There are too many factors effecting product cost.The determination of primary factor is critical to the economic profitability of the enterprise.In this paper,the grey association analysis method is applied to get the primary factor of influencing products cost by establishing a mathematical model to calculate the comprehensive correlative degree of each contributing factor to product cost.An example is provided to illustrate procedures of the method.The result shows that gray correlative analysis method has lower requirements for sample size and sample regularity without inconsistency between quantitative and qualitative results.The method is also quick and simple in calculation.


Copious media coverage of hostilities in the former Yugoslavia placed the issue of rape in war firmly on the international agenda and foreshadowed the advent of a tribunal1 with explicit international jurisdiction to adjudicate rape and other sexual assaults. Consequently, the international community is now grappling with many of the dilemmas faced domestically in the prosecution and adjudication of these crimes together with a host of new difficulties, both substantive and procedural, which ensue from an international jurisdiction. These difficulties must be confronted by a global community considering the diversity of opinion, culture and expectations of justice that such community entails. This article will examine some of the problems inherent in the international prosecution and adjudication of rape and other sexual assaults2 and, where relevant, how they are being addressed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (the Tribunal')- By examining four broad areas - limits on evidence able to be led in cases of sexual assault, protection for victims and witnesses, collection of evidence and judicial education - it will be demonstrated that a progressive legislative framework is not necessarily sufficient to ensure successful international prosecution and adjudication of rape and other sexual assaults.


Knowing the relatively accurate channel condition of each UE. Reconfigure the channel of the UE based on channel phase information and channel quality information reported from the UE, obtaining a channel matrix of the UE. Further, based on the channel phase information and channel quality information reported from the UE, reconfigure the channel of the UE, to obtain a channel matrix for the UE based on the channel matrix of the UE, determines a precoding matrix UE , using said precoding matrix, performs precoding for the data to be transmitted to the UE.


This essay offers a story about changing meanings of listening. The techniques of listening that became widespread with the diffusion of the telephone, the phonograph, and the radio early in the twentieth century were themselves transposed and elaborated from techniques of listening developed elsewhere in middle-class culture over the course of the nineteenth century. In other words, they can be located in a genealogy of audile technique, ortechniques of listening. By this emphasis on technique I mean to denote a concrete set of limited and related practices of listening and practical orientations toward listening. In The Audible Past, I follow  audile technique through three very different cultural contexts: modern medicine in Western Europe and the United States from the 1760s into the 1900s, American sound telegraphy from the 1840s into the 1900s, and sound-reproduction technologies in Europe and the United States between 1876 and 1930. After introducing the concept of audile technique, this essay picks up the story at the moment audile technique is articulated to the emergent technologies of sound reproduction: sound telegraphy, telephony, phonography, and radio.


Physical, mental, and behavioral processes of most living beings underlie cyclic changes, mainly governed by the day-night cycle. Investigations of these circadian rhythms have traditionally required constrained settings and invasive methods, such as repetitive blood testing and testing in sleep laboratories. Recent developments in pervasive technology, e.g., the proliferation of smartphones in our everyday lives, allow us to develop less intrusive ways to infer circadian rhythmicity in everyday settings. In this article, we present an overview of the current state of research, describe a mobile toolkit for collecting ground truth data on cognitive state fluctuations, and detail the implementation of a wearable system to unobtrusively detect alertness changes in the wild. Understanding and monitoring circadian rhythms will lead to the development of interventions to support mental health, physical health, and will ease the negative consequences of time shifts inflicted by jet lag or shift-work.


Beyond Scientific Research: Tracing the Contributions Ernest Rutherford Made to the Next Generation of Scientists. (May 2006) Andrew A. Armstrong, B.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Edward Walraven Before his death in 1937, Ernest Rutherford discovered the rate of radioactive decay of atoms. In 1911 he proposed the nuclear structure of the atom, and in 1919 he successfully split the nucleus of an atom. Rutherford also achieved success when advising his students to follow his research method in nuclear physics. As a faculty advisor to research students, Rutherford advised courses, research topics, and experimental research. To determine whether Rutherford made an impact on his students, this study focused on the relationship between Rutherford and 24 researchers and students at McGill University, the University of Manchester, and Cambridge University. Rutherford had a significant impact through his advising efforts at each institution and contributed to the success of his students. This study may not include a complete list of students at each institution because of a lack of records at each institution. Instead, this study focused on the students included in the Rutherford biographies. The study included a content analysis on Rutherford biographies and memoirs from students under Rutherford's direct influence at McGill University, the University of Manchester, and Cambridge University. Historical information from J.L. Heilbron, David Wilson, and J.G. Crowther supplied the timeline at each institution where


Objective: Recanalization therapy, such as intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IVT) or endovascular treatment (EVT), is known to improve outcomes in acute ischemic stroke; however, such maneuver carries the risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). The present study assessed the predictive factors of ICH in the patients with acute large vessel occlusion.

Methods: The Recovery by Endovascular Salvage for Cerebral Ultra-acute Embolism (RESCUE)-Japan registry prospectively registered 1,442 stroke patients with major vessel occlusion who were admitted to 84 Japanese stroke centers within 24 hours after onset from July 2010 to June 2011. We analyzed the incidence and predictive factor of ICH within 24 hours after onset among the 1,436 patients except 6 patients who underwent bypass surgery.

Results: Any ICH was observed in 283 (19.7%) patients, and symptomatic (with neurological deterioration defined as National Institute of Health Stroke Scale score ≥4) ICH was observed in 47 (3.3%) patients. Comparing patients without ICH, we find statistical significance in the rate of favorable outcome (any ICH; 18.3% vs. 35.0%, p<0.001, symptomatic ICH; 4.3% vs. 32.6%, p<0.001). On multivariate analyses, any recanalization therapy (IVT and/or EVT)(OR, 1.94; 95% CI, 1.09-3.44)and reperfusion of the affected artery on MR angiography at 24 hours after onset (OR, 1.90; 95% CI, 1.31-2.75) significantly related to any ICH. Significant related factor of symptomatic ICH was only recanalization therapy (OR, 2.45; 95% CI; 1.30-4.16), but not EVT (OR; 1.26; 95% CI, 0.50-3.16). Moreover, warfarin-, antiplatelet-, heparin- or thrombolytic agents-use was not an independent predictor of ICH risk.

Conclusions: Among the patients with acute large vessel occlusion, ICH was associated with recanalization therapy (IVT or EVT), but not the use of antithrombotic agents.


The earnings of some companies are easier to analyze and predict than others. Because earnings predictability affects stock prices, investors and researchers have relied on a variety of indexes, such as the Value Line Earnings Predictability Index (VLPI), to gauge ex ante differences in predictability. This study empirically analyzes the performance of VLPI versus several other indexes. Rank correlations with subsequent earnings forecast errors are used to measure index performance. Interestingly, the results indicate that VLPI performs as well as a corresponding index based on past forecasting accuracy.


Some media critics say Twitter use by newsroom leaders sends a strong innovation message to the rest of the newsroom. This exploratory study examined Twitter use among 74 editors at top U.S. newspapers to evaluate their adoption and use of the social media tool. A content analysis of Twitter accounts revealed many of them were not frequent users. Those who do are primarily using it as a tool to promote content from their own publications. The similarities between this analysis and similar studies would suggest that if newspapers hope to more effectively use Twitter, their leaders need to be willing to do so as well.


The utility model relates to a flame simulated device for radiator which is arranged on the lower part of an electric heating part (1) and inside a panel (2), wherein, a plurality of sheet metal reflectors (5) are arranged in an array on an output major axis of a motor (8); and flame curtain plates (3) consisting of semitransparent baffle boards (4) and red glasses are arranged on the front of the output major axis (6) in turn. When a lamp bulb (7) arranged on the lower part of the output major axis (6) is turned on and illuminates on the reflectors (5), once the output major axis (6) is rotated, lights reflected by the reflectors (5) take the shape of fragments and are refracted on the baffle boards (4), and then are mapped on the flam curtain plates (3) and twinkle, lifelike flame shape can be simulated.


Objective To investigate vitamin D receptor (VDR) mechanism implicated in the osteoblast differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) induced by Plastrum testudinis extracts (PTE). Methods MSCs were dissociated from rat bone marrow and were marked using the expression of CD44 by the flow cytometry (FCM). MSCs Cultured in vitro were divided into different groups for the effects of MSCs differentiation into osteoblast,MSCs seeded in culture medium without treatment served as controls,MSCs seeded in culture medium with osteo-induction treatment served as positive controls,PTE was added and the cells were incubated for 7 d. Then immunohistochemistry,Western-blotting,in situ hybridization,and RT-PCR were applied to observing the expression of the osteoblast differentiation specific marker (ALP,OPN) as well as the VDR and VDR mRNA expression. Results Immunohistorchemistry results demonstrated that the percentages of ALP,OPN,and VDR positive cells in the PTE group were markedly higher than those in the control group. The Western-blotting also illustrated that the expressing of ALP,OPN,and VDR in the PTE group was higher than that in the control group. In parallel,in situ hybridization and RT-PCR results showed that the expression of VDR mRAN was significantly increased during the osteoblast differentiation of MSCs induced by PTE. Conclusion The PTE could promote MSCs differentiation into osteoblast,which might be associated with the up-regulation of VDR.


Catalytic cracking unit feedstock oil often contained thiophene ring,thiophenol,sulfide,sulfide and mercaptan sulfur compounds,so when the catalytic cracking reaction,some sulfur compounds would exist in the coke and oil slurry.Early in the regenerator of the sulfur coke,due to the oxidation reaction of flue gas directly discharged into the air,the living environment of people was seriously polluted,so effective measures must be taken and the effective control be carried on.


A cup-shaped double-sided UWB antenna for various communication systems is presented. The antenna has the total size of 22mm× 24mm, printed on FR4 1.6 mm thick substrate. This study presented a tapered-fed cup-shaped radiator with a modified ground plane. The semicircle slot etched in the radiator and the modified ground plane is used to improve the impedance matching. The appropriate combination of feed and slot shapes provides the wide operational bandwidth. The simulation results show that the presented prototype provided wideband from 2.8 to 11 GHz and has attained stable patterns with constant group delay.


Abstract The aim of the research is to investigate the indirect speech act of directive utterance in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey". The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data are the dialogues utterances used by the characters of the film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", those data are analyzed based on the linguistic form, three basic acts, and Allan's classification of directive classes. But, before analyzing the data by using those steps, the writer describes the context since context is a key to the understanding of the meaning or the function of indirect directive speech acts. The results of this research are that 1) the indirect directive speech acts that are used by the characters of the film entitled "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" are in the forms of word, sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative) and sequence of sentences; 2) there are three classes of directive speech acts expressed by the characters of the film entitled "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", that are requestives, requirements, and prohibitives. Keywords: pragmatic, indirect, speech act, directive


Ovarian function,also known as ovarian reserves,plays an important role in keeping normal physiological function for women.At present,there have been many methods for detecting ovarian function,and the combined multiple predictors used for prediction of ovarian reserves demonstrate clinic significance.Nowadays the related researches on the methods used for detecting ovarian function are mainly associated with assisted reproductive technology,while fewer researches are conducted on the ovarian function of specific age group,especially on that of perimenopausal women.Exploring the ovarian reserves of perimenopausal women may have important clinical significance in relieving symptoms of climacteric melancholia and preventing related diseases such as osteoporosis.


ABSTRACT It is taken as obvious that there is a conflict between objective temporal passage and relativistic physics. The traditional formulation of temporal passage is the movement of a universe-wide set of simultaneous events known as the NOW; the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) implies that there is no NOW and therefore no temporal passage. The vast majority of those who accept the B-theory blockworld—the metaphysics of time most friendly to relativistic physics—deny that time passes. I argue that this denial is a mistake. Contrary to overwhelmingly popular opinion, temporal passage does not need a NOW. To show this, I defend a relational understanding of temporal becoming, that I call B-coming, in which an event y B-comes with respect to x iff R xy. Temporal passage is then the difference in what has B-come at one point in a thing's history with respect to what has B-come at an earlier point in that thing's history. Appealing to this kind of relation is a strategy that is well-known but has been widely dismissed. This dismissal is premature; I show that the essential elements of temporal passage do not necessarily require a NOW. There can be passage without presentness.


FIELD: electricity, electric equipment. SUBSTANCE: invention is related to the sphere of electric equipment and may be used in electromechanical systems during operation of several electric motors for common load in fast-acting controlled electric drives of conveyors, weight lifting cranes, and other equipment, which should meet strict requirements of dimensional-weight and operation characteristics. Technical result is exclusion of dynamic loads on electric drive and executive mechanism, which occur during joint operation of two and more electric motors for common load and increase of reliability and durability of technological equipment operation. In multimotor frequency-regulated electric drive there are n similar in power local electric drives, which operate for common load. Every electric drive includes electric motor, transmitting mechanism, sensor of electric motor rotor rotation speed, setter of current angular speed and controller of multimotor electric drive rotation speed. Electric motors are induction motors, and speed sensors are pulse sensors. Pulse sensors have two outputs: by angle of turn and by speed. Every local electric drive contains sequentially connected unit of moment vector control of electric motor and power transducer, the output of which is connected to windings of induction motor control. Multimotor electric drive is equipped with averaging device of local electric drives speeds. In every local electric drive the first input of electric motor moment vector control is connected with output of multimotor electric drive rotation speed controller, and the second input - with output of pulse sensor by turn angle. Output of pulse sensor by speed of all local electric drives is connected to the input of averaging device of local electric drives speeds, the output of which is connected to the second input of multimotor electric drive rotation speed controller. EFFECT: improves reliability and durability of electric drive operation and exclusion of dynamic loads on electric drive and executing mechanism, which occur during joint operation of two and more electric motors for common load. 2 cl; 3 dwg


Cyberbullying among adolescents has been a major focus of attention in mainstream media and has been documented to have many negative effects, as evidenced by several highly publicized suicides of teens who had been bullied online. The growing body of research about cyberbullying has rarely considered, however, the practice of cyberbullying between intimate partners. This article focuses on the frequency, types, and effect of cyberbullying between intimate partners in teen dating relationships. I examine the use of cybertools (electronic forms of communication) as mechanisms of power and control in relationships for both the target and the perpetrator. Suggested methods of prevention and intervention for adults working with teens who are experiencing cyberbullying in dating relationships are discussed.


Abstract Electron microscopy observations of the newly discovered icosahedral phase in the Al‐Cu‐Fe ternary system show a domain structure as expected from a group‐subgroup formal decomposition from a primitive six-dimensional (6D) hypercubic unit cell to a face‐centred one with twice the lattice parameter, as suggested by Ebalard and Spaepen. The structure of Al65Cu20Fe15 can be seen as an ordered F superstructure of the usual primitive quasilattice with, at least, two motifs in the 6D representation. The smoothness of the observed antiphase boundaries and the relative weak intensities of the superstructure reflections suggest that the ordered motifs should share many geometrical features. A possibility could be that at least one of the orbits of a given atomic species arranges in space according to a 6D primitive skeleton and chemical ordering occurs on the remaining orbits.


Introduction Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is widely used for the study of white matter (WM) diseases and fractional anisotropy (FA) is commonly used as a measure of WM integrity. However, FA is also highly sensitive to such factors as non-Gaussian diffusion, crossing fibers and imaging noise, which may degrade its specificity. It has recently been proposed that the axial diffusivity (D//) of the diffusion tensor is specifically related to axonal integrity while the radial diffusivity (D⊥) is related to myelination [1]. Alternatively, q-space imaging and diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) may provide additional information about WM microstructure. The zero displacement probability (Po) is a measure of water diffusion restriction [2,3] that has been found to have significant diagnostic value in multiple sclerosis (MS) [2]. In this study, the dysmyelinating shaking (sh) pup model was studied using both the DTI and DSI measurements acquired from a hybrid diffusion imaging (HYDI) approach [3]. The sh pup is a canine mutant with a profound paucity of myelin, without the confounding effects of axonal loss, inflammation or edema [4]. This reductionist disease model may help to disentangle the many confounding pathological changes that occur in MS and other WM diseases and relate them to changes in diffusion properties observable with MR. Materials and Methods Six sh pups and four age-matched control dogs were scanned (once or twice) at ages ranging between 4 and 46 months. HYDI experiments were performed on anesthetized pups with a 3T GE SIGNA scanner with SS-SE-EPI and a quadrature extremity coil. The HYDI sampling scheme (Table 1) consisted of four icosahedral shells. The second shell was used for DTI processing, the whole dataset was used for DSI processing [3]. Other MR parameters were: TR/TE=7500/140ms, matrix= 96x96, FOV=15 cm and 26 axial 3mm slices. DTI and DSI measures including FA, MD, D//, D⊥, Po and mean squared displacement (MSD) were post-processed. WM tissues were segmented by two-stage segmentation using the FAST algorithm [5]. The first 2-class segmentation was done on MD to eliminate CSF from parenchyma; the second 2-class segmentation was done on FA to separate WM and GM. Diffusion measures of WM were compared between controls and sh pups and observed across the age range. In addition to whole brain WM, ROI analysis of the bilateral internal capsules was performed to specifically assess the most compact white matter.


Inflammation is a highly dynamic and complex adaptive process to preserve and restore tissue homeostasis. Originally viewed as an immune-privileged organ, the central nervous system (CNS) is now recognized to have a constant interplay with the innate and the adaptive immune systems, where resident microglia and infiltrating immune cells from the periphery have important roles. Common diseases of the CNS, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis (MS), and neurodegeneration, elicit a neuroinflammatory response with the goal to limit the extent of the disease and to support repair and regeneration. However, various disease mechanisms lead to neuroinflammation (NI) contributing to the disease process itself. Molecular imaging is the method of choice to try to decipher key aspects of the dynamic interplay of various inducers, sensors, transducers, and effectors of the orchestrated inflammatory response in vivo in animal models and patients. Here, we review the basic principles of NI with emphasis on microglia and common neurologic disease mechanisms, the molecular targets which are being used and explored for imaging, and molecular imaging of NI in frequent neurologic diseases, such as stroke, MS, neurodegeneration, epilepsy, encephalitis, and gliomas. Imaging microglial activation and glucose consumption in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Abstract: In Alzheimer's disease (AD), persistent microglial activation as sign of chronic neuroinflammation contributes to disease progression. Our study aimed to in vivo visualize and quantify microglial activation in 13-to 15-month-old AD mice using [(11)C]-(R)-PK11195 and positron emission tomography (PET). We attempted to modulate neuroinflammation by subjecting the animals to an anti-inflammatory treatment with pioglitazone (5-weeks' treatment, 5-week wash-out period). [(11)C]-(R)-PK11195 distribution volume values in AD mice were significantly higher compared with control mice after the wash-out period at 15 months, which was supported by immunohistochemistry data. However, [(11)C]-(R)-PK11195 μPET could not demonstrate genotype-or treatment-dependent differences in the 13-to 14-month-old animals, suggesting that microglial activation in AD mice at this age and disease stage is too mild to be detected by this imaging method. Optimization of supervised cluster analysis for extracting reference tissue input curves in (R)-[(11)C]PK11195 brain PET studies.


Scope Human breast milk contains a variety of cell types that have potential roles in infant immunity and development. One challenge associates with defining the purpose(s) of milk cells in the infant is a poor understanding of the effect of digestion on cell fate. Methods and results This study first demonstrates that milk cell death occurs after gastric digestion in mice. Then flow cytometry and RT‐PCR are used to understand the mechanism of human milk cell death and quantify live cell types before and after simulated gastric digestion. This study finds that digestion in simulated gastric fluid for 30 min reduces cell viability from 72% to 27%, with most cell death is caused by the acidic pH. The primary mechanism of cell death is caspase‐mediated apoptosis. The non‐cellular components of milk offer only mild protection against cell death from stomach acid. Conclusions Gastric digestion does not select for a specific resilient cell population to survive—most cell types die in equal proportions in the gastric environment. Taken together, these results provide a foundation with which to understand the fate of human breast milk cells in the infant's intestine and beyond.


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In three patients with malignant disease and gastric ulceration, the unusual diagnosis of metastasis was suggested by atypical barium meal features and was supported, in two, by gastroscopy and exfoliative cytology. Characteristically, a centrally-ulcerated nodule with elevated smooth margins gives rise to the "bull's-eye" sign. This is not specific for melanomatous metastasis as has hitherto been suggested.

The excision of an isolated gastric metastasis in one patient was followed by a twelve-month remission.

The autopsy incidence of gastric metastasis in patients with carcinomatosis was found to be 1–5%.


Abstract : This project studied the flow field characteristics responsible for lateral instabilities observed on the F/A-18E/F in the Power Approach (PA) configuration. Discovered during the aircraft's initial testing, these instabilities were observed when the aircraft exceeded twelve degrees angle of attack, a behavior that came to be known as PA wing drop. The problem was corrected by the closure of a vent on the aircraft body. However, neither the cause of the problem nor the mechanics of the solution was understood. This project used computational fluid dynamics to solve for the airflow properties over the aircraft with both the vent open and closed. Elements of the study included: (1) construction of a detailed computer model of the aircraft in both configurations; (2) generation of a computational grid encompassing the aircraft model and its surroundings; (3) computation of the airflow properties over the aircraft at different angles of attack; and (4) qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results. The project was performed in league with members of the Naval Air Systems Team, at Patuxent River, MD, and the NASA Langley Research Center.


In many applications in robotics, the geometry of the task environment is uncertain and so the pose of the target object may be known only approximately. For the object to be grasped successfully its actual pose must be determined using some form of vision sensing. This paper presents a novel method of processing 3-D range data for pose refinement. Given the model of the object and its approximate pose, the algorithm adjusts the pose of the object model for a best fit to the measured 3-D data. The main attributes of this algorithm are that its performance is largely unaffected by background clutter including some tolerance to occlusion and that it imposes no restrictions on the surface shape or representation scheme used for the model.<<ETX>>


As India, the sixth largest producer of greenhouse gases (GHG), contributing almost 3% of the world's total emissions and fifth largest energy consumer country in the world. India imports 70% of crude oil and experts anticipate that over 94% of its crude oil will be purchased from foreign country by 2030. Economically, biodiesel reduced country's reliance on crude oil imports, foreign exchange saving. Transesterification process is mainly used to decrease the viscosity of edible, non-edible oil and waste oil, however other properties of the oil remain same and this new fuel has been called biodiesel. Biodiesel can be used in any diesel engine without any modification such as B5 to B50 are safe for operation in any compression-ignition engine. Various studies showed that pollutants like CO, CO2, SOX, HC, PAH, PM can be reduced by using blended and pure biodiesel. NOX emissions are increased by using biodiesel. Biodiesel is an environment friendly biofuel since it provide a means to recycle of CO2; biodiesel does not contribute global warming. This review paper focuses on the biodiesel production and its potential for reducing environmental pollution that ensure overall sustainable development in India.


BACKGROUND: Bacterial strains belonging to the genus Bacillus, isolated from Cr- polluted soil (tannery sludge) were employed as consortium for Cr(III) removal from tannery effluents. Kaolin clay, a natural adsorbent, was used as supporting material for bacterial biofilm formation. The use of clay-supported bacterial biofilm has not previously been employed for the treatment of tannery effluents containing Cr(III) salt.

RESULTS: Commercial tannery effluent containing 1000 ppm initial metal ion concentration was treated in stages. The initial Cr(III) concentration of 1000 ppm was brought down to 2 ppm, a permissible level for discharge, after the fourth stage. The bacterial isolates were found to be Bacillus subtilis VITSCCr01 and Bacillus cereus VITSCCr02 by 16s rRNA gene sequencing. Batch assay and confocal laser scanning microscopy results revealed the role of kaolin as a support material in biofilm formation. Best fit was obtained with the Freundlich adsorption isotherm. The mechanism of sorption was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy–energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS).

CONCLUSION: Cr(III) removal from tannery effluent using low cost adsorbents such as kaolin and bacteria proved to be effective for metal concentrations ⩽1000 ppm; this is normally not possible using conventional treatment methods. This work has demonstrated feasible sorption of Cr(III), especially during post-tanning operations. Copyright © 2011 Society of Chemical Industry


We consider compression of deep neural networks (DNNs) by weight quantization and lossless source coding for memory-efficient deployment. Whereas the previous work addressed non-universal scalar quantization and entropy source coding, we for the first time introduce universal DNN compression by universal vector quantization and universal source coding. In particular, the proposed scheme utilizes universal lattice quantization, which randomizes the source by uniform random dithering before lattice quantization and can perform near-optimally on any source without relying on knowledge of the source distribution. Moreover, we present a method of fine-tuning vector quantized DNNs to recover any accuracy loss due to quantization. From our experiments, we show that the proposed scheme compresses the MobileNet and ShuffleNet models trained on ImageNet with the state-of-the-art compression ratios of 10.7 and 8.8, respectively.


This is the second of three articles reporting research that focused on the increasing attention being paid, to measuring the quality of health service provision. They address the problem of how quality can be measured across a multidisciplinary service and use a district child development team as an example of such a service. In part 2, the methodology of the study is explained. The findings of the interviews of a range of staff within the team are explored in detail, using the structure-process-outcome model suggested by Donabedian and outlined in the first article in the series. The final article will report the findings among carers and draw conclusions.


ABSTRACT. Previous accounts of polyploidy in the North American salt desert shrub Atriplex confertifolia (shadscale) have dealt with the distribution of polyploidy and the morphological and secondary chemical differences between races. The present study amplifies these studies and reveals additional ploidy-flavonoid races, with ploidy levels known to extend from 2x to 12x, and all except 2x and 12x represented by races with and without 6-methoxylation of flavonol compounds. Results of this study show that diploids across their range have about 113% as much DNA per genome as do polyploids and that parallel variation in monoploid genome size between diploids and accompanying polyploids can be shown in different parts of the species' range. Polyploidy, therefore, appears to have developed independently in several areas of the western United States. Hexaploids are generally not as common as octoploids in shadscale, which could be an indication of diploidization of older tetraploid races.


The last decade has seen formidable progress in our understanding of blazar jets, thanks to the advent of several higher-sensitivity observatories. I will review the status of the art for blazar jets focusing especially on the latest multiwavelength campaigns.


INTRODUCTION: A wireless sensor network-based remote medical information query system is proposed and designed.
OBJECTIVE: The proposed method aims at improving the throughput of the hospital information remote query system and reducing the response time
METHODS: The system structure is divided into three levels. The presentation layer is responsible for displaying the query operation interface of the function layer. The function layer realizes the query function according to the user instructions. The wireless sensor network is responsible for the transmission of instructions. The data layer starts the query of telemedicine information based on the Top-k query algorithm. In wireless sensor networks, the improved ant colony algorithm is used to optimize it, which improves the information transmission performance of the system.
RESULTS: The experimental results show that the designed system can complete the medical information query according to the needs of users, the system throughput and the residual energy of sink nodes are high, and the maximum response time of the system is always less than 0.5s.
CONCLUSION: It shows that the designed system has strong practical application performance and high application value.


In this paper, we report the effect of membrane composition and time on the morphology of gold nanoparticles grown in sheared lamellar phases from a 10−3 M KAuCl4 solution, using monoolein as the chemical reductant. Fractal, dendritic gold structures are synthesized when octadecylamine (ODA) is inserted in phosphatidylcholine (PC) or PC–monooleine bilayers, while without ODA, gold sphere-like particles are synthesized. Each morphology (dendrite or sphere-like particles) is macroscopically revealed by sample color. Time favors the growth of fractals at the expense of spherical particles as shown by a statistical analysis performed on 5 day-old and 21 day-old samples. Fractal structures disturb the lamellar arrangement as evidenced by small angle X-ray diffraction experiments, so that no multilamellar vesicles, usually resulting from dilution of the sheared lamellar phase, can be obtained as imaged by cryo-TEM analysis. Possible reasons for the formation of fractal structures are given.


To get a good government, bureaucratic reform is something that must be done from the beginning. Bureaucracy as a component of government must be returned to the functions, duties, and principles of public service. To develop public services that characterize good governance practice there are certainly many aspects that need to be addressed in the public bureaucracy. Writing of this scientific paper aims to know the concept of public service bureaucracy reform in the perspective of personnel law and to know the thinking of bureaucracy that can encourage good governance.
Writing of this scientific paper using approach method that is normative juridical by way of researching library material which is secondary data and also referred [as] with research of library law. For data collection on the writing of this scientific paper, the author uses literature study techniques by reviewing data in the form of library materials by reading and studying literature books and legislation related to the issues discussed author.
The conclusions of the writing of this scientific paper include: (1) The establishment of Regulation Number 5 of 2014 on the Civil State Apparatus enacted on January 15, 2014 which has brought new hope to accelerate the creation of a professional civil servants (ASN), free from political intervention, clean from corrupt practices, collusion and nepotism, able to provide public services for the community and able to perform the role as a glue of unity and national unity in order to achieve national goals; (2) Bureaucracy reform becomes an important part in realizing good governance. Bureaucracy reform is directed at efforts to prevent and accelerate the eradication of corruption in a sustainable manner, in creating good governance, clean governance, and free of KKN.


1 The effects of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and related compounds on the sensitivity of the nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh)‐receptor of bullfrog sympathetic ganglion cells were analysed electro physiologically. 2 ATP in concentrations between 0.05 and 2 mm increased the amplitudes of the potentials and currents induced by ACh, and carbachol‐induced currents. 3 Compared with ATP, ADP was less potent in producing augmentation of the carbachol‐induced current by one order of magnitude. AMP, cyclic AMP and adenosine had no appreciable effect. 4 Analysis of this ATP effect, based on Michaelis‐Menten type kinetics, revealed that ATP increased the maximum response (Vmax) of the dose‐response curve of ACh currents without an appreciable effect on the affinity (Km) of ACh for its receptor. 5 It is suggested that ATP increased the receptor sensitivity by acting on an allosteric site of the nicotinic ACh receptor‐ionic channel complex which, thus, may be linked to an ATP receptor, probably of the P2‐receptor type (Burnstock, 1981).


In highly open systems like the Internet, attribute-based access control (ABAC) has proven its appropriateness. The specification and maintenance of ABAC policies however has turned out to be complex and error-prone, especially if heterogeneous attribute schemes are involved. Here, the arising semantic Web can contribute to a solution. This paper presents an approach based on an extension of the established XACML standard. It simplifies the policies by providing an ontology-based attribute management facility.


The gingiva is frequently the spot of localized growths that are problematic to diagnose clinically besides can only be distinguished as a distinct entity by consistent histomorphology. The peripheral ossifying fibroma is a type of fibro-osseous benign tumor that can recur even after it has been removed. Clinical as well as histologic features are discussed, in addition to differential diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up recommendations. Clinically, it is tough to distinguish amid most reactive gingival lesions, especially in the early phases, so it is critical to rule out causative aspects as well as histological examination of the tissue for confirmation.


With the rapid advancement of Internet technology, the number of online shopping platforms has been increasing. Poor online shopping platform causes all sorts of trouble among the people despite convenience. A comprehensive and reasonable evaluation of online shopping platforms is of great significance. Therefore, this study establishes an online shopping platform evaluation model based on probability double linguistic‐combinative distance‐based assessment (PDHL‐CODAS). First, the notion of probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic term sets (PDHLTSs) is reviewed. Then the distance formulas of PDHLTS are defined. Thereafter, cumulative prospect theory is used to generate the cumulative weight of probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic information. Additionally, the integrated determination of objective criteria weights method is introduced to calculate the objective weight. PDHL‐CODAS method is established and applied to the evaluation of online shopping platforms. Finally, unlike the available probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic multiple attribute decision making methods, the defined method is scientifically effective.


Transferable discharge permit (TDP) programs for controlling several pollutants may manage such pollutants as several individual commodities or as a single weighted sum of the various pollutants. This paper shows that the weighted sum permit program may be appropriate for managing pollutants that have an additive or a noninteractive effect on environmental quality. However, under this approach, administrators do not have direct control over the amount of each pollutant that is discharged, and environmental quality may be jeopardized unless the selected weighting factors induce a market equilibrium that satisfies environmental quality standards for the region. Estimates of the cost-effective weighting factors that would tend to satisfy environmental quality standards under such programs are developed here. These estimates require complete water quality information and, in the case of noninteractive pollutants, treatment costs. An approach is described for estimating the cost-effective weighting factors for noninteractive pollutants in cases where treatment cost information is unknown. This approach is demonstrated for a weighted sum TDP program for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and phosphorus. The results of this demonstration suggest that for weighted sum permits for these pollutants it is possible to determine a set of weighting factors that achieve adequate environmental protection, cost efficiency, and certainty of system outcome.


This paper proposes a vision-based guidance strategy for safe navigation of a nonholonomic mobile robot in unknown indoor environments. The proposed switching-based sliding mode control (SMC) law makes the robot follow the desired trajectory as given by the guidance law. The guidance strategy uses the centroid of the depth map of an obstacle as obtained from the Red Green Blue -Depth (RGB-D) sensor to generate the desired angular velocity. The fuzzy rule-based guidance is developed to generate the desired linear velocity command. The analysis of guidance strategy is done for an infinite length obstacle. The proposed SMC is shown to be asymptotically stable using Krasovskii Method. The finite time convergence of robot navigation has been shown using Poincare Map method. The stability of the proposed SMC under burst losses has also been established. Experiments on the Pioneer P3-DX robot in different obstacle scenarios show that the robot safely navigates in presence of communication channel burst losses.


Suppose that dυ and dυ′ are two volume elements situated at points P and P′ respectively in a three-dimensional right circular cylinder, that y is the distance PP′, that z(y) is a given function of y, and that we wish to evaluate the sixfold integral taken over all pairs of points P, P′ within the cylinder. We observe that z(y) is a function of y only; so that the sixfold integral can be expressed as a single integral that is to say a weighted mean of z(y) over the relevant values of y, where the weight function is evidently given by


Intentional closure of the left subclavian artery (LSA) during an endovascular procedure can be complicated by retrograde filling of the excluded aorta, increasing the risk of aneurysm expansion and sudden rupture. Retrograde coil embolization of the LSA, as alternative to open subclavian ligature, is a safe and effective method of rapid false lumen sealing in patients requiring coverage of the LSA and carotid-subclavian bypass, even in the setting of acute aortic syndromes.


The cation Re(CO){sub 2}(2,2{prime}-bipyridyl)(P(OEt){sub 3}){sub 2}{sup +} (P {sup +}) is capable of photochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. The authors report here concerning their studies of the photophysical and photochemical properties of Re(CO){sub 2}(2,2{prime}-bipyridyl)(P(OEt){sub 3}){sub 2}{sup +}. These studies were performed by time-resolved infrared absorption spectroscopy of CO bands, by spectroelectrochemistry (IR and UV-vis), and by UV-vis flash photolysis. P{sup +} is first excited into a MCLT where the charge is localized on the bpy ligand.


Based on a wide variety of fragmentary evidence taken from psycho-physics, neurophysiology and electron microscopy, it has been possible to put together a very widely applicable conceptual model of photopic visual threshold performance. Such a model is so complex that a single comprehensive mathematical version is excessively cumbersome. It is, however, possible to set up a suite of related mathematical models, each of limited application but strictly known envelope of usage. Such models may be used for assessment of a variety of facets of visual performance when using display imagery, including effects and interactions of image quality, random and discrete display noise, viewing distance, image motion, etc., both for foveal interrogation tasks and for visual search tasks. The specific model may be selected from the suite according to the assessment task in hand. The paper discusses in some depth the major facets of preperceptual visual processing and their interaction with instrumental image quality and noise. It then highlights the statistical nature of visual performance before going on to consider a number of specific mathematical models of partial visual function. Where appropriate, these are compared with widely popular empirical models of visual function.


Light buoy is a navigation aid sign to guide ship navigation, which plays an important role in ensuring the safety of ship navigation. To predict the offset distance of light buoy and provide accurate position information of light buoy for ship navigation safety, and to solve the problem of low prediction accuracy caused by the excessive amplitude of initial training data in the traditional multiplicative seasonal model, a grey optimization multiplicative seasonal model is proposed. By analyzing the characteristics of the time series of the light buoy offset data, as well as the regularity and seasonal characteristics of the light buoy offset distance, an optimization model is established. Based on the real offset distance data of the 1 # light buoy in Meizhou Bay, the model is simulated, and the prediction accuracy of the model is evaluated by MAPE, RMSE, and the Monte Carlo sampling method. The results show that, compared to the traditional multiplicative seasonal model, the average absolute percentage error of the grey optimization multiplicative seasonal model is reduced by 6.66%, and the root mean square error is reduced by 2.96. It shows that the model can effectively deal with the problem that the error of the prediction results caused by the instability of the initial time series of the traditional multiplicative seasonal model is too large, which provides a new idea for the prediction of the offset distance of the light buoy and the navigation safety of the ship.


This book chronicles the massive shift of southern electoral power to the Republican party, "The Vital South" explores the history, meaning, and ramifications of a Republican South in presidential politics. Combining political narrative, in-depth analysis, and telling anecdotes, it aims to be a definitive source on southern presidential politics for some time to come.


A method of fabricating a light emitting device having a specific target color, CIE xy, of emitted light is described. The device comprises a light emitting diode that is operable to emit light of a first wavelength range and at least one phosphor material which converts at least a part of the light into light of a second wavelength range wherein light emitted by the device comprises the combined light of the first and second wavelength ranges. The method comprises: depositing a pre-selected quantity of the at least one phosphor material on a light emitting surface of the light emitting diode; operating the light emitting diode; measuring the color of light emitted by the device; comparing the measured color with the specific target color; and depositing and/or removing phosphor material to attain the desired target color.


During 2013 the writings of the Pre-Raphaelites continued to inspire steady interest, as critics and scholars focused on the relationship between biography and literary creation, and the publication contexts and visual qualities of Pre-Raphaelite literature. As in past years, interest centered on the philosophical and religious nuances of Christina Rossetti's poetry, and in addition, Elizabeth Siddal's writing received rare and welcome critical scrutiny. The Rossettis and Elizabeth Siddal: Frances Dickey's The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound (University of Virginia Press) outlines a trajectory of Victorian and modernist poems that explore complexities of individuality and selfhood. In chapter 1, "Portraiture in the Rossetti Circle: Window, Object, or Mirror," Dickey contrasts the "portrait poems" of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which assume a painting's intelligibility as an index of the soul, with Rossetti's two poems titled "The Portrait" and Swinburne's "Before the Glass," written in response to Whistler's "Symphony in White." Rossetti's "Portraits" offer contrasting approaches; whereas his sonnet "The Portrait" attributes subject-like capacities to the painting itself, subsuming both artist and subject within its beautiful surfaces, his 12-stanza interior monologue broods on the gap between portrait and memory, as the speaker's self dissolves into the mirroring portrait and his present identity into that of the past. Similarly Swinburne's poem denies any unified interiority to the woman represented in Whistler's painting, celebrating instead the many forms of reflection suggested by her image. Dickey notes that this "interspatial" sense of identity--formed between persons and between persons and objects--anticipates that of twentieth-century modernists, who valued "multivocality, non-narrativity, and a system of surface reflections" (46). Dickey's discussion of portrait poems of the 1860s and 70s might usefully have been supplemented by considering an alternate tradition of mirror/self-portrait poems by women such as Augusta Webster and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, however, and its swift historical slide from male Pre-Raphaelites to male modernists could benefit from attention to intermediary portrait/mirror poems by Michael Field, Mary Coleridge, and other fin de siecle poets. In Christina Rossetti's Gothic (Bloomsbury), Serena Trowbridge argues that poetry is "a form positioned to manifest elements of Gothic, since it is by nature fractured" (23) She interprets Rossetti's poetry as an expression of such a Gothic sensibility, seen as "a collective term for an assortment of tropes and styles," (1) which include preoccupation with death, the grotesque, and haunting. Although many of the features Trowbridge identifies as Gothic also fit well within other interpretive contexts, her readings provide an alternate approach to the many discussions of Rossetti's theology per se. In chapter 1, "The Spectrality of Rossettian Gothic," Trowbridge reviews theoretical insights on haunting, ghosts, and other spectral phenomena offered by Freud, Derrida, Terry Castle, Alison Chapman, and others, and applies these definitions to several Rossetti poems in which a speaker expresses terror at a haunting presence or crosses a tabooed threshold. She notes that Rossetti's ghost poems are most often "fragments of narrative--the thoughts of the speaker, or a ballad with a story only hinted at" (51-52). In chapter 2, "Early Influences: Rossetti and the Gothic of Maturin," Trowbridge argues for the importance of Rossetti's eight early poems based on novels by Charles Maturin. She observes that Maturin provided Rossetti with models of strong-minded heroines trapped in convents, torn between earthly and spiritual love, or suffering from their own as well as others' transgressions, all situations that recur repeatedly throughout her later works. Unlike their tormented or transgressive originals, however, Rossetti's Maturin-based heroines achieve redemption, and Trowbridge remarks that for Rossetti, "the shadow of the fallen world of the Gothic novel serves only to indicate the eternal glories of heaven" (87). …


Abstract Ewe reproduction and lamb performance in two breeds (East Friesian Composite (EF) and Romney) was assessed at five different breeding and lambing periods within a year, including three aseasonal breeding periods, over a 3‐year period. The experiment was designed so that weaning coincided with the first day of each synchronised breeding period. In addition to intravaginal progesterone, eCG was used for aseasonal breeding periods (January, August, November). Pregnancy rates in March (EF; 94%, Romney; 91%) and June (EF; 91%, Romney; 91%) were higher than August (EF; 54%, Romney; 45%), November (EF; 49%, Romney; 41%) and January (EF; 68%, Romney; 39%; P < 0.001). Number of lambs born and weaned per ewe lambed was highest for August‐bred EF and March‐bred Romney ewes, and varied within and between years. November‐born lambs were heaviest at birth and had the lowest mortality, and March‐born lambs were the lightest at birth (P < 0.05). Lambs born to EF ewes were heavier than Romney lambs (P < 0.05). August‐born lambs were heaviest at weaning and grew faster from birth to weaning than lambs born in other lambing periods. This experiment demonstrated that for either an accelerated or an out‐of‐season lamb production system to be successful, low out‐of‐season pregnancy rates need to be addressed.


ion. In "The Surreality of Videotape" (1976), the artist Ingrid Wiegand noted the low resolution of early video, describing how the closer the viewer got to the video image, the more undefined it became.90 The imprecision of the images generated by video, Wiegand averred, entailed that they "shimmer at the edge of the familiar, eliciting momentary glimpses of unconsciously articulated possibilities."91 The video practitioner Stuart Marshall comparably reflected that the disintegration of the video image into an electronic blur reveals how "as an object of desire it is properly elusive."92 In these accounts, the video image is not a coherent, easily accessible whole but undefined and ambiguous. Video's combination of materiality and abstraction converged with Jonas's understanding of the image as concrete but multivalent. The video images that Jonas incorporates into works like Organic Honey's Vertical Roll are not simply triggers that kick-start fetishistic desire but unstable entities that might, like the writings of the Imagist poets, open up at any moment onto vertiginous depths, bridging conscious and unconscious realms. Jonas's work across performance, film, and video attests to a fascination with the afterlives of images, particularly their psychic reverberations and potential to Joan Jonas, Organic Honey's Vertical Roll, 1972, video performance, Ace Gallery, Venice, CA (artwork © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019; photograph by Roberta Neiman, provided by Joan Jonas/Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York) CAA-AJ-SP21-INTERIOR-2021-02-11_g.indd 82 2/12/21 12:52 PM 83 artjournal the University of Chicago, 2013), 44–55. 86. H.D., Helen in Egypt (New York: New Directions, 1961), 5. 87. One review of Organic Honey's Vertical Roll emphasized how "the camera focuses our attention, allowing us subconsciously to block out our environment and submerge ourselves in the image." Robert J. Pierce, "The Bang of One Spoon Rolling," Village Voice 18, no. 3 ( January 18, 1973): 40. 88. Siona Wilson proposes that Echo is as important an avatar as Narcissus for Organic Honey's "repetition with difference." Wilson, "Abstract Transmissions: Other Trajectories for Feminist Video," in Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art, ed. Gabrielle Jennings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015), 57. 89. Jonas, in "Show Me Your Dances," 15. JoAnn Hanley ascribes video's materiality to feminist politics: "Most early 1970s' video work by women is feminist simply by virtue of having been made by women at that time—a period when, as Ilene Segalove said, 'just to put your hands on the equipment' was 'a feminist act'" (emphasis in original). Hanley, "The First Generation: Women and Video, 1970–75," in Hanley and Ann-Sargent Wooster, The First Generation: Women and Video, 1970–75 (New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1993), 15. 90. Ingrid Wiegand, "The Surreality of Videotape," in Schneider and Korot, Video Art, 281. 91. Ibid., 282. 92. Stuart Marshall, "Video Art, the Imaginary and the Parole Vide" (1976), rev. ed., in New Artists Video: A Critical Anthology, ed. Gregory Battcock (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978), 117. act as instruments of feminist resistance against fetishization and as subversions of narcissism. While their reductive, objectifying, and simulacral dangers remain ever present, Jonas's images serve as mediators between lived, bodily experience and unconscious activity. Working at the intersection of literary modernism, Warburgian art history, psychoanalysis, and queer feminism, Jonas has consistently mined Imagist poetics to pursue modes of visualizing that are not easily consumable and that offer oppositional possibilities. Catherine Spencer is a lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St. Andrews. Her book Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication was published with Manchester University Press in 2020; her writing has also appeared in Art History, Oxford Art Journal, Tate Papers, and Parallax. CAA-AJ-SP21-INTERIOR-2021-02-11_g.indd 83 2/12/21 12:52 PM


As an educationist full of care about reality, J•S•Mill' utilitarianism educational concept gives individualism more broad room, reflects modern main idea, and opens up a kind of new thinking about subject self-development. At the same time, different from Bentham, Mill pays more attention to "qualitative" level-"most people, most happiness", and inquires into human whole benefits, which adds more noble and moving content for utilitarianism educational concept, and enlightens us deeply.


A method was proposed for simulating the focal plot of the concentrator field and the energy flow on the focal plane dynamically in the solar tower thermal power system.The numerical model of the concentrator field was made by ray-tracing.The theory of calculation of the focal plot was derived.A procedure based on MATLAB was developed for carrying out the real-time simulation of the focal plot and the energy flow.By using this procedure,the focal plot of the concentrator field at various instant of time can be given and the distribution of the energy flow as function of time on various position of the focal plane can be drawn.


The Hardgrove Grindibility Index (HGI) of coal is an indicator of its grindibility characteristics to determine the energy required for its pulverization. The present study is aimed at investigating the effect of inherent moisture and the blending behavior on HGIs of indigenous coals. Experiments were carried out using the standard Hardgrove Grindibility Machine to determine HGIs of three indigenous coals belonging to the Lakhra, Degari, and Chamalang coal deposits. In addition, the blending effect of six binary and six ternary blends of parent coals with different blending ratios were also tested for their HGIs. The Lakhra coal has shown the highest HGI value of 66 against 23% of inherent moisture, whereas the Degari and Chamalang coals respectively indicated HGI values of 53 and 32 against 10% and 6.95% of inherent moisture content. It was found that as the inherent moisture in coal increased the HGI values also increased. Lakhra coal, having the highest HGI value, was found to be easy to grind as compared to the Degari and Chamalang coals that have lower HGI values. The HGI values of the binary and ternary blends of parent coals, in various proportions, were found to be the proportionally average values of the parent coals.


In this paper, we added a head locating and pose measuring device into a self-produced augmented reality (AR) glasses. The output content is based on integral imaging technology, which enables the display of 3D content. The head locating and pose measuring device can drive the lens combination to rotate the phase angle, so that the wearer can view three-dimensional objects with different viewing angles without changing the displayed information. Such a design allows the wearer to continuously change the depth of focus for observation within a certain depth range, which greatly alleviates the discomfort caused by traditional AR glasses.


Specific storage reflects the volumetric deformation capacity of permeable media. Classical groundwater hydrology equals elastic storage to medium compressibility, which is a constant-in-time and locally-defined parameter. This allows simplifying the flow equation into a linear diffusion equation that is relatively easy to solve. However, the hydraulic gradients, generated by fluid injection or pumping, act as forces that push the medium in the direction of flow causing it to deform, even in regions where pressure has not changed. Actual deformation depends on the elastic properties of the medium, but also on aquifer geometry and on surrounding strata, which act like constraints to displacements. Therefore the storage results to be non-local (i.e. the volume of water released at a point depends on the poroelastic response over the whole aquifer) and the proper evaluation of transient pressure requires acknowledging the hydro-mechanical (HM) coupling, which is generally disregarded by conventional hydrogeology. Here we discuss whether HM coupling effects are relevant, which is of special interest for the activities of enhanced geothermics, waste disposal, CO2 storage or shale gas extraction.


Predicting the outcome of severe but asymptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) is difficult. In this study, investigators in France prospectively followed 104


A PLA using NAND and NOR gates for the AND and OR logic planes, respectively, is described. The circuit design, timing and power advantages are described. Nearly 50% power savings over a conventional PLA design is achieved on a 130 nm process at less than 10% delay cost. The new PLA circuit has been fabricated on a 130 nm low standby power process and tested silicon operates at 905 MHz at VDD = 1.5 V


Abstract Melt crystallization processes are predominantly used to separate and purify substances or to concentrate compounds. The thermal unit operation is based on a different equilibrium composition of a substance in a different stage of aggregation. Background information about the theory of melt crystallization can be found, e.g. in Mullin [l], Matz [2], Zief and Wilcox [3], Slown [4], Atwood [5], Ulrich [6,7], Jansens et al. [8] and Matsuoka [9].


Propagation of waves along the axis of the cylindrically curved panels of infinite length, supported at regular intervals is considered in this paper to determine their natural frequencies in bending vibration. Two approximate methods of analysis are presented. In the first, bending deflections in the form of beam functions and sinusoidal modes are used to obtain the propagation constant curves. In the second method high precision triangular finite elements is used combined with a wave approach to determine the natural frequencies. It is shown that by this approach the order of the resulting matrices in the FEM is considerably reduced leading to a significant decrease in computational effect. Curves of propagation constant versus natural frequencies have been obtained for axial wave propagation of a multi supported curved panel of infinite length. From these curves, frequencies of a finite multi supported curved panel of k segments may be obtained by simply reading off the frequencies corresponding to jπ/k (j=1,2...k). Bounding frequencies and bounding modes of the multi supported curved panels have been identified. It reveals that the bounding modes are similar to periodic flat panel case. Wherever possible the numerical results have been compared with those obtained independently from finite element analysis and/or results available in the literature.


The prioritization of criteria for the selection of radar for the air traffic control and protection by multi-criteria decision - making is presented in the paper. By analyzing the content of the available literature, the criteria and attributes of the criteria, on whose basis it is possible to evaluate the radar for the air traffic control, have been separated. The mutual influence of the criteria and attributes has been exerted by testing a group of experts using a questionnaire (the AHP questionnaire). The obtained values are fuzzificated in triangular fuzzy numbers. The processing of the gathered data - triangular fuzzy numbers and the prioritization of the criteria and attributes has been carried out by the AHP method. The consistency of the results has been tested by the ratio of consistency. On the basis of the results, the model that enables the selection of optimal radar for the air traffic control and protection has been proposed.


a) A pattern of 300 elements (from 0 to 299) is obtained as indicated above, with 0s at the positions indicated by table 4-2 (puncturing positions) and 1s elsewhere. b) For each position i=0:I-1 of the upper register containing the systematic bits (excluding the two terminating bits, always transmitted), the index j is computed as the interleaved position corresponding to i, modulus 300, i.e. 300 ) (i j π = . c) The position i in the upper register is punctured if the pattern of point a) contains a 0 at the position j." Recommended Standard CCSDS 131.2-O-1 TECHNICAL CORRIGENDUM 1


AIM:To obtain bioactive components from Rabdosia rubescens Hemsl..METHOD:The constituents were isolated and purified by silica gel and Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography. The structures were identified on the basis of physical and chemical properties and spectral data. RESULT:Six compounds were obtained in the petroleum ether and ethyl acetate fractions and were identified as daucosterol(I),β-sitosterol(II), rubescensin B(III), effusanin E (IV), rubescensin A (V) and aurantiamide acetate(VI) respectively. CONCLUSION:Compound IV was obtained from this plant and compound VI was obtained from this genus for the first time. Additionally,this paper gave a comprehensive ascription of the 1 HNMR and 13 CNMR data of effusanin E (IV) for the first time.


At the conclusion of the first stage of a two year research project on the hydrodynamic performance of trawler hull forms, this paper presents the results of calm water model tests and empirical resistance prediction methods on a double chine hull form and its single chine and round bilge derivatives. The round bilge model showed up to seven percent lower residual resistance coefficients than the single chine model with the double chine model giving results between the two. Relative results varied with speed.


In this paper the "effect of marguerite" (the formation phenomenon of multilobe scattering patterns), which was found in bistatic scattering patterns on cross-polarization upon irradiation of cylindrical digital 1-bit anisotropic metasurfaces (CDAMSs), is investigated. The results of simulation using HFSS of mono- and bistatic scattering diagrams on co-and cross-polarizations in the range from 10 to 18 GHz for various models of CDAMSs are presented. Cylindrical metasurfaces consist of azimuthally coded 1-bit modules (domains) with a small azimuthal size (relative to wavelength) of the modules. Structurally, each module is made of one or two oblique conductive meta-particles in the form of figure-eights, located on a conformal thin shielded substrate. The effect of azimuthal coding of modules on the CDAMSs multilobe scattering patterns formation on cross-polarization in the front half-space is investigated. A physical interpretation of the "marguerite's effect" mechanism due to the transferring of the scattered field energy to cross-polarization and due to the interference of the cross-polarized anti-phase partial fields is given.


Electronic coordination links markets at different locations that have initially been (partially) separated by transport costs. Rising competitive pressure should in turn affect incentives to differentiate products. In this paper investment decisions concerning transport cost reduction and product differentiation are analyzed in a heterogenous product duopoly where firms compete in two spatially separated markets. We show that firms always have nonnegative incentives to invest in transport cost reduction, while there exist parameter ranges where product differentiation will actually be reduced after an exogenous reduction of transport cost. We also compare social and privat investment incentives for both price strategies (most likely with digital products) and quantity competition (capacity decisions for physical products). Based on these results we discuss in detail how investment decisions are likely to differ from the efficient solution for each of the two kind of products.


The relationships between expert systems and hypertext are many and varied. Expert systems have been proposed as authoring environments and navigational aids for hypertext systems and hypertext systems have been proposed as knowledge representation vehicles and rule editors for expert systems. These interrelationships should come as no surprise given the similarity of intellectual challenges confronting investigators in the two respective disciplines. In each, issues of knowledge representation, control of inference, and computational complexity are central. This panel will attempt to explore some of these overlapping issues from the perspective of both basic research and commercial applications. Although some primary data will be presented, the session will be more one of making links between other Hypertext 89 Proceedings presentations and a larger body of work. Audience participation will be strongly encouraged.


This Note proposes a solution to the longstanding problem of how to fit tribal courts into the existing federal court system. After setting forth the well-established problems with the current system, the Note discusses the various practical and constitutional problems with classifying Indian tribes as states, foreign nations, administrative agencies, or federal territories. Ultimately, the Note proposes a statutory scheme that is tailored to the unique situation of the Indian tribes by focusing on the competing goals of protecting tribal culture, maximizing tribal sovereignty, and protecting the rights of non-Indians from abuses in tribal courts.


We study the dynamics of multimode semiconductor lasers with optical feedback. Our model takes into account explicitly spatial effects, which are included by considering spatial profiles for N longitudinal modes coupled to the space-dependent gain. We also consider the effect of carrier diffusion. We find that in the weak feedback regime the longitudinal modes display antiphase oscillations that lead to a nearly constant output intensity. This result is largely independent of the value of the diffusion coefficient. For larger feedback we observe in-phase fast oscillations at a frequency close to the relaxation oscillation frequency of the solitary laser. In these two regimes, the total output of the laser has the properties of a single-mode laser for nondispersive applications. We assess the validity of an existing approximation scheme that has dealt with spatial inhomogeneities by expanding the carrier density into a truncated hierarchy of moments. We demonstrate that this approximation is very good when the underlying carrier diffusion is fast, thus leading to a weakly developed carrier grating.


Starting from the citation of a notorious Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, this article proceeds to inquire into that film itself and then into Un Vivant qui Passe, Claude Lanzmann's filmed interview with the official representative of the International Red Cross, who filed a report in 1944 verifying the conditions in Theresienstadt. Not only because the Nazi propaganda film was made with the participation of a Jewish director, but also because the Jews in the film had to perform their daily lives for the cameras, it is difficult to make conclusive statements about the attitudes of the persons depicted; there are a number of obstructions to coming to terms with the visual evidence. With reference to the work of Giorgio Agamben, Primo Levi and others, this article addresses the question of how this filmed document complicates traditional tendencies in readings of Holocaust images.


The error in calculating a reservoir saturation caused by the error in the cementation exponent, m, and the saturation exponent, n, should be analysed. In addition, the influence of m and n on the reservoir saturation should be discussed. Based on the Archie formula, the effect of variables m and n on the reservoir saturation is analysed, while the formula for the error in calculating the reservoir saturation, caused by the error in m and n, is deduced, and the main factors affecting the error in reservoir saturation are illustrated. According to the physical meaning of m and n, it can be interpreted that they are two independent parameters, i.e., there is no connection between m and n. When m and n have the same error, the impact of the variables on the calculation of the reservoir saturation should be compared. Therefore, when the errors of m and n are respectively equal to 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6, the distribution range of the errors in calculating the reservoir saturation is analysed. However, in most cases, the error of m and n is about 0.2. When the error of m is 0.2, the error in calculating the reservoir saturation ranges from 0% to 35%. Meanwhile, when the error in n is 0.2, the error in calculating the reservoir saturation is almost always below 5%. On the basis of loose sandstone, medium sandstone, tight sandstone, conglomerate, tuff, breccia, basalt, andesite, dacite and rhyolite, this paper first analyses the distribution range and change amplitude of m and n. Second, the impact of m and n on the calculation of reservoir saturation is elaborated upon. With regard to each lithology, the distribution range and change amplitude of m are greater than those of n. Therefore, compared with n, the effect of m on the reservoir saturation is stronger. The influence of m and n on the reservoir saturation is determined, and the error in calculating the reservoir saturation caused by the error of m and n is calculated. This is theoretically and practically significant for the precise calculation of the saturation of complex reservoirs.


The present paper constitutes a first part of a larger monographic work concerning the systematic descriptions o f the BajocianBathonian (Middle Jurassic) ammonite fauna from the Polish Jura, south-central Poland. In the present part, the geological back ground together with the all ammonite-bearing sections studied is presented, and the systematic description o f the ammonite families Phylloceratidae, Nannolytoceratidae, Sonniniidae, Strigoceratidae, Oppeliidae and Lissoceratidae is given. Twenty four species, nine o f which left in open nomenclature, representing eight genera (Phylloceras, Calliphylloceras, Nannolytoceras, Sonninia, Strigoceras, Oxycerites, Prohecticoceras and Lissoceras) are described. Their stratigraphic ranges are also shown. Many o f the ammonites, especially the oppeliid species, are described in the present paper for the first time.


The paper examines the procedure of data preprocessing before compression, which involves enforced change of the original data width. The influence of such a procedure on the compression efficiency is estimated, the results of the study are presented, that show good perspectives of the proposed ap-proach.


Teaching archives is the basis of teaching evaluation in institutes of higher educational institutes,and it's also the necessary references for the revolution as well as development of these institutes.It is of high academic value to conduct research over the standardization and management of teaching archives for higher educational institutes.In this paper,the author will first analyze the importance of standardizing teaching archives and flaws in the management of teaching archives, then put forward some strategies on improving the standardization and management of teaching archives for higher educational institutes.


Figure 1. (a) Multiple red-yellow or brownish macules and flat papules disseminated on the cheek. (b) Dermal infiltrates of histiocytic cells characterized by enlarged, ovoid nuclei with moderate amounts of pale cytoplasm. Foam cells and Touton-type giant cells were absent (hematoxylin–eosin, original magnification 9400). Immunohistochemical staining for (c) CD163, (d) CD207/langerin and (e) CD1a (9400).


Fibrin deposition and exudation of plasma fibrinogen (Fg) have long been recognized as hallmarks of inflammation, cardiovascular disease and neoplasia. The Fg‐β15–42 domain binds to the endothelial cell adhesion molecule, VE‐cadherin, promoting endothelial cell proliferation, angiogenesis and leukocyte diapedesis. Furthermore, spontaneous blood‐borne and lymphatic metastasis of some types of tumor emboli requires plasma fibrin(ogen); however, the molecular mechanisms by which this occurs are poorly understood. We sought to determine whether Fg‐β15–42 and VE‐cadherin binding interactions promote endothelial barrier permeability and breast cancer cell transendothelial migration (TEM) using transwell insert culture systems. Synthetic peptides containing/missing residues β15–17 critical for Fg‐β15–42 binding to VE‐cadherin, and antibodies that bind to Fg‐β15–21 (T2G1) and VE‐cadherin (BV9) were used to induce or inhibit Fg‐mediated permeability and TEM. Fg induced dose‐dependent permeability of human umbilical vein and microvascular endothelial but not epithelial cell barriers. Maximal Fg‐induced endothelial permeability required Fg‐β15–42 and VE‐cadherin‐binding interactions involving Fg‐β15–17. Fg‐induced TEM of malignant MDA‐MB‐231 and MCF‐7 breast cancer cells also required Fg‐β15–42 and VE‐cadherin binding; however, such TEM was independent of E‐cadherin or estrogen receptor expression. In contrast, Fg did not induce TEM of nonmalignant MCF‐10A breast epithelial cells. Fg‐induced endothelial permeability was retained in the presence of MDA‐MB‐231 but inhibited in the presence of MCF‐10A cells. It is intriguing to speculate that loss of Fg‐β15–42 binding by premalignant breast epithelial cells serves as a molecular switch to induce a highly aggressive, metastatic breast cancer phenotype. Hence, Fg‐β15–42 represents a potential molecular target for therapeutic intervention of breast cancer metastasis. © 2009 UICC


While many consider Plato's words are as relevant today, one of the challenges for clinicians is that there is no consensus on what we mean by reflection. Without shared agreement around terminology, how can we then explore the potential benefits of reflective thinking for our professional practice? The three papers on reflection that I would like to share highlight how reflective thinking can enable us as practitioners to provide safe, person-centred clinical care. The papers recognise the messy reality of our everyday clinical practice and share how we can monitor our own thinking processes to improve the quality of our professional practice. Mann and colleagues [1] provide a systematic review of the literature in relation to reflection and reflective practice. They provide definitions and models of reflection as well as synthesising the evidence from 29 research studies on reflection from across the globe. Mamede, Schmidt and Penaforte's [2] paper provides evidence that demonstrates enhanced accuracy of diagnosis for complex cases using reflection which may provide some helpful insights for us in general practice. Finally, Malterud [3] highlights in her paper the need to explore the evidence beyond measurement and numbers in enhancing our understanding of the art and science of clinical knowledge, very pertinent today when we are practising in an increasingly target-driven health service.


This report highlights key recommendations and best practices identified at the peer exchange on Transportation Asset Management Plans (TAMP), held on February 5 and 6, 2014, in Columbia, South Carolina. This event was sponsored by the Transportation Planning Capacity Building (TPCB) Peer Program, which is jointly funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Through this peer exchange South Carolina Department of Transportation sought to gain a better understanding of the asset management process. The peers agencies represented were Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Minnesota Department of Transportation and North Carolina Department of Transportation.


Whether the accountants' occupational judgment is right or not will affect the quality of accounting informationWith the rapid development of economy and the connection of Chinese accounting with the international accounting,the accountants'occupational judgment is becoming more and more importantThe old economic system affects the development of the occupational judging ability,the operating stuff of the accountants is not high,the professional judging ability of the accountants is weakTo adapt to the development of the market economy, the accountants' occupational judgment abilities can be improved from these following four aspects:First,according to the international standards to identify the professional accountants,promote quality of the operating stuff of the accountantSecond,push continuing education and continuously renew the expert knowledge of accountantThird,emphasize the combination of accounting theory and accounting practise,work hard to raise the professional judging ability of the accountantsFourth,set up and strengthen the ethics of the professional accountants,increase the political beliefs and the professional moral level of the accountants


The rapid development of digital imaging technology and relevant products has greatly modified the photographic materials industry and significantly reduced the market needs for traditional photographic materials.Nowadays,digital imaging technology is gradually replacing the traditional imaging technology elsewhere,and new applications of imaging materials have been renovating ceaselessly and expanding immensely.This paper presents a review of the development of photographic materials industry in our country during recent years,its new products and modifications in the market.


A retrospective analysis was conducted of maternal deaths at 1 of the gynecology and obstetrics units of Civil Hospital in Karachi Pakistan. There were 127 maternal deaths over the 1979-83 period. 35 of these deaths were due to indirect causes; the remainder were due to various obstetrical causes. The overall maternal mortality rate was 27.4/1000 total births; it was 24.4/1000 total births when abortion deaths were excluded. 50.3% of the women were in the 20-30 year age group. Deaths due to complications of pregnancy labor and puerperium were 72.4%; those due to indirect causes were 27.6%. The major causes of maternal death were medical disorders (35) hemorrhage (27) sepsis (26) toxemia (16) and abortion (14). 7 deaths were due to obstetric trauma. Death from puerperal sepsis occurred more in those 25-30 years; death from septic abortion occurred in all age groups except over 40. 16 deaths were due to toxemia of pregnancy and 50% of these occurred in the 20-25 year age group. 62.2% of deaths occurred in postpartum cases irrespective of place of delivery. 37% of the patients had spontaneous delivery; 25 (19.7%) underwent surgery. 20 cases had a cesarean section 2 laparotomy for ruptured uterus and 3 mid-cavity forceps. 1 death due to Hydatidi form mole and 1 due to chorio carcinoma were coded to other causes. 109 of the 127 patients who died after admission were brought into the hospital in moribund or critical conditions. 120 of the 127 deaths were considered preventable. 85 of the patients had failed to take medical advice either due to ignorance poverty relatives attitude or transportation problem. In 20 cases the patient went to a private maternity home but the management was deficient. The avoidable factors were unsuitable booking for delivery failure to seek consultant advice and delay in sending the patient to Civil Hospital.


Image segmentation plays vital role in computer vision for image retrieval, visual summary, image base modeling, and for many other purposes. Despite many years of research and significant contributions, image segmentation is still a very challenging task to suit for variety of applications. Among the different segmentation approaches, graph theoretical approach is the most popular since it has capabilities of organizing the image elements into accurate mathematical structures and makes the formulation computationally efficient. This paper critically reviews recent graph based segmentation methods along with their detailed analysis, experimental performance and evaluation on the basis of Berkeley benchmark. The study and evaluation is useful in improving the performance of existing methods as well as helpful in the development of new methods.


New technologies, in their diverse forms, are revolutionizing the world of work, how organizations function, change and evolve and the nature of leadership, managerial roles and professional careers. They have become integral elements of business, industry and commerce throughout the world, driving the growth of the two most powerful forces in the global economy—cyberspace and computing power. However, while these are creating formidable new challenges for all organizations, they are merely the most gentle precursors to even more powerful and radical technologies (cyber, nano, bio, molecular and quantum) whose potential impact few business leaders or academics truly understand. The article describes these, and looks at the ongoing effects of emerging technologies on organizations. It then describes the impact these will have on traditional leadership, management and business practices in the near future. It also suggests ways in which business leaders can anticipate and plan for the effects of these new technologies on their organizations and leadership/management practices in the future. The article then speculates about the impact that new technologies are likely to have on humanity during the 21st century, with a warning about the potential dangers these may pose in future.


Summary form only given. We quantitatively studied upconversion in Tm,Yb:BaY/sub 2/F/sub 5/ laser crystal, determined the excitation scheme for the upper /sup 1/D/sub 2/ and /sup 5/P/sub 0/ metastable levels, and showed the possibility of avalanche pumping at 706 nm.


Time series data, i.e., data consisting of a series of timestamps and corresponding values, is a special type of data occurring in settings such as "Smart Grids". Extended analysis techniques called for a new type of databases: Time Series Databases (TSDBs), which are specialized for storing and querying time series data. In this work, we aim for a complete list of all available TSDBs and a feature list of popular open source TSDBs. The systematic search resulted in 83 TSDBs. The twelve most prominent found open source TSDBs are compared. Therefore, 27 criteria in six groups are defined: (i) Distribution/Clusterability, (ii) Functions, (iii) Tags, Continuous Calculation, and Long-term Storage, (iv) Granularity, (v) Interfaces and Extensibility, (vi) Support and License.


gg^gJi|HE stomach is provided by nature with just enough "gastric ^uice " t0 dissolve the foed that the system requires. EgT Whatever is eaten beyond what is needed, has no gastricjuice to dissolve it, and being kept at the temperature' of the stomach, which is about 100 degrees, it begins to ferment in a few hours, just as new cider turns sour when kept warm for a short time. In the process of souring, gas is generated as in the cider barrel, the bung is thrown out because of the expansion of the liquid. So with the stomach. It may be partially filled by a meal; but if more has been swallowed than wise nature has provided gastric juice for, it begins to sour, to ferment, to distend, and the man feels uncomfortably full. He gets some relief by belching up gas, but as the fermentation goes on he gets colic, or some other discom fort, which lasts for several hours, when nature succeeds in getting rid of the surplus, and the machinery runs smoothly again. But if these things are frequently repeated the machinery fails to rectify itself, loses the power of readjustment, works with a clog, and the man is a miserable dyspeptic for the remainder of life ; and all from his not having wit enough to know when he had eaten enough, and being foolish enough, when he had felt the ill effect of thus eating too much, to repeat the process an indefinite number of times, and all for the trifling object of feeling good for the brief period of its passing down the throat. For each minute of that good he pays the penalty of a month of suffering such as only a dyspeptic can appreciate. When the dyspepsia is in the stomach there is belching or eructa tions, when in the bowels, the gases pass downward, chronic diar rhoea' sets in, with its relentless wasting away of flesh and strength, and finally of life itself; or fearful neuralgias rack the whole frame, first in one place, then in another, making life a burden instead of a blessing. When there is habitual acidity or wind after meals, it is the re sult of an error in eating ; oftener of quantity than quality; and common sense dictates taking less and less each meal, and adher ing to the amount which can be taken without any subsequent dis comfort whatever.


"What I love about my work … is that it gives me the privilege of spending time with people whose jobs are so interesting, whose work is so important, whose brains and bodies are so tough. I've said it before … but some people, you know, admire medical missionaries, firemen, astronauts. I admire field biologists."

"I have a great job because I get to call up some of these scientists and say 'Hey, can I come talk to you or, better still, can I go to the central African forest with you?' And frequently they say: 'Well, all right, yes.' So that's a kid in a candy store…"

"What experts think of my book is also very important to me. If you're nodding as opposed to shaking your heads … it's very gratifying." (David Quammen, 2013)

Pale Horse. Thirteen Gorillas. Dinner at the Rat Farm. Going Viral.

Chapter titles like these are hard to resist. So here's a confession: I was first drawn to "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" by its language and story-craft. Then I discovered its eclectic mix of history, ecology, research, and yes, even math–plus its frank, conversational voice. At that point, I was hooked.

After David Quammen's latest book was published last fall, New York Times critic Charles McGrath penned his own panegyric entitled: "The Subject is Science, the Style is Faulkner."

McGrath was referring to Quammen's early days as an English major and a Rhodes Scholar, when the aspiring author immersed himself in Faulkner. Soon, Quammen had published four novels. Then came his shift to non-fiction which, he realized, could be "wondrous and imaginative, shapely and literary … [not just] explanatory."

Quammen moved to Montana and wrote a long-running column for Outside magazine followed by regular features for National Geographic and other periodicals. Today, his bibliography includes 10 science books, including "Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions" (1996), "Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind" (2003), and "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution" (2006).

Earlier this year, I spent an hour talking with David Quammen. In a moment, I'll share excerpts from our conversation. But first, meet "Spillover."


Two- and three-phase relative permeabilities have been measured for a low-interfacial-tension (IFT) brine/oil/surfactant/alcohol mixture in Berea sandstone cores. The measurements were done at steady-state conditions with a constant nominal capillary number of 10/sup -2/. These are the first three-phase micellar relative permeabilities reported to date. Continuous and slug displacements of both partitioning and nonpartitioning radioactive tracers were run for each steady-state experiment. The effluent tracer data from these experiments were analyzed by a capacitance model. Both excess phases flowing with the microemulsion showed significant capacitance effects, but the microemulsion did not. The absence of capacitance indicates that the microemulsion was probably the wetting phase in these low-IFT flows, even more wetting than the excess brine phase. The relative permeability of each phase is a function of only its own saturation during three-phase flow. Polymer dissolved in brine had little effect on the relative permeabilities of brine and microemulsion in two-phase flow.


The objective of the work was to determine the hemoglobin, serum iron and the risk of anemia in the children of the Educational Institution Virgen del Carmen district El Porvenir, January 2019, 60 blood samples were used from 32 children and 28 girls between 8-11 years. Prior to informed consent and participation consent for inclusion in the study. The anthropometric measurements were made using the following variables: weight (Kg) and height (cm) and biochemical indicators: determination of Hb (Cyanomethaemoglobin method), hematocrit (Microcentrifugation), serum iron and thus determine the risk of anemia in children School age. The average values were Hemoglobin (Hb) 12.2 g / dl ± 0.74, Hematocrit (Hto) 37.68% ± 1.98 and serum iron 87.11 ug / dl ± 28.96. The 16.67% of children presented decreased hemoglobin values, this percentage according to the BMI, represented 8.33% with low weight and 8.33% with normal weight. According to the age group, the group of 7-8 years represented 5% and the group of 9-10 years represented 11.67%. And according to sex, 10% of women and 6.67% of men. The 13.33% of children presented diminished serum iron values, this percentage according to the BMI, represented 8.33% with low weight, and 5% with normal weight. According to the age group, the group of 7-8 years represented 3.33%, and of the group of 9-10 years, 10% and according to sex, 8.33% of females and 5% of males. It was concluded that 13.33% have hemoglobin, hematocrit and decreased serum iron, which indicates a risk of anemia


A new deep learning-based approach to wall models is proposed here. The wall model is inspired by classical wall laws, which rely on wall dimensionless quantities, such as the wall distance y + , the wall velocity u + , the wall friction velocity u τ and the wall pressure gradient p + . This paper describes the model formulation, the implementation in a CFD code and demonstration simulations. The numerical results are presented for a flat plate boundary layer at zero pressure gradient and a bump case. The neural network models are trained on RANS datasets (Spalart-Allmaras model) from these configurations that account for different levels of adverse pressure gradient and Reynolds numbers. Finally, the wall model is applied and tested on RANS simulations with under-resolved meshes at the wall.


: e article describes the investigative process that was developed with a group of novice researchers in the Faculty of Social and Humanistic Sciences-Social Work- Uncia Head- quarters of the Tomas Frias Autonomous University during the 2018 management. Its pur- pose was to promote an alternative process in the training of social workers, in order to investigate, understand and transform their object of study and intervention: social pro- blems inside families' community. It corresponds to a qualitative investigation from the experientialist-intuitive theory; by giving the student the possibility to interfere on specific problems, applying scientific research techniques, the fundamental characteristic was to start from the close experience of some facts abstracted from the reality of each family and then be projected at higher levels of cognitive perception. As a result, the students managed to get closer to the concrete reality, know the problems that afflict the


For the purpose of mass propagation, the culture from the shoot tips of oval kumquat was studied. Explants were obtained from the shoot tip culture, followed by six regenerative subcultures. It was found that the rate of multiplication was four times after the explants were cultured on MS solid medium containing 30 g/l sucrose, 8 g/l agar with the addition of 1 mg/l BA and 0.1 mg/l IBA, for 30 days. The shoots cultured on an MS solid medium containing 30 g/l sucrose, 8 g/l agar with the addition of 1 mg/l BA, or 0.1 mg/l kinetin appeared to have the best growth rate.