The list is necessarily incomplete. Instructors who did not have students evaluate their classes or chose to use a form other than those reported here have no opportunity to be included. For some instructors who did use these forms, there is also the possibility that they chose not to be included in the list. For these reasons, in the past we adopted the title "An Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students." These reasons still hold and the list is still 'incomplete' but we have taken "Incomplete" out of the title. The results are presented in department alphabetical order. Criteria for inclusion follow.


Illegal migration in Republic of Macedonia but also in Europe has been present since ever as an issue that is subject to regulation in national legislations but also at European level. Still, the issue gains great attention especially with the European migrant crisis from 2015/2016 which stroke the European Union, but also had repercussions upon the states along the Balkan route. Starting from that, the subject of this research paper will tackle Readmission agreements which the EU concludes with third countries that serve as a tool for return of irregular migrants in third countries of origin or transit countries. Concretely, the research will be directed to Readmission agreement between the EU and Republic of Macedonia, where it will be examined if and to what extent the agreement is being implemented by the Republic of Macedonia, both in relation to own country nationals and third country nationals. After having determined the status of its implementation and possible shortcomings, certain suggestions and hypothesis will be given concerning its implementation.


Measurements show an upward shift on the order of 50 ppm in the resonant frequency of a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) resonator from before and after the device is hermetically sealed in vacuum. Various factors contributing to the frequency shifts include: (1) Intrinsic or structural stresses in the bonding layer as well as in the interdigital transducer (IDT) fingers; (2) thermal saesses due to the differences in thermal expansion coefficients of the metallic IDT fingers and the bonding agent (glass frits) from those of quartz; (3) partial oxidation of the IDT fingers and transmission lines: and (4) possible metal diffusion into quartz. This report describes an analysis of the first two mechanisms and provides quantitative estimates of the contribution of each of these two factors to the total observed frequency shift after sealing. Rough estimates of the frequency shifts due to the oxidized film are made from the dispersion curves for a thin metallic film and its oxide film fully plated on a quartz substrate. INTRODUCIXON Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices are, generally, fabricated on flat plates of a given crystalline orientation. The high resonator Q- and frequency stability of these devices are obtained by hermetically sealing them in a


We present a new scalable, lightweight algorithm to incrementally construct the BWT and FM-index of large string sets such as those produced by Next Generation Sequencing. The algorithm is designed for massive parallelism and can effectively exploit the combination of low capacity high bandwidth memory and slower external system memory typical of GPU accelerated systems. Particularly, for a string set of n characters from an alphabet with \sigma symbols, it uses a constant amount of high-bandwidth memory and at most 3n log(\sigma) bits of system memory. Given that deep memory hierarchies are becoming a pervasive trait of high performance computing architectures, we believe this to be a relevant feature. The implementation can handle reads of arbitrary length and is up to 2 and respectively 6.5 times faster than state-of-the-art for short and long genomic reads


AIM:To investigate the IRF6 gene mutation in a popliteal pterygium syndrome (PPS) family.METHODS:PCR and DNA sequencing were employed to detect the coding sequence and splice junction intron sequence of IRF6 .RESULTS:No significant gene transformation showing complete segregation with the disease phenotypes was detected.CONCLUSION:PPS is caused either by mutations in IRF6 in uncoding region or by mutations in other gene.


CASE
Two adolescent patients with therapy-refractory ulnocarpal wrist pain because of mild ulnar longitudinal deficiency (ULD; ulna hypoplasia type I according to Bayne) underwent surgical treatment with a Z-shaped ulna lengthening osteotomy and interposition of the iliac crest bone graft. Long-term ULD correction and pain-free motion were maintained in both patients.

CONCLUSION
Pediatric patients with symptomatic mild ULD are often mistaken for ulnar negative variance with radioulnar impingement and may be successfully treated using this newly described technique. The ulnar malangulation is corrected at the apex of the deformity, and the clinical and radiographic outcomes have been successful.


The mathematical modeling of doubly fed induction machine (DFIG)-dc system, including dominant harmonic (fifth and seventh), along with its control in rotor flux reference frame is presented in this paper. Modeling of the system provides the feedforward terms that consist of the fundamental and oscillatory components of the current. The use of nonderivative feedforward terms with proportional integral can reduce the steady-state current ripple, but for controlling the transient current ripple use of resonant controller is suggested such that the use of derivative feedforward terms can be avoided. The resonant controller is capable of controlling the current ripple by itself, but its use with suitable feedforward terms can enhance the performance of the system. DC voltage regulation of standalone DFIG-dc system is obtained by four combinations of above mentioned controllers and feedforward terms. A comparison is made on performance of these control structures. Feedforward terms used in the control structure require decoupled currents. Therefore, decoupling of various currents in different d–q axes are obtained with mathematical understanding. The proposed control schemes are verified on 5.5-KW slip ring induction machine for standalone application.


This study examined acoustic characteristics of 900 CV syllables produced by five English native speakers downloaded from http://www.nsi.edu/users/patel/download.html. Those target syllables were produced quite synchronously between the syllable /ba/ twenty times. The syllables were segmented and normalized by the maximum intensity value of each syllable and were divided into consonant or vowel sections by a few visible acoustic criteria. Intensity values were collected at 100 relative time points per syllable. Also, cumulative intensity values and consonant and vowel durations along with the ratio of the onset consonant to each syllable were measured using Praat scripts. Results showed as follows: First, the consonantal section amounted to a quarter of the syllable in terms of both the cumulative intensity and duration. Second, the consonantal ratio by the cumulative intensity was similar to that by the duration. Finally, the sum of the cumulative intensity values in each syllable partially coincided wit...


The article emphasizes the need for currency liberalization processes in the context of solving the tasks of ensuring the macroeconomic stability of the national economy. The negative changes that occur in the absence of currency liberalization policy in the country are highlighted. A number of scientific views regarding the essence, meaning and conditions of currency liberalization are presented in detail. Conceptual characteristics of currency liberalization are determined, where the concept is considered as a goal, measure, action, tool, prerequisite. The importance of the state's participation in the measures of currency liberalization, which involves both the formation of an institutional and legislative environment and a system of control and regulation of money circulation, has been proved. Currency liberalization largely stems from the systemic aspects of monetary and credit state policy. The system of tasks of currency liberalization in the context of ensuring positive macroeconomic trends is defined, the expected results of which are protection and protection, provision, optimization, regulation, and achievement of the stability of the national monetary unit. The process of currency regulation of the economy requires the implementation of a complex of organizational, economic, financial and management measures as components of the effective implementation of the monetary policy of social development. The need to implement currency liberalization under the conditions of overcoming the economic crisis and carrying out important social reforms was emphasized. High-quality and effective currency liberalization has a positive effect on economic growth, but its role is no less important in the context of ensuring the country's economic security due to its systemic impact on macroeconomic dynamics, inflation rates, the state of the consumer market, and the employment structure of the population. Currency liberalization is a specific institutional form of regulation of socio-economic relations carried out by the country through strict regulation of currency processes and corresponding flows in relation to established goals.


The use of digital resources in scientific education is discussed and a detailed description of the services of ComPADRE, a digital library created for the teaching and learning of physics is presented. ComPADRE (abbreviation of Communities of Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources in Education) started in 1997 when the American Association of Physics Teachers founded the Physical Sciences Resource Center establishing since then active collaboration with several important scientific societies of the physics world. From the study and analysis it is concluded that one of the greatest attributes of ComPADRE is that educators can find in a single place a great amount of teaching resources that have been carefully selected.


SETTING
Child tuberculosis (TB) contact clinic, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.

DESIGN
Patients registered with smear-positive pulmonary TB (PTB) were encouraged to bring childhood household contacts to the clinic for assessment and management. Data of TB cases registered over the same period were collected from the Blantyre District TB Office.

RESULTS
Attendance at the contact clinic was very poor, representing only 7.7% of all adults registered with smear-positive PTB over 17 months, and was significantly lower for potential male source cases than females (OR 0.36, 95% CI 0.23-0.55, P < 0.001).

DISCUSSION
Improved uptake and implementation of child contact management in Malawi is a challenge.


Researchers have been more interested in the working population hoping to make the work more effective, more comfortable and more productive. Populations outside the work age such as children and the elderly have not been extensively studied especially in developing countries. In this study, anthropometric measurements were taken from a sample of the elderly in Bahrain to assess their body physique, and to provide anthropometric data that can be used in the design of products for them. In this regard, 39 body measurements were taken (age, weight, 08 standing heights, 3 lengths, 3 sitting heights, 11 circumferences, 2 skin-fold measurements, 2 hand measurements, 2 foot measurements, 2 anthropometric Indices, and 2 strength measurements). Results showed that Bahraini elderly were both overweight (males) and obese (females). In addition, there were statistical differences between gender groups and between age groups. Also there was a clear difference between the Bahraini elderly and elderly from international countries. Finally, some light was shed on the design of products for the elderly.


"The Erasure of the Essential Afro Element of Mestizaje in Modern Mexico: The Coding of Visibly Black Mestizos According to a White Aesthetic In and Through the Discourse on Nation During the Cultural Phase of the Mexican Revolution, 1920-1968" examines how the Afro elements of Mexican mestizaje were erased from the ideal image of the Mexican mestizo and how the Afro ethnic contributions were plagiarized in modern Mexico. It explores part of the discourse on nation in the narrative produced by authors who subscribed to the belief that only white was beautiful, between 1920 and 1968, during a period herein identified as the "cultural phase of the Mexican Revolution." It looks at the coding and distortion of the image of visibly black Mexicans in and through literature and film, and unveils how the Afro element "disappeared" from some of the most popular images, tastes in music, dance, song, food, and speech forms


We propose a self-consistent vectorial method, based on a Green's function technique, to describe the resonances that appear in guided-mode resonance gratings. The model provides intuitive expressions of the reflectivity and transmittivity matrices of the structure, involving coupling integrals between the modes of a planar reference structure and radiative modes. When one mode is excited, the diffracted field for a suitable polarization can be written as the sum of a resonant and a nonresonant term, thus extending the intuitive approach used to explain the Fano shape of the resonance in scalar configurations. When two modes are excited, we derive a physical analysis in a configuration which requires a vectorial approach. We provide numerical validations of our model. From a technical point of view, we show how the Green's tensor of our planar reference structure can be expressed as two scalar Green's functions, and how to deal with the singularity of the Green's tensor.


Many of the world's major airports are both slot-constrained, meaning that demand for take-offs and landings exceeds airport capacity at certain time periods, and concentrated, meaning that a single airline operates a large share of take-offs and landings. Slot constraints and slot concentration can each lead to higher average fares, but for different reasons that may require different policy prescriptions. In this article, we demonstrate how policy makers can differentiate between the effects of scarcity and concentration on prices, and we apply our methodology to a recent investigation into the allocation of take-off and landing slots at Mexico City's airport. Final version: January 2019 119 Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Volume 53, Part 2, April 2019, pp. 119–134


With the information-based construction of electric power system,circuit switching could not fully meet the customer's demand. As a mature technology,soft switch system can provide customers with multimedia applications. This paper analyzes the important significance in constructing soft switch system,and gives the basic principle and network architecture of soft switch technology. The construction scheme of administrative telephone soft switch system in electric power system is discussed from the following aspects:equipment configuration,transmission channel,system function and so on,expecting to provide certain reference for construction of soft switch network in China's electric power system.


The B-1023 furnace is Building 9204-4 at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant in Tennessee, is used for hypothetical thermal accident (HTA) testing of shipping containers in accordance with 10 CFR 71.73(c)(3). That document requires that a very specific radiant (and convective) thermal environment be present during an HTA test. Experiments have been performed to determine the surface temperatures that are present within the furnace which thus determine the radiant thermal environment. Conclusions have been drawn based on these experiments, and it has been found that it is possible to perform conforming HTA tests in this furnace if a very specific test routine is carefully followed. Recommendations concerning the procedure to be used during future tests have been made.


A Participatory Epizootiology Research of a Fulani agropastoralist settlement scheme, the Igangan Grazing Reserve, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria between 2007 and date, is ongoing under a University of Ibadan, Nigeria Senate Research Grant Program. The objective is to identify and rank the expressed epizootiological and livestock health problems, as well as the socio-economic needs related to livestock-keeping, of the pastoralists in the study area. After obtaining approval from the reserve authorities (the Oyo State Government), an initial field assessment, two interactive focus group discussions meetings and a second physical field visit took place between December 2007 and June 2009. Respondents included the traditional Fulani grazing reserve head, who has been a settler on the reserve for forty (40) years, his educated first son and heir apparent, as well as fifteen (15) other settler leaders/elders. There were between twenty-seven (27) and forty-seven (47) permanent settlers, depending on the season of the year, with cattle holding of 50 – 600 per household. Settlers were mainly Fulani pastoralists. Problems highlighted by settlers included inadequate space for settler families, crop farmer/pastoralist skirmishes, and non-availability of feed all year round and absence of veterinary / animal care services. Expressed needs were for basic veterinary training in animal care (and not just drug usage), disease prevention and management practices and veterinary extension education. Four (4) major reserve diseases identified were Charbo (Foot-and- Mouth Disease), Samore (Trypanosomosis), Eheren/Unto (Contagious Bovine Pleuro-pneumonia) and Wolah (Skin eruptions).


The study here tries to explore the major influential factors governing 3G Dongle based ISP brand preference & purchasing intention among internet users of hill town Darjeeling & Siliguri tier-I city in plains of North Bengal. The study was carried out between March 2015 and May 2015 among the city dwellers sampled from Darjeeling town & Siliguri. The study established that in Darjeeling district of northern West Bengal, citizens of Siliguri are more powerful in influencing potential 3G internet users to prefer & select 3G Dongle based Internet Service Provider (ISP) brand than their counterparts of Darjeeling. More importantly too, it was established that out of eight variables studied, network service quality is the strongest influencing factor among 3G internet users of Siliguri while in Darjeeling, network contingency factor matters most.


Small rotary rides mainly by support means, fixing means and rotating means composed, provided with a central through hole of said fixing means; lower end surface of the rotating sleeve means is provided with mounting holes positioned upwardly recessed; said support means is means disposed at the center of a lower fixing through-hole, disposed in an upper portion of the bottom wall positioning rotating means sets the mounting hole; urging force imposed on the side wall of the rotating means, rotating means for supporting the apparatus will be the axis of rotation. By positioning sleeve fitted in the positioning hole of the rotary sleeve mounting device, then rotating means mounted on the support shaft fixing means, the supporting shaft is inserted into the positioning hole bottom wall of the mounting sleeve, both formed with Yin Yang, rotating means and positioning sleeve driven by external force, it is possible to support the shaft axis of rotation, and, through the top mast lock bolt, latch is provided in the stopping ledge sleeve wall block, the rotating means can not be moved away from the support axis.


The late years of the 20th century saw the globalization of economy and its major consequence in cultural circles of constant resembling and assimilating between cultures of a pluralistic society. Thus, people have to confront cultural clashes and conformity. The task for now is to systematize the cultures and their clashes in a pluralistic society under the guidance of the cultural concept of"Harmonious Individuality".


This paper presents an improved low-pass filter based on compact microstrip resonant cell (CMRC), which exhibits slow-wave characteristics. Based on this structure, a local oscillator (LO) filter with a passband of 0-130GHz and an intermediate frequency (IF) filter with a passband of 0-50GHz are designed, which can be applied in the terahertz subharmonic mixer. The simulation results show that filter shares a more compact structure while maintaining a low insertion loss and high rejection in the stopband.


Intensive agriculture and irrigation play a crucial role in the food security of India. However, irrigation has considerably impacted regional climate and groundwater sustainability. Notwithstanding the profound implications of irrigation on dry and moist heat and groundwater depletion, the role of efficient irrigation on moist heat stress reduction and water savings remains unexplored. Here, we use observations and simulations from the Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model to examine the impact of efficient (drip) irrigation on moist heat stress and water savings over the Indo‐Gangetic Plain. Irrigated area has increased more than 20% over the Indo‐Gangetic Plain during the 1970–2005 period. As a result, irrigation water use has increased dramatically over the region. The irrigation expansion partly contributed to the rise of 0.46°C (P‐value < 0.05) in the summer (April–May) season wet‐bulb temperature over the Indo‐Gangetic Plain, which is a measure of moist heat stress. The Indo‐Gangetic plain exhibited a strong land‐atmospheric coupling between soil moisture and dry and moist heat. WRF simulations conducted using ERA5 as boundary conditions show that switching from the conventional (channel) to the efficient (drip) irrigation leads to a moderate warming (∼0.2°C) and a significant decrease in specific humidity over the Indo‐Gangetic Plain. The reduction in specific humidity due to efficient irrigation significantly lowers the moist heat stress (wet‐bulb temperature) and increases water savings. Our findings show the double benefits of efficient irrigation to curb the rapidly declining groundwater and increase moist heat stress in the region.


The P32 gene fragment of goat poxvirus(GPV) LD strain was amplified from pMD18-T-P32/LD by PCR,and then inserted into the pET-28a vector.The recombinant expression plasmid pET-28a-P32/LD was successfully constructed.The gene was induced by IPTG to express in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3).SDS-PAGE showed a specific protein band of 35.5 ku,which was consistent with the expected result.Western-Blotting analysis demonstrated that the specific protein band could react with antiserum of goat poxvirus,indicating its immunological activity.The experiment will provide some help for future research in GPV P32 genetic engineering vaccine and diagnostic method.


Through the review of global market development of wireless cities,the paper summarizes and compares the four modes of wireless cities' development,and puts forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions for the business model of development of China's wireless cities.


This paper studies the interaction between two identical micro-slot diffusion flames. Here, we define a micro-slot flame as a slot flame of which the slot width is less than about 1 mm. Because of its smallness, a micro-slot flame has a high heating density and can be used as a small heat source. However, the heat release rate of a single micro-slot flame is limited, and therefore, multiple micro-slot flames may be used to increase total heat release rate. As a first step, this paper considers a situation in which two micro-slot flames are used with certain burner spacing. When two diffusion flames are placed closely, flame shape changes from that of an isolated flame. Studying such flame shape change and resultant change in total heat release rate is the topic of this paper. Experiment is conducted and total heat release rate is measured by integrating CH* chemiluminescence recorded using a CCD camera and an optical filter of the wavelength of 430 nm. Two different burner materials, copper and glass, are tested to study the effect of heat loss to burners. An analytical model is applied to predict flame shape. In addition to the classical Burke-Schumann assumptions, two slot flames are modeled as line sources with zero width, enabling a simple analytical solution for the critical burner spacing at which two flames touch each other. The critical burner spacing is a key parameter that characterizes the interaction between two micro-slot flames. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are then conducted to test the validity of the present theory. CFD results are favorably compared with the theoretical prediction.


This study aims to determine whether there is influence between direct selling and social media through facebook to consumer buying interest in cigarettes sin herbs in Pesona Anggrek, Bekasi Utara. This study used an associative quantitative approach through a survey to 60 members. Sampling method is probability sampling by using simple random sampling. Hypothesis test results (t test) showed that the variables of direct selling and social media through facebook have a significant effect on buying interest. This is indicated by the absolute t value of direct selling and social media through facebook both bigger than t table that is equal to 2.002. The conclusion of this research that direct selling and social media through facebook each have an effect on buying interest. This can mean that, declining and increasing buying interest depends on how to apply direct selling system and social media through facebook effectively.
Keywords:
Direct selling, social media through facebook, buying interest,


Recent decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the need to study the impact of the New World on the Old, instead of the other way about. Yet surprisingly little is known about the whereabouts of books on America, or of atlasses and maps of this new world, in the libraries of European intellectuals from, say, 1500 until 1700 (the same holds true, incidentally, for texts about Asia). A possible explanation for this state of affairs might be that it is easier, although difficult enough, to compile a reliable bibliography of printed sources on America, as the splendid European Americana amply proves, than to ascertain what books figured in private libraries which are no longer intact. Furthermore, research into the private libraries of the past is still a somewhat modest sector of the province of intellectual history, in spite of the fact that Mario Schiff's brilliant study of the Marqués de Santillana's library dates from 1905 and that Henri-Jean Martin's seminal works have been published since 1958.


When Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., died in September 1999, his longtime critics used the opportunity to revive their 25-year-old objections to his decision in the landmark school desegregation case, Morgan v. Hennigan. Judge Garrity's orders to integrate the Boston public schools through busing still infuriates those who supported segregation in Boston. Lost in the diatribes against the judge are the positive effects Arthur Garrity had on the Boston public schools. The complete story of Judge Garrity's 25-year relationship with the Boston public schools has never been told. Research that probes beneath .the negative media hype surrounding busing and school desegregation in Boston reveals two important outcomes of the oversight of Judge Garrity. First, minority children finally were guaranteed a chance at a good education. Second, the schools were set on a course of continuous, systemic improvement. Research clearly indicates that Judge Garrity saved the school system from sinking further into a dark hole of racism, corruption, cronyism, and incompetent leadership. Not only was the school committee intentionally depriving Boston school children of equal educational opportunities, they were also perpetuating illegal and unethical practices in the public schools—practices that had become part of the fabric of Boston's educational scene. Robert Dentler, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, authority on the desegregation of Boston's schools, and consultant to Judge Garrity throughout the decades of the court's supervision of the Boston public schools, documented the fact that the Morgan v. Hennigan decision and the subsequent federal court oversight caused the collapse of the unethical system of acquiring administrative positions (Dentler, 1995, p. 36). Research also shows that the persistence of the federal court oversight that followed Morgan v. Hennigan created a system of accountability that made it difficult or impossible to continue the unethical and illegal practices that had plagued the school system for most of the twentieth century (W. A. Garrity, personal communication, November 18,1994; O'Donnell, 1996). The decision and remedy in Morgan corrected more wrongs than just the miseducation of minority students. The occasion of Judge Garrity's death should be used to wish him peace and to put to rest some myths that have dominated the story of school desegregation in Boston since 1974.


Section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides for compensation by the Secretary of State of those whose convictions have been quashed in a narrow set of circumstances: on appeals out of time or on a reference by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CRCC), when a new or newly discovered fact shows beyond reasonable doubt that there has been a miscarriage of justice. The previous leading case of R (on the application of Mullen) v Secretary of State [2004] UKHL 18 presented differing views as to whether applicants had to establish factual innocence to warrant compensation under the scheme, with Lord Steyn finding that they did and Lord Bingham indicating that miscarriage of justice is a somewhat wider concept. The recent judgment in the conjoined appeals of the present case required the Supreme Court to address this perceived conflict and clarify the meaning of miscarriage of justice under the statute. A was convicted of murder in 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment. His in-time appeal was dismissed in 1998. After a referral to the Court of Appeal by the CCRC, his conviction was quashed in 2007 on the grounds that deficient defence representation had resulted in an unsafe verdict. At issue was material not used at trial—some of which had been disclosed by the prosecution—which could have been used in cross-examining the key witness against A and police officers who supported the witness's evidence. In quashing the conviction, the Court of Appeal 'was not to be taken as finding that . . . the appellant would inevitably have been acquitted' (R v Adams [2007] EWCA Crim 1 at [157]). After his claim to the Secretary of State for compensation was unsuccessful, A sought judicial review of the decision. The Court of Appeal affirmed the Divisional Court's dismissal of the application. Dyson LJ held that the unused material was in fact 'new or newly discovered'—although it was knowable to the defendant and defence representatives, it was not known at the time of the trial and in-time appeal (R (on the application of Adams) v Secretary of State for Justice [2009] EWCA Civ 1291 at [17]–[18]). Nonetheless, a miscarriage of justice had not occurred (at [62]). Dyson LJ declined to decide whether s. 133 applies only when applicants have demonstrated innocence or whether


In minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery, accurate detection of the location and specific category of surgical tools assists the surgeon in making a correct objective judgment of the current surgical outcome and alerts to these possible adverse medical events. In this paper, an analyzing error method is proposed for revealing the specific sources of error in previous work. Then we confirm the main bottlenecks of the current methods with a high level of missing error and localization error. To reduce these errors, we render the backbone with a three‐dimensional attention mechanism and adopt a double‐headed detection head design to replace the single detection head. Moreover, we propose an enhanced multilayer perceptron called Mconv to enhance the localization branch of the double‐headed detection head. Our experiments evaluate our improved approach by our proposed error analysis method on a pubic dataset m2cai16‐tool‐locations, showing that our method yield remarkable detection accuracy than others.


ONE of the principal purposes of the declaratory action is the removal of clouds from legal relations. By dissipating peril and insecurity and thus stabilizing legal relations, it avoids the destruction of the status quo, and assures a construction or interpretation of the law before rather than after breach or violence. The aim of this article is to point out the inadequacies in the existing methods of challenging statutes, especially police power statutes carrying a penalty for non-compliance. These methods compel either enforcement or a threat of enforcement as a condition of adjudication; they fail to distinguish different types of "criminal" statutes, thus either abusing or unduly limiting the scope of injunctive relief; and they hamper and impede a more intelligent method of adjudicating challenges to the constitutionality or applicability or construction of so-called "penal" statutes, ordinances and regulations.' Possibly in no branch of litigation is the declaration more useful than in the relations between the citizen and the administration. With the growing complexity of government and the constantly increasing invasions of private liberty, with ever widening powers vested in administrative boards and officials, the occasions for conflict and dispute are rapidly augmenting in frequency and importance. Yet the very fact that such disputes turn mainly upon questions of law, involving the line marking the boundary between private liberty and public restraint, between private privilege and immunity, on the one hand, and public right and power, on the other, makes this field of controversy peculiarly susceptible to the expeditious and pacifying ministrations of the declaratory judgment. It is manifest that when the cumbersome and technical writs of certiorari, injunction, mandamus, quo warranto, habeas corpus, prohibition, are directed against public bodies and officials, what is really sought is an adjudication on the law, establishing and determining their powers


Method of purifying an antibody comprising the steps of: a) purifying an antibody by affinity chromatography with protein A, b) loading the purified antibody comprising a protein A contaminant, wherein said contaminant protein is obtained after elute bound antibody from said column affinity chromatography with protein a in an anion exchange material under conditions permitting binding of the protein a and which conditions result in retaining the antibody in the flow through whilst the protein a contaminant is attached, and thus remove the antibody, and c) collecting at least 70% of the amount of antibody loaded onto the anion exchange material in the flow of the ion exchanger whilst a contaminant protein binds to the ion exchange material .


We present a new setting of the geometric Hamilton-Jacobi theory by using the so-called time-evolution operator K. This new approach unifies both the Lagrangian and
the Hamiltonian formulation of the problem developed in [7], and can be applied to the
case of singular Lagrangian dynamical systems.


Introduction: Survival after sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains low despite significant developments in the field of resuscitation. While long-term strategies for primary prevention continue to evolve, the spotlight must shift to short-term primary prevention strategies. Sentinel events preceding SCA may be of special interest in this regard, especially in light of recent advances in communication and remote transmission technologies.

Hypothesis: We hypothesized that "warning events" in the hours, days and weeks prior to SCA may identify a subgroup of SCA cases that will benefit from a timely 911 call for resuscitation.

Methods and Results: From an ongoing prospective study of out-of-hospital SCA in an urban population of one million in the Northwestern US (2002-2012), we evaluated symptoms in the four weeks preceding SCA among middle-aged residents (35-65 years), using multiple sources. If symptoms were present and emergent health care sought, association with survival from SCA was assessed. Of 839 SCA cases with comprehensive assessment of symptoms (51±12 years, 75% males), 430 (51%) had symptoms, mainly chest pain and dyspnea. Symptoms recurred during the 24 hours preceding SCA in the majority (93%). Only 81 subjects (19%) called EMS (911) to report symptoms prior to SCA; these were more likely to be subjects with a history of heart disease (P=0.0001) and/or continuous chest pain (P<0.0001). Survival when 911 was called prior to SCA was 32.1% (95% confidence interval 21.7-42.4), compared to 6.0% (95% confidence interval 3.5-8.5) in those who did not call (P<0.0001).

Conclusions: Warning symptoms are frequent prior to SCA but the vast majority of these are not acted upon. Survival from SCA was significantly higher (five-fold) when symptoms prompted a 911 call, indicating the significant potential to enhance SCA survival by closely coupling warning symptoms to emergent care.


Customer relationship management performance index is the starting point of performance evaluation.The selection of a reasonable evaluation index is the basis for a successful evaluation system.The paper elaborates on how to build the performance evaluation index system of commercial bank customer relationship management from financial and non-financial perspective by making use of balanced scorecard.


ABSTRACT
 The residual efficacy of pyriproxyfen against Aedes aegypti (L.) was examined by treating 2-liter buckets with a range of rates of Sumilarv 0.5G (1 00, 10, 1, and 04 mg product/liter or nominal dose of 500, 50, 5, and 0.5 ppb active ingredient) under semifield conditions. Approximately every 2 wk, pupal emergence inhibition (EI) was measured by using Cairns colony Ae. aegypti. Pooled water samples from the five replicate buckets were analyzed for active pyriproxyfen by using ultra-high-pressure liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry detection. A strong dose—response in EI was exhibited, with the 0.1 mg/liter giving ≈50% EI for only the initial week, whereas the 10 and 100 mg/liter doses produced EI > 90% for 8 and 40 wk, respectively. Measurable levels of active ingredient were detected in the 100, 10, and 1 mg/liter treatments, with measured starting concentrations of just 1-2-1.4% of the delivered (active ingredient) dose. Pyriproxyfen was detected in the 100 mg/liter treatment through the entire course of the trial (60 wk).


A new deconvolution algorithm for retrieving a sparse reflectivity series from noisy seismic traces is proposed. The problem is formulated as a constrained minimization, taking the approximation zero norm of reflectivity as the objective function. The resulting minimization is solved efficiently by the trust-region based sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method, which provides global convergence and local quadratic convergence rates under suitable assumptions. The null space decomposition method and the de-biasing method are employed to reduce computational complexity and further improve the calculation accuracy. Synthetic simulations indicate that the spikes on the reflectivity, both their positions and amplitudes, are recovered effectively by the proposed approach.


Purpose : The purpose of this study is to evaluate the stability and balance of the body, mobility complex exercise group and a student group for FMS tests to compare the differences between the two groups to identify its purpose. Method : The subjects of this study FMS measuring D University Physical Therapy, a student enrolled patients (7:7), and 7 patients total of 14 patients was conducted, compound exercise group weekly stretching 10 minutes, the 24 members who have run a complex exercise, 10 minutes of cool down stretching, 20-minute aerobic exercise were included in the study. Result : The results of this study, according to 1) Deep squat, Inline lunge, Trunk Stability Push-up there was significant difference(p 0.05), the two groups averaged compared to the other items were higher. Complex exercise group, a statistically significant difference was overall average. Conclusion : FMS can not be resolved because of a compensatory mechanism to identify disparities and unbalanced movement patterns can help. Therefore, if the FMS and other tests conducted by splicing, will be utilized more profitably, and you will be able to suggest ways that can have a positive impact injury prevention is added to the side to expand the scope of the physical therapist.


The study involves an updated analysis of the job characteristics of information systems graduates based on the status of the job market as well as the perceptions of 72 graduates from an information systems program of a Midwestern university. Approximately one-third of the graduates were working in positions related to technical support. Providing end-user support, installing software, managing information, and installing and maintaining computer devices/components were the top four tasks performed by the largest number of graduates. Other aspects of the graduates' jobs were similar to national trends and most felt adequately prepared based on their coursework.


Mechanical stresses are investigated in suspended nanowires made on the basis of GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Though there are no intentionally introduced stressor layers in the heterostructure, the nanowires are subject to Euler buckling instability. In the wide nanowires, the out-of-plane buckling is observed at length significantly smaller (3 times) than the theoretically estimated critical value, while in the narrow nanowires, the experimentally measured critical length of the in-plane buckling coincides with the theoretical estimation. The possible reasons for the obtained discrepancy are considered. The observed peculiarities should be taken into account in the fabrication of nanomechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems.


The gamma distribution has been discussed by many authors. This article proposes an exact confidence region for the parameters of a two-parameter gamma distribution. The result is based on the fact that the percentiles of the F-distribution, with equal degrees of freedom k, are monotonic in k.


Studying of the regional tendencies describing economic potential of subjects of business, becomes an integral part of the anti-recessionary program at a level of subjects of the Russian Federation. Studying of the nature of crisis processes, uncertainty of the external and internal environment promotes development of new methods and techniques for detection of the latent stages of crisis. Early diagnostics of the crisis phenomena in economy of region proves that the high level of its social and economic development yet does not provide full economic safety and an opportunity to resist to the threats proceeding from unbalanced structure of economy. Own anti-recessionary programs for the enterprise structures, promoting are necessary to maintenance of steady functioning during crisis.


While acknowledging the significance of all cognitive processes in comprehending the structure of culture, I have chosen "axiosphere" as the subject of this paper. The philosophical definition of axiosphere given by M. S. Kagan is methodologically closest to the notion assumed in this paper. Kagan assumes that axiosphere is the "sum total" (uejiOKynHOCTb) of values that represent "the system of concrete forms of value relationship of man to the world that is naturally developed in the history of culture" ("ijejiOKynHOCTb" mex wiu unbix ijeHHOcmeiiy i ' 3 qkoh om epH o cjiojtcuewywcH e ucmopuu Kyjibmypu CHCTeMy KOHKpeTHblX (j)OpM IjeHHOCTHOro OTHOIIieHHfl HeJIOBeKa K MHpy.")1 This definition is consistent with the basic thrust of my research, my understanding of culture (after Mikhail Bakhtin2) as the result of the constant activity of centripetal and centrifugal forces, and my understanding of the fundamental subjects of cultural inquiry as Maria Lebedko is head of the Department of English Language History at Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok ; Russia. She has about 100 publications on Old Germanic languages and the methodology of teaching contemporary En


In today's world, the rapid development of network information technology, people can also use convenient network technology to achieve online shopping, remote office, etc. The network marketing course is a newly-added course in the higher vocational e-commerce, and its main purpose is to meet the needs of the development of the times. Under the network electronic environment, business students must not only master the professional knowledge of e-commerce, but also start from the actual social development and master certain network marketing knowledge, in order to maximize the advantages of the Internet and use Internet technology to realize their own value. This article will start from the characteristics of network marketing courses in higher vocational colleges, the problems existing in higher vocational network marketing courses and the reform measures of higher vocational network marketing courses, and analyse the development prospects of e-commerce majors in higher vocational colleges.


The results of the investigation carried out by the present author on the behavior of the spawning pollack schools by means of Fish-Detector and other various fishing implements are summarized as follows: - (1) Schools of spawning migration are found distributed in various shapes of band, cloud, and nimbus. (2) The depth of migration is not decided by temperature, depth, and topography of sea-bottom: it is distributed over very wide limit. (3) Sexual segregation is found to exist, males inhabit upper layer and the other lower one. (4) Immature groups come to migration together with spawning groups, but they are separated from the latter staying in waters shallower than that in which the spawner inhabit.


OBJECTIVE To evaluate the spectrum of imipenem-resistant Pseudomnas aeruginosa and the production of metallo-β-lactamase.METHODS The clinical strains of P.aeruginosa were collected from Jan to Dec 2007.The results of antimicrobial susceptibility tests and detection of metallo-β-lactamase were analyzed.Antimicrobial susceptibility tests were performed by K-B methods;the production of metallo-β-lactamase was tested by CAZ-EDTA synergy method.RESULTS Sixty strains were isolated,imipenem-sensitive and resistant strains were 40(66.7%) and 20(33.3%),respectively,and 7 strains with metallo-β-lactamase were detected.Among imipenem-resistant strains,at least 90.0% strains were resistant to meropenem,gentamicin,tobramycin,ciprofloxacin and SMZ-TMP;at least 80.0% strains were resistant to piperacillin and piperacillin/tazobactam;50.0% strains were resistant to ceftazidime and cefepime;polymyxin E was less resistant than others.Twenty strains were resistant to at least 3 antimicrobial agents,which was obviously higher than 27.5% of imipenem-resistant strains.CONCLUSIONS The resistance rate of imipenem-resistant P.aeruginosa is higher than imipenem-sensitive ones.The production of metallo-β-lactamase is one of the mechanisms of P.aeruginosa resistance to imipenem and shou1d be detected carefully,which could help us medicate reasonably in clinic and avoid using medicine which could induce and strengthen the resistance.


Objective To explore the methods of evidence-based individualized treatment for a psoriatic arthritis sufferer. Methods After clinical problems were put forward, evidences were collected from Guideline, Cochrane Library (third issue, 2007), MEDLINE (PubMed 1980.1-2007.7). Results A total of eleven articles related to different problems were acquired. Two guidelines were obtained from National Guideline Clearinghouse, one systematic review from Cochrane Library, and seven RCTs from PubMed. A rational treatment plan was made upon a serious evaluation of the data. After 6 months' follow-up, the plan was proved optical. Conclusion The treatment efficacy in the psoriatic arthritis patient has been improved by determining an individualized treatment plan according to evidence-based methods.


The main goal of current study is an investigation of detection and expression of hemolysin toxin in E.coli isolates in clinical veterinary infection cases included Mastitis milk, Abortion samples and diarrhea samples from cattle in Al-Diwaniyah city by using real time-polymerase chain reaction technique. Total samples that used in this study are (24) isolates, included (9) isolates from mastitis cases, (5) isolates from abortion cases, and (10) isolates have taken from Diarrhea cases in cattle. The total prevalence of hemolysin in E.coli isolates is 18/24 (75%), where the percentage of occurrence of hemolysin production E.coli isolates by using real-time PCR was 7/9 (77%), 5/5 (100%), and 6/10 (60%) in Mastitis milk, Abortion and Diarrhea cases in cattle respectively. In concluding, production of hemolysin toxin by E.coli isolates have contrast activity depend on the type of sample; the study found the abortion isolates have high gene expression followed by diarrhea isolates, then milk isolates.


To improve the stability of grid-connected inverter with an LCL filter, existing approaches are to reshape the inverter output impedance by damping filter resonance with passive or active damping methods. However, the interaction between the inverter and the grid still challenges the system performance especially when the grid becomes weak. This paper proposes an active compensator to counteract the effects of grid impedance on the stability of grid-connected inverter with an LCL filter. It is composed of dual unit PCC voltage feedforward mechanisms, wherein one is integrated into the inverter control, and the other is combined with a bidirectional dc/ac voltage source converter (B-VSC) in series at the filter capacitor branch. The power loss of the B-VSC is small and thereby the system efficiency is not sacrificed. To validate its effectiveness, a single-phase inverter prototype with the proposed compensator has been built.


OBJECTIVE:To establish a HPLC method for the determination of ferulic acid in pedo spleen energy activating Misture.METHODS:The determination was performed on Hypersil ODS column,the mobile phase consisted of1%acetic acid-methanol(70∶30)with a flow rate of0.8ml/min,the column temperature was26℃,the detection wavelength was320nm and the sample size was20μl.RESULTS:Good linear relationship with peak area score was achieved when the detection conˉcentration range of ferulaic acid was within a range of0.02~1.2mg/ml(r=0.9997),the average recovery was97.88%(RSD=1.19%).CONCLUSION:The method can be served as a quality control for pedo spleen energy activating Misture.


In this paper, we investigate the leaderless consensus problem for second-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with unknown inertias and parametric uncertainties. The graph that describes the interaction among the agents is generally directed. We consider both fixed and switching graphs. For a fixed directed topology, the associated graph needs to contain a spanning tree. For dynamically switching topologies, the uniform joint connectivity is required. We proposed consensus algorithms without relative velocity measurements, which are fully distributed in the sense that no common control gains are used and no global gain dependency conditions are required. The cases of agent dynamics with unknown nonidentical control directions and the asymptotic consensus in the presence of external disturbances are further investigated.


Abstrac: Self-control closely related to person's condition emotional. Individuals who are good at emotions managing themselves control well, because they express emotions properly, appropriately and correctly. Self-control skill individuals have controlling and behavior managing, cognitive, and impulses control achieving individual satisfaction and desires for certain goals, there are aspects of self, behavior, cognitive and satisfaction controlling's. Learning achievement, the result obtained after carrying out a series of processes learning, which be shown quantitatively by the value or number given the educator to learning subject form of behavior after carrying out the previous learning. The problem examined this research There a Relationship Self-Control with Student Achievement of SMKN 1 Sumbawa Besar? The find out research objective is Relationship Self-Control with Student Achievement of SMKN 1 Sumbawa Besar. The total population is 1222 students and sample of 10% or 127 students. Methods data collection using the questionnaire as main, observation, documentation, interview method's. Data analysis using the formula product moment. Based on the results of data analysis with a significant level of 5%, the results of the research that rxy value is greater than the r value of the product moment (rxy 0.786> r product moment 0.195) this fact shows rxy value obtained from the results of data analysis can be concluded that: There a Relationship Self-Control with Student Achievement of SMKN 1 Sumbawa Besar. This research it is stated that significant.Keywords: Self-Control, Achievement Learning


From the beginning of the 1990s, the activity of the Security Council has increased in both substantive terms and number of decisions. However, it must be noted that not all actions performed since then seem to be clearly in accordance with the powers given to it by Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which nevertheless is invoked by the Council as their source. One example of the aforementioned doubtful cases is related to the creation of the United Nations Compensation Commission, founded with the aim of having a body infused with the power to decide the content of the reparations owed by Iraq to individuals and legal persons, International Organizations, or States, in accordance with a predetermined procedure that has, among other features, the marginalization of Iraq. The exploration of some aspects of the Commission highlights the facts that the Council has exceeded the powers granted to it by the Charter and that there is an absence of institutional checks and means of controlling the validity of the actions undertaken by this main body of the United Nations. 228 SOLEDAD TORRECUADRADA GARCIA-LOZANO


The up to date version working up to 40 GHz of a noise figure measuring system for the characterization of transistors in terms of noise, gain and scattering parameters through noise figure measurements only is presented. In the fully automated version the method is rapid and very accurate but it is so difficult to assemble and handle that a very skilled operator is needed. This can be accepted in a research laboratory but is a very hard task for manufacturers to test their products. So, we have recently set-up a "simplified" method which is easier to run and accurate enough for industrial applications. The method is based on the extraction of a noise model of the transistor from measurements of [S] through an automatic network analyzer and of one noise figure only.


Currently images are key evidences in many judicial or other identification occasions, and image forgery detection has become a research hotspot. This paper proposes a novel motion blur based image forgery detection method, which includes three steps. First, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based motion blur kernel reliability estimation method is proposed, which is used to determine whether an image patch should be involved in the image forgery detection process. Second, a shared motion blur kernels-based image tamper detection method is proposed to detect whether a group of motion blur kernels are projected from the same 3D camera trajectory effectively. Third, a consistency propagation method is proposed to localize tampered regions efficiently. Experiments on synthetic images and natural images show the availability of the proposed method.


The present invention discloses dynamical content transmitting method. It contains server transmitting subscribe request content to user, according to user's essential information and said request content essential information to generate said request content personalized process strategy; server judging whether said personalized process strategy fitting user requirement, if it is then processing request content according to personalized process strategy and transmitting to user terminal, otherwise server obtaining satisfying user requirement required correlation user information or/and other relevant information, to generate new personalized process strategy until server judging personalized process strategy fitting user requirement, then processing request content according to personalized process strategy and transmitting to user terminal. The present invented method reduces information obtaining cost in dynamical content personalized process, raising dynamical content transmitting efficiency.


The aim of glaucoma management is to effectively reduce intraocular pressure (IOP), in order to slow the rate of visual field loss and prevent progression to blindness. When IOP cannot be sufficiently reduced with medication and/or selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) and the visual potential is poor, then incisional surgery may not be desirable. However, without intervention, elevated IOP may lead to a painful eye from endothelial failure and bullous keratopathy. An effective, non-penetrating method of lowering IOP is therefore needed. Cyclodestructive procedures which were utilised in the management of refractory glaucoma have been available for the past 100 years. The initial procedures described were those of cyclectomy and cyclodiathermy. These gained favour during the first half of the last century; however, audits found very low efficacy with an unacceptable number of complications. Cyclocryotherapy was described in 1950 and demonstrated a much better efficacy; however, adverse outcomes were still frequent. Transscleral cyclophotocoagulation was first described in 1961 using a xenon arc laser and then later, using ruby and Neodymium YAG laser. However, since 1992, the transscleral cyclodiode laser has become the most commonly performed cyclodestructive procedure and is generally reserved for cases of end-stage glaucoma with poor visual potential. Being performed with a specially designed probe head that targets the melanin in the ciliary processes and using a standard protocol of 1500– 2000 mW of laser power and 1500–2000 ms of laser burn duration, it has been found to have an acceptable combination of IOP lowering and low adverse event outcomes. Having the advantage of being a non-penetrating procedure, it is well suited for those for whom the primary goal is comfort as opposed to function. Its outcomes have been assessed on several occasions; however, published reports have never followed patients for more than 36 months.7–10 Scott et al. have presented a paper, which documented the outcomes of cyclodiode laser over a much longer time period of 5 years. Their cohort had cyclodiode laser performed by a single surgeon using a standardised technique reflective of the aforementioned protocols and then followed 6–12 monthly for at least 5 years. They demonstrated that the procedure remained successful in almost 80% of cases beyond 5 years, with only about 25% requiring re-treatment and IOP reduction being approximately 7% greater for every 10 decades of age. They were able to estimate the rate of complications, with hypotony developing in about 6% of cases, phthisis occurring in 4% and vision loss occurring in 69%, with those most likely to suffer these adverse outcomes being those who were elderly or who had neovascular glaucoma. The authors were also able to demonstrate that cyclodiode laser had the greatest IOP-lowering effect for those with the highest pre-treatment IOP and who were on the greatest number of medications. When medications and SLT have failed and incisional surgery is not clinically indicated, a painful, blind eye might be the inevitable result. This paper confirms that cyclodiode laser is an effective method of managing IOP, with its effects lasting more than 5 years in the majority of cases. It may be particularly effective in the elderly when surgery is not desirable and preservation of vision is not the primary necessary outcome. Although titration of the procedure can be difficult, with one-quarter of patients requiring retreatment and almost 10% suffering from phthisis or hypotony, this needs to be balanced against the ability of the procedure to avert the need for glaucoma drainage surgery.


Abstract : Strategic information systems (IS) planning aligns an organization's information systems with its critical strategic goals and supporting mission-specific functions. This thesis demonstrates a structured approach to strategic IS planning and provides a guide for developing an information systems architecture to support the organizational goals of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). By first examining established information systems planning practices, architectural design methodologies. Department of Defense (DoD) guidelines, and published ONI organizational objectives, this thesis guides the reader through the decision-making process involved in strategic IS planning. The methodology is structured on guidance provided by the DoD's Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM) Standards-Based Architecture (SBA) Planning Guide. This thesis demonstrates the validity of using the structured architectural approach, presented by the TAFIM and other strategic IS planning concepts, in concert with intelligence-specific IS planning guidance to systematically address the issues, problems, and critical decisions faced by organizations attempting the strategic IS planning process.


By introducing rare but severe disasters into an otherwise standard open-economy general equilibrium model and allowing the disaster probability to be both time-varying and mean-reverting, several macroeconomics, …nance and international …nance puzzles can be explained in a single model. The puzzles include the equity premium puzzle, the risk-free rate puzzle, the forward discount puzzle, the excess volatility puzzle and the volatility mismatch puzzle. A mean-reverting "


Aims and Objectives: We evaluated whether HBV +ve and HCV +ve patients are at high risk for developing drug induced hepatitis than control subjects during treatment for tuberculosis with standard short course regimens. Study design: Observational cohort study. Place and duration: This study was conducted at Department of Medicine, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro from May 2008 to May 2011. Material and Methods: All newly diagnosed active tuberculosis patients were included in the study population and they were further screened for hepatitis B surface antigen and HCV antibodies. All patients were divided into three groups. One having no co-infection with hepatitis B and Hepatitis C and was taken as control group, second group was co-infected with hepatitis B and third was co-infected with hepatitis C. short course anti tuberculous regimen was started and patients were followed for six months. Results: One hundred and twenty eight tuberculous patients were divided into three groups. 92 in control groups without any co-infection with hepatitis B and C, 10 were HBV +ve and 26 were HCV +ve. During follow up 24 developed drug induced hepatitis, 8(38.33%, n = 24) in control group, 2(8.33%, n = 24) in hepatitis B group and 14(58.33%, n = 24) in hepatitis C group. Conclusions: These findings suggest that treatment for tuberculosis in HCV seropositive patients is a risk factor for the development of hepatitis exacerbation and HBV seropositive patients shows no any increased risk of hepatitis exacerbation.


Invention of the elevator hoistway entrance 20 includes a snap-fixing in the desired structural relationship to the first hoistway entrance member (32, 40), the second hoistway entrance member (34, 42) includes a fit connection (38). In the disclosed embodiment, the snap-fit connection (38) comprises at least one receiver (56) and at least one fixing member (44) accommodated in whole or in part in a first direction into the receiver (56), and wherein 1 is movable into the second position to the hoistway entrance member (32, 40) fixing to the second hoistway entrance member (34, 42). The fixing member 44 to fix the insertion portion 60 into the first direction 66, and then, the first hoistway entrance member 40 and the second hoistway entrance member 42 is moved to the receiver 56 to be moved into the fixed part (62). Then, the locking member 72 are each in the first hoistway entrance member 40 and the second hoistway entrance member 42 in order to further prevent that the holding member 44, the movement from the state 62 a is inserted through the opening 64.


Antifungal agents used in ocular infections are presented. The most common etiology of fungal infections is described. Mechanisms and range of action, available drugs and the latest groups of antifungal agents during clinical trials are presented.


This article describes the toughening of brittle epoxy using bitumen as a new modifier. The main objective of this study is to incorporate bitumen into epoxy matrix with the aim of obtaining an epoxy hybrid material with higher impact and fracture properties and lower cost without attenuating the other desired mechanical properties such as tensile strength. Mechanical properties of epoxy/bitumen hybrids with different bitumen contents were studied. With the addition of only 2% bitumen to epoxy, maximum improvements of 164% and 187% were obtained for impact strength and fracture resistance, respectively. The addition of bitumen to epoxy matrix had no significant effect on tensile properties. Morphological properties of the hybrid were studied by scanning electron microscopy and a dispersion of micron-sized bitumen particles in epoxy-rich matrix was obtained as main morphology. Thermogravimetric analysis of the hybrid in inert environment showed that the thermal stability decreases slightly with incorporation of bitumen into epoxy matrix. The chemical stability of the hybrid against different acids and alkalis was higher than neat epoxy but relatively lower stability was observed against organic solvents.


In music the expression of emotions play an important role. Research has shown that some cues for how emotions are expressed in music can be connected to motion; for instance how the performer uses her body when interacting with the instrument. Bresin and Giordano conducted an experiment in 2004, where the foot step sound of people expressing emotions through their walking was recorded and analyzed. It was found that the sound level (SL) and the inter-onset-interval (IOI) of the feet were used by listeners for decoding the emotions. The same parameters have been found to be used by performers when express emotions in music. In this master thesis two experiments were conducted. In the first one it was investigated whether the acoustic parameters from expressive walking gaits could be used for controlling the sound of a percussive musical instrument (timpani) in order to communicate emotions. Subjects rated if they perceived the emotions as angry, fearful, sad, neutral or happy and whether a male or female performed the musical sequence. In the second experiment participants controlled timpani drum strikes by means of sliders connected to the average value and variation of some of the acoustic parameters used in experiment one. The participants were instructed to express the same five emotions as in experiment one. Statistical analysis of the results show that the patterns of acoustic parameters such as tempo and sound level used in expressive walking could be successfully transferred to the control of musical stimuli. The trends for the parameters used for communicating different emotions were similar in both experiments as well as similar to the expressive cues variations known from literature in psychology of music. Av = average Mea = mean value Std = standard deviation h2tIOI = heel to toe inter-onset-interval t2tIOI = toe to toe inter-onset-interval t2hIOI = toe to heel inter-onset-interval h2hIOI = heel to heel inter-onset-interval H amp = heel amplitude T amp =toe amplitude How to interpret the names of the sound files:-First letter is the intended emotion, where a=anger, f=fear, n=neutral, h=happiness and s=sadness.-Second number is the number of the walker (1-7)-Last letter is ascending (u) or descending (d) tone for example the name a6u stands for a=the emotion anger, 6=walker number six, u=the sound sequence starts with an ascending tone. s7d stands for s=the emotion sadness, 7=walker number seven, d=the sound sequence starts with a descending tone.


ABSTRACT This article reviews published research studies that have examined the impact of psychosocial factors on condom use among adolescents, and offers recommendations regarding the examination of psychosocial variables in future research and HIV prevention program development for adolescents. The review includes a critical analysis of methodological issues, and significant psychosocial predictors are discussed within the context of health behavior change theories. Findings suggest that HIV prevention programs for adolescents should address sexual pleasure and eroticization of condom use within the context of dyadic sexual relationships. Future research on adolescent condom use should attempt to address methodological concerns of prior research by using prospective cohort designs, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, and improving the measurement of psychosocial factors.


Online applications and computer applications software are increasingly grown and one of the most cornerstone issues of these applications is the usability issue. Investigating the usability of using any technique is very important before distributing that technique. In this paper, we investigate an authentication systems based on recognition graphical password using Doodles Scan System (DSS) were used to investigate the usability of using doodles on web authentication. The DSS system needs very simple equipment: printer and scanner. Indeed, results showed that such equipment are often not available in Misurata University which affects the usability of the proposed technique. Moreover, the efficiency of using DSS with 41 participants was only usable for five participants. As consequence, the doodles scan system DSS might have some difficulties to be used in Libya or can be applied in proper places.


Agreeing to the common notion that the narrative in 'Baengnokdam' of Jung, Ji -Yong achieve a special poetic accomplishment, this manuscript tries to add the connection among verse poems and with 'Dadoheagi' in which the poet's experience in Jeju to existing interpretation of 'Beangnokdam'. His constant exertions for pros poems is not less than just his experiment about a new form of poem. Rather, considering the fact that like the japanese literary who didn't want to engage in the war, Jung, Ji-Yong wanted to write his own "poem", but not pro-war poetry and pro japanese imperialism poetry, it should be deemed as his conscious orientation. While his other pros poetry in Beangnokdam, the book, usually contains one narration whose direction adopts 'nature(mauntain)' as its background, as an abstract image to realize supra-historical themes such as life or death, the poet has a different intention in 'Beangnokdam' from the point that it allegorically realizes the territorial context in Joseon, the history. To Jung, Ji-Yong, Jeju is not a original place that represent Joseon, the island is where is surely connected to Joseon penninsula, and a dinghy that calls at the continent, Joseon should not forget.


High performance liquid chromatographic method with fluorescence and ultraviolet detection was applied to the determination of 7 nitrobenzene metabolites in fish. 7 nitrobenzene metabolites could be baseline separated after optimizing operating conditions. The correlation coefficient of linear calibration curve was over 0.999 within the seven nitrobenzene metabolites concentration range of 0.1~2.0 μg/mL. The detection limits were 6.3~151.0 ng/g,t he recoveries were between 71.48% and 90.14%, and the relatively standard deviations were between 4.38% and 13.29%.


With a view to realizing a superdirective antenna, an endfire array consisting of parallel dipole elements is analyzed. As a feeding method, a cascaded connection of all elements by transmission lines is proposed. A possibility of a superdirectivity and a basic design guideline are found for the case where an element spacing and the characteristic impedance of the connecting transmission lines are set arbitrarily. As the element spacing is reduced, the antenna becomes smaller and the gain increases, although the feeding becomes more difficult. Hence, the case of a finite-element spacing is discussed.

First, it is demonstrated that the maximum gain as a superdirective antenna is obtained by adjustment of the element lengths and the lengths of the connecting transmission line. Further, it is shown that the optimum element length for the maximum gain is near the half-wavelength even if all elements have an identical length for ease of design and that such a structure works as a superdirective antenna. Based on the findings, a quarter-wavelength spacing, three-element array is designed. The validity of the present method is demonstrated since the experimental results for the input impedance, gain, and directivity agree well with the theoretical prediction.


The relative stabilities of the delocalized and the localized states of a half‐filled band were examined in terms of the Hartree–Fock band theory. The electron localization condition thus obtained is very similar to that derived by Hubbard considering the dynamics of electrons in a narrow band. The relative stability problem of the delocalized vs the localized state in a crystalline chain was also compared with that of the low‐spin vs the high‐spin state in a weakly interacting metal dimer complex.


For the goal of improving the safety of aircraft taking-off and landing, studied the detecting method of monitoring abnormal on runway, mainly used laser transceiver devices, wireless networks, wireless handsets to achieve the target. laser transceiver devices was responsible for monitoring the runway pavement; the wireless transmission network node collected data that had been monitored, and made them compared with the standard data, and judged whether there were foreign matters or pavement damage depending on whether there were mutations values. Wireless networks determined the location of fault according to mutation values and sent information to field service personnel to achieve fast and high efficient processing failures runway action and reduce the risk of flight.


IDS Bulle/o,, 9114, vo! 5 no 3. Institute of Deoe!optnent Studies, 5ussex pretend that the results have been uniformly good and the quality of work uniformly high (a claim no international or national body could make). However, part of the criticism seems to flow either from a refusal to accept the validity of the four roles (and to distinguish among them) or from a confusion between them and a fifth role which UNCTAD has at times seemed to seek to play and more often been accused of playing partisan, uncritical mouthpiece for developing country governments.


Objective Although childhood adversity can have lasting effects into later life, positive adaptations have also been observed, including an increased tendency toward prosocial behavior. However, little is known about the link between childhood adversity and later life prosocial behavior, with a particular scarcity of research on intrafamilial childhood adversity. Therefore, this study aimed to examine older adult's experiences of childhood adversity and identify mechanisms linked to prosocial behavior. Two adversity contexts (intrafamilial and extrafamilial) were compared to explore individual, as well as broader cultural and contextual mechanisms linking childhood adversity and later life prosocial behavior. Method Semi-structured interviews (60–120 min) were conducted with N = 29 Irish (older) adult survivors of childhood adversity: n = 12 intrafamilial survivors (mean age: 58 years, range: 51–72), n = 17 institutional survivors (mean age: 61 years, range: 50–77). Interviews were analyzed using the framework analysis method, with reference to the conceptual model of altruism born of suffering. Results Five themes were identified on prosocial mechanisms, with three themes in both survivor groups (enhanced empathy, self-identity, amelioration), and two group-specific themes (compassion fatigue in intrafamilial survivors; denouncing detrimental social values in institutional survivors). Conclusion Results identified motivational processes and volitional factors linked to later life prosocial behavior. Connections to caring roles, (lack of) support, and social norms in childhood, as well as the need for a sense of purpose and meaning from the adversities in adulthood, highlight potential targets for psychotherapeutic intervention to promote prosocial responding and positive adaptation for childhood adversity survivors.


Psychological treatments of headache are becoming increasingly influenced by cognitive therapy. This paper addresses three issues relevant to the development and evaluation of cognitive therapy. 1. It is argued that current assessment measures for evaluating treatment are founded on a theory of pain which is inadequate and as a result they are not sufficient for the evaluation of cognitive therapy. 2. The assumptions on which cognitive therapy for headache is based have not been verified. Recent research indicates a degree of complexity in the relationships between cognition, emotion and pain which has yet to be assimilated. 3. It is noted that cognitive therapy for headache lacks an explicit model of pain which would facilitate the precise formulation and testing of interventions.


In medicine, and in life in general, uncertainty is unavoidable. Throughout history, man has tried to bring order to a chaotic world by predicting future events based on past experiences. However, physicians in training are often surprised by the subjectivity and lack of certainty involved in the practice of medicine. Helpful advice is available—and Sir William Osler had much to say about this problem. This article reviews some of Osler's writings regarding medical uncertainty, provides an outline of the classification currently used by the courts to evaluate medical testimony, and offers some historical notes on probability theory and evidence-based medicine.


Introduction: Five-year survival following childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has doubled over the last 4 decades due to advances in treatment and supportive care, including more widespread use of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). The impact on long-term morbidity and mortality among survivors is unknown.
 Methods: Cumulative incidence and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for overall and cause-specific late (>5 years from diagnosis) mortality and CTCAE grades 3-5 chronic health conditions (CHC) were estimated among 5-year survivors of AML diagnosed <21 years of age between1970-99 in the CCSS. Comparisons were made by decade of diagnosis (1970s, 1980s, 1990s) and treatment (HCT vs. chemotherapy only [chemo-only]). Cox regression models estimated hazard ratios (HR) for health-related deaths and CHC based on treatment decade and HCT status.
 Results: Among 927 AML survivors (median age at diagnosis 7.1 years [range 1-21 years]; median age at last follow-up 29.4 years [range 8-60 years]; 16,069 person-years of follow-up; 37% treated with HCT [15% of 1970s survivors, 36% of 1980s survivors, 44% of 1990s survivors), the 20-year cumulative incidence of all-cause mortality was 6.7% (CI 4.2-9.2%) for chemo-only survivors and 13.5% (CI 9.2-17.8%) for HCT survivors. For chemo-only survivors, the highest incidence of health-related mortality were attributable to cardiac causes (1.5%, CI 0.5-2.6), relapse (0.9%, CI 0.1-1.8), and SMN (0.6%, CI 0.0-1.2), whereas for HCT survivors the highest health-related causes of death were relapse (6.5%, CI 3.7-9.2%), SMN (1.3%, CI 0-2.5%), and pulmonary causes (0.6%, CI 0-1.5%). When treatment groups were considered in multivariable Cox models, risk for late mortality was similar for chemo-only survivors from the 1990s compared to the 1970s (HR 0.4, CI 0.1-1.4), but risk was reduced for HCT survivors from the 1990s compared to the 1970s (HR 0.2, CI 0.1-0.4). The 20-year cumulative incidence of grade 3-5 CHCs among chemo-only survivors was 26.9% (CI 23.0-30.7%) compared to 46.8% (CI 40.9-52.7%) among HCT survivors, with the highest incidence occurring for cardiovascular CHC (chemo-only, 9.7%, CI 7.1-12.2%; HCT, 10.6%, CI 7.0-14.2%), pulmonary CHC (chemo-only, 1.0%, CI 0.1-1.9%; HCT, 2.9%, CI 1.0-4.8%) and SMN (chemo-only, 0.8%, CI 0.0-1.7%; HCT, 5.7%, CI 2.9-8.6%). Incidence of overall CHC decreased in more recent decades among HCT survivors (p=0.03, Figure); however, among chemo-only survivors, CHC incidence did not significantly change by decade (p=0.12). When treatment groups were considered in adjusted models, risk for CHC was similar for those treated in the 1990s compared to the 1970s among chemo-only survivors (HR 1.5, CI 1.0-2.3) and risk estimates among HCT survivors decreased over time but did not achieve statistical significance (HR 0.6, CI 0.3-1.1).
 Conclusions: AML survivors treated with HCT had a reduced risk of late mortality and serious CHC in more recent treatment eras. In contrast, treatment with chemo-only was not associated with differences in mortality and serious CHC risk over time. Five-year survivors treated with chemo-only had a significantly reduced risk of health-related mortality compared with HCT survivors across all treatment eras. While treatment intensification with HCT has improved the cure rates for AML in recent decades, there remains disparity in long-term outcomes among AML survivors treated with HCT vs. chemo-only.

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This keynote address briefly reviews the first conference on intermodal transportation that took place in Irvine, California, in 1992 and addressed the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) and intermodal planning, then discusses the progress that has been made in the continuing evolution of intermodalism. The achievements of the Department of Transportation in three areas - advancing the intermodal agenda, funding for intermodal projects, and changes in the intermodal regulatory environment - are highlighted. In conclusion, areas of future focus are identified. These are funding for intermodal projects, analytic tools, and roles and relationships.


The purpose of this paper is to present some ideas on research needs in the area of Southern Economic Development. Discussion is centered on subtopics of agricultural development, industrial development, and research orientation. Exposition is generally in terms of questions posed but unanswered. The traditional role of agricultural development has been to provide for food and fiber needs with fewer and fewer resources, thus, freeing resources for use in producing other goods and services associated with a higher standard of living.


During past two decades electric utilities have faced the upheaval of moving toward deregulation. It has always been its ambition of creating a clear structure in which rivals are allowed to do free enterprise in trading of electricity. Accordingly, in this new era economical rules and electricity market legislations have a big effect on secure operation of power systems. This means that, presense of a market independent entity is vital while it should only be in charge of security and stability of power system operation. This entity, called ISO, which is acronym for Independent System Operator [1]. Major task of ISO corresponds to prospect ancillary services requirments which are necessary for reliability enhancement of the system. ISO is also responsible for ancillary services procurement [2,3]. Reactive power is one kind of ancillary service that have significant effectcs on active power trading indirectly. Reactive power is utilized for different purposes e.g voltage profiles amelioration, power loss reduction and lessening occupied capacity of the transmission network. In general, a good reactive power management system increase the performance of transmission lines as unique paths for physical operation of electric power transactions. From Economical points of view, ancillary services had better be provided in a market structure than obligatory as it is operated in vertically integrated system. In recent years many researches are carried out concerning reactive power management and pricing in restructured power systems. In [4,5] applicale methods for determination of reactive power costs are discussed. In [6] a security constraint optimal power flow (SCOPF) is presented for reactive power management of NGC power system. In proposed method reactiv epower cost is modeled as a quadratic function of generators' reactive power outpus and linear programming is used to solve model and determination the reactive power shared among participatns along with prices. Considering social welfare objective for active power market in [7] it tries to dispatch reactive power in such a way power market get better performance as much as possible. It also assumes that active power consumptions are propotional to the price and obey an exponential function. Based on this strategy one can easily distinguish that reactive power price is determined indirectly and it depends on active power activities. Lagrangeian multiplyers are used for settlements of active / reactive power commodity. Reference [8] exploits an OPF based structure to show that reactive power pricing extremely depends on chosen objective for its dispatching purposes. Data analysis of [8] declares that it had better reactive power price be determined in a separate structure and independent of active power market objectives. Investigation of methods presented in above articles reveals that in all cases, reactive power is optimised around current operating point of power system after clearing active power market or simultaneous with it. In other words there is less attention to reactive power reserve necessary for perventing of voltage collapse occurance following perturbation in loads or other events. This paper presents a method in which providing of efficient reactive power reserve is also considered in price determination. Therefore, conventional OPF formulation is modified in somehow, voltage stability criterion can be modeled within reactive power market equations. In proposed structure, reactive power costs is to be minimized independently of active power activites. Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm is used for solving OPF based market structure implemented on WSCC 9 bus test system to show capabilites of the procedure into a market based power system managenet.


First generation (TO) transgenic plants do not always segregate their transgenes in a Mendellian segregation pattern. Moreover,instability of heterologous gene expression was often observed in transgenic plants. This phenomenon is often called gene silencing. Gene silencing could happen on different level of gene expression, notably at transcriptional or post-transcriptional level.The purpose of this research was to identify the transgene segregation pattern of a marker gene (hpt) as well as the introduced- regulator gene (OsLEA-oshox6) in second generation (Tl) transgenic rice plants.Gene segregation (hpt) analysis was carried out using PCR method. Gene expression analysis was done by hygromycin antibiotic resistant test of leaf samples.Analysis was carried out on 17 lines of Tl transgenic rice plants from Batutegi and Kasalath cultivars.Mendellian segregation pattern of 3:1 was revealed for all lines based on PCR analysis. Gene expression analysis showed almost all lines was segregated in a Mendellian fashion except for Tl-BT III 2C line. Less transgenic plants that expressed the hpt gene were suggested due to gene silencing effects.It was suggested to happen at transcriptional level.


Restaurants, residences, and related industries are currently all contributing to the current situation in the country of increasing food waste. On the other end, a variety of strategies are being applied from multiple angles to control food waste. The goal of our project is to create a user-friendly app that reduces the requirement for human intervention when donating food.


In this paper we investigate properties of the Steiner symmetrization in the complex plane. We use two recursive dynamic processes in order to derive some sharp inequalities on analytic functions in the unit disk. We answer a question that was asked by Albert Baernstein II, regarding the coefficients of circular symmetrization. We mostly deal with the Steiner symmetrization $G$ of an analytic function $f$ in the unit disk $U$. We pose few problems we can not solve. An intriguing one is that of the inequality $$ \int_{0}^{2\pi} |f(re^{i\theta})|^{p}d\theta\le\int_{0}^{2\pi} |G(re^{i\theta})|^{p}d\theta,\,\,0<p<\infty $$ which is true for $p=2$ (we prove) but can not be true for too large $p$. What is the largest such exponent or its supremum?


This chapter reviews the fundamentals of radiation dosimetry needed to do reference dosimetry for external beam radiotherapy when starting from an ion chamber calibrated in terms of absorbed-dose to water. It briefly reviews the status of primary standards for absorbed dose to water. The kQ formalism developed to utilize these absorbed-dose calibration factors is described for use in electron and photon beams. In the ideal case, the needed kQ factors are measured for each ion chamber and beam quality of interest in the clinic. Equations are developed for the factors needed to utilize this formalism in the proposed TG–51 dosimetry protocol of the AAPM. Special attention is paid to the issue of specifying beam quality in terms of percentage depth-dose at 10 cm for photon beams and R50 for electron beams. A proposal for using a reference depth of 0.6 R50 − 0.1 cm in electron beam dosimetry is discussed. Factors needed for using plane-parallel chambers in a water phantom are also reviewed.


Course Purpose: Building on knowledge of human growth and development, and an awareness of learning and the means of facilitating and stimulating learning, this course addresses three major areas of the primary curriculum: mathematics, science, and the social studies. This course will focus on students' involvement in planning lessons and activities appropriate for mathematics, science, and social studies in the primary grades.


The demographic transition that occurred in Cuba between the early 1940s and 1980s is reviewed. Demographic developments in Cuba are compared both to developments elsewhere in Latin America and to those in other Socialist countries. The focus is on factors affecting fertility, which declined from 35 per 1,000 in 1964 to 14.1 per 1,000 in 1980. The authors emphasize the effect of the Socialist revolution on demographic trends. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND RUS)


Legal education, in Brazil, embraced a tecnical-legalist attitude, in which students are trained to read and understand written law, reducing Right exclusively to this operation. Considering the epistemological obstacles identified by Gaston Bachelard, and considering how legal education happens in Brazilian academies, this essay proposed a reflexive approach of Right education through positive dogmatism, identifying the production of a non-critical and technicist professional and the idealistic and simplistic training which makes difficult the resolution of social complex questions, as problems of necessary coping to reformulate legal education.


This article explores the most effective approaches to reducing unintended pregnancies and improving girls' education. Unintended adolescent pregnancies have gained substantial media attention across the globe over the past 20 years as the number of pregnant girls has increased annually. Multiple approaches have been implemented in attempt to reduce unintended adolescent pregnancies, such as sex education, the provision of contraceptives by the Department of Health, and addressing the role of young men, which are deemed to be the most commonly used approaches in South African schools. Study findings reveal that the most effective approaches to reducing adolescent pregnancies are sex education, access to contraceptives, peer education programs, and life skills training.


Imet miriam cooke sometime in the early 1980s, probably at an annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). She had finished her PhD in 1980 at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, just five years after I had finished my PhDatColumbiaUniversity. I bumped into this brilliant and articulatewomanwith a British accent everywhere I went. I remember asking the Lebanese poet, essayist, and artist Etel Adnan, now a mutual friend, "Who is this person?" Etel shook her head and said, "I don't know, but she is everywhere I go!" I said, "Aha, so she is everywhere!" Thiswas in thedayswhen conspiratorial stories about theMiddleEast proliferated. My encounters with miriam were always engaging and collegial. I left our conversations thinking deeply about whatever we had discussed and remembered them. But she did this odd thing of using all lowercase letters for her name. At oneMESAmeeting in the 1980s, my good friend Barbara Aswad told me that another colleague had asked Barbara about me—"Who is she? Why is she everywhere?" "Hmmm," I thought. "This must be because people are suspicious of successful women." I could not predict in those early days that miriam cooke would become one of the people I most trust and respect. I worked most closely with her and a few others to strengthen the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS), launch the Journal for Middle East Women's Studies, and develop the field of Middle East feminist studies. AMEWS was born out of angst. The Civil War in Lebanon broke out in 1975, the same year I completedmy PhD (in which I had predicted the falling apart of the Lebanese political system). The hell that theMiddle East had become was reflected


Part 1 Relevant atomic and nuclear physics: atomic and nuclear structure radioactivity and radioactive decay interaction of radiation, photons and neutrons with matter. Part 2 Radiation quantities and units: physical and biophysical radiation quantities. Part 3 Sources of photon and neutron radiation: radioactive nuclides nuclear reactors particle accelerators. Part 4 Attenuation of photons: narrow and broad beam attenuation theoretical calculation of radiation attenuation - transport or Boltzmann equation, Monte Carlo method geometrical factors backscattering of photons. Part 5 Attenuation of neutrons: theoretical calculation of neutron attenuation effective neutron removal cross section attenuation of thermal neutrons backscattering of neutrons. Part 6 Heat generation due to nuclear radiation: heat generation by photons and neutrons temperature distribution in a shield thermal stresses in a shield due to radiation heating. Part 7 Materials for radiation-shielding concrete: cements of differnet types aggregates specifications for aggregates - ASTM standard specifications, French, British and Russian specifications. Part 8 Composition and physical and mechanical properties of concrete for radiation shielding: ordinary concrete special concretes. Part 9 Nuclear properties of concrete: ordinary concrete special concrete. Part 10 Water content of concrete and its effects on nuclear properties: water content of concrete effects of water content on nuclear properties. Part 11 Effects of elevated temperatures on the properties of concrete: physical and mechanical properties nuclear properties. Part 12 Effects of nuclear radiation on the properties of concrete: nuclear heating radiation damage radiation limits. Part 13 Basic design of concrete radiation shielding: design procedures concrete mix design attenuation factors examples of shielding calculations temperature distribution and thermal stresses temperature limits other design factors. Part 14 Construction, cost, economic evaluation, and optimization of concrete radiation shielding: construction cost of concrete for radiation shielding economic evaluation of different concretes for radiation shielding optimization of design and choice for concrete shielding.


SUMMARY The applications of GPS can be found across almost all of a nation's economic, scientific and social activities. The major shortcoming of GNSS is that it is usable everywhere where there is clear sky, and hence fails to operate where it's impossible or difficult to receive the satellite signals. In some difficult signal environments – principally where the satellite signals are weak (<-142 dBm) and multipath is severe – "high sensitivity" GPS/GNSS and/or assisted-GPS/GNSS can be used to improve positioning, navigation and timing availability. Other sensors can also be integrated with GPS/GNSS to improve positioning. In environments where GPS/GNSS completely fails alternative positioning technologies based on WiFi signals or ultrasound etc. could be used. In this paper, some of the research carried out in the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales, into positioning in environments where standard GPS fails is described.


We present theresults ofa survey conducted to evaluate theimpact ofanewspaper mediated smoking cessation program conducted inBuffalo. NewYorkinJanuary 1987. Overhalf ofallsmokers surveyed reported exposure tothenewspaper series; 13percentreported thattheseries prompted themtotrytoquit smoking, and4percentstopped smoking foratleast oneweek.We estimate that over9,600 smokers inErie County, NewYorkstopped smoking foratleast oneweekasaresult ofthenewspaper's smoking cessation program. (AmJPublic Health 1987; 77:1452-1453.)


This study found that individuals with poor mental health were four times as likely as those without mental health problems to leave workfare programs for negative reasons. Strategies need to be de...