a single i.p injection of DT (Sigma) at a dose of 50 mg/kg…" 50 mg/kg should be corrected to 50 mg/kg. Copyright: ß 2014 The PLOS ONE Staff. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


A 20 Gb/s/pin single-ended transmitter with far end crosstalk (FEXT) compensation technique is proposed. The capacitive peaking driver (CPD) compensates the FEXT. Using the data before serializer in each transmitter, effect of FEXT is predicted. So, the difference of latency between data for compensation and transmission is eliminated. The delay of data for compensating FEXT adjusted, thereby it is possible to have optimal eye-opening for different flying-times between adjacent channels. The proposed architecture is designed with 65nm CMOS process. The designed transmitter has eye-opening of width with 39.3 ps and height with 43.2 mV at supply voltage of 1-V.


At present, on the basic of the development of global economic integration and the gradual growth of the developed market economy, the Manufacturing Enterprise has become an indispensable force for the growth of national economy. In recent years, affected by a number of factors, including economic globalization, financial risk of manufacturing enterprises in business activities has become increasingly prominent, which has been threatening the survival and development of manufacturing enterprises. This paper which closely combines theory with practice makes a number of useful exploration on manufacturing enterprises how to assess and manage corporate financial risk. Firstly, the author introduces the research background and the significance. Then the paper describes financial risk of manufacturing enterprises and its causes. At the same time, through the specific cases, the paper assesses financial risk of manufacturing enterprises and makes some measures.


Purpose: This study was to identify nurses' intentions for COVID-19 vaccination in 2022.Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted among 222 nurses in Korea. The collected data were analyzed using the independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, the Wilcoxon rank sum test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression analysis.Results: The score for intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in 2022 was 2.70 points on a 5-point scale, significantly lower than in 2020 (3.02 points on a 5-point scale). The average score for knowledge related to COVID-19 was 7.22 out of 10 points. Positive correlations were found between the intention for COVID-19 vaccination in 2022 and preventive health behavior, as well as between nurses' intentions for COVID-19 vaccination in 2022 and 2020. The factors affecting nurses' intentions for COVID-19 vaccination in 2022 were preventive health behavior (β=.11, p=.045) and nurses' intentions for COVID-19 vaccination in 2020 (β=.65, p<.001). This model showed a significant explanatory power of approximately 45% (F=36.88, p<.001) for the COVID-19 vaccination intention in 2022.Conclusion: This result points to the importance of managing nurses' preventive health behaviors to promote COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Nurses' vaccination intentions are an important issue for the safety of both nurses and patients. A safe vaccination environment and national policy should be prepared to reduce nurses' hesitations about COVID-19 vaccination.


All of the successful software organizations regard metrics as a important means for their manage and technological quality . In order to improve the accuracy of the Basic COCOMO in the process of project metrics,this paper will calibrate some parameters in the model according to software developing environment. So the model will yield more accurate effort predictions. Above all, we provide a calibration methodology Log Date Related to yield superior predicted estimates and contrast it with other approaches. The prediction of the development cost of the project of model after regulating will be more accurate, reflect COCOMO cost measure between work and guidance value , software of project conscientiously. So cost calibration to estimate model this text do work , have practical value very much as to software development enterprise.


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This paper introduces the method of NC transformation for general injection molding machines and the design of the embedded control system, to apply to low-pressure injection , so as to realize in-mould lamination processing of automotive interiors. According to the characteristics of in-mould lamination processing, the system applies dynamic mold temperature control and sequence control in injection, makes the product high quality, production efficiency, leads the industry to the developing of new technology, and has wide application prospect.


In this article, we investigate the semiclassical version of the wave equation for the discrete Schr\"{o}dinger operator, $\mathcal{H}_{\hbar,V}:=-\hbar^{-2}\mathcal{L}_{\hbar}+V$ on the lattice $\hbar\mathbb{Z}^{n},$ where $\mathcal{L}_{\hbar}$ is the discrete Laplacian, and $V$ is a non-negative multiplication operator. We prove that $\mathcal{H}_{\hbar,V}$ has a purely discrete spectrum when the potential $V$ satisfies the condition $|V(k)|\to \infty$ as $|k|\to\infty$. We also show that the Cauchy problem with regular coefficients is well-posed in the associated Sobolev type spaces and very weakly well-posed for distributional coefficients. Finally, we recover the classical solution as well as the very weak solution in certain Sobolev type spaces as the limit of the semiclassical parameter $\hbar\to 0$.


ABSTRACT Natural cellulose fibers with high cellulose and lignin content and elongation as high as 45% similar to that of coir were extracted from the shells of Areca cathechu for potential use for composite, textile and other applications. Areca shells are removed to obtain the nuts and are disposed as waste with no significant value. The shells are lignocellulosic in nature and have antioxidant properties and usefulfor medical applications. Some attempts have been made to utilize the shells as reinforcement for composites, conversion into carbon etc. In this research, we have subject areca shells to extensive alkali treatment to obtain cellulose rich fibers. Alkali treatment resulted in compositional, structural and morphological changes to the fibers depending on the concentration of alkali and treatment time. Tensile strength increased from 23 to 59 MPa and elongation from 34% to 45%. Although, there was no major change in the composition of the fibers, the diameter of the fibers decreased by about 50% and thermal stability showed substantial improvement. Morphological changes included increase in pores and surface appearance. Fibers obtained in this research show potential for composite and other applications. Using areca nut shells for fibrous applications could lead to substantial value addition and eventual use of the shells as sustainable sources for materials and products.


Arabic is the basic foundation in Islam both scientifically and in practice. The reason is, the Qur'an and al-Hadith use Arabic as the medium of delivery. Recently, there has been an expansion of the function of the Arabic language which is brought into the realm of daily communication in order to articulate Islamic identity and mostly occurs in the Muslim community of hijra. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The implementation procedure is to observe the reality of the arabization of the communication of the hijrah Muslim community and its relationship to the articulation of Islamic identity. The method used in analyzing the data is Miles and Huberman's interactive model, namely; data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions. While the method used in testing the validity of the data is the method of triangulation and triangulation of sources, peer discussions and member check. The results of this study are: 1) Arabicization of the communication of the hijrah Muslim community is a process of assimilation of Arabic in culture and is used as a symbol in identity politics in a global society. 2) The Arabization of this communication does not touch fundamental aspects of Islam at all, but is only a model of communication.


According to the Indian National Tuberculosis Program (NTP), only 30% of tuberculosis (TB) patients receiving conventional treatment and 52% of those receiving short-course chemotherapy (SCC) complete the treatment. Incompletely cured patients return to the community, and each sputum-positive case can infect 10-14 people in the course of a year. Direct monitoring of chemotherapy is a must for success, especially if rifampicin is used after accurate diagnosis based on bacteriological examination. The National Leprosy Eradication Program, which has involved voluntary organizations, provides an example to be followed by NTP. This example was considered when the Karuna Trust, a voluntary organization, launched a TB control program on January 1, 1992, for Yelandur taluk, covering a population of 69,484 in 40 villages. A staff consisting of a medical officer, a supervisor, a smear technician, and paramedical workers had undergone training at the National TB Institute in Bangalore. Detection of cases was carried out by house-to-house visits, which could detect about 65% of cases. It was also found that TB treatment had been started without a sputum examination, sputum-positive cases had been on rifampicin, and data recording was incomplete. Up to October 1994, a total of 231 cases were registered and compliance was ensured by home visits. Private practitioners were carrying out harmful activities by not enforcing full patient compliance and thereby contributing to the increasing number of drug-resistant cases. In contrast, this program had a default of only 19.1% among sputum-positive cases, but even these can be recovered with an interaction with private practitioners. Treatment failure amounted to 10.1%, all having been on rifampicin. Retreatment requires more expensive second-line drugs. Drug collection will be decentralized for the convenience of patients; and an adequate supply of drugs was secured. Some suggestions were also made concerning adequate resources, integration of the program, monitoring, and involving nongovernmental organizations in implementation and evaluation.


Design and develop a system that uses acoustic principles in order to create a user interactive system on a VR environment. The user will be able to interact with the environment, creating a sound response from the system created.


The objective of this work is to develop and optimize a system to evaluate the effects of RF exposure on biological cell cultures, operating at a wide range of frequencies using multiple specific absorption rate (SAR) distributions simultaneously. In-vitro RF exposure measurements are time-consuming, and in order to show meaningful statistical results, multiple measurements are required. Additionally, many parameters may have to be varied to evaluate the effects of frequency, dosimetry, time, etc., leading to a long series of measurements that can be quite time consuming. Here, we propose a system that is able to achieve multiple optimized SAR distributions by varying the dosage of the cell culture medium in each well of a multi-well plate. Additionally, the setup avoids any resonating modes by using RF absorbers placed around the antenna and the multi-well plate, making it functional at a wide range of frequencies.


Tongan is an Oceanic language belonging to the Polynesian subgroup. Based on previous work ( Churchward 1953 , Tchekhoff 1981 , Broschart 1997 ), Tongan has been classified as a 'flexible' language by various typological approaches on word classes ( Hengeveld 1992 , Rijkhoff 1998 , Croft 2001 ). This means that lexical items are per se not categorised in terms of major word classes, but they can function as noun, verb, adjective and manner adverb without morphosyntactic derivation. However, not all lexemes are entirely flexible occurring within all these constructions. So the crucial issue of how flexible Tongan really is remains. This question will be addressed by a survey based on a combination of syntactic and semantic word class criteria – basically following Croft's prototype approach ( 2000 , 2001 ) but also considering Hengeveld & Rijkhoff's work ( Hengeveld 1992 , Hengeveld, Rijkhoff & Siewierska 2004 , Hengeveld 2013 ) Evans & Osada's work (2005) . It reveals the scope of lexical flexibility for various lexemes and semantic groups.


Hypertrophic pachymeningitis (HP) is a rare disorder of diverse etiology. This case presented with a nasal mass. Magnetic resonance imaging of brain revealed HP. All other differential diagnosis was ruled out to term it as idiopathic. Patient was treated conservatively on steroids and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. Patient showed improvement of symptoms on treatment. We report here a case of idiopathic HP presenting with nasal mass.


The architectural detail has provided the essential material building block for conveying an idea. Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ask how this, though, is all set to change in a digital context. As technologies shrink and vanish from sight, what might become the new minimum meaningful unit for architecture? How might a new relational scale establish itself, at the level of the 'invisible detail' or the microchip? How might this, in turn, change the very nature of buildings as they become highly responsive, human-occupied transmitters?


NSLS-II is employing a database and corresponding user interfaces which are used for the accelerator data sharing and management [1]. The database include operation related information such as beam optics parameters, magnet measurement data, survey data and operation summary. To improve the usability, other functionalities are also being added. However, due to the limited scope, the general expectation of the overall facility cannot not be met and, in order to solve the issue, we are in the process of adopting Component Database (ComponentDB) [2] developed at Advanced Photon Source (APS). This paper shows the current status of the process.


One of the negative effects arising in the course of operation of a vehicle wheel is out-of-balance condition. Disbalance of a car wheel can be caused by various reasons, including change in geometrical form of the rim, violation of norms of operation, non-optimal position of the tire in relation to the rim. Change of geometry is caused by operation of the rim, casual reasons, as well as influence of external conditions of work and rim storage. Latent faults, construction overload, etc. belong to casual reasons. Results of the experiments fulfilled show that in most cases violation of the geometrical form of a rim, which sometimes cannot be defined by eye is the reason of increase in disbalance of a wheel. A stand for control of geometry of rim and a device allowing to perform "optimization" of car wheels on the basis of mathematical model of process of optimization of tire position in relation to the rim in the conditions of dynamic balancing of wheels have been developed.


This paper presents an efficient technique for interference suppression in IEEE 802.11b WLAN systems. A linearly constrained adaptive array processor which may improve reception performance of WLAN device by reducing co-channel interference signal and multipath effects effectively was proposed. A spatial smoothing method is used to prevent cancellation of a desired signal in a coherent environment and also integral nulling method is employed to improve the array performance in indoor environment. It was shown that the integral nulling approach performed best while the spatial smoothing method performed better than linearly constrained array processing. The performance of the WLAN system may be improved by the proposed methods which reduce co-channel, coherent, and WPAN interferences effectively.


One of the most attractive and promising types of agrarian business in Ukraine is poultry farming, the rapid development of which ensures high competitiveness, due to the short period of production, lower compared to other food products of animal origin, price and high demand among consumers. Now, the market of our country has significantly increased demand for turkey meat, which has practically no contraindications, as it does not contain cholesterol, is a gentle, hypoallergenic, dietary product that is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, including omega-3, proteins, essential amino acids, minerals, vitamins A and B, etc. The purpose of the work was to investigate the dynamics of poultry in the period from 2011 to 2020 and to get the current state of poultry in general, and turkey farming in particular, in the Western region of Ukraine. It is found that in the period from 2011 to 2020 the largest number of poultry, 9548.3 ± 447.1 thousand, was kept in farms of Lviv region, slightly less – 8109.1 ± 546,1 thousand of Khmelnytsk region, even less – 7222.1 ± 121.0 and 7682.9 ± 316.2 thousand Volynj and Rivne regions. The farms of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopilj, Transcarpathian and Chernivtsi regions was kept 5290.8 ± 284.7 5200.2 ± 86.2, 4127.6 ± 115.2 and 3636.7 ± 50.5 thousand poultry, respectively. The largest poultry population in the farms of Lviv and Volynj regions was in 2020 and amounted to 11938,1 and 8822.4 thousand, respectively, Rivne region – 7742.3 thousand in 2018, Transcarpathian – 4385.8 thousand in 2015, Chernivtsi – 3863.9 thousand in 2012, Ternopilj – 5584.2 thousand in 2019, Khmelnytskyj – 10864.5 thousand in 2014 and Ivano-Frankivsk – 6761.1 thousand in 2011.The lowest number of poultry in farms of Lviv, Rivne, Volynj, Transcarpathian, Ternopilj, Khmelnytskyj regions was in 2011, the number of which was 7961.5, 6721.2, 5933.7, 3126.1, 4681.6, 5069.7 thousand, respectively, and Chernivtsi and Ivano-Frankivsk – 3376.5 and 4175.7 thousand in 2016 and 2017. The smallest number of turkey farms in Western Ukraine was in the period from 2011 to 2013. By 2017, there was an increase in their number by 20 %, and in 2018 – a decrease of 10 % compared to 2017. In 2019, the number of registered enterprises increased by 18.18 %, compared to 2018, and in 2020 their number was the largest.


Exhaust gas dilution rates were measured during one field study and two wind tunnel studies of two different university laboratory complexes. Observed dilution rates were generally highest for central, tall stacks which served as common exhaust for a number of laboratory fume hoods. Much smaller dilution rates were observed for side-wall, louvered exhaust vents due to the lack of vertical momentum and due to their very close proximity to rooftop fresh air inlets. Individual fume hood stacks exhibited high dilution rates, but because of the lack of initial dilution in the stack, the dilution rates did not exceed a selected guideline dilution level based upon a hypothetical spill of an air toxic. Comparison of measured field and wind tunnel dilution rates with a minimum dilution model indicated that the model provided a conservative estimate of dilution. Predictions from a lee cavity dilution model were also in good agreement with observations, but the model did not necessarily provide a conservative level of dilution.


We present a fully automated MEMS designed for the trim control of a microspotting system (so called "bioplume") using an integrated parallel force sensor with high precision and sensitivity. This MEMS improves the results, in terms of size and homogeneity of deposited droplets, through a direct-contact method. It allows the contact time and the force to be controlled during deposition. Using this method, homogeneous spots can be realized leading to coherent analysis. The resolution of the sensor is approximately 0.6 V//spl mu/m with an uncertainty of 100 mV, which gives a trim angle error of 0.006/spl deg/.


Author(s): Synk, Ryan | Abstract: In this poster, a GPU-accelerated sparse multifrontal solver for structurally symmetric matrices is described. The implementation is tested on the Summit supercomputer against the current version, which is parallelized via MPI and OpenMP on CPUs. The GPU-accelerated implementation achieves significant speedup from the original code.


Traditional Dictionary Learning (DL) aims to approximate data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements (atoms) and is widely used in machine learning, computer vision, and signal processing. To extend DL to graphs, Vincent-Cuaz et al. 2021 proposed a method, called GDL, which describes the topology of each graph with a pairwise relation matrix (PRM) and compares PRMs via the Gromov–Wasserstein Discrepancy (GWD). However, the lack of robustness often excludes GDL from a variety of real-world applications since GWD is sensitive to the structural noise in graphs. This paper proposes an improved graph dictionary learning algorithm based on a robust Gromov–Wasserstein discrepancy (RGWD) which has theoretically sound properties and an efficient numerical scheme. Based on such a discrepancy, our dictionary learning algorithm can learn atoms from noisy graph data. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm achieves good performance on both simulated and real-world datasets.


XML has emerged as the leading medium for data transfer over the World Wide Web. At the present days, relational database is still widely used as the back-end database in most organizations. Since there is mismatch in these two structures, an effective mapping scheme is definitely essential that provides seamless integration with relational databases. On the other hand, an immutable labeling scheme is certainly significant to dentify the XML nodes uniquely as well as supports dynamic update without having the existing labels to be re-labeled when there is an occurance of dynamic update. As such, in this paper, we propose s-XML by adopting the Persistent Labeling scheme as the annotation scheme to ensure seamless integration with relational database and able to support updates without the need to re-construct the existing labels. We conduct experiments to show that s-XML performs better in terms of mapping the XML nodes to relational databases, query retrieval and dynamic update compared to the existing approaches. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v2i2.215 Full Text: PDF


ABSTRACT The fretting wear behavior of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) against a GCr15 steel ball was investigated using an Optimal SRV-IV oscillating reciprocating friction and wear tester (Optimal Corp., Germany). The influence of temperature, stroke size and frequency was studied in detail under a normal load of 10 N. The results showed that the friction coefficients initially decreased and then increased afterward with the increasing of temperature, having the lowest value at 0°C. The wear loss of UHMWPE at a stroke of 100 µm showed a similar tendency as the friction coefficients, but monotonously increased with increasing of temperature for a stroke of 200 µm. According to an analysis of the worn surface, it was concluded that abrasive wear accompanied with local plastic deformation dominated the wear mechanism in the process of the fretting test at −30°C. The plastic deformation was slightly less at 0°C than that at −30°C. With the increasing of temperature, the hardness of UHMWPE decreased significantly, plastic deformation and adhesive wear became more severe. In addition, a lubricating transfer film was formed on the steel ball.


The Cigarette smoke reaches quickly to heart, brain and other parts of our body and may cause effects in less than a second as it is inhaled directly into the alveoli and is diffused into the pulmonary vein. Inspite of numerous studies to elucidate the role of electrolytes in smoking, no clear understanding of the influence of cigarette smoking on electrolytes is still known in literature partly because of varying methodological approaches while assessing the clinical and physiological manifestations. Hence, it was planned to carry out the present study involving university male students having habit of cigarette smoking for varying periods. No significant variations for plasma sodium and potassium, but a clear significant decrease in calcium levels were obtained in a group of subjects smoking 3-5 cigarettes per day. Another group of subjects having varying levels of cigarettes smoking activity (cigarettes/ day) showed significant decrease in plasma sodium, potassium and calcium. The present investigation, hence provides basic information about the pathogenetic role of electrolytes in cigarette smoking, and emphasizes for further comprehensive studies essentially required to be conducted with appropriate control measurements.


The commonly known effects of both the rotating speeds and external loads on the bearing dynamics or life behaviors are mostly caused by its cage dynamics, because of the complicated contact and collision interactions between the cage and other parts such as the inner or outer rings and balls. In this paper, experimental investigation of dynamic motions of a cage is carried out under various rotating speeds and external loads in a ball bearing. On a bearing test rig, the cage motions in axial and radial directions are measured by use of eddy transducers installed inside the bearing house and the subpanel. Then the measured results are analyzed by fast Fourier transform and compared at different operating conditions including rotating speeds, axial and radial forces, or moments. The three-dimensional space motions of the cage are also constructed to illustrate its different modes. Results reveal that the cage motions are typically periodic in the three directions. The motion frequencies consist of the cage rotating frequency and its multi-frequency, the inner ring rotating frequency, and also some combination frequencies of the cage and inner ring. The obtained characteristic frequencies of the cage motion in axial are similar to that in radial, but different in the variety of amplitudes under the same operating conditions. The increment of rotating speeds and axial loads of the bearing gradually make the whirl trajectories of the cage mass center regular, and enlarge its whirl radii. Instead, the whirl trajectories change from well-defined patterns to complicated ones, and its whirl radii decrease on increasing the radial loads and moments of the bearing. All the obtained experimental results are useful references for dynamic design and life prediction of high-speed and low-load bearings commonly used in many machines.


Abstract Artemisia annua plants have so far been cultivated in the subtropical north Indian plains as a winter season crop. In the present experiment, the growth period of the plants was rescheduled so that they matured during the monsoon season. The oil obtained by steam distillation at different stages of growth was analyzed by GC and GC/MS to determine the difference in quality and quantity of the oil produced from different plant parts. Twenty-four compounds were identified. Significant changes in the chemical profile were observed due to the change in growing season. Camphor (10.5–44.4%) was found to be the major constituent of oil instead of the usually dominant artemisia ketone.


With performance often being used as a means of entertainment for many, audiences can sometimes be at fault for allowing their gullibility to fiction and historical inaccuracies led to dangerously self-constructed beliefs. Time and time again with regard to the colonial history of Indigeneity in the "New World," we face the risk of falling victim to historical deceit. Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña's performance, The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey, is a masterfully produced stage play that reveals flaws in past and present historical beliefs that were strengthened by almost laughable false colonial narratives. Highlighting the ignorance to Indigeneity in Western mind, the two performers lead the viewer to question their relationship with the history of oppressed societies or "the Other." This analysis seeks to consider the significance of The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey in the context of the fragility and danger of colonial credence that leaves "the Other" as a victim of falsehoods.


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The paper presents the method of digital modelling of process of switching on by vacuum switch in capacitive circuits. Currently, there are few descriptions of vacuum switch models used for capacitive circuits switching on. More often researchers focus on vacuum switch models used for switching of the circuits (also previous works of the Authors) and even more often models used for switching of the inductive circuits. In this work authors have focused on phenomena of switching on by vacuum switch in capacitive circuits which in the literature is not often described and which in its character differs significantly from the processes taking place during switching off. In the model, presented in this paper, authors proposed beside the voltage-current control a new approach of modelling of the mechanism of contact bounce, based on the Matlab library element "sldemo_bounce". The verification of the correctness of the model has been done in capacitive circuit during switching on of the capacitor batteries with different parameters (capacities) and neutral point connection. This model have not been analysed in inductive circuits.


In recent years, new energy power generation has been widely used. As household energy storage will be widely promoted in the future, many households' energy storage will soon need to be replaced. It is of great significance to study the recycling of household energy storage to reduce environmental pollution and promote the sustainable development of the household energy storage market. However, the lack of research on the design of household energy storage and recovery network from the perspective of manufacturing enterprises hinders the sustainable development of household energy storage. Based on the above, a household energy storage recycling model considering carbon emissions was established in this paper. This model evaluated the recovery status of household energy storage online through a big data platform and proposed three different recovery schemes based on the evaluation results. Through a case study of Sichuan and Chongqing, the overall profit of the household energy storage and recycling system could be increased by about CNY 1.61 million, while reducing about 1.04 hundred tons of carbon emissions, thus verifying the feasibility and effectiveness of the model. In addition, the results of scenario analysis showed that the processing cost and demand are the main factors affecting the optimal design of the recycling network, and they can change the configuration of the network. Appropriate processing methods, locations, and transportation schemes would decrease the cost of production and carbon emissions. Household energy storage is possible for recycling residual values that decrease carbon emissions during storage. At the same time, further improving more efficient recycling technology is an important idea to increase the profits of household energy storage manufacturers.


Different colors on expressway tunnel portal have been simulated using the 3D-MAX to study the impact of the landscape color on expressway tunnel portal on driver's heart rate.The impact of several typical colors such as red,yellow,green and grey on driver's heart rate was analyzed deeply and the relational model of the color on expressway tunnel portal and drivers ' mean heart rate was established with the data of ten drivers ' heart rate.The results showed that driver's heart rate increased higher than the others when applied a suitable amount of red which width is 30 cm on the tunnel portal and it increased secondly when applied yellow on the tunnel portal.But they didn't have been more than 20% and didn't cause overstain to the driver in both cases.Driver's heart rate changed weekly when there were several dark colors such as green and grey on the tunnel portal.The driver's tension will be increased properly and the traffic accidents will be reduced when apply suitable colors on the expressway tunnel portal.


Introduction.About the Editor.1. Voices from the Edge of E-Learning (Janet F. Piskurich).2. E-Learning: An Introduction (Huey B. Long).3. Becoming a More Self-Directed Learner: Why and How (Lucy M. and Paul J. Guglielmino).4. How to Prepare to Attend a Synchronous E-Learning Course (Bill Knapp).5. How to Attend a Synchronous E-Learning Course (Bill Knapp).6. Succeeding in an Asynchronous Learning Environment (Harvey Singh).7. Chat Rooms and Discussion Boards (George M. Piskurich).8. Online Readings: Gaining the Most from What You Read (Ryan Watkins).9. How to Handle E-Learning Peer Evaluation (Russ Brock).10. Building Successful Online Relationships (Doug Liberati).11. Participating in Group Projects Online (Carole Richardson).12. Managing Distractions for E-Learners (Wayne Turmel).Glossary.Index.


Fee-based services have many impacts on the performance of optimizing services in library. In addition to optimal services provided to users, the impact is also felt by librarians as human resources who provide fee-based. Researchers want to identify the effect of fee-based in the application of intellectual abilities and professionalism of human resources, namely librarians at Library of Gadjah Mada University. Librarians as human resources have an important role in optimizing the services in the library. This study uses a case study research method with data collection techniques using interviews as primary data and literature studies as secondary data. The results of this study indicate that the application of fee-based can test the intellectual abilities and professionalism of librarians in providing services to users. Librarians are required to apply library science in understanding the needs of users in more detail due to the fees charged for the services provided. A balanced view between the application of fee-based with the characteristics of libraries as institutions that provide benefits to the public supports the optimization of services provided to both special and general users at Library of Gadjah Mada University.


The present invention relates to an organic light emitting device including a substrate, and the substrate having the light scattering layer formed of a light-scattering layer produced by the manufacturing method of a substrate formed with a light-scattering layer and to, more specifically, to enhance the extraction efficiency a substrate manufacturing method of the substrate having the light scattering layer and a light scattering layer formed thereto made by that, and to the organic light emitting device comprising a substrate having the light scattering layer. To this end, the present invention is the substrate loading step of loading a substrate into a process for producing the substrate is a light scattering layer formed over the chemical vapor deposition chamber; And the titanium source (Ti Source) and H


The present study was conducted to investigate the structural differences in herbage vegetation under different aged chirpine trees at four locations, viz., Barog, Deothi, Dharampur and Tatul of Solan Forest Division of Himachal Pradesh, India. Each location had three sites representing different ages of chirpine stand, viz., sapling, pole and tree besides an open grassland. Monthly plant sampling in each site revealed ten grass species, two sedges, two legumes and two non-legumes in total. Total density and LAI of herbage was found to increase from July to August/September, thereafter, decreased up to November. Amongst the different species, in general, Themeda anthera; Panicum maximum, Chrysopogon montanus and Pollinia argentea were the major contributors to the density of herbage vegetation. Total density of herbage was higher in open grassland as compared to the three chirpine inhabited sites at all the locations. Further, LAI of herbage under chirpine sites was less as compared to LAI of herbage in open grassland during different samplings. LAI of herbage had significant relationship with density variations.