This paper proposes an advanced fire-flame detection algorithm using camera images for a better performance than conventional sensor-based systems that are limited to a small area. First, candidate flame regions are detected from the captured images using a background model and flame-color model. After forming probability density functions for the intensity variation, wavelet energy, and motion orientation on a time axis, these probability density functions are changed into membership functions for fuzzy logic. Finally, the result function is made by defuzzification, and the probability value of a fire flame is estimated. The proposed algorithm is successfully applied to various fire videos, including indoor and outdoor fires, and shows a better detection performance when compared with other methods.


Back in 1924 U.S. Secretary of the State Charles Hughes stated:" Foreign Policies are not built upon abstractions. They are the results of national interest arising from some immediate exigency or standing out vividly in historical perspective" Canadian policy towards the Liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971 was not an isolated issue rather it was the product of its well-defined national interest. Against the backdrop of the outbreak of the Civil war and Pakistan army's wanton genocide in former East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Canadian Government observed studied silence and followed a policy of non-interference in the internal matters of other state. At this point Canadian government refused to take any public position and was totally reluctant to involve in this kind of civil conflict. The government of Canada also perceived that pious declaration against war would not achieve any thing.


A window-type warning system for vehicles is proposed. Auxiliary information is directly displayed on the windshield of a vehicle. According to the image information of obstacles and the driver from cameras, the coordinates of the obstacles relative to the moving vehicle are calculated in realtime. The line of vision equation is constructed from coordinates of the driver and an obstacle. The explicit equation of the intersection point between the line of vision and the windshield surface is derived using the algebraic method. Based on the mathematical model of the window-type warning system, a computer simulation program is constructed to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed system.


The essay questions the dichotomy between 'push' and 'pull' motivation to act morally, asking for the motivational power of Kant's categorical imperative instead, its functionality as well as its sources. With reference to Christine Korsgaard it can be shown that personal integrity together with the notion of an ideal common world form one single source of motivation, grounded in exercising our autonomy. In a last step this outline of a kantian ethics of automony is related to the notion of God, whose role is illustrated in Kant's Religion Within in a surprising way.


Anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering (ASAXS) was employed to analyze CdSxSe1 − x-doped silicate glasses, x = 0.4 and 0.6. From the intensity variations, as measured for four X-ray energies near the K-absorption edge of Se and at 9.5 keV, reliable values for the ratio of molecular densities in the crystalline CdSxSe1 − x phase and the surrounding amorphous matrix were found. Combination of this with the integrated intensity yields values for the CdSxSe1 − x volume fraction of 0.7 to 3%. Mean particle radii between 5 and 7 nm and number densities in the range 1 to 8 × 1016 cm−3 were obtained from fitted Gaussian and log-normal size distributions, respectively.


Objective To label neural stem cells with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) and track labeled cells with MRI in vitro and in vivo after implantation. Methods 13 SD rats were used for the study. Rat neural stem cells were labeled with SPIO combined with PLL by the mean of receptor-mediated endocytosis. Prussian blue staining and electron microscopy were conducted to identify the iron particles in these neural stem cells, and SPIO-labeled cells were tracked with 1.5 T and 4.7T MRI in vivo and in vitro after implantation. The subjects were divided into five groups, including 5×105 labeled cells, 5×105 unlabeled cells, cell culture medium with SPIO, cell culture medium without SPIO and distilled water. MRI scanning sequences included T_1WI, T_2WI and T_2*WI. R_2 and R_2* relaxation rate of labeled cells were calculated. Results (1) Neural stem cells could be labeled with SPIO and labeling efficiency was 100%, Prussian blue staining showed numerous blue-stained iron particles in the cytoplasm. (2) The average percentage change of signal intensity of labeled cells on T_1WI in 1.5 T and 4.7 T MRI was 20.53% and 24.06% respectively,on T_2WI was 40.78% and 50.66% respectively,and on T_2*WI was 46.57% and 53.70% respectively. The signal intensity had no significant difference between T_2WI and T_2*WI in 1.5 T MRI, however the signal intensity had significant difference between T_2WI or T_2*WI and T_1WI. (3) T_2 of unlabeled cells and labeled cells in 4.7 T MRI were 516 ms and 77 ms respectively, R_2 were 1.94 s -1 and 12.98 s -1 respectively; and T_2* were 109 ms and 22.9 ms, R_2* were 9.17 s -1 and 43.67 s -1 respectively. (4) Remarkable low signal area on T_2WI and T_2*WI was seen in the left brain implanted with labeled cells one week ago, however no signal change in the right brain implanted with unlabeled cells. Conclusion Neural stem cells can be labeled effectively with SPIO; R_2 and R_2* of labeled cells were increased obviously; MRI can be used to track labeled cells in vitro and in vivo.


Pavithra A/P Santhara Mogan Egg Haugh Unit Produced by Laying Hen in Implication of Sambiloto Extract (Andrographis paniculata) Against Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (supervised by Suzanita Utama M.Phil., PhD., drh as the first supervisor and Prof. Dr.Koesnoto Soepranianondo MS., drh as the Co-supervisor).
The egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an embryo develops until it can survive on its own at which point the animal hatches. An egg results from fertilization of an egg cell.
The Haugh unit (HU) is quality albumen which is measured based on height albumen and egg weight. HU is a unit which gives correlation between white height egg with egg weight.
This study research aims to determine the haugh unit production of egg quality from the laying hens infected by Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) with the implication of sambiloto extract (Andrographis paniculata).
There were total of 20 laying hens used divided into 5 treatments with respectively 4 repetitions each . 20 laying hens were necropted to see the bacterial infection of Escherichia coli. The plan used in this study is a Completely Randomized Design (CRD).
The data obtained were analyzed using variance analysis method ANOVA. If there is a significant difference, continue with Duncan's Multiple Range Test with a significance level of 5% (p <0.05).Based on the variance analysis method ANOVA, of egg haugh unit produced by laying hens, the P0+ shows a significant difference compared to all other treatments (P0-, P1, P2, and P3). P1 shows a significant difference compared to all treatments (P0+, P0-, P2, and P3) and meanwhile P0-, P2 and P3 does not show a significant difference compared to all treatments (P0+ and P1).
Based on the result, can be concluded that there is differences between the treatments. The best treatment used is P3 (sambiloto dosage 30%) and can be used on laying hens to against the Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli.


The Unison survey, Running on Empty – NHS Staff Stretched to the Limit, reveals a health service under intolerable strain (Editorial and News April 16). Sixty-five per cent of respondents say they do not have enough time to spend with patients and 55 per cent report that, as a result, care is left undone. This is despite the fact that half of the respondents work through their breaks or beyond their shift. I am surprised this figure is so low. I do not know of any of my colleagues who work to their contractual hours. We all start work early, finish late, rarely take breaks and, however much it may be frowned upon in terms of work-life balance, we take work home. It is always a struggle to keep abreast of the paperwork. If I started to work to my contracted hours, it would feel as though I was working part-time. It would be great to spend more time with family and friends. But I would feel I was letting people down – patients, as well as colleagues. I can relate to Susan Osborne, chair of the Safe Staffing Alliance, when she says that healthcare organisations are sitting on a 'nursing timebomb'. The clock is certainly ticking. I believe that things are getting worse, with yet more cutbacks, restructuring and many more trusts heading into deep deficit. Without a government U-turn on funding, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place.


Indonesia is a democratic country, with the highest authority in the hands of the people having an important role in aspects of state life. Therefore, it is very important for people to know about the life of the nation and state or in other words politics. Without political awareness, the level of public political participation is also low which can have an impact on obstacles to national development. Political awareness can be obtained through several things, one of which is joining organizations, especially for students to join student organizations. Student organizations are divided into two, namely intracampus and extrasemous organizations. Intracampus Student Organizations are student organizations that exist in universities and receive student activity funds from college managers and/or from ministries/institutions. This student organization both intracampus and extracrees has played a positive role in providing students with an understanding of political life. One of them is the extra-general organization of the Islamic Student Association. The Islamic Student Association (HMI) is an extractcoat organization founded in Yogyakarta on February 5, 1947/14 Rabi'ul early 1366 H which was initiated by the Pane


Chemical control is the main weed control method in garlic crops; however, this crop is sensitive to herbicides, which can cause injuries and decrease yield depending on the products used, application timing, rate, and cultivar. In this context, the objective of this study was to evaluate the selectivity of herbicides for garlic plants (cultivar Chonan), using different application timings. A greenhouse experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with four replications. An 8×2 factorial arrangement was used, in which the first factor consisted of a control without herbicide and seven herbicides (linuron, diuron, pendimethalin, s-metolachlor, oxyfluorfen, flumioxazin, and oxadiazon) applied according to the second factor, application timings (pre-emergence or post-emergence). Phytotoxicity, photosynthetic rate, stomata morphometry, bulb diameter, and crop yield of garlic were evaluated. Pre-emergence applications were more selective than post-emergence applications. The herbicides linuron, diuron, s-metolachlor, and oxadiazon applied at pre-emergence, and s-metolachlor, oxyfluorfen, flumioxazin, and oxadiazon applied at post-emergence were not selective for the Chonan garlic cultivar. Pendimethalin presented the highest selectivity, regardless of the application timing. and flumioxazin applied at pre-emergence and linuron and diuron applied at post-emergence were selective for the cultivar Chonan.


Under the constructure of the authority theory, the deputize issue concluding the converse selection and the morals risk is analysize in the paper. The counterplan key to solve the issure is to establish an university presidents deputor market with full competition, which means that the president needs more occupationization. The occupational president should have advance educational principle and the outstanding management ability. The three main marks are the normally selection system, the standardizing professional qualification and the marketable distribution system.


Introduction: Angrite is one of the oldest basaltic achondrites in the early solar system which is depleted in volatile elements and enriched in refractory elements (e.g., Keil, 2012). Almost all angrites show either a quenched or slowly-cooled texture. The crystallization ages of quenched angrites are older (ca. 4564 Ma) than those of slowly-cooled samples (ca. 4558 Ma). One of the most striking mineralogical characteristics about angrites is the lack of shock metamorphism. Thus, quenched angrites can be good time anchors to connect absolute and relative ages, because the age differences between two systems can be ignored due to fast cooling and furthermore there is no chronological reset by shock metamorphism. However, NWA 1670 and NWA 7203 are known to show evidence for shock (Mikouchi et al., 2003; Hayashi et al., 2018), and especially we found that NWA 7203 exhibited remarkable shock metamorphic textures. The Pb-Pb dating of angrites has been done only for angrites without shock textures, indicating the obtained ages are crystallization ages. Pb-Pb age is relatively easy to be reset by shock heating. Therefore, Pb-Pb age of NWA 1670 or especially NWA 7203 may be reset by shock heating. However, there is no study which measured Pb-Pb dating of NWA 1670 or NWA 7203. In this study, we measured Pb isotopic ratios of silico-apatite in NWA 7203 by Nano-SIMS, and discussed the Pb-Pb age of NWA 7203.


Research on the Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Model has been conducted at more than 60 institutions of higher education and at every academic and grade level. Explanations of the 21 elements of the model and beginning steps for practitioners are provided in this article to encourage initial experimentation with some of its variables.


The end of 2015 saw the agricultural sector in Sri Lanka contributing merely 8.7% to GDP while employing nearly 30% of its workforce. Plagued with low productivity, low profitability, weak diversification, poor use of new technology, ineffective extension services and the lack of a mechanism to ensure performancebased salaries to farmers, agriculture has been restricted in its growth. Yet, agriculture and its exports remain a priority as they sustain the livelihoods of a significant portion of the population, are the main source of income for the rural economy and give Sri Lanka an opportunity to fully utilise its vast natural resource base while contributing considerably to export earnings.


Recent developments in tunneling technology imply that it is possible to consider much larger tunnels for high energy circular colliders in the future. Tunnels with diameters of 200 km are being considered for a low field hadron collider called the Really Large Hadron Collider (RLHC). This tunnel might be produced for a cost of about 1000 $/m. An e{sup +}e{sup -} collider in this tunnel could perhaps study {ital t{anti t}} production at threshold with good resolution, Higgs production and e/p collisions at high energy. This note considers some of the parameters and issues of such a machine.


For the closed loop neuroprostheses the adequate feedback information would be essential. Natural sensors are adeguate means to this aim. In-vivo experiments with a rat animal model have been performed in order to obtain the data useful for elaboration. Electroneurographic (ENG) afferent signals evoked by different sensory stimuli and recorded by using single channel cuff electrodes were processed in order to understand the number of detectable sensory events. To this aim, time-domain and frequency-domain features were extracted from the ENG signals and used as input of an artificial neural network. The results obtained showed that single-channel cuff electrodes can provide information about three different afferent stimuli with reasonable good discrimination.


The Materials and Processing Laboratory at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is developing Powder Metallurgy (PM) processing techniques for high temperature cermet and carbide material consolidation. These new group of materials would be utilized in the nuclear core for Nuclear Thermal Rockets (NTR). Cermet materials offer several advantages for NTR such as retention of fission products and fuels, better thermal shock resistance, hydrogen compatibility, high thermal conductivity, and high strength. Carbide materials offer the highest operating temperatures but are sensitive to thermal stresses and are difficult to process. To support the effort, a new facility has been setup to process refractory metal, ceramic, carbides and depleted uranium-based powders. The facility inciudes inert atmosphere glove boxes for the handling of reactive powders, a high temperature furnace, and powder processing equipment used for blending, milling, and sieving. The effort is focused on basic research to identify the most promising compositions and processing techniques. Several PM processing methods including Cold and Hot Isostatic Pressing are being evaluated to fabricate samples for characterization and hot hydrogen testing.


The conductive EMC had been researched for motor drive system where the noise discrimination networks for conductive EMI noise diagnosis and intelligent noise processing software were studied. Also noise characterization and mode analysis were implemented for noise mitigation and future EMC solution scheme. Moreover, EMC experiment of switched reluctance motor drive system was done to show the efficiency of new method.


Our objective was to evaluate the epidemiological literature regarding the association between trauma to the head and ALS, in order to determine if trauma to the head is a risk factor for ALS. A Medline literature search was conducted for the period between 1980 and October 2010 using the search terms: ('head trauma' OR 'head injury') AND (ALS OR 'amyotrophic lateral sclerosis' OR MND OR 'motor neuron disease'). The references of primary articles and reviews were checked to assure completeness of the search. Articles with primary data and reference groups were reviewed. The American Academy of Neurology evidence based method for classification of evidence for inferring causality and assigning level of conclusion was used. Twelve of 14 articles published since 1980 met the inclusion criteria. One class II article and three class III articles showed an association between a single instance of head trauma and ALS that did not exceed what might be seen due to chance alone. Eight class IV evidence articles could not inform conclusions. We concluded that evidence based analysis of the epidemiologic literature does not permit concluding that a single instance of head trauma is a risk factor for, or causes, ALS (Level U conclusion).


The article presents a comparative analysis of neo-realist views of Russell and Whitehead on cosmology in the first decades of the 20 th century. It is noted that despite the similarity of the basic theoretical and methodological principles of their philosophizing, these thinkers formulated philosophico-cosmological conceptions that differed significantly from each other. The reason for this was that Russell, at the epistemological level, used the theory of degrees of certainty, and on the logical one he developed the theory of descriptions, but Whitehead, in contrast, was a supporter of the theory of critical realism in epistemology and the method of extensive abstraction in logic. All this influenced the former to pay more attention to the questions of analysis and, accordingly, to use the basic concepts of facts, logical atoms, and propositions, and the latter to focus on the question of synthesis and to consider the structure of being through the prism of concepts of actual entities, eternal objects and prehension. Hence the world for Russell is a static formation (set of events), and we only need to define its laws, and for the Whitehead world is a dynamic formation (set of processes), the laws of which still need to be understood. It is emphasized that as a result, Russell's cosmology rejected the previous metaphysics, but Whitehead's cosmology aimed at finding the origins of modern cosmology in the writings of early thinkers. Nevertheless, it is argued that the cosmological teachings of both had a significant influence on the development of analytic philosophy.


Quantum dot (QD) solar cells with carrier multiplication (CM) offer great potential for conversion efficiency improvements. CM refers to the scattering of a hot electron (hole) with a valence band electron, whereby the excess energy of the hot electron (hole) is used to create additional excitons that can considerably enhance photocurrent generation in solar cells. In principle CM can be enhanced by quantum confinement effects in QDs. Ideally, nanostructures with CM effects should be integrated easily and at low cost with current silicon-based photovoltaic (PV) technologies; this justifies our research in silicon-based QDs, which could potentially overcome the shortcomings of silicon indirect bandgap and offer quasi-direct transitions. However, research showed that the relatively wide energy bandgap of nano-silicon does not offer optimal conditions for solar energy absorption. The focus of this contribution is to report on the opportunities offered by Si-alloying in QDs to overcome the limitations of elemental nano-silicon, preserving quantum confinement effects and achieving the CM threshold at the maximum of the solar spectrum. Theoretical calculations of the electronic structure in binary SiSn compounds predict the energy bandgap to be below that of Si, which becomes direct at 0.85 eV with a minimum of 0.46 eV. However, the Si-Sn system presents some synthetic challenges due to the large difference in size between Si and Sn atoms and due to thermodynamic instability as Si1−xSnx alloys are inherently metastable. We have demonstrated that the synthesis of semiconducting SiSn QDs can be achieved via a highly non-equilibrium spatially confined short-pulsed (ns or fs) laser process. These SiSn QDs have quantum confinement size (< 10 nm) and are well dispersed with a relatively narrow size-distribution. A shift in the absorption peak down to 0.85 eV and at 0.64 eV is clearly observed. SiSn QDs have been therefore studied in details including the analysis with synchrotron radiation. In order to accurately determine the energy band structure (e.g. valence band) of the QDs, hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy using excited synchrotron radiation (hν = 7939 eV) in SPring-8 was used. 第62回応用物理学会春季学術講演会 講演予稿集 (2015 東海大学 湘南キャンパス) 13p-A27-1


Currently the development of information technology is so fast, the use of information technology is absolutely necessary to support business processes and increase the productivity of the company. Likewise with PT. Indonesia Power where the company's business development is currently technology-based. This causes the number of software and laptops to increase so that the recording and management of software, licenses and devices are still not going well because currently recording software licenses still use document files. This is felt to be less effective because tracing a license takes longer and licenses that have expired are still installed on employee laptops because of not being properly monitored. In addition to poor record keeping, several users use software that is not officially licensed within PT. Indonesia Power so that it can harm the company. Therefore, a Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard is needed using the Prototype method which provides monitoring information related to IT software asset inventory with the aim that the monitoring process can be carried out more effectively and efficiently. It is hoped that this research will produce a BI dashboard to assist the IT sector in monitoring IT software asset inventory.


ABSTRACT Juvenile competency to stand trial evaluations are performed with greater frequency than ever before; however, few guidelines exist to aid practitioners in conducting these types of assessments. One area that practitioners often address in these evaluations is the role that maturity plays in the competency status of the juvenile offender. Psychologists who specialize in juvenile forensic evaluations were surveyed to explore the methods they currently use to assess maturity in juvenile competency evaluations. Beliefs and practices regarding the assessment and influence of maturity as it relates to competency varied dramatically across respondents. Implications for further defining the role of maturity level in determining juvenile competency are discussed, as are implications for policy and practice.


The propagation of information through signaling cascades spans a wide range of time‐scales, including the rapid ligand‐receptor interaction and the much slower response of downstream gene expression. To determine which dynamic range dominates a response, we use periodic stimuli to measure the frequency dependence of signal transduction in the osmo‐adaptation pathway of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We apply system identification methods from control engineering to infer a concise predictive model. We find that the dynamics of osmo‐adaptation is dominated by a fast‐acting negative feedback through the kinase Hog1 that does not require protein synthesis. At elevated osmo‐shocks an additional, much slower, negative feedback through gene expression allows cells to adapt faster to future stimuli.


Jef Verschueren is the representative of European Continental pragmatic thought.He puts forward a new theory that pragmatics is a perspective on language and he uses the theory of adaptation to analyze pragmatics."The general concern for the study of linguistic pragmatics is to understand the meaningful functioning of a language as a dynamic process operating on context-structure relationships at various levels of salience"(Verschuren 2000:69).The focal points in contexts are the utterer and the interpreter,for the physical,social and mental aspects of contexts are activated by language users'cognitive processes.Verschueren divided interpreter's roles into five types:addressee,side participant,bystander,listener-in and eavesdropper,which can explain the adaptation of context and language choices.This is also applicable in college English classroom as the English class is also a context.At present students taught at the same time by the same teacher do not master the knowledge at the same level.One of the reason is that students are not engaged in the class at the same level.According to the Verschueren's theory,the best English teaching class is one that each student in the addressee of teachers.Addressee is a metaphor which means everyone should follow the teachers'explanation carefully and take part in the teaching activities.It has something to do with interaction theory,which considers students as active individuals but not passive receivers.One of the common interaction patterns is questioning.In this thesis,the question how to make students addresses through adoption of questioning approach in college English class will be researched.


SUMMARY Extensive trial evidence supports the use of hydroxy-methyl-glutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitors (HMG-CoA-RI; statins) in atherosclerotic disease. Statins can be divided into two broad groups: the 'natural' statins derived from a fungal metabolites, and synthetic compounds. Whether all statins have similar anti-atherosclerotic properties, or whether these actions are specific to the 'natural' statins, is controversial. This commentary reviews the differences between natural and synthetic statins with regard to including their action on the acute phase reactant C-reactive protein. Among the newer synthetic statins, fluvastatin has some positive end-point evidence while cerivastatin shares many biochemical properties with the 'natural' statins. Extensive clinical trial programmes are underway with both atorvastatin and cerivastatin. These trials will give a definitive answer to the question of whether synthetic statins are as equally efficacious as 'natural' statins in preventing atherosclerotic events.


Detecting and preventing slip is a major challenge in robotic hand operation, underpinning the robot's ability to perform safe and reliable grasps. Using the robotic hand design from the authors' earlier work, a sensing and control strategy is proposed here to prevent object slippage. The robotic hand is cable-driven, single-actuated, has five fingers, and is capable of replicating most human hand motions. The slip sensing approach utilizes a piezoelectric vibration sensor, namely, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), which is a flexible, thin, cheap, and highly sensitive material. The power of the filtered PVDF signal is shown to exhibit identifiable signatures during slip, thus providing a suitable slip detection mechanism. Using the PVDF feedback, an integral controller is implemented to prevent the grasped object from falling and ensure a safe, powerful, and reliable grasp. The extension movement of the robotic hand is controlled using a bend sensor, through a proportional-integral (PI) controller. The robotic hand weights 338 gr. The functionality and robustness of the proposed slip-detection sensory system and control logic implementation are evaluated through experiments.


Volatile fatty acids (VFAs) are fatty acids with a carbon chain of six carbons or fewer and usually referred to as short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). Degradation of biomass through anaerobic digestion will produce volatile fatty acid (VFAs) through anaerobic digestion process. The volatile fatty acids obtained can be recovered and used to produce methyl or ethyl esters which, could be advantageously used as additive for biodiesel [1]. Anaerobic digestion is a biological process that can degrade waste organic material by concerted action of a wide range of microorganisms in the absence of oxygen. The objective of this study is to degrade the biomass through anaerobic digestion for the production of volatile fatty acids by two different temperatures condition which are mesophilic and thermophilic; 35°C and 55°C respectively. The production of volatile fatty acids was optimized by varying the cycle period of the digestion process with the concentration of Mixed Liquor Suspended Solid (MLSS) maintained at 8000 mg/L for each cycle. The degradation of biomass was carried out using anaerobic sludge digester which 2L of biomass was digested from day 1 until day 24 (cycle period). The tests of MLSS and Mixed Liquor Volatile Suspended Solid (MLVSS) was conducted by Standard Method 2540-D while test for VFAs was conducted through Standard Method 8196. The highest production of volatile fatty acids was obtained in day 5 of cycle period where the concentration is 441 mg/L as acetic acid (HOAC).


BACKGROUND
Antibodies against hepatitis B surface antigen (HBs) wane over time after vaccination for hepatitis B (HB); hence, the duration of protection provided by the vaccine is still unknown but may be evaluated indirectly by measuring the anamnestic immune response to booster doses of vaccine.

OBJECTIVES
To assess the benefits and harms of booster dose hepatitis B vaccination for preventing HB infection.

SEARCH STRATEGY
We searched The Cochrane Hepato-biliary Group Controlled Trials Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (Issue 4, 2010) in The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Science Citation Index Expanded, conference databases, and reference lists of articles to May 2010. We also contacted authors of articles and manufacturers.

SELECTION CRITERIA
Randomised clinical trials addressing anamnestic immune response to booster of HB vaccine five years or more after primary vaccination in apparently healthy participants, vaccinated in a 3-dose or 4-dose schedules of HB vaccine without receiving additional dose or immunoglobulin.

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Two authors made the decisions if the identified publications on studies met the inclusion criteria or not. Primary outcome measures included the proportion with anamnestic immune response in non-protected participants and signs of hepatitis B virus infection. Secondary outcomes were the proportion with local and systemic adverse event events developed following booster dose injection. Weighted proportion were planned to be reported with 95% confidence intervals.

MAIN RESULTS
There were no eligible randomised clinical trials fulfilling the inclusion criteria of this review.

AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS
We were unable to identify randomised clinical trials on the topic. We need randomised clinical trials to formulate future booster policies for preventing hepatitis B infection.


Currently the dental laboratory using a lathe to crown buffing. This brush is mounted lathes used scaife rotation rod, but this is usually not the disc brush polishing tool deeper portion of the surface without abrasion of the surrounding structure. The apparatus is now provided a brush, the brush application orbital movement, thus to better protect the crown structure.


The invention relates to a trailer coupling (10, 110) for a towing vehicle, with a more particularly to a clutch arm full dome support (14; 114), on whose free end a coupling element (23), in particular a coupling ball (22), (92 for attachment of a trailer ) is arranged and attached at one (on the towing vehicle 90) or attachable holder (11; 111) fixedly or movably disposed, and with at least one force sensor (30) for detecting a (on the hitch 10, 110) acting force, wherein the at least one force sensor (30) comprises a sensitive to pressure and / or train deformation sensor (35) at one of the coupling carrier (14; 114) or the support (11; 111) provided for attachment site (32; 132) is arranged at which an elongation deformation and / or compression deformation due to the acting on the trailer coupling (10, 110) by the trailer (92) force caused is measured. It is envisaged that, at the mounting location (32; 132) acting one by one at a traction of the trailer (92) on the coupling element (23) Tensile load (Fx) verursachbare deformation for actuating the at least one force sensor (30) is present and acting by one on the trailer coupling (10, 110), load (Fz) of the trailer (92) verursachbare deformation for actuating the at least one force sensor (30) is present.


Correspondence Marwa R. Ali, Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. Email: email@example.com Abstract The main factors affecting the spoilage of mayonnaise are lipid oxidation and microbial contamination. Therefore, the investigation was carried out to estimate the antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of the aqueous extract of the Arabic gum (AG). The effect of the addition of AG powder on physical–chemical and sensory properties has been evaluated in different percentages of 25, 50, 75, and 100 into mayonnaise. At the highest concentration of AG 20 mg/ml, the DPPH result represented high antioxidant activity at 92.13%. AG had inhibitory effects on gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, with Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis being the most susceptible bacteria. The use of AG as an egg substitute in mayonnaise has been shown to have a great effect on physical–chemical properties. All mayonnaise samples were sensory acceptable, particularly vegan mayonnaise (100% AG) and still acceptable for consumption at 5 C for 5 months of storage. AG could be considered an additive with significant emulsifier properties, antioxidant, and antimicrobial activities. Therefore, AG is a good choice to produce new vegetarian products for consumers who are unable to eat egg-based foods.


The present invention discloses a method for controlling a vibratory roller, comprising: 1) the input v1 of the vibrating roller at a preset speed controller; 2) in accordance with a predetermined speed ratio of the frequency of all sections, the predetermined speed v1, calculating the desired total internal links predetermined frequency f1, the output preset speed v1, the predetermined frequency F1; current speed 3) real-time detection of the vibratory roller v2 and current frequency f2; 4) Analyzing the the current ratio of the current speed v2 and the frequency f2 is equal to the frequency speed ratio, if yes, step 5): if not satisfied, step 6); 5) maintaining the current frequency f2; 6) according to the speed frequency ratio, the current speed V2, the need to calculate the actual frequency f3, and the frequency f3 of the actual input to the controller. The method can uniformly strike, improve the flatness of the link. The present invention also provides a corresponding control system, and includes a control system of the vibration roller.


Some 12-oxosteroids related to 12-dehydrodigoxigenin were synthesized and their optical rotatory dispersion was examined. On the basis of the optical data obtained conformation of ring C of these 12-oxo-14β-steroids was discussed.


Calculations are carried out on the behavior of small perturbations in a current sheet of finite thickness under MHD conditions. The results show that the magnetic field component normal to the sheet does not suppress the tearing-mode instability at either high or low plasma conductivities. An effective suppression of the instability of a current sheet of finite dimensions can occur when the plasma outflow along the sheet is taken into account. This effect changes the instability threshold. The nonlinear stage is discussed. In this stage, secondary, approximately steady hyperbolic flows develop. These flows are similar to the singular current sheets of finite dimensions in pinches.


Objectives: Itisobservedthatthelevelsof retinolbindingprotein-4(RBP-4)andcytokinetumornecrosisfactor- α (TNF- α )inpeople with obesity, diabetes and low physical activity, such as postmenopausal females, are more than those of the healthy individuals. The current study aimed to investigate the effect of eight weeks of circuit resistance training (CRT) and Zataria multiflora supplementation (ZMSuppl) on RBP-4 and TNF- α in postmenopausal females. Methods: Forty-eight untrained postmenopausal females participated in the study and were divided into four groups (n = 12) of control (Con), CRT, ZMSuppl and CRT along with ZMSuppl (CRT + ZMSuppl). CRT program included 12 stations (30 seconds for each station,85% onerepetitionmaximum)foreightweeks(threesessions/week). 500mgofZMSupplwasconsumeddailyafterbreakfast inZMSupplandCRT+ZMSupplgroups. Bloodsamplesweretaken48hoursbeforethefirstsessionand48hourafterthelastsession of training to measure plasma RBP-4 and TNF- α . Results: A significant reduction was observed in plasma TNF- α in the CRT + ZMSuppl group in comparison with Con (P < 0.05). In addition, a significant reduction was observed in plasma RBP-4 in both CRT and CRT + ZMSuppl groups in comparison with Con (P < 0.01) and ZMSuppl (P < 0.01). Conclusions: ThecurrentstudyshowedthatintenseCRTcausessignificantreductiononlyinplasmaRBP-4;butthisreductionwas higher in RBP-4 and also in TNF- α , when ZMSuppl was added to CRT. Therefore, it may be an effective method to reduce disorders and abnormalities related to inflammatory factors resulting from menopause.


Summary:  Purpose: This study investigated the effect of epilepsy and/or antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) on the physical growth, pubertal development, and androgenic status of girls with epilepsy between ages 8 and 18 years.


OBJECTIVE To summarize the clinical effection of Mucosta reservation clyster in healing ulcerative colitis and to sum up the nursing experience.METHODS Fifty six patients with ulcerative colitis were divided into two groups at random.In addition to routine drugs,appropriate Mucosta were used of the patients of A group by means of reservation clyster,however,no Mucosta used in the patients of B group.Then we observed and compared the clinical effects of the patients of two groups.RESULTS To analyse the data by χ2 test,the healing incidency in A group was found to be significantly higher than that in B group(χ2=3.903,P=0.048,0R=3.178,95%CI 0.987~10.228).CONCLUSIONS Mucosta could play a protective role in colon mucous membrane in the patients with ulcerative colitis and could promote ulcer healing.It was worth further generalizition in clinic.


In the foreword to his dissertation Jakobsen declares his project to be to 'carry out as merciless as possible a critique of the concept of artistic and intellectual autonomy, a critique which I think we are in need of ' (p. 21). Critique in this sense is Jacobsen's main purpose: it is only as a consequence of exploring the role of the intellectual that he is interested in Ibsen. Jacobsen attacks what he calls a mythology of the intellectual which he finds expressed by the Norwegian author Sigurd Hoel (1890–1960). Hoel spoke of three peaks of cultural radicalism: first Voltaire and the Enlightenment, then the so-called Modern Breakthrough in Scandinanvian literature with the brothers Georg and Edvard Brandes, J.P. Jacobsen, Ibsen, Strindberg and Alexander Kielland as central participants, and thirdly the Norwegian radicalism after World War I, organized around the leader of the so-called Mot Dag-movement, Erling Falk, with the 'trio of cultural radicalism', the authors Sigurd Hoel, Helge Krog and Arnulf Øverland, as central participants. Without presenting empirical evidence against this story of the highlights of cultural radicalism, Jacobsen prematurely concludes that we are offered mythology rather than history. Jakobsen makes the point that Hoel's story slips from the European (Voltaire) to the Scandianvian (Brandes et al.) and finally ends up with the Norwegian context and Hoel himself. This seems to him to be sufficient proof of his mythology-thesis.


Principal-components analysis is sometimes used in analysis of biophysical signals. Because the expansion coefficients obtained in this analysis have the property that they are uncorrelated, several authors made the extrapolation that the eigenfunctions of the covariance matrix, which also result from the principal- components analysis, correspond to independent physiological generators. By means of a theoretical example it is proved that this interpretation is unjustified because the eigenvectors are necessarily orthogonal due to the symmetry of the covariance matrix. Signals resulting from independent physiological generators do not necessarily have this property.


The relatively strong coupling between structure, magetic and transport properties in the mixed-valence manganites 1 − xDxMnO3 (L, lanthanide; D, divalent ions) with a perovskite tructure creates a rich phase diagram [1]. In manganites, the agnetic ordering and the conduction carrier mobility are deterined by the transfer integral between the Mn3+ and Mn4+ ons, which in turn depends on the Mn–O–Mn bond angle. The ond angle may be varied by, e.g. the chemical substitution. he magneto-transport properties of manganites are known to epend on oxygen stoichiometry. In the La0.75 − xGdxCa0.25MnO3 manganites, the doping state s conserved under the substitution of La atoms (ionic radius of a3+ equal to 0.1216 nm) by the smaller Gd (ionic radius of d3+ equal to 0.1053 nm). The Jahn–Teller distortion from the erfect cubic perovskite structure is known to be enhanced by he raising Gd content. The present paper reports an influence of he broad range gadolinium substitution on magneto-transport roperties La0.75 − xGdxCa0.25MnO3 manganites.


According to standard human capital theory firm financed training cannot be explained if skills are of general nature. Nevertheless, investments of firms into general training can be observed and there has been a large literature to explain this puzzle, mostly referring to imperfect labor market issues. In German speaking countries firms invest heavily into apprenticeship training although it is assumed to be general. In our paper, we study the question to what extent apprenticeship training is general at all. Our paper for the first time studies how specificity of training may be defined based on Lazear's skill-weights approach. In our empirical part we use a unique German Qualification Survey, containing extensive information about the required skills at a workplace. We build occupation-specific skill-weights and find that the more specific the skill portfolio in an occupation is in comparison to the general labor market, the higher are the net costs firms have to bear for apprenticeship training in the respective occupations. At the same time, the more specific the skill requirements are in an occupation, the smaller is the probability of an occupational change during an employee's entire career. Due to the new definition of occupational specificity, we thus find that apprenticeship training - formerly seen as general training - is very heterogeneous in its specificity.


The Atomic ForceMicroscope (AFM) has demonstrated its usefulness on a nanometer scale surpassing the resolution of conventional profilometers and optical microscopes. The principle of operation and the instrumentation design of the AFM, as well as some application aspects, are described. Emphasis is placed on the imaging mode of the force microscopy in the regime of attractive forces. A new method which is capable of stabilizing attractive mode operation is introduced, along with analysis of the detection mechanism and evaluation of the system performance. Numerous examples illustrate the applicability of attractive mode AFM to a wide variety of samples. The software written to control the data acquisition, processing and display is described.


Recent developments in practical examination timetabling.- Computer-aided school and university timetabling: The new wave.- Scheduling, timetabling and rostering - A special relationship?.- Examination timetabling in British Universities: A survey.- Employee timetabling, constraint networks and knowledge-based rules: A mixed approach.- Automated time table generation using multiple context reasonig with truth maintenance.- Investigations of a constraint logic programming approach to university timetabling.- Building University timetables using constraint logic programming.- Complete University modular timetabling using constraint logic programming.- Using Oz for college timetabling.- A smart genetic algorithm for university timetabling.- A genetic algorithm solving a weekly course-timetabling problem.- GA-based examination scheduling experience at Middle East Technical University.- Peckish initialisation strategies for evolutionary timetabling.- A memetic algorithm for university exam timetabling.- Extensions to a memetic timetabling system.- Automatic timetabling in practice.- The complexity of timetable construction problems.- Some combinatorial models for course scheduling.- The phase-transition niche for evolutionary algorithms in timetabling.- Three methods used to solve an examination timetable problem.- General cooling schedules for a simulated annealing based timetabling system.- How to decompose constrained course scheduling problems into easier assignment type subproblems.- Other timetabling papers.


This chapter reviews theories on cooperative arrangements to determine whether they provide insights regarding the phases, factors and outcomes of civil-military cooperation. It provides an overview of the theories reviewed which identify phases in the development of strategic alliances. The identified phases of a theory are clustered under the three main headings, formation phase, operation phase and evolution phase. The chapter also provides the factors derived from a number of theories on strategic alliances. Three factors (flexibility, strate-gic fit, and trust) are considered general factors as they occurred in each phase. A network can construct a unique set of internal and external linkages for each project. A social network can be defined as a set of nodes (e.g., persons, organisations) linked by a set of social relationships (e.g., friendship, the transfer of funds, overlapping membership) of a specified type. Power and centrality play important roles in networks.Keywords: civil-military cooperation; cooperative arrangements; evolution phase; formation phase; operation phase; social network; strategic alliance development


Water treatment has been a creating issues now-a-days. Its treatment is getting the chance to be ought to in this Progressive world. The nonmaterial has an enormous potential to be used for wastewater treatment. It's intriguing properties, including high surface area are successfully recycled to abolish unprotected alloy particles, infinitesimal damage, conventional solvents and minerals from water. The assorted types of nonmaterial in like manner have the master to be gainful for treatment of water like zealots, carbonaceous nonmaterial and metal-containing Nanoparticle, in this review paper various review ways of waste water treatment was discussed.


The appearance regulations of many middle and high schools have received attention as the social concern over infringement of students' human right is heightened, This study aimed at examining students' perception of and attitude toward appearance-related regulations enforced by high schools in Seoul. For this purpose, a survey was conducted with 866 freshmen and sophomore students from six Co-Ed high schools located in Seoul. Students evaluated each of the 50 appearance-related regulations in terms of how strong they perceive the regulation is enforced in their school, how important they believe the regulation is, and finally, how much they actually observe it. The results indicated that regulations related to school uniforms are perceived important, and also were well-observed. Students, however, showed low levels of observance toward some regulations--i.e, regulations of hair styles or garments worn with school uniforms(coats, scarves, or turtlenecks). Students' personal characteristics were also found to influence their perception and observance of the regulations. This study has an implication for teachers and administers, For these regulations to be more effective, it was suggested that schools communicate the importance of appearance-related regulations to students and convince them, or consider revising their policies to reflect students' perspectives.


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Development or conservation? Build new dams and canals or eliminate inefficient and wasteful uses? New water development has not been eliminated as a possible future alternative. For the moment, however, conservation of existing supply and increased efficiency of use seem to dominate decision-making processes. A major problem to be resolved thus becomes: How do we get people to stop wasting water and use it more efficiently?


In this paper, we demonstrate the successful device-level fabrication of microelectromehcanical systems (MEMS) using a metal matrix nanocomposite material via a CMOS-compatible process. The discontinuous metal matrix nanocomposite (DMMN) is composed of an electrolytic (EL) or electroless (EN) plated nickel matrix, with nano cordierite (diameter ≈ 100 nm ~ 5 μm) or diamond (diameter ≈ 4 ~ 500 nm) embedded within. Through the addition of cordierite nanoparticles, the as-deposited ENcordierite films show marked improvement in thermal compatibility with silicon (Si) substrate. By means of Fabry-Perot laser interferometry, the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of EN-cordierite is measured to be 17.34 ppm/K, compared to 26.69 ppm/K for pure EN. On a similar note, it is also found that as the amount of incorporated diamond nanoparticles increases, the intrinsic tensile stress and temperature sensitivity of EL film is reduced proportionately.


Based on the official data in 2002-2009,the paper analyses the effect consequences of China's government procurement law by economics perspective.For the normative of government procurement actions,the effect consequences of china's government procurement law is not significant for regulating government procurement budget,and regulating government procurement mode has achieved good results,and strengthening the public tender has a significant effect,but for regulating government procurement mode selection is not significant.For improved efficiency of government procurement funds,the effect consequences of China's government procurement law is good.For promoting the healthy development of the government procurement market,the effect consequences of China's government procurement law is not significant for the expansion of market size;while contributing to the diversification of the scope of government procurement,but the different range of coordinated development is not significant,and has significant effect in promoting the local government procurement practices;As the government procurement market opening,due to data constraints,the paper can not analyses the effects of domestic market opening,but it has not effects in the international market opening.


Solid state nanopore is a potential candidate for separation of nanoparticles or biomolecules such as proteins, DNA, and RNA. However, efficient separation of particles through nanopores is a challenging task as a number of factors such as externally applied voltage, size and charge density of particle, size and charge density of membrane pore, and the concentration of bulk electrolyte influence the translocation behavior of nanoparticles through pores. This paper uses a mathematical model based on Poisson–Nernst–Plank equations along with Navier-Stokes equations to systematically study these factors. Membrane pore surface charge is found to be a vital parameter in this seperation process. Numerical results reveal that efficient separation of high density lipoprotein (HDL) from low density lipoprotein (LDL) in a 0.2 M KCL solution (resembling blood buffer) through a 150 nm pore is possible if the pore surface charge density is around −4.0 mC/m2 .Copyright © 2010 by ASME


The study deals with the use of information technology for road pricing. It characterizes the basic technological solutions of electronic fee collection systems, it specifies their technical attributes and it gives examples of their use in practice. A special part of the study is devoted to add-on telematic applications. Finally the two main fee collection systems are compared and their strengths, weaknesses and also the economic aspects are pointed out.


PURPOSE: To simplify the initial setting of an interface of a module type connecting a peripheral device, etc., to an external world. CONSTITUTION: A microprocessor 56 in a module type interface (MIU) 52 displays questions, etc., to a display 44 of a peripheral unit(PU) 40 when an initial set instruction is applied to this MIUM 52 by operating the keyboard 46 of this PU 40. A user gives necessary set conditions from the keyboard 46 according thereto. These set conditions are preserved in the nonvolatile memory 48 on the PLI 40 side.


This review examines and summarizes 16 research studies examining the writing self-efficacy beliefs of 6th to 10th grade students. In the majority of the studies, self-efficacy was found to play a primary role in predicting student writing performance. Students with learning disabilities were found to over-estimate their ability to complete specific writing tasks. Several studies found gender differences, with boys rating their confidence higher than girls, although actual performance did not differ. Grade-level differences in perceived efficacy for writing were found in some studies, but not in others. Most studies emphasized that those working with young adolescents need to be aware of the importance of self-efficacy and other motivational beliefs in conjunction with academic functioning. Difficulties with specificity of self-efficacy measures, and with correspondence between measure and critical task were found in several studies. The article concludes with suggestions for future self-efficacy research. (Contains 58 references and 2 tables of data. Appendixes contain a summary of reviewed studies and a chart indicating specificity of self-efficacy measures and correspondence between self-efficacy measure and critical task.) (Author/RS) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Writing in early adolescence: A review of the role of self-efficacy beliefs


1250 To Study and Analysis the Effect of Different Combinations of Welding Flux and Wire on Weldment Properties for L-SAW Process API X65Grade HSLA Steel Line Pipe : A Review Nishant Machhi1, Ronak Macwan2, Ajay Jaswal3 1Mechanical Engineering, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India 2Welding Department, Welspun corp. ltd, Dahej, Bharuch, India 3Ajay Jaswal, Parul Institute of technology, Vadodara, Gujarat, India ABSTRACT


Objective: BRCA1/2 gene mutations are not frequently identified in breast or ovarian cancer patients who are the first members of their family to be tested. Little is known about how probands interpret and cope with these results, which are generally referred to as 'inconclusive'. The aim of this study was to describe subjective understanding by women with cancer in response to an inconclusive BRCA1/2 test, describing the difficulties or non‐difficulties they encountered about the transmission of information to their family.


Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. J. H. Skinner, accused "personating an officer," filed March 14, 1874. Documents are a bill of indictment signed by grand jury foreman T. F. Munchison, a bond notice and arrest warrant for J. H. Skinner, and a witness summons. Also included is a printed document used by the Henderson County District Court signed by "James H. Skinner, J. P., H. Co." [Justice of the Peace, Henderson County].


Studies on serum level of some trace elements in oculocutaneous albinism subject in Owerri metropolis was carried out using standard methods. Sixty (60) volunteer subjects made of 30 male and 30 female were used for the study. With the help of syringes, their sera were obtained from their blood samples and used for trace element analysis. Observed results revealed significant (p<0.05) decrease in levels of copper and zinc in male and female oculocutaneous albinism subjects against the control. The mean values for copper and zinc in both male and female also showed significant (p<0.05) reduction when compared to the control. The observed decreased in copper could influence tyrosinase and subsequently melanin production. There is need to investigate the relationship of the pigmentation disorder with other trace elements that were not considered in the present study. This study has revealed the serum level of some trace elements in oculocutaneous albinism subject in Owerri metropolis.


Abstract : The purpose of this analysis is to identify the variables which contribute to the length of time an individual service member remains in the disability review process at Fort Riley, Kansas. Results from this analysis will assist in the development of performance improvement initiatives that maximize the quality of the Army's Physical Disability Evaluation System (PDES). This research project targets the demographic, choice related, and systemic variables affecting the total number of days Fort Riley soldiers were processed and adjudicated by the PDES during 1996.


This article starts with an overview of image processing techniques used in storage phosphor based Computed Radiography (CR) systems. Next it elaborates on a selection of image enhancement algorithms. Both the working principles and image quality issues are discussed. The main focus is on multiscale image enhancement, which has become state-of-the-art. Introduction Since the early days of CR technology developers have investigated solutions for bridging the gap between the very large dynamic range that characterizes the CR detector and the limited range of the output medium and viewing process. A considerable part of image processing functionality in current CR systems deals directly or indirectly with the issue of manipulating image contrast, in such a way that all relevant image features are rendered to an appropriate level of visibility, despite the restriction of viewing density range. CR equipment manufacturers have adopted basic image processing techniques, or they have developed dedicated solutions. With this article it is our aim to provide a better understanding of the essential image enhancement techniques of CR systems, what their purpose is, how they operate, and how they affect image quality. CR image processing OVERVIEW A simplified diagram of the image processing operations in current CR systems is depicted in Fig. 3.1. The ensemble of operations applied to the stream of image data could be roughly entitled 'image enhancement'. The role of image processing functions within this data path is to improve the visual quality of the CR image in terms of spatial resolution, sharpness, contrast resolution, dynamic range, SNR. The processing efforts in the main path have to do with maximizing the information transfer to the viewer. The enhancement of image contrast is the main topic of this article and will be elaborated in section 4. The image processing operations are controlled by parameters, which often are assigned a value in accordance with the examination type. The predefined parameter values are stored in tables, with entries for each examination type. Specification of the examination type is done immediately before or after each exposure by means of an identification terminal, and hence is prone to human errors. In current CR systems some image processing functions are controlled by internal parameters which are derived from the actual image data. The parameter values are Computerized Tomography and Image Processing, 1999 DGZfP Proceedings BB 67-CD 88 Paper 16 estimated by heuristic algorithms. This way the kind and degree of enhancement are adapted to the specific characteristics of the image in terms of density levels, dynamic range, noise level, or the presence of irrelevant regions like collimation borders. In most cases a reduced version of the original image is used as input for analysis, since this still contains the essential data for the task at hand. Although the final purpose of the analysis work is very similar among different equipment, most algorithms are proprietary, so that only little is published about their actual implementation. LPDJH UHDGRXW LPDJH HQKDQFHPHQW LPDJH RXWSXW


A variety of approaches are taken to address pervasive and persistently occurring barriers to accessibility and inclusion online. W3C Web accessibility guidelines and standards are their infrastructural nexus. This raises the question of what force guidelines and standards have in the work practices of Web developers and designers, who may use these standards and guidelines to a variety of ends.


The present invention is of the genus Listeria bacterium, in particular to media for isolation of L. monocytogenes bacteria. The present invention, in the Listeria culture medium, characterized in that it contains at least one specific substance for the identification of α- mannosidase for use in solid medium.


We prove that the dimensions of coinvariants of certain nilpotent subalgebras of the Virasoro algebra do not change under deformation in the case of irreducible representations of (2,2r+1) minimal models. We derive a combinatorial description of these representations and the Gordon identities from this result.


By far there is lack of research on different working conditions between rigid and flexible dynamics of truck mounted concrete pump booms. First a 3D model has been established by using virtual prototyping technology of a 37 m long boom in Pro/Engineering software. Then the rigid body simulation model has been built. Next modal superimposition method is adopted to change the 4 rigid body booms into flexible ones. Kinematics law and dynamic characteristics of 4 common working conditions had been studied then. Next tip displacement and the first boom hydraulic cylinder force of the 4 working conditions between rigid and flexible models have been researched. Furthermore the first natural frequencies of the structure have been calculated. The results show that the frequency of the horizontal condition has the lowest of all and the roof condition has the largest of all. Besides the cylinder forces of the flexible model are larger than the corresponding rigid ones because of the flexible boom vibration. Finally an experiment has been done on a boom test rig which proved that the established simulation model is reasonable and the frequency results are correct. All of these provide design reference to mechanical manipulator as well as reducing product development cost of such mechanism.


Hypothesis / aims of study Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the commonest disabling neurological disease affecting younger adults. Neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD) occurs in 50-80% of these patients and is the term used to describe constipation and faecal incontinence which often coexist. A pragmatic randomised controlled trial aimed to determine the effectiveness of abdominal massage in the management of NBD. This qualitative process evaluation nested within the trial aimed to capture the experiences of those participating in the intervention.


Gold(I) N -heterocyclic carbene (Au(I)-NHC) complexes have emerged as a new generation of potential anticancer agents due to their impressively high cytotoxicity and stability. Integration of their above unique functions with customized aggregation-induced emission (AIE) luminogens to achieve specific bioimaging and efficient theranostics to cancer is highly desirable but is rarely studied. In this work, we have developed a series of novel Au(I)-NHC compounds with AIE characteristics. Through systematic biological evaluation and comparison, complex 1 with triphenyl phosphine ligand was selected out as it could achieve both prominent specific imaging of various cancer cells and efficient inhibition of their growth with negligible toxic effects on normal cells due to the targeting binding and strong inhibition towards thioredoxin reductase. Complex 1 could also act as a powerful radiosensitizers to boost the anticancer efficacy with performance superior to that of popularly used auranofin. Thus, complex 1 holds great potential as a specific and effective theranostic drug in cancer diagnosis and precise therapy. The present work is anticipated to open a new avenue to the development of novel Au-based bioprobes and drug candidates.


In this paper, we proposed an evaluation method of commercial Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software package in the view of end user when ERP system is employed especially in the small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs). The proposed method consists of se


Objective: To determine the percentage and absolute number of CD4+ regulatory T‐cells (Treg) in 48 patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD). Methods: Data were classified on the basis of the stage of the disease: 17 patients were in the active stage and 31 in the inactive stage. The absolute number of CD4+/intracellular interleukin‐10+ (IL‐10+) and CD4+CD25+high Treg cells was determined by flow cytometry. The percentage of CD4+CD25+high suppressor T‐cells was determined on the basis of Foxp3 expression. Results: The percentage and the absolute number of CD4+CD25+high Treg cells were lower in patients than in healthy controls (p<0.04), and were further decreased in patients with active MCTD and were lower than in the inactive stage (p<0.01). There was an increase in the percentage and absolute number of CD4+IL‐10+ Treg cells in patients with MCTD compared to the healthy controls (p<0.02). The percentage of CD4+IL‐10+ Treg cells was higher in the active stage of MCTD than in the inactive stage of the disease (p<0.005). However, we did not find any significant difference in the absolute number of CD4+IL‐10+ Treg cells between the patients in the active and inactive stages of MCTD. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the decrease in the number of CD4+CD25+high Treg cells in an important factor in the immunoregulatory disturbance in patients with MCTD. We suggest that the increase in the number of CD4+IL‐10+ Treg cells is a compensatory mechanism aiming to restore the balance between type 1 and type 2 cytokines in MCTD.


background Nursing is a stressful profession, because it is highly specialized work done under conditions of considerable pressure and has consequently a strong psychological impact. Occupational stress has been considered a serious public health problem, especially in the case of the nursing profession, with considerable consequences for the individual, for the quality of his work and for the associated economic costs. Although the topic of stress has become an important field of research, experimental studies on stress management strategies are rather scarce, especially in the case of the so-called risk professions, such as nursing.

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The photon counting distribution of laser light scattered by a ground glass is analyzed by applying Nakagami's m-distribution to the intensity fluctuations of the speckle pattern for which the statistics are non-Gaussian. Based on the comparison of the moments between the experimental and theoretical values, we show that the experimental data can be described by the Nakagami's m-distribution.


Legal and public pressures have urged companies and firms to practice good environmental policy. Apart from that, growing environmental consciousness among consumers has also evolved into a potential marketing opportunity that many companies deem valuable. In order to effectively manage a companys environmental policy, linking it closely to purchasing activities can potentially be a helpful way. In this paper, fuzzy axiomatic design (AD) approach is used to address the issue of green supplier selection. A case study is presented to demonstrate the utilization of fuzzy AD principles in analyzing qualitative environmental performances of suppliers with the consideration of all sub-criteria. The proposed approach is able to produce indicative results in terms of information content and is capable of identifying the most eligible supplier among three alternatives. This signifies that the application of fuzzy AD approach in the area of green supplier selection is feasible and is worth further exploration.


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This paper investigates total variation minimization in one spatial dimension for the recovery of gradient-sparse signals from undersampled Gaussian measurements. Recently established bounds for the required sampling rate state that uniform recovery of all $s$-gradient-sparse signals in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$ is only possible with $m \gtrsim \sqrt{s n} \cdot{\operatorname{PolyLog}}(n)$ measurements. Such a condition is especially prohibitive for high-dimensional problems, where $s$ is much smaller than $n$. However, previous empirical findings seem to indicate that this sampling rate does not reflect the typical behavior of total variation minimization. The present work provides a rigorous analysis that breaks the $\sqrt{s n}$-bottleneck for a large class of "natural" signals. The main result shows that non-uniform recovery succeeds with high probability for $m \gtrsim s \cdot{\operatorname{PolyLog}}(n)$ measurements if the jump discontinuities of the signal vector are sufficiently well separated. In particular, this guarantee allows for signals arising from a discretization of piecewise constant functions defined on an interval. The key ingredient of the proof is a novel upper bound for the associated conic Gaussian mean width, which is based on a signal-dependent, non-dyadic Haar wavelet transform. Furthermore, a natural extension to stable and robust recovery is addressed.


According to its owners, the Forest of Seu Nico (FSN) from the Viçosa municipality, Minas Gerais, Brazil, never has been logged and is therefore considered a primary forest. Nevertheless, the forest patch suffered impacts due to selective wood and non-timber extraction, fragmentation and isolation. Aim of this study was to test if the FSN, despite impacts, preserved characteristics of primary forests, which are elevated percentages of non-pioneer (>90%), animal-dispersed (>80 %), understory (>50%) and endemic species (~40%). For that, all trees with diameter at breast height equal or major than 3.2 cm within a plot of 100 x 100 m were identified. With 218 tree species found within this hectare, the FSN's species richness is outstanding for the region. The percentages of non-pioneer (92 %), animal-dispersed (85 %), understory (55 %) and endemic species (39.2 %) from the FSN fulfill the criteria proposed for primary forest. Therefore, we conclude that the FSN maintained its characteristics as a primary forest which highlights its importance for the conservation of biotic resources in the region, where similar fragments are lacking or not described yet.


Abstract一 Inthis paper, a.~eth.o.d of active con~rol is pr~se~ted fo~'. sUI ?pressing random vibration of class of ftexible structures subject to both wind and sEusmic disturbances. It shoulcl be notecl that inherently each of them has muもuallycliferent characteristics. Therefore, it is reasonable from the practical point of view to provicle two types of controlers, one of which exclucles the vibration clue to wincl clisturbance ancl another suppresses the vibration due to seismic input. Following to the idea, the state variable is split into two parts-the one is clriven by wincl clisturbance and the other by the seismic one. Consequently the optimal controls are obtainecl in the form of feeclback ancl feedforward.


Though the design and application of a new close flue-cured house with 10-room united and double deck,the 10-room united close flue-cured house improves land-use rate,about 448.56 m2can be saved,the rate lands up 40.57%;the new design with 10-room united reduced the wall-building 285.6 m2compare to the original barn independently(including the same ancillary facilities),it can lower the construction costs of 9.8%;the door shorten more,the observed windows reduced,insulation measures for the temperature,U-type trench Moisture structural design,the number and size of Moisture mouth reduced all reduce heat loss,energy consumption reduce to 0.38 yuan/Kg,the rate reduced is 19%.With the high degree of self-control,the baking work and the baking risk can all reduce;the same time,double deck structure save more land,social and environmental benefit is obvious.With the large-scale tobacco planting,a higher level of organizing forms such as cooperatives,farms and other modern forms of tobacco farming in the exploration and practice,will promote the new close flue-cured house with 10-room united and double deck.


In 2005 and 2006, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito joined the United States Supreme Court. At that time, many observers of the Court speculated that these appointments would cause the Supreme Court to behave in a more conservative manner. This remains the archetypal understanding of these justices's impact upon the Court. However, a quantitative evaluation of the Court's behavior both before and after Roberts and Alito joined the court demonstrates that, in fact, the Court is no more conservative with Roberts and Alito on the bench than it was with their predecessors, Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice O'Connor.


Unscheduled stoppages can hit mine production hard. Portugal's Somincor turned to SKF to keep its rock crushers running and facilitate maintenance.


Cyanosis in the neonate may be an indication of serious disease. Rapid assessment is essential to decide whether transfer of the baby to a specialized unit is necessary. Transfer of babies with suspected cyanotic congenital heart disease or other structural problems such as diaphragmatic hernia should not be delayed lest the opportunity of performing palliative or curative surgery be either completely lost or the risk of such procedures becomes unnecessarily high. General measures, Including oxygenation, temperature control, feedings, etc., must be carried out with obsessive attention to detail. Most babies presenting with cyanosis are amenable to treatment and are potentially salvageable.


mSTO•UA•S OF •.W F•t•C•. often speculate on what might have happened if the French, instead of reaching out for control of a continent from their colony in the St. Lawrence Valley, had remained concentrated within the main setfiements. One school of thought contends that the clash with the Enghsh colonies, and perhaps even the Conquest itself, would have been avoided; another maintains that this sort of contraction could only have resulted in the loss of the fur trade and in economic stagnation. Although the problem may never be definitely resolved, an examination of New France's western policy between 1701 and 1713 does bring to light some basic problems that did arise when J•rome de Pontchartrain, the Minister of the Marine, attempted to reverse the expansion which had begun in the 1670's. While the policy he formulated id not require that the French withdraw from the interior altogether it did reduce the size and modify the nature of their commitments in the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley regions. To examine the aims, character, and effects of this t•ohcy is the purpose of the present article. Besides the obvious interest e question holds for students of French relations with the English colonies and the Indian tribes it also provides insights into the activities and rivalries of a number of groups in Canada which were struggling to gain control of the West. The French North American empire, which included the Great Lakes region, a considerable portion of the Mississippi Valley, and Hudson Bay until 1713, had first emerged as an organized structure during the 1680's. The southern and western zones had been opened to French commerce and influence by the fur-trading associates of Governor Frontenac, notably La Salle and Du Lhut, while the northern regions had been penetrated by a rival association of Montreal


This paper describes an architecture for the provisioning of QoS for mobile terminal in the heterogeneous wireless environment. The core network will be an enhanced DiffServ network providing several dynamically manageable traffic classes with specific QoS parameters, per hop behavior, and other requirements that realize different traffic handling for different network services to be requested. In order to provide the QoS support for end-user, the overall architecture for QoS management is required in heterogeneous wireless environment, where various hosts are connected to the different access network through the core network. The proposed architecture is based on the differentiated services, in that traffic are aggregated and forwarded in core network based on per hop behaviors. This paper also proposes the QoS management functions which are the IAQM and the AQM to provide consistent QoS management over an integrated wireless access network environment. And we evaluate the performance of proposed QoS mapping mechanism. The simulation result shows that the QoS for each session is guaranteed more effectively and this mechanism provides an end-to-end QoS between different access networks.


Pervasive Computing Environments consist of a large number of independent entities that help transform physical spaces into computationally active and intelligent spaces. These entities could be devices, applications, services or users. In recent years, advances in middleware have enabled the different entities to interact with each other. However, it is still difficult to assure that independent entities can understand the "semantics" of the environment and other entities when they interact with each other. To tackle this problem, we have used semantic web technologies to attach semantics to various concepts in Pervasive Environments. We have developed ontologies to describe different aspects of these environments. Ontologies have been used to make information systems more usable. They allow different entities to have a common understanding of various terms and concepts and smoothen their interaction. They enable semantic discovery of entities, allowing requests to be semantically matched with advertisements. The ontologies also describe the different kinds of operations an entity supports like asking queries and sending commands. This makes it easier for autonomous entities to interact with one another. It also allows the generation of intelligent user interfaces that allow humans to interact with these entities easily. The ontologies also allow external agents (such as new entities that enter the environment or entities that access the environment over the web) to easily interact with the environment. Finally, we use ontologies coupled with description logic to ensure that the system is always in a consistent state. This helps the system meet various security and safety constraints. We have incorporated the use of ontologies in our framework for pervasive computing, GAIA [63]. While we have used ontologies in the pervasive computing scenario, many of the issues tackled are applicable to any distributed system or multi-agent system.


In his immortal masterpiece The Master and Margarita, the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov describes the aftermath of a ball given by Satan, who is visiting Stalinist Moscow. The heroine of the tale, Margarita, who becomes a witch as a result of her and her lover's misfortune, is requested by the Prince of Darkness to be his Queen during this ball. She consents, hoping to help her beloved Master, incarcerated in a psychiatric clinic. However, during the ball Margarita the Queen inadvertently gives hope to a young woman who has killed her child using a scarf. Her eternal punishment had been to be given this scarf every night, as a reminder of her sin. Margarita, consumed by compassion for her suffering, asks her host to stop tormenting the young woman, instead of asking him to save her Master. She knows very well that she can ask for one favour only. Still, she asks for the young woman's release. The dialogue between Satan and one of his servants, Behemoth, which follows Margarita's altruistic decision to forgo her own reward, is enlightening.


The social history of Russia in the last decade of the 20 th century is closely related to the last stage in the development of Soviet society, the time of "perestroika". These periods have not been sufficiently studied in national historiography, especially such aspects as the daily life of people in a transition society, the social mobility of the population, and the life strategies of young people. The article discusses the influence of the new political and socio-economic realities of the turn of the 1990s on the professional self-determination of young people entering independent life at the time. The author suggests considering this issue with reference to boys and girls who chose to major in history, making every effort to enter the prestigious Faculty of History at Kuban State University at the end of the Soviet era. However, they gained a diploma of higher education in different social conditions, and they had to reconsider or radically change their professional plans. The research refers to the personal records of full-time graduates of the Department of History, Kuban State University for 1992 and 1993 and materials of 20 interviews with graduates held in 2018. The author compiles a collective "portrait" of a graduate of the full-time department of KubSU in 1992 and 1993 (applicant of 1987 and 1988). The author reveals the motivation underlying the choice they made in favour of the Faculty of History. It is established that for many people, the Faculty was attractive in terms of career growth in party organs and state administration (especially for Komsomol activists). Young people gradually realised the consequences of "restructuring" for their personal professional plans. In the unstable economic conditions of the transition to market economy, many graduates started their careers exercising the profession they had chosen (at schools, museums).


The current web 2.0 is about connecting people. In which the social media platforms were invented, and the concentration of development was focused on the application layer. There are different approaches to think about web 3.0, some; would say the future is when we have a semantic web others would argue that the future is the virtual web. In this paper, we will talk about another direction to think about the future web called the decentralized web. To enhance the web, we should be concerned with solving the problems that we have and the problems that these platforms have created. The decentralized web is focused on developing protocols and the underlying technologies that are not noticed by end users. This paper gives an overview of the challenges in the current web 2.0. Describes the decentralized web, and what are the technologies that are in development now.


We present results [1,2] from the BABAR experiment on searches for low-mass new physics. This includes a search for a light CP-odd Higgs boson (A0) in Y(1S)→γA0, A0→cc¯ decays, which provides limits on the product branching fraction B(Y(1S)→γA0)×B(A0→cc¯) at the level of 7 × 10−5 − 2 × 10−3 for A0 masses between 4.0 GeV/c2 and 9.25 GeV/c2 and a search for a dark photon (A'), a new light gauge boson introduced by dark sector models obtaining 90% confidence level upper limits on the mixing strength between the photon and dark photon at the level of 10−4 – 10−3 for dark photon masses in the range 0.02 - 10.2 GeV/c2.


As a large traditional festival sacrifice of Yi people in middle and southern Yunnan,Migaha is of much ecological significance.Through a series of rigid and sacred rituals,Annual Migaha's sacrifice tradition constantly strengthens ecological concept of co-existence of human beings and the nature,rouses ethnic historical memories and passes on their cultural psychology.Migaha folk art performance for thanking god and entertaining people promotes sustainable inheritance and transmission of ethnic culture,and reinforces ethnic cultural self-confidence.Sumptuous feast interactions drive multi-directional social communications within villages and with external communities.It also integrates every cultural subject within villages,constructs pleasant ecological relations of folk society and maintains a harmonious and close regional society.


Testing at the subsystem or black box level for lightning hardness is required if system hardness is to be assured at the system level. The often applied philosophy of lighting testing only at the system level leads to extensive end of the line design changes which result in excessive costs and time delays. In order to perform testing at the subsystem level two important factors must be defined to make the testing simulation meaningful. The first factor is the definition of the test stimulus appropriate to the subsystem level. Application of system level stimulations to the subsystem level usually leads to significant overdesign of the subsystem which is not necessary and may impair normal subsystem performance. The second factor is the availability of test equipment needed to provide the subsystem level lightning stimulation. Equipment for testing at this level should be portable or at least movable to enable efficient testing in a design laboratory environment. Large fixed test installations for system level tests are not readily available for use by the design engineers at the subsystem level and usually require special operating skills. The two factors, stimulation level and test equipment availability, must be evaluated together in order to produce a practical, workable test standard. The neglect or subordination of either factor will guarantee failure in generating the standard. It is not unusual to hear that test standards or specifications are waived because a specified stimulation level cannot be accomplished by in-house or independent test facilities. Determination of subsystem lightning simulation level requires a knowledge and evaluation of field coupling modes, peak and median levels of voltages and currents, bandwidths, and repetition rates. Practical limitations on test systems may require tradeoffs in lightning stimulation parameters in order to build practical test equipment. Peak power levels that can be generated at specified bandwidths with standard electrical components must be considered in the design and costing of the test system. Stimulation tests equipment and test methods are closely related and must be considered a test system for lightning simulation. A non-perfect specification that can be reliably and repeatedly applied at the subsystem test level is more desirable than a perfect specification that cannot be applied at all.


Within the past few decades, Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) are equipped with different types of sensors depending upon the missions and applications of the underwater vehicles. In underwater industries, sensors is the most important issue for the underwater task because of the cost, realibility and accuracy. However, the sensors that are used in the underwater vehicles are not in the form of integrated sensor and even not waterproof. Integrated sensor is very important for the underwater vehicles to carry out the underwater operations in several different areas. Nowadays, a lot of underwater industries are involved in the integrated sensor's design and development to reduce their production cost in order to increase its efficiency, accuracy, sensitivity and productivity. The aim of this project is to design and develop an integrated sensor which consists of IMU sensor, depth sensor, magnetometer and leakage sensor for underwater application. Besides that, the performance of the integrated sensor is evaluated and analysed with MATLAB real-time simulation in terms of accuracy and sensitivity. The hardware is tested by the microcontroller board and integrated with MATLAB real-time simulation. To get the real-time data from the integrated sensor, it will be programmed by a microcontroller (Arduino Mega2560). The data from the sensors are used as input for serial monitor and processed in MATLAB real-time simulation to generate the output graph for the performance analysis. The performance of the integrated sensor will be verified based on its sensitivity and accuracy. The result is the integrated sensor able to collect the data for the analysis movement of UUV with low estimation error and high sensitivity.


For rapid detection of soluble solid content (SSC) in beer, visible/near infrared (Vis/NIR) spectra of 360 beer samples were collected by using Vis/NIR spectroradiometer. Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied for reducing the dimensionality in order to decrease the overlapped information of raw spectral data, 6 principal components (PCs) were selected. The samples were randomly separated into calibration set and validation set, and least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) algorithm was used to build calibration model of SSC in beer, then the model was employed for the prediction of the validation set. Correlation coefficient (r) of prediction and root mean square error prediction (RMSEP) were used as evaluation standards, and the results indicated that r and RMSEP for the prediction of SSC were 0.9829 and 0.1506. The precision of prediction was obviously higher than that of back-propagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN) and partial least squares (PLS) models, hence PCA and LS-SVM algorithm model with high prediction precision could be applied to the determination of SSC in beer.


The extraordinary high crystal quality of III-nitrides nanocolumns makes them very attractive in both fundamental and applied fields. Self-assembled GaN nanocolumns have been grown on Al2O3, Si(111) or Si(100) in the past. A systematic study of the diameter, density and growth rate of the nanocolumns depending on impinging Ga and N fluxes and growth temperature has been recently published. While the self-assembled growth approach is relatively-easily controlled (substrate temperature and III/V ratio), its random nature leads to significant dispersion (height and diameter) among nanocolumns, making strongly difficult the planar processing and contact of each nanocolumn at the time of fabricating nanodevices. On the other hand, the selective (ordered) growth, making use of masks or patterning on the substrate, can localize the growth, yielding a periodic, homogeneous distribution of nanostructures, what makes the processing much easier. Selective area growth using Ti mask with nanohole arrays has been recently demonstrated. This work focuses on the influence that different factors have on the successful selective area growth of GaN nanocolumns. These parameters include the fabrication method, design and nitridation of the Ti mask, as well as the standard plasma-assisted MBE growth parameters such as the growth temperature and the impinging Ga/N flux ratio. Nanohole arrays (diameter typically in the range 70 nm to 150 nm) were fabricated by e-beam lithography and etching of a continuous thin (5 nm) Ti layer or by lift-off techniques using colloidal masks, on commercial GaN templates and Si(111) substrates. Due to the high growth temperature needed to promote the selective growth (above 900oC), a two-step nitridation process of the Ti mask was first optimized in order to avoid its degradation. Systematic studies of the growth temperature (from 900oC to 1040oC), the Ga flux (between 5 and 20 nm/min) and the nitrogen (from 8 to 20 nm/min) were performed.


Abstract: The study shows the fact that The One who was named "Immanuel", meaning "God with us", namely Jesus Christ, through his life and through all His earthly activity, demonstrated the absolute immanence of God on earth. Because of this, when He was asked by apostle Philip to show them Almighty God, the Father, Jesus answered Philip that the one who had seen Him, had seen God, the Father. The divine immanence was manifested in the whole life and actions of Jesus.


Maturity models help companies verify whether their maturity goal has been reached and point out some instruments that can be used to reach their desired maturity levels. Furthermore, if the organization's goal is to improve their organizational performance and competitiveness, then it is crucial to use ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems together with innovative accounting procedures and management strategies. Thus, this study aims to combine these two topics: ERP systems and maturity in IA (internal audit), assessing eventual existence of a relationship between these topics. The methodology used was a survey, through a questionnaire, to Portuguese internal auditors. From a sample composed of 83 responses, it is highlighted that although most of the results point to a high level of maturity of the IA, despite the sample size limitation, it was possible to conclude that, among other outcomes, there is no statistical evidence that points to a direct relationship between the use of ERP systems in the audit procedures and maturity levels in IA.


In this paper we carry out analysis and geometry for a class of infinite dimensional manifolds, namely, compound configuration spaces as a natural generalization of the work \cite{AKR97}. More precisely a differential geometry is constructed on the compound configuration space $\Omega_{X}$ over a Riemannian manifold $X$. This geometry is obtained as a natural lifting of the Riemannian structure on $X$. In particular, the intrinsic gradient, divergence, and Laplace-Beltrami operator are constructed. Therefore the corresponding Dirichlet forms on $L^{2}(\Omega_{X})$ can be defined. Each is shown to be associated with a diffusion process on $\Omega_{X}$ (so called equilibrium process) which is nothing but the diffusion process on the simple configuration space $\Gamma_{X}$ together with corresponding marks. As another consequence of our results we obtain a representation of the Lie-algebra of compactly supported vector fields on $X$ on compound Poisson space. Finally generalizations to the case when the compound Poisson measure is replaced by a marked Poisson measure easily follow from this construction.


In this study the translations and the reception in Sweden and Spain of the works of the French language author of Spanish origin, Michel del Castillo, are examined in the light of two concepts in the sociology of literature: consecration and legitimization. Consecration refers to the status accorded to an author by means of acts of recognition (literary prizes, etc.) while legitimization refers to the active part played by an author in the literary debate in a certain society. Whereas the first is a single, irrevocable act, the second is of longer duration but is subject to change. The books published in Michel del Castillo's early career (the late nineteen fifties and early sixties) made him a legitimized author in Sweden at that time. In Spain he did not become a legitimized author until the early years of the new millennium, when his subject matter coincided with the topics addressed in many other Spanish novels written at that time.