Elegant chemical methodology restricting the backbone flexibility of biologically active peptides has attracted growing interest. A practical synthetic strategy is presented to access ten-membered lactam peptide mimetics. Employing a ring-closing olefin metathesis as the key reaction step, the cyclic olefin moiety was obtained with cis configuration. Conformational investigations were performed with two model peptides.


This paper studied the path following case of a PZT-driven electromagnetic miniature robot which is used as a locomotion platform in a "Desktop Micro Robots Factory". Considering the nonlinearity of the locomotive characteristics according to the difference equation describing the position and orientation changes of the robot, a fuzzy logic controller was designed to calculate the driven voltage amplitude applied to the two piezoelectric elements to fulfill the task. To overcome the overshoot when the robot joined the path from a far starting position, an improved method, which introduced a simple coarse initial pose error adjustment before the fuzzy controller took action, was proposed, resulting in a tracking error reduction preferably.


We are forming a team to deliver the project outcome, which is the first project  sponsoring Sudanese students coming to HK. Our four pillars of focus include:  Instruction, Interaction, Cultural Exposure and Career Skills Building. 3 Sudanese  students will be coming over to HK for a week, followed by 6 HKU students visiting  Sudan for another week. It will be an life-changing experience on both sides.


Presented study has been carried out in the ESA PECS Project: "Application of remotely sensed data for transboundary water resource management". The Institute of Geodesy and Cartography developed the method supporting the management of surface waters by integrating Earth Observation using land cover / land use data into specialized water quality and agrieconomical models. The method elaborated within the project is based on application of models which enable to estimate pollution of surface waters by nitrogen and phosphorus compounds. Two models were tested: SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) and MONERIS (Modelling Nutrient Emissions in River Systems). The MONERIS model is very popular in Europe and USA but less in Poland. Both models are enriched with numerous thematic layers, considering various aspects of environment. Land cover / land use map is one of the most valid layers in both models; it is generated using high-resolution satellite images (IRS LISS 4). The experiment was conducted over the Ropa river catchment (974 km2), which is located in the south part of Poland and as a mountainous river, has a high volatility of river flows. In the first step of the project the SWAT model was used, while the second step of the methodology was focused on evaluating water quality based on MONERIS model. Data created by SWAT model about river flows were used as an input data and to enhance the MONERIS model. Analysis of the results obtained through application of different scenarios, as well as comparison of both models, were presented at final part of the article.


This called forth responses from "Andorians" who maintained that the expression may be used, and is ... generally used and intended to convey the idea that the writer or speaker means to state the proposition both in the conjunctive and in the disjunctive, for the purpose of covering the situation either and all ways. 2 "Anti-Andorians" disagreed: Nothing has heartened me more of recent years than the leading editorial in your current issue on the conjunction "and/or." I expect to spend my declining years in a crusade against this pollution of the English language. It is a bastard sired by Indolence (he by Ignorance) out of Dubiety. Against such let all honest men protest. 3


According to dried-up crack of concrete brick-wall, it illustrates features of cracks, analyzes cause of dried-up crack from inner-stress due to dry shrinkage deformation, and puts forward prevention measures from production、construction and design.


Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate the change in eating patterns and food choices in a cohort of students as they moved from the third to the eighth grade. Design. Dietary behaviors and food choices were abstracted from 24-hour recalls and compared across grade levels. Setting. The setting for the study was elementary and junior high schools. Subjects. The subjects were a cohort of 291 students from Minnesota. Measures. Individual 24-hour dietary recalls from a cohort of students were collected in the third, fifth and eighth grades. Results. As students moved from elementary to junior high and middle school, their consumption of breakfast, fruits, vegetables, and milk decreased. Soft drink consumption increased. In the third grade, nearly 99% of the cohort reported eating breakfast; by the eighth grade, 85 % reported eating breakfast. Fruit consumption fell by 41% between the third and the eighth grades while vegetable consumption fell by 25%. The proportion of beverage coming from soft drinks more than tripled between the third and the eighth grades with concomitant reductions in milk and fruit juice consumption. Conclusions. Family, school, and community-wide efforts are needed to promote healthful eating patterns and food choices among adolescents. Our research indicates that nutrition education is needed in the elementary and middle school years. In addition, we need to work on improving teens' social and physical environments to encourage and facilitate their choice of healthy foods.


Pseudomonas sp. 113P3, when cultured on a medium containing poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) in the presence of pyroroquinoline quinone (PQQ), produced a high level of a PV A dehydrogenase (PV ADH). This enzyme was purified to a homogeneous state by sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS–PAGE) from the cell-free extract and found to be a hemoquino-protein. 1,3-Diols, especially PVA, were the most favorable substrate; primary alcohols and secondary alcohols and other diols could not act as substrates. PVADH showed an activity in the presence of PQQ. The molecular weight of the enzyme was found to be about 67,000 by SD8–PAGE and high pressure liquid chromatography using a TSK gel G-3000SW column. Our PVADH catalyzed dehydrogenation of PYA with an artificial electron acceptor, like the PQQ-dependent PVADH reported by Shimao et al. The molecular weight, PQQ dependency, requirement for metal ion, and absorption spectra of the PVADH were very similar to those of the hemoquino-protein primary al...


ZY-1 02C panchromatic multispectral sensor(PMS) data has made an important role in national development.The calibration coefficient is the key to the breadth and depth of the application.The field calibration method is an effective way to the problem.A field calibration experiment of ZY-1 02C PMS was performed by the China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application at the Dunhuang site during August 2012.The two-point calibration method was used to obtain PMS absolute calibration coefficients.The results were validated by the data of July 23,2012 at the Xinjiang target site.It shows that absolute calibration coefficients are highly reliable and enough to meet the requirements of quantitative applications.


ABSTRACT In this short piece, I argue in favour of the practice of imagining 'others' in a global way and taking universal moral thinking seriously. We are in need of a sense of global identity which can then create global moral thinking. In this way, we can start to see and treat global challenges, such as the environment, social justice, poverty, racism and Covid-19, more effectively.


Nurses are being encouraged to lobby candidates in next week's European elections in a bid to give the profession a voice on important issues.


The Lena River basin in Siberia produces one of the largest river inflows into the Arctic Ocean. One of the most important sources of runoff to the river is spring snowmelt and therefore snow ablation processes have great importance for this basin. In this study, we simulated these processes with fine resolution at basin scale using MicroMet/SnowModel and SnowAssim. To assimilate snow water equivalent (SWE) data in SnowAssim, we used routine daily snow depth data and Sturm's method. Following the verification of this method for SWE estimation in the basin, we evaluated the impact of snow data assimilation on basin-scale snow ablation. Through validation against MODIS snow coverage data and in situ snow survey observations, we found that SnowAssim could not improve on the original simulation by MicroMet/SnowModel because of estimation errors within the SWE data. Vegetation and accumulated snowfall control the spatial distribution of sublimation and we established that sublimation has an important effect on snow ablation. We found that the ratio of sublimation to snowfall in forests was around 26% and that interannual variation of sublimation modulated spring river runoff.


PURPOSE: To provide a mechanism which processes processing errors in a computer system. CONSTITUTION: A liquid cooling module TCM in a central electronic complex CEC detects an error in a stage 702, and a processor control code PCC is interrupted in a stage 704. The processor control code starts error recovery procedures in a stage 705 in response to this interruption. As a part of error recovery procedures, a counter is counted up in a stage 706, and it is cheched in a stage 708 whether the counted value exceeds a retry threshold or not, and the PCC code continues a recovery algorithm in a stage 710 if it doesn't exceed the threshold. When retry is successful, the processing continues as conventional. If retry is not successful, the error is detected again to count up the retry counter in the stage 702. If the counted value exceeds the threshold in the stage 708, it is discriminated in a stage 712 whether the error requires a repair action UIRA or not, and a postponement service is called in a stage 715 if it doesn't require this action. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO


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Objective: to analyze the factors associated with mental distress in people with diabetes
mellitus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: cross-sectional study, conducted in two Brazilian virtual communities of the Facebook platform, in the period from August 2020 to January 2021. The sample totaled 111 people with diabetes. The evaluation of health conditions was performed using an electronic form, and the Self Report Questionnaire-20 was used to identify mental suffering. Descriptive and inferential analyses were expressed by frequencies and simple and multiple logistic regression.

Results: mental suffering is associated with being female, having a previous history of mental disorders (depression and anxiety), having been diagnosed with diabetes for more than six years, and the presence of ophthalmologic complications, which increase the chances of emotional instability.

Conclusion: the study offers subsidies to the direction of support strategies that minimize the psychosocial impacts of the pandemic on people with diabetes.


A problem observed in cloud environments is the assurance of Quality of Service (QoS) in the execution of applications. In the context of batch applications, a common goal is ensuring deadline compliance. However, estimating the required amount of resources to assure execution deadline may be difficult and prone to underallocations or superallocations. An alternative is modifying the amount of allocated resources in case the progress is not satisfactory, using horizontal or vertical scaling. Following this strategy, this work proposes a provisioning method based on PID controllers and vertical scaling for batch applications. To evaluate the proposed provisioning method on assuring QoS, we executed two microbenchmarks and one Big Data application on a real cloud infrastructure where the provisioning was controlled by our method. Results show that the provisioning method using the Proportional-Derivative controller is effective on ensuring QoS regarding deadline compliance, allocation smoothness and resource efficiency, though it requires additional adjusts when provisioning resources to applications with non-linear progress.


The invention provides a method for producing, without using a mold, a shaped green glass or glass ceramic article having a predefined geometry, which method permits to produce fine local textures of high surface quality and with homogeneous properties, in particular with respect to homogeneous nucleation or crystallization.


In this paper, we consider the iteratively regularized Gauss–Newton method, where regularization is achieved by Ivanov regularization, i.e., by imposing a priori constraints on the solution.
We propose an a posteriori choice of the regularization radius, based on an inexact Newton/discrepancy principle approach, prove convergence and convergence rates under a variational source condition as the noise level tends to zero and provide an analysis of the discretization error.
Our results are valid in general, possibly nonreflexive Banach spaces, including, e.g.,

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The theoretical findings are illustrated by numerical experiments.


dispersion. Semen was diluted with FertiCultTM Flushing medium (FertiPro N.V., Beernem, Belgium) to 20 × 106 sperm cells per ml and processed as per the kit. The stained slides were analyzed with the ISAS®v1 CASA-DNAf, with a ×10 bright-field objective. The software automatically classified the sperm heads according to the kit criteria as having no DNA fragmentation (largeor medium-sized halo) or fragmented DNA (small or no halo). Sperm DNA maturation (AB) level was assessed on well-mixed semen smears. Formaldehyde-fixed air-dried slides were stained for 5 min with 5% (w/v) aniline blue dye (Merck KGaA) and mounted on NeoMount® medium (Merck KGaA) under a large coverslip. The sperm heads were assessed subjectively with a ×40 bright-field objective as having mature DNA (unstained) or immature DNA (totally or partially stained). Sperm chromatin stabi l ity (TB) was evaluated from toluidine blue-stained cells by the Sperm Chromatin Assay kit (Avicenna Research Institute, Evin, Tehran, Iran). The sperm heads were assessed subjectively with a ×40 bright-field objective as having stable chromatin (red or purple) or unstable chromatin (blue). Clustering procedures were used to identify sperm subpopulations from the entire dataset. Principal component analysis (PCA) included the feasibility of factorial analysis, verified by the Bartlett's test of sphericity, to confirm that the correlation matrix was an identity matrix, and the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin index, which determines the correlations between two variables once the influence of other variables is eliminated. Only components with an eigenvalue >1 were used for the next, two-step cluster procedure with the sperm-derived indices obtained by the PCA. All the data were assessed in a nonhierarchical clustering procedure (k-means model and Euclidean distance), which classifies the spermatozoa into subpopulations according to joint characteristics and allows the detection of outliers. The effects of clusters within and between the semen measurements were analyzed by a generalized linear model. Statistical significance was considered as P < 0.05 with data analyzed by InfoStat Software (version 2017; InfoStat, Córdoba, Argentina) for Windows. PCA rendered three components, explaining 77% of the variation. The first component was related positively to seminal pH, progressive sperm motility, AB, and TB and negatively to sperm immobility and F. The second was related positively to total count and nonprogressive motility and negatively to TB. The third was positively related to vitality, nonprogressive motility, and TB. Although F, AB, and TB each indicated an aspect of DNA status, there was a greater correlation between AB and TB (r = 0.712) than that between F and AB (r = 0.242) or TB (r = 0.126). Cluster analysis revealed two subpopulations, SP1, characterized by progressive motility and high levels of TB and AB, Dear Editor, Reproductive problems affect 8%–12% of human populations worldwide; 40%–50% of all infertility cases are due to the male, and up to 2% of men have suboptimal sperm quality.1 Semen analysis is the first test in male infertility clinics, but interpretation of the results is not straightforward, with the significance of results for predicting fertility after intrauterine insemination (IUI), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and in vitro fertilization (IVF) differing between studies.2 Classical semen evaluation treats seminal variables individually, so that whereas poor semen quality is an indicator of subfertility,3 good semen quality is no guarantee of fertility.4 Considering that all the data and their distribution provide more information, computing variables by multivariate statistics offers a new understanding of the relationship of semen quality to fertility.5 Different datasets corresponding to several variables were standardized from human semen samples and combined here to examine subpopulations of seminal variables with the eventual aim of providing a conceptual mathematical approach to fertility studies. Thirteen volunteers (aged 25–59 years) signed informed consent forms to participate in the study and provide samples for the study. Semen samples were collected by masturbation after 3–5 days of abstinence. The mean of this age range was 36.9 years. Seminal volume and pH using strips (Macherey-Nagel, Düren, Germany) were assessed within 30 s of collection. The resting parameters were evaluated after 30 min for liquefaction at 37°C, counting almost 250 cells per sample. Sperm motility and concentration (total sperm count) were determined in a reusable 10-μm deep Spermtrack® counting chamber (Proiser R+D S.L., Paterna, Valencia, Spain), following the WHO (2010) classification.6 Analyses were done subjectively on the monitor of the ISAS®v1 CASA-Mot system (Proiser R+D S.L.), equipped with an ISAS® CM13-ON video camera attached to a UB203 microscope (UOP, Proiser R+D S.L.), with a ×10 negative phase contrast objective and an integrated self-heated stage maintained at a constant temperature of 37°C. Sperm vitality was assessed by eosin–nigrosin (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) staining. Cells were assessed subjectively at ×20 as nonvital (pink) or vital (unstained). Sperm DNA fragmentation (F) was assessed by the Halosperm® G2 kit (Halotech DNA, S.L., Madrid, Spain) from the extent of chromatin Updating semen analysis: a subpopulation approach


The consider the numerical solution of physical theories, in particular hydrodynamics, which can be formulated as systems of conservation laws. To this end we briefly describe the Basis Spline and collocation methods, paying particular attention to representation theory, which provides discrete analogues of the continuum conservation and dispersion relations, and hence a rigorous understanding of errors and instabilities. On this foundation we propose an algorithm for hydrodynamic problems in which most linear and nonlinear instabilities are brought under control. Numerical examples are presented from one-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamics. 9 refs., 10 figs.


Quartz fiber reinforced phenolic (QFRP) resin composites were often used in thermal protection structures such as the engines and tip of missiles or rockets, but its anti-erosion performance needs to be further optimized. Z-pin technology can improve the anti-erosion performance because Z-pin effectively improved the inter-laminar shear strength of composite materials. However, it will increase the through-thickness thermal conductivity (TC), resulting in a decrease of its thermal protection performance. This paper successfully established the equation about through-thickness TC of Z-pin reinforced composites based on theoretical analysis and experimental results and tested the single-lap joints tensile strength of the samples compared with the blank and Z-pin samples under fire which characterized the interlayer performance of Z-pin reinforced thermal protection composites at high temperatures. Research showed that the through-thickness TC of the composite increases regularly with the TC and content of Z-pin, and this is because the pins act as a thermally conductive pathway. The TC increases by 13.19%, 12.34% and 12.13% when the Z-pin implantation volume fraction is 2.18%, 0.785% and 0.401%, respectively. Z-pin samples have an increase in shear strength of 63.85%, 78.97% and 88.31% compared with blank samples when the ablation time is 20s, 40s and 60s, respectively, indicating that Z-pin technology effectively could reduce the shear strength of single-lap joint with the increase of ablation time. These results prove the controllability of the through-thickness TC enhancement and effectiveness of interlayer strength by Z-pin, and guide the structural design of Z-pin reinforced thermal protection composites.


Fossil fuel consumption is the major source of anthropogenic CO2 emission.Some new CO2 emission reduction and utilization technology are summerized and analyzed in the paper.Chemical looping combustion based on circulating oxygen carriers is especially introduced as a new-style CO2 emission reduction technology.Chemical looping combustion involves the cascade utilization of chemical energy,which has high thermal energy conversion in comparison with traditional thermal cycles.Moreover,it has more superiority in CO2 enrichment and synergistic effects of contamination control.


This paper asks the question 'Is school self-improvement improving or is it something that has been tried and tested and has failed?'. In an attempt to answer this question, particular attention is paid to some of the international research literature on school self-review and evaluation, two commonly used self-improvement strategies. Approaches to self-evaluation in England and Wales and how these compare with developments elsewhere are also examined. The conclusion reached is that school self-improvement is an essential complement to external improvement initiatives if schools are to become more effective. However, more needs to be done to ensure that self-improvement is sufficiently rigorous and systematic if it is to make a difference where it matters most, namely in bringing about improvements in the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms. The paper concludes by suggesting that a way in which this can be achieved is through a multi-dimensional approach to self-improvement. Three types of self-evaluation are identified and described. Used in combination they enable a school to make a direct connection between improvements within and beyond the classroom and pupils' progress and achievement.


Due to a growing population and their demands for agricultural land, as well as a high demand for timber products, especially Teak, large areas of forest ecosystem have been disturbed leaving behind them land of little use. Many of these abandoned areas have been invaded by secondary successional species, such as the grass Imperata cylindrica which is aggressive, economically worthless, and ecologically undesirable because they prevent the establishment of more desirable species. The use of multi-purpose species plantation, which is a form of forest management, was an effort to solve this problem in Thailand's northern region. The objectives of this research, focused on the effects of two multi-specific plantations on plant species diversity and density of Imperata cylindrica . Results of this research indicated that the two-species plantation had a higher floristic diversity of both woody and non-woody species in their understorey than the single-species plantation. However, focusing only on the density of grasses, the mixed-species plantation (TG) was also more effective than the singlespecies plantation in suppressing aggressive weeds and grasses. Furthermore, if the management goal is to regenerate forest with a high diversity of tree species similar to those in native mature forests, a mixed plantation is more effective than a single-species plantation


The research describes the performance and accuracy of various interconnected sensors from the measurement results of photovoltaic energy conversion from power plants connected to the electricity grid from PLN. In data retrieval, PLX-DAQ software is used as a software for data loggers. The hardware used is a Pollycristallin type solar panel with a capacity of 2.08 kW, Arduino, and several sensor components that are used as hardware. In this developed tool, the component used to measure the temperature and surface of the panel is the DHT11 sensor, the component for measuring DC current is the ACS1712 sensor, the component for measuring DC voltage is the ZMPT101B sensor, and the component for measuring currents and voltages sourced from PLN electricity is sensor PZEM-004. Arduino will record data from these components, which is then interfaced to Excel Spreadsheet processing in the form of presenting data tables and graphics in real time. The DC voltage sensor calibration test has an average error of 0.63% and an AC voltage of 0.42%, while the DC current sensor has an average error of 2.21%, and the AC sensor current has an average error of 2.07% with all sensors in the normal reading limit category. The measurement results with the maximum electrical energy consumption capacity in the DC power measurement reached 1777.8 W, while for the maximum AC power capacity measurement it reached a value of 1834 W and occurred during peak loads at 12.00 PM.


A molded, plastic guard for use in combination with a baited fishing hook to prevent snagging or fouling from underwater vegetation. The guard of the instant invention is a funnel-shaped device with an enlarged proximal end for securing the barb of the fishing hook in a fixed position. A V-shaped slot opposite a barb detent centers the shank of a fish hook forcing the barb into a desired position. The distal end of the guard is used to bias against the body of the bait to maintain the bait in a parallel plane to the fish hook, further providing an uninterrupted guide between the bait and the tip of the hook. Once installed, the guard is only dislodged by an upward force as provided when a fish takes the hook.


Improvement in living conditions and socioeconomical level in Spain has been reflected in shitfs from traditional food patterns, which used to be close to Mediterranean Diets, shown by both Household Budget Surveys and individual level nutritional surveys in different regions such as the Basque Country or Cataluna. Recent data from the enKid study suggests that this changes are even deeper among Spanish children and young people, and mainly their contribution to an increase in the prevalence of obesity. According to this survey, prevalence of obesity in Spanish males aged 2-24 years is 15,5% and among females 12%. The SEEDO '2000 study provides estimates for the prevalence of obesity in adults, showing higher rates in Galicia, Andalucia and the Canary Islands. It seems that inequalities in death rates from chronic diseases can be better explained by unequal distribution of socioeconomic and food and nutrition indicators rather than by any other known risk factors.


Barrett's (1980) critical review of shape measures omitted any reference to a compound shape measure developed in 1963 (Janke, 1963, 1966). This measure formed the basis for the only published equations known to this author predicting settling velocities of a wide size- and shape-range of non-spherical particles over an appreciable range of settling velocities, through the Stokes regime to Reynolds numbers of about 100,000. The form factor of the measure was also shown to be useful in quantitatively representing shape aspects of sieving data (Janke, 1970),


Surgery is the primary treatment for adenocarcinoma originating from the esophagogastric junction. However, many physicians attempt various endoscopic treatments for the cases of early adenocarcinoma and high-grade dysplasia of esophagogastric junction in order to avoid the high risk of complications associated with surgical resection. Recently, there is an increasing tendency to use endoscopic mucosal resection for the management of early esophageal cancer due to low morbidity and mortality rates. We report here on a case of early adenocarcinoma at esophagogastric junction successfully treated with endoscopic mucosal resection. (Ewha Med J 2012;35(2):124-128)


Your management queries and problems are welcome at email@example.com. All your Office Auntie asks is for as much detail as possible. She will respect any need for anonymity in publishing both letters and replies. This month …


Designing an efficient search algorithm is a key challenge in unstructured peer-to-peer networks in order to reduce redundant messages in the search process. Addressing the problem, in this paper, a path tracking search algorithm based on the credibility of node service ability(CNSA) is proposed. we utilize the credibility of node service ability as heuristic information to probabilistically guide the search. The credibility of node service ability is a new neighbor selection criterion which allows a peer to evaluate the credibility of its each neighbor based on the successful feedbacks from previous searches and the service capability of each neighbor node itself. Meanwhile, aiming to eliminate the repeat messages forwarding and reduce the number of redundant messages, the path tracking mechanism and the local messages caching mechanism are combined into CNSA. Our extensive simulation results show that CNSA can reduce the number of redundant messages, increase the query hit rate and adaptation to the dynamic characteristics of P2P networks.


Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Bishop's childhood was structured around a sequence of tragedies. Her father died when she was less than one year old. Her mother endured a series of emotional breakdowns and was permanently institutionalized when Bishop was five years old; they never saw each other again. At that point, she was living in Nova Scotia, but after a few years her grandparents returned with her to Worcester. Then she lived with an aunt, meanwhile suffering from asthma and other illnesses. After an education at Vassar, she lived in New York and Florida, but on a fellowship to Brazil she decided to stay there with Lota de Macedo Soares, a Brazilian architect, as her partner, which she did for sixteen years, until Soares committed suicide in 1967. In 1970 Bishop began a seven-year teaching career at Harvard.


This doctoral research is located within brand management and specifically cobranding or brand alliances. The research will explore managerial antecedents to enter a brand alliance. Following an extensive literature review and a qualitative scoping phase, a model will be produced to understand antecedents leading to alliance formation. The research answers a call for a managerial level study surrounding cobranding to improve understanding of alliance formation, motivations and intentions.


ABSTRACT: The present evaluated the effects of copper sulfate solution (CSS) and arginine powder (Arg) supplements on performance, thyroid hormones and blood biochemistry of broiler chickens fed with canola meal (CM)-based diets. The experimental design was completely randomized with a 3 × 3 factorial and 9 treatments, corresponding to 3 levels of CSS (0, 125 and 250 mg/kg) and 3 levels of Arg (0, 0.1 and 0.2%) (n = 45 per treatment). Feeds were offered ad libitum for 21 days, from 22 to 42 days of age. Feed efficiency was significantly affected by the dietary addition of 250 mg/kg CSS and 0.2% Arg, and by the CSS × Arg interaction. CM supplemented with CSS improved the thyroid gland status and increased the plasma levels of triiodothyronine and thyroxine. Birds fed diets supplemented with 0.2% Arg had lower blood glucose level than the other treatments. The addition of 250 mg/kg CSS and 0.2% Arg reduced the stress caused by the rapid growth of broilers, also increasing the overall bird welfare.


Aiming at the fault characteristics of high-speed gearbox fault diagnosis of wind turbine, a fault diagnosis method of combining wavelet analysis with least square-support vector machine (LS-SVM) is proposed. According to the method, the energy of frequency bands generated by wavelet decomposition and reconstruction of the high-speed gearbox's vibration signals in different fault states is normalized as eigenvectors, forming training and testing samples of LS-SVM fault classifier. Train the LS-SVM fault diagnosis model with the training samples and test the accuracy with the testing samples. The result of research shows that the fault diagnosis method based on the wavelet analysis and LS-SVM has good diagnostics effect.


Agrobacterium genetically transforms its hosts by transferring a segment of DNA (T-DNA) into the host cell and integrating it into the host genome. Integration requires a close interaction between T-DNA, which is packaged into a nucleoprotein complex (T-complex) by bacterial virulence (Vir) proteins, and the host chromatin. This interaction is facilitated by the host protein VIP 1, which binds both to the major protein component of the T-complex, VirE2, and to the core histones. Recently, VIP1 has been demonstrated to mediate the interaction between plant nucleosomes and VirE2-DNA complexes (i.e., synthetic T-complex-like structures) in vitro. Here, we discuss major implications of these observations—such as the possible role of core histone modifications, proteasomal uncoating of the T-complex mediated by the bacterial F-box protein VirF, and the need for changes in chromatin structure to render it accessible to the T-DNA integration—for the process of chromatin targeting of foreign DNA and its integration into the eukaryotic genome.


A new type of finite-time synchronization with two drive systems and two response systems is presented. Based on the finite-time stability theory, step-by-step control and nonlinear control method, a suitable controller is designed to achieve finite-time combination-combination synchronization among four hyperchaotic systems. Numerical simulations are shown to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed control technique.


House sparrow is non-migratory bird and often closely associated with human habitats and found in highest abundance in agricultural, suburban, and urban areas. It is closely associated with human habitats and cultivation areas. It is gregarious bird and mostly feeding in groups on the ground and forming flocks with other birds. Small treesAcacia nilotica (Kikar), Acacia jacquemontii (Kheri), Carissa carandas (Karonda) and Tecomella undulata (Rohida) are most preferred by the House Sparrow as four of five trees were selected as site for its activities and roosting. The maximum population was recorded during the rainy season i.e. the months of July, August and September. Maximum activities performed by the House sparrow in the early morning to late morning (5.00 AM to 11.00 AM).


A combination of experimental and computational methods has been used to investigate the effects of vanadium doping in ETS-10. Near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectra reveal octahedrally coordinated VIV and VV species within V-doped ETS-10 materials, confirming substitution for TiIV sites only. Computational models, using hybrid density functional theory/molecular mechanics (DFT/MM) methods, have been developed that contain varying concentrations of VIV and VV within the O−M−O (M = Ti, V) chain. Geometry optimizations indicate that VV substitution leads to larger changes in the local chain geometry than VIV substitution. Substitution energetics for VIV and VV in different sites have been calculated to determine preferred locations of the two species, suggesting that long chains of VV are not stable and demonstrating the need for both VV and VIV within V-substituted materials. Wavefunctions for systems with an electron added or removed are used to identify electron and hole trapping site...


There is no higher calling than leading one's fellows in building the Kingdom of God.Tc have left some per~ manent change of direction in human affairs toward the ends of God, which Jesus called the Kingdom of Heaven, is to have proved one's share in eternal life by the grace of God. In face of such a fact all questions of ambitions and honors slip away to the outer limits of appraisement and wait for their reckoning while we think of a man's work as a factor in the making of the human race. To be such a factor is an achievement when viewed in relation to one's fellows, and as a product of a personality wiIldriven toward high goals; thought of from the standpoint of him who is the "Builder and Maker" of "a city which hath foundations", it is more an expression of divine energy than a human achievement. Human progress proceeds under inspiration and spiritual .compulsion of personal leadership. The division of men into leaders and followers is not absolute, for in many and important respects all men-leaders most of all-are followers of other men. The masses of men are as yet, in so many ways and so deeply, dependent upon leadership as properly to be classed followers in the


The gene encoding frog (Xenopus tropicalis) ependymin without the signaling sequence was gene-synthesized, and the protein successfully over-expressed in ~mg quantities adequate for crystallization using insect cell expression. Circular dichroism (CD) analysis of the protein purified with >95% homogeneity indicated that ependymin contains both α-helix and β-strand among the secondary structure elements. The protein was further crystallized using polyethylene glycol 8000 as the precipitating reagent, and X-ray diffraction data were collected to 2.7 A resolution under cryo-condition at a synchrotron facility. The crystal belongs to a hexagonal space group P6122 (or P6522) having unit cell parameters of a = b = 61.05 A, c = 234.33 A. Matthews coefficient analysis indicated a crystal volume per protein mass (VM) of 2.76 A3 Da−1 and 55.4% solvent content in the crystal when the calculated molecular mass of the protein only was used. However, the apparent SDS-PAGE molecular mass of ~33 kDa (likely resulting from N-glycosylation) suggested VM of 1.90 A3 Da−1 and 35.4% solvent content instead. In both cases, the asymmetric unit of the crystal likely contains only one subunit of the protein.


On the basis of author's former work, this paper presents an improved ant colony algorithm, namely adaptive ant colony algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, the value of evaporation rate ρ is adaptively changed and a minimum value ρmin is assigned. Thereby, the evaporation rate ρ is under control and will never be reduced to 0. Then the paper applies the proposed algorithm to grid task scheduling. Comparing experimental results with the original algorithm show that the proposed algorithm is more efficient both in task scheduling efficiency and resource load.


Long-lived heavy quarkonia states, cc and bb, have played a key role in so lidifying the quark model and in devel opment of quantitative theoretical meth ods to describe hadrons; potential mod els early on, more recently NRQCD and lattice QCD. The triplet 3P bb states are among the most recently observed heavy-heavy mesons l,Z . Because of their proximity to the open flavor threshold, it has been speculated that couplings to virtual B(•) fJ(•) pairs could drastically affect their masses and decay proper ties 3. Furthermore, it has been proposed that the Xb(33P1) state could have a sub stantial component of an I = 0 BB* molecule, Xb, analogous to the I = 0 DD* molecule offered as an explanation M(33P) centroid ATLAS


The paper minutely introduces the interior classifications of Ziyang dialect stemmed from Ankang in southwest Shaanxi and its characteristics of phonetic and words and internal diversities,and discusses the causes for such diversities through the detailed accurate historical and geographical data.


In a relativistic setting, hydrodynamic calculations which include shear viscosity (which is first order in an expansion in gradients of the flow velocity) are unstable and acausal unless they also include terms to second order in gradients. To date such terms have only been computed in supersymmetric N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at infinite coupling. Here we compute these second-order hydrodynamic coefficients in weakly coupled QCD, perturbatively to leading order in the QCD coupling, using kinetic theory. We also compute them in QED and scalar {lambda}{phi}{sup 4} theory.


Abstract It has been argued that science diplomacy (SD) helps avoid or mitigate conflicts among stakeholders in the Arctic. Yet underlying some of these well-intended and sometimes successful initiatives is a one-sided understanding of SD. The most recent literature takes a more differentiated approach towards the means and ends of SD. It shows that international scientific interaction is shaped by the twofold logic of competition and collaboration. Instruments of SD can be meant to serve national interests, collective regional goals or global agendas. The present paper disentangles these confounding discourses of collaboration and competition based on a conceptually enhanced SD framework. It analyses Arctic strategies and two cases of Arctic SD, the Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation and research activities on Svalbard, to reveal the mechanisms of collaboration and competition in the sphere of international science in relation to security, environment and economy. By pointing out where and how science is currently being used in the Arctic, this article provides (a) a systematic overview of the state of SD in the region and (b) a tool for policy-makers and scientists to assess what impact different facets of SD have in Arctic politics.


Ryan, Valerie E. M.S., Purdue University, December 2016. Recombinant Listeria Adhesion Protein Expressing Probiotics Protect Against Listeria monocytogenes Infection in Animal Models. Major Professor: Arun Bhunia. Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a foodborne pathogen, found ubiquitously in nature, and has a high morbidity rate among immunocompromised individuals, the elderly, and especially pregnant women and their fetuses resulting in abortion, stillbirth, and neonatal infection. There are currently no preventative medical interventions against Lm infection. The Listeria adhesion protein (LAP) is present in both pathogenic and nonpathogenic Listeria (i.e., L. innocua) and has shown to interact with host epithelial proteins causing tight junction dysregulation aiding in pathogen attachment and paracellular translocation across the host intestinal epithelium. Our lab has demonstrated that recombinant probiotics, Lactobacillus casei (LbcWT) expressing LAP from either the pathogenic L. monocytogenes (LbcLAP) or the nonpathogenic L. innocua (LbcLAP) prevented Lm attachment in in vitro cell culture experiments. Here, we investigated the beneficial attributes of our recombinant probiotics against clinical listerial infection of healthy mice and subclinical listerial infection in pregnant guinea pigs (GP). We supplied animals with freshly prepared wild type (LbcWT) and recombinant probiotics (9 10 cfu/ml) in sterile water daily for 10 (mice) or 17 days (GP). They were challenged with a clinical dose (4 10 cfu/mouse) and subclinical


MEDIEVAL FEMALE SPIRITUALITY AND THE WOUND OF CHRIST IN FOLIO 331r OF BONNE OF LUXEMBOURG'S PRAYER BOOK by Paige M. Walker A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in History of Art with Honors. I, Paige Walker, affirm that the following thesis represents my original scholarly work. Fall 2012 Copyright 2012 Paige Walker All rights reserved


A method for visualizing discussion flow is proposed for analyzing the thread in KGBBS (KeyGraph-based BBS). It is known that group discussion is effective for chance discovery, in which information visualization plays an important role in providing participants with a material to that brainstorm various ideas, opinions, and interpretations. In order to enable online discussion while sharing the same visualized material, KGBBS is proposed based on KeyGraph, which is one of the typical visualization techniques in chance discovery. The aim of this paper is to utilize the result of discussion using KGBBS, by visualizing discussion flow of the thread in KGBBS. The method consists of 2 kinds of visualization techniques — a comment chain diagram to visualize the structure of comment chain, and a visual summary on KeyGraph to visualize concrete transition of topics through successive 2 or 3 comments. The proposed method is applied to actual discussion data, and the analysis results show the combination of both the visualization techniques, making it possible to analyze concrete transition of topics without reading comments in a thread.


: Aiming at the problem that the accuracy design index of the machine tool is difficult to be determined reasonably in the geometric precision design process of CNC machine tools, a method for solving the allowable range of the pose error of the tool relative to the worktable based on the tolerances of the workpiece to be processed is proposed. Firstly, the constraint model between the single tolerance item of the workpiece and the pose error of machine tool is established. That is to say, in order to satisfy the requirement of a single tolerance item, the allowable range of the pose error can be determined. Secondly, the required accuracy design index of the machine tool can be obtained by calculating the intersection of every range corresponding to every single tolerance item, which can then be used for tolerance allocation process. The solution methods of the common tolerance items are derived, and the machining test piece is selected as an example to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.


ABSTRACT A generalized simulation technique that can be used to study both dynamic and steady state performance of a phase-controlled thyristor voltage regulator with static RL and Induction motor loads is presented. The technique extends an approach developed earlier for application to a cycloconverter fed induction motor drive - where logic variables represent the thyristor switches in the voltage regulator model and the induction motor operation for various modes with the switchings in the stator is represented by a generalized set of equations in d-q reference frame. The equations so developed avoid any matrix inversion operation during computation. Digital computer programs developed for determination of the switching variables and the simulation of the systems are discussed and typical steady state and dynamic responses as predicted with thyristor firing angles as independent variables are shown.


Recognition of airway inflammation as the primary cause of asthma revolutionized our understanding of this disease. This concept of chronic inflammation causing asthma led to radical changes in therapeutic recommendations. Anti-inflammatory drugs, such as inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), used in the treatment of asthma dramatically improve the clinical course and prognosis in most patients. In the last two decades it has been increasingly recognized that inflammation in asthma is accompanied by structural changes of the airway wall; referred to as airway remodeling. The original hypothesis that airway remodeling is a consequence of long-term uncontrolled inflammatory activity has been challenged by studies that found features of airway remodeling even in patients with recently diagnosed asthma. Recently, there have been several papers that formulated a hypothesis that presented remodeling as a process running parallel with the inflammation. Some authors even hypothesize that structural changes may precede the inflammatory process. The process of remodeling has been in part explained as a repeated cycle of injury and repair with an involvement of various growth factors triggered by inflammation or by the injury itself. Airway remodeling has been understood as the main cause of irreversible obstruction of the airways and the main reason for accelerated decline of lung function in asthmatics. The issue is even more complicated in children as there is still no available information about possible interaction of remodeling with the development of the lung. Some features of remodeling can also be detected in other diseases, such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis, and post-viral chronic obstructive syndromes.


Bypassing transient current through copper (Cu) stabilizer layers reduces heat generation and temperature rise of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) conductors, which could protect HTS cables from burning out during transient conditions. The Cu layer connected in parallel with HTS tape layers impacts current distribution among layers and variations of phase resistance in either steady-state or transient conditions. Modeling the multilayer HTS power cable is important for transient studies. However, existing models of HTS power cables have only proposed HTS cables without the use of a Cu-former layer. To overcome this problem, the authors proposed a multilayer HTS power cable model that used a Cu-former layer in each phase for transient study. It was observed that resistance of the HTS conductor increased significantly in the transient state due to a quenching phenomenon, which made the transient current mainly flow into the Cu-former layers. Since resistance of the Cu-former layer has a significant impact on the transient current, detailed modeling of the Cu-former layer is described in this study. The feasibility of the developed HTS cable model is evaluated in the PSCAD/EMTDC program.


At the present stage of development of the economy, the most important conditions for improving the efficiency of social production are improvement of its structure and methods of management, intensification of concentration and specialization, and the strengthening of ties with science. These processes are determined by the very nature of large-scale machine production. Marx wrote that "increase in the scale of industrial enterprises serves everywhere as the point of departure for broader organization of the joint work of many, for the broader development of its material motive forces, i.e., for progressive conversion of scattered and routine production processes into a socially combined and scientifically directed process of production." (1) Lenin, developing these propositions, emphasized: "In order to increase the productivity of human labor directed, for example, to making some little part of the entire product, it is necessary for the production of that little part to become a specialized operation,...


Using a case study approach in this qualitative study, the authors examine perceptions of the emotional challenges of hospice palliative care professionals. In-depth interviews were conducted and field notes were obtained from healthcare providers working in end-of-life care in hospital and community settings. Participants described experiences of challenges in working with current changes occurring within hospice palliative care. Using thematic analysis, an overarching theme of widening circles of palliative care was generated. Four subthemes identify emotions with associated changes, including apprehension of dying becoming an acute event, frustration with interdisciplinarity, urging self-care of healthcare providers, and holding tightly to patient-focused care.


A ro-week trial was conducted with twenty young pigs to determine the effects of the addition of initially 500 mg arsanilic acid (ASA)/kg for 14 d and later 350 mg ASA/kg to a diet of low selenium and vitamin E content. The effects of adding supplementary Se and vitamin E to such a diet were also studied. E The basal Experimental basal casein diet (120 g crude protein (nitrogenx6.25)bg) supplied to rats and the effects on growth, apparent digestibility of N and the physiology of the pancreas and small intestine investigated. All observations were compared with rats supplied with the respective control diets containing autoclaved PI. Rats were also given diets containing raw or autoclaved bean meal (FBD) supplemented with DL-methionine (2.5 g/kg). Time-related changes were followed over a 21 d period.


We propose a method for the observation of the electron-initiated impact ionization process in Si, which is potentially capable of detecting individual impact ionization events. This method detects holes generated by the impact ionization with single charge sensitivity. We demonstrate the method at 8 K by detecting the chain of single holes generated for a constant electron-injection current with the injection-energy threshold close to the Si bandgap energy.We propose a method for the observation of the electron-initiated impact ionization process in Si, which is potentially capable of detecting individual impact ionization events. This method detects holes generated by the impact ionization with single charge sensitivity. We demonstrate the method at 8 K by detecting the chain of single holes generated for a constant electron-injection current with the injection-energy threshold close to the Si bandgap energy.


Interest in robotics field as a teaching tool to promote the STEM areas - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics has grown in the past years. The search for costless solutions to promote robotics is a major challenge and the use of real robots always increases associated costs. An alternative to this is the use of a simulator. The construction of a simulator related with the Portuguese Autonomous Driving Competition using Gazebo as 3D simulator and Robotics Operating System (ROS) as a middleware connection to promote, attract, and enthusiasm university students to the mobile robotics challenges is presented. The proposed simulator focus on the autonomous driving competition task, such as semaphore recognition, localization, and motion control. An evaluation of the simulator is also performed, leading to an absolute error of 5.11% and a relative error of 2.76% on best case scenarios relating to the odometry tests and an accuracy of 99.37% regarding to the semaphore recognition tests performed.


In the framework of solving the grant project of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, we paid attention to several issues not sufficiently clarified yet concerning the field of the lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous deposits in the Silesian Unit. In addition to the precise field documentation of suitable sections, we had taken samples for thin sections and non-calcareous dinoflagellates, and tried to collect macrofaunas. It is the confirmation of Těšín Limestone occurrence in the Godula Nappe and especially the detailed biostratigraphic characteristics and paleoecological evaluation of Lower Cretaceous and also the lower part of Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Silesian Unit based on dinoflagellates that belong to the new knowledge.


A study of the determinants of remarriage is presented using official French data and the methods developed for economic analysis. Particular attention is given to the role of the economic benefits and costs of remarriage, with reference also to the division of assets from the previous marriage and the costs of divorce. (summary in ENG)


A 24-year-old cisgender woman presents to your primary care clinic for a routine physical examination. Her only medication is an etonogestrel (Implanon) 68-mg implant for birth control. She reports occasional vaping of electronic cigarettes and states that she does not drink alcohol or inject drugs. Her sexual history includes three male partners in the past year and inconsistent condom use.


The Good Friday Agreement contained a series of constructive ambiguities which were critical to ensuring that it received broad cross-political support. These ambiguities were reflective of the balance of political power of the time. Once institutionalized, they contained an immanent potential to morph in to structural contradictions as the re-balancing of demographic and political power in Ireland moved from latent to manifest status. As the Agreement reaches its 25th anniversary, three outstanding structural contradictions are manifesting, prompted by Brexit and the re-introduction of the 'Irish question' in to Irish-British relations. The constitutional status of the North of Ireland, the raison d'etre of statelet, and the inability of the governing institutions to function representationally or effectively have co-joined with a new balance of political power favoring Irish nationalism over Ulster unionism. Consequently, whether or not we are witnessing the twilight of the Good Friday Agreement will be contingent upon the short-medium term political decisions of key political actors, most notably, Ulster unionism. Three probable future developments will be further stasis, institutional reform, or (r)evolutionary constitutional change.


Total hip anthroplasty should provide a durable, relatively painless hip for the lifetime of most elderly patients. The greater challenge for the orthopaedic sumgeon performing total hip arthmoplasty today is the treatment of younger patients. whose life expectancy is now well into the seventies and appears to be on the increase. Chamnley stated the problem well when he said: 'The challenge comes when patients between 45 and 50 years of age are to he considered for the operation. because then every advance in technical detail must he used if there is to be a reasonable chance of 20 or more years of trouble-free activity." He also stated that "the best time to obtain a good result is the first time around." In evaluations of the results of total hip anthroplasty in younger patients. the first question to be answered is: what is young? In order to make valid comparisons between series, the reader must be able to discern the number of patients in each decade of life. Some authors have used different age criteria, and a ten to fifteen-year difference in age-grouping can make a difference in the reported results. For this lecture, in most cases. the discussion will be limited to patients who are less than fifty years old. However, because of the data available. some of the studies cited will include slightly older patients. Another important consideration is the mix of diagnoses in each series of younger patients. The clinical and radiographic results in a study that includes only patients who have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, on a high percentage of such patients. would probably differ from those in a series in which a more active group of patients had been studied. These differences must be kept in mind when comparisons are made between the series to he discussed in this paper. Although this lecture reviews the results of total hip arthroplasty in young people. it must be remembered that the first choice of treatment for such patients should he more conservative since the long-term dura-


Form about 300 bryophyte specimens collected from beauty spot of Getu river in Guizhou province, south-west China, 25 families, 69 genera, 131 species and 2 subspecies and 1 varieties had been found. Among them 7 species as Trichostomum planifolium (Dix.) Zand.; Pohlia tapintzense (Besch.) Redf. et Tan; P. ludwigii (Schwaegr.) Broth.; Pinnatella aloppelianus (Mitt.) Fleisch.; Entodon nepalensis U. Mizushima; Plagiothecium rotundifolium D.K.Li.and Hypum macrogynum Besch. are recorded for the first time in Guizhou. Their ecological types and floristic elements were analyzed: Karst forest bryophytes, Karst shrub bryophytes, Karst cave bryophytes, Karst moist bryophytes are 4 types recognized by author. According to Wu Zheng-yi, the phytogeographical composition of Getu river contains 12 types. Totally, the East Asia elements is the most important one element and corresponds to 42.5% of the total.


In order to clarify property rights in land integration,this paper uses institutional analysis and causal analysis to analyze the consolidation of ownership of land and property rights adjustment formula to adjust the balance of interests in the process of proposed consolidation of land property rights,and proposes establishing an adjustment mechanism of land property rights in land integration through speeding theoretical researches and assessment of practices.


Smart antennas offer a broad range of ways to improve wireless system performance. They provide enhanced coverage through range extension, hole filling, and better building penetration. Smart antennas use an array of low gain antenna elements which are connected by a network. Fractal concepts have been used in antenna arrays recently. The important properties of fractal arrays are frequency independent multiband characteristics, schemes for realizing low side lobe designs, systematic approaches to thinning, and the ability to develop rapid beam forming algorithms. In this paper, an attempt has been made to apply assignment of usage time and location tag algorithm for smart antennas combined with the fractal concepts to reduce the computational complexity and enhance resource allocation for rapid beam forming algorithms. Furthermore, two combinational approach algorithms are proposed for peer users within single base station and peer users between different base stations.


In this paper, we outline an approach to policy-based coordination in joint human-agent activity. The approach is grounded in a theory of joint activity originally developed in the context of discourse, and now applied to the broader realm of human-agent interaction. We have been gradually implementing selected aspects of policy-based coordination within the KAoS services framework and have been developing a body of examples that guide additional testing of these ideas through detailed studies of work practice.


This paper deals with the study and analysis of ECG signal processing by means of MATLAB tool effectively. Study of ECG signal includes generation & simulation of ECG signal, acquisition of real time ECG data, ECG signal filtering & processing, feature extraction, comparison between different ECG signal analysis algorithms & techniques (i.e. Wavlet transform or so), detection of any abnormalities in ECG, calculating beat rate and so on using the most familiar and multipurpose MATLAB software along with LABVIEW. The proper utilization of MATLAB functions (both built-in and user defined), toolbox and Simulink can lead us to work with ECG signals for processing and analysis both in real time and by simulation with great accuracy and convenience.


How does one approach a study of the archi-textures of parliamentary spaces? How do the walls, floors, doors, grilles, sculptures, murals and glass sensate legitimate parliamentary rites, rituals and performances? How do they also provide researchers with opportunities for telling altered iterations of how parliamentary space has both contained and been taken apart? If the buildings and its textures are embedded with iconography and haptic architectures which provide containers of democracy, how can we, as researchers working through different occupations of architectures, evacuate a different imagination of political space?


Human detection is a challenging task in many fields because it is difficult to detect humans due to their variable appearance and posture. Detecting humans accurately is the first fundamental step for many computer vision applications such as video surveillance, smart vehicles, intersection traffic analysis and so on. This paper consists of efficient human detection in static images using Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) for local feature extraction and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. Histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) gives an accurate description of the contour of human body. Based on HOG and support vector machine (SVM) theory, a classifier for human is obtained. I have to evaluate the performance of pedestrian histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) and Support Vector Machine on INRIA human database images.


Objectives: The growth status of school children resident in an urban colonia and in a rural indigenous community in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, was considered in the context of two objectives, current status and the magnitude of urban–rural differences over a span of about 30 years. Both communities were initially surveyed in 1968 and 1972. Materials and methods: Height, body mass, segment lengths, skeletal breadths, limb circumferences, and subcutaneous fatness were taken on 361 rural (177 boys, 184 girls) and 339 urban (173 boys, 166 girls) school children, aged 6–13 years. Additional variables were derived. Results: Height and body mass were significantly greater in urban compared with rural children. Sitting height, estimated leg length and skeletal breadths on the trunk were also larger in urban than in rural school children, but only the difference in skeletal breadths was significant after age and body size were statistically controlled. Urban and rural children did not consistently differ in skeletal breadths on the extremities and limb circumferences. Subcutaneous fatness was more variable. After controlling for age and body size, rural girls had thicker skinfolds. The magnitude of the urban–rural difference in boys in 2000 was greater for body mass, BMI and triceps skinfold, and reduced for height, sitting height, leg length, and arm and estimated arm muscle circumferences compared with 1970. The magnitude of the urban–rural difference in girls was greater in 2000 than 30 years earlier for body mass, height, sitting height, leg length and BMI. Urban–rural differences for arm and arm muscle circumferences and the triceps skinfold were slightly smaller over the interval. Conclusions: Children resident in an urban colonia were taller and heavier than children resident in a rural indigenous community. After controlling for age and body size, urban–rural differences in skeletal breadths and limb circumferences were reduced or eliminated, but skinfold thicknesses were greater in rural girls. The magnitude of urban–rural differences in body size has decreased over approximately 30 years in boys, but has increased in girls.


Lewis acid (BF 3 (OEt) 2 ) in dry diethyl ether mediated cyclization and demethylation of substituted 2-(2-methyl-3-methylsulfanyl-phenylsulfanyl)-1,2-diphenyl-ethanones (3a-e) at ambient temperature gave 7-methyl-2,3-diphenyl-6-thio-benzo[b]thiophenes (4a-e). Treatment of (4a-e) with substituted malonic acids furnishes the corresponding substituted 5-hydroxythio-7H-thieno[3,2-g][1] benzothiopyran-7-aones. These were characterized by their elemental, IR, 1 H NMR and mass spectral analysis.


Organic white light emitting devices(OWLEDs) have tremendous application merits and potential markets.There are mostly two kinds of OWLEDs,one based on electroluminescence(EL),the other on photoluminescence (PL).The main principles of EL are multiple quantum well,exciplex and energy transfer.The organic EL devices have been more investigated and there are products in near future.But for organic PL devices,there are less study.The cost of PL OWLEDs is lower than that of EL OWLEDs,and its fluorescence efficiency may be higher.Therefore OWLEDs stand for a cheap route for luminescent technique.A summary of OWLEDs mechanisms and development are put forward.


Now-a-days there is rapid development in the multimedia and network technologies. That's why the privacy and security becomes the major issues since the multimedia is transmitted openly over the network. Along with the privacy as well as security, storage space is also a significant point that can't be missed. That's why for providing the privacy and security to the multimedia, encryption works as the base and similarly to reduce the storage space compression can be used. As the size reduces, it also reduces the time taken for transmission. In many practical scenarios, image encryption has to be conducted before the image compression. This has led to the problem or issue of how to design a pair of image encryption and compression algorithms such that compressing the encrypted images can still be performed efficiently. In this work, we design and implement an efficient image encryption-compression system, where lossy compression is considered. The proposed image encryption scheme is operated with random permutation method which is shown is able to provide reasonably high level of security. We will also implement a new image compression algorithm using Haar and Symlet Wavelet Transform that can be used for efficiently compressing the encrypted image. More eminently, the compression approach applied to encrypted image is proved more efficient and better in terms of Compression Ratio (CR), Mean Square Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR).


The perpetrators in crime of not handing over criminal case with malpractice for self comprise the people of directly executing the administrative law in the administrative department,the organs accredited by law or code,the organs consigned by the administrative department;the people consigned by the administrative department and directly executing the administrative law;the director or the principal in the administrative department.The police agent and the missionary in department of discipline and supervise become the perpetrator of this crime also."Malpractice for self"should not regarded as the inscape of this crime."Not handing over"refers to not hand over to judiciary organs.Criterion of judging"criminal case"is that administrative case has suspicion of infringing criminal law.The infringed benefit in this crime is legalization of action in which administrative tipsters hand over criminal case.


Interferon alpha is used for the adjuvant treatment of malignant melanoma at different dosages (high‐, intermediate‐, low‐dose therapy). Only a minority of patients might benefit from this therapy, and markers to identify such patients are missing. A recent study suggested that melanoma patients developing autoantibodies or clinical manifestations of autoimmunity during adjuvant high‐dose interferon alpha treatment had a significant survival benefit. We retrospectively reviewed 134 melanoma patients from our institution treated with adjuvant low‐dose interferon alpha therapy and correlated the development of autoimmune diseases with prognosis. Interferon (IFN) therapy was routinely monitored by history, physical examination and laboratory tests before, after the first month and then after every 3 months of therapy. During a median follow up of 46.0 months (8.5–79.0 months) 28 patients (20.9%) suffered from recurrences and melanoma related deaths occurred in 16 patients (11.9%). In 20 patients (14.9%) autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) was diagnosed during IFN therapy, one of these 20 patients developed rheumatoid arthritis later while continuing IFN therapy. Other autoimmune diseases were not observed. In 2 patients (one with AIT and one with arthritis) the autoimmune disease led to discontinuation of IFN therapy, in the other patients AIT remained subclinical or responded well to treatment while IFN therapy was continued. Kaplan–Meier analyses revealed a significant better recurrence free survival and a trend for a better overall survival for patients with AIT. Thus, autoimmunity triggered by low‐dose IFN therapy appears to indicate an improved prognosis and should encourage continuation of IFN therapy. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Commenting on the plight of young people during the Great Recession, economist Richard Freeman remarked (Estes, 2011), "These people will be scarred, and they will be called the 'lost generation'." These words are quite stark, but they speak to the gravity of the situation at hand, the high stakes involved—not just for young people but for society as a whole. Whether today's youth are indeed scarred and lost (or not) has generated a great deal of social and behavioral research in the last several years. This attention is certainly not surprising. How young people fared during this economic downturn is of great importance to policy and practice; for example, economics research can quantify who has been hardest hit, who is the most vulnerable in the future, who needs the most help, and what the price tag might ultimately be. At the same time, this issue has broad theoretical significance across disciplines. Capturing the interplay of macro-level societal trends and micro-level personal experiences, it embodies the very core of the sociological imagination, life course theory, human ecology, and many other perspectives in sociology, demography, developmental science, and economics (Grusky, Western, & Wimer, 2012). The four articles in this Special Section are part of a new tradition of Great Recession research focused on children, adolescents, and young adults. They grew out of a series of activities and meetings (of which I was a part) funded by the Society for Research in Child Development, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), and other organizations across several countries, as part of the growing concern over the very possibility that we might have a lost generation (or lost generations) on our hands. Like so many studies of the effects of social change on the individual life course (Silbereisen, 2005; Elder, 1999), the story emerging from these four articles is a complicated one. Yes, the Great Recession has been bad for young people in general, but it has been far worse for some than others. Moreover, the risks of the Great Recession can only be understood at the intersection of contextual variation (in terms of current circumstances and past histories) and individual differences. From this highly general conclusion, I want to draw out several themes for further discussion from this notably interdisciplinary and cross-national enterprise. The first set of themes concerns what was found in the four studies, and the second set of themes concerns where these four articles are pointing us to go in the future. In doing so, I recognize just how difficult studying the effects of something like the Great Recession on young people can be. It is a true challenge. Because no one (well, almost no one) predicted the Great Recession beforehand, we have to rely on "accidental data", or data collections that just happened to be underway when the Great Recession unfolded. By definition, then, these data collections were not actually designed to study the Great Recession. The implicit cross-cultural comparisons in this collection of four articles adds another layer of complexity, as comparing and contrasting the findings of four sets of accidental data with different measurement and sampling strategies is a tall order indeed.


The development of tissue scaffolds, which are able to provide proper and accelerate regeneration of tissue is a main task of tissue engineering. We developed a nanocomposite gel that may be used as injectable therapeutic scaffold. The nanocomposite gel is based on biocompatible gelling agents with embedded nanoparticles (iron oxide, silver, hydroxyapatite) providing therapeutic properties. We have investigated the microstructure of the nanocomposite gel exposed to different substrates (porous materials and biological tissue). Here we show that the nanocomposite gel has the ability to self-reassemble mimicking the substrate morphology: exposition on porous mineral substrate caused re-assembling of nanocomposite gel into 10-times smaller scale structure; exposition to a section of humerus cortical bone decreased the microstructure scale more than twice (to ≤3 µm). The re-assembling happens through a transitional layer which exists near the phase separation boundary. Our results impact the knowledge of gels explaining their abundance in biological organisms from the microstructural point of view. The results of our biological experiments showed that the nanocomposite gel may find diverse applications in the biomedical field.


Recent basin‐scale changes to the compactness and thickness of Arctic sea ice foreshadow that encroaching swells and locally generated waves will exert more influence there in the future. Indeed, it is conceivable that waves may have already hastened the adjustments observed by breaking up ice floes. Yet waves advancing in sea ice attenuate due to being scattered from ice thickness variations and damped by ice inelasticity, turbulence and friction. While past research focuses on scattering by unnaturally perfect features in the ice, the model reported herein assimilates realistic basin‐scale swathes of heterogeneous ice and parameterizes damping. By way of example, we show how an ocean wave train evolves during its passage in an 1670‐km‐long Arctic sea ice profile obtained from submarine.


The new kinetic model for homoepitaxial growth on a singular surface is presented. The model combines a familiar rate equations approach and a concept of a feeding zone that allows to connect the growth processes in neighbouring monolayers. The model involves the irreversible 2D nucleation, growth and coalescence of the islands in each growing monolayer and consists of an infinite set of coupled rate equations for the adatom and island densities and coverage in successive monolayers. With using this model the temporal evolution of the surface morphology (rms roughness and RHEED intensity) is studied. It is shown that the growth mode is fully determined by a single dimensionless parameter μ = D/J where D and J are the normalized surface diffusion coefficient and deposition flux, respectively. There exist five regions of m corresponding different growth regimes varying from smooth 2D layer-by-layer growth at sufficiently high values of μ (>10 8 ) to very rough Poisson-like random deposition growth at μ −4 . The extension of the model to the case of heteroepitaxy is also discussed.


SUMMARY. This paper was presented to the Fifth Conference of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Counselling whose overall subject was Envy. I chose the subject of sibling rivalry because I have always found it a burning personal issue. Surprisingly not much has been written about it; so I hoped it would be interesting for a change to think about an aspect of envy that is a universal experience and yet different from the primary envy which Melanie Klein located in the motherbaby relationship and the state of part object relating. Rivalry and competition begin in the later developmental phase when the infant has achieved unit status, and when the two-person relationship has expanded into three- and multi-person relationships where the issues are loss, exclusion and intrusion. Then the experience of difference and otherness has to be mastered so that socialisation can take place.


A reactive transport model has been built to predict the weathering of sulphides contained in soils. The model has been tested to describe the evolution of the pore water chemistry and solid phases of a column experiment. The column was filled with pyritic sludge mixed with a sandy soil representative of the soils affected by a mine-tailing spill. The model is used to predict the behaviour of other soil types and other sludge contents.


The recent discoveries of primitive achondrites, metachondrites, and type 7 chondrites challenge the long held idea that all chondrites and achondrites form on separate parent bodies. These meteorites have experienced metamorphic temperatures above petrologic type 6 and have partially melted to various degrees. However, because of their isotopic and compositional similarities to both undifferentiated and differentiated groups, the provenance of these 'type 6+' meteorites remains largely unknown. CK and CV chondrites have recently been linked to a few achondrites due to their strong compositional, mineralogical, and isotopic similarities], suggesting a common origin between these meteorites. Although CVs have generally undergone low degrees of alteration near petrologic type 3, CKs have experienced a wide range of thermal alteration from petrologic type 3 to 6. Thermal evolution models on early accreting bodies predict that an early forming body can partially differentiate due to radiogenic heating, and, as a result, form radial layers of material increasing in thermal grade (types 3 to 6+) from the unmelted chondritic surface towards the differentiated core.Northwest Africa (NWA) 8186 is an ungrouped achondrite that provides compelling evidence for higher degrees of thermal processing and/or melting and differentiation on some CK/CV parent bodies. NWA 8186 plots on the CCAM line on a 3-oxygen isotope diagram directly with CK and CV chondrites and also plots with the CKs in regards to Cr isotopes. This meteorite is dominated by Nickel(II)Oxygen-rich olivine (less than 80%), lacks iron metal, and contains four oxide phases, indicating a high fOxygen (above FMQ) similar to the CKs. Additionally, NWA 8186 does not contain chondrules. We have further investigated the origins of NWA 8186 by examining and comparing the bulk composition of this CK-like achondrite with CK and CV chondrites, allowing us to assess the various scenarios in which NWA 8186 may have formed from CK/CV precursor material.


The effect of testosterone on plasma GH secretory profiles was examined in unrestrained adult female Wistar rats. Some of the rats were ovariectomized. One or 2mg testosterone propionate was injected sc daily for 21 days starting 3 weeks after the ovariectomy. The control rats received Sesame oil. Four to 5 days prior to use, all of the rats were provided with two indwelling cannulae, one in the right atrium for undisturbed blood collection and the other in the inferior vena cava for vehicle or synthetic human GH-releasing factor [1-44] NH, (GRF) infusion. Vehicle or GRF was administered by infusion pump (0.6m1/h) at a dose of 50ng/kg BW/min for 6h. Serial blood specimens were obtained every 20 min. In intact female rats, pulsatile GH secretion occurred irregularly at 1-2h intervals and GH values at the trough period fluctuated during a 6-h vehicle infusion. During a 6-h GRF infusion, a striking elevation of basal GH levels was observed and the number of pulsatile GH secretion increased. GH secretory profiles during a 6-h vehicle and GRF infusion in the ovariectomized rats did not differ from those observed in the intact female rats. A dramatic change in plasma GH secretory profile was observed in the ovariectomized rats that had received testosterone. In these rats, pulsatile GH secretion occurred regularly every 3-3.2h during a 6-h vehicle infusion and trough GH values were maintained at a low level with little fluctuations. Among ovariectomized rats that had received testosterone, the amplitude of pulsatile GH secretion was augmented significantly while GH secretion during the trough period was markedly inhibited. These effects of testosterone on GH secretory profiles were dose dependent. The results suggest that testosterone increases the release of somatostatin, which mediates intermittent tonic inhibition on GH secretion, and thereby alters plasma GH secretory profiles in female rats.


An exhibition in celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival You are invited to view Bringin' It All Back Home, previewed in this issue of Southern Cultures, at The Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York at Geneseo, February 1998; The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, March through April 1998; and the National Black Arts Festival at the Auburn Avenue Research Library for Southern Culture in Atlanta, July through September 1998. Mississippi, or Delta, Blues, performed and revered around the world, has long been recognized for its distinct musical and performance styles. It was not until 1978, however, that this music was welcomed back home with a major celebration--the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. This much anticipated annual event, which marked its twentieth anniversary this year, is a showcase for blues musicians from far and wide and honors the Delta's native daughters and sons in their own home. As one of the old Delta musicians said, "I'm glad to be playing here. This is like bringin' it all back home to the roots of where we shed our blood, sweat, and tears." Over the years the festival has featured hundreds of blues musicians including such legends as Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, B.B. King, Robert "Jr." Lockwood, Big Joe Williams, Lynne White, Bobby Blue Bland, Bo Diddley, Johnny Shines, Walter "Furry" Lewis, as well as Sam Chatmon, Johnny Winters, Sam Myers, Betty Fikes, Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eddie Kusic, Lonnie Pitchford, Sylvia Embry, and Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes. The festival was the brainchild of Charles Bannerman, who until his death in 1986 was director of Mississippi Action for Community Education, a minority rural development organization created by civil rights leaders in 1967 to promote community, social, and economic development throughout the Delta. Roland Freeman's involvement with the festival emerged from his ongoing documentation of the lives and cultural traditions of Mississippi's African Americans. In 1972 he began working with the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies as a field research photographer. When the Center featured Mississippi at its 1974 Festival of American Folklife, Freeman teamed with the folklorist Worth Long for the needed fieldwork. When Long and Freeman returned to the state in 1975 to conduct the Mississippi Folklife Project, they worked with Bannerman and Kay Shalong Morgan to help secure funding for a local blues celebration. With the help of a grant from the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival was born in 1978. Freeman remembers with fondness that first year: The stage was the flat bed of a truck in the middle of a cotton field in Freedom Village, and most of the people there were local folk who came together to hear southern rhythms that reflected the patterns of their lives. Their music had survived many generations of hard luck and trouble, of exploitation and oppression -- and for many of them, these were still the facts of life. The first festival was successful enough that by its second year, sponsors had begun to take notice and stepped in to provide commercial support and impetus for its enormous growth over the years. It is held at a sit six miles north of Greenville, usually on the third Saturday of September. In 1979 Freeman teamed up with Robert T. Jones Jr., a photographer from Holly Springs, Mississippi, to document the annual festivals. Between the two of them, most of the festivals through the early 1990s were photographed. The exhibition, Bringin' It All Back Home, which draws from this work, opened in the summer of 1997 at the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C. It then appeared at MACE in Greenville, Mississippi, from August through September 1997 as part of the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival, and at the New African American Museum Project, Lafayette, Louisiana, during October. …


Three dimensional fields of modeled tropospheric OH concentrations are used to calculate lifetimes against destruction by OH for many hydrogenated halocarbons, including the CFC alternatives. The OH fields were taken from a 3-D chemical transport model (Spivakovsky et al. 1989) that accurately simulates the global measurements of methyl chloroform (derived lifetime of 5.5 years). The lifetimes of various hydro-halocarbons are shown to be insensitive to possible spatial variations and seasonal cycles. It is possible to scale the HCFC lifetimes to that of methyl chloroform or methane by using the ratio of the rate coefficients for reaction with OH at an appropriate temperature, about 277 K.


Objective To investigate the telomerase activities in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patient with essential hypertension(EH), and its levels before and after plendil and lotensin treatment. Methods The telomerase activities of peripheral blood mononuclear cells were measured with telomerase TRAP Hyb Kit in 68 patients with EH and 32 patients with gallbladder stone before operation. For the telomerase positive EH patients telomerase was measured again after half year of plendil and lotensin therapy. Results The telomerase positive in the group of EH (67.65%,46/68) was significantly higher than the group of gallbladder stone (15.63%,5/32)( P 0.01). Telomerase positive was 29.41% (20/68, P 0.01) in EH after plendil and lotensin treatment and 6.25%(2/32, P 0.05) in gallbladder stone after operation. Conclusions The up regulation of telomerase activities in peripheral blood mononuclear cells might be one of risk factors in EH. Telomerase activities dicrease significantly after plendil and lotensin treatment.


There are many scientific methods and techniques for control of the communications traffic and they offer different procedures for more economic use of the electromagnetic spectrum. This book concentrate mainly on the sensing methods of the popular OFDM signals. The methods of sensing including cyclostationary ones are analyzed and presented. Some exemplary Matlab codes are included to allow the reader conduct own experiments.


Sorption measurements of CO2, Ne, and Ar in poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBTP) films were studied by the gravimetric method with a recording microbalance at 298 K in the pressure range of 1–22 bar. The semicrystalline samples were annealed and oriented at 373 K. The sorption isotherms for CO2 in PBTP films in the glassy state can be well described by the dual-sorption theory. The nonlinear sorption behavior of Ne and Ar can be satisfactorily analyzed using the sorption model developed for noble gases in PBTP. For the undrawn annealed films, it has been found that the increment of crystallinity leads to the reduction of the equilibrium gas concentration. For the oriented films, the gas concentration rises with increasing draw ratio. It appears that the sorption behavior for all tested gases in the oriented PBTP films does not depend on the changes of crystallinity and crystalline morphology under extension. The difference of the critical pressure p* indicates the change in the size of the frozen microvoids existing in the noncrystalline phase, which was altered by annealing and drawing. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


BEHIND this announcement lies a long history of American interest in land tenure problems. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century the people of the United States devoted a major part of their energies to the development and carrying out of land policies on a heroic scale. The tasks of settling a continent, dividing up its land, and of creating a system of farms owned predominantly by the people who farm them have played a major role in United States history. The development of the American land tenure system has been part of a long history of world wide struggle for land tenure reforms-a struggle the roots of which lie deep in antiquity, and one that still plagues the world today. In this century two world wars have brought in their wake a succession of revolutions and reforms centered in an


Post-growth manipulation of the internal electric field in CdZnTe crystals using sub-bandgap illumination is measured as a function of temperature through infrared (IR) transmission measurements. Using near sub-bandgap IR illumination, both the optical de-trapping of charge carriers and the reduction in carrier recombination increased the mobility lifetime in the crystal. The increased carrier transport is a direct result of decreased hole and electron trapping in addition to other underlying mechanisms. Concentration of the electric field near the cathode is also observed. We measured the electric field distribution with sub-bandgap illumination as a function of temperature via the Pockels effect.


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This work presents a cut-down version of SSADM, "Rapid SSADM". It is specifically designed to meets the needs of current development environments, and is ideal for use in developing small systems for relational databases within a limited timescale. Many of these systems use 4GL techniques and involve prototyping. The first section of the book discusses the environment for Rapid SSADM, looking at the impact of project management techniques and CASE tools. The next section contains a detailed account of Rapid SSADM, and suggests alternative techniques for entity life histories and relational data analysis. The third section considers the impact of rapid applications development, evolutionary development, graphic user interfaces and object orientation.


The Information Bank of Guangxi Ethnic Features is a self-constructed database that the library of Guangxi University for Nationalities has built to support the teaching of some disciplines with unique features.In view of this,the paper makes an analysis of the necessity and progress of building such a database as well as the existing problems,and then proposes some suggestions and solutions.


An experiment to acoustically analyze the shape of gill-net in the current was conducted in Jaran Bay, Gosung, Korea on the 9th to 10th September(spring tide) and 28th to 29th September(neap tide) 2006. It was measured by a 3D underwater positioning system with a radio-acoustic linked positioning buoys. Six of 7 acoustic transmitters used in the experiment were attached on the float line of the gill-net and the other was fixed on the sea bed. During spring tide, the maximum movement of the gill-net was 27.0m(22:00) in the west(4.4cm/s, ) and 20.6m(04:00) in the east(3.9cm/s, ). The maximum extension of the gill-net(the distance between P1 and P6) was 119.8m(21:00, 11.6cm/s, ) and the minimum was 109.9m(23:00, 16.1cm/s, ). During neap tide, the maximum movement was 38.0m(20:00) in the east(9.6cm/s, ) and 11.0m(12:00) in the west(1.9cm/s, ). The maximum extension was 99.6m(14:00, 12.5cm/s, ) and the minimum was 85.0m(06:00, 9.0cm/s, ). During spring tide, the maximum height of the gill-net from the sea bed was 3.7m(02:00, 7.4cm/s, ) and the minimum was produced the three times as 1.5m. At that time, the current speed and direction was 17.9cm/s and (23:30), 16.1cm/s and (05:00), and 13.7cm/s and (06:30), respectively. During neap tide, the maximum height was 3.6m(12:30, 2.1cm/s, ) and the minimum was 1.5m(14:00, 12.5cm/s, ).


Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) is the most widely deployed radar-communication integration system. Moreover, the vortex electromagnetic (EM) wave carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) presents its advantages in both communication and radar performance. Due to the special vortex wave front, the OAM wave is able to measure the azimuth angle. In this paper, a novel OAM modulation based azimuth angle estimation method is proposed for SSR. Particularly, a Bessel compensation procedure and OAM number selection algorithm are utilized to improve the azimuth angle estimation performance. Furthermore, the system scheme for this OAM based SSR is designed, including the pulse sequence format of interrogation pulse.


This paper is written based on how a business coaching process can help SMEs improve which area need an improvement such as HR, finance, operational, or marketing section based on the personal experiences of the owner and based on the coach observations to the company. ProQ is an SME engaged in maintenance and repair services of motor vehicle air conditioner. In ProQ, there is no inventory control process; therefore, its operational activities are disturbed. This paper is the result of applying inventory control for ProQ workshop through problem identification process, problem solving recommendations, and implementation of the recommendations. The step taken is to conduct a benchmarking process to PT. X which has run inventory control on a large scale and with a large inventory of spare parts. From the results of benchmarking, there are few steps that can be done by adapting the inventory control of PT. X, namely the importance of the existence of part-man and its SOPs, random sampling and stock operational activities are scheduled and have clear records and reports, and recording of the daily in and out of spare parts from the inventory which is well-organized and PT. X also has a classification of fast, slow, and non-moving inventory through the age of spare parts. By implementing the recommendation in ProQ, the inventory control in ProQ will be better.


The invention discloses a method for integrally utilizing a heterogeneous operating system based on a same system kernel. The method comprises the following steps of: starting a main virtual master control station corresponding to a main operating system; starting a slave virtual master control station corresponding to a slave operating system in the main virtual master control station; and establishing a share information region required by the main operating system and the slave operating system, and switching to the slave virtual master control station to operate and use the slave operating system.


The pigment dispersion of the present invention, bis acetoacetamide aryl lead pigment (a), a styrene-acrylic acid type copolymer (b), containing the basic compound (c), the wetting agent (d), and the wetting agent (d) is a diol compound (e ) containing, and the diol compound (e) is represented by the following general formula (1) (Wherein, A is or more of the main chain having 3 carbon atoms, straight chain or branched alkyl, B is a main chain having a carbon number of 2 or more, a straight chain or a dihydroxy alkyl group branch, and the total of A and B the main chain having a carbon number of 5 or more , it is the sum of the carbon atoms of a and B 5~10) Or the following general formula (2) (In the formula, C and D is 2 or more carbon atoms, straight-chain or monohydroxy alkyl group branches of the main chain, and the sum of the C and D of the total carbon number of 5 or more, C and D of the main chain of 5 to 10 carbon atoms ), with a compound represented by the mass ratio (e) / (a) is 3 / 100-15 / 100 of the diol compound (e) and bis acetoacetamide aryl lead pigment (a). The ink for ink jet recording, the pigment dispersion, bis acetoacetamide aryl lead pigment, a diol compound