Probabilistic structural depth model of the Riphean reservoir within the Kuyumbinskoe field is considered in the paper. Fault domination in oil and gas trap formation is shown.


In this paper, a new test statistic is presented for testing the null hypothesis of equal multinomial cell probabilities versus various trend alternatives. Exact asymptotic critical values are obtained, The power of the test is compared with several other statistics considered by Choulakian et al (1995), The test is shown to have better power for certain trend alternatives.


A data broadcast signal, a method for processing the signal, and an apparatus for receiving the signal are provided to determine the occurrence of exceptional situation of an application to transmit an exceptional situation information message through a predetermined path. A data broadcast signal is received, wherein the data broadcast signal includes an application information table and a data broadcast application(S201). Exceptional situation information, which indicates that an exceptional situation of the data broadcast application occurs, is created(S205). The exceptional situation information of the created application is transmitted(S206). In the step, S201, the application information table includes return pass path information which feeds back the information concerning application.


We have developed a new tool for sharing information of patients undergoing outpatient cancer chemotherapy with community pharmacists. We created the Tracing Report (TR) based on CTCAE which suggests high risk adverse events according to the chemotherapy. In this study, we observe the changes in the information obtained from community pharmacists and the utilization of the information by hospital pharmacists due to the change from the conventional free- form TR to the CTCAE-form TR. The subject is 164 tracing reports received from community pharmacists between September 2018 and August 2020 at Toho University Medical Center Omori Hospital. We retrospectively investigated the patient background, the percentage of statements about the occurrence of adverse events, and the rate of physician adoption of prescription suggestions from community pharmacists. We also sent a questionnaire to the community pharmacists to evaluate the usefulness of the CTCAE Form TR. Of the 164 tracing reports received, 40 were free-form TR and 124 were CTCAE-form TR. The results showed that the report rate of adverse drug reactions was significantly higher for the CTCAE Form TR in all categories. Hospital pharmacists aggregate information from tracing reports and suggest supportive care to physicians, and the number of physician adoptions was significantly higher in the CTCAE Form TR than in the Free Form TR. 95 % of the community pharmacists rated the CTCAE Form TR as being easier to use than the conventional free-form TR. Information sharing using the CTCAE Form TR can contribute to safe outpatient cancer chemotherapy.


Background: The gastrointestinal tract, as one of the most important organs of the body, has its own diseases that involved many people. Therefore, the present study seeks to investigate the effectiveness acceptance and commitment therapy based on cognitive-emotional regulation and cognitive flexibility among gastrointestinal patients.
Materials and Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with control group was unbalanced and the statistical population of this study was all gastrointestinal patients in Sari who referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital in 2020 and its sample included 30 people (15 people for the experimental group and 15 people for the control group), who were selected using the available sampling method. Then, the members of the experimental group were treated for 8 sessions based on acceptance and commitment and the control group did not receive any treatment. Research instruments included the Cognitive-Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (Garnowski et al, 2001) and Cognitive Flexibility (Dena and Venedrwal, 2010). And the statistical method of this research was multivariate analysis of covariance.
Results: The results of multivariable covariance analysis showed that acceptance and commitment therapy was effective on cognitive-emotional regulation and cognitive flexibility and significantly improved cognitive-emotional regulation and cognitive flexibility in gastrointestinal patients.
Conclusion: According to the research findings, acceptance and commitment therapy can be used as an effective method to promote cognitive-emotional regulation and cognitive flexibility in gastrointestinal patients.


Disclosed is a method of sending status information (STATUS PDU) in which a receiving side reports a data received state to a transmitting side in a mobile telecommunication system. A receiving side RLC entity considers an available radio resource to construct a status PDU fit to the size of the radio resource and then sends the constructed status PDU to a transmitting side RLC entity, thereby avoiding a deadlock situation of RLC protocols.


This paper describes eddy current analyses using the integral method and dynamic deflection analyses using the finite element method taking coupling effects into consideration. The electromotive force due to the deflection is obtained by moving the coordinates of the discretized nodes according to the results of the deflection analyses in the Lagrangian coordinate system. The calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental results of TEAM Workshop Problems 12 and 16. The importance of the coupling effect in a fusion device is shown by the calculated results of a cylinder for plasma disruption with downward motion. >


If considering only sequential execution of plans, the execution time of a plan will increase if adding actions to it. However, if also considering parallel execution of plans, then the addition of actions to a plan may sometimes decrease the execution time. It is further shown that plans which are sub-optimal in this way are likely to be frequently generated by standard partial-order planners. Unfortunately, optimizing the execution time of a plan by adding actions is NP-hard and cannot even be approximated within a constant ratio.


In this presentation we will show how we performed, for the first time, a sequential weak value evaluation of two incompatible observables on a single photon.


ABSTARCT: Se izure ca n cause serious brain damage if it prolongs. It is ge neral need to terminate seizure as soo n as possibl e using antico nvulsant dru gs via intravenous (IV) route. But, it is very difficult to achieve sec ure IV line duri ng the sei zu re. On the other hand, intraosseous (10) access is avai lable. In this study, diazepam was administered to rabbi ts using both IV and 10 lines at the dose of 0.2 mg/k g. Blood samples were co llec ted from ear vein for time per iod of 20 minutes and ana lyze d. Blood plasma diazepam co nce ntrations we re determined and their profil es were co mpared. Th e 10 line appeared to be an alterna tive route to IV access in the ad ministra tio n of diazepam. [Key wo rds: Diazepam , bo ne marrow infu sion , intraosseous infusion, spinal needl e, intravascular acce ss]


Abstract As a result of social subordination, female common marmosets undergo suppression of ovulation and inhibition of sexual behaviour. This study examined the possibility that subordination also results in decreased aggressiveness and increased submissiveness towards same-sex strangers. Thirty-two adult females were pre-assigned to eight mixed-sex social groups. The females' behavioural and adrenocortical responses to brief confrontations with each of three female strangers were assessed under two conditions: while subjects were pair-housed with a male and while they were living in established, mixed-sex groups. Only 22% of subjects threatened stimulus females in the heterosexual pairs condition, 47% submitted and 31% showed no agonism. These agonistic behaviour patterns reliably predicted whether a female would become dominant or subordinate in a mixed-sex group. When animals were housed in established social groups, both dominant and subordinate females either showed similar responses to stimulus animals as they did in the earlier condition or became somewhat less responsive. Plasma cortisol levels did not correlate with agonistic behaviour and were not elevated by stranger-encounter testing. Finally, in the first 10 days following group formation, subordinate females that had shown ovulatory cyclicity prior to group formation were significantly more likely to receive persistent aggression from their dominant female groupmate than subordinates that had been anovulatory. These results suggest that attainment of social status between female marmosets is closely related to pre-existing individual differences in agonistic behaviour, whereas tolerance between females depends upon ovarian function.


A financial rescue package for ITER – the experimental nuclear-fusion reactor that is currently being built in Cadarache, France – has been refused by the European Parliament and the European Council.


P B COITON (Department of Gastroenterology, The Middlesex Hospital, London) Fifteen centres with experience of more than 15000 endoscopic sphincterotomies have pooled data on sphincterotomy of the pancreatic duct orifice, in patients with pancreatitis. Technical success was reported in 64 cases: extraction of pancreatic stones (18); main pancreatic orifice stennosis (23); accessory sphincterotomy in pancreas divisum (15); acute alcoholic pancreatitis (three); prostheses in chronic pancreatitis (four); before duct occlusion (one). Most groups used short diathermy wires, and usually also performed a biliary orifice sphincterotomy; few left splinting tubes in place. Eight patients developed pancreatitis after pancreatic sphincterotomy (including one pseudocyst which required percutaneous drainage), but. there were no reported deaths. Clinical results were difficult to assess because many patients were alcoholic, and because follow up was relatively short. Attempts to extract pancreatic duct stones were successful in only 25% of attempts, and several of these patients developed further stones. Accessory sphincterotomy is technically difficult, but encouraging short term results justify further evaluation. Several groups are assessing the use of balloon dilatation at the main and accessory papilla. Five patients with pseudocysts have been treated successfully by endoscopic drainage into the stomach or duodenum. T2 Controlled trial of Nd YAG laser photocoagulation in bleeding peptic ulcers


To apply the teaching thinking of DENG Xiao ping's entry into students' minds, we can't limit the teaching of DENG Xiao - pings theory in college students just in the course. Out of class, we must carry though college student's social practice around the center of DENG Xiao-ping's theory with our great effort.


This research is supported by a grant from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.! We thank OpenEye Scientific Software for providing an academic software license for ROCS (v. 220.127.116.11), OMEGA2 (v 3.1.4), and MolCharge (v. 1.3.1).! We also thank Stacey Kneeshaw and Qinghua Yuan for their early contributions to this project. Figure 1. Sea lamprey's (Petromyzon marinus) jawless Sea mouth used to parasitize other fish.! Photography by T. Lawrence, GLFC • Selection of compounds that are commercially available.!


Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI‐RADS) Category 3 represents 'probably benign' mammographic abnormalities requiring close follow‐up, but biopsies sometimes are performed on Category 3 abnormalities. Controversy exists as to when these biopsies are justified. The goals of the current study were to evaluate the use of stereotactic vacuum‐assisted breast biopsy (SVABB) for BI‐RADS 3 lesions in a nonacademic community hospital–based practice, to evaluate the false‐ negative rate of Category 3 mammograms, and to determine whether any specific lesions misinterpreted as BI‐RADS 3 abnormalities might commonly be associated with malignant disease.


The limitation of Mobile IPv4 can't satisfy with the people's increasing demands and Mobile IPv4 is difficult to use broadly. Mobile IPv6 resolved the problem of Mobile IPv4 and it became an important technique to realize personal communications. On the other hand, the larger carrying capacity and exchanging capability of MPLS give a chance to carry out Mobile IPv6. In the paper, first analyzed the principle of Mobile IPv6, and then worked out the executive plan of Mobile IPv6 on Linux. In the end point out the way to the combination of MPLS and Mobile IPv6.


Cellulose is a biopolymer of great relevance in the plant cell walls, where it constitutes the most important skeletal component. Cellulose is also an important raw material in the pulp- and paper, ...


Britain does not have a written constitution, which provides for a common assessment that it has no constitutional law. However, it actually instead provides a limiting case for considering the influence of courts and law in governance. For the courts have been involved in modifying both central and local government programs through statutory interpretation. The modifications that the courts have brought about have meant that the government has to take legal rules and courts into account in designing programs. The current limits on what the courts do have been part of the provocation for a movement in favor of a bill of rights in Britain.


Chrysalidocarpus lutescens, recently named Dypsis lutescens, is one of the most worldwide used plants for landscape gardening, besides being considered among the most popular interior plants; Golden Cane or Areca Palm hardly needs to be introduced. Pectimorf is a plant biostimulant obtained from the enzymatic degradation of citrus peel pectic acid at the Department of Crop Physiology and Biochemistry from the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences (INCA). Due to short viability, seeds are all seeded at the same time, achieving their optimum status for marketing in unison; therefore, the aim of this research work was to evaluate the effect of Pectimorf on areca palm (Dypsis lutescens) plant growth. The experiment was carried out at INCA, where Pectimorf was sprayed (1, 5 and 10 mg.L -1 ) to leaves and there was a control treatment. Sprayings were applied three times: at three, three and six months as well as three and nine months; evaluations were recorded three times along crop cycle: after six, nine and 12 months of plant emergence. The following growth variables were estimated: plant height, stem diameter (o), leaf number, root length, dry matter from roots and the aerial part. Results showed Pectimorf potentiality as a plant growth stimulator of areca palm; when plants were sprayed at three and six months by means of 1 mg.L -1 concentrations,


Abstract : In this final report we formulate the problems of phase and frequency estimation as fixed interval smoothing problems. Forward dynamic programming algorithms are derived to find maximum posterior sequence estimates that pass likely sequences through the data. The algorithms extend the threshold usually associated with phase lock loops. The algorithms are applied to simultaneous phase estimation and data decoding in phase jitter channels. The resulting error probabilities are the lowest currently achievable. The results indicate that there are many problems in the domain of filtering and signal processing that can be profitably reformulated as sequence estimation problems. Our interest in likelihood leads us from frequency tracking to exact likelihood for autoregressive moving average (ARMA) data. Fast Kalman filtering algorithms are derived for constructing exact likelihood in multivariable ARMA models. Several interesting connections are established between Wold, Kolmogorov, Wiener, and Kalman representations of stationary time series. Ideas are proposed for associating spectra with linear transformations.


Chirp Pulse Microwave Computed Tomography (CP-MCT) that was originally developed for noninvasive imaging of a human body was applied to visualize sugar distribution inside a fruit. It can visualize not only permittivity distribution itself of a fruit but also various physical- or chemical-quantities relating to the permittivity value. Almost all fruits are dielectric materials containing much water, sugar, acids and so on. But for water, the principal ingredient of a fruit is sugar. Most of the fruits contain sugar from 8% to 22% by weight at the harvest time. Therefore sugar content distribution should be measured by CP-MCT nondestructively. By using apples and Japanese pears, feasibility of sugar distribution imaging has been evaluated by comparing the gray level of CP-MCT and sugar content of the cross section. The averaged correlation coefficients of the apple and pear are 0.793 and 0.681.


The aim of this paper is to evaluate the criteria and sub-criteria of the implementation of PSS (Product-Service System), based on the criteria of quality, through the application of a hybrid methodology (Fuzzy Delphi – FDelphi and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process – FAHP). The fuzzy Delphi method was used to validate the criteria and sub-criteria taken from the literature through interviews with five experts in the implementation of PSS and the use of FAHP to calculate the relative weights of the selected criteria and sub-criteria. The results show which criteria were relevant to the company: restructuring, trustworthiness, innovation, and technology. Regarding the sub-criteria (global weight), the most influential were: learning and understanding of necessary requirements and customer satisfaction. It is expected that the results of this article may contribute to improve the performance of companies that want to deploy PSS.


In a nutshell, co-creation is described as a way to open up a company to the outside world, helping to generate product innovations and to update brand meanings. Drawing on the online community and co-creation literature, this paper aims at contributing to exploring the main intra-organizational challenges of online customer co-creation for innovation, from the viewpoint of middle managers. The intent is to broaden the existing conceptual understanding of the main internal factors hindering customer co-creation but also of the practices that could be adopted to best manage the related challenges.

The study adopts a qualitative approach and is based on the results of eight in-depth, semi-structured interviews with digital and marketing managers, working closely with co-creation initiatives in the Italian food industry, with the aim of exploring intra-organizational challenges perceived by those who are directly involved in co-creation implementation.

The results complement existing literature by 1) offering a more longitudinal vision of the implementation process—and the related internal hurdles, 2) identifying the most appropriate coping strategies and 3) formulating some hypothesis that could support an interpretative model of the capabilities needed to start the process and managing it in a strategic perspective.


A tribute is paid to Lady Margaret Thatcher of whom a statue has been erected at Hillsdale College. The statue was sculpted by Bruce Wolfe. The author argues that Thatcher was the most reliable friend to Ronald Reagan and the United States in the struggle with totalitarian communism and was the strongest voice in Western Europe protesting against the Soviet-ordered imposition of martial law against Solidarity in Poland. This article is adapted from a recent speech of his, reprinted by permission from Imprimis (Vol. 37, No. 6, June 2008), the national speech digest of Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA.


Compared with continuous memristor, discrete memristor has not been deeply studied. In this work, a new discrete memristor model and its pinched hysteresis loops are explored. Based on this model, a simple 2D hyperchaotic map and its dynamics are exhibited. Reservoir computing is an extension of neural networks, which has been received adequate attention. So far, the application of discrete memristor on reservoir has not been reported. To this end, we consider the discrete memristor-based map as a reservoir and verify its performance by a nonlinear regression task. The results indicate that the memristor-based map can be used effectively as a reservoir and enable reservoir computing systems go further on the way of efficient processing temporal signals in the future.


Current decision of application of anesthesia has the predicament.The predicament consisted in the contradiction between anesthesia acknowledge and the patient's acceptance.There was the conflict between the overhead of economy of application of anesthesia and the constitution that some patients try to save money.There was the conflict between the risk or accident of anesthesia and the absolute safety that patients expected for the period of surgical operation.There was contradiction between the requests of anesthesia and the request of surgeon.Ways to solve the predicament of current decision of anesthesia application will be that:Firstly,Acknowledge of communication of anesthesia to patients through cure period,then it will consist in humanities concern;Secondly,the quantity of anesthesia should be increased,so anesthesia safe coefficient will be increased;Thirdly,Communication and cooperation between the doctor of anesthesia and surgeon should be enhanced in order to increase the surgical operation result together;In the end,detailed regulations should be increased and the current law should be improved,then relation of law between the doctors of anesthesia and patients will be balanced.


Abstract The intermixed thermal and structural framework of cold firn, water-saturated firn and ice layers in Greenland's percolation zone can be challenging to penetrate with core drills. Here, we present our experiences using a hot water drill for research on the firn layer of the percolation zone. We built and deployed a lightweight and easily transportable system for drilling a transect of ~15 cm diameter boreholes through the full firn column thickness, to depths exceeding 100 m. An instrumented drill stem provides a scientific measurement of the firn properties while drilling. The system was successful at gaining rapid access to the firn column with mixed wet and cold conditions, was easily transported to the site and across the glacier surface, and required a small field crew to operate. The boreholes are well suited for in situ investigations of firn processes in Greenland percolation zone.


of the view, first expounded by J. O'Callaghan, that fragments of the New Testament in Greek can be identified among the remains from Qumran Cave 7. A sizeable portion of this volume is also devoted to this debate. Others qualified in the study of ancient Greek palaeography have made a strong case against such an interpretation, and this is not the place to repeat the entire debate. Thiede's views do not have


Background: Optimal yield is dependent on the collocations between plant population and individual growth. High plant populations for direct sown winter oilseed rape would be a prevailing way to achieve high yield under intensive cropping systems.

Results: We investigated the oilseed rape yield response to planting density while considering the productivity environment, nitrogen (N) fertilizer, and sowing date. A synthesis-analysis was conducted by collecting the density-yield data in the field experiments of oilseed rape from 2000 to 2016 in China. The population yield response to different planting density levels could be described by a quadratic model, with threshold value of 45-60 plant m-2, and excessive density may cause yield loss as the weak individual growth. High planting density has no remarkable influence on the attainable population yield due to the decreasing individual potential yield. The population yield increment capacity by the increasing planting density was higher in medium yield environment (i.e., average yield at 1500-2500 kg ha-1). The planting density presented remarkably effect on population yield after the N limitation was relieved. Increasing planting density at 104 plants per hectare was equivalent to apply 1.17 kg N fertilizer on population yield, ranging from 0.42 kg to 4.76 kg under different yield environment levels. Yield loss caused by unsuitable sowing date (especially for the late sowing) could be compensated by increasing planting density.

Conclusion: Planting density played a crucial role in cooperating the other management practices. Optimizing the allocation of plant population and individual growth, establishing target plant phenotype under high planting density would help to achieve high population yield.


The electronic and atomic structures of a well-ordered 3x3 periodicity of a binary Sn/Ag overlayer on Ge(111) have been studied. The ordered binary overlayer was formed by depositing 0.75 monolayer ...


The invention discloses an improved connecting structure for a motor and a reduction gearbox, which comprises a connecting structure arranged on a motor end cover. The motor is fixed on the reduction gearbox through the connecting structure; and a protection structure for protecting the motor end cover is also arranged at an input end of the reduction gearbox. The improved connecting structure has the advantages of simple structure and convenient manufacture. The motor and the reduction gearbox are connected and fixed through the connecting structure, so that the installation process becomes simpler, the installation of workers is more rapid and convenient, and the operability is strong; a fastening piece on a motor front end cover is isolated and protected, the service life of the motor is prolonged, and the usability of the motor can be further improved. The improved connecting structure has the advantages of high practicality, water resistance and dust resistance, and can also store lubricating oil for a long time to avoid rustiness.


The response of the yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti (L.), to varying areas of skin exposed in a 1-cu-ft cage was tested. The human palm was exposed to mosquitoes through holes, 1-15 cm in diameter, cut in the bottom of the cage. Probing and flying increased significantly when the size of the opening to which the palm was the probing response reached a plateau, but the flying response continued to increase with openings from 9 to 15 cm in diameter. Highly significant variation in activity was found among different batches of mosquitoes used. The technique described can be used as an olfactory sieve for separating more active mosquitoes from the less active.


This paper embeds SSIM in place of the L2 norm in a one step Non Local Means (NLM) scheme. This is possible thanks to a new form of SSIM that can be formally derived from the classical SSIM using the spreading error analysis. This approach has several advantages over L2 norm based NLM such as greater robustness to parameters setting, higher performance in terms of PSNR and SSIM, optimal subjective visual quality. In addition, it is possible to show that the cascade of the proposed pure visual approach and a second step based on L2 norm allows us to reach results close (slightly less) to the state of the art (BM3D) in terms of PSNR and SSIM.


Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for a process of terminating a thread in a clean, certain, and forcible manner. A thread is forcibly terminated in Such a manner that data Structures in the System are not left in an inconsistent State and the Overall System Status is not damaged. The methods and Systems described are for terminating a thread in a computer language execution environment. Methods are implemented in an interpretive loop executing in a language that is interpreted and in runtime Support libraries in a language that are not inter preted. A method of forcibly terminating a thread in a computer language execution environment is described. A thread receives a terminate thread command. The thread has asSociated with it a termination flag, a value of the termi nation flag being immutable once Set, and one or more monitors. The termination flag is then Set for the thread. An exception is then propagated in the execution environment thereby indicating termination of the thread. The exception handler and the finally clause of the thread is ignored during thread termination. The monitors associated with the thread are then exited.


Les Brookes, Male Gay Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2010), 230 pp., £28.45 (pbk) Les Brookes' Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflic...


Inter-Rater quantifies the reliability between multiple raters who evaluate a group of subjects. It calculates the group quantity, Fleiss kappa, and it improves on existing software by keeping information about each user and quantifying how each user agreed with the rest of the group. This is accomplished through permutations of user pairs. The software was written in Python, can be run in Linux, and the code is deposited in Zenodo and GitHub. This software can be used for evaluation of inter-rater reliability in systematic reviews, medical diagnosis algorithms, education applications, and others.


This paper develops a risk-based capital pricing model for credit insurance portfolios held by a vulnerable insurer. The model accounts for business cycles using a two-state Markov switching model, and allows for dynamic leverage adjustment by the insured firms. The new proposed model, which incorporates risk-based capital practice, is better for both the insurer and the insured firms. Based on the risk-adjusted performance metric, we found that the insurer is better off insuring short- and medium-term loans in expansion and steady states, while it is better off backing both short- and long-term loans in recessions. Our results also emphasize that macroeconomic uncertainty significantly impairs the creditworthiness of the insurer and insured firms.


In the UK, user involvement became an official policy through the health and social care system. But is this concept really established and accepted by all the parties concerned? Barnes and Cotterell deal with this question in a very inspiring way. With the collection 'Critical Perspectives on User Involvement', the editors assemble the knowledge and experience from more than 30 contributors from the scientific field, professionals as well as from the service users themselves.


With the continuous development of GPS technology, the use of GPS results measured by either horizontal or vertical accuracy reached a very high accuracy requirements, but for how the GPS measured into geodetic engineering of the normal high is a hot issue in current measurement subject, especially in the mountainous terrain conditions, how to improve the fitting accuracy is of great significance for practical engineering applications. By removing restoration method combination principle of several common function model,and combined with engineering example, the mountainous terrain conditions the precision of the model experiments conducted comparative analysis research, and put forward the suitable for the mountainous terrain conditions height anomaly fitting model selection scheme.


Abstract : The objective of this contract was the design and construction of a developmental model of an automatically equalized data modem, of full duplex design capable of operation over normal schedule 4B (now 3002 C-2 conditioned) telephone voice circuits at rates of 1200, 2400, or 4800 bits/sec. The modem AN/USC-19 utilized decision feedback equalization technique together with a virtual carrier phase lock loop and fast (residual) channel learning techniques. The modem is constructed in an aluminum RFI-EMI shielded box, 17x7x6.75 inch width with a 19 inch rack mount front panel. This box houses 14 specially designed circuit boards which also contain six special purpose MOS-LSI chips designed by Autonetics. The modem is capable of multiplexing up to four separate input channels at any combination of 1200 bits/sec and 2400 bits/sec for a total data rate of 2400 bits/sec or 4800 bits/sec. The modem design also includes an internal self test capability at any of the data rates. When completed the AN/USC-19 was tested over simulated 3002, 3002 C1, and 3002 C2 as well as a leased 3002 C2 conditioned telephone circuits and met with contractual bit error rate requirements. Additionally, the AN/USC-19 was tested in the presence of phase jitter over a simulated 3002 C2 circuit and met the contractual requirements. (Author)


Controlling the distance of molecular recognition and signal transduction at the nano–bio interface plays a vital role in sensing molecular interactions, which significantly impacts how a biomarker sensor performs in terms of sensitivity, specificity, detection threshold, and response time. However, conventional biosensing interfaces without the design of distance constraint show limited molecular interactions, hindering target accessibility and mass transport. Nuclei acid‐enabled engineering of biosensing interfaces facilitates highly regulated orientation and programmable density control of biomolecules, providing an effective strategy to improve the performance of biosensing platforms for early diagnosis of diseases and regulation of cellular activities. This review summarizes the recent advances in nucleic acid‐based engineering of biosensing interfaces from a unique perspective of distance constraint effects. The roles of structural nucleic acids in delicately programmed assemblies, functional nucleic acids in molecular recognition, and sensor reactions at well‐controlled distances are highlighted. Then applications of advanced biosensing platforms with the effect of distance constraint are introduced. Finally, the current challenges and future directions for developing such biosensors that can compete effectively to meet the requirements of point‐of‐care testing are also discussed.


....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 4 A brief background on girls' education and gender-sensitive pedagogy in Uganda ................................................ 4 Potential benefits of gender-sensitive pedagogy ....................................................................................................... 6 What is at stake if pedagogies are not gender-sensitive? ........................................................................................ 7 Why teachers are not applying gender-sensitive pedagogy ...................................................................................... 8 Gender-sensitive recommendations ........................................................................................................................ 11 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Appendix A. Gender in Education Policies ................................................................................................................ 13 Appendix B. Methodology .......................................................................................................................................... 15


A search for the decays B 0 s → µ + µ − and B 0 → µ + µ − is performed with 0.37 fb − 1 of pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment in 2011. The upper limits on the branching fractions are B ( B 0 s → µ + µ − ) < 1 . 6 × 10 − 8 and B ( B 0 → µ + µ − ) < 3 . 6 × 10 − 9 at 95% confidence level. A combination of these results with the LHCb limits obtained with the 2010 dataset leads to B ( B 0 s → µ + µ − ) < 1 . 4 × 10 − 8 and B ( B 0 → µ + µ − ) < 3 . 2 × 10 − 9 at 95% confidence level.  2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


Subtitle: Growing trade is putting new strains on Seattle's inbound logistics infrastructure and bringing new responses from freight transportation planners.


My results suggest that the primary role of performance pricing in bank debt contracts is to delay costly renegotiation. This effect is concentrated in long-term loans, indicating that the renegotiation reduction benefits of pricing grids are larger for long maturities. For instance, a five-year loan with a pricing grid is refinanced for pricing-related reasons on average a year later than a similar loan without such a provision. Since the average time to renegotiation of a five-year loan is roughly 2.5 years, performance pricing allows for substantial savings in contracting costs for non-opaque borrowers. My results also suggest that performance pricing reduces the probability of spread-decreasing outcomes, while having no effect on other types of renegotiation. Thus, pricing grids are most valuable in delaying re-contracting when the credit quality of the borrower improves. JEL Classification: G13; G21; G30


Taking advantage of some properties and theorems on constant in analytic functions,several theorems on zA+B(A and B are constants) in double analytic functions are given,which are a generalization of constant theory of analytic functions.


The intermolecular force constants of gaseous fluorine have been determined from measurements of the second virial coefficients in the region 80–300°K. On the assumption that gas imperfection results only from binary collisions of spherical nonpolar molecules whose potential is of the form given by Eq. (1), the force constants obtained were r0=3.61±0.04A and e0/k=121±3°K. These force constants yield viscosities in good agreement with the experimental data of Kanda if the high temperature point is discarded.


The operation of power within psychotherapeutic practice is explored within a media (radio) counselling setting utilising a discourse analytic approach informed by Foucault's later work (1988, 1992). I argue that psychotherapeutic practices tend to escape the problem of power and following a review of psychotherapy 'process' research, a Foucauldian theoretical framework is presented drawing upon Foucault's account of ethics (1992) as providing a means to understand the counselling process as discursive and the operation of power In relation to regulatory practices of the self. A three-part discourse analysis is reported In which media therapeutic exchanges (broadcast telephone conversations) are explored in relation to (discursive) modes . of subj ection, processes of problematisation and the relation of the exchange to the overhearing audience. The results of the analysis are discussed with reference to the range of means through which clients may be made responsible for their own 'cure' and the manner in which therapeutic discourse has been able to adapt itself to a contemporary media setting.


Support of agriculture is justified, among others, by its contribution to rural economic development. Nevertheless, the relation between agricultural and general economic development may be ambiguous. On the one side, agriculture may affect other sectors positively via multiplier and income effects. On the other side, competition effects may arise due to the application of common factors, specifically labour, by agriculture and other sectors. Under these circumstances, support of agricultural production may create distorted market signals and thereby affect the medium and long-term economic development negatively. This research analyses the regionally differentiated relation between the agricultural and the non-agricultural development empirically. The panel estimation model applies data of the common regional accounts from NUTS3 regions of the EU27. It identifies different development regimes with different roles for agriculture. In the most developed economies, competition effects dominate. Nevertheless, in low-productivity regions of Eastern Europe, agriculture stabilises the development of employment and value added. Thereby, policy faces the challenge to support simultaneously structural change in agriculture and the development of other sectors in rural regions.


This work approaches the design of software tools for a Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) located in Făcăi, Romania, where the Distributed Control System/ Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (DCS/SCADA) solution consists in four specific levels. More precisely, the paper proposes software solutions for the emulation of the control system from the WWTP. Due to the complexity of a WWTP, the proposed solutions and tools are dedicated to two levels of DCS. The specific bioprocesses (e.g. the activated sludge process) are simulated and the results are compared with data provided by the data acquisition system. Also, a software solution for the monitoring of process data provided by various sensors is designed. The proposed software solutions will be useful in future research for the design of advanced control systems in the WWTP. The software models and tools are designed in Matlab/Simulink, but also in LabWindows CVI and other software environments.


The purpose of this research study is to analysis customer experience, customer involvement in developing an innovative product and its impact on performance of the organization. Researcher aims to investigate whether the apparel industry believes there is a need for great customer experience and involvement, and to find out perceptions of the professionals in the industry have towards developing an innovative product and what impact these factors can create to the performance of the organization. A questionnaire was sent to12 apparel brands Employees covering merchandising, Product development, Designing, Research and innovation, Business development and marketing. The results of the study indicated that they believe in customer experience and involvement in an early stage of product development process. Also examined factors such as Customer experience, Customer involvement, develop an innovative product and firm's employee creativity make an impact to performance of the organization.


The absorptive part of the W W vertex induced by massive fermion loops is considered for diierent kinematical conngurations. We show that the axial part of this vertex is diierent from zero not only when massive fermions are involved but also for massless fermion loops, if one of the W bosons is space-like and the other is time-like. We also discuss in what sense Low's soft photon theorem is satissed.


Abstract To refer to the Jacquard loom as a precursor of the computer is a common narrative in histories of computing beginning with Ada Lovelace comparing the punched card operated loom with the calculating engine designed by Charles Babbage: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves." But this does not mean that Jacquard invented the algebra of patterns. He only constructed the first widely known and used mechanism replacing the drawboy by punched cards to feed pattern information into his mechanism. To control a weave means to decide whether a warp thread is to be picked up or not. Weaving has therefore been a binary art from its very beginning, applying operations of pattern algebra for millennia. Jacquard's cards were the end of this story rather than its beginning, reducing the weaver to an operator who had to step on a single treadle repeatedly. This article argues that algebra is already involved in operating shafts or heddles on ordinary looms, that this algebra was applied tacitly until the first weaving notations were developed, and that these notations make the tacit algebra of patterns recognizable to non-weavers: inventors and engineers.


The authors undertook this study to identify how counselor education faculty and students determine the ethical appropriateness of dilemmas portraying dual relationships in friendships, mentoring, monetary interactions, and romantic-sexual relationships. Faculty and student perceptions of scenarios that depict dual relationships between faculty and students were assessed and analyzed using qualitative methods. Results suggest that, unlike most students, faculty trust the ability of counselor educators to maintain objectivity and avoid student exploitation even sometimes while engaged in dual-role relationships. Furthermore, faculty may be unaware of students' concerns regarding the fairness of such relationships and the impact they have on the student body.


This chapter presents a survey of a major theme in the extra-canonical apocalypses, both Jewish and Christian. Both the form and the contents of the extra-canonical apocalypses are quite diverse, and in many respects they differ markedly from anything within the canon of Scripture. A major concern of the whole apocalyptic tradition from beginning to end was the fate of the dead. Given that this literature is visionary literature, in which the apocalyptic seers are often transported into various parts of the cosmos, it is not surprising that one form which interest in the fate of the dead took in the apocalypses was that of visits to the places of the dead. The visionary is taken to view either the places where the dead are now or the places where the dead will be after the last judgment.Keywords: extra-canonical apocalypses; last judgment; plaees of the dead; visionary literature


Throughout, Λ is assumed to be a finite dimensional k-algebra, defined over an algebraically closed field k. We let J be the (Jacobson) radical of Λ. A Λ-module M of length l(M) is called uniserial if the following equivalent conditions hold: • M possesses exactly one composition series. • (J M)i≥0 is a composition series of M . • For every i ∈ {0, . . . , l(M)}, J M is the unique submodule of length l(M)− i. The algebra Λ is referred to as pro-uniserial if all its projective indecomposable modules are uniserial. Let S(Λ) denote a complete set of representatives of the simple Λ-modules.


Abstract

 E. japonica is a good fodder grass cultivated for pasture in tropical and subtropical regions (Kumar, 2013; USDA-ARS, 2016). It has escaped from cultivation and naturalized principally in disturbed sites. This species behaves as a weed in abandoned pastures, cultivated land, disturbed sites, waste areas, and along roadsides and riparian areas (Barkworth et al., 2004; Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2016; PIER, 2016; PROTA, 2016). Currently, it is listed as invasive in Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba (Zuloaga et al., 2008; Oviedo Prieto et al., 2012; I3N-Brasil, 2016). It is well adapted to grow in seasonally waterlogged conditions and can be found growing in floodplain grassland and swampy grassland (Flora of Pakistan, 2016).


INTRODUCTION The insecticide imidacloprid belongs to the chloronicotinyl class of compounds and is most active against insects when ingested (Leicht, 1993; Londershausen, 1996). Its use in fly control is seen as an important area of application. An imidacloprid-based fly bait that could be selectively applied in the areas where flies are active was therefore developed under the brand name Quick Bayt® or PreEmptTM in the United States. It consists of a red extruded-granule formulation based on sugar with 0.5% active ingredient. The attractiveness of the bait is increased by the lures muscalure (0.1%) and LEJ 179 (0.25%). Bitrex (0.01%) is included to avoid accidental ingestion by humans. Imidacloprid fly bait can be used as scatter bait, in bait stations, or as paint-on. However, the special sugar-based bait formulation especially attracts the larger house fly Musca domestica (Linnaeus), (Diptera, Muscidae) and other fly species that are attracted by sugar granules.


The utility model provides an electron cigarette is connected to magnetic force, includes soup stick (90) and power pole (91), wherein, the link with power pole (91) butt joint of soup stick (90) is equipped with first connector (5), first connector (5) are including first pedestal (55) and first ploe post (53) of regarding as first connector first electrode and second electrode respectively, first pedestal (55) whole or local first magnetism portion of inhaling of formation, the link with soup stick (90) butt joint of power pole (91) is equipped with second connector (6), second connector (6) include second pedestal (61) and second ploe post (622) as second connector first electrode and second electrode, second pedestal (61) whole or local formation can correspond magnetic adsorption's the second magnetism portion of inhaling with the first magnetism portion of inhaling, a mutual magnetic adsorption inhales with second magnetism in the first magnetism portion of inhaling makes first pedestal (55) and second pedestal (61) looks butt and first ploe post (53) and second ploe post (622) looks butt for the equipment and the process of the dismantlement convenient and fast of electron cigarette, and the outward appearance of electron cigarette is pleasing to the eye, the unique air duct of its inside formation, and the electron cigarette is smooth and easy with outside circulation of air.


STRACT
In this paper a new Software Metrics called
Modularity Index is proposed and analyzed for the
first time. This metrics could be used as a single
measure to the modularity level of Open Source
Projects. Modularity has been identified by many
studies as one of the key factors of the success of
Open Source Projects, but how modularity should
be achieved and measured systematically is not yet
known. In this first attempt to identify and analyze
this metrics, the correlations of this Software
Metrics with other parameters currently attributed
to modularity such as size, number of modules,
complexity, cohesion, and coupling(fan in and fan
out) are identified and analyzed. The result of the
analysis is the general formula for Modularity Index
in a form of matrix relation. It can be shown from
the analysis that the possibility of uniting many of
these attributes into this single measure called
Modularity Index is highly feasible.


Objective To observe the therapeutic effect of different dosages methylprednisolone in asthma on acute episode. Methods 128 patients admitted asthma on acute episode were divided randomly into 2 groups(A and B group) which received various dosage methylprednisolone respectively. Results The elimination time of symptom and objective sign ,and the recovery time of blood gas(ABG) in group A were significantly lower than that in the control group(group B). Pulmonary function of patients in group A improved better than those in group B. Conclusion High dosage methylprednisolone is safe and effective with less side effect in treating acute episode asthma.


Automatic sign language recognition is an important milestone in facilitating the communication between the deaf community and hearing people. Existing approaches are either intrusive or susceptible to ambient environments and user diversity. Moreover, most of them perform only isolated word recognition, not sentence-level sequence translation. In this paper, we present MyoSign, a deep learning based system that enables end-to-end American Sign Language (ASL) recognition at both word and sentence levels. We leverage a lightweight wearable device which can provide inertial and electromyography signals to non-intrusively capture signs. First, we propose a multimodal Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to abstract representations from inputs of different sensory modalities. Then, a bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) is exploited to model temporal dependences. On the top of the networks, we employ Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) to get around temporal segments and achieve end-to-end continuous sign language recognition. We evaluate MyoSign on 70 commonly used ASL words and 100 ASL sentences from 15 volunteers. Our system achieves an average accuracy of 93.7% at word-level and 93.1% at sentence-level in user-independent settings. In addition, MyoSign can recognize sentences unseen in the training set with 92.4% accuracy. The encouraging results indicate that MyoSign can be a meaningful buildup in the advancement of sign language recognition.


In the 1970s,the concept of sexual harassment was initiated by feminists in America from the perspective of sex discrimination,which was established in due course through a chain of federal court cases and the EEOC regulation. The definition of the term,however,has since undergone some evolution as new precedents established in some landmark cases regarding various key elements of the concept such as the domains applicable,sex and sexual orientation,the indirect victim,the reasonable person,and the reasonable women,among others.


SIR: I read with avid interest Wiebe and Adams' article on women's perceptions about seeing the ultrasound picture before an abortion. Their paper, especially because of its use of mixed-methods, made a welcome and significant contribution to a scarcely explored area. Indeed, reporting of such studies is challenging: templates are lacking, and one must be careful in choosing terms and ordering the presentation. However, certain points need clarification. The paper does not mention when the study was carried out. This is important because when one undertakes literature reviews, one of the parameters used for inclusion or exclusion of studies may be the year the study was done. Another pertinent issue is the definition of the term 'older women' as mentioned in the results section of the abstract. This term did not appear and was not defined in the body of the paper. It was therefore unclear which age group constituted 'older women'. Abigail and Power recently highlighted the difficulties engendered by this lack of precise definition of 'age' when attempting to compare studies. In the obstetric literature, the term is usually reserved for women aged 35 years and over and consistency demands that we use it for studies in reproductive health care.


The present work aims to implement a calorimetric method to measure the power dissipated during MOSFET switching in a high efficiency LLC resonant converter. The power dissipated from switching can significantly impact the total power dissipated by the device and consequent efficiency, so correct quantification is fundamental for optimizing the devices and increasing the efficiency of the converters. In LLC converters, this type of dissipated power cannot be measured with standard methods such as measurement with oscilloscopes as some of the energy that is recovered and not dissipated. The calorimetric method requires reasonably accurate measurement of thermal resistance and the temperature of the die. To facilitate accurate temperature measurement, we used a device in an ACEPACK™ SMIT package module, which incorporates a complete half-bridge and an NTC thermistor for reading the temperature.


Dislocation and fracture dislocation involving the carpus are serious lesions. Only the primary diagnosis and adequate treatment can prevent the typical pattern of development consisting of loss of the carpal architecture, carpal collaps and arthrosis of the wrist joint. In order to prevent this knowledge of anatomy, biomechanics, radiological signs and treatment methods is necessary.


Source of Chinese tourists in Southeast Asia market is expending rapidly and China has become one of the main sources in this market. All the countries in Southeast Asia took a lot of measures to attract Chinese tourists. Although there exist some problems in this market, the trend will continue with the promotion of tourist services in this region.


Background: Mul ple beams are generally used with an increased possibility that the beam axis intersects the treatment table. Treatment tabletops are commonly made of carbon fiber due to its high mechanical strength and rigidity, low specific density, extremely light and low radia on beam a enua on proper es. Purpose of this paper is inves gated the dose changes in the buildup region and beam a enua on by a carbon fiber tabletop for high energy 6and 18-MV photon beams. Materials and Methods: Measurements were performed for 10 cm × 10 cm and 20 cm × 20 cm field sizes. The surface dose and percentage depth doses (%DD) were measured by a Markus parallel plate chamber at a source-surface distance (SSD) of 100 cm for 6 MV and 18 MV photon beams. A enua on measurements were made at the solid-water phantom for gantry angles of 0 and 180 rota on of the beam. Results: A carbon fiber tabletop increases the surface dose from 12.87% to 86.65% for 10 cm x 10 cm and from 8.72% to 71.16% for 20 cm × 20 cm field at 6 and 18 MV, respec vely. The surface dose with the carbon fiber tabletop in an open field (0) increases with field size. Conclusion: The carbon fiber tabletop causes a substan ally increased surface dose, and also significantly decreases the skin-sparing effect, which is clinically important. The dosimetric effect of the tabletop may be higher, especially for the intensitymodulated radia on therapy depending on the beam orienta on.


Wide bandgap nitrides and oxides have been heralded as a possible platform for future semiconductor spintronics applications based on the inherent compatibility of these materials with existing semiconductors as well as theoretical predictions of room temperature ferromagnetism. Experimental reports of room temperature ferromagnetism in these materials are complicated by disparate crystalline quality and phase purity in these materials, as well as conflicting theoretical predictions as to the nature of ferromagnetic behavior in this system. A complete understanding of these materials, and ultimately intelligent design of spintronic devices, will require an exploration of the relationship between the processing techniques, resulting transition metal atom configuration, defects, and electronic compensation as related to the structure, magnetic, and magneto-optical properties of this material. This work explores the growth and properties of Ga1-xMnxN films by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition on cplane sapphire substrates with varying thickness, Mn concentration, and alloying elements. Homogenous Mn incorporation throughout the films was verified with Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS), and no macroscopic second phases were detected using X-ray diffraction (XRD). SQUID and vibrating sample magnetometry measurements showed an apparent room temperature ferromagnetic hysteresis, whose strength can be altered considerably through annealing and introduction of either Si or Mg during the growth process. Three sets of Raman modes appeared to be sensitive to Mn incorporation. The intensities of a broad band around 300cm-1 and sharper modes near 669cm-1 increased with increasing Mn concentration. The rise of the former is attributed to a decrease in long-range lattice ordering for higher Mn concentration. The second mode is due to nitrogen vacancy-related local vibrational modes of the GaN host lattice. Si co-doped Ga1-xMnxN results in shallow donor states in GaN suppress the formation of nitrogen vacancies by compensating the p-type deep level defects introduced by substitutional Mn. The formation of a Mn-related midgap impurity band is observed via optical transmission measurement in Ga1-xMnxN with strong magnetic signatures, but not for Si co-doped samples. Initial studies on light emitting diodes (LEDs) containing a Mn-doped active region have also been produced. Devices were fabricated with different Mn-doped active layer thicknesses, and I-V characteristics show that the devices become highly resistive as thickness of the Mn-doped active layer increases. The electroluminescence of these devices is dominated by a high suppressed band-edge recombination and a midgap defect-related emission, leading to an orange-colored but weakly emitting LED. These results suggest that traditional theoretical and device approaches akin to those realized in Ga1-xMnxN may be difficult to realize in Ga1-xMnxN, and exploitation of these materials will require further novel device approaches taking into account the nature of this material.


Media, photography, body and female identity are the four areas that the author ofthe thesis Corpografias: between analog and digital uses to reflect on the process ofidentity construction in post-modernity. In this context, we conducted a review of thethesis in order to open a dialogue between production of the contributions to the field ofmedia-education, as well as questioning the use of the term postmodern to characterizecontemporary society and culture.


This work presents a novel cascaded filter array architecture for large-scale MEMS filter arrays that overcomes the limitations associated with the large shunt capacitance to efficiently scale the number of filters in the array. The proposed architecture effectively reduces the capacitive loading at the input by utilizing a series connection of the filters, resulting in improvement in the return loss and stopband rejection for large arrays. This work demonstrates the feasibility of large-scale filter arrays without the need for additional costly isolation strategies for real-time spectrum monitoring applications.


Introduction: Congenital tongue cyst is a very rare presentation with few cases reported in literature. Mucoceles involving the ventral surface of the tongue are very rare, with sporadic cases reported in the world literature accounting to 2-8% of oral mucoceles. Case report: We report a case of 4 months old male child presenting with respiratory distress for one day and complete cessation of feeding for last 3 days presented to our outpatient department. Examination revealed a cystic lesion over ventral aspect of tongue causing obstruction to both feeding and respiration, a provisional diagnosis of tongue cyst was made, urgent aspiration of the cyst was done which revealed a mucoid brownish fluid. This reduced the size of the cyst and breathing improved. The cyst was taken for marsupialization under GA and child had immediate relief of symptoms. Regular follow up shows no recurrence of symptoms for the last 6 months. Conclusion: Tongue base cysts should be considered in differential diagnosis in new born with stridor, respiratory difficulties, or swallowing problems. Definitive therapy requires marsupialization or complete excision of the cyst wall under general anesthesia.


The number of people connecting to the cellular network is growing exponentially. They generate a massive amount of data that reveals the user's interaction patterns. By analyzing the data, the quality of experience of the customers of the cellular network can be improved. Big data analytics can process large amounts of raw data and extract useful insights from the analysis. In this paper, we use the call detail report (CDR) of the users in a specific area. The CDR dataset provides the information of a caller, called numbers, the duration of the call and the caller location. Using big data analytics tool, we could find any anomalous behavior in the cellular network over a region. Anomaly refers to any unusual behavior in the network. K-means clustering technique is used to detect anomalies in the network. The anomaly due to high data traffic at a location can be used to improve the network performance by adding additional resources.


In this paper, a novel artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) reflector is proposed for gain stability enhancement of a low‐profile wideband bowtie antenna (operates at C‐band). Two AMC reflectors are investigated: the first one is based on a standard square patch cell while the second one is based on a novel cell geometry called modified cross shape (MCS). The two units' cell geometries are studied and optimized to achieve the desirable performances, namely; low‐profile, wide impedance bandwidth, and gain stability. The proposed antenna structure with 5 × 8 MCS unit cells is fabricated and measured. The results show a significant steady gain compared to similar work in the literature. The fabricated structure presents a low thickness of 0.084 λL (λL is the guided wavelength at the lowest frequency, i.e., 3.94 GHz) with 0.85 dB of gain variation over a wide impedance bandwidth of about 50% (3.94–6.61 GHz).


The invention provides a rosa roxbunghii fruit tea bag and a preparation method thereof; the tea bag is prepared by rosa roxbunghii fruit and tea; the tea bag has the efficacy of strengthening stomach, promoting digestion, nourishing body, relieving diarrhea, nourishing yin, improving eyesight, and the like, also has the effect of aging resistance, virus resistance, and radiation resistance, and has certain effect on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and digestive system diseases and various tumor diseases. The tea bag is low in price, easy to store, easy to carry, and convenient for application, and is a good edible item with good taste and abundant nutrition.


Agriculture sector plays important role in regional development. Agriculture sector's role involves other sectors such as input provider, feed provider, Gross Domestic Product provider, labor provider, and household income main source. One of agriculture subsector is food crop whereas paddy, corn, and soybean are food crop commodities that have important and stategic roles in development. Their production are targeted to achieve self sufficiency by 2017. The main objective of this research was to analyze the role of food crop subsector to West Java's economy. The specific objective of this research involve output structure analysis, gross added value structure analysis, linkage analysis, and final demand impact analysis. This research employs secondary data. Secondary data used West Java Input-Output Table 2010. Secondary data analysis applies input output anaylisis to answer objective of this research among output structure analysis, gross added value structure analysis, linkage analysis, final demand impact analysis. The results showed that the food crop's output structure and gross value added structure tends to low. Food crop also does not show strong linkage with its upstream sectors and downstream sectors. Final demand impact to output, gross added value, and household income also show that the food sector is low even though the food crop has better ability to absorb labor than of processing industry sector.


: Optimum sensor selection in control system design is often a non-trivial task to do. This paper presents a systematic design framework for selecting the sensors in an optimum manner that simultaneously satisfies complex system performance requirements such as optimum performance and robustness to structured uncertainties. The framework combines modern control design methods, Monte Carlo techniques and genetic algorithms. Without losing generality its efficacy is tested on an electromagnetic suspension system via appropriate realistic simulations.


The challenges of diverse external environmental forces require pro-active and ongoing efforts for companies to develop effective and competitive strategies. Therefore, we need elements of human resources who have an attachment to their work. This study analyzes how the effect of job embeddedness mediation on the relationship between Leader Member of Exchange on turnover intention and actual turnover of travel service companies in Tangerang, Banten Indonesia. This research uses quantitative methods by distributing questionnaires to 130 employees of travel services in Tangerang Indonesia. The results of data collection were then analyzed using the SEM (Structural Equation Model) method using AMOS software. The results of this study state that the Leader Member Exchange (LMX) has a positive and significant effect on job embeddedness, which can reduce the turnover and actual turnover intuition. In addition, this study also resulted in the job embeddedness mediated the effect of Leader Member Exchange (LMX) on intention turn over and actual turn over.


Advanced packaging technology plays more and more important role for device miniaturization, system integration, and performance enhancement. Among many new packaging technologies, fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP) aroused more interests and showed the advantages of higher number of I/Os, integration flexibilities, low cost, and small form factor due to the elimination of substrate. However, FOWLP using epoxy mold compound (EMC) material faces a number of technical challenges such as warpage wafer handling, difficult to fabricate fine-pitch redistribution layer (RDL), and reliability issues for large package due to the CTE mismatch between chip and EMC. In addition, for high performance SiP, advanced FOWLP with multilayer fine-pitch RDLs, excellent alignment accuracy, shortest interconnect routing between dies, and ultra small form factor was required. In this paper, the development of a wafer level embedded silicon fan-out, named eSiFO technology was reported. For eSiFO package, the known good dies are embedded in the cavities formed on silicon wafer and the micro-scale gap between the dies and cavities is filled by epoxy material. An almost entire silicon surface was constructed as the fan-out area for RDL and BGA. The process is simple comparing with standard FOWLP since there is no molding, temporary bonding and de-bonding process. The key advantage is that the CTE for dies and silicon wafer is same and there is no warpage issue during manufacturing which results in good packaging yield. An eSiFO package with size of 3.3×3.3mm, one layer RDL and 50 BGAs was successfully demonstrated. The results proved that the process of eSiFO was simple and suitable for high density system integration with ultra low profile. Various reliability tests were carried out to study the package reliability and no failure was found. The simulation results show that for the same package, eSiFO has lower thermal stress than FOWLP using EMC.


Summary In late previtellogenic oocytes nuage material accumulates in the vicinity of the nucleus and is often seen to be intimately associated with cisternae of endoplasmic reticulum (ER). A similar association observed in Ilyanassa has given rise to the proposition that nuage granules become completely enclosed in an envelope of ER and that this structure is transformed into so-called double-membrane vesicles, organelles which have only been found in eggs of Ilyanassa and Nassarius. This study provides evidence that, in Nassarius, the association of nuage material with ER has a temporary character. At later stages the nuage granules dissociate from the ER, move away from the nucleus, and become surrounded by mitochondria. Eventually they disintegrate. Evidence is presented that double-membrane vesicles originate from cisternae of ER by the accumulation and transformation of material within the lumen of the cisternae. Since only a single membrane is present in these vesicles, and a dense core is consiste...


Introduction. The article is devoted to schoolchildren physical health signs in Nizhniy Novgorod schools of different physical education level. Material and methods. The morphofunctional signs of 3045 children in 8 schools have been studied using anthropometry and functional tests during a medical examination. The method of integral indices rating from 0 to 1 has been used for assessment of physical health level. Results. The physical health (PH) has been estimated by morphofunctional signs and tolerance to physical load. Every eighth child (12,8 %) is characterized by low and below the average level of PH. A third of children (34,3%) has average level PH, 41,2% has above the average level of PH, only 11,7% - high level of PH. Physical health is increased in schoolchildren with high and above the average level of PH to senior age group. It makes up more than 75% of boys and 65% girls in 3rd stage of education. The relationship between physical education and physical health is shown. Schoolchildren's physical health is more in two times in schools with an integration of modern forms of physical activity and maintenance of all hygienic requirements in comparison with schools using traditional physical education under physical standards and uniformity. Conclusion. The given results are the scientific background for the inclusion of additional organizational-methodical forms and technologies of physical education to increase the schoolchildren's physical activity, physical health, and adaptation reserves.


Objective To investigate the occurrence of antibacterials adverse drug reactions in author's hospital and to promote rational drug use in the clinic. Methods 105 ADR cases of antibacterials were collected and analyzed retrospectively from June 2011 to October 2012 in author's hospital. Results 25 drugs of eight categories were involved in ADR.The occurrence of ADR induced by antibacterials of quinolones ranked the first (24.76%), and the cephalosporins was the second (23.81%). Injuries of skin and its appendages were most common, followed by gastrointestinal system, route of administration was mainly intravenous administration. Conclusion Importance should be attached to the reporting and monitoring of ADRs so as to lessen or avoid the occurrence of ADRs in the clinic.


Throughout the history, all civilizations have transferred knowledge from either a previous civilization or from a contemporary civilization. The translation activities have an important channel of this transferring knowledge. We knew the most important translation activities started at the time of the Prophet Muhammad and was expanded during Abbasid Caliphate. Now, we will be stressing on the development of translation works with regards to Andalusia. As a result of the eagerness of Muslim to seek knowledge, institutions such as madrasah, libraries, elementary schools, research institutions grew rapidly in the 10 th century and mosque schools had been upgraded into local universities. Andalusia became a famous translation centre in the region and it has known as the multilingual centre of learning and translation, gathering all people from different cultures and ethnicities who loved wisdom and knowledge. The light age of intellectual development of Islamic Civilization has reached its peak with beautiful cities of Almeria, Malaga, Cadiz, Hielva, Cordoba, Jean and Granada during 10 th century. At the end of these developments, the translation became an art where it was dealing with languages, texts, and words. On the other hand, after a long period of time, it became a science. Translation also one of the school of science as it had become more systematic through time and the translated books must have undergone several tests of validity and precision in terms of its languages. In this article, translation activities in Andalus period which had a great influence on formation of Islamic philosophy were discussed.


Abstract An account of the Haworth tithe awards of 1849–52 of the preparation of a new edition of the maps, apportionment list, and of indexes based on them. This work was funded by the Daphne Carrick Memorial/Brontë Scholarship. In conjunction with the 1851 Census returns and the 1851 rating valuation, these provide powerful new tools for historical research into Haworth at the time of the Brontës. The complex case of John Greenwood, the Haworth stationer, is cited as an example.


The e-Lis – e-Prints in Library and Information Science repository, established in 2003, celebrates this year ten years of existence. It is the largest repository for Science Information (IS) and currently provides about 15,000 free documents, aligning thereby the principles of open access (OA). This international project, consisting of a team of volunteers from 30 countries, has as main objective to disseminate and promote the literature on the IS produced by researchers, librarians, archivists and documentalists worldwide. Portugal joined the project in 2006 and, since then, has implemented the common policy of e-Lis, providing visibility and accessibility to the Portuguese scientific production in the field of IS free of charge, through the dissemination and promotion of e-Lis with the Portuguese researchers and community, and commitment to the principles of OA. This article aims to remember the main objectives, features and functionalities of the e-Lis and to present some quantitative data on this repository and on the collaboration and participation of Portuguese researchers on it. We found that the presence of the Portuguese authors in this repository is still small compared with other European countries, for example, despite the scientific production in the field of IS in Portugal and its availability in AA has increased in recent years. Keywords E-Lis. Repository. Self-Archive. Open Access. Information Science. Portugal.


Objective: to discover the impact of single and multimorbidity on the specific outcomes in patients admitted to a critical care setup, Acute Medical Unit, at Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan.
Study Design: Cross sectional comparative study.
Place and Duration of Study: Acute Medical Unit, Pakistan Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Aug 2018
to Jan 2019.
Methodology: All patients admitted to AMU were included in the study. Age was kept as the primary inclusion criteria for
this study. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used. After exclusion, the final sample size was 354. Data was analysed using SPSS version 22.0.
Results: Out of 354 patients that were included in the study, 215(60.7%) were males while 139(39.3%) were females. The
patients were divided in 4 age groups i.e., 15-35 years, 36-55 years, 56-75 years and 76-90 years. Based on the history taken from the patient and the lab tests ordered, 216(61%) had more than one disease while 138(39%) had only a single disease. Most common comorbid diseases, found in our study were diabetes mellitus, hypertension, ischemic heart disease (IHD) and cerebrovascular accident, Mortality rates of patients with multiple morbidities were higher than those with single morbidity.

Conclusion: Multimorbidity is a great challenge faced by physicians of today. Our study found greater mortality rates in patients with multiple morbidities and greater age than those with single morbidities and lesser age.


Pompe's disease is an autosomal recessive inheritable disorder involving a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA). The incidence is 1 in 40,000 births. It predominately affects the heart, skeletal, and respiratory muscles. The clinical spectrum ranges from a rapidly progressive infantile form leading to death within the first year of life to a slowly progressive late-onset form of the disease that affects mobility and respiratory function. Both types are generally characterized by progressive muscle weakness and breathing difficulty, but the severity of the disease can vary widely depending on the age of onset and the extent of organ involvement. Patients with the late-onset form who become symptomatic in childhood are more severely affected and typically die by the second or third decade of life. As the disease progresses, patients lose mobility, or become wheelchair bound or bedridden. Respiratory muscle involvement is common, may occur early in the course of the disease, and is the most frequent cause of mortality. We present the case of a 31-year-old woman who was diagnosed with late-onset Pompe's disease 5 years previously, and who developed pneumonia with acute respiratory failure. She was successfully weaned from the ventilator after intensive respiratory muscle training.


This thesis shows the process in which charge is induced by substitution of A=Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+for La3+,while spin is induced by partial substitution of Mn2+ for Zn2+ within the parent compound LaZnSbO. The results indicate that the single phase ZrCuSiAs-type tetragonal crystal structure is preserved in(La,A)(Zn,Mn)SbO(A=Ca,Sr,Ba). The system remains semiconducting, doping with A and Mn results in ferromagnetic order with Tc40K.A spin-glass like state is found in(La0.95Ca0.05)(Zn0.9Mn0.1)SbO below Cure temperature which flipping time and dynamical critical are 2.64×10-7s and 1.91 respectively.


Human hand prosthetics imply a great challenge to researchers to help regaining the lost motor functions for amputated people. A relatively high amount of labor and budget are required to reach the ordinary prosthetics for amputees. Improvement of assistive technologies has provided to design and manufacture more functional hand prosthetics. Novel tools employed in assistive technology including 3-dimensional printers and user-friendly electronics complementary devices have made a great contribution to prosthetics area with fast and cost effective solutions. Although a significant development of technical facilities has been occurred, prosthetic hands with high functionality could not gain wide currency since the manufacturing and design processes require more educated engineers and biomechanicsts. Introducing the design and manufacturing steps of prosthetics for educational purposes in engineering and life sciences could be very effective in order to ease accessing the more functional prosthetics and to increase the prevalence of use. Education of new methodology and devices provides crucial opportunities to enhance the ability and usage of new generation prosthetics. In this study, a prosthetic hand design, control and manufacturing implementations were carried out by undergraduate students in the context of dissertation study. The custom based human hand prosthetics was manufactured according to following steps. Three-dimensional CAD models of prosthetic hand components including palm and fingers were designed in a solid body modeling software. Then, the model parts were printed using 3-D printers and they were assembled. The forces were transmitted to the fingers via elastic strings which were controlled via Arduino controlled servo motor. The programmable motions of servo motors enable to direct control of fingers. Specific education on design, manufacturing and control of human prosthetics has the potential to provide a high impact on obtaining more functional and cost effective prosthetics which enables more people to regain their lost motor patterns.


A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death) Developed in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society Wide sites. Copies of the full text and the executive summary are available from all 3 organizations.


Introduction: The aim of this case series is to demonstrate the challenge in diagnosing unilateral toxoplasmic neuroretinitis (NR). Case Report: In this paper, two cases of NR due to toxoplasmosis in children are presented. The first patient was 10 years old boy, who presented with the chief complaint of sudden blurred vision since four weeks, and was provisionally diagnosed as left optic neuritis and started on steroids. Subsequently he was diagnosed with toxoplasmic neuroretinitis. The second case was 12 year old female who presented with blurred vision and pain in left eye since last 3 weeks. She was diagnosed as toxoplasmic neuroretinitis and treated with anti-toxoplasmosis drugs and steroids. Conclusion: Toxoplasmosis may present as unilateral neuroretinits and may resemble other optic nerve inflammation at its initial presentation.


Starch isolated from fern rhizome was studied for physicochemical and functional properties. The recrystallization method was used for separation and purification of AM and AP from the starches. The fern rhizome starch contained 25.38 ± 0.40% AM. XRD studies showed that fern rhizome starch exhibited a C-type diffraction pattern. SEM showed that granule shape was oval mostly, and the size ranged from 7 to 28 µm. The gelatinization temperature was from 58.94 ± 0.11°C to 71.73 ± 0.22°C, and the melting enthalpy was 12.86 ± 0.53 J/g. According to the viscosity measurement with Brabender viscograph, fern rhizome starch presented higher peak viscosity, which showed that it had more swelling power. Compared with corn and potato starches, fern rhizome starch had a lower transparency. The RS in the fern rhizome starch vermicelli prepared with extrusion method was around 10.49 ± 0.46%.


Australia uses a Twin Peaks financial supervisory architecture, which comprises a prudential regulator and a market conduct regulator. The logic of Twin Peaks is that regulatory functions are allocated between agencies according to the objective, rather than the target. This article argues that there are three, rather than two, distinct underlying objectives for financial sector regulation. The third is consumer protection. Regulation would be strengthened by the establishment of a specialist regulatory agency with responsibility for consumer protection in the retail market for financial products and services. The article therefore parts company with the final report of the Hayne Royal Commission, which recommended that the basic Twin Peaks architecture be retained.


The antibiotics in animals poses a treat to human health through the food chain。The study has detected terram ycin、tetracycline and aureomycin in100 pork and beef samples。


The main purpose of this paper is to study and investigate some results concerninggeneralized derivation D on semiprime ring R, we obtain a derivation d is commuting  and 2-commuting on R.


The council's report for the year 1956-7 discusses, as is customary, a number of medico-legal matters of interest to the profession. These include: the propriety of submitting reports of accidents in hospital to lay persons; the implications of last year's amending regulations on a doctor's responsibility for his deputy and on the restriction of the right of complaint against a doctor or dentist; alleged breaches of the "terms of service"; appeals against the findings of medical service committees ; professional secrecy; theft of belongings from residents' quarters in hospitals; the rights of industrial medical officers regarding the ownership-of their medical records ; and the management of those who wish to alter the registration of their sex.


T he subject of aging in cinema has drawn relatively scant attention from academic scholars, even though it is a perennial preoccupation of Hollywood producers, actors, and casting agents who put great thought into just what "young" and "old" look like on screen. I place these terms in quotation marks from the start to signify their idiosyncratic and ambiguous nature, which Pamela Gravagne is adamant to emphasize in this captivating, if occasionally confounding, study. Gravagne not only advocates for changes in the perception of older people on screen, she promotes a comprehensive change in the cultural understanding of aging altogether, which, in many ways, becomes the central campaign of her work, somewhat at the sacrifice of more thorough film analysis. Where a filmography about aging could easily run to many hundreds of titles, Gravagne concentrates on a specific set of topics that she sees exemplified in just seventeen films since 1990 (she does cite nineteen other movies throughout the book), which includes animated and documentary features, most from outside the United States. This selective, if diffuse, sampling does not make her commentary on aging and ageism any less insightful, drawing as she does from gerontology, medicine, gender studies, and even physics, although her method has its limitations, as I will discuss. Gravagne explains early on that she aims to "open up the ways we depict and describe the aging experience to conscious critique and revision" (1). Aging as a subject is primed for revision. With humans living longer and healthier than ever before, stereotypes of the elder population persisting in major media, and the growing community of people "past a certain age," the aging population is not enjoying proportional growth in popular representation. Gravagne advances a way of thinking about aging that "collapses" the dominant division of essentialism and social construction, so we can see that materiality (of the body) and intelligibility (of the society) "are not unalterable dimensions of the world but are shifting performances or dialogues with a world in which we are responsible for what is said and who is included or excluded" (31). There is a certain tyranny in the numbering of years, as Gravagne points out (25–27), which is at once a consistent indicator of elapsed time, but leaves us with age as a number that elaborates on none of the experience or current condition of those who hold that age. For as broad as these matters may be, Gravagne shows a striking lack of historical awareness for the films she sets out to appraise, foregrounding her philosophical claims as the motivation for the choice of titles she examines. She scarcely considers aspects such as the films' release dates or cultural contexts, which warrant attention, considering that they cover six national cinemas over more than two decades. Her preference for particular texts serves the interests of her expansive critical strategy, which focuses on gender, sexuality, and health, in an effort to fulfill her agenda of changing our conception of aging beyond these chosen exemplars. The theoretical foundation of Gravagne's study, as impressively developed as it is, somewhat burdens her analysis by imposing an idealistic gravity on her readings of films. Her concerns go beyond the image, because the films about aging that she investigates bring out "the ability of film to shape our world and our selves rather than to simply represent" reality (9). In the movies she pursues, she explicates the primarily positive perceptions of aging they engender, which leaves open an inquiry into the far more numerous films that regressively reinforce stereotypes and resist more realistic understanding of older people. This lack of negative examples is another issue I raise with her method of selection, because to celebrate the value of films that offer progressive moments of compassion or acceptance, Gravagne could provide the contrast of dominant cinema that so often comes up short. For every entry she presents here, from independent, documentary, and European cinema, there are at least a dozen examples of more popular Hollywood films that problematize aging through their representations. The first full chapter sets out a key critique she will follow, the "narrative of decline" that is endemic to so many stories of aging. Gravagne provides some of the chronology of geriatric studies, through the Victorian era, that postulate the older body as in a state of ongoing decay leading to death, marking aging—despite the gaining of years, experience, and wisdom—as an allbut-paradoxical descent into loss, rather than an ascent of gain. She then proceeds through detailed accounts of the philosophical assessments that have supported this narrative, spanning a spectrum from the essentialist "biomedical" view that reduces the body to a set of material conditions and components, through the social constructionist view that elicits an estimation of aging based on a political economy of meaning, until introducing her "collapsed" hybrid theory of "agential realism" (31–34). Borrowing from feminist theorist Karen Barad and gerontologist Stephen Katz, Gravagne posits that agential realism offers an empowerment that disputes the decline narrative and denies the marginalization of elders who do not engage in constant activity as the confirmation of their worth. Gravagne foresees how this approach "can allow us to denaturalize age, to uproot the pervasive assumptions about what is natural for certain ages and to see how these presumptions often violently limit our illusions about age and its lived experience" (36), again indicating the very substantial nature of her project. The next chapter surveys the narrative of decline in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (2008) and the animated Up (2009). Gravagne continues her erudite references to studies of ageism and evaluates particularly gendered depictions in this chapter and the next, as she first considers the male protagonists in these two films. She also continues to privilege theory over evidence, exploring propositions by Butler, Foucault, and Derrida, while connecting the films to themes of escape, resistance, and suicide. The two movies in this case, however, are curiously the most suspect of those she scrutinizes, as they force their characters "into culturally BOOK REVIEW


In pursuit of a better understanding of the cultural functioning of male gender, this paper aims to explain the paradoxes of shame in men, which, as distinguished from female shame, appears to be an emotion interdisciplinary research on shame, and on masculinity in cultural representations, this analysis begins with an overview of the status of shame in patriarchal contexts, where male shame has been interpreted in terms of honour. Furthermore, the paper traces the disturbance to the masculine hegemony brought by feminist discourses, looking at the ways in which the redefinition of male roles by feminism repositions male shame, as now applying directly to the male body. Finally, based on the film by Steven McQueen Shame (2011), the paper discusses shame in the contemporary, urban context to reveal that shame in application to postmodern man becomes an abject. As an emotion that has the ability to undermine and emasculate men, shame, in particular when applied to the idea of masculinity based on performance, has to be masked and suppressed to protect male identity


The term, targeted temperature management (TTM), is used to describe the management of a patient's body temperature following cardiac arrest and has replaced the term therapeutic hypothermia. TTM has three phases: induction, maintenance and rewarming. A targeted temperature is set to provide neuroprotection and better clinical outcomes for post cardiac arrest patients. The targeted temperature ranges between 32 and 36°C for 12–24 hours with the avoidance of hyperthermia for up to 72 hours. There are three common methods to undertake TTM: conventional cooling techniques, surface cooling systems and intravascular cooling systems. Nurses need to be able to apply, monitor and manipulate the system being used to ensure that adequate TTM is provided. Nurses will also need to monitor the patient for any physiological changes that can occur as a result of the TTM and apply treatment strategies where appropriate. The European Resuscitation Council (2015) has published guidelines on the use of TTM in post cardiac a...


It has been a productive year in French scholarship, with an abundance of articles compensating for the scarcity of book-length studies. As always, authors on the syllabus of the nationwide competitive examinations of Agregation and CAPES receive a great deal of attention, but there is also a surprising heterogeneity of areas of research. Several neglected writers, including J. Gordon Coogler, finally receive attention. As in recent years scholarship on Southerners and ethnic literature continues to proliferate. A hiatus of research in biography is matched by a rush to print on Edith Wharton and William Gaddis, both of them on the examination syllabus, while identity politics and ethical engagement are debated in discussions of ethics and aesthetics that reflect French Americanists' growing interest in society and culture.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to look back on 150 years of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and reflect on the recent challenges to organised labour.

Design/methodology/approach
Places unions in their current context and discusses how they have responded to the challenge of declining membership.

Findings
With declining membership levels and the lack of a "silver bullet" solution, unions continue to face many challenges, although there is some light at the end of the organising tunnel.

Originality/value
This paper introduces the special issue which reflects on 150 years of the TUC.


Shoji Ippei's paper on "Secularism in America" is a brief but very suggestive summary of the history of one of the ideological parties who participated in "cultural wars" in the United States. I particularly appreciate this paper for providing me historical information on non/anti-religion movement in America, a realm that I am not very familiar with. So-called cultural wars has rather long and highly complex history and thus cannot be over-simplified to the ideological struggle between religious conservatives and secularists, as Shoji is well aware of. To clarify the issue, however, it is useful to have a brief sketch of the nature and the historical development of each party. Shoji's paper is a fine introduction to the secularism that has taken certain roles in the cultural wars in the U.S. Shoji begins with his definition on the term "secularism" in American context. Then, he introduces us to a couple of concrete examples of the developments of secularist movements in America. He briefly summarizes the historical process of de-Christianization of two humanist movements, which originally had strong influence of liberal monotheistic denominations. His conclusion is that the secularism "became non-religious alternative way of intellectual and social―especially urban―life, and this explains the indistinctness of religious life and secularists' one." It is a very insightful description of the unique socio-political and religious reality of America today.


The passive stability property of the physics phase (PP) operation of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) device is analyzed. A linearized, rigid-body assumption is used to predict the stability parameter of the proposed passive stabilization structure. The problem is formulated into an eigenvalue problem and the solution predicts the critical stability margin and characteristic growth rate. The proposed stability structure and vacuum vessel (VV) provide 50% margin against Alfven time-scale vertical motion. The growth rate is less than 50 s/sup -1/ for the nominal plasma. The plasma is shown to have low growth rates over a range of plasma internal inductance and poloidal beta.<<ETX>>