Previous research has identified linguistic markers of deception in English-speaking participants. Questions remain regarding the utility of such indicators in languages other than English. This study investigated the utility of pronouns as a linguistic marker of deception in Italian. Twenty native speakers of Italian gave their true and false opinions of social issue topics during an audio-taped interview. Analyses revealed that participants used fewer pronouns when they were lying compared to when they were telling the truth. These results suggest that linguistic features that have been associated with deception in English may also be useful indicators in other languages. Index Terms: psycholinguistics, deception, pronouns, crosslinguistic


The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of cystic lymph nodal metastasis (CLNM) and its prognostic value in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).


A new photo-switchable "on-off" host-guest system comprising cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]) and a photoresponsive cinnamamide derivative ( trans -(3-phenyl-acryloylamino)-acetic acid, E-1 ) is studied. The cinnamamide derivative and CB[7] forms a stable 1:1 host-guest complex (CB[7]- E-1 ) with a high binding constant ( K = 2.1 × 104 M ^-1). Irradiation of UV light (300 nm) to an aqueous solution of CB[7]- E-1 induces the E - to Z -conformational change of the cinnamamide derivative, which then leads to the dissociation of the complex as evidenced by UV-visible and ^1H-NMR spectroscopy. The reverse process, photo-induced host-guest complex formation between CB[7] and Z-1 is achieved by irradiation of UV light at 254 nm. The photo-switchable "on-off" host-guest system shows high reversibility and switching efficiency, which makes it potentially useful in designing photoresponsive gating systems


Spatial clustering is a process of grouping a set of spatial objects into clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity to one another,,and are nearby in spatial location.Popula- tion and economic data are always gained from administration cells, which is presented as area data in GIS,so regional division can be seen as one kind of spatial clustering based on area data.In order to overcome disadvantages of administration cells,this paper applies the method of grid information system,which transforms spatial data from administration cells to grid cells,and then distributes popula- tion and economic data on the grid cells,which are used as basic u- nits to store and analyze data,and have better accuracy.Then a new Grid-based clustering algorithm based on grid information system is introduced in order to overcome difficulties resulting from subjectivity of density threshold.


Because P2P network and WSN have many similar features,the study of WSN routing based on P2P techno-logy has become a new hot,but mainly research is suitable for small or medium WSN,and has unbalanced energy consumption and inefficient problem.This paper presented large-scale WSN routing model based on P2P.It combines LEACH protocol with structured p2p algorithm to make cluster header correspond with the base station by multiple-hop method,improves WSN's scalability.At the same time,it expands smallest energy consumption path selection mechanism into WSN,supports node of the equilibrium of energy consumption.The experiment proves that this new routing model can greatly increase the large-scale WSN routing efficiency and life cycle.


In the modern era of computer vision technology, gait biometric trait increases the proliferation of human identification in video surveillance situation. This paper intends to discuss the robustness of gait identification irrespective of small fluctuation in subject's walking pattern. The Gait Energy Image (GEI) is computed on silhouette gait sequences obtained from OU-ISIR standard gait database. The advantage of working with GEI is to preserve the shape and motion information into a single averaged gait image with fewer dimensions. The three independent components such as head node, body torso and leg region are separated from subject's GEI in accordance to body segment ratio. The local biometric feature has been computed from the shape centroid to the boundary points of each segment. The normality testing of feature for each region of GEI body frame ascertains the discriminative power of each segment. The similarity measurement between gallery and probe gait energy image has been computed by cosine distance, correlation distance and Jaccard distance. The performance efficiency of different distance based metrics is measured by several error metrics.


androstenediol in the human endometrium, thus adding further evidence against any possible role of androstenediol in the endometrium. Concerning polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), these are interesting observations, but, again, this is not relevant to postmenopausal women in whom the endometrium is atrophic and remains atrophic. Evolution has succeeded in building a highly efficient and sophisticated mechanism of tissue-specific sex steroid action and inactivation with the introduction in peripheral tissues of a battery of more than 30 enzymes which use DHEA to make and inactivate sex steroids intracellularly in agreement with the specific needs of each cell in each tissue, in agreement with the mechanisms of intracrinology. According to the normal physiology of the endometrium, the arrest of estradiol secretion by the ovaries eliminates the possibility of stimulation, except if active estrogens are administered exogenously. On the other hand, the possibility that DHEA or one of its intracellularly made metabolites could stimulate the endometrium is controlled by a large safety margin where a 5.5-fold increase in serum DHEA has no effect. When a treatment shown to be effective on a physiological basis is found to have no safety concern, it would seem reasonable to take full advantage of it.


Abstract The present article offers a detailed examination of the Lycian phonetic development from a labial glide u̯ {w} into a fricative {b} [v]/[β], which results from contact with an obstruent ([β]/[v] {b} < u̯/C_, AHP: 289). The study of phonetic contexts within each lexeme will allow us to establish new conditions for this change, whether extensions or restrictions, and also to propose some derivations and etymologies.


The numerical simulation results of the flow of a gas-liquid medium over the high-temperature metal cylinder surface in a circular channel are presented. The flow over the solid metal cylinder with a variable cross-section by a gas-liquid medium is considered. Based on the mathematical model taking into account the cooling-media-flow axial symmetry relative to the cylinder longitudinal axis, the results of the numerical simulation of the process of solving the two-dimensional nonstationary problem of the coupled heat exchange of the gas-liquid medium flow and metal cylinder are obtained. The control volume approach is used for solving the differential equation system. The flow field parameters are calculated using the algorithm SIMPLE. For the iterative solution of linear algebraic equations, Gauss-Seidel method with under-relaxation is used. The numerical calculation results are obtained for the flow hydrodynamic parameters of the gas-liquid medium at cooling the high-temperature metal cylinder by taking into account vaporization. The values of temperatures, flow velocities, and vapour distribution in the computational domain are determined. The variation intensity of the metal cylinder surface temperature depending on the gas-liquid flow velocity is analyzed.


The real answer to the sustainable development challenge is in the application of the thermodynamics laws, on their Prigogine interpretation in the economy and in greater use of Erkenntnis (know–how + knowledge), the forgotten factor of production, which is the only way to reverse the run to collapse of the world economy.


The plasma generated by dielectric barrier discharge(DBD) with the atmosphere of lasting modifying materials, gives modification to the surfaces of FFC backsheet, which is formed by coating FFC (a tetra-fluoro based material with high content of fluorine) on the double-surfaces of polyester(PET). The research on the character of FFC backsheet before and after DBD modification is hold through a series analyzing ways, such as measuring the surface contact angles and surface energy of FFC backsheet with different plasma modification time and different DBD power density, comparing the preservation of surface energy of FFC backsheet with different storage medium and storage period, observing the surfaces of FFC backsheet through scanning electron microscope(SEM), making use of Fourier transform attenuated total reflectance infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Meanwhile, the soalr cell modules using FFC backsheet and other backsheets are tested under the condition of 85centigrade×85%RH to make comparison between FFC backsheet and other backsheets in various aspects, like the peel strength between backsheet and EVA and so on. All the tests show both the microscopic appearance and surface chemical composition of FFC backsheet is changed after the DBD plasma modification with the atmosphere of lasting modifying materials. After the DBD plasma modifications with a power density of 4.07W/cm2 and different modification time, the water contact angle for FFC backsheet surface is reduced from 82° to 38°. Comparing with other types of backsheets as the solar cell modules encapsulant materials, FFC backsheet has obvious advantage in humit-heat aging resistant performance of the peel strength with EVA and other respects.


Subarray compressive beamforming is adapted to a cylindrical array for midfrequency active sonar detection of low-Doppler targets in reverberant environments. Low Doppler targets are difficult to detect due to spreading caused by side-lobes and the width of the main lobe. Compressive beamforming and, in particular, subarray compressive beamforming will be shown to drastically mitigate Doppler spreading and interference from static objects. A straightforward application of compressive beamforming to simulated data results in nearly perfect suppression of spread due to sidelobes and good isolation of low Doppler targets from the zero Doppler ridge. Artificially subdividing the array allows for multiple fully resolved sparse estimates of the incident sound field. The set of estimates from the set of subarrays may be combined to form a single sparse estimate, often fully suppressing zero Doppler clutter. Performance of both compressive beamforming and subarray compressive beamforming will be demonstrated usin...


The principal advantage of incremental A* algorithms for precomputing and maintaining routes for mobile robotic vehicles is the completeness and optimality of the approach. However, the computational burden becomes unreasonable when large worlds are modeled or fine resolution is required, since the complexity is bound by the area modeled. This problem is compounded when multiple vehicles and multiple goals are involved, since routes to each goal from each vehicle must be maintained. This paper presents a massively parallel incremental A* algorithm suitable for implementing in VLSI. The number of iterations of the parallel algorithm is bound by the optimal path length, providing a significant speedup for large worlds. Empirical studies combined with a feasible VLSI design estimate that path calculations on a 1000 by 1000 world could be done in approximately 110 mS worse case.


We propose a promising preparation technique to construct optically high-quality Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of lead bromide-based layered perovskites having an organic-inorganic quantum-well structure, called "Squeezed-out technique". Using this technique, we successfully prepared PbBr-based layered perovskite LB films whose average roughness of LB films is small enough to apply them cavity polariton devices. The small roughness reveals that one can prepare microcavities having high quality-factor by using the technique. In addition, an optical simulation of a cavity using the LB film demonstrated that the cavity polariton device has a large Rabi splitting of 116 meV, suggesting a stable polariton formation in the cavity even at room temperature.


Abstract An efficient and convenient protocol has been developed for the copper-catalyzed reaction of aryl iodides and diorganyl disulfides and diselenides. A variety of symmetrical and unsymmetrical diaryl- and aryl alkyl chalcogenides were synthesized with good functional group tolerance and chemoselectivity by using copper(Ι) iodide as a catalyst, 4′-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine as ligand, and KOH as base under an inert atmosphere.


Frederick Olafson criticizes Hubert Dreyfus's interpretation of Being and Time on a number of points, including the meaning of being, the nature of intentionality, and especially the role of das Man in Heidegger's account of social existence. But on the whole Olafson's critique is unconvincing because it rests on an implausible account of presence and perceptual intuition in Heidegger's early philosophy, and because Olafson maintains an over‐individuated notion of Dasein and consequently a one‐sided conception of the role of das Man. Unfortunately, since Dreyfus confines his commentary exclusively to Division I, he in effect forgoes any attempt to explain how das Man might be understood as playing the simultaneously constitutive and destructive role Heidegger seems to have envisioned for it. I conclude by arguing that the conformity and the conformism represented by das Man are bound together by Heidegger's notion of standoffishness (Abstandigkeit).


This article is interesting in the used ostensive forms by two Physical Education (PE) teachers. "Swimming" is the concerned activity. Its objective is to analyse combination moments of physical ostension to verbal ostension, and to reveal that this combination is a professorial action. The research methodology is qualitative. It is enrolled in the field of clinic didactic interactions of PE and on the clinic analysis of teaching practices of expert teachers and beginners and to perceive "the case by case" and the singular subject (Terrisse, 1999). The collection and data analysis are inscribed within one time constructed or established temporality of the professorial action: the test (Terrisse, 2000) relying on the knowledge ostension scale (Robert, 2012). Results show that the combination between teacher's ostensive forms is a professorial gesture in swimming.


Concentration Plant was built in chief and east ore of Baiyunebo to seek some new better crushing technology which can crush more and rub less so as to reduce energy consumption.In the paper,an in-depth research and demonstration are stated,and the results indicate that closed screening and broken equipment should be used in intermediate grinding (coarse crushing in slope);high-pressure roller mill should be used in fine crushing.In high-pressure rolling and milling, flow of rim charge circulation should be applied,dry separation and preselection from waste rocks should be after intermediate crushing.


late 1980s (Ginevra et al., 2018; Kocman & Weber, 2018). Examining the level of life satisfaction of individuals with disabilities is a matter that must be considered in relation to the psychological well-being of individuals with disabilities, and the outcome of welfare and support services (Kraemer et al., 2003). Prior studies related to life satisfaction and the subjective quality of life for individuals with disabilities were focused on employment status (Beyer et al., 2010; Flores et al., 2011), job satisfaction (Park et al., 2016), selfdetermination (Wehmeyer & Schalock, 2001), type of residence (Gerber et al., 2008), communication skills (Arslan et al., 2010), medical care service (Petry et al., 2009), emotional intelligence (Rey et al., 2013), and leisure activity participation (Miller & Chan, 2008a, b). In particular, it was reported that the life satisfaction of individuals with disabilities varies according to demographic characteristics such as age, marital status, disability level, education level, income level, job status, and subjective class consciousness (Miller & Chan, 2008a, b). Individuals with intellectual disabilities are inherently deficient in their intellectual abilities, resulting in a lack of judgment, insight, and language skills (Wehmeyer Life satisfaction refers to the degree of cognitive satisfaction with one's life and emotional well-being, or the overall satisfaction with life (Pavot & Diener, 1993, 2008; Veenhoven, 1996). The term life satisfaction is often used interchangeably with quality of life or well-being (Frisch et al., 2005), it, however, focuses on an individual's subjective quality of life that judges how one is perceived on his or her life (Chen & Crewe, 2009; Windle & Woods, 2004). Research on the life satisfaction of individuals with disabilities emerged as a major concept in evaluating education for individuals with disabilities, planning and executing transition programs, and the program outcomes from the


Chapter 4 seems like an ostensible contradiction of all that has come before it, as it zooms in on parody. In common parlance, parody is regarded narrowly as a sendup or a spoof. But this chapter repurposes the concept as a displacement paradigm, rethinking parody as a deceptive double that furtively displaces the authority of the original. Playing on eminent existing terrain and interrogating cinematic tradition make parody particularly effective for an analysis of Dear White People (Netflix, 2017–present), a web series that demonstrates how parody works to undermine the cultural authority and assumed whiteness of mainstream American as well as European art cinema.


The training reactor VR-1 was commissioned in 1990 at the Czech Technical University in Prague. It is zero power reactor utilized mainly for education and training. Czech Technical University as a reactor licensee makes permanent effort to improve the reactor equipment, instrumentation and develop the educational and training methodologies. It is way how to provide effective education and training and keep the reactor attractive for the students and other users. The example of such improvement is new data acquisition system which has been connected to the human machine interface of the VR-1 reactor. It is based on a computer with software application called Experimental Studio. The application allows processing and easy analyzing the wide range of on-line reactor operational data (e.g. power, change of power rate, actual position of control rods or external neutron source) independently on the reactor safety and control system. Experimental Studio was designed and developed in a close cooperation between Czech Technical University and dataPartner Company. It was made as a dialog application within definable project to provide data acquisition from a human machine interface; data processing; data presentation in the form of a table or a graph; and data output.


In August 2013 the 21st Nordmedia conference attracted some 350 researchers at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA). The Nordic media researchers associations in cooperation with Nordicom and the host university arranged the biannual Nordmedia conference. Since the 1973 conference in Oslo 40 years earlier, it has in turn been hosted at research institutions in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway. The conference attracts researchers mostly from the Nordic countries, but also increasingly from other parts of the world. The growing interest in an economic perspective at Nordmedia has previously been described by Karl Erik Gustafsson (2012), and with around 40 submissions, we can conclude that the division of Media Management, Economics, and Policy remains one of the strongest and most vital divisions at the conference. In this issue of the Journal of Media Business Studies we present three papers selected from the 2013 conference. All three are in the area of media policy and addresses matters that are of importance from a cross-Nordic perspective. The Nordic countries are in no sense unique in that they face policy challenges in the digital transition, where the policies that guarded the "old" media are not appropriate to address many of the challenges of converging technologies and increasingly globalized media markets. However, considering the effort of arranging a conference with focus on the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) it is fair to ask whether there is such a thing as Nordic approach to media business research. By judging from the topics presented at the conference, the research interests in 2013 were largely divided in three categories; media policy, media production management,


CONSIDERING THE STUDENT POPULATION AS A SOURCE OF COUNTRIES SOCIAL CAPITAL, A NEW MODEL OF INTEGRAL HEALTH ATTENTION FOR UNIVERSITIES WAS DESIGNED ON THE BASIS OF A SITUATIONAL DIAGNOSIS OF VULNERABLITY THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS. THE MODEL WAS INTEGRATED WITH TWO FUNDAMENTAL AXES: STRATEGIC PLANNING AND ACCOUNT RENDERING, AND WITH FOR SUSTANTIVE AREAS: HEALTH EDUCATION, PREVENTION, ATTENTION TO DAMAGE, AND ATTENTION TO ENVIROMENT. IT WAS OPERATED WITH A HOLISTIC PRIGRAM AND FIVE STRATEGIC LINES OF ACTION: INTEGRATED MEDICAL ATTENTION TO ENVIROMENT. IT WAS OPERATEDM WITH A HOLISTIC PROGRAM AND FIVE ESTRATEGIC LINES OF ACTION: INTEGRATED MEDICAL ATTENTION, EFFECTIVE COLLECTIVE INTERVENTION, HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNICATION AND RESEARCH, INTERNAL MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT. RESULTS: IN THRRE YEARS THE INSTITUTIONAL WORK PLAN WAS ORIENTED, THE STRUCTURE MODIFED, AND AN OFFER OF SERVICES WAS GENERATED AIMED AT PROMOTING THE STUDENTS HEALTH SELF CARE. TWELVE MARKERS OF HIGH VULNERABILITY WERE IDENTIFIED IN 25% OF STUDENTS, WHICH MEANS THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY DEPEND ON PROTECTIVE FACTORS WHICH MUST BE STRENGTHENED.


The infrared spectrum of the airglow in the region 2 to 4 μm has been measured with a two-beam interferometer carried to high altitude by a balloon. The aV= 1 sequence of OH bands is in evidence as well as an emission band of CO2.


The invention discloses a nano composite material, a preparation method and the application thereof. The method comprises steps: evenly attaching organic solution of metallic oxide precursor on the surface and in hole channels of porous material; transforming the metallic oxide precursor into the corresponding metallic oxide by in-situ chemical reaction; and obtaining the nano composite material.The invention utilizes the hole channel structure and the large specific surface of the porous material to lead nano material of the metallic oxide to be evenly attached on the surface of the porous material. The method is simple in technique, safe, low in cost, suitable for large-scale production, low in toxicity of solvent in a reaction system, and little in environmental pollution; the prepared nano composite material can be used for absorbing and removing heavy metal ions in the water, and has remarkable effect, thus purifying the water resource which is not suitable for drinking into drinking water being in accordance with national standard.


An investigation is reported of the thermal performance of a flat plate solar water heater with a circulating absorber pipe surface. The thermal performance of the 2-side parallel serpentine flow solar water heater depends significantly on the heat transfer rate between the absorber surface and the water, and on the amount of solar radiation incident on the absorber surface. The modified pipe arrangement has a higher characteristic length for convective heat transfer from the absorber to the water, in addition to having more surface area exposed to solar radiation. It means during the operation of water heater, more solar energy is converted into useful heat. However, this modification has reduced the efficiency of the system marginally.


A hallmark of Parkinson's disease is the presence of Lewy bodies consisting of lipids and proteins, mainly fibrillated α-synuclein (aSN). aSN is an intrinsically disordered protein exerting its physiological role in an ensemble of states, one of which coexisting in large assemblies with lipids, recently termed co-structures. Here, we decipher the kinetics of aSN:lipid co-structure formation to decode its mechanism of formation and we show that the co-structures form with distinct stoichiometry. Through seeded fibrillation assays, we demonstrate that aSN:lipid co-structures accelerate aSN fibril nucleation compared to lipid vesicles alone. A SAXS-based model is proposed in which aSN decorates the lipid vesicle surface obtaining properties similar to the fibril surface enhancing fibril nucleation. The delicate balance of aSN structural states close to and on the membrane may at given conditions, e.g. under increased local concentrations, be a crucial switching factor between functional and pathological behavior.


A microcomputer-aided analysis and design system for prefabricated steel bridges is presented in this paper. The system was customized to perform all the required engineering to analyze, design and fabricate such structures.


The title compound is synthesized by Li+/H+ ion exchange of Li2Ti6O13 using benzoic acid (125 °C in air, 72 h).


The roles of graphene in shape memory polyurethane nanocomposite (SMPUN) as a reinforcing filler, as a fixed structure for memorizing a specified original shape, and as a conductive filler to actuate shape recovery by resistive heating, were examined. The effectiveness of each role was modulated by ...


Good practices in eGov are being increasingly used by Local Governments being that it is considered by them as an advantage. The main goal is providing to the town hall a differentiation point and approximate their services to the citizens. For this, it is necessary to define and apply innovative strategies in order to increase the use of services by the citizens. This paper is framed in a research work and it presents a first overview of the existing good practices in eGov, taking in consideration the Portuguese's reality. The good practices identified were distinguished with many awards and with a positive response from the target audience. The use of digital marketing strategies aims to increase their membership and coming closer the municipalities of its citizens through the dissemination of the good practices. At this moment the data collected are almost exclusively of good practice in Portugal, however some international practices were also identified. As a result of this study the community has a list of good practices that can be applied in their municipalities.


PURPOSE: A semiconductor memory device and an operating method thereof are provided to improve program efficiency by gradually raising a pass voltage applied to an unselected word line and applying the raised voltage. CONSTITUTION: A memory cell array includes memory cells which are connected to a plurality of word lines. A program voltage(Vpgm) is applied to the selected word line to program the selected memory cells and a pass voltage(Vpass) is applied to the unselected word line. A read voltage is applied to the selected word line to read the selected memory cells and the pass voltage is applied to the unselected word line. A peripheral circuit group gradually raises the pass voltage applied to the unselected word line to a target level.


Maintenance costs are increasing as industry is trying to use automation and take advantage of advances in technology. Management needs to plan and control maintenance costs. Adequate techniques for developing standards for maintenance costs are not available. This article outlines such a technique and suggests means of comparing the maintenance performance efficiency of different plants/companies.


PURPOSE: A cap assembly integrated with a temperature protection device is provided to reduce the size and the weight of a battery pack, and to simplify the manufacturing process of the battery pack. CONSTITUTION: A cap assembly comprises a cap plate (210) which has a first side and a first hole penetrating through a second side opposite the first side; a first electrode terminal (220) which has an upper terminal (222) located on the first side; a lower terminal (224) located on the second side, and a connection part (226) which connects the upper terminal and the lower terminal to each other, and is inserted into the first hole; a battery protection device (240) which is arranged on the upper side of the upper terminal; and an insulating part (230) which is inserted between the cap plate and the first electrode terminal and in which a first drawing part accommodating the upper terminal and the battery protection device is formed.


Bento provides a new approach to developing file systems, with safety and high-velocity development in mind. This is achieved by using Rust, a modern and memory-safe systems programming language, and by providing a framework to run a single file system implementation in kernel space with the VFS or in user space with FUSE. In this paper, the benchmarking experiments from the Bento paper are repeated. We fail to exactly reproduce the results of the Bento paper, but more or less find the same patterns albeit with more outlying results. Additionally we unsuccessfully run a standardized test suite, and expand the set of experiments with latency benchmarks and throughput benchmarks using a RAM block device. The latency benchmarks show that ext4 with journaling consistently outperforms Bento-fs and the RAM throughput benchmarks show no additional consistent performance pattern. During this experimentation, a set of 12 bugs was encountered and analyzed. We find that the ratio of memory related bugs is lower than other systems programming projects that use C as opposed to Rust, thus supporting the claims of the Bento framework.


Stress can exist when working at a fast place, doing difficult problems, or listening to someone shout at you. It can be brought about through conflicts, making decisions, or otherwise straining abilities, or it can exist because of numerous social demands on time. We have noted that emotional states tend not to be long lasting, whether they are unpleasant emotions like fear, or pleasant ones, such as joy. Yet on occasion such states may persist for long periods of time, or they may reach excessively high levels. When this happens, the result typically is labeled \"stress\", and its manifestated in psychological as well as physiological terms. Stress and its manifestations, such as anxiety, depression, and burnout, have always were as a common problem among people in different professions and occupations. In the last few decades, alarm has already been provoked by the proliferation of books, research reports, popular articles and the growing number of organized workshops, aiming to teach people how to cope with this phenomenon. The purpose of the study is to find out the level of academic stress among higher secondary students. The present study consists of 250 XI standard students studying in higher secondary schools situated in Namakkal District of Tamil Nadu, India. The sample was selected by using simple random sampling technique. The present study reveals that the higher secondary students are having moderate level of academic stress and irrespective of sub samples of the higher secondary students are having moderate level of academic stress. The male student\'s academic stress is higher than female students. The urban student\'s academic stress is higher than rural student. The Government school student\'s academic stress is less than private school student. The science subject student\'s academic stress is higher than arts student. The students whose parent\'s education as literate level academic stress is higher than their counter part.


Taking Zhengdan 37 maize varieties as the research object, effects of different forms of nitrogen fertilizer on maize yield, soil total nitrogen, and soil dissolved organic carbon content changes in Yangling, Shaanxi were studied through field experiment, to provide comprehensive theoretical basis for the reasonable fertilization application for maize in Guanzhong Plain. The results showed that the nitrogen treatments could significantly increase maize yield, increase the total nitrogen and the nitrogen content in the soil, while had no significant effect on soil dissolved organic carbon, and had little effect on soil microbial content.


Social media sites are becoming more popular places for exchanging information, and the amount of information available on social media has facilitated how people communicate with each other. One of the significant challenges for social media users is to deal with information overload, misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. Consequently, improving the skills of IDL and awareness of information context is one of the best ways for social media users to deal with information overload and identify fake news. However, the support of social media users is inconsistent which has led to many of them dealing poorly with misinformation and fake news.This research seeks to study and identify the impact on businesses and consumers of fake news and reviews on social media sites and seek to understand the role social media users play in combating fake news. Additionally, the study aims to understand the level of social media users' information and digital literacy skills. Our main results show that information overload, fake news, and reviews impact businesses and consumers.


Engineered functional surfaces often feature varying slopes on macro- and micro-scales. When surfaces are mirror-like, the highest surface slope that can be measured by a far-field 3D imaging optical surface measuring instrument isthe arcsine of the numerical aperture (NA) of the objective lens, i.e. the acceptance angle of the lens. However, progress in instrument design has allowed for measurement of non-specular surfaces with slopes steeper than this "traditional" NA limit. Nonetheless, there is currently a lack of understanding about the instrument response to surfaces with steep slopes beyond this limit. It is unclear over what surface spatial frequencies we can expect to accurately report fine surface-feature details. Here we present results demonstrating the capability of a commercial coherence scanning interferometer for measuring surface topography of a roughened flat and a blazed grating with tilt angles greater than the NA slope limit. We show that the surface form, i.e. the tilted plane, can be measured correctly. But, while surface texture information that can appear useful is also obtained, tilting significantly influences the measurement accuracy of micro-scale texture, and for asymmetric gratings, can depend on the tilting direction. A simplified surface scattering model suggests that the loss of scattered power captured by the instrument and a low signal-to-noise ratio causes the reduction of measurement accuracy. However, a rigorous three-dimensional instrument model is needed for a full understanding; we will develop this in our future work.


Objective: to describe distance learning with the use of educational technologies in the academic master's degree in nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: descriptive study type of students' experience report about distance learning due to COVID-19. The study period took place from June to December 2020. The study was based on Paulo Freire's pedagogy, based on the principle of dialogicity, as an essential proposal for the construction of the teaching-learning process through distance learning. The teachers conducted the classes following a dialogical-pedagogical concept. Result: Distance Learning was challenging and the use of active technologies made it possible to continue the master's classes through the use of digital technologies and tools. Conclusion: until the strategy was consolidated, it was observed that the educational activities were satisfactory, as it made it possible to seek beyond the pedagogical and theoretical knowledge, the understanding of technological resources.


The analysis of parallel performances in simulation of forest fires using Cellular Automata (CA) is considered in this paper. Two simulations are given, simulation of forest fire with topography and wind effects. Here, the Von Nuemann rule of CA is used. From the numerical simulations, the CPU time for several grids 100×100, 200×200, 400×400, 800×800, and 1600×1600. Using number of grids 1600×1600, the CPU time for serial and parallel codes with topography effect are obtained 6076.31 and 2670.43 seconds respectively. Meanwhile, the CPU time serial and parallel of simulation, with wind effect are obtained 186.325 and 128.793 with grid numbers 1600 × 1600. The speedup and efficiency for simulation with topography effect reach 2.27 and 56% respectively. Moreover, 1.44 and 36% are the speedup and efficiency for simulation with wind effect.


This article elaborated the characteristics of settlement shape in detail with examples. Aiming at the negative effects on settlement shape by construction, we put forward some measures, such as respect for ecological environment, selection mode of space development, protection of historical features, and excavation of culture connotation, so as to realize the protection of settlement shape.


The Illinois Basin is a prolific hydrocarbon-producing basin, and the petroleum geochemistry of producing fields has been extensively studied. However, little effort has been made to characterize the natural seeps occuiring in quarries and as tar springs. The purpose of this -study is to analyze samples of naturally occurring petroleum seeps from limestone quarries and other localities in central and southern Indiana to determine geochemical fingerprints and biomarkers. This geochemical analysis will provide a baseline to discriminate between naturally occurring and refined petroleum' products found in groundwater and'at the surface, and will assist in developing environmental remediatioh The main focus of this study is on the regional extent and distribution of biodegradation of the hydrocarbons and on the seep-source relationships of the samples. In order to assess the amount of biodegradation that has occurred, samples have been analyzed using gas chromatography and gas chromatographytrnass spectroscopy. Pristane to phytane ratios are used to fingerprint the samples, and the distribution of norhopanes, hopanes, and steranes are used to determine the biomarkers of the samples. Previous analyses of samples taken from six central Indiana Mississippian limestone quarries (Reed, Scott, Mellencamp, Independent, Maple Hill, and Crown) indicate a wide range of biodegradation .has occurred. Several samples (from Mellencamp and Reed quarries) were too degraded to filly study at the time. It is hoped that these two sites will be re-sampled, and hrther analysis of the saturated and aromatic fractions be undertaken to better understand the degree of degradation. Samples fiom Scott quarry are minimally degraded, as indicated by the absence of norphanes andthe even distribution of steranes and hopanes. The Crown quarry samples are- moderately degraded. The most prominent gas chromatography peaks occur after pristine and phytane, and steranes and hopanes are detected but are not as evenly distributed as those


The invention discloses a penetrating type liquid hardening agent and a preparation method thereof. The penetrating type liquid hardening agent comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 30 to 70 percent of water, 0.5 to 2.0 percent of complexing components, 0.4 to 1.0 percent of a promoting component, 20 to 60 percent of a lithium silicate solution, 2 to 8 percent of a penetration-resistant agent and 0.02 to 0.1 percent of a surfactant. According to the penetrating type liquid hardening agent, the gelatinization time of the hardening agent is prolonged by adopting an ionic complex method, so that the hardening agent can penetrate deeply into the surface of concrete and generate more thorough reaction with calcium ions. The penetrating type liquid hardening agent is a strongly alkaline solution and can greatly reduce the water absorption amount of the surface after being brushed on the surface of the concrete, thus enhancing the wear resistance of the surface of the concrete. The penetrating type liquid hardening agent does not contain VOC, belongs to an environment-friendly product and can be used for enhancing indoor and outdoor concrete surfaces.


Video games are enjoying a flourishing of critical studies; they are finally taken as consequential forms of visual culture worthy of historical, theoretical, and cultural attention. At one time, their scholarship was largely overdetermined by issues of medium and treated largely as an entertainment product. But with the complexifying of the form, combined with a new generation of dynamic scholars and an expanded understanding of how to write about them, games now constitute a robust area of critical engagement with topics in race, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, ability, and other markers of difference. Those interventions have been key in driving the discourse forward, but game studies now faces a new set of strategic challenges. The gains have likely come at great methodological cost. This essay explores the consequences of identity-focused analyses and the roles of intersectional considerations of self and anti-essentialism as crucial tools in combatting enforced notions of belongingness. The author argues that the frontier of methodology in critical game studies may be to think outside of the prescribed ways in which academia encourages monolithic affiliation (or even false segregation) by validating and codifying identity-driven forms of expertise.


In his classic 1835 study of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville defended the importance in free societies of associations and public meetings, observing that, "sentiments and ideas renew themselves, the heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed only by the reciprocal action of men upon one another." In this spirit (except for de Tocqueville's gender bias), I welcome you to the 34th annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics.

The ACM SIGGRAPH Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics. This year 455 papers were submitted, from which the Papers Committee accepted 108 papers - a new record. The acceptance rate was therefore 23.7%, the highest since 1984. These papers span the core areas of modeling, animation, rendering, and imaging, but they also touch on related areas such as visualization, computer vision, human-computer interaction, and applications of computer graphics. Since 2002 these proceedings have been published as a special issue of the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics.


In the last years the country has been a witness of diverse cases of corruption and of fraudulent activities, both the public sector and the private one have been victims of this situation that pitifully sympathetic on the whole population. Nevertheless it is not very visible what it is possible to speak about the systems of prevention and control from the accounting, is because of it that the investigation tries to show the importance that takes the forensic auditas an a rea of the accounting to exercise control and to act as a tool that helps to mitigate these criminal activities, for it one seeks to highlight the figure of the forensic auditor distinguishing his labor as investigator of the fraud and hangman before the court from those that should be accused of sorne type of financia! crime.


The Raman frequency shifts of the two isomeric ketones C5Cl6O of melting points 28° and 92°, described for the first time by Zincke and Kuster in 1888, were determined by a study of the Raman spectra of the undercooled liquid 28° isomer, the molten 92° isomer and of solutions of both of them in carbon tetrachloride as well as in carbon disulphide. Polarization measurements for liquid 28° and for solutions of the 28° and 92° isomers in CCl4 were also performed.

Accelerated by the illumination, the molten 92° ketone shows an appreciable transformation in the direction of the equilibrium mixture corresponding to 28° in excess at that temperature. In undercooled liquid 28° the transformation is of subordinate degree at room temperature, even after long-continued illumination.

In the solutions no conversion took place to any measurable extent, as was proved by melting point determinations of the solids obtained by evaporation of the solvent after the Raman effect study.

There are distinct differences between the Raman spectra of the two isomers. The Raman results do not agree either with possible open-chain compounds of formula C5Cl6O, or with formulae containing heterocyclic six-rings built up of five carbon atoms and one atom of oxygen. No simple decision can be reached between possible structures with four-membered rings and the five-ring formula accepted by Zincke and Kuster on chemical grounds, when only the purely physical facts are considered.

The Raman results (frequency heights, polarization results) agree best with cyclical structures with plane rings for both ketones, the 28° ketone corresponding to the less symmetrical structure II

with a conjugated system of double bonds C = C with C = O, and the 92° ketone having the more symmetrical structure I.

From the incomplete determinations of the composition of the equilibrium 28° ⇆ 92° in the liquid state at three temperatures by Kuster, it follows that the 28° isomer possesses the lower energy content. The energy difference can be ascribed mainly to the extra resonance energy in the 28° ketone, caused by the conjugation of the double bonds C = C and C = O, which is also an argument for the structure II for the 28° form.


IN this note we give formulas for the signature of complete intersections modulo certain powers of 2. Our method also yields relations modulo powers of 2 on the signature of ramified covers. We conclude with a formula for the behavior under ramified cyclic covers of Rokhlin's invariant for characteristic surfaces in a 4-manifold.


The first light from an extrasolar planet was recently detected. These results, obtained for two transiting extrasolar planets at different infrared wavelengths, open a new era in the field of extrasolar planet detection and characterization because for the first time we can now detect planets beyond the solar system directly. Using the Spitzer Space Telescope at 24 microns, we observed the modulation of combined light (star plus planet) from the HD 209458 system as the planet disappeared behind the star during secondary eclipse and later re-emerged, thereby isolating the light from the planet. We obtained a planet-to-star ratio of 0.26% at 24 microns, corresponding to a brightness temperature of 1130 + / - 150 K. We will describe this result in detail, explain what it can tell us about the atmosphere of HD 209458 b, and discuss implications for the field of astrobiology. These results represent a significant step on the path to detecting terrestrial planets around other stars and in understanding their atmospheres in terms of composition and temperature.


Background: Endothelial dysfunction is the initial step in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, resulting in cardiovascular outcomes. Recently, measurement of flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD) has b...


Invariant sets are a key ingredient for verifying safety and other properties of cyberphysical systems that mix discrete and continuous dynamics. We adapt the eliminationtheoretic Rosenfeld-Gröbner algorithm to systematically obtain algebraic invariants of polynomial dynamical systems without using Gröbner bases or quantifier elimination. We identify totally real varieties as an important class for efficient invariance checking.


Between the user interface (150) and trusted executable (312), apparatus and method for establishing a path (152) reliable comprising hypervisor (316) and the driver shim (314). This method includes a step (710) for measuring the identity of the hypervisor, the measurement of the hypervisor identity, and the step (712) for comparing a policy for the hypervisor, steps (714 for measuring the identity of the driver shim and), a measure of the identity of the driver shim, and the step (716) for comparing a policy for the driver shim, and the step (718) for measuring the identity of the user interface, the measurements of the identity of the user interface, the user interface a step (720) for comparing a policy of use, the hypervisor identity, driver shim identity, and the identity of the user interface, the policy for the hypervisor, de Policy for Ibashimu, and as to whether each matching policy for the user interface, and a step (722) by a human being provides an indication perceptible.


Wilms' tumor suppressor gene 1 (WT1) encodes a transcription factor important for normal cellular development and cell survival. Previous studies have reported both physical and functional interaction between the WT1 and p53 proteins. However, the relationship between WT1 and p53 has not yet been fully clarified. Here we show that WT1 retards p53‐induced transcriptional activation of p21.


In the 1960s, Seyyed Hossein Nasr was the first to articulate in contemporary language the vision of an Islamic environmentalism. Ever since, in a number of articles and interviews Nasr has elaborated his vision further. As the ultimate solution to the environmental crisis, he has persistently argued the need to substitute the prevalent scientific worldview with a religious worldview. However, there has not been any systematic and comprehensive presentation of Nasr's approach that discusses his ideas in the context of the intellectual currents which have shaped his thought.
This thesis attempts to address the gaps in the presentation of Nasr's religious perspectives on environmentalism. The research has been guided by two questions: 1) what do we need to know to best appreciate Nasr's vision? And 2) how does Nasr's vision adhere to traditional Islamic thought? The thesis has demonstrated that Nasr's arguments are rooted in metaphysical principles of reality, found in the perennial philosophy as well as in traditional Islamic metaphysics, Sufism, philosophy and sciences, as represented by the key authorities of those areas. The thesis hopefully contributes to scholarship in an important dimension of Islamic environmentalism and on the environmental aspects of the relevant intellectual currents.


We report a TiO2 nanotubes (NTs)-based Electrochemical luminescence (ECL) cell. The ECL cell was fabricated using the electrode of TiO2 NTs and Ru(II) complex (Ru(bpy)2+(3)) as a luminescence materials. The fabricated ECL cell is composed of F-doped SnO2 (FTO) glass/Ru(II)/TiO2 NTs/Ti plate. At a bias voltage of 3 V, the measured ECL efficiencies were 0 Im/W for cell without NTs, 0.03 Im/W for NTs-6.5 µm, 0.07 Im/W for NTs-8 µm and 0.1 Im/W for NTs-10 µm, respectively. The use of Ti02 NTs increases ECL intensities by about 2 times compared to the typical ECL cell without the use of TiO2 NTs.


Two key design techniques improve margins of the 1T1C, 1 Mb FeRAM. One is a redundancy scheme utilizing the same ferroelectric capacitor as used in the memory cell, which can be implemented without additional process steps. The other is an externally controllable dummy cell reference that mimics memory cell properties and also finds weak cells prior to repair.


A general Lagrangian formulation of the metric-affine, metric compatible theories of gravitation is given. The applicability of the metric-teleparallel geometry to gravitation is considered. It is pointed out that a teleparallel theory with the Lagrangian usually accepted in the literature leads to a non-predictable behaviour of torsion. A new choice of the Lagrangian is proposed.


Summary Revealing azimuthal velocity or amplitude variation (VVAZ or AVAZ) is of great significance for fracture prediction. Traditionally, azimuth-sectored migration is used to analyze velocity and output azimuthal CRP gathers. However, this method does not get the exact azimuthal velocity and amplitude anisotropy. Using azimuthal velocities to fit an ellipse may be quite unstable due to insufficient sector numbers. Without the knowledge of azimuthal velocity variation, azimuth-sectored migration may result in distorted events and destroy true azimuthal amplitude on CRP gathers. Therefore, in this paper, a 3D amplitude-preserved fullazimuth anisotropic imaging method is introduced. Velocity anisotropy is derived through anisotropic imaging, which can be used to detect fractures based on VVAZ inversion. With the help of accurate velocity information, more amplitudepreserved azimuthal CRP gathers are generated, which allows fracture prediction using AVAZ inversion. Then, precise and reliable fracture information can be detected by integrating these two results. Through the application to physical model data and field seismic data, it is proven that full-azimuth anisotropic imaging and gathering is regarded as more superior strategy for fracture prediction.


ABSTRACT The securitization of the EU's external borders and repressive asylum policies biopolitically control and discipline the bodies of refugees. In Germany, these developments hark back to a longer colonial history of racialization that the state collectively disavows. To approach this continuity of racialized citizenship, I will analyse a series of hunger strikes that were staged by refugees from 2012 till 2014 in Germany. By asking which possibilities lie in staging the hunger strike, I will argue that Germany's necropolitical geography of detention, asylum, and deportation marks the racialized refugees' bodies as disposable within the logics of citizenship. I propose that hunger strike is a form of becoming flesh, which makes visible how racialized violence is enacted on the refugees' bodies. Becoming flesh articulates a politics of refusal that subverts the logics of recognition, empathy and suffering liberal rights discourses rely on and, instead, performs an embrace of the refugees' abjection.