This paper mainly studies how to divide the passing stages of the pedestrians and bicycles conglomeration at signalized intersection in Chinese urban area. The conception of pedestrians and bicycles conglomeration is defined after analyzing the two-stage characteristics of pedestrians and bicycles groups. Seven intersections were chosen in Beijing as examples. After video analysis, the real-time displacement and the real-time velocities of seven intersections in one signal cycle are extracted. It is found that the procedure of pedestrians and bicycles passing the intersection can be divided into two stages, which shows distinct characteristics. Video records taken from the observational survey are used to extract the real displacement of pedestrians and bicycles and the passing behaviors images. A new approach is presented to calculate the occupation ratio of the pedestrians and bicycles conglomeration, based on the "suppositional grids" division of the effective crosswalks. Finally, the grey relational analysis is applied to divide the mixed groups' passing stages based on the occupation ratio of conglomeration. A signalized intersection in Beijing is presented as a case study, and the passing stages are clustered into four stages from initial five stages and the results indicate that the trend of change in different stages is obvious.


In this review, the physiological actions and efficacy of porcine somatotropin (PST) and β-adrenergic agonists as repartitioning agents and the use of intact males to improve the production efficiency of pork are discussed. The strengths and weaknesses of these methods are highlighted to provide insight into the potential benefits and problems from their commercial applications. The repartitioning agents alter nutrient metabolism in pigs, producing dramatic increases in lean- and decreases in adipose-tissue growth. The PST-induced decrease in adipose-tissue growth results from the reduction in rates of lipogenesis, glucose oxidation and insulin-stimulated glucose metabolism. In general, β-adrenergic agonists reduce the rate of lipogenesis through a reduction in the number of insulin receptors and in the binding of insulin to adipocytes. β-adrenergic agonists also stimulate synthesis of myofibrillar protein while depressing its degradation. The natural anabolic androgens produced in the testes account for ...


The invention low noise relates to environmentally friendly pavement cutting machine and apparatus, and more particularly in road repair, the asphalt and concrete cutting fragments of dust, fugitive dust, and the cutting blade the diamond segments generated during when the renovation of a sewage pipe outside also by vacuum absorption portion being discharged to prevent environmental pollution by dust stored in the storage tank, as well as, to a low noise environment-friendly pavement cutting and an apparatus which can minimize the operating noise of the machine. The invention around by the oil pressure, the cut and that the hydraulic drive unit which is the backward portion is provided body, an engine to transmit power is provided to the main body, so that when the road cutting the cutting edge to rotate with the driving of the engine day the dust generated while cutting the road and a cover having a vacuum suction to absorb in a vacuum. The cutting blade, the cover, the vacuum suction unit, front and rear transfer means, elevator means


On the basis of the investigation and analysis,the results showed that the spatial distribution patterns of egg and larvae of Helicoverpa armigera(Hubner)belong to aggregate distribution pattern.The vertical distribution showed that the eggs are mainly on upper parts of the chickpea,and accounts for 64.61% of the total eggs,91% of eggs is at the back of leaf blade.The larvae mainly distributed on the green leaf and the fruit,and accounts for 56.2% and 40.5% of the total larvae respectively.


The turbulent submerged jets can be found fairly frequently in a great variety of processes, their study is essential in many industrial processes and engineering applications, such as in underwater propulsion, in metallurgical processes, in chemical processes or in the nuclear industry, among others. Within the nuclear world the submerged jets can occur in light water reactors (LWR), in both pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and boiling water reactors (BWR). These submerged jets are usually associated with complex multiphase flows, so that all processes occurring after such injection will be essentially unstable and turbulent. A hypothetical severe accident in a reactor can cause deterioration of the core, so that the fission products can escape from the core and be transported through the primary system and, finally, can be released to the surrounding environment. But if there is a volume of water in the escape pathway of aerosols, a discharge in the shape of submerged jet can occur, whether in a suppression pool (during an accident with loss of power, SBO, in a water reactor boiling BWR) or in the secondary of a steam generator (in an accidental breakage sequence tube / s in U in a steam generator, SGTR, in a pressurized water reactor, PWR). So that there is a capture of aerosols in those volumes, being reduced the amount of them that escape outside. Usually these sequences have been considered only for BWRs and for low discharge velocities, but these may also take place at higher velocities and, as mentioned previously, in PWRs. Throughout this thesis there is a contribution to a better understanding and quantification of natural mitigation processes that occur when a jet is discharged into a volume of water, so that it can be applied to discharges in suppression pools in a SBO sequence (BWRs), and inside of a steam generator during a SGTR event (PWRs). Being the central activity the expansion of SPARC90 code capabilities, so as to be able to quantify the aerosol capture that occurs when the discharge takes place at high velocity (originally the code only was developed to study discharges under globular regime, i.e., injection at low velocity). So the process followed to carry out this work can be divided into several stages. The first one focuses on the literature search for available information, in a specific way on submerged jets and, given the scarce specific information, this has been extended to the literature search of processes with phenomenologies that present analogies with submerged jets. Within this part, it has on the one hand, finding aspects of jet hydrodynamics and on the other, those related to aerosol capture processes. In a second stage, there are aspects of the implementation into the new code subroutines of the expressions found and / or developed in the previous stage. While for the third stage, remains the assessment of the capabilities and behavior of the new models implemented in the code. For this last stage, first, it has been proceeded to conduct a verification process which has been tested the code robustness. And secondly, it has been proceeded to perform a validation process, which has been carried out through the comparison of the results predicted by the code against the limited experimental data that are available under similar conditions to those of the model. Being the comparison against the experimental data satisfactory, showing a marked improvement in the code capabilities.


only in the uppermost beds, on the borders of the Devonian, to which formation also belong the by far greater number of these fossils which have been discovered in England, Spitzbergen, etc. The Gotland forms, on the other hand, lie deeper, in one of the oldest beds of Gotland—the widely extended marl shales which appear nearly all over the island below the limestone. There is no possibility that the marl shales of the east coast differ stratigraphically from those of the west coast, however unlike they may be paleeontologically. A description of the dissimilar faunas which these shales contain has already been given by me' some years since. Up to the present no fossil fish has been discovered in the newest strata of Gotland. These from Lau are therefore the oldest known fish from the entire Upper Silurian in so far as the marl shales are homotaxial with the Wenlock beds. But still further—• Since it has been found that the Conodonts in the Cambrian Greensand of St. Petersburg are not fish remains, and as those from North America described as Lower Silurian are completely Devonian in type, and from their position in disturbed beds cannot be considered with any degree of possibility as true Lower Silurian, we must regard the Gotland Cyathaspis not only as the oldest known fish but also as the oldest vertebrate, which, until a further discovery is made from still older beds, lends to it an importance which it would not otherwise have possessed. G. J. H.


OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of high dose of ambroxol hydrochloride in treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS) complicated with ventilator-associated pneumonia(VAP) so as to provide basis for the clinical diagnosis and treatment.METHODS A total of 62 ARDS patients complicated with VAP were divided randomly into the high-dose group and the low-dose group with 31 cases in each.All were treated with the same routine method and anti-infection therapy.On the basis of these,the low-dose group was treated with twice daily of 30mg ambroxol hydrochloride diluted in 250 ml normal saline by intravenous infusion,while 300mg was given each time in the high-dose group.RESULTS One week after the treatment,PaO2,PaO2/FiO2 and CL increased in both groups after treatment and the high-dose group(95.7±11.8 mmHg,357±30.4 mmHg,88.4±19.2 ml/cmH2O) seemed more apparently than the low-dose group(84.4±10.5mmHg,249±26.7mmHg,65.3±14.7ml/cmH2O).RAW and PIP reduced more significantly in the high-dose group than did in the low-dose group after treatment.RAW were 33.1±6.0cmH2O/L·s,and 39.4±7.5cmH2O/L·s,and PIP were 21.5±6.7cmH2O and 28.6±7.0cmH2O respectively,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).The duration of mechanical ventilation was shorter(7.2±2.5d vs 12.7±3.3d) and the bacterial clearance rate(88.33% vs 67.24%) was higher in the high-dose group than in the low-dose group,but the general mortality had no statistical difference(32.26% vs 41.94%).CONCLUSION High dose of ambroxol hydrochloride can improve the pulmonary ventilation function and reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation of patients with ARDS complicated with VAP.It has synergistic action of the combination with antibiotics,but it does not have obvious effect on reducing the general mortality.


In the last few years, the High Performance Computing (HPC) community has been embracing Linux based clusters for its computing needs. PC clusters provide low cost scalable computing infrastructure by making use of commodity components.


Objective:To study the function of medicine equipments quality control and quality assurance in hospital Methods:Our hospital Has a strict scientist quality control and quality assurance management in medicine equipments,purchasing,installing,testing,professional training,using,maintenace.Result:scientist management and having a full use of medicine equipment reasonce reduces the medicine equipment inuestment repeatedly exerts the using efficiency of technician and medicine equipments.Condusion:After using quality control and quality assurance,we have got a good achivement and efficiency.


Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose(HPMC) hydrophilic matrix tablets were prepared by wet granulation method.The experimental results indicate that the drug release rate is decreased when increasing the mass fraction of HPMC or using high viscosity HPMC;but there is no obvious difference of release rate when the viscosity of HPMC is above 4000 mPa·s;the drug release of tablets with larger particle size of metronidazole is higher due to appearing the big release hole during the process of drug release;the drug release from oval tablets is faster than that from round tablets because the amount of HPMC on the surface of oval tablets is relatively low;the effect of the viscosity of HPMC,the size of drug particle and the figure of tablet on drug release depend on the solubility of drug.The release rate of metronidazole represents a favorable compliance with Higuchi equation.


Peptide components of scorpion venom have been employed as useful pharmacological tools in the study of ion channel function. The isolation of individual components is necessary for determination of their biological significance. Here, we have described a novel reversed phase (RP)/ion exchange stationary phase, Click oligo ethylene glycol (Click OEG), and the chromatographic efficiency of its mixed-mode sorbent in peptide separation experiments. The Click OEG presents a mixed-mode RP/weak anion-exchange type stationary phase at pH 3.5 and mixed-mode RP/weak cation-exchange type stationary phase at pH 6.0, and it was suitable for separation of long-chain peptides in scorpion venom. Subsequently, a two dimensional mixed-mode RP-RP system based Click OEG and C18 with different pH values in two dimensions was developed for orthogonal separation of scorpion venom. Furthermore, two fractions were analyzed in depth, and 11 long-chain peptides were purified and sequences were identified by using tandem mass spectrometry incorporating the tryptic approach. Among these, we isolated six novel peptides including one peptide with a new sequence and five transcript-level peptides, and speculated on their possible bioactivities.


Since Rosenzweig showed the destabilisation of exploited ecosystems, the so called Paradox of enrichment, several mechanisms have been proposed to resolve this paradox. In this paper we will show that a feeding threshold in the functional response for predators feeding on a prey population stabilizes the system and that there exists a minimum threshold value above which the predator-prey system is unconditionally stable with respect to enrichment. Two models are analysed, the first being the classical Rosenzweig-MacArthur (RM) model with an adapted Holling type-II functional response to include a feeding threshold. This mathematical model can be studied using analytical tools, which gives insight into the mathematical properties of the two dimensional ODE system and reveals underlying stabilisation mechanisms. The second model is a mass-balance (MB) model for a predator-prey-nutrient system with complete recycling of the nutrient in a closed environment. In this model a feeding threshold is also taken into account for the predator-prey trophic interaction. Numerical bifurcation analysis is performed on both models. Analysis results are compared between models and are discussed in relation to the analytical analysis of the classical RM model. Experimental data from the literature of a closed system with ciliates, algae and a limiting nutrient are used to estimate parameters for the MB model. This microbial system forms the bottom trophic levels of aquatic ecosystems and therefore a complete overview of its dynamics is essential for understanding aquatic ecosystem dynamics.


The problem of optimizing a linear function over the efficient set of a multiple objective linear programming problem is studied. The decomposition of the efficient set into efficient faces is used as the basis of a search-based algorithm to solve this problem. The faces of the feasible region are characterized by the set of constraints that hold as equality in that face. The search is conducted over the indices of the constraints in a way that explores faces of possibly higher dimension first. Computational tests are performed to establish the behavior of the algorithm when the objective function is built according to different schemes that have received attention in the literature. The results indicate that different objective function types may lead to varying computation time requirements. In general, computational requirements of the algorithm increase significantly with problem size. A heuristic modification of the algorithm is proposed to solve large problems within reasonable time limits. Tests to measure the quality of the heuristic solutions show that the heuristic approach constitutes a practical alternative for finding good solutions for the problem.


The COVID-19 pandemic, is also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing serious global problem all over the world The outbreak first came to light in December 2019 in Wuhan, China This was declared pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March 2020 COVID-19 virus infected on people and killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States, Brazil, Russia, India and several other countries Since this pandemic continues to affect millions of lives, and a number of countries have resorted to either partial or full lockdown People took social media platforms to share their emotions, and opinions during this lockdown to find a way to relax and calm down In this research work, sentiment analysis on the tweets of people from top ten infected countries has been conducted The experiments have been conducted on the collected data related to the tweets of people from top ten infected countries with the addition of one more country chosen from Gulf region, i e Sultanate of Oman A dataset of more than 50,000 tweets with hashtags like #covid-19, #COVID19, #CORONAVIRUS, #CORONA, #StayHomeStaySafe, #Stay Home, #Covid_19, #CovidPandemic, #covid19, #Corona Virus, #Lockdown, #Qurantine, #qurantine, #Coronavirus Outbreak, #COVID etc posted between June 21, 2020 till July 20, 2020 was considered in this research Based on the tweets posted in English a sentiment analysis was performed This research was conducted to understand how people from different infected countries cope with the situation The tweets were collected, preprocessed and then text mining algorithms used and finally sentiment analysis have been done and presented with the results The purpose of this research paper to know about the sentiments of people from COVID-19 infected countries © 2021 All Rights Reserved


Introduction 1 Echoes of empire 2 From dependency to displacement 3 Seeds of segregation 4 We are here because you are there 5 Asylum and the welfare state 6 The dialectics of terror 7 The Halabja generation 8 Integrationism: the politics of anti-Muslim racism 9 Migration and the market-state 10 Here to stay 11 The new Leviathan 12 Community: theirs and ours Notes Index.


For the first time x-ray diffraction studies of natural anisotropic zinc sulfides have documented the simultaneous occurrence of twinning and stacking disorder (TandSD) along more than one of the four symmetry equivalent directions or close-packing directions of sphalerite. Precession photographs of optically anisotropic zinc sulfides are characterized by twin-equivalent diffraction maxima and diffuse diffraction streaking along lattice rows with (h-K) = 3n (equivalent hexagonal indices) in one or two directions. Two or three orientations were required to determine the presence of T and SD along the four directions. The relative intensities of all the symmetry-equivalent and twin-equivalent 111 reflections have been determined using a densitometer. A system of linear equations has been used to calculate the approximate volume fractions of each twin domain (T/sub i/) and the sphalerite host domain. If the number of twin axes is n, then the number of domain types is n + 1, and the number of required linear equations is n. Most of the samples have T and SD along only one direction, but a few show multidirectional T and SD. The T and SD in these samples are the result of structural deformation. Dielectric tensor calculations based on these volume fractionsmore » predict that these samples are optically biaxial.« less


A major limitation in the analysis of genetic marker data from polyploid 9 organisms is non-Mendelian segregation, particularly when a single marker 10 yields allelic signals from multiple, independently segregating loci (isoloci). 11 However, with markers such as microsatellites that detect more than two al12 leles, it is sometimes possible to deduce which alleles belong to which isoloci. 13 Here we describe a novel mathematical property of codominant marker data 14 when it is recoded as binary (presence/absence) allelic variables: under ran15 dom mating in an infinite population, two allelic variables will be negatively 16 correlated if they belong to the same locus, but uncorrelated if they belong to 17 different loci. We present an algorithm to take advantage of this mathemat18 ical property, sorting alleles into isoloci based on correlations, then refining 19


In this study, a new polynomial rank transmutation is proposed with the help of the bivariate Farlie-Gumbel Morgenstern distribution family. The distribution family obtained in this transmutation is considered to be an alternative to the distribution families obtained by quadratic rank transformation. Various properties of the introduced family are studied. Two real-data examples is considered to illustrate this contribution.


Notalgia paresthetica (NP) is a disorder characterized by pruritus localized to the patient's back. Little is known about predictors of severity, duration, side, and localization.


When the original US Grant Suspension Bridge over Ohio River was built in 1927 replacing a ferry system that existed at the time; it opened up a new era at this key crossing point for people and commerce between Portsmouth Ohio and adjoining South Shore, Kentucky. Those who saw it first hand some 70 years ago still remember the transition.1 After nearly eight decades of service, the original bridge was found to be functionally deficient, too costly to maintain and impractical to upgrade by the Ohio Department of Transportation, and the historic bridge was removed in 2002 to make way for in-line replacement by a cable-stayed bridge. The new bridge not only provides higher functional standards with its wider roadways with generous shoulders but also improved river navigational conditions by virtue of its longer span. The new bridge, through this form following function design, has successfully met the Department's desire for an economical bridge providing higher level of serviceability with aesthetic appeal.


For clinicians with an interest in bladder dysfunction, accurate diagnosis and prognosis remains elusive. The current diagnostic gold standard is fluoroscopic urodynamics despite its acknowledged morbidity and inaccuracies.1-5 Some non-invasive techniques have been evaluated and shown to be useful in the management of bladder dysfunction.6,7 However, if the edict "structure determines function" were true, dysfunction must lend its cause to abnormal structure. Using this edict in attempting to solve the puzzle of bladder dysfunction, the last three decades had witnessed an upsurge in the study of detrusor structure, especially in the field of ultrastructure. This paper seeks to review our current knowledge on normal, as well as abnormal detrusor ultrastructure seen in non-neurogenic detrusor dysfunction. In particular, a summary of current clinical correlative evidence which may guide future research in this area will be presented.


Antiresorptive drugs: Bisphosphonates (BPs) and Monoclonal Antibodies: Denosumab (DS) are known to suppress osteoclastic activity, affecting the expression of the RANKL (Kappa β Nuclear Activation Receptor), which corresponds to an osteoblastic differentiation factor and which is secreted by said cells, being responsible for inducing reabsorption by osteoclasts. Under certain circumstances, those medications may induce the development of Maxillary Osteonecrosis (MRONJ). The paper is aimed to share our experience of MRONJ treatment using minimally invasive therapies (including washes and antibiotics) that does not expand the necrotic bed volumetrically and provide non-recurrent resolution of the lesion. The patients we described were on long-term therapy either with BPs or DS. Conclusion: Interaction between health professional is essential for MRONJ prevention. The therapeutics consolidated in non-invasive maneuvers, and the manipulation of bone tissue with close follow up allows to avoid spread to deep planes. The pathological process could be successfully treated, and it is not necessary to suspend antiresorptive medications.


Introduction: Although pts with lower risk MDS have longer OS and transformation free survival than pts with higher risk disease, a subset of pts with lower risk MDS have higher risk cytogenetics. There is scarce data on the impact of cytogenetic abnormalities on response to HMAs in this patient population, the ability of these agents to induce cytogenetic responses along with the prognostic relevance of clonal evolution in this subset of pts. Methods: Pts with lower risk MDS treated with HMAs between 2012 and 2015 were evaluated. Information regarding baseline cytopenias, prior malignancy or chemotherapy, initial and on therapy bone marrow cytogenetic findings and response to therapy by IWG criteria were collected. Pts were stratified according to IPSS/IPSS-R cytogenetic groups and MDACC Lower risk model. Data regarding time to cytogenetic response, clonal evolution and clinical evolution was also reviewed. Statistical analysis included Chi-squared for categorical variables, T-student for continuous variables and Kaplan-Meier for OS and EFS. Results: A total of 83 pts were evaluated. Pt characteristics are in Table 1. Overall response rate was 61% with 39% CR, 10% CRn, 2% CRp, 1% CRi and 10% pts showing hematological improvement only. No significant difference in response rates (68% vs 61%, p=0.51) to HMAs was observed between pts with or without cytogenetic abnormalities. In pts with abnormal karyotype, 10 (26%) had complete cytogenetic response (CCyR) and 12 (31%) had partial cytogenetic response (PCyR) after a median of 7 months of therapy (range 2-18). Clonal evolution during therapy was observed in 12 (14%) pts after a median time of 8 months, and was associated with loss of response in 6 (50%) pts. There was no correlation between the achievement of a CR and cytogenetic response (p=0.36).The median follow-up was 13 months (2-30 months). Stratification of pts by IPSS or IPSS-R cytogenetic scores did not significantly predict differences for EFS (p=0.31 and p=0.47) nor OS (p=0,52 and p=0.18). By applying the MDACC low-risk scoring system, the 13-month survival rate was 100%, 83%, and 73%, for pts with categories 1, 2, and 3 respectively (p=0.35). No differences in EFS were observed between these groups. The 1-year EFS and OS rates were 79% vs 24% (p Conclusions: Achieving response to HMA therapy in pts with low-risk MDS is associated with improvement of outcome. Current IPSS or IPSS-R cytogenetic scores do not predict for outcome with HMA therapy. MDACC Lower risk model showed a tendency to better stratify OS of pts with low risk MDS treated with HMA. Cytogenetic evolution does not appear to impact outcome in patient with low-risk MDS treated with HMAs. Disclosures Sekeres: Celgene Corporation: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; Amgen: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees; TetraLogic: Membership on an entity9s Board of Directors or advisory committees. Komrokji: Incyte: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy, Research Funding; Novartis: Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Pharmacylics: Speakers Bureau. Steensma: Celgene: Consultancy; Amgen: Consultancy; Incyte: Consultancy; Onconova: Consultancy. DiNardo: Novartis: Research Funding. Pemmaraju: Stemline: Research Funding; Incyte: Consultancy, Honoraria; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; LFB: Consultancy, Honoraria. Daver: ImmunoGen: Other: clinical trial, Research Funding. Konopleva: Novartis: Research Funding; AbbVie: Research Funding; Stemline: Research Funding; Calithera: Research Funding; Threshold: Research Funding. Cortes: Teva: Research Funding; BMS: Consultancy, Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Research Funding; BerGenBio AS: Research Funding; Pfizer: Consultancy, Research Funding; Ariad: Consultancy, Research Funding; Astellas: Consultancy, Research Funding; Ambit: Consultancy, Research Funding; Arog: Research Funding; Celator: Research Funding; Jenssen: Consultancy.


We present the FinCausal 2021 Shared Task on Causality Detection in Financial Documents and discuss the participating systems and results. A total of 6 teams submitted runs across the task and 4 of them contributed with a system description paper. This task is associated with the 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021), held at Lancaster University, UK, on September 15-16, 2021.


While it is true that the humans are endangered by many dangers
and may endure many pains, but the fact remains that some risks
are inescapable. For one thing, the skin is the first defensive wall of
the body against external hazards.


Obesity is one of the most prevalent nutritional diseases, associated with chronic morbidity and mortality. Persuasive evidence indicates a striking association between obesity and incidence of common neoplasms, such as those of the esophagus, endometrium, kidney and breast in post menopause women, prostate in men, in addition to colon, rectum and bladder. Such an association has been supported by clinical and laboratory experiments on humans and animals, respectively. The findings have revealed that obesity and increased body fatness, in general and visceral adiposity, in particular, increase the vulnerability to develop different cancers. Although the impact of obesity in cancer progression differs according to the type of cancer, all the obesity-related cancers are centered around body adiposity. This review highlights the different hormonal, biochemical and molecular changes that might be involved in obesity-related cancers. Increased serum insulin, insulin-like growth factor, steroids "sex hormones" and the disturbances in adiponectin and leptin hormones are included. Biochemical and metabolic changes that mediate obesity-related carcinogenesis involving elevated oxidative stress and inflammation levels in the body and the concomitant increment in circulatory proinflammatory cytokines are discussed.


Cloud-contaminated images seriously disturb the effective information in ground observations and reduce the availability of remote sensing images. This letter presents a thin cloud removal method for cloud-contaminated images based on a residual channel attention network. Compared with the present thin cloud removal methods not showing different attention to cloud components and ground details, the proposed method introduces channel attention mechanism into the residual learning (RL) path, which achieves suppressing thin clouds and enhancing the details of ground scenes simultaneously. Based on this, both residual channel attention module (RCAM) and residual group (RG) are constructed, playing the role of basic modules to stack an encoder–decoder-based residual channel attention network, which effectively avoids the loss of ground information in the deep layers. Compared with recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, experimental results on both actual and synthesized cloudy images show the proposed method's superiority in reconstructing rich details of ground scenes.


Slips and falls are a major cause of serious injury, disability and death at work. This research focus on slips and falls events due to contamination factors on different ramp angles among workers because employees are exposed to such danger at the workplace. The goals of this study were to identify; the main factors that cause slips and falls on inclined surfaces, the effects of contaminants on gait, and walking speed downhill before the slips occur. Three different contaminants variaty in viscosity (water, suds and oil), three ramp angels (3?, 7? and 14?) and two shoe types ( Saftey boot and Sneaker) were used during the trials. In addition, eight healthy male subjects (22-28 years) were asked to walk as naturally as possible throught testing. This project produced an outcome of the slip distance based on the interaction of the factors that causes the incident of slips and falls. As a resualt, slope and contaminant factors are known as the main elements that increase the risk of sliping and falling on ramps. Furthermore, the walking speed increase while the ramp angle will rise. Based on the result, suggestion and guideline can be produce to overcome the slips and falls instances


Background

Online CBT-based interventions have shown potential to improve mental health in university students. However, their impacts in West Asian cultures and on educational achievement have yet to be fully investigated. This study aims to explore the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of a self-directed, internet-delivered, cognitive-behavioural skills training program (MoodGYM) in reducing depression and improving academic performance in university students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Methods

This exploratory pre-post intervention study with an historic control group recruited 50 students from one UAE university, with GPA < 2 and self-reporting at least one of two key depressive symptoms. Pre-intervention, participants completed an online survey including most recent grade point average (GPA), number of attendance warnings and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Participants were then sent a link to MoodGYM. After eight weeks, 44 participants repeated the survey and provided feedback on MoodGYM (88% follow-up). A subgroup of 19 students with GPA scores < 2 at baseline formed an historical control group for change in GPA and attendance warnings.
Results

Total HADS-Depression scores fell at post intervention (P = 0.004) and the proportion of participants scoring above the cut-off for depression (HADS-D ≥ 8) fell from 77.2–27.3% (p < 0.001). There was also a substantial fall in HADS-Anxiety scores (p < 0.001) and the proportion of participants above the cut-off for anxiety (HADS-A ≥ 8) fell from 50% to 11.4 % (p = 0.001). GPA scores improved substantially over time (p < 0.001, d = 1.3) and attendance warnings reduced (p = 0.008, d = 0.6). Compared to historic control, the intervention group had higher GPA at follow-up (p < 0.030 d = 0.6) fewer attendance warnings (p = 0.036 d = 0.7). Most students (79.6%) evaluated MoodGYM as useful and all students completed at least 2 MoodGYM modules. More modules completed (p = 0.005) and greater reduction in attendance warnings (p = 0.007) were independently associated with greater improvement in GPA scores at follow-up.
Conclusions

This study provides support for a web based mental health promotion intervention (MoodGYM) to improve academic achievement in university students with depressive symptoms. Further research is needed to explore how MoodGYM can be best implemented within University settings.


We propose two Japanese information retrieval methods that enhance retrieval effectiveness using relationships between words. One is a method using dependency relationships between words in a sentence, and another is a method using the ordered co-occurrence information of words in a sentence as an approximation to the dependency relationships between them. Through retrieval experiments using the Japanese test collection for information retrieval systems NTCIR-1, we showed our two methods are superior to the TF-IDF method in retrieval effectiveness and the difference between our two methods is small. These results are independent of the document set and of the search topic set.


Aiming at the drawbacks of proxy blind signature scheme,we propose a new improved proxy blind signature scheme to overcome the forgery factors. In the blind signature,a strong blind signature is constructed with three random factors. It has really completed unforgeablity and unlinkability in the electronic tractions of business in contrast against the previous ones.


Dietary components such as berries and fruits are part of the recommended Nordic diet, and are considered having health‐enhancing characteristics. A randomized multi‐center and multi‐domain lifestyle intervention trial FINGER has shown benefits on cognition with dietary guidance, exercise, cognitive training and vascular risk management. Here, we investigate the association between berry and fruit intake at baseline and cognitive function over 2 years.


Being cognitive is important to future space communications for improved energy and spectrum efficiency. A fundamental challenge therein is calibrating timing and frequency offsets brought by the long distance and rapid relative movement between communications satellites and ground terminals. In this work, we proposed a high-precision time and frequency calibration algorithm for communications between satellites and ground user terminals, with the ideas of recursive short-term satellite state prediction and iterative transmitting time and frequency calculation. The proposed method models and corrects the bias of satellite position and velocity prediction, and improves the precision of transmitting time and frequency calibration. Simulations are conducted for different types of satellite orbits, and the results show that the proposed calibration method significantly outperforms existing methods.


The foremost aim of the present research study is to measure specific gravity of lead-acid batteries and further know batterys state-of-charge (SoC). In this article, air purge method is used to monitor the status of a battery; back differential pressure is measured using MPX4006 DP MEMS pressure sensor. In air purge method, it is essential to adjust the rate of bubbles in acid. This can be achieved by controlling the compressors speed or controlling the air flow by controllers. When air purge tubes are inserted through a batterys cap, it is difficult to observe bubbles produced in the acid as the battery is nontransparent. If the bubble rate is too slow, the system lowers the output signal and hence stops working. During the calibration of the instrument, air flow measurement through the pipe is of prime importance. In this method, FS1012 MEMS gas flow sensor is used to monitor the discharged air flow. FS1012 is based on the thermo-transfer principle. Compared to the resistive technique, this flow sensor consists of a thermopile for air flow sensing whose signal-noise ratio is exceptional. The output of the sensor is exponential; signal conditioning circuit has been designed to get linear output 0 to 3.3 V standard range. The amplified output of signal conditioning circuit is monitored using TM4C123GXL arm controller. FS1020 is first time proposed to monitor the air flow of a small air purge probe used to monitor the state of charge of a lead-acid battery. FS1020 ensures an ideal flow of the air bubbler system, which improves the performance of the battery charge monitoring system. Conventional flow sensors for example, rotameter cannot be used for very low flow measurement; they are costlier as well as bulky. The minimum flow required to produce sufficient bubbles in acid is 0.50 liter per minute (LPM) which is measured by FS 1012.


Abstract This study has been undertaken with a view to study the marital adjustment of those couples who are infertile. The sample of the study consisted of 30 childless women residing in urban areas of Jammu city and had marital duration of at least 10 years. Snowball sampling technique was adopted for sample selection. The tools used for the study were interview guide and Marital Adjustment Questionnaire. After analysis it was found that out of the total respondents, 77% were primary infertile, 10% had suffered experiences of pregnancy wastage and 13% were secondary infertile. It was found that before diagnosis of the problem 80% of the husbands had positive attitude but after diagnosis of the problem 20% of the husbands changed their attitude from positive to negative. Childlessness had great effect on the marital adjustment of the respondents and from the entire sample group it was found that different people have different styles for spending their leisure time. Women faced both physiological as well as psychological problems due to childlessness. The investigation of infertility may pose additional trauma, interfere intolerably with sex life and even erode the love a couple feel for each other. It was also found that with the increase in marital duration there was increase in marital adjustment.


[Purpose] The aim of this study was to develop a method to statistically analyze the techniques of manual stretching for equinovarus. [Subjects and Methods] Six physical therapists (PTs) and three stroke survivors participated in this study. The manual stretching motions of PTs and forces and torques applied to the patient's heel were measured by a motion capture system and a six-axial force sensor. For statistical analysis, principal component analysis (PCA) was expanded and performed on the recorded data. [Results] Three principal components were extracted by the statistical analysis. According to the primary component, PTs increased their force, on the toe side, and moment on dorsiflexion with slight abduction moments. The second and third components indicated the differences in the abduction/adduction and eversion/inversion torques around the heel and in the forces pulling or pushing the heel. [Conclusion] Our method based on PCA enables the statistical analysis of the similarities and differences of complex manual stretching techniques among PTs.


Senate legislation introduced recently that aims to extend broadcast indecency regulations to cable and satellite providers, if passed, would represent the most significant congressional effort to regulate speech since the Communications Decency Act of 1996, and likely form the precursor to regulation of content on the Internet. The CDA was found unconstitutional, but with S-616 Rockefeller and Hutchison clearly are trying to avoid the same fate. The bill applies broadcast rules found constitutional in FCC v. Pacifica in 1978 to cable and satellite offerings because they are all ubiquitous. While this is a more nuanced argument for speech regulation than what we saw during the CDA debate it is precisely for these reasons that cross-media censorship must be rejected. The fact that new media outlets have grown in popularity and that millions of Americans voluntarily subscribe to them, are powerful arguments against speech controls, not for them. The First Amendment will be an empty vessel if a popularity-equals-pervasiveness doctrine is adopted. Shows like The Shield, South Park, and Nip/Tuck would be forced to migrate to premium tiers to avoid regulation, whereby viewers will have to pay significant sums of money to escape censorship in the future. Worth assessing is the findings section's pervasiveness rationale, which has never been applied to newspapers and the Internet, and would be constitutionally suspect for cable and satellite. Meanwhile mandates imposed on warning systems and filters deployed voluntarily by programmers might best be grouped under the theme hanging the industry with its own rope. Ratings systems are subjective, and government shouldn't have any say over them. Section 11 would exempt premium and pay-per-view channels, but what happens if S-616 forces popular content onto these networks and viewers follow? Would they then be regulated as well?


e18002 Background: Most patients with adult ALL eventually relapse. Salvage regimens in these patients and in patients with primary refractory disease are generally based on cytarabine in combination with other agents. Exact merit of each combination remains undefined as these continue to be tested in non randomized trials. This study was conducted with the objectives to find out the efficacy and toxicity of cytarabine and idarubicin combination.

METHODS
From December 2006 to March 2008, 30 patients were enrolled in this prospective, nonrandomized single institution phase II feasibility study. It was empirically decided that the study will only be considered feasible if more then ten patients achieve a complete remission. Patients who relapsed during maintenance therapy or were refractory and were at least 16-years-old were considered eligible provided they have received at least vincristine and prednisone as induction. No prior cytarabine was allowed. Cytarabine 100 mg/m2 continuous infusion for seven days along with idarubicin 12 mg/m2 day 1 to 3, IV bolus was given. Bone marrow examination was done 15 days after the completion of chemotherapy.

RESULTS
All thirty patients completed planned treatment. Five patients died of infection during treatment. Eleven patients achieved complete remission. All patients relapsed within eight months.

CONCLUSIONS
The regimen of cytrarabine and idarubicin is feasible and sufficiently effective in relapsed or refractory adult ALL with manageable toxicity. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


This paper considers estimation and testing of the time of the structural break in a regression with possibly strongly dependent data. Statistical properties of the estimator depend on the assumption made on the size of the break. Specifically, when the size of break is fixed, the asymptotic distribution depends on the entire joint distribution of the regressors and the error term. When the size of break is shrinking, the asymptotic distribution of breakpoint depends only on the second moments of data. When the break is weak, that is when its magnitude is shrinking too fast, the time of break is not estimable. For the shrinking break, hypotheses on the time of break can be carried out on the basis of the asymptotic distribution. However, since asymptotic tests do not always approximate finite sample tests well, we propose a valid bootstrap approximation of the asymptotic tests and demonstrate its performance in small samples by Monte Carlo simulation.


The specific aim of this work is to develop a new technique to control the vibration of a circular cylinder by utilizing the effect of downstream cylindrical body in cruciform arrangement. In this work, a strip-plate with a width w equal to or smaller than the cylinder diameter d is selected as the downstream body. In this report, results of observation of flow visualization in water tunnel and measurements in wind tunnel for fixed systems are presented. The two longitudinal vortices, the trailing and the necklace vortices which were found to induce vibrations of the upstream cylinder in the cruciform two-circular system, are observed around the crossing of the circular-cylinder/stripplate system. Either of the two longitudinal vortices is observed to shed periodically when w/d is 0.50 or 0.62, depending on the gap-to-diameter ratio s/d. While, periodic shedding of the necklace vortex is not observed when 0.75〓s/d〓1.0.


In Paradise Lost Milton alludes to conventions of the classical epithalamium both to praise the wedding of Adam and Eve and, ironically, to adumbrate its desecration. Book IV shows his positive imitation of images and plot from Catullus 61, undoubtedly the most influential lyric epithalamium revived in the Renaissance. For his epideictic style, however, Milton draws upon traditions of the epic epithalamium whose topics of "proemium," "praise of the love that rules the world," and "praise of the nuptial couple" he develops to elevate proper marital virtues. Comparison of Milton's epithalamium for Adam and Eve with others composed by hexameral poets such as Du Bartas, Andrew Ramsey, and Jacob Cats reveals how Milton's version follows Christian humanists' qualification of certain topics found in secular epithalamia. Especially significant is the humanists' dispraise of material splendor and their substitution of a new topic glorifying the natural simplicity manifested in the Edenic setting for Adam and Eve's wedding. A final qualification of the pagan genre is located in Michael's presentation of the fallen world in Book XI. Here Adam is shown a pagan wedding in progress so that he may learn how it desecrates Christian marital virtues.


The family is the primary social group based on official marriage between a man and a woman, formed by the relationship between parents and children, supported by the moral norms and rules of society, passing on human culture to the next generation and developing it. Today, special attention is paid to improving the social, economic, and legal foundations for strengthening this institution. Issues such as marriage and family relations, the protection of mutual property and personal non-property rights of family members, and the fulfillment of family obligations are considered topical. At the same time, despite the fact that the family law contract is of particular importance as a means of regulating family relations, it is noted that it is concluded to a lesser extent among spouses. In this regard, questions arise that need to be studied and researched in the theory of family law. The use of dispositive mechanisms in the regulation of family relations and the study of practice in this regard are also considered important. In particular, along with issues related to the concept, content, types, classification, and legal nature of family law contracts, it is important to study the originality of family law relations in foreign countries and the role and form of family contracts based on a comparative legal analysis. There is not enough research in the scientific literature regarding the family law contract, its legal nature, types, and classification. The article analyzes such issues as the types of family law agreements in foreign countries and the relations that are regulated by them, as well as judicial practice. As a result of a comparative analysis, the author focuses on the role of the family contract in the regulation of family relations, and based on the results of the analysis, conclusions and suggestions are made.


The purpose of these experiments are to establish the conditioned pupillary reflex in human subjects. We believe it will be of value to add another report to the discussion whether it is possible or not.Part I.The devices for experiments are the same as that of Hudgins', except in just a few minor parts. In Experiment I, the conditioned stimulus was the sound of bell, while the unconditioned one was the light of 100 w. Both stimuli were presented simultaneously. The total number of reinforcement was about 100 over a period of 3 to 5 days. Subjects employed for this experiment were 6 adult men.The procedure of Experiment II are very much like that of Baker and Wedell's. The conditioned stimulus, a weak tone of 1024 cycles near threshold was presented for 7 seconds through earphone. The unconditioned stimulus, light of 100 w., was presented for 4 seconds, 3 seconds after the conditioned stimulus had been given. During the 5 days of experiments, we gave the control experiment and 5 reinforcements on the first day, and from the second to the fifth day we gave 15 reinforcements every day. For this experiment 7 adults were employed.In so far as our experiments are concerned, we could not get good results from Experiment I, though we reinforced 100 times or more in total. 3 cases among 6 could be considered to have been conditioned. In Experinent II, conditioned reflexes were established easily and surely. The results were far better than that of Experiment I. After 10 times of reinforcement we could observe the conditioned reflex with the latency of 3 seconds.Thus we are able to conclude that, if the experimental procedure is good and adequate, it will be possible to condition human pupillary reflex.Part II.We further attempted to introduce a new method of conditioning pupillary reflex in human subjects. We have enough reason to believe that in conditioning any kind of human reflexes the differential reinforcement method is very efficient.By use of this differential reinforcement method, we used a tone of 1000 cycles (20 db.) as the positive conditioned stimulus, and that of 468 cycles (20 db.) as the negative one. Duration of these stimuli were 7 seconds. The positive one was followed by the unconditioned stimulus of the light of 100 w., while the negative one was not.In order to compare the results of the above mentioned method with the ordinary mothod of simple reinforcement using the tone of 1000 cycles (20 db.) as the conditioned stimulus and the light of 100 w. as the unconditioned stimulus, we examined 14 cases, 7 for the differential method and 7 for the ordinary method. After 40 times of differential reinforcements we could get conditioned reflex with the latent time of 4 seconds. On the other hand, it was not before 100 times of ordinary reinforcements that we could observe the conditioned reflex. Thus we may conclude that our newly introduced method is really effective and of value.


Four types of biomass were characterized to investigate its metal adsorption capacity. The biomass were soaked in with nickel and cobalt solutions to examine the effect of biomass to amount of metal adsorbed. Oil palm mesocarp fibre (OPMF), empty fruit bunch (EFB), palm kernel shell (PKS) and sawdust were used in this study. Among all the biomass studied, oil palm mesocarp fibre shows the highest adsorption capacity with 1.8 mg/g and 1.6 mg/g of nickel and cobalt uptake, respectively. The metals adsorbed on the biomass were found to disperse into nanosize range.


The initiation of transcription by RNA polymerase II is controlled by the assembly of the basal transcription machinery, which integrates inputs from transcription factors bound to promoters and enhancers. Overall, a typical gene may depend on the binding of tens of transcription factors to its controlling-sequence elements. Combinatorial assembly ensures that each gene can exhibit a distinctive and sometimes variable pattern of expression, despite the fact that the number of transcription factors is much lower than the number of genes.


Abstract Background  Ultrasonography (US) is a useful diagnostic modality for diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Diabetes mellitus is increasingly prevalent and is a risk factor for CTS. Given the increasing use of US in the diagnosis of CTS, our goal was to evaluate the influence of diabetes on CTS severity and the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the median nerve in patients with CTS. Methods  Patients with clinically diagnosed CTS were seen in the outpatient setting from October 2014 to February 2021. Median nerve CSA and patient reported severity measures were obtained: Boston Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Questionnaire (BCTSQ) and CTS-6. For patients with diabetes, additional parameters were collected including most recent A1c, insulin pharmacotherapy, and polypharmacy. Results  Ninety-nine patients (122 nerves) without diabetes and 55 patients (82 nerves) with diabetes were recruited for the study. Patients in the diabetes group were more obese and older and had a significantly increased median nerve CSA compared with patients without diabetes. Obesity was associated with higher median nerve CSA in all patients but not in patients with diabetes. There was no difference in disease severity in patients with and without diabetes as reported by BCTSQ or CTS-6 scores. In patients with diabetes, there was significantly decreased median nerve CSA with A1c of 6.5 or higher and a trend to decreased CSA with polypharmacy. There was no influence of insulin therapy on median nerve CSA. Conclusion  Diabetes is associated with higher median nerve CSA in patients with CTS of similar disease severity. The increased median nerve CSA in patients with diabetes may be reflective of diabetes-related microvascular changes. Interestingly, the trend to decreased median nerve CSA in patients with suboptimal diabetic control (A1c ≥ 6.5) may suggest eventual degenerative changes to the median nerve. In summary, clinicians should be cautious with interpreting a larger median nerve CSA as more severe CTS in patients with diabetes. Level of Evidence  Level 3 Diagnostic.


In this work, the synthesis and characterization of a new magnetically supported Mo6+ complex have been reported as a catalyst for epoxidation of olefins. For this purpose, a new silylating compound containing a birhodanine moiety, i.e. [(E)-5-(3-(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl)-4-oxo-2-thioxothiazolidin-5-ylidene)-3-phenethyl-2-thioxothiazolidin-4-one] (TMOS-BIRD) has been synthesized and used for silylation of magnetite nanoparticles (MNPs). The magnetically supported catalyst was then prepared by deposition of dioxomolybdenum(VI) adduct, dichlorobis(dimethylformamide)dioxomolybdenum (MoO2Cl2(dmf)2), on MNP@BIRD. The prepared supported magnetic catalyst was characterized in detail by FT-IR, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) analyses. Cyclooctene was used as a model substrate to optimize the epoxidation reaction conditions, and the prepared magnetically retrievable catalyst was then used for epoxidation of cyclohexene, cyclooctene, styrene, indene, trans-trans-cis-1,5,9-cyclododecatrien, 1-octene, 1-heptene, α-pinene, 1-dodecene and trans-stilbene using tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as oxidant under solvent-free conditions. The catalyst showed excellent conversion, good turn over frequency, and a short reaction time at 95 °C for epoxidation of cyclooctene. the formula is not displayed correctly!


Acari and Collembola are the dominant groups within the mycophagous arthropods linked to fungal-based food webs in undisturbed soils. Studies on soil microarthropod communities in old, traditional, multifunctional farmland, and studies on secondary succession following marginalization and abandonment of traditional farmland are lacking in Europe. Thus, we studied patterns of microarthropod communities related to different land use regimes in a traditional farm in Western Norway. Soil mesofauna communities were analysed at four sites: site OM – old, herb rich, open hay meadow in traditional use; site F1 – abandoned hay meadow with pollarded trees (first fallow); site F2 – deciduous woodland (abandoned hay meadow with old pollards, heavily overgrown, second fallow); and site RM – restored hay meadow with scattered, newly pollarded trees. The abundance of the taxa varied considerably between habitats (for instance: total microarthropods – from 112.4 ±11.4 to 29.2±3.4, Acari – from 83.9±10.2 to 15.6±1.8 and Oribatida – from 68.6±9.5 to 8.2±1.3 × 103 m-2, for OM and RM sites respectively). The abundance of total Acari, total Oribatida, Oribatida adults and juveniles differed significantly between OM-F1, OM-RM, OM-F2 and RM-F2 sites and it was significantly correlated with continuity of land use and/or tree cover. Oribatida was the group with the highest densities and percentage dominance (except RM site). The percent contribution of total Oribatida in Acari abundance was negatively correlated with the percentage of Actinedida. Nine Ptyctimina species, six Nothroidea species and four Uropodina species were detected, but most of them occurred as single individuals. Abundance of three Ptyctimina [Atropacarus (Atropacarus) striculus (C.L. Koch), Phthiracarus ferrugineus (C.L. Koch), P. globosus (C.L. Koch)], and two Uropodina [Trachytes pauperior Berlese and Dinychus perforatus Kramer] species differed significantly between some sites. The percentage similarity (Renkonen index) has a high indicative value for measuring the distance between ecosystems with apparently similar communities of Uropodina. The OM and RM sites differed most and site pairs – F1-F2 and F1-RM were the most similar. The densities of some taxa were about twoor three-fold greater for the F1site than the RM site. Ratios of Acari to Collembola, total Oribatida to Collembola and total Oribatida to Actinedida were highest on OM site (3.2, 2.6, 11.8 respectively) and decreased in the following order: F2>F1>RM (as an example, total Oribatida to Actinedida ratios were 9.8 on F2 site, 6.2 on F1 and 3.1 on RM). These ratios differed significantly between the OM and RM sites. The lowest ratios on RM site are probably an effect of recent disturbance (change of land use) of this site. Our results suggest that soil in OM site, despite constant disturbance during long time (scything, hay raking and sheep grazing), has POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY (Pol. J. Ecol.) 56 2 273–288 2008 Regular research paper journal 14.indb 273 2008-06-21 12:17:34 Maria E. Gulvik et al. probably a stable mesofauna community with the highest abundance of Oribatida. Our results have provided new knowledge about ecosystems in traditional farmland and can be used in monitoring programmes of post-arable land.


THE RCN, Unison and the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association have all welcomed last week's Queen's speech outlining the programme of legislation for the next year.


Summary form only given. We report our progress in studying correlation properties of various parametric down conversion sources and in engineering the sources with the desired fourth-order field correlation function. We discuss the experimental manifestation of biphoton initiated two-photon processes in photoelectric effect, photochemical reactions, in optical nonlinear phenomena, as well as their implications for quantum imaging, lithography, and information processing.


In primary arterial hypotension (PAH) the original systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle (LV) has been found, which manifested itself by the increase in its mechanical systole period and the decrease in the contraction power ("flabby systole"). Such a form of systolic dysfunction seems to play an important role in the decrease in arterial blood pressure in PAH. The cause of "flabby systole" is discussed in the article.


Henuiis at an altar with a pig ; and points out that the animal is really a dog dressed up in a pig's skin : woodcut. 6. Diimmler argues, mainly on epigraphical evidence, that the pinax with the painting of Hector and Menelaos fighting over Euphorbos, and all similar vases found in Rhodes, were imported from Argos, and not made in the island, as hitherto supposed : three woodcuts. 7. Winter describes a krater in Sir F. Cook's collection with a painting of Ulysses and Polyphemos and some satyrs: plate and woodcut. He connects this painting with the ' Cyclops' of Euripides. Anzeiger. List of additions to the collections of antiquities at Munich, Dresden, Karlsruhe, and Vienna: thirty-two woodcuts. The antiquities belonging to the late Emperor Maximilian have been brought to Vienna from Miramare. [Part 3 of the Jahrbuch was erroneously described as part 2 on page 185 supra.] C. T. Bulletin de Correspondance Helle'tiiquc. July— December, 1891. Athens and Paris. 1. Lechat publishes a bronze statuette of Aphrodite, recently found in Epirus : two plates and four woodcuts. 3. Pantelidis describes his excavations among the Thermae on the island of Nisyros. 5. Perrot discusses the gold cups found at Vafio four years ago : two plates showing the two cups in perspective, and a double plate showing the friezes round them. He argues strongly that they are of native Mycenaean workmanship. 9. Heuzey discusses some statues at Madrid, said to have been found in 1860 at Cerrode los Pantos in the south-east of Spain : plate and three woodcuts. He holds that they are genuine, and of Graeco-Phoenician workmanship. The remaining seven articles are devoted to Greek inscriptions from various sites. Altogether, a hundred and twenty-six inscriptions are published or criticised : but none of them are of very great importance.


ABSTRACT Since the Apollo missions, human spaceflight has been advocated as a means of promoting positive attitudes towards science. In 2015, Principia launched Britain's first government-funded astronaut to the International Space Station, a core objective being education and inspiring young people. In this study, we examined how spaceflight education policy was enacted during the Principia mission, found out the ways in which young people encountered space, and how these encounters shaped their attitudes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 102 children and analysed through the construction of an actor-network. Young people encountered space through formal education in school as well as through non-formal encounters with family, friends, media and social media. Social media influences were associated with forming positive attitudes, whereas friends and teachers were associated with both positive and negative attitudes. The human dimension of spaceflight was important in young people encountering space but was not sufficient to stimulate sustained interest in space: children and young people wanted to know more about the science of human spaceflight. Young people confused science with science fiction. In some schools, young people became 'spaced out' by saturation of the curriculum with space. The findings have implications for policymakers and practitioners. The scientific stories associated with human spaceflight need greater attention. Social media could be used to greater effect in communicating science directly to young people. Non-formal education initiatives must be designed to align with teachers' objectives, and there needs to be recognition and reward of teachers' time and contributions.


In this paper, a theoretical method for developing enterprise systems represented by the π-calculus is introduced. The method is based on the modern mathematics of homotopy theory. The homotopy lifting and extension properties are applied to developing systems in bottom-up and top-down ways with the incrementally modular abstraction hierarchy, where system development is carried out by climbing down abstraction hierarchy with adding invariants linearly. It leads to avoid combinatorial explosions causing an enormous waste of time and cost on testing. The system requirements and a state transition diagram drive the actions of an event by applying the HEP. Then, the state transition diagram and actions bring π-calculus processes by applying the HLP. These processes do not need testing because of invariant preserving.


The effect of trace yttrium on cube texture of high-purity aluminum foils has been investigated by means of orientation distribution functions (ODFs). The results show that a small addition of yttrium to high-purity aluminum brings about a considerable increment of the cube texture, and it reduces the content of R texture. The rare earth yttrium may combine with the other impurities to form the metallic compounds, such as FeYAl8, Fe6YAl6, Fe4YAl8 and Si2YAl2. When the precipitation of these particles in the matrix is nearly completed and the Fe concentration in the matrix becomes low, the cube texture can develop well and the R texture can be suppressed.


Objectives: To study the prevalence of risk factors for cardio vascular disease among 30-65 years and to identity moderate and high risk individual for developing Diabetes using Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS). Methods: 376 individuals were interviewed using a structured questionnaire and anthropometric measurements were taken .Using IDRS, risk for developing Diabetes Mellitus were assessed. Results: Out of 376 study population, 36% were males and 64% were females. 45.9% men were current smokers and consuming alcohol .The prevalence of obesity among women was high. 14.4 % were detected to blood pressure >140/90mm Hg. There is a strong association between high Indian Diabetes Risk Score and Random Blood Sugar values. Conclusion: Screening programme has to be initiated in the community to detect hidden cases and health education on lifestyle changes to be planned and implemented aggressively to bring down the disease burden in the community.


Higher vocational education can't totally adapt to socialist economic construction and requirement of entry WTO in our country for it is affected by itself and society, etc. So strengthening and improvement should be done constantly in teaching, teacher's quality, education environment, etc.


A fiber Bragg grating(FBG)modulation system is introduced,including the structure and key components,especially the procedure compiles using LabVIEW.An improvement of the system is presented for the temperature compensation of strain sensing.A MCU of AT89C51 is employed to read and write the temperature sensor DS18B20,and the communication is realized by LabVIEW.Experiment is conducted on a cantilever,which modulate the FBG strain sensor.The result shows excellent performance on the demodulation.It is a costless and easy way to compensate the temperature.


The swordsman fiction Love and Hatred: Stories of Books and Swords written by Jin-yong is set in the flourishing period of the early and middle reign of Emperor Qianlong.Emperor Qianlong's contradictory character is depicted in the fiction,which influences the author's attitudes toward him.Writers' feelings are often inconsistent with his creating rationality.In the fiction,the portrayal of the main character Chen Jialuo,though primarily fabricated,seems to be both realistic and unrealistic,while the description of secret societies also appears to be both realistic and unrealistic,yet primarily true to fact.


This paper considers the interaction of a train of regular surface waves with a half spheroid which is completely submerged in water of finite depth and oriented such that its two equal axes lie on the horizontal impermeable bottom. The boundary-value problem resulting from the interaction is dealt with by introducing a Green's function. A numerical scheme is developed for solving the integral equation which arises from application of the kinematic boundary condition on the surface of the spheroid, and numerical results are obtained for all of the physical quantities of interest. For the special case of a hemisphere, these numerical results are compared with results obtained from a closed-form asymptotic solution of the problem. Also, Haskind's relations and an energy balance are used in the general case to check the accuracy of the numerical results.


Post-Tensioning allows almost any shape of structure to be constructed, while reducing environmental impacts, construction time, materials and costs. Since the PT technology has advanced significantly – particularly in the field of performance, quality assurance and durability as well as corrosion protection. Parameters varied were, amount of reinforcement, and location of reinforcement. Readings from strain gages on the rebar were used to investigate the impact of PT slab on the service stresses. Crack width measurements were made at regular intervals and compared to strain readings. In SFRC PT slabs, service stress limits were reached at larger demands than in RC slabs. When service stress limits were reached in SFRC PT slabs, crack widths were much smaller than common crack width limits, suggesting design for crack widths may be an appropriate method for addressing serviceability in SFRC PT slabs. This paper presents the Post-tensioning of slab using the steel Fibers.


The article presents model studies of the dynamics of the transport system for the structure of the rail vehicle of the underground railway. In this case, the subject of the research is the system of rail vehicle – track – tunnel – subsoil. Dynamic interactions were investigated be-tween the tunnel and the subsoil modeled with elastic half-space. Tunnel transmittances have been determined for the conditions of the first Warsaw subway line. The usefulness of the proposed modeling method in the study of the influence of modern means of transport on urban infrastructure has been demonstrated.


This article reviews some recent findings on the character of the neuronal organization lying between the optic tectum and motor pattern-generating circuitry in the case of orienting behaviors. It foc


Purpose – This paper aims to describe and document the application of commonly utilized solder joint failure analysis techniques to lead‐free solder joints.Design/methodology/approach – Traditional failure analysis techniques, including visual inspection, X‐ray radiography, mechanical strength testing, dye and pry, metallography, microscopy and photomicrography, are reviewed. These techniques are demonstrated as applied to lead‐free and tin lead solder joints. Common failure modes observed in lead‐free and tin lead solder joints are described and compared.Findings – It is shown that the traditional failure analysis techniques previously utilized for tin lead solder joints are widely applicable to the analysis of lead‐free solder joints. The changes required to effectively apply these techniques to the analysis of lead‐free solder joints are described.Originality/value – This paper will be instrumental to the process, quality, reliability and failure analysis engineering disciplines in furthering understan...


A line interactive superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system with a current source converter designed for active current harmonic filtering is described. The system features an algorithm of current space vector modulation, which is suitable for implementing on microprocessors and digital signal processors (DSP). An active control method is proposed to damp oscillations with the LC filter. The performances of the system based on a 12-pulse IGBT current source converter were confirmed by simulations. It is shown that the system has good dynamic as well as static characteristics. Its response time is less than 5 milliseconds and the current after compensation is essentially sinusoidal with the total harmonic distortion (THD) of less than 1%.


In this paper we continue previous efforts in the literature to determine phenomenological values for the gluon mass by confronting theoretical results obtained in a theory of massive gluons with experimental values or results directly referring to the nontrivial structure of the Yang-Mills vacuum, e.g. to the presence of the gluon condensate. The decays of heavy quarkonia into 3 gluons and 2 gluons + photon are considered in detail as well as the correlators of the electromagnetic current and the scalar glueball current. Based on the analysis for the latter quantities a value for the gluon mass in the range of 500-600 MeV is estimated from the standard SVZ-value of the gluon condensate.


Objective To study the antibiotic effects of cefotaxime(CTX) combined with azithromycin(AZI) against Staphylococcus aureus which was separated from clinical samples.Methods According to the checkerboard method,the minimum inhibitory concentration(MIC)of CTX combined with different amount of antibiotics against the 32 strains of staphylococcus aureus was determined by broth dilution method,and the fractional inhibitory concentration(FIC)index was calculated according to MIC results.Results After CTX combined with AZI,the MIC of Staphylococcus aureus was obviously declined,and its antibacterial activity was significantly strengthened.The antibiotic effects of CTX combined with AZI against Staphylococcus aureus were mostly additive effect and synergistic action.The percentages of the synergistic action,additive effect,irrespective effect and antagonistic action were 12.50%,68.75%,18.75% and 0% respectively.Conclusions The antibacterial activity of CTX combined with AZI against Staphylococcus aureus which is separated from clinic are strengthened.Its combination application is reasonable.


Adipose tissue of piglets with yellow fat disease had increased activity of nonspecific esterase, 5-nucleotidase, and acid phosphatase. Since these enzymes are associated with different cell structures and damage to these structures can result in increased enzyme activity, they are criteria for pathogenetic study of yellow fat disease.


@ Nepalese Heart Journal. Nepalese Heart Journal retain copyright and works is simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License CC – By 4.0 that allows others to share the work with an acknowledge of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal A young woman at 8 months postpartum presented with dyspnoea, orthopnoea and swelling of lower limbs in which physical examination, chest radiography and echocardiogram were suggestive of acute congestive heart failure with left ventricle dilatation and dysfunction. A suspicion of peripartum cardiomyopathy was made and treated with conventional drug therapy but the patient continued to develop multiple episodes of heart failure. Over time she developed fever and polyarthritis following which autoantibodies, complement level and 24-hour urinary protein were done which helped us to make the diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) nephritis. The patient was started on high dose corticosteroids. However, after a week, patient developed cardiogenic shock following which intravenous pulse Cyclophosphamide was started and the patient improved clinically and biochemically.


Abstract : Registration algorithms are developed and evaluated by using oversampled scanning imagery directly and staring imagery with a subpixel autocorrelation model. A Fourier transform-based method, Phase Correlation, is enhanced to remove edge effects, to accommodate nonintegral shifts, and to resolve ambiguity in the interpretation of its output. The result is shown to be accurate over a wide range of misregistration and to be capable of detecting cloud parallax and other relative-motion effects. A family of gradient-based methods is also derived and is shown to include older methods: the Image Displacement Estimation Algorithm (IDEA) and the Gradient Estimation Method (GEMS). One member of the family, the Canonical Gradient Estimate (CAGRE), proves to be generally superior, as long as the noise-to-clutter ratio is not unusually large compared to typical values for Earth backgrounds. Resampling methods are also tested: linear, spline, phase-shifting, and cubic convolution; cubic convolution performs marginally better for all values of shift. The net result here is a substantial improvement in the state of the art of analytic image registration, which may permit the use of frame differencing as a moving- target indicator in the most cluttered natural backgrounds. (Author)


In this paper, we propose an approach for the design of fault-tolerant controllers for automated guided vehicle systems (AGVs) that are modeled by Petri nets. In particular, we consider multiple faults detection and identification in Petri nets that have state machine structures (i.e., every transition in the net has only one input place and one output place). We develop an approximation algorithm to design the fault-tolerant Petri net controller so as to minimize the sum of the arc weights in the (input and output) incident matrices of the redundant controller. A design example for an AGV system is also provided to illustrate our approach.


The purpose of this paper is to obtain bounds on Fekete-Szegö functional for certain classes of analytic functions involving generalized multiplier transformation operator, which are defined using Quasi-subordination. Some consequences of the main result are mentioned and relevance with some of the known results are also pointed out.


Stress and strain state during the curvature change are characterized by great nonuniformity. There are circumferential tensile stresses in the external elongated zone and compressive ones in the internal zone. Both zones are separated by the neutral surface where circumferential stresses equal zero. Circumferential strains during curvature change can be determined from: e θ =x/ρ. In the neighbourhood of the neutral surface the material is in the elastic state and the circumferential stresses can be calculated on the basis on equation: σ θ = x-ρ.E. Range of the elastic zone can be determined from the condition that the circumferential stresses reach the value of yield stress. x 0 /ρ.E=σ p . As a result of superimposing of the unloading stresses on the stresses appearing during the active phase of the process some stresses called residual stresses will remain after the process is finished. During tension of a wire having the residual stresses first elastic deformation is observed in the wire, and the tensile force changes linearly depending on the deformation. When sum of the stresses resulting from the external loading and residual stresses reaches the yield stress value, the material is in the plastic condition. With the increase of the stress resulting from the external loading the plastic zone is gradually expanding. In the elastic zone stresses grow proportionally to the strain while in the plastic zone rise in stresses will occur in the range from residual stresses to the yield stress value. Borders between the zones can be determined from the boundary conditions saying that sum of stresses from external loading and residual stresses reaches value of yield stress. On the basis of given equations first distribution of the residual stresses on the cross-section of the wire and then values of forces for the elastic and plastic zones were determined. Considering the peculiarity of the change of stresses in the elastic and plastic zones equations describing tensile force for elastoplastic stage of tension were derived and compared with forces observed in the experiment.


The present study tried to explore and describe the magnitude of iatrogenic happenings related to patients' fall during their stay in Intensive Care Unit, using the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) as a guideline to our methodological procedures. The sample population was comprised by nursing professionals working in adult's ICUs, in the cities of Londrina and Maringa. A total of 90 reports were obtained and, after being analyzed and divided into categories, led us to the following results as situations; the negative behaviors; the immediate consequences for the patient; characterization of the fall's type, the diagnosis and therapeutic interventions resulting from the fall, and for which the fall were communicated; also, were identified the consequences to the nursing professionals and the affective manifestations reported by them due to the patient's fall.


This study simulates atmospheric environments at Osaka bay area of Japan using the numerical weather prediction with highly accurate sea surface temperature (SST) data from the satellite. A series of numerical experiments for understanding urban heat island at Osaka bay area is conducted considering latest information of land use classifications, SST and an urban canopy model. The accurate daily information of SST at Osaka bay improves the daily temperature at the center of Osaka city. In addition, the one degree SST increase has impact to 0.6 degree increase of maximum temperature at the center of Osaka city.


Recent photoproduction measurements of the ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{0}$ vector meson in the nuclear medium have revealed a substantial reduction in its mass from the vacuum value. The decay of the ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{0}$ within the strong nucleonic field at low relative ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{0}$-$N$ momenta, and the collective ${N}^{*}{(1520)N}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ excitation, have both been presented previously as plausible explanations. In this Rapid Communication we show that the reduction can be explained through a bound ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{0}$-nucleus state. The depth of the potential required to produce the bound state is consistent with that extracted from Dirac phenomenology using Brown-Rho scaling.


Acoustic analysis of cry signals helps understanding the physiological and emotional state of an infant, and the likely cause of cry. In our earlier studies, acoustic analysis was carried out to characterize the infant cry signal due to different cause of crying. In this paper, we propose an Intelligent Cry Monitoring and Cry Detection System (ICMCDS) that can help working parents who are constrained to leave their children with the care-takers, and remain worried about their well-being. They need to be notified when their child cries. Functional prototype of a smart ICMCDS is developed at low-cost, which can monitor a child in real-time. Signal processing methods auto-correlation and a recently proposed modified zero-frequency filtering are used for cry-detection. Features F0, Strength of Excitation and Signal Energy are extracted from the cry signal. Parameters mean, standard deviation and normalized standard deviation in F0 are derived. Acoustic analysis of the cry signal helps detecting a cry as well as the cry-cause. The system detects a cry and informs the parent automatically through sms. If the child-cry continues for some time, then the intelligent system sends a second message, raising urgency concern. Further the system also identifies the likely cause of crying by examining the features, and informs to the parents by a third sms. The concerned parent may talk to a human controller, who in-turn can give control commands to a robot, using a webpage or mobile phone. The robot, equipped with audio-visual sensors, can be sent near to the child to get the actual state, by sending back live video streaming of the child and surroundings. It also validates the alert message about child crying. Wi-Fi medium is used for communication between humans and the robot. Performance evaluation is carried out using an Infant Cry Signals Database (IIITS ICSD 2). The proposed ICMCDS has a range of applications in homes, hospitals, child-care centers and schools.


Catesby and Edwards in the early 18th century, and others since then, have made serious attempts to describe and record colors, feeling that color holds important information for the biologist.


To improve activity of courts in the field of ecological law-enforcement practice taking into account the latest innovations, the changes and additions to the decrees by the plenum of supreme court of the Russian Federation on the issues of criminal liability in the sphere of nature management, fishing and water resources preservation seems to be timely and necessary. The illustration of negative trends of legislation and law provisions explanation must be one of the most important directions of supreme court activity. The author studies the notion of precedent and judicial explanation as well as the character of their application in the judicial practice. To form the unitary judicial practice it is necessary to supplement the decrees with provisions regulating and specifying the content of the common features of ecological crimes.


Barbara Mackin Barker Warner was an internationally acclaimed dance historian who focused attention on the links between nineteenth-century ballet and popular entertainment forms. A leading scholar in her own right, she facilitated the professional and scholarly goals of her colleagues and students. She refused to accept categorization in dance as a performer or a scholar. Barbara had been a Ballet West ballerina, a Lido Bluebell Girl, and a technique teacher before her desire for her department to take her and her subject seriously made her complete a doctorate in Performance Studies from New York University. She gave her first national presentation at the bicentennial CORD conference in Philadelphia in 1976, where her paper was an early version of the research that became her dissertation and first book—the American touring careers of the Italian ballerinas Maria Bonfanti, Rita Sangalli, and Giuseppina Morlacchi. She lectured and published frequently on Lydia Thompson and the original production of The Black Crook, the professional and social life of the nineteenth-century ballet girl, and the spectacles of Imre and Bolossy Kiralfy. She was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in 1984 to research the Kiralfys and edited the latter's memoirs as Bolossy Kiralfy: Creator of Great Musical Spectacles. She won praise for her meticulous work documenting the Kiralfys' extravaganzas as well as their extravagant claims. In 1986 she left the University of Texas to become the Chair of the Dance Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and was credited with moving the program into national prominence. The university named its new dance facility the Barbara Barker Center for Dance in May 1999. She served as the president of the Society of Dance History Scholars from 1992 to 1995. After retiring from teaching in 1998, she focused on a professional biography of her friend and mentor Agnes de Mille. As well as writing the study, she helped to develop The De Mille Project, a program of multigenerational rehearsals and reconstructions of choreography, which has been cited by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance as a model for documentation. For the last seven years of her life, Barbara ran conferences, wrote articles, and fought breast cancer. She is survived by her family, her students, and her many friends and colleagues. Barbara Cohen-Stratyner New York City


Abstract This investigation was conducted to examine the probable cause of failure of one pendent reheater tube of a 110 MW thermal power plant. Preliminary macroscopic examinations along with visual examination, dimensional measurement, chemical analysis, evaluation of mechanical properties, oxide scale thickness measurement were carried out to predict the probable cause/causes of failure. In addition, optical microscopy was a necessary supplement to understand the reason for the failure. It was concluded that due to progressive erosion caused by the high velocity flue gas streams on the fire side wall, the tube had thinned down and could not cope the prevailing working stress. As a result, the affected areas of the tube suffered plastic deformation. Apart from that, formation of micro creep cavities due to rise in tube metal temperature (on the steam side) at localized places led to initiation of minor cracks before culminating to final rupture. The final failure is due to both these mechanisms occurring simultaneously.


In modern football, the trend of intensification of gaming activity is gaining momentum, not only the speed of execution of individual techniques is accelerating, tactical schemes and features of player placement are undergoing significant changes, which presuppose multiple implementation of attacking actions in game moments. The evolution of gaming activity has significantly increased the requirements for the qualification of gamers.Purpose – to develop a set of physical exercises aimed at developing the speed of motor reaction and analyze its effectiveness in football players of different age groups.Methods and organization The study was conducted in three stages: assessment of the speed abilities of athletes before the experiment, conducting experimental work with an experimental group, namely, the introduction of the author's training methodology and a control study of speed-strength abilities to assess the effectiveness of the program.


We use the classical ensemble method to analyze the nonsequential double ionization of Ar atoms at a lower laser intensity. The correlated-electron momentum distribution is shown. The electron trajectories from recollision-induced ionization (RII) and from recollision-induced excitation with subsequent ionization (RESI) are studied separately. We find that the momentum of RESI electrons distributes uniformly in the four quadrants of the momentum distribution diagram, while that of RII electrons distributes mainly in the second and fourth quadrants of the momentum distribution diagram. The Coulomb repulsion between the two electrons is responsible for the anticorrelation emission in RII. The momentum distributions of the fast and the slow electrons observed by Liu et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 013003 (2014)] are well reproduced in our simulations.


This paper outlines the possibility to control non-linear uncertain systems with single, possibly time-varying state-delay. These systems are submitted to additive perturbations (possibly non-vanishing). The control is of sliding mode type and the sliding surface is designed to maximize the calculable set of delays which do not destabilize the relay–delay system. The way to deal with the non-linear parts of the model relies on a polytopic formulation, i.e. a decomposition into a non-linear combination of linear models, whose weighting coefficients satisfy a convex property. The conditions for the existence of the sliding regime are studied by using both a Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and a Lyapunov–Razumikhin function. The optimization procedure for the choice of the sliding surface is expressed in terms of LMIs. An example illustrates the proposed method.


Yeast is the soul of brewing industry.The outstanding y ea st is of great importance as to its quantity,productive effciency and so on.Th is review demonstrates the principle,application and developmental orientation of protoplast fusion technology in the breeding of Saccharo sac.cerevisiae.


This study was performed to predict the surface moisture content of Korean pine ( Pinus koraiensis ) with low moisture content (approximately 0%) and high moisture content above the FSP using near IR spectroscopy. Near IR absorbance spectra of circular specimens were acquired at various moisture contents at 25°C. To enhance the precision of the regression model, mathematical preprocessing was performed by determining the three-point moving average and Norris second derivatives. After preprocessing, partial least squares regression was carried out to establish the surface moisture content prediction model. We divided the specimens into two groups based on their moisture contents. For the first group, which possessed moisture contents less than 30%, the R 2 values and root mean squared error of prediction (RMSEP) of the model were 0.96 and 1.48, respectively. For the second group, which possessed moisture contents greater than 30%, the R 2 values and RMSEP of the model were 0.94 and 4.88, respectively. For all moisture contents, the R 2 and RMSEP were 0.96 and 5.15, respectively. As the range of moisture contents included in the prediction model was expanded, the error of the model increased. In addition, the peak positions of the water absorption band (1440 and 1930 nm) shifted to longer wavelengths at higher moisture contents.


"Divided Nations and Transitional Justice" is a collection of significant writings contributed by the late president Kim Dae-jung of the Republic of Korea and former president Richard von Weizsaecker of Germany. This book presents insightful views, lifetime career experiences, and expertise of the two prominent leaders in the critical fields of unification, peace, and justice and reconciliation. It centers on the cases of Korea, Germany and Japan, and considers how these countries have moved to address and come to terms with their wartime past. This book moves to deliver messages of hope and vision on how to further the values of peace, reconciliation and cooperation in the twenty-first century."


This paper presents the Single-sided configurations of the linear electric motor (LEM) that are analyzed for electromagnetic properties. These properties are derived by using the Maxwell equations. The permanent magnet is one of the most vital parameters and has a significant impact on the operation as well as the performance of LEM. In this the air gap between primary and secondary is varied which results in force variation. LEM has several advantages over normal rotary motors i.e. higher power density and good efficiency. The rare earth permanent magnets have a wide range of magnetic properties to meet the requirements of an extensive variety of applications. The LEM configuration is considered for various applications. In this study; the magnetic flux density using different magnets has been calculated and after considering with the specialized software package; i.e. COMSOL Multiphysics based on finite element method analysis with different air gaps has been found.


A system for analyzing a suspension system is provided which includes: a frame assembly (100) including a plurality of frame units (101,103,105,107), a base plate (109), a lower mounting unit (140), and an upper mounting unit (120); a wheel assembly (200) including a wheel member (201) and a wheel mounting assembly (203) for enabling mounting of the wheel member to the upper and lower mounting units of the frame assembly through a suspension; a steering assembly (300) provided to one side of the frame assembly and being connected to the wheel mounting assembly of the wheel assembly; a strut assembly (400) including a shock absorber (401) and a suspension spring (403) and being provided between the wheel assembly and the frame assembly; and an arm assembly (500) including a plurality of arms (503,505,507) and links and being provided between the wheel assembly and the frame assembly.


The study of foliar assimilating pigments (chlorophyll a and b, carotenoid pigments) during the ontogenetic development for the wild and the cultivar species of roses indicate from interesting aspects on the ratio chlorophyll a and b, which is more than a unit in the case of species and in most cases, less than a unit for the cultivars. The ratio chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments, reaches thousands in the case of species and units (tenths) for cultivars. We mention here that the cultivars are the result of multiple and introgressive hybridizations conducted for hundreds of years [ADUMITRESEI & STĂNESCU, 2009; KRÜSMAN, 1986].


In this work, buoyancy effects on non-premixing impinging jet flames were studied using three-dimensional direct numerical simulation. The physical problem investigated is a methane jet issuing into an oxidant ambient environment of air with the Reynolds number of 2500 and a nozzle to the downstream impinging plate distance of 4 jet nozzle diameters. The reactive flow field is described by the compressible time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations in its non-dimensional form. A Cartesian grid system with approximately 134 million cells was used with uniform grid distributions in each direction. The comparisons between the buoyant flame and the non-buoyant flame revealed that the two flames have large differences at the primary jet shear layer and the impinging wall regions. Both velocity and temperature distributions demonstrate buoyancy effects on flame dynamics where the flow develops into large vortical structures. It has been found that the buoyant flames involve complex fluid dynamics interactions in addition to flow characteristics associated with the chemical heat release. The vortex dynamics including buoyancy instability under impinging conditions has been investigated.