Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1972 adaptation of The Canterbury Tales (l racconti di Canterbury) remains the single full-length, cinematic version of the medieval poem. Altough often ignored by Chaucerians, many students of film consider "The Trilogy of Life"-- the adaptations of Boccaccio's Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, and Arabian Nights-to be one of Pasolini's more notable cinematic achievements. Most Chaucerians have seen The Canterbury Tales; as it is poorly dubbed in English, grainy, avant-garde, and rated X, most, I believe, have dismissed it as, at best, cartoonish and inaccurate, and, at worst, irreverant and grotesque.1 For a generation accustomed to the homage paid to canonical authors, for example, in the Merchant/Ivory versions of canonical novels-true to the spirit if not the letter of their sources-or Kenneth Branaugh's faithful reproductions of Shakespeare's plays, Pasolini's film is surely disappointing. Moreover, desiring to disabuse our students, or, in some cases, our collegues, of the assumption that Chaucer is primarily memorable for his unrestrained vulgarity, one would hesitate, for instance, to supplement a reading of the Pardoner's Prologue with Pasolini's vignette in which the eponymous pilgrim, fresh from a prolonged session of graphic sexual masochistic roughhouse, urinates on his drunken audience as he sarcastically denounces the "tavern sins." Chaucerians who suspect that this version of The Canterbury Tales is simply a sex film dressed up as art can constructively approach the film not as a self-indulgent adaptation, but as an act of criticism dictated as much by its medium as by Pasolini's ideology. As such, Pasolini's film can be seen as an arresting contribution to Chaucer's reception, anticipating later developments in Chaucer criticism, especially the concern with what Carolyn Dinshaw has coined Chaucer's "sexual poetics." Dismissing authorial intention, Pasolini (who plays Chaucer the pilgrim in the film), deliberately misreads and rewrites the medieval poem as a sexual and political manifesto. Reflecting Pasolini's own conviction that the representation of sexuality is always political, by virtue of his fabliaux Chaucer becomes a marginalized voice, celebrating the casual (homo)sexual romp as an act of political resistance to authoritarian repression and control. Continuing a four hundred year tradition, Pasolini admires and emphasizes Chaucer's anticlericalism, which he sees as exposing the cruel and vicious hypocrisy of those who repress and persecute these sexual acts of political defiance. Pasolini is also the first to approach The Canterbury Tales in a Bakhtinian spirit, emphasizing the carnivalesque spirit of Chaucer's poem and the first to explore and exploit the "queer" subtext of Chaucer's poetics. As an adaptation, The Canterbury Tales is ostensibly an act of homage, updating Chaucer's image for a modern audience; but because Pasolini exaggerates and magnifies Chaucer's occasional flatulence and sexual deviance, his reading of the medieval poem often borders on camp and caricature (not unlike Chaucer's own parody of the courtly romance in Sir Thopas). That is, Pasolini's film is also a subversive parody, a trashing of high art with auteurism; as a Western cultural icon, ostensibly representing authoritarian discourse and ostensibly, a bourgeois mentality, Chaucer himself is mocked and ridiculed. Following his precedent in the Decameron, Pasolini ignores Chaucer's pilgrimage frame and narrative structure, and focuses on those tales involving deception, sex and greed (Merchant, Friar, Cook, Miller, Reeve, Wife of Bath, Pardoner, Summoner). Although faithful to Chaucer's narrative in several tales, he rewrites several prologues in order to include gratuitous sex scenes and includes a complete Cook's Tale representing Perkin Revelor as a reprobate and orgiastic Charlie Chaplin. Abandoning the pilgrim narrators, Pasolini-as-- Chaucer provides the narrative links, loosely anchoring a series of timeless, contextless bawdy tales. …


There is strong evidence that sheep show a preference for some plant species over others (Parsons et al., 1994; Concha & Nicol, 2000; Foster et al., 2002; Rutter, 2006; Corkran, 2009). Differences among ruminant species in forage selectivity, offers a unique opportunity to manipulate utilization of pastures. Recently, increased milk yields and higher weaning weights of lambs have been shown to occur, when grazing a mixed herb sward containing chicory (Cichorium intybus), red and white clover (Trifolium pratense and T. repens) and plantain (Plantago lanceolata) (Golding, 2008). These results showed the potential for mixed swards to increase animal performance on New Zealand sheep farms. However, when designing an "optimal" sward mix it is important to not only incorporate the agronomic characteristics of the plant type such as, yield, growing season, and quality, and the potential level of animal production they can sustain, but also to take into account the level of animal acceptance and voluntary intake, or preference. Increased understanding of variations in herbage preference may assist farmers when designing a sward mix to maximise animal performance and sward sustainability. This Brief Communication reports the results of a study designed to assess the variation in intake rate and preference of weaned lambs for novel New Zealand pasture herbs (chicory and plantain), legumes (lucerne (Medicago sativa) and red clover (Trifolium pratense) and ryegrass (Lolium perenne), grown and offered during the summer (February/March).


The authors discuss a new logistics project being developed and implemented to synchronize materials flow with manufacturing. Called network management, the project is intended to satisfy the following requirements: recognize that not all parts should be ordered or controlled in the same manner; develop a system to classify parts to better determine what control mechanism to apply to which parts; define the material logistics business process and design the system to support it; forecast the use of selected items as the result of a timely outlook rather than a monthly requirements regeneration; generate pull signals to suppliers resulting from actual needs rather than a static plan; communicate information with suppliers via electronic data interchange (EDI); and associate a disbursement method with the characteristics of the item being replenished to the manufacturing line. The authors also address, as background, the thought process used in selecting the parts to which this concept was applied.<<ETX>>


This paper discusses some views and assertions of Chinese culture by Jao Tsung-I,dubbed by many as"Dongzhou Hongru"(the erudite scholar of the East) and"Guoxue Dashi"(the master of Chinese culture),through the angles of"multicultural and historical perspective"and"time-spatial cultural-histori cal perspective"respectively.Jao Tsung-I's scholarship puts an emphasis on"Tri-fold Evidence Methodol ogy",namely field archaeology,historical records and oracle bone scripts.He on the one hand uses Chinese exegetics to trace the origin,applying philology to the study of culture and history,while on the other hand ac quires a keen insight into a comprehensive view of the situation from bibliography.The attainment of being a great learned literate results in Jao's time-spatial cultural-historical perspective with a convergence of the an cient and the modernized.The academic achievements of Jao contribute to important inspiration and valuable cultural heritage for future scholars.


College of Agricultural Studies PhD. In Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Adoption of Draught Animals by Farmers in (West and South Kordofan State نافدرك بونجو برغ يتيلاو يف نيعرازملا ةطساوب رجلا تاناويح ينبت BY EZDEHAR OMER MOHAMMED MUSA B. Sc. Rural Extension, Education and Development (2008) M.Sc in Sustainable Rural Development (2013) Ahfad University for Women Supervisor: Dr. Mohamed Badawi Hussain Co-supervisor: Dr. Suad Ibrahim A Dissertation Submitted to Sudan University in Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of PhD. In Agricultural Extension and Rural Development


Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) visual tracking has always been a challenging task. Existing correlation filter tracking algorithms typically utilize the histograms of oriented gradients (HOGs) and color names (CNs) method to directly incorporate the extracted target features into the model updating process. However, low-resolution (LR) video quality leads to unstable target feature values. To address this limitation, we propose a novel preprocessing technique involving Gaussian denoising. This preprocessing step is designed to enhance the stability of the target's feature values and make the target's scale information clearer, thereby improving the tracker's recognition capability for the target and effectively reducing noise interference. Furthermore, in contrast to other UAV trackers that rely on a singular representation of contextual information, this article aims to enhance the utilization of historical information. Therefore, we introduce a context-based approach that integrates continuously weighted dynamic response maps from both temporal and spatial perspectives. Our tracker has the ability to adapt to rapid environmental changes during the tracking process while simultaneously reducing the potential risks of model overfitting and distortion. Extensive experiments are conducted on authoritative datasets, including DTB70, UAV123@10fps, and UAVDT, comparing our model against other advanced trackers. The experimental results validate the superior tracking performance and robustness of our tracker.


In the late 1990s, South Africa faced the three-fold challenge of reforming the apartheid-divided institutional landscape of vocational education and training (VET) institutions; ensuring equitable access to skills; and reorienting its skills development system in line with the nation's reinsertion into the global economy. A wave of institutional reforms was enacted which was followed by a large programme of evaluative research. While this body of work was both valuable and necessary, it nonetheless had several limitations. As part of efforts to overcome these, the authors suggest an alternative evaluation method that draws on insights from the 'capability approach'. By putting the needs of people first – rather than the needs of the economy – the capability approach emphasises social justice, human rights and poverty alleviation in VET evaluation. This approach is more focused on the values and goals of individuals and institutions, while retaining the economic rationale as a key analytical tool and emphasising the continued importance of evaluation for the improvement of delivery and outcomes.


MM We are increasingly forced to confront this issue because some treatments of hematologic malignancies raise the risk for invasive fungal infection. Fungal infections can be divided into 3 broad categories: yeast infections, mold infections, and thermally dimorphic fungal infections. In clinical practice, most cases involve yeast or mold. Among the yeast infections, the most common is Candida species. At my center in New York and in the surrounding area, there has been an alarming rise in Candida auris, which can be resistant to the 3 major classes of antifungal agents: triazoles, echinocandins, and polyenes. The 2 classic mold infections are aspergillosis and mucormycosis, both of which can be aggressive and associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Depending on the geographic location, thermally dimorphic fungi are relatively rare. When treating patients with hematologic malignancies, I am always on the lookout for Candida species, aspergillosis, mucormycosis, and the mold species Fusarium. In patients with hematologic malignancies, positive blood cultures and new skin findings make me think of Fusarium.


For optimization structure parameters of electromagnetism damper,the parametric model is established;Using the maximum average power of resistor bridge as the optimization objective and the mainly constraint condition as the bridge balance equation,it optimizes the parameters with the genetic algorithm. The results showed:compared with the mechanical damper,electromagnetism damper have better effect on vibration prevention in a frequency rang from 6 to 40Hz.


We propose a method to track from a multi-rotor drone a moving source, such as a human speaker or an emergency whistle, whose sound is mixed with the strong ego-noise generated by rotating motors and propellers. The proposed method is independent of the specific drone and does not need pre-training nor reference signals. We first employ a time-frequency spatial filter to estimate, on short audio segments, the direction of arrival of the moving source and then we track these noisy estimations with a particle filter. We quantitatively evaluate the results using a ground-truth trajectory of the sound source obtained with an on-board camera and compare the performance of the proposed method with baseline solutions.


1. Fazekas F, Lublin FD, Li D, et al. Intravenous immunoglobulin in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a dosefinding trial. Neurology 2008;71:265–271. 2. Hommes O, Soerensen P, Fazekas F, et al. Intravenous immunoglobulin in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: randomized placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2004;364:1149–1156. 3. Soelberg Sorensen P. Intravenous polyclonal human immunoglobulins in multiple sclerosis. Neurodegener Dis 2008;5:8–15. 4. Noseworthy JH, O'Brien PC, Weinshenker, et al. IV immunoglobulin does not reverse established weakness in MS. Neurology 2000;55:1135–1143. 5. Engel WK. Intravenous immunoglobulin G is remarkably beneficial in chronic immune dysschwannian/dysneuronal polyneuropathy, diabetes-2 neuropathy, and potentially in severe acute respiratory syndrome. Acta Myologica 2003; 22:97–103. 6. Sekul EA, Cupler EJ, Dalakas MC. Aseptic meningitis associated with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin therapy: frequency and risk factors. Ann Intern Med 1994; 121:259–262.


Theorists have suggested that adolescents'same-sex peer relations are related to their opposite-sex peer relations. To test this hypothesis, 112 tenth graders were asked to complete sociometric ratings, a perceived social competence questionnaire, and a questionnaire designed to measure empathic perspective-taking and idiosyncratic strategy use. Results indicated that there was a relation between same-sex and opposite-sex measures, but there were sex and target differences. Both same-sex and opposite-sex popularity were more strongly related for boys than for girls. Compared to boys, girls indicated greater empathic perspective taking in their same-sex peer relations, but there was no sex difference for empathic perspective taking in the subjects' opposite-sex peer relations. Compared to girls, boys were more idiosyncratic in their ranking of the effectiveness of the strategies. Finally, popularity and perceived social competence was more strongly related for girls than for boys.


ABSTRACT The author discusses the digitization of the archival collection of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), the long-term planning of this project, financial support, collaboration with Polish institutions, and several selected collections. Digitized archival documents are available on the PIASA website and are included in the database of the National Archives of Poland.


The supervision of student teachers (or interns) is a complex and multifaceted process. One critical activity in this pro cess is that of conferencing between and among the intern, the directing teacher, and the university supervisor. Two as pects of supervisory behavior identified in the literature as essential to successful conferences are: (a) effective interper sonal communication skills, and (b) the implementation of systematic con ferencing procedures. In this article, the authors examine some of the problems that often plague traditional internship programs and serve to diminish their effectiveness. This discussion provides the context for considering the type of supervisory relationship most likely to facilitate the interns growth as a teacher.


Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD) are used in quantum optics when record-breaking time resolution, high speed, and exceptionally low levels of dark counts (false readings) are required. Their detection efficiency is limited, however, by the absorption coefficient of the ultrathin superconducting film for the detected radiation. One possible way of increasing the detector absorption without limiting its broadband response is to make a detector in the form of several vertically stacked layers and connect them in parallel. For the first time we have studied single-photon detection in a multilayer structure consisting of three superconducting layers of amorphous tungsten silicide (WSi) separated by thin layers of amorphous silicon. Two operating modes of the detector are illustrated: an avalanche regime and an arm-trigger regime. A shift in these modes occurs at currents of ∼0.5–0.6 times the critical current of the detector.Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD) are used in quantum optics when record-breaking time resolution, high speed, and exceptionally low levels of dark counts (false readings) are required. Their detection efficiency is limited, however, by the absorption coefficient of the ultrathin superconducting film for the detected radiation. One possible way of increasing the detector absorption without limiting its broadband response is to make a detector in the form of several vertically stacked layers and connect them in parallel. For the first time we have studied single-photon detection in a multilayer structure consisting of three superconducting layers of amorphous tungsten silicide (WSi) separated by thin layers of amorphous silicon. Two operating modes of the detector are illustrated: an avalanche regime and an arm-trigger regime. A shift in these modes occurs at currents of ∼0.5–0.6 times the critical current of the detector.


Guest binding ability of N-(l-pyrenecarbonyl)-3A-amino-3A-deoxy-(2AS,3AS)-γ-cyclodextrin (1) was evaluated by its fluorescence intensity variation induced by guest, and compared with that of primary hydroxyl side modified analogue (2). The results showed that 1 was an extremely better host than 2 in binding guest, promising that the secondary hydroxyl side modified CDs can become useful molecular recognition sensory systems.


Problems. Windows in the summer let through a large amount of solar energy into the room, which causes an additional cost of cooling the air by conditioning. It is known that the limit of comfort is the temperature of 26 oC. To reduce the temperature, use air conditioners, which are required 0,3...0,5 kW of electrical power for 10 m2

of housing. The study deals with the capture of solar energy by water and its use for domestic water purposes (DHW).
The goal of the research. Experimental verification of patented developments and calculations of hot water quantity obtained per day, energy savings and economic indicators.
Methods of implementation. Experiments were conducted on the south window of the room, with water pumping by a pump and periodic measurement of air and water temperatures at the outlet of the system by mercury thermometer. The calculations were performed using the methods developed by the authors. The studies were conducted within three days of November. The temperature inside ranged a room from 19 to 23 °C. The system was operated in circulating mode on a water battery tank located below the absorber. Isolation of the absorber from the side of the room was made of a transparent food film.
Research results. Water temperature reached 45 °C per 1,5-2 hours. Water consumption is enhanced by the thermosiphon effect when water moves from the bottom up. On a clear day of spring and autumn, you can heat for 50-70 % more water than the average for the average day of months of the warm season. For preparing DHW with 1 m2 of absorber, it is possible to get 45-50 kW∙h of heat for each month from March to September, taking into account cloudiness. The savings from the use of hot water and from reducing the consumption of electricity in the air conditioner are calculated.
Conclusions. The payback period of the system, taking into account the cost of the heat for DHW and electricity savings for an electric air conditioner, is approximately 4-5 years. The cost of the system is close to the cost of a home air conditioner, for a premise with a single window oriented south. To the energy-saving factor, an additional advantage is the environmental friendliness of the system compared to the air conditioner.


The issue of translation criteria for children's literature is one of the essential parts of translation studies and the vital factor of measuring children's literature.Compared with the various categories and numbers of translation of children's literature in the book market,the study of it is relatively marginal.This paper tends to build the specific criteria for translation of children's literature based on two principles Even Zohar proposed in his work Children's Literature Poetics in order that they can be applicable to translating children's literature


ABSTRACT This research studied and develop novel basic catalysts for production of renewable chemicals and fuels from biomass. We will focus on the development of unique porous structural-base catalysts formed by two techniques: from (mixed) metal-oxide bases and by nitrogen substitution for oxygen in zeolites. These catalysts will be compared to conventional solid base materials for aldol condensation, catalytic fast pyrolysis, and transesterification reactions. These reactions are important in processes that are currently being commercialized for production of fuels from biomass and will be pivotal in future biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals. Specifically, we have studied the aldol-condensation of acetone with furfural over oxides and zeolites, the conversion of sugars by rapid pyrolysis over zeolites and the trans-esterification of vegetable oil with methanol over mixed oxide catalysts. Our previous research has indicated that the base strength of framework nitrogen in nitrogen-substituted zeolites (NH-zeolites) is nearly twice as strong as in standard zeolites. Nitrogen substituted catalysts have been synthesized from several zeolites (including FAU, MFI, BEA, and LTL) using NH3 treatment.


Abstract : Conventional wisdom has long held that the strategic airpower supporting the Normandy landings on D-Day was generally ineffective. Time and again, the OVERLORD researcher is told that the Eighth Air Force failed to provide the landing troops, particularly on Omaha Beach, with any significant support in establishing the beachhead. The eminent Max Hastings, in his outstanding book "Overlord", opines that air power was "unable to inflict significant damage upon German defensive positions to offer the Allied armies anywhere an easy passage..." Similarly, Adrian Lewis agrees: "To this list of battles with disappointing applications of strategic air power at the tactical level of war can be added the Normandy Invasion." However, in light of both a detailed examination of what was asked of the American air forces by the OVERLORD plans, and in consideration of modern ideas about effects-based operations, it is perhaps time to re-examine the role played by the Army Air Forces in the success of that critical day of 6 June 1944.


Objective To probe into the feasibility and value of breath-holding three-dimensional MR coronary angiography (MRCA) in diagnosing anomalous coronary arteries, particularly to demonstrate the relationship of the vessels to the aortic root and right ventricular outflow tract. Methods Five patients who were suspected coronary artery anomalies by X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) and one subject from health checkup were examined with breath-holding 3D MRCA using 3D true fast imaging with steady precession sequence. There were 4 males and 2 females in this group, ages ranging from 21 to 48,mean 43.5 years. The images of anomalous arteries were acquired and analyzed. The proximal anatomy of the coronary arteries was determined. Results All the 6 cases were diagnosed congenital coronary artery anomalies, among which 4 anomalous right coronary arteries originated from the left sinus of Valsalva, 1 left coronary artery arose from the right sinus of Valsalva, 1 left anterior descending artery arose from the right sinus of Valsalva were found. The proximal parts of the 6 anomalous arteries coursed between the aortic root and the right ventricular outflow tract, whereas conventional coronary angiography could not easily identify the proximal course. Conclusion Breath-holding 3D MRCA can be used to diagnose anomalous coronary arteries.


presented at: 【Objective】To analyze blood lipid and its related factors in Chinese children and adolescents with Turner syndrome. 【Methods】The untreated TS patients were divided into two groups according to age ( <11 years old and 11~15 years old) and enrolled two groups of age-matched control girls, blood lipid and the incidence of dyslipidemia were compared between the four groups, the related factors of blood lipid were also analyzed. Moreover, TS patients were divided into two groups according to karyotype, including 45, XO karyotype (55 cases) and other karyotypes (53 cases), blood lipid and the incidence of dyslipidemia in two groups were compared. 【Result】 Compared to age-matched control girls, TS patients of age 11~15 years group had higher TG levels and higher incidence of hypertriglyceridemia and borderline-hypertriglyceridemia (P <0.05) and the incidence of borderlinehypercholesterolemia was also significantly higher (P <0.01). But there were no differences in blood lipid level, incidence of dyslipidemia and the incidence of borerline-dyslipidemia between TS patients who were less than 11 years old and agematched control girls. Total cholesterol of TS patients was negatively related to bone age (P<0.05). Triglyceride of TS patients was positively related to waist circumference (P <0.01). TS patients of 45, XO karyotype had lower TG levels, higher HDL levels and lower incidence of low HDL, borderline-high non-HDL and borderline-hypertriglyceridemia compared with those of other karyotypes (P <0.05). 【Conclusions】Triglyceride in TS patients of age 11-15 years were higher than the control subjects, which may be related to estrogen deficiency and chromosome karyotype. Dyslipidemia and Its Related Factors in Chinese Children and Adolescents with Turner Syndrome


CONDITIONS OF INTRODUCTION OF KAZAKHSTAN TO WORLD EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT E.L. Karavaeva L.I. Orekhov Kazakh university of economics named after T. Ryskulov, Almaty Kazakh academy of sport and tourism, Almaty E.B. Khalilin, Head of Department for tourism, physical culture and sport, Karaganda region, Karaganda Key words: Bologna declaration, European standards, conferment of higher degree, training of experts. The necessity of urgent settlement of contradictions between methodology of leading foreign experts and the one accepted in universities of CIS countries determined acuteness of the present study. First of all, it is necessary to understand that lack of correspondence to worlds standards of a number of aspects of methodology of researches occurs in Kazakh science, including planning of experimental studies and statistical processing of data received. The studies resulted in the conclusions: - to create new study guides on methodology with the assistance of qualified experts, including the ones who know probability theory, mathematical statistics and plan of experiments. - to considerably increase the number of classes on research methodology in Kazakh universities. - to republish in pedagogical universities the adaptation of the book "Statistical methods in pedagogics and psychology" by J. Glass, J. Stanley. - in pedagogical and other humanitarian universities provide for the lecture course on the topic: "Mathematization of scientific knowledge" by the book by G.I. Ruzavin et al. - in humanitarian universities to plan lectures on differentiation and integration of scientific knowledge. - to conduct international seminar on methodology of researches in humanitarian sciences, including pedagogics and physical culture.


Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is one of the asset class investment options that come into view among investors whose searching for an alternative investment. It was considered as less risky as opposed to equities, bond, property, trust fund and others related investments materials with potential for earnings enhancement. REIT is a company or a trust that pools fund from individual investors, acquires and operates income-generating real estate, and distributes the income derived from their own properties as dividends. Securities Commissions (SC) has defined REITs as "property trust fund" or as an investment trust investment vehicle that invests or proposes to invest at least 50% of its total assets in real estate. An investment in real estate may be by way of direct ownership or a shareholding in a single-purpose company whose principal assets comprise real estate (SC, 2005). The development of REITs in Asian began with the introduction of Japan REITs in 2001, and then followed by Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Malaysia. Likewise, not with standing global economic uncertainties, Asia real estate investment trusts (REITs) were highly sought-after by investors. As according to Professor Graeme Newell in a report by the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA), most Asia REIT markets achieved higher returns, lower risk and superior risk-adjusted performance than their respective stock markets, especially since the Global Financial Crisis (APREA, 2012). Hence, Asian REITs had become an attractive alternative for global investors thus examining REIT's performance is the vital factor that investors consider when they allocate capitals for their investments (Yu, The Determinant Factors of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)'s Performance: Evidence from Asian REITs


To improve the filtration efficacy of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes in milk processing, a series of chemical modifications are proposed in this study. First the membranes were treated in KOM/KMnO^ and then H2SO4/NaI ISÜ3 solutions to introduce active groups on to the membrane surface to turn them into hydrophilicity. Next glycerin solution was used to improve the chemical durability of the modified membrane surface. By measuring the flux through the membranes during filtration, significant performance improvement was confirmed. The treatment parameters, including the reagent concentrations, temperature and reaction time etc, were adjusted as well to seek the optimal reaction conditions.


The impact of surface-selective coatings on water permeation through a membrane when exposed to catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) vapor products was studied by tailoring the surface properties of the membrane coating from superhydrophilic to superhydrophobic. Our approach used high-performance architectured surface-selective (HiPAS) membranes that were inserted after a CFP reactor. At this insertion point, the inner wall surface of a tubular membrane was exposed to a mixture of water and upgraded product vapors, including light gases and deoxygenated hydrocarbons. Under proper membrane operating conditions, a high selectivity for water over one-ring upgraded biomass pyrolysis hydrocarbons was observed as a result of a surface-enhanced capillary condensation process. Owing to this surface-enhanced effect, HiPAS membranes have the potential to enable high flux separations, suggesting that water can be selectively removed from the CFP product vapors.


CO 2 gas shielded welding is used widely for its high efficiency and low cost.but the problems of welding spatter and simply regulating puzzled researchers all along,which need to be solved urgently.At the same time to detect the signals and evaluate the quality for the welding process are much more important than before.This paper reviews many quality evaluation techniques for the CO 2 arc welding process,and introduces each evaluation techniques principle and practical method,and also points out the merits and drawbacks.Besides,this article forecast the application prospect and developing trend of quality evaluation techniques for CO 2 arc welding process.


We introduce a new statistical technique for extracting the inhomogeneous reionization signal from future high-sensitivity measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. If reionization is inhomogeneous, then the optical depth to recombination will be a function {tau}(n-circumflex) of position on the sky. Anisotropies in {tau}(n-circumflex) alter the statistics of the observed CMB via several physical mechanisms: screening of the surface of last scattering, generation of new polarization via Thomson scattering from reionization bubbles, and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We construct a quadratic estimator {tau}-circumflex{sub lm} for the modes of the {tau} field. This estimator separates the patchy reionization signal from the CMB in the form of a noisy map, which can be cross correlated with other probes of reionization or used as a standalone probe. A future satellite experiment with sufficient sensitivity and resolution to measure the lensed B modes on most of the sky can constrain key parameters of patchy reionization, such as the duration of the patchy epoch or the mean bubble radius, at the {approx}10% level.


remarks that he was " courteous " and " lowly." To the poor at Cambridge he supplied food and raiment, and provided some with monthly, and others with weekly donatives. A diligent instructor, he assisted his pupils at their private readings, as well as in the public school. Though of grave deportment, his manners were mild, rather than austere. He was of a tall, slight figure, had a dark complexion, and wore a long beard, and a small French cap. He dressed in " a fustian doublet," with black stockings, and a frieze gown. To his erudition and accomplishments Knox and Tylney bear strong testimony. The bishops at St Andrews, who condemned him, did not venture to meet his arguments. The clergy at Bristol attempted his discomfiture only by violence. Apart from the power of his public teaching, and the excellence of his private virtues, he, as a martyr, holds a place on the roll of the illustrious. He died to assert his testimony against sacerdotal arrogance and priestly corruption, which are the curse of nations. In his blood the Scottish Church took root, and so long as his countrymen cherish Protestantism and love liberty, his memory will be fragrant.


A cDNA clone, WRTLP2, encoding an open reading frame of 173 amino acids, was recovered from a cDNA library of winter rye (Secale cereale L. Musketeer). The amino acid sequence deduced from the cloned cDNA exhibits very high sequence similarity (70-95%) with those of extracellular and low molecular weight thaumatin-like proteins of other cereals. It was possible to overexpress this isolated cDNA in Escherichia coli and it was found that the encoded protein of this clone exhibited antifungal activities against several fungal strains.


The E2 critical point (CP) resonance in the second‐harmonic spectrum of silica‐embedded Si nanocrystals (NCs) of 3 and 5 nm average diameter is observed to be blue‐shifted by 0.5 eV from its energy (4.4 eV) in the linear dielectric response ε(ω) of the same samples. In contrast, the E1 CP resonance (3.4 eV) and a third resonance intermediate in energy (3.8 eV) between E1 and E2 occur at nearly the same energy in both linear and nonlinear spectra. We explain the anomalous E2 blue‐shift by calculating the second‐harmonic response function Δ(ω) of the NCs analytically from the measured ε(ω) using a dipolium model. The analysis shows that the E2 blue‐shift originates from the screening factors of the form [ε(2ω) + 2]−1 and [2ε(2ω) + 3]−1 that are unique to second‐harmonic generation (SHG) from nanospheres. Strong interaction between E2 and $E'_{1} $ (5.3 eV in bulk c‐Si) resonant contributions to this factor pulls the E2 peak response toward the higher $E'_{1} $ energy while negligibly influencing lower energy resonances.


Life-threatening arrhythmia in most percent of cases are the direct causes of sudden cardiac death. Self-recovery heart rate occurs due to spontaneous thrombolysis to them and due to reperfusion or as a result of imitation precordial shock caused by falling from height of own growth. This case represents a rare authentically-documented clinical fact that sudden death due to life-threatening arrhythmias occurred during exercise. Apparently, when restoring sinus rhythm were involved in both of the above-described mechanism. Judging by the development of acute transient conduction disorders and multiple episodes of accelerated idioventricular rhythm, we can assume either spontaneous thrombolysis on the background of acute coronary insufficiency, either alone allowed long koronaroangiospazm.


Synaptic inhibition is the mechanistic backbone of a suite of cortical functions, not the least of which is maintaining overall network stability as well as modulating neuronal gain. Past cortical models have assumed simplified recurrent networks in which all inhibitory neurons are lumped into a single effective pool. In such models the mechanics of inhibitory stabilization and gain control are tightly linked in opposition to one another – meaning high gain coincides with low stability and vice versa. This tethering of stability and response gain restricts the possible operative regimes of the network. However, it is now well known that cortical inhibition is very diverse, with molecularly distinguished cell classes having distinct positions within the cortical circuit. In this study, we analyze populations of spiking neuron models and associated mean-field theories capturing circuits with pyramidal neurons as well as parvalbumin (PV) and somatostatin (SOM) expressing interneurons. Our study outlines arguments for a division of labor within the full cortical circuit where PV interneurons are ideally positioned to stabilize network activity, whereas SOM interneurons serve to modulate pyramidal cell gain. This segregation of inhibitory function supports stable cortical dynamics over a large range of modulation states. Our study offers a blueprint for how to relate the circuit structure of cortical networks with diverse cell types to the underlying population dynamics and stimulus response.


This article looks at the California origins of much of Twentieth Century science fiction. It examines how the exploding growth and development of postwar California informed science fiction writers like Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Philip K. Dick, and looks to their books for answers to twenty-first century dilemmas such as the uses of technology, the environment, and infrastructure.


MOSS, Bernard H. (Auckland University) "After the Auroux Laws: Employers, Industrial Relations and the Right in France" (West European Politics 11 [January 1988]: 68-80) "Industrial Law Reform in an Era of Retreat: The Auroux Laws in France" (Work, Employment and Society 2 [September 1988]) "Industrial Law Reform under the French Fifth Republic: The Triumph of Modernism?" (he Mouvement Social, forthcoming) Class Unionism and Industrial Relations in Modern France (work in progress)


This thesis analyzed the influence of agriculture sector�s development after 1999 conflict
to violence and conflict risk in Timor Leste. By using qualitative research method based on
reliable data sources, it is based on main argument that poverty and unemployment are the main
catalysts of the increasing number of violent gangs and groups in Timor Leste that are often
engaged in violent acts and conflicts. Therefore, related to the process of achieving the main goal
of post conflict peacebuilding, the reduced level of violence and conflict are used as the main
indicators. It shows that economy in post conflict peacebuilding should get significant portion
since it is vital to tackle poverty and reduce unemployment. Since most of the people in Timor
Leste work in agriculture field, the agriculture sector is one of the main sectors in Timor Leste�s
economy besides oil and gas sector.
In the first chapter, the thesis critically reviewed the process of post conflict
peacebuilding in Timor Leste and the strategic role of agriculture during the whole process
knowing that most of Timor Leste people work in field. Based on the data, around 70% of the
total working populations are farmers. It confirms the vital and strategic position of the
agriculture sector. In the second chapter, the thesis reviewed the level of poverty and number of
unemployment in Timor Leste after 1999 conflict and how they directly affect the level of
violence and conflict risk. In the last chapter, the thesis reviewed the government� and foreign
institutions� role in developing agriculture sector after 1999 conflict while figuring out what�s
lack from them and how it affects the development process.
Although officially Timor Leste government has considered agriculture sector one of
several main priorities during post conflict peacebuilding but the results aren�t satisfying yet. The
growing number of gangs or groups, number of violent acts and conflict indicates that more
efforts to develop agriculture need to be done. Besides, foreign institutions involved in post
conflict peacebuilding still lack causing uneven aid distribution and program.


Numerical simulations of kinematic dynamo action in steady and three-dimensional ABC flows are presented with special focus on the difference in growth rates between cases with single and multiple periods of the prescribed velocity field. It is found that the difference in growth rate (apart from a trivial factor stemming from a scaling of the rate of strain with the wavenumber of the velocity field) is due to differences in the recycling of the weakest part of the magnetic field. The single wavelength classical ABC-flow experiments impose stronger symmetry requirements, which results in a suppression of the growth rate. The experiments with larger wave number achieve growth rates that are more compatible with the turn-over time scale by breaking the symmetry of the resulting dynamo-generated magnetic field. Differences in topology in cases with and without stagnation points in the imposed velocity field are also investigated, and it is found that the cigar-like structures that develop in the classical A = B = C dynamos are replaced by ribbon structures in cases where the flow is without stagnation points.


A new model for the origin of diffraction peaks in x-ray fluorescence was developed, using the concept of a virtual primary radiation source. The method offers the possibility of calculating the background intensity formed by characteristic radiation and bremsstrahlung. Bragg diffraction may significantly modify the intensity of primary radiation reflected by crystal planes of a polycrystalline material. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Subjective judgments about retrieval phenomenologies (remember/know) and memory strength (confidence) are often used in dual-process research to separate recollective from nonrecollective retrieval. Although such methods provide process-level explanations of the effects of list length and word frequency on recognition, whether the same applies to free recall is unknown. I compared subjective and objective methods of measuring dual processes and investigated their process-level explanations of the effects of list length and word frequency on free recall. Ninetyfive undergraduates received multiple study-test trials and made retrospective judgments about items recalled on the last trial. A dual-retrieval Markov chain was used to quantify recollective and nonrecollective retrieval from subjects' recall performance rather than their metacognitive judgments to recalled items. In free recall, list length affected both recollective and nonrecollective retrieval, whereas word frequency only affected recollective retrieval. In addition, although remember judgments and correct source identification correlated with an objective measure of recollective retrieval (direct access), high confidence did not and it was unrelated to memory strength in free recall.


A 1 1/2 ‐dimensional electrostatic particle code has been used to investigate density profile steepening due to resonance absorption in a spherically expanding plasma. Three types of profile are found: the widely studied subsonic variety, a supersonic variety with stable overdense bumps, and a transsonic variety in which overdense bumps form behind the critical surface and pass through it. A plateau lies between pairs of bumps, and the wave breaking amplitude increases dramatically when this plateau is near the critical density.


A series of catalysts with various Co/Ni and M 2+ /M 3+ mole ratios were prepared by decomposition of Co/Ni/Al hydrotalcite-like compounds(HTLcs) precursors at 350°C and used for hydrolysis of carbonyl sulfide(COS). The effect on the catalytic performance was investigated at 50°C and GHSV of 1000~3000 h -1 with relative humidity of 2.40%. The catalyst with Co/Ni at 0.25~0.5 and M 2+ /M 3+ at 2~3 had the best activity. The Co/Ni content barely affected the phase composition of the catalysts. The results may indicate that the Ni ion is the catalytic center, while the Co ion is the catalyst accelerator. From the SEM-EDAS analysis, the structures of catalysts with different M 2+ /M 3+ changed a lot and the various metal ions in samples were consistent with the raw material.


What factors explain the behaviors of corporate leaders who engage in spectacular frauds? Is it greed? Is it power? Are these leaders, as some critics allege, simply psychopaths? Or is something else going on? In this Essay created for a symposium on the "agency problem," Professor Barnard explores the greed, power, and psychopathy theories. She also suggests that a hormonal phenomenon – an overabundance of testosterone – may explain these men's behavior. In many animal populations, success in competition leads to an elevation of testosterone. Repeated successes – accompanied by increasing levels of testosterone – often lead to rash, ill-considered, and dangerously risky behaviors. Animal biologists call this progression "the winner effect." Barnard suggests that a similar progression may be seen in human competitors, both in athletic environments (think Lance Armstrong) and in business environments (think Jeff Skilling, Richard Scrushy, and Rajat Gupta). She concludes that some agency problems may be physiologically driven.


Let ? denote a 2-homogeneous bipartite distance-regular graph with diameter D?3 and valency k?3. Assume that ? is not isomorphic to a Hamming cube. Fix a vertex x of ?, and let T=T(x) denote the Terwilliger algebra of T with respect to x. We give three sets of generators for T, two of which satisfy the relations of the quantum universal enveloping algebra of the Lie algebra sl(2). We then describe the simple T-modules. We give a pair of canonical bases for each simple T-module, and we give the overlap function for these bases in terms of a basic hypergeometric function. Finally, we give two generators for the center of T.


The invention discloses a bolt special for an internally and externally shielded cable material, comprising a feeding section and a compression section as well as a homogenization section arranged at the front end of the bolt. A threaded section for preventing materials from refluxing is also arranged at the end part of the feeding section, the bolt diameter of the compression section is gradually increased along the axial direction of the bolt, the bolt groove depth of the compression section is gradually reduced along the axial direction of the bolt, the bolt diameter of the feeding section is smaller than that of the homogenization section, the feeding section, the compression section and the homogenization section have identical thread pitch, the bolt length of the homogenization section is smaller than that of of the compression section, and the bolt length of the compression section is smaller than that of the feeding section. The bolt special for the internally and externally shielded cable material ensures that the internally and externally shielded cable material is fully, tightly and evenly compressed during the conveying and ensures the product quality; and the bolt diameter of the homogenization section is larger than that of the feeding section so that the internally and externally shielded cable material is stably fed, the homogenization section outputs in balance, the melting and extruding speeds are increased, and the production efficiency of enterprises are increased.


We compared vital rates of two different ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus stocks (pen-reared and wild) and assessed effects of predator control on these pheasants released into current range. Wild (31 males and 112 females) and pen-reared (230 males and 1,059 females) ring-necked pheasants were released in spring into two areas in southern Idaho during 2000–2001 to augment low resident populations. Wild female survival (value ± 95% CI) from 1 March-1 October was significantly greater than that of pen-reared females in both 2000 (0.40 ± 0.14, N = 62 vs 0.04 ± 0.07, N = 49) and 2001 (0.43 ± 0.16, N = 40 vs 0.08 ± 0.10, N = 40). Of 134 documented deaths of radio-marked female pheasants, 54% were due to unknown predation, 26% to mammalian predators, 12% to avian predators, 4% to natural causes, and 4% were human caused. Wild females had a 0.23 ± 0.09 (N=88) nesting rate and pen-reared females 0.28 ± 0.18 (N = 25). During 2001, predators were removed within our study areas. Survival of wild male pheasants increased after predator removal (0.20 ± 0.35, N = 6 vs 0.70 ± 0.28, N = 10), but survival did not increase for either stock of female pheasants after predator removal. Predator control did not increase the number of hens surviving to reach the nesting season (1 May), nesting rate or nest success. Wild female pheasants were seven times more likely to survive translocation to 1 October, 10 times more likely to survive to the nesting season, eight times more productive, and one-third as expensive per egg hatched than pen-reared females. Low survival, poor productivity and higher costs of spring-released pen-reared female pheasants strongly suggest that this is an inappropriate management tool for increasing pheasant numbers.


This paper reviews 19 precast structural floor systems from North America and overseas that are suitable for office building construction. This review includes a discussion of the impact of the structural systems. The review was conducted as part of a research project directed towards the development of new precast concrete floor systems for gravity loads for application in occupied office buildings having a regular spacing of columns. A companion paper presents the assessment of these floor systems. The research addresses the need for innovation in the design and construction of precast concrete buildings.


The microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast and now fungi play an important role in remediation of toxic metals through redn. of the metal ions, this was considered interesting as nanofactories very recently. Using these dissimulatory properties of fungi, the biosynthesis of inorg. nanomaterials using eukaryotic organisms such as fungi may be used to grow nanoparticles of gold and silver intracellularly in Verticillium fungal cells. Recently, it was found that aq. chloroaurate ions may be reduced extracellularly using the fungus F. oxysporum, to generate extremely stable gold or silver nanoparticles in water. The study of biosynthesis of nanomaterials offers valuable contribution into materials chem. The ability of some microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi to control the synthesis of metallic nanoparticle should be employed in the synthesis of new materials. The biosynthetic methods are investigated as an alternative to chem. and phys. ones. It is known that many microorganisms can provide inorg. materials either intra- or extra-cellularly. For example, bacteria Pseudomonas strutzeri isolated from silver mine is able to reduce Ag+ ions and accumulates silver nanoparticles. The size of such nanoparticle was 16-40 nm, with an av. diam. 27 nm. Moreover, silver is occasionally used in the medical field as a topical bactericide. With the progress of nano-technol., many labs. around the world have investigated silver nanoparticle prodn. as the nanoparticle possesses more surface atoms than a microparticle, which greatly improves the particle's phys. and chem. characteristics. However, at present there is no truly efficient method for their large-scale prodn. Some phys. or chem. methods that are currently available for silver nanoparticle prodn. include mech. smashing, a solid-phase reaction, freeze-drying, spread drying and pptn. (co- and homo-pptn.). In general, these methods consume a lot of energy in order to maintain the high pressures and temps. that are needed for them to work. In contrast, many bioprocesses occur under normal air pressure and temp., resulting in vast energy savings.


The fertility rate in Ethiopia is very high. According to the 2000 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) an Ethiopian woman gives birth on average to 5.9 children. Problems posed by high fertility rates and population growth have sparked studies of the factors determining contraceptive usage since contraceptive is used for birth control. The major objective of this study is to determine the factors that affect the use of contraceptive methods for women in Ayssaita district. The study is based on data a total of 323 women in the age group 15-49 years. Binary logistic regression and descriptive statistical measures are used for the analysis. The binary logistic regression analysis is applied to identify factors of contraceptive usage women's socio-economic characteristics. Binary logistic regression analysis revealed that place of residence, religion, partner's education level, woman's education, region and monthly income were the most important variables that explained the variability in contraceptive usage. Women who had higher education, high monthly income and higher partner's education were likely to use contraceptive methods. The regional government should also invest heavily on women and their partner schooling beyond primary school. Key word: Contraceptive method, binary logistic, Ayssaita


—In recent years, there has been an increase in the use of Internet of Things (IoT), mostly resulting from the increase in the number of ever-smaller devices being commercialized by different vendors with different purposes. These devices and the ecosystem that they are part of typically are highly complex due to their heterogeneous nature and are typically end-user focused. As a result, testing such systems becomes a challenge, especially when the system logic is configured by end users. To address such challenge, a low-code approach was designed that allows users with no programming, or testing knowledge, to test an IoT scenario with a set of sensors and actuators. This approach has a set of test patterns implemented out-of-the-box so the user simply executes the test suggested by the tool and observes the results. The work was validated in a case study involving a group of users with and without technical knowledge. The results showed that both groups managed to finish the tasks selected with ease. The results obtained during the validation phase with end users affirm that the approach eases the process of testing such systems.


The invention relates to a device for supporting a side face (2) of a continuous casting installation between rolls of thin metal products of the type comprising two rolls (1, 1 ') cooled, with horizontal axes, two side faces ( 2) applied against the edges (3) of rolls (1, 1 '), said supporting device comprising a carriage (5) movable on command in a direction parallel to cylinder axes (1, 1'), a device thrust (6) carried by said carriage (5) and a plate (4) connected to said thrust device (6) and integral with the lateral face (2), characterized in that said plate (4) comprises at least two pads (10, 10 ', 10 ", 10"') movable on command in a direction parallel to cylinder axes (1, 1 ') by devices (11, 11') which can apply each of said pads (10, 10 ' , 10 ", 10" ') against an edge (3) of a cylinder (1, 1').


In the first section of this paper the sputter deposition of thin films of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−x is considered. In the second section low and high temperature heat treatments are discussed in the light of the thermodynamics of the material and in the third the development, fabrication and current-voltage (IV) characteristics of a variety of device structures are described, including the hysterctic characteristics of certain YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−x / YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−x devices that reveal Josephson supcrcurrcnt tunnelling.


Water resources in Sukarame Village, Cisolok Subdistrict, Sukabumi Regency are not only used for fulfilling the daily needs but also for agricultural irrigation and mining activities. Sukarame has an Unlicensed Gold Mine (PETI) that dumps waste directly into the river, which can affect the quality of Sukarame Village's water resources. Water quality monitoring is useful to prevent a decrease in the quality, water utilization that can interfere with quality, endanger health, as well as improve water quality. The purpose of this study was to determine the quality and utilization of water resources in Sukarame Village. The method used in this study was descriptive by taking 15 samples from 4 hamlets in Sukarame Village originating from surface water and groundwater. The water quality of the sample was tested for physical and chemical parameters of water. Water quality data then analyzed under Health Minister Regulation No.416/MEN.KES/PER/IX/2010 concerning Water Quality Requirements and Supervision. The measurement of water resources quality taken from groundwater and surface water sources in Sukarame Village varies, therefore the use of water resources is also different. Surface water resources of Sukarame Village cannot be used for daily needs because the turbidity is high, while groundwater resources included in clean water can be used for daily needs.


The Cretaceous was punctuated by interludes of widespread deposition of organic-rich sediments (black shales) in the oceans and epicontinental seas, named Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAE)s, representing major alterations in the global carbon budget. The early Aptian OAE 1a (ca. 120 Ma) coincided with a global paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental perturbation which lasted for ca. 1.1 Myrs probably triggered by volcanogenic CO2 emissions associated with the emplacement of the Ontong Java Plateau. To date, there is a comprehensive characterization of OAE 1a paleoceanographic conditions and paleoecology of surface-waters while less information is available for bottom-water evolution. In this regard, benthic foraminifera are ideal to characterize deep-water oxygen levels and the organic carbon flux. We present a high-resolution study of benthic foraminiferal assemblages across OAE 1a in the Cismon Core (western Tethys, Lombardy Basin, Northern Italy). Contrarily to many sites, the Cismon Core yields benthic foraminifera also in the Selli Level thus providing information about deep-water conditions during OAE 1a. Our data are indicative of fluctuations in bottom-water oxygenation and organic-matter flux to the sea-floor prior to, during and after OAE 1a. The integration of the new benthic foraminiferal data with calcareous nannofossil and planktonic foraminiferal datasets is here used to produce a model of surface- to bottom-water paleowater evolution through the latest Barremian-early late Aptian. In particular, the new data show coeval changes in bottom- and surface-waters conditions prior to and at the onset of OAE 1a. Anoxia was reached during the core of the negative carbon isotope anomaly, under maximum warming and higher surface-water fertility. Conversely, the repopulation of benthic foraminifera postponed the plankton recovery. Benthic foraminifera data at Cismon show, for the first time, evidence of a repopulation event during the OAE 1a suggestive for a slight increase in the supply of oxygen to the seafloor during the Selli Level deposition.


The establishment, maintenance and renovation of forest drainage systems are carried out to ensure the development of high quality forest stands and to secure access to forest resources, but it also poses a risk of erosion and increased discharge of suspended solids and nutrients associated with it. The aim of the study was to analyse the efficiency of standard-sized sedimentation ponds built by JSC 'Latvia's State Forests' for sediment and nutrient retention during and after drainage network maintenance. To assess the efficiency of standard-sized sedimentation ponds six study sites were established and various chemical and physical parameters were measured for three years to evaluate water quality and to estimate runoff of plant nutrients and suspended solids. Sampling was carried out before and during drainage network maintenance and during two years following it. Despite the fact that some effect in reducing suspended solid export from catchments was observed, the results revealed insufficient efficiency of the sedimentation ponds in retaining plant nutrients and eroded matter during and after the drainage network maintenance. Retention of Ntot, N-NO3 -, P-PO4 3-, N-NH4 + and DOC was ambiguous. It was concluded that other water protection structures should be considered or different parameters of sedimentation ponds should be used to improve the water quality exiting the drainage systems and entering waterbodies.


A bundle of four conductors may be used for the next generation of 500-kV lines at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). Among the many questions that needed answers were: (a) the optimal orientation of the bundle to minimize the audible (AN) and radio noise (RFI); and (b) whether trapezoidal conductors behaved differently than conventional stranded conductors. This paper shows the results of comparative tests conducted in BPA's high voltage laboratory comparing the RI and AN from 4 Bunting (conventional round rod) and 4 Hood (trapezoidal) conductors oriented either in a square or a diamond configuration. To make the results more useful, similar tests were conducted on 2 Bunting and 2 Hood conductors oriented either horizontally or vertically and on 3 Bunting and 3 Hood conductors oriented in a vee or an inverted vee configuration. Tests on single Bunting and Hood conductors were also conducted. The tests showed that within the accuracy of noise measurements bundle orientation has little effect on the AN or RFI and that the conventional Bunting and the trapezoidal Hood conductors have essentially the same noise performance. >


Purpose:  Late‐onset spasms (LOS) are epileptic spasms starting after the first year of life. Our aim was to assess the electroclinical features and the follow‐up of the patients with this particular type of epileptic seizure.


This paper describes work to create an open protocol for wide-area multi-user X3D, incorporating many aspects of prior academic, experimental, and proprietary systems, but emphasizing simplicity and practicality for use among heterogeneous Internet user agents. In the Internet tradition, it is documented as a protocol (rather than a framework), and backed by freely-available reference implementations. The hope is that this protocol is useful to those working on new X3D networking nodes as well as to those building multi-user world systems.


According to LuAn ChangCun coal mine S61 number return air up the mountain in regional and surrounding rock stress anomalies have degeneration of creep characteristics analysis,some sections of the initial support of reinforcement,dig new tents for the prestressing anchor bolt anchor cable length powerful combination supporting system of support,and the field application and mine pressure monitoring.Monitoring,lane that help deformation,smaller bolt anchor cable force stable,effective control of the support that surrounding rockmass deformation,supporting the effect is very apparent.


In the last two decades, the wetlands have increased worldwide its development for the treatment of wastewater. In the present study, twelve tropical surface flow constructed wetlands (CW) were designed and operated specifically for the treatment of domestic wastewater. The efficiency of removal of Basic pollutants (BOD5, COD, SST, NT, PT, turbidity and colour) was evaluated under three treatments: 1) Pontederia cordata (CWTule or Tule pond), 2) Phragmites australis (CW-Reed or reed-bed) and 3) gravel as test control (CW-Gravel or gravel wetland). For the CW-Tule, the highest removal efficiencies were obtained between 81.10% and 95.44%. For the CW-Reed, has found efficiencies of removal in a range of 53 to 89%; while the CW-Gravel presented efficiencies more low (34-72%). The data pilot were analyzed statistically by approximations of Kruskal Wallis and ANOVA. Treatments showed highly significant statistical differences (p<0.001). From the point of view of the cost of operation, the current native vegetation proved to be successful for the treatment of waste water in a tropical region of Mexico.


Objective To study the extraction method and the stability of red pigment in chinese herbal medicine Silktree Albizzia flower and provide basis for developing and utilizing natural pigments. Method Under the room temperature,extract the filtered pigment solution from the acidic alcohol immersed with fresh Silktree Albizzia flower.Then,determine and analyze the physico-chemical resistance to acid,alkali,heat,light and oxidation-reduction and so on.Result The pigment can be solved in water and has a good resistance to light was better.Under acidic condition, oxidizing agent, reducing agent and common food additives,it has no adverse affection to the color and lustre of the pigment. Conclusion This pigment is a kind of natural plant pigment with medicinal value,and can be used extensively in food,beverage and medicine etc.


This chapter addresses one of the major objections raised against the genealogical relationship of the Transeurasian languages, notably the paucity of basic vocabulary in both quantity and quality. In contrast to the frequently uttered concern that the Transeurasian languages do not have enough basic vocabulary in common, it shows that there are 93 etymologies for 64 different concepts on the Leipzig-Jakarta basic vocabulary 100 list. From the viewpoint of quality of evidence, the etymologies display regular sound correspondences and empirically supportable semantic latitude. Providing evidence for the exclusion of borrowing and coincidence as an alternative account of the similarities, this chapter shows that inheritance is the most sensible explanation of the observed correlations between the Transeurasian languages.


Abstract Retrospective Clinical Study on Marginal Bone Loss of Implants with Guided Bone Regeneration Seul-Ji Park, Hwa-Gyeong Seon, Se-Wook Koh, Young-Deok Chee Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, Wonkwang UniversityPurpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate marginal bone loss o f the alveolar crest on implants with or without guided bone regeneration and variables that have influenced.Methods: The clinical evaluation were performed for survival rate and m arginal bone loss of 161 endosseous implants installed with guided bone regeneration (GBR) in 83 patients from Septemb er 2009 to October 2010 in relation to sex and age of patients, position of implant, implant system, length and diame ter of implant. Study group (n=42) implant with GBR procedure, control group (n=41) implant without GBR technique. Simultaneou s GBR approach using resorbable membranes combined with autogenous bone graft or freeze-dried bone allograft or co mbination. Radiographic examinations were conducted at healing abutment connection and latest visit. Marginal bone lev el was measured.Results: Mean marginal bone loss was 0.73 mm in study group, 0.63 mm in control group. Implants in maxillary anterior area (1.21 mm) were statistically significant in study group ( P<0.05), maxillary posterior area (0.81 mm) in control group (P<0.05). Mean marginal bone loss 1.47 mm for implants with diamet er 3.4 mm, 0.83 mm for implants of control group with diameter 4.0 mm ( P<0.05). Some graft materials showed an increased marginal bone l oss but no statistically significant influence of sex, implant type or length.Conclusion: According to these findings, this study demonstrated the amoun t of marginal bone loss around implant has maintained a relative stable during follow-up periods. We concl ude that implants with GBR had similar survival rate and crestal bone level compared with implants in native bone. Key words:Dental implant, Guided bone regeneration, Bone resorption


This research is a quantitative study that analyzes the influence of internal factors (total bank assets, income diversification, and capital buffers) and external factors (gross domestic gross and inflation) on the stability of Islamic banks. This research uses panel data, namely Bank Syariah Indonesia in the 2017-2021 period. The method for explaining this research is panel data regression analysis with Eviews version 9. The results of this study prove that starting from the factors of total assets, income diversification, capital buffers, gross domestic income, and inflation significantly affect the stability of Bank Syariah Indonesia. These results also prove that the independent variables consist of internal factors (bank total assets, income diversification, and capital buffers) and external factors (gross domestic product and inflation) simultaneously influencing the stability of Indonesian Islamic banks. In addition, this study also supports the charter value theory but rejects the too-big-to-fail theory.
Keywords: Stability, Total Bank Assets, Income Diversification, Capital Buffer, Gross Domestic Product, Inflation.


The strengths and weaknesses of heuristic evaluation have been well researched. Despite known weaknesses, heuristic evaluation is still widely used since formal usability testing (also referred to as empirical user testing) is more costly and time consuming. What has received less attention is the type of information heuristic evaluation conveys in comparison to empirical user testing supported by eye tracking and user observation. If usability methods are combined, it becomes even more important to distinguish the information contribution by each method. This paper investigates the application of two usability evaluation methods, namely heuristic evaluation and empirical user testing supported by eye tracking, to the website of a learning management system with the intent of discovering the difference in the usability information yielded. Heuristic evaluation as an inspection method is accepted to be fundamentally different from empirical user testing. This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of the nature of the differences by identifying the kind of usability problems identified through each method. The findings should be of interest to researchers, designers and usability practitioners involved in website design and evaluation.


When New Spain was transformed into an independent and Republican country, the ancient nobility, with their prerrogatives and privileges, sought ways to adapt to the new reality. Some preferred to leave Mexico, but others transformed their former loyalty to the Spanish Crown to help take forward the nascent nation. However, whenever they had a chance, they found a way to show off those traits, which placed them at the top of the ancient society and expatiated their distinction in rituals and ceremonies.


Study of effects of reward and punishmenc on perception has a long history. One of the earlier studies involved the investigation of monetary rewards on the perception of ambiguous figures (Schafer & Murphy, 1943). Some later studies supported the original findings of Schafer and Murphy, ac least in part (Smith & Hockberg, 1954; Sommer, 1957) while at least one other clearly did not (Rock 8: Fleck, 1950). As Epscein (1967) has suggested, the resulcs of the many studies have been inconclusive, especially with regard to the effects of punishmenc. A situation which seems to lend itself rather well to che study of the effects of punishment on perception are the various forms of illusory movement, such as autokinetic movement, the Phi phenomena, the waterfall and spiral effects. More specifically, in an exploratory study (Borresen, 1972) some daca suggested that punishing the report of a particular direction of movement in the autokinetic phenomena tended to raise the upper threshold of the Phi phenomena selectively. Thus, if S was punished for reporting autokinecic movement to the right (but not for up, down or left) chere was a tendency for some Ss to have a higher upper limit threshold for Phi co the lefc (and sometimes up and down also). While the tendency was not strong or characteristic of all Ss, ic was nevertheless present. The phenomena seemed interesting enough to isolace from the other compounding factors of the original study. Hence this study is concerned with the question, does the punishing of illusory movement in a given direction affect the perception and/or reporting of illusory movement in the other directions, particularly the opposite direccion?


There are a range of different processes, known as alternative dispute resolution ('ADR'), available to assist in the resolution of trust disputes: arbitration, mediation, early neutral evaluation, and expert determination. To different degrees they offer the parties greater control over both the process and the outcome of the dispute compared to a court process with adversarial argument and a judicial decision imposed at the end.


Water is essential for the survival of human life on earth. Its increasing demand has stimulated the development of underground water supply. Intensive withdrawals of groundwater in excess of natural recharge over the years have affected the environment causing a continual fluctuation in the potentiometric levels. Groundwater resources can be optimally used and sustained only when groundwater development is estimated at micro level. Therefore, the present study has been undertaken to find out the block-wise stages of groundwater development in Rewari district of Haryana during 2004-08. The average ground water development in Rewari district was found to be 143 % which indicates the overexploitation of water resources. Except the Bawal, all blocks of Rewari district lies in the overexploited category. It reflects that the average net annual draft more than the average net annual recharge in the district. The finding of the study reveals rapid development and overdraft of groundwater in Rewari district and, therefore calls for rational conservation and judicious management of groundwater resources.


Objective: The purpose of current study was to define the frequency of bacteria isolated from bacteremia in pediatri clinic and the resistance of isolated bacteria to antibiotics. Materials and Methods: Between 2002-2003 years, blood cultur samples of 1067 patients who were send pediatri clinic to microbiology laboratuar, were retrospectively evaluated. Results: Bacteria strains were isolated in 135 (12,65%) of 1067 patients. Among the strains isolated, 62,2% were Gram-positive and 37,8% Gramnegative microorganisms. 52,3% and 28,5% of Gram-positive bacteria were coagulase-negative staphycocci (CNS) and Staphyloccus aureus. Staphlycocci and enterococci did not show resistance to vancomycin whereas resistance aganist methicilin in S. aureus and CNS were 58,3% and 29,5%, respectively. Ciprofloxacin was found more sensitive than imipenem in Pseudomonas. But resistance aganist imipenem did not show in Enterobacteriacae. Conclusions: Antibiotic resistance was found frequently in most commonly isolated pathogens. These results highlight the important role of the local microbiology laboratory in guiding empiric antibiotic treatment of sepsis. Prompt, effective therapy requires up to date knowledge of locally prevalent organisms, and ongoing surveillance for emerging antibiotic resistance. ©2007, Firat University, Medical Faculty


Appearance has long been of concern to gay men, whether manifested as an identifiable visibility, an intentional invisibility or a conscious playing with gendered and social signifiers. This ties to Judith Butler's propositions that gendered identities are performed in relation to external societal and internal personal pressures and considerations, as well as being regulated by cultural discourses. The notions of gay male femininity and the authenticity of a 'real' masculinity, that can be presented through choices of clothing and behavioural traits, have traditionally been a perennial concern within the urban gay male communities of Britain and America. However, perhaps given the changes in social, moral and legal conditions for, and attitudes towards, gay people that have manifested in the twenty-first century, the negotiation of this oppositional binary is no longer of such importance. Thus the question of a contemporary gay male visual identity and appearance is interesting to consider. Based on a series of interviews conducted with gay men between the ages of 19 and 46 in 2012–2013, this article will articulate some of the ways in which these British and American gay men have negotiated concerns with their sexual identity and personal appearance. It will consider the ways in which style and dress can signify meanings about the multitude of aspects that make up an individual's identity, with a particular focus on how the acceptance and articulation of their own sexual orientation has varied between operating as a key motivator and an incidental component of the style and dress of these young gay men.


No. 115 — May 2005 Hackers are those who work with abstractions such as scientific knowledge, artistic expressions, philosophical concepts, texts or computer programs. The power and value of hacking are increasing as media networks grow in intensity and expansiveness. Wark's crypto-Marxist manifesto makes some key additions to the classic cast of characters on the stage of class conflict. The hacker class joins the working class as producers whose labour is exploited by a ruling class. But, where workers are exploited by the capitalist class that controls material means of production like factories, hackers are exploited by the vectoralist class (the owners and managers of media, computing and telecommunications infrastructures), which controls the means of transport and communication. The vectoralist class controls both the material infrastructure of media technologies, and the rights in intellectual property law (which are themselves captured hacks) that allow them to commoditise information and expression. Therefore, for Wark, the key political issue for the hacker class today is to accelerate vectors for hackers' abstractions, and to refuse anything that restricts their free flow. A Hacker Manifesto won't appeal to everyone — even among those who might be classed as hackers. It uses a specialised terminology that is sometimes wrongly described as 'postmodernist'. In this interest, the book offers extensive endnotes — a useful resource that serves as an annotated reading list on the radical political tradition from Marx through Debord and Hardt and Negri, as well as the philosophy of expression from Deleuze and Guattari to Brian Massumi. The book will alienate some readers for its resurrection of Marxism, and others for its departures from it. Some will reject its critiques of the politics of representation (and moves away from social democracy), and others will be troubled by the way that gender and ethnicity seem to be too easily consumed by the hacker concept. But Wark has always been provocative, so these reactions should be no surprise. A Hacker Manifesto is high Wark. It revisits themes familiar from his previous work, but gives the concepts (the vector; Third Nature; telesthesia) more ambitious and direct expression. It is less journalistic — not so closely tied to a specific time and place, and more consistent in voice — than many earlier works. It sustains the theme of the hacker throughout the book to perform a convincing displacement of the tired debates over economic base and ideological superstructure that contributed to the outmoding of Marxist thought. (Disclosure: McKenzie Wark was my PhD supervisor, 1994–99) — Chris Chesher, Arts Infomatics, University of Sydney


As a technical supplement to the above mentioned paper we present 192 consecutive eigenstates for the Robnik billiard with the shape parameter λ = 0.15 from 10,001st to 10,192nd, by showing the plots in the configuration space and in the phase space. The latter is smoothed projection of the Wigner function onto the surface of section. By comparison with the classical SOS plots we thus examine all eigenstates and classify them in regular and irregular: There are 70 regular states and 122 irregular states, thus giving the estimate of the relative measure of the regular component ρ 1 = 0.365, which is in excellent agreement with the classical value ρ 1 = 0.360 calculated and reported by Prosen and Robnik (1993).


Abstract INTRODUCTION: Uterine contractions in labour are produced by activation of receptors such as FP (PGF2α) and OXTR (oxytocin). Such receptors signal via Gαq proteins that can be selectively turned off by the regulator of G-protein signaling 2 (RGS2). RGS2 expression can be upregulated by Gαs-coupled receptor signaling. PGE2 elicits various uterine effects, some via activation of Gαs-coupled receptors. In primary human myometrial cells, PGE2 enhances RGS2 expression that attenuates subsequent oxytocin-stimulated calcium responses associated with contraction. RGS2 expression is higher in preterm non-labour versus labour human myometrium, suggesting that RGS2 promotes quiescence in the pregnant uterus. To directly study whether RGS2 dampens uterine contraction, we analyzed the ex vivo contractility of pregnant mouse uteri. We hypothesize that loss of RGS2 expression enhances oxytocin and PGF2α-stimulated uterine contractility. METHODS: Wildtype (WT) and RGS2 knockout (KO) female mice (8-14 weeks) were time-mated and euthanized on days 15-20 of pregnancy or during active labour (n=5-11 per group). Uteri were snap frozen for RNA/protein expression analysis by qPCR and western blot. Uterine sections from d18-19 were dissected into longitudinal strips for ex vivo contractility measurement. Tissues were submerged in Krebs-Henseleit buffer and tied to force transducers to measure isometric force development. Tissues were treated with or without 1μM PGE2 for 2 hours. In parallel, pretreated and non-pretreated tissues were exposed to increasing concentrations of oxytocin or PGF2α (0.1-10uM). All tissues were treated with 100mM KCl to determine the maximum contraction at the end of the experiment. Data were analyzed by ANOVA (Bonferroni post-hoc), or Student's t-test, as appropriate. RESULTS: RGS2 expression in WT uteri sharply decreases at day 19 (p<0.05), remaining low during labour. OXTR and FP receptor expression increase at day 19 (p<0.01 and p<0.05, respectively) and are sustained through labour. Compared to WT, uteri from KO mice produced larger oxytocin-stimulated contractile amplitudes (p<0.05), and more frequent PGF2α-stimulated contractions (p<0.05). PGE2 pretreatment enhanced RGS2 expression in WT uteri, which reduced the peak amplitudes and integrals elicited by subsequent oxytocin treatment, compared to non-pretreated uteri (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: RGS2 may play a pro-quiescent role in pregnancy, since RGS2 loss enhances uterine contractility. Concomitant upregulation of pro-contractile receptors and RGS2 downregulation may facilitate labour activation. This mechanisms may be involved in the etiology of spontaneous preterm labour; loss of RGS2 expression observed in human preterm labour may allow for early contractile activation. Understanding RGS2's role in quiescence is important to developing more effective strategies for managing preterm labour.


: Delineation of a welihead protection area (WHPA) is the key element in welihead protection programs for drinking water supplies. WHPAs are often delineated under idealized conditions using simple steady-state assumptions, which lead to an incorrect estimation of area and geometry. In this paper, we compare the results from a simple steady-state procedure commonly employed in WHPA delineation with a more complex transient approach that allows consideration of seasonal variation in pumping rates. We also introduce a transient procedure to delineate time-related capture zones using a numerical ground water flow and transport model. Welihead delineation is examined for two municipal wells in Tipton, Oklahoma, using a ten-year time-of-travel criterion. In the steady-state procedure, where we assumed constant pumping rates, we used GPTRAC, a semi-analytical model, and MOC, a numerical model. The capture zone delineated by GPTRAC is comparable in shape with the capture zone delineated by MOC but not in size due to the differences in solution schemes. In the transient procedure, we used MOC and considered the seasonal variation in pumping rates. The capture zones delineated in this procedure were larger than the capture zones delineated by the steady-state procedure using the same model. Further analysis showed that a higher drawdown was predicted in the transient procedure than in the steady-state procedure, which is the reason for larger capture zones.


Objective To study the distribution and antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria collected from urinary tract infection(UTI) patients in clinic service of this hospital from Jan 2004 to Dec 2007.Methods Identification and susceptibilities of pathogens isolated were determined by MicroScan.Results There were 3 139 strains of pathogenic bacterie isolated in mid-stream specimen of urine.The common strain was Escherichia.coli and Enterococcus faecali.And the susceptibilities of bacterie in non-hospital patients were higher than those in-hospital patients.Susceptibility of Imipenem was 100%.Cefotaxime,Ceftazidime and Amikacin were susceptible drugs to Escherichia.coli strain.Susceptibility of Vancomycin was 100%. Ampicillin,Ciprofloxacin and Tetracycline were susceptible anti-microbial drugs to Enterococcus faecalis strain.Conclusion The predictability of the organisms and its in vitro susceptibility test is of important consideration for empiric therapy of UTI.Changes of pathogenic bacteria and the drug susceptibility should be noticed for reasonable use of antibiotics.


Man Ray: Rayograph ii, 1925 "We've spent a generation furiously building digital libraries, and I'm sure that we'll now be building tools to use in those libraries, equally furiously, for at least another generation, and I look forward to it. I'm sure that the text won't go away while we do our tool-building—but I'm also certain that our tools will put us into new relationships with our texts. All we can really ask, in the end, is that those relationships be fruitful". John Unsworth, Forms of...


Abstract : A high-resolution, multi-level, primitive equation ocean model is used to investigate the roles of wind forcing and irregular coastline geometry in the generation of currents, eddies, jets and filaments in the Canary Current System (CCS) from 30 to 42.5 deg N. To study the generation, evolution, and sustainment of the currents, eddies, jets and filaments in the CCS, the model is forced from rest using seasonal climatological winds and a realistic coastline. Results of the experiment show that wind forcing alone is capable of generating surface currents, undercurrents, meanders, eddies, and filaments. Preferred eddy generation locations, enhanced growth of meanders, eddies, and filaments are seen. The features produced by the model are consistent with available observations of the CCS.


The multiplicative binomial model was introduced as a generalization of the binomial distribution for modelling correlated binomial data. This distribution has not been extensively explored and is revisited in the present study. Some properties of the multiplicative binomial distribution, such as, expressions for the factorial moments and the information matrix, are investigated. The distribution is also extended to accommodate data arising from a Wadley's problem setting which is frequently encountered in dose–mortality studies and is one in which the number of organisms initially treated with a drug is unobserved. The Altham–Poisson distribution is introduced by modelling the unobserved initial number of organisms, as specified by n in the multiplicative binomial model, with a Poisson distribution and its suitability for overdispersed data from a Wadley's problem setting is explored.


Solid-state joining of dissimilar materials results typically in the formation of intermetallic compounds at the weld interface, which strongly determines the resulting mechanical properties. To tailor the joint strength, understanding of the formation of the intermetallic compound and their driving mechanisms is crucial. In this study, the evolution of temperature-driven Al3Mg2 and Al12Mg17 intermetallic compounds in an Al–Mg system for application to solid-state joining processes via a multiphase-field approach is numerically investigated. To this end, the CALPHAD approach to obtain the thermodynamic parameters of the relevant phases is used in conjunction with the multiphase-field model. The simulation results are qualitatively compared with experimental results in the literature in terms of thickness and morphology of intermetallic grains, exhibiting a reasonable agreement. The influence of grain boundary diffusion and interface energy on the morphology and kinetics of the intermetallic compound grains is investigated in detail with the established multiphase-field model.


A novel additive, tri(phosphaphenanthrene-maleimide-phenoxyl)-triazine (DOPO-TMT), was successfully synthesized. The chemical structure was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance. DOPO-TMT was blended with epoxy resins to prepare flame-retardant thermosets. The flame-retardant properties were evaluated using limited oxygen index (LOI), vertical burning (UL94), and cone calorimeter tests. The results indicated that DOPO-TMT exhibited excellent flame-retardant effect. The flame-retardant mechanism was studied by thermogravimeric analysis (TGA), pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, and thermogravimetric analysis/infrared spectrometry (TGA-FTIR) coupled with the morphology and chemical analysis of the char residues. The results disclosed that DOPO-TMT exerted biphase flame-retardant effect. In gaseous-phase, DOPO-TMT released phosphorus- and nitrogen-containing free radicals with quenching effect under thermal decomposition. The morphologies o...


Altered fractionation radiotherapy (RT) improves locoregional control in head and neck cancer without aggravation of late adverse events. To improve successful larynx‐preservation rates in patients with resectable, intermediate‐volume hypopharyngeal cancer, a prospective trial of chemotherapy‐enhanced accelerated RT was conducted.


The present disclosure pertains to a system and method for monitoring usage of a respiratory medicament delivery device. Regular use of a respiratory medicament delivery device at intervals prescribed by a doctor may be critical to a subject's health. The system described herein is configured to monitor usage of a respiratory medicament delivery device such that manual tracking of a patient's adherence to a dosage plan by a doctor, for example, is not required. Monitoring usage of the medicament delivery device may allow the doctor to judge the adherence of the subject to the dosage plan and encourage increased adherence. Improved adherence by the subject may result in improvement in the condition of the subject and economic benefits including reducing costs associated with re-hospitalization after discharge. In some embodiments, the system comprises a medicament delivery device and a usage event monitoring device.


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Permeability is a key parameter associated with the subsurface production and injection. This paper introduces a new method which uses the complex resistivity of rock to estimate permeability in petroleum reservoirs.

Complex resistivity measurements were carried out on 53 shaly sand samples from Daqing Oil Filed with a wide variation in permeability and porosity in the frequency range from 100 Hz to 20 MHz using a four-electrode technique. This paper investigates the relationship between the complex resistivity measurements and the permeabilities of the samples. The imaginary part of the complex impedance shows a power-law relation to the frequency ranges from 100 Hz to 1.5 kHz. The results show that permeability can be estimated well with expressions of the form of A·φB·βC, where β is the slope of the bilogarthmic plot of the imaginary part versus frequency, φ is the porosity, A, B and C are constants. The salinity of NaCl has little influence of the slope in the range of 1–10 g l−1.

The isovalue maps of the error factor δ, which show substantial regions of near-minimum values of δ, are used to analyse the behaviour of δ with the change of the exponents B and C. The permeability estimation is more sensitive to the changes of the slopes than the porosity. The slope and the porosity are not completely independent. The slope is the decisive parameter for the estimation of the permeability. The additional use of the porosity improves the formula fit to the data significantly.


This paper presents a new intra prediction technique for HEVC, which is next-generation video coding standard that has collaboratively been developed by ISO/MPEG and ITU-T/VCEG. On intra coding for HEVC, extension of MPEG4-AVC/H.264-like intra prediction scheme has been studied. In this conventional scheme, the prediction block is generated by simply copying adjacent reference samples, interpolating the reference samples toward prediction direction or averaging the reference samples. Thus, signal discontinuity between prediction block and adjacent reconstructed blocks could occur, which causes loss of coding efficiency of residual signal. In this paper, we propose an adaptive filtering scheme for intra prediction samples generated by either DC or directional prediction that solves the above issue. According to our evaluation, the proposed scheme achieves approximately 0.6% bitrate savings on average compared to the conventional AVC-style intra coding.


UN human rights binding on states; binding on UN organs? – Sanctions mechanism as implemented in EU – Kadi and others – Ruling Court of First Instance – Relation between UN law and EC law – Human rights obligations – Exception, political question, etc. – Solange – Monism and dualism – Questions remain


LIANG Qi-chao,a famous educationalist in Chinese modern and contemporary history,cared about woman's education at an early time.He advocated and originated schools for women.To further initiate women's education,he actively advocated the prohibition of foot-binding and enhanced it to a high degree that the prohibition of foot-binding was crutial to therise and fall of the whole country.He set up an association and published his opinions through the press to promote this movement.Moreover,He put into practice the prohibition of foot-binding with his family memebers.His theory and practice greatly promoted the development of the prohibition of foot-binding movement in Modern Chinese history.


From the prospective of the owner, the essence of the power and the relation between the power and the power of state, we can see the homogeneity between the power of enacting constitution and the power of amending constitution. The mind of people will change as the social development and the generational succession, so we admit that the offspring have the power of enacting constitution. But the offspring needn't to have complete power of enacting constitution but to have the power of enacting constitution because of the continuity of the social development homogeneity. So the change from the power of enacting constitution the offspring owned to the power of amending constitution, expresses the reason of the homogeneity.And the power of amending constitution is independent,which embodies the institutionalization and legalization if the power of enacting constitution.As amending constitution is inevitable,it is significance for us to realize the relationship between the power of amending constitution and the power of enacting constitution.


We have carried out a density functional theory study on the Σ3 (111) silicon grain boundary, and calculated the impurity effect of Ni, Fe, Cu, and Cr atoms doped near the grain boundary at both interstitial and substitutional sites. The segregation energy for the impurities follows the order of Fe greater than Cu, Ni, and Cr at the substitutional site and Cr greater than Cu, Fe, and Ni, at the interstitial site. The calculated values were positive, indicating that segregation is not favored in the Σ3 (111) grain boundaries. When the metal impurity is placed at the substitutional site, a new state in the fundamental gap was observed in the density of states, the band gap is reduced, which may have an effect on the solar cell performance. The calculated magnetic moments for the transition-metal-doped grain boundary show that they were quenched for Ni, Fe, and Cu point defects.