This chapter gives an overview of the recent progress in the preparation of metal nanoparticles (MNPs) by organometallic approaches and investigation of their use as nanocatalysts in targeted reactions (hydrogenation, C–C coupling, hydroformylation, etc.). Besides the control of the size, shape, and chemical composition of MNPs, the organometallic synthesis method enables the tuning of the surface properties. With this strategy, addition of capping agents, especially ligands that are already known in homogeneous catalysis for orienting the catalytic reactions, allows optimization of the NPs' solubility in organic or aqueous media, and the NPs' catalytic performance in terms of reactivity, selectivity and even the enantioselectivity. Moreover, parallel to playing a role in the catalytic performance, the use of a variety of supports can render easier the recycling of the nanocatalysts.


Immunotherapy with blocking anti-PD1 monoclonal antibodies (a PD1 mAbs) has become one of the most potent therapies of melanoma, providing extended clinical benefits to 30-40% advanced melanoma patients. There is substantial evidence that pre-existing tumor-infiltrating CD8+T cell infiltrates correlate with clinical antitumor response to PD1 blockade. However, not all T cell-inflamed tumors respond to PD1 blockade and not all melanomas are inflamed. Hence, the mechanisms supporting response or resistance to PD1 blockade remain to be precisely determined. One intriguing finding in the field of cancer immunotherapy is the recent demonstration that the gut microbiome regulates immune and clinical responses to PD1 blockade in murine tumor models. Mice with distinct gut microbiota profiles exhibited differential tumor growth, eliminated upon cohousing. This difference was transmittable and augmented the clinical efficacy of PD1 blockade. Interestingly, fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) together with aPD1 mAbs resulted in nearly full tumor rejection in mice with melanoma. Multiple studies have recently correlated the presence of specific bacterial commensal profile with response to PD-1 blockade in melanoma. To investigate the relevance of these findings in melanoma patients, we have collected stool from melanoma patients treated with aPD-1 mAbs. Using metagenomics, we evaluated whether PD-1 responders and PD-1 non-responders exhibited a distinct gut microbiota profile and whether the gut microbiota profile overlaps with previously published studies. We have also implemented a novel clinical trial with fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) FMT obtained from long-term PD1 responders combined with PD1 blockade in melanoma patients who failed to respond to PD1 blockade alone. This trial will determine whether the administration of a single PD1 responder-derived FMT to PD1 non-responders together with PD1 blockade is safe and can promote clinical and immune antitumor response to melanoma. Citation Format: Diwakar Davar, Marie Anne Vetizou, Amirin Dzutsev, Jonathan Badger, John McCullogh, Carmine Menna, Ornella Pagliano, John M. Kirkwood, Giorgio Trinchieri, Hassane M. Zarour. Manipulating the gut microbiome to improve immunotherapy of melanoma [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Fourth CRI-CIMT-EATI-AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference: Translating Science into Survival; Sept 30-Oct 3, 2018; New York, NY. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Immunol Res 2019;7(2 Suppl):Abstract nr IA38.


These days, development of computer device leads to computer user explosion. On the other hand, conventional technology cannot handle user diversity, because computer cannot treat each user subjectivity. It is important to materialize techniques which can answer user subjective requests flexibly for coming new media epoch. This research focuses on studying how subjective impressions are grounded in physical perceptions, especially in visual perception. In this paper we propose a model for subjectivity and physical perceptions, and give an example in image database system. We introduced the image database system which can answer user subjective requests based on the visual perception model. It may be possible to apply a system which can suit each user's characteristic and increase the user friendliness of the system even more.


Until recent years it has been thought prudent to reoperate for high-output enterocutaneous fistula complicating abdominal surgery. With the advent of adequate parenteral nutrition, however, providing calories and balanced intake, this concept is challenged. Three case reports describe spontaneous closure of high-output fistula over three to four months, in patients in whom surgical reintervention had proved, or would have proved, technically extremely difficult. In the first patient, a fistula had been resected once with recurrence; in the second, a fistula had been resected once, with recurrence, and at a further operation it was found technically impossible to appose the bowel ends for anastomosis; the third patient demonstrates the success of a conservative approach from the outset. A suggested regime for long-term parenteral therapy is outlined. Some complications of such long-term intravenous therapy and patient care arc mentioned.


This paper will present a field comparative study between shear wave velocity measurements (Vs), deduced from compression wave velocity (Vp) and signal analysis with Panda 3® test, and those obtained by correlation through CPT tests and seismic surface wave method (MASW) on a sandy site in southern of France. The purpose of this paper is to confirm the consistency of Panda 3® shear wave measurements with measures resulting from traditional geotechnical investigation methods.


BACKGROUND
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and gender diverse adults with intellectual disability experience exclusion within disability services.

OBJECTIVE
This review explores the experiences of social inclusion/exclusion of this cohort in the context of disability services.

SEARCH METHOD
A systematic search was conducted of peer-reviewed research published between January 2014 and April 2019. Five databases returned 66 articles plus three from hand searches.

APPRAISAL AND SYNTHESIS
Nine articles were included in this review. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme tool was used to assess the quality of the research. NVivo 12 was used as a tool to organise the articles.

RESULTS
Marginalisation of LGBTQ adults with intellectual disability in western societies is mirrored in disability organisations. There remains a dearth of research into experiences of transgender people with intellectual disability who use disability services.

CONCLUSIONS
Research into interventions that support the inclusion of this cohort in disability support services is needed.


The legality of a product is the most important thing to measure the quality indicator of a product. Through Science and Technology for Entrepreneurship Program, SMEs disabled participants are given socialization about the importance of product legality e.g. Household Food Industry (PIRT), brand, logo and halal. The purpose of this activity is to improve the quality of SME products through product legality training. The method used is quantitatif method with experiment approach. For training method used PALS (Participatory Action Learning Center) methods. The PALS method approach emphasizes on the transformation of existing activities cultivated in the changes towards the improvement of the conditions of SMEs. Stages of the PALS method approach are the awareness stage, the process of capturing product quality and accompaniment. The result is that there is an increasing number of business actors who take care of PIRT, logos and brands.  It can be seen from the significance value of paired t-test results, this is at pretest condition (before taking product legality training) and posttest when tenant has attended product legality training. With a significance value of 0.000 smaller than the critical value of 0.005, then Ho (initial hypothesis) is processed, so that there are significant differences of tenant who have followed the product legality training to improve the ability of tenant in preparing documents of PIRT, brand and logo for his business


Qualitative scores on the Porteus Maze Test have been claimed to differentiate delinquents and non-delinquents and criminals and non-criminals, to indicate impulsivity and acting-out tendencies. Such characteristics are also claimed to be described and predicted by the use of color responses on the Rorschach test. Both tests were administered to a random sample of 15 white male patients in a state hospital, who ranged in age from 16 to 50. No significant correlations between qualitative scores on the Porteus and Rorschach responses were obtained. Porteus scores differentiated those Ss with a history of acting out or arrests more accurately than did Rorschach color responses.


Municipal fiscal condition is typically assessed using objective financial indicators, but little is understood about how local officials subjectively evaluate their own fiscal health. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to analyze survey data from Michigan, we explore how local officials conceptualize fiscal health and compare self‐assessments with conventional financial indicators. The results reveal that local officials emphasize long‐run issues and external stressors, but the relative importance of different factors varies depending on whether they report high or low fiscal stress. We suggest that self‐assessments may be a useful supplement to conventional objective measures in capturing "true" fiscal health.


The purpose of this study was to offer an integrated approach to examine the theoretical and empirical evidences on the causal relationships among motivation, image, satisfaction and loyalty. A research model was proposed in which four hypotheses were developed. 268 valid questionnaires were collected in a major leisure and recreation destination-Tamsui and the data were analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results supported the four hypothesises: motivation directly and positively influenced image; image directly and positively influenced satisfaction; satisfaction had a direct and positive impact on loyalty; image had a direct and positive impact on loyalty. Theory building and practical advices were also provided through discussion.


Acute myocardial infarction as initial manifestation of primary antiphospholipid syndrome: Case Report Introduction. Primary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is commonly manifested with venous thrombosis more than with arterial thrombosis. In the latter, the most common thrombosis is cerebral, although it can debut with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). According to that, is important to know the context in which we must suspect thrombotic events as APS manifestation, especially in the heart taking into account the impact in the prognosis. This paper describes a case of APS in a 29-years-old male who was admitted in the emergency room with pain in the left lower limb associated to signs of local inflammation that blocks walking; history of primary APS due to 2 AMI and one deep venous thrombosis (DVT) whereby the patient was anticoagulated with coumarin. The physical exam was compatible with left DVT, that was confirmed after with Doppler, so there is considered a recurrence of the base disease and low molecular weight heparin was initiated. At fifth day of hospitalization, the patient had clinical improvement, so he was discharged. Next, AMI is discussed as first manifestation of APS, highlighting the causes, presentation, management and prognosis.


Four crystalline forms of isotactic poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) (i-P4MP) (forms I, II, II, and IV) have been studied through solid-state 13C NMR CP-MAS spectroscopy. The assignment of the resonances o...


Space tessellation resulting from random nucleations and growth processes is an interesting problem in many scientific field. One particular example, where the nucleation takes place only at the beginning of the process is the Poisson Voronoi tessellation [1]. The Kolmogrov-Johnson-MehlAvrami (KJMA) [2, 3, 4] is a natural model that incorporates "continuous" nucleation, as well. It has large applicability for describing several natural phenomena [5]. The KJMA model corresponding to our lattice model is the one which is known in the literature as the continuous nucleation model [2, 3, 4], where each cell (grain) is physically distinguishable from the others (or represent a different phase). The model is defined originally in continuous space and time. However, in our studies space and time discretization is considered. According to our lattice model, cells can grow with constant speed and new ones can continuously nucleate on the empty sites. In case of 1D lattices we offer an alternative mean-field-like approach for describing theoretically the dynamics and derive an analytical cell-size distribution function [6]. The method reproduces well the scaling laws of the KJMA theory and it has the advantage that it leads to a simple closed form for the cell-size distribution function. It is shown that a Weibull distribution is appropriate for describing the final cell-size distribution. The results are discussed in comparison with Monte Carlo simulation data.


The business risk is a permanent presence in the activities carried out by the companies. The financial decisions are often based on a compromise between risk and returns. To optimise the management of the companies, it is important to know the factors that generate risk and have a certain influence on the performance. This study has as main objective the explanation of the relationship between the financial performance and the factors that can be found within the microeonomic environment of the companies and determine the risk occurrence. The research is conducted on Romanian agricultural holdings from the vegetable sector, taking into account the period 2009 -2014. The research methodology is based on econometric modelling. The results of regression analysis indicate that the farm performance is largely influenced by various business risk factors, of which the most important are the financing structure (financial risk) and sales effectiveness (commercial risk). The findings helped us knowing the risk generating factors in the agricultural holdings activity, to find solutions for a proper management that leads to increased performance.


A final pair of essays elicits a rejection of the city altogether in favor of a more bucolic and implicitly more patriotic vision of Englishness. The more compelling of these, Aileen Ribeiro's ''Street Style: Dress in John Gay's Trivia,'' notes that the Walker consistently approves of clothing that is overwhelmingly practical, middle-class, and made from home-grown, not imported, material, while he mocks the luxurious but easily damaged silks and leathers of fashionable London shops; she claims that these practical and nationalistic tendencies, while often in conflict with Gay's own sartorial preferences, suggest at least an awareness of, and perhaps some sympathy with, arguments against the foreign luxury of the city. Working to similar ends, Susanna Morton Braund's ''Gay's Trivia: Walking the Streets of Rome,'' focuses particularly on Gay's use of pastoral (Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics) and satire (especially Juvenal), asserting that these classical models help to provide Gay's Walker with authority and precedents as he criticizes urban life, even as they offer rural alternatives to the perplexing and often disturbing city of Gay's poem. Through these perspectives, common themes and questions emerge. How was the city constructed, both in Gay's poem and in the minds of those who inhabited it, visited it, or yearned for its excitement? How did it in turn shape those who moved through it, including Gay's Walker? What role did the city play in socializing its inhabitants, in rendering them informed participants in civil society? And how did the dangers and discomforts of eighteenth-century urban living, permeating Gay's poem, compel Londoners (and poets) to develop new strategies for negotiating and reshaping the public sphere? While each essay can supply at most a partial answer to such questions, the aggregate provides a relatively coherent study of eighteenthcentury urban space. At the same time, the reader looking specifically for revised or comprehensive readings of Gay's poem itself may be disappointed, as the essays focus primarily on cultural contexts. Nevertheless, fresh perspectives place Gay's poem squarely at the center of current discussions about eighteenth-century urban life and society, and provide a compellingly multifaceted examination of the streets of eighteenth-century London. Margery Kingsley Cameron University


This paper investigates real-life environmental monitoring applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology, which through the research in the labs and the real deployments has proved to be a significant and valuable tool for scientists in their effort to explore various environmental phenomena. During the last decades, this wireless networking technology has been adopted by many scientific fields in order to accurately and effectively monitor climate phenomena such as air pollution, destruction phenomena (i.e., landslides), etc. It has also been widely used in agriculture as well as in horticulture for field monitoring. This paper provides a critical overview of the basic components existing WSN deployments use. It also categorizes these deployments, 111 in total, into five different field categories, namely agricultural monitoring, environmental monitoring, air-water pollution monitoring, monitoring of destruction phenomena, as well as monitoring of livestock, and wild animal, in order to provide a general view of the technologies used, the conditions under which the deployments were conducted, and much more. Then, five easy-to-use guides are provided discussing basic considerations for deploying WSNs in each of these fields. These guides cover various issues, such as sensor node platforms, operating systems (OSs), topologies, installation and maintenance issues, and much more. In order to showcase the usefulness of consulting the resulted guides, this work considers representative application scenarios for each of these field deployments.


Human leucocyte antigen‐G (HLA‐G) is a non‐classical HLA class I molecule that unlike the classical HLA, has low polymorphism. This molecule, initially, found on invasive trophoblast cells and is postulated to have mediatory role in maternal–fetal interface. So far 43 alleles of HLA‐G gene have been found. Studies on alleles of HLA‐G gene could be useful in understanding the genetic variants of HLA‐G alleles in Iranian population. The goal of this research was to determine the polymorphism of HLA‐G gene in a healthy population of Iran. Genomic DNA was isolated from the whole blood of 102 randomly selected, healthy, unrelated Iranian individuals using salting‐out technique followed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the exons 2 and 3 of HLA‐G gene. For the performance of PCR–restriction fragment length polymorphism method, the PCR products were digested with several restriction enzymes and the resulted fragments were analysed using gel electrophoresis. The obtained results indicated nine alleles of HLA‐G in Iranian individuals including G*01011 (4%), G*01012 (29.86%), G*01013 (10.8%), G*01015 (1.47%), G*01017 (1.96%), G*01018 (2.45%), G*01041 (29.4%), G*01043 (1.96%) and the null allele G* 0105N (18.1%). According to this study, in the Iranian subjects the most incident alleles were G*01012 and G*01041. The results for the frequency of G*01012 showed some similarity with Caucasians (36.3%).


A landfill is a dynamic system. Its contents undergo chemical, physical and biological changes. Substances migrate on the water path or on the gas path out of the landfill. Barriers can slow down processes and migration, but they are never 100% effective. State-of-the-art techniques exist for design and operation of hazardous waste landfills. The landfill is the last link in a long chain of waste management techniques. Therefore it is important to control the waste, which must be conditioned by pretreatment. National differences exist, on whether investments should be concentrated on pretreatment or landfilling. It is likely however, that 20 years from now there will be a state-of-the-art in waste management which is accepted worldwide. The focus will be either on intensive pretreatment or avoidance of hazardous (and domestic) wastes, thus making landfilling simple and safe.


Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE) has been recommended to choice of treatment for intermediate stage patients in several guidelines [2,3]. Median overall survival in this patient group might increase to 20 months from 16 with TACE [2]. However because intermediate stage has a large range of patients with different tumor burden and liver functions, outcome of the treatment may vary. In advanced stage patients, sorafenib is the recommended treatment with different results due to individual sensitivity and severity of adverse effects. Thus, intermediate and advanced stage HCCs has been the subject of experimenting new treatment strategies. Radioembolization (RE) with Y-90 resin or glass microspheres has been performed in intermediate and advanced stage HCC patients in many center as well as ours. Worldwide, over 15000 RE have been performed. Two types of microspheres are available in market. Resin microspheres (Sirtex, Syndey, New South Wales, Australia) have a diameter of 32 ± 10 μm and are approved by FDA in USA in the treatment of unresectable HCC and also have CE marking in European Countries. Glass microspheres (TheraSphere, Kanata, Ontario, Canada) have a diameter of 25 ± 10 μm and have CE marking in European Countries.


The design of a low VSWR axisymmetric subreflector using the method of moments is described. To reduce the power reflected back into the waveguide horn the surface of the hyperbolic subreflector is deformed using raised-cosine functions. The method of moments technique is then validated by comparing experimental and theoretical results.


Summary: The use of an automatic concentrate feeding station in a loose housing system for dairy cattle : part 1: Disturbance at the feeding station


Described in this paper is a new Microelectromechanical Hybrid Gyroscope(MHG), with advantages not only in the potentiality of achieving the high precision like the traditional dynamically tuned gyroscope(DTG), but also in small size and low cost like the Silicon Micromachined Gyroscope(SMG). The transfer coefficient of the moment is derived, with influence factors analyzed. A new tuning method which tuned the microelectromechanical hybrid gyroscope by negative stiffness effectiveness of the moment is adopted. An interface circuit is researched, the sensitivity equation of the interface circuit is deduced and a decoupled rebalancing control loop circuit is researched. Finally, on this basis, the prototype of the MHG is achieved. The experiment results prove that the new tuning method by negative stiffness effectiveness of the moment is feasible, and the designs of the interface circuit and rebalancing control loop are proper. The preliminary performance test of the prototype shows that the scale factor is 1.42mV/°/s, the scale factor non-linearity 2.47%and the maximum rate °200°/s, which proves that the fundamental principle of the MHG is feasible.


As Communications Service Providers (CSPs) scale up their deployment of new technologies in support of converged services, pressures increase on business processes and Operations Support Systems (OSSs), resulting in escalating operations expenses. Next Gen OSSs present part of the answer, especially for managing Layer 2 and 3 functions. However, the investment in core OSSs can continue to be leveraged, particularly in support of Layer 1 functionality, by making critical inventory data available to Next Gen OSSs through techniques such as data federation. This approach, called managed evolution, leads to reduced risk, lower operations expense, improved time-to-market, and an enhanced customer experience. In fact, by employing the principles of managed evolution, Tier 1 CSP operations expenses can be cut by $110 per subscriber per year, or $110 million annually for a CSP with 1 million subscribers. As cable operators and emerging VoIP players compete ever more successfully for the traditional voice-services market, it is crucial that CSPs differentiate themselves by offering convergent services tailored to customer preferences concerning devices, features, and payment options. Already, network operators around the world are rolling out technology to support such new services for both residential and business customers. New, high-bandwidth access technologies — such as Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) — will help to generate new revenue to offset declining voice and DSL revenues. Likewise, the rise in new transport technologies — such as Metro Ethernet — will help meet the demand for greater and more flexible bandwidth on networks that are easier for business customers to interact with and manage. A key premise of the investment in these new technologies is that the resulting streamlined operations will produce significant savings in operational expense. This savings, in turn, depends on enhancing or deploying the appropriate OSS and accompanying business processes, in order to enable rapid time to market, high levels of flow-through in fulfillment and assurance functions, and ultimately, increased customer satisfaction and confidence in the new services and technologies. Next Gen OSSs hold the promise of driving more efficiency in optical transport by helping CSPs automate provisioning, service assurance and integration. They do so by, among other things, enabling improved inventory management and capacity planning.


Several years ago James Q. Wilson studied the members of the three amateur Democratic clubs in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He intended his study, by his own admission, to be interesting rather than theoretical, but we have found its theoretical portions to be intriguing. The amateur politicians studies by Wilson primarily concentrated their energies in local politics, although their ambitions extended far beyond local campaigns and issues. Indeed, they expressed a clear desire to alter fundamentally the character of the American party system and, accordingly, all governing institutions. Wilson's task of identifying and characterizing the political motives and tactics of amateur Democrats was facilitated by the existence of political clubs. He had only to identify the clubs he wished to study and survey their members. Future researchers were left the responsibility of identifying similar political motives and tactics in less well-defined groups. We attempted to do this for a sample of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 1968, and, following Wilson's criteria, we were successful in identifying a substantial proportion of amateur Democrats. The amateur Democrat described by Wilson was not set apart from the more conventional party activitsts by his liberalism, his age, education or class. He was not a dilettante or an inept practitioner of politics, nor did he regard politics as an avocation or hobby. Rather the amateur found politics intrinsically interesting because it expressed a conception of the public interest. The political world was perceived in terms of policies and principles which were consistent with the amateur's theory of deomocracy.


As is well known, an electric radiator field is divided conventionally into three regions: a near region (an induction region or Fraunhofer one), an intermediate region (or Fresnel one) and a far region (a radiating one). Until recently radiators properties in a near region arouse a weak interest among antennas creators. But now these questions importance increased in view of problems of facilities electromagnetic compatibility.


Seagrasses are traversing the epoch of intense anthropogenic impacts that significantly decrease their coverage and invaluable ecosystem services, necessitating accurate and adaptable, global-scale mapping and monitoring solutions. Here, we combine the cloud computing power of Google Earth Engine with the freely available Copernicus Sentinel-2 multispectral image archive, image composition, and machine learning approaches to develop a methodological workflow for large-scale, high spatiotemporal mapping and monitoring of seagrass habitats. The present workflow can be easily tuned to space, time and data input; here, we show its potential, mapping 2510.1 km2 of P. oceanica seagrasses in an area of 40,951 km2 between 0 and 40 m of depth in the Aegean and Ionian Seas (Greek territorial waters) after applying support vector machines to a composite of 1045 Sentinel-2 tiles at 10-m resolution. The overall accuracy of P. oceanica seagrass habitats features an overall accuracy of 72% following validation by an independent field data set to reduce bias. We envision that the introduced flexible, time- and cost-efficient cloud-based chain will provide the crucial seasonal to interannual baseline mapping and monitoring of seagrass ecosystems in global scale, resolving gain and loss trends and assisting coastal conservation, management planning, and ultimately climate change mitigation.


Virtual teams are commonly used in businesses to meet employees' needs for teleworking. Meanwhile, informal learning is a social phenomenon that influences work outcomes in learning organizations. Understanding informal learning behavior with its important antecedents and outcomes is necessary, especially in the context of teleworking via electronic communication media as virtual teams. This paper proposes and examines a structured model that describes the relationships among employee-coworker relationship quality, psychological empowerment, informal learning behavior, job performance, and job satisfaction of virtual team members. The results show a positive relationship between ((i) job performance and job satisfaction, (ii) informal learning behavior and job performance, (iii) psychological empowerment and informal learning behavior, (iv) employee-coworker relationship quality and psychological empowerment. The employee-coworker relationship quality, psychological empowerment, and informal learning behavior can explain 30.3% of the variance of job performance, indicating the role of informal learning behavior and its antecedents on the work outcomes of virtual team members.


AbstractIncreasingly registration authorities are requesting expiry dating of pharmaceuticals. A scheme is suggested based on short term stability data at "room temperature" for obtaining reliable expiry dates. The advantages and disadvantages of this method and methods using elevated temperatures and the Arrhenius plot are discussed. The statistical equations necessary to calculate the minimum predicted shelf life are given and difficulties encountered in their use explained.


A new passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) image acquisition and reconstruction method is proposed based on compressed sensing (CS) and spatial sparse scanned imaging. In this method, the images are sparse sampled through a variety of spatial sparse scanned trajectories, and are reconstructed by using conjugate gradient-total variation recovery algorithm. The principles and applications of CS theories are described, and the influence of the randomness of the measurement matrix on the quality of reconstruction images is studied. Based on the above work, the qualities of the reconstructed images which were obtained by the sparse sampling method were analyzed and compared. The research results show that the proposed method can effectively reduce the image scanned acquisition time and can obtain relatively satisfied reconstructed imaging quality.


The present study make a deep analysis of the Chang TAN, Wu Yin, Tongshan Yuan,Wen Rui,Niu Tou mountain , Qian Tang River six large scale irrigation management status and conventional water distribution operation mode. We refer a promising method of optimal water allocation of irrigation canal system based on the former research.


The Perception and Knowledge of Insecticides and Weedicides, Use and Safety Precautions among Chemical Sellers, Farmers and Home Tenants in Kumasi, Ghana
Many farmers, home tenants and chemical sellers are ignorant of the effective and safe use of insecticides and Weedicides. Most farmers and home tenants lack the expertise to use insecticides and Weedicides effectively and safely without causing harm to themselves or the environment. Moreover, some chemical sellers do not have adequate knowledge of the chemicals (insecticides and Weedicides) they sell and are unable to give appropriate directions or instructions on their use to customers. To ascertain their knowledge, questionnaires were constructed and used to interview 60 respondents (20 chemical sellers, 20 farmers and 20 home tenants) in selected areas in the Kumasi metropolis. The results revealed that of the respondents interviewed, 45% of chemical sellers, 60% of farmers and 70% of home tenants had no idea of the chemical composition of the insecticides and/or Weedicides which they were using or selling.


We present operational details and preliminary experimental results of a portable freely-deployed "active beacon" used to perform motion compensation on images from the KiwiSAS-IV synthetic aperture sonar. The beacon sits on the seabed, listens for sonar pings using a matched filter, and retransmits in a different frequency band after a fixed time delay. The sonar forms a separate image containing just this point-target, blurred by towfish motion, with a high SNR and no contamination from close range objects. Autofocus algorithms tailored for point targets are then applied to estimate the sonar path. The experimental results are from the first sea test in a shallow marina environment and reveal several areas where improvement needs to be made before good results can be achieved. The main problems encountered were multipath and nulls in the sonar beampattern


We reported a case of 12-years-old girl with isolated pain in of the left wrist. The problem had lasted for 5 weeks after a trauma, and was getting worse. Wrist X-ray was obtained, and no abnormalities were appreciated. The diagnosis after clinical and echo graphic examinations was a De Quervain's tenosynovitis which has never been reported before in pediatric orthopedic literature.


This paper surveys the effects of two of the most important federal policies toward housing: the "implicit subsidy" for owner-occupied housing in the income tax code, and the provision of housing for low income families at rents below cost. Emphasis is placed on the methodological problems that arise in attempts to assess the efficiency and distributive implications of these programs.Section 1 critically discusses the rationalization for a government housing policy. Section 2 investigates the econometric problems associated with estimating the effects of government policy upon housing decisions.The federal tax treatment of owner-occupation and how it affects the cost and demand for homeownership are discussed in Section 3. In Section 4, the positive and normative implications of U.S. policies for low income housing are evaluated.The conclusion notes that the policies under concern have led to a greater than efficient amount of housing consumption, and have on net probablyl ed to a more unequal distribution of income.


We discuss the interplay between magnetic and structural degrees of freedom in elemental Mn. The equilibrium volume is shown to be sensitive to magnetic interactions between the Mn atoms. While the standard generalized gradient approximation underestimates the equilibrium volume, a more accurate treatment of the effects of electronic localization and magnetism is found to solve this longstanding problem. Our calculations also reveal the presence of a magnetic phase in strained $\ensuremath{\alpha}$-Mn that has been reported previously in experiments. This new phase of strained $\ensuremath{\alpha}$-Mn exhibits a noncollinear spin structure with large magnetic moments.


Along with the rise of dynamic-oriented view in the field of strategic management,the research on strategy evolution turns from high decentralization to convergence.The differences on investment,determination and degree of strategic commitment may have influence on strategic positioning evolution in dynamic competitions.It is more applicable to use qualitative research methods to study this complex and dynamic evolution.Using grounded theory method based on a single case,combining with multiple cases test,we identified the configuration of strategic commitment and discussed the way in which strategic commitment influence strategic positioning evolution.The results show that strategic commitment is a special strategic element,which comes from the creating and evolving process of organizational strategy and the decision-making process of micro strategic behavior promoted by the strategy.It is also can be inferred that strategic commitment represented in the aspects of market,resource and ability,value activity and organization may have influence on the inertia,consistency,continuity and adaptation evolution effect of strategic positioning.


The inhibition of kresoxim-methyl against mycelium growth of Botrytis cinerea was lower than that of spore germination, spore quantity and sclerotial weight with their EC50 at 935.670, 0.667, 0.479 and 6.975 mg/L in vitro studies. With the concentration of 10 mg/L and 20 mg/L, Kresoxim-methyl showed the excellent protective and curative activity against grey mould of tomato, the control efficacy of kresoximmethyl applied 24 h before inoculation, were 92.3% and 100%, the control efficacy of 24h after inoculation were 83.3% and 100%, respectively. Kresoxim-methyl had the excellent systemic activity and could transmit up.


In this study, it was aimed to examine obesity awareness levels of physical education teacher and coaching education students.251 (103 women, age:20,36 ± 2,31 years, BMI:20,02±2,23 kg) who studied in the Department of Coaching and Physical Education of Bartin University Faculty of Sport Sciences in 2019-2020 academic year were included in this study. 147 male, age:20.15±2.32 years, BMI:21.42±2.67 kg/m2) students participated voluntarily. Obesity Awareness Scale was developed by Allen (2011) and adapted to Turkish by Kafkas and Ozen (2014) and personal information form including age, gender and department variable were applied to the participants. The data obtained in the study were analyzed with SPSS 20.0 statistical package program and the level of significance was taken as (p .05). There was no significant difference between obesity awareness and department variable (p>.05). When the obesity awareness scores were examined, the average score of the students of the coaching department was average 62.23 meanwhile the teaching department students average score 62,91. It was found that both physical education teachers and coaching department students had high obesity awareness, but there was no significant difference between the groups in terms of department and gender variables and obesity awareness.


Abstract : In order to prevent further pollution of the ocean environment in the Inland Sea of Japan, the Ministry of Transport conducted a bottom sediment improvement test by sand overlaying in Hiroshima Bay. Prior to execution of this test, a test to overlay the bottom sediment with sand of a thin layer was conducted by using a barge unloader sand spreader. As a result, the following facts were discovered: It is possible to evenly spread a sand cover over bottom sediment to a specified thickness with relative ease. The disturbance to bottom sediment is minor because the sand is gently spread. Water pollution caused by the resuspension of bottom sediment or overlying sand is minor. It was confirmed, therefore, that the sand spreader process is feasible for practical use as a sand overlaying process for bottom sediment improvement.


The objective of the present study was to investigate the effects of provision of shade on behavior, physiology, and growth of Merino lambs exposed to natural Australian summer conditions. Sixty Merino lambs were randomly allocated to either pasture with shade (n = 30;paddock with trees) or a pasture without shade (n = 30;paddock without any trees) for one month during southern-Australian summer (February-2021). Sheep were grazing on the pastures as per standard protocols followed on the farm with ad libitum access to water. Lambs were monitored twice daily between 0900-1000h and 1400-1600h to record their behavior, and physiological parameters were recorded on hot days (environmental temperature (T) >30°C). Behavioral patterns were represented as the proportion of animals doing specific activities in each treatment group. Grazing was the most frequent activity observed in animals during morning measurement (> 60% in both groups). However, high temperature (T > 30°C) decreased grazing behavior in sheep to < 5% in both treatments. Standing behavior was significantly greater (65.2 vs 21.6%; P < 0.05) for animals under non-shade treatment, while lying behavior was more frequent (17.3 vs 76.3%; P < 0.01) in animals having access to shade. Significantly more animals were seeking water troughs (P < 0.05) in the non-shade group (33.2%) compared to the shade group (10.3%). On an average hot day (T >28°C), most lambs in the shade group were seeking shade (P < 0.01), and when the temperature exceeded >32°C, 90% of the lambs were seeking tree shade. Sheep with access to shade exhibited lower (P < 0.01) respiration rate (117breaths/min) and rectal temperature (39.7°C) than non-shade group (151breaths/min;40.2°C). Overall, access to shade improved (P < 0.001) average daily gain (+0.047kg/day) in sheep compared to the non-shade group (-0.028kg/day). In conclusion, our research confirms that providing access to shade is an effective ameliorative strategy to mitigate heat-stress in sheep during summer heatwaves.


Karst landform is widely distributed over the Jiangyou region which has an important influence on building,factories and mines,dam and transport facility.This paper deals with genetic mechanism for the karst collapse and puts forward some control measures.


Aim To observe the clinical effect of atrovastatin on the patients of coronary slow flow.Methods A total of 75 patients with coronary slow flow and chest pain were randomly divided into 2 groups.The trial group(atrovastatin 20mg/d for half a year,n=45)was treated with atrovastatin and another group(n=30)was treated with the same drugs except atrovastatin.28 healthy subjects with normal angiography and chest pain but negative exercise ECG acted as norml controls.hs-CRP、ET-1 and IL-6 were measured with ELISA.NO was measured with chromatometry.Results TIMI frame counts in statin group and non-statin group were significantly higher than those in control group through coronary angiography.Half a year later,TIMI frame counts in statin group and control group were significantly lower than those in non-statin group through coronary angiography.Half a year later,TG and HDL-c were similar in three groups,total cholesterol and LDL-c levels were significantly lower in statin group than those in non-statin group and control group.Multivarible analysis showed that hs-CRP,ET-1,IL-6 and NO were risk factors of CSF.The total effective rate of treatment with atrovastatin was 84% in statin group.Conclusion It showed that atrovastatin not only decreases lipid,have effect of antiinflammation and protecting endothelium,but also improves patients'clinical symptom with coronary slow flow.


Abstract - Pap Smear is an early examination to diagnose whether there's indication cervical cancer or not, the process of observations were done by observing pap smear cell under the microscope. There's so many research has been done to differentiate between normal and abnormal cell. In this research presents a classification of pap smear cell based on texture analysis. This research is using the Harlev image which amounts to 280 images, 140 images are used as training data and 140 images other are used as testing. On the texture analysis used Gray level Co-occurance Matrix (GLCM) method with 5 parameters that is correlation, energy, homogeneity and entropy added by counting the value of brightness. For choose which the best attribute used correlation-based feature selection method and than used C45 algorithm for produce classification rule. The result accuracy of the classification normal and abnormal used decision tree C45 is 96,43% and errors in predicting is 3,57%.
Keywords : Classification, Pap Smear cell image, texture analysis, Correlation-based feature selection, C45 algorithm.

Abstrak - Pap Smear merupakan pemeriksaan dini untuk mendiagnosa apakah ada indikasi kanker serviks atau tidak, proses pengamatan dilakukan dengan mengamati sel pap smear dibawah mikroskop. Banyak penelitian yang telah dilakukan untuk membedakan antara sel normal dan abnormal. Dalam penelitian ini menyajikan klasifikasi inti sel pap smear berdasarkan analisis tektur. Citra yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah citra Harlev yang berjumlah 280 citra, 140 citra digunakan sebagai data training dan 140 citra lain digunakan sebagai testing. Pada analisis tekstur mengunakan metode Gray level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) menggunakan 5 parameter yaitu korelasi, energi, homogenitas dan entropi ditambah dengan menghitung nilai brightness. Untuk memilih mana atribut terbaik digunakan metode correlation-based feature selection lalu digunakan algoritma C45 untuk menghasikan rule klasifikasi. akurasi yang dihasilkan dari klasifikasi normal dan abnormal yang menggunakan decision tree C45 adalah 96,43% dan kesalahan dalam memprediksi adalah 3,57%.
Kata Kunci: Klasifikasi, Citra sel Pap Smear, Analisis tekstur, Correlation-based feature selection, Algoritma C45.


Production of Low Carbon Ferro alloys by Thermit process started in India in an organised manner around 20 years back under the sponsorship of Iron & Steel control and the able technical guidance of the National Metallurgical Labo-ratory, Jamshedpur. But unfortunately, the promise, which was envisaged at the beginning, has remained largely unfulfilled till today. The passage of this industry all these years since its inception has been chequered and
the industry is under severe strain now. An attempt has been made in this paper to enumerate some of the problems that are facing the low carbon ferro alloy industry. Possible solutions for some of the problems have also been suggested for the survival of this industry.


The development of economic and social relations in the context of the transition to more specific technical requirements and the enhancement of its economic activity is an important development of the state in the educational phase of development. One of the key aspects of this is the personnel security and institutional regulation. In this context, one can note that the effective development of the agrarian business is often affected by a number of serious obstacles that require immediate resolution. Technological and technical backwardness of domestic subjects of agrarian business, involved in the production and processing of agricultural products, the ineffectiveness of the existing institutions of agrarian business, the imperfection of regulatory and legal provision, determine the low level of its economic potential and competitiveness on the world stage. Therefore, the research presented in this paper is an actuality of scientific advancement which has a practical understanding for improving the methodological foundations of institutional regulation in particular, on the effective functioning of the appropriate system of renovations in the direction of developing the economic potential that uses the example of the agrarian business sector.


This paper analyses the problems and deficiencies in current occupational skill evaluation work in vocation colleges and puts forward some ways and approaches to promote occupational skill evaluation work from the aspects of ideology,curriculum setting,teaching reform,faculty building and college-corps cooperation.


In order to verify the impact of molecular markers in agricultural I+D activity in Cuba and worldwide, a bibliometric analysis about that technology was carried out during the period 1970- 2004 (first semester). A retrospective research was carried out in four important international databases, three of them specialized (AGRIS, CAB ABSTRACT, AGRICOLA), and the other of academic cover (Academic Search Elite). Methodological procedures used in sample compilation and analysis, as well as the results and discussions about the studies concerning the topic, were described. In order to provide a more clear vision, the study was presented in two parts: one centralized in the foreign scientific production and the other in the national scientific production. From the informetric analyses and the results obtained in the sample, the evolution and impacts of molecular marker are inferred in the agricultural scientific activity.


Objective: The study aimed to investigate the efficacy of computed tomography (CT)-guided cryoablation debulking of unresectable pelvic recurrent colorectal cancer (CRC). Patients and methods: From January 2013 to April 2016, 30 patients (18 males and 12 females; aged 57.8 ± 10.5 years) with unresectable pelvic recurrent CRC who had previously received radiotherapy or chemotherapy were included. A total of 35 tumors ranging from 1.2 to 6.3 cm underwent cryoablation. Tumor response was evaluated 1 month after cryoablation according to the Modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors. Logistic regression was used to analyze the risk factors for tumor response. Degree of pain palliation was also determined using the Numerical Rating Scale. Cox proportional hazard models were used to identify predictors of outcomes. Results: Cryoablation was successfully performed in all patients. Complete response (CR) was achieved for 27 tumors in 23 patients and partial response was achieved for eight tumors in seven patients 1 month after cryoablation. The rate of CR was 77.14%, and tumor size was an independent risk factor for CR. Pain relief was satisfactory in 21 symptomatic patients ( P , 0.001), and the median duration of pain relief was 6.0 months (95% CI: 2.67–9.33). Serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was significantly decreased after cryoablation in 15 patients with elevated CEA ( P = 0.005). The median progression-free survival (PFS) was 10.0 months (95% CI: 4.43–15.67). Multivariate analysis revealed that tumor size (HR = 3.089, P , 0.001), sex (HR = 0.089, P = 0.002), and elevated CEA (HR = 7.015, P = 0.002) were independent predictors of PFS. Conclusion: CT-guided cryoablation is a safe and effective therapeutic option for pelvic recurrent CRC. Tumor size is an important predictor of poor outcomes.


Knowledge management contributes to the performance of enterprises in developing goods and services, but also serves as a tool in the development of innovation capability and in the innovation process. The aim of this research is to examine whether knowledge and innovation management has an impact on the innovation capabilities of enterprises and on the success of new products. In line with this aim, 10 enterprises that constitute the majority of the domestic market in the Turkish white goods sector have formed the universe of the research. As a sampling method, judgemental sampling method was selected, and 600 white collar employees were included in the study. Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOSS programs. As a result of the research, it has been concluded that innovation ability has a direct impact on new product success. Moreover, it has emerged that information creation, process innovation and capability innovation have directly affected innovation capability. On the other hand, inter-organizational information sharing and implementation and structural innovation have no effect on innovation capability.


High fruit and vegetable intake is associated with decreased cancer risk. However, dietary recall data from national surveys suggest that, on any given day, intake falls below the recommended minima of three daily servings of vegetables and two daily servings of fruit. There is no single widely accepted measure of "usual" intake. One approach is to regard the distribution of intake as a mixture of "regular" (relatively frequent) and "nonregular" (relatively infrequent) consumers, using an indicator of whether an individual consumed the food of interest on the recall day. We use a new approach to summarizing dietary data, latent class analysis (LCA), to estimate "usual" intake of vegetables. The data consist of four 24-hour dietary recalls from the 1985 Continuing Survey of Intakes by Individuals collected from 1,028 women. Traditional LCA based on simple random sampling was extended to complex survey data by introducing sample weights into the latent class estimation algorithm and by accounting for the complex sample design through the use of jackknife standard errors. A two-class model showed that 18%% do not regularly consume vegetables, compared to an unweighted estimate of 33%%. Simulations showed that ignoring sample weights resulted in biased parameter estimates and that jackknife variances were slightly conservative but provided satisfactory confidence interval coverage. Using a survey-wide estimate of the design effect for variance estimation is not accurate for LCA. The methods proposed in this article are readily implemented for the analysis of complex sample survey data.


Abstract This paper presents new eigensolution methods for calculation of the whirl frequencies and critical speeds for gyroscopic/rotor systems without any cross-coupling except gyroscopic forces, and shows that there exists a set of real eigenvectors which constructs a basis for the vector space of such a gyroscopic system. It is shown that the original complex eigenvalue problem can be rearranged into a real eigenvalue problem in terms of two real symmetric matrices which are directly assembled from the original mass, gyroscopic and stiffness matrices. Then a closed form response is derived, and the characteristics of the response are analytically examined by using the real modes. Two numerical examples are presented.


In the paper under study is the legal regulation of the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN) in order to make a comparative analysis of the both organisations. The author uses several criteria for making the comparison such as issues with regard to the establishment of each of the organisations, their constitutive acts, the original members and subsequent membership, the institutional framework, the headquarters and official languages of the League and the UN, the decision-making process and the dispute resolution mechanisms.
The study finds that the field of activity and the responsibilities of the United Nations are considerably more extensive than those of the League and that despite the shortcomings with regard to the activities of the League one can hardly avoid viewing the League as a precursor to the UN system. There is clear continuity between the two organisations and both the League and the UN thus should be seen as sharing the same idea of establishing a world order based on peace, security and law, and of promoting the peaceful multilateral co-operation between the members of the international community.


Phytochemical investigation of the 70% aqueous acetone extract of Euphorbia dracunculoides Lam. afforded a new premyrsinane-type diterpenoid polyester, 3 beta-O-isobutyryl-5 alpha-O-benzoyl-7 beta, 13 beta-di-O-acetyl-17-O-nicotinoylpremyrsinol (1), and two known analogues, euphorbialoids C (2) and D (3). Their structures were elucidated by means of extensive spectroscopic analysis (NMR and ESI-MS) and comparison with data reported in the literature.


The feasibility of employing catalytic combustion technology to control the emissions of oxides of nitrogen for subsonic, stratospheric cruise aircraft operations is the objective of this NASA contract. The existing Enivornmental Protection Agency standards for the landing and takeoff cycle were also required to be satisfied. Work for the first phase of a proposed three phase effort is reported and is concerned with analytical design studies.


In past decades, the technique of superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) has received substantial attention both by academia and industry with the great improvement of applicable high temperature superconductors and relevant control technologies. A bridge-type inductive energy management system topology is presented for SMES applications by using a concept of digitalization. The inductive power charging, storing and discharging status are modelled, and then digitalized for the advanced control implementation. As a consequence, an inductive energy control method can be realized by the digitalized models to satisfy relative project requirements by high efficiency and control precession. New principles and methodologies provide the theoretical foundation to achieve digital power inductor energy control and superconducting inductive energy storage device operation.


Many methods can be used by the community to burn coconut shells into charcoal, one of which is by utilizing appropriate technology fueled by diesel oil, namely shell powder processing machines. The production of briquettes from coconut shells is still limited and has not developed rapidly because the process of shelling coconut shells is still simple thus it takes three to five days. The use of adhesive amounts is not optimal. This is done to fulfill the community's desire; therefore, coconut shell waste can be managed as raw material for making briquettes to become a source of community income. The purpose of this research is to optimize the production of coconut shell briquettes by utilizing appropriate technology fueled by diesel oil. The method used is by conducting a trial process of starch adhesive treatment, namely 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6%, 6.25%, and 7% with the amount of water 900 ml at a temperature of 70 0C to form gelatinization. As a result, it was found that the best starch adhesive treatment is in the 6.25% test with the ratio of the starch adhesive mixture, shell powder, and water being 0.25: 4: 0.9. It indicates that the resulting briquette shape is more efficient, has high density and small briquette pores.


Performance measurement and analysis for computer systems has been studied for a long time. However, little attention has been focused on how to distribute a given budget to each part of a computer system for enhancing system performance maximally. In traditional approaches, performance enhancement is achieved by identifying a dominant system bottleneck and enhancing the bottleneck's performance. These approaches, however, often bring problems since the removal of a bottleneck may result in other bottlenecks. This paper proposes an approximated method for such budget distribution problem. For budget distribution, a critical set is defined. The set contains the servers of which performance changes affect the overall system performance significantly. Then, the given budget is distributed properly to every server in the critical set. To verify the proposed method, two benchmark experiments are carried out in SLAM environments. The experimental results show that the proposed method provides better results than the traditional method does in many cases.


A method and system for managing undesired service requests sent to a network from at least one terminal is described, the network having a network node for storing trusted service information. The method includes the following steps. Receiving a service request from a terminal, wherein the request includes service request information. And if at least part of the service request information is not in the list of trusted service information, a user authentication request requesting the user to authenticate the service requested by the terminal, preferably a secure communication channel To send through. [Selection] Figure 1


As an alternative to antibiotics, nanoparticles are increasingly being employed to target bacteria. Nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infections. Biosynthesis is becoming increasingly popular as a cutting-edge method for producing functionally diverse Nanoparticles with enormous therapeutic potential. Various biological resources have already proven their ability to manufacture Nano-particles with unique properties. They have a diverse and distinct pool of possibly therapeutic secondary metabolites that can reduce metallic ions to Nano-particles. Selenium dioxide Nano-particles were made from Cinnamomum cassia extract (NPs). The created Selenium dioxides were examined using a variety of techniques, including XRD, UV-Vis, and TEM. Two bacteria were used to investigate the anti-bacterial effect.


We document a secular shift from initial public offerings to acquisitions of venture capital-backed start-ups and show that this trend is accompanied by an increase in the opportunity cost of going public over the last quarter-century. Dominant companies that are disproportionately active in the corporate control market for start-ups have become more insulated from the pressures of product market competition over the same period. These facts are consistent with the hypothesis that start-up acquisitions have contributed to rising oligopoly power.


Objective: It is still disputable whether high salt intake is associated with cardiovascular/renal damage independently of blood pressure (BP) levels. We evaluated whether high salt intake could potentiate the relation between BP and albuminuria. Design and method: In a representative sample (n = 3720) of the Portuguese adult population (PHYSA Study) we evaluated BP in 2 different occasions, and 24 h sodium excretion (UNa+, mmol/day) and 24 h albuminuria excretion (log of mg/24 h) both in 24 h urinary samples validated by urinary creatinine. We evaluated the relation between BP and albuminuria for all and for each of the 4 quartiles of UNa+ distribution just in subjects NOT treated with modulators of the renin angiotensin system. Results: We evaluate 2004 subjects, 51,5 % female, ageing 47 + 16 yrs. BMI 27 + 15 Kg/m2). Systolic BP (SBP, average 127 + 16 mmHg) correlated with log of albuminuria (average log 0.79 + 0.36 mg/24 h) (r = 1.05 p < 0.02). Quartiles of UNa + did not differ for age, gender distribution and BMI. From the quartil with the lower UNa + values Q1 = 111 + 20 mmol/d to the subsequent quartiles Q2 = 143 + 12; Q3 = 183 + 13 and Q4 = 260 + 49 mmol/d with the highest values, these was a significant increase of SBP in Q1 = 123 + 16; Q2 = 124 + 15; Q3 126 + 14 and Q4 127 + 15 mmHg (p < 0.03, ANOVA) and of Log of albuminuria: Q1 = 0.68 + 0.29; Q2 = 0.72 + 0.28; Q3 = 0.82 + 0.34 and Q4 = 0.95 + 0.42 (p < 0.01, ANOVA). For similar SBP within the range of mean + 1SD (110–140 mmHg, n = 1341) albuminuria significantly (p < 0.001) progressively increased from Q1 (0.67 + 0.28) to Q4 (0.95 + 0.45) with a regression line between SBP and albuminuria becoming progressively steeper. Conclusions: Our data suggest that high salt intake potentiates the effect of pressure on the rise of urinary albumin excretion, suggesting a deleterious effect of high salt on the vascular and renal homeostasis partially independent of blood pressure.


BACKGROUND Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is an inflammatory disease affecting the nasal cavity and paranasal sinus mucosa. Corticosteroids are commonly used for CRS medical management in various formulations, including oral steroids and nasal sprays. In recent years, concentrated budesonide respules added to high-volume saline irrigations have also been adopted in the treatment of CRS patients. The dosing of budesonide used in these concentrated irrigations ranges from 0.25 mg to 2 mg per 240 mL saline irrigation, compared to 64 lg to 400 lg per spray in budesonide nasal spray formulations. However, very little high-volume budesonide irrigation is retained in the sinuses. The concern for increased systemic steroid absorption and associated side effects remains an active area of investigation. Given the increasing adoption of this off-label usage and the higher doses of budesonide used, it is important to examine the safety profile of topical high-volume budesonide irrigation.


The appearance of this paper was motivated by the result of an excellent opportunity granted by IEEE to look online at old journals and proceedings including the Proceedings of IRE in particular. From my previous experience I know that the new results very often can be the well-forgotten ones, and sometimes those who were pioneering the technical ideas are undeservedly passed over, especially if it was almost a century ago. In some cases, due to the difficulties with accessing the particular periodical publications, especially in different languages, the results are simply unknown. But it is always interesting to know how, where, and when this or that technical idea could firstly appear. Of course, history also should be learned in order not to repeat it. For example, in view of modern requirements for cost and power saving technologies, it is very important to provide the highly efficient operation of any radio equipment. However, operational efficiency of radio transmitters was already topical at the dawn of high-power radio transmission system development. The possibility of improving efficiency of a vacuum-tube power amplifiers by proper approximation of the anode voltage and current waveforms was discussed in the early 1920s [1]. It was then concluded that, theoretically, three-electrode tubes constitute converters of direct current to alternating current having generally unforeseen efficiencies. This means that, for different waveforms, anode efficiency will be different. For example, it may change from 50% for a purely sinusoidal anode current to 100% for rectangular pulses. Under operation with θ = π/2, where θ corresponds to a half-conduction angle in a Class B operation mode, the maximum theoretical anode efficiency achieves π/4 or 78.5%, characterized by the sinusoidal anode voltage waveform and halfsinusoidal current waveform. Indeed, in many respects it becomes clear by using a Fourier analysis of the corresponding typical current and voltage waveforms. Figure 1 shows that the shapes of the voltage and current waveforms can be significantly changed with increasing fundamental voltage amplitude by adding even one additional harmonic component with a proper phase. For This article reviews the history of power amplifier techniques that use control of the fundamental and harmonic waveforms to achieve high efficiencies


A plastic anemia (AA) is a rare disease, with an incidence of only 1–2 per million population per year in theWest. Consequently, there have been few prospective, controlled clinical trials for the different treatment options, namely immunosuppressive therapy and bone marrow transplantation, but


In this paper, we systematically study property testing of unitary operators. We first introduce a distance measure that reflects the average difference between unitary operators. Then we show that, with respect to this distance measure, the orthogonal group, quantum juntas (i.e., unitary operators that only nontrivially act on a few qubits of the system), and the Clifford group can be all efficiently tested. In fact, their testing algorithms have query complexities independent of the system's size and have only one-sided error. Then we give an algorithm that tests any finite subset of the unitary group, and demonstrate an application of this algorithm to the permutation group. This algorithm also has one-sided error and polynomial query complexity, but it is unknown whether it can be efficiently implemented in general.


This paper empirically examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on exports in Africa. Using the system-generalised method of moments estimator for linear dynamic panel data on a sample of 53 African countries and five-year periods from 1970 to 2009, the paper finds that higher FDI inflows are positively and significantly linked with higher exports of goods and services. A large part of the FDI effect is driven by its spillover effects on exports. The paper also finds the lagged value of exports, a competitive currency, as well as increases in domestic investment and physical infrastructure, to be factors stimulating African exports.


This is the first of two papers in which we construct formal power series solutions in external parameters to the vacuum Einstein equations, implementing one bounce for the Belinskii-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz (BKL) proposal for spatially inhomogeneous spacetimes. We use a graded Lie algebra, homological framework. A dedicated filtration encodes key features of the BKL proposal, and we use it to set up an unobstructed perturbative problem.


Abstract I propose a simple skewness-based test of symmetry suitable for a stationary time series. The test is based on the difference between the squared deviation of a process above its median with that below it. The test has many attractive features: it is applicable to weakly dependent processes, it has a familiar form, it can be implemented using regression, and it has a standard Gaussian limiting distribution under the null hypothesis of symmetry. The finite sample properties of the test statistic are examined via Monte Carlo simulation and suggest that it has better size-adjusted power compared to competing tests in the literature when examining moderately persistence processes. I apply the test to a range of US economic and financial data and find stronger support for asymmetry in financial series compared to economic series.


The paper demonstrates an innovation and efficient implementation of ICAI domain knowledge base and its application.By designing a serial of common structures to store knowledge points' attributes,we established a cascade tree structure and a supporting network model to store domain knowledge.When knowledge point is stored in this model,we can realize a lot of ICAI features,such as learning path creation,dynamic learning process control,knowledge defects diagnosis and personalized learning.


Changes in expression of 140 genes associated with growth and adipose deposition in the logissimus dorsi muscle were studied at various growth stages,in Tibetan,Taihu and Landrace pigs,using a pathway-focused oligo microarray.Analysis of variance(ANOVA) revealed statistically significant differences in the expression of 17 genes in Tibetan pigs at 4 stages(2,4,6 and 8 months of age).Significant differences were also identified in the expression of 28 genes,at 2 months of age,in all 3 pig breeds.Tibetan pigs had significantly lower body weights than Taihu and Landrace pigs,at two months,and a larger myofiber cross-sectional area(CSA).Cluster analysis revealed a significant(P0.01) level of expression of 2 genes in Tibetan pigs,and strong down-regulation,or up-regulation of genes between 2-8 months.Quantitative,real time RT-PCR was used to verify the microarray data for five modulated genes,a good correlation between the two measures was observed for Tibetan pigs at different growth stages(R=0.856±0.109).These results indicate that,in Tibetan pigs aged 2-8 months,growth intensity for muscle is higher than for intramuscular fat.The genes that exhibited down-regulation were mainly those controlling fatty acid biosynthesis.Genes that were up-regulated were concerned mainly with fatty acid β-oxidation and myofibre growth;more so than in Tibetan pigs than in the other breeds at 2 months of age.These results are consistent with the unique genetic characteristics of Tibetan pigs,which are adapted to unusual ecological conditions in the high plateau areas.


Paper properties such as gloss, friction or printability strongly depend on the surface roughness. However, this dependence on the roughness in relation to the measurement scale is not systematically taken into account. Paper surface topography is here studied in a multi-scale approach with the help of a focus variation device. For each measurement scale, statistical parameters were calculated to describe the surface. We isolated among the long list of parameters calculated those that were relevant for paper surface topography analysis. A new method of characterization of paper surface roughness is proposed based on a scaling analysis taken from either profile or surface data. Depending on the scale of analysis different fractal stages were exhibited. The influence of the step of discretization on the roughness parameters was also investigated. 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


Autonomous driving has attracted remarkable attention from both industry and academic, lidar is one of the most sensors in the core module of autonomous driving, it plays an important role in vehicle positioning and obstacle avoidance, Lidar is usually expensive and noble, but to reduce the blind area of vehicles, it has to increase the number of lidars, making autonomous vehicles are expensive. Based on this background, a servo system with two degrees of freedom is designed in this paper to make up for blind spots in a lidar system. Autonomous vehicle lidar servo system works when the car turns, goes up and down ramps. Based on the kinematic behavior of the vehicle, dynamic analysis was performed, the angle of lidar detection changes with the rotation of the steering wheel, and the tilt angle of the vehicle body. The blind area caused by the angle of the vehicle can be avoided. The servo lidar control system was simulated by MATLAB, and its performance was verified. In a word, the blind zone of an autonomous driving vehicles can be effectively reduced. At the same times lidars can be fully utilized to reduce hardware costs.


Isolated particle swarm optimization (IPSO) segregates particles into several sub-swarms in order to improve the ability of the global optimization. In this study, particle migration and global best adoption (gbest adoption) are used to improve IPSO. Particle migration allows particles to travel among sub-swarms, based on the fitness of the sub-swarms. The use of gbest adoption allows sub-swarms to peep at the gbest proportionally or probably after a certain number of iterations, i.e. gbest replacing, and gbest sharing, respectively. Three well-known benchmark functions are utilized to determine the parameter settings of the IPSO. Then, 13 benchmark functions are used to study the performance of the designed IPSO. Computational experience demonstrates that the designed IPSO is superior to the original version of particle swarm optimization (PSO) in terms of the accuracy and stability of the results, when isolation phenomenon, particle migration and gbest sharing are involved.


The influence of load, lubrication and temperature on working properties of friction sheet of planet gearbox in track vehicle was qualitatively discussed in this paper. The sliding time of friction sheet was decided by manipulating oil pressure, which can be reduced lightly under invariable sliding friction work. Compound lubrication is suitable for clutch and brake of track vehicle and its sticky should be an important criterion for choice. Moreover, lubrication was allotted equably through optimizing lubricant construction. Keeping dynamic equilibrium of friction sheet internal temperature and working environmental temperature was required to ensure it work normally.


ABSTRACT Commercialised voice user interface devices for the home, like Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod, with integrated digital personal assistants have rapidly grown in popularity. These devices embody intelligent software agents that support users in their everyday life through easy and intuitive conversational interactions. While their use in everyday activities is largely unexplored, the proliferation in home use presents a valuable opportunity to add to understanding around the use of in-home digital personal assistants. In this paper, we investigate their home use in a broad context to learn more about people's experiences, attitudes, interactions and expectations with these devices contributing new insights to current knowledge around this use. Applying the digital ethnography method, we collected 3542 reviews and comments about Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod on Amazon, eBay, and Reddit. Six main themes and 29 categories were derived through filtering, thematic analysis and affinity diagramming. These findings constitute a conceptual framework characterising the current landscape of home use of digital personal assistants. Additionally, we identify and discuss unique issues discovered around the invisible interface, interactive freedom, and creative appropriation. We use our findings to propose implications for interaction design of DPAs for home use.


AbstractThe present study mainly aims to determine whether the water treatment process is microbiologically feasible to reduce the microbial load and safe for consumption. The work was focused on four water treatment plants (WTP's) supplying drinking water to Mysore urban city (Karnataka, India). A total of 144 samples were collected and analyzed during three seasons (December 2011 to August 2013) for microbiological and physico-chemical parameters. Water samples were collected from different stages of treatment such as raw water, stage-1 (coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation), stage-2 (filtration), and finally water from four WTP's. In this study most probable number method to assess the microbiological water quality and heterotrophic plate count (HPC) was used to assess microbial load reduction in different stages of treatment. The result of the study indicates that treated water samples pH values were within the permissible range of World Health Organization (WHO). The reduction of turbidity for trea...


The goal of the research is statistical analyzes of air traffic in airport "Riga" zone. Special statistical methods oriented to the concrete object area – airspace of Latvia are developed. Some experiments are made to discover season's and during twenty-four hours unstationarity of this process. Air traffic intensity for some stationary period for some airways is estimated.


This paper, consisting of two parts, presents an analysis of the current state of Markov model , building for intragenerational occupational mobility. Part One examines theories of careers and Part Two theories of continuously operative job systems. Stress is given to the empirical support of the models and to the cumulative development of theory. Among the paper's findings are that several models proposed to span both occupational and geographical mobility have used only migration data; that analytic development is more cumulative for career models; and that there exists a basic divergence of findings from tests of models of careers and continuously operative job systems. In Part One we focus on individual behavior or subaggregates (cohorts).


With the expansion of monetary globalization and development of data innovation, budgetary information are being created and gathered at a remarkable pace. Therefore, there has been a basic requirement for robotized ways to deal with compelling and proficient use of huge measure of money related information to bolster organizations and people in key arranging and speculation basic leadership. Information mining strategies have been utilized to reveal shrouded designs and foresee future patterns and practices in money related markets. The upper hands accomplished by information mining incorporate expanded income, decreased expense, and highly enhanced commercial center responsiveness and mindfulness. There has been an expansive assemblage of examination and work on concentrating on investigating information mining systems to take care of monetary issues. In this paper, the creator depicts information mining with regards to money related application from both specialized and application points of view. At last, the creator highlights various difficulties and patterns for future exploration around there.


Elements within theenhancer ofT-lymphomagenic SL3-3virus wereexamined fortheir contributions to transcriptional activity inTlymphocytes andnon-Tcells. Aregion containing twosequences homologous tothe enhancer coreconsensus sequence andasequence homologous tothebinding site forfactor LVbwasfound to havethelargest effect onactivity. Evidence wasobtained thatsuggests thattheactivity ofthisregion was greater inT lymphocytes thaninnon-Tcells andthatmultiple elements within itwerenecessary foractivity. A second region, containing sequences homologous tothebinding site offactor NF-Iandtheglucocorticoid response element, hadabout atwofold effect ontranscription inbothTlymphocytes andnon-Tcell lines. The twofold effect wasseenwhether theregion containing thecores andLVbsite waspresent ornot.Theseresults indicate that themostimportant region forthespecificity ofSL3-3 enhancer activity and,presumably, forviral leukemogenicity comprises thecoreelements andtheLVbsite. DNA-protein-binding studies demonstrated that


The map is more important than ever, but what it can represent and how it is delivered are changing radically as new geospatial technologies emerge. In the field of geology, paper maps have always aimed to represent the complex three-dimensional world beneath our feet and make it understandable to us at the surface. However, new smart phone mapping applications enable us to take the map with us more easily and to ask questions of it wherever we are, and to add our own observations on to it. Digital survey and modelling technologies will enable geologists to communicate geology in 3D for us, rather than having to translate it to 2D; everyone will then see the geology as the geologist does as we take visualisation from the lab to the street. As an interactive tool the geological map of the future will be very different.


Despite the increasing popularity of virtual teams in organizations, very little is known about how personality traits may differentiate effective virtual teams from effective face-to-face teams. This paper sought to examine if extraversion, oppenness to experience, and an individual's predisposition to be a team player would be differentially related to team performance and team cohesion based on whether the teams met face-to-face (FTF) or via videoconference (VC). A total of 285 undergraduate students were randomly assigned to 62 teams (35 FTF and 27 VC) of four to five members. It was found that openness to experience was positively related to team cohesion for the VC teams and negatively related to team cohesion for the FTF teams. Openness to experience was positively related to team performance only in the FTF condition. The relationship between extraversion and team cohesion was positive in the FTF condition. In FTF teams a positive relationship was found between predisposition to be a team player a...


Abstract Although acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with NPM1 mut /FLT3-ITDneg is a low-risk entity, its relapse rate remains high. Out of 333 AML patients, 27 were NPM1 mut, and were analyzed in greater detail in order to find associations between clinical and molecular features and cumulative incidence of relapse. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) was performed on diagnosis and remission samples using two capture-based panels. The presence of the FLT3 D835 variant at diagnosis and a qPCR value of NPM1 mut ≥0.1% after induction chemotherapy were associated with an increased probability of relapse, especially if both conditions are present together. By contrast, patients in which the main clone found at diagnosis harbored NPM1 variant had a lower risk of relapse. Nineteen of the 85 variants found at diagnosis were detected by NGS in remission. AML Subgroup with NPM1 mut/FLT3-ITDneg is a heterogeneous entity, which can be further risk-stratified based on molecular biomarkers.


that " ...the time and costs associated with collecting, analyzing, and maintaining the information necessary to identify and implement a good policy likely outweigh the potential benefits. " The simple model of a lone innovator and lone imitator is not a good fit with the decentralized nature of the software industry. So I offer my own thesis—that software patents have actually harmed innovation and that an appropriate replacement is available to protect intellectual property. Consider the following examples of patent system abuse: The sole purpose of a multitude of companies is to find algorithms to patent, identify other companies that have translated their patented algorithms into software, and sue for royalties. " Submarine patents " are deliberately unpublicized patents of algorithms that achieve widespread adoption, often through the approval of standards committees. After every software user has adopted the method, the patent holder reveals the patent and seeks royalties. Examples include the Unisys patent of the Graphics Interchange Format compression scheme and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits patent, standardized as MP3. In each case, adopters of the technology were ignorant of the patents until their use was widespread. In his book Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software, Ben Klemens (programmer, mathematician , author of mostly technical stuff, and thinker about software patents) spelled out the damaging mismatch between the patent system and computer software and what can be done about it. Here's part of his story, in four points: • The Church-Turing thesis implies that mathematics and computer algorithms are equivalent. There is universal agreement that mathematics cannot be patented, hence algorithms are not patentable. Nevertheless, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its counterparts in other countries have been aggressive about issuing algorithm patents. They have little of the expertise needed to evaluate the appropriateness of applications or be familiar with " prior art. " • In some domains (such as development of new drugs), relatively few organizations participate , and keeping track of patents seems to work. However, many companies have IT departments or just a few employees working on keeping their computers and their users happy. The extremely distributed nature of software development means there is no effective means for a programmer, who may have " invented " an algorithm and expressed it in a programming language, to search for already-patented algorithms. • Obvious algorithms are being granted patents. Klemens' best example is this …


THE electrical and radiation hazards inherent in the use of X-ray apparatus have been well considered. Accidents from these sources are comparatively rare now. There is, however, a danger which is not generally appreciated, incidental to the use of necessarily heavy weights in vertical roentgenoscopes and tube stands. A recent accident during the use of a vertical roentgenoscope has focused our attention upon this subject. The problem is essentially a mechanical one, and although having the benefit of expert advice we feel a natural hesitancy in invading a somewhat unfamiliar field. In the last analysis, however, the responsibility for the safety of the patient remains with the roentgenologist and we feel justified in presenting the subject from his point of view. Twelve physicians and others who constantly use X-ray apparatus were asked whether they had encountered accidents involving the parting of counter-weight cables, the falling of lead cones, etc. To our surprise seven reported that they had experi...


This article presents a new controller, based on fuzzy logic, to be used for the control of heating systems in intermittently occupied buildings. Its originality lies in the fact that it takes into account the thermal state of buildings, as well as the outside temperature. The TRNSYS simulation software was used to model a multizone building, its hot-water-radiator heating system, and a several types of thermal control. The controller was tested for different configurations of thermal inertia, excess plant capacity, internal loads, and set-point temperature for periods when unoccupied. Comparisons with classical control methods were used to demonstrate that the fuzzy controller gave superior results in terms of the control and optimization of the recovery time after setback. For each case, the differences in comfort and energy consumption between the different types of room were studied.


Working from the position that the fundamental purpose of education should be the preparation of informed, engaged, democratic citizens, we discuss the guiding principles behind democratic education and its ramifications. Specifically, we outline the principles that underlie participatory democracy. We discuss the two ways to address the relationship between democratic values and educational institutions, and we consider some of the requirements of teaching democratic values in light of the insights gleaned from the development identity politics. Furthermore, in anticipation of critics and naysayers, we present examples highlighting the success of earlier attempts at preparing students for active democratic citizenship. Specifically, we discuss the theory behind Francisco Ferrer's Modern School. We present a historical overview of its successful implementation, and we consider its role in promoting democratic values.


The Moscovian Stage of Central European Russia is represented by a cyclic shallow-marine carbonate succession deposited in a gentle ramp setting part of a vast epeiric sea. Fusulinoids occur in all the marine lithofacies studied including most extreme intertidal grainstones. The ecological tolerance of fusulinoids decreases in the following order: Fusiella , Schubertella , Ozawainella , Fusulinella , Fusulina , Reitlingerina and Hemifusulina , Neostaffella , and Parastaffelloides . The scarcity of Taitzehoella , Beedeina , Eostaffella , Kamaina , and Praeobsoletes did not allow the reliable estimation of their facies distribution and tolerance. Three main zones of fusulinoid distribution are revealed. The predominantly autochthonous assemblages of these zones probably correspond to original fusulinoid biofacies. Biofacies 1 contains the most tolerant genera Fusiella and Schubertella that lived in the most severe conditions of the restricted peritidal zone. The optimal shallow normal-marine settings of Biofacies 2 maintained the highest diversity of fusulinoids ( Fusiella , Schubertella , Ozawainella , Fusulinella , Fusulina , Reitlingerina , Hemifusulina , Neostaffella , Parastaffelloides , Taitzehoella , Beedeina , Eostaffella , Kamaina , and Praeobsoletes ). Most abundant were Fusulinella , Fusulina , and Schubertella . The habitats of staffellids ( Reitlingerina and Parastaffelloides ) were shifted from a wide normal-marine facies spectrum in Podolskian time to less favourable settings of shoals and fine small-foraminiferal sands. The apparent peaks of some genera in the shoal lithofacies of coarse skeletal-peloidal grainstones must be increased several times as a consequence of much slower net sediment accumulation, but the ratio of different fusulinoid genera in this lithofacies is probably retained. Biofacies 3 contains distal tempestites and skeletal mudstones representing the deepest (considerably more than 20 m) depositional environments. The fusulinoid assemblage is less diverse than in Biofacies 2. In the Upper Gubastovo tempestites, Biofacies 3 is highly dominated by Hemifusulina bocki Moeller. Fusiella , Schubertella , Ozawainella , Taitzehoella , Fusulinella , and Fusulina occur in lesser quantities. Some of these infrequent fusulinoids may be allochthonous, and the original diversity might have been even lower. Hemifusulina in the Upper Gubastovo tempestites tends to form monospecific ( H. bocki Moell.) concentrations exhibiting the signs of sudden storm burial.


With increasing world population, we are observing denser and denser crowds in public places. This has led to an increasing incidence of crowd disasters at high densities, known collectively as crowd turbulence [Helbing et al. 2007]. There is an urgent need to understand and simulate such crowds in order to facilitate emergency response, as well as prediction and planning to prevent such emergencies. Simulated crowd turbulence can also be used to augment the fidelity of virtual environments in computer games and movies. In addition, for real-time prediction and response, interactive simulation is an essential requirement.


General expressions for δ1 and δ2, the impressed excess densities at the edges of the transition regions in the two semiconductors forming a n-p heterojunction, upon application of external voltages, are derived. These expressions are valid for arbitrarily large applied external voltages, V, up to a maximum of ψD, the diffusion potential. Approximate expressions for δ1, and δ2, under low-level bias conditions when these impressed excess densities are low as compared with the corresponding equilibrium majority carrier densities in the two semiconductors, are also derived. It is shown that, to obtain correct expressions for the current density in n-p heterojunctions which reduce to the Shockley formula for p-n homojunctions, as would be desirable, the assumption has to be made that these impressed excess densities are much less than the corresponding majority carrier densities in the two semiconductors and not much less than the minority carrier densities in these semiconductors. The case of p-n heterojunct...


Abstract Goal Orientation Without Goals: Annual Appraisals in the Church - a Critique with Suggestions from the Perspective of Organisation Development. The author gives an overview of various types of annual appraisal interviews which have recently been introduced in many of the German regional Protestant Churches. Using a tool for implementing "management by objectives", however, presupposes that these objectives have been clarified beforehand.


The urgency of work is caused by necessity of detailed studying of differentiable mappings of multivariate space. The main aim of the research is to study differentiable mappings of V[m, n] of affine space Q[m] to projective space P[n] (m>n); to consider mapping not only by analytical methods but also geometrically with the help of the attached geometrical images. Methods of research. The basic method of research is the method of external forms Cartan in local differential geometry and G. F. Lapteva's theoretical-group method. These methods assume local studying of the considered objects and use of functions of a class C[∞]. Results. The authors have obtained the differential equations of internal fundamental geometrical objects of the first and the second orders of differentiable mappings of space Q[m] in manifolds singular and nonsingular null-pairs space P[n]. The invariant geometrical images were found analytically and geometrically. The images were determined by the fundamental object components which helped in solving the problem of invariant determining the Q[m] space mapping in manifolds of null-pairs of P[n] space.


Computer network computers that can change the groups separate into a coordinated multi-purpose computer system. Formally network users can obtain copies of other software with the user. Data can be stored in a central location or several different locations and can access all users. Printers, scanners and other additional equipment to connect to the network can be used by all users. Furthermore, the network allows all users to obtain various types of hardware devices can be tools for the most common is the hard disks, printers and communication equipment. Software that is designed for network allows many users to simultaneously access the program and obtain the data generated and used by applications. Gain sharing is a lot of software. The most important is a reduction in costs, legality of acquisition of products, acquisition of data and updating software.


We study abstract classes of Morrey spaces generated by the CalderónLozanovskii product and investigate their interpolation properties. We also establish the stability of isomorphisms on interpolation scales of upper Calderón complex interpolation spaces. These studies are motivated by applications to elliptic differential equations which involve generalized Morrey spaces. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 46B70 (primary).


Renewable and other distributed energy resources feed electricity to the utility grid and/or local loads through interfacing power electronic converters. These new microgrids are susceptible to short circuit faults, mandating the use of protective circuit breakers. Solid state circuit breakers (SSCB) are needed due to their much faster response than mechanical circuit breakers. This unique application offers a great market opportunity for normally-on WBG switches. This paper, for the first time, experimentally demonstrates the feasibility of using 650V GaN bidirectional devices in SSCB applications.


A solvothermal method was used to prepare zirconia and yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) particles using zirconium hydroxide and yttrium hydroxide particles as precursors and ethanol or isopropanol as reaction media. The particle properties were characterized with x-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, thermal analysis, laser particle-size analysis, nitrogen adsorption (Brunauer–Emmett–Teller method) and Zeta potential analysis. Cubic/tetragonal ZrO_2 and YSZ nanocrystals with crystallite size around 5 nm were obtained. The effect of different hydroxide precursors, attrition milling of hydroxide precursors, solvothermal processing conditions, and mineralizer was investigated and discussed by referring to the crystallization process of zirconium hydroxides.


A study of 69 E and S0 galaxies located mostly in the field and in groups reveals that the UBV colors become systematically bluer at any given luminosity as the amount of merger-induced fine structure increases. To quantify such fine structure, we define an index Σ that measures ripples, jets of luminous matter, X structures, and boxy isophotes; it ranges between 0 and 7.6 for the above galaxies. The correlations between UBV colors and this index Σ closely resemble the correlations found earlier between CN, Mg 2 , and Hβ line strengths and the same Σ in 36 ellipticals [Schweizer et al. ApJ, 364, L33 (1990)]