As China enters into the Ming Dynasty the merchant class grow to be an important class thanks to the drastic development of commerce economy. This social trend is naturally well reflected in the Huaben story which was a popular genre at that time. That merchants appear as main characters in stories and novels should be noted. Especially in short Huaben stories, as represented by those in San Yan and Er Pai, merchants appear as main characters and the commerce activities of merchants are mainly depicted. Of the 120 stories included in San Yan, about 50 stories mention merchants or have merchants as main characters. But only 20 of them meet the requirements to be considered a merchant novel, and "Jiang Xingge Reencounters His Pearl Shirt" is the most representative merchant novel from San Yan. So examining "Jiang Xingge Reencounters His Pearl Shirt" can tell much about the characteristics of merchant novels during the Ming Dynasty. First, almost all of the main and surrounding characters appearing in "Jiang Xingge Reencounters His Pearl Shirt" are merchants, and some of them are described as merchants with the qualities of an intellect either internally or externally. The advent of the new merchant image translates into the collapse of the traditional four class caste and the uplifting of the merchant class in terms of social status. Second, this work of literature vividly describes the various kinds of commerce activity and their latent hardships. In particular, all the story's development and conflicts happen on the trails of Jiang and Chen's commerce. Finally the values and cultures of merchants are well reflected in this novel. For example, the merchants' respect for their profession and their effort toward commerce is reflected in the story as well as their liberal and mature mindset for love and sexuality.


The running tunnel between Buji station and Baigelong station on No.5 line of Shenzhen Metro is located in hard rock and is constructed by shield machine.The authors study the technical difficulties encountered in the long-distance shield boring in hard rock in this paper.The problems of serious cutter wear and segment dislocation are solved by adopting proper cutting tools and selecting reasonable boring modes,boring parameters and reasonable simultaneous grouting parameters,as well as by strengthening cutting tool maintenance.


The in vitro culture response of anthers, originating from high yielding and resistance to lodging F1 soft wheat hybrid
plants selected under drought conditions, was investigated. The spikes were collected when the microspores were at
the mid-uninucleate stage and after 3 days at 40 C for cold pre-treatment, the anthers were cultured in N6 and Gamborg-
Eveleg B5 (B5) solid medium. Progeny from 17 different F1 families were used and 9 of them responded to in
vitro anther culture and 7 of them produced fertile green plants. Doubled haploid green plants were fertile and produced seeds. Induction of aploid development depends on genotype, stage of male gametophyte development, composition of nutrient media and conditions of cultivation. The effect of the composition of media and different genotypes on wheat anther culture was investigated. From the genotypes produced regenerants, the high yielding genotypes from local breeding collection of wheat produced more albino plants (35.2%) compared to high yielding genotypes from CYMMIT collection (24.92%) ones. Independent of culture medium composition a ratio of doubled haploid/haploid was 4.57:1 and a ratio of haploid/aneuploid was 18.5:1, in particular 81.28 % of green plants were doubled haploid, 17.76% were haploid and the rest (0.96%) were aneuploid


Background: Cervical unifacet and bifacet dislocations are generally a posterior pathology. Some surgeons prefer using a posterior approach as it is a more direct route for reduction and stabilization. However, associated anterior injury, namely, intervertebral disc tear, which may be a threat to the spinal cord, is a possibility. This is the reason why some other surgeons prefer the anterior approach. We would like to present our experience with the anterior approach. Objective: The purpose of the study is to study postoperative residual vertebral body translation after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Method: Between January 2008 till December 2010 we had 22 cases of cervical facet dislocation. We excluded those cases having less than a 6 month follow up and those with poor visualization of the affected level on lateral cervical spine radiographs. Sixteen cases were then selected for analysis. Thirteen were males and 3 were females. All cases had been treated surgically with anterior reduction and cervical plate fixation (anterior cervical discectomy and fusion). Results: The ratio between unifacet and bifacet dislocation was 1:1. Seven cases involved C6C7, 6 cases were at C4C5 and 3 cases at C5C6. Seventy-five per cent of cases with bifacet dislocation had associated neurological deficits as compared to 37.5% of unifacet dislocations cases. Three cases were delayed in diagnosis due to improper initial assessment. At the latest follow up, 14 cases had less than 2 mm vertebral body translation and 2 cases had 2 mm residual translation (both were bifacet injuries). None had deterioration of neurological deficit. Conclusion: Anterior surgical approach to reduce cervical facet dislocation is an acceptable option with minimum postoperative residual vertebral body translation especially for unifacet injuries. Cervical Facet Dislocation Treated via Anterior Approach Zulkefli A, K Jeyasilan, Zairul A, S Saravanan, R Ramanathan Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, Ipoh, Malaysia 5-Poster_OA1 6/25/12 4:24 PM Page 68


The present disclosure includes a pendant acid functional group and a pendant light base functional group containing (meth) acrylate copolymer component provides ionically crosslinkable composition. When exposed to light, the groups pendant light base and photolysis generates the pendant amine group, the amine group is crosslinked copolymers ionically. .BACKGROUND


This issue is the outcome of an effort to understand the foreign policy  dynamics of the U.S. in this rapidly changing global atmosphere. Through  a multi-dimensional academic approach, it aims to examine the impact of  various systemic, regional and domestic challenges on the course of recent  American foreign policy. The six articles that contribute to this issue assess the  foreign policy practices of the U.S. especially during the Obama and Trump  eras, but do not exclude the historical background that continues to shape the  country's current policies.


Abstract The entire manufacturing spectrum is transforming with the advent of Industry 4.0. The features of Set of Experience Knowledge Structure (SOEKS) and Decisional DNA (DDNA) were utilized for developing Virtual Engineering Objects (VEO), Virtual Engineering Process (VEP) and Virtual Engineering Factory (VEF), which in turn facilitate the creation of smart factories. In this study, DDNA based Machine Monitoring for Total Maintenance in Industry 4.0 framework is demonstrated. The concept of VEO is used for the Tool and Equipment Monitoring, while for the Plants Operations Monitoring and Quality Monitoring, VEP and VEF are employed. Query extraction feature of DDNA is exploited for Adaptive Control. This study shows that Machine Efficiency (ME) can be monitored along with analysis of machine KPI's like breakdown time, setting time, and other losses. Moreover, reports can be generated efficiency-wise, breakdown-wise, operator-wise. The data of these reports is used to predict and make future decisions related to machine maintenance.


The paper reports three new species of the genus Rabigus Mulsant Rey from China, namely, Rabigus cuspus Fei Zhou, sp. nov. from Sichuan, Rabigus sagittus Fei Zhou, sp. nov. from Shanxi, Rabigus triquetrus Fei Zhou, sp. nov. from Beijing and Shanxi. For all species included we provide color plates of general morphology and detailed aedeagus structures.


In this paper, a self-consistent nonstationary two-dimensional model of multipactor in dielectric-loaded accelerating structures is proposed. In comparison with existing models, this model calculates dc electric field produced by secondary electrons self-consistently and it also includes effects of cylindricity. Results of our calculations are compared with the ones obtained for the 11.424 GHz alumina-based dielectric-loaded accelerating structure designed and experimentally tested by Argonne National and Naval Research Laboratories.


The general image of a traditional Chinese woman we have in mind is an altruistic one who is obedient and faithful to her family, Such an image was...


1 Jack NT, Liem EB, Vonhögen LH. Use of a stimulating catheter for total knee replacement surgery: preliminary results. Br J Anaesth 2005; 95: 250–4 2 Capdevila X, Biboulet P, Morau D et al. Continuous three-inone block for postoperative pain after lower limb orthopedic surgery: where do the catheters go? Anesth Analg 2002; 94: 1001–6 3 Dalens B, Vanneuville G, Tanguy A. Comparison of the fascia iliaca compartment block with the 3-in-1 block in children. Anesth Analg 1989; 69: 705–13 4 Capdevila X, Biboulet P, Bouregba M, Barthelet Y, Rubenovitch J, d'Athis F. Comparison of the three-in-one and fascia iliaca compartment blocks in adults: clinical and radiographic analysis. Anesth Analg 1998; 86: 1039–44 5 Pham-Dang C, Kick O, Collet T, Gouin F, Pinaud M. Continuous peripheral nerve blocks with stimulating catheters. Reg Anesth Pain Med 2003; 28: 83–8 6 Morin AM, Eberhart LH, Behnke HK et al. Does femoral nerve catheter placement with stimulating catheters improve effective placement? A randomized, controlled, and observer-blinded trial. Anesth Analg 2005; 100: 1503–10 7 Salinas FV, Neal JM, Sueda LA et al. Prospective comparison of continuous femoral nerve block with nonstimulating catheterguided perineural placement in volunteers. Reg Anesth Pain Med 2004; 29: 212–20


The story begins when six robbers who entered the October 13, 2007 at the Museum of
Riobamba Conceptas had not the slightest obstacle to take custody of the glass case, did
not even need to break a glass only, or disconnect any alarm, nor worried about potential
security cameras, nothing protected the room 14, where it was exhibited custody, one of
the greatest pieces of economic and historical value to the city of Riobamba.
Custody theft, crown, scepter and robe of the Virgin of Sicalpa reveals a total lack of
prevention, care and safety. It is not enough the will of the religious or religious in
convents and churches, where through product shown concern and impact it had on
people.


The ideas of differential charge and restraining charge are proposed along with an analysis of their relationship.Based on the ideas,a ratio-restraining differential protection criterion for lines and its setting rules are presented.The protection criterion is able to identify internal and external faults based on full wave current.The idea of avoiding the influence of anti-TA saturation and capacitive current is enumerated.Finally,simulation results show that the proposed protection criterion is capable of quick and accurate identification of an internal fault within 5~10 ms and reliable lockout protection during an external fault.


We investigate an open fermionic string theory in a non-commutative target phase space as well as for the space part and the momentum part. The modified commutation relations in terms of oscillating modes are derived. Modified super-Virasoro algebras are obtained in the Ramond and Neuveu-Schwarz sectors where new anomaly terms appears. The non-commutativity affect the Lorentz covariance and the mass operator is no more diagonal in the usual Fock space. A redefinition of the Fock space is proposed to diagonalize the non-commutativity parameters matrices to obtain a diagonalized mass operator. Some restrictions on the non commutativity parameters are imposed to eliminate the Virasoro algerbra anomaly terms due to the non-commutativity, where at the same time the usual mass spectrum is obtained. The GSO projection is now possible where a space time supersymmetry is obtained. More restrictions on the non-commutativity parameters zero modes are imposed and the Lorentz covariance is restored.


Archaeological survey and palaeoenvironmental investigations in Coe Burn, Callaly Moor, Northumberland, have examined the chronology and nature of prehistoric and historic land-use change in a small upland river catchment. These studies have revealed an intensively used landscape with evidence of late Neolithic to Bronze Age, medieval and post-medieval land use and settlement. Two episodes of valley floor alluviation are identified and dated to the middle-late Bronze Age and post-medieval periods. Magnetic mineral and geochemical analyses of fine sediments from the older alluvial fill show it to contain a high proportion of topsoil, which is believed to have been produced by soil erosion resulting from Bronze Age tree clearance and cultivation. Deposition of the younger alluvial fill (post AD 1500) was associated with the inwash of relatively unweathered bedrock generated by coal mining in the catchment. It is demonstrated that by integrating archaeological field survey with off-site palaeoenvironmental investigations a much fuller picture of human activity and land-use change has emerged than otherwise would have been the case. Studies of this type may be particularly useful in other upland river catchments where archaeological survival is limited or poor.


ABSTRACT
A study of sustainable development needs to consider the role of all forms of capital—natural, social, financial and cultural as well as the complex ways in which they interact. All forms of capital derive their value, utility and application from human mental awareness, creativity and social innovation. This makes social capital, the central determinant of resource productivity and sustainability. Modern social capital conceptualisation is a new way to look at this debate, keeping together the importance of community to build generalised trust and the same time, the importance of individual free choice, in order to create a more cohesive society. It is for this reason that social capital generated so much interest in the academic and political worlds. Understanding the makeup of a community's human social capital is fundamental to understanding our capacities to not only absorb change, but potentially to also grow and prosper as a result of it. The elements that comprise social capital intimately interact to provide a ‗package' of capacity that dictates a community's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. As a result, social capital is dealt with in the process of assessing the social component of sustainability. It has been argued that individually, communities, corporate entities or government bodies alone do not possess the resources needed to promote broad-based sustainable development. Complementarities and partnerships forged within and across these groups of differing power are also necessary to achieve long-term sustainable development. Based on these assertions, therefore, this study examines the interaction between social capital and sustainable economic development in Nigeria.
Keywords: Social Capital, Economic Development, Component of Sustainability, Financial Capital, Human Capital


he infant's relationship with his first object, his mother, is reflected in his attitude towards the feeding situation from the T beginning of life. Klein (1952) showed how internal anxieties can lead to inhibitions of feeding which can have serious consequences on the infant's physical as well as emotional development. These internal anxieties and their resultant defences can become organised, leading to life-long psychological difficulties not only with feeding, but also with any situation onto which the feeding situation is transferred. This will include the development of object relationships, and the acquisition of knowledge. Klein's clinical skill was that she was not only interested in the nature of the underlying internal anxieties and their defences, but also in the factors that mitigated against the development of more established pathology. In the early feeding situation between infant and mother, the infant's anxieties could for example be ameliorated by containing maternal functioning, or the development of reparative wishes in the infant. As Klein eniphasised, it is always the interaction between external and internal factors that will decide the outcome of any adversity. Based on material from the weekly observation of an infant during the first year of life, I would like to examine a phase during the developing relationship between an infant and mother when the infant seemed to adopt an anorexic attitude to the breast. This occurred at a period when the infant was dependent solely on the breast for nourishment, and resulted in his partial failure to thrive as monitored by his weight charts. The resultant


In this work, a study of a fibre optic ruby crystal probe exposed to high temperatures has been carried out for the first time, and `annealing' effects have been considered and reported upon. The work has enabled the device to be studied at temperatures up to 1500 °C to test its `survivability': the results show that a single-crystal probe is able to operate continuously at temperatures up to 1400 °C, and can reliably cover a wide temperature measurement range from 0 °C to 1400 °C. Uncertainties in the measurement of, at worst, approximately ±7 °C result after many hundreds of hours of temperature cycling of the probe.


Memes have been described as textual forms of "(post)modern folklore" (Shifman, 2014: 5). Photos or short videos, they highlight current cultural phenomena, and they spread exponentially
 through person-to-person sharing on social media platforms. For this article, I created a corpus of memes that circulated in March
 2020, during the first weeks after statewide lockdown orders were issued in the U.S. in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing
 on Bakthin's (1981) concept of the chronotope, I analyze a subset of these memes that
 specifically addressed the experience of time in confinement, illuminating two interrelated trends: the disruption of temporal
 order in the present and the projection of chronotopes of hindsight in which this present gets resolved as past. Through detailed
 textual analysis, I show that the memes reveal both a widespread sense of disorientation and a corollary impulse to mitigate it
 through the imagination of spatiotemporal realms. I argue that such chronotopic projections can serve as a response to temporary
 but profound uncertainty, caused in this case by the public health crisis in its initial stages.


This study evaluated the effects of a one-day ropes course on students' classroom involvement and affiliation. Middle and junior high school students who participated in the ropes course were from classes designed for students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders. Using the Classroom Environment Scale (CES) Short Form, students evaluated their relationships with peers in their classrooms before and after the ropes course. Small changes in scores were detected using the CES: two classes of students at risk for internalizing behavior problems had a significant increase (p < .05) in feelings of involvement, and the middle school classes (in aggregate) had a statistically significant decrease (p < .05) in their affiliation scores. Responses to an open-ended survey were mostly positive. Further study with larger groups of students and, perhaps, more intense and focused intervention at the ropes course seems warranted.


ABSTRACT Predictions about the end of libraries point to a real crisis, but assign the wrong cause. Libraries will not be displaced by technology like Google, but can be undermined by librarians' own reactions to patron demand for Google-like experiences. Librarians can respond with a "weak model" that prioritizes the satisfaction of patrons, or a "strong model" that recognizes higher values rooted in the status of librarianship as a profession. Although recent trends favor the dominance of the weak model, only by embracing the strong model can librarians survive the challenges that threaten libraries.


The role of 17a-estradiol and progesterone in the in vivo synthesis of prostaglandins by the ovariectomized rat uterus was investigated. Seven days after ovariectomy, rats were treated with progesterone (2 mg X 2 days) then given a single injection of estradiol. Prostaglandin E (PGE) and F (PGF) were determined by RIA in uterine tissue and uterine vein plasma (UVP) at 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12 and 24 h after the administration of 1713-estradiol (10 Mg). PGF and PGE content (ng/uterus) remains constant from the time of estradiol administration to the latest time period studied. PGF and PGE concentrations (ng/100 mg uterine wt) show a gradual decline during the course of estrogen action which becomes significant only 12 and 24 h after estradiol administration and is correlated with the increase in uterine weight. Following progesterone administration, there is a significant increase in both uterine PGE content and concentration from ovariectomized levels. These results indicate that levels measured in UVP represent a true de novo synthesis of prostaglandins and could not be accounted for by the release of stored material into the uterine vein. PGF levels in UVP rose from control values of 2.42 ± 0.53 ng/ml to a maximum of 23.30 ± 4.96 ng/ml at 12 h and by 24 hhad returned to basal levels. A comparison with animals not treated with progesterone revealed low levels of PGF in UVP at all time periods studied (0.5-12 h). PGE levels in UVP after estradiol administration to progesterone-treated and untreated rats were similar, although at 12 h, levels in progesterone-treated rats were significantly greater than the untreated group. Determinations of estradiol in peripheral plasma by RIA revealed a sharp peak 1 h after administration followed by a rapid decline to control values by 12 h. Using the optimal conditions for prostaglandin biosynthesis as determined in the first part of this experiment (i.e.: 2 days of progesterone pretreatment and uterine cannulation 12 h after estradiol administration), the effect of estradiol doses between 0.001 and 100 g was investigated. Maximum UVP levels of PGE and PGF were obtained with doses greater than 1.0 Mg estradiol. The simultaneous administration of progesterone (2, 10 or 50 mg) with estradiol (10 Mg) significantly reduced PGF concentration in UVP, whereas only 50 mg progesterone was effective in significantly reducing PGE levels. Fifty mg of progesterone alone was without effect on PGE and PGF levels in UVP. It is concluded that estrogens are the predominant ovarian steroids involved in the regulation of uterine prostaglandin biosynthesis in the rat; however, important roles for progesterone in the expression of estradiol stimulated activity are indicated.


Abstract: Two books published nearly three decades apart confront higher education with important questions about knowledge, communication, and community—the building blocks of the academy. Higher Superstition defends the traditional logical positivist approach to science from challenges from alternative interpretive schools that are gaining momentum throughout higher education. Academic Discourse focuses on the gap between teaching and learning at the university. Both books draw attention to the elitism and ethnocentrism that segment the academic community and restrict higher education's contributions to society.


This paper comprehensively introduces the measures of software's anti interference, including the methods of anti disturbance in the input and output of the digital signals as well as in the CPU and the "watch dog" techniques.


The dualpurpose grain and silage maize variety Yudan No.7 was bred by Chongqing Institute of Agricultural Science from the cross of selfbred line 268(female) with selfbred line 871(male).According to the variety test,regional test,production test,resistance identification and quality analysis,Yudan No.7 had the characteristics of high and stable seed yield,better resistance,vivid and high quality stalk.It could be planted not only as cereal but also as fodder crop.Its high quality grain was up to the first of state standards of common and feeding maize,and up to the second of state standards of edible maize.It was suitable to be planted in southwest China and similar ecotype.


Groups of twenty Depressives, twenty Mixed Neurotics and twenty Controls matched for I.Q., educational background and verbal sophistication were compared on two tests of conceptual usage.

Test I (Trist-Hargreaves) assessed their performance level of conceptualizing, and significant differences occurred between scores of patients and controls.

Test II assessed the certainty with which subjects held their inferences made from standard verbal material. On this test Depressives, in spite of being older than Controls, were significantly less certain of their inferences than the other groups, and the controls were the most certain. It is suggested that this score measures one aspect of the 'over-flexibility' or 'over-rigidity' of their conceptualizing ability, and may be directly or indirectly related to their interpretation of other types of verbal material.


Cyanostilbene modified with dimethylaniline (CMD) could self-assemble into vesicles and fibrous morphologies depending on the solvophobic properties. Furthermore, morphology of well-defined nanostructures could be changed with enhanced emission triggered by the photo-isomerization of cyanostilbene. The present system has potential for building luminescent color conversion materials.


"For transfer functions with a numerator and denominator order higher than one and two respectively, the mapping to an equivalent network of 1st order components is ambiguous. For example the second order TFs identified in the Eden case study could be mapped as a feedback structure; however, such a configuration would be considered non-mechanistic unless there is strong evidence to the contrary."


When John Stuart Mill was preparing the sixth edition of his Principles of political economy in 1864 he asked his friend in Queen's College, Galway, the economist John Elliot Cairnes, to provide him with new material on the state of Ireland for incorporation into the revision of his book.1 Cairnes collected material from official and other printed sources and also from various friends of his with specialist knowledge of different areas.2 One friend, Montifort Long field, the first Whately Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin and by then a Judge in the Landed Estates Court, sent Cairnes 'a bundle of M.S.'.3 There has been speculation as to what Longfield's submission contained and the extent to which it influenced Mill's views on Ireland.


Washington, D.C.: MENC (1972), pp. 65-87. Rose, Gilbert. The Power of Form: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Aesthetic Form. New York: International Universities Press, 1980. Schachtel, Ernest. Metamorphosis. New York: Basic Books, 1959. Scruton, Roger. The Aesthetic Understanding. London: Methuen, 1983. Serafine, Mary Louise. 'Cognitive Processes in Music. Discoveries vs. Definitions'. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 73: 1983, 1-14.


The modernization of industry is inseparable from the development of English teaching.Under the background of "Internet plus", constructing an ecological mode of College English teaching has become an effective way to promote the reform of College English teaching. Based on the analysis of the imbalance of the function of the Internet plus teaching structure, the imbalance between the coordination functions of the ecological subjects, the imbalance between the ecological subjects and the Internet information technology, this paper puts forward the concept of improving the information literacy of the teaching subject and innovating the "teaching and learning". This paper expounds the idea of creating a network ecological teaching environment and giving full play to teachers' guiding role. At the same time, this paper constructs a multi-dimensional interactive ecological classroom, harmonious teacher-student relationship and other specific strategies to build an ecological model of College English teaching, in order to play the role of ecological subject and improve the effect of College English teaching.


The paper sifts twenty-one corrosion protective paints by way of
tests and made room stratigraphic condition simulate tests for three
lacquers and, finally sought out CO_2EOR optimum corrosion protective
lacquer of casing pipe, that is epoxy colour lacquer B.


Classical and combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to investigate the solvation structure of Ca2+ in 18.4% aqueous ammonia solution. The classical molecular dynamics simulation has been carried out based on pairwise additive potentials. For the QM/MM scheme, the first solvation sphere of Ca2+ is treated by Born–Oppenheimer ab initio quantum mechanics using LANL2DZ basis sets, while the rest of the system is described based on classical pairwise additivity. The results indicate the importance of the QM treatment in obtaining a reliable geometrical arrangement as well as the correct coordination number of the solvated ion. Within the first solvation sphere of Ca2+, the QM/MM simulation reveals a polyhedral structure with an average coordination number of 7.2, consisting of 5.2 water and 2 ammonia molecules, compared
to the corresponding value of 9.7 composed of 6.7 water and 3 ammonia molecules obtained by classical pair potential simulation. The preference for ligands is discussed on the basis of detailed simulation results.


The study investigates the impact of institutional quality on environmental efficiency in the presence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) using data on desirable and undesirable outputs as well as institutional quality dimensions from the World Governance Indicators (WGI) for 19 Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries over an annual period from 2005 to 2014. Environmental efficiency was low in eight SSA countries and excellent in eleven others, according to the efficiency results. Two countries had the highest average environmental efficiency over the first period, while one had the lowest. In 2013, the majority of SSA countries had high efficiency indexes, with one country having an index of 2.098 and four countries having efficiency rates of one. After controlling for industrialization, energy consumption, and population variables, the results show that corruption control and regulatory quality lower environmental efficiency while government effectiveness increases. The DH causality test revealed that environmental efficiency, control of corruption, regulatory quality, energy consumption, and population had no causal relationship. There are also one-way causal linkages between environmental efficiency and government effectiveness and industrialization.


One of the factors that inhibit the formation of male pronuclei following injection of freeze-dried ramspermatozoa was the absence of artificial activation during oocyte incubation after the injection. Therefore,in this experiment the ability of strontium chloride (SrCl2) to improve oocyte activation followingintracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was evaluated. Aceto lacmoid staining was used to assessdecondensation and pronucleus formation following ICSI. Results of this experiment revealed that freezedriedspermatozoa had the ability to decondense and to form 1PN following injection into oocytes evenwithout artificial activation, but failed to form 2PN. However, 40% of 2PN oocytes were obtained when theinjected oocytes was first incubated for 20 minutes in medium containing 50 mM strontium chloride thensubsequently incubated for 10 hours in medium without strontium. On the contrary, the 2PN oocytes werenot observed either in injected oocyte neither without artificial activation nor in non-injected oocytes withartificial activation. In conclusion, freeze-dried ram spermatozoa were able to decondense and to support2PN formation following ICSI and artificial activation using strontium.


Global energy mix is shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Most developed nations are working towards decarbonizing their economy while ensuring sustainable energy. This energy transformation is also expected to gain momentum in the developing world as new ecosystems are forming and new technologies are emerging. These developments in technology that developed nations have keyed into are helping to grow renewable, develop new energy carriers, improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions and create new markets for carbon and other by-products as part of an increasingly circular economy. At COP26, it was made compulsory for developing countries to transition from fossil fuels to a decarbonized economy. Climate change financing is now viewed as part of adaptation, mitigation and economic development measures. These measures are expected to help reduce the harsh effects of global climate change. This is not the case in Nigeria where many of these commonly pursued steps to decarbonisation, such as increased electrification, wide-scale use of renewable energy and intensifying energy efficiency measures are mired by regulatory challenges. This article using doctrinal research methodology aims to explore how developing countries like Nigeria with heavy reliance on fossil fuel can accelerate decarbonisation over the next decade and achieve the timelines for the 2030 National Determined Contributions (NDCs), which has been advanced from 2025 to the end of 2022 at the COP26.


THE history of venous thrombosis illustrates in miniature the development of the history of medicine itself, but here only a few aspects can be considered. The history of our knowledge concerning coagulation of the blood alone is such a large subject that it can only be touched upon and, in reference to venous thrombosis, we shall merely deal with phlegmasia dolens occurring in the lower limb.


The main goal for production, processing and marketing of food is to control and eliminate the risks that may affect food quality. In order to minimize these risks many different quality management systems and standards exist. The producers must meet very stringent demands in order to fulfill the certification requirements of the numerous models of quality management. Overall, it has to be emphasized that there are many advantages for users of a quality management system.


This article reviews evidence that psychosocial support may influence the progression of cancer, as indicated by differences in length of survival. Psychotherapeutic methods that have proved to be effective involve direct confrontation of fears; expression of affect, including aegative feelings; provision of social support; and training in self-hypnosis for analgesia. Possible mechanisms for this psychosocial effect on progression of disease include changes in diet and exercise, better use and provision of health care, and positive effects on the sensitivity of the endocrine and immune systems to stress. The author reviews the limitations of these theories and offers suggestions for future research.


Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are known as erasers that remove acetyl groups from lysine residues in histones. Although plant HDACs play essential roles in physiological processes, including various stress responses, our knowledge concerning HDAC gene families and their evolutionary relationship remains limited. In Brassica rapa genome, we identified 20 HDAC genes, which are divided into three major groups: RPD3/HDA1, HD2, and SIR2 families. In addition, seven pairs of segmental duplicated paralogs and one pair of tandem duplicated paralogs were identified in the B. rapa HDAC (BraHDAC) family, indicating that segmental duplication is predominant for the expansion of the BraHDAC genes. The expression patterns of paralogous gene pairs suggest a divergence in the function of BraHDACs under various stress conditions. Furthermore, we suggested that BraHDA3 (homologous of Arabidopsis HDA14) encodes the functional HDAC enzyme, which can be inhibited by Class I/II HDAC inhibitor SAHA. As a first step toward understanding the epigenetic responses to environmental stresses in Chinese cabbage, our results provide a solid foundation for functional analysis of the BraHDAC family.


Humans perform tasks such as bowl mixing bi-manually, but programming them on a robot can be challenging specially in tasks that require force control or on-line stiffness modulation. In this paper we first propose a user-friendly setup for demonstrating bi-manual tasks, while collecting complementary information on motion and forces sensed on a robotic arm, as well as the human hand configuration and grasp information. Secondly for learning the task we propose a method for extracting task constraints for each arm and coordination patterns between the arms. We use a statistical encoding of the data based on the extracted constraints and reproduce the task using a cartesian impedance controller.


In Healthcare IT-driven revolution the organizations are investing in the latest information technologies with the clear goals of reducing operating costs and improving healthcare outcomes. Cloud computing is emerging as a new trend in computational and storage resource allocation and provisioning technology. The motivation of study is providing DICOM images management on Cloud Computing technology for authorized physicians, healthcare facilities and on demand access to patient's medical images from RIS or PACS. The proposed work is discussed to meet the challenges for DICOM Image Management and the offered cloud service model "Cloud as a Service (CaaS)" for Medical Imaging applications on cloud computing systems. The conceptual design is discussed, how to manage medical imaging solution on cloud, though to provide secure service, anytime & anywhere access to medical images and instant retrieval of digital images data of any modality with a cloud-based image storage and management service using standard DICOM protocol. This paper summarizes the framework model on medical imaging solid foundation with platforms and softwares to power the cloud infrastructure for DICOM Image Management, build and run robust cloud applications, and supply end-user computing as a cloud-based service.


Based on consumers' "cognitive→affective→behavior" hierarchy theory of reaction, this paper builds the relational model of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) information (from two dimensions, quantity and timeliness), consumer trust, and purchase intention under C2C environment. The 2×2×2 between-subjects experiment on 320 undergraduates in Southwestern University of Finance and Economics illustrates that quantity and timeliness of EWOM information have significant influences on consumer trust, which has significantly positive influence on purchase intention; and the effect of the quantity and timeliness of EWOM information on consumer trust is also affected by the difference of product category. When buying fashion product (such as fashionable dress), the influence of quantity and timeliness of eWOM information on consumer trust is greater than that on functional products (such as books).


Last year, the cinematographic exhibition grossed 571 million Euros and congregated more than 94 million spectators. Nowadays, however, this business cannot stay at the edge of the fourth screen's revolution, that is to say, mobile phones. In a market controlled by two big enterprises, namely Cinesa and Yelmo, we propose a qualitative study of its digital applications, considering their design, their accessibility and their features, with the goal of verifying their adaptation to this new digital environment. The results will show an emerging opening. Nevertheless, numerous services must be implemented to enhance the spectator's cinematographic experience.


Much of named entity recognition (NER) research focuses on developing dataset-specific models based on data from the domain of interest, and a limited set of related entity types. This is frustrating as each new dataset requires a new model to be trained and stored. In this work, we present a ``versatile'' model---the Prompting-based Unified NER system (PUnifiedNER)---that works with data from different domains and can recognise up to 37 entity types simultaneously, and theoretically it could be as many as possible. By using prompt learning, PUnifiedNER is a novel approach that is able to jointly train across multiple corpora, implementing intelligent on-demand entity recognition. Experimental results show that PUnifiedNER leads to significant prediction benefits compared to dataset-specific models with impressively reduced model deployment costs. Furthermore, the performance of PUnifiedNER can achieve competitive or even better performance than state-of-the-art domain-specific methods for some datasets. We also perform comprehensive pilot and ablation studies to support in-depth analysis of each component in PUnifiedNER.


The influence of grid-connected common resistance-type and capacitance-type of DC bias suppression devices on distance protection of transmission line is analyzed.Several conclusions are obtained by analyzing the performance of distance protection,especially the variation of the additional measured impedance when different types and quantities of DC bias suppression devices are connected to power grid.The influence of grid-connected resistance-type of DC bias suppression device on distance protection,which is related to quantities and grid-connected positions of DC bias suppression device as well as the position of fault point,is complicated.Under certain circumstance,the influence of a single DC bias suppression device is similar to that of multi DC bias suppression devices.Compared with the resistance-type of DC bias suppression device,the capacitance-type has a relatively less effect upon the distance protection of transmission line considering both the quantity and grid-connected position of DC bias suppression device.


Communication and computation are often viewed as separate tasks. This approach is very effective from the perspective of engineering as isolated optimizations can be performed. However, for many computation-oriented applications, the main interest is a function of the local information at the devices, rather than the local information itself. In such scenarios, information theoretical results show that harnessing the interference in a multiple access channel for computation, i.e., over-the-air computation (OAC), can provide a significantly higher achievable computation rate than separating communication and computation tasks. Moreover, the gap between OAC and separation in terms of computation rate increases with more participating nodes. Given this motivation, in this study, we provide a comprehensive survey on practical OAC methods. After outlining fundamentals related to OAC, we discuss the available OAC schemes with their pros and cons. We provide an overview of the enabling mechanisms for achieving reliable computation in the wireless channel. Finally, we summarize the potential applications of OAC and point out some future directions.


A nuclear magnetic resonance study of cyclooctatetraene (COT) in a number of different nematic solvents covering a wide temperature range (− 35 to 170°C) is reported. Proton spectra for both normal COT and partially deuterated COT under conditions of deuterium decoupling were studied. From an analysis of the spectra in terms of direct dipolar interactions, it is concluded that the COT molecule has a symmetrical tub (D2d) conformation, and coordinates for the protons, within a scale factor, are derived. The spectrum undergoes profound changes with temperature, which are interpreted in terms of a bond shift process. The activation energy is found to be ΔE = 10.9 kcal mole−1 and the rate at 0 °C: 1/τ = 2.5 × 102 sec−1. In an appendix, symmetry considerations are used to identify those spectral peaks which are not affected by the bond shift process. In another appendix, the exchange broadening in a system consisting of two equivalent protons with direct dipolar interaction is treated quantitatively.


With the rapid development and wide application of RFID technology,RFID system's security threats and malware of them also develop quickly.In order to prevent from them,we need to know their theories better.This paper particularly analyzed existing security problems and malware of RFID system,and gave some defense measures.At last,according to the characters of RFID system,the paper proposed a malware's immune model based on RFID system.


The relative frequency and sometimes grave significance of Congenital anomalies of the respiratory system places them in a position of importance to the clinician, as well as the embryologist. While the anomalies may become apparent at any age, it is in the first weeks or months of life that they often present serious respiratory emergencies. Only a few papers survey this subject as a whole, although there are many reports concerning individual anomalies, such as congenital cysts of the lungs, and many single case reports of interesting, unusual congenital malformations.


It is possible that fingertip's force tactile data measured with the same physical factors still present a statistically significant difference, which requires additional measurement of any new user's data before using surface haptics devices to perform tactile display. A data prediction method is proposed to avoid the additional measurement procedure. It is based on the principal components analysis (PCA) and the Rao–Blackwell Ledoit–Wolf (RBLW) estimator. The former predicts any new user's human biomechanical difference factors and fingertip's force tactile data from trained principal components; the latter consistently estimates these principal components in the general asymptotic framework. The proposed method is evaluated with the lateral force data measured by the custom-designed device. The results show that the predicted lateral force presents reasonably small relative errors; in addition, the acquisition time has been extremely reduced when compared with force measurement devices.


The invention discloses a 1, 2, 4-oxadiazole micromolecule main body material. The 1, 2, 4-oxadiazole micromolecule main body material contains one or multiple electrophilic 1, 2, 4-oxadiazoles which serve as electron acceptor units, wherein the tail ends of molecules are connected to electron donor units. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the micromolecule main body material. The preparation method is characterized in that a dibromo substituted intermediate, namely a 1, 2, 4-oxadiazole compound is prepared by using bromobenzonitrile as a reaction raw material, and then electron donor units are connected to the dibromo substituted intermediate, namely the 1, 2, 4-oxadiazole compound through Suzuki coupling reaction. The invention also discloses an application of the 1, 2, 4-oxadiazole micromolecule main body material. The 1, 2, 4-oxadiazole micromolecule main body material has relatively good solubility and film-forming property, relatively strong eletrophilicity, relatively low LUMO (Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital) energy level and relatively high electronic mobility.


Search engines are the easiest way to find the information that we need in our daily life, and they have became more and more powerful in the last years. Anyway, they are still far from perfection, and some problems afflict also the more advanced search engines. In this paper we discuss our approach to the problem of argument retrieval documenting our participation to the CLEF 2021 Touché Task 1. In particular, we present our IR system for the args.me corpus, a collection of documents extracted from web debate portals. After a pre-processing phase of the documents, we tried to use different methods like query expansion and re-ranking based on sentiment analysis. In the final part we report the results of our experiments and discuss about them and about other possible strategies that can be applied in the future.


South Africa, LGBT Issues in South Africa has undergone significant sociopolitical transformation in the last six decades, from the "legal" adoption of apartheid in 1948 to the first democratic election in 1994, and a new constitution two years later. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in South Africa is at the forefront of constitutional and sociopolitical reform. Numerous issues are currently facing the South African LGBT community. While significant strides have been made toward racial equality, there is still disparity in accessing health and social services between the white and historically disadvantaged LGBT communities. Furthermore, the LGBT social activist movements have to maintain vigilance in ensuring that the progressive Constitution becomes a reality for LGBT people. Issues such as equal access to antiretroviral HIV/AIDS medication, protection of LGBT people against homophobic hate crimes, homophobic abuse and bullying in secondary education, protection of same-sex domestic partnership rights, equity and removal of discrimination in the workplace, and decriminalization of samesex conduct are primary areas that LGBT advocacy and lobbying groups are placing on the national agenda.


We analyze the hp-version of the streamline-diffusion finite element method (SDFEM) and of the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for first-order linear hyperbolic problems. For both methods, we derive new error estimates on general finite element meshes which are sharp in the mesh-width h and in the spectral order p of the method, assuming that the stabilization parameter is O(h/p). For piecewise analytic solutions, exponential convergence is established on quadrilateral meshes. For the DGFEM we admit very general irregular meshes and for the SDFEM we allow meshes which contain hanging nodes. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results.


Home NodeB is a technology defined by 3GPP organization to realize a home area network. In the traditional structure of Home NodeB technology, one Home NodeB just has one single gateway to transmit each session, and hasn't taken the transmission quality into account. By improving the traditional structure of Home NodeB, this article proposes a new structure based on policy. This structure adds a new device which is created based on traditional policy server. Before each transmission from Home NodeB to gateway, Home NodeB needs send request to the policy server firstly, according to which Home NodeB can finish self-management and self-configuration ability. Thus ensure the whole network runs in a steady and affluent environment. Policy arithmetic is the key that applying policy server. This passage use arithmetic of Load Balancing as policy arithmetic's leader. Combining Load Balancing into the policy based Home NodeB structure, policy arithmetic can have a steady running environment.


This study investigated the relations between the largest Lyapunov exponents of the finger plethysmogram and pulse indices. First, we made a sine wave that had various pulse intervals and examined the relations using a simulation. Consequently, the largest Lyapunov exponents decreased with the standard deviation of the pulse interval. Next, we carried out two experiments and reexamined the relations using actual measurements of finger plethysmogram recorded during rest and during two mental tasks. We found a significant positive correlation between the standard deviation of the pulse intervals of the finger plethysmogram and the largest Lyapunov exponent, and the correlation coefficient was the highest of pulse indices in two experiments. From these results, we concluded that the largest Lyapunov exponents of the finger plethysmogram are greatly affected by the standard deviation of pulse intervals may be a more reasonable measurement than the largest Lyapunov exponents of the finger plethysmogram.


Analyzing emergency deceleration and descent of XB-70-1 airplane due to engine damage resulting from structural failure for supersonic transport data


This research is a qualitative research that aims to identify the effect of the implementation of tax regulation counseling on taxpayer compliance. Tax is a mandatory contribution to the state that is owed by an individual or entity that is coercive in nature based on the law, with no direct compensation and is used for the purposes of the state for the greatest prosperity of the people. Compliance with taxation is a manifestation of tax regulations in reporting and depositing taxes owed by taxpayers. Socialization is an interaction that is carried out to increase the knowledge of taxpayers and prospective taxpayers related to taxation. This study took 4 (four) resource persons consisting of two Gunungsitoli KP2KP employees and two registered taxpayers. Research data collection was carried out through unstructured interviews by directly visiting sources and asking questions about the information needed by researchers. The results of this study indicate that taxpayer compliance that occurs greatly affects taxpayer knowledge of tax regulations and the quality of tax services provided by KP2KP.
Keywords: Taxpayer Compliance, KP2KP, Tax Counseling, Tax Consultation


The aim of the research is to find out about the exploratory process in body sports courses to produce movement in creating dance works and to find out other factors that influence exploration, such as imagination, intuition, and creativity. The research method used is based on the problem to be solved, beginning with a study of the choreography development of Dance Program students using qualitative descriptive methods. The results of research conducted at Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ) with the object of dance art education program students. The exploration process in body exercise courses can be a source of inspiration for movement through imagination, intuition, and creativity so that students are able to create dance works with varied movements. It is expected to support the research results. So that it can be used as an appreciation of motion and music as student choreography learning. A form of exploration of motion, through imagination, intuition, and creativity as a reflection of the student's body in expressing motion. students gain the discovery of personal movements so that during the choreography learning process students can feel the freedom of learning fun creative movements. Furthermore, students find movements that are appropriate to wiraga, wirama, wirasa, and beautiful movements.


Letter from Julia [Vernon] to Linnet White and family discussing Linnet's upcoming visit and her and Ruth's recent illness. She also mentions that she attended Neal Marks' funeral. There is an envelope addressed to Mrs. C. D. White in Fort Worth, Texas. It is postmarked McKinney, Texas June 25, 1917.


Part 1 Data structures: programs, proof of programs, data structures sequences sets. Part 2 Algorithms for searching graphs: searching a graph - introduction finding a path through a graph finding a minimum weight path through a graph. (Part contents).


7 XENOMORPHIC CRINOID COLUMNS 19 INTRODUCTION 7 MEASUREMENTS AND INDICES OF COLUMNALS AND Purpose and scope of paper 7 PLURICOLUMNALS 20 Previous work 7 Nature and purpose of indices 20 Acknowledgments 8 Description of indices 21 TECHNIQUES FOR STUDY OF DISARTICULATED CRINOID Noditaxial indices 21 REMAINS 8 Columnal indices 21 Collection and preparation of samples 8 Facet-part indices 21 Methods applicable to fragments free from matrix 8 Shape indices 24 Methods applicable to fragments firmly embedded MORPHOLOGICAL GROUPS OF COLUMNALS AND PLURIin matrix 10 COLUMNALS Pentameri 25 25 GENERAL FEATURES OF CRINOID-STEM PARTS 10 Elliptici 25 Columnals, pluricolumnals, cirrals, and pluricirrals 10 Cyclici 26 Latera 11 Varii 26 Homeomorphic and heteromorphic pluricolumnals 11 CIRRUS FRAGMENTS HOLDFASTS 26 26 Nodals, internodals, and noditaxes 14 SUMMARY 26 Articula 14 GLOSSARY OF MORPHOLOGICAL TERMS APPLIED TO Sutures and types of columnal articulation 15 CRINOID-STEM PARTS 27 Axial canals and internal features of columnals .... 16 LOCALITY DESCRIPTIONS AND REFERENCES 30


Lines between 11.3 and 17.2 A of lithium-like, helium-like, and hydrogen-like fluorine have been observed in spectra of laser-produced plasmas. These lines include nine members of the Lyman series of F IX; eight members of the principal series of F VIII; and satellite lines arising from doubly excited configurations of F VII and F VIII. Similar satellite lines of the abundant solar elements have been identified in soft X-ray spectra of solar flares. A wavelength list of fluorine lines is given, and physical conditions in the plasma are discussed.


Consequently, discloses a wave-power plant with at least one crankshaft, are connected to the coupling body for coupling the crankshaft to the wave-induced orbital motion of water molecules. According to the invention the coupling body consist of at least two oppositely aligned buoyancy bodies whose buoyancy forces cancel each other. According to one aspect, the lift rotors are connected to cranks in each case in the pressure point or pressure point close range. According to another aspect, a float is at least immediately removed to the crankshaft in a printing dot area of the respective drive body is preferably in the range of the profile nose (leading edge) or the profile tip (trailing edge) connected.


Objective:To clone Angiopoietin like protein 2 cDNA and construct prokaryote expression vector pET-ANGPTL 2, and get recombinant ANGPTL 2 protein and antibody against ANGPTL 2 fibrinogen like domain. Methodology:RT-PCR and conventional cloning methods were used to amplify ANGPTL 2 cDNA, and construct expression vector pET-ANGPTL 2. After pET-ANGPTL 2 was introduced into BL21(DE3) bacteria, the expression of recombinant ANGPTL 2 protein was induced by IPTG. Then the protein was purified using TALON Metal Affinity resin, and analyzed by SDS-PAGE. The purified protein was used to immunize New Zealand rabbits. The antiserum against ANGPTL 2 fibrinogen like domain was obtained and then characterized by ELISA,and immunochemistry methods. Results:Angiopoietin like protein 2 cDNA was successfully cloned, prokaryote expression vector pET-ANGPTL 2 was constructed, recombinant ANGPTL 2 protein was obtained and ANGPTL 2 fibrinogen like domain antibody, which has high titer, affinity and specificity, was successfully prepared. Conclusion:ANGPTL 2 cDNA has been cloned, ANGPTL 2 recombinant protein has been obtained and high quality ANGPTL 2 antibody has been prepared, which was useful for further investigation of ANGPTL 2 function and its relationship with diabetic nephropathy.


A Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study was performed to estimate the effect of hydrodynamic element shape on the performance of a solid core rotor. The CFD simulations assumed the low consistency pulp suspension behaved as water and there was no flow through the apertures, i.e., at the onset of plugging. The trailing edge angle and the location of the maximum height were shown to have large effects on the computed performance of the rotor, while the angle at the leading edge and the chord length were shown to have less of an effect. Additionally, the effect of element height, the clearance between the rotor and the screen cylinder, and the rotor tip speed were computed. From these numerical results an optimised element shape was determined and shown to have an 11% increase in the computed negative peak pressure on the screen cylinder at the same rotational speed.


PURPOSE: To obtain a new production method especially useful to produce α- iodoamide or α-bromoamide as an intermediate capable of easily giving an α,β-unsatd. amide by dehalogenation-dehydrogenation. CONSTITUTION: When the carbon atom of α-methylene of a sec. amide is iodinated or brominated, the sec. amide is allowed to react with a compd. represented by the formula R 3 Si-X (where X is I, Br or Cl and R is methyl, ethyl or n-propyl) in an aprotic org. solvent selected from among toluene, methylene chloride and THF in the presence of I 2 or Br 2 and a base selected from among N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine(TMEDA), triethylamine (Et 3 N) and diethylmethylamine (Et 2 MeN) and the resultant iodinated or brominated product is isolated. COPYRIGHT: (C)1992,JPO


Aim. To assess the cardiovascular risk in women of reproductive age, depending on the presence of gestational arterial hypertension in the anamnesis. Methods. Examined were 25 practically healthy volunteers with normal blood pressure, 33 patients with high normal blood pressure and 77 women with arterial hypertension (Classification of the All-Russian Scientific Society of Cardiologists, 2010) with a history of arterial hypertension of 0.5-24 years. The average age of patients with arterial hypertension was 40.8±4.5 years. All examined individuals were divided into two groups depending on the presence of gestational arterial hypertension. Determined were the group averages and grades (in percent) of the studied factors. Results. Among women of the reproductive age gestational arterial hypertension was significantly more common in patients with arterial hypertension compared to women with normal levels of blood pressure (62.3 vs. 16%, p <0.001 by χ2 criteria). In the group of patients with arterial hypertension who have gestational arterial hypertension, compared with those individuals with normal blood pressure, who have gestational arterial hypertension significantly more ofter (p <0.05, Fisher's exact test) seen was the abdominal type of obesity (54.1 vs. 0%). In the group of patients with arterial hypertension who have gestational arterial hypertension, compared with individuals with normal blood pressure without gestational arterial hypertension significantly more often (Fisher's exact test) recorded was a family history of cardiovascular disease (inxcluding arterial hypertension), obesity, especially the abdominal type; revealed were significantly (by the U criteria) higher mean values of waist circumference, waist circumference relationship to hip circumference, body mass index, total cholesterol level. A significantly (p <0.01, Fisher's exact test) greater proportion of individuals with very high additional risk of developing complications of hypertension in the next 10 years was noted in the group of patients with arterial hypertension and gestational arterial hypertension compared to patients with high normal blood pressure and gestational hypertension (37.5 vs. 0%). Conclusion. In women of reproductive age gestational arterial hypertension is a specific risk factor for subsequent arterial hypertension that is associated with significantly greater frequency of obesity, especially the abdominal type, very high additional risk of complications of arterial hypertension, as well as significantly higher mean values of waist circumference, ratio of waist circumference / hip circumference, and total cholesterol level.


The genetic structure of a large population of the white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes was assessed with five microsatellite markers by sampling six sites along its extent. The level of genetic polymorphism was relatively high with a mean heterozygosity value of 0.394 for the whole population. No genetic differentiation was observed between the different sampled sites, indicating that this population was panmictic. The possibility of extensive gene flow along this brook, downstream as well as upstream, is discussed.


Introduction: Social Security in Brazil, is a social insurance that guarantees the income of the insured when he loses his job capacity. Among the benefits granted have a disability pension, and for being granted the insured it must undergo medical examination to prove their total and permanent disability. Fourteen percent of disability pensions granted in the last three years were due to diseases of the circulatory system, and the final pathway of the majority of these diseases is heart failure. Objective: To identify criteria for determining total and permanent disability in patients with congestive heart failure in social security skills. Methodology: Literature review, no limit date, held from April to August 2014, using the following key words: heart failure, disability and retirement, the following databases: Pubmed/ Medline; BVS (Virtual Health Library); Scopus; Web of Science; and Cochrane. Pension legislation was investigated. Results: Heart failure is crippling to mobility, complex tasks and self-care tasks, and present with moderate or severe cognitive impairment. Heart failure as a complication after infarction is a strong indicator for early retirement, taking as a positive prognostic factor for return to work age less than 60 years, a fraction ejection greater than 35%, lack of funding during the removal, absence of anxiety attacks and work with low physical demands. Discussion: The Grade III or IV heart failure progresses with a disability which, if permanent, will right to disability retirement. Complementary exams should not be used in isolation, and greater than 60 years old, female and high workload are poor prognostic factors. Conclusion: The evaluation of work capacity in heart failure should be taken into consideration clinical, ejection fraction, the cognition, physical demands of the job and conditions of this return, the age and NYHA functional classification or Social Security classification used.


In recent years,along with the continuous development of the government's investment on expressways,the highway construction is very quickly.At the same time,along with lots of highway complete and use,the early illness of bituminous pavement is regarded by the masters.Currently,the most common failures include cracking,water damage,lax,movement,etc.These are very familiar on highway construction,it does harm to the use.Through the analysis of the cause of early illness of road surfaced with tar and concrete,the paper points out the measures to defend it.


Housing is an ultimate need for everyone. Government has implemented various initiatives in order to help low income and middle-income household to own a house. There are several affordable housing programs throughout Malaysia such as PR1MA, first time homebuyer scheme and others. Unfortunately, in year 2016, there are 10,859 units of house were unsold (overhang), which half of the unit is affordable housing. The price for this affordable housing is ranging from RM50,000 to RM300,000. Deficiency of housing delivery system is the key determinant contributed to this emerging concern. Affordable housing units remain unsold even though there is high demand for this type of units. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the factors influencing the efficiency of housing delivery system and problems faced by home buyers before deciding to buy a house. The literature identified, the efficiency key drivers for housing delivery system are housing price, public amenities, location, development neighbourhood, and physical aspect of the housing scheme.


The inaugural Victorian State Conference on Palliative Care was held at La Trobe University between February 10-12th, 1999. It was organised by Palliative Care Victoria and hosted by the La Trobe University Palliative Care Unit, which is a division of the School of Public Health. Titled 'Sink or Swim: Palliative Care in the Mainstream', the conference theme was a review of current Victorian palliative care policies and their impact on practitioners. The conference was officially opened by the state Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon. Rob Knowles. One hundred and fifty delegates attended.


An extensive open-air site, on an ancient floodplain bordering the Swan River, has been partially uncovered by a clay pit operation. Preliminary excavations of small areas have yielded stone artefacts intimately associated with charcoal and carbonized material, possibly resin. A series of radiocarbon measurements place the site among the earliest yet known from Australia, and indicate that the southwestern corner of the continent was populated by about 40,000 years ago.


With the prevenient hermeneutic terms,Xu Zi Shuo chooses to use the Ci frequently.Although the Ci is multiplicate,it has the corresponding relation to current system of terms about ancient Chinese function words.Therefore,the Ci of Xu Zi Shuo has definite venation that can be found.


The analysis of surrounding media has been a long-standing challenge of optical fiber sensors. Measurements are difficult due to the confinement of light to the inner core of standard fibers. Over the last two years, new sensor concepts have enabled the analysis of liquids outside the cladding boundary, where light does not reach. Sensing is based on opto-mechanical, forward stimulated Brillouin scattering interactions between guided light and sound waves. In most previous works, however, the protective polymer coating of the fiber had to be removed first. In this work, we report the opto-mechanical analysis of liquids outside commercially available, standard single-mode fibers with polyimide coating. The polyimide layer provides mechanical protection but can also transmit acoustic waves from the fiber cladding towards outside media. Comprehensive analysis of opto-mechanical coupling in coated fibers that are immersed in liquid is provided. The model shows that forward stimulated Brillouin scattering spectra in coated fibers are more complex than those of bare fibers, and strongly depend on the exact coating diameter and the choice of acoustic mode. Nevertheless, sensing outside coated fibers is demonstrated experimentally. Integrated measurements over 100 meters of fiber clearly distinguish between air, ethanol and water outside polyimide coating. Measured spectra are in close quantitative agreement with the analytic predictions. Further, distributed opto-mechanical time-domain reflectometry mapping of water and ethanol outside coated fiber is reported, with a spatial resolution of 100 meters. The results represent a large step towards practical opto-mechanical fiber sensors.


The invention relates to three diclofenac copper complexes with anti-inflammatory activity, and preparation methods thereof, and belongs to the technical fields of complex synthesis and pharmaceutical chemistry. The three complexes respectively adopting the copper ions as a center ion are characterized in that a complex 1 is a double core structure with diclofenac and 1,3-propane diamine as ligands; a complex 2 is a single core structure with diclofenac and imidazole as ligands; and a complex 3 is a single core structure with diclofenac and 2,2'-dipyridine as ligands. Test finds that the rat roe swelling inhibition rates of the complex 1, the complex 2 and the complex 3 are 52.2%, 54.9 and 74.8% respectively, the gastric ulcer indexes of the complex 1, the complex 2 and the complex 3 are 4.8, 11.8 and 5 respectively, the rat roe swelling inhibition rates of diclofenac sodium is 36.1%, and the gastric ulcer index of diclofenac sodium is 24.4. Two of the complexes have better anti-inflammatory activity and lower stomach side effects than ligands, and can be used to prepare anti-inflammatory medicines.


Dr. Wainberg received his bachelor's degree at McGill University, Montreal in 1966, and his Ph.D fromColumbia University, New York City in 1972. He did post-doctoral research at Hadassah Medical School at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After an initial focus on immune responses in chickens bearing tumours induced by Rous sarcoma virus, he used his skills and tools to contribute to the fight against the newly devastating outbreak of AIDS.


This contribution presents the assessment, on both the maximum electron density (NmF2) and the corresponding peak height of the F2 layer (hmF2), of the overall performance of such ionospheric key parameters inferred from Radio Occultation (RO) measurements for a period of more than half a solar cycle between 2006 and 2014. One of the satellite constellations allowing the retrieval of RO measurements is the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC mission. It collects occultation measurements since 2006 and has been exploited for establishing a database of RO data between June 10th, 2006 and April 29th, 2014 for this study. Such data set is compared to ionosonde measurements provided by the global Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR) network in order to infer information about the reliability of retrieved F2 peak parameters during different solar conditions. Emphasis will be made on how important the outlier detection process becomes in the analysis of the RO-derived data and comparisons will be made between results obtained using a rough and a tougher outlier threshold rejection while carefully filtering the SPIDR ionosonde data for the inter-comparisons. The key aspect of this study is to highlight the importance of the screening processes of the reference data used to validate the obtained results. This process is crucial since it can totally bias the results and mask the effectiveness of the RO technique. Such results will evidence the necessity to properly filter the reference data that has not been manually calibrated. Climatological investigations as well as comparisons between the radio occultation and ionosonde F2 peaks are carried out based on the ionosonde reference data under varying conditions. The presented work can be of high interest for both, the radio occultation and the ionosonde community, since the impact of the pre-processing and data screening of the ionosonde data is also addressed in this study. In this way it is provided a most clean and realistic view of the important contribution of RO technique to ionospheric sounding.


In the present paper, pollen morphology of 7 species of the genus Peucedanum from Sichuan was investigated. Pollen grains of all the species were examined by LM,SEM. Among them 4 species were palynologically reported here for the first time. The study showed that pollen grains of Peucedanum in vary shape. Their framework was trigonal in solid form, tricolporate, pleurotreme and exine 2-lauered. The statification of exine was clear. According to the characteristics of the pollen grains in Peucedanum, it may be divided into clearly distinguished types: Rectangular type and Equatorially→constricted type. The evolutionary trends of pollen types were as follows: rectangular type-equatorial-constricted type. Pollen information supports that Peucedanum as an advanced taxon in Umbelliferae. According to the pollen information, the authors primarily analysized the pollen grains of the Sect. in Peucedanum, which provided some basical materials for the systematic studies of Peucedanum.


I share the concerns of your correspondent Telford Moore (Feedback, November p24) regarding the potentially adverse consequences of current proposals for open-access publishing.


We start by recalling and discussing the tools that we will need later on: topics will cover modular forms, ramification theory, orders and quadratic forms. This will enable us to introduce the Hilbert class field and the Hilbert class polynomial, which will be useful in later chapters. Since this is just some preparing material for our main topics of elliptic curves and complex multiplication, proofs will be in general omitted and references will be given. 1.1 Modular Forms and j-function We start by considering the special linear group SL2(Z), that is the group of all 2× 2 matrices with determinant 1 and integer coefficients SL2(Z) := {( a b c d ) | a, b, c, d ∈ Z, ad− bc = 1 } An element ( a b c d ) of SL2(Z) acts on a complex number z by ( a b c d ) · z = az + b cz + d Remark 1.1.1. The quotient Γ := SL2(Z)/{±I} is called the modular group (observe that {±I} is the center of SL2(Z)). This is also referred to as SL2(Z), the special linear group.


A new method for analyzing the chain length dependence of termination rate coefficients (kt(i,j) where i and j are the chain lengths of the reacting radicals) in low conversion free radical polymerizations is described. The method involves comparing experimental molecular weight distributions of polymers formed in pulsed laser photolysis experiments with those predicted by kinetic simulation. The method is enabled by direct measurements of the concentration of radicals generated per laser pulse. Knowledge of the radical concentrations should mean that the only unknowns in the simulations are the termination rate coefficients. The analysis demonstrates the need for chain length dependent termination rate constants in describing polymerization kinetics. Polymerization kinetics were analyzed in terms of two models which purport to describe the functional form of kt(i,j). Use of a Smoluchowski model for kt(i,j), in conjunction with independently measured monomer diffusion coefficients, provides molecular weig...


Feedback shift registers, with their wide applications in communication science, electrical engineering, and control problems (see Golomb, 1964), have occupied the attention of various authors for many years. Thanks to their efforts, the linear case can be regarded now as more or less well understood. In particular, the cycle structure of a linear feedback shift register is completely determined (see Golomb, 1967, Part 2; Selmer, 1966, Chap. 4; Zierler, 1959, Sects. 2 and 3). The nonlinear case is not as well understood and forms the subject of investigation in several recent papers by Green and Dimond (1970) Green and Kelsch (1970), Kjeldsen (1976), Lempel (1970), Mykkeltveit (1976, 1977) and Soreng (1976, 1977, 1978). We address ourselves to the job of continuing with this search. As various authors use differing notation, we find it convenient (and necessary) to explain the notation we use throughout this paper. We consider polynomials in finitely many variables with coefficients in GF(2), with addition and multiplication defined as usual, except that we agree to put X + X ~ 0 and X • X = X. Let S denote the set of all such polynomials. A given


A low-barrier hydrogen bond (LBHB) is commonly defined as a case where the energy barrier for the hydrogen atom to shuttle between the two heavy atoms involved in the HB becomes comparable to the zero-point energy [1]. Conceptually, a LBHB seems to be just an ordinary intermediate case between a very strong HB, where the potential is a single-well, and a weak HB, where the potential corresponds to a highly asymmetrical double-well. However, the designation of a new name (i.e., LBHB) is too often taken automatically by most people as a hint that this class of HBs are special. In the past three decades, an intense debate has centered on the role of LBHBs in enzymatic reactions [2-10]. While structural and spectroscopic characteristics of LBHBs are well documented in the literature, several aspects of LBHBs are yet to be completely understood. For example, how important is it to consider the delocalization of the H atom (or more precisely the nuclear wavefunction) in LBHBs? What is the energetics of a LBHB? What can one learn about LBHBs from solid-state NMR studies? In this talk, I will present new solid-state NMR results to shed light on some fundamental aspects of LBHBs.


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The review article presents data on the effects of obesity on the female reproductive system and offspring of mothers with overweight or obesity, such as infertility, miscarriages, premature birth, stillbirth, congenital anomalies and prematurity, as well as a high risk of cesarean section. Obesity accompanies polycystic ovary syndrome, worsening the metabolic profile and increasing the risk of developing depression and eating disorders. Maternal obesity and hyperglycemia are able to influence the formation of the fetus by epigenetic mechanisms without affecting the nucleotide sequences. Subsequently, the metabolic and cardiovascular risks increase in the descendants of obese or overweight mothers and gestational diabetes. Patients with obesity are characterized by a folic acid deficiency and a deficiency of the luteal phase. Exogenous administration of these substances improves pregnancy outcomes and prevents congenital malformations.


The study presented herein formulated 105 ternary mixture designs combining two portland cements and four blended cements with seven supplementary cementitious materials (SCM). The 105 ternary mixtures along with 12 control mixtures were tested according to ASTM C 1567 Determining the Potential Alkali-Silica Reactivity of Combinations of Cementitious Materials and Aggregate (Accelerated Mortar-Bar Method) with the addition of graded Pyrex glass aggregate to increase the reactive silica content of the aggregate. It was concluded that ternary mixtures combining ASTM C 618 Class F fly ash, ASTM C 989 GGBFS, ASTM C 1240 silica fume, and ASTM C 618 Class N metakaolin have the potential to mitigate alkali-silica reaction in concrete containing highly reactive aggregates. However, the mass combinations of cementitious materials are different for each pozzolan. ASTM C 618 Class C fly ash with cement replacement levels of 30% combined with other pozzolans may provide alkali-silica reaction mitigation. However, ASTM C 618 Class C fly ash requires additional testing before being used to mitigate alkali-silica reaction. ASTM C 1240 silica fume can be used in ternary blends to mitigate alkali-silica reaction at cement replacement levels of 3 to 7%. However, the use of ASTM C 1240 silica fume in binary mixtures is not recommended for exposed applications.


Internet of Things (IoT) applications generate massive amounts of real-time data. Owners of such data strive to make predictions/inference from large streams of complex input such as video feeds, often by deploying applications that involve machine learning and image processing operations. A typical deployment of IoT applications includes edge devices to acquire the input data and provide processing/storage capacity closer to the location where the data is captured. An important challenge for IoT applications is deciding which operations to be executed on an edge device and which operations should be carried out on the cloud. In this paper we propose a dynamic programming algorithm called Droplet, to scalably partition operations in IoT applications across shared edge and cloud resources, while jointly minimizing the completion time of all operations and resource consumption. We evaluate Droplet using several real-world applications to show that it is able to model their execution time within an error of 0.42%. It finds partitioning of operations to within about 4% of optimal application completion time, while scaling up to thousand operations. We analyze Droplet to show it scales linearly in the total number of operations (no) with complexity O(no · (L!)2 · L), where L is the number of edge devices and the cloud (L=2 in typical deployments with one edge and one cloud).


In this work, we study the efficiency of a new reservation medium access control protocol for wireless communications, named Multimedia Integration Multiple Access Control (MI-MAC), by comparing it with another well-known protocol for multimedia integration over wireless networks (DPRMA). Our scheme, one of the first in the literature that considers the integration of streams from latest technology video encoders with other types of packet traffic over wireless networks, is shown to outperform DPRMA* (a very slightly modified version of DPRMA, used in order to be able to make comparisons between the two protocols) in terms of aggregate channel throughput and mean Web data transmission delays.


Worldwide distribution of mold fungi and their extremely danger for immune compromise patients makes this issue one of the unsolved problems in modern oncology. Three cases of rare fungal infections in children with hematological malignancies are described. In the first case infection caused by Acremonium spp. in AML patients was controlled after voriconazole therapy and granulocytes recovery. The second patients with aplastic anemia died as a result of invasive fungal infection caused by Fusarium spp. despite of combined antifungal therapy and granulo-cytes transfusions. In the third case diagnosis of Mucor mycosis was made only at autopsy.


With the rapid development of the airport, the application of the Internet of things is becoming more and more popular. And the scale of the Internet of things (IoT) system is also becoming larger, in order to better manage and monitor all node-device in IoT system, the node-device is required to provide a unique access address. Since all node-devices are set according to the default factory address, in the early stage of the construction of the IoT system, the address of the node device needs to be modified one by one, which is with large workload, error and inefficient. In the later maintenance of the system, the address of all node-device needs to be reconfigured in different ways, which not only requires huge workload, but also needs to suspend the operation of the device. The method described in this paper, which can make each node-device configure its address by itself with dynamic intelligent address allocation strategy and in the case of not suspending the equipment, Improving the efficiency of system construction and equipment maintenance in the later stage, and also provide technical support for the construction of smart airport. The method in this paper effectively complete a series of work of automatic address allocation and modification, through the functional verification of practical application, and improve the efficiency of node-device address setting and maintenance of the IoT system in the initial and later stages of construction.


This paper describes a novel visualization technique for non-axisymmetric flows using a high speed laser beam scanner. Conical spray jet has been successfully visualized along its curved surface. A three-dimensional flow vector mapping is reconstructed from two-dimensional data imaged by a CCD camera. A special synchronization method between beam scan and CCD imaging is introduced to improve the time-resolution from a CCD fielding period of 16.7 ms down to 3 ms. Discussions on spatialand time-resolutions which inherently lies in this system are also given in terms of CCD imaging parameters and a time lag due to laser scanning.


Hugh D. Curtin, MD I t's really a gray area." Usually these words denote a degree of ambiguity or indecision about an issue in question. In magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of head and neck cancer, the "gray" appearance has been taking on a more specific identity as a strong indicator of the presence of tumor. Not really bright and not really dark, on T2-weighted images and with enhanced T1-weighted sequences, this more intermediate signal intensity has developed into the typical pattern thought to indicate tumor. This is the "evil gray." The current paper by Minerva Becker, MD, and her coauthors (1) hones a finer edge to this concept. The authors separate the intermediate signal intensity patterns of tumor from the brighter signal intensity of a secondary marginal inflammatory response to squamous cell carcinoma. The authors apply this separation of signal intensity patterns particularly to evaluation of potential cartilage invasion by larynx cancer. This important article will be considered one of the basic building blocks of the foundation of head and neck imaging. But what exactly is the importance? Without a doubt, the first role of head and neck cancer imaging has always been to define the anatomy of the tumor. In pretreatment imaging, cancer is the indication for the examination, not the conclusion of the interpretation. The referring physician has already identified the lesion. The word "cancer" belongs at the top of the report, not the bottom. The diagnosis is clear, and the objective of imaging is to define the extent of the lesion. How large is the tumor? What critical structures are involved? How deeply does the lesion infiltrate? The radiologist searches the depths of the head and neck for evidence of the "evil gray." Certainly there are normal tissues with similar enhancement patterns, but in many key locations, the "evil gray" distinguishes tumor from normal anatomy. Tumor passing through fat is detected easily with T1-weighted imaging sequences. If the interface between normal and abnormal tissue is in muscle or against certain skull base structures, the task of margin definition is more difficult. Tumor tends to be slightly brighter than muscle on T2-weighted images and enhances more than most of these normal structures as well. These are the intermediate signal intensity patterns of tumor that are needed to precisely define the edge of an abnormality. Perineural spread, one of the most important concepts in head and neck cancer imaging, can certainly change the bulk of the nerve, but more subtle extensions are detected by changes in signal intensity along the neural conduit. Again, this is the "evil gray" allowing us to follow a tumor approaching or at times passing into or through the skull base. The implications in potential surgical resections are obvious, but, perhaps more importantly, the precise demarcation of tumor allows the design of highly focused radiation treatments. The difficulty of pretreatment imaging in the head and neck has always been to understand the complex normal anatomy. Once the normal anatomy is familiar to the radiologist, the task is simply to find something that is abnormal. In most cancer cases, anything abnormal has been presumed to be tumor, with very few exceptions. Becker and her colleagues modify this concept by separating actual tumor from an abnormality that represents a reaction to the tumor rather than the tumor itself. But surely if we are discussing a millimeter or two or perhaps even a centimeter, there cannot be any substantial effect on patient treatment. Can there? The study described in the current article focused on a subset of head and Published online 10.1148/radiol.2492081113


With specific examples as well as statement about data structure and program framework of Java3D,the paper explains something based on Java3D including construction,veins mapping and movement of 3D form and structure.The research covers the method of operation though mouse and keyboard.It also combines the technology of Java3D with web technology to implement three-dimensional dynamic shows on web page.


Currently the use of mobile phones to surf the web is being developed with greater importance by users and its growth is increasingly high in our country. Search engine positioning has changed a lot in recent years. It has gone from an indexing allowing the most visible contents to become the ones that took better advantage of the algorithm in their favor, in an era in which positioning responds to an obsession to provide service to the usersIt is a field that started from the moment that search engines won over the first directories at the beginning of this century. From the first moment, a permanent war was created between the interests of the search engines (to show the best content) and those of the developers (to position their web). As search engines, and especially Google, got more data about user behavior and searches, they refined their algorithms. At the same time, SEOs tried to develop techniques to manipulate their results. Currently, SEO is adapted to the day-to-day life of users. The aim is to help them to relate more easily to the world, with an indexing process that is increasingly similar to that of human judgement. The aim of our research is: To evaluate the Mobile Web Positioning in Panamanian companies and Institutions' websites. For the development of this study we used the following method that consisted of four (4) stages. The first stage, literature review, about mobile web positioning. The second stage, selection, evaluation and elaboration of a list of tools.For the third stage, the selected sites will be evaluated, using the online computer tool The fourth stage is the tabulation of the information obtained. As a result, the mobile accessibility continues to grow in our country and the SEO MOBILE is mandatory and in Panama, despite the fact that its development is growing every day, not all websites have a page optimized with the Seo Mobile and if they do, it is not optimized in an adequate way with the necessary standards to have one of the main positions in the search engines. In order to improve the mobile web positioning and obtain an adequate performance of the website, it is essential to use the mobile SEO tools, since they are fundamental because they help to analyze the state of the web pages and to provide indications about what we should improve.


ABSTRACT In this paper, we develop a direct approach to find Nehari-type ground state solutions for the following Schrödinger equation with inverse square potential and critical Sobolev exponent where , (the critical Sobolev exponent), , and . Under the conditions and and some other mild assumptions on V and f, we prove the existence of a positive ground state solution of Nehari-type to the above problem in the asymptotically periodic case and asymptotically constant case, respectively, with satisfying for some .


Evolution of retinal microvasculature abnormalities (areteriovenous ratio, arteriolar caliber and venular caliber) measured by automatic retinography, in patients suffering from essential hypertension of new onset and never treated, is associated with 5 years cardiovascular morbimortality
The main objective is to verify if there is an association in newly-diagnosed and never treated hypertensive patients between:
Arteriovenous ratio evolution measured by automatic retinography and 5 years cardiovascular morbimortality
Arteriolar caliber evolution measured by automatic retinography and 5 years cardiovascular morbimortality
Venular caliber evolution measured by automatic retinography and 5 years cardiovascular morbimortality
The secondary objective is to verify if there is an association between arteriovenous ratio baseline values and cardiovascular mortality
The target population is composed by patients with essential hypertension of new onset and never treated, according to the ESH-ESC criteria, aged 35 to 74 years


Global changes and animal phenotypic responses: melanin-based plumage redness of scops owls increased with temperature and rainfall during the last century The ecological effects of global climate changes include shifts of species' distribution and changes in migration strategies and phenotype. Colour poly-morphism, which can be envisaged as a species' evolutionary response to alternating conditions or to a wide range of habitats, may be affected by climate changes as well. The scops owl (Otus scops) shows two main colour morphs, dark-and pale-reddish, as well as intermediate morphs. We investigated temporal trends in an index of plumage colour of Italian scops owls from museum collections (1870–2007). We found a significant increase in plumage redness over the last century, which was correlated with an increase in temperature and rainfall of the years before specimen collection. However, the temporal increase in plumage redness persisted after controlling for climatic variables, suggesting that other environmental factors could be involved. Our study indicates that ongoing climate changes might have either shifted the selective balance between colour morphs, or differentially affected migration and movement patterns of colour morphs. 1. INTRODUCTION When confronted with climatic changes, organisms can respond by shifting their ranges in order to better match their ecological requirements, or by modifying their phenotype to adapt to changing conditions, by means of phenotypic plasticity and/or micro-evolutionary changes in phenotypic/genetic constitution (Parmesan 2006). These responses may occur over relatively short time scales, because climatic variability may exert considerable selective pressure on important fitness-related traits (Gienapp et al. 2008).


An ultra-compact electric mobility vehicle cannot be equipped with power steering, and the physical burden is large. Therefore, we are continuously researching steering support for an ultra-compact electric mobility vehicle equipped with a steer-by-wire system (SBWS). The SBWS has not been widely diffused because the steering and front wheels are connected only to electric signals and do not have a high redundancy level. However, the advantage of an SBWS is that the steering reaction torque felt through the steering wheel can be controlled freely. We investigated an active steering wheel system (ASWS) that can control an appropriate steering feeling for each driver by being equipped with SBWS and evaluating the steering burden of each driver. So far, research on the SBWS has been considered to improve operability by transmitting road information and feeding back vehicle motion, however few research on an SBWS considers the physical and mental burden on the driver. In this study, we conducted a fundamental analysis of the effect of the steering reaction torque on the steering burden, focusing on the operating direction of the steering wheel.