The Effect of Herbal Cattle Against Cholesterol and Blood Profile in Arabic Chicken (Gallus turcicus) B. B. Apriansyah, D. M. Suci, and W. Hermana This study used Arab layer chickens. Medicinal composition consists of kencur, garlic, ginger, galangal, turmeric, curcuma, green betel leaf, and cinnamon with added molasses and EM4. The treatment in this study consisted of A0 (Provision of drinking water without the addition of herbal medicine), A1 (A0 is added to herbal medicine as many as 10 ml/ chicken, dissolved into drinking water as much as 15 ml/ day), A2 (30 ml herbal medicine/ chicken dissolved into drinking water as much as 15 ml/ day), A20 (were added 20 ml/ chicken dissolved into the drinking water of 15 ml/ day), and A30 (A0 is added to herbal medicine as many as 30 ml/ chicken, dissolved into drinking water as much as 15 ml/ day). Herbal medicine was consecutively given during three days in a week. The experimental design used was Randomized Block Design (RBD) were analyzed using ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) with two groups of four treatments. The variables measured were total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, and blood profiles. The result showed that the addition of herbal medicine into drinking water in level 0 ml, 10 ml, 20 ml, and 30 ml did not affect the reduction of cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL, and the value of erythrocyte, hematocrit, hemoglobin, and leukocyte of Arab chicken.


: This study aims to provide a neo-institutional explanation of why South Korea increasingly intends to share its developmental experience with the rest of the world. South Korea's knowledge sharing projects are the leading example of expansionary and self-defining efforts of its aid administration. By analysing the aid policy-making process, this paper explores the inside dynamics of an emerging donor government—pinpointing why aid bureaucracy stands at the centre of the rise of the knowledge dimension. This research highlights the particular statist developmentalism—as major bureaucratic discourse and momentum behind the aid expansion— that appears to be neither necessarily strategic nor coherent.


Colonoscopy is the preferred method for colon cancer screening, but can miss polyps and flat neoplasms with low color contrast. The objective was to develop a new autofluorescence method that improves image contrast of colonic neoplasms.


Information about vapor pressures is important initially to qualify potential candidates as working fluids in refrigeration machinery. Later, it is also very useful in calculating the thermodynamic properties necessary for the design of that machinery. The authors present new measurements of the vapor pressures of difluoromethane (R32) from 235 to 265 K, of 1-chloro-1, 2, 2, 2-tetrafluoroethane (R124) from 220 to 286 K, and of pentafluoroethane (R125) from 218 to 286 K. Measurements were made in two ebulliometers, one of glass and one of metal. Overall, pressures ranged from 13 to about 950 kPa. The authors also present vapor pressures of R125, calculated via thermodynamic relationships, for temperature down to 170 K (2.3 kPa). They study the azeotropic mixture of R125 with chloropentafluoroethane (R115), and they correct the data for a small R115 impurity.


We have used restriction site-dependent polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methodology for detection of the α-globin polyadenylation (poly A) signal mutation, AATAAA>AATA– – and Hb Sun Prairie [α130(H13)Ala→Pro, GCT>CCT (α2)] mutation. The former mutation produces Hb H disease in the homozygous state and occurs frequently in the Indian population. It was detected in nine of 77 putative α-thalassemia (α-thal) patients and in three of 13 β-thal intermedia patients tested. Four of the nine α-thal patients were homozygotes for the mutation. The Hb Sun Prairie mutation was confirmed in two α-thal patients, one of whom was a homozygote and the other a heterozygote.


The vertebrate limb is one of the most intensively studied organs in the field of developmental biology. Limb development in tetrapod vertebrates is highly conserved and dependent on the interaction of several important molecular pathways. The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling cascade is one of these pathways and has been shown to be crucial for several aspects of limb development. Here, we have used a Xenopus laevis transgenic line, in which expression of the inhibitor Noggin is under the control of the heat‐shock promoter hsp70 to examine the effects of attenuation of BMP signaling at different stages of limb development. Remarkably different phenotypes were produced at different stages, illustrating the varied roles of BMP in development of the limb. Very early limb buds appeared to be refractory to the effects of BMP attenuation, developing normally in most cases. Ectopic limbs were produced by overexpression of Noggin corresponding to a brief window of limb development at about stage 49/50, as recently described by Christen et al. (2012). Attenuation of BMP signaling in stage 51 or 52 tadpoles lead to a reduction in the number of digits formed, resulting in hypodactyly or ectrodactyly, as well as occasional defects in the more proximal tibia‐fibula. Finally, inhibition at stage 54 (paddle stage) led to the formation of dramatically shortened digits resulting from loss of distal phalanges. Transcriptome analysis has revealed the possibility that more Noggin‐sensitive members of the BMP family could be involved in limb development than previously suspected. Our analysis demonstrates the usefulness of heat‐shock‐driven gene expression as an effective method for inhibiting a developmental pathway at different times during limb development.


A numerical method based on a three-time level finite-difference scheme has been proposed for the solution of the two forms of the Klein–Gordon equation. The method, which is analysed for local truncation error and stability, leads to the solution of a nonlinear system. To avoid solving it, a predictor-corrector scheme using as predictor a second-order explicit scheme is proposed. The procedure of the corrector is modified by considering, as known, the already evaluated corrected values instead of the predictor ones. This modified scheme is applied to problems possessing periodic, kinks and soliton waves. The accuracy as well as the long-time behaviour of the proposed scheme is discussed and comparisons with the relevant known in the bibliography schemes are given.


We propose a localized surface plasmon microscope that uses a zeroth-order Bessel beam for the illumination to employ a beam scanning method. The microscope visualizes the refractive index distribution in the optical near-field from a substrate surface by measuring the coupling strength between illumination light and surface plasmons from the light absorption. The beam scanning method utilizing a galvano mirror for the fast scanning axis increases the repetition rate up to 2 kHz. In order to confirm imaging properties of the developed microscope, we observe the point spread function by using a latex particle with the diameter of 175nm. It is revealed that the properties of the observed point spread function coincide with that of the calculated intensity distribution of the electric field.


The pathogenesis of viral myocarditis is still not completely clear all over the world now.However, the damage to the body caused by the viral myocarditis has been highlighted and its pathogenesis has become a research hot spot.With the development of immunology and molecular biology, the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis has made great breakthrough.Many scholars advocate that the course of viral myocarditis should be divided into three phases: viral replication, immune response and inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy.This review summarizes the progress of the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis from the above three phases through reviewing previous articles, aiming to provide new evidence and references for clinical diagnosis and therapy of viral myocarditis.

Key words:
Viral myocarditis; Pathogenesis


In this paper, eGauss+ evolving clustering is used in classification, which forms very small clusters in the shape of hyper-ellipsoids in a single-pass manner going through the data set. At the end of procedure small cluster forming phase the merging procedure is used which merges these small clusters, i.e. merges granules into bigger clusters. The merging procedure is based on cluster volumes, which merge two closed and similar cluster into a new one. The resulting cluster center is a weighted averaging of merged cluster centers, together with covariance matrix which is calculated from the covariance matrices of the small clusters. The proposed classification algorithm was used on two classical classification data sets, i.e. iris and breast cancer data set, and compared with other methods. The method shows very similar results, but has an important advantage, namely it works recursively, in a single-pass manner.


The TK1202 well's outrun design scope is the diameter 215.9 mm and well eye is 5100 m.To make the well bottom level be normal,it makes use of the deep directional drilling technique in this process.It overcomes the influence in the deep well,super temperature and high pressur.


The survival of infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) virus under conditions pertaining to its retention in the laboratory, and its inactivation by several physical and chemical means were examined.Approximately 99.9% of infectivity was lost when washed IPN virus (106.5–107.0 TCID50/ml), suspended in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) and Eagle's Minimal Essential Medium diluted 1:10 with PBS, was held at 4 C for 1 yr. After 2 yr more than 102 TCID50/ml remained in both suspensions. The virus survived equally well for 1 yr in 20 and 50% glycerol.Thermal inactivation of IPN virus at 60 C proceeded in a two-component manner, each component following first-order kinetics. At neutral pH, the infectivity of 107 TCID50/ml was reduced by 99.9% in the first 30 min of exposure. After 5 h, 0.0001% still survived. Inactivation rate of the initial rapid component was increased by adjustment of pH to 3 and 10.The curve for the 1:4000 formalin inactivation of 106.5 TCID50/ml of IPN virus was multiphasic. When formalin-trea...


ABSTRACT This study examines Chinese universities' incentive schemes for international publication in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). It analysed 172 incentive documents collected at 116 research-intensive universities in China, including monetary bonus schemes and career-related incentives. This analysis is complemented by interviews with six senior administrators at six Chinese universities and four journal editors to explore the policy-making process and impact of incentivisation. The study found that most universities actively promoted international publications, with variations and similarities in their incentive schemes. In general, more benefits were granted for SSCI (Social Sciences Citation Index) and A&HCI (Arts and Humanities Citation Index) journal publications than domestic publications. We conclude that such incentivisation showcases the influence of western standards and global benchmarking in the internationalisation of Chinese HSS, and that the incentive schemes may create a 'Matthew Effect' enabling SSCI and A&HCI journals to flourish, while deepening the divide between these and other journals.


In this report, piezoelectric Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 (PZT) thin films have been prepared onto platinized silicon and stainless steel substrates (SS) respectively, by using the sol-gel spin-on techniques and rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process. (i) Near 4 μm (100) oriented PZT thin films were prepared onto (111)Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si. The dielectric constant and remnant polarization achieved 1658 and 35 μC/cm2 respectively. Zr-rich PZT thin films had higher dielectric constant. The as-prepared PZT thin films were observed to have spontaneous piezoelectric responses, which was prominent in the relatively thinner films. (ii) PZT thin films were successfully deposited onto SS substrates by using a thin template of PbTiO3 layer. The annealing temperature of PZT was decreased to 550°C. No second phase was detected to the limit of X-ray diffractmeter. The remnant polarization and piezoelectric d31 constant were determined to be 35 μC/cm2 and -76 pC/N, respectively. (iii) The origin of the self-poling effect was conjectured to the formation of an internal bias field in PZT thin films. The shift of Curie temperature Tc of PZT thin films was discussed on the base of two-dimensional compressive and tensile stresses introduced by different substrates.


. Endocrine diseases rank fourth in the world among all diseases. In Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Health, thyroid diseases account for about 45% in the structure of endocrine pathology. A significant proportion of thyroid diseases are autoimmune diseases, namely chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's goiter) and diffuse toxic goiter (Graves' disease). It is proved that the occurrence of autoimmune thyroopathies is primarily the result of a combination of genetic predisposition and adverse environmental factors, such as radioactive contamination, excess xenobiotics entering the body, insolation, etc. The summation of factors, as well as the impact of viral pandemics, severe chroniostress caused by war, makes a significant contribution to the incidence of autoimmune thyroopathies and justifies the need for research in this direction in order to early identify autoimmune thyroid pathology and prevent its consequences. The purpose of our study was to determine the rate of arterial blood flow in the thyroid arteries in patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) and diffuse toxic goiter (DTG) in order to search for hemodynamic diagnostic markers. An observational cohort study involving 84 people was conducted. 55 people were diagnosed with AIT, 29 people with DTG, the patients were in a state of compensation for thyroid function. 20 healthy individuals constituted the control group. All patients underwent ultrasound examination with Dopplerography with measurement of blood flow velocity parameters in the lower thyroid arteries (LTA). It is determined that the blood flow velocity in LTA (the average indicator between the right and


ZrO2 was prepared via the hydrothermal method and used as the support of nickel catalysts in the partial oxidation of methane to syngas. The hydrothermal conditions (such as hydrothermal temperature, hydrothermal time, and the concentration of NaOH used) necessary for ZrO2 preparation were investigated and optimized. The physicochemical properties of ZrO2 supports and Ni/ZrO2 catalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), nitrogen adsorption, temperature-programmed reduction (TPR), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The results showed that low hydrothermal temperatures, short hydrothermal time, and low concentrations of NaOH benefited the formation of tetragonal ZrO2. Elevating the hydrothermal temperature (from 160 °C to 200 °C), prolonging the hydrothermal time (from 6 h to 48 h), or increasing the concentration of NaOH (from 5 wt % to 40 wt %) would lead to the disappearance of tetragonal ZrO2 and an increase in the degree of monoclinic ZrO2 crystall...


The effects of different sample pretreating conditions,including internal temperatures(65 ℃,70 ℃,75 ℃,80 ℃),water-bath temperatures(70 ℃,75 ℃,80 ℃),holding time(0 min,5 min,10 min) and chilling temperatures(0- 4 ℃,25 ℃),on Warner-Bratzler shear force(WBSF) and cooking loss of chicken breast were studied. The breast WBSF and cooking loss increased with the increase of internal temperature and water-bath temperature and the extension of holding time. Under the condition of water-bath temperature at 75 ℃ and internal temperature at 70 ℃,WBSF was kept stable with the smallest variation coefficient. Breast samples chilled to a temperature between 0 ℃ and 4 ℃ showed the small value of WBSF and reduced cooking loss. In conclusion,the optimal conditions for chicken WBSF measuring were heating in a 75 ℃ water bath to an internal temperature of 70 ℃ and storage at 0- 4 ℃ overnight.


We have seen several methods from simulating random variables based on the ability to generated a random variable U that is uniformly distributed on [0, 1]. For discrete random variables, the distribution function FX is constant except for jumps fX(xi) at those x1 < x2 < . . . that X takes on with positive probability. In this case, set x0 = −∞. P{FX(xi) < U ≤ FX(xi+1)} = FX(xi+1)− FX(xi) = fX(xi+1) and we can simulate X by assigning the value xi+1 whenever FX(xi) < U ≤ FX(xi+1).


The  project was undertaken by CV. Dwi Mulya Jaya with the contract price of IDR. 9,431,000,000.00 on 150 calendar days. An alternative project planning was in need to complete the project on time, cost, and qualityThe project planning included; 1) site layout; 2) traffic managemnet; 3) implementation method; 4) scheduling; 5) cost; 6) quality and 7) safety.Technical drawings, technical specifications, bill of quantity, and work unit price of Mojokerto 2016 were needed. Microsoft Exel 2013 and Microsoft Project 2007 were employed to determine the project price and scheduling.The planning results in: 1) direction kit in the front of the project, on the right side; 2) one-gate system; 3) two-zone system and cast-in-situ method; 4) on 147 calendar days; 5) at IDR 8,188,864,607.06; 6) the quality meeting the specification and Standard Operational Procedure; 7) applying safety rules on  Mondays.  Keywords: project planning, site layout, implementation method.


It is difficult to identify oil-water layers in deep glutenite reservoir with ultra-low permeability featuring abysmal buried depth,great lithology variation,complex porosity structure,strong heterogeneity and vague distinctions of rock-electricity relations at the oil-water interface.Based on the core analysis data and combining with the imaging logging,nuclear magnetic resonance logging,conventional logging data,along with the utilization of electro-face method,the comprehensive characteristic parameters of the oil-water layer are abstracted.With the help of a set of mathematical statistic tools,a discrimination model for ultra-low permeable deep glutenite reservoir with multi-parameters and an oil-water layer separation method are presented.The developed software is then put to test by more than ten well logging data from the studied area,the results are promising: the interpretation accuracy of the reservoir parameters and the identification of the oil-water layer are effectively improved,which proves that the method can provide a more reliable and detailed geological background for exploration and development for ultra-low permeability deep glutenite reservoir.


The influence of polyethylene (PE) glycol (PEG), diatomite, and diatomite/PEG binary processing aid (BPA) on the rheological properties and the sharkskin melt fracture of three PEs was studied using a capillary rheometer. When diatomite or PEG is added to the PE matrix, they have little effect on the viscosity reduction of PEs, while the diatomite/PEG BPA shows a synergetic effect on the viscosity reduction of PEs. The incorporation of small amount of BPA was found to increase the shear-thinning behavior and decrease the melt viscosity significantly. Meanwhile, the critical apparent shear rate for the onset of sharkskin melt fracture of PEs is increased. The mechanism for BPA to improve the rheological properties and the melt flow instability of PEs was discussed. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 45:898–903, 2005. © 2005 Society of Plastics Engineers


The existence of space debris limits the development of the modern space industry. So it is necessary to study space targets collision probability. Collision probability Pc can be simplified as two-dimension unequal variances PDF within circle domain integral by coordinate transformation and projection error .The integral can be turned into PDF within circle domain integral through the compression space and area circular approximation, and it can be a form of infinite series whose the first term and the recurrence formula are known .Finally, we use instance( U.S.and Russian satellite collision probability in a circular orbit) to explicit expression for validation, and the results show that the method is feasible. Introduction The collision warning of spacecraft and space targets, is actually a screening process, namely by judging whether they will collide with each other to rule out most space targets which won't collide with the spacecraft. About the screening of space collision between targets, we commonly use apogee perigee screening, orbital altitude difference,time difference screening and so on..


Hybrid adders have provided innovation in the field of digital arithmetic. These designs take the best parts of multiple implementations and improve results in terms of area, delay, or power. This work implements a 64-bit hybrid adder using a spanning tree structure with the carry-increment algorithm. Synthesis results are obtained for 45nm technology and show promising data when compared with an existing hybrid design.


ABSTRACT Soviet and American leaders learned during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 that inadequate communication raised perilous risks and dangers in the nuclear age. The US–Soviet Hotline was created soon thereafter, in 1963, and has operated continuously ever since. It was intended to provide a quick, reliable, confidential, ever-ready communications between heads of state in the event of crisis or war. Strategists came to realize that urgent and effective communication was essential not only for preventing unwanted escalation in crisis, but also in limiting war or terminating war – all profoundly important in an age marked by large accumulations of nuclear weapons. Though they can be misused by malign actors or employed by states to convey threats rather than reassurances, hotlines represent an emergency mechanism that sits astride the paths to nuclear war – an insurance policy worth having. Not only has the original Soviet-American Hotline been preserved and modernized but the hotline model has been adapted by other nuclear pairings and in conflict-prone regional settings. Hotlines remain a prudent, low-cost preparation that could prove essential in the event of a crisis that seems to be slipping out of control.


Objective To investigate the intra-articular pressure irrigation treatment of severe knee osteoarthritis,inflammatory effusion.Methods 117 patients (137 knees) with severe osteoarthritis of the knee effusion of patients,according to the amount of fluid were divided into treatment group and control group,both groups at 1 week give compound betamethasone,2-6 weeks injection of sodium hyaluronate,a total of six weeks as a course of treatment.The treatment group was added before the injection of sodium hyaluronate intra-articular pressure lavage.Results After treatment the treatment group patients cavity fluid volume,pain,functional activities,have reported significant improvements (all P0.001).Conclusion The severe knee osteoarthritis were treated with conventional and intra-articular pressure lavage therapy very significant,and the patient can be tolerated,no significant adverse reactions.


Abstract V479 And is a 14.26 hour, close binary system, comprised of a G8-K0 star departing from the main sequence and a compact primary star accreting matter from the donor. The object is an X-ray source, modulated with the orbital period. This, and the presence of an intense He II line, leads us to speculate that the compact object is a magnetic white dwarf. However, we do not find strong constraints on the upper mass limit of the compact object, and we may have a neutron star in a low mass X-ray binary instead of a cataclysmic variable. The orbital period is certainly too short for the donor star to be an evolved giant star, so classifying this object as a symbiotic binary may be a big stretch; however there is an evidence that the mass transfer occurs via stellar winds, rather than through the L1 point of Roche filling secondary, a phenomenon more common for symbiotic stars.


Figure 1. (a) Interaction concept of Computational Ether [1], (b) Laser Plasma Graphics induced by Femtosecond laser [2], (c) Acoustic Field [3] rendered and visualized by dry ice (d) tactile feedback rendered by both acoustic and light fields [4] Abstract Towards post multimedia interactions, we envision real world oriented interactions with Computational Generated Fields on Air; we called this interaction concept as "Computational Ether". Along this concept we have conducted studies to propose a method for realizing new physical interactions that expands malleability of non-digital material towards programmable matter in the real world [1]. Our method utilizes light field [2] and acoustic field [3] these are calculated, generated, and controlled by computers. By applying such computational fields of quantities and physical phenomena around the holographic field, we transformed ordinary air into interactive visual media [2], haptic media [4], and actuators [3]. To implement these interactive media, we employed Computer Generated Hologram and rendered with ultrasound generated by acoustic phased array and laser induced plasma generated by femtosecond laser sources with Spatial Light Modulators. In this paper, we introduce the results of our research group such as case studies; aerial haptic interaction, aerial touch displays, 3D manipulation of objects, new material expression displays, and so on. Finally, we discuss the advantages and limitations of our method. We believe these technologies stimulate display researches from 2D pixels on the surface towards 3D pixies flying in the air.


This paper provides a solution to an unbalanced Pentagonal Intuitionistic fuzzy transportation problem in which the total supply is more than the total demand. The cost of the transportation problem is Pentagonal Intuitionistic Fuzzy Number with degree of membership and degree of non-membership function. A ranking method based on value and ambiguity index of Pentagonal Intuitionistic Fuzzy Number is used to solve the unbalanced transportation problem.


The invention discloses a method and a device for scanning files in a memory. The method comprises the following steps that: the memory is scanned according to a file information database, and an updating file on the memory is looked up; the attribute information of the updating file is obtained; the file information database is updated according to the attribute information of the updating file; and the attribute information which exists in the file information database but is not discovered in the current memory scanning time is deleted. The method and the device provided by the invention have the advantages that during the scanning of the memory, the file information database can be correspondingly updated only through obtaining the attribute information of the updating file on the memory; the attribute information of all the files in the file information database subjected to the updating and deleting operations is used as a scanning result to be output; the resources consumed by repeated scanning are greatly saved; and the scanning speed is accelerated.


ABRASIVO particulate material evenly spaced (16, 19, 22, 30) diamond or another hard and abrasive material on a flexible support (15, 18), embedding PARTICLE IN SUPPORT and fixing them therein with particles SUPPORT TO PERFORM EXCEL galling. Particulates can DISTRIBUTED OPENINGS placing them in a mesh (18, 21, 26), which can be removed or be part of the support. As support is flexible, it can be given DIFFERENT FORMS TO COMPLY WITH SUSTRATOS complex shapes. They can bind a large plurality of supports (34, 35, 39, 40) with different concentrations FORMING TOOLS WITH VARIABLE CONCENTRATIONS.


Aim and Metheds The influence of oral enalapril on long_term quality of life was observed in 41 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and severe cardiac dysfunction (NYHA class Ⅲ_Ⅳ, left ventricular ejective fraction30%),The oral enalapril(10~40 mg/day) was given for 24 months in addition to digitalis, diuretic drog and vasodilators (nitraes mainly). Results Follow_up rate was 95.1%.The maximal six_minute_walking distance was increased by 43.0% (P0.01) and exercise tolerance and time were increased by 73.1% and 61.4%, respectively (both P0.001) and left ventricle systolic parameters were improved in varying degrees. Conclusion The life quality of patients with cardiomyopathy and severe cardiac dysfunction could be greatly improved by administration of enalapril.


Software project management involves assessing the software system risks and costs, establishing a master schedule, integrating the various engineering specialities and design groups, maintaining configuration control and continuously auditing the effort to ensure that cost and schedule are met and the technical requirements objectives are satisfied. This paper presents a new graphical representation model for controlling and managing a project development process using metaphors and visual representation techniques.


In the course of a correspondence with my friend John Eliot Howard, Esq., Tottenham, he mentioned to me that a quantity of bark had been received by the Messrs Gibbs of London, from San Bias, which appeared to be analogous to, if not identical with the Natri. A small quantity of the same bark had also been brought over from Santa Cruz by a gentleman, who stated that it was there known under the name of Chiquique, and was always given to the Indians in fever cases, and was considered by the medical practitioners there as superior in certain cases to cinchona bark itself.


We provide an introduction of some basic facts of uniformly almost periodic functions, such as Fourier series representations. A result is then proved about Fourier coefficients which is a generalization of the purely periodic case. We then provide an application of our estimate to the Riemann-Zeta Function.


The present invention relates to a marker element for a road, with a cylindrical housing (18), at least one light source is provided within the cylindrical housing, through which a light is flush with the road, housing cover (2) the transparent portion (2 ') emitted flat interface, wherein light from the light source out of the cover and the inner cover to the interface at an angle that is close to the total reflection critical angle, and wherein the light source (3) and the cover (2 ) mechanical connection, the cover can be connected to the housing (1) at different angular positions.


Research on the analysis of the unconfined aquiver Pekanbaru city has been doneusing finite difference method. The unconfined aquifer depth data and locationcoordinates are taken in every district in the city of Pekanbaru each consists of 4samples. The purpose of this study was to analyze the condition of the unconfinedaquifer 2016 to 2019 in every district in the city of Pekanbaru by using a computerprogram MATLAB application version 7.0. Based on this research can be informedthat the condition of the unconfined aquifer in every district in the city of Pekanbaruare as follows: The Unconfined aquifer condition is in good condition located in theDistrict Marpoyan Peace with an average depth of the aquifer independent from 2016and 2019 respectively -8.15 to -1.12 meter. The Unconfined aquifer conditions thatmost damaged districts are in the depth of the unconfined aquifer Rumbai average of2016 to 2019 respectively is 54.52 meters to 54.24 meters. Keywords: Unconfined Akuifer, MATLAB, underground water.


Species concepts currently accepted by investigators in the Boletaceae vary from exceedingly broad to very concise and restricted. In the Boletus edulis group for instance, we find in Singer's (1967) classification that B. edulis is maintained as a collective species even to the inclusion of B. separans Peck. At the same time Singer maintains Xerocomus coniferarum Singer as a species distinct from X. subtomentosus on very slight differences, they are keyed out on the fleeting color change caused by ammonia vapors on X. spadiceus. We find no logical explanation for this dual type of species concept in a single group such as the boletes. In contrast, Smith and Thiers (1970) have found that in this family there is a consistent level at which species can be readily recognized, and that such concepts do much to clarify the phytogeography of the group as well as associations with specific forest trees. The purpose of this article is to place on record a species hitherto unrecognized because of having been included in a broad concept of B. separans by Coker and Beers (1943). The species described in the following account is amply distinct from B. separans (Peck's type) in that the caulocystidia acquire a bluegreen color of the wall in KOH, and in that the cells of the pileus


The aim of the present work was to develop colon targeted matrix tablets of lornoxicam using natural polymers such as Tamarind seed polysaccharide, Guar gum, Xanthan gum as carriers in various concentrations. Matrix tablets were prepared by direct compression method. Prepared formulations were subjected to various evaluation parameters like hardness, friability, thickness, % drug content, weight variation etc. The tablets were subjected to in-vitro drug release in 1.2 pH for first 2 hrs then in 7.4 pH for next 3hrs followed by 6.8pH phosphate buffer. In-vitro studies revealed that tablets formulated with the natural polymers have controlled the drug release in stomach and small intestine environment and released maximum amount of the drug in colonic environment. Results showed that tablets with higher binding concentration showed minimum drug release. Combination of polymers shows greater retarding of drug release. The compatibility of the drug and polymer were determined by FTIR spectroscopy. Results showed that the drug was compatible with all polymers. The release data was fitted to various mathematical models such as Higuchi, Korsmeyer-peppas, Hixson crowell, Zero order and first order to evaluate the kinetics of drug release. The drug release follows mixed order kinetics and mechanism was found to be non-Fickian diffusion. The stability studies were carried out according to the ICH guidelines which indicates the selected formulation (F10 & F12) were


Islam promotes a comprehensive development of human potential in all its stratifications and ramifications to enable Muslims to better perform their role as khalīfat Allāh (Allah's vicegerent) on earth. Good governance, economic prosperity, intellectual and spiritual enrichment, social and psychological welfares, and sustainable development of human and natural resources, among others, are an integral part of the duty of khalīfat Allāh. No single Muslim state today is capable of providing all these requirements without cooperating with other states. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was primarily established to promote cooperation among the member states and to serve the common economic, political, social, cultural, spiritual, and scientific interests of Muslims as guaranteed by Islamic Sharī'ah. The basic challenge to Muslim scholars today is how to re-articulate Islamic principles and values promulgated in the Sharī'ah in a way workable in contemporary contexts.


First described by Brescia and Cimino in 1961 the A.V. fistula remains the best form of permanent vascular access. 24 to 27% of A.V fistulas thrombose within the first few postoperative weeks or fail to achieve sufficient caliber to permit cannulation. Most mature between two to six months. Once mature native fistulas have excellent long-term patency rates and rarely become infected. A.V. fistulas can provide adequate vascular access for over 20 years. The importance of careful preparation for A.V. fistula placement months before the need for hemodialysis cannot be overemphasized.

Planning the Kaiser way: Planning starts with the primary physician, screening the patients at risk: over 60 years old, diabetes mellitus, hypertension. The primary physician refers the patient to the nephrologist and renal team if the Cr. is 1.5 or higher for a female or 2.0 or higher for a male. During the early stages of the kidney disease, pre-ESRD, the patient will be referred to the Choices Class to learn the different modalities (hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and transplant issues). Once the nephrologist makes the decision that the patient will be on hemodialysis in the future, the patient is referred to the Renal Case Manager (RCM); he/she will initiate a referral to vascular surgery for evaluation of access placement. The RCM explains to the patient about the first surgical visit with the vascular surgeon, follows with surgery to be sure the appointment is made. When the access is placed, the RCM will do post surgical teaching on how to care for the new fistula. The patient will be followed, including the A.V. fistula, until the patient needs dialysis. If the fistula is not developing well, the RCM will notify the vascular surgeon for evaluation. Once the patient is ready for dialysis the patient is referred to the dialysis center. The RCM will follow up with the dialysis center and see how the access is working. If the fistula is questionable to use, the patient is first dialyzed as in-patient to evaluate the access.


Information about resident involvement in reporting various city-related events (e.g., Potholes, traffic jams) via mobile apps is critical to key stakeholders for effective city management. While existing efforts have primarily focused on event data collection in space, they are not capable of performing efficient retrieval of information about resident involvement in event reporting across different spatial regions and at different spatial granularities. Hence, this work makes the following contributions. First, we present CRIS, a scalable system for efficient retrieval of resident involvement and event information across different spatial regions and at varying spatial granularities. Second, we propose the euR-tree, a novel R-tree-based index augmented with (a) a hash-based array for indexing events in space, and (b) fixed-length arrays for indexing resident involvement information in reporting events in space. The euR-tree is integrated into CRIS to realize efficient retrieval. Third, our performance study indicates that the euR-tree is indeed effective in performing such retrieval with reduced query response times and disk I/Os.


In this paper, we propose a modulation scheme for a network-coded bi-directional relaying (NBR) system over an asymmetric channel, which means that the qualities of the relay channel (the link between the BS and RS) and access channel (the link between the RS and MS) are not identical. The proposed scheme employs a dual constellation in such a way that the RS broadcasts the network-coded symbols modulated by two different constellations to the MS and BS over two consecutive transmission intervals. We derive an upper bound on the average bit error rate (BER) of the proposed scheme, and compare it with the hybrid constellation-based modulation scheme proposed for the asymmetric bi-directional link. Furthermore, we investigate the channel utilization of the existing bi-directional relaying schemes as well as the NBR system with the proposed dual constellation diversity-based modulation (DCD). From our simulation results, we show that the DCD gives better average BER performance about 3.5~4dB when is equal to , while maintaining the same spectral efficiency as the existing NBR schemes over the asymmetric bi-directional relaying channel.


Hypothesis testing is different from traditional applications of differential privacy in that one needs an accurate estimate of how the noise affects the result (i.e. a $p$-value). Previous approaches to differentially private hypothesis testing either used output perturbation techniques that generally had large sensitivities (hence risked swamping the data with noise), or input perturbation techniques that resulted in highly unreliable $p$-values (and hence invalid statistical conclusions). In this paper, we develop a variety of practical hypothesis tests that address these problems. Using a different asymptotic regime that is more suited to hypothesis testing with privacy, we show a modified equivalence between chi-squared tests and likelihood ratio tests. We then develop differentially private likelihood ratio and chi-squared tests for a variety of applications on tabular data (i.e., independence, homogeneity, and goodness-of-fit tests). An open problem is whether new test statistics specialized to differential privacy could lead to further improvements. To aid in this search, we further propose a permutation-based testbed that can allow experimenters to empirically estimate the behavior of new test statistics for private hypothesis testing before fully working out their mathematical details (such as approximate null distributions). Experimental evaluations on small and large datasets using a wide variety of privacy settings demonstrate the practicality and reliability of our methods.


Let G be a graph, and let H be a connected subgraph of G. When it is known that the graph G/H (obtained from G by contracting H to a vertex) has a spanning eulerian subgraph, under what conditions can it be inferred that G itself has a spanning eulerian subgraph?


The effects of nickel flashing on thermal-shock resistance of ceramic coating and mill additions of cobalt oxide on enamelling in nitrogen stream were studied from the points of interfacial microstructure proposed and adherence strength.The new method for measuring thermal-shock resistance of ceramic coating is that the coated specimens are heated for 5 min. at the specified constant temperature which is taken either as the maximum saftey-temperature for actual use, or (0.7-0.8)×(enamelling temperature 3°C), and rapidly cooled in water. These heating and cooling operations are repeated until the gain in weight by oxydation of base metal becomes comparable with loss by peeling off. Then the relation between the amounts of peeling of coated layer and times of repeating will be expressed by a curve which has asymptotic constant value of saturation. From this curve thermal-shock resistance, R(%), can be calculated by following formula.R(%)=Maxium amounts of peeling/Initial weights of coating layer×100%The resistance, is thought to be nearly proportional to the adherence strength at room temperature. However, the existence of ferrosilicate layers which develope at 850°C for 30 sec. on interface by prefiring of nickel flashed base metal. Also increases thermal-shock resistance. From this reason, it is considered the ferro-silicate layer whose thickness is about 2-3μ, acts as to decrease the maximum amount of stress occured in coating layer.The catalytic action of metallic nickel deposited by nickel flashing, being expressed by Fe3O4+Fe+Ni→4FeO+Ni, is promoted by acid etching after nickel flashing. Therefore, the kinds of acid and etching methods are important procedures for good enamelling.For firing in nitrogen stream, mill additions of cobalt oxide are effective to increase adherence strength and thermal-shock resistance. Most effective addition is 3% CoO. This is due to the fact that selective galvanic corrosion of CoO remarkably occurs at this content and this corrosion state can be seen by the micro-photographs of interface. (Fig. 12)When the galvanic corrosion of CoO and reducing action of nickel flashing simultaneously act during enamelling, these actions cancel each other so that both of thermal-shock resistance and adherence strength of specimen greatly decrease, in general.


Abstract : The current Department of Defense shipping procedures do not encourage Installation Transportation Officers (ITOs) to use small parcel carriers (SPCs) for domestic ground transportation. There is still a significant amount of small parcels being shipped by the more expensive common carriers used for large Truckload and Less-Than-Truckload freight. The first purpose of this thesis is to show small parcels can be shipped more efficiently by SPCs than common carriers. The second purpose is to predicted the optimal breakpoint weights that will bolster the greatest reduction in shipping cost. The results can be applied to current procedures to encourage the ITOs to best employ the SPCs. Nonparametric data analysis techniques are used to test hypotheses made about the data for fiscal year 1994. The first test shows potentially 3.1 million dollars can be saved annually using United Parcel Service (UPS) for all qualified parcels. The second series of tests bounds the optimal breakpoint weight for Over-The- Counter UP S rates and discounted UP S rates. By using the intersection of two lines of regression, the resulting breakpoints were 116 and 130 pounds, respectively. The second tests show potentially 3.4 to 3.8 million dollars can be saved annually using UPS for the above breakpoint strategies.


This article examines the policing of gender nonconformity in Australia in the early decades of the twentieth century. With a focus on Victoria, it asks: what are we looking for when looking for trans and gender diverse crime history, and what can history tell us about the experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia's criminal justice system today? The article explores discourses around gender, sexuality, respectability and criminality relating to people who were arrested for presenting as a gender different to the one they were assigned at birth. Using case studies, it discusses some of the challenges of archival research into trans and gender diverse history, as well as the significance of uncovering these histories today.


The electrical properties of ZnSe/(NHa)2S*-pretreated GaAs heterointerfaces have been investigated from C-V characteristics of Luf ZnSe/p-GaAs MIS diodes. The (NHa)zS* pretreatment of a GaAs surface successfully results in good electrical properties of ZnSe/GaAs heterostructures, i.e., very small flat-band voltage (50-150mV) and hysteresis width (50mV) in the C-Tcurves and low interface state density (4.9 x 101r cm-2eV-l). It is also found that the heterointerface where the ZnSe layer wa,s grown at 350 oC is thermally stable up to 450 oC. For future applications of ZnSe-based II-VI semiconductors to insulating layers of Ga,As-MISFETs, we discuss the potential of a ZnMgSSe quaternary alloy, which is expected to have larger conduction band offset to GaAs as compared to aZnSelGaAs heterointerface.


Objective:To investigate the effects ofNIM(a cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitor),5-FU,and their combination on the expression of VEGF,in order to explore the possible mechanism. Methods:Nimesulide (100,200,400μmol/ml)and 5-FU(100,200,400μmol/ml) were used.EC109 cell lines were divided into control group,Nimesulide treated group,5-FU treated group,and Nimesulide combined with 5-FU group.The inhibition on the proliferation of EC109 cells respectively treated with Nimesulide ,5-FU,and their combination were detected by MTT and their apoptosis rates were detected by FCM.The expression of VEGF mRNA was detected by RT-PCR. The protein expression of VEGF was detected by Western blotting. Results :The inhibition rate and apoptosis rate ofNimesulide combined with 5-FU were significantly higher than the single Nimesulide or 5-FU single treated.Nimesulide combined with 5-FU significantly reduced VEGF mRNA and protein ,as compared with the single Nimesulide and 5-Fu.Conclusion:Nimesulide combined with 5-FU can inhibit the EC109 esophageal cancer cell proliferation in vitro,inhibiting VEGF expression may be one of its mechanisms.


Sprains of the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation of the thumb with ulnar capsulo-ligamental lesions are frequent. Neglection of these lesions may lead to articular instability with decreased pinch grip strength and ulteriorly arthrosis. Diagnosis is made with standard radiology and clinical evaluation of articular stability. If a laxity of more than 30° or more than 15° compared to the controlateral MP joint is present, a complete rupture of the ulnar collateral ligament must be suspected, and surgery has to be considered. Partial lesions may be treated conservatively with a thumb spica splint.


This paper proposed tissue culture on-chip design using multivariable molecular network by using three network combinations such as star, bus and ring networks. A chip consists of star networks that allow the trapping molecule (nutrient or gene) circulation within design a circuit. In principle, the required nutrient can be trapped by the multivariable tweezers and transported to the required destinations. PANDA ring resonator is a modified add-drop filter can be generated and the molecules trapping transport is reviewed. In this work we are seeking for the optimizing results, which will be considered by choosing the suitable network parameters. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of I-SEEC2011


Zoning Estoppel is a claim in equity that may be argued by those who, in reliance on an invalid permit issued to them, expended substantial sums of money relying on the permit, later to have their permit revoked for invalidity. This claim is asking the courts to estop the municipality from their power to revoke the permit. Since this is a state-based claim in equity, there is no per se rule that courts use to analyze an estoppel claim other than "fairness and equity" to the permittee. As such, jurisdictions appear to approach the issue differently, resulting in a doctrine that has a reputation of being opaque, unpredictably applied, and often difficult to attain. This Note argues that while the Zoning Estoppel doctrine is often viewed as unavailable to recipients of illegal permits, courts do in fact invoke this doctrine. Though it seems as if there is no consistency with the way in which the doctrine is invoked, this Note further proposes that courts can and should find estoppel when the facts of the case satisfy four factual categories. Part I of this Note describes the nature and elements of an estoppel claim, the permit process, and the vested rights doctrine. Part II demonstrates the doctrine as applied in the courts, indicating issues courts face when ruling on an estoppel claim. Part III of this Note proposes that this blurred doctrine is not as ambiguous as it appears, and can be understood by analyzing the circumstances of each case. Specifically, it proposes a test consisting of four factual categories that tend to be determinative when courts are confronted with claims for equitable estoppel, and argues that courts should examine the facts of a zoning estoppel claim through these four factual categories. Finally, Part IV discusses the benefits and potential implications of adopting the test. Ultimately, assessing an estoppel claim through these four factors would create more consistency in applying the estoppel doctrine, and would make a successful claim by a developer or landowner more tenable.


This study is aimed to empirically examine the relationship between religious coping with subjective well-being. The hypothesis in this study was positive relationship between religious coping with subjective well-being santri in pondok pesantren. The research subjects were 142 students. The technique of determining the research subjects was using simple random sampling. This study used scale of subjective well-being and religious coping. The data analysis technique used to test the proposed hypothesis was the product moment correlation technique, to find out whether there is a relationship between religious coping with subjective well being. Statistical test results obtained correlation coefficient (r) of 0.639 with p = 0,000 (p <0.05). It showed a significant positive relationship between religious coping and subjective well-being. The higher the religious coping, the higher the subjective well-being and the lower the religious coping, the lower the subjective well-being. The effective contribution of religious coping to subjective well-being was 40.8%.


Nowadays, comprehending urban spaces and the appropriate design of space is a way toward meeting the diversified needs of each citizen. Among this, attention to the flexibility principle as a dynamic of qualified urban space creation can facilitate spaces to provide multiple opportunities for the general public. Accordingly, this study attempts to address the concept of flexibility and realization of it in urban spacing. In order to achieve flexibility in urban space, a new pattern is presented. It is notable that achieving the space at first needs prerequisites including permeability, adaptability, legibility followed by body requisites such as positive outdoor spaces, spaces with multimodal behavioural patterns, multiuse buildings, active frontages and fine amenities. These include constructive elements like activity, place and people. Through preparing such elements, flexibility can emerge in urban spaces into three classes; versatility, convertibility and expansibility at micro and macro scales.


ORCID Rahul Rajala https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4501-349X R E FE R E N C E S 1. Aird WC. Spatial and temporal dynamics of the endothelium. J Thromb Haemost. 2005;3:13921406. https://doi. org/10.1111/j.15387836.2005.01328.x 2. Wolinsky H. A proposal linking clearance of circulating lipoproteins to tissue metabolic activity as a basis for understanding atherogenesis. Circ Res. 1980;47:301311. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.res.47.3.301 3. Burton AC. Physiology and biophysics of the circulation: an introductory text. Year Book Medical Publishers Inc; 1972. 4. Folkow B, Neil E. Circulation. New York, London, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1971;46.


Single dye fluorescent staining (with a membrane - associated dye such as FM 1-43 or FM 4 -64) and the combination of differences in both intensity and spectral emission discriminate live from inactivated / dead bacteria and provides for rapid and accurate detection of live bacteria in mixed populations.


Based on the theory of modal analysis,the modal analysis model of a weapon launching platform is established.By the method of Block Lanczos provided by ANSYS,the computations to the weapon launching system are carried out,from which the eigenfrequencies and eigenforms of the system are obtained.The simulation results provide the theoretical basis for the further studies of the vibration mechanism and the technologies of vibration control.


The utility model refers to a charge and discharge cycling device for an electric car; the device comprises a battery pack, a switch, a controller, a generator motor, a generator and a wheel motor; the battery pack comprises a charging module and a discharging module connected in parallel; the batter pack is provided with an output contact point; the switch is connected with the output contact point of the battery pack; the controller is used for controlling the switch to connect or disconnect, and is used for controlling operation in a vehicle driving process; the generator motor and the wheel motor are connected with the battery pack through the switch so as to receive power from the battery pack; the wheel motor drives the vehicle to turn; simultaneously the generator is connected with the generator motor and is driven by the generator motor to run for generating power; the generator is connected with the battery pack through a charging line for charging the battery pack, so the power consumed by the wheel motor is supplemented; when a user starts the electric car, the power outputted by the battery pack passes the switch and is transmitted to the generator motor, the generator motor receives the power and starts to run and drives the generator to rotate so as to generate power, then the power generated by the generator is transmitted back to the battery pack for charging the battery pack, so the electric car can automatically charge the battery pack while in driving, and the battery pack can continuously maintain power.


Growth is greatly affected by salt stress, which can be improved by the pretreatment of Salicylic acid (SA) before salt stress. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of seeds presoaking in 50µM, 100µM and 1000µM Salicylic acid on growth parameters of two mung bean genotypes (NM 19-19 and NM 20-21) under salinity stress (50 mM and 100 mM NaCl ). It was found that salt reduced seedling length, fresh and dry weight of both genotypes, which decreased more as salt concentration increased further. Presoaking treatments with SA reduced salinity-induced decline in length, fresh weight and dry weight. However, pretreatment of high concentration of SA (1000 µM) prior to salt treatments was able to cause significant reduction in mean seedling length in both genotypes. It was further noticed that genotype NM 19-19 showed less reduction in the seedling length, fresh weight and dry weight under salt stress therefore seemed to be more salt tolerant than NM 20-21.


We extend the definition of d h -measures introduced by Lee and Baek to the more general setting of compact metric spaces and prove that two d h -measures are equivalent if and only if their respective measure functions are equivalent.


The interplay between individuals' social interactions and traits has been studied extensively but traditionally from static or homogeneous social network perspectives. The recent availability of dynamic and heterogeneous (multiplex) network data has introduced a variety of new challenges. Critically, novel computational models are needed that can cope with data dynamics and heterogeneity. In this paper, we introduce a computational framework that is broadly applicable to a variety of dynamic, multiplex domains, which focuses on: 1) measuring changes in node interaction patterns with time, 2) clustering nodes with similar evolving patterns, and 3) linking the clusters with trait similarities. We apply the framework to study the interplay between evolving topology and traits in an 18-month social network dataset encompassing both digital communications and co-location instances. Notably, we demonstrate how our framework captures results that would otherwise be missed by a simpler approach such as static network analysis alone. In addition, we uncover network-trait interplays that have not been studied to date and could lead to novel insights by domain scientists.


We examine the implications of media coverage on audit pricing. We propose two alternative explanations for the direction of the relation between a client's media coverage and audit fees. Under the business risk view, media coverage can increase the auditor's litigation risk and reputation risk ex ante, leading to higher audit fees. Under the corporate governance view, the media's disciplining effect on firms can pressure clients to improve their financial reporting in the first place, resulting in lower inherent or control risk and lower audit fees. Our results support the business risk view. We find that media coverage is positively associated with audit fees, and this relation is stronger for clients that have higher litigation risk and that expose the auditor to greater reputational damage. We conduct a path analysis which suggests that auditors charge a media-related risk premium but also increase their audit effort to mitigate the potential risk. Our study contributes to the auditing literature by identifying media coverage as a distinct source of auditors' business risk.


This invention relates to a process method for the information of the congestion state of flow direction including: 1, a communication information accumulation module tests the congestion information of flow direction and analyzes it to decide the information of the congestion state, 2, said module sends the information to a control module via a control interface, 3, the control module refreshes the content of the congestion expressed in its own module, 4 finishing.


The four series near isogonics lines from four common wheat varieties backcrossing thirteen dominant dwarfing sources were studied.The two-factor comparative experiment of these near isogonics lines was conducted under non-competitive conditions in order to investigate the effects of the genetic backgrounds of the dwarfing genes and the recurrent paternal parents on the plant height and grain weight.Under the unified genetic backgrounds,the plant height of all the 13 dwarfing sources ranged from 38.3-73.2 cm,being in a significant correlation with their grain weight per plant(r=0.868 9).The grain weight of a dwarfing source variety approached or exceeded its recurrent parent when its plant height was increased to 64.2 cm or more.Its therefore,was possible to use such innovative dwarfing sources directly in hybridization breeding of wheat.But the plant height of near isogenies lines with SW07,SW05 and RHT21 was significantly higher than that with others.Compared with the recurrent parent plant which was 92.5 cm,the reduction of plant height in near isogonics lines with SW07,RHT21 and SW05 dwarfing source was 73.2,72.4 and 69.5 cm respectively The plant height of near isogenies lines with SW02 and SW04 were 59.7 and 56.9 cm respectively and had significantly difference at 5% level.The grain weight of plant of near isogenies lines with SW05 and SW07 was 17.6 and 15.9 g respectively and had significantly higher than that of male parents,which was 14.0 g,and than that with others which was bellow 14.0 g.The RHT10 dwarfing source had affected the grain weight of plant and plant height of recurrent male parents most.The reduction of plant height and grain weight in near isogonics lines with Rht10 was 58.7% and 57.1% respectively compared with recurrent parent.It is recommended that the dominant dwarfing sources developed and selected,i.e.SW07,SW05,Rht21,Olsen dwarf,YD be utilized in ″gene-designed″ dwarfing breeding of wheat.


Previous studies demonstrated that the 11-cis isomer of vitamin A prevented retinal rod degeneration in rats. Uncontrolled human studies suggested that 11-cis vitamin A given intramuscularly benefited patients with retinitis pigmentosa. A long-term rigidly controlled study was performed to determine whether or not 11-cis vitamin A may be of value in the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa. Final results were negative.


The commercial cultivation of the 'Galego' Mexican lime has important limitations related to high susceptibility to citrus canker and especially to tristeza (Citrus tristeza virus CTV). Its main rootstock is the Rangpur lime, with which it forms a scion/rootstock combination highly susceptible to CTV and gummosis-of-Phytophthora. The fruits of 'Galego' have smaller size and presence of seeds, traits that disfavor it for fresh fruit market when compared to the 'Tahiti' Persian lime. The selection of new varieties of 'Galego' and their rootstocks is desirable to promote the use of this acid lime, expanding the available options for the consumer market. The Galegão variety, also known as Malay lemon, was studied and showed good results in Jaboticabal-SP. Two experiments were carried out in Bebedouro, São Paulo, aiming its horticultural performance evaluation in combination with different rootstocks. The cultivar has good horticultural performance, and can be recommended for São Paulo citrus growers as an alternative to 'Galego' and 'Tahiti' acid limes. In rain-fed cultivation, better performance is achieved with the rootstocks of C-13 and C-32 citranges and 'Sunki' mandarin. In irrigated crops, HRS 849 and 'Flying Dragon' trifoliate orange determine good performance.


Neurotherapeutic techniques continue to advance in sophistication and complexity, and as such so does the need to reference odd occurrences or adverse reactions as a result of training in different regions of the brain. This is important to the field of neurotherapy in addition to those practitioners who may encounter patients on medications at the time of training, and this type of information can only add to the armamentarium of tools at our disposal. We discuss noted odd occurrences that have transpired during our studies employing LORETA neurofeedback (LNFB) in both children and adults. We also discuss negative events reported by patients or parents and medications interactions with LNFB. Positive results are also discussed. The field of neurofeedback can benefit immensely from more reports of this type.


In recent years, the spring diatom bloom in eutrophic Lake Lugano (Switzerland, Italy) has been dominated by the small centric diatom Stephanodiscus minutulus. Sediment traps, deployed from 1992 to 1994 in the permanently stratified, deep north basin of this lake, revealed high settling velocities of, at least, 8 m/d for the bulk of the diatom bloom. Geochemical and ecological considerations point to nutrient resource competition and nutrient-limited development of the algal bloom and not to decimation through zooplankton grazing. To test whether physical aggregation could have been the dominating process leading to the observed fast settling, a coagulation-sedimentation model combining classical coagulation theory for hydrophobic colloids with Stokes' law was used to simulate the sedimentation event. High values of the sticking coefficient (a = 0.5-1) were necessary to obtain significant sedimentary fluxes. Besides a, two additional factors appeared important to obtain sedimentary fluxes comparable to experimental field data: (i) S. minutulus is equipped with setae or hair-like extensions that may increase the collision frequency of the cells. Taking this effect into account in the simulation considerably increases the calculated settling fluxes, (ii) S. minutulus may interact with the larger, colony-forming diatoms present in the bloom in minor number. Inclusion of such cross group aggregation considerably increases simulated fluxes and seems to play a role in the total diatom sedimentation flux. Through rapid settling of the diatom aggregates, large amounts of fresh, aquagenic organic matter were transported to the hypolimnion. This was documented through microscope analysis of the organic matter present in the sediment traps. The rapid settling of organic-siliceous aggregates seems to have a major influence on trace metal scavenging in the epilimnion, as revealed by 7Be residence times, and also on the cycle of Mn- and Fe-oxyhydroxides.


This work is to develop a new model for the effective permeability of ferrite microstrips which is based on Wheeler's (1977) microstrip impedance model. The newly developed model for the effective permeability will have some improvements over the well-known model developed by Pucel and Masse (1972). In this model, the transition error (or the discontinuity) from a narrow to wide ferrite microstrip has been removed. Unlike Pucel and Masse's model, where one equation is derived for the narrow ferrite microstrip and another for the wide ferrite microstrip, this model only uses a single equation to predict the effective permeability of the ferrite microstrip for the entire range of width.


We report on a type-II InAs∕GaSb strain layer superlattice photodetector using a nBn design with cutoff wavelength of ∼4.8μm at 250K. The surface component of dark current was eliminated. Using a shallow isolation etch, low temperature dark current was reduced by two orders of magnitude compared with conventional photodiode processing. Dark current densities were equal to 2.3×10−6 and 3.1×10−4A∕cm2 (Vb=0.1V, T=77K) for detectors with shallow isolation etch and conventional defined mesa, respectively. Quantum efficiency, responsivity, and spectral detectivity D* of the device are presented.


This paper presents a journey that Aalto University IT has taken during the past three years. The focus is on customer centricity and on the actions that have been taken transforming Aalto University IT into an IT department that is "close to the customers". The transformation has included, for example, changes in the structure and the focus of the IT department, building collaboration networks within the university and carrying out a customer collaboration program. Each of the changes is described in this paper, and preliminary conclusions on their effectiveness and efficiency are made. And the journey goes on…


With the precipitation data from four hydrological and meteorological stations(Zaysan,Semipalatinsk,Omsk,and Thapa) in the Irtysh River Basin from 1936 to 2005,the five-year moving average method,the Mann-Kendall method,the Morlet wavelet analysis method,and the R/S analysis method were used to analyze the variation characteristics of precipitation at these stations.The results show that the annual precipitation had an increasing trend at the four stations,and a significant upward trend at the Omsk and Thapa stations had;the annual precipitation series had significant periodic variation and three evident characteristic time scales of annual precipitation variation with periods of 4a,7~9a,and 11~13a,and the characteristic time scale of 11~13a was a dominant period;and,based on the Hurst values,precipitation at the Omsk Station will have a downward trend at some time in the future,while the precipitation at the other three stations will still have an upward trend.


A common need of many embedded systems is the on-line scheduling of periodic, independent, preemptible real-time sets of tasks composed of a mandatory and an optional part. In this paper, a scheduling method, allowing a rearrangement of slack time based on the detection of singular instants during the processing, is presented. The priority policies used are rate monotonic and reward-based, for mandatories and optionals respectively. Contrary to other proposed methods, no restrictions are imposed on the reward- functions except their computability at every slot. The method shows a good performance relative to the Best Incremental Return method, often used as a yardstick.


In the present paper influence of tensor electric and magnetic polarizabilities on spin evolution in the resonance deuteron EDM experiment is considered in details. It is shown that besides EDM the electric and magnetic polarizabilities also contribute to the vertical spin component P3. Moreover, the electric polarizability contributes to the P3 component even when the deuteron EDM is supposed to be zero and thereby the electric polarizability can imitate the EDM contribution. It is shown that unlike the vertical component of the spin P3 the component P33 of polarization tensor does not contain contribution from the electric polarizability, whereas contribution from the magnetic polarizability reveals only when the deuteron EDM differs from zero. Moreover, it is also shown that when the angle ϑ between the spin direction and the vertical


The authors combined a genetic algorithm (GA) and simulated annealing to form a genetic Boltzmann machine (GBM) and attempted to understand the properties of such an architecture by experiments. Results of other experiments are also shown relating to the selection of parameters for the GA. The effects of population, different crossover point operators, and hidden units are illustrated. It is concluded that with careful design a GBM can perform nearly as well as a Boltzmann machine in a scalar computer. However, the GBM is easily amenable to parallel computation.<<ETX>>


In order to analyze the water content of highway soil-fill roadbed,while the dielectric constant of soil body is sensitive to the change of water content in it,a fast method for obtaining the dielectric constants was studied.This research used ground penetrating radar and adopted the mathematical theory of Hough transformation and MATLAB programming languages to quickly extract the velocity of wave in the medium so as to obtain the dielectric constants.The data obtained in this way were largely in correspondence with the actual experimental data.The research results show that this is an effective method in obtaining dielectric constants in a non-destructive way,which can be popularized and applied in the quality evaluation of soil-fill roadbed project.2tabs,4figs,7refs.


Management and analysis of uncertain,probabilistic data stream has attracted considerable attention within database community.Skyline query processing is an open question recently.Although previous work has addressed skyline computations over static data or traditional data stream,skyline computation over probabilistic data stream is still at large.We propose an efficient algorithm SOPDS to handle this issue.Based on more adaptable grid index,a set of heuristic rules like probability bounding,progressive refinement,pre-elimination and selective compensation are developed to improve the comprehensive performance of SOPDS from point of reducing both CPU overhead and memory consumption.Massive experiments demonstrate that SOPDS is of high overall performance.


A method of transmitting first data packets, the method being implemented in a first station (10), each first packet being transmitted by said first station to at least two second stations (11 to 13), said second stations belonging to a set comprising a plurality of second stations.Pour guarantee a quality of service, the method comprises: - a reception of at least one acknowledgment of each first packet received correctly by at least one second station, said one or more acknowledgments being transmitted by the one or more second stations having received said first packet correctly; - a retransmission of each first unacknowledged packet at least once.


During everyday activities cartilage experiences high loads, stresses, deformations, and contact forces. Sometimes, those activities can lead to permanent damage, such as focal lesions. Focal cartilage lesions have been associated with the progressive degeneration of the surrounding cartilage tissue. This paper aims to compare the mechanical response of the knee joint and femoral cartilage using finite element models during the stance phase of the gait cycle. Our model, developed from MRI scans, has been used to compare the mechanical response of the knee joint with healthy and damaged femoral cartilage. The location of the lesion was above the anterior section of the lateral meniscus. Comparison of the obtained results has shown that having a lesion in the previously mentioned location leads to a significantly higher peak Von Mises stress values.


This study aims to implement the STAD learning model to improve student learning outcomes and student responses. The STAD model was applied to 29 Semen Gresik Junior High School students. The research design used was one group pretest-posttest design with data collection methods using a test, questionnaire, and observation methods. The research instruments were learning sheets, pretest questions, and student response questionnaire sheets. The study found an increase in learning outcomes through the calculation of N-Gain with an average value of 0.85 in the high category. Student responses in learning activities using the STAD method showed very positive results, with an average percentage of 92%. The application of the STAD learning method was very good at meetings I and II. Based on the research data analysis, it can be concluded that there is an increase in learning outcomes through the STAD type cooperative learning model in the material of the human digestive system.


To express the gene encoding MIG of streptococcus dysgalactiae and provide target protein for further immunological study,MIG gene from the genomic DNA of standard streptococcus dysgalactiae strain C588 by was amplified by PCR and insert into pET-32a(+) vector.The recombinant vector pET-32a(+)-MIG was transformed into BL21(DE3)/pET system for expression of Trix-MIG fusion protein.The expressed product was identified by SDS-PAGE and Western blot.The result showed that the MIG gene shared 99 % sequence identity with that of Streptococcus dysgalactiae(AF354651) reported in GenBank with the protein had a relative molecular weight of 89 ku,and could be recognized by specific antibodies in Western blot.


PurposeThe fear of the pandemic, confinement at home and the need to work created a unique situation. The pandemic catalyzed work-from-anywhere practice by adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) across all industries. While ICT saved organizations, it increased technostress among the workforce. A better understanding of the adverse effects of ICT usage might enable organizations to manage the mental well-being of the workforce. While technostress is gaining increasing interest, scholarly work investigating the dimensions of technostress and its impact on creating stress across various employee demographics and industry types is missing. Contrary to the prevalent assumptions, the authors theorized and tested the adverse moderation effect of the home-work interface on the linkage between technostress dimensions and stress. This paper aims to discuss the aforementioned objective.Design/methodology/approachThe study captures dimensions of technostress and the resulting stress at work using a survey-based analysis of 881 working employees in India, representing multiple industries and functions.FindingsThe study indicates that techno-overload, techno-complexity and techno-invasion significantly impact employees during the pandemic. The authors further found that the home-work-interface is a powerful factor in understanding the complex linkage between dimensions of technostress and its outcomes.Research limitations/implicationsBased on the Conservation of Resources Theory and the Job-Demand-Resources model, this study highlights the adverse impact of this trend on employee well-being. However, the study suffers from a cross-sectional research design. The technostress research has focused primarily on static, at-premise environments and mostly on high ICT usage industries. Due to the pandemic, it has neglected the impact of various technostress dimensions across employee cohorts subjected to rapid technology-enabled working. Further, most studies focus on the voluntary choice of remote work. Employees struggle with the unexpected and involuntary shift to technology-enabled remote work. This study contributes to the literature by examining the consequences of technostress in the context of non-voluntary remote work. Contrary to prevailing assumptions, this study highlights the adverse effect of organizational home-work interface in influencing ICT-created stress.Practical implicationsThe increasing use of ICT enables telecommuting across the workforce while increasing organizational productivity. Due to the pandemic, these trends will likely change the future of work permanently. To minimize employee stress, practitioners need to reconsider the dimensions of technostress. Further, the study cautions against the prevalent interventions used by practitioners. While practitioners facilitate a home-work interface, it could have adverse consequences. Practitioners may consider the adverse consequences of home-work interface while designing organizational policies.Social implicationsThis study during the pandemic is crucial as research forecasts the likelihood of other cataclysmic events, such as future pandemics and political or climate change events, which may sustain technology-driven remote work practices and remain a feature of the future workplace. Hence understanding the implications of the dimensions of technostress would help organizations and policymakers to implement necessary interventions to minimize employee stress.Originality/valueThe present study examines the dimensions of technostress across multiple industries and job functions in an emerging market marked by a high economic growth rate and an Eastern cultural context. This study presents the dark side of excessive ICT adoption and indicates how organizations and HRM practices can help mitigate some of these effects.


It is sometimes suggested that trading in derivatives leads to excessive volatility in underlying asset prices relative to what would be called for by fundamental values. These effects are tested by comparing the variances of price changes over different time horizons before and after the start of organized derivatives trading. It is found that ratios of the variances of multi-day and daily price movements decline for bond prices in the United States and Germany and for stock indices in the US, Japan and the UK, though no such effect is found for Japanese bonds. Other indicators confirm that serial correlation has tended to decline since the introduction of derivatives. While these results offer strong grounds for rejecting predictions of the destabilizing effects of derivatives, an alternative view, that derivatives accelerate the price-discovery functions of cash markets, cannot be definitively confirmed, given ambiguous breakpoint results and the many other contemporaneous developments in financial technology. Copyright 1999 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd.


In this work, xanthophylls were extracted from Marigold using supercritical CO2. A response surface experimental design was used to optimize operating conditions for extraction pressure (22-30 MPa), extraction temperature (50-60


The occurrence of the PTEs contamination in the environment resulting
from the point or diffuse sources increases with globalization and
population growth. Anyway the benefits of home gardening for the
physiological and physical well-being, as well as uncertainties
regarding food supply chain in the case of Covid-19, the desire to use
home-grown (local) food is increasing more and more. There is no
information available on the PTE pollution of urban soils used for the
food production in Slovenia. Therefore, the main goal of present study
is the characterization of urban gardens and agricultural areas affected
by flooded sediments. The total concentrations of PTEs in soil and
sediment samples were ICP-MS. The concentrations of PTEs (As, Cd, Cr,
Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) exceeded the permissible limit values defined in
Slovenian Official Gazette. To define the natural or artificial origin
of PTEs, the mineralogical composition of the selected soils and
sediments was determined. The results obtained in present study were
correlated with the national background values measured in the upper
soil horizon and showed elevated concentrations. In addition to the
environmental issues, the social aspect of potential impacts of PTEs on
human health and safety was investigated. The results show that despite
the numerous local, national and international plans and measures,
greater awareness of the general public is needed to understand the
hazardous effects of PTEs and the need for appropriate management of
contaminated soil in the case contaminated areas.


The success of the lunar probe Chang'E-1 is the third milestone in the history of china's space industry.Information technology is widely used in the process of the management,design,manufacture and test of the probe Chang'E-1,which plays a very important role for the efficient and high-quality accomplishment of the probe Chang'E-1.The primary characteristics of Chang'E-1 are summarized in this paper,and the application and benefits of information technology for the development of Chang'E-1 are reviewed.The application of information technology in onboard facility,mainly in GNC system,is expounded in detail.In the end,the application of information technology in the course of flight control is introduced.


PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Genre, Academia and the British Pop Music Film PART II: THE PRIMITIVE POP MUSIC FILM: COFFEE-BARS, COSH BOYS AND CLIFF 1. Introduction: Evasions and Imitations 2. Coffee Bar Pop Idols: The Tommy Steele Story (1957), The Golden Disc (1958) and Expresso Bongo (1959) 3. Coffee Bar Cosh Boys: Serious Charge (1959) and Beat Girl (1960) 4. Cliff Richard: The Young Ones (1962), Summer Holiday (1963), Wonderful Life (1964) PART III: THE MATURE POP MUSIC FILM: BOMBS, BEATLEMANIA AND BOORMAN 1. Introduction: Rockets and Rehearsals 2. The Pop Music Film as Political Allegory: It's Trad, Dad ! (1962) 3. The Canonical Pop Music Film: A Hard Day's Night (1964) 4. The Colonial Pop Music Film: Help! (1965) 5. The Chekhovian Pop Music Film: Catch Us If You Can (1965) PART IV: THE DECADENT POP MUSIC FILM: POLITICS, PSYCHEDELIA AND PERFORMANCE 1. Introduction: Blow Up and the Backlash 2. The Pop Music Film as Personal Polemic: Privilege (1967) 3. The Pop Music Film as Underground Parable: Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. The Pop Music Film as Political Diptych: One Plus One / Sympathy For the Devil (1968) 5. The Pop Music Film as Finale: Performance (1970) PART V: AFTERLIFE: THE HISTORICAL POP MUSIC FILM 1. The Grit and the Glam: Tommy (1975) and Quadrophenia (1979) 2. The Punk and the Pink: The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle (1980) and Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) 3. The Postmodern and Plan B: Absolute Beginners (1986) and Spice World (1997) PART VI: CONCLUSION 1. Music Matters


FeVTi containing ZSM5 molecular sieves were synthesized by hydrothermal process and characterized by XRD, SEM, DRS, IR, ESR techniques, etc. The investigation shows that the structrure of ZSM5 is still retained after Fe, V and Ti enterring the framework of molecular sieve. The intensity of XRD decreases, the granularity of sample enlarges and the amount of amorphous phase increases with the increasing concentration of the heteroatom. Samples synthesized display the characteristic absorption peak of heteroatom molecular sieves at 960 cm-1. The results of DRS and ESR also confirm that Fe, V, Ti can enter the framework of ZSM5. The research on reaction of NO with C3H6 indicates that catalytic activity of FeVTiZSM5 is slightly higher than that of double heteroatom ZSM5 and there is some synergistic effect among three heteroatoms.


Packet-level generative models are designed to be employed for evaluating and designing high layer wireless communications protocols. The significance of these models arises from their ability to replace the entire physical communication layer, hence reducing the time and complexity of wireless system simulations. In this paper, an enhanced general packet radio service (EGPRS) transmission system is utilized to obtain reference bursty packet error sequences. We then propose a new hidden Markov model with two processes to generate packet error sequences of any desired length. The attained burst error statistics demonstrate a satisfactory performance compared to those of reference packet error sequences.


Shape of Yield Curve and Industry Group Performance It is widely expected that the Federal Reserve will end the current tightening cycle early in 2006. Federal Reserve actions have a direct influence on short-term interest rates, which in turn may impact long-term rates. Long-term interest rates are influenced by (1) investors' expectation of future interest rates, (2) the risk premium demanded to hold long-term bonds, and (3) supply and demand for long-term Treasuries. We attempt to understand the impact of changes in the yield curve on the S&P 500 industry groups' performance. Monetary Policy and Equity Performance We analyzed the impact of changes in monetary policy on the equity markets. We observed industry group performance during periods of tightening and easing monetary policy from 1961 through 2005. We also looked at the changes in long-term interest rates versus the first 100-basis-point move in the Fed Funds target rate during easing and tightening periods.


This paper considers both software development and computer system use from the viewpoint of the human effort involved. It attempts to identify various factors contributing to the successful development and use of computer programs and systems. For example, the "software factory" notion itself can become a large part of the problem unless considered thoughtfully. Various recommendations are made for increasing human productivity in this context.


PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the internal determinants of bank profitability and stability in Pakistan banking sector. Because of specific research objectives, this study excludes the external factors of profitability and stability to find the role of bank internal determinants in achieving high performance.Design/methodology/approachA panel regression analysis is built on a balanced panel data using 24 commercial banks over the sample period of 2007-2015. The authors performed a separate analysis of bank profitability and stability. Both models used a comprehensive set of bank internal determinants.FindingsThe results that were obtained from profitability model indicated that bank size, credit risk, funding risk and stability have statistically significant impacts on profitability, while liquidity risk showed the statistically insignificant impact on profitability. Regression findings from stability model reveal that bank size, liquidity risk, funding risk and profitability have statistically significant impacts on stability, while credit risk had an insignificant effect on stability. However, the effect of the financial crisis is uniform and showed statistically insignificant impact in both models.Practical implicationsOverall, the authors' findings bring some new but useful insights to the banking literature. Some recommendations may be functional for the sustainable performance of banks.Originality/valueIn view of study results, the authors provide interesting insights into the practices and characteristics of banks in Pakistan. This study also highlights significant bank internal determinants to improve understanding in the existing literature.


We prove that the open unit ball Bn of C n (n ≥ 2) admits a nonsingular holomorphic foliation F by closed complex hypersurfaces such that both the union of the complete leaves of F and the union of the incomplete leaves of F are dense subsets of Bn. In particular, every leaf of F is both a limit of complete leaves of F and a limit of incomplete leaves of F . This gives the first example of a holomorphic foliation of Bn by connected closed complex hypersurfaces having a complete leaf that is a limit of incomplete ones. We obtain an analogous result for foliations by complex submanifolds of arbitrary pure codimension q with 1 ≤ q < n.


Contents: Preface The a "Artesa (TM) in the 11th century The collected works of Priscian: the printed editions 1470a "1859 The early scholastic glosule to Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae: the text and its influence Introduction to J.E. Tolson, a "The Summa of Petrus Helias on Priscianus Minora (TM) Milestones in the study of Priscian, c.800a "c.1200 Boethius in the Carolingian schools Codices Boethiani Latin commentaries on logic before 1200 The study of the Timaeus in the 11th and 12th centuries The continuity of learning, c.850a "c.1050 Theodore of Mopsuestia: a fragment in the Bodleian Library Lanfranca (TM)s commentary on the Pauline epistles Lanfranca (TM)s notes on patristic texts The 12th-century Glossed Bible The place of the Glossa ordinaria in medieval exegesis The Opuscula sacra in the Middle Ages A picture of Sapientia from S. Sulpice Bourges Letters and charters relating to Berengar of Tours Adelard of Bath History at Bec in the 12th century Index of manuscripts General Index.


This paper explores possibilities for designers' performance in the field of Telemedicine. It presents a pedagogical proposal for a Design Specialist Program in Telemedicine Projects. The academic structure suggested for the program is based on a learning process model conceived for integrating education, research and development. Through a trainee program grounded on practical experiences, a theoretical reflection towards the field to which the model is applied is encouraged. The proposal emerges from the collaboration between Design and Telemedicine. The pedagogical approach presented integrates the two fields, allowing the birth of a distinctive environment, which aims excellence in the production, the construction and innovation in telemedicine. To conclude, considerations concerning collaborative design, participatory design and humancentered design are presented.


Particle detector prototypes equipped with Silicon Photomultipliers designed to be sensitive in the near-ultraviolet wavelength region (NUV-SiPM) were tested in a beam of relativistic ions with electric charge Z in the range 1 ≤ Z ≤ 28, at energies 13 and 30 GeV/amu at CERN SPS. Two different prototypes of charged particle detectors were tested. The first one was a scintillating fiber hodoscope with individual fibers optically coupled to single SiPM devices. The second one consisted of an array of discrete SiPM sensors that were directly exposed to the ion beam to study their capability to trigger an avalanche in response to the ionization generated inside the silicon device. In this paper, we first report the results of the characterization and dedicated tests of the NUV-SiPM sensors that were carried out in our laboratory under controlled conditions; then, we discuss the analysis of the beam test data and the performance of both prototypes.


Pt clusters supported on CeO2 are highly active for low temperature CO oxidation. The enhanced reactivity could be caused by weakening of the CO binding on Pt, allowing adsorbed oxygen to more effectively compete for sites. An alternative explanation is that interfacial sites allow adsorbed CO on Pt to react with lattice oxygen in the ceria. Here we explore the origins of enhanced CO oxidation reactivity on Pt/CeO2 using in‐situ/operando infrared and x‐ray spectroscopies, microcalorimetry, and reaction kinetics. We show that CO adsorbs strongly (∼110–120 kJ/mol) on Pt clusters (∼1.5 nm) and Pt is almost fully covered by CO during reaction, indicating that the high activity can be related to reactive interfacial O* species. Using in‐situ infrared spectroscopy we show that when the reaction mixture of CO and O2 stops flowing over the catalyst, the adsorbed CO on Pt is lost since it reacts with interfacial O*, but if this O* is depleted, the CO band does not disappear. The role of CeO2 is not to alter the binding of CO, but rather to enhance the reactivity of the interfacial metal‐support lattice oxygens. The reaction mechanism involving the interfacial Pt−CeO2 sites (two‐site mechanism) is further confirmed by kinetic measurements which show near zero order dependence on CO and O2 partial pressures.


The operation of "mating" two suitable complex polynomial maps f l and f 2 constructs a new dynamical system by carefully pasting together the boundaries of their filled Julia sets so as to obtain a copy of the Riemann sphere, together with a rational map f l f 2 from this sphere to itself. This construction is particularly hard to visualize when the filled Julia sets K(fi) are dendrites, with no interior. This note will work out an explicit example of this type, with effectively computable maps from K(f l) and K(f 2) onto the Riemann sphere.


The present invention in order to embed the particles in the fiber surface to a method for processing an aramid fiber with a dispersion of particulate material in a swelling solvent.


As paradox is moving towards a meta-theory, research draws on its rich philosophical traditions. They include diverse fields, such as dialectics, existentialism, and logic, each emphasizing different aspects of paradoxes. However, discussions have mostly focused on single philosophical aspects, potentially leading to an incomplete and polarized view of paradox and hindering cross-fertilization. To better capture the richness of these foundational writings, this paper returns to the philosophical roots. First the main philosophical traditions and their insights into paradox are introduced. This is followed by an integrative framework, which links these foundational insights to paradox research in management. This shows how philosophical aspects are reflected in a paradox meta-theory and highlights avenues for future research.


Cognitive network is a new approach to solve self-management of complex heterogeneous network, and its model and analysis method are key problems to be solved. a formal modeling and analysis method for cognitive network is proposed based on stochastic process algebra. Firstly, basic concept of PEPA is introduced. then system behaviors are abstracted combining with cognitive essence, and formal models for cognitive network are constructed from the angles of macroscopic operating states and internal services with PEPA respectively. on the basis, quantitative analysis method is discussed. the proposed modeling and analysis method has the features logical accuracy, which can apply in any phases and direct the designation of cognitive network.


With the development of embedded technology and communication technology,the distributed control system has been widely used in every field.This paper introduces a remote monitoring and detecting system which based on Controller Area Network(CAN) and Ethernet interface.It also describes overall structure of the system,the hardware composition and the software design.The practical application indicates that,this system not only can be real-time monitoring for the temperature and humidity in local area network,but also can realize remote alarm and data upload through the global system for mobile communication(GSM) and internet.So the drug wholesaler and the retailer's monitoring demand can be realized well.


The oxocarbonium ion [RCO]+ is shown to be present in CH2Cl2 solutions of the addition compounds between benzoic and mesitoic acid or their chlorides, and five LEWIS acids: TiCl4, AlCl3, SbCl5, SbF5 and H2SO4 (H+). In CH2Cl2 solutions of the addition compound 2,4,6-(CH3)3-C6H2COOH, AlCl3 the existence of the mesitoylium ion has been confirmed by infrared and ultraviolet spectra and by nuclear magnetic resonance.


The book has three interwoven themes: a morphological theory, the structure of the lexicon, and an integrated account of the language capacity and its place in the mind. These themes together constitute the theory of Relational Morphology (RM), itself an extension of the Parallel Architecture of Jackendoff's Foundations of Language, and closely related to Construction Grammar and Construction Morphology. A fundamental feature is that phonology, syntax, and semantics are independent components of language, linked by interfaces. Another feature is the continuity between lexicon and grammar. RM extends these features to the internal structure of words. In particular, morphology is constituted of a morphosyntactic component and its interfaces to phonology, phrasal syntax, and semantics. Furthermore, RM expresses regularities among words not in terms of rules that derive morphologically complex words, but in terms of declarative schemas that capture patterns of shared structure. The chapter concludes with a survey of similarities and differences between phrasal syntax and morphosyntax.