The Casimir pressure is calculated between parallel metal plates, containing the materials Au, Cu or Al. Our motivation for making this calculation is the need of comparing theoretical predictions, based on the Lifshitz formula, with experiments that are becoming gradually more accurate. In particular, the finite-temperature correction is considered, in view of the recent discussion in the literature on this point. A special attention is given to the case where the difference between the Casimir pressures at two different temperatures, T = 300 K and T = 350 K, is involved. This seems to be a case that will be experimentally attainable in the near future, and it will be a critical test of the temperature correction.


The aim of this master's thesis is to create an updated image of why and how staff at public libraries in Sweden work with social media in 2019 and what challenges they experience in this work. The ...


The aim of this article is to describe a colocated finite volume approximation of the incompressible Navier‐Stokes equation and study its stability. One of the advantages of colocated finite volume space discretizations over staggered space discretizations is that all the variables share the same location; hence, the possibility to more easily use complex geometries and hierarchical decompositions of the unknowns. The time discretization used in the scheme studied here is a projection method. First, we give the full discretization of the incompressible Navier‐Stokes equations, then, we state the stability result and prove it following the methods of Marion and Temam. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2005


A self-check of the sum and difference channels of a monopulse receiver can be realized using a small probe antenna placed at the proper position in the monopulse planar array. This results in a convenient operation because the planar array might not point at the aligning tower when self-checking. An example calculation is given.<<ETX>>


ABSTRACT Religion strongly influences the rules and norms imposed on sexual relations, contraceptive use, and family planning. Religious convictions and communal obligations are also often involved in women's struggles with reproductive choices. The Conservative Laestadians in Finland are one example of a conservative procreational religious movement that requires abstinence from premarital sex and upholds a negative attitude towards the use of birth control. In this article, I follow young former Conservative Laestadian women's views on reproductive freedom, procreational ethos, and pronatalist politics. I propose that there is an ongoing upsurge among young former Conservative Laestadian women who resist the movement's procreational ethos. I also suggest that the Laestadian procreational ethos has affinities with the nationalist and pronatalist aims of promoting limitless human reproduction. The article's data is based on conversational interviews produced with young former Laestadian women in the spring of 2021. The women's views assist in understanding religious procreation politics in a light of reproductive justice and ecological sustenance.


Salsabila Aryani, 2019: The Effect of Executive Compensation and
Operational Efficiency on Banking Performance Listed in Indonesian Stock
Exchange(IDX) in 2014-2017. Thesis, Jakarta: Finance Concentration,
Study Program of Management, Faculty of Economcs, State University of
Jakarta.
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of executive compensation and to
operational efficiency on banking performance listed in Indonesia Stock
Exchange (IDX) in 2014-2017. Independent variable of these study are
executive compensation and BOPO. Dependent variable is Return on Asset
(ROA) and Non Performing Loan (NPL). Researcher used data in this study
from annual report of bank that published by IDX in 2014-2017 (156
observation). The sampling method of this study is purposive sampling
technique. The research model in ths study used panel data analysis with fixed
effect model approach. The empirical result shows that executive compensation
has positive significant influence to ROA and has negative significant influence
to NPL. BOPO has negtive significant influence to ROA and has positive
significant influence to NPL.
Key Words: BOPO, Executive Compensation, Non Performing Loan (NPL),
Return on Asset (ROA).


Augmenting or limiting cultivation of agricultural crops in different areas shall be done with consideration of resources constraints and availability of fertile agricultural land. This makes design of multi-regional model of cultivation of crop products necessary. This model should be pervasive and integrated in one hand and separable in accordance to the region. Moreover this model shall be able to recognize the resources possessed in common between areas of region as well uncommon resources between areas. Separating a model based on area will increase model's precision for each area and superimposing these area models will results in trans-regional attitude. The result of this research shows that optimum cropping pattern will increase the total profit of regions, Babol, Babolsar, Qaemshahr, according to their show, 6.8%, 8.9%, 5.6%. Furthermore, use of multiregional model will increase the profit 8.5% to this condition and 1.4% to whole of regional models. The execution of this models result in reality is possible with optimal allocation of inputs.


Experiments were conducted to estimate the susceptibility of two apple cultivars (Anna and Golden dorset) to infestation with Panonychus ulmi Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) and its population fluctuation during the two successive seasons, 2012 and 2013 at Menoufia governorate. The results showed that, Anna cultivar was the most highly susceptible recording average of 7.34 and 10.5 mite moving stages/leaf during the two successive seasons, respectively. The lower infestation was recorded with Golden dorset cultivar, being 1.6 & 7.49 mite moving stages/leaf during the two successive seasons, respectively. Susceptibility of apple cultivars to infestation with P. ulmi may be affected by plant leaf morphological structure and its chemical contents. The density of trichomes of Golden dorset cultivar was higher than that of Anna cultivar, the less density of trichomes the more mite infestation. Also, when the level of total phenolic compounds increased the infestation percentage decreased, while no effect of Tannins occurred. Mite populations reached its peak during May and April in the first and second seasons, respectively, and infestation was lower in the first season.


The power of eminent domain authorizes the government to take private property for a public use, such as building roads, schools, and firehouses. In Kelo v. City of New London, the U.S. Supreme Court found that a local government may condemn private property for the sole purpose of economic development. The 2005 decision has generated strong reactions, including legislative activity at the state and national levels, with implications for transportation projects. This article presents details of the Kelo decision and discusses the federal government and state government reactions to it.


The aim of this research is to identify the competencies of diverse education that kindergarten teachers in the State of Kuwait should master, and to identify the proposed training program that can work to develop these competencies in kindergarten teachers, and to reveal the effectiveness of this program in the development of competencies of teaching diversity in kindergarten teachers. In general, as sub-dimensions: content diversification competencies, product diversification efficiencies, process diversification efficiencies, and learning environment diversification efficiencies. The present research focuses on highlighting the results that will achieve the objectives of this research by presenting the results of the statistical hypothesis test and answering its questions, as well as discussing and interpreting the results of the research in the light of previous researches and studies, as well as identifying research recommendations and research proposals related to the research results.


The authors consider large classes of problems in which dynamical systems satisfy nonlinear differential and discrete equations, boundary conditions are to be met, certain functionals are to be minimized or maximized, unknown system parameters are to be identified on the basis of experimental data, and systems are to be designed for optimal utilization, control, and performance. These developments produce rapid prototyping capabilities for systems engineers, systems analysts, software engineers, and others to use in creating intelligent information-based systems.<<ETX>>


The literature on subjectivity in performance measurement and reward systems (PMRS) presents us with a paradox. On the one hand, subjectivity is theorized as a residual solution adopted when objective measures are unavailable, incomplete, or noisy. On the other hand, subjective elements of PMRS are prevalent in almost all incentive contracting settings within firms, suggesting that managers rely on informative subjective cues relating to subordinate performance. In this study we examine how managers render subjectivity informative by capturing qualitative information about subordinate performance and explore the extent to which PMRS practices limit the risk of bias and cognitive errors. Our findings, drawn from interview data collected from both senior- and subordinate-level managers in four diverse international firms, provide unique holistic field insights into subjectivity. We contribute to the literature in several ways.We find that subjectivity is pervasive, sometimes hidden in seemingly formulaic processes, frequently used in a confirmatory role, and that it is purposeful rather than a residual solution when objective measures fail. We observe subjectivity being used to improve risk sharing, capitalise on the observability of agent action choices, penalise incongruent actions, enhance employee sorting and task allocation and thus move toward better contracting outcomes and HR decisions. Our research design also enables us to identify interdependencies among subjective practices at different stages of PMR processes. In view of the well-accepted risks of subjectivity including bias, cognitive errors and corruptibility, we also document risk mitigation strategies adopted in our participant firms. The firms in our study invest considerable resources in controlling and validating subjective assessments to mitigate against bias in the use of subjectivity, with calibration processes emerging as a critical risk mitigation strategy. However, we identify residual biases remaining despite mitigation, including asymmetric rating adjustments, centrality bias, and excessive weight on potentially weakly informative contributions in calibration processes.


In this article. the results of an initial attempt to estimate the effects of state attributes on plant location and investment expenditure were presented for the forest products industry in the southern United States. A conditionallogit model was used to analyze new plant births, and a timeseries cross-section model to assess the total capital expenditure. Significant positive effects were found for personal income and forest inventory, and negative effects were found for population density. In the short run, tax and energy costs had negative impacts on new plant births in a state, while in the long run, stumpage price and environmental stringency had negative effects on the capital expenditure. Sensitivity of model specification was documented, and policy implications were discussed. For. SCi. 47(2):169--177. ~eyWords: Industrial recrUitment, forest-based economic development, tax, environmental regulatory stringency. X NDUSTRY LOCA nON HAS BEEN A SUBJECT of great interest to both corporate and government decision-makers. The forest products industry is one of the primary U.S. manufacturing sectors in many southern states. In Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, for example, the forest industry is one of the largest manufacturing industrial groups in terms of gross state product, total value of shipment, and employment. Overall, the 13 southern states have about one-third of the forest inventory and nearly one-half of the timber harvesting in the Utrited States (Powell et aI. 1992). The forest products industry in these states produces about 45% of softwood lumber (Random Lengths, Inc. 1999) and accounts for about 56% of the total paper and paperboard production capacity and 72% of the wood pulp production capacity in the country (Miller Freeman, Inc. 1999). The health and competitiveness of the forest industry in a particular state rely on continuous investment, which brings new technology, enhances factor endowments, and thus improves the competitiveness of the industry (Porter 1991). More importantly, investment brings employment and economic growth. Therefore, state governments in the South have made great efforts in the last half century to attract forest industry investment to boost their industry production and employment. Various public policies have been used to recruit the industry, including fmancial incentives, such as tax abatements, low property tax, direct state loans, and industrial revenue bonds, and nonfinancial incentives, such as customized industrial training and provision of iuformation to prospects, However, no study can be found that specifically examines the factors influencing the growth in the forest products industry in the southern states. This study filled in this gap by examitring the sigtrificance and magnitude of various factors in influencing the growth of the forest products industry in the southern United States. Changyou Sun is Graduate Research Assistant and Oaowei Zhang is Associate Professor. School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Aubum University, Auburn, AL36849. Correspondence should be sent to Daowei Zhang-l'hone: (334) 844-1067; Fax: (334) 844-1084; E-mail: zhang<IMorestry.auburn.edu. Acknowledgments: The authors are indebted to Hung-Gay Fung, Dan Gerlowski, Arik Levinson, and Xiaoping Zhou for their help and two anonymous referees, an associate editor and the editor of this joumal for their comments. All errors are the authors'. This research was supported in part by the SOuthem Research Station, USDA Forest Service, New Orleans, louisiana. , --------------~------Manuscrtpt received July 6, 2000. Accepted January 31, 2000. Copyright C 2001 by the Society of American Foresters Reprinted from Forest Science, Vol. 47, No.2, May 2001. Not for further reproduction. 169 1 ne aVallaOllllY or lDlcroeconolDlc aala at eSlaOllsnrnent level allowed us to apply a coiulitionallogit model (CLM) on the investment location decisions for new forest industry plants. In addition. a time-series cross-section model (TSCS) has been applied to the industry's total investment expenditure. The results showed that forest resource endowment, government tax policies. and other socioeconomic conditions affected the investment decisions in the forest products industry. The next section reviews previous investmentlocation studies. This is followed by a demonstration of the CLM and TSCS model and by a description of the data used in this study. Finally. the empirical results from the two models are presented. and policy implications are discussed.


Clarke, H. D., Goodwin, M. and Whiteley, P. (2017) Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Corbett, S. (2016) 'The social consequences of Brexit for the UK and Europe: Euroscepticism, populism, nationalism and societal division', International Journal of Social Quality, 6, 1, 11–31. Evans, G. and Menon, A. (2017) Brexit and British Politics, Cambridge: Polity. Goodwin, M. and Heath, O. (2016) 'Brexit vote explained: poverty, low skills and lack of opportunities', Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 31 August, https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/brexit-voteexplained-poverty-low-skills-and-lack-opportunities. Outhwaite, W. (2017) Brexit: Sociological Responses, London: Anthem Press. Seidler, V. (2018) Making Sense of Brexit, Bristol: Policy Press. Troitiño, D. R., Kerikmäe, T. and Chochia, A. (eds.) (2018) Brexit: History, Reasoning and Perspectives, Dordrecht: Springer. Vanhercke, B., Sabato, S. and Bouget, D. (eds.) (2017) Social Policy in the European Union: State of Play 2017, 18th Annual Report, Brussels. Vasilopoulou, S. (2016) 'UK Euroscepticism and the Brexit referendum', The Political Quarterly, 87, 2, 219–27.


A wireless temperature-humidity detection system solutions was designed based on platforms STM32 and LabVIEW. Taking the STM32 as an essential control method and using a chip n RF24L01P in a wireless transceiver module, the system acquired temperature-humidity signals through a digital temperature-humidity sensor AM2303 of low power and fast response. An upper computer was communicated with a STM32MCU through a serial port based on the development platform LabVIEW to detect the environmental temperature and humidity in real time.Experiment results indicate that the system is stable,interference-resistant and convenient to use,suitable for a variety of temperature and humidity detections.


Managing contention for shared resources in chip multiprocessors has become very challenging as the number of cores and execution contexts scale up. Contention for the memory hierarchy resources, especially the shared caches, can severely degrade an application's performance and system throughput [2]. One of the important resources related to caching is hardware prefetcher whose effect on the shared-memory resource contention has not been fully explored. Hardware prefetchers can have potential impact on an application's performance depending on its data access pattern. If the application has sequential or strided data access pattern, the prefetchers can bring data in the caches in advance, reducing cache misses and improving performance. On the other hand, if the application's data access pattern does not follow any pattern, the prefetched data can pollute the cache, resulting in more cache misses and worse performance. In this research, we study and measure the prefetching usefulness on multi-threaded applications' performances while the applications contend for different shared-memory resources. Such a study provides insights in understanding applications' behaviors and helps to further improve an application's performance by dynamically adjusting and utilizing prefetching along with the contention mitigating techniques. We use the multi-threaded PARSEC benchmarks to measure the prefetching effect on several resources in the memory hierarchy, including L1-cache, L2-cache and Front Side Bus (FSB). To determine the effect of prefetching on shared-resource contention in the memory hierarchy, we need a methodology for comparing the application's performance when the prefetcher is enabled and disabled, at the same time when there is contention for the targeted resource. In general, to measure contention for a particular shared resource, applications are run in two resource configurations. In the baseline configuration, application threads are mapped onto cores such that the threads do not share the targeted resource and run using dedicated resources. In the contention configuration, the application threads are mapped onto the cores such that the threads execute sharing the targeted resource. Because a multi-threaded application has multiple threads, there is possibility of contention when these threads share a resource.


Disclosed is a mold to produce a cast body produced with the cast body conformed sheathing mold wall. The invention is characterized in that the mold wall can be divided into at least two Giesformwandsegmente that a hinge portion are integrally connected to each other via at least in that the hinge portion is formed and arranged such that the at least two Giesformwandsegmente relative to each other to pivot about a attributable to the hinge region pivot axis are mounted, and that the at least two Giesformwandsegmente and the hinge region are made by means of a generative manufacturing method.


Using '20 Questions' in your lessons delivered via video conferencing can be a fun and effective way of supporting student spelling, writing, grammar awareness, collaboration, creative writing, and critical thinking. It may also help you to reflect on your own GBLT practice.


The pollination biology of Syngonanthus elegans (Eriocaulaceae), which occurs in the Parque Nacional da Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais State, was studied during two annual flowering periods (2005 and 2006). The flowers of S. elegans are diclinous and distributed in bisexual, protandric capitula with centripetal maturation. Such floral resources as nectar and pollen are easily available and are present during the whole anthesis, attracting a great diversity of pollinators. Effective pollinators include species of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Bombyliidae, Muscidae (Diptera), Formicidae, Halictidae (Hymenoptera) and Miridae (Hemiptera). Although seeds are produced through self-pollination and wind may also be a pollen vector, pollination by small insects contributes most effectively to the reproductive success of S. elegans, resulting in the greatest number of seeds, the highest germination rate and optimum


Ship-breaking activities hold potential as they create economic opportunities for thousands of laborers and contribute to the economic growth of regions in need of private sector investment. Practically, 100% of the ship is recycled. In this perspective, ship breaking can be claimed to be a sound sustainable industrial activity. The ship-breaking activities play an important role in the national economy such as savings of foreign exchange, raw material for industries, government revenue, employment opportunities, etc. The aim of this paper is to examine the ship-breaking activities in India and also to highlight the growth of this industry in terms of ships demolished.


Sikh migrants joined post-war strike-waves, formed unions and turned left in the 1920s and early 1930s in and around Calcutta, in the South Bengal region under British rule. To them, an unofficial commemoration of Komagata Maru's voyage and the militancy associated with the Ghadar movement during First World War, became inseparable from contemporary resistance to the domination of colonial capital and British colonial state in India. They engaged with, worked upon and simultaneously moved beyond the boundaries of ethno-linguistic and religious identities as well as the social content of anti-colonial nationalism by focusing on a self-aware identity based on organised class action. This understanding was linked with the lived experiences of migration and imperial exploitation, the components of identity that had come to the forefront during the war. The diasporic identity of the Sikh migrant workers converged with the wider labour movement and was politically reshaped in the post-war context as livelihood issues took on the form of systematic protests in the city and beyond.


Objective To sum up the supplementary effects of X ray and CT in diognosis of vertebral tuberculosis. Methods The X ray and CT findings of 40 cases of spinal tuberculosis confirmed by operation and clinical data were analyzed.To evaluate the rate of vertebral destruction,the patterns of bone destruction,icidence of invelvement of vertebral appendages and paravertebral soft tissue masses. Results The X ray findings have significant value in the rate of vertebral destruction,intervertebral disk destruction,and deformity.CT is more sensitive in demonstration of the patterns of bone destruction,the range of vertebral involvement,involvement of vertebral posterior element and soft tissue masse in the epidural and paravertebral and calcification. Conclusion Rational use of various imaging modalities would improve the diagnosis accuracy of spinal tuberculosis. [


An apparatus and a method for image processing are provided. The color of a dental image area is corrected to avoid forming an unnatural face image. To serve the purpose, the first image region corresponding to teeth is detected from the image and the second one corresponding to face other than teeth is also detected from the image, so that the first image region color is corrected based on a comparation of color features between the first and second image region.


Forty five boys in the age group of 13 to 14 years of Alagappa Model school, Karaikudi were selected at random and were divided randomly into three groups namely mud circuit training group, concrete circuit training group and control group. The experimental groups participated in the training programme for a period of 6 weeks. During this period, the control group was let off without any training. The data were collected on selected physical and physiological variables of speed, agility, leg explosive power, pulse rate, blood pressure, aerobic capacity respectively before training (pre-test) as well as after 6 weeks of training (post-test). Analysis of covariance was used to analyse the data. The result of the study clearly indicated that the mud circuit training group had improved the speed, agility, leg explosive power, pulse rate, blood pressure, aerobic capacity to a greater degree than concrete circuit training group.


THz spectroscopy has recently been used to examine human disease because of its a higher sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio. In this work, the interaction mode between THZ radiation and biological tissue in the THz frequency range is given. Clinical Intralipid-10% is diluted into different concentrations to use as tissue phantoms. And they are firstly tested based on the terahertz time domain spectroscopy in the condition of room temperature. Optical parameters of phantom solution including absorption coefficient and refractive index are gotten, and the frequency properties of these optical parameters are analyzed. The function relations can be firstly found. The conclusions is meaningful to make the further research of interaction between THZ radiation and human tissue, related cancers.


Being various verbs and having different functions, verbs have caused much trouble for English learners, especially those who have not got a consolidated knowledge of English. We should gradually learn to conclude and summarize about the usage of English verbs so to deepened our comprehension.


WMU, in conjunction with the NSSE (National Survey of Student Engagement) will be sending online surveys to a random sample of 5,000 first-year students and seniors in mid-January. It is completely anonymous and only takes 15 minutes to complete online. Your answers will provide a snapshot of the undergraduate experience from a student's perspective and give WMU the opportunity to meet evolving needs.


Abstract Introduction/Aim Level three sleep studies are performed on portable devices which provide information on 3 channels. Some studies have reported that the accuracy of level 3 studies could be as accurate as polysomnography in a sub-set of population in the diagnosis of OSA. However, there is limited information in the literature regarding the effectivity of level 3 study in comparison to level 1 or level 2 study among Indigenous patients. Methods Patients included in this study were adult Indigenous patients identified to have undergone both level 2 and level 3 sleep study. We assessed the accuracy of diagnosing the presence of OSA as per AHI Results There were 12 indigenous patients identified to have undergone both level 2 and level 3 study. Four out of the 12 level 2 sleep studies failed due to sensor dropouts. Excluding patients with failed studies, 4 out of the 8 patients showed a higher AHI on their level 2 sleep study compared to level 3 study. Six patients had the same severity of OSA identified on both Level 2 and Level 3 studies. Conclusion This study shows mixed results in the efficacy of Level 3 studies compared to Level 2 studies, though failure rates may be lower on Level 3 studies. A larger sample size is required to further elaborate on the validity and efficacy of Level 3 studies in the diagnosis of OSA among indigenous Australian population. Grant Support Nil to declare and no funding received for this study


This study aims to determine the effect of liquidity and profitability on capital structure (studies on food and beverage manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia stock exchange for the period 2016-2019). The population in this study were 28 companies using purposive sampling method in order to obtain a sample size of 11 companies. The type of research data is quantitative data and secondary data sources taken from www.idx.com with descriptive data analysis techniques, classical assumptions, multiple linear regression analysis, the coefficient of determination (R2) of the T test and F test using SPSS 23. The results show that the liquidity variable has a significant effect on capital structure, while the profitability variable does not have a significant effect on capital structure and simultaneously the liquidity and profitability variables have a significant effect on capital structure.


Reports on development of a training and development strategy to meet the challenges of the 1990s facing a large food retailer. Starting with discussion groups to identify how First Class service could be achieved, reports on how this resulted in training to meet the needs of people in each store. The development of a competency framework was also essential to support the achievement of critical success factors.


: With the continuous development of China's digital media industry and information network technology, digital media technology has gradually grown up and become a very important force to spread China's cultural information and promote China's economic development. It also occupies an indispensable and important position in China's information construction. Based on this, this paper first discusses the basic concepts and characteristics of digital media technology, then analyzes the main wide application fields of digital media technology, and then introduces the thinking of the development trend of digital media technology for reference of relevant staff


The transit exchange has a signal-controlled oscillator with an output signal which depends on the collectively weighted phase difference between the local exchange clock and the clock of the other exchanges. To avoid phase jumps, a signal corresponding to the phase difference is sampled, the sampled values differentiated, the differentiated values compared with a limit value employing a phase jump when exceeded, and when this value is exceeded a signal with the control signal's highest value but with opposite sign is added to form a compensation signal, this compensation signal being added to the differentiated value, and after possible weighting the differentiated value is summed with corresponding differentiated values from comparison with the phases of other links, and the sum value integrated to obtain a resulting control signal.


This article aims to discuss the conventional manual washing red cell (WRC) heavy dependency on centrifugal methods and extrusion techniques, and successful development of preparation device for WRC with proprietary intellectual property rights. The machine is semiautomatic, and the whole washing process is carried on in a fully closed environment to avoid cross infections. The clinical tests made on the erythrocyte products with preparation device show that the erythrocyte recovery ratio could reach 90%, and the removal ratios of leucocytes and plasma exceed 99%. Besides, compared with the manual washing method, the preparation device for WRC takes 20 min less to make 400 ml of erythrocyte of the same quality.


The contribution deals with recovery of useful minerals such as siderite and barite from tailings collected in settling pit nearbyMarkušovce village (East Slovakia). The material form the pit was subjected to gravity pre-concentration and magnetic separationunder laboratory conditions with the aim to verify a possibility of siderite and barite concentrates preparation. A fraction of +0.2–1mm forming a 40.56 wt% of total grain size scale of the material from the pit and containing 35.71% SiO2, 22.55% Fe2O3, 7,12%Al2O3, 5.48% Ba, and 3.89% SO42– was tested in upgrading process. Thus, 78.18% of SiO2, and 60.41% of Al2O3 at loss 21.70%Fe2O3 and 2.09% of Ba were removed in gravity pre-concentration. The iron concentrate with the content of 44.33% Fe2O3 at Ferecovery of 77.29% in magnetic product was obtained. Barite pre-concentrate with the Ba content of 46.21% at Ba recovery of91.95% in non-magnetic product was won.


Preparation of an immunoadsorbent of crystalline hexon of adenovirus type 5 bound to Sepharose is described. The immunoadsorbent was employed to purify antibody to adenovirus type 5 hexon from antiserum prepared against a mixture of the three capsid antigens. In addition, separation of antibody with type-specific neutralizing activity from group-specific non-neutralizing hexon antibody has been achieved.


This paper proposes a methodology to distinguish state dependence from unobserved heterogeneity in the estimation context of a discrete choice model using household scanner panel data. With traditional maximum-likelihood approaches, the individual effects become correlated with the covariates. In contrast, the proposed estimation method formalizes the correlation structure and thereby enables its consideration during the estimation process. In the resulting model, state dependence becomes a less significant variable, and the proposed model yields better measures of predictive performance than a conventional model. The proposed approach is illustrated through an empirical application in marketing.


The research aims to substantiate the positive influence of the aesthetics of socialist realism on the creative work of the Balkar writer Zh. Zh. Zalikhanov (1917-1996), who was at the forefront of the development of written literature in the native language. The paper examines the main methodological principles of the aesthetics of socialist realism: a truthful, historically concrete reflection of reality, the assertion of new socialist ideals and relations aimed at the formation of the literature that is "national in form and socialist in content". Using Zh. Zh Zalikhanov's novels "Mountain Eagles", "Burning Hearts" and "The Baksan Star" as an example, the paper explores the main ways of artistic expression that give the writer's works national specificity and colouring (images, symbols, signs). Zh. Zh. Zalikhanov's creative work reflects such principles of the socialist realism method as historicism, artistic truth, national spirit, which are used as means of historical truth (depiction of specific events, biographies of real historical figures), on the one hand, and as ways of reflecting national specifics (anthroponymic and toponymic units, phraseological expressions, proverbs and sayings, etc.), on the other hand. The research is original in that it is the first to examine the aesthetic principles of artistic merit in the creative work of Zh. Zh. Zalikhanov using not only a historical but also a culturological approach to a literary work as a "culture code". The research findings have shown that the socialist realism method contributed to the development of new means of visual and artistic expression of Soviet literature and the formation of new principles of artistic merit of the literature "national in form and socialist in content".


World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that Indians will have 100 million or 60 per cent of the world's heart patients by 2010. Punjab is one of the prosperous states in India with a high per capita inconne and lifestyles similar to that of industrialized western population. A significant section ie 3.4 per cent of the total rural population of Punjab has been reported to be suffering from cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Punjab is undergoing an epidemiological transition. It is on the threshold of an epidemic of cardiovascular disease. The high prevalence of CVD causes an immense loss in terms of productivity, morbidity and mortality.


Section 1: TCP Measurements.- On the Impact of Bursting on TCP Performance.- A Study of Burstiness in TCP Flows.- On the Stationarity of TCP Bulk Data Transfers.- Section 2: Application Measurements.- Toward the Accurate Identification of Network Applications.- A Traffic Identification Method and Evaluations for a Pure P2P Application.- Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Traffic on ADSL.- Analysis of Communities of Interest in Data Networks.- Section 3: Network Inference and Problem Diagnosis.- Binary Versus Analogue Path Monitoring in IP Networks.- Exploiting the IPID Field to Infer Network Path and End-System Characteristics.- New Methods for Passive Estimation of TCP Round-Trip Times.- Detecting Duplex Mismatch on Ethernet.- Section 4: Topology Measurements.- Improved Algorithms for Network Topology Discovery.- Using Simple Per-Hop Capacity Metrics to Discover Link Layer Network Topology.- Revisiting Internet AS-Level Topology Discovery.- Section 5: Wireless Network Measurements.- Application, Network and Link Layer Measurements of Streaming Video over a Wireless Campus Network.- Measurement Based Analysis of the Handover in a WLAN MIPv6 Scenario.- Section 6: Monitoring Facilities.- A Distributed Passive Measurement Infrastructure.- lambdaMON - A Passive Monitoring Facility for DWDM Optical Networks.- Section 7: Routing and Traffic Engineering Measurements.- Internet Routing Policies and Round-Trip-Times.- Traffic Matrix Reloaded: Impact of Routing Changes.- Some Observations of Internet Stream Lifetimes.- Section 8: Spectroscopy and Bandwidth Estimation.- Spectroscopy of Traceroute Delays.- Measuring Bandwidth Between PlanetLab Nodes.- Comparison of Public End-to-End Bandwidth Estimation Tools on High-Speed Links.- Section 9: Poster Session.- Traffic Classification Using a Statistical Approach.- Self-Learning IP Traffic Classification Based on Statistical Flow Characteristics.- Measured Comparative Performance of TCP Stacks.- Applying Principles of Active Available Bandwidth Algorithms to Passive TCP Traces.- A Network Processor Based Passive Measurement Node.- A Merged Inline Measurement Method for Capacity and Available Bandwidth.- Hopcount and E2E Delay: IPv6 Versus IPv4.- Scalable Coordination Techniques for Distributed Network Monitoring.- Evaluating the Accuracy of Captured Snapshots by Peer-to-Peer Crawlers.- HOTS: An OWAMP-Compliant Hardware Packet Timestamper.- Practical Passive Lossy Link Inference.- Merging Network Measurement with Data Transport.


The network language,a particular language phenomenon,is produced with the emergence of the information-based society of network.There are lots of new words and expressions in network language,which reflects the development and enrichment of Chinese language.But it will inevitably bring about some problems.Therefore,it's necessary to standardize modern Chinese according to some principles of language use.


Recognition of manufacturing features associated to certain parts using DXF files have been proposed by a number of reseraches. Since the database stuctures that provide geometric information regarding the parts differ from one CAD system to another, the interpretation and modification of these data are difficult or impossible. This paper presents an algorithm for extracting the design features from a data exchange file format, supporting the development of automated process planning system for prismatic parts.


Provisional figures published by the Department for Education show that North Yorkshire's schools have once again shown strong achievement in GCSE and ...


A mixture of endo- and exo-Cp2TaH(CH2CHMe) (1a) and catecholborane (HBCat, Cat = 1,2-O2C6H4) reacted to give endo-Cp2TaH2(BCat) (2a) and n-PrBCat as the major products. Small quantities of exo-2a are also formed during the reaction. When the reaction was monitored by 1H NMR, the resonances for endo-1a were diminished relative to exo-1a, and eventually all of the olefin complex was consumed. The analogous reaction employing DBCat led to deuterium incorporation at the α-methylene position of n-PrBCat and the deuteride positions of 2a. The alkylborane and deuteride resonances in the 2H NMR spectrum integrated in a 40:60 ratio. 1H NMR spectra indicate the α-methylene integration in n-PrBCat-d0-1 is depleted by 50% of its normal value. A mechanism involving borane attack on a propylidene hydride intermediate is invoked to account for the labeling results. A mixture of endo- and exo-Cp2NbH(CH2CHMe) (1b) reacts with HBCat to generate n-PrBCat, propane, propylene, Cp2NbH2BCat (2b), and Cp2NbH(BCat)2 (3). The Mark...


Hypoxia-inducible factors(HIF) are essential mediators of the cellular oxygen-signaling pathway,while HIF-1α is considered the most important and the most thorough studied one.Because the metabolism of tumor cells are more vigorous than normal cells,it demands for more oxygen and other nutrients.Thus hypoxia is one of the main features of solid tumor.In condition of hypoxia,the expression of HIF-1α is generally high.HIF-1α plays an important role in the regulation of cellular glucose metabolism,angiogenesis,erythropoiesis,cell proliferation and apoptosis.And it has been recognized as a positive regulator of tumor growth as its inhibition often results in tumor suppression.


The emotional and physical problems can arise from spousal abuse. The purposes of this study were to investigate the influence of spousal abuse on depression and physical symptoms and to examine direct and indirect effects of functional and dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies to depression and physical symptoms. The participants were 232 adults. The Korea version of the Index of Spouse Abuse (K-ISA), Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire (REQ), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Physical Symptoms Scale were administered to participants. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with AMOS was used for the purpose of analysis. The results showed that physical and psychological abuse and controlling behavior were associated with severity of depression and physical symptoms and the functional emotion regulation strategies had the direct and indirect effects on depression and physical symptoms of those who experience spousal abuse. These results might contribute to development of psychological intervention program for those who have experienced spousal abuse. Finally, the limitations and implications of the current study were discussed.


Biological control is considered a natural tool and an ecological alternative to overcome the problems caused by chemical methods for the protection of plants. From the fungi with potential of antagonism, the genus Trichoderma is one of the most researched and studied. This fungus is a microorganism naturally found in soil, which presents an important ecological function, and participates of several processes in this mean. The objective of the work is to develop a discussion about aspects of the biological control, specially in relation to effects of the fungus Trichoderma spp. in the biocontrol of pathogens of agricultural crops. With the discussions along the texts, it is considered that the biological control is a system which is being target of frequent and continuous investigation being an important tool for the control of several problems of phytossanity which occur in agriculture. Among the agents which are noteworthy in the investigations is the fungus Trichoderma spp., in which it was verified action as biocontrol agent and in some cases as growth promoter.


Summary. A stratified sample of 160 fourth and fifth-year secondary school pupils, all of whom had completed a mathematics course leading to the Certificate of Secondary Education, were given a series of mathematics tests. These tests were structured into four sections according to item type, multiple-choice, data sufficiency, multi-facet and traditional, each section being divided into two broad content areas, number and space. A six-way analysis of variance of the scores, separating the main and interactive effects of extraversion, neuroticism, ability, sex, item type and content area, showed that: (i) extra-verted boys and introverted girls constitute a higher performing group within their own sex; (ii) the overall performance of both stable introverts and neurotic extraverts stands out in relation to that of the other personality types; (iii) among those of high ability introverts do better, while among those of lower ability extraverts do better; and (iv) stable pupils do better than the neurotic on traditional items in space content, this being the only significant difference in a directly opposite pattern of neurotic-stable differences in the two content areas.

It is suggested that introversion might become advantageous at an earlier age for girls than for boys, and that all future studies in the field should take account of both the form and content of the assessment procedure.


The aims of the study were (1) to document the demography and clinical profile of patients with leprosy at a tertiary referral center from 2009 to 2018. (2) To compare the disease manifestation in children aged 12 years/below and the same in patients above 12 years.Case records of all patients diagnosed to have leprosy as per the World Health Organization cardinal criteria at our tertiary referral center from 2009 to 2018 were included in this study. The findings recorded in those aged 12 years/below were compared with those above 12 years using Pearson's Chi- square test.A total of 705 patients who attended our institution during the 10 year period were diagnosed to have leprosy. Six hundred and sixty-four (94.2%) were above 12 years of age and 41 patients (5.8%) were aged 12 years or below. Lepromatous spectrum cases, pure neuritic cases, Grade 2 disability, and lepra reactions were not documented in any of the patients aged 12 years or below which were contrary to the observations in those above 12 years. The differences were found to be statistically significant.Retrospective design and small number of childhood cases were the main limitations of the study.Clinical presentation of leprosy in children differs from that in adults. Detection of disease in childhood offers an opportunity to cure the disease with less risk of developing some of the important disease and therapy-related complications.


Abstract : This experimental investigation demonstrated the criticality of performing accurate full-scale engine exhaust simulations during model-measured VSTOL ground effects testing. The effects of varying the nozzle exit turbulence, total pressure distributions, and nozzle pressure ratio on the net and component ground-induced forces for two-, three-, and four-nozzle configurations with large blocking surfaces (as well as a smaller, cruciform two-nozzle blocking surface more characteristic of a real aircraft planform) were studied.


O I March/April 2002 ommunity Clinical Oncology Programs (CCOPs), sponsored by the National Cancer Institute since 1983, offer community institutions the opportunity to participate in formal clinical research protocols through the nation's system of large, cooperative research groups. CCOPs support community hospital participation in cancer prevention and control research, including chemoprevention studies, biomarker and early detection investigations, and symptom management, rehabilitation, and continuing care research. Since clinical trial results are crucial to the development of state-of-the-art cancer therapies, participation in clinical trials is necessary for any organization that wants to provide comprehensive, cutting-edge cancer services. The ability to provide NCI-approved, stateof-the-art treatment within the institution rather than referring patients to other centers is key in positioning an institution for managed care. CCOPs enhance an institution's image and prestige by giving it the opportunity to affiliate with major cancer treatment centers in the United States1 and please patients by allowing them to receive the latest advances in care in their own communities. CCOPs also offer experienced investigators access to a wide variety of trials through affiliation with up to five of the major research bases: the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG), the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG), the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG), the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSAPB), and the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG). To qualify and be funded through the NCI as a CCOP, community cancer centers must file a competing grant application, which undergoes extensive peer and administrative review. NCI may recommend supporting a study for up to five years, but awards are made annually and depend on the project's progress and anticipated accrual for the next year. It is important to note that awards cover only one-half or less of the total research expenses, the remainder of which must be covered by the participating facility.2


1. Internal microinjection of the Ca‐sensitive photoprotein aequorin or the isotope 45Ca have been used to assess Ca movements in single muscle fibres from the barnacle Balanus nubilus and the crab Maia squinado.


The article is devoted to the problem of dependence of the longlasting dynamics of spring wheat yield trend on the impact of Uranus and Neptune gravitation in the region of steppe Preduralye. The planets that are nearer to the Sun are responsible for weather formation on the given territory. The factors pointed out are suggested as prerequisites for working out models of longterm forecasting of crop yields.


The purpose of this paper is to analyze the possibility of using the Hall effect transducers for the study of the response of the elastic systems to shocks, in particular for the cantilever beam type mechanical systems. The experimental results which are presented in the paper, reveal the fact that this transducers allow both the static and dynamic analysis of the phenomena presented above. The analyze will be concentrated on the study of the response conferred by the systems with distributed mass and elasticity at mechanical shocks generated by the probes which have the different masses and are from different materials. The paper will also present the error factors such as the influence of the probe materials, positioning errors, working angles, etc.


Robots have been shown to assist in education and development of social skills in children. However, there has been no study yet that benchmarks the effectiveness of robots with respect to traditional playtools found inside a classroom, such as pretend play items and blocks. This paper presents the design, development and testing of robotic puppets, which would be used to support teaching in kindergarten education. Different types of robotic puppet design were considered before settling on a glove-type puppet. To benchmark the robot performance, a total of 52 five year-old children were observed, from which quantitative and qualitative data were collected. The result of the study indicates that when playing with the robotic puppets, the performance of the children with respect to thinking and learning, creativity and imagination, and social interaction and independence, is comparable to other traditional playtools.


In the past the photoelectric cell has been adapted to photometry with varying degrees of success, but in almost every instance the apparatus required in such an adaptation has been too sensitive in its operation to make it readily usable in the commercial laboratory where speed and ease of operation are as important as accuracy, but this new method of photoelectric photometry bids fair to become widely used in the photometric laboratory. In the adaptation of the photoelectric cell to the commercial laboratory there are several difficulties to be overcome. The first of these concerns the fact that no form of photoelectric cell yet produced has the same color-sensitivity curve as the eye. Therefore, of two lights of different color which the eye might evaluate as being of equal intensity, the cell would show the whiter light to be of the higher intensity. This difficulty is almost entirely eliminated through a comparison between two lamps of the same color.


We analyze several exotic options of American style in a multiple prior setting and study the optimal exercise strategy from the perspective of an ambiguity averse buyer in a discrete time model of Cox-Ross-Rubinstein style. The multiple prior model relaxes the assumption of a known distribution of the stock price process and takes into account decision maker's inability to completely determine the underlying asset's price dynamics. In order to evaluate the American option the decision maker needs to solve a stopping problem. Unlike the classical approach ambiguity averse decision maker uses a class of measures to evaluate her expected payoffs instead of a unique prior. Given time-consistency of the set of priors an appropriate version of backward induction leads to the solution as in the classical case. Using a duality result the multiple prior stopping problem can be related to the classical stopping problem for a certain probability measure - the worst-case measure. Therefore, the problem can be reduced to identifying the worst-case measure. We obtain the form of the worst-case measure for different classes of exotic options explicitly exploiting the observation that the option can be decomposed in simpler event-driven claims.


Isothermal sections at 800, 1000, and 1150 °C as well as a tentative partial liquidus surface of the ternary Fe – Al – Zr system were established by means of electron-probe microanalysis, X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis, and light-optical as well as scanning electron microscopy. The most prominent features of the ternary phase diagram are the extended homogeneity ranges of the Laves phases. By continuous substitution of Fe by Al, the structure changes three times starting from the cubic C15 structure of Fe2Zr to hexagonal C14 (k1) back to cubic C15 (k2) and again to hexagonal C14 (Al2Zr). The various Laves phase fields are separated by very small two-phase fields. Besides the Laves phases k1 and k2, three more ternary intermetallic phases were found, whose homogeneity ranges have been determined for the first time. In addition, new results concerning the homogeneity ranges of intermetallic phases in the binary subsystems Fe – Al and Al – Zr are reported. The solubilities of the third components in the binary phases are found to be generally very low with the exception of the Laves phases. As a consequence, extended two-phase fields between the Fe(Al) solid solution and Laves phase or between Fe(Al) solid solution and the ternary ThMn12type phase s1 are formed.


Dense, thin sheets of α-alumina formed after solidification of powder compact surfaces which were melted using CO2 laser radiation. The microstructures and surface topographies varied with the depth of melt. Most significant was a zone of columnar grains oriented in the [661] direction which yielded smooth surfaces for intermediate depths.


This article reviews personal construct psychology (PCP) research on cognitive complexity. It examines conceptual foundations, measures of cognitive complexity, and a large body of empirical findings. It identifies several ambiguities in the conceptualization of the two components of cognitive complexity: differentiation and integration. These ambiguities lead to inconsistent interpretations of indexes proposed for their measurement and consequently to an inconsistent interpretation of empirical findings. The review of empirical studies identifies many valuable findings that are, however, quite fragmented. After reviewing the relevant cognitive complexity literature, suggestions for future research are discussed. In accordance with PCP's organization corollary, two different types of integration that have different relationships to the component of differentiation are identified that enable researchers to consistently distinguish various types of construing in terms of cognitive complexity and to formulate hypotheses that are open to empirical testing.


In order to control pests in the nursery of Populus euramericana,efficacy trials of four kinds of pesticides(90% trichlorfon crystalline,50% malathion EC,30% acephate EC,50% fenitrothion EC) were conducted to control Maladera orientalis Motschulsky,Plagiodera versicolora Laicharting,Leucoptera susinella Herrich-schaffer and Hegesidemus habrus Darke.The results showed that the above four pesticides all had good control effects,thus could be used in poplar nursery;and 1 000 times dilutions were advised.


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A 45 year old woman presented to her general practitioner several times over nine months with a gradually enlarging, hard lump in her anterior thigh. An ultrasound scan showed a solid intramuscular mass in the anterior compartment of her thigh, prompting a two week wait referral to the regional sarcoma diagnostic clinic. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a large, heterogeneous intramuscular mass. Core biopsy confirmed a high grade soft tissue sarcoma, and staging computed tomography showed lung metastases. The patient underwent chemotherapy for metastatic disease, followed by resection of her primary tumour, but her disease relapsed and she died 16 months after diagnosis.

Soft tissue sarcoma is a heterogeneous group of malignancies. They account for 1% of cancers and have a five year survival of approximately 50%. They can occur at any age (although more than 65% occur in people aged over 50 years1) and in any part of the body.

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A comprehensive study of the all-important Austrian policy, reflective of the monarcy's concern with nationality problems, related to the Macedonian Reforms Program of the beginning of the 20th century.


FRBR family models, which is published from 1998 to 2010, will be restructured in 2016 and the new name of the model is "FRBR Library Reference Model (LRM)." FRBR LRM is a consolidated model based on the legacy FRBR family of conceptual models - FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD and the two ontological models - FRBRCore and FaBio, as well as FRBRoo, the cooperated model with museum field. In this study, therefore, FRBR LRM is analyzed in respect to background information, characteristics of the model, such as user tasks, entities, attributes, and relationships. Experimental adaptation to for the LRM`s entities and relationships is also conducted. Through this test, the differences between the original models and the consolidated model was reviewed and the applicability of the FRBR LRM model to the semantic web is also discussed. From now on, we have to select and modify among the various FRBR related models to meet our information needs. It will be difficult to find only one Implementation Methodology for every information needs.


Let A be the non-commutative Banach algebra with identity satisfying certain conditions. We show that if D is a derivation on A, then D(A) is contained in the radical of A.


Among growth factors of a company, its human capital, because of its hardly imitable trait. However, investing in human capital is intangible and risky, which makes its funding arduous. This article considered the impact of the company's capital structure on the human capital investment decision through training using probit regressions. Among a sample of SMEs from 24 Eastern European countries, the results confirmed that bank loans foster trainings. However, an increase in self-financing slows down such investments.


Embodiments of the present invention comprises a system for locating and restoring service lines in pipeline restoration. According to some embodiments of the present invention, the system includes a movable cart, a plug and the attachment part with a marking magnet. In some embodiments of the present invention, the movable arranged inside the trailer along the pipeline. In some embodiments, the attachment part is movably connected to the movable trailer. According to some embodiments, the attachment portion is configured to intersect the duct inlet mounting position of the stopper is introduced into the line. In other embodiments, the attachment part is configured to mark the position of the stopper and the stopper incorporated in the line to remove the fluid introduced between the repair line and the line is introduced from the pipe connections.


A system predator-prey is explored and the parameters, by which its operating is stable. Biological balance of the system species is defined by mathematic methods.


Pulsational stability conditions are derived for stars in thermal imbalance as a simple application of a two-time asymptotic method, previously developed as a practicle tool to evolve stars through pulsational phases. In the case of soft oscillations the known results are recovered, but in a more straightforward and transparent way. In the case of hard oscillations, not accessible to the usual linear analysis, a simple method is exposed for studying the nature of the stability and, in particular, the range of stability. The ineluctable difference between stability coefficients as derived from amplitude or energy considerations is briefly discussed, and another, more natural, definition is suggested in terms of the action variable.


3899 The Rockefeller University Press J. Cell Biol. Vol. 216 No. 12 3899–3891 https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201710079 Contraction is one of the most basic mechanobiological processes involved with cellular shape changes. It is not a passive relaxation process after cell protrusion or stretching. Contractile materials made of partially overlapping arrays of actin and myosin filaments are the earliest identified active force-generating devices. Increasing evidence suggests that contractions are frequently pulsatile. Although there has been considerable interest in understanding how the coordination of contraction pulses in multicellular systems is linked with morphogenesis events by looking at the phase relationship of the contraction pulses in neighboring cells, much less is known about origin of the contractile pulses within single cells and whether or how different subcellular regions coordinate local contractions. In a visually compelling and timely study, Graessl et al. observed and characterized the activation of Rho, a critical regulator of cell contractility, in single cells. By imaging the basal surface of the adherent cells, they reveal a plethora of dynamic activity for Rho. Despite the overall irregularity and heterogeneity both within a single cell and between cells, a number of ordered patterns are consistently found (Fig. 1 A). First, Rho activation in the basal state is very local and transient, with characteristic lifetimes of 20–25 s and decay lengths of ∼2 μm. Graessl et al. (2017) paid particular attention to cells with local pulses that recur at the same location with variable intervals of 2–7 min between peaks. Intriguingly, in cells with artificially elevated levels of Rho activation (by either nocodazole treatment, which presumably releases microtubule-associated Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor [GEF] or overexpresses the Rho GEF GEF-H1), waves of Rho activation can be readily observed with a propagating speed of 0.3–0.4 μm/s. The visualization of these patterns was made possible by an activity sensor using the GTPase binding domain of the Rho effector Rhotekin that binds selectively to the active Rho (including RhoA, RhoB, and RhoC). The compatibility with total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) imaging is an additional advantage of the single-cell experimental system compared with developmental systems. In fact, although the detection benefited from the sensor, utilization of the Rho sensor is not absolutely essential under this experimental condition because Rho recruitment to the plasma membrane could also be visualized with TIRF and display similar dynamic patterns as the sensor. Graessl et al. (2017) primarily characterized Rho patterns in U2OS cells (osteosarcoma cells), but the findings are likely applicable to other adherent cells, including embryonic stem cells. Similar observations of Rho pulses were recently reported in U2OS cells by a different group (Baird et al., 2017), and Rho waves were also reported in primary human endothelial cells (Reinhard et al., 2016) as well as Xenopus laevis/starfish oocytes and embryos (Bement et al., 2015). These pulses and propagating waves are hallmarks of excitable dynamics and are modeled after the firing and propagation of action potentials in neurons. Subsequently, they were extended to chemical systems made up of a minimal activator–inhibitor network whereby the activator can activate the inhibitor, which, delayed in its effect, serves to suppress the activation. Interesting spatial patterns can also emerge if both the activator and the inhibitor spread in space; when the activator spreads faster than the inhibitor, traveling waves of the activation can appear. Conversely, if the inhibitor spreads faster than the activator, local maxima would form and be locked in space. To establish the molecular identity of the activator and inhibitor, Graessl et al. (2017) systematically characterized the phase-shifted recruitment of Rho regulators and downstream effectors. Among them, the Rho GEF GEF-H1 (ARH GEF2), preceded Rho activation by ∼2 s, whereas the Rho effector FHOD1 (∼6 s), actin (∼11 s), RhoGAP Myo9b (∼1 s), and myosin II (∼40 s) showed delayed accumulation. They next examined how the expression level of these regulators modulated the network dynamics. Based on a series of quantitative measurements, they propose that the positive feedback between GEF-H1 and Rho acts as the primary activator, whereas actomyosin and the associated RhoGAP Myo9b act as the delayed inhibitor (Fig. 1 B). Specifically, if GEF-H1 is part of the positive feedback loop that amplifies Rho activation, GEF-H1 needs to interact with active Rho in addition to binding inactive Rho. Based on previous findings which have suggested that the Pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of GEF-H1 could interact with active Rho without blocking the interaction between inactive Rho and GEF-H1's Dbl homology domain, Graessl et al. (2017) hypothesized that the PH domain is essential for the positive feedback. To test this, they employed a PH domain mutant that could not bind to active Rho and assumed that the mutant did not interfere with GEF activity. This mutant indeed blocked the fluctuating Rho activity, similar to the GEF-deficient mutant; therefore, GEF-H1 is concluded to be part of the amplification loop for Rho pulses. The nature of signal transduction networks in the regulation of cell contractility is not entirely clear. In this study, Graessl et al. (2017. J. Cell Biol. https ://doi .org /10 .1083 /jcb .201706052) visualized and characterized pulses and waves of Rho activation in adherent cells and proposed excitable Rho signaling networks underlying cell contractility. Pulses and waves of contractility


iPad and Android tablets will have an increasing role for the imaging diagnostics of works of art. Their limited hardware risorces can be overcome using a web-server for images streaming by tile-based method such as IIPImage. This system allows not to have limits in the resolution of the images which can be streamed to multiple devices for collaborative projects.


The college students are deemed as a special social group. The work on college students' ideological refinement and political awareness in the new century has confronted some new circumstances, which result in some new features. We, faculty staff of universities and colleges, should further improve the specific work contents and methods as well as work system and operation mechanism in a hope of being more creative and innovative.


This article calls on anthropologists of education to assert a more public voice attacking the ideological purposes to which the concept of "culture" has been deployedfollowing the September 11 attacks. We must support schools, communities, and the media to address the power and politics of race and religion in contemporary social and political contexts, rather than focus primarily on multicultural education about Islamic and Arab "culture." Finally, this article urges us to expand our knowledge of the processes of social incorporation for Muslim and Arab immigrant youth to include a deeper understanding of how global politics contribute to young people's sense of emerging identities. Language is woefully inadequate for representing the enormity of impact wrought by the September 11 attacks, first and foremost on those who lost their lives or loved ones, but also on human consciousness worldwide. I am, however, wary of language that casts September 11 primarily in terms of rupture, for it risks turning attention away from the continuities of vast social, economic, and political injustices that cut across national boundaries. My commitment to working for social justice was born long before September 11, but that day and all that have followed have challenged me to wrestle anew with the nature of how I engage with this work professionally.1 In these past months perhaps no question has troubled me more than how my work as an educational anthropologist can contribute fruitfully and with some immediacy to a social justice agenda demanded by the changing contemporary political contexts. I have listened across various social spheres-schools, communities, and the media-for how people are struggling to make sense of September 11 and to address the ensuing shifts in local and global political landscapes. In doing so, I have become convinced that by bringing to bear our insights and knowledge about culture, ideology, and global politics, anthropologists of education have a vital role to play in these conversations. In this article, I take up three issues that educational anthropologists are well suited to address. First, I explore how the concept of culture is currently being employed in dominant discourse about September 11 and its aftermath and suggest that we must have a more public voice attacking the ideological purposes to which "culture" is being put. Secondly, I


The use of television for education was first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1957. Since then, both the BBC and the independent companies have built up a nation‐wide service for school pupils and adult students. All this is well‐known. What is much less well advertised is the use of closed‐circuit television to promote learning at all levels. This has been made possible technically by the appearance on the market of a wide range of light, transistorised equipment, below broadcast quality but adequate for its purpose, and within realistic price brackets. The equipment is suitable for non‐educational purposes, but no one who visits the annual National Audio‐visual Aids Exhibition can be left in any doubt that the hardware manufacturers see the educational market as one of their most promising outlets.


Relativistic microscopic ootical potential of nucleon-nucleus is derived from the relativistic Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone (RBBG) equation. The complex effective mass of a nucleon is deter- mined by a fit to 200MeV pp-~(40)Ca scattering data. The relativistic microscopic optical potentials with this effective mass are obtained from RBBG for p-~(16)O, ~(40)Ca, ~(90)Zr and ~(208)Pb scattering in energy range from 160 to 800MeV. The microscopic optical potential is used to study the pro- ton-~(40)Ca scattering problem at 200MeV. The results, such as defferential cross section, analy- zing power and spin rotation function are compared with those calculated from phenomenolo- gical relativistic optical potential.


The composite NTSC color television signal consists of a luminance signal and a superimposed subcarrier which is modulated, in amplitude and phase, by chrominance information. The amplitude of the subcarrier determines the reproduced color saturation and its phase, relative to the color synchronizing burst, determines the reproduced hue. Variation of subcarrier amplitude as a function of luminance signal level is called differential gain (DG) distortion. The deviation from constant gain usually is assumed to be the same for the luminance signal as for the subcarrier, although this is not always true. Variation of subcarrier phase as a function of luminance signal is called differential phase (DP) distortion.


Suppression of the radiation from higher order modes requires the elimination of those modes. In this paper, the elimination has been implemented with a novel miniaturized low pass filter (LPF) with high filter selectivity and wide stop band. Here, the fundamental operating frequency of the antenna falls in the pass band of the LPF. The attenuation of other higher order mode occurs since their frequencies fall in the LPF stop band. In this paper suppression has been carried out by using this LPF on antenna feed line. A successful demonstration has been presented to control the occurrence of higher order modes up to the second harmonic of the fundamental resonant frequency in a microstrip antenna. A miniaturized hair pin type defected ground structure (DGS) has been integrated to obtain elimination of higher order modes in the antenna at its microstrip feed level. A rectangular spiral type stub has been added to the feed line in order to improve the rejection characteristics.


In the increasingly complex electromagnetic environment, a variety of new signal types are appearing; however, existing electromagnetic signal classification (ESC) models cannot handle new signal types. In this context, the emergence of class-incremental learning aims to incrementally update the classification model as new categories emerge. In this paper, an electromagnetic signal classification framework based on class exemplar selection and a multi-objective linear programming classifier (CES-MOLPC) is proposed in order to continuously learn new classes in an incremental manner. Specifically, our approach involves the adaptive selection of class exemplars considering normalized mutual information and a multi-objective linear programming classifier. The former is used to maintain the classification capability of the model for previous categories by selecting key samples, while the latter is used to allow the model to adapt quickly to new categories. Meanwhile, a weighted loss function based on cross-entropy and distillation loss is presented in order to fine-tune the model. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CES-MOLPC method through extensive experiments on the public RML2016.04c data set and the large-scale real-world ACARS signal data set. The results of the comparative experiments demonstrate that our method can achieve significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods.


Embedding of semiconductor chips into organic substrates allows a very high degree of miniaturization by stacking multiple layers of embedded components. Among its merits, it provides superior electrical performance by short and geometrically well controlled interconnects as well as a homogeneous mechanical environment for the chips and thus resulting in superior reliability. At PCB manufacturing level, 50 µm thin chips have been embedded with pitches up to 200 µm in up to 18″×24″ panels. This paper shows the further developments in chip embedding technologies to incorporate chips with even smaller pitches. The technology developed in this study does not necessitate expensive redistribution layers for enlarging the pad pitch. Embedding of small pitch chips has been realised with concurrent developments in accurate chip positioning, plating methods and chemistries and ultra fine line patterning. The results in this paper show the emergence of a new prototype Embedded chip-QFN package with contact pads at 400µm pitch and a total number of 84I/Os with dimensions of 10mm×10mm. The embedded chip in the QFN package is 5mm×5mm in size and has a peripheral pad configuration at 100µm pitch. All Embedded chip-QFN packages have been manufactured in 10″×14″ panels at prototype level. This paper explains in detail all process steps and technical challenges encountered for the QFN package manufacturing. The final packaging routing necessitates challenging technology developments in ultra fine line patterning. The paper shows the successful employment of laser-direct-imaging technology in semi-additive-processes for the creation of very fine 18µm copper lines with 10µm spaces between them. Very thin 2µm Copper foils were used for this study as a plating base and for the final Copper flash etching during semi-additive-process. These important technological developments have been achieved with advancements in laser direct imaging technique of negative photoresist films which allows the whole patterning to be done without use of expensive masks. Additionally, it cuts off processing time and it can yield very dense copper patterning up to the technological limit of the LDI technique. The paper also elaborates on embedding strategies for chips with contact pitches even smaller than 100µm either with vialess methods to contact pads or by flip chip interconnection and then chip embedding. This study shows promising results for embedding of chips with different contact pitches through alternative embedding strategies and in conjunction with developments for very dense copper routing, it provides strong evidence for the manufacturability of highly miniaturised embedded chip system-in-packages.


Two adjacent catchments with similar temperate forest cover and podzolic soils have annual nitrate (NO3−) export that differs by a factor of 10. Monthly rates of mineralization and nitrification measured by the buried bag technique, soil C/N ratios, and the contribution of microbial NO3− to total NO3− in the groundwater as determined by analysis of δ18O in NO3− are also similar. In both catchments, maximum NO3− export occurs during spring melt, but in the catchment with higher export, NO3− concentrations in the stream begin to increase in the fall period. Groundwater NO3− concentrations measured in wells are very different in the two catchments with high groundwater NO3− in the catchment exhibiting high NO3− export. Following spring melt, steeper slopes in the high NO3− catchment promote faster drainage, and the water table declines rapidly while high NO3− concentrations are maintained in groundwaters. Deeper water tables will preserve high NO3− in water infiltrating below the rooting zone and organic‐rich upper soil horizons. In the low NO3− catchment, slower drainage on shallower slopes lead to an increase in soil saturation, and the NO3− disappears from the water before the water table declines. Analyses of δ15N in NO3− during NO3− loss do not show evidence of denitrification, although denitrification proceeding to completion in isolated pockets followed by mixing with higher NO3− groundwaters would yield the same result. Alternatively, active uptake of NO3− by vegetation following spring melt will also deplete the groundwater NO3− in the shallow soil depths without isotopic fractionation. The low NO3− catchment also has lower NO3− in shallow soil waters during spring melt. Shallower slopes promote near‐surface flow paths in organic‐rich soil horizons which may facilitate denitrification during spring melt. Although the catchment with low NO3− export has a large wetland near the catchment outlet, the NO3− attenuating capacity of this wetland is largely unused except in the late fall because growing season groundwater concentrations of NO3− are undetectable and the wetland is frozen during snowmelt. In the high NO3− catchment, organic‐rich soils and vegetation in the riparian zone cannot completely attenuate high NO3− in discharging groundwaters. In our study, factors controlling NO3− in groundwater such as slope, stratigraphy, and hydraulic conductivity can play a larger role than riparian zones in controlling differences in annual NO3− export observed between catchments.


This research aims to: (1) describe the conceptual meaning of Jeffrey Leech in Sirajuddin Muhammad's poetry "أخبرنا نخبرك", (2) describe the associative meaning of Siraj Al-Din Muhammad in the poetry "أخبرنا نخبرك" by Siraj Al-Din Muhammad. The type of research in this research is qualitative research. The main data in this research is the poetry "أخبرنا نخبرك" by Sirajuddin Muhammad. The secondary data sources that the researcher used in this research are books, scientific journals and articles that discussed the conceptual and associative meanings of Jeffrey Leech. The method of data collection in this research is the method of reading and recording. The data analysis method was used in this research by data enrichment, data presentation, and conclusion. The results of this research indicate that (1) the conceptual meaning of poetry "أخبرنا نخبرك" in three words, (2) the associative meaning of poetry "أخبرنا نخبرك" in twenty-four words and sentences that are divided into five types: six figurative meanings, four stylistic meanings, and ten emotional meanings, the meditative meanings, and the traditional meanings.


The invention relates to a concentrated low viscosity aqueous dispersion containing a) a nonionic softening agent selected from among glycerin monoesters or diesters with fat acids C8-22, and theirs blends; b) a polyol compound, preferably glycerin, diethylene glucol, polyethylene glycol or 1-2-propylene glucol and their blends; c) cationic and nonionic emulsifiers; d) 70 to 90 wt. % water and possibly other appropriate auxiliary agents and additives for softening paper or textile.


Aerodynamic forces and moments produced by locusts (Schistocerca americana) were investigated in a low-speed wind tunnel. The experimental setup included locusts mounted on a sensitive six-component microbalance using a sting. Tests were conducted at tunnel speeds of 0, 2, 3, 3.5 and 4 m/s at two body angles of attack and five positive yaw angles at each body angle of attack. The experimental results are presented for stroke-averaged forces and moments normalized using the insect body weight and length. Locusts generated more lift at higher velocities and at higher angles of attack, but none of locust generated lift greater than its weight. They generally produced net thrust at lower velocities and lower angles of attack and net drag at higher velocities, as expected. Interestingly, locusts responded to yaw by generating more positive side force, yawing moment and negative rolling moment. The lift force and pitching moment were largely insensitive to yaw.


The utility model discloses an assembly type cable through-wall fixing device comprising a left support and a right support. The fixing device is characterized in that cross arms are fixedly arranged between the left and right supports through bolts, and combined sleeves are arranged between two adjacent cross arms. Cables are laid in a cable trench firstly; then the left and right supports are fixed, and one cross arm is fixedly arranged at the top portions of the supports; each cable is sleeved with one combined sleeve; a cable group comprising four cables is lifted, and a left ribbed slab and a right ribbed slab on the upper side of each combined sleeve can insert into a gap of the cross arm at the top portion; the second cross arm is fixedly arranged blow the cable group, and the left ribbed slab and the right ribbed slab on the lower side of each combined sleeve can insert into a gap of the second cross arm; the two ends of the second cross arm are fixed to the left and right supports; the rest cross arms are arranged in the same manner; and finally the concrete is poured and the construction is completed. The fixing device is easy to construct and install, improves the cable laying efficiency, and guarantees the normal operation of a transformer station and lines.


The invention discloses an RF PA system that generates its own local characterization information. The RF PA system includes a PA to generate a RF output signal from a RF input signal, the PA powered by a supply voltage. A characterization block generates characterization information corresponding to a relationship between the supply voltage and performance (e.g., gain, power efficiency, distortion, receive band noise) of the RF PA system for a plurality of levels of one or more operating conditions (e.g., temperature, operating frequency, modulation format, antennae mismatch, etc.) of the RF PA system. An amplitude estimator block estimates an amplitude of the RF input signal. A supply control block generates a supply voltage control signal for controlling the supply voltage based on the characterization information and the amplitude of the RF input signal.


A standard commercially available plant growth chamber has been modified for use as a plant exposure chamber to study the effects of photochemical air pollutants on plants. An evaluation of temperature, relative humidity, and O/sub 3/ concentration regimes within the chamber revealed a 1/sup 0/-2/sup 0/F fluctuation in both dry and wet bulb temperature, and a 5 percent fluctuation in O/sub 3/ concentrations in both vertical and horizontal planes within the chamber. fluctuations in dry bulb temperature, and O/sub 3/ concentrations at a given point with time were +/- 0.5/sup 0/ - 1.2/sup 0/ F, +/- 0.5/sup 0/ - 1.0/sup 0/F, and +/- 5 percent respectively. The chamber has been in use for seven years. During that time tens of thousands of seedlings representing hundreds of different plant species and varieties have been exposed to either O/sub 3/ or PAN. Throughout this period, the chamber has performed according to expectations and with a minimum amount of down time.


In review of experimental data on the use of sex steroids in cosmetics, there was evidence that some topically applied steroidal hormones, both active and inactive biologically, cause slighthistologicalthickening of the epidermis of aged skin. Dermal changes are questionable and clinical effects usually negligible. In the amounts which can be safely incorporated into cosmetic preparations, topically applied estrogens have no effect on human sebaceous glands and oil secretion. Natural progesterone inphysiological amountscauses no increase in oil secretion in the human. Used as directed, topically applied hormones as presently formulated in cosmetic preparations have adequate safety factors.


Objective: To evaluate the application value of the contrast media injection protocol in 64-slice spiral CT coronary angiography(CTCA) examination.Methods: 60 patients underwent CTCA examination with 64-slice CT were randomly divided into two groups,30 patients in each group.All patients were injected by using biphasic injection protocol,with traditional injection protocol in group A,with 13 seconds contrast media injection protocol in group B.The coronary artery branches and scores in patients in 2 groups were compared respectively,the CT values of aortic root and left ventricle were measured,and the quality of the coronary artery image was reinforced based on the CT values.Results: The total contrast media volumes(ml) and injection speed(ml/s) in group A and B were 75.0 ml,5.0 ml/s and 52.2 ml,4.0 ml/s respectively,30.04% and 19.70% lower than those in group A in volume and speed respectively(P0.01).There were no statistic differences with the CT values in aortic root,left ventricle and interventricular septum(P0.05).The enhencement level of coronary arteries is able to meet the need of clinical diagnosis in each group,but the image quality scores of coronary artery in each group were no difference(P0.05).Conclusion: The dose tailored to patient body weight in the injection protocol may be helpful to reduce the side effect of contrast media and the patients' complication in CTCA examination.


OBJECTIVE
Knowledge about the informational basis of general practitioners (GPs) when judging their patients' cognitive status is scarce. Deepening this knowledge could help to understand why recognition of mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia is problematic in general practice.

METHODS
As part of the German Competence Network Dementia, GPs from Düsseldorf rated the cognitive status of their elderly patients (AgeCoDe study). Furthermore, for each of these ratings the GPs had to specify one or more information they used for their decision.

RESULTS
The information "general knowledge of the patient and his social setting" was frequently chosen by GPs, as well as "subjective cognitive complaints of the patient" and "information from significant others". Neuropsychological test results proved to be irrelevant for the GPs' rating. Some of our results suggest that the GPs had problems in the application of the cognitive rating scale.

CONCLUSIONS
Against the background of our data and further results of the AgeCoDe study, implications for further research are discussed.


The title complex [Cu(L)2] (HL=4-salicylideneamino-3,5-dimethanol-1,2,4-triazole) was synthesized by the reaction of Cu(CH3COO)22H2O with 4-salicylideneamino-3,5-dimethanol- 1,2,4-triazole in the methanol. The single-crystal X-ray study reveals that the compound crystallizes in monoclinic, space group P21/n with a = 11.746(5), b = 8.145(3), c = 12.786(5) ? b = 106.64(1), V = 1172(1) ?, Z = 2, Dc = 1.581 g/cm3, m = 0.989 mm-1, F(000) = 574, C22H22Cu- N8O6, Mr = 558.02, T = 293(2) K, R = 0.0394 and Rw = 0.0835 for 2376 observed reflections with I 2s(I). The complex comprises a four-coordinated copper(II) center, with an N2O2 planar coordi- nation environment. The molecules are connected by hydrogen bonds to form one-dimensional chains which are further linked to form a two-dimensional plane.


As a method of using an epoxy resin prior to printing inks Metallized paper is coated on a non-vacuum coating deinking, characterized in that the epoxy resin-based agent, cyclohexanone and ethyl acetate as the solvent to give A solution prepared by dissolving a deinking component without coating; prior art epoxy resin coating according to the present invention with a solvent-borne coating polyketone resin has the following advantages compared to: (1) alkali-insoluble, alkali resistance and strong, so when beer bottles recovered with a certain amount of basic immersed in water, beer bottle label of the aluminum layer and the ink does not come off, and does not contaminate the pool water recycled beer bottles, reduce environmental pollution and improve environmental protection. (2) strong adhesion, shrinkage is small, anti-stick wear-resistant, good gloss, fluidity does not destroy aluminum layer. (3) permeability, ease of beer label shedding cleaning beer, does not affect beer bottles of beer off time labels.


Your Successful Project Management Career answers all the questions new project managers typically have, giving them advice and information about entering and excelling in the fieldThe book clarifies important terminology, discusses how project management got started and where it's heading, and provides a run-down of necessary certification and training. This is the only project management book to focus on the career aspect.


After slight modification, pellets of Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh plant parts viz., leaves, stem and pneumatophore were prepared from pyrophyllite at two different ratios 50:50 and 25:75 and incorporated in soil @ 3, 5, 7 and 10 pellets/pot. A pot experiment was designed to assess its effectiveness in promoting plant growth and suppression of root rot diseases. Observation showed that 5 leaves and stem powder pellets with 50:50 ratio gave significant results in increasing plant weight, height and controlling root rot diseases caused by pathogenic fungi viz., Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn, Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid and Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht on cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp) and brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) plants. Of the different dosages used, 5 pellets/pot were found to be best followed by 3 and 7 in controlling root rot diseases and promotion of growth parameters.


With the Taichung county, city and municipalities to upgrade next year will be combined, the boom in real estate in Taichung has kept grow up in the recent years. In the meantime, people regard the quality and the location of residence as a kind of symbol of personal fortune and status. Therefore, the residence issues were gradually laid in the improvement of "quality," which requires more understanding about the needs and preferences of customers. How can it surpass its competitors from fierce competitions? What are the strategies can it take? By realizing the decision process of customer and the motivation, recognition and involvement toward purchasing intention, can it establish competitive advantage, satisfy customers' demand, and increase sales volumes. The thesis begins with paper survey and questionnaire to find out the casual relationship among the motivation, recognition, involvement, and intention of Town House. In order to investigate the casual relationship mode among the motivation, recognition, involvement, and purchase intention of Town House, we conduct factor analysis and Path analysis to figure out the casual relationship between latent variables, and test whether its impact significantly. The outcome indicates that: 1. There are significant differences between demographic variables and the purchasing Town House experience 2. Motivation to purchase Town House has positive influence toward recognition. 3. Recognition of purchase f Town House has positive influence toward involvement. 4. Involvement with Town House has positive influence toward recognition. 5. Motivation to purchase Town House has positive influence toward involvement 6. Recognition of Town House has positive influence toward purchase intention. Motivation to purchase Town House has positive influence toward purchase intention.


The aim of this study is to determine the morphological properties and structure of GaN thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering grown on Al2O3 (0001). Moreover, it is crucial to find the most appropriate deposition conditions which lead to defect free GaN films. In pursuit of understanding the role of the epitaxial strain on the microstructural and morphological properties and the influence of the chemical composition of the target on GaN deposited films, different characterization methods are used. Atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy are used for surface characterization and high-resolution X-ray diffraction is used for microstructural analysis of samples.


In this thesis we use machine learning, and in particular the K-means algorithm, in order to help improve students' performance in the final exams of the classes they are taught. To this end, we have created a web application using Java, Hibernate, Postgresql and JSPs, which includes three different roles. First, it has the administrator, who controls the application and its users. It also serves the role of the teacher, who introduces the material for the various lessons. Finally, there is the role of the student who can attend the lessons and through a series of tests manages to improve his/her performance. Improvement is provided through models of predicting the student's performance in the final tests which, as mentioned, are based on the K-means algorithm.


In this paper, psychoanalysis to analyze the complex psyche of Lin Daiyu before she died is applied. After we study the novel of THE DREAM OF RED CHAMBER carefully, can find out the psychic movement of Lin Daiyu about her hope′s corroboration and disillusion.


This thesis aims to develop a test bench for cascaded H-bridge converter which has the task of connecting an energy storage system with the grid. With the test bench results it will be possible to improve the simulation model for an easier develop of the seventeen level cascaded H-bridge prototype from EEBatt team


Iii this paper it is pointed out that a drawback of the optimal feedback derived from the linear-quadratic optimal control problem, is that the same degree of damping is obtained for ,ιΙΙ disturbances. In the present contribution an optimal nonlinear control is derived which leads to weak damping for small perturbations and strong damping for large perturbations. The validity of the results is discussed; the technique is illustrated on a simple example.


Systematic empirical evidence on the consequences of incomplete contracts is meagre, because contracts are often classified as business secrets, and are accordingly difficult to obtain for research purposes. In this study we employ the extensive information from the life of a Finnish research joint venture, Micronas, during 1980-1992 to cast light on this issue. Of particular interest is the principal-agent relationship between the owners and the management of the research joint venture. Our investigation confirms the strong message of the incomplete contract theory. Hold-up problems are pervasive in R&D projects, and the allocation of power and ownership is important to the success of the projects.


An electro-wetting-based variable-focus liquid lens with a spin coated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer is presented. The PDMS layer acts as both insulation and hydrophobic material of the liquid lens. By changing the applied voltage between the two electrodes, the radius of the water-oil contact curved surface is adjusted to realize the zoom function. In preparation process, at first, the liquid lens is divided into two parts, the PDMS substrate and the cavity, and then two parts of liquid lens are bonding together after surface treatment. After liquid injection and sealing cavity, the whole process was accomplished. The zooming performance of lens is tested, and COMSOL is used to analyze the shape of the water-oil contact curved surface at different voltages, the results shows that with the applied voltage changing from 0V to 120V, the height of meniscus vertex reduced from 2.41mm to 1.67mm, and the focal length changes from -14.3mm to infinity first, and then to 27.1mm.


The metabolism of the plant protectant Nemacur (1; common name fenamiphos) was investigated in 16 soils from 11 countries with different climates. The metabolism study was conducted under aerobic conditions at two different temperatures. The active ingredient used was phenyl ring-1- 14 C-labeled. In all soils the degradation products fenamiphos sulfoxide (2), fenamiphos sulfone (3), 3-methyl-4-(methylsulfinyl)phenol (5), 3-methyl-4-(methylsulfonyl)phenol (6), and 3-methyl-4-(methylsulfonyl)-anisole (7) as well as 14 CO 2 could be detected in various amounts (...)