NCLB waiver requirements have led to development of teacher evaluation systems, in which student growth is a significant component. Composite teacher evaluation scores commonly sum up the results of measurements made using several instruments. We hypothesize that, across different measures, there is more than one underlying factor and each measure can be decomposed into distinct factors. By performing factor analysis on the disaggregated evaluation data (observation components and survey items), we can identify several orthogonal factors, of which only one is associated with student test performance. We use teacher evaluation data collected by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project as a model of state teacher evaluation system, which includes a value-added score as a measure of student performance, an observational rubric, and a student survey. We find that one possible model of the latent data structure has three factors, of which only one is associated with value-added scores. This factor is also strongly associated with observation and survey items that deal with classroom control. The second factor is associated with such aspects of pedagogy as classroom dialog, questioning techniques, etc. The third factor is associated with items related to the notions of teacher sensitivity to students' well-being and includes mostly student survey items. Those factors can be interpreted as reflecting "effective,�? "constructive,�? and "positive�? dimensions of teaching respectively. Each of them is an important and independent input into child development, while only first of them leads to achievement gains measurable in the short run. The importance for policy of identifying orthogonal underlying factors is, first, that it provides precise knowledge of what exactly the evaluation system is measuring. This knowledge can be used by policy-makers to make an informed decision on how to combine the aspects of teaching into a single "teacher utility�? function or, alternatively, if a multidimensional (matrix) evaluation system should be used. Second, it makes clear that teacher effectiveness consists of more than just the ability to promote student growth as measured by test scores. Additional factors may be weighted differently, for example, in identifying a teacher to become a mentor vs. to become a principal, which may require interpersonal capabilities unrelated to promoting student growth. Third, evaluating teachers using several independent factor scores may help target resources (such as professional development) more accurately. NCLB waiver requirements have led to development of teacher evaluation systems, in which student growth is a significant component. Composite teacher evaluation scores commonly sum up the results of measurements made using several instruments. We hypothesize that, across different measures, there is more than one underlying factor and each measure can be decomposed into distinct factors. By performing factor analysis on the disaggregated evaluation data (observation components and survey items), we can identify several orthogonal factors, of which only one is associated with student test performance. We use teacher evaluation data collected by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project as a model of state teacher evaluation system, which includes a value-added score as a measure of student performance, an observational rubric, and a student survey. We find that one possible model of the latent data structure has three factors, of which only one is associated with value-added scores. This factor is also strongly associated with observation and survey items that deal with classroom control. The second factor is associated with such aspects of pedagogy as classroom dialog, questioning techniques, etc. The third factor is associated with items related to the notions of teacher sensitivity to students' well-being and includes mostly student survey items. Those factors can be interpreted as reflecting "effective,�? "constructive,�? and "positive�? dimensions of teaching respectively. Each of them is an important and independent input into child development, while only first of them leads to achievement gains measurable in the short run. The importance for policy of identifying orthogonal underlying factors is, first, that it provides precise knowledge of what exactly the evaluation system is measuring. This knowledge can be used by policy-makers to make an informed decision on how to combine the aspects of teaching into a single "teacher utility�? function or, alternatively, if a multidimensional (matrix) evaluation system should be used. Second, it makes clear that teacher effectiveness consists of more than just the ability to promote student growth as measured by test scores. Additional factors may be weighted differently, for example, in identifying a teacher to become a mentor vs. to become a principal, which may require interpersonal capabilities unrelated to promoting student growth.


The application of recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus (rAAV) vectors as gene delivery vehicles has been limited by the modest packaging capacity (5.2kb) of rAAV. Th is limitation is imposed by the capsid size of 25nm diameter, which is determined by the capsid's T=1 icosahedral geometry. Current methods for rAAV delivery of oversized cargo, typically involving co-delivery of dual vectors, suffer from challenges such as low efficiency in co-infection and reassembly of full-length products, indefinite ratios of the two vectors in individual cells, and necessity of re-design and re-validation for every new cargo.

Inspired by the size polymorphism observed in natural viruses, we hypothesized that the T=1 icosahedral geometry of AAV capsids could be changed so that each capsid is built from more than 60 subunits.

Here we present two rational design strategies that lead to eXtra Large AAV capsids (XL-AAVs). Th ese strategies involve modifying the intersubunit interactions and the assembly pathway of AAV capsids. Capsids engineered through both strategies form heterogeneous, 35nm-70nm spherical particles (Figure 1). Th e XL-AAV capsids can still package rAAV genomes, and the same protein design principles can be applied across multiple serotypes we tested (including AAV9, AAV2, AAV5, and AAVDJ). Ongoing work seeks to determine whether the XL-AAV capsids can fully protect and deliver conventionally oversized rAAV genomes. These design principles and the emerging XL-AAV capsids represent the first steps towards creating rAAV vectors with larger clone capacities, opening a path towards the delivery of disease-related genes and genetically-encoded tools with long coding sequences in single rAAV vectors.


Similarity is a core notion that is used in psychology, theoretical and computational linguistics. The similarity datasets that come from the two fields differ in design: psychological datasets are focused around a certain topic such as fruit names; linguistic datasets contain words from various categories. The later makes humans assign low similarity scores to the words that have nothing in common and to the words that have contrast in meaning, making similarity scores ambiguous. In this work we discuss the similarity collection procedure for a multi-category dataset that avoids score ambiguity and suggest changes to the evaluation procedure to reflect the insights of psychological literature for word, phrase and sentence similarity. We suggest to ask humans to provide a list of commonalities and differences instead of numerical similarity scores and employ the structure of human judgements beyond pairwise similarity. We believe that the proposed approach will give rise to datasets that test meaning representation models more thoroughly with respect to the human treatment of similarity.


Power quality (PQ) is the interface of electrical power with electrical equipment. The distribution of power supply constantly at high quality to the consumers is predicted by the electrical power systems. The enormous increase in sensitive loads, power electronic devices, nonlinear loads, and incorporation of nonconventional energy sources like solar and wind energy to the electrical power grid is one of the most important sources of PQ events. The identification of PQ events by analyzing distortion of voltage and current waveform is a very important task for power system monitoring. The expansion of novel methods to classify the PQ issues is now a most important concern. This article gives a broad review on the applications of signal processing techniques and soft computing methods used to extract the features and for optimal feature selection of PQ events. This paper helps to motivate and guide the researchers towards the solutions to a problem in the area of PQ assessment.Power quality (PQ) is the interface of electrical power with electrical equipment. The distribution of power supply constantly at high quality to the consumers is predicted by the electrical power systems. The enormous increase in sensitive loads, power electronic devices, nonlinear loads, and incorporation of nonconventional energy sources like solar and wind energy to the electrical power grid is one of the most important sources of PQ events. The identification of PQ events by analyzing distortion of voltage and current waveform is a very important task for power system monitoring. The expansion of novel methods to classify the PQ issues is now a most important concern. This article gives a broad review on the applications of signal processing techniques and soft computing methods used to extract the features and for optimal feature selection of PQ events. This paper helps to motivate and guide the researchers towards the solutions to a problem in the area of PQ assessment.


Benzylaminoalkenones and benzylaminoalkenoates 3 were synthesized from reaction of benzylamine with corresponding 1,3-diketones and 1,3-ketoesters in the presence of catalytic amount of chloroacetic acid under microwave radiation. This method offers several advantages including high yield of products, recyclable of the catalyst and easy experimental work-up procedure.


With the rapid spread of technology in life and the necessary need to increase the speed of payment processes, confidentiality, and privacy, cryptocurrencies appeared. A cryptocurrency is a virtual and intangible currency, in which transactions are made through the internet. These currencies are characterized by decentralization, transparency, and privacy. Because transactions are carried out through a cryptography process and depend on Blockchain technology it is highly protected. Blockchain generally is a distributed ledger or a decentralized database. The Blockchain architecture combines advanced cryptography, consensus mechanisms, and a complex system of incentives. In cryptocurrency, transactions are created, transferred, and verified through an integrated process called mining. Blockchain technology architecture has given cryptocurrencies many advantages and features that increase their strength and distinction from regular financial transactions such as decentralization, confidentiality, anonymity, very low fees, unrestricted by geography, transparency, protection from Inflation, and the peer-to-peer network. The misuse of powerful features in cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology has led to many disadvantages such as the risks of lack of knowledge, the lack of wide acceptance, the high risk of investment, its volatile nature, and the inability to return missing payments. This study concentrates on cryptocurrencies in terms of advantages and disadvantages.


The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for aerobic fermentation temperature, which multilayer material disposed in the height direction, the fermentation step by step layer by layer from top to bottom, each low stacking height, said low stacking height in selfcompacting material having air permeability and insignificant prevail. The material of each layer is designed to stack a plurality of juxtaposed strips, provided for air between the adjacent laths, the gap between the exhaust gas and the circulating material layer fermentation. As a result of the material into layers, each lower stacking height improved permeability material, layered fermentation the fermentation time is shortened, increasing the efficiency per unit area; this means the material holding plate is designed to elongated, such that the material is formed thereon laths shape facilitate gas diffusion and water; the multilayer stacker smaller design, with or without such materials turn push the mobile equipment can be realized easily material, reduce energy consumption.


With growing of technologies, multimedia as an important role of teaching material while transmitting knowledge to students. It provides potential benefits of incorporating dynamic multimedia in knowledge maps when they are to be used for learning. However, the traditional media, the static images or animations, is not enough anymore in the interaction between user and learning content. Therefore, many researchers point out the AR offers unique educational benefits such as a seamless interaction between virtual and real communicative environments. Besides, the seamlessness between physical and virtual objects in AR environments presents new teaching/learning strategies even for children with limited computer experience. But, these AR educational systems don't explain designing procedure of these teaching systems. In the other words, the designing procedure of these teaching systems is called a kind of "black-box" way. Therefore, in this study, we proposed to use concept mapping as a tool for designing interactive teaching system with AR technology. Key Word:Augmented Reality、Concept Map、Tangible Interaction


National report — Along with combining blepharoplasty with traditional or older procedures such as facelifts or laser resurfacing, cosmetic surgeons are now performing blepharoplasty in conjunction with filler injections and the use of new technologies.


dise ase-f re e surviva l (DFS) rat e s were 64.4 and 57.0% , and 63.7 and 60.2%, respectively. The 5-year OS and DFS ra te s of the pat ie nts a t sta ges IIB, III and IV wer e 6 0. 2 , 57.9 and 33.3% , and 57.4, 65.4 and 33.3% , respect ive ly. Uni va ria te anal ysis indica te d t hat the FIGO sta ge, over a ll treatment time (OTT) and treatment response were significa nt vari a ble s for the OS (p=0.035, p= 0.0649 and p=0.0009) and of the DFS (p=0.0009, p=0.0359 and p=0.0363). Mul tiva ria te anal ysis showed tha t the tre atm en t response was the only significant variable for the OS (p=0.0018) and OTT for the DFS (p=0.0360). The overal l incidence of late complications in the rectum and bladde r were 11.7 and 6.7%, respectively. In addition, insufficiency fra ctures were observed in 7 pat ie nts (5.8% ). Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that radi


Employees as individual who work for employer, Based on agreement and work agrements both written and unwritten, to carry out a job in a certainposition or activityby obtaining compensation paid based on a certain period, Job adjustments or other Provisions applied by the employer. Including individuals who do woork in public office,and it can be assumed that employeses are all residents who can do work and get a salary every mount, Both at school and company and school also require several new employees who will be placed as teachers in the field of sport. Therefore we need method or method to indentify prospective new employees in the field of sport at school. This was done to get the creteria needed by the school. C4.5 Algorithm can be used to make predictions or clafication of prospective new employees who want to join ABC school using the concept of entropy and gain.


Cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin films were prepared by chemical spray-pyrolysis technique. Cleaned glass substrates were used. The substrate temperature was varied in the range 200 – 400 ◦C and seems to be one of the more important parameters affecting the physical properties of the semiconductor. The films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD). XRD patterns indicated the presence of single-phase hexagonal CdS. The resistivity of the as-deposited films was found to vary in the range 10− 10Ω. Cm, depending on the substrate temperature. Direct band gap values of 2.39–2.42 eV were obtained from optical absorption measurements.


A high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnetic levitation (maglev), based on YBaCuO bulk superconductors and permanent magnet guideways, shows the potential to be applied in the future rail transportation. The maglev forces (levitation and guidance force) of the HTS maglev system, which bond the vehicle and the guideway, are the key factors of its dynamics studies. In practical operation, the HTS maglev vehicle moves in both the vertical and lateral directions, but the previous force models are in single degree of freedom. In this article, an experiment was designed to study the vertical–lateral coupled effect of the levitation and guidance force. A 2-D coupling model was proposed to fit the experimental data. Furthermore, the motion stability and the dynamical characteristics of the HTS maglev system in 2-D space were studied. The simulation results show that the vertical–lateral coupling effect in maglev forces cannot be neglected, and one direction motion can affect the motion in the other direction. It also shows that the proposed force model is suitable for HTS maglev dynamics' calculations.


Spokesperson has become an important communication strategy of modern marketing. How does the gender of spokesperson affect the audience's perception? To address this problem, a mixed experiment was designed: 2 (gender of audience) ×2 (gender of spokesperson) ×3 (Product type). The results show that female have homosexual bias on spokesperson, and product types have a moderating effect on this deviation; male have no homosexual bias on spokesperson, and they tend to recognize heterosexual spokesperson firstly. This study supports the conclusion that women tend to relational processing, while men tend to item-specific processing.


This paper considers the extent to which the Doctrine of Frustration can apply so as to terminate the various real property rights and interests which lie within the numerus clausus principle in English law, whilst also examining the consequences and repercussions which might flow from the same.


A model to calculate the comprehensive emission factors for road segments and regional networks was proposed based on the variable of vehicle specific power(VSP) and the floating car data(FCD).A simulation platform for the traffic network surrounding a large-scale concert event was established using the INTEGRATION mesoscopic traffic simulation system.Then,this study conducted a simulation for the period before and at around the beginning of the large-scale concert,by which massive floating car data were obtained from the simulation.Subsequently,it analyzed the characteristics of spatial-temporal distributions of vehicle emissions for the network and primary roads in the influenced area.It is shown from the results that vehicle emission factors and total emissions in the network are noticeably increased during the period of 30 to 60 minutes before the beginning of the special event.In terms of the roads,the closer the road to the site of the event,the longer the impact it will receive.The continuing impact primarily begins at about 60-90 minutes before the beginning of the special event,and ends 30 minutes after the beginning of the event.The higher grades of roads surrounding the site of the event are affected the most,especially for HC,which is as high as two times over the mean value,while CO2 is also 70% higher than the average.


We investigated whether clinical manifestations, anti‐neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs), Birmingham vasculitis activity score (BVAS) for granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and five factor score (FFS) at diagnosis can predict relapse or refractory disease in 30 histology‐proven GPA patients with follow‐up duration ≥ 12 weeks.


Though microgrid technology has many advantages,the instability of distributed generations in microgrid will make it hard to control system operation.So a hierarchical control method is proposed in this paper,in which the hierarchical control structure is divided into three levels.Each level accomplishes its own control tasks,and control command is transmitted to the lower level through communication channel.Moreover,the communication process of the control command should not affect the control system stability.Based on the droop control method,the first level of the microgrid hierarchical structure controls distributed generations and loads,and gives control signals to the second level to control frequency and voltage magnitude.In the third level,power exchanges between the microgrid and the power grid can be controlled.In this paper,Matlab/Simulink software is used to build a model of microgrid connected to power grid.The simulation results show that hierarchical control has good control effectiveness for mircrogrid.


This book investigates the role of counterfactuals in uses of history through game designers, and through digital strategy games. It discusses the content, form and perspectives that define different types of counterfactuals in the context of game-making an effort to outline and detail the values and frameworks that shape the past in this popular media.... Download ebook, read file pdf Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games


Neural responses in visual cortex adapt to prolonged and repeated stimuli. While adaptation occurs across the visual cortex, it is unclear how adaptation patterns and computational mechanisms differ across the visual hierarchy. Here we characterize two signatures of neural adaptation in time-varying intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) data collected while participants viewed naturalistic image categories varying in duration and repetition interval. Ventral- and lateral-occipitotemporal cortex exhibit slower and prolonged adaptation to single stimuli and slower recovery from adaptation to repeated stimuli compared to V1-V3. For category-selective electrodes, recovery from adaptation is slower for preferred than non-preferred stimuli. To model neural adaptation we augment our delayed divisive normalization (DN) model by scaling the input strength as a function of stimulus category, enabling the model to accurately predict neural responses across multiple image categories. The model fits suggest that differences in adaptation patterns arise from slower normalization dynamics in higher visual areas interacting with differences in input strength resulting from category selectivity. Our results reveal systematic differences in temporal adaptation of neural population responses across the human visual hierarchy and show that a single computational model of history-dependent normalization dynamics, fit with area-specific parameters, accounts for these differences. Author summary Neural responses in visual cortex adapt over time, with reduced responses to prolonged and repeated stimuli. Here, we examine how adaptation patterns differ across the visual hierarchy in neural responses recorded from human visual cortex with high temporal and spatial precision. To identify possible neural computations underlying adaptation, we fit the response time courses using a temporal divisive normalization model. The model accurately predicts prolonged and repeated responses in lower and higher visual areas, and reveals differences in temporal adaptation across the visual hierarchy and stimulus categories. Our model suggests that differences in adaptation patterns result from differences in divisive normalization dynamics. Our findings shed light on how information is integrated in the brain on a millisecond-time scale and offer an intuitive framework to study the emergence of neural dynamics across brain areas and stimuli.


Tetrasulphur tetranitride and phenyl vinyl sulphoxide or sulphone react to give a novel planar delocalised 14π electron aromatic system, 1λ4δ2,3,5,7λ4δ2-tetrathia-2,4,6,8-tetraza-azulene (4) in which all the S4N4 atoms have been retained; the molecules form parallel overlapping stacks with a minimum interplanar atomic separation of 3.26 A.


This report describes energy conservation alternatives for five standard Army building designs. By surveying maps of major Army installations and using the Integrated Facilities System, the most popular designs were determined to be a two-company, rolling-pin-shaped barracks for enlisted personnel; a Type 64 barracks; a motor repair shop; a battalion headquarters and classroom building; and an enlisted personnel mess hall. The Building Loads Analysis and System Thermodynamics (BLAST) energy-analysis computer program was used to develop baseline energy consumption for each design based on the building descriptions and calibrated by comparison with the measured energy usage of similar buildings. Once the baseline was established, the BLAST program was used to study energy conservation alternatives (ECAs) which could be retrofit to the existing buildings. The ECAs included closing off air-handling units, adding storm windows, adding 2 in. (0.051 m) of exterior insulation to the walls, partially blocking the windows, adding roof insulation, putting up south overhangs, installing programmable thermostats, recovering heat from exhaust fans, installing temperature economizers, replacing lights, and installing partitions between areas of differing temperature.


Automated Test Grading and Pattern Selection for Small-Delay Defects by Mahmut Yilmaz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University


Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are deliberated as a potential example of automated emergency tasks in dynamic marine environments. But the maritime transmission performances among UAVs and offshore platform becomes a crucial problem. The task planning problems of numerous UAVs are classified into two parts, route planning and task allocation problems, are different and interrelated from one another. Because of the complicated marine environments, both efficiencies of UAVs in an intelligent ocean are not acceptable. This study presents a Modified Aquila Optimization Algorithm based Route Planning Scheme (MAOA-RPS) for UAV networks. The presented MAOA-RPS technique is majorly concentrated on the detection of optimal routes for UAV data transmission. To attain this, the MAOA-RPS technique involves the incorporation of Levy flight (LF) with the traditional AOA. In addition, the optimal routes are chosen by the MAOA-RPS technique via a fitness value, which can be determined by many input parameters. For assessing the enhanced outcomes of the MAOA-RPS technique, we have performed a series of experiments. The comparison study revealed the improved performance of the MAOA-RPS technique under distinct metrics.


The hysteria, called by Charcot "la grande simuiatrice", very often simulates many organic diseases. The author has observed a case of hysteria that simulated widespread sclerosis.


Objective: To assess the clinical effectiveness of electrical pudendal nerve stimulation( EPNS) on female stress urinary incontinence( SUI) to explore the optimized therapy. Methods: 38 famale patients with SUI were randomized into EPNS group( n = 20) and transvirginal / transanal electric stimulation group( n = 18). Treatment was given accordingly. After one- month treatment,the scores for clinical symptons were recorded to evaluate the clinial effectiveness. Results: In EPNS group,nine cases were clinically cured after treatment; two had a remarkable effect; six had an effect; two had a minimal effect and one had no effect. The total effectiveness rate was 85. 0%. In transvirginal / transanal eclectric stimulation group,four cases were clinially cured; three had a remarkable effect; two had an effect; five had a minimal effect and four had no effect. The total effectiveness rate was 50. 0%. EPNS group showed a better effectiveness than transvirginal / transanal eclectric stimulation group. Patients in both groups had lower scores for symptoms after treatment( P 0. 01 or P 0. 05). The EPNS group had more evident improvement( P 0. 01). Conclusion: EPNS can excise plevic floor muscle contration to have a clinical effect on female SUI as transvirginal / transanal eclectric stimulation. EPNS shows a better clinical effect.


By using methods of literature review, video observation and mathematical statistics the paper made a statistical research on defensive and offensive indexes of different position players of each team in London Olympic Men's Basketball Games, and through comparison with rivals and top eight found out progress and deficiency of Chinese Men's Basketball Team. Index Terms – London Olympic Games. Basketball. Position. Offense and defense Ability


Power consumption, design complexity and areacost are limiting constraints in the design of interconnect for scalable many-core systems. To tackle the power and area concerns, we propose a light-weight unidirectional channel network-on-chip in 2D mesh topology (UniMESH), which simplifies router architectures, uses only half amount of channel links to guarantee a fully connected topology, and adopts a novel routing algorithm and deadlock recovery mechanism. As a result, it can reduce both design complexity and area-cost, and decrease some unwanted power consumption. Evaluations show that the proposed light-weight UniMESH can reduce 57.4% router areas, and save 39.3% total power consumption and only add few extra latency when compared with conventional 2D mesh design in SPLASH application simulations.


PurposeAdopting conservation of resources (COR) theory as a guiding framework, this study proposes that benevolent supervision (BS) is a feasible leadership style for building a positive resource gain process in subordinates' extra-role actions and reducing their exhaustion, and leader-member exchange (LMX) and positive affect (PA) serve as indirect crossover mechanisms.Design/methodology/approachSurveys were conducted at three-time points with four-week intervals. A total of 304 subordinates and 55 supervisors at a Taiwanese university participated in the surveys, and a multilevel model was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results showed that prior BS (time 1) was positively associated with subordinates' subsequent LMX and PA (time 2). LMX mediated the relationship between BS and subsequent supervisor-rated contextual performance (time 3), and PA mediated the relationship between BS and subordinate-rated emotional exhaustion (time 3). In addition, supervisors' learning orientation positively moderated the relationship between BS and contextual performance via LMX, whereas supervisors' performance orientation negatively moderated this relationship.Practical implicationsThe results of the study encourage leaders to exhibit benevolence toward subordinates, increase subordinates' contextual performance and enhance personal feelings, thereby ultimately benefitting the organization.Originality/valueThis study reveals that BS is a source of resource investment in the process of subordinates' positive job (contextual performance) and personal (emotional exhaustion) resource gains through social exchange (LMX) and affective (PA) crossover mechanisms and that supervisors' goal inclinations impact this process.


The main objective of this work is to study the gas distribution, traced by the emission lines produced by the abundance of molecules presents in the gas, detected in millimeter waves, in the protoplanetary disk of the young star HD 163296, which have a big disk and clear rings around it. We research for the distribution of the gas emission, using ALMA data measured in the cycle 6, through several different sources. More specifically we are looking for resolve the gas structure based on 12CO, 13CO and C18O molecular line emission, to determine their distribution on the disk and how they participate in the planets formation process. As a summary of what the reader can found in the body of this work, it start with the introduction - in 1 - about what are the protoplanetary disks, the interest in the chemistry to study how the planet can be form. To continue in 2, with the description of the observation and data reduction techniques used to clean data and get the images. Then, we present method implemented to estimate the gas density in the 3, and the results in 4. Discussion and analysis of results in 5, and finally a summary with main results extracted of our work in 6.


Self-protective implicit voice theories (IVTs) represent individuals' deeply rooted schemas regarding the risks and appropriateness associated with speaking up at work. Based on the similarity-attr...


Current grid information service is centralized or hierarchical and proves inefficient as grid scale rapidly increases. The introduction of P2P techniques into grids breaks an encouraging path. However, frequent join and departure of resource nodes require strong self-organization capacity of system to maintain their rigid structure. Moreover, arranging identifier space for P2P nodes is knotty and has great impact on system performance. If the identifier space is too large, some nodes will be overloaded. On the contrary, small identifier space will bring the same problem as millennium bug. To address the issues, this paper proposes a scalable DHT-based (Distributed Hash Table) Information Service (DIS) for grid system, which organizes grid resources into a DHT ring based on VO (Virtual Organization). To save the identifier space while retaining the scalability and system performance, only stable VOs can join DIS via a new DHT node, whereas volatile VOs join DIS through being the sub-domain of other VO. Experimental results show that DIS provides rapid resource query, strong scalability and high throughput, meanwhile avoiding the key node failure as well as the bottleneck problem.


A coated abrasive article or composite abrasive, coated with a layer consisting essentially of: (A) a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin; and (B) an inorganic antiloading agent selected from the group consisting of metal silicates, silicas, metal carbonates and metal sulfates.


Teaching is a challenge for all, old and young. It is especially so, in our digital age and the age of social networking. This paper explores the notion of exploring what someone like John Dewey would think about educating future teachers in an online classroom. This basic question is addressed: would John Dewey support web-based instruction for those being trained in teacher education programs? The paper focuses not only on the writings of John Dewey to address the question of online instruction, but also uses contemporary writings and research studies to explore related concepts of community, instruction, mission, and curriculum. The paper uses Dewey's own questions (1899) used to guide the formation and design of his lab school. The questions are related to the following issues and concerns: 1) how can we bring the school closer with the home and neighborhood; 2) how can content, such as history, science, and art have true/real significance for children; 3) how to teach in a way which "motivates" children to learn; and, 4) how can we give students the "individual attention" they need and deserve. In an age of increasing class sizes, and dramatic increases in online distance learning environments, the Dewey questions have important insight to offer educators. In conclusion, strengths and weaknesses of online instruction are discussed within the lens of a John Dewey perspective.


aberrant species, Trypanosoma range//. Thereafter follow contributions on biochemical methods of taxonomy, axidative metabolism and on some immunological aspects, such as innate resistance and antigenic variation. Throughout the book con- tributors point out new approaches to the study of these organisms, e.g., in their morphology and physiology and in the complexities of the hosts' responses to invasion.


With the advancement of information technology in the recent decades, digital and online services have become essential components of everyday life in Europe. Montenegro is no different in this regard. However, as digital literacy in the country is still in a developing phase in comparison with most countries of the EU, a higher portion of its citizens may rely on assistive technical communication. In this paper, we provide a case study on the assistive technical communication of Montenegrin eServices. The work addresses the sectors of online banking, healthcare services, higher education, national administrative services, and utilities. Our findings highlight the diversity in terms of implemented assistive technical communication, and distinguish usage contexts on the level of adequacy. Yet as the functionalities of Montenegrin eServices are expected to gradually expand in the upcoming years, assistive technical communication must aim to handle the higher extents of service complexity.


A fair distribution does not include income gap.Productivity priority is in accordance with historical materialism basic principles, and it is not necessarily to blame for the widening income gap.To narrow it,fairness is to be given more emphasis apart from productivity priority.


Magnetic and dielectric properties of multiferroic (1−x)BiFeO<inf>3</inf>−xBaFe<inf>12</inf>O<inf>19</inf> (x=0.03, 0.05, 0.07, 0.09 wt%) solid solution synthesized by state solid were investigated. Morphology of the sample is determined by SEM, indicating that the grain has been shrink, and all samples have been irregular. With increasing of BaFe<inf>12</inf>O<inf>19</inf>, saturation magnetization increased from 0.07 to 0.7 emu/g, and coercivity increased from 160 to 3150 Oe. Through solid solution BaFe<inf>12</inf>O<inf>19</inf>, we greatly improved the coercivity. With BaFe<inf>12</inf>O<inf>19</inf> increasing, dielectric constant increases monotonously, while dielectric lose kept a low value. The increase in coercivity of the sample allows the solid solution to be used as a candidate for advanced packaging materials and sensors.


This paper deals with a breakthrough in the concept of free will in the human decision making. It is assumed that the consciousness and unconsciousness show the same mind processes in the human brain. The decision making initiates unconsciously in the human brain, and, eventually, becomes a conscious decision. So the free will is unconsciously prepared in the human brain. Then I conjecture that what is called the conscious human brain is just the enlightening of some parts of the unconscious human brain.


Compositions of particles from several types of air pollution sources can be determined by a wind-trajectory method applied to a large data set on particle compositions obtained in St. Louis by other workers, who operated ten dichotomous samplers for 2 years and analyzed all samples by X-ray fluorescence. Samples heavily influenced by emissions from specific sources are identified by searching the data for unusually large concentrations of each element. Mean wind directions during the identified sampling periods often cluster about angles pointing to dominant sources of the elements. Trajectories for a given element obtained at different stations often converge near the dominant source of the element. Compositions of the particles released are determined from linear regressions of concentrations of each element in the samples making up the trajectories versus those of prominent elements from the source. Compositions of particles released by an iron works, an iron-and-steel complex, a pigment plant, a muni...


The available data, while incomplete, suggest that for much of the past decade or so approvals granted for foreign investment in the residential sector have remained around 5–10 per cent of the value of dwelling turnover in Australia, and perhaps half that share of the total number of dwellings turned over. The actual level of foreign purchases of dwellings has been significantly lower. Foreign purchases appear to be most concentrated in new rather than established dwellings, in higher- rather than lower-priced dwellings, in medium- and high-density dwellings rather than detached dwellings, and in inner-city areas of Sydney and Melbourne rather than other locations.


Light and transmission electron microscopy of phloem sieve-tube elements, companion cells, and parenchymal cells in thin and ultrathin sections of small and medium rachises and small, medium and large leaflets of a black locust tree, Robinia pseudoacacia L., affected by witches'-broom disease revealed (in the small and medium rachises and leaflets) structures that were characteristic of phytoplasmas, and crystal-like inclusions in the phloem sieve-tube members. A crystal-like inclusion was also seen in a companion cell. Paracrystalline arrays were seen only (and very rarely) in phloem sieve-tube elements of medium rachises. Some elements contained several crystal-like inclusions and each inclusion had fracture planes. The crystal-like inclusions and paracrystalline arrays apparently have not been previously reported in the black locust. The paracrystalline arrays and crystal-like inclusions may merely be by-products of the plant's metabolic activity. Extensive additional work would be required to establish the precise relationship (if any) of the arrays and inclusions to the black locust, witches'-brooming and/or phytoplasmas. Results from analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences amplified by the polymerase chain reaction indicated for the first time that the phytoplasma associated with black locust witches'-broom is a member of group 16 SrIII (peach X-disease) phytoplasma group. This raised the question of whether black locust may be a significant source of the phytoplasma for infection of other plants, especially agricultural crops.


In the case of a liquid electrolyte used in conventional lithium ion batteries, there is a main cause of safety problem such as leakage, flame and explosion of lithium ion battery. Therefore, all-solid-state lithium ion batteries (ASSLiBs) are believed to be next generation battery. The safety of ASSLiBs, which is the biggest advantage of ASSLiBs, make it possible to apply as power source for large scale application such as electric vehicle (EV) and an energy storage system (ESS).


Local approach methods are becoming increasingly popular as practical tools for cleavage fracture toughness prediction. Their application involves two distinct elements: calculation of 'individual' probabilities of failure, dictated by the local mechanical fields; and summation of these failure probabilities to predict the probability of component failure. In this work, we demonstrate that development of the local approach methods to date has been essentially focused on improving the criterion for predicting local failure as a function of the local mechanical fields. Yet, the existing methods fail to predict with sufficient accuracy the effects of irradiation and defect geometry on fracture toughness when the calculations are based on a common set of model parameters. A possible reason for this, common to all methods, is found in the calculation of the cumulative failure probability, which is based on the weakest-link argument. We discuss the implications of the weakest-link assumption, identify those situations where it needs to be reconsidered, and propose future work that will increase our understanding for improving the calculation of global failure probability.Copyright © 2011 by ASME


Trichinellosis remains an important problem in Latvia. The objective of this study was to provide an overview of the current situation and trends for trichinellosis in Latgale region. During the period from July 2010 to June 2012 several animal species were examined for Trichinella detection. Muscle samples of 311 wild animals and birds were obtained: 218 wild boars (Sus scrofa), 12 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), 5 raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides), 7 Eurasian lynxes (Lynx lynx), 13 Pine martens (Martes martes), 4 polecats (Mustela putorius), 8 wolfs (Canis lupus), 5 house mice (Mus musculus), 4 brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), 4 common moles (Talpa europaea), 12 Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber), 5 American minks (Neovison vison), 2 common buzzards (Buteo buteo), 1 ondatra (Ondatra zibethicus), 3 northern goshawks (Accipiter gentilis), 3 European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus), 2 hooded crows (Corvus cornix), 1 rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus), 1 house sparrow (Passer domesticus), 1 rock pigeon (Columba livia). Larvae of Trichinella were determined in 2 raccoon dogs, 7 red foxes, 6 martens, 3 lynxes, 6 wolfs,


ABSTRACT: This study examines the incentives for private colleges and universities (PCUs) related to financial reporting choices for net appreciation on endowments. Under current accounting standar...


Background and Purpose The atypical cannabinoid Abn-CBD was reported to improve the inflammatory status in preclinical models of several pathologies including autoimmune diseases. However, its potential for autoimmune diabetes, i.e. type 1 diabetes (T1D), is unknown. Experimental Approach We used two mouse models of T1D, streptozotocin (STZ)-injected and non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. Eight-to-ten-week-old male C57Bl6/J mice were pre-treated with Abn-CBD (1mg/kg of body weight) or vehicle for 1 week, following STZ treatment, and euthanized 1 week later. Six-week-old female NOD mice were treated with Abn-CBD (0.1-1mg/kg) or vehicle for 12 weeks and then euthanized. Blood, pancreas, pancreatic lymph nodes and circulating T cells were collected and processed for analysis. Glycemia was also monitored. Key Results Abn-CBD decreased circulating proinflammatory cytokines, ameliorated islet inflammation and the autoimmune attack, showing a 2-fold decrease in CD8+ T cells infiltration and reduced Th1/Th2 ratio in pancreatic lymph nodes of STZ-injected mice. Mechanistically, Abn-CBD reduced intra-islet phospho-NF-κB and TXNIP. Concomitant reduction of islet cell apoptosis and intra-islet fibrosis were observed in Abn-CBD pre-treated mice compared to vehicle. In NOD mice, Abn-CBD reduced the expression of Ifng, Il21, Tnfa and Il10 while increased Il4 in circulating CD4+ T cells compared to vehicle, reducing the severity of insulitis and improving glucose tolerance. Conclusion and Implications Altogether, we found that Abn-CBD reduces intra-islet inflammation and delays the progression of insulitis in mouse models of T1D, preserving healthy functional islets. Hence, Abn-CBD and related compounds emerge as new candidates to develop pharmacological strategies to treat early stages of T1D. WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN - Phytocannabinoids such as cannabidiol (CBD) have anti-inflammatory and glucose-lowering properties - The CBD derivative Abn-CBD ameliorates inflammation in various diseases and modulates beta cell function WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS - Abn-CBD reduces systemic and pancreatic inflammation in mice models of type 1 diabetes - Abn-CBD prevents beta cell damage and loss during type 1 diabetes onset CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Synthetic cannabinoids emerge as potential treatment for type 1 diabetes


A few years ago the Roman Catholic Church issued a revised catechism that categorizes tax evasion as a sin. Part I of this article explores the arguments that could be used to support the view that tax evasion is a sin, or is unethical. Part II presents arguments to support the position that there is nothing sinful or ethically wrong with tax evasion. The article concludes that the arguments offered to support the view that tax evasion is sinful or unethical do not hold up under analysis, and suggests that it is the tax collectors who might be guilty of sin, since they participate in the taking of property without the owner's consent.


A plastic bags trial was conducted at the Agric. Experimental Station of Mansoura University using sandy soil to study the effect of chicken manure levels (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 tons/fed) and gypsum rates (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 tons/fed ) on nutrients uptake and yield of sugar beet plant irrigated with saline water. The experiment was conducted in a spilt plot design with three replicates during the two successive seasons 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 The Obtained results indicated that the yield of sugar beet roots increased significantly by adding chicken manure over the control. The highest level (20 tons/fed) gave 289.9 and 327.1 g/plant during first and second season, respectively. Also, the highest gypsum rate increased significantly root yield to be 307.15 and 341.77 g/plant during first and second season, respectively. Also, elements uptake such as N,P,K and Na were increased significantly over control due to supplying with either chicken manure or gypsum to a sandy soil. The same trend was found with the interaction effect of both treatments. Also, It could be recognized that chicken manure gave relatively higher increase in some characters than gypsum treatments. Data also revealed that root quality parameters such as SC%, TSS%, purity and sugar yield significantly increased with chicken manure over the control by 26.67% and 27.86 for TSS%, 18.96% and 18.74% for SC% and 77.39 and 79.98 g/plant for sugar yield in the 1 st and 2 nd season, respectively. Whereas, purity as a quality parameter significantly decreased with increasing chicken manure and gypsum treatments due to uneventually increasing for Sc% and TSS% which was not in a harmony which reflecting in decreasing purity. Generally, the interaction between chicken manure and gypsum revealed that the high rate of both chicken manure and gypsum treatments gave the highest root yield, elements uptake (N,P,K and Na) and sugar yield.


The main objectives of the overall program have been the development of techniques for evaluating optimum pressures for underground storage reservoirs and for evaluating their mechanical stability under such operating conditions. Based on the encouraging results of the preliminary micro seismic studies, it was decided to undertake a detailed state-of-the-art evaluation of a selected gas storage reservoir in order to further perfect experimental procedures and to develop additional documentation.


Hibernomas are benign tumors made up of brown fat. They are rarely encountered in otolaryngologic clinical practice, as they are usually located in the interscapular area, axilla, thigh, mediastinum, and retroperitoneum. We report an extremely rare case of a very large hibernoma in a 45-year-old man who presented with a 4-year history of neck swelling. Radioimaging was suggestive of a mass in both parapharyngeal spaces; the lesion was more prominent on the left side. The mass extended from C2 into the retropharyngeal space and superior mediastinum. Fine-needle aspiration cytology failed to yield a diagnosis. On surgical exploration, a tumor measuring 17 x 16 x 5 cm was removed and sent for histopathologic examination. Light microscopy was suggestive of a hibernoma. Staining with oil red O confirmed the diagnosis. To the best of our knowledge, a large hibernoma with such massive extension has not been previously reported in the literature.


Facial Recognition System has been widely used in various applications. Nevertheless, their efficiency rate fell dramatically when they were applied under unrestrained environments like the position of face, expression or illumination change. Because of these factors, it is essential to measure and calculate the performance rate of the dissimilar feature extraction techniques robust to such transformations in order to further integrate to a Facial Recognition System. This paper studies and evaluates the Histogram of Oriented Gradients method as a feature extraction method in order to deal with the abovementioned transformations. The study consists of four main phases: face detection, preprocessing, features extraction, and classification. Preprocessing is used to enhance the images by using the techniques of digital image processing. Feature extraction is used to get features from facial images based on the concept of Histogram Oriented Gradient feature that is applied to the facial image after conversion by means of the Discrete Wavelet Transform and vector reduction with the help of the Principle Component Analysis technique. Artificial neural network with the Back Propagation algorithm is used in training and testing as a classifier of the facial images to help recognize the face. To measure the performance of the method under consideration, some experiments were implemented using two datasets: ORL containing 400 facial images of 40 individuals that achieved the accuracy rate about 99.1%, and FERET containing 912 facial images of 152 individuals, which helped achieve accuracy rate about 94.5% at the multilayer perceptron neural network classifier.


Polyps are rare in children. The present article reports the clinical case of a 14 month old male patient brought for treatment to the Pedodontics Clinic of the Graduate School, National School of Dentistry National University of Mexico. He presented two palatal fibro-epithelial polyps, located at both sides of the incisive papilla. 10 days after surgical excision, a supernumerary tooth erupted in the palate. 25 days later, eruption of a second supernumerary tooth was observed. Both teeth were extracted. Histological diagnosis of palatal lesions was giant fibroblast fibroma. Nevertheless, no histological evidence was found to show possible relationship between presence of palatal polyps and supernumerary teeth. RESUMEN


This article presents a smart device for active cancellation of flow instabilities. An array of two piezo unimorph actuators fabricated in piezo-polymer-composite technology is combined with a thin silicone membrane to mimic a movable wall with a closed surface. By locally displacing the thin membrane, a surface wave is generated that interferes with naturally occurring flow instabilities within the boundary layer of an airfoil. Using flow sensors and an intelligent control enables a destructive interference and therefore, an attenuation of natural flow instabilities. This leads to a delay of transition. The boundary layer remains laminar which means drag is reduced. Within the next pages, the setup of the device with actuators, membrane, sensors, and control is introduced. The main focus of this article is on actuator design, modeling, and implementation for wind tunnel experiments. Results of actuator characterization are presented. The non-linear behavior of the piezoactuator (harmonic distortions and impact of high electric fields) is investigated in detail. This study concludes with the results obtained in wind tunnel experiments which prove the functionality of the presented approach. A maximal attenuation of natural occurring flow instabilities of 80% is achieved.


A comparison between a high-density (migratory) and a low-density (stream-resident) population of brown trout Salmo trutta, from the same stream, showed there was no support for the view that aggression was density-dependent.


The purpose of this study is to provide a contents that can be effectively applied to suitably setting the direction of the science museum exhibition space through the correlation analysis of the type of exhibition media by classifying the type of visitors' behavior in terms of the viewing stage in science museum. In this study, to target the 'Gwacheon National Science Museum', it was carried out itinerary tracking of visitors of the family unit. Using the 'degree of interest' and 'degree of concentration', after dividing the exhibition viewing step was to classify the type of visitors' behavior. and after partitioning the exhibition medium of science museum into 'hands off', 'hands on', by using the sensory receptors classify further subdivided. The results of this study are as follows. First, play experience exhibition room that is configured around shall sublation be configured with the space group to introduce the main exhibition contents of main permanent exhibition hall. Second, When planning the exhibition medium in science museum, it is necessary to prefer always 'hands on' exhibition media. And in the 'hands off' exhibition media, it is necessary to planning of the original actual object. Third, it is necessary to consist of 'normal viewing sector', 'deep understanding is required viewing sector' in each exhibition zone. And It is preferable to composed of original actual object?operation type of exhibition media?panel in the sector of former case, 2D video which is auditory elements supported?hands on exhibition media that is needed to multi sensory receptors in the latter case sector. Forth, When the layout plan of exhibition medium, original actual object?panel which is auditory elements supported?hands on exhibition media that is needed to arms and bodily movement must secure a space in the surroundings. These exhibition medium is configured in Ireland, the floor and ceiling of its surroundings by using well, so as to transfer the related exhibition contents.


Carbon nanotubes were coated with a layer of nickel-cobalt-phosphorus (Ni-Co-P) alloy with different compositions of Ni/Co through electroless plating. The effects of the concentration ratio of Co2+ to Ni2+, bath temperature, and pH on deposition rate are discussed. The prepared carbon nanotubes covered with Ni-Co-P were characterized and analyzed by field-emission scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and a vibrating sample magnetometer. The results show that the deposition rate reached the maximum when the concentration ratio of Co2+ to Ni2+ is 1 and the pH is 9; the deposition rate increases with the increase of bath temperature. The measurements of the magnetic properties of the obtained carbon nanotubes covered with Ni-Co-P indicate that the magnetic properties greatly depend on the concentration ratio of Co2+ to Ni2+, and the magnetic saturation reaches the maximum value when the Co2+ to Ni2+ ratio is 1. In addition, there are two peaks in the coercivity curve at Co2+ to Ni2+ ratios of 1/2 and 4/1, while the two peaks in the magnetic conductivity curve are located at Co2+ to Ni2+ ratios of 1/4 and 4/1.


The effects of added simple salt and polyion charge on the chain flexibility of an alternating copolymer of isobutyl vinyl ether and maleic acid are analyzed. The persistence length of this polymer in aqueous NaCl solution is calculated from sedimentation and viscosity data on the basis of a worm-like chain model. It is found that this polymer is in the state of a highly expanded conformation at low ionic strength, exhibiting a semi-rigid macromolecular behaviour and that it behaves like a rather coiled polymer with small persistence length at high salt concentration. The electrostatic persistence length calculated from the theory of Fixman et al. shows a -dependence on added salt concentration Cs.


This section introduces tools that are used, or have a high potential, to value ecosystem services and to implement such values in decision-making processes. However, the boundaries of 'valuation tools' are permeable: many tools have attributes similar to those of other areas of our typology, and vice versa. This review covers primary valuation tools, which aim to make the value of ecosystem services explicit, and decision-making tools, where such values are integrated and applied to support 'real-world' decisions. We start with a brief introduction to the 'value of valuing' and recent developments within relevant academic literature.


Unemployment insurance is an important part of social insurance system,and takes pillar role of the active employment policy.Since 1980s,confronted with increasingly serious problem of urban unemployment,China has gradually set up unemployment insurance system,which effectively protected the legitimate rights and interests of the unemployed,guaranteed the establishment for the development of human resources system and played a positive role in maintaining social stability and harmonious development.However,because of the institutional constraints and other reasons in recent years,its function of promoting employment turned out to be limited.Therefore,difficult issues such as hardly-expanding coverage and excessive fund balance occurred,and brought impact to the healthy development of unemployment insurance system.At present,the international financial crisis spreads to China's economic development and brings a serious impact on people's lives,with some small and medium-sized enterprises,especially labor-intensive enterprises encounters production and management difficulties,employment situation becomes intense,and it tends to require the State to implement a more active employment policy.From the practical point of view,if the unemployment insurance fund is strengthened,it is able to promote employment and prevent unemployment.Based on analysis of unemployment insurance operation in Yunnan Province,combining the experience of foreign countries in recent years,this article tries to point out that the function of unemployment insurance should be extended from subsistence allowance and employment-promoting to unemployment-preventing,and full play in construction of human resource system.Meanwhile,the insurance policy should be more feasible and flexible,and the subject matter of insurance should be extended to those employers.


This research finds a solution methodology for determining optimal travel path to and from existing facilities and corresponding location of a new facility having physical flow interaction between them in different degrees translated into associated weights, in presence of barriers impeding the shortest flow-path involving straight-line distance metric. The proposed methodology considers all types of quadrilateral barriers or forbidden region configurations to generalize, to bypass these obstacles, and adopts a scheme of searching through the vertices of these quadrilaterals to determine the alternative shortest flow-path for optimal location of facilities based on weighted-distance computation algorithm with minimum summation or mini-sum objective. Congruence testing has been carried out for reconfiguring complex obstacle geometry as an equivalent quadrilateral. This procedure of obstacle avoidance is completely new. Software, DANSORK, has been developed to facilitate computations for the new search algorithm and test results have been presented based on computations using this software.


Experiments were carried out in a growth chamber to evaluate the effect of spreader and uredospore concentrations on the efficiency of infection by Phakopsora pachyrhizi, the causal agent of Asian soybean rust. CD 214 RR soybean cultivar was inoculated with the following polyoxyethylene sorbitane monolaurate concentrations: 0, 30, 60, 120, 240, 480 and 960 µL.L-1 water, as well as a fixed uredospore concentration of 2 x 104 spores.mL-1. In a second phase, the inoculum concentrations of 0, 5 x 103, 1 x 104, 2 x 104, 4 x 104, 8 x 104 and 16 x 104 uredospores.mL-1 were evaluated, and the spreader concentration of 240 µL.L-1, selected in the previous experiment, was fixed. The spreader concentration of 240 µL.L-1 can be used in artificial inoculation studies, as well as up to 4 x 104 uredospores.mL-1. In this work, there was a correlation between uredia and lesion density. Thus, the use of lesion density is recommended to assess disease intensity for its accuracy and less time consuming. There was also a positive correlation between uredia and lesion density.


The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers that several companies are making unproven claims that their products will prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, the McClatchy-Tribune News Service reports.


In the paper the static contact problem of a rigid punch and a half-space is considered in the framework of asymmetric elasticity [1, 2]. It is assumed that the medium is in a plane state of strain, and the friction forces are neglected.


This article introduces the Deadly Electoral Conflict dataset (DECO): a global, georeferenced event dataset on electoral violence with lethal outcomes from 1989 to 2017. DECO allows for empirical evaluation of theories relating to the timing, location, and dynamics of deadly electoral violence. By clearly distinguishing electoral violence from related (and sometimes concurrent) instances of organized violence, DECO is particularly suitable for investigating how election-related violence is connected to other forms of violent political contention. In the article, we present the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the data collection and discuss empirical patterns that emerge in DECO. We also demonstrate one potential use of DECO by examining the association between United Nations peacekeeping forces and the prevalence of deadly electoral violence in conflict-affected countries.


The loss of Cyprus to the ottoman Turks, hand in hand with the Battle of Lepanto was the major reason of a period of frozen politics and caused the breaking of the traditional peace between Venice and Constantinople. Yet there is a notable difference between the historical and political Conseptualization of these two major episodes. The ottoman state didn't interpret this catastrophe as the Republic did. As, it could be seen from the bilateral diplomacy carried out by both states, neither the loss of Cyprus, nor the myth-creating Lepanto could change the classical oriental policy of the Serenissima. The case was not different for the Sublime Porte. The aim of this paper is to analyse the post-war politics of these two states and the noteable change in the political polarization in Europe in the milieu of the ottoman-Hapsburg rivalry.


The rapid growth of wireless communications and upcoming requirements of 5G networks are driving interest in the areas from wireless transceivers to sensor nodes. One of the most vital components of the wireless transmitter is the radio frequency power amplifier. A large-signal device model of the transistor is an essential part of the power amplifier design process. Despite the significant developments in large-signal modelling, the models for commercially available devices from the manufacturers are still under continuous development and often lack accuracy.
One of the main objectives of this thesis is the validation and extension of an analytic approach as an alternative to conventional large-signal modelling for power amplifier designing.
The first contribution is the derivation of new analytical expressions based on the equivalent circuit model, including the extrinsic parasitic elements introduced by the package, to calculate the optimum source and load impedances and to predict the performance of a radio frequency power amplifier. These expressions allow to evaluate the effects of a package on the optimum impedance values and performance.
The second contribution is establishing the accuracy of the analytic approach. Harmonic balance simulation is used as the first benchmark to evaluate the method at various bias points and frequencies. The validity of the analytic approach is demonstrated at a frequency of 3.25 GHz for gallium nitride based high power devices with measurement of prototype radio frequency power amplifier designed for the impedance values obtained from the analytic expressions.
The third contribution is extending the analytic approach to determine the optimum impedance values for different criteria of maximum gain, linearity and efficiency. The analytic expressions are utilized to gain an understanding of the relationship among the device performance, the elements of devices and package models and I-V characteristics.
The wireless sensor networks are essential elements for the realization of the Internet of Things. Sensor nodes, which are the fundamental building blocks of these networks, have to be energy efficient and able to produce energy to reduce the maintenance cost and to prolong their lifetime. The second main aim of the thesis is designing and implementing an ultra-low power autonomous wireless sensor node that harvests the indoor light energy.
The forth contribution of this thesis includes a comprehensive comparison of six different solar cell technologies under a controlled light intensity, carried out to determine the best option for indoor light energy harvesting. The power consumption of the node is reduced by selecting the appropriate hardware and implementing a wake-up receiver to reduce the active and idle mode currents. The low power consumption coupled with light energy harvesting significantly prolong the operating lifetime of the node.


1. The human health benefits of direct sensory interactions with nature (hereafter direct human– nature interactions) are increasingly recognised. However, these interactions can also have various negative health and well-being impacts on people, some of which may be severe. Compared to positive ones, there has been relatively little investigation of such negative direct human– nature interactions beyond the medical literature, and what has been done is widely scattered across disciplines. 2. Here, we provide an overview of the typology, characteristics and dynamics of negative direct sensory interactions with nature and suggest management implications and future research directions. 3. We highlight the breadth of forms that negative direct human– nature interactions occur, and evidence that the incidences of some have recently grown rapidly in many parts of the world. 4. Our review also suggests that more intense negative direct human– nature interactions


Indigenous earthquake-resistant housing technologies have developed in different parts of the world to enable the people to safely withstand earthquakes. These technologies also address other crucial factors such as availability of local construction materials, functionality of the building designs and safety of the occupants from weather extremes. Unfortunately, these technologies are becoming increasingly unpopular due to large-scale induction of modern construction materials and technologies. However, a large proportion of modern buildings in developing countries perform unsatisfactorily during earthquakes due to improper construction. An evaluation of the indigenous earthquake-resistant technologies shows that they follow all the guiding principles of sound earthquake-resistant design and construction practices. Their lack of popularity stems mainly from the absence of modern engineering tools for their design and construction. This paper discusses the key features of the indigenous earthquake-resistant construction technologies and describes the conditions in which they are found ideally suitable for large-scale use in developing countries.


The design, fabrication, and erection - and the research leading up to this cutting-edge technological achievement in civil engineering -are presented, as well as the long-term monitoring program and ongoing research that will continue. The Bridge Street Bridge in Southfield, Michigan, is the first vehicular concrete bridge ever built in the United States that uses carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) material as the principal structural reinforcement. The project consists of two parallel bridges - Structures A and B - over the Rouge River in the City of Southfield. Both structures use three skewed spans, each over 62 m (204 ft) long, to carry vehicular traffic. Structure A consists of a new substructure as well as a new superstructure, and incorporates five equally spaced conventional AASHTO Type III girders in each of its three spans. Its cast-in-place concrete deck slab is placed continuously across the three spans. Structure B consists of 12 special double-tee (DT) girders (four per span) using pretensioned Leadline tendons and post-tensioned carbon fiber composite cable (CFCC) strands. This project recently won PCl's Harry H. Edwards Industry Advancement Award.


Background Back Pain is a worldwide problem that often interferes with work, daily activities and sleep. The stress and disability experienced at night by individuals with Low Back Pain (LBP) could be reduced by targeted treatments designed specifically for this period. This study aimed to assess the clinical effectiveness of a spinal alignment cushion in the management of LBP when compared to a control group of standardised care. Methods & Results 71 individuals (30 males, 41 females) with LBP were recruited to the 4-week intervention after screening using the Red Flags and STarT Back tools. Participants were randomly assigned to either the control (standardised care) or intervention group (standardised care plus spinal alignment cushion). Pre and post assessments were taken using the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) (0–24), the Core Outcomes Measure Index (COMI) (0–10), and a Pain and Comfort during Sleep VAS Assessment. Each post assessment was analysed using ANCOVA with corresponding pre-assessment as covariate. Significant differences were seen in the RMDQ in favour of the intervention group (P = 0.034) over the four week period. Significant differences were also seen in favour of the intervention group in the COMI score (P=0.008), the frequency (P=0.004) and intensity of back pain (P=0.000), joint/muscle stiffness (P=0.046) and intensity of back stiffness (P=0.022). Conclusions Overall, this suggests that use of targeted treatments such as a spinal alignment cushion for symptoms at night can provide clinically important and statistically significant improvements for individuals with LBP with high levels of treatment satisfaction and adherence.


Psychopharmaceuticals: a plea for cautious management in early psychosis.

From the holistic approach in VRINT (Early psychosis intervention team), a psychotic episode is regarded as an existential crisis in which both biological and psychosocial factors play a role and interact with each other. Non-pharmacological treatments are indispensable and preferred. However, antipsychotics can have an important role and be even lifesaving in certain circumstances.

Therefore, in this article 3 questions are explored:

How long before prescribing antipsychotics?
How long should they be prescribed and is medication tapering possible?
Are antipsychotics neuroprotective or rather harmful?

Based on the scientific literature regarding antipsychotics as well as their own experience, the authors conclude that they do have their place in treating early psychosis, but they should be prescribed with the necessary caution, since antipsychotics are not harmless products. Treatment with antipsychotics should always consist of administering the lowest possible dose with a minimum of side effects. The decision to start treatment with antipsychotics and the correct adjustment of dosage should always be done in consultation with the person in crisis and his or her family. After a first psychotic episode, medication tapering can be considered, but the tapering off must be properly supervised over a sufficiently long period of time. After all, a full long-term recovery is pursued, whereby the person with psychosis can take control of his or her own life.


In the history of legal system,civil law which includes the real right system came into being before constitution.It was the source of the spirit and the system of modern constitutions actually.It is in terms of outcome,not in terms of occurrence that constitution is higher than any branch law such as property law on the legal hierarchy.As a public law under the national power,constitution validates and safeguards all property rights.While in the private rights domain within which property law adjusts,all kinds of property rights have equal legal status.It is a misunderstanding of the function of private law or even of the function of constitution as a public law to claim the special protection of the public property in property law.


(1445), 'and not so clever.' Nevertheless, in its exploitation of the unexpected, Euripides' cleverness solves some purely dramatic problems and thereby has its own justification, as I hope my readers will agree. And even if they do not altogether agree, arleast Euripides, unlike Mrs. Luna in Henry James's novel, did have the courage of his own frivolity. 1 The Bostonians, ch. 19. 2 This paper has benefited greatly from the positive criticism of several scholars: particularly A. D. Fitton-Brown, R. Kannicht, and M. D. Reeve. My debt to them is gratefully acknowledged.


The moisture content in agricultural products will affect the quality and safety storage of it. Fungi development happens if the moisture content is not optimum. This paper presents a non – destructive, simple, fast and low cost interface circuit to measure the moisture content of paddy grains heated in different temperature. The arrangement used is a high precision impedance converter. Ceramic capacitors of different values were used to standardize the measuring circuit. Using this circuit, moisture content of representative standard grown samples was measured and dielectric constant was calculated.  A moisture meter developed using this circuit can be implemented to measure the moisture content of any grains. The paper discusses the working principle, technique, methodology and experimental set up used and the results obtained.


In this paper, the authors propose a comprehensive monitoring system for the quality of life of the population in the Russian regions, including methodological assessment tools and information-analytical system using Data Mining methods, allowing public authorities to justify and adjust programs aimed at its improvement. The comprehensive monitoring system includes: descriptive and comparative analysis of statistical and analytical materials for a certain period of time, characterizing the quality of life of population in the Russian Federation regions; the rationale and implementation of choosing the most important basic components of this assessment; development of a system of indicators to measure the quality of life of population in the Russian regions; the choice of a particular method of synthesis of partial indicators into a single integrated index. The information and analytical system for monitoring the quality of life of the population in the Russian Federation regions is based on a data warehouse containing statistical indicators and an analytical platform that allows to evaluate data using Data Mining processing technologies: multidimensional data presentation; rating analysis; cluster analysis of the quality of life of the population in the Russian regions using the Kohonen learning rule. At the final stage of monitoring, the priority strategic directions for improving the quality of life of the population in the Russian regions are identified.


The purpose of this study was to compare the hematopoietic effects of Angelica gigas, A. sinensis, and A. acutiloba extract (1 g/kg B.W.) on cyclophosphamide-induced (30 mg/kg B.W.) anemic rats. Cyclophosphamide injection group (AG, AS, AA) showed a decrease in weight gain in comparison with the normal group. Compared to the cyclophosphamide-treated control group, oral administration of Angelica gigas extract for 14 days in the normal group significantly prevented body weight loss. The iron level of the A. gigas-administered group was significantly higher than the control groups. The serum vitamin level of A. gigas-, A. sinensis-, and A. acutiloba-administered groups was significantly higher than in the control. We suggest that administration of A. gigas, A. sinensis, and A. acutiloba prevents cyclophosphamide-induced anemia by improving hematological value and iron status.


Restoration of degraded soils with organic wastes could be a feasible practice to minimise erosion in the Mediterranean area. In this work we have applied three different organic wastes to three different soils of degraded areas. Two composted and one uncomposted sewage sludges were used for the restoration of soils. The soils were: one soil of overexploited agricultural area, one burned forest soil, and one shrub-land soil degraded by environmental conditions (annual rainfall -300 mm) and erosion. The experiment was carried out in field conditions. After the addition of organic amendments, some soil samplings were made. Different soil properties were determined: physical (aggregate stability %), chemical (pH, salinity, available nutrients) and biological (microbial biomass carbon, soil respiration rate). Beneficial and detrimental results have been obtained in the earliest stages (around three months after organic application) of this long-term restoration experiment. In the first 90 days after wastes application one of the positive effects in the shrub-land soil has been the increase of around 1.7-fold in soil microbial biomass carbon with respect to untreated soils. But, in some treated soils negative effects have been observed too, such as an increase in electrical conductivity. This negative effect is reversible and temporary, and may disappear after rainfalls. Therefore, the application of the different organic wastes to degraded soils could be a good restoration management. Transactions on Ecology and the Environment vol 46, © 2001 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3541


Clustering is used data mining technique in which a group of similar objects is combined together to form clusters, these clusters are different from the objects in another clusters. This paper describes some clusterization techniques like, partitional technique, hierarchical technique, grid-based technique, density-based technique and their algorithms. Partitional method divides the data set into objects based on some similarity criterion, hierarchical method creates a hierarchy between clusters by combining the data objects into clusters, and then these clusters are further combined together to form large clusters and so on, grid-based method forms clusters by combining the data objects into grids or cells, density based method are used to separate the high dense clusters from low dense clusters.


Nowadays, cloud computing is the innovative product of the upgraded of information science technology. It is another great change following the transition from large scale computer to client-server in the last century. The concepts, such as cloud security, cloud storage, secure cloud, cloud hosting and cloud input, appeared after cloud computing. E-Government Information Security plays an important role in the development and establishment of E-Government. It is an important component part to use cloud security technology to establish our country's E-Government secure cloud in current E-Government construction.


Heterogeneity of cooperative members refers to the differences of members' characteristics in terms of resource endowment,participating motivation and participating behavior.It is the most important internal environment characteristics in the development of Farmer Cooperatives caused by accelerated differentiation of farmer groups,top-down pushing from government,etc.,which are difficult to eliminate in the short term.Member participation forms a development path driven by patronage,investment,management and standard.The heterogeneity of cooperatives members does not necessarily have a positive or negative impact on the development of farmer cooperatives.However,in order to improve cooperatives performance and standard operation,as well as efficiency and fairness,it is necessary to attract heterogeneity members with resource endowment according to the guideline of organization business demands,to attract heterogeneity members with participating motivation based on the principal of individual voluntary,and to eliminate heterogeneity members with participating behavior by using advanced guide and demonstration.


Through analyzing the causes of surface film defects produced in electrostatic powder coating, countermeasures were given to improve the quality of surface film.


The nucleoprotein (NP) of influenza virus covers the viral RNA entirely and it is this NP-RNA complex that is the template for transcription and replication by the viral polymerase. Purified NP forms a dynamic equilibrium between monomers and small oligomers, but only the monomers can oligomerize onto RNA. Therefore, drugs that stabilize the monomers or that induce abnormal oligomerization may have an antiviral effect, as would drugs that interfere with RNA binding. Crystal structures have been produced for monomeric and dimeric mutants, and for trimers and tetramers; high-resolution electron microscopy structures have also been calculated for the viral NP-RNA complex. We explain how these structures and the dynamic oligomerization equilibrium of NP can be and have been used for anti-influenza drug development.


Objective: Sitagliptin phosphate and metformin hydrochloride tablet is an FDA approved combination product for the treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2. There are no reported evidence for estimation of undesired (S)-sitagliptin in a combination product. The objective of this study was to develop a high sensitive liquid chromatography method for the determination of (S)-enantiomer of sitagliptin phosphate in a fixed dose combination formula of metformin and sitagliptin.
Methods: The proposed novel high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method uses programmed gradient elution of a mixture of ethanol-diethylamine(DEA) 100:0.1 (v/v) as mobile phase-A and a mixture of methanol-water 60:40 (v/v) as mobile phase-B. The chromatographic conditions were designed to nullify the metformin interference and in which sitagliptin enantiomers elute first and followed by metformin. A satisfactory resolution (≥2.5) between (S)-sitagliptin and active form (R)-sitagliptin was achieved with gradient elution on Chiralpak IA column (5μm, 4 × 250 mm) at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min and the detector wavelength set at 265 nm. The injection volume set as 10 µl. The developed method has been validated as per the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines.
Results: The proposed HPLC method for determination of (S)-sitagliptin, showed good linearity in the concentration range of 0.5 µg/ml to 13.6 µg/ml and capable to quantify accurately up to the lowest level (LOQ) of 0.017%. The validated method was successfully applied to quantify the (S)-sitagliptin for different marketed formulations of sitagliptin with metformin and sitagliptin alone, and the corresponding recovery values were found to be in the range of 95.1% to 98.4%.
Conclusion: The proposed validated HPLC method was found to be suitable for the quantitative determination of (S)-sitagliptin in the formulations of sitagliptin with metformin and sitagliptin alone.


In small size soccer robot competition,it is required that the decision system should exactly extract and predict the moving position information of the soccer.The non-linear movements of the soccer,system delay and other factors have influences on the prediction precision of the position of the soccer,according to which,the frame difference method and the improved Hough circle detection algorithm were introduced to acquire the position of the soccer while the UKF(Unscented Kalman Filter) algorithm was adopted to predict the trajectory of the soccer.Groups of images on conditions of ordinary rolling and continuous collision of the soccer were captured using camera.All the algorithms were realized on VC6.0 platform to acquire and process the position of the soccer,and the predicted position of the soccer was then obtained,which could satisfy the requirements of decision system on the position of the soccer.The validity of the algorithms was testified.


The relation between overall construction of well-off all-round society and overall development of human beings is harmonious and unified,both of which support each other,promote each other and develop each other.In overall construction process of well-off all-round society,well-off all-round society con- struction and overall development of human beings can be promoted by completing each mechanism of harmony and unification and by promoting the interactive relation between the two.


Objective To investigate the mechanism of action of leptin in rats with experimental typeⅡdiabetes by intervention of conjugated linoleic acids(CLA) to these rats and observation of their level of glucose and insulin in serum and the expression of leptin in islet cell and fatty tissue.Methods Thirty five female Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups(1 normal control group,1 type II diabetes control group,3 CLA intervention groups).The rats in 4 groups were fed with high fat and glucose diets for 1 month,and injected with streptozoticin(STZ,25 mg/ kg·bw) to induce hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes(glucose10 mmol/L).After intervened by CLA with different dosage for 1 month,serum glucose was detected with GOD-PAP and insulin level was detected with radio immunoassay,leptin expression in islet cell was detected with immunohistochemistry assay and leptin expression in fat tissue was detected with Western blotting.Results After intervened by CLA,the level of glucose in serum decreased in dose dependent manner and the level of insulin increased in dose dependent manner too.The expression of leptin in fatty tissue and islet cell was increased in dose dependent manner in CLA intervened group compared with diabetes group(P 0.05),Conclusion After intervened by CLA,ileptin expression in fatty tissue was decreased,so the leptin level in islet cells was decreased,the insulin secretion was increased,and the serum glucose was controlled.


With the need of market competition, it is very important to improve its testing ability for a lab. The conditions of improving testing ability of lab are fulfilling the qualifications for testing, increasing the testing level, adopting new testing technology and method and so on. If all conditions are satisfied, the management will be improved.


In the summer of 1922, fieldwork was conducted in the Tornedalen district of northern Sweden, in the immediate vicinity of the border with Finland. Three young men travelled together through the district on a motorcycle, documenting archaic buildings and villages in words and images. This documentation effort was part of a larger endeavour to survey and collect all the different aspects of what was presumed to be a vanishing peasant culture. The Nordic Museum (Nordiska museet) was responsible for the work in Tornedalen, with the ethnologist Sigurd Erixon in charge of all such investigations in Sweden. As early as 1917, the existence of a specific type of barn in the district had led Erixon to define Tornedalen as a specific cultural region.The more in-depth studies conducted in 1922 did not change that. Another conclusion drawn by the fieldworkers was that there were no clear boundaries within the district that could be explained by differences between Swedish and Finnish culture. In the area they studied, most of the inhabitants spoke Finnish. Although one of the men could speak that language, this created difficulties for the expedition and had an effect on the results. The motorcycle caused the expedition a lot of trouble and greatly affected how their work was conducted and what knowledge about the past in the Tornedalen district could be produced. After the fieldwork was completed, archival records were made, preserving knowledge about the material culture of the district. These records have been used as a source of knowledge since the early 1920s, and the results of the fieldwork conducted almost 100 years ago still have an impact on our understanding of the past in Tornedalen. (Less)


Abstract The objective of this work is to make an approach to the Murcia agriculture workers' perception on the continuous training system implanted in this...


This essay is a reflection on the ways we understand East Asia, as well as how East Asia is related to our knowledge construction. In spite of the personal tone, which I use strategically to formulate arguments in a carefully designed narrative flow, the article remains critical throughout and its conclusion is clear: exploration of the essence of East Asian civilization can constitute a meaningful effort to reevaluate and even restructure our current world of knowledge.


Scope of the study: Vestibular pathology is a complex one, requiring a minute clinical evaluation, as well as numerous paraclinical investigations. The present study analyzes the contribution of the modern methods of vestibular and auditive investigation to the diagnosis of


This document introduces Baset Humanoid team for participating in Humanoid Kid-Size Robot League in Robocup 2014. Our humanoid kid-size team is mainly based on some of our team members previous developments and experiences in AUTMan 2013 [1] team which ranked second in RoboCup 2013 (Eindhoven, Netherland) and team Parand 2013 teen-size team which ranked 1 in Iranopen 2013. Our main research interests within the scope of the humanoid robots are robust realtime vision and object recognition, localization, navigation, and human interaction.


A dual-band endfire antenna with balanced microstrip line feed is proposed in this paper. The basic structure is a Yagi antenna composed of three microstrip dipoles. By introducing a dielectric layer and metallic layer under the basic Yagi antenna, the antenna realizes dual-band operation. Meanwhile, to broaden the bandwidth at 2.4 GHz, a parasitic slot is etched on the patch of the new metallic layer. The measured results indicate that the realized antenna operates in 2.4 and 5.2 GHz bands with the bandwidths of 780 MHz (2.31 GHz – 3.09 GHz) and 370 MHz (5.0 GHz – 5.37 GHz), covering the band for WLAN and WIFI. The maximum gains in the two bands are 1.4 dBi and 3.47 dBi, respectively.


he supramolecular system consisting of a water-soluble meso-tetrakis-[(P-trimethylphenyl)ammonio] porphyrin tetraiodide and a gallium tetrasodium tetrakis(4'-sul-fonato)phthalocyanine was studied by fluorescence spectroscopy。 In water solution,mixingof the anionic phthalocyanine with the cationic porphyrin yields heteroaggregate. The results of fluorimetric titrations indicated that the hetero-aggregate in a heterodimer and theformation equilibrium constant of the heterodimer is 1.17 ×10 ̄8 L/mol.The value of the for-mation equilibrium constant indicates that the heterodimer is very stable in water solution。No fluorescense emision of the heterodimer was observed.


Four species of ticks, Boophilus annulatuts (Say), B. m1icroplus Canestrini, Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latr.) and Amlblyolmmla cypriumt Neumann, have been previously reported as occuring on Guam. References to the occurrence of the cattle ticks, B. annulatus and B. microplus (= Margaropus anznulatus australis, synonym) are found in the Reports of the Guam Agricultural Experiment Station (Fullaway, 1912; Thompson, 1913; Edwards, 1919). According to Barber (1916), the cattle ticks were considered by Dr. B. H. Ransom to be indistinguishable from Margaropus caudatus, a species which the present writer regards as identical with B. microplus. Horses, carabaos, goats, and deer were also said to be infested with this tick. Vandenberg (1929) reported the presence of the brown dog tick, R. sanguineus, on dogs, and Alicata (1948) reported that "examination of one bull near Agania, Guam, revealed a moderate infestation of ticks identified as Boophilus annulatus australis (Fuller) and Amblyomma cypriuln Neumann." Dr. Alicata states (personal communication, 1952) that his report of A. cypriunt was based on a single male specimen. The statement in War Department Technical Bulletin, TB Med. 57 (1944) that "Cattle in Guam frequently are infested with ticks of the family Argasidae" is undoubtedly in error and in all probability it refers to ticks of the genus Boophilus. Collections made on Guam by personnel of Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 in 1945 were presented to the Rocky Mountain Laboratory by the late Dr. A. B. Hardcastle, a former member of the Unit. These contained two additional species, Ornithodoros capensis Neumann and a new species of A41blyonlula. The identity of the former is based on a single adult reared from larvae off the noddy tern, Anous stolidus, Ypao Point and Oca Point, May, June, and July. The latter, described below, was found on the water-monitor, Varanlus indiclts, at Tarague Point and Pati Point in June and July. Also represented were immature stages which appear to be those of the previously recorded A. cyprium, the larvae and nymphs of which are undescribed, off Rattus rattuts and "rats," Ritidian Point and an unnamed locality, June and September.


A method of making EVA shoe midsole includes a compound containing in percentage by weight the sub stancessuch as 100% of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) into which 5-40% of filling agent, 1-10% of foaming agent, 0.5-3% of bridging agent, 0.5-5% of finishing aid, 0.1-1% of foaming aid and coloring agent are added. Such compound is made into particles to be injected into the primary mold in which the preliminary blank of midsole is formed. The preliminary blank is made to foam to take shape of a molded blank under heat and pressure so as to ensure that the size of the molded blank corresponds to that of the midsole in tended to be made. The molded blank is then treated in the secondary mold under heat and pressure and is subsequently cooled to take form of the midsole in tended to be manufactured.


Sainthood and its manifestations are a subject that has become fundamental when doing cultural studies of the colony in Latin America; it is through the construction of saintly figures that we can identify social desires and diverse ethnic, class and gender tensions, but we can also encounter much more hybrid and fluid spaces. This essay, part of my doctoral dissertation, presents catholic sainthoods in the Viceroyalty of Peru, through the cases of Santa Rosa de Lima and San Martin de Porras. By studying mysticism, my proposal aims to think saintly figures as queer subjects, that is to say, as subjects who challenged, altered and questioned colonial structures.


This invention discloses one phase change memory layer and its process method and relative memory unit, which adds one or more heterogenic particles non reacting to the materials as crystal nuclear as phase change memory layer to reduce the needed time to convert non-crystal status into crystal status.