Are uncertainty shocks a major source of business cycle fluctuations? This paper studies the effect of a mean preserving shock to the variance of aggregate total factor productivity (macro†uncertainty) and to the dispersion of entrepreneurs' idiosyncratic productivity (micro†uncertainty) in a financial accelerator dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with sticky prices. It explores the different mechanisms through which uncertainty shocks are propagated and amplified. The time†series properties of macro†and micro†uncertainty are estimated using U.S. aggregate and firm†level data, respectively. While surprise increases in micro†uncertainty have a larger impact on total output than macro†uncertainty, these can only account for a small (but nontrivial) share of output volatility.


Hot pressing micro grain boron carbide materials are used in the control system of space navigation. So they are required to be extremely reliabile. When the boron carbide specimens are polished, some of them have bright points on the surface. It is an abnormal phenomenon. Through analyzing component and morphology on bright points, the following conclusions have been made: some boron carbide particles are peeled off from the bulk through the polishing process, the rough micro areas are seen as bright points; the ingredient of the bright points is boron carbide, and there is no other materials. A further research should be necessary to eliminate the bright points effectively.


Abstract MIXNER and Upp (1947) found higher thyroxine secretion rates in "double-crossed" hybrid chicks than in "single-crossed" chicks. Their work implied that high thyroxine levels are associated with hybrid vigor. The above paper, as well as the literature relating growth and fattening of broilers with induced hypo- and hyper-thyroidism, suggested that such artificially induced physiological states in broilers might be employed in a study of the effects of these conditions upon the growth of parasitized chickens, and upon the growth of the parasites themselves. The data given here relate to the development of coccidial infections in New Hampshire broilers on a standard growing ration and on the same growing ration to which thyroprotein (Protamone * ) had been added. Data are also included on the amounts of growth made in 3 week test periods by the infected birds. These latter data complement in part the work of Wheeler et al. (1948) on the . . .


This is one of the first papers trying to analyse the motives and benefits of QMS/ISO implementation in Indian SMEs. A survey work of 220 certified Indian SMEs is carried out and presented in the paper. The relationships between expected and perceived benefits were analysed through statistical analysis. This paper highlights the results of this survey, which concluded that QMS/ISO certified companies were more concerned by internal reasons like improving processes/productivity or products/services than by external reasons like pressure from customers or imitation of competitors. In addition, the paper pointed out that the QMS implementation process had generated more internal benefits than external ones. The findings of the research work also indicate that the SME firms will sustain their quality efforts as continuous improvement. This paper is structured as: first, we review the previous literature on motives and benefits of QMS/ISO implementation and identified research gaps. Next, paper present the research methodology followed by the survey analysis and results. After discussing the main findings of the empirical research, we finally conclude with useful recommendations for practitioners.


In order to study the existence of possible deficits or surpluses of geodetic and earthquake strain in the Lazio-Abruzzo region of the central Apennines compared to 15 +/- 3 kyrs multi seismic cycle strain-rates, horizontal strain-rates are calculated in 5 km x 5 km and 20 km x 20 km grid squares using slip-vectors from striated faults and offsets of Late Pleistocene-Holocene landforms and sediments. Strain-rates calculated over 15 +/- 3 kyrs within 5 km x 5 km grid squares vary from zero up to 2.34 +/- 0.54 x 10(-7) yr(-1) and resolve variations in strain orientations and magnitudes along the strike of individual faults. Surface strain-rates over a time period of 15 +/- 3 kyrs from 5 km x 5 km grid squares integrated over an area of 80 km x 160 km shows the horizontal strain-rate of the central Apennines is 1.18(-0.04)(+0.12)x10(-8) yr(-1) and -1.83(-4.43)(+3.80) x 10(-10) yr(-1) parallel and perpendicular to the regional principal strain direction (043 degrees-223 degrees+/-1 degrees), associated with extension rates of Ms 6.0) magnitude historical earthquakes have been reported to be as low as zero. This demonstrates the importance of comparing the exact same areas and that strain-rates vary spatially on the length scale of individual faults and on a timescale between 10(2) yr and 10(4) yr in the central Apennines. We use these results to produce a fault specific earthquake recurrence interval map and discuss the regional deformation related to plate boundary and sub-crustal forces, temporal earthquake clustering and the natural variability of the seismic cycle.


During the reprocessing of nuclear fuel radioactive gases are released from the fuel matrix. These gases need to be separated and stored to prevent release into the environment. It is proposed that certain risk factors, which are elucidated herein, caused accelerated corrosion of the interior canister walls breaking containment of legacy storage canisters. The main risk factor of concern is the effect of Rb-85. Rb-85 is produced from the radioactive beta minus decay of Kr-85. The main question is whether an environment containing Rb as a decay product causes corrosion of the canister materials at an accelerated rate. If this does occur, the the corrosion threat will grow with time as more rubidium is produced.
 Based on the environment within the canister, and the risk factors of the system, a corrosion lifecycle has been developed and is briefly discussed. Stage 1 represents the canister at high temperature of 600°C after it has been sealed and hot isotactic pressed (HIP) for 4 hours. In this stage it is possible for oxides to form on the canister walls due to the residual oxygen in the canister from loading. It is possible that the presence of Rb will interact with the canister material and disrupt the formation of iron and chromium oxides. These Rb oxides, if present, may not inhibit corrosion thus causing an increase in the corrosion rates. Stage 2 represents the canister cooling from 600°C to ambient. In this stage wet thermal oxides will form on the canister walls as the temperature drops below the deliquescence point and water droplets appear, setting up the conditions for aqueous corrosion, like stage 1 the possible formation of RbxCryOzwhich may not be as protective as other oxides, can cause an increase in corrosion rates. Stage 3 represent oxide and environmental interactions. In this stage the environmental risk factors, such as the presence of cathodic reactants oxygen, hydron and peroxide, will create conditions to enable aqueous corrosion. Stages 4 through 8, describe the stages of pitting, uniform corrosion, and galvanic corrosion. Because the material chosen for the canister is 4130 low alloy steel, and the welding material used was 304 stainless steel, there is the possibility of galvanic corrosion. This can increase the uniform corrosion rate, and lead to more pitting events causing depassivation of the surface, or deeper pit penetration. The chosen canister materials are also at risk of pitting attack, the risk of which is increased as the canister is likely driven to alkalinity from the products of the cathodic reaction. Pitting is especially dangerous to the canister which needs to maintain containment for 100 years.
 This work looks to test the risk factors and develop a mechanistic understanding of the canister's corrosion process with the goal of recommending a material that will be able to maintain containment for the needed 100 years if nuclear fuel were to start being repressed in the United States.


This study was set out with aim to test the performance of SWAT hydrological model on Myitnge River Basin and to find out and set up the highly sensitive parameters for the basin. The model was auto-calibrated and validated using SWAT-CUP SUFI2 software. Nash and Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) and Coefficient of Determination (R2) were considered as main objective functions during calibration and validation. According to the analysis, threshold depth of water in the shallow aquifer required for return flow to occur (GWQMN.gw), Manning's n for overland flow (OV_N. hru), Average slope steepness (HRU_SLP. hru), Manning's "n" value for the main channel (CH_N2.rte), threshold depth of water in the shallow aquifer for "revap" to occur (REVAPMN.gw), and Average slope length (SLSUBBSN. hru) were figured out to be the highly sensitive parameters. Available hydrological data from 2005 to 2013 was split into two groups for calibrating and validating parameters of the model. The year 2006 was used as warm up period. The model was calibrated at Shwesaryan station both on daily and monthly time scale. The average daily calibration showed good model response with NSE 0.74 and R2 0.8 respectively at year 2008. Also, the monthly validation showed good model fit with NSE of 0.63 and R2 0.72 from year 2005 to 2013 respectively. Principally, the implementation of SWAT model in simulating streamflow at Shwesaryan station can be rated as good and the calibrated model could be used for runoff simulation for power potential estimation and other water related work. IndexTerms – Myitnge, SWAT, SUFI2, NSE, R.


This paper presents the annotation scheme for the manual annotation of the Corpus of Hungarian Lyrical Poetry. The corpus will consist of 400-600 annotated texts, grouped into four sub-corpora: 20th century lyrical texts from the canon of Hungarian public education, contemporary lyrical texts, slam poetry texts, and song lyrics. The manual annotation is based on automatically generated and manually checked annotations of lemmas, parts of speech and morphosyntactic features. The manual annotation of syntactic properties proposed in the annotation scheme follows a dependency analysis approach and allows us to obtain quantitative data on person marking constructions in Hungarian lyrical texts. Besides the annotation of verb-dependent relations, the paper also presents the annotation of specific phenomena such as auxiliary verbs, vocatives, elliptical structures, and nominal predicates. The annotation scheme was tested using a test corpus of 16 texts. We also provide some examples of the types of quantitative data that can be extracted from the annotated corpus.


In order to improve the high altitude harsh construction environment, study tunnel construction dust concentration and distribution law of different construction section, using the membrane filter dust method to achieve the dust concentration of different section, using the statistical to analysis the origin and distribution law, putting forward different dust control measures for different construction stages, to improve the high altitude tunnel construction environment. The results of dust prevention and control of high altitude region are of great significance.


Steel processing without depending on the process it is possible to manufacture the conventional sheet material manufacturing cost and the same extent, as compared with the conventional α + β-type Ti alloy, a low temperature - α + β-type Ti alloy having a second microstructure showing a high-speed super-plastic and the production there is provided a method. The particle diameter of 1μm or less is 60% or more determined by the area ratio, the particle size of the most frequently has a polygonal Jung second microstructure of 0.5μm or less, the highest density hexagonal (0001) face the normal direction of the processing surface area density greater than 1.00 in orientation into the range of 0 ~ 60 ° α + β-type Ti alloy for.


Powdery mildew is a common and serious disease in home garden and commercial (greenhouse and field) plantings of orna-mentals. Control of powdery mildew on greenhouse snapdragons with the systemic fungicide benomyl has been successful when the fungicide has been sprayed on the foliage, drenched into the soil at three-week intervals, or mixed in the soil prior to planting. Definite systemic action has resulted either from drench applications around growing plants or mixing the fungicide in the soil prior to planting. When mixed in the soil prior to planting, the effectiveness has lasted nine and a half months following addition and about seven and a half months following planting. Benomyl (Benlate) is not yet registered for use on snapdragons or other ornamentals.


Some wells can not be put into production as normal because of no openhole log data.Provided is a method to evaluate this kind of well with dual-spaced C/O logging data.Based on present dual-spaced C/O logging data,a model is built and validated to compute log interpretation parameters such as porosity and shale volume.By utilizing the model and other geological data,integrated interpretation such as reservoir zonation,saturation evaluation are made for wells without openhole log data.According to the evaluation results,the oil production company performs perforating and oil testing.It proves that the method mentioned above has a better effect in field log application.


The past decades of cancer immunotherapy research have provided profound evidence that the immune system is capable of inducing durable tumor regression. Although many commercialized anti-cancer immunotherapies are available to patients, these treatment options only scrape the surface of the potential immune-related treatment possibilities for cancer. Additionally, many individuals are ineligible for established immunotherapies due to their cancer type. The adoptive cell transfer of autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes has been used in humans for over 30 years to treat metastatic melanoma, and continued modifications are making it increasingly more effective against other types of cancer. This comprehensive review outlines this therapy from its infancy through to the present day, bringing to light modifications and optimizations to the traditional workflow, as well as highlighting the influence of new methods and technologies.


Background. School policies limiting the availability of sweetened beverages are often considered to be effective interventions for improving children's diet and weight-related health. This study w...


The research work, described in this thesis, has been carried out at the Metrology Research Institute of Helsinki University of Technology between 2000 and 2005. The research focused on the development of new detectors, calibration methods and their applications in optical radiometry. A new photodetector, which is based on three GaAsP Schottky-barrier photodiodes, has been introduced. The spectral properties of the GaAsP trap detector have been studied in the wavelength range between 200 nm and 600 nm. Spectral reflectance of a single windowless GaAsP photodiode, measured with high-accuracy gonioreflectometer, has been presented. Based on these measurements, the internal quantum efficiencies for both the single photodiode and the trap detector have been calculated. A novel scanning method for characterization of filter radiometers, which uses a wavelength tuneable Ti:Sapphire laser source, has been described. High accuracy calibration of filter radiometers at 900 nm has been conducted. The results have been compared to the spectral irradiance responsivities measured with the more conventional monochromator-based method. Both the laser-based method and the monochromator-based method have been used for characterization of the detectors for radiometric measurements of the thermodynamic temperatures of several blackbodies in irradiance mode. Four filter radiometers with central wavelengths between 600 nm and 900 nm have been used. The measured temperatures include the freezing temperature of silver and copper, which are defined by the International Temperature Scale of 1990.


ABSTRACT To evaluate genetic variability among Entamoeba histolytica strains, we sequenced 9,077 bp from each of 14 isolates. The polymorphism rates from coding and noncoding regions were significantly different (0.07% and 0.37%, respectively), indicating that these regions are subject to different selection pressures. Additionally, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) potentially associated with specific clinical outcomes were identified.


This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted downlink transmission. To maximize the aver-age achievable channel capacity among the ground users, a multi-agent low-bias deep reinforcement learning (MA-LB-DRL) scheme is proposed to solve the joint optimization problem of trajectory design, channel selection and power control. Firstly, considering the NP-hard, non-convex, and mixed-integer features, the joint optimization problem is decoupled into two sub-problems, which deal with the integer-action and continuous-action problem respectively. Secondly, an MA-LB-DRL scheme, which consists of a multi-agent double deep Q-network (MAD-DQN) for channel selection and a multi-agent twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (MATD3PG) for trajectory design and power control, is proposed to overcome the overestimation bias via reducing value function approximation error at the expense of tiny complexity. Finally, the simulation results demon-strate that the proposed scheme achieves high channel capacity than the benchmark schemes.


The paper describes the research, development and evaluation of a lightweight sensor system for UAVs. The system is composed of three main components: (1) a laser scanning module, (2) a multi-spectral camera system, and (3) a processing/storage unit. All three components are newly developed. Beside measurement precision and frequency, the low weight has been one of the challenging tasks. The current system has a total weight of about 2.5 kg and is designed as a self-contained unit (incl. storage and battery units).


In the face of unexpected chemical accidents,emergency treatment is an effective measure to control the consequence and reduce the loss of accident.Emergency response plans are the basis and guideline for emergency treatment.The interaction between operator and system plays a vital role in alleviating or deteriorating the result of accident,however,the actual research about the human error in emergency response often stresses the importance of operators' experience and ignores the human error resulted from not fully understanding the plans because of the complex logical structure and bad readability of plans.Therefore,the evaluation method of plans complexity based on Graphic Entropy is discussed,by transforming the text plans into corresponding graphics and calculating the first and second order entropy of these graphics to determine five complexity factor of step,then calculating the complexity of task through complexity of step.At last,take the example chemical emergency operation of switching the back-pump for illuminating the calculation method,meanwhile,give the concrete measures to reduce the complexity.The results show that the evaluation method is effective.


21 century is the era of innovations in the field of teaching-learning. It is found that in this century only lecture method is highly ineffective for teaching twenty first century competencies and skills. Rethinking on current pedagogy is very essential and also there is need to identify new competencies that today's learner expected to have. Traditional approaches usually emphasize the process of memorization. Research has proved that learners are more successful in acquiring new knowledge, competencies, skills and meta-cognitive abilities. Diversified pedagogies would help the diversified learners. Behaviourist approached worked out to be best for few group of learners but become obsolete in the 21 century, followed by connectivist and constructivist pedagogies. Even though they are gaining currencies in this period equally there is demand for Connectivist pedagogy as well. 21 century education is in need of 21 century pedagogies to combat the contemporary issues and challenges. Hence there is need to zoom out for understanding the latest trends in pedagogical context.


The comparison of two percentages and the analysis of contingency tables for independence with the aid of the information statistics 2 I -


In this paper, a PROFIBUS-DP control system which is suited for PROFIBUS-DP interface development is constructed. After the analysis, comparison and selection of development scheme, the development of hardware and software as well as GSD file is accomplished by using SPC3. All service flows which is expressed by service access are accomplished in the software, and related parameters in the GSD file entirely match with the communication software. Real time and certainty is important property of networked control system, and the procedure to implement corresponding service access point is given. The interface developed in this paper has been used in many kind of field intelligent devices.


This article presents an analysis of participation patterns of an Alternate Reality game World Without Oil. This game aims to bring people together in an online environment to reflect and share insights about oil dependence. We present a series of participation profiles based on a quantitative analysis of 1554 contributions to the game narrative made by 322 players. We build on these profiles to suggest a preliminary outline of design challenges for building effective interactive learning environments that foster meaningful participation.


A method and apparatus for transmitting a downlink control signal in a wireless communication system. Machine base station based on the transmission type is set to Machine (M2M) applications / receiver Tx / Rx cycle TSPS, send the setting to the M2M device Tx / Rx period, based on Tx / Rx period of the setting means performs persistent scheduling to the M2M . Alternatively, the base station transmits the allocation M2M device to the M2M group comprising a plurality of M2M devices included in the first to the M2M group downlink control signal, and transmits the device-specific M2M device and the M2M the second downlink control signal assigned to the M2M device.


Purpose: the purpose of the article is to determine the content of the concept of individual legal regulation in the context of current trends in the legal system of Ukraine, as well as its role and importance in the mechanism of legal regulation. Methods: the methodological basis of the study are general scientific and special legal methods of cognition, which studied scientific approaches and doctrinal positions of understanding individual legal regulation, in particular the essence of its socio-managerial nature of functioning. The results of scientific research allow us to interpret individual legal regulation as the authoritative activity of competent entities, which involves making additional decisions on the organization of public relations on the basis of current legislation by specifying the scale of behavior of their personal participants. Also, the initial principle of the proposed scientific work is the development of theoretical provisions that determine the features of individual legal regulation associated with the action of a mechanism that combines all legal means and with the help of individual orders regulates certain casual social relations. Discussion: in the current conditions of transformation of public relations and implementation of legal reform in Ukraine, individual legal regulation is becoming increasingly important, which is to ensure the solution of specific legal situations and meet the needs and interests of specific actors. And this, in turn, highlights the need for constant solution of scientific problems related to individual legal regulation, which will undoubtedly become a theoretical value for the entire legal system, and in terms of practical significance of the study, will be a set of proposals to improve the current legislation of Ukraine, as well as recommendations for improving the practice of its implementation.


The structure of illudosin 1, a novel sesquiterpene isolated from the still liquid cultures of Clitocybe illudens(=Omphalotus olearius), has been asssigned on the basis of 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic studies, including 1H–13C heteronuclear correlation spectra (HETCOR and COLOC). The preferred conformation and the absolute configuration of the metabolite were deduced from NOE experiments and the application of the exciton chirality method on the dibenzoate 2. Illudosin may be regarded as an intermediate in the biosynthesis of the fomannosin 3.


This essay has analyzed the reason why there currently exists financial difficulty in higher institutions of its development.It holds that the university utilizes the traditional way to raise money in the course of financing and the structure of the capital is difficult to optimize.Therefore,new financing ways should be taken.On this basis,the author proposes the university of our country should carry on the innovation of mechanism in financing,and such new project financing ways as BOT,TOT,ABS,PPP widely utilized in the world could be adopted to promote the reform of higher educational system,vitalize the fund,and develop and grow.


At the London 2012 Games Muslim women from twenty-eight countries competed in over twenty different Olympic sporting events. In this paper, we critique online and print news articles, op-ed pieces and radio and television reports produced about these women athletes. We focus specifically on mediated representations that were constructed before and during the Games, and which originated and circulated across what is commonly referred to as "the West" (referring here to North America, Canada, Australia and parts of Western Europe). The aim is to ascertain what was considered newsworthy in relation to "Muslim sportswomen," and what this reveals about popular mediated understanding of Muslim sports/women. Ahmed's (2000) discussion of 'strange encounters' is used as an analytical framework to make sense of the ways in which Muslim sportswomen, their sporting bodies and their presence at the Olympic Games was, typically, discussed, defined and represented to Western audiences through a manifold process of constant 'Othering'. Emphasis is placed on exposing the underlying intentions of the authors/writers and contextualizing the relations of power, bias and subjectivity through which female Muslim athletes competing at London 2012 were mis/represented as strange, incompetent and out-of-place. By demonstrating the extent to which orientalist thinking continues to infiltrate contemporary western discussions on Islam and Muslim women, findings in this paper strengthen not only what Ahmed calls an 'ontology of strangeness' but also add to and lend further support to the work of post-colonial feminists, feminist media studies scholars and sociologists of sport.


J. L. Borges's interest in and understanding of the Old English dialogues featuring King Solomon and the pagan Saturn have hitherto received little academic attention. This article will explore Borges's engagement with these texts and in doing so aims at contributing to recent scholarship concerning the author's lifetime fascination with the medieval literatures of northern Europe. Particular attention will be given to Borges's annotated translation of one of the Solomonic dialogues published in the journal of the National Library of Argentina in 1961, La Biblioteca, under the title "Un diálogo anglosajón del siglo XI". Borges's reasons for selecting the text as well as the Old English sources used in this translation will be explored alongside his passion towards the subject of the translated passage.


The outcomes of traditional mean-variance analysis are highly sensitive to the expected returns that are used as input. is also holds for mean-variance analysis extensions that take into account nontradable pension liabilities. In this chapter, we use uncertainty in expected returns in an asset allocation framework with nontradable pension liabilities. is results in more robust portfolio weights than traditional optimization and circumvents the use of arbitrary portfolio restrictions. We apply this method to a U.S. pension fund that contemplates investing in several new asset classes. We illustrate this by showing how the allocation to emerging market equities for a large range of expected returns leads to more robust portfolios when taking the uncertainty in these expected returns into account.


Effective customer analysis is vital for business success, and AI-based customer analysis can significantly improve its accuracy, particularly regarding customer grouping and labeling, enabling merchants to generate personalized marketing strategies. Theories on machine learning models for grouping data have been developed since the 1950s, including logistic regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM), decision tree, and random forest; however, computational limitations hindered their practical application. Recent advances in computer technology have led to the development of more accessible machine learning algorithms that generate high-value results. The K-means clustering algorithm is one such model that best fits the customer labeling requirements. As an unsupervised training model, the K-means algorithm clusters customer data into a predetermined number of clusters. In this paper, we apply the K-means algorithm to separately cluster data on male and female clients, while using the K-means++ model to keep initial cluster centers as far apart as possible. We also apply the LOF algorithm to remove any outliers and modify the dataset accordingly.


THIS PAPER ASSESSES the provenance and general distribution of coins of the period c ad 600–780 found in the west of Anglo-Saxon Wessex. It shows that the distribution of coin finds is not a function of the habits of metal detectorists, but a reflection of the real pattern of losses. In the second part of the paper, an analysis of the observed distributions is presented which reveals that the bulk of trade, of which the coins are a sign, was carried on through local ports and that foreign trade was not mediated through Hamwic, but came directly from the Continent. The distribution of coin finds also suggests an important export trade, probably in wool and woollen goods, controlled from major local centres. There are also hints of a potentially older trade system in which hillforts and other open sites were important.


This paper presents a novel audio fingerprinting method that is highly robust to a variety of audio distortions. It is based on unconventional audio fingerprints generation scheme. The robustness is achieved by generating different versions of the spectrogram matrix of the audio signal by using a threshold based on the average of the spectral values to prune this matrix. We transform each version of this pruned spectrogram matrix into a 2-D binary image. Multiple 2-D images suppress noise to a varying degree. This varying degree of noise suppression improves likelihood of one of the images matching a reference image. To speed up matching, we convert each image into an n-dimensional vector, and perform a nearest neighbor search based on this n-dimensional vector. We test this method on TRECVID 2010 content-based copy detection evaluation dataset. Experimental results show the effectiveness of such fingerprints even when the audio is distorted. We compare the proposed method to a state-of-the-art audio copy detection system. Results of this comparison show that our method achieves an improvement of 22% in localization accuracy, and lowers minimal normalized detection cost rate (min NDCR) by half for audio transformations T1 and T2.


The invention relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle aerial magnetic field detecting system and method and belongs to the technical field of novel airborne geophysical prospecting instruments. The detecting system specifically comprises an onboard portion and a ground portion, the onboard portion comprises a host, a multi-way power supply module and a sensor system, the host is connected with a servo motor of an unmanned aerial vehicle, the host comprises a main control panel, an onboard remote control telemetering communication device, an automatic driving navigator and a data recording instrument, the ground portion is used for controlling over taking off and landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle, real-time monitoring of measuring states and manual intervention in emergencies, and the ground portion comprises a ground remote control telemetering communication device, a remote-control unit, a ground control computer and a processing module. The unmanned aerial vehicle aeromagnetic detecting system and method can be used for aspects of underground mineral resource prospection and military target detection and for prospecting or strategic resource exploring of future 'earth-observing engineering' and national key construction projects. According to the unmanned aerial vehicle aeromagnetic detecting system and method, the technical scheme of aeromagnetic detection is simple and easy to implement, low in costs and remarkable in social benefits and economic benefits.


It could have been any funeral: there was solemn organ music, a choir, candles on the altar, a sombre assembly in the pews. What made this service different, though, were the 45 people whose memory was being honoured. They had died over a year ago and had willed their bodies to science. To remember


The Danish asylum system has experienced radical changes during 2019 in regards to asylum and refugee rights with the right-wing governing coalition's introduction of Act 140. Central to Act 140 is the repatriation philosophy that is carried out in practice with an increased focus on temporary residency of refugees within the Danish asylum system as opposed to permanency. Thus, social integration of refugees as a political objective is instead replaced with repatriation of refugees when the conditions in their country of origin are deemed as safe. Many war conditions, however, last up to 15 years, which means that refugees will be left with feelings of uncertainty for a long period of time, knowing that they are not supposed to make a permanent living in Denmark, which further influence the integration of refugees in areas of social, cultural and economic life. The aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of Act 140 initiated by the political right through an elaboration of the three parliamentary debates between the political left and right that preceded Act 140 in order to generate specific conclusions on the discourses that surrounds the legislation as well as the influence of securitization in the passing of Act 140. With a socio-legal point of departure using Fairclough's model of Critical Discourse Analysis, Act 140 is identified as a securitization measure initiated by the political right. This thesis concludes that the Danish People's Party plays a fundamental role in the discursive framing of refugees as a threat to Danish society that creates 'them versus us' politics by referring to parallel societies, oppression of women, and unemployment levels amongst refugees. The political right's othering of refugees has led the passing of Act 140 with support from the Social Democrats, but with objection from other left-wing parties such as the Radical Left, Red Green Alliance and the Alternatives. The left wing parties that object to Act 140 argue that the legislation will not only increase poverty amongst refugees but will also be an inhibition for refugee's possibilities of naturalization, gradual attainment of civil rights through social integration and thus the pursuit of equality within Danish society.


Preface by Inge Govaere, Erwan Lannon, Peter Van Elsuwege and Stanislas Adam Foreword by Hubert Bocken Foreword by Paul Demaret Foreword by Jean Raux Foreword by Guy Schrans List of contributors List of abbreviations and accronyms Part I: General Principles of EU External Action A. Dashwood The Continuing Bipolarity of EU External Action A. Rosas Exclusive, Shared and National Competence in the Context of EU External Relations: Do Such Distinctions Matter? K. Lenaerts Direct Applicability and Direct Effect of International Law in the EU Legal Order S. Adam The Legal Basis of International Agreements of the European Union in the Post-Lisbon Era P. Eeckhout The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as an Integral Part of EU Law - Some Reflections on Status and Effect C. Kaddous Loyaute du commerce, moyen de defense des interets des Etats membres et de l'Union europeenne Part II: The Institutional Framework of EU External Action P.-C. Muller-Graff The European External Action Service: Challenges in a Complex Institutional Framework R. Wessel Can the EU Replace its Member States in International Affairs? An International Law Perspective C. Rapoport La procedure de conclusion des accords externes de l'Union europeenne : quelle unite apres Lisbonne ? J. Devuyst The European Parliament and International Trade Agreements: Practice after the Lisbon Treaty J.-V. Louis The Euro Area and Multilateral Financial Institutions and Bodies Part III: EU External Action In Practice: Contemporary Issues J. Wouters, J. Odermatt and T. Ramopoulos The Status of the European Union at the United Nations General Assembly I. Govaere Novel Issues Pertaining to EU Member States Membership of other International Organisations: the OIV case F. Jacobs Member States of the European Union before the International Court of Justice F. Dehousse La juridiction unifiee du brevet: le nouvel oxymoron du droit europeen C. Blumann La singularite de la decision dans le domaine de la Politique etrangere et de securite commune C. Flaesch-Mougin et I. Bosse-Platiere L'application provisoire des accords de l'Union europeenne P. Mengozzi Complementarite et cooperation entre la Cour de justice de l'Union europeenne et les juges nationaux en matiere de sejour dans l'Union des citoyens d'Etats tiers E. Somers The Costa Concordia Incident and Liability for Passenger Damage: An International and European Law Approach Part IV: The External Dimension of EU Competition Policy A.-M. Van den Bossche EU Competition Law in 3D J. Bourgeois Competition Policy: the Poor Relation in the European Union Free Trade Agreements P.-J. Slot Bilateral Treaties in the Field of Competition Law T. Joris The European Economic Area and State Aid Part V: The EU's Bilateral Relations with Third Countries P. Van Elsuwege The Legal Framework of EU-Russia Relations: Quo Vadis? G. Burghardt The Transatlantic Partnership: A Legal and Institutional Appraisal P. Vlaemminck The EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement: Implications in the First Year of Implementation Part VI: The Enlargement and Proximity Policies of the European Union E. Lannon Elargissements et politiques de proximite de l'UE : libres propos sur l'integration differenciee J.-C. Gautron Libres propos sur les elargissements de l'Union europeenne P. Balazs Enlargement Conditionality of the European Union and Future Prospects D. Kochenov Overestimating Conditionality C. Hillion Enlarging the European Union and its Fundamental Rights Protection P. Xuereb Universal Human Rights and EuroMed - An Agenda J. Czuczai Accession to the EU, but to which EU? The Legal Impact of the Constantly Evolving EMU acquis on the EU Enlargement Process A. Tovias The End of Spheres of Influence by Encroachment of Rivals: The Case of the EU and the US Index


Sol-gel transformation of mixed gels of silica, alumina and ferric oxide has been studied by determining the variations in pH with time of dialysis. For silica-alumina mixtures a pH of 2.9 is invariably reached irrespective of the alumina content of the mixtures. The amount of alumina present in the mixture influences the time of setting of the gel to a very great extent and it decreases with increase of the alumina content of the mixtures. These results have been explained in light of chemical interaction between the two gels to give aluminosilicates as well as in terms of controlled coagulation phenomenon with alumina behaving as a foreign electrolyte for bringing about the gelation of silicic acid.

The results of silicic acid, ferric oxide gel forming mixtures are altogether different. In this case the time of gelation increases with the increase in the amount of ferric oxide in the gelation mixture, while a pH of 4.2 is reached irrespective of the amount of ferric oxide present. No evidence for the formation of ferric-silicate is obtained nor the gelation of these mixed sols can be explained in terms of controlled coagulation.

The colloidal silica appears to act as protective colloid for the highly acedic ferric oxide sol. Viscometric and pH metric studies on the addition of alumina sol to mixtures of ferric oxide and silica sols indicate that alumina competes with ferric oxide in the formation of mixed gels. Here, too a pH of 2.9 is invariably reached irrespective of the alumina content in the mixed gels.


A specialist on the electoral geography of Russia and other FSU states and a political scientist with expertise on Ukraine examine the results of the March 1998 elections to the Ukrainian parliament. They focus on identifying spatial characteristics of two important elements of voting behavior—voter turnout and preference for particular political parties—and their relationships with socioeconomic and demographic variables in Ukraine's 27 administrative regions. Also subject to analysis are the regionally unbalanced weight of the vote and variations in party effectiveness (the ability of the 30 parties in the election to win seats vis-´-vis total votes). Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: H11, I31, O18. 6 figures, 5 tables, 28 references.


This research aims to describe implementation article 95 of law no. 1 year 2011 About Housing and the premukiman in the area of the Barito Semarang city and to know the factors that hinder the implementation of article 95 of law No. 1 of 2011. Locus was used in this research is in the area of JL. Barito Camel City Of Semarang. This research uses qualitative research methods are descriptive. Implementation of article 95 of law no. 1 year 2011 About housing and residential areas in the region of the Barito Semarang city still encountered obstacles. Factors restricting implementation include: factors of poverty, low level of employment, the most expensive place to live, there is a group of people that rule the slum areas or wild. Conclusions in this study are implementation article 95 of law no. 1 year 2011 About Housing and the premukiman in the area of the Barito Semarang city, still encountered obstacles primarily viewed from many residents who still live in the wild, the existence of a settlement of a pile of garbage that exist around the settlements of the wild and the existence of illegal karaoke. Based on these conclusions, the researchers recommend to the Government in order to provide training to the residents of the settlement of wild creativity to be able to work mengasilkan that can be used as income.


We, the Individuals, regales one with many nuances of a family with the aim at titillating the brain cells to think what signifies happiness and the manner in which it can be achieved. In the present Indian context, there is still no dearth of such individuals, who have their own convictions and while living in a society with a number of distorted values; they remain unaffected. The story narrates in details the lives of the individuals of two generations, from the different walks of life and their interactions within the families, business and social environs touching their subtle emotional and love lives showing the ample glimpses of the real individuals. Though they are living around the fountain head of a financial corruption but they remain dry as they are completely involved in all the facets of a true life. Every activity of theirs' is an unique experience. They act like the trailblazers for others. Above all the story gives a real picture of the lively families.


An increase in large granular lymphocytes (LGL) is frequently seen in patients following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo‐HCT) and it has been associated with better outcomes in some reports. We assessed 826 consecutive patients at our institution with over 12 years of follow‐up for the occurrence of LGL lymphocytosis after allo‐HCT. The 3‐year cumulative incidence of LGL lymphocytosis was 14.5% with a median duration of over 3.5 years. The development of LGL lymphocytosis was strongly correlated with CMV viremia and GVHD. The clinical course of patients with LGL lymphocytosis after allo‐HCT was indolent, with the majority of these patients not displaying any clinical signs or symptoms related to the LGL proliferation. LGL lymphocytosis was associated with better outcomes, including higher overall survival (OS 86.6% vs 44.7% at 3 years), lower non‐relapse mortality (NRM 5.5% vs 30.4% at 3 years), and lower risk of relapse (8.9% vs 22.9% at 3 years). A time‐dependent multivariable analysis confirmed the favorable impact of LGL lymphocytosis on OS and NRM, but not on the risk of relapse. In multivariable analysis, a longer duration of LGL lymphocytosis was associated with better OS and NRM. Improved immunomodulatory properties of these cells, regulating GVHD and infections, may explain the observed favorable outcomes of patients who developed LGL lymphocytosis following allo‐HCT.


Engineering design of a drainage tunnel specifies start/end positions, alignment, grades, and tunnel diameter/lining material. Tunnel construction faithfully transforms engineering design into the built structure in the underground space. In construction, the guidance system of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) is crucial to ensure all design specifications are met within tight tolerances. The laser-based guidance system has been the mainstream solution in practice. However, laser system setup and calibration demands experience and expertise from a survey crew and also results in frequent construction shutdown over extensive time periods. In (1) straight tunnel sections with highly restrained survey window or (2) curved tunnel sections, the line of sight between the laser station and TBM can be easily blocked. Thus, tunnel construction has to be more frequently shut down solely for the sake of calibrating or relocating the guidance system, causing substantial productivity loss. To improve productivity of tunnel construction and enhance current practice of TBM guidance, this paper introduces research and prototyping of the Smart Laser Projector system. Unlike the traditional laser system, the Smart Laser Projector does not rely on maintaining the parallelism between the tunnel alignment and the laser beam. The system calculates the as-designed coordinates of the center in the same cross section of the as-designed tunnel model and projects a laser spot at the exact as-designed position of the center of the target board. It presents the as-designed position information to guide the operator just like the conventional laser, but its operations take much less effort of the surveyors, and the same level of accuracy and reliability can be maintained. A lab test is provided to demonstrate the concept and prototype.


Oesophageal diverticulae are rare out-pouchings of oesophageal wall with a prevalence of 2/100,000 population/year. Known associations of traction diverticula are causes of mediastinal inflammation including tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, anthracosis, sarcoidosis and rarely systemic lupus erythematosus. Two-thirds of oesophageal diverticula are asymptomatic, and they are a rare cause of dysphagia. Most asymptomatic oesophageal diverticula are managed conservatively with surveillance imaging or endoscopy. Symptomatic patients with diverticula >4cm are usually treated surgically due to the increased risk of aspiration pneumonia and malignancy.
 In this report, a case of a large mid-oesophageal traction diverticulum in a 66-year-old female with systemic lupus erythematosus has been presented. She was initially managed conservatively with active surveillance for 6 years. When her symptoms progressed, she had repeat endoscopy and computed tomography scan which showed an increase in size of the diverticulum to 6cm in diameter.
 Her dysphagia had progressively deteriorated, and she was only managing a liquid diet. She therefore proceeded to resection of the diverticulum by right thoracotomy and stapled diverticulectomy. She made an excellent post-operative recovery and at last review, 5 months after the operation, she was back at work, had put on weight, and was tolerating a normal diet.
 Several surgical/endoscopic treatment options exist for management of oesophageal diverticula, and these must be tailored to every individual case. In this case report, we have compared minimally invasive (laparoscopic/thoracoscopic/robotic assisted) and open (transabdominal/transthoracic) techniques. Patients often have a good symptomatic outcome following surgery. Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) involvement with dietetic support is important for optimal recovery of these patients.


Introduction Large-scale land rentals are a fundamental way of realizing the moderate-scale operation and transformation of modern agriculture. As the suppliers and main demanders in the land rental market, the decision-making logic of farmer households determines the scale of land rentals. However, land rentals have been plagued by the prominent issues of farmer households' insufficient participation and fragmented rental transactions. It is importance and urgent to promote farmer households' participation in large-scale land rental market. Methods Based on a sample of 4,815 farmer households from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) database, this study applied Bivariate Tobit (Bi-Tobit) model to investigate the correlation between farmer households' decisions of rented-in and rented-out area, and analyzed the determinants and inherent logics of the decision making. Heterogeneity analysis was made to examine the difference in surplus and indebted farmer households. Results The results showed that there was a significantly negative correlation between the household rented-in area and the rented-out area. The land value had significantly positive effect on the rented-in area and the rented-out area. Household social security had a significantly positive effect on the rented-out area, but had no significant effect on the rented-in area. For indebted households, only social security significantly affected their decisions of rented-out area, while for surplus households, land value rather than social security became the significant determinant of rented-in and rented-out area. Discussion Farmer households' land rented-in area and rented-out area have comprised a dual decision with a significant negative correlation. Facing the dual functions of creating economic value and providing social security of rural land, farmer households' decision-making logic of rented-in area is dominated by economic rationality, whereas that of rented-out area involves the coexistence of economic rationality and survival rationality. With the improvement of household income level, the dominant logic of the decisions of land rental area transformed from survival rationality to economic rationality. Policies should enhance the rural social security system to increase land rental area, especially by providing adequate social security for farmer households with a lower income level.


Fluorescent dopants which allow the two-dimensional, real-time, non-intrusive visualization of vapor/liquid concentrations and droplet temperatures in hydrocarbon fuel sprays have been demonstrated. These systems, which are based on the photophysics/chemistry of organic exciplexes (excited state complexes), when coupled with planar laser excitation and electronic array detectors, should make possible the development of engineering test rigs for the evaluation of spray nozzles. Two organic compounds are added to the hydrocarbon fuel, a fluorescent monomer M and an appropriately chosen ground state reaction partner G. Electronically excited M may react with G to form the exciplex E* according to the following reaction: M* + G <==> E* In the vapor/liquid visualization studies, the equilibrium is adjusted so that the M* emission is a marker for the fuel vapor and the E* emission, which is red-shifted from the M* emission, is a marker for the liquid. In the temperature visualization studies, the temperature dependence of the M*/E* ratio is used to determine the droplet temperatures. Preliminary studies on fuel sprays of hexadecane, showing the liquid and vapor phases separately, will be presented. Exciplex-based thermometer systems applicable to temperatures as high as 400°C will be discussed.


Between 2014 and 2019, the SToP‐C trial observed a halving in HCV incidence in four Australian prisons following scale‐up of direct‐acting antiviral (DAA) therapy. However, the contribution of HCV treatment to this decline is unclear because the study did not have a control group. We used modeling to consider this question.


Highlight LHCBM4/6/8 are three closely related light-harvesting proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Reverse genetics show that they have specific functions in photoprotection, namely in non-photochemical quenching and state transitions.


Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is an ubiquitous mathematical technique used in a wide range of applications. The fundamental advantages of DWT are its high compression ratio, lack of blocking artifacts, and strong time & frequency domain localization. This proposed work is an efficient implementation of (9,7) lifting based 1D, 2D, and 3D DWTs, where the hardware software codesign with partial reconfiguration (PR) has made a significant reduction in resource utilization. Additionally, the suggested approach yields a very low mean square error (MSE), resulting in a substantially higher peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR). The constant multiply-add unit based proposed work with single core implementation achieves 80% decrease in the number of look up tables (LUT) and 32% decrease in number of slices utilized when compared with the variable multiply-add unit based implementation. To prove the architecture's originality, it is tested for six distinct applications such as mono audio, stereo audio, grayscale image, colour image, gray scale video, and colour video. The implementation of the work is done on Zynq 7000 (XC7Z020CLG484-1) field programmable gate array (FPGA) with Xilinx Vivado.


We perform a cross-correlation analysis of microwave data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and photometric quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, testing for the Sunyaev–Zeldovich (SZ) effect from quasars. A statistically significant (2.5σ) temperature decrement exists in the 41 GHz microwave band. A two-component fit to the cross-correlation spectrum incorporating both dust emission and SZ yields a best-fit y parameter of (7.0 ± 3.4) × 10−7. A similar cross-correlation analysis with the luminous red galaxy sample from Sloan gives a best-fit y parameter of (5.3 ±  2.5) × 10−7. We discuss the possible physical origin of these signals, which is likely a combination of SZ effects from quasars and galaxy clusters. Both the Planck Surveyor satellite and the current ground-based arcminute-resolution microwave experiments will detect this signal with a higher statistical significance.


In the Nigerian market are many brands of disinfectants with varying efficacy against bacteria, fungi and viruses. Recently Virkon brand of potassium monoperoxysulphate (Antec, UK) was introduced. The Kelsey -Sykes test was carried out to determine the efficacy of Virkon against standard bacterial strains and hospital-acquired clinical bacterial isolates (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Candida spp., High-level gentamicin resistant Enterocoocus faecalis, Multiply-resistant Escherichia, Coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae.)At the contact time of 5min, 10min, 15min, 20min, The effect of organic matter and 7-day storage on pre-diluted disinfectant was also determined. Virkon prevented the growth of all the organisms tested even after storage for 7-days. It' activity was not affected by organic matter. Virkon is very effective against Candida Spp; gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
(J. of the Nigerian Association of Infection Control, 2000, 3(1): 34-35)


Although Li2MnTiO4 has a large theoretical capacity (295mAhg−1), the cathode utilization is limited due to the mixed cation occupation in the disordered rocksalt structure. In this study, we have attempted to prepare singlephase Li2+2xMn1−xTi1−xO4 compositions (0 : x : 0.3) with Li excess to further improve the cathode properties of Li2MnTiO4. The rechargeable capacity of the synthesized Li2.4Mn0.8Ti0.8O4 composition was above 220mAhg−1, which is larger than those of other disordered Li2MTiO4 (M = Ni, Co, Mn and Fe) series. Moreover, the discharge capacity of Li2.4Mn0.8Ti0.8O4 was ca. 190mAhg−1 after the 15th cycle, and its capacity retention was 82%. © The Electrochemical Society of Japan, All rights reserved.


In the current issue of Oral Tradition we offer seven articles that collectively represent the original vision of what the journal was established to do: namely, to illustrate the enormous wealth and innate diversity of oral traditions and thereby to suggest comparisons and contrasts outside the customary boundaries of specialty and discipline. The next three issues will trace the same path, with a miscellany (like the present number) in 24, i to be followed by collections on "sound effects" and the interface of humankind's oldest and most widespread communications technology with Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.


Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the dual rehabilitative ultrasound imaging (D-RUSI) when simultaneously measuring muscle thickness changes at rest and during co-contraction of the biceps brachii (BB) and triceps brachii (TB). Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: This study included 36 healthy participants (23 men, 13 women). The participants sat on a chair in a comfortable position with a cushion placed under their elbow to maintain a 90-degree elbow flexion angle. The muscle thickness of the biceps brachii and triceps brachii was measured twice using the D-RUSI by two examiners during resting and co-contraction states. One week later, the same procedure was performed once again. Results: The intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) for intra-rater reliability ranged from 0.887 to 0.989 and the confidence interval was within an acceptable range of 0.778 to 0.994. The standard error of measurement (SEM) values ranged from 0.303 to 0.866 and the minimal detectable change (MDC) values ranged from 0.84 to 2.40. The ICCs for inter-rater reliability ranged from 0.758 to 0.925. The SEM values ranged from 0.702 to 1.486 and the MDC values ranged from 1.95 to 4.12. Conclusions: The use of the D-RUSI of the BB muscle had a very good intra-rater reliability and very good inter-rater reliability at the resting state, and a, good inter-rater reliability at the co-activation state. ICC values showed very good intra-reliability and inter-reliability for the TB muscle. the D-RUSI is a useful tool for simultaneously measuring the thickness of two muscles when the BB is an agonist and the TB is an antagonist during co-activation of the upper arm.


Wastes arising from construction and demolition (C & D) constitute one of the major streams in many countries. In this paper experimental investigation was carried to see the feasibility of C& D waste as road aggregates. From the grading analysis it was observed that using C& D wastes, strength criteria is being satisfied and meet the specifications of MORTH which is then subjected to aggregate impact value (AIV) testing, CBR testing etc. The CBR value of C&D waste was found to be 43.46 which were well above the permissible value. A proposed three-layer system using soil layer, C & D waste layer and asphalt concrete layer is chosen to estimate rut depth using existing analytical model. From the analytical model rut depth is predicted to be 14.77 mm which is less then maximum allowable limits. Hence C& D waste materials can be used as alternate materials in road construction with economy and sustainability.


In this paper we analyze the theory of Julia sets of Newton method for multiple roots, construct the standard, relax and multiple root's Julia sets. Utilizing the method of experimental mathematics, the authors obtain the following conclusion: (1) The Juh'a sets of above methods for f(z) = zα (zβ-1) has β rotational symmetry and its center is the origin; (2) The multiple root attraction region of these kinds of Julia sets are sensitive to a; (3) There is not simple root attraction region in the relax method, because z*, the root of f(z), is neutral or repelling fixed point of the relax Newton transform F(z); (4)∞ is not the fixed point of multiple roots Newton transform F(z), so multiple root's Julia set is multiple and simple roots attraction region; (5) The experimental errors and truncation of coefficients cause the minimal effect to the multiple root method, the more to the relax and the maximal to the standard Newton' method.


The effect of descent rate (DR) on the approach aerodynamics of the F-15 S/MTD aircraft is investigated experimentally using a moving model in the NASA Langley Vortex Research Facility. A 0.083-scale low-speed rotary-balance model equipped with a thrust-reverser simulator and with grit strips to assure turbulent flow was tested in an approach configuration at forward speed 60 ft/sec, corresponding to DR = 4.19 ft/sec. The results are presented in extensive graphs and compared with wind-tunnel data on the same configuration at DR = 0. Significant differences are attributed to the DR in the present experiments and the presence of a ground boundary layer in the wind-tunnel tests. It is predicted that safe approaches could be made with the lower thrust reverser vectored up to 80 deg, or even 110 deg if the DR were not arrested near the ground.


Imaging modalities and clinical measurement, as well as their time progression can be seen as heterogeneous observations of the same underlying disease process. The analysis of sequences of multi-modal observations, where not all modalities are present at each visit, is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal autoencoder for longitudinal data. The sequences of observations for each modality are encoded using a recurrent network into a latent variable. The variables for the different modalities are then fused into a common variable which describes a linear trajectory in a low-dimensional latent space. This latent space is mapped into the multi-modal observation space using separate decoders for each modality. We first illustrate the stability of the proposed model through simple scalar experiments. Then, we illustrate how information can be conveyed from one modality to refine predictions about the future using the learned autoencoder. Finally, we apply this approach to the prediction of future MRI for Alzheimer's patients.


Arbovirus surveillance methods are an integral part of integrated mosquito management programs, providing information on arboviral presence, location, and transmission potential. For many vector control agencies, surveillance entails collecting vector mosquito species from the field and testing representative mosquito pools using commercially available immunoassays or real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction test kits. In 2016, the Collier Mosquito Control District established an in-house arbovirus surveillance program to screen mosquitoes for a variety of diseases, including the endemic arbovirus, West Nile virus (WNV). Although guidance on interpreting test results is provided by the manufacturer, end users of commercial test kits are encouraged to establish their own cut-off values signifying an arbovirus positive mosquito pool. Here we report the Collier Mosquito Control District's efforts to develop cut-off values for mosquito pools using two commercially available WNV test kits.


We report a novel coupling geometry for integrated waveguide photodetectors−a hybrid vertical coupling/butt coupling scheme that allows the integration of fast, efficient, photodetectors with conventional double heterostructure waveguides. It can be employed to yield a planar, or pseudo‐planar, surface that supports further levels of integration. The approach is demonstrated with a 25‐μm‐long p‐i‐n detector integrated with an InP/InGaAsP/InP waveguide, which displays a high (∼90%) efficiency and large (∼15 GHz) bandwidth. This is the fastest high‐efficiency integrated waveguide photodetector reported to date.


We study the capital operating performance and efficiency of Chinese firms after cross-listed. We find that the advantages of market environments and institutions will improve the capital operating performance and efficiency of Chinese cross-listed firms, therefore protect the investor's interests and improve the corporate governance of cross-listed firms. We also find that: for those Chinese cross-listed firms which need not comply with overseas related laws, regulations, institutions and listing guidelines, not only their capital operating performance and efficiency are lower than those of Chinese cross-listed firms which comply but also their capital operating efficiency is lower than that of Chinese non-cross-listed counterparts. Also, their capital operating performance isn't higher than that of Chinese non-cross-listed counterparts. Therefore, if Chinese firms are preparing for an overseas cross-listed, they should cross-list in those overseas securities markets with more market environment and institution advantage, complying with the laws, regulations, institutions and guidelines in overseas markets. Only in this way it would be helpful to improve the capital operating performance and efficiency and the corporate governance.


Objective To investigate the expression of regulatory factors P15 and Cyclin D1 of cell generation cycle in gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) and its clinical significance. Methods Expression of P15 and cyclin D1 mRNA and protein in 15 GBC and 56 cholecystitis samples was detected by RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry, respectively. Results Compared with cholecystitis, expression of P15 mRNA and protein in GBC was downregulated (20.0% vs 94.7%, P0.01; 46.7% vs 98.2%, P0.01), but that of cyclin D1 was upregulated (80.0% vs 26.3%, P0.01; 60.0% vs 32.1%, P0.05). Conclusion Cyclin D1 and P15 could play the positive and negative role in the development and progression of GBC, respectively.


Zero-phase-shift line (ZPSL) loop antennas have recently attracted much interest by virtue of their uniform magnetic field distribution and electrically large size, which make them particularly useful as reader antennas in ultra-high frequency (UHF) near-field radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Nevertheless, the challenge to theoretically characterize this type of antenna has led to difficulties in optimizing the loop for an electrically large interrogation zone as an RFID reader antenna. In this paper, we present for the first time the design methodology of the ZPSL loop antennas by applying the dispersion characteristics of the ZPSL structures. The perimeter of the loop antenna can be increased up to 3λ0 without current reversal along the loop. Considering the tradeoff between the loop size and the strength of the magnetic field in the interrogation zone, a ZPSL loop prototype with a perimeter up to 2.5λ0 is designed and optimized to verify the modeling and optimization experimentally.


Quaternion algebras over curves of genus one without rational points over perfect flelds of characteristic not two are classifled. As a consequence, all quaternion algebras over the function fleld of such a curve, which are unramifled everywhere, are classifled.


First Direct Observation of a Nearly Ideal Graphene Band Structure M. Sprinkle,' D. Siegel,2 Y. Hu,' J. Hicks,' A. Tejeda,3'4 A. Taleb—Ibrahimi,5 P. Le Fevref F. Bertran,4 s. Vizzini,6'7 H. Enriquez,6'7 S. Chiang,6'8 P. Soukiassian,6'7 C. Berger,q9 W. A. de Heer,l A. Lanzara,2 and E. H. Conradl [The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, USA 2Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 3Institut Jean Lamom; CNRS—Universite' de Nancy~UPV-Metz, 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France 4Synehrotron SOLEIL, L'0rme des Merisiers, Saint—Aubin, 91192 Gif sar Yvette, France 5UR1 CNRS/Synchrotron SOLEIL, Saint—/lubin, 91192 Gif sur Yvette, France 6Commissariata l'Energie Atomique, SIMA, DSM-lRAM1S—-SPCSI, Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France 7De'partement ale Physique, Universite de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France 8Department of Physics, University of California—Davis, California 95616-8677, USA 9CNRS/Institut Neel, BP166, 38042 Grenoble, France (Received 29 July 2009; published 24 November 2009) Angle—resolved photoemission and x—ray diffraction experiments show that multilayer epitaxial graphene grown on the SiC(000l) surface is a new form of carbon that is composed of effectively isolated graphene sheets. The unique rotational stacking of these films causes adjacent graphene layers to electronically decouple leading to a set of nearly independent linearly dispersing bands (Dirac cones) at the graphene K point. Each cone corresponds to an individual macroscale graphene sheet in a multilayer stack where AB—stacked sheets can be considered as low density faults. In an ideal graphene sheet (near the Dirac point, ED) the 7r and 7rq' bands disperse linearly E(Ak) = hvFAk, where Up' is the Fermi velocity and Ak is the momentum relative to the K points of the hexagonal reciprocal unit cell [1]. The two-dimensional dispersion is isotropic and defines a cone with an apex at ED [1]. For undoped graphene the Fermi energy E; coincides with ED so that the Fermi 'surface consists of six points [see Fig. l(a)]. This specific electronic structure of graphene is relevant for graphene based electronics for several reasons. For example, elec- tronic energies above (or below) ED of the order of ~1 eV correspond to wavelengths of order ~1 nm. Consequently, quantum confinement energies in nanoscopic graphene structures will be of the order of ~l eV, which is consid- erably greater than the thermal energy at 300 K [2]. This graphene property is essential for room temperature gra- phene nanoelectronics. Epitaxial graphene (EG) grown directly on both the SiC(0001) Si face and (0001) C face has exceptional film quality [3,4]. It is atomically flat and the EG sheets are continuous over macroscopic distances (if not the entire crystal surface). In Si—face few layer EG films, substrate' interactions cause charge doping, significant electron- phonon coupling, and distortions in the linear dispersion of the first graphene layer near ED [S-7]. These are similar to the more substantial substrate induced distortions ob- served in exfoliated graphene [8,9]. Beyond the first gra- phene layer, the graphitic AB stacking of few layer Si—face graphene causes the band structure to converge to graphite when the number of layers becomes large [6,10]. In contrast to other forms of graphene, multilayer epi- taxial graphene (MEG) grown on the C face of SiC exhibits all the transport properties of an isolated graphene sheet [1l—l7]. Moreover, Landau level spectroscopy from C-face films has demonstrated unprecedented graphene properties including exceptionally high room temperature mobilities (g200 000 cm2/ V s) and resolved Landau lev- els in magnetic fields as low as 40 mT [17]. MEG has been shown to have a unique crystal structure. Rather than AB stacked like graphite, MEG films have successive layers that are typically rotated by angles other than the 60° rotation of graphite. This rotational stacking has been theoretically predicted to cause the layers to electronically decouple [18—20]. Here we provide direct experimental evidence for this effect using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). In particular we show that the electronic band structure of the individual graphene layers in the MEG stack indeed are essentially unperturbed Dirac cones as expected for isolated graphene sheets. We further show that these films have exceptionally long electron relaxation times and a remarkable absence of distortions in the Dirac cone. The measurements experimentally confirm that the electronic structure of each individual sheet in MEG is essentially that of an isolated graphene sheet as predicted [18—20] and indicated in prior experiments [11- 17]. Our results clearly demonstrate that a quasiperiodic (not random) rotational stacking order is responsible for MEG's exquisite 2D properties. The substrates used in these studies were both n—doped n = 2 X 1018 cmq2 6H and insulating 4H SiC. The gra- phene layers were grown in a closed rf induction furnace at a temperature of 1550 °C (see Ref. [3] for details). The graphene film thicknesses ranged from 11-12 layers as


Ideally with no constraints on the budget, an investment in information technology should be easy and straightforward. Conventional method for the IT investment is adapted from the existing financial techniques which focus mainly on the returns from the assets invested. However, due to specific natures of an IT asset, financial techniques may become inappropriate and misleading. This paper proposes an alternative investment framework for the information technology assets by utilising the experiences of experts since its installation. To utilise these experiences in the proposed investment framework, the learning curve is constructed and represents as the organisational learning model in costs, performance and risks according to the asset management framework. College of Arts, Media and Technology within Chiang Mai University is used as the case study. The results have shown that the alternative investment framework performs better than conventional evaluation methods and leads to the most suitable investment option.


The inoculation of the gonococcus into the body of man or animals causes changes in the blood which have been demonstrated by studies of the specific agglutinins, precipitins, and opsonins. More recently the antibody content of the serum has been estimated by means of complement fixation, using preparations of the gonococcus as antigen. By all these methods, the variations in the course of gonococcal infection may be more or less satisfactorily followed, and, in the case of the opsonins at least, the curve of immunity may be correlated with the changes in the clinical course of the disease. Certain reactions, also, follow the subcutaneous inoculation of suspensions of killed gonococci in patients suffering from gonococcal infection. These reactions are characteristic' and are analogous to those seen after the injection of tuberculin, mallein, etc., in the respective diseases. At the site of the inoculation there appears after a few hours, an area of redness, swelling, and tenderness, from 2 cm. to 6 cm. or more in diameter, depending upon the amount of the suspension inoculated. Sometimes the whole upper arm becomes swollen and painful. After 24 to 48 hours the reaction subsides. There is frequently an increase in pain and sometimes swelling in the affected joints or other localizations, together with general symptoms of malaise, headache, and fever. An increase in leukocytosis may occur. The degree of the reaction varies in different cases with the extent of the infection and the general condition of the patient. In gonococcal arthritis in which active symptoms have been absent for some time, a subcutaneous inoculation may produce little more than a local reaction at the site of the injection. In chronic types of arthritis in which there have been repeated severe attacks of the


The present report considers the main stages involved in the development of radiochemical analysis methods for natural waters, making use of the sorption isolation of uranium, plutonium, cesium, strontium, and rare earth elements radionuclides by thin-layer inorganic sorbents from samples of large volume in field conditions. The techniques developed are original, rapid, and simple to perform. A model of device designed to realize the radiochemical analysis is suggested.


We redesign the police patrol beat in South Fulton, Georgia, in collaboration with the South Fulton Police Department (SFPD), using a predictive data-driven optimization approach. Due to rapid urban development and population growth, the existing police beat design done in the 1970s was far from efficient, which leads to low policing efficiency and long 911 call response time. We balance the police workload among different city regions, improve operational efficiency, and reduce 911 call response time by redesigning beat boundaries for the SFPD. We discretize the city into small geographical atoms, which correspond to our decision variables; the decision is to map the atoms into"beats", the basic unit of the police operation. We first analyze workload and trend in each atom using the rich dataset, including police incidents reports and U.S. census data; We then predict future police workload for each atom using spatial statistical regression models; Lastly, we formulate the optimal beat design as a mixed-integer programming (MIP) program with continuity and compactness constraints on the beats' shape. The optimization problem is solved using simulated annealing due to its large-scale and non-convex nature. The simulation results suggest that our proposed beat design can reduce workload variance among beats significantly by over 90\%.


The purpose of this study aims to conceptualize practical English (PE) and basic academic English (BAE), and to set up criteria for classifying PE and...


Nitrogen (N) equilibrium isotope fractionation (15α) involving gaseous, dissolved, and solid phases of ammonia (NH3) and ammonium (NH4+) (e.g., NH3(g)–NH3(aq)–NH4+(aq)–NH4+(s)) represents a fundamental chemical process that has important implications for understanding the environmental dynamics involving NHx (NH3 + NH4+). However, recent literature disagrees with early experimental results from Urey and co-workers, suggesting the need for an update on theoretical estimates. Here, we have calculated theoretical 15α values for NH4+(g)/NH3(g), NH3(aq)/NH3(g), NH4+(aq)/NH3(g), NH4+(aq)/NH3(aq), and NH4+(s)/NH3(g) using HF/6-31G(d) and B3LYP/6-31G(d) levels of theory. Overall, our theoretical calculated values matched experimental data reported by Urey and co-workers, with best agreement obtained at the HF/6-31G(d) level of theory with solvent effect accounted for using water cluster calculations. Our calculated results have important implications for tracing NH3 gas-to-particle phase conversions that may have...


A door frame structure of a vehicle door which includes an upright pillar sash and an upper sash, wherein joining end surfaces of the upright pillar sash and the upper sash are welded together along a periphery thereof, at least one of the upright pillar sash and the upper sash includes a frame body portion and a cantilever protrusion, the joining end surface of the one of the upright pillar sash and the upper sash partly including the frame body portion and the cantilever protrusion. The upright pillar sash and the upper sash are welded to each other along the frame body portion and a base portion of the cantilever protrusion which is connected to the frame body portion. A leading end portion of the cantilever protrusion which is positioned on the leading end side is not welded.


In the increasingly competitive real estate market, the cost management of real estate enterprises has become more and more important. However, in the cost management and cost control, the goal should not be to minimize the cost of every activity during the real estate development, but to consider the contribution of every cost to the project's value, and as a result, to maximize the efficiency of the real estate project. This paper is based on a value-creation view, from which cost management is considered to be systematic, dynamic and diverse. Using AHP (analytical hierarchy process) method, we find that five activities, which are location selection, layout plan designing, developed planning and promotion, land using right acquisition, market research and initiate planning, contribute more to the project value creation by cost-adding. In the cost management practice of real estate enterprises, investment during these activities should be increased to make the project more cost-effective.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coating liquid for gas barrier that has good coatability in the case when it contains a small amount of a volatile base or acid, can form a layer including a polyvalent metal salt of a polycarboxylic acid polymer using one liquid and is excellent in liquid stability and to provide a gas-barrier packaging material using the coating liquid.SOLUTION: The coating liquid for gas barrier includes a component (A), a component (B), a component (C) and a component (D) as given below and a solvent in which the total of the mole number of the component (C) and the mole number of the component (D) is 0.05 to 8.5 mol when the mole number of the component (B) is 1. The component (A): a polycarboxylic acid polymer; the component (B): a polyvalent metal ion; the component (C): a volatile base and acid (exclusive of carbonate acid); and the component (D): a carbonate ion.SELECTED DRAWING: None


ABSTRACTProcessing of potential field data is commonly done by spectral methods because of their low computational complexity. However, we have studied some geostatistical methods to process the potential field data, and we find the advantages of using these spatial methods. First, we investigate transformation of data by kriging using a gravimetric model of covariance, we compare this approach with the spectral method, and we find its advantage when the data were sparse and not on a regular grid using a synthetic example as well as a field data example. Then, we use factorial kriging for noise reduction and separation of the regional and residual components. This method does not have some of the practical limitations that the spectral-based methods encounter. Finally, we determine the flexibility of interpolation using nonstationary covariances.


Objective To observe the changes of drug-sensitivity in wounds before and after infection with dominant bacteria in seawater.Methods Fifty-six specific pathogen-free(SPF) mice after injury were randomly divided into experimental group and negative control group.Mice in experimental group were immersed in artificial seawater containing marine bacteria and those in negative control group were immersed in seawater not containing marine bacteria,and then fed in aseptic containers.Secretion from wounds of experimental mice was cultured and identified with their drug sensitivity tested.Drug sensitivity of the bacteria before and after immersion was compared.Results The average resistance of the bacteria isolated from wound in mice to ampicillin and piperacilin was 62% and 15.4%,respectively,before and after immersion.Their sensitivity to gentamicin,SMZco,cefotaxime,imipenem,levofloxacin,norfloxacin,chloramphenicol,and cefotaxime/clav was the highest and these antibiotics should be recommended as the first choice for the wounds infected with marine bacteria.Conclusion Vibrio in a coastal area is highly resistant to ampicillin and its drug sensitivity spectra will change in wounds before and after infection with dominant bacteria.


I strongly suspect that for those of us who are coffee and wine enthusiasts, this book will become our must go to encyclopedia. Written byMorten Scholer, with an eye to detail that probably only someone with an engineering background can bring to the subject, it explores two seemingly unrelated worlds. I say "seemingly" for there is no doubt that many in the coffee trade look up to the wine industry, wishing that they could find the magic wand that will transform the quality end of the coffee market into something approximating what wine has achieved. And it is in that spirit that Morten has explored the similarities and differences between the two, and, indeed in doing so, has clearly demonstrated that the wine industry can also learn a thing or two from the coffee industry.


The Langmuir probe and the Retarding Potential Analyser experiments on the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (PVO) made the first measurements of electron and ion temperatures in the ionosphere of Venus from 1978 to 1992. The observed temperatures were found to be much higher than those estimated before the PVO mission and despite the long Venus night (58 earth days) temperatures did not show much of day to night change. This paper first reviews the PVO results and then discusses the various theoretical models which have attempted to explain these observations. Since the Venus ionosphere is always in a magnetised state, the daytime high temperatures can be explained on the basis of the low thermal conductivity due to the presence of the horizontal magnetic fields. The nighttime temperatures need a small amount of heat input which can be conducted from the dayside. The highly elevated temperatures in the ionosphere region are due to low electron cooling rates resulting from the low electron density in this region.


Abstract In association with extreme anomalies in the extratropical atmosphere, numerical experiments using an atmospheric general circulation model are performed to investigate the relative impact of the anomalous snow with SST anomalies on the atmospheric circulation. Large negative anomalies in the Eurasian snow cover and global SST anomalies observed in 1988/89 are employed as the respective boundary forcings because winter atmospheric states largely shifted in 1989. The model is integrated for half a year from 1 September. Five-member ensemble states are obtained by conducting the light snow (LSNW) run, in which the snowfall was suppressed over eastern Eurasia during the first 3 months with prescribed SSTs, and another experiment, which employed observed SST anomalies instead of snow anomalies (the SST run). The LSNW run simulated dipole (positive in midlatitudes and negative in polar regions) anomalies in 500-hPa height similar to those observed in 1989, although the amplitude was smaller over the N...


This article examines the relationship between Islamic capital market instruments and Indonesia's economic growth, taking into account the moderating role of the money supply. With the rise of Islamic finance and the increasing significance of the Islamic capital market, understanding the dynamics between these instruments and economic growth becomes crucial. The method used in this research is quantitative research which focused on the national economic growth in Indonesia from the year 2011 to 2021. The data were used from the economic growth, Sharia stock index, sukuk, Sharia mutual funds, and total money supply in Indonesia from the period of research which is the quarterly data. The results of this study are that the Islamic stock index has a positive effect on economic growth. Sukuk has a positive effect on economic growth. On the other hand, sharia mutual funds do not affect economic growth. The money supply is not able to moderate the effect of the Sukuk on economic growth.


Using gas-solid flows in circulating fluidized-bed risers to analogize vertical pneumatic conveying systems, the collapse of dilute suspension, that is, the choking of accumulative type, was studied in three different risers with respect to different particles. The collapse of dilute suspension was dominated by an identical differential pressure drop over the measuring section. This differential pressure drop was independent of gas velocity and riser diameter, but varied with particle properties. The saturation carrying capacity, the solid flow rate at the dilute suspension collapse, was closely related to particle characteristics and riser diameter. With an increase in the riser diameter, it increased for lighter and smaller particles, but decreased for heavier and larger particles. Based on these experimental measurements, as well as the related literature reports, a correlation was developed for the saturation carrying capacity by analyzing its dependencies on gas velocity and riser diameter. More than 150 experimental data of the saturation carrying capacity available in the literature were compiled to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed correlation by comparing with 13 other literature correlations, demonstrating that this new method has the highest accuracy.


The kidneys are an important target for angiotensin II (ANG II). In the adult kidneys the effects of ANG II are mediated mainly by ANG II type 1 (AT1) receptors. AT1 receptor expression has been reported for a variety of different cell types within the kidneys, suggesting a broad spectrum of actions for ANG II. Since there have been heterogeneous results in the literature regarding the intrarenal distribution of AT1 receptors, this study aimed to obtain a comprehensive overview about the localization of AT1 receptor expression in mouse, rat and human kidneys. Using the cell specific and high-resolution RNAscope technique, we performed colocalization studies with various cell markers to specifically discriminate between different segments of the tubular and vascular system. Overall we found a similar pattern of AT1 mRNA expression in mouse, rat and human kidneys. AT1 receptors were detected in mesangial cells and renin-producing cells. In addition, AT1 mRNA was found in interstitial cells of the cortex and outer medulla. In rodents, late afferent and early efferent arterioles expressed AT1 receptor mRNA, but larger vessels of the investigated species showed no AT1 expression. Tubular expression of AT1 mRNA was species-dependent with a strong expression in proximal tubules of mice while expression was undetectable in human tubular cells. These findings suggest that the (juxta)glomerular area and the tubulointerstitium are conserved expression sites for AT1 receptors across species and might present the main target sites for ANG II in adult human and rodent kidneys.


A general framework was developed to model the transport processes that take place during reactive absorption when both rate- and equilibrium-controlled reactions occur in the liquid phase. This framework was applied to the selective absorption of H2S from fuel gas containing CO2 using aqueous methyldiethanolamine. A rate-based distillation column module was used for the column integration. The Maxwell−Stefan and enhancement factor theories were utilized. In packed columns, CO2 absorption is controlled by diffusion with fast chemical reactions; in trayed columns it is controlled primarily by physical absorption. Gas−film resistance is never significant for CO2 absorption. For H2S absorption, gas− and liquid−film resistances are important, and diffusion of bisulfide controls the liquid−film resistance. Heat effects produce temperature bulges that can cause equilibrium "pinches" at the maximum temperature. This phenomenon gives an optimum packing height for the H2S removal. Trayed columns are more selective...


The invention concerns a device for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic signals comprising first (1) and second (3) antenna means transmitting/receiving electromagnetic signals according to a first radiation pattern with selected extended shape and a second radiation pattern with selected shape at least partially similar to that of the first radiation pattern. Managing means (6) jointly control the first (1) and second (3) antenna means such that they provide electromagnetic signal transmission/reception according to a third radiation pattern whereof the shape results from a selected combination of contributions from the first and second radiation patterns respectively.


The purpose of this study is to analyze the spatial distribution and the linkage characteristics of the warehousing industry in Busan and to provide the policy implications for the warehousing industry in Korean port hinterland. We surveyed the warehousing firms in Busan. Categorizing the warehousing industry into industry types, sizes, and organization types on the basis of the survey, we attempted the point pattern analysis and the proximity analysis using the GIS. The warehousing industry in Busan had changed from a small single-unit firm to a medium or a large firm with a head office or branches. These were distributed in hinterland of North Harbor, South Harbor & Gamcheon Harbor, and Sin-Pyoung & Jang-Rim industrial complex and Sasang Industrial Complex constituting the spatial agglomeration. The warehousing industry in Busan formed the linkages with other sectors of the same logistics to provide manufacturing industries with various other services as well as storage services. The linkages were largely formed in the local scope with spatial proximity, generating the economic gains of agglomeration, which were transformed into the efficiency of the warehousing industry in the local scope to gradually expand the spatial dimensions of the linkages.


The factors affecting the dimensional accuracy of 3D scanning using a measuring arm with an integrated scanner and a custom open source 3D printer using FDM technology are researched in this paper, with the purpose of isolating and reducing the sources of errors affecting the results. A consumer 3D printer is analyzed in terms of achieving accurate physical dimensions, consistent shapes, and predictable surface coverage.


The present work represents the results of water circulation in the northern Black Sea analyzed based on the data of the surveys carried out in the 87th cruise of R/V Professor Vodyanitsky in July 2016. It is shown that during the survey the westward flows being the Rim Current (RC) manifestation are predominant within the studied water area. Based on the survey data, the latitudinal location of the Rim Current geostrophical deep stream is close to its climatic position. In the western part of the polygon, the Rim Current is divided into three branches. The northern branch is located over the shelf, the central one – over the continental slope and the southern one – over the deep-sea regions. The Sevastopol anticyclone is characterized by extremely asymmetric vertical development: its northern periphery over the shelf is weak, whereas the southern periphery over the continental slope is intensive. In the central part of the polygon the Rim Current intensifies, at that one intensive stream is traced. In the eastern part of the polygon two branches of the Rim Current are observed: the intensive northern one over the continental slope and the coastal shelf, and the one located closer to the deepsea regions (its velocity is rather low and it weakens moving eastward). In the upper layer to the east off Cape Ai-Todor, the anticyclonic gyre is observed; whereas within the 50–100 m below it, the cyclonic turn of the currents is revealed.


Abstract What is the difference between electric vehicles (EVs) in society and an EV society? "EVs in society" means simply the replacement of gasoline-powered cars with EVs without taking into consideration pervasive social issues. By contrast, an "EV society" is a concept whereby EVs are more fundamentally woven into the fabric of society with the aim of solving a range of social problems, while at the same time questioning the meaning of what an automobile "is" and "can be." It is this "game-changing" principle of integration that drives our research.


Since September 2005 when the Sociedade Kant Brasileira hosted the X Congresso Kant Internacional, I have been working to increase interaction between Kant scholars in Brasil and in the United States. The papers that follow are one result of that effort. I organized a session of the North American Kant Society held at the Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in Chicago, April 20, 2007, with the theme "Kant in Brazil."


To avoid the blurring of edges features by using the same parameter and blindfold caused by the same distance and weight in the sliding window when using frost filtering,a modified method of the frost filtering is proposed.This method mainly combines the statistical information of the filtering window and the statistical information of the each pixel of the window to adaptively compute the filter parameter.Then experiment is done to validate this method,the equivalent index and edge preservation index are used to evaluate the smoothing and edge preservation capability.While compared with the frost filtering of the different filtering parameters,this modified method has a better performance in terms of speckle noise suppressing and fine details preserving.


The current density and magnetic field distributions in thin conductors are important for several applications, and they can be computed by solving integral equations. This paper describes the implementation of a one-dimensional (1D) integral equation in a finite-element model. This numerical method does not require the use of ad hoc assumptions to avoid logarithmic divergences of the current density at the conductor's edges and, by using a coupling with 2D electromagnetic models, it can be used to solve cases of increasing complexity. With respect to commonly used 2D models, it overcomes the typical problems linked to the mesh of conductors with high aspect ratio, such as the use of large memory and long computing times.


Purpose:  Endocrine disruptive effects have been frequently observed in patients using antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Two different AEDs, valproate (VPA) and levetiracetam (LEV), were tested in forskolin‐stimulated human adrenal carcinoma (H295R) cells to explore their effect on steroidogenesis. VPA has a long history as an anticonvulsant and is linked with many of the endocrine disorders associated with AED use. LEV is a newer AED, and no endocrine disruptive effects have been reported in humans to date.