There are a great many complicated factors that may create ambiguity in ancient Chinese.These factors,mainly including that some words may have many different meanings,specific words may mean quite differently in Ancient Chinese and Modern Chinese,the same word may be used as different parts of speech,different words are unusually combined together,and changing word orders lead to misunderstanding,will most possibly cause great difficulties in the C-E translation of Chinese classics.Such methods as carefully choosing the relevant words,changing the word forms,reorganizing the word orders and supplementing missing information can be effective methods for disambiguation so as to not only ensure the clarity of the target text but also keep the essence and charm of the source text.


The effect of emotional and situational factors on the decision to seek out post-decision information about un-chosen alternative was examined in five experiments. Experiment 1 tested participants' willingness to find out the outcome of an un-chosen investment that was likely to have a higher value than the chosen investment. It was found that participants were more willing to acquire information when they were responsible for the decision. Experiment 2 showed that responsibility affects information seeking, in particular when one suspects that a wrong decision was made. Experiments 3–5 examined the role of regret on information seeking. It was shown that regret about making the wrong investment (Experiment 3), forgetting to send in a lottery ticket (Experiment 4), and missing an opportunity to use a discount card after spending a month in Australia (Experiment 5), mediates the information-seeking behavior. Experiment 5 also demonstrated that the experience of regret (and not its anticipation) influences post-decision information seeking even when the information is of no future use. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The pandemic has derailed the traditional networking vehicles to connect aspiring, ambitious students with industry professionals. As a result, the flow of young talent to best-fitting industry outlets is being misdirected. Moreover, many students are not inclined to accept virtual meetings as a replacement for face-to-face engagement while professionals often prefer virtual meetings as means to maximize productivity. The latter disparity has led to campus "career fairs" turning into stay-at-home experiences that students notoriously lament. Without bridges to network students with the right industry professionals to optimize hiring and onboarding processes, our society faces increasing early career turnover, loss of productivity, and disenchantment of young talent with the technical outlets that could await them. This talk will first clarify the crisis facing industries as a result of pandemic-motivated physical distancing practices. We will discuss lessons learned from recent attempts to foster genuine connections between students and the industry professionals they could work alongside in the future. The talk will conclude with a call to action on part of both students and professionals to collectively rebuild the networking system before a temporary disruption turns into a generational failure.


This paper focuses on three "Math for Parents" courses that have been implemented as part of a large project on parental involvement in mathematics. The three courses were very different in terms of content (patterns/algebra; geometry; numbers/ arithmetic), and in terms of pedagogical approach (from social constructivism to somewhat teacher-centered). Using the lens of research on adult learning, issues of content and pedagogy are explored. What do the participants (parents) seem to favor in terms of instructional approach? What content do they seem most interested in learning and why? These questions lead to implications for mathematics learning experiences for adults Context As part of a large project on parental involvement in mathematics (MAPPS) 1 , we are developing a series of courses that we call "Math for Parents" (MFP). The audience so far has been parents (mostly mothers) from a working-class, largely Hispanic community. Some are recent Mexican immigrants; others are Mexican American, and others are Anglo. Some speak only Spanish, others are bilingual-- English/Spanish and others speak only English. A main goal behind these courses was to engage parents in the exploration of mathematical topics that their children are likely to be experiencing in school. The parents attending these courses are members of the MAPPS Leadership Teams (some guests parents have also attended these courses) and as such they will be leading mathematics workshops for other parents in the community. Thus, through these courses we wanted not only to expose them to topics their children may be learning but to do so from an adult learner point of view to help them strengthen their understanding of mathematics. So far, three courses have been designed and implemented. Each course meets eight times for 2 hours per session. For the first implementation, the author of each course was also the instructor. The three courses Thinking in Patterns: this was the first course taught. Twenty-four parents took the course; there were three teachers from the Leadership Team who assisted the instructor as well as project evaluation staff and myself who were in attendance and provided assistance as


The alertness and concentration of sensitive persons can be impaired with an adverse effect on driving skills when periodic variations occur in the intensity or luminance of illumination within a greater or lesser portion of the field of view (flickering). Factors which can influence the effect of the phenomena are the frequency, illumination density distribution, amplitude, gradient and duration. The most disturbing frequency range is 5 to 10 hz, with a maximum at 8,5 hz. No quantitative research is known concerning the influence of variations in amplitude, therefore tunnel lighting schemes are designed solely on the basis of frequency. The psychological effect of flickering does not occur until a certain time has elapsed, so the phenomenon is only of significance during the passage through long tunnels. During the transit through the tunnel it is mainly parts of one's own and of the preceding vehicle which cause unpleasant effects. Up to now model tests have only been suitable for determining the disturbing frequencies. It was not possible to assess the effect of the layout of the lights on the amplitude and the variation of light intensity. For future planning it should be remembered more than heretofore that flickering phenomena should not be judged solely on the basis of frequency. /TRRL/


This paper presents an investigation of a close approach between a planet and a particle. It is assumed that the dynamical system is given by two main bodies that are in circular orbits around their center of mass and the particle that is moving under the gravitational attraction of the two primaries. This method has been under study for a long time by several authors, where the dynamical system given by the "patched-conics" is used and the motion is assumed to be planar. A series of twobody problems is used to generate analytical equations that describe the problem. Two solutions are considered for the Swing-By (clock-wise and counter-clock-wise orbit), to take into account the possibility that the particles crosses the line Sun-Planet between the primaries. The goal is to study the orbital change (energy, angular momentum, orbital elements) of the particle after some maneuvers with the planet desired and to know those values after the close approach. In particular, we are looking for geometries that allows multiple Swing-Bys without correction maneuvers. Finally, numerical simulations are performed for the Sun-Jupiter system.


Abstract Phtytoplankton group composition determined by microscopy was compared with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) derived from pigment signatures in surface water samples taken bi-weekly and monthly between October 2018 and September 2019 in the Golden Horn Estuary (Sea of Marmara). A total of 80 eukaryotic phytoplankton taxa belonging to eight algal classes were identified in surface water during the study period. Forty-three taxa (54%) were diatoms, 29 taxa (36%) were dinoflagellates and eight taxa (10%) were other phytoflagellates. The average contribution of diatoms to total phytoplankton abundance decreased considerably (41 to 25%), while the average contribution of dinoflagellates and other phytoflagellates increased markedly (59 to 75%) from the lower to the middle estuary. Chlorophyll-a and seven other group-specific pigments, including fucoxanthin, peridinin, chlorophyll-c1 + c2, alloxanthin, 19′-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin, 19′-butanoyloxyfucoxanthin and divinyl chlorophyll-a were identified in the study area. The relative contribution of the major phytoplankton groups to chlorophyll-a was estimated on three different initial ratio matrices by CHEMTAX. The results obtained were compared with those from microscopic examination. It was concluded that the CHEMTAX method was not accurate enough to characterize the phytoplankton community in the Golden Horn Estuary ecosystem and microscopic analysis was essential to determine the major contributing species to chlorophyll-a.


Discusses some of the problems designers face in building catalogs in large networks and relates them back to the resource discovery problem. Currently many catalogs tend to be built in an ad hoc fashion ‐ which leads to a great variety in the quality of publicly accessible network catalogs. Furthermore, the research surrounding these catalogs tends to focus on narrow technical issues ‐ resulting in difficult‐to‐use catalogs. Addresses this problem by providing a usability framework based on the library science and human computer interaction literature, and demonstrates some of those principles via an example of a prototype. Results are interesting to resource discovery tool developers in that a framework for understanding the general resource discovery problem is provided and some techniques for dealing with those problems are presented.


First launched in 1972, the Landsat satellite sensors have provided the longest continuous record of high-quality images of the earth's surface that are used in both civilian and military applications. The Landsat Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) sensor was onboard Landsat-1 through Landsat-5. In fact, the MSS sensors provide the only systematic global multispectral space-based imagery of the earth's surface from 1972 to 1982. This paper focuses on the radiometric calibration update of the Landsats 1–5 MSS sensors. The radiometric calibration was performed in both radiance- and reflectance-based scales through the cross-calibration approach. Simultaneous or near-simultaneous image collections were available for MSS sensor pairs and used for the cross-calibration. The estimated uncertainties for this calibration update exhibit progressively decreasing calibration accuracy, ranging from 5.1% for MSS-5 to 8.8% for MSS-1 in the green spectral band, for example. Finally, the new radiometric calibration coefficients were validated through the use of pseudo-invariant calibration sites (PICS). The temporal Top of the Atmosphere (TOA) radiance and TOA reflectance over the Sonoran Desert were plotted with the purpose of verifying the lifetime radiometric stability of MSS sensors. With the previous calibration, the agreement between the measurements of TOA reflectance over the Sonoran Desert was around 7.5% for all spectral bands. With the calibration update implemented in this study, the agreement between MSS sensors is 3.6%, 2.9%, 3.5%, and 5.9% for the green, red, near-infrared response (NIR-1), and NIR-2 spectral bands, respectively. This study ties all the Landsat legacy instruments from Landsat-1 MSS through Landsat-8 OLI to a consistent radiometric scale.


Influence maximization (IM), aiming at selecting initial users as seeds to maximize the influence spread, has become a vital problem in social network applications such as viral marketing and friend recommendation. Existing IM diffusion models ignore the behaviors that users readily conform to the actions of others in the group, which leads to incomprehensive information propagation processes and biased spread results. In this paper, we propose a group-based influence maximization (GIM) algorithm to solve the IM problem over the conformity-aware diffusion model which utilizes different types of conformity behaviors based on user profiles and group profiling. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness and efficiency for our GIM algorithm against other baseline IM algorithms.


A deployable mechanism is a mechanism that is designed to be repeatedly expanded and contracted without failure. Most deployable mechanisms are over-constrained mechanisms with a mobility of one. Although many deployable mechanisms had been proposed and employed in application in the past decades, few generalized methodologies for the synthesis of both planar and spatial deployable mechanisms are available. In this paper, a systematic methodology, based on the Cardanic motion of planar linkage, for the synthesis of both the spatial and planar deployable mechanisms is presented. By using the characteristics that some of the coupler points of Cardanic linkages are able to move along a straight line, a building unit mechanism that utilizes such a linkage can be extended or retracted as desired. Once the boundary conditions of the building unit mechanisms are obtained, design of an entire deployable mechanism, planar or spatial, can be fulfilled. After the design is achieved, motion of the synthesized mechanism is simulated in Pro/Engineer, and the prototype of a planar model is manufactured for the justification of this method.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


OBJECTIVE
To obtain and culture the human neural stem cells from the aborted human embryos.

METHODS
The neural stem cells were isolated and purified by the specific proliferous culture system of neural stem cells, and the molecular maker and multi-potency of the obtained neural stem cells were identified.

RESULTS
Human neural stem cells, which were isolated from 8 - 10 month old aborted human embryos, could express nestin ( a kind of specified antigen of the neural stem cell), and it could be differentiate into neurons and glials.

CONCLUSION
Neural stem cells can exist in human embryos, and it can be expanded in vitro.


of the medical adviser was to reduce expenditure on drugs and regional authority. An example of this wider role is the monito interfere with clinical freedom.3 But rational prescribing toring of fundholding practices, already part of the duties of means directing resources to where they can be used most some advisers, and one that may grow with the number of effectively,4 and improving prescribing is not simply a matter fundholders. of eliminating waste. Thus in some practices, where condiMedical advisers have many problems to overcome, not tions such as asthma and hypertension may be undertreated, least maintaining their accountability both to a wary profesadvisers will prompt doctors to increase their prescribing sion and to family health services authority managers. They costs.5 need to establish relationships with public health specialists, Advising about prescribing is only part of the work of most and full time advisers will have to preserve their clinical medical advisers, and in some family health services authoricredibility among their general practitioner colleagues. A ties the job of providing guidance on prescribing has been newly established committee of the BMA is considering terms delegated to pharmacist advisers. The medical advisers and conditions of service, and the advisers themselves are themselves may be overseeing health promotion, facilitating addressing the ethical, legal, and educational issues that are medical audit, and, in some cases, taking a management role part of their daily work. A crucial task for the first advisers is within the authority.6 A further task, recently acquired, is to develop a flexible career that provides professional fulfilmonitoring the use of controlled drugs, which was formerly ment for them and their successors.'2 undertaken by the disbanded regional medical services. Arguably, medical advisers fill a gap between primary care Most full time medical advisers have come from general and the wider health service that has existed since the practice or from the regional medical service, while most part beginning ofthe NHS. Ifthey fulfil their promise ofbecoming timers are still practising general practitioners. Some have key figures in "maintaining and improving the health of local wanted a change from general practice and a new challenge, people"'3 and in developing general practice they will be an whereas others have a powerful vision of where general unexpected benefit of the "Improving Prescribing" initiative. practice should be going in the 1990s. All advisers will bring TOM WALLEY to the job their own experience of general practice, but they Cic P ALogs need to add new skills, including a knowledge of clinical JOHN BLIGH pharmacology,7 management, and health economics. Other General Practice Adviser new skills need to be developed, such as ways of interpreting National Medical Advisers Support Centre, and presenting prescribing data,89 and a support centre has Hamilton House,


Objective:The polyclonal antibodies can be used for further investigation,which establish the foundation for investigating the function of the FKBP12 gene in protein level.Method:The cDNA encoding full-length of FKBP12 was amplified by PCR and was inserted into vector pET-48b.The recombinant plasmid FKBP12-pET48b was then transformed into E.coli BL21 and the FKBP12 recombinant protein of 33kD was expressed by induction with IPTG.The expression product was indentified by SDS-PAGE and Western blotting analysis.The fusion protein was purified by affinity chromatography and then was used to immunize rabbits to generate polyclonal antibody.Result:Successfully acquired the polyclonal antibody,preparation of FKBP12 rabbit antiserum titer in 1:729 000,ELISA results show that the fusion protein with good immunogenicity.Indirect ELISA method for the detection and purification of antibody titer after that,after purification of FKBP protein of rabbit polyclonal antibody titer high,detection sensitivity for 16ng/mL.Conclusion:The polyclonal antibodies can be used for further investigation,provides a theoretical basis for further research.


A hole-cutting technique for assembling overlapping grid systems for solving partial differential equations is presented. In the present method, the closed surfaces on the boundary of the three-dimensional computational domain are represented by hybrid surface grids. The hybrid grids are composed of nonoverlapping structured surface grids joined by an unstructured layer of triangles. Each hybrid grid is constructed from a subset of the physical boundary points on the faces of the component grids.
The holes in the component grids are made by using a two-step mark-and-fill method. We first locate all grid cells that intersect the hybrid surface grids. We then apply the ray method to determine whether the grid points in these intersected grid cells are inside or outside the region bounded by the hybrid surface grids. As a result, the boundary of the hole region will be marked and it is a simple matter to then remove all points from the hole by starting from the outside points and traversing along all three grid directions until an inside point is found. To locate the intersecting grid cells, we employ the ray method augmented by an octree-based search technique together with Newton's method to invert the mappings corresponding to each component grid.
We demonstrate the hole-cutting method by running the code Chalmesh to generate overlapping grids for a sphere in a box, around the stern of a ship, and around a three-bladed ship propeller.


Bacteriophage T7 is the prototype of a group of bacterial viruses that each encode a single subunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RNAP). Other members of this class include the coliphages T3 and BA14, the Salmonella phage SP6, the Pseudomonas phage gh1 and the Klebsiella phage K11 (9,16). The phage RNA polymerases have proven to be useful in a variety of applications, including large-scale RNA synthesis, nucleic acid amplification and as the basis for efficient expression systems in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells (5,7,8,15,23,24, 26). To facilitate these applications, the T7, T3 and SP6 RNA polymerases have been cloned (2,11,12,17,24) and more recently have been expressed as histidine-tagged fusion proteins, which greatly simplifies their purification (1,6,10). In this work, we describe the expression and purification of a histidinetagged form of the RNA polymerase encoded by bacteriophage K11. The availability of K11 RNAP furnishes opportunities for additional expression and transcription systems and also provides a useful molecular reagent for comparative analysis of this class of enzymes. Bacteriophage K11 and the host bacterial strain Klebsiella pneumoniae were obtained from the laboratory of Rudolph Hausmann (Freiburg, Germany) via Ian Molineux (University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA). The phages were propagated and harvested by differential centrifugation as previously described for bacteriophage T7 (22), and DNA was isolated from the phage particles by phenol extraction (21). The K11 RNAP gene was amplified from phage DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using Pfu DNA Polymerase (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) and the primers MR113 (CCGCTCGAGATGAACGCATTAAACATTGG) and MR114 (CGGAATTCTTACGCAAACGCGAAGTCAGA). These Benchmarks


The astrophysical S factor for the 4He(3He,γ)7Be direct capture reaction plays a major role in the context of solar neutrino flux and primordial 7Li abundances that demand accurate information on the reaction. We report here our recent cross section measurements using the activation method in the region of ECM = 900-2800 keV, that aim to shed light on the discrepancies in the existing data and lead to a more accurate extrapolation of the S factor.


Part 1 The reasons for compiling a handbook of common groupwork problems: the sources of material used in this book discussion of the common problems which emerge and of some of the omissions the nature of problems in groups the pattern of the presentation of the material and an indication of how it might best be used the relationship of an analysis of common groupwork problems to the development of groupwork skill. Part 2 Common groupwork problems: explanation of the classification system the classification system problems relating to the members of a group problems relating to the group as a system problems relating to the conditions which affect the group problems relating to the performance of leadership roles problems relating to the supervision, training and development of groupworkers. Part 3 Discussion: using the handbook other strategies available for problem resolution and management what happens when strategies appear not to work Summing up.


Building energy consumption forecasting is of great significance to building energy conservation. The accuracy of traditional building energy consumption forecasting methods is inadequate. Based on the extensive application of LSTM neural network in time series forecasting, this paper uses LSTM neural network to establish building energy consumption forecasting model, collects energy consumption training data through building energy consumption monitoring system, and proves LSTM by comparing the forecasting effect of LSTM neural network and BP neural network. LSTM neural network is superior to BP neural network in convergence speed and prediction accuracy.


Research purposes: Construction of the welded base for 100 m long steel rail is a new matter and it is for realizing the leaping development of the railway development in China and meeting the demands of construction of rapid railway passenger network and intercity railway and upgrading the existing railway line.The current design manual,design standard,and design specifications are unavailable for it.This research plans to perfect the design of the welded base for 100 m long steel rail through the analysis of production process and functional characteristics.Research conclusions:The existing experience should be learnt in the design and construction of the welded base for 100 m long steel rail.The reasonable verification should be made for construction of the welded base for 100 m long steel rail on consideration of the requirement of the railway network in China.The all factors should be taken into account when making decision.The site choice of the welded base should satisfy the demand of the railway network and reduce the influence on environment.The arrangement of welded base should satisfy the demands of the rail welding process of the production line,with a compact and reasonable arrangement and no interferences among the all production operations.The reasonableness of the overall arrangement of the welded base should be tested by real production so as to gain more experience for design of similar welded base.


Chapter 1 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 52, no. 3), "Mobile Learning Trends: Accessibility, Ecosystems, Content Creation," discusses the rise of NUIs (natural user interfaces), which is leading to easier computing for all ages and abilities. It covers touchscreens, speech recognition, conversational interfaces, augmented reality, and several other types of NUIs. Covering several types of disabilities, examples show how people's lives are improving with the use of mobile devices and natural user interfaces.


Disclosed for the cloud computing, and systems and methods for developing and deploying cloud applications private cloud. System and method of the private computing of the present invention, at least, cloud controller, cloud stack. Service registry, and a cloud application builder as a component.


Congress mandated that U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) adopt gender-neutral occupational performance standards by 2016, meaning that females will no longer be barred from applying to SOF's rigorous pipeline. In recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, female enablers made significant, unique contributions to both conventional ground combat and SOF missions. Many of these unique contributions, such as the ability to interact with indigenous children and female adults forbidden by local customs or religious beliefs from interacting with male service members, were critical to mission success. In addition, women have been employed successively in SOF units worldwide. In other nations' militaries, the record has been more mixed—but mostly due to failures to effectively recruit and utilize women, not due to their inability to perform the required roles. Military leaders should therefore embrace lessons learned from these experiences and examine the unique capabilities female SOF enablers have demonstrated via their contributions to special operations core activities, thereby enabling the Armed Services and U.S. Special Operations Command to more effectively identify, efficiently train, and appropriately incorporate women into SOF.


The paper investigates switches of circulation orientation in inland basins, either at the surface or near the bottom. The study is based on an analytical 2D model used to simulate thermohaline circulation in lakes and inland seas. The model allows different density profiles varying in both horizontal and vertical directions. By assuming some simplifications (such as steady state, vanishing of an alongshore variability and flat bottom), we are able to obtain an explicit expression of the circulation in the central transverse section of an elongated basin. Starting from three typical density profiles (bottom dense water, surface light water and a combination of the two), the model reveals different circulation types (cyclonic and anticyclonic surface circulation, either prevailing along the whole vertical column or accompanied by an opposite circulation in the bottom layer). In addition, we analyze the impact of friction coefficients and basin dimensions on the switch from one circulation type to another. The simplified assumptions turn out not to be limiting, as other studies have shown that they do not change the main flow characteristics. More importantly, the results obtained are in keeping with empirical findings, numerical simulations and physical experiments studied elsewhere.


The invention relates to a device for the displacement of a movable blocking element (10) of a functionally essential component (50), in particular a steering column (50) of a motor vehicle, with a drive (20), which communicates with the blocking element (10) so mechanically operatively connected that the locking element (10) between a locking position (1) and an unlocking position (2) is movable, in the locking position (1) engages the locking element (10) in the functionally essential component (50) and in the unlocked position (2) the locking element ( 10) detached from the functionally essential component (50). According to the invention it is provided that the locking element (10) on an axle (11) is rotatably mounted, to perform a movement between the locking position (1) and the unlocking position (2), a safety guide (30) is provided, which (at a deformity 4) of the component (50) causes the locking element (10) can be brought into an intermediate position (3) (between the locking position 1) and the unlocking position (2), wherein the safety guide (30) is designed such that during movement between the locked position (1) and the unlocking position (2) the locking element (10) (11) pivots only about the axis, wherein the axis (11) retains its position in the safety guide (30), and in case of misalignment (4) of the component (50) during the movement from the locking position (1) to the intermediate position (3) the blocking element (10) provided around the axis (11) is pivotable to a contact of the blocking element ( 10) is present with the component (50) and then the axis (11) with the locking element (10) along the safety guide (30) is translationally movable in a direction that is opposite (the component 50).


Echo-hiding has been widely studied for audio watermarking. This study proposes a more secure echo-hiding method based on modified pseudo-noise (PN) sequence and robust principal component analysis (RPCA). In the proposed method, the RPCA is used to decompose the original audio signal into low-rank and sparse parts and then a pair of opposite modified PN sequences is employed to embed watermarks. The modified PN sequence improves the robustness of watermark detection by providing additional correlation peaks. Meanwhile, benefit from the RPCA and the opposite PN sequences, the security of the proposed method is improved since watermarks cannot be detected from the whole signal even if the PN sequence is known, which is an obvious improvement compared with the previous PN-based echo-hiding methods. In the watermark detection process, the authors make use of the low-rank and sparse characteristics of the watermarked signal to detect watermarks from the low-rank and sparse parts, respectively. Based on this basic framework, they also propose a multi-bit embedding scheme, which obtains a doubled embedding capacity compared with the previous PN-based echo-hiding methods. The proposed method was evaluated with respect to inaudibility, security, and robustness. The experiment results verified the effectiveness of the proposed method.


We show in this study that the living organism, after its birth, had two routes of time evolution, which is represented at also multicellulars, due to our internal "backwards" time process (introduced originally by Gunji), namely, direct disintegration or a tenous space mapped, metabolism – based growth and ''self'' – reproduction. We investigate in some details the physical conditions which made (and makes) possible the second route, chosen by Nature, evidenced by organic evolution. We will find that the crucial internal components are informational, classical, additional degrees of freedom, which leads to a matrix structure of the system's phase space and forming our leading principle of internal ''self – measurement" chains, the overall process termed by us  ''endogenous exophysics''. We also examine the build – up of these crucial informational, ruling (controlling, constraining) biopolymers. We will find that their structure can be described by well – known technics of molecular physics (the LMO picture), however, our logical monomeric factorizations, contrary to these technics, is not unitary but projective and is unique. We maintain that the life process could come about only in a mesoscopic structure, allowing for a natural quasiclassical internal dynamics, and also allow for the joint introduction of both underlying quantal, also informational classical observables internally. We conclude that chosing the more difficult and involved life process, as opposed by disintegration, (cell division), had to be a choice of Nature, which we must accept as a natural fact.


Psychological stability of an athlete is an important factor of achievement high results in sports. To solve this problem the mental training has been used. Its weakness consists of limitation of the regulation process by mechanisms of physiological level only. The perspectives for the development of mental training in sport will be dependent from the result of implementation of psychological mechanisms of motivational-emotional level of athletes. Methodology of psychoforming training based on the development of system of attitudes has been elaborated. The results revealed rather high effectiveness of the psychoforming training as a mean of stabilizing the psychic state of an athlete in competitions.


In connection with the new educational standards, it becomes relevant to conduct research projects at school. The article presents the features, the main stages of organizing and accompanying students in the implementation of school projects in chemistry and biology, which are based on chemical and genetic studies of watercourses in urbanized areas. A methodology has been developed for conducting research projects with a regional aspect «Heavy metals in the aquatic environment» and «Cytogenetic activity of water from the Ussuriysk watercourse on the soybean test system» for students of secondary schools. The article discusses the organization of design and research activities of schoolchildren under the group guidance of students, undergraduates, university professors and teachers. One of the effective methods for the formation of key competencies of students is project activity, which is presented as a combination of research, search, problematic, creative methods of organizing the educational process. Within the framework of these projects, chemical-ecological and genetic methods of analysis are used. The method of work of schoolchildren with the genetic test system «Somatic mosaicism of soybeans» is disclosed. While completing an educational project, students, on the one hand, expand their understanding of subject areas, comprehend interdisciplinary connections, while student project managers, on the other hand, gain practical pedagogical experience of working with schoolchildren. Thus, conditions are created for motivating learning, cognitive interest in sciences is activated. The effectiveness of joint activities of teachers, students, teachers and teaching secondary schools in the implementation of project activities was revealed on the example of using regional material on the study of urbanized territories. The research is practice-oriented.


Abstract Context Jiang-Zhi-Ning (JZN), a traditional Chinese medicinal formula, is used to treat hyperlipidemia in clinics. Objective To screen the hypolipidemic "bioequivalent substance system (BSS)" of JZN and elucidate the potential hypolipidemic mechanism. Materials and methods In vitro, the TG content in HepG2 cells was determined after the intervention of the combination of advantageous components (CAC) by uniform design. In vivo, hyperlipidemia models were established by Triton WR-1339 (400 mg/kg; i.p.) in male ICR mice, and corresponding treatments were administered via oral administration once. The mice were divided into 12 groups (n = 5): control, hyperlipidemic model, simvastatin (positive control, 20 mg/kg), gradient doses of JZN granules (2, 4 and 8 g/kg) and the hypolipidemic effective extraction (HEE) of JZN (120, 240 and 480 mg/kg) and CAC groups (20, 40 and 160 mg/kg). Serum TC, TG, LDL-C and HDL-C were performed after 24 h. Transcriptomics and qRT–PCR technology were used to explore the mechanism of the "BSS" of JZN. Results In vitro, the ratio of CAC was determined. CAC could reduce the TG content in HepG2 cells (77.21%). Compared with the model group, the high dose of CAC could markedly decrease the levels of TC (61.86%), TG (105.54%) and LDL-C (39.38%) and increase the level of HDL-C (232.67%). CAC was proved to be the "BSS". Transcriptomics and qRT–PCR analysis revealed CAC regulated non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, bile secretion, PPAR and adipocytokine signalling pathway. Discussion and conclusions These findings provided new feasible ideas and methods for the elucidation of the pharmacodynamic material basis.


It has been known for some time (King and Schumacher, 1952 ; Horan and Colebatch, 1962) that children who have had a splenectomy are more susceptible to overwhelming bacterial infections, particularly by pneumococci. The underlying condition for which the spleen was removed and the age at splenectorny appear to affect the incidence of infections. The risk appears minimal when splenectomy is for trauma. With other underlying conditions the risk is significant, increasing from hereditary spherocytosis, 2 yo, idiopathic thrombocytopenia and portal hypertension to thalassaeinia major, 14% (Horan and Colebatch, 1964). The risk is greater the younger the child is a t the time of splenectomy (Smith et al., 1957). However, the reasons for these observations have not been apparent. Thurman (1963) showed that there was no significant difference in antibody response to typhoid and pneumococcal immunization between appropriate controls and patients post-splenectomy. A similar finding was reported by Saslaw et al. (1959) following intravenous injection of bacteria. On the other hand; Rowley Q950) showed a marked difference between controls and splenectomized patients in antibody titre following intravenous injection of sheep red cells, the splenectomized patients showing a poorer response. The situation was reviewed by Ellis and Smith (1966) who suggested that the spleen was critical in the early production of opsonizing


We describe two interesting effects in wormhole physics. First, we find that a genuinely charged matter source of gravity and electromagnetism may appear electrically neutral to an external observer — a phenomenon opposite to the famous Misner–Wheeler "charge without charge" effect. We show that this phenomenon takes place when coupling a bulk gravity/nonlinear-gauge-field system self-consistently to a codimension-one charged lightlike brane as a matter source. The "charge-hiding" effect occurs in a self-consistent wormhole solution of the above coupled gravity/nonlinear-gauge-field/lightlike-brane system which connects a noncompact "universe," comprising the exterior region of Schwarzschild–(anti-)de Sitter (or purely Schwarzschild) black hole beyond the internal (Schwarzschild) horizon, to a Levi-Civita–Bertotti–Robinson-type ("tube-like") "universe" with two compactified dimensions via a wormhole "throat" occupied by the charged lightlike brane. In this solution the whole electric flux produced by the charged lightlike brane is expelled into the compactified Levi-Civita–Bertotti–Robinson-type "universe" and, consequently, the brane is detected as neutral by an observer in the Schwarzschild–(anti-)de Sitter "universe." Next, the above "charge-hiding" solution can be further generalized to a truly charge-confining wormhole solution when we couple the bulk gravity/nonlinear-gauge-field system self-consistently to two separate codimension-one charged lightlike branes with equal in magnitude but opposite charges. The latter system possesses a "two-throat" wormhole solution, where the "left-most" and the "right-most" "universes" are two identical copies of the exterior region of the neutral Schwarzschild–de Sitter black hole beyond the Schwarzschild horizon, whereas the "middle" "universe" is of generalized Levi-Civita–Bertotti–Robinson "tube-like" form with geometry dS2 ×S2 (dS2 being the two-dimensional de Sitter space). It comprises the finite-extent intermediate region of dS2 between its two horizons. Both "throats" are occupied by the two oppositely charged lightlike branes and the whole electric flux produced by the latter is confined entirely within the middle finite-extent "tube-like" "universe." A crucial ingredient is the special form of the nonlinear gauge field action, which contains both the standard Maxwell term as well as a square root of the latter. This theory was previously shown to produce a QCD-like confining dynamics in flat space–time.


In previous papers, we used a Markovian model to determine the optimal functioning rules of a distributed system in various settings. Searching optimal functioning rules amounts to solve an optimization problem under constraints. The hierarchy of solutions arising from the above problem is called the " first order hierarchy", and may possibly yield equivalent solutions. The present paper emphasizes a specific technique for deciding between two equivalent solutions, which establishes the " second order hierarchy".


Whereas electrical noise has been extensively studied at low frequency in various systems, going from macroscopic to mesoscopic scales, and is now relatively well understood, investigation of high frequency noise is much more recent and raises new physical problems which could not be addressed before. Of particular interest is the frequency range of the order of or higher than the applied voltage or temperature characteristic energy scales. In this regime quantum effects are expected to show up with in particular a fundamental asymmetry between emission and absorption noise which is undetectable at low frequency. This asymmetry can only be probed using a quantum detector which enables one to probe separately the absorption and emission contributions of fluctuations, i.e. respectively the positive and negative frequencies of the Fourier transformed non-symmetrized noise correlator. We show that a superconductor–insulator–superconductor tunnel junction constitutes just such a good quantum noise detector when measuring the photon assisted tunneling current of quasiparticles. It was in particular possible to detect the asymmetric excess current fluctuations generated by the tunneling of quasiparticles across a Josephson junction polarized in the vicinity of the superconducting gap. This experiment demonstrates unambiguously that the negative and positive frequency parts of the non-symmetrized noise correlator are separately detected and that the excess current fluctuations of a voltage biased Josephson junction present a strong asymmetry between emission and absorption, related to the superconducting gap in the density of states. We discuss other physical situations where this asymmetry of noise can be in principle detected using a similar setup.


The classic UNIX principle to write code that generates code instead of writing this code yourself [48, Chapters 1, 9] is experiencing a revival. Much research was done, the techniques are better understood now, and the generation tools were refined.
 This pattern catalog consists of adaptations of the Gang of Four design patterns [27] Abstract Factory, Adapter, Strategy, and Visitor to the metaprogramming level. It shows that replacing runtime polymorphism by static polymorphism helps to lift variation from the code level up to the meta level, where it might more naturally belong to. Some of the patterns proposed are especially useful for facilitating portable code.
 The patterns shown can be used to build static Frameworks [50]. A simple example is also presented.
 For all patterns proposed we identified usage examples in popular existing applications or libraries.
 Each pattern presentation is accompanied with an example. These examples show sample code in C++. The template metaprogramming capabilities of C++ [2, 17, 65] allow us to express both the program and the meta program in the same programming language.


The matrix through-flow analysis is applied to the hub-to-shroud stream surface of a centrifugal compressor impeller. The k-e turbulence model is used to calculate the stress tensor necessary to obtain a dissipation force. Integration of the streamwise equation of motion yields an entropy field in agreement with the dissipation force. The results are compared with isentropic flow solutions. Furthermore, the effect on the velocity field of the initial velocity profiles and turbulence levels at the eye of the impeller are studied, as is the influence of the shroud on the flow.


In one tentative selection of music songs for music therapy for the hypertensive and coronary patients, the authors tried to evaluate the predilection for this patients for one music with fast tempo which is contraindicate because the activation of sympathetic tone with hypotensive effect and with increasing myocardial oxygen consumption effect. Preferences for fast or slow tempo music were evaluated in 200 subjects (four groups of patients: hypertension, coronary heart disease, non-cardiac + a control group of healthy subjects). The attractiveness of the subjects investigated for music was performed by awarding marks from 1 to 10 couples of the 6 songs heard (fast vs. slow). Statistical processing of differences between the averages of 4 groups showed significantly increased preference for fast music group coronary (p <0.01) and hypertension (p <0.05). The opinion of the authors is to advise these patients to listen predominant cardiac slow classical music (especially baroque, with major psychological relaxing effects but also having the effect of decreasing sympathetic hypertension.


Fate of the eyespots during the fertilization of ulvalean alga Enteromorpha compressa was studied using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). FE-SEM enabled the visualization of the eyespot of biflagellate male and female gamete. The smaller male gamete has 1 protruded smaller eyespot and the larger female gamete has larger one on a posterior position of the cell. The cell membrane over the eyespot region is relatively smooth compared to other part of the cell body and exhibits hexagonal arranged lipid globules. Since the size of cell body and the eyespot is slightly different between male and female gamete, the author could follow the fate of the eyespots during the fertilization. In most of the mating pairs, larger female gamete has always fused along the same side as the eyespot, while smaller male gamete along the side away from its eyespot. As fusion proceeds, the gamete pair is transformed into the quadriflagellate planozygote, in which the eyespots are positioned side by side on the region of cell fusion. These observations indicated that the opposite positioning of the eyespot relative to the cell fusion site in male and female gametes is important for the proper arrangement of the eyespots in the planozygote.


In order to enter eurozone, Greece falsified its budgetary report and hide true extent of its debt. US investment bank Goldman Sachs provided help in masking debt through use of cross-currency swaps, and later the same bank pushed Greece further toward default. When true extent of Greece debt was revealed, it sparked a sovereign debt crisis that threatens very foundations of eurozone because of possible spread to other member states. It is a matter of debate whether USA actually benefits from Euro crisis, as main competitor of US dollar is weakened in the middle of ongoing US debt crisis. In any case, Euro project was created with several inherent weaknesses which were shown in its first crisis.


This paper discusses a solution for digital universities to extend the functionality of their e-learning platforms to improve, not only their delivery model of instructional content, but also their way of assessing the knowledge of the students. Indeed, this paper proposes a solution for the platform of Moodle, allowing to create virtual classes, integrating the sharing and the control of screens, the transfer of files independently of their type and their size, the video, the audio, chat, different actors. This solution integrates an audio and video knowledge assessment tool for language lesson modules and enables learners to learn to communicate. Our solution is built around MSRP and WebSocket protocols, is used directly with current browsers as well as computers, smartphones and tablets. Our solution has allowed, among other things, language teachers and STEM to perform work online and face-to-face as it should without necessarily resorting to the MCQ or be obliged to modify the tests to take into account the difficulties related to the evaluation of programming and networking lessons.


This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of arc-plasma generation techniques and indicates future research trends. Arc-plasma fields have been utilised as high-temperature heat sources. It is further expected that the chemical reactivity and high density energy of arc-plasma can be applied to the synthesis and processing of new materials. To achieve this, there is an urgent need to develop new techniques for precise control of density and temperature, densifying the plasma energy and expanding the high temperature region. The potential for development of individual elements, i.e. power supply, electrodes, plasma gas, etc. of the arc-plasma generation system is investigated. See next abstract.


This study aims to discuss the balance between professional and personal life of young heir executives. We interviewed fifteen young executives from Minas Gerais, Brazil, heirs of medium and big firms. The research showed sources of (in) satisfaction related to the meaning and the work process of these young executives. We discussed how they feel towards the possibilities of career advancing relating the professional obligations and the activities dedicated to personal life and leisure. It was discussed also the contents of the role of the executive to diagnosticate the basic dimensions of the tasks executed related to autonomy, identity of the task and significance of work. The results indicate that the young heir executives are satisfied with the distribution of both time and energy dedicated to work and non-working time. These executives are under a domination system rationally legitimated by parent expectations, a fundamental element in the process of continuity and survival of the firm because they occupy a specific space previously delimitated: they are the "owner children". Prisoners of their predecessor life work and condemned to win through the continuity of their fathers´ work, the young heir executives take the burden of the heritage to fulfill the role expected since very young.


Background & Aim: The recognition of professional values underlies a significant part of nurses' professional performance. Given the fundamental role played by nurses in the health system, it is highly important to provide conditions for the development and perfection of these values. The aim of this study was to examine the professional and ethical values related to nursing care provision from the perspective of nurses working in the teaching hospitals affiliated with Gonabad University of Medical Sciences. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 170 Nurses in educational hospitals of Gonabad University of Medical Sciences. Data were collected by using a questionnaire containing demographic information and Shank and Weise's Nursing Professional Values Scale-Revised (NPVS-R), which measured five aspects (caring, activism, professionalism, trust, and justice). Data were analyzed, using descriptive statistics and statistical tests, including t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation via SPSS version 20. Results: Among the components of nursing professional and ethical values, the highest mean score was related to "caring" at 3.96 ± 0.57 and the lowest mean score was related to "activism" at 3.63 ± 0.70. The total mean score of the questionnaire was 100.01 ± 14.05. The aspects of the professional and ethical values were prioritized from the nurses' perspective as caring, justice, trust, professionalism, and activism, respectively. Conclusions: The results show that nurses consider those nursing values important which are directly related to their job. Therefore, understanding the importance of certain aspects of the professional and ethical values which are related to the nurses' indirect tasks requires further support, and it is necessary to teach all of the aspects of professional and ethical values during nursing education.


This paper explores the use of convolution LSTMs to simultaneously learn spatial- and temporal-information in videos. A deep network of convolutional LSTMs allows the model to access the entire range of temporal information at all spatial scales of the data. We describe our experiments involving convolution LSTMs for lipreading that demonstrate the model is capable of selectively choosing which spatiotemporal scales are most relevant for a particular dataset. The proposed deep architecture also holds promise in other applications where spatiotemporal features play a vital role without having to specifically cater the design of the network for the particular spatiotemporal features existent within the problem. For the Lip Reading in the Wild (LRW) dataset, our model slightly outperforms the previous state of the art (83.4% vs. 83.0%) and sets the new state of the art at 85.2% when the model is pretrained on the Lip Reading Sentences (LRS2) dataset.


In this paper, a decomposition method is proposed for Separable Non-negative Tensor Factorization (SNTF), which yields a structure similar to the PARATUCK2 model for the decomposition of non-negative tensors. Among many different possibilities for performing tensor factorization, we develop a specific procedure for SNTF with an aim to decompose multi-way dataset expressed in the form of a tensor into low-rank components that extract dominant features in the data. The SNTF method is evaluated using real image data and the results show that the proposed SNTF is superior to other NTF methods in terms of error performance and computational efficiency.


This paper analyses and proves that the restoring saturation coefficient α of one dimension extra-saturation sediment discharge method and the modified coefficient K of the quasi-hydrostatic settlement method are reciprocals each other.On the analysis of the factors affecting the change of α-value and the practice by the production design units,the mathematical model of computing the restoring saturation coefficient α is set up.By the verification of error analysis,the research method is right,the accuracy and reliability of the model accord with the designing demands,and can be used by the production design units.


This paper investigates the coherence properties of a variety of terrain types to determine the extent that high coherence is also a characteristic of natural terrain as well as man-made objects. The paper also considers whether ratio techniques can be employed to avoid the inherent loss of resolution due to the computation of coherence. It also investigates the benefit of using data from interferometric baselines for ratio techniques.


Vitamin B12 deficiency is among important causes of megaloblastic anemia. In developing countries, the major reason of Vitamin B12 deficiency is deficient dietary intake. Although vitamin B12 deficiency is a rare condition, early diagnosis and treatment are important to prevent permanent neurological sequela. Anorexia is seen frequently in children. We want to remind Vitamin B12 deficiency with this case presented with anorexia. A 12 month-old male patient presented with vomiting, weight loss, paleness, malnutrition, repulsion as well as growth retardation. Physical examination revealed paleness and loss of interest to environment. Hematologic test results were as follows: WBC: 6500 gr/dl, Hgb: 8.8 gr/dl, MCV: 96 fl, platelet count: 162.000/ mm3. Mean serum folic acid level of the patient was 19.4 ng/mL (3-22.4 ng/mL), and vitamin B12 level 72 pg/mL (200-1210 pg/mL), while mean vitamin B12 level of the mother was 96 pg/mL. The patient was diagnosed as vitamin B12 deficiency and intramuscular Vitamin B12 treatment was initiated. One month later, his vomiting ceased, his appetite was well and he gained 850 gr. His interest to environment was improved. We want to impress with this case that infants with anorexia might have vitamin B12 deficiency. Treatment of vitamin B12 deficiency is important because it might lead to permanent neurological sequela and vitamin B12 deficiency respond to treatment dramatically.


Starting with 2012 year, Romanian farmers have to respect the cross compliance requirements for Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (GAEC), the minimal requirements regarding the usage of fertilizers and pesticides for the crops protection and the Statutory Management Requirements (SMR). The novelty of the requirements imposed for the farmers in the crop field is connected with the necessity to respect the environmental protection measures, such as protection of the underground water, protection of the soil, protection of the water against of the nitrates and protection of the natural habitats (SMR 1- SMR 5).


In this paper, we present a new queueing algorithm for networks, called Hierarchical Fair Queueing (HFQ). This shares the bandwidth between classes of users, and (within each class) between subclasses. HFQ provides a guaranteed share of bandwidth to each class, but bandwidth is not wasted when a class is inactive. Unlike the Link Sharing scheme of Floyd-Jacobsen, HFQ is provably fair, in that throughput is a close approximation to the ideal sharing scheme for an infinitely divisible resource. HFQ extends the techniques of Fair Queueing of Demers-Keshav-Shenker, to deal with a hierarchy of classes. HFQ also provides bounded delays for real time traffic. We implemented HFQ as part of a real IP gateway, and performed a number of tests which demonstrate its fairness.


The invention relates inter alia to a method for operating an electrical switch (20) with at least one movable switching contact, which is moved by a moving armature (60) of an electromagnetic actuator (10) for switching on and off of the switch (20), wherein a spring means (40) is disposed between the movable switching contact and the armature (60) and wherein, for moving the armature (60) from a predetermined starting position (Xa), in which the switching contacts are opened, into a predetermined armature end position (Xe), in the switching contacts are closed and spring energy in the spring means (40) is stored, a magnetic flux in a field winding (80) of the actuator (10) is generated by an exciting current in the exciter winding (80) (I (t)) is fed , According to the invention, inter alia, envisaged that in consideration of a position data set (POS) indicating the respective anchor position in response to flux values and flow values, that rotor position - referred to contact impact-anchor position (Xc) mentioned - it is determined in which the switching contacts meet during the closing operation sequentially before the armature (60) reaches its anchor end position (Xe).


Throughout the past century, research into human genetics revealed the relationships between biochemistry and various human characteristics in increasing detail. At each step of this path of discovery, social critics warned that knowledge of genetics, and especially social attention to genetics, might heighten racist attitudes. In light of these warnings and the recent sequencing of the Human Genome, it is important to inquire into the interpretations laypersons might hold of the relationship between race and genetics. A variety of recent efforts have described the insufficiency of public opinion polls for arriving at sophisticated understandings of such complex attitudinal structures. Therefore, this essay offers a sketch of some lay understandings of race and genetics in the United States based on a series of focus group sessions. In order to interpret the responses, the analysis employs a novel template for interpreting focus group research based on the theoretical concept of rhetorical formations. This approach reveals the way in which the knowledge of individual members is brought to bear upon collective decision-making through the social process of discussion to produce a pool of information that is similar to expert knowledge, although phrased in a popular vocabulary. Differences in the ways in which cultural groups negotiate this knowledge are discussed.


This invention relates to the manufacture of a Valuable chemical intermediate. In One embodi ment this invention relates to the utilization of a condensate of furfural, water and 1,3-buta diene in the manufacture of a chemical inter mediate containing an aromatic ring and a single Side chain. In still another embodiment this in vention relates to the utilization of a by-product material of an extractive distillation process em ploying furfural, in the manufacture of a new and novel composition. An object of this invention is to provide a new and novel composition. Another object is to provide a process for the manufacture of a new and novel composition. Another object is to provide for the manufac ture of a composition containing an aromatic ring and a single side chain, from a selected lactone. Another object is to provide for the manufac ture of a composition containing an aromatic ring and a single side chain from a by-product mate rial of an extractive distillation employing fur fural as a selective solvent in the recovery of buta diene from a butadiene-buttene hydrocarbon mix ture. Other objects will be apparent to one skilled in the art from the accompanying discussion and disclosure. In accordance with one embodiment of this invention a new composition containing an aro matic ring and a single side chain and having Special utility as an Odorizing agent and chemical intermediate, is produced from furfural, buta diene and Water by first condensing these three reactants to form a lactone, and then ther mally treating the lactone so produced, in the presence of palladium as a catalyst, under Speci fied conversion conditions of time and temper ature. In the condensation reaction above re ferred to, One molecule each of butadiene, Water and furfural react together to form a lactone hav ing the empirical formula C9H12O3, the resulting condensation reaction product being a solid cryS tal material which will be discussed in more detail hereafter. The new composition of our invention contains an aromatic ring and a single side chain; it is in soluble in water, and soluble in ethanol, acetone and aqueous alkali, the latter solubility definitely indicating it to be acidic; it has a density, D25', of 1.152, and a refractive index, N, of 1.530. Our composition has an odor resembling that of hyacinths, and can be especially applied as an odorizing agent, being particularly useful in the (C.


The aim of the present study was to gain a deeper understanding of the experiences of the contact with the "fear of childbirth"-team (called Aurora-team) made by women who feared childbirth. Qualit ...


Larvae of two species of Epichorius were found in the coastal rata forest of Auckland Island, New Zealand. One, from the bryophyte ground layer, was reared to adult E. longulus; the other, from the canopy, is presumed to be E. aucklandiae. Larvae of E. longulus were abundant in Riccardia spp. but rare in Bazzania adnexa hepatic swards. When fed on Riccardia foliage these larvae made greater weight gains than when fed on Bazzania foliage. Larvae were not found in areas of bare ground, and did not feed on underlying tree root material. Adult E. longulus sheltered under leaf litter by day and fed on bryophytes at night.


Do free electronic refereed journals represent one viable alternative to overpriced commercial journals? This informal study looked at 104 titles listed in the 1995 Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists (published by the Association of Research Libraries) as being free, journals, and refereed. Taking five years of continuing publication as an initial sign of reasonable longevity (later raised to six years), the record shows reasonable promise. While quite a few early journals succumbed to the 'arc of enthusiasm', more than half are still publishing.


Wellness is a complex, multidimensional process that includes components of physical health, psychological health, and social support, all of which contribute to the development and maintenance of an individual's self-responsibility for wellness-his or her personal accountability for lifestyle and behavior choices (Elsenrath, 1984). The process of wellness relies on growing and changingphysically, emotionally, intellectually, socially, and environmentally.


The visualizing calculation method of LRCS of multi-material coated complex object is presented.The model containing material information is made by the color flag.The LRCS of the monostatic of an object is calculated by color flag imaging and that of the bistatic is calculated by additional bidirectional shading imaging.Then,the results of LRCS of the object coated with various materials and the paint rubbed off of the surface simulated with the Monte Carlo method are discussed.It is shown that the calculation method is visualized quickly and is practical.


The literary canon carries with it a huge array of possible writings exploring the various contours of fiction, the genre of Detective fiction is one such umbrella term. The effect of mystery and suspense and the surprise factors being hidden away in the pages, keeps the readers glued to detective fiction. This paper explores the plot line of one of the prominent detective stories, Thomas Harris's 'The Silence of the Lambs' in search of certain existential questions regarding the named serial killer in the plot. The social evil of killing the lives of many for the purely pleasure aspect is viewed from multiple viewpoints and a new reading of the plot by placing it within relevant contextual framework is carried out. A traversal through the psychological, behavioural and social norms of the context is explores within the paper.


Through the investigation and website search on the related data, as well as the relevant university physical education teachers, the field investigation and the interview were carried on. After that, at the time of deeply comprehending the plateau phenomenon of sports teacher, I also carried out a further investigation on plateau phenomenon occurring in the university backbone sports teacher. Finally the paper makes some reasonable suggestion by analyzing the reason, performance and characteristics of the plateau phenomenon to reduce the plateau phenomenon in the development of backbone PE teachers in colleges and universities.


Summary In this article, I discuss different interpretations of Zimbabwean land in relation to the contradictory notions of victimhood in Peter Godwin's memoir When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. I also explore the concepts of race, landownership and redress in relation to the legacy of colonialism in Zimbabwe. Through the use of the Cultural Interpretive Theory, Genre Theory and the Theories of Autobiographies, I explore how the politics of victimhood are used by both the Black Nationalist elites and the alienated White citizens to project the essence of ethno-racial grievance before local and international audiences for different ideological and political objectives. I show how the politics of victimhood and retribution which engender feelings of resentment and betrayal in Godwin's memoir play into the hands of the Zimbabwe state's anti-Western and anti-Imperialist propaganda. I argue that Godwin's otherwise important memoir on the destructive effects of Mugabe's rule undermined its message through traces of "whiteness", and also by competing on the same turf of victimhood that a politically discredited state had constructed for its own preservation. In the article, I suggest alternative readings of the Mugabe regime's violent farm grabs to the rather one-dimensional one offered by the memoir.


Hydroxydione is a steroid anaesthetic which, when injected intravenously, enables interviews to be conducted in a setting free from tension and anxiety and confers on the patient a feeling of well-being. Biochemical investigations and electroencephalographic patterns are discussed. In a controlled investigation on 20 patients the action of the drug was compared with that of amylobarbitone sodium. The indications for the administration of this drug in psychiatric patients are discussed.


Recent studies have suggested the transformative potential of "theological" inquiry and discourse in religious studies, particularly, in furthering religious literacy and peace building initiatives through greater understanding of "other". Yet, "theology" is a relatively new a cademic approach to peace building and conflict studies and is still marginalized to a large degree in secular universities. Vigorous inquiry into the intrinsic value and potential role of "theological" inquiry and discourse in secular academics, as well as possible pedagogical strategies, are worthwhile and necessary towards achieving the wider aims of the secular university. To those ends, this paper presents a broad survey of the problem of "theology" in the public university and seeks to affirm the fundamental permissibility and value of theological inquiry and discourse in secular academics. This study demonstrates that "theology" need not be conceptualized as a singularly Christian or sectarian endeavor. Comparative and philosophical modes of theological inquiry can be non-sectarian in their aims, are comparable to other "deep-thinking" academic disciplines, and do not necessarily violate secular academic principles or constitutional obligations. Additionally, exposure to multiple theologies in the non-sectarian setting of the public university may further afford students the opportunity to safely explore their individual understanding of global ethics. "Theology", when thoughtfully undertaken in secular academics not only belongs in the public university, but may be indispensable for fulfilling the highest ideals of public education.


An expert system for satellite anomaly communication between knowledge sources occurs through higher level meta-monitors. resolution must perform monitoring, situation The architecture of the system consists of assessment, diagnosis, goal determination and five major components, shown in Figure 1. planning functions in real time. StarPlan is such a system being developed at the Ford Aerospace Sunriyvale Operation. This paper details the evolution of the StarPlan architecture from a rule-based system in which multiple "experts" classified and resolved anomalies to a more generic architecture that utilizes an object model of the domain to perform fault diagnosis using causal reasoning. The StarPlan I architecture is described; the lessons learned in StarPlan I implementation are discussed; and the architecture of StarPlan II is presented. Guardians classify incoming data, filter relevant data, and translate the data through methods from numeric to symbolic ranges to derive a set of hypotheses. Monitors reason from the set of hypotheses established by the guardians to resolve specific classes of anomalies. Meta-Monitors are responsible for the control, interaction and data fusion of the individual monitors.


Food smoking belongs to one of the oldest technologies of food preservation which mankind has used in fish processing. Potential health hazards associated with smoked foods may be caused by carcinogenic components of wood smoke – mainly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and derivatives of PAH. Comparison of the concentration of PAHs in smoked fish samples processed by sawdust, charcoal and firewood were investigated with the aim of determining the process that contributed more concentration of the PAHs to the fish samples. For this study, three species of fishes were investigated: Arius heude loti (cat-fish), Cynoglossus senegalensis (sole) and Haake (fresh stock fish). The PAHs in the samples were extracted using solvents by ultrasonication and were analysed for the 16 US EPA polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using HPLC with a UV DAD detector. The results showed that smoked fish samples that were processed by charcoal gave the lowest level of total PAHs, followed by firewood method, while the sawdust method gave the highest level of total PAHs in the smoked fishes. The level of PAHs in three species of fishes smoked also correlated with the fat content.


this paper discusses and builds the information planning program in the process of training management using CSF method of information planning, in the basic principles of management science. It proposes the software planning idea for the feasible implementation of training management information system.


Children's ability to organize a spatial array independent of the external surroundings was investigated. Five-to-six year-old children were shown two geometrical figures arranged left and right on a sketchbook and, after turning around the table, the children were asked to reproduce them on the other side of the sketchbook. Experiment 1 demonstrated that many children made a mirror-image response (a reversal of left and right) . Experiment 2 showed that children reversed left and right much less frequently when the sketchbook was rotated 180° before they turned around the table. Experiment 3 also demonstrated that the left-right relation was often reproduced (1) when the response side of the sketchbook was located far from the presentation side or (2) when the two stimulus figures were removed out of the sketchbook. Results were discussed in the context of the distinction between the practical use and the conceptual use of spatial information.


In this paper, we present and analyse two Hopfield-like nonlinear networks, in continuous-time and discrete-time respectively. The proposed network is based on an autonomous linear system with a symmetric weight matrix, which is designed to be unstable, and a nonlinear function stabilizing the whole network thanks to a manipulated state variable called``ultimate SIR''. This variable is observed to be equal to the traditional Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) definition in telecommunications engineering.
The underlying linear system of the proposed continuous-time network is $\dot{{\mathbf x}} = {\mathbf B} {\mathbf x}$ where {\bf B} is a real symmetric matrix whose diagonal elements are fixed to a constant. The nonlinear function, on the other hand, is based on the defined system variables called ``SIR''s. We also show that the ``SIR''s of all the states converge to a constant value, called ``system-specific Ultimate SIR''; which is equal to $\frac{r}{\lambda_{max}}$ where $r$ is the diagonal element of matrix ${\bf B}$ and $\lambda_{max}$ is the maximum (positive) eigenvalue of diagonally-zero matrix $({\bf B} - r{\bf I})$, where ${\bf I}$ denotes the identity matrix. The same result is obtained in its discrete-time version as well.
Computer simulations for binary associative memory design problem show the effectiveness of the proposed network as compared to the traditional Hopfield Networks.


We investigated the interactions between Thioredoxin (Trx) and BNP7787 (Tavocept®). BNP7787 is a water-soluble disulfide that appears well-tolerated and nontoxic, and in separate randomized multicenter Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials in NSCLC patients, BNP7787 in combination with standard chemotherapy, resulted in substantial increases in the overall survival of patients with advanced adenocarcinoma sub-type NSCLC. Activity assays indicate that BNP7787 and BNP7787-derived mesna disulfide heteroconjugates are novel alternative substrates of Trx with the potential to inhibit turnover of endogenous Trx substrates. LC-MS studies indicate that BNP7787 forms a covalent mixed-disulfide with Trx on cysteine residues 62, 69 and 73. BNP7787modified Trx is less active than apo-Trx. X-ray crystallographic studies unequivocally confirm that BNP7787 forms stable mixed disulfides with Trx. BNP7787-modified Trx crystallized as a disulfide-linked tetramer with novel interactions between BNP7787derived mesna and Trx, including stable BNP7787-derived mixed mesna-cysteine disulfides on human Trx resulting in unique, previously unidentified Trx structural conformations. Molecules A and B of the tetramer are identical to each other and exist in a conformation similar to other published Trx crystals. Molecules C and D, also identical to each other, undergo a significant conformational change relative to molecules A and B, and exhibit substantial disulfide reshuffling. Inhibition or modulation of Trx by BNP7787 through covalent or non-covalent means may have important ramifications in cancers with elevated Trx activity, including adenocarcinoma sub-type NSCLC, and could impact Trx-related signaling pathways important for the inhibition of apoptosis and cell proliferation.


Fortifikationsverket (FORTV) has expressed a desire to investigate the design, reliability, performance and cost of a sprinkler system for a typical underground fortification facility. Based on the ...


The study presents a cartography of the 'self' from the point of view of experimental psychology, applied to social theory. We explore how people describe themselves in their interactions with others, using experimentally designed vignettes of descriptive statements, constructed according to the prescriptions of Mind Genomics. The pattern of deconstructed responses to the vignettes and the weighting factors of the descriptive statement suggest that people divide into three mind-sets one group focusing on people, one group focusing on games, and one group hard to define. The study presents a tool, the six-question PVI, personal viewpoint identifier, which allows the researcher to assign a new person to one of the three mind-sets based upon the pattern of response to the six questions. The study failed to find a strong co-variation of age with membership in the mind-set, but does suggest that response time to the different descriptive statements may show the hypothesized relation of personality to age.


A novel microwave active bandpass filter structure, using a combination of microstrip line resonators and FETs, is described. The resulting filter not only produces positive gain but also has good performance regarding sharpness of skirts, rejection, and input and output return losses. Capability of constructing wider bandwidth and its superior performance at harmonic band frequencies over an end-coupled filter structure are among advantages of this design.


Background: Most people show a remarkable deficit in reporting the second of two targets (T2) when presented 200– 500 ms after the first (T1), reflecting an 'attentional blink' (AB). However, there are large individual differences in the magnitude of the effect, with some people, referred to as 'non-blinkers', showing no such attentional restrictions. Methodology/Principal Findings: Here we replicate these individual differences in a task requiring identification of two letters amongst digits, and show that the observed differences in T2 performance cannot be attributed to individual differences in T1 performance. In a second experiment, the generality of the non-blinkers' superior performance was tested using a task containing novel pictures rather than alphanumeric stimuli. A substantial AB was obtained in non-blinkers that was equivalent to that of 'blinkers'. Conclusion/Significance: The results suggest that non-blinkers employ an efficient target selection strategy that relies on well-learned alphabetic and numeric category sets. Citation: Martens S, Dun M, Wyble B, Potter MC (2010) A Quick Mind with Letters Can Be a Slow Mind with Natural Scenes: Individual Differences in Attentional Selection. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13562. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013562 Editor: Mark W. Greenlee, University of Regensburg, Germany Received June 11, 2010; Accepted October 1, 2010; Published October 27, 2010 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain declaration which stipulates that, once placed in the public domain, this work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. Funding: This research was supported by a grant of the Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN) Research School (http://www.rug.nl/bcn/index). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. * E-mail: email@example.com


Aims:  Adaptive phenotypes of enteric bacterial pathogens in response to in vivo‐mimicking stress conditions are important because of their potentiality to enhance stress resistance and ameliorate measures intended to control transmission and infectivity. Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) encounters a variety of such environments throughout its infection cycle, including high concentrations of the short‐chain fatty acid, Propionate (PA), during food processing and within the gut of infected hosts. With this study, we aimed to elucidate the significance of PA adaptation on stress resistance in S. Enteritidis.


As part of the European project of sequencing the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiue genome, we have sequenced the DlOH and J 1 ID fragments (Palzkill et a/. , 1986) of the 524-24a strain (Strathem etal., 1979). Sequencing was carried out on both strands by the dideoxy chain-termination method (Sanger et a/.. 1977). The DlOH and J l l D fragments are contiguous; their junction has been verified by sequencing 1500 bp of the overlapping clone lambda CH4Ap17 from the strain AB972 (Olson et al., 1986). The 1809 bp long open reading frame YCRlOl has been identified at the junction of DlOH and J11D. YCRIOl is located between the SUF2 (Mortimer et d., 1989) and the KVS161 genes (Urdaci et al., 1990) o n the right arm of chromosome 111. The DNA and deduced amino acid sequences are given in Figure 1.


Animal manure has complex composition with various nutrient components like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Manure from different animals varies in density, water content, and nutrient content. Livestock farms conventionally store the manure for months and apply it to land as fertilizer. This practice results in emissions to air and water, caused by microbial decomposition of the organic matter in manure.


Prof. Gary McPherson, Ormond Chair of Music and Director, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne; Chair, APSMER Board (2011-2013) delivering his welcome address.


Father Luis Sodiro, who Latinized his name as Aloisius Sodiro, was a member of the Society of Jesus and a teacher in Ecuador during the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early years of this century. He collected plants extensively for about thirty years, mostly on high mountain peaks like Corazon and Pichincha that are not far from Quito. Although he did publish on other groups, his specialty was ferns, an interest that culminated in his book "Cryptogamae Vasculares Quitenses Adiectis Speciebus in Aliis Provinciis Ditionis Ecuadorensis Hactenus Detectis," which, as the full title indicates, was a treatment of all known Ecuadorean Pteridophyta, not just those of the Province of Quito. This work is the only complete treatment of Ecuadorean ferns, or indeed of the ferns of any Andean country. Although the work follows the nomenclature of Hooker and Baker's "Synopsis Filicum" (ed. 2, 1874) and is consequently a hundred years out of date, it is still a useful, in fact indispensable work for the student of South American ferns.


There are several possibilities for measuring air activity: immediate measurement of the concentration of activity; measurement after increasing the concentration of activity by a non-selective enrichment, e.g., by separation of the aerosols in a mechanical or electrostatic filter: measurement after the selective enrichment of a particular radioactive isotope or of a group of related isotopes by simple physicochemical methods; radiochemical or, more accurately, mass spectroscopic analysis of air activities after previous enrichment. An immediate measurement of air activity is possible with counters or an ionization chamber but the attainable detection limits are too high because of the natural background activity. A direct activity measurement in an air flow ionization chamber is used for the determination of non-accumulating activities of inert gases. Two general requirements are placed on any measuring apparatus; the detection sensitivity for different isotopes must lie sufficiently below the tolerance concentrations; the detection delay must be so short that, at any desired concentration of activity, any possible activity taken up by the organism in the time between the occurrence and the detection of the contamination does not exceed the tolerable amount. The limits of a direct method of measurement are examined first in the light of the conditionsmore » in a simple ionization chamber with radioactive gas filling. Subsequently a tritium monitor is dealt with in which the radiation detectors are ionization chambers. A tritium concentration of 5. 10/sup -7/ mu c/cm/sup 3/ is established as the lower detection limit. This corresponds to one tenth of the tolerance concentration of tritium in its more dangerous form of water vapor for a 168-hour week. (auth)« less


This descriptive and epidemiological study examines completed suicides among the Apache, Navajo and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from 1957 through 1979. Death certificates constitute the primary source of data. A number of demographic and situational variables are examined for the cultural groups and similarities and differences are noted. Significant findings include a high male to female ratio ranging from 7.4:1 to 10.4:1; an age range of 10-39 for 75.4%-93.4% of the completed suicides; and a high percentage of both males and females using extremely lethal methods, i.e., firearms and hanging, to commit suicide. Suicide rates for the Apache and Pueblo groups have been rising since the mid-1960s, while Navajo rates have been rising since the early 1970s. The Apache had the highest suicide rate, followed by the Pueblo and Navajo, for the period 1957-1979. The age-adjusted rates range from 1.7 to 4.9 times the U.S. rate in recent years. Age-specific trends show an increase in youthful suicide rates similar ...


Feline tarsal injuries are common, particularly in male cats, and can result from dog bites, road traffic accidents or falls from heights. Complete physical and orthopaedic examinations are required to reliably identify all injuries in these cases, but life-threatening injuries must take precedence over orthopaedic trauma. This article discusses the management and treatment of injuries to the feline tarsus.


Objective: To evaluate the proper approach in women diagnosed with atypical endometrial hyperplasia (AEH) by endometrial biopsy. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 108 patients who underwent hysterectomies for AEH diagnosed by endometrial biopsy from 2000 to 2007. The results of the endometrial biopsies were graded on an ordinal scale and were compared with pathologic features obtained at the hysterectomy. Results: AEH was initially diagnosed by dilatation and curettage (87 cases) or endometrial biopsy with a Z-sampler (17 cases). The remaining four cases were diagnosed by hysteroscopic polypectomy. In patients preoperatively diagnosed with AEH by biopsy, hysterectomy specimens revealed a rate of simple or complex endometrial hyperplasia without atypia of 33.3% with AEH and normal endometrium found in 52.8 and 3.7% of specimens, respectively. The incidence of endometrial carcinoma was considerably high (11/108, 10.2%). All cases were confined to the endometrium and two of those were located at the adenomyosis without myometrial invasion. All patients with endometrial carcinoma displayed coexisting atypical complex hyperplasia following hysterectomy. Conclusion: Biopsy specimens showing AEH, particularly atypical complex hyperplasia, are associated with an increased risk of coexisting endometrial carcinoma. When considering management strategies for women with a biopsy diagnosis of AEH, clinicians should take into account the considerable rate of concurrent endometrial cancer and the discrepancy with pathologic diagnosis.


Problem-Based Learning (PBL) has become more popular in higher education over the past several years. It has proven tobe effective in engineering education to increase students' motivation and the acquisition of skills required by the labourmarket and today's society. However, even when PBL is gradually introduced at an institution alongside traditionalteaching, it is not perceived by students as an easy way to learn, especially when ill-structured, real problems are firstintroduced. Students can feel stressed, often because of their lack of both skills and previous knowledge, and they oftenprefer to focus their efforts on the final result and on passing their exams rather than the problem-solving process. Toidentify the difficulties that students have during PBL and to re-design instruction to increase students' motivation, thisstudy used the MUSIC1Model of Motivation as a conceptual framework. This paper analyses students' motivation whenPBL is introduced in a traditional-teaching institution, and discusses the main adjustments needed to increase students'motivation, engagement, and learning.


In order to solve the problem of data analysis and application caused by the inefficient integration of hardware and software compatibility of hardware in the Internet of things, this paper proposes and designs a C/S framework communication system based on task driven and multi-user authority. By redefining the relationship between users and hardware and adopting the matching framework for different modules, the system realizes the high concurrent and complex data efficient collaborative processing between software and hardware. Finally, by testing and verifying the functions of the system, the communication system effectively realizes the functions of data processing between software and hardware, and achieves the expected results.


Experimental research on the teaching measures of the aerobics has been carried on for two years by means of document information, questionnaire and statistics. The experimental results show that the basic movement skills and technical levels of students of experimental group are noticeably different from those of comparison group on different stages; on the stage of designing and editing, the students in experimental group are better than those in comparison group in knowledge utilization ability and creative ability. It indicates that scientific teaching measures and ways are effective to promote various abilities of students.


Thank you very much for downloading talking with children and young people about death and dying a workbook. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search numerous times for their chosen novels like this talking with children and young people about death and dying a workbook, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they juggled with some malicious bugs inside their desktop computer.


This article approaches the orientation in running higher educational institutions from different perspectives and provides a frame work for choosing the orientation. At the same time, this article also explores the connotations of relevant special features, such as comparability, objectivity, non-essential differences, etc.


Hydrogen ion selective solid contact electrode based on tribenzylamine have shown the best Nernstian slope, selectivity and the widest response range in Tris buffered pH sample solutions. Their linear dynamic range was pH 2.48–11.21 and Nernstian slope showed 55.1 mV/pH (at 20±0.2 °C). When it was directly applied to human whole blood (in pH range 6.0–8.5), we could get the same satisfying results. This electrode continuously contacted Tris 7.47 buffered solutions, human whole blood and hydrofluoric acid solutions for one month without any loss of performance. Especially, hydrofluoric acid did not influence the surface of this electrode, thus this electrode was maintained without showing any changes in potentials after used in hydrofluoric acid solution. The standard deviation in the e.m.f. differences determined was 1.0 mV (N=10) at Tris buffer solution of pH 6.5 and 0.5 mV at Tris buffer solution of pH 8.5. The 90 % response time of the electrodes obtained by injection of hydrochloric acid into Tris buffer sample solution was less than 8 s.


This paper summarises our work on Ontology embeddings for the SemRec Workshop at ISWC 2021. Recent work on Knowledge Graph (KG) embeddings provide a low-dimensional representation of entities and relations of a Knowledge Graph and are used successfully for various applications such as question answering and search, reasoning, inference, and missing link prediction. However, most of the existing KG embeddings only consider the network structure of the graph and ignore the semantics and the characteristics of the underlying ontology that provides crucial information about relationships between entities in the KG. Recent efforts in this direction involve learning embeddings for a Description Logic (logical underpinning for ontologies) named ℰℒ ++ . However, such methods consider all the relations defined in the ontology to be one-to-one which severely limits their performance and applications. We provide a simple and effective solution to overcome this shortcoming that allows such methods to consider many-to-many relationships while learning embedding representations. Our proposed solution also paves the way for learning embedding representations for even more expressive description logics such as 𝒮ℛ𝒪ℐ 𝒬 .


In this thesis, the reliability of small wind turbines is studied. Both conventional reliability analysis methods and the novel Bayesian models (Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling (BHM)) are used to analyse the reliability performance of the Gaia-Wind turbines / assemblies and components of the Gaia-Wind turbine. In Chapter 2, a simple failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is conducted. An approximated risk priority number (RPN) is calculated for each failure mode and assembly. The assembly that is identified to have the highest RPN is the "Rotor and Blade Assembly". As for the failure modes, "Blade Split" and "Generator Failure" failure modes are identified to have the highest RPNs. In Chapter 3, the conventional methods including the Kaplan-Meier Analysis, Weibull Plot Analysis, Homogeneous Poisson Process (HPP) Analysis, and Crow-AMSAA (Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP)) Analysis are used to study the reliability performance of the generic turbine and the critical assemblies based on the approximated RPNs. By using these conventional methods, the L10 life can be approximated (Kaplan-Meier), the main failure modes of an assembly can be identified (Weibull Plot Analysis), the annual failure rate can be estimated (HPP), and the number of future failures can be predicted (NHPP). These methods have been implemented in a novel on-line interactive platform, named ReliaOS (Chapter 7), which effectively facilitates the process of converting the information in the warranty record to the meaningful reliability information. Three novel BHM models are proposed and implemented in WinBUGS (an open source software), namely the repair model, the environmental model, and the informative prior framework, (Chapter 5 and Chapter 6). The repair model is used to quantify the repair effectiveness of a generic repair action. The model is applied on both the turbine level as well as the component level. At the turbine level, the annual failure rate of the generic turbine is predicted to be 0.159 per turbine per year at the first year. Individual turbines can be categorised into different quality levels ("Good", "GoodNormal", "Normal", "Normal-Bad", and "Bad") based on the predicted annual failure rate values. At the component level, "Blade split", "Cracked Frame", and "Generator Failure" failure modes are studied. These are the most critical failure modes for "Rotor and Blade Assembly", "Tower, Foundation, and Nacelle", and "Generator"


The Current of technology nowdays is very rapidly and greatly aects people's lives in various aspects. Advances of technology are accompanied by the development of globalization in the last decade. The ability of computers as a data processing and the information have been developed by humans as a user are widely into various areas of life. These technological de- velopments have an impact on the development of variations in the type of technology products on oer. The products of technologies may be either a network product such as mobile application is now widely used, and so on. The internet such as wireless, the sciences such as an e-learning, and the eld of information communication. Therefore, in this research the author wants to create a mobile applications based on the java, that entitled "Virtualisasi MUSEUM". This ap- plication contains a drawing of a map (MAP MUSEUM), and a description of a collection of objects - artifacts which owned by the museum. Making the application is expected to help the search for locations and information objects - artifacts that found on the museum, so that later expected to raise the level of tourist arrivals and can improve services to visitors.