The CTMC Integration Project is the result of FY01 congressionally designated earmarks to improve transportation efficiency, promote safety, increase traffic flow, reduce emissions, improve traveler information dissemination, enhance alternate transportation modes, promote tourism and build on existing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Total project investment was $6,753,160, including $3,372,862 in federal funds and $3,380,298 of matching cash provided by CDOT. With FHWA concurrence, the project supported work in two priority areas: 1] to support design and construction of CDOT's new CTMC facility; and 2] to develop or procure and implement a statewide "umbrella" ITS software. Award of the project funds allowed CDOT to directly address both priority areas and was therefore a critical building block for Colorado; providing critically needed facilities, hardware, software and systems integration. Project achievements included the following: (1) Project funds supported planning, logistics and design for CDOT's new CTMC, including electrical, communications and computer equipment. The new building comfortably houses CDOT's operation and has capacity for substantial future growth. (2) Via an RFP process, CDOT obtained the services of a Systems Integrator to develop the statewide ATMS/ATIS "umbrella" software. Work was prioritized and broken into phases with the first three software deployment iterations funded by this project, including the "core" system; and DMS, speed and travel time subsystems. Project funds supported systems engineering, software development, documentation and testing, and hardware purchases. CDOT believes the CTMC Integration Project has been a success. Project goals and objectives were met. CDOT now has a state-of- the-art CTMC as well as the first three modules of its new statewide ITS management software. Behind-the-scenes deficiencies in priority ITS infrastructure were addressed; reducing demands on CDOT staff; simplifying data sharing; and boosting amount, accuracy and timeliness of data in and out of the system. The project dovetailed well with ongoing ITS initiatives, and most importantly has been an important building block and catalyst leading to greater and more visible advancements in Colorado ITS.


Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia (AHC) first described in 1948, characterized by adrenal insufficiency, and hypo-gonadotropic hypogonadism. X linked AHC mainly affects males, it occur mainly due to mutation in NR0B1 gene. In this report, we present two cases of NR0B1 mutation from same family with dichotomous pubertal presentation. An infant diagnosed and being managed as case of adrenal insufficiency, developed precocious puberty at the age of 11 months. His work-up showed increased LH, FSH and Testosterone. Genetic Analysis revealed NR0B1 mutation. He was managed with Gn RH agonist and steroid replacement. His brother 15 years old, treated as primary adrenal insufficiency, presented with arrested puberty, his genetic analysis also showed NR0B1 mutation. Keywords: AHC; adrenal hypoplasia; precocious puberty; hypogonadotropic; hypogonadism.


We introduce a new definition of pre-Schwarzian derivative for logharmonic mappings and basic properties such as the chain rule, multiplicative invariance and affine invariance are proved for these operators. It is shown that the pre-Schwarzain is stable only with respect to rotations of the identity. A characterization is given for the case when the pre-Schwarzian derivative is holomorphic.


With direct facility funding (DFF), health facilities receive money directly into their bank account. The funds are managed by a health facility committee (HFC) consisting of community members and the health worker in charge of the facility. The items on which DFF can be used include: salaries, water and electricity supplies, communications, staff travel costs, office and general supplies and routine maintenance of vehicles, equipment and buildings. POLICY BRIEF MAY 2009


Abstract : The seven subassemblage tests described in the report illustrate the manner in which these structures may be expected to behave. It was seen that an equilibriumcompatibility method based on the known inelastic response of the beams and beam-columns can adequately predict the overall response of the subassemblages. Neither the subassemblages nor the component beam-columns showed any signs of inherent instability. It was shown that there is no instability intrinsically associated with either the unloading of a beam-column or the change in sign of the end-moments applied to the beam-column. The response of the individual components of the subassemblages (beams and beam-columns) was examined and seen to follow the theoretical predictions of inelastic member theory.


The operation at the harmonics of the grounded antenna and of an ungrounded antenna at any distance above ground has been considered as far as current, voltage and power distribution, electromagnetic field and radiation resistance are concerned. The antenna is always assumed to be a straight vertical wire and unloaded. The ground is supposed to be a perfect conductor.


The article offers information on selling of preference shares by a Chinese bank through implementation of Basel III. Topics discussed include regulations from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), key features of the preference shares and requirements for fixed income investors and challenges of turning an equity product into a fixed income product.


The modern homeschooling movement presents an opportunity to address these challenges. Key technological enablers – fast microprocessors, high-speed internet, cloud computing, etc. – are becoming ubiquitous and cheap. Online, free curriculum, combined with translation software, presents a new paradigm. Even caregivers with limited education themselves can facilitate a learning environment in the home, wherever that home may be. While homeschooling will not work in every situation, it could quickly become an option that positively affects the future of tens of thousands of refugees.


In "The Possibility of Parity," Ruth Chang argues for the existence of a fourth value relation, which she calls "parity." The three traditional value relations are 'better than', 'worse than', and 'equal to'. In saying of one thing that it stands in one of these relations to a second thing, one is making a positive assertion about the value relations between the two: one is not merely denying that such a relation holds, as one would be doing if one merely said that A is not better than B. In this sense, the three traditional value relations are positive value relations. An assertion of parity between two items is not merely the denial that one or more of these traditional relations obtain; in this sense parity is also a positive value relation. This article agrees with much of what Chang has to say, especially when she argues against a number of alternative interpretations of the cases that she takes to support the existence of parity. Nevertheless, it is the purpose of this article to offer its own interpretation of the cases she makes use of. The suggested interpretation is consistent with virtually all of Chang's claims about the particular cases, but it does not require us to posit a fourth positive value relation that has so far evaded the explicit conceptual or linguistic notice of a species so prone to making comparisons. The raw material out of which Chang constructs her arguments for the existence of parity is primarily to be found in cases in which we are reluctant to say, of two items being compared in a certain evaluative respect, that one is better than the other, or that they are equally good. Following Chang, let us call these "hard cases." Of course the mere


The ongoing miniaturization of precision engineering parts also requires new micro tools with diameters of a few hundred micrometers and below. So far, the measurement of micro tools has been very difficult. Whereas tactile devices are often not able to efficiently measure micro tools due to their sharp edges and small dimensions, optical systems are usually not able to perform full 3D measurements or are limited with respect to measurable inclination angles. Here we present an optical device based on the Focus-Variation principle that is able to measure micro tools with diameters down to 250 μm and below. The system is not only able to obtain the 3D data but also to determine various important parameters such as diameters, edge radii or surface roughness. After a short description of the measurement technology several measurement results are provided. Among others we demonstrate diameter measurements on a micro drill with a core diameter of ~100 μm and compare edge radius measurements between the presented device and an atomic force microscope. The accuracy is demonstrated by measurements on a calibrated sphere.


This website is produced by the British Home Office's Immigration and Nationality Directorate and as such contains significant sources of official information relating to immigration and border control, and applications to reside in the UK, to obtain citizenship, and for asylum. The primary function of the website appears to be an access point for web users to gain official information on these matters. Anyone who has ever tried to telephone this office with specific enquiries will appreciate how difficult it is to contact directly, and therefore the website acts as an ersatz source of public information. The site contains information for potential applicants. However, since it is strongly textbased rather than visual or simplified and uses only the English language, it appears that the true target audience of the website is potential employers, transporters and supporters of migrants, and not migrants themselves (at least non-English-speaking ones). The information and formats that the site contains are therefore likely to be more useful for researchers on immigration topics, who can trace the full recent Parliamentary history and documentation of changes in legislation, most of which can be downloaded. It is less likely to be of use to journalists, since information is usually presented in official legalistic and lengthy forms. However, the latest news is pasted on the home page, which details current changes and events in the field, plus it is possible to set up a personalised email update account to gain the latest information on policy changes. Also there are links to the latest Home Office statistics on the immigration field. It should also be made clear that where information on current policy changes is reduced or condensed, it follows very much the official government line in an uncritical way. For example, information on asylum appears under the framing slogan used by the policy, 'Fairer, faster, firmer', and there is no evaluation of policy delivery nor the wellknown shambles that has taken place over recent years. Researchers and journalists should therefore digest with care, for they are receiving only a selection of the story, focusing on what the aims of policy are and not what its capabilities and achievements have been. This is very much the story from the top down, providing substantial official documentation, and there is little scope for interaction on the site. There are links provided to other sites, but these are once more heavily oriented toward civil society and welfare implementation organisations and not campaign organisations. Regarding navigability, it is relatively easy to find the relevant area of the site to follow an enquiry, but then one is likely to be faced with very detailed official policy documentation rather than easily digestible visual material. This means that it's one for printing out rather than scrolling up and down or hopping from place to place. A standard keyword search function is also available, which again makes it easy to locate relevant areas. In sum, this site provides considerable sources of official information on recent and past policy positions that will be useful to practitioners as well as researchers. However, those wishing more critical insight and opinion on the topic will need to look elsewhere.


This article examines the concept of accountability and its implications for social service organizations. Accountability, it is argued, is a theoretically embedded concept, with each theory producing various conflicting models of accountability. The article seeks to map and structure the various models of accountability, highlighting the differences between the models and their implications for social service organizations. The models chosen are relevant to the Aotearoa/New Zealand context and also to countries in western Europe as they include the systems of political economy present within recent history: social democratic and neo-liberal, and also a coherent alternative, the communitarian model.


Two decades in my academic discipline have accreted a strata of assumptions within my practices. Most of these are about knowledge: its source in me and my informants, its places and modes of production, and methods or processes for its communication. From these have grown assumptions about myself within the discipline: the extent of my expertise, and others' expectations of it; and its relationship to other elements of my life. I take responsibility for these assumptions, however, I also understand them to be intimately connected to the cultural systems of knowledge in which I have been brought up as an Australian academic. In this discussion I contextualise how, when provoked, our discipline of creative writing reveals its local, systemic contingencies. Using my experiences within RMIT University's Bundyi Girri program as a launching point, I reflect on the ways that non-Indigenous awareness of historically excluded sovereign knowledges provokes the discipline and how recognition of these might look through the practices of the academy. I argue that reflexivity is a tool for structural change, and that it can be focused and fostered through pedagogy. To illustrate this, I share some process notes from my own recent teaching and learning. The questions that preoccupy me are: What is the readiness of creative writing as an academic discipline towards acknowledgement of sovereign knowledges? How does working within sovereign relationships differ or distinguish itself from cultural awareness or from 'Indigenising' curriculum? How is my expertise and authority as a creative writing practitioner challenged by this acknowledgement?


: This paper explores the application of virtualization technology in the construction of university data centers. Firstly, the problems of traditional physical server architecture in data centers are analyzed, including low resource utilization, poor fault tolerance, high construction costs, and complex system maintenance. Then, an overview of virtualization technology is provided, including concepts such as compute virtualization, network virtualization, and storage virtualization. Next, using China University of Geosciences (Beijing) as an example, the specific implementation and effects of data center virtualization based on the VMware vSphere platform are introduced. Finally, the significant benefits of virtualization technology in university data center construction are summarized, including cost savings, improved operational and management efficiency, simplified administration, and enhanced resource utilization. This paper comprehensively and systematically elucidates the advantages of virtualization technology in addressing the challenges faced by university data centers, providing valuable insights for the planning and construction of university data centers.


This paper is a comparative analysis of local governance in Recife and Salvador in toward the democratisation of local management, that is, toward the implementation of participatory policies. Relying on the concept of path dependency, the thesis seeks to demonstrate that the implementation of participatory policies in Recife has generated increasing returns, whereas in Salvador the latter have been lacking during the implementation of the same policies. It seeks to prove that although both cities experienced similar critical junctures and political choices, its patterns of local governance have become distinct, consolidating two different types of decision making process: in Recife, a negotiated pattern and in Salvador, a closed and elitist pattern of decision making.


n spite of the considerable popularity it enjoyed, the Decameron had its share of detractors who hotly objected to the text on the basis of its scandalous content, namely depictions of a corrupt clergy and explicit sexual content (and many combinations of these two themes). The opposition to Boccaccio's work was not enough, however, to quash the enthusiasm of those who would read the book "cognominato Prencipe Galeotto." This led to a rather tedious problem: since the Decameron could not be suppressed from the European literary consciousness, how could the text be fashioned into a more innocent, less offensive version? Could this aim be accomplished while simultaneously maintaining the jouissance and wit for which it was celebrated? Of the many censured iterations that attempted to deliver a diet Decameron, so to speak, two are of particular importance: the Deputati edition (published in 1573), and the Salviati edition (published in 1582). Since unflattering representations of clergy and sexually suggestive scenarios posed a significant problem for those who would render the Decameron innocuous, I examined a selection of novelle from stampati cinquecenteschi of both the Deputati and Salviati editions to discover if these textual elements were indeed censored and, if so, how they were edited. Having found that novelle portraying the clergy in an unkind light and/or included overtly sensual material were indeed censored, I sought to compare the variations in techniques utilized by these editors. In order to study the degree to which their textual interventions degraded Boccaccio's original work, I evaluated how different these finished products were from the primary text.1 A mere transformation of names or locations within certain novelle, for instance, would ultimately render Boccaccio's text only slightly different, whereas intrusions on plot structure would drastically alter the source material; both


Study on the synergistic flame-retarding performance of polythene modified with expandable graphite and ammonium polyphosphate was carried out in this paper.LOI,SEM,TG,etc.were employed in the characterization.The results showed that,with the addition of APP,the LOI value increases obviously,thermal decomposition rate is lowered and the thermostability is enhanced,which suggests that EG/APP has synergistic flame-retarding function with the formation of compact,stable expandable charcoal layer.


Inhaled mixtures of helium-oxygen have been rarely used in spontaneously ventilating patients presenting with airway obstruction during labor and delivery. We present two patients, each suffering from severe tracheal narrowing due to extra-tracheal compression by goiter and each presenting with respiratory distress during the second stage of the labor. Inhaled helium/oxygen was administered to relieve respiratory distress; routine labor and assisted vaginal delivery ensued without further maternal or neonatal complication. We review the rationale for the use of inhaled helium/oxygen in such patients. We also review the anesthetic plan for unexpected abdominal delivery, including airway management for general anesthesia.


Calculations of the consequences of the geological disposal of solid radioactive waste require models that apply a simplified description of the evolution of a repository. In work carried out to date for United Kingdom Nirex Limited (Nirex), models of repository performance have assumed that the contents of the repository are homogeneous. There is no direct representation in the models, for example, of the fact that all the waste will be contained initially within waste packages, with backfill surrounding the packages. It is important that the assumption of a homogeneous repository is demonstrated to be cautious (i.e. the calculations of radiological consequence, based on a homogeneous model, should err in the direction of slightly overestimating any release of radionuclides). This paper introduces models that simulate the impact of specific heterogeneities on radionuclide release. These have been constructed and applied, in order to assess the appropriateness of the assumption of homogeneity. Calculations using the NAMMU computer program have examined the release of radionuclides from within waste packaging. These calculations suggest that recent performance assessments overestimate the release of short-lived radionuclides. Calculations, including the use of the INHOMOG computer program, have examined the relative placement of different categories of waste packages within repository vaults (for the Nirex disposal concept). It is concluded from the calculations that, for a few radionuclides, consideration of the distribution of some waste packages may be appropriate in future performance assessment studies.


The preferred site of Mg segregation at Σ = 11(113) grain boundaries in Al and the effects of Mg segregation on grain boundary cohesion have been investigated through first-principle pseudopotential total energy calculations. The results show that the Mg atom prefers to occupy the 'looser' site at the grain boundary of Al but not the 'tighter' site. Furthermore, on basis of the thermodynamic theory of Rice and Wang, we have studied the effect of Mg segregation on the grain boundary cohesion of Al. Our total energy calculations show that Mg behaves as an embrittler. Additionally, the cohesive energies for a pure Al boundary and an Al boundary with Mg segregation have been calculated in this paper. The calculated results indicate that the cohesion of an Al grain boundary with Mg segregation is weaker than that of a pure Al grain boundary. The total charge density of the gain boundary also demonstrates that the Mg atom forms weaker metallic bonds with neighbouring Al atoms in the grain boundary region.


We show that the commutator [M b , I α ] of the multiplication operator M b by b and the fractional integral operator I α is bounded from the Morrey space L p , λ (R n ) to the Morrey space L q , λ (R n ) where 1 < p < ∞, 0 < α < n, 0 < λ < n - αp and 1/q = 1/p - α/(n - λ) if and only if b belongs to BMO(R n ).


Abstract Background: Fistula in ano is a common condition treated by surgeons worldwide. Despite this, there is a paucity of high quality data to aid decision making. Hence, management presents a d...


There is a lack of access to training tools., best practice guides and knowledge repositories to help with the digital switch to Industry 4.0. Consequently., in this paper., the ProAccel (Productivity Accelerator) platform design is outlined. The system is a modular cloud-based multimedia platform that employs advanced data analytics and gamification techniques., such as Virtual Reality (VR)., to revolutionise the way productivity information is shared to support businesses in their uptake of digital technologies in the Industry 4.0 environment. We present our findings from a 4 month case study., involving over 100 UK-based companies. The resulting research was used to construct a prototype of the ProAccel platform. As an evaluation., a simulated user evaluation of the platform using a guestimate model derived from a KLM analysis is conducted as an analysis of the platform"s functionality.


We present a scaling approach to the problem of a single chain in a good solvent between attracting walls that yields a simple analytical expression for the chain free energy as a function of the wall‐to‐wall distance, together with the amount of chain expansion parallel to the walls and with the effective layer thickness. Using the Domb–Gillis–Wilmers interatomic distribution function whereby the probability of a small interatomic distance r is ∝rθ, the method yields the critical exponents ν and θ for the general dimensionality d through self‐consistent optimization of the chain free energy. For d=2 we get ν=0.707 and θ=0.828. An infinitely long, ringlike chain comprised between attracting parallel walls is investigated. Wall attraction on the chain atoms is effectively reduced by the solvent‐mediated excluded‐volume effect. The partition function is factorized into a bidimensional component projected on the walls and a monodimensional orthogonal component, using the thermal‐blob concept. The resulting s...


In 2015, the Committee on Diagnostic Criteria of the Japanese Study Group on Pancreaticobiliary Maljunction (PBM) proposed a classification of PBM into four types: (A) stenotic type, (B) non‐stenotic type, (C) dilated channel type, and (D) complex type. To validate this classification and clarify the clinical features of the four types of PBM, a retrospective multicenter study was conducted.


A deeper insight into short, medium and long ranges behaviour of partial structure factors (PSF) measured in the rich metal domain of KxKCL(l-x) solutions as a function of composition shows up that structural changes are characterised by a non-linear perturbation of the screening properties prevailing in the pure metal liquid. Pseudopotential theory for describing the anion-conduction electron interaction, and perturbation calculations must be dropped. The correlation between long wavelength limits of PSF and thermodynamic is particularly difficult to unravel at k = 0. The structural changes observed in neutron diffraction indicate that a better understanding of these correlations consists in treating the correlation between charge fluctuations and atomic concentration fluctuations.


Abstract : The Fourth SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems was designed to provide a forum for the continued interdisciplinary development of nonlinear dynamics and its applications. The conference was a great success. We had unprecedented attendance of over 592, including many of the leaders in the field from around the world, and from disciplines ranging from oceanography to molecular biology to quantum chaos. There was a sense of excitement in the air, perhaps because dynamical systems theory is finally living up to its promise to have a genuine impact on applied fields, and also because of our emerging understanding of the mathematical connections among many of the phenomena being studied.


Erickson, Bryan (M.A., English) The Annie Dillard Workshop: Writing via Reading Thesis directed by Professor Martin Bickman Annie Dillard reconstructs her own learning process in her students, and this can only be successful through a singular act of dedication on the part of each student. The students do by instruction what Dillard figured out on her own. They analyze texts on the macro and micro levels—they outline books, chapters, paragraphs, and sentences in order to study their structures; they study the ways different authors handle character or setting or transitional sentences. Word by word, they learn the DNA of literature in order to understand what makes it work. It is only after this immersion in literature and research that the writer, through painstaking effort and dozens of drafts, can produce something an educated and well-read audience will take an interest


Device tamperproof identification. The present invention relates to a device, in particular having the form of a label consisting of a printing safe status (3), for example a hologram, attached to the adhesive means (2 ) between a transparent film (1) and a destructible rope (4) and said destructible film being covered on the second side with an adhesive (5) to high adhesion capable of binding an inviolable manner said device on an object to be secured. Application authentication of auto nameplates.


Human life is the main concern of the fundamental ethic; moreover, life is the ontology problem by excellence. In other words, life is the being absolutely necessary to provide the fundament and condition the possibility for any other idea, value or principle, including of course the human deeds. This is to say there is absolutely nothing that can define human life that is not the own being, the human being is for each individual the totallity of the "I can". The "I can" is in reality an open life and openness is essencially opening to the future. The authentic knowledge of Iife is called understanding, and it is the knowledge of life itself.


Purpose - – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between gross profit percentage, abnormal market returns, revenue surprises and earnings surprises. Gross margin is relied upon by various market participants, as its predictive power is incremental and distinct from revenue and earnings signals; however, gross margin has received little researcher attention. Design/methodology/approach - – General regression specifications found in the prior literature are extended to assess the informational content of changes in gross margin percentage. In addition, various portfolios are created based around the nature of the signals (positive or negative), provided by each income statement metrics (revenue, gross margin and earnings). A sample of 5,582 quarterly observations of S & - P 500 firms is compiled. The main regressions are exposed to three robustness tests that focus on industry sub-groupings, institutional ownership and fourth-quarter observations. Findings - – The main findings reveal that gross margin percentage changes and earnings surprises are significantly related to abnormal market returns in the short window around the earnings announcement date and persist into a wider window measured as the quarter after the earnings announcement date. The relationship between gross margin percentage changes and abnormal returns is more pronounced when positive (negative) changes in gross margin percentage are accompanied by positive (negative) revenue and earnings surprises. Research limitations/implications - – This study relies upon S & - P 500 firms which are all relatively large firms. Therefore, the results may not be generalizable to smaller firms. In addition, the gross margin change is measured as the quarter-over-quarter percentage change because there is no analyst expectation for gross margin. Originality/value - – This paper extends the prior literature by developing three testable hypotheses that investigate the linkages between abnormal market returns, gross margin and revenue and earnings surprises. This is the first known study to investigate the informational content of changes in gross margin percentage.


In this article, it is shown that for an affine pseudomonotone mapping, the feasibility of the (linear) complementarily problem implies its solvability. A result of this type was proved earlier by Karamardian under a strict feasibility condition.


Old Red Sandstones and younger strata overlie a variety of deformed and metamorphosed Early
Paleozoic and Precambrian rocks on Svalbard, referred to as the Hecla Hoek Complex. At least
three different terranes are recognized, occurring in eastern, northwestern and southwestern
areas. The Eastern Terrane is exposed in the northeastern parts of the Svalbard archipelago in
Nordaustlandet and Ny Friesland. In the latter area, c. 1750 Ma old granites and gneissic
granites, mostly from the Bangenhuk Formation in the lower part of the Hecla Hoek, have been
studied. Petrographical and geochemical data indicate that the rocks can be classified as granites
and granodiorites and plot as A-type granites in tectonic discrimination diagrams. They are
characterized by high alkali contents, high K2O/Na2O- and Fe2O3*/(Fe2O3*+MgO) ratios and
high contents of Zr, Zn, Y, Nb, Ga and REE (except Eu). The geochemical coherence of the
rocks suggests that they represent related magmatic events. Deformation and metamorphism
have not influenced the element distribution significantly.


. The aim of this paper is to provide a brief survey of the field of shifts and then dive into the shift equivalence problem that remains unresolved to this day. We will assume little to no prior knowledge and will begin by intro-ducing basic terminology and notation regarding shifts. We will then introduce alternate presentations of shifts that will become useful in our discussion of shift equivalence. Finally, we will discuss the progress that has been made so far in the classification of shifts.


The article presents the results of a survey of 45 patients with thoracolumbar spine injury, who underwent surgical treatment using transpedicle devices for instability of the vertebralmotor segment. Polyparametric analysis of neuromuscular apparatus was held using neuromyomyographic diagnostics. The significant regress of neurophysiological indicators on the 10th-14th day after surgery in some patients testified about their transient nature, while worsening indicated the irritation of roots or partial lesion by pedicle screws. The lack of effect of conservative therapy during two weeks is an indicator for re-intervention.


The sizable hoarding of international reserves by several East Asian countries has been frequently attributed to a modern version of monetary mercantilism -- hoarding international reserves in order to improve competitiveness. From a long-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia adopted financial mercantilism -- subsidizing the cost of capital -- during decades of high growth. They switched to hoarding large international reserves when growth faltered, making it harder to disentangle the monetary mercantilism from precautionary response to the heritage of past financial mercantilism. Monetary mercantilism also lowers the cost of hoarding, but may be associated with negative externalities leading to competitive hoarding.


brissae distinct; pa]pi black; proboscis dark brown te black; 10 fr, 1 oc, 1 poc, 1 vti, 1 vte. Thorax: mesonotum and humeral callus black, with greyish pollen; prescutum with 4 obscure black stripes; scutellum and metanotum with greyish po]len; all pleura black, with greyish pollenJ ac 3+1, dc 2+4, ia 1+2, h 2, Ph 1, nt 2, sa 1, Pa 2, sct 2 (1 apical, 1 basal), st 1+2; prosternum black and bare. Wings: hyaline, slightly tinged with brown; distal parts of vein Mi.L) straight; posterior cross-vein sinuate; squamae of Phaonia-type, whitish yellow; halteres apically black and basally light brown. Legs: coxae, femora, tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Abdomen: ter-


Polish archaeological and conservational research and activities have a long history, full of successes and significant discoveries. Major Polish academic centres have been conducting research and conservation works for over 100 years, protecting the heritage of the Middle East and expanding our knowledge about the history of this crucially important region. In particular, in recent decades many research projects in such countries as Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been conducted and met with recognition of the international scientific society. The Polish research contribution and legacy of working in the Middle East cannot fail to be noticed and constitute a recognizable mark of the Polish scientific and conservation brand.


2002 Westminster Publications, Inc., 708 Glen Cove Avenue, Glen Head, NY 11545, U.S.A. 50 mmHg (6.7 kPa) on room air. A hyperoxia test increased the Pao2 by 5 mmHg (0.7 kPa). Simultaneous ABG sampling from the right radial artery and umbilical artery (UA) revealed a difference of 6 mmHg (0.8 kPa) between the 2 readings. The UA catheter was removed after blood sampling. A chest roentgenogram revealed mild cardiomegaly with normal lung fields. A complete he-


PSU-fixed functional appliance (PSU-FFA) is modified from edgewise Herbst appliance to enhance the orthopedic effect by mandibular step-by-step advancement (SSA) and to reduce unwanted dental movement by proper anchorage preparation. The efficiency of this new fixed functional appliance has, however, to date not been examined and reported in literature. Our objective was to investigate skeletal and dental changes after treated with PSU-FFA in Class II malocclusion patients. Thirty orthodontic patients, 9 boys and 21 girls during the skeletal maturity stages MP3 would be randomly selected from Orthodontic clinic, Dental hospital, Faculty of Dentistry, Prince of Songkla University. The subjects were divided into two groups. In treated group, the subjects were treated with PSU-FFA for 7 months in average. The treatment effects of this appliance could be estimated by deducting the growth changes obtained from control group which also has been observed for 7 months. In treated group, the upper anterior teeth were torque labially while the lower anterior teeth were torque lingually in cinched 0.018vx0.025v stainless steel wires. The uprighting springs were placed in lower canine bracket vertical slots (for distally tipping). The mandible was advanced 2 mm./2 months (step-by-step advancement) using 1mm. stainless steel protracted wires until the incisors were in edge to edge position. Total average treatment time was about 6.7 months. Lateral head films from before and after fixed functional therapy were analyzed in sagittal plane, according to the method of Pancherz. The means of all measurements were calculated. The results revealed the followings: 1) Bite jumping with the FFA resulted in Class I or Class III occlusal relationships in all treated cases. 2) The forward growth of the mandible with SSA was 3.6 mm. while the maxilla was maintained 3) Overjet correction averaging 5.83 mm. was mainly a results of a 3.6 mm. (61.75%) increase in mandibular base while the dental movement was 2.23 mm. (38.25%) Conclusion: For maximum orthopedic effects vi of PSU-FFA, the mandible should be advanced with SSA together with proper anchorage preparation on the upper and lower anterior teeth. Developing a new system of fixed functional appliance to be the one choice for clinical application in the future.


Utility- type unit is the key equipment to petrochemical enterprise's production,its operating mode and maintenance quality influence enterprise's efficiency directly. At the present time, petrochemical enterprise's maintenance regime has more blindness and less scientificalness,there are some problems. Through investigation,the question of maintenance regime which was used in some state- owned business and private enterprise at the present time was analyzed. It was put forward to popularize the application of RCM technology based on condition monitoring and fault diagnosis to accelerate enterprise's innovation of equipments maintenance regime,and reduce maintenance cost and guarantee equipments' security and reliability.


This paper evaluates two different approaches for the elaboration of semantic classes. The framework is an Information Extraction, which needs large amount of domain-dependent resources. An endogenous approach (corpus-based learning) is contrasted with a heterogeneous one (the use of a large semantic network). The two techniques are evaluated. Cet article vise a evaluer deux approches differentes pour la constitution de classes semantiques. Nous nous placons dans la perspective d'une application d'extraction d'information, pour laquelle la notion de classe semantique est primordiale. Une approche endogene (acquisition a partir d'un corpus) est contrastee avec une approche exogene (a travers un reseau semantique riche). L'article presente une evaluation fine de ces deux techniques et leur complementarite possible.


Our Editorial at the beginning of this volume focused on international rheumatology in World Rheumatism Year (WRY). Now, almost a year later, it is appropriate to take stock. Some changes are obvious-hair a little thinner or greyer, faces a little more lined, posture rather less upright, and gait not so springy. But the aging of connective and other tissues is inexorable. Nevertheless, a great deal of effort has been applied to WRY, and we must consider what has been accomplished. Although many people feel the Post Office is getting ever more behindhand with the mails, it is ahead with some things-15 years or so ahead of the average for the country as a whole in time lost from work due to sickness, for instance. Rheumatic complaints play a large part in this incapacity but, to their shame and ours, the British Post Office declined to issue special stamps for WRY. Not so in Belgium, Bulgaria, DDR, Greece, Poland, and Thailand, nor in Kuwait and Lesotho-the two latter not notable previously for their commitment to rheumatology, but all the more welcome for that. The World Health Organization gave official endorsement to WRY, and it expressed its support in constructive form by devoting the June issue of World Health to rheumatism. Published in Arabic, English, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, this was the widest simultane-


Among the pathways of metabolism of amines of type (I), metabolic oxidative cleavage from nitrogen at 1 and 4 is usually considered as dealkylation (McMahon 1966), and at 2 as deamination (Axelrod, 1955), while oxidation of the nitrogen atom at 3, when tertiary, is considered as N-oxidation (Beckett, Gorrod & Jenner, 1971 ; Beckett, Mitchard & Shihab, 1971). Some workers consider that C-N cleavage occurs after migration of 0 from N to cc-C atoms (Ziegler & Petit, 1964). Difficulties arise in interpretation because of inability to isolate unstable metabolites.


Wool keratin fibers were solubilized in water without any degradation of wool keratin proteins by the derivatization of disulfide (SS) bonds of cystine residues to carboxymethyl alanyl disulfide (CMAD) groups. After the reduction of wool with 0.2M thioglycolic acid (TGA) in 8M urea at pH 10 for 48h at 25°C, 0 .2M dithiodiglycolic acid (DTDG) was added to the solution containing swollen wool fibers and gently stirred for 24h, and then adjusted to pH7.0 with acetic acid, and finally 0.2M sodium bromate was added slowly to the neutral solution, and then the solution was filtered to remove residues after standing for 24h. The filterate containing soluble CMAD wool keratin proteins was fractionated using Sephadex G25, and the fractions were freeze-dried before weighing. The yield obtained was 95.2% on the basis of dry wool fiber. The yield was found to be functions not only of the concentrations of TGA and DTDG, but also the time of reduction and oxidation and pH as well. SDS-gel electrophoresis patterns of CMAD wool keratin proteins prepared below pH 10 were very similar to the wool protein derivatives. FT-IR showed that the soluble wool keratin proteins contain considerable amount of carboxyl groups associated with the CMAD side chain.


Quantitative XPS has been used to determine the surface concentration of hydroxyl groups in native air-formed oxide films on metals having low surface areas. A mathematical expression has been derived to give the concentration of surface hydroxyl groups as a function of the intensity ratio of the OH to O2− contributions to the O 1s photopeak. This expression is based on modeling the oxide film on a metal to be a multilayer system consisting of an outermost layer of organic contamination, a layer of chemisorbed water, a surface hydroxylated region of the oxide film and the inner portion of the oxide film. The average values of the experimentally determined concentrations of surface hydroxyl groups are 15, 13, 11, 6 and 8 OH nm−2 for oxide-covered aluminum, chromium, titanium, tantalum and silicon, respectively. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy depth profiles using argon ion sputtering and variable-angle XPS have been utilized in this work. Surface treatments have employed either ultrasonic cleaning with organic solvents or argon plasma treatment. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In an industrial environment, manufacturing systems may be subject to considerable uncertainties which may lead to numerous schedule disturbances. These disturbances prevent the execution of the planned production schedule. 'groups of permutable jobs' is one of the most studied methods that deal with this drawback. It constructs a flexible solution characterised by a set of schedules, allowing a human operator to execute, in real-time, the schedule that best fits the state of the shop. However, because of the limited complexity that one human being can handle, he/she needs to cooperate with the machine in order to take efficient decisions. This paper focuses on investigating the human-machine cooperation for planning and scheduling. A new human-machine interface model assisted with a multi-indicator decision support system has been proposed and evaluated. The results show the usefulness/limits of the proposed model and provide insights into the practice of production planning and scheduling. [Received 27 October 2017; Revised 13 December 2017, 7 June 2018; Accepted 8 June 2018]


According to expert practitioners and researchers in the field of human behavior modeling ([Silverman et al., 2002; Pew and Mavor, 1998; Ritter et al., 2003]), a common central challenge now confronting designers of HBM (human-behavior-modeling) applications is to increase the realism of the synthetic agents' behavior and coping abilities. It is well accepted in the HBM (human-behavior-modeling) community that cognitively detailed, "thick" models are required to provide realism. These models require that synthetic agents be endowed with cognition and personality, physiology, and emotive components. (We will hereafter refer to these rich models as "cognitively detailed models" or "thick agents.") To make these models work, one must find ways to integrate scientific know-how from many disciplines, and to integrate concepts and insights from hitherto fragmented and partial models from the social sciences, particularly from psychology, cultural studies, and political science. One consequence of this kind of integration of multiple and heterogeneous concepts and models is that we frequently end up with a large feature space of parameters that then need to be filled in with data. Comments Postprint version. Published in Multi-Agent Systems: Simulation and Applications, edited by Adelinde M. Uhrmacher and Danny Weyns (Boca Raton, Fla.:CRC), 2008. This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/ese_papers/455


The main purpose of this study is to investigate the interactive practices of bloggers when they network socially. Based on speech acts theory and social presence theory, the present study analyses the social networking practices and proposes a conceptual framework of blog interaction. The study hopes to contribute towards the existing pool of knowledge on language strategies used in blog forums. Prior to the collection of the data, a pilot study was conducted to observe blog interactive practices for a period of fourteen weeks. The data for the main study was collected over a period of thirteen months in the form of blog postings. Both qualitative and quantitative analytical methods are used in the study. The qualitative design of the study entails analyzing blog postings, conducting interviews and discussing the blog discourse phenomena. The quantitative design consists of analyzing responses from questionnaires and the quantification of the social networking strategies identified in the data. By using Herring's (2004) analytical procedures, Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA), the qualitative design analyses the social networking practices in blog forums at the participation level and functional moves level. The participation level of analysis entails among others, contextual analysis and frequency of blog postings. Functional moves analysis involves categorizing segments of blog postings to the various types of social networking strategies identified in the data based on its form and content. Additionally, all functional moves identified in the data are quantified to determine the frequencies of the categories of social networking strategies.


Platelet adhesion to subendothelium is dependent on two distinct processes: (1) diffusive transport (T) of platelets to the surface and (2) platelet-subendothelial reactivity (R). The relative magnitude of T to R will determine which factors control the adhesion rate. Physical factors, specifically, wall shear rate (γ) and platelet diffusivity (D) influence T, whereas chemical alterations modify R. An increase in the magnitude of γ or D or a decrease in R tends toward R controlled adhesion. An increase in low rate or decrease in vessel dimensions increases γ, whereas D increases with both red cell concentration (up to 40 %) and γ. In flowing blood at shear rates comparable to those found in veins or large arteries (< 650 see-1), T determines platelet adhesion. Moderate alterations in R, such as produced by the addition to blood of 45 mM citrate, 10-100 nM prostacyclin or in von Willebrand factor depleted blood, have little effect on platelet adhesion values under these flow conditions. However, as shear rate is increased to values comparable to those in the microcirculation {1300-2600 sec-1), the same blood samples show values of platelet adhesion which are reduced compared to controls, and the reduction increases with shear rate Thus, measurements of R should be determined under controlled shear conditions which are high enough to be outside the range of predominantly transport controlled adhesion.


This paper discusses the optimal approximation by anti-center-symmetric matrice on a linear manifold. The expression of the solution to these problems is given. Numerical methods of the optimal approximation to a matrix by matrices of a given class and numerical experiments are described.


The TSCCK model includes Student Cognitive Knowledge (SCK) which refers to the concept of cognitive load involved in cognitive load theory and how teachers should adopt appropriate instruction design to promote students' learning. Student Technology Knowledge (STK) refers to students' knowledge of traditional and new technologies that can be integrated into learning. Student Content Knowledge (SK) refers to any subject-related knowledge that a student should learn. Firstly, we randomly selected 90 students from a total of 115 students (simple random sampling) majoring in E-commerce to participate in the experiment. Questionnaire (5-point Likert scale) to understand the current status of technology, cognitive, and content knowledge of vocational college students. Secondly, to verify the TSCCK model, experts were invited to test and evaluate the model's reliability and validity, the scores of the TSCCK model were evaluated by five experts through a questionnaire (5-point Likert scale), in which the maximum mean score was 4.8, and the minimum mean score was 4.6. As can be seen from the table, the overall mean was 4.6, and the SD was 0.4. Therefore, experts agreed with the core idea of the TSCCK model. This means that the TSCCK model's three basic ideas have been recognized by experts. Thirdly, to find the satisfaction level of the vocational students' technology, cognitive, and content knowledge, under the TSCCK model with a cloud for vocational students, 10 students were taught using the TSCCK model with a cloud; and they were assessed by an E-commerce test and WP scale, with criteria of 80% for the achievement test and the low cognitive load (WP scale) level. The result from the E-commerce test score were passed (criteria: 80%) and the WP scale scores were low among the students, and the questionnaire also showed a satisfactory level.


Examines dielectric breakdown phenomena under some environments peculiar to superconducting coils, such as an internal high voltage and thermal bubbles in the coolant generated by the coil quench, as well as high magnetic field and low temperature. Breakdown mechanisms of vacuum, gaseous helium, and liquefied gas are also discussed.<<ETX>>


Conventional modulation formats for single carrier transmission do not provide the flexibility to gradually scale the data rate and spectral efficiency. By using multidimensional pulse-amplitude modulation, fractional numbers of bits per symbol can be achieved, which extends the flexibility and reach of intensity modulation and direct detection systems but keeps the signal processing simple. By using pseudo-Gray coding, we are able to achieve optimum mappings for various non-integer bits-to-symbol assignments. We show a transmission experiment with data rates ranging from 56 to 168 Gb/s in fine granularity over different link lengths at a symbol rate of 56 GBd.


Objective
To compare face-down positioning with adjustable positioning for closure rates and postoperative comfort of patients after full-thickness macular hole surgery, and determine whether adjustable positioning is noninferior to face-down positioning.

Methods
One hundred and thirty-eight cases (153 eyes) were observed from November 2014 to October 2016. All the cases were diagnosed with idiopathic macular hole, and underwent Pars Plana Vitrectomy with the Peeling of the Internal Limiting Membrane and Gas Tamponade. The intraocular pressure, closure rates of Macular holes, and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) were measured before and after operation. The comfort level of patients was also evaluated at day 7 after surgery. All data were analyzed by statistical analysis.

Results
Sixty-four cases (71 eyes) in group A and fifty-nine cases (63 eyes) in group B appeared high intraocular pressure, and three cases (3 eyes) in group A and two cases (2 eyes) in group B appeared low intraocular pressure. Final analysis of all participants demonstrated equal closure rates in both groups (P >0.05). The change of BCVA did not differ significantly between the two groups (P >0.05). The comfort level of patients had significant difference between both groups (P <0.01).

Conclusions
Adjustable positioning is noninferior to face-down positioning in closure rates of macular holes and BCVA of patients after surgery, when intraocular pressure of visual acuity of patients after surgery, when intraocular pressure of patients is normal or slightly higher. However, the patients with adjustable positioning show more comfortable compared to those patients with face-down positioning.

Key words:
Idiopathic macular hole; Face-down positioning; Adjustable positioning; Closure rates; comfort


In this article, we study the effectiveness of central bank intervention within a heterogeneous expectation exchange rate model for the Reserve Bank of Australia. The empirical evidence is gathered by applying a Markov‐switching approach to daily A$/US$ exchange data from December 1983 to April 2008. Our results support both chartist and fundamentalist regimes. It is shown that the two regimes are persistent and that the fundamentalist regime is riskier. Moreover, interventions when the chartist regime prevails increase the proportion of fundamentalists and thus exert a stabilising effect on the foreign exchange market.


The diagnosis and treatment of the atrial tachyarrhythmias are becoming increasingly important because of their high incidence in acute and chronic coronary heart disease, and because of the increasing incidence of digitalis and other drug-induced arrhythmias. Great strides are being made in our knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of these arrhythmias because of the widespread application of continuous monitoring in cardiac cases. Our knowledge of the physiology of arrhythmias is being extended because of this availability of continuous monitoring and because of the increasing utilisation of other techniques, including the use of pacemaking devices, intracardiac electrodes and the development of intracellular recording. Knowledge of the atrial tachyarrythmias is no academic matter. They are important in the precipitation of cardiac failure and in the aetiology of thromboembolic disease. They may lead to more serious arrhythmias and to death from ventricular fibrillation. They may also be associated with unpleasant symptoms. They are frequently a source of diagnostic difficulty and may in themselves provide important clues in the diagnosis of underlying disease. In some cases these tachyarrhythmias occur spontaneously without obvious causes. Others may be drug-induced or may be due to electrolyte disturbance, but most atrial tachyarrhythmias are caused by ischaemia or irreversible heart


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look into production competence theory by proposing and validating a multidimensional construct, and offering additional empirical evidence regarding the contribution of production competence to business performance.Design/methodology/approach – Production competence is defined as a second‐order factor/construct in terms of five underlying dimensions: cost, flexibility, quality, delivery and environmental protection competence. Different scales are used to measure the construct, validated by a multi‐step process. Data from 274 manufacturing firms and structural equation modelling as the main technique are used for the analysis.Findings – The paper suggests that manufacturing capabilities and their alignment with the competitive priorities pursued must be considered to explain the contribution of manufacturing to business performance. The provided evidence suggests that the manufacturing function significantly contributes to business performance, and enables us to ...


The use of Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) is gaining popularity for bridge applications in North America. UHPC has been used both in the construction of new and retrofitting of existing bridges. In this research, a novel use of UHPC as a concrete jacket for retrofitting of plastic hinge zones in cast-in-place and precast piers is proposed. Four large-scale cantilever pier specimens, two cast-in-place and two precast, are tested under cyclic quasi-static loading to drift ratios beyond Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE). The piers are then retrofitted with UHPC jackets in their plastic hinge zones. The design philosophy for retrofitting is to shift the plastic hinge above the damaged region of a pier, thus re-instating capacity, stiffness, and ductility to the piers. Experimental results from testing of the piers along with guidelines on retrofitting and construction techniques are presented. It is shown that UHPC is indeed a competitive solution for retrofitting of concrete piers subjected to severe earthquake damage.


Landscape architecture has ecological thinking at the core of its legacy, yet ecology's meaning and significance in design attenuates, if not divides, the profession. On one end of a continuum are those who see the primacy of landscape design in ordering ecological process, on the other, in aesthetic explication. This article speculates that for ecological design to coalesce as an environmental vision, the continuum must merge. Ecological design literature has elided its aesthetic implications while extensively considering theory, ideals, criteria, and methodologies. Examining ecological design in tandem with landscapes of notable aesthetic quality elucidates the difficulties in reconciling their conception of visibility, temporality, reiterated form, expression, and metaphor. Consideration of these realms of contention suggests a culturally persuasive aesthetic of ecological design and a reassessment of its philosophical foundations.


The article presents the characteristics of the tantalum, one of the rare metals which is used in an aviationspace technology, motor electronics, and medicine and. communications electronics. The view of the main world tantalum productions has been showed in the article. The production of tantalum in the East Kazakhstan is one of the largest in the world, where the new technology of high capacity tantalum powder has been opened.


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Numerous documents have been stated that tropisetron, an antagonist of the 5‐HT3 receptor and α7nAChR agonist, modulates immune responses. However, the mechanistic basis for this aspect of tropisetron action is largely unknown. Here, the immuno‐modulatory effects of tropisetron are investigated, focusing on the possible molecular targets and the mechanisms. Aside from the well‐characterized role in immune signalling, JAK2/STAT3, TLR2 and TLR4 are signal transducers linked to both immuno‐modulatory actions of acetylcholine and serotonin. Therefore, we evaluated their involvement in the immunoregulatory effects of tropisetron. To test the hypothesis, we assessed the expression of pro‐/anti‐inflammatory cytokines including TNF‐α, IL‐1β, IL‐17 and IL‐10 following tropisetron treatment in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)‐stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) derived from healthy subjects. Tropisetron up‐regulates the transcription of TLR2, TLR4, JAK2 and STAT3 genes. Tropisetron also increases the expression of target pro‐inflammatory cytokines, although considerably suppresses the pro‐inflammatory cytokines (IL‐1β, IL‐17 and TNF‐α) levels in media. Tropisetron notably promotes both IL‐10 gene expression and secretion. These findings confirm the antiphlogistic properties of tropisetron. The present data also shed light on a new aspect of tropisetron immune‐modulatory action that engaged TLR2, TLR4 and JAK2/STAT3 signalling cascades.


Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) has good insulation and arc-quenching properties. It can minimize the switchgear losses to a low level due to its cryogenic nature. Optical observation of LN2-arcs is very important for the future design of the Liquid Nitrogen Insulated metal enclosed Switchgear (LNIS). It would help in determining the spacers sizing, and the clearance distances between the LN2 Switch and the other equipment inside the LNIS system. Until now, no one has ever done the optical analysis of high-luminance arcs in the LN2 environment. The objective of this work was to determine the shape, size and current-density effects of arc plasmas in LN2. One type of electrode geometry and three types of electrode materials were used to study the LN2-arc characteristics. The influence of cryogenic environment on the arcs were thoroughly studied. Results showed that the arcs in LN2 have a direct relationship with the applied voltages, interrupting currents and the magnetic fields. The higher the interrupting current, the larger is the size of the arc. It was also observed that different electrodes materials have different shapes of arc plasmas. Magnetic fields can significantly influence the LN2-arc by increasing its size, patterning its shape and reducing its arcing time.


The paper presents a numerical method to solve for the reliability measures of a Markovian system. The model is obtained from the field of reliability engineering for systems having constant failure and repair rates. Generally, the steady state behaviour of the system is studied due to some constraint on obtaining the transition state solution. The proposed method helps to govern the transition state probability values, by utilising a finite difference method in concurrence with the results of integral appearing in stochastic differential equation obtained using the supplementary variable technique. Results thus achieved are found to be effective for studying the transition state behaviour of the system.


This paper deals with uncertainty principle related to Laguerre-Bessel transform invoking smallness of the support. In particular, we obtain a Benedichs-Amrein-Berthier type theorem related to Laguerre-Bessel transform. As a consequence, we get a global uncertainty inequality and a Heisenberg uncertainty inequality for Laguerre-Bessel transform. Furthermore, invoking essential support, we prove analogous of Donoho-Stark theorem in L1(K) and L2(K) , where K = [0,+∞)× [0,+∞) . Mathematics subject classification (2010): 42B10, 43A62.


The use of Vinylite,'' a polyvinyl chloroacetate copolymer, in preparing thin films for beta counting was studied. A 3% solution in ethylene dichloride is placed on mercury in a tray, allowed to dry trimmed with a scalpel and transferred to the mount. Densities of 1 to 50 mu g/cm/sup 2/ may be obtained. (T.R.H.)


A project is a planned series of learning experiences of six hours or more within a particular area of youth interest (Florida 4-H definition). The purpose of a 4-H project is to promote mastery of subject matter and to foster life skill development. This 4-page fact sheet was written by Judith Levings and published by the UF Department of 4-H Youth Development, August 2014.
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Summary form only given. Previous work by means of 2D simulations has shown that over long time scales an electron beam encountering an over dense background plasma ejects the background electrons from the region where the beam is propagating, leaving the background ions to neutralize the beam charge, thus stabilizing the beam. Subsequently, long timescale simulations with coarse spatial resolution were presented which seemed to show that the 2D behavior carried over to 3D, although a firm conclusion was not possible because of the coarse resolution. The purpose of the present paper is to present simulations of the interaction between the beam and the over dense plasma in 3D with a finer spatial resolution than has been presented previously. These simulations reinforce the conclusion that the beam can propagate stably for long times. Three dimensional perturbations do not destabilize the beam. The beam essentially digs a hole in the background plasma through which it can propagate


The present invention discloses an aluminum rail, comprising beams and welded and fixed to one end of the I-beam aluminum copper clad plate, the plate is made of aluminum copper clad explosive welding weld; of the I-beam integrally extruded aluminum profiles, comprising a top plate, a web and a base plate has an inverted cone which is provided at the bottom surface of the platform, the platform is provided between the triangular sides of the welding, beams and aluminum copper clad panels the groove having a height of 3-7mm; the I-beam and aluminum copper clad sheet length 2.8-3.3m, the I-beam width 40-50mm, 50-60mm height, the aluminum copper clad panels 5-7mm thickness, a width of 40-50mm, the thickness of the aluminum copper clad aluminum plate and copper plate does not exceed 1/5, the present invention also discloses a method of welding of the rail. Aluminum rail of the present invention, high weld quality, small welding distortion.


A novel tunable filter is theoretically demonstrated. It is based on a ring resonator with an amplifier and a noise filter in the loop. This optoelec tronic device has potential as a high-sensitivity receiver and as a tunable demultiplexer in OFDM transmission systems. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Belleek and District Community Partnership is an umbrella group for 18 smaller groups in the Belleek and Boa electoral ward. It provides a resource base, skills and information to assist these groups and the local community to build their capacity. In addition the Partnership develops projects which benefit the inhabitants of the village and its environs socially, environmentally and economically (e.g. Christmas tree recycling, drugs and alcohol awareness).
Sector: Community Development
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The name of special services is applied to the civil and military services that organize and conduct intelligence and counterintelligence activities. Their operations are an element generating social and political trust between the political authorities and citizens. Given the current conditions of international relations and the international situation, a state is required to have efficient special services at its disposal. Anegative impact of globalization on state functioning, both in its external and internal dimensions, forces Polish special services to strengthen their fundamental function, that is providing information. The weakness of military intelligence and counterintelligence follows from the dissolution in 2000 of the Military Intelligence Services (WSI), and wasting their potential for political reasons. The role and task of special services in a democratic state should be to protect the liberty and democracy of the political system's principles, as set out in the Constitution, instead of protecting particular interests. The nature of the transformations occurring in security circles in Poland and related globalization processes, as well as civilizational, cultural and technological changes and the emergence of a civil society, demand a different attitude to the special services to be taken both by the public authorities and society, and make changes in their functioning necessary. This also calls for the need for a theoretical interpretation of the operations of modern Polish special services in a democratic state of law.


Enzyme replacement therapy is not always effective enough upon exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. One of the main reasons is myths — doctors' misconceptions about the indications and rules of replacement therapy.
In particular, there is an outdated opinion about the effectiveness of tablet enzyme preparations used for the relief of pancreatic pain. However, a number of evidence-based studies have proved that enzyme preparations are not effective enough to relieve pain in chronic pancreatitis, and thus should not be used for this purpose. This statement is recorded in the United European Gastroenterology evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and therapy of chronic pancreatitis, as well as in the recommendations of the American College of Gastroenterology. In addition, tablet preparations are characterized by asynchronism of the passage of the chyme and the tablet along the digestive tract.
The second myth is that drugs without an acid-resistant coat start hydrolyzing the components of the chyme in the stomach, which ensures higher efficiency as compared to Creon. But in the absence of a coat, enzymes are inactivated in the acidic environment of the stomach and cannot have any effect at all.
The third myth is that enzyme preparations always cause constipation. In fact, constipation occurs in no more than 10% of cases. They are usually associated with an overdose of the drug, concomitant pathology or insufficient compliance.
The fourth myth is that prescribing the doses of enzyme preparations indicated in the European Guidelines causes addiction. It is crucial to know that such doses do not exceed 10% of the pancreas's own capacities, therefore, they cannot significantly affect these capabilities, which is also demonstrated by evidence-based studies.
The fifth myth is that patients gain weight because of enzyme preparations, and they should not be prescribed upon overweight and obesity. Numerous data firmly show that pancreatic insufficiency often occurs in such cases, and enzyme preparations are required.
The sixth myth is that a drug with a different composition can be produced under the usual established product name. For example, NEO is added to the name to "mask" a drug with a new composition. Doctors should carefully monitor the composition of such drugs.
The seventh myth is that a minimicrospherical preparation (Creon) is as effective as microspherical preparation. However, this statement turned out to be a myth as well. Minimicrospherical preparations are proved to be significantly more effective in clinical practice.
Thus, the above-mentioned myths, like many others, are based on insufficient knowledge in the field of pancreatology.


ly, this program guesses nondeterministically the correct permutation via permutation(Xs,Ys), and ordered checks that the permutation is actually ordered. Operationally, the behavior is as follows. A query involving sort is reduced to a query involving permutation and ordered. A failure-driven loop ensues. A permutation of the list is generated by permutation and tested by ordered. If the permuted list is not ordered, the execution backtracks to the permutation goal, which generates another permutation to be tested. Eventually an ordered permutation is generated and the computation terminates. Permutation sort is a highly inefficient sorting algorithm, requiring time super-exponential in the size of the list to be sorted. Pushing the tester into the generator, however, leads to a reasonable algorithm. The generator for permutation sort, permutation, selects an arbitrary element and recursively permutes the rest of the list. The tester, ordered, verifies that the first two elements of the permutation are in order, then recursively checks the rest. If we view the combined recursive permutation and ordered goals as a recursive sorting process, we have the basis for insertion sort, Program 3.21. To sort a list, sort the tail of the list and insert the head of the list into its correct place in the order. The arbitrary selection of an element has been replaced by choosing the first element. Another example of the advantage of intertwining generating and testing can be seen with programs solving the N queens problem. The N queens problem requires the placement of N pieces on an Nby-N rectangular board so that no two pieces are on the same line: horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. The original formulation called for 8 queens to be placed on a chessboard, and the criterion of not being on the same line corresponds to two queens not attacking each other under the rules of chess. Hence the problem's name. 253 Nondeterministic Programming


Nanowire/nanorod TiO2 structures of approximately 8 nm in diameter and around 1,000 nm long were synthesized by alkaline hydrothermal treatment of two different TiO2 nanopowders. The first precursor was TiO2 obtained by the sol-gel process (SG-TiO2); the second was the well-known commercial TiO2 P-25 (P25-TiO2). Anatase-like 1D TiO2 nanostructures were obtained in both cases. The one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures synthesized from SG-TiO2 powders turned into rod-like nanostructures after annealing at 400 WC for 2 h. Conversely, the nanostructures synthesized from P25-TiO2 preserved the tubular structure after annealing, displaying a higher Brunauer–Emmett– Teller surface area than the first system (279 and 97 m/g, respectively). Despite the higher surface area shown by the 1D nanostructures, in both cases the photocatalytic activity was lower than for the P25-TiO2 powder. However, the rod-like nanostructures obtained from SG-TiO2 displayed slightly higher efficiency than the sol-gel prepared powders. The lower photocatalytic activity of the nanostructures with respect to P-25 can be associated with the lower crystallinity of 1D TiO2 in both materials. doi: 10.2166/wst.2014.312 om https://iwaponline.com/wst/article-pdf/70/6/972/470665/972.pdf 2019 Julieta Cabrera Hugo Alarcón Alcides López Juan Rodriguez (corresponding author) Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Perú E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Alcides López Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear, IPEN, Lima, Perú Roberto Candal INQUIMAE, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Dwight Acosta Instituto de Física, UNAM, México D.F., Mexico


An examination is made of the terminal impedances and gain of the network consisting of a series-tuned circuit transitionally coupled to a parallel-tunedcircuit, to show the usefulness and limitations of the singly-loaded form of the circuit for coupling a transmission line to a vacuum-tube grid or anode


Effect of Cr in substitution for a part of Fe on structure and magnetic properties of Sm_2(Fe_(1-x)Cr_x)_(17)N_(~2.7) alloys powder has been investigated.The structure of the alloys remains the same with an addition of Cr,saying x=0-0.1.With the increase of Cr content,their Curie temperature,anisotropic field.saturation magnetization,average Fe atom moment and average hyperfine field decrease slightly.But their homogeneity may be obviously improved and coercivity increased even up to 1592 kA/m for Sm_2(Fe_0.95Cr_0.05)_17N_(~2.7) powder.


Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), this paper empirically analyzes the impact of green finance development on industrial carbon emissions in China by using the panel data of Chinese mainland province. It is found that the development of green finance has significantly suppressed the industrial carbon emissions in China. Heterogeneity test shows that the inhibition effect on carbon emission in central China is the most obvious, and the inhibition effect on carbon emission in eastern and western regions decreases in turn. Technological progress significantly inhibits carbon emissions, especially in central China, followed by the western region and finally the eastern region. It is suggested to improve the green and low-carbon financing system, support the optimization of energy consumption structure and guide substantive technological progress, so as to promote the realization of carbon emission reduction targets.


Negative ion formation by electron impact has been studied in nitromethane, nitroethane, nitrobenzene, tetranitromethane, ethylnitrite and ethylnitrate. Appearance potentials, ionization efficiency curves and kinetic energies of negative ions were measured by using a Fox ion source. The electron affinities of C2H5O and of C (NO2)3 are discussed as well as the energetics of processes which yield NO2-. The electron capture in nitrobenzene and tetranitromethane leads to molecular ions [C6H5NO2~ in high, C (NO2)4 in very low intensity] besides many fragment ions. A number of product ions from negative ion-molecule reactions has also been found.


Many aggregation operators involve sorting operations. People usually call them ordered aggregation operators, such as the ordered weighted averaging operators. The stability of these operators depends on the continuity of sorting operations. In this paper, we will show that the sorting operations have a very good continuity and thus the ordered aggregation operators are robust. However, the analysis of the continuity of sorting operations involving intuitionist fuzzy values is difficult. In this case, we may need to introduce a new topology and the results turn out to be rather complicated.


Young workers often work in low-wage, low-status and precarious jobs, and their positions in the labour market are increasingly subject to instability, which is expected to require greater union protection and support. However, in recent years as in the whole world, in Turkey, the young unionization rate is declining faster than the rate of adults. This study focuses on young people's attitudes and behaviours towards the trade union, which are among the reasons for the low union membership rates of the young employees. The young people who are in the 15-29 age group who are working fulltime/part-time, periodically or temporarily in the labour market constitute the research group.   Data were collected by face-to-face survey method and frequency distribution and descriptive statistics were used in the analysis of the data.   According to the findings of this study, the trade union attitudes and perceptions of the youth are not negative and contrary to the general opinion, they have sufficient knowledge about the trade union.  On the other hand,  the trade unions were found to be inadequate and dysfunctional in explaining and promoting themselves.


Procedure of censoring of harmonic signal frequency estimations, which is based on a posteriori SNR, is offered and investigated. The criterion of efficiency takes into account the probabilistic and cost indexes of events of out-of-control failure and controlled estimations losses.


11086 Background: Mutations in the BRAF gene provide actionable targets for cancer therapy in melanoma and other tumor types. Novel, fast, and accurate diagnostic systems are needed for further imp...


Content distribution networks, enabled through replicated caching, have enabled broadband content delivery over the wired Internet. In this paper we propose a wireless content distribution scheme based on a new multi-level storage, access, and distribution architecture that is tailored for next generation wireless networks. This scheme significantly outperforms conventional translation of ideas from the wired Internet to wireless. Our starting point is the observation that wireless network architecture is converging towards a dense deployment of wireless access points (APs) with small coverage, combined with cellular base-stations (BS) with larger coverage. The consequence of this heterogeneous architecture is that a user could access the BS as well as multiple APs. Therefore an optimal design is to trade-off the cost (transmission rate) at the BS, with the caching cost (memory) at the APs and the access cost of connecting to multiple APs at the user, for a given content popularity profile. In this paper we propose a caching scheme with provable performance trading off these costs and theoretically demonstrate its order optimality with respect to information-theoretic bounds. Our solution is to use coded cache storage and the inherent broadcast property of wireless through network coding. We also validate the scheme on several real datasets and quantify the trade-off in rate, memory, and access. These numerical evaluations also suggest an intriguing possibility that categorizing content into a small number of popularity levels is sufficient.


Online learning or what is called online learning is learning that requires an internet network by utilizing applications such as social media, google classroom, google meet, zoom. The learning process that focuses on students being able to solve problem-solving, to develop knowledge and skills is a discovery learning model. This study intends to analyze the online learning process using the discovery learning model. The conclusion obtained is that the use of online learning is still experiencing problems, such as unstable internet networks, difficulties for students in joining google meet, lack of student discipline in activating the camera. Although it has obstacles in online learning, the discovery learning model can be applied well, this can be seen from the results of students' work in answering questions well.


The non-ideal behavior of analog integrated circuits make it necessary that Artificial Neural Network (ANN) systems be evaluated for the effect of error due to the non-idealities on its performance, before they are implemented in analog hardware. In this paper we describe a procedure for automatically evaluating a given ANN system, described in the form of a Data Flow Graph (DFG). The equations required for the quantitative evaluation are extracted from the DFG description using symbolic computation techniques. Optimization methods are applied for generating bounds on the maximum values of error that can be associated with each circuit block. The generated bounds are put back to behavioral models of individual circuits blocks in the design library, to help screening viable alternatives and to generate circuit level specifications. The methodology forms part of a design automation environment that helps to map ANN systems to hardware interconnection descriptions.


To form a more homogenous heat generating resistive layer, the present invention is continuous between the portions of the pair of electrode layers and the pair of electrode layers, and the pair of electrode layers disposed on the support and a surface of the support having the insulating layer on the surface It provides a method for producing the ink jet recording head substrate having the heat generating resistive layer covering. The method includes the step of forming the pair of electrode layers by etching the electrode layer and forming an electrode layer on the support. By etching the electrode layer is formed in the step of forming a portion of the electrode layer, by etching a surface portion of the insulating layer located between the pair of insulating layers, the concave surface portion of the insulating layer portion. A substrate for the heat generating resistive layer, the support, electrode layer, an ink jet recording head, an insulating layer


The potential energy surfaces (PES) of the primary addition reactions of atomic oxygen O(1D) and O(3P) on acetylene were done using Density Functional Theory with the standard B3LYP hybrid functional. The crucial areas of these PES were then refined using the UMP2 and CCSD(T) schemes and, in few cases, CASPT2, MCSCF, and MR-AQCC ones. The stability of these primary products was studied. The reactivity of C2H2 and O, especially in low-temperature matrix conditions, is discussed on these bases. The singlet surface shows that the insertion of the oxygen into the C−H bond, resulting in ethynol HC⋮COH, is the main reaction. An addition onto the C⋮C bond, leading to oxirene and/or formylcarbene HC−CHO is nevertheless to be considered. A particular attention was given to the oxirene-formylcarbene region and MR-AQCC calculations predict an extremely flat area in agreement with previous CCSD(T) results. Secondary transposition of formylcarbene into ketene H2CCO could be avoided at very low temperature. From the tr...


The balanced scorecard (BSC) is a performance management system that supplements traditional financial measures with the criteria that measure the performance from different perspectives. For strategists, they need to predict the KPIs future values to make good decisions during the design of BSC and the determination of the suitable target for each objective and KPI. From historical data, the dependency between KPIs can be discovered through developing traditional prediction model. Hence, the KPI future values can be predicted. However, such prediction does not consider the nature of KPIs in the BSC. The historical values of KPIs depend on the previously settled targets for objectives and KPIs. This raises the challenge of finding a solution to make more accurate prediction that considers the real values of KPIs beside the previous settled targets. For achieving that, we propose a solution that uses fuzzy logic to categorize the KPI values and then predict the future KPI values. Then, we develop a third predictor model as a data fusion module to predict the KPI values depending on both previous values and category predictors. We find that the prediction accuracy of our proposed solution significantly overcomes the normal values prediction of KPIs.


The Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution elevated the right to life of the foetus to the status of a constitutional right. The implications of this development for Irish women are used in this thesis as a starting point to illustrate the need for a right to selfdetermination for women as a social group. As a country with a democratic government, and a codified bill of rights, Ireland is squarely within the liberal legal tradition of rights. This background, together with the absolute prohibition on abortion, and the powerful position of the Catholic Church as a reservoir of conservative beliefs, makes Ireland a particularly strong example to illustrate the need for a right to selfdetermination for women. A constitutional right to self-determination for women as a social group would aim to return to women the power to define and create the institutions and stmctures of society under which they live, at both the public level of government and the private level of family and the day to day lives of women. This thesis attempts both to delineate the theoretical outlines of this right, and suggest how such a right can be used to engage with law to advance the position of women. Abstract Table of


Experimental studies on the decontamination and stabilization of sludge were carried out using the product "Desolak", which is calcium oxide treated with a disinfectant. As a result of the research, it was found that the sewage sludge of Voronezh is safe and can be used as organic fertilizer for growing agricultural plants. The determination of the content of mineral nutrients in the soil and the soil reaction showed that the application of organic fertilizers in the form of sludge in comparison to the variant without fertilizers increases the content of nitrogen nitrate, exchange potassium, and mobile phosphorus in the soil. At the same time, the mass fraction of impurities of toxic elements in the soil decreases when sewage sludge is added as an organic-lime fertilizer.


Computer modeling and simulation help researchers to better visualize pulmonary functions for faster, less expensive clinical testing of innovative respiratory drugs. The cost of developing a new inhalation therapy drug for respiratory diseases such as asthma, emphysema and cystic fibrosis is estimated at more than $1 billion — the highest in the pharmaceutical industry. This figure is considerably more than for developing medications to treat cancer or neurological disorders. The main cause of this extremely high cost is that current testing methods of evaluating respiratory drug effectiveness are only coarse measures of patient long-term outcome. Even so, such methods are extremely time-consuming and expensive, as many patients must be tested over a long period of time. Researchers are addressing these issues with the emerging field of in silico modeling, which uses computer simulation to speed up medical studies and to provide greater detail than is otherwise practical with extensive lab work and wide-scale clinical trials. In particular, many in silico respiratory studies are based on fluid dynamics simulation to generate accurate images of pulmonary functions, such as airway volume and resistance for individual patients. The technique already has been used in studying the respiratory structures of animals and — because the same functional parameters can be measured in humans — enables researchers to proceed more efficiently from pre-clinical to clinical trials. By accurately quantifying these relatively small changes in pulmonary functions, the approach can demonstrate respiratory drug effectiveness more quickly using fewer patients. This has the potential to cut years from the development process and reduce costs by hundreds of millions of dollars. The current gold standard for testing airway diseases is FEV1, the volume of air exhaled during the first second of a forced expiratory maneuver started from the level of total lung capacity. Another approach in widespread use for assessing patients with pulmonary disorders is the Saint George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ), a set of questions aimed at comparative measurements of patient health. These methods were developed primarily to measure long-term survival, but they lack the sensitivity to correlate with subtle differences in breathing that are more difficult to identify and quantify. Because of the uncertainty of these parameters and discrepancies between them, researchers must spend considerable time and expense gathering data on drug effectiveness and averaging results Potential cost and time reduction in respiratory drug development through patient-specific functional imaging and computer simulation


Abstract 1. Pitavastatin is an effective treatment for primary hyperlipidemia and mixed dyslipidemia. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of food on the pharmacokinetic properties and bioequivalence of the original, branded, formulation of pitavastatin calcium and a new generic formulation in healthy Chinese male subjects under fasting and fed conditions. 2. Under fasting and fed conditions, 90% CIs of the geometric mean of generic/branded AUC0–48 h ratios were 92.2–102.4%, 93.1–104.5%, the ratios of ln(AUC0–∞) were 92.6–103.7%, 93.2–103.5%, and ln(Cmax) ratios were 90.7–110.3%, 84.7–100.8%, respectively. The generic and branded formulations were bioequivalent in terms of rate and extent of absorption under both the conditions. The average values of AUC0–48 h, AUC0–∞ and Cmax decreased noticeably following a high-fat breakfast. Values for AUC0–48 h were 87.69% and 83.7%, values for AUC0–∞ were 87.5% and 84.6%, and values for Cmax were 45.0% and 50.4% in subjects given the generic and branded preparations, respectively. The absorption of pitavastatin calcium tablets was delayed following a high-fat meal, with Tmax increasing by up to 2.43-fold. 3. Both formulations were generally well tolerated, with no serious adverse reactions reported. The newly developed generic formulation may provide a reliable alternative to the branded tablets for patients with primary hyperlipidemia or mixed dyslipidemia.


Polycythamia in Neoplastic Diseases Polycythaemia secondary to hypoxia respiratory, cardiac or altitude is a well-known entity, and is characterized by increased production of red cells without changes in white cells, platelets or of the myeloid reticulum stroma. Polycythemia vera, a separate disease process, was recognized by Vaquez (1895), Cabot (1899) and Russell (1902) before Osler's earlier writings in the field (1903) and the distinguishing features of this disease now include splenomegaly, increase in circulating white cells and platelets, the frequent finding of an elevation of leucocyte alkaline phosphatase, and a not infrequent termination of the disease in an acute leukwmia. Most would regard the condition as a benign neoplasm of bone marrow tissue, showing a tendency to malignant transition, and it is entirely distinct from polycythlemia secondary to anoxia in which only the red cell precursors are involved. In clinical practice, however, difficulties do arise as with early stages ofpolycythlemia vera, the proliferation may be most prominent in the erythroid series without splenic enlargement or myeloid changes. The possibility of confusion between polycythmmia vera and polycythamia secondary to hypoxia clearly arises in such cases, but rather more intriguing possibilities have emerged from observations of the association of such erythrocytosis, not only with hypoxia, but with a variety of renal disorders and with certain tumours. In many cases now, correction of the renal disorder, or removal of the tumour has led to remission of the polycythmmia.


We investigate stochastic entropy production in a two-level quantum system that performs Rabi oscillations while undergoing quantum measurement brought about by continuous random disturbance by an external measuring device or environment. The dynamics produce quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects for certain measurement regimes, and the stochastic entropy production is a measure of the irreversibility of the behaviour. When the strength of the measurement disturbance is time-dependent, the stochastic entropy production separates into three components. Two represent relaxational behaviour, one being specific to systems represented by coordinates that are odd under time reversal symmetry, and a third characterises the nonequilibrium stationary state arising from breakage of detailed balance in the dynamics. The study illustrates how the ideas of stochastic thermodynamics may be applied in similar ways to both quantum and classical systems.


This article is trying to elaborate the realistic meaning of "public acceptance" principle in cadre selection and appointment work,analyzes the basic connotation of "public acceptance" principle,and discusses the practical measures of adhering to the principle.


The purpose of this narrative inquiry study was to investigate the influence of curricular mandates on the teaching practices of high school mathematics teachers. Narrative inquiry, philosophically based on John Dewey's theory of experience (Dewey, 1938), provides the intimate study of an individual's experience over time and in context(s) (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). This study focused on the experiences of three high school mathematics teachers' stories of educational change with data collected through interviews and personal documents. Sociocultural narrative analysis was used to interpret the participants' stories of adaptation. The data, presented as an ethnodrama, is composed of scenes taken from the interviews and interweaves the participants' stories of evolution as they tackled the struggles of change on multiple levels: curriculum, student assessment, and teacher evaluation. Results indicated teachers adopt both traditional and reform strategies when deciding on appropriate teaching practices. Collaboration and professional development were two important aspects used by the participants to enlarge their toolbox of teaching practices when forced to challenge their existing beliefs. This study contributes to the scarce research on the impact of curricular mandates on teaching practices. It also highlights the experiences of high school mathematics teachers as they embrace the paradigm shift associated with the mandates and implement changes to their practices to promote a more student-centered, collaborative environment. INDEX WORDS: High school mathematics teachers, Dewey's theory of experience, Narrative inquiry, Curricular mandates, Ethnodrama, Teacher change HOW DO CURRICULUM MANDATES INFLUENCE THE TEACHING PRACTICES OF HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS? by JACQUELINE HENNINGS


The new technologies inside robotics, requires its systems becomes more intelligent day by day, for this reason, is important to incorporate different kind of sub-systems that allow a service robot get more capabilities of work in different areas. Thus developing in specific applications is needed. This paper shows an alternative way applied to manipulator robots by conjunction of different techniques of the robotics area such as: Motion planning, trajectory planning and control strategies. This involves a SCARA configuration robot and finally a simulated validation is performed.