The hormonal status of children with carditis has been studied. The interdependence of the formation of myocardial dysfunction and changes in the indicators of neurohumoral regulation is shown. In early children
age with carditis there is a new metabolic status, which is formed in the conditions of adaptation at
myocardial hypoxia and elevated left ventricular filling pressure, which is an adaptive-compensatory reaction.


The photochemistry of a series of bis(sulfonyl)diazomethanes was investigated in solution and in low temperature matrices. These diazo compounds are of interest as photoacid generators in photoresists for deep UV lithography. Triplet carbenes could be trapped in solution, but attempts to isolate the carbenes in argon matrices at 10 K were unsuccessful, the corresponding sulfenes and other rearranged products being observed under these conditions instead. This is in line with DFT and ab initio calculations, which predict the singlet carbenes to be transition states on the pathway to oxathiirene oxides, which can be looked upon as intramolecularly stabilized carbenes. The triplet carbenes lie energetically above the singlet transition states and so are not expected to have a prolonged lifetime even in low-temperature matrices.


Background. In recent scholar resources musicologists actively study the problem of typology of chamber song cycle. The article cites analytical observations of M. Kolotylenko on works in this genre by R. Strauss (2014), of I. Leopa – on G. Mahler's (2017), of N. Vlasova – on A. Schoenberg's (2007). It is stated, that unlike Austro-German phenomena of this kind have been studied to a certain degree, song cycle "Summer Nights" by H. Berlioz hasn't received adequate research yet, although it is mentioned by N. Vlasova as on of the foremost experiences of this kind. It allows to regard the French author as a pioneer in tradition of chamber song cycle. The aim of given research is to reveal the essence of orchestration as a part of songs cycle's artistic whole. In order to achieve it, semantical, compositionally-dramaturgical and intonational methods of research are used. Originally, "Summer Nights" were meant to be performed by a duo of voice and piano (1834). It was not until 1856 that composer orchestrated this cycle, similarly to the way G. Mahler and in several cases R. Strauss done it later. The foundation of cycle by H. Berlioz are six poems from a set by T. Gautier «La Comédie de la mort», published in 1838. In spite of having epic traits, this set is still an example of lyrical poesy, where subjective is being generalised, while chosen motive of death, according to L.Ginzburg, corresponds to existential essence of lyric (L. Ginzburg). French poet, prose writer, critic, author ow the poems set to music in "Summer Nights" by H. Berlioz – Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) – is one of the most enigmatic and singular figures in history of XIX century art. He was eclipsed by his contemporaries, although his creativity paved the way for upcoming symbolism, that incarnated in poetry of C. Baudelaire, and set "Émaux et Camées" became an aesthetic ideal for Parnassian School. A work by H. Berlioz on lyrics by T. Gautier consists of four songs: "Villanelle", "Le Spectre de la Rose", "Sur le lagunes", "Absence", "Au cimetiere. Clair de Lune" and "L`ile Inconnue". It is founded on a plot of lyrical type, that is built according to the principle of appearing associations. Lyrical "I", whose inner world is revealed during the cycle, provides logical congruity of the work. Each mélodie has its own spectrum of images, united by general lyrical plot. The first and last songs, grounding on a theme of nature, create thematic arch. The denouement of the plat falls on "L`ile Inconnue", where hero's conclusion about impossibility of everlasting love is proclaimed. The orchestra part is equal significance with the voice and intonated verbal text, simultaneously playing an important role in illuminating underlying meaning of the lyrics. H. Berlioz doesn't tend to use supplementary woodwind instruments. Although, each instrument reveals its unique sonic and expressive possibilities, demonstrating its singular characteristics. Due to that an orchestra becomes differentiated, turning into a flexible living organism. Composer doesn't use exceedingly large orchestra, moreover, each song has its unique set of performers. However, there are stable players: strings (including double basses), two flutes, 2 clarinets (in A and in B). Besides of that, H. Berlioz occasionally uses the timbre of solo oboe, bassoons, natural French horns in different keys, and in the second song he employs coloristic potential of the harp. From a standpoint of the semantics, the score is built according to the principle of the opposition between two spheres. The former one is attached to the motives of the nature and has pastoral mod. At the same time, it reveals idealistic expanse of dreams and vision, thus being above the existing realm. This sphere is represented by woodwinds and brass. The latter, on the contrary, places the hero in real time. It is a sphere of sensuality, of truly human, it also touches themes of fate and inevitable death. It is characteristic that this sphere is incarnated through string instruments. Although, the harp cannot be bracketed with either of the groups. This elusive timbre in instrumental palette is saved for "Le Spectre de la Rose" and creates unsubstantial image of a soul ascending to Heaven. H. Berlioz evades usage of mixed timbers in joining of different groups of the orchestra. Even when he does it, it has sporadic nature and provides emphasis on a particular motive. Orchestral tutti are almost non-existent. Composer uses concerto principle quite regularly as well. Additional attention must be drawn to psychologising of role of clarinet and semantisation of flute and bassoon. Clarinet becomes a doppelganger of lyrical "I" and, quite like a personality of a human, acquires ambivalent characteristics. Because of that, it interacts not only with its light group, but with low strings as well, thus demonstrating an ability to transformation of the image. Bassoon reflects the image of the death. This explains its rare usage as well as specific way of interaction with other instruments and groups. Flute is attached to the image of the nature, symbolises a white dove, that in a poetry of T. Gautier represents an image of beautiful maiden. Consequently, this allows to state that timbre of flute incarnates the image of lyrical hero's love interest. The most significant instruments of string group are the low ones, accenting either the aura of dark colours or sensuality and passion. Neglecting the tradition requiring lyrical hero to be paired with a certain voice type, H. Berlioz in each mélodie uses different timbres, that suit coloristic incarnation of the miniature the most in the terms of tessiture and colour. A conclusion is made, that composer become a forefather of chamber song cycle of new type, with its special trait being equivalence of the voice and the orchestra, that allows them to create united multi-layered integrity


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At a meeting today of the board of directors of the GMO Internet consolidated subsidiary JWord Inc., current policy was revised and it was decided to close and dissolve the subsidiary Aijie Network Software (Beijing) Co.,Ltd. at the end of December. This subsidiary was established as an investment by JWord in technology development abroad, and will be closed as the technology development resources can now be secured within Japan.


To the Editor: Stimulating effects of nicotine on the dopaminergic system are well known from various experimental designs (1). In contrast, immediately favorable effects of the agent on the clinical expression and the course of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) are less clear-cut (2-6). Mayeux et al. (7) commented on some of the epidemiological inconsistencies of the association between cigarette smoking and PD. Specifically, the prevailing opinion of an inverse relation between smoking and PD is not unequivocal (8,9). Considering recent biochemical results and earlier epidemiological work, we want to support the contention of Mayeux et al. that "smoking most likely decreases as a consequence of PD" (7), rather than that nicotine consumption protects against the disease. In some healthy individuals nicotine is poorly metabolized by the hepatic debrisoquine-4-hydroxylase (P450D6) (10). This poor metabolizer status is attributed to a genetic polymorphism (CYP2D6) with the presence of homozygous mutant alleles in such individuals. Irrespective of smoking, homozygous mutant alleles of CYP2D6 indicating a poor metabolizer status have been found more frequently among a proportion of white PD patients (11,12). In another group of PD patients, the poor metabolizers for P450D6 had smoked fewer pack-years of cigarettes; nonsmoking PD patients were more frequently poor or intermediate metabolizers compared with controls (13). Biochemical experiments in rats and dogs have shown the hepatic P450IID1 enzyme to be identical to a neuronal P450IID1 enzyme in the brain both pharmacologically and molecularly; the enzyme has broad interspecies identity with the human P450D6 (14). Interestingly, neuronal P450IID1 has significant activity toward substrates or inhibitors of the human dopamine transporter that accumulates neurotoxins with structural features resembling dopamine (14,15). In PD, the decrease in dopamine transporter messenger RNA (mRNA) expression follows the extent of neuronal degeneration in dopaminergic cells of the substantia nigra (16). Overall, dopamine transporter mRNA expression reflects the degree by which dopaminergic cells are involved in the degeneration process in PD brains (17). Considering the similarity of substrates between the neuronal P450IID 1 and the human dopamine transporter, it would be interesting to know, whether mRNA expression of the neuronal P450D6 also parallels that of the dopamine transporter. If the impairments of both dopamine transporter and P450D6 function have a joint relation to the basic pathogenesis in PD, their either simultaneous or sequential involvement may offer interpretations for several repeatedly observed epidemiological findings on smoking habits in PD patients. A decrease in neuronal P450D6 expression similar to that in dopamine transporter function would suggest that the hepatic/ neuronal capability to metabolize nicotine in very early disease stages may be nearly normal but would diminish and finally cease during the course of advancing PD. A poorly metabolizing patient with PD would therefore require progressively smaller doses of nicotine from tobacco products to generate plasma concentrations that would satisfy individual craving (10). Adverse health effects due to nonmetabolism of nicotine could ultimately create avoidance of tobacco smoking. Thus, during the premorbid disease stages the degree of nicotine metabolism by intracerebral P450D6 may vary; consequently, the time points at which smoking is started may vary between patients and controls (3,6,18-20). That is, at this stage, smoking may, but need not, exert adverse effects. In later PD stages of overt disease, cessation of nicotine consumption is encountered as a common feature (2,3,7,18,19,21,22), and the rate of exsmokers is higher among patients compared with controls (2421) . Some patients terminate smoking earlier than controls (20). To stop smoking would thus not be a feature primarily of PD but of the carrier state for a metabolic disturbance to handle nicotine inhaled from cigarette smoke. If this metabolic state is concomitantly linked to PD pathophysiology , no dosage effects of smoking on disease characteristics (initial symptoms, clinical expressions, disease duration) are to be expected (2,3,7,23). The cessation of smoking is found more frequently in older patients than in younger ones (2); the only and strongest correlation for clinical variables and smoking behavior was found between the years smoked and the age at diagnosis. This may then be explained by "the fact that an older person is likely to have smoked for more years than a younger person" (5; see also 18,19). Moreover, age at diagnosis has been found to be lower for smoking than for nonsmoking patients with PD (2,8). As the rate of nonsmokers increases in higher age groups and because this increase may start in premorbid disease stages, an analysis according to age at diagnosis of overt PD is likely to result in a difference between smoking and nonsmoking patients with PD. The higher rate of exsmokers also explains why patients with PD who are smoking at the time of death have a lower mortality when reference in made to that of never-smoking or exsmoking patients with PD (24-27). To be or to become a nonsmoker may reflect a biochemically based behavior concomitantly linked to the progressive development of the motor and neuropsychological syndrome PD in individual patients. The degree to which this behavior of cigarette smoking is expressed diminishes during the course of PD, thus continuously lowering the proportion of smoking patients. Consequently, future clinical experience may indicate whether to give up


Several techniques have been proposed and discussed for mobile handset location. These include the use of the Global Position System (GPS), time difference of arrival (TDOA), time of arrival (TOA) and angle of arrival (AOA). Each of these systems and techniques has various advantages and disadvantages. However, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate the advantage of using maximum likelihood (ML) based superresolution direction finding (SRDF) techniques for AOA estimation over weighted spectrum type approaches in the presence of multipath propagation in the cellular environment. This shows that ML based techniques are more suitable than weighted spectrum type approaches for handset location systems that use AOA information. Direction finding (DF) of a radio signal involves estimating a signal's AOA at a receiver. The DF techniques considered in this paper operate on the covariance matrix formed from the complex samples recorded at an array of antennas. All the techniques are SRDF algorithms, implying that they have the ability to resolve signals impinging on the array when their angular separation is less than the natural beamwidth of the antenna array. (5 pages)


This essay provides an overview of the scholarship on the intersections between religion and health-related topics (specifically, medicine, illness, and disability) in Late Antiquity. We characterize the dominant approaches in two, somewhat distinct scholarly trajectories—the History of Medicine and Disability Studies—and urge future scholars to better integrate the insights of each approach. We also identify a range of common methodological missteps that plague the scholarly work to date in the hopes of refining the methodology of future scholarship.


The unprecedented peak and average proton currents and extraction rates from the Proton Storage Ring (PSR) under construction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory present new problems in beam extraction. Activation caused by beam spill must be minimal to permit hands-on maintenance. Timing requirements are uncommonly stringent. Solutions to these problems are outlined below.


The multipurpose ICARUS T600 detector, with its large sensitive volume, high granularity, excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities, is an ideal device for searching for phenomena beyond the Standard Model. The ICARUS T600 addresses a wide physics program. It is simultaneously collecting a wide variety of "self-triggered" events of different nature, such as cosmic ray events (atmospheric and solar neutrino interactions), and neutrino interactions associated with the CNGS neutrino beam. It will also search for rare events, like a proton decay.


ABSTRACT Higher education's interest in remedial college coursework and its bumpy impact on student success drove this collaboration between the mathematics department and institutional research at a small, private 4-year university. For first-time freshmen needing math remediation, national research shows that these students struggle with earning required college math credits compared with non-remedial students. A major roadblock for them is that they often do not earn credit towards their degree for remedial courses, further challenging progression through their major. This research describes the impact of one institution's curricular innovation to prepare students more quickly for college-level math and have some of that credit count toward graduation, thus meeting the institution's Liberal Arts Core requirement. The researchers examine a combined cohort of first-year students to determine if there is a relationship between this co-requisite math course and higher retention and graduation rates compared to other traditional types of mathematics remediation. Students taking the co-requisite remedial class retained and graduated at higher rates and were also more successful in subsequent college-level mathematics classes.


The invention discloses a weaned pig creep feed free of antibiotics and zinc oxide, and relates to a weaned pig creep feed. The weaned pig creep feed comprises the following main components: corn, flour, whey powder, glucose, cane sugar, soya bean meal, extruded soybeans, soy protein concentrate, fish meal, plasma protein powder, lysine hydrochloride, soybean oil, calcium hydrogen phosphate, mountain flour, a multi-vitamin and trace element premix, plant essential oil and a growth promoting element. According to the weaned pig creep feed, as the digestive physiological characteristics of weaned pigs are fully considered in treatment and selection of the raw materials, the conversion efficiency and the palatability of the feed are fully ensured, diarrhea of the pigs can be significantly controlled, and the feed intake and the immunity of the pigs are improved. The weaned pig creep feed does not contain any antibiotic and zinc oxide, is environmentally friendly and is high in quality and free of pollution and drug residues.


Although RET software technology has made great advances in recent years, very little attention has been paid to how this technology can be put into reliable and efficient use in a production environment. To stimulate EDA suppliers to take up this task, a system for not only automating RET, but also for generalizing the automation of RET is described.


Surface mount technology is a new technology for the manufacture of printed circuit boards. As it is new, standards are lacking, and the defect rate for an SMT process is usually high. Surfamont Ltd started using SMT in 1986. In this paper the authors describe the company's experience of tackling quality problems arising from the use of SMT, and how the defect rate was reduced through a quality improvement programme


A study on cultural heritage landscape is essential in compiling the cultural history of the Gelgel kingdom. The purpose of this study is to carry out an inventory, identification, classification, and description of cultural heritage in the Pekraman Gelgel Village. It aims to construct a holistic history of the kingdom, relying on a variety of cultural texts and contextual analysis to produce a meaningful historical view. To achieve these targets, three eclectic theories are used, including archeological, semiotic and hermeneutic. Also, this research uses a qualitative method with a cultural study approach. The study instrument was the researcher with various tools, including interview guidelines, field data recording cards, digital cameras, drones and mobile phones. Importantly, observation, indepth interviews with informants, and documentation techniques were used for data collection. The results showed that there are rich and varied cultural heritage in the Gelgel kingdom era XIV-XVI AD. The diversity of cultural heritage forms can be grouped into five, including 3 inscriptions, 45 temples, megalithic tradition and classical statues, 5 performance arts, 4 handicrafts, and 3 Islamic cultures. Contextualization of Cultural Heritage is the basis of developing the history of the Gelgel Kingdom Period according to the structure of the palace city and socioreligious life. The inventory of cultural heritage forms uploaded on the website, and the complete construction of Gelgel's cultural history, can be packaged as a tourist attraction (tourist village).


Hypoxemic pneumonia in AIDS patients is mainly caused by Pneumocystis carinii, Toxoplasma gondii and CMV, although the significance of CMV recovery in BALF is often unclear. Since lung involvement generally occurs during reactivation, T. gondii is not expected to be demonstrated in patients without evidence of past infection with this agent. We report a fatal case of pneumonia revealing a T. gondii primary infection diagnosed thanks to the PCR analysis of the BALF.


Omalizumab, a humanized anti‐IgE monoclonal antibody, has demonstrated efficacy in patients with severe allergic asthma. However, treatment responses vary widely among individuals. Despite a lack of data, free serum IgE levels following omalizumab treatment have been proposed as a marker of treatment responsiveness.


A map-guided approach was followed in order to identify forest stands damaged by the spruce budworm on Landsat TM images. Pixels included in each forest polygon as indicated on the map are extracted and their values in TM4 and TM5 spectral bands, transformed to reflectance units, are analyzed using a set of numeric rules. These rules are based on the frequencies of occurrence of pixel values in pre-defined intervals. The change-detection/identification accuracy varies according to the stand type. Thus, for coniferous stands with defoliation and/or light mortality, the accuracy was 95 percent whereas, for mixed stands, an accuracy lower than 80 percent was obtained. These results indicate that the proposed method behaves well as a fast detection technique in a complex forest environment. It has a definite advantage over all standard methods, by permitting the characterization as damaged or not of an entire stand, instead of the individual image pixel. Ways to further improve its performance, especially in the case of mixed stands, are also discussed.


The Perinatal Mortality Rate (PNMR) is considered to be an indicator of perinatal health. To ascertain the validity of the perinatal mortality statistics in Curacao medical records and death certificates were reviewed over a 5-year period. Using a birthweight of 1000 gm as a cutoff point 366 fetal and 1st-week deaths were recovered from the statutory death certificates. Using similar criteria 19 perinatal deaths identified in the medical records were not registered as such on the death certificates (registration failure 4.9%). Hence the revised annual PNMR ranged from 19.0-31.2/1000 births during the period 1979-83. Additionally the contribution of low birthweight (LBW; <2500 gm) to perinatal mortality was examined during 1984-85. LBW was associated with 68.6% of all perinatal deaths using a birthweight of 500 gm as a truncation point. However it is argued that the high proportion of LBW to perinatal mortality is not the result of an adverse birthweight distribution of the Curacao population. (authors)


Significance: Hayashi and co-workers report an organocatalytic domino Michael/Michael reaction of ,-unsaturated aldehydes and ethyl (E)-4-oxopent-2-enoate that uses a diphenylprolinol silyl ether as catalyst. The desired cyclopentanones were obtained in good to excellent yields and with excellent diastereoand enantioselectivities. The newly developed formal (3+2) cycloaddition was applied as the key step in a concise and highly stereoselective route towards the Corey lactone. Comment: Due to its importance as a crucial intermediate for the synthesis of various prostaglandin hormones, efficient, selective, and practical routes toward the Corey lactone are desirable. The authors have developed a time-efficient organocatalytic protocol consisting of seven steps in a single reaction vessel that furnishes enantiopure Corey lactone. The required silyl acrylaldehyde is accessible through an atom-economic trimerization of ethyne, carbon monoxide, and dimethyl(phenyl)silane (I. Matsuda, A. Ogiso, S. Sato, Y. Izumi J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 2332). PhMe2Si H O O


The characteristics and applied scope of auger bored cast-with-pressure CFG pile were introduced,the construction requirement and quality requirement of continuous auger bored cast-with-pressure CFG pile were proposed.The detail quality control measures were illustrated,so as to guarantee CFG pile engineering quality and popularize CFG pile application in engineering.


Let G be a nontrivial connected graph on which is defined a coloring c: E(G)→{1,2,…,k,k∈N} of the edges of G,where adjacent edges may be colored the same.A path P in G is a rainbow path if no two edges of P are colored the same.The graph G is rainbow-connected if G contains a rainbow u—v path for every two vertices u and v of G.The minimum k for which there exists such a fc-edge coloring is the rainbow connection number of G.In this paper,we enumerate the rainbow 2-connection number of linear polygon chains and the rainbow connection number of linear even-size-polygon chains.


A constant source of discord within the States of the Church during medieval times was the absence of clearly-defined territorial boundaries between the control of the self-governing communes of the Patrimony and that of the papal authorities. Disputes arising from this cause embittered for several centuries the relations of the papacy with some of the principal towns of the Patrimony, among them Spoleto, Gubbio, and Orvieto. The subject of this paper is an episode in the papacy's quarrel with the last of these communes.


The study of flavone as antimalarial compounds have been carried out by as reported earlier, but studies of QSAR for modeling flavone derivatives as new drugs to replace antimalarials that have been resistant not been carried out. The descriptors of QSAR were calculated using PM3 semi-empirical method. The best model of QSAR was determined by MLR approach. Based on the best equation of QSAR models have been designed several new antimalarial compounds that are predicted to have a higher antimalarial activity than the flavone compounds. The best equation of QSAR models have been designed for 39 compounds of flavone derivatives and only 28 compounds of flavone derivatives that can be recommended to be synthesized or isolated from natural materials in the laboratory, i.e. 17-29, 32-33, 35 and 40-51 who have IC 50 values as much as 1.151-1.751 µM.


This study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment. Using data from 65 entrepreneurs, randomly drawn from three industrial sectors tailoring, furniture and water bottling, in Rivers State, the Spearman's rank order correlation was used to measure the relationship between the components or proxies of the independent variable and the measures of the dependent variable. The results of our findings showed that there is positive and significant relationship between the two main variables of the study, namely; emotional intelligence and organizational commitment and some of the components of these variables. This signifies the necessity of attracting and employing highly emotional intelligent individuals, training them in different levels and leading them towards the application of the skills required. Paving the ground for the development and continuation of emotional intelligence within managers and the employees are also inevitable factors to be followed. It was also revealed that organizational culture moderates the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment. Hence, management must facilitate their employees by providing an organizational atmosphere where employee feel valued; receive essential support to recognize their potential to make them committed to the organization.


Proctoporus machupicchu is a semi-fossorial lizard, which was discovered in two locations in the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (SHMP), Urubamba province, Cusco, Peru. The type series consists of two females and a male, however, the male paratype does not possess femoral pores which is incongruous with the males mentioned in the literature. In this paper, we report a new location outside the SHMP and re-examine the type series. Internally, the male paratype has no male vestiges (testicles and seminiferous ducts), so we conclude that there was an error in sexing. In addition, we report a new locality based on a juvenile male collected in the San Luis Private Conservation Area (ACP San Luis) of La Convención province. This new record increases the range of distribution of the species by 20.9km to the northeast and its altitudinal range from 2760 – 2800 to 2760 – 2966 m of altitude.


The paper deals the estimation of necessary reliability level for an unmanned aerial vehicle, to be capable to operate within the Single European Sky. In particular, classification principles are given – unmanned aircraft are assigned to classes appropriate for civil aircraft, as well as main assumptions are discussed for the method of reliability calculation in case of hypothetical unmanned aircraft. 51 NIEzaWoDNość SaMoLoTóW BEzPILoToWycH


The edaphic conditions together with climate change have affected the productivity levels of the Mexican field, for which the habanero harvest in greenhouses has become an option, however, large losses are generated in the harvest due to a representative volume of third-quality product. The objective of this work is to develop a production model for third-quality habanero sauces at the MSMEs level for regional development. The construction of the model consisted of making physicochemical tests, bromatological properties, determination of humidity, and sensory analysis based on the NMX-F-377-1986 standard, the results show a standardized process at the industrial level based on Mexican quality standards to be replicated at the MSMEs level, concluding that it is feasible to apply a process based on norms and standards, using third quality products to obtain a product with added value and at an affordable price.
Keywords: Production chain, habanero sauce, regional development, MSMEs.


The design and evaluation of a novel fixturing technique for characterizing mm-wave solid state devices, including monolithic microwave integrated circuits, is presented. The technique utilizes a cosine tapered ridge guide fixture and a one-tier deembedding procedure to provide accurate and repeatable device level data. Advanced features include "nondestructive" testing, full waveguide bandwidth operation, a high degree of universalism, and rapid yet repeatable chip-level characterization. Furthermore, only one set of calibration standards is required regardless of device geometry.


Site analysis and landscape design developed for the Little Boat Harbour marine ecosystem and recreation area. Analysis conducted and design created by Dr Ian Weir QUT in collaboration with Mr Nathan McQuoid Landscape Ecologist and Mr Craig Lebens Bremer Bay Dive operater and marine ecologist (amateur). Includes A3 masterplan produced by Kylie Feher graduate architect in association with Dr Weir. Document presented to the 18 Dec 2013 Council meeting of the Shire of Jerramungup and subsequently adopted by that local government with implementation subject to funding.


Trading in the multi-trillion dollar credit default swaps (CDS) market has remained a mystery to most due to lack of available data. We propose to demystify this market by employing a unique data set of all trades with anonymized counterparty information at daily level from January 2007 to date of North American single-name CDS. In particular, we seek to explain for the CDS market the extent and nature of trading (by whom – dealer or buy-side players and how concentrated) and its liquidity measured in different ways using number of trades, volume, price dispersion and price impact. Our primary economic inquiry is to document and understand the time-series variation in CDS market liquidity, especially the change from prior to the crisis (pre-August 2007) to during the crisis, with a focus on significant events of stress to the CDS markets such as 9th August 2007 (money market 'freeze'), 14th March 2008 (the collapse of Bear Stearns) and 15th September 2008 (Lehman Brothers' failure), and employing equity and bond market liquidity changes as controls for trading stress unrelated to the CDS markets.


Thin film properties are strongly influenced by strain and low dimensionality effects, especially when the film thickness is about a few unit cells, which corresponds to the thicknesses targeted in most of contemporary studies.


The study of gratings has been carried out by diffe rent techniques such as specular and off-specular x -r y reflectivity, Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray S cattering (GISAXS) in coplanar and non coplanar geo m tries and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The comparison of th e results is presented . The advantage of each tech nique is discussed. The new information obtained in GISAXS g eometry concerning the very high sensitivity to the ori ntation of the gratings is commented.


Multilevel pulse-width-modulated (PWM) converters have a number of applications and undoubtedly state-of-the-art digital control enhances their performance. The flying capacitor voltage-source converter (FC-VSC) topology has a number of unique characteristics when compared with other multilevel topologies such as the cascaded converter and the neutral-point-clamped one. This paper deals with the design of a PWM controller suitable for multilevel flying capacitor (FC) converters using a popular TMS320LF2407 DSP board for implementation. The two cases, namely the three-level and five-level FC controllers are described in detail and special considerations are outlined. Finally, the validity of the controller design is verified experimentally on low power laboratory prototypes.


IoT, Big Data, CPS, AI technologies have been developed in the fourth Industrial Revolution and such as so-called valuable new technologies can make Logistics Industry better bring about innovation in Logistics Process. and at the same time, traditional Logistics Job wil be substituted to AI system....


Nowadays most of the people are affected by liver cancer that can be the leading cause of cancer death. To analyze the liver cancer detection using super pixel segmentation and artificial neural network (ANN) Algorithm and it reduces the time complexity. An automatic 3D segmentation method for high energy sound waves in ultrasound liver images, which is based on a fusion of accurate time-consuming method and statistical texture prior. Three orthogonal linear filter banks are used to extract texture features from each image in the region around the point of the database. The atlas database includes registered liver images from previous patients and their segmented liver surfaces. To train the problem of patient–specific frequency content in the image features from the atlas database are using ANN algorithm and then to segment the super pixel segmentation the liver image from a new patient. The dataset of liver cancer detection are benign and malign.


Recent developments in genetic engineering and medical informatics offer enormous potential for biotechnology. However, key enabling technologies, such as medical instrumentation and analytical tools, are required to support further research in this field. The scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) is one of the key instruments for research in these areas. In this paper, we review the synergy of the SNOM with other technologies for the imaging and characterization of biological materials. Based on this review, the components and systems design parameters are summarized.


Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of differential reinforcement of other behaviors in reducing non-suicidal self-injury behaviors in adolescents.

Methods: A single-subject A-B-A-B design was used in this study. The statistical population included male adolescents with self-injurious behaviors, the families of whom were seeking treatment for these behaviors. In total, four adolescents were recruited from a psychology clinic in Tehran, Iran, using convenience sampling. Participants were observed at 6, 8, 10, and 12 sessions at baseline phases of A1 and A2, followed by 12 intervention sessions after each baseline phase. The intervention included differential reinforcement of other behaviors. If the participants showed no self-injury behavior within a specific time duration, a reward was provided. Non-suicidal self-injury behaviors included self-harm, hair pulling, severe itching, pinching, wound manipulation, and hand biting. The frequency of these behaviors was assessed during each session. Visual analysis of graphed data, percentage of non-overlapping data, and mean percentage improvement were used for data analysis.

Results: The results showed a fairly reliable effect for the intervention on reducing the target behavior, as indicated by a frequency reduction from phase A1 to B1 and A2 to B2 and by a frequency elevation by the intervention withdrawal from B1 to A2. The average percentage reduction across participants was obtained at 56%. However, a low rate of self-injury remained consistent for the participants.

Conclusion: The results provided further evidence on the effectiveness of differential reinforcement of other behaviors in reducing self-injury behaviors. Although the intervention could reduce self-injury substantially, it seemed that it could not eliminate the behavior.


UV-curable
perfluoropolyether (PFPE)-based fluoropolymer (PFPE-DMA) was synthesized and
the photocuring behaviors of PFPE-DMA/HDDA systems with and without tertiary
triethyl amine (TEA) were investigated using photo-DSC under air and nitrogen
atmospheres. Photo-DSC analysis revealed that N2 purging and the presence
of TEA mitigated oxygen inhibition in the photopolymerization of the UV-curable
free-radical PFPE-DMA/ HDDA
system. In addition, TEA synergistically acted as a coinitiator or
photosynergist under nitrogen atmosphere, which increased the cure rate and percentage conversion for
the photopolymerization of PFPE-DMA/ HDDA. TEA acted as both oxygen scavenger and photosynergist. The
results presented here demonstrate that investigating the photocuring behaviors
of PFPE-DMA/HDDA systems is very helpful to determine the optimal curing conditions for the PFPE-DMA
fluoropolymer.


In this paper different AC high-voltage auxiliary converter for railway transport power wire schemes and functioning diagrams are presented. Also here have been carried out estimations of power losses in AC high-voltage auxiliary converters according for the different power modes. Here is presented the problem of losses influence in IGBT-transistors on commutation frequency of AC high-voltage auxiliary converter. Comparative analysis of power losses in AC high-voltage auxiliary converters is executed according to different power diagrams and IGBT- transistors of different classes is carried out. So being guided by above mention factors optimum AC high-voltage auxiliary converters power diagrams have been obtained taking in consideration power semiconductors elements modern state.


Smart fabrics help to regulate body heat and provide thermal comfort to the body. Hence from many decades research on heat transfer analysis and temperature regulating wearable clothing takes important place. Hence, here we developed green, simplistic and economical sericin/PVA film using industrial waste sericin along with PVA. For this, the fabrication of sericin/PVA was carried out by employing polymer solution casting method and slow evaporation method by varying the sericin concentration by keeping PVA constant that is in the ratio of 2:1, 1:1. Characterization techniques like X ray diffraction, and UV visible spectroscopy were carried out and fluorescence effect were studied. This research showed that higher concentration sericin/PVA film can effectively absorb phonons of UV radiation and convert into fluorescence light thereby maintaining the temperature of the film/fabric. Hence this film/fabric can be used in industries where workers are constantly exposed to harmful UV radiations.


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Mastering CL is a little like mastering chess...you can always earn something new! Since you work with CL every day, why settle for just enough knowledge to get by? You owe it to yourself (and to your organization) to increase your working knowledge of this important language. Author Ernie Malaga gives you real-world CL solutions to the kinds of problems you face every day. With the expertise you'll gain from Complete CL, you'll be able to do things that other programmers simply can't.


To investigate the diagnostic performance of diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI), dynamic contrast‐enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and the combination of both in the differential diagnosis of lymphoma and inflammation in the orbit.


Water insecurity is defined as the lack of a reliable source of water, of appropriate quality and quantity to meet the needs of the local human population and environment. As economic development continues, water consumption increases - and thus this is becoming a long-term cause of water insecurity. Pakistan is already the third most water-stressed country in the world. Its per capita annual water availability is 1,017 cubic meters - perilously close to the scarcity threshold of 1,000 cubic meters. Back in 2009, Pakistan's water availability was about 1,500 cubic meter. Pakistan ranks nine in the list of top 10 countries with lowest access to clean water where 21 million of the total population of 207 million does not have access to clean water. We need efficient and integrated management of water in view of its increasing demands visa-vis depleting reserves. God has created this commodity according to the requirements of mankind. However without management, it is not sustainable.


Introduction Morocco and Spain share a history of mutual recognition and estrangement dating back centuries. Today, this relationship faces reinterpretation in an age of postcolonial migration, economic disparity and ambiguous nationalities. Cultural links to the past are usually drawn in order to understand the present and to design the future. The purpose of my case study is to investigate the state of the relationship between the two nations, paying the utmost attention to how it is shaped by national identities, cultural heritage and stereotypes. These factors all influence the state of political and economic relations, and the emergence of controversial issues and even clashes which at the same time contribute to the further complexity. Thus, the first section of the case study is dedicated to the analysis of the background of Spanish-Moroccan coexistence (in a cultural context) and modern tendencies of globalization. At the same time, a shared Mediterranean cultural space forms many similarities that do exist and do provide opportunity for the mutual understanding. Therefore, the second section of the case study deals with the resources that can be used in order to improve the perceptions that Spaniards and Moroccans possess of each other. The third section provides a short account about the results of cultural cooperation between two countries.


Statistics: A survey carried out by the World Bank in Egypt, Jordan
and Yemen estimated that between 5% and 10% of children under
age 18 have at least one type of disability; many of these children
face health, educational, social and psychological problems [World
Bank, 2004]. A community-based study carried out in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, found that speech, motor or mental disabilities were most
common.


The utility model discloses a revolving warning lamp, which is mainly composed of a controller, luminous devices, a lamp cover, a bottom seat and a power supply. The utility model is characterized in that the utility model also comprises a mounting supporting frame which is fixed on the bottom seat and a control circuit; the mounting supporting frame is at least provided with four lateral surfaces which are vertically arranged; intersecting lines of the lateral surfaces and a horizontal face are distributed in circumferential direction around a medial shaft, and each lateral surface is provided with at least one luminous device; the luminous devices are luminous diodes; the controller comprises a control circuit of the luminous diode, and each output end of the controller is electrically connected with the luminous device on one of the lateral surfaces. The utility model uses the control circuit to respectively control the illumination of a plurality of luminous devices, and the effect of light ray rotation is generated by using the time difference of the illumination and the extinction of the luminous devices of different lateral surfaces. The utility model replaces the prior mechanical drive, prevents abrasion and noise, effectively saves electric energy and is convenient for realizing the control of the illumination.


Within the tourism literature, many researchers recognize destination loyalty to be critical for the sustainable development of tourist destinations during the mature stage of life cycle. This study features a structural model designed to identify the most important determinants of tourist loyalty, with a specific focus on the complex role of tourist satisfaction. Empirical results based on a representative sample of 483 international tourists in Thailand reveal that the satisfaction of tourists fully mediates the effects of push and pull motivations and perceived value for money on destination loyalty, and that it partially mediates the relationship between perceived service quality and destination loyalty. These findings suggest that the success of efforts by destination management organizations to attract return travelers pivots on building tourist satisfaction. Destination managers should also continuously improve and measure tourists' perceptions of service quality at tourism destinations.


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Recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa, Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark) is increasingly being used to secure hemostasis in difficult clinical situations. The role of rFVIIa in the treatment of patients undergoing open-heart surgery for valvular heart disease was evaluated in an open pilot study. The study objectives were to evaluate blood loss and hemostatic effect following the administration of rFVIIa, to evaluate the safety of the treatment, and to determine its effect on laboratory parameters. To date, we have treated five patients (one child aged 2.5 years and four adults) using various surgical procedures, including arterial switch, closure of atrial septal defect and DeVega's procedure (mitral valve replacement with tricuspid valve repair). Four patients received rFVIIa intraoperatively while the fifth received it postoperatively. Satisfactory hemostasis was achieved with a single dose (30 μg/kg) of rFVIIa. Four hours after treatment with rFVIIa, the mean blood loss was 262.5 mL for adults (220–334 mL) and 85 mL for the child. No significant adverse events were seen in relation to rFVIIa therapy. The laboratory parameters indicated a mean 18.5-fold increase (range 3.7–42) in FVII levels at 30 min post-injection and a mean reduction of 12 s (range 3–39 s) in prothrombin time.


The paper maintains that Marxism will be perfected,enriched and continue to make progress along with the development of science and technology.To testify this proposition two events that have pushed the course of modern history forward are referred to,namely,Newton's revolution of science in the 17th century and the industrial revolution in Britain in the late 18th century.The theoretical evidence of the formation of Marxist concepts of nature and history,and the basic principles and ideas of Marxism are also discussed.


The connectivity richness in mobile ad hoc networks, there are paths between a source and a destination. There are many applications those require uninterrupted connections between the nodes while transferring the packets, the long-living paths can be very useful to provide Quality of Service. In this paper, we propose path-selection algorithms and evaluate their performance in a mobile ad hoc network based on two criteria: 1) the selected path is the most likely to meet a target energy consumptions, and 2) the selected path has the longest residual path lifetime among all the available paths. We also develop performance metrics (PMs) to compare the proposed algorithms among themselves and with a baseline random-selection algorithm. It is found that path selection algorithms demonstrate comparable performance than existing algorithm. As the number of node increases, the proposed algorithms yield even greater performance gain over the baseline algorithm.


This paper presented an efficient and reliable smoke detection algorithm on the video sequences. The key components developed in this algorithm are slowly moving blobs detection, classification of the blobs obtained and smoke regions tracking. We use preprocessing, slowly moving areas and pixels segmentation in a current input frame based on adaptive background subtraction algorithm, merge of the slowly moving areas and pixels into blobs at a stage slowly moving blobs detection. Calculation of Weber contrast is applied to classification and the primary direction of smoke propagation is considered. On a tracking step we trace texture and color smoke features using Cam Shift algorithm. The performed experiments have shown that our smoke detector quickly and reliable finds out a smoke on a complex dynamic scene. Experimental results are presented.


In this paper, we consider iterative learning control for trajectory tacking of robotic manipulator with uncertainty. An improved quadratic-criterion-based iterative learning control approach (Q-ILC) is proposed to obtain better trajectory tracking performance for the robotic manipulator. Besides of the position error information, which has been used in existing Q-ILC methods for robotic control, the velocity error information is also taken into consideration such that a new norm-optimal objective function is constructed. Convergence and error sensitivity properties for the proposed method are also analyzed. To deal with uncertainty, the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) are incorporated for estimation of uncertain parameters by constructing extended system states. The performances between the two filters are also compared. Simulations on a 2DOF Robot manipulator demonstrate that the improved Q-ILC with parameter estimators can achieve faster convergence and better transient performance compared to the original Q-ILC, in the presence of measurement noise and model uncertainty.


If you're interested in recording and streaming media using Flash Media Server 3 (FMS3) and Adobe's Real-Time Messaging Protocol, this unique 267-page PDF-only book is the perfect primer. It is not a reference, but a systematic guide to developing FMS3 applications using ActionScript 3.0, with chapters that focus on specific aspects of the server and how they work. FMS3 is very different from regular web servers. Because its open-socket server technology stays connected until users quit the application, you can stream audio, video, text, and other media in real time. FMS3 is also quite different from previous versions, a fact that web developers familiar with Flash Media Server 2 or Flash Communication Server 1.5 will quickly discover. Don't worry. With Learning Flash Media Server 3 and a little experience with Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0, anyone can get up to speed in no time. You'll learn how to install FMS3, organize your development environment with Apache web server, and use the management console before diving into the whys and hows of: Recording and playing back streaming audio and video in VP6 and H.264 formatsUsing the new Flash Media Encoder to stream and record videoCamera and microphone settingsNon-persistent client-side remote shared objectsTwo-way audio-video communicationsBroadcasting and server-side bandwidth controlWorking with server-side files: the file classServer-side shared objectsServer-side streamsSetting up a software load handler using FMS3's new server-side NetStreamBringing in data and working with configuration files At the heart of every chapter is a core set of code that shows the minimum requirements needed for different procedures. Beyond that, Learning Flash Media Server 3 provides you with plenty of options for using FMS3's different versions -- the full-feature server, the streaming-only server, and the limited-user development server. It's a whole new world of media, and this book puts you right at the doorstep. Ready to enter?


Currently there are two main categories of adaptive beamforming applied to medical ultrasound imaging: minimum-variance-related beamforming(MV) and coherence-factor-related beamforming (CF), both of which have been applied to suppress side/granting lobe and clutter for plane-wave imaging. Unfortunately, due to low SNR/SINR, the resulting images may suffer from deficiencies: deteriorated speckle pattern, and/or black-region artifacts surrounding hyperechoic objects. To overcome these problems above, an improved spatio-temporally smoothed coherence factor combined with eigen-space minimum variance procedure is introduced in this study.


The principle of the guided inquiry learning process interaction emphasizes the interaction between students and teachers,  and between students and the environment. Learning as an interaction process means placing the teacher not as a source of learning, but as a regulator of the environment or regulator of the interaction itself, the teacher as the questioner. The purpose of this study was to determine how the effect of the guided inquiry model on improving student con- sition. This research was conducted in the even semester of the 2017/2018 academic year using the pre-experimental design method through one group pretest-posttest design. This research was carried out in three stages, namely: giving a pre-test questionnaire to obtain the average score of student co-technician competencies, implementing the guided inquiry learning model, and giving the final test (posttest) after learning. The subjects of this study were fourth grade students consisting of 14 male students and 13 female students. The data collection techniques used were observation and tests. Observations were made to observe student activities, while the test consisted of preliminary and final tests used to measure learning success. The assessment instrument consists of an observation sheet filled out by the observer and the test questions consisting of 10 questions. Furthermore, student learning outcomes are processed using the Gain formula (g). Based on the research results obtained, 11 students obtained a Gain value of 0.75 in the high category, and 16 students obtained a Gain value of 0.60 in the moderate category. The overall average value of learning outcomes is 0.65 in the medium category. Thus, it can be concluded that the application of the guided inquiry model can affect science student coqinitive.


I am happy to announce that "THE ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, INDIA" is organizing their Centenary Celebration during the year 2018-2019. On April 18 2018, the celebration ceremony will commence. In this Centenary year, a souvenir will be brought out, and a number of Seminars, Workshops, etc. will be organized through out the year to mark the occasion.


The general function of values, whether pecuniary or other, is to direct the energies of men and of the social wholes in which men co-operate. In this paper I mean to inquire what part pecuniary values have in this function, how far they serve, or ought to serve, as the motive force of social organization and progress, what they can and cannot do. The discussion, I may add, is based on the view maintained in a previous paper,' that the activities of the pecuniary market, taken as a whole, constitute a social institution of much the same general character as other great institutions, such as the church or the state. It seems clear that the distinctive function of money valuation is to generalize or assimilate values through a common measure. In this way it gives them reach and flexibility, so that many sorts of value are enabled to work freely together throughout the social system, instead of being confined to a small province. And since values represent the powers of society, the result is that these powers are organized in a large way and enabled to co-operate in a vital whole. Any market value that I, for instance, may control ceases to be merely local in its application and becomes a generalized force that I can apply anywhere. If I can earn a thousand dollars teaching bacteriology, I can take the money and go to Europe, exchanging my recondite knowledge for the services, say, of guides in the Alps, who never heard of bacteriology. Other values are similarly generalized and the result is a mobility that enables many sorts of value, reduced to a common measure, to be applied anywhere and anyhow that the holder may think desirable. We have, then, to do with a value institution or process, far transcending in reach any special sort of value, and participating in the most diverse phases of our life. Its function resembles that of language, and its ideal may be said to be to do for value what


Freight transports are an integral part of the economic life and the production process of each country around the world, while their development is necessary for the successful movement of goods. However, there is a significant impact on society due to the use of freight transport such as greenhouse gas emissions, noise pollution, traffic accidents, traffic jams and others. It is clear that besides the evident environmental problems, a series of social and economic problems are created. Nevertheless, in the last decades, the sector of road freight transport has had a remarkable development, with emphasis on reducing the social impact in order to improve the sustainability and the growth of the sector itself.
The main purpose of this thesis is to record and assess the current condition of the road freight transports sector in Greece and its likely development in the coming years.


The regeneration of paired appendages in certain fish and amphibian lineages is a well established and extensively studied regenerative phenomenon. The teleost fin is comprised of a proximal endoskeletal part (considered homologous to the Tetrapod limb) and a distal exoskeletal one, and these two parts form their bony elements through different ossification processes. In the past decade, a significant body of literature has been generated about the biology of exoskeletal regeneration in zebrafish. However, it is still not clear if this knowledge can be applied to the regeneration of endoskeletal parts. To address this question, we decided to compare endo- and exoskeletal regenerative capacity in zebrafish (Danio rerio) and mudskippers (Periophthalmus barbarous). In contrast to the reduced endoskeleton of zebrafish, Periophthalmus has well developed pectoral fins with a large and easily accessible endoskeleton. We performed exo- and endoskeletal amputations in both species and followed the regenerative processes. Unlike the almost flawless exoskeletal regeneration observed in zebrafish, regeneration following endoskeletal amputation is often impaired in this species. This difference is even more pronounced in Periophthalmus where we could observe no regeneration in endoskeletal structures. Therefore, regeneration is regulated differentially in the exo- and endoskeleton of teleost species.


Technological innovation is evolving in faster and faster cycles. One of the most recent waves of disruption manifests in the progress in the field of Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence. These innovations combined with the current Megatrends will impose global challenges on our societies and on humankind. We are proposing a holistic, dynamical model to address the ethical, moral, social, political and economic aspects of these transformational processes in advance: Technology Governance will provide a methodology to define frameworks and guidelines involving all stakeholders in a structured, interdisciplinary discourse.


High-pressure CO2 sorption data in semicrystalline poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) are presented for temperatures ranging from 25 to 115°C. The results are described by Henry's law above the glass-transition temperature of PET, while a dual-mode sorption model comprised of a Henry's law and a Langmuir isotherm applies in the glassy state. The disappearance of the Langmuir capacity of the polymer above Tg presumably results from the elimination of regions of localized lower density which are frozen into the glass upon quenching from the rubbery state. Exposure of PET to a high CO2 pressure produced a systematic variation in the apparent sorption equilibria. Correlation of the Langmuir capacity of PET with the dilatometric parameters of the polymer provides a useful framework for understanding the origin of the Langmuir sorption mode and for interpreting annealing and conditioning effects in glassy polymers.


Competitive advantage is the implementation of a unique strategy that creates value (Barney, 1991). It improves a firm's effectiveness and efficiency and so increases profit (Wernerfelt, 1984). Competitive advantage is attained through either an internal or external change in the market (Grant, 2008). The change in competitive position is influenced by the magnitude of the change and the resources, capabilities or strategic positioning of a firm. This will in the long run lead to particular firms gaining sustainable competitive advantage hence gaining superior performance over its rivals. This study seeks to investigate the impact of competitive strategies on the performance of telecommunication firms in Kenya. The study was guided by the following objectives, to establish the effects of cost leadership on the of telecommunication firms in Kenya, to determine how differentiation affect the performance of telecommunication firms in Kenya, to assess the extent to which market focus affects the performance of telecommunication firms in Kenya. The study was conducted at telecommunication firm's headquarters in Nairobi with targeted 445 respondents. The Respondents comprised of top department managers and board of Directors these firms. Stratified random sampling was used to determine the sample size from various telecommunication sectors.  Data was collected using a semi-structured questionnaire administered to the various respondents. Once collected the questionnaire was edited for completeness before being entered into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences Computer Package for Analysis. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. After, the analysis the data was presented through the use of various presentation tools such as graphs pie charts and tables. Overall, the study established influence of competitive strategy on the performance of telecommunication firms in Kenya. Specifically, the study established that cost leadership strategy, differentiation strategy and focus strategy made the most positive contribution, among the independent variables investigated, to performance of telecommunications firms in Kenya. The study recommended that telecommunications firms should: embrace leadership strategy, differentiation strategy and focus strategy .The study proposed that a similar study be done in other industries to have an understanding, views and approaches pursued by these economic vehicles which are expected to create more employment for the unemployed Kenyans.


computer-assisted audit in the tax collection and audit application and innovation in the establishment of a more convenient way of audit,tax collection and auditing to bring innovation and reform.Through computer technology applications in the tax audit in the necessity and advantages of an effective analysis.In the computer-aided analysis of the status of audit work based on specific and targeted measures for the application of computer-aided,for the eventual establishment of the sustainable development of the tax audit system and provide the conditions for the aircraft model.


Cleaner Production is a methodology to improve environmental sustainability in manufacturers. Due to its importance for sustainable development, the United Nations and many regional networks have taken on the responsibility to diffuse Cleaner Production methodology. After more than ten years of activity, however, these networks are facing significant and recurrent organizational barriers, which limit their performance. The theories of "networked organizations" for innovation have provided the constructs to conduct a case study about a networked organization inside a multinational company, which operates in numerous manufacturers worldwide. This company has increased its environmental performance three times in terms of prevented pollution and multiplied the number of Cleaner Production projects eight times after implementing a networked organizational structure to increase its capabilities for project management and process improvement. In order to explain the reasons for such increased environmental performance, the paper uses the "Enterprise Knowledge Development" (EKD) methodology to model the objectives, rules and processes of this corporation's Cleaner Production Program, as well as its actor relationship structures, which have enabled innovative capacity to improve in terms of environmental sustainable innovations in manufacturers.


This paper presents a hierarchical inner-outer loop-based scheme for flight control of a small unmanned helicopter in the presence of input time-delay. The controller is designed based on a two-time-scale separation architecture which includes a fast inner loop and a slow outer loop. The inner-loop (attitude controller) employs an inverse optimal control strategy, which circumvents the tedious task of numerically solving an online Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation to obtain the optimal controller. The designed controller is optimal with respect to a meaningful objective function which considers penalties for control input, angular position and angular velocity errors. The outer loop (position) controller uses the backstepping technique to control the position and keep the helicopter on track. Finally, computer simulations are conducted to validate the theoretical results and illustrate the tracking performance of the proposed control method.


Malat Cowak a traditional literary works shaped hymn often sing Padangbulia society. This kidung serves as a companion religious ceremonie's such as, pitra yadnya and manusia yadnya. But when song, chants significant they can only be interpreted by readers based on the dictionary meaning only. As an active reader, a work of literature, especially the kidung, various kinds of theories and methods in the process of interpretation of the meaning. One way is to analyze the sound system that ties each end of words in one verse. Study of the sound system in linguistics is based on the study of phonology. Science that examines the sound system can be done with two analysis: analysis of segmental and suprasegmental.


The main purpose of explosive compaction of porous reinforced and nonreinforced materials is the obtaining of strong compacts with the density close to the monolithic density. As is known, only the dynamic regime of explosive compaction allows for the solution of the problem. This way, the increase in the accuracy of calculation of the pressure value in a porous material results in the possibility of a more optimal selection of the initial loading parameters to provide the dynamic compaction regime throughout the depth of the sample under consideration. We present a technique for rough estimating loading parameters in powder materials for the case of strong shock waves. The comparison of the experimental results with the calculated shape of the shock wave has shown that the discrepancy of the results does not exceed 5%.


AbstractThe surface tensions and densities of Cu-Fe mattes separately, and of mattes in equilibrium with y-iron and iron-silicate slags have been measured by the twin-tube maximum bubble pressure method. The surface tension and density of the equilibrated iron-silicate slags were also measured. The interfacial tensions between the matte and slag have been measured by the sessile drop method using X-ray imaging.The surface tension of mattes range between 0.32 to 0.36 J m −2. The interfacial tensions between mattes and iron-silicate slags vary from 0.02 J m −2 for low-grade mattes (∼ 20 wt % Cu) to 0.10J m −2 for high-grade mattes (∼80 wt % Cu). Flotation and spreading coefficients for the matte-slag-gas system have been calculated. Resume Les tensions superficielles et les densites des mattes Cu-Fe des mattes en equilibres avec le fer-γ et des scories ferro-silicates ont ete mesurees par la methode de pression maximale de bulle avec double tube. La tension superficielle et la densite des scories ferrosilic...


The article discusses the automated training systems (ATS) used for minimization of training length, which contributes to the intensification of education and improve its efficiency. The authors present a definition of the ATS, list their functions, describe typical benefits (dialogue nature, flexibility of learning place and time, possibility to use several programs simultaneously, etc.) and disadvantages (need for computer literacy, possibility of technical errors, unemotional communication with the ATS, and others). Tendencies of automated training systems development are also considered.


Contradictory evidence exists as to whether the normal eruption rate (ER) of the continuously growing rat incisor is affected in the absence of parathyroid hormone. In the earliest report on this problem, it was claimed that parathyroidectomy produced a severe retardation of the normal ER (GorrLIEB, Dent Cosmos 62: 13161326, 1920). Schour, Chandler, and Tweedy (Am J Pathol 13: 971-984, 1937) subsequently reported that although severe changes were apparent in postoperatively formed dentin and enamel, incisor ER remained unaffected. In an investigation using thyroparathyroidectomized rats, Baume, Becks, and Evans (J Dent Res 33: 80-114, 1954) found thyroid extract replacement therapy was only partially able to correct a retarded ER. Similarly, Ziskin, Salmon, and Applebaum (J Dent Res 19: 93-102, 1940) reported that incisor and molar eruption times that were greatly delayed in thyroparathryoidectomized newborn rats, were partially corrected with administration of thyroid extract and completely corrected when both thyroid and parathyroid extracts were provided. In this investigation, 24 60-day-old, female Holtzman rats averaging 199.8 gm in weight were randomly assigned to two groups equal in size. One group was parathyroidectomized (PTX) according to the method described by Russell and Gittes (J Exp Med 109: 571-588, 1959). The other group was sham operated for use as controls. After a postoperative stabilization period of 20 days, all rats were weighed and given intraperitoneal injections of alizarin red (100 mg/kg body weight in 2% isotonic solution). The weighing and injection procedure was repeated ten days later. Seven days after the second injection, the rats were again weighed, blood samples were obtained from each, and the rats were killed by decapitation.


The purpose of the study reported herein was to identify the important aspects of statistical knowledge that students in the middle school grades in United States are expected to learn as well as what the teachers are expected to teach. A systematic study of 49 states standards and one set of national standards was used to identify these important aspects, and to measure the degree of emphasis or importance suggested for the content. Results show that state and national standards differ greatly in their expectations of what topics in data analysis and statistics students and teachers should master. There is also a large variation in the degree of emphasis given to the content. The majority of the standards analyzed suggest giving greater emphasis to the selection and proper use of graphical data representation and measures of center.


This research aims to understand the interests
of Indonesia to become a Member of the Council in
the International Maritime Organization (IMO) during
the leadership of President Joko Widodo (2014-2019),
Indonesia's maritime policy has essentially begun
since the 1960s under President Soekarno's leadership,
and maritime policy Indonesia continues in every
leadership change that focuses its orientation on
maritime sovereignty, but during Joko Widodo's
leadership the maritime policy focus on the Maritime
Policy Axis, the authors use content analysis methods
by collecting information related references where
taken by books, journals, and the Internet.
This research shows that national interests are
the most influencing Indonesian maritime policy
during Joko Widodo's leadership by being involved in
the International Maritime Organization (IMO), so
that Indonesia's presence in IMO shows that there are
3 factors of national interest, namely: sovereignty
interests, security interests and economic interests
maritime affairs.


This paper examines the entrepreneurship development in agriculture among female groundnut farmers in Enugu state. Eighty female farmers were selected using multi-stage random sampling techniques. Well structured questionnaire was the main tool for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools, and five point likert scale rating. Results showed that their mean age was 43 years. Majority were married with average household size of five persons. Farmers had small farm sizes of 1.7 hectares. Their average income per farming season was N 117000. Majority of the female farmers identified need to increase their income, desire to succeed; need to care for their family and desire to be financially independent as the key drive to entrepreneurship development in groundnut production. They complained of poor access to entrepreneurship education and information, and inadequate capital as major challenges hindering their entrepreneurship development. Despite the challenges, entrepreneurship drive and participation was high. It was recommended that effective and adequate policies and programmes on entrepreneurship should be developed especially for female farmers. Entrepreneurship education/training at all levels to ensure capacity building was also advocated. Most importantly, government should provide soft loans and grants to female farmers as a way to enhance their entrepreneurial spirit and development for national food security. Keywords : Entrepreneurship development, Groundnut production, Female farmers, Challenges


This thesis deals with the teme of geo-estrategic localization of the Archipelago of the Azores between 15th and 21st century. The thesis focuses on the moments of portuguese history in which Azorean islands became important for some reason for Portugal: ultramarine expansion, growth of colonial trade, development of submarine cable communications, First and Second World Wars and other conflicts of 20th century.


The present study examines the arbitrage efficiency of the Indian equity futures market over the sample period June 2000 to December 2005. The results suggest that although stable and strong long-run relationship exists between futures and cash markets but futures show significant deviations from its cost-of-carry price, which offers exploitable arbitrage opportunities to the traders. Mispricing has been observed to be a direct function of time-to-maturity, stochastic behavior of interest rates, short sales restriction in the cash market, information asymmetry in both futures and cash markets and restricted exposure of institutional traders to the futures market. Moreover, basis shows significant mean reverting behavior, which indicates that early liquidation option as suggested by Neal (1996) may be helpful in improving the price discovery efficiency in futures as well as cash markets.


Books given by Mr. S. W. Carruthers. 1, China Magazine, The, Midsummer Vol., 1868, 2nd ed. 2, China Magazine, The, Christmas Vol., 1868, Hongkong, 1868-9. 3, Records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China. Shanghai, 1878. 4, Natural History, Chinese. Blockprints. 5, T'ai-ping Rebellion, The, M. T. Yates. Pamphlet. Shanghai, 6, Taepings as they are, by '"' One of Them ". Pamphlet. London, 1864.


World Politics in Transition New Frontiers in International Relations International Flow of Information A Framework of Analysis News and Views Designing the World's Symbolic Environment Broadcasting the World National and International Images Cultural Industry From Books to Computers Political Economy of Information Transitional Data Flows International Interactions Travel and Tourism Human Flow across National Boundaries Intercultural Communication Information Technology Developing Communication Systems and Policies Communication and Development The Emerging Orders International Communication Research From Functionalism to Post Modernism and Beyond The Unfinished Revolution The Crisis of Our Age


A great deal of research shows that the ore forming granite in the Xihuashan tungstun field is a complex intrusion and composed of the Xihuashan complex formed during the second stage of early Yanshanian,the Dangping complex formed during the third stage of early Yanshanian and the single granite and granoporphyry intrusion formed during the first stage of the late Yanshanian. Three tungstun metallogenetic processes are associated with three stages of granitic intrusions and a series of tungsten deposits (such as the Xihuashan tungsten deposit) of different sizes have been formed. This is a typical example in China of multistage diageneses and multiple stages of mineralization in the same granite regions.


A laboratory incubation study was conducted to examine the effects of exogenous humic acids on the forms of organic phosphorus (P) in three contrasting soil types: red soil, brown soil, and drab soil. Results indicated that the Olsen P concentration increased in all the three types of soil with addition of the humic acid extracts, with the magnitude of increment ranked in a sequence of brown soil > drab soil > red soil. For the soil organic P fractions, addition of the humic acid extracts increased the labile organic P and moderately labile organic P concentrations while reducing the moderately resistant organic P and highly resistant organic P concentrations, suggesting that the exogenous humic acids could enhance transformation of organic P from resistant forms to labile forms. The activation of organic P by addition of the humic acid extracts varied with soil type, and this variation was related to soil characteristics.


Purpose

This study aims to explore the textual and sociopolitical relationships of kinship writing as 15 youth wrote politically charged poetry while participating in a four-week summer writing program grounded in a Black studies curriculum.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors explore the following research questions: How do youth writers draw upon each other's writing to compose sociopolitical kinship poems when writing about critical issues affecting Black lives? What topics and oppressions do youth choose to write about and how do they write about these topics?

Findings

The authors found that the youth wrote across multiple topics affecting Black lives in their kinship poems. These include the appropriation of black beauty, gun violence and police brutality, love and Black lives, the need for equality, negative depictions and misrepresentations of Black people, the neglect and omission of Black lives and suppression of freedom. The youth took up various critical issues in their poems, which addressed what they deemed as most urgent in the lives of Black people, and these selected topics were highly historicized. We also found that the youth used the content, styles and audience of the original poems to pen their own pieces.

Research limitations/implications

Writing with another peer afforded collaborative writing and spaces for youth to read and interrogate the world while building criticality through their writing.

Originality/value

Kinship writing is a genre in which one piece of writing has a relationship with another piece of writing. Kinship writing carries significance in the Black literary community as the history of Black education has been interlaced with ideals of social learning, community, family and kinship. This literary approach contributes to ways Black people used each other's writings to offer healing, comfort and care in a turmoil filled world.


Percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass support (PCPS) has been introduced in the catheterization laboratory to support high risk coronary angioplasty, as well as emergencies. We report the safety and feasibility of PCPS in 45 patients. Thirty-seven patients (Group 1) were elective and eight were emergencies (Group 2). Group 1 (ages 41-82) were high risk coronary angioplasty, Group 2 (ages 40-82) were in cardiogenic shock due to myocardial infarction with two in cardiac arrest. Cannulation of femoral artery and vein was with 20 French cannulae. Priming of the system with 1400 ml of Normosol was achieved in 5-7 minutes. Cardiopulmonary bypass was then instituted using the Bard CPS system after full heparinization (300 units per kilogram). Flows ranged from 2.8-5.5 liters per minute (mean-3.8) and pulmonary diastolic pressures were 0-4 mm Hg. Two patients in cardiac arrest regained consciousness while still in ventricular fibrillation or asystole. The activated clotting time ranged from 317-880 seconds (mean=498). Mean bypass time was 37 minutes (range 10-73) in Group 1 and 66 minutes (range 44-120) in Group 2. Total infusion volume of Normosol during and prior to termination of bypass was 0-2500 cc (mean=338). There were no procedural complications associated with PCPS. We conclude that PCPS can be used safely in selected patients who are considered high risk for PICA or acute MI complicated by shock or cardiac arrest. This technology adds a new dimension in perfusion in the catheterization laboratory.


Sustainable farming technologies such as livestock integration and intercropping have been introduced to coconut cultivation to improve soil fertility and productivity. Smallholder farmers employ these in different scales within their farming system. Most of the smallholder farmers who practice traditional monocropping reluctant to apply those due to many constraints. Therefore this study was conducted with the aim to investigate the factors influencing sustainable coconutbased farming systems concerning the prevailing situation and problems faced by the smallholder farmers (area less than 8 hectares). For this study, 175 coconut smallholder households were randomly selected from Gampaha district, Sri Lanka since this is the second most important coconut growing area in Sri Lanka with more


EPSILON is a position-sensitive detector system for gamma ray imaging applications in the nuclear industry. This system is based on the use of a 3" circular position-sensitive photomultiplier tube (Hamamatsu R2486) coupled to a segmented CsI:Tl array and is optimised for imaging photons in the energy range 60 keV to 662 keV. The detector when mounted on a pan and tilt head combines the flexibility of a scanning system with the sensitivity and high angular resolution of an imager. This paper describes the design and optimisation of the collimator, detection system and readout for imaging the radiation environment. The performance of the imager has been evaluated using Cs137 point sources at distances of 2 to 5 metres. The radiation scene may be mapped with a 0.8 precision across an 11/spl deg/ diameter field of view. The sensitivity of the system and the improvements in image quality achievable by image processing are discussed.


Suspension quantitative test was used to observe the efficacy of 3 disinfectants,i.e.,sodium hypochlorite,chlorine dioxide and dibromohydantoin,in inactivating F_2 phage of Escherichia coli and to compare it with the efficacy in inactivating poliovirus.Results: The reduction factor(log_(10)) of both F_2 phage and poliovirus exposed to the sodium hypochlorite disinfection solution containing available chlorine 500 mg/L for 15 min was 4.0.The reduction factor(log_(10)) of F_2 phage and poliovirus exposed to the disinfection solutions containing chlorine dioxide 200 mg/L and 250 mg/L respectively for 5 min attained over 4.0 and those of F_2 phage and poliovirus exposed to the disinfection solution containing available bromine 500 mg/L for 45 min were 5.0 and over 4.0 respectively.Conclusion: Under the same test conditions,the resistance of F_2 phage to the disinfectants selected approximated that of poliovirus,therefore F_2 phage of E.coli can be solected as the indicator microorganism for virus disinfection test,which can shorten obviously the period of evaluation of efficacy of inactivating virus.


We investigated the role of a pairing correlation in the chemical composition of the inner crust of a neutron star with the extended Thomas–Fermi method, using the Strutinsky integral correction. We compare our results with the fully self-consistent Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov approach, showing that the resulting discrepancy, apart from the very low density region, is compatible with the typical accuracy we can achieve with standard mean-field methods.


Respiratory diseases are one of the main morbidities to which street sweepers are exposed due to inhalation of road dust. The problem is rising in developing countries due to lack of occupational safety and health measures. Cumulative and long exposure to dust negatively affects lung function parameters. Objectives: This study aims to measure and compare the lung functions and respiratory morbidity among a group of street sweepers and a comparison group of office workers in Abbasia district, Cairo, Egypt. Methods: This study was a cross sectional study which included 107 street sweepers and 104 office workers. The study participants were asked about their sociodemographic, occupational and medical data. Their lung functions were measured. Results: The percentage of participants with reduced FEV1, reduced FVC and reduced FEV1/FVC were significantly higher in the sweepers than in the control group (62.1% versus 34.6%, 58.3% versus 44.2%, and 32% versus 18.3% respectively). Chronic cough was also significantly higher in the sweepers than in the control group (17.5% versus 5.8%). Reduced FVC% was significantly associated to older age and longer duration of employment. Reduced FEV1/FVC was positively associated to smoking among sweepers. Conclusions: Hazardous exposure to dust during street sweeping can cause respiratory symptoms such as cough and a significant reduction in pulmonary function.


This paper describes a course in image computation that is designed to follow and build up an established course in computer graphics. The course is centered on images: how they are generated, manipulated, matched and symbolically described. It builds on the student's knowledge of coordinate systems and the perspective projection pipeline. It covers image generation techniques not covered by the computer graphics course, most notably ray tracing. It introduces students to basic image processing concepts such as Fourier analysis and then to basic computer vision topics such as principal components analysis, edge detection and symbolic feature matching. The goal is to prepare students for advanced work in either computer vision or computer graphics.


This thes i s looks a t f o u r V i c t o r i a n novel i s ts--Ben jamin D is rae l i , El i zabe th Gaskel 1 , Charles K i ngsley and Charles Dickens--whose works I are representa t ive o f t he issue I wish t o analyze: the socio-psycholog Mrs.


Firstly described is the current situation of research on economic chaos. Then summarized are the theoretical and practical meanings of the research on the chaos of economic systems. Still then probed is the predictability of them under the meaning of chaotic theory. Finally discussed are some hints given by the chaotic theory in economic forecasting.


This paper discusses the pathophysiology and modern treatment of edema. Dissatisfied with the treatment available, the authors report on the use of a closed, controlled drainage procedure in eight patients with severe edema of the lower limbs. It is important to note that this technique is used as a palliative procedure. Seven out of the eight patients considered the procedure to have been worthwhile, experienced improvement, and died comfortably. Apart from actual pain and consequent insomnia, the discomfort and misery produced by the constant leaden drag of the paralyzed, inflexible, and bolster-like limbs are important factors in the sum total of misery produced by the disease. 1 W. Sampson Handley, 1908 1


Introduction Going back to the 20th century a large number of blue dyes like methylene blue, patent blue, trypan blue, evans blue and many more were synthesized. Out of these EB, an azo dye with the molecular formula C34H24N6Na4O14S4 is the one which is habitually used tracer as a biological dye and clinical diagnostic agent [1]. It is thoroughly water soluble and also sturdily binds with serum albumin [2-5]. EB is extensively used in biomedicine for the assessment of blood volume, recognition of lymph nodes and location of the tumour due to its water solubility and gradual excretion. The extensive range of neurological disorder caused by intrinsic mechanism of blood brain barrier encouraged a renewed awareness to study their function. Complete analysis of such disorders requires markers to know the functional changes at the barrier between the brain, barrier and cerebrospinal fluid. EB is the extensively used marker for brain barrier experiment. The advantage of EB compared with other dyes is that a very small concentration is sufficient [6]. The sense organs of the animal will get stained if it is injected in excess [7,8]. If EB is activated with green light, it emits a splendid red fluorescence [9]. This property of EB dye can be used in the characterisation of lymph nodes that void the liver [10]. Series of EB derivatives are labelled with PET isotopes and are used to acquire diagnostic images and deliver a therapeutic dose of radiation to the patient due to their refined half-life in the blood. EB does not affect the healthy cell, but it invades and persist within the damaged cells. EB is also used for the screening of abnormalities in the developing foetus. Continuous and regular exposure to EB is considered to be a hazardous irritant and potential carcinogen. It causes respiratory tract irritation like wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath [11]. Hence it is necessary to develop a basic and swift method for the detection of the dyes not only for analytical studies but also for diagnostic research. The Abstract Electrochemical sensor for the specific and sensitive detection of Evans blue (EB) at physiological pH in 0.2M phosphate buffer solution (PBS) was developed by the surface modification using Triton X -100 (TX-100) surfactant. The cyclic voltammetry (CV) studies show enhanced peak separation, appreciable sensitivity, selectivity and stability which allowed this TX-100 surfactant modified carbon nanotube paste electrode (TX100MCNTPE) to analyse EB individually and simultaneously along with tartrazine (TZ) in the potential range of 0.2 V to 0.7 V. The electrode morphology was characterised by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The oxidation potential of EB shifted negatively, and enhanced irreversible oxidation peak current was observed at 0.505V which served as the analytical response. In the prime condition, the anodic peak current of EB increased linearly, and two linear ranges were observed from 10 μM to 100 μM with the limit of detection (LOD) of 5.06 μM and limit of quantification (LOQ) of 16.87 μM. Scan rate studies reveal that the entire process in the electrode surface is adsorption controlled. The modified electrode showed excellent reproducibility, repeatability and antifouling properties. Received 08 Jul 2019, Revised 08 Aug 2019, Accepted 10 Aug 2019


The paper describes the successful cooperation of the regional electricity utility PESAG AG with small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the field of energy efficiency services. Experiences from realised energy conservation projects illustrate the mutual benefits for the customer (lower energy costs) and the utility (customer satisfaction and lasting relations). In the context of the recent liberalization of European energy markets, the positive example of the PESAG's Energy Efficiency Partnership indicates promising opportunities for utilities, to stimulate energy conservation in SME, to contribute to energy cost savings, and to gain competitive advantages in this target group by intensified customer links. By cooperation with universities, suppliers, consultants etc., especially regional utilities have the chance to become the driving force for the evolution of regional competence centers in the field of energy services and efficiency technologies.


This study was carried to develop functions that could explain the growth of Oxalis latifolia, in both early stages and throughout the season, contributing to the improvement of its cultural control. Bulbs of the Cornwall form of O. latifolia were buried at 1 and 8 cm in March 1999 and 2000. Samples were destructive at fixed times, and at each time the corresponding BBCH scale codes as well as the absolute number of growing and adult leaves were noted. Using the absolute number of adult leaves (transformed to percentages), a Gaussian curve of three parameters that explains the growth during the season (R 2 = 0.9355) was developed. The BBCH scale permitted the fit of two regression lines that were accurately adjusted for each burial depth (R 2 = 0.9969 and R 2 = 0.9930 respectively for 1 and 8 cm). The best moment for an early defoliation in Northern Spain could be calculated with these regression lines, and was found to be the second week of May. In addition, it was observed that a burial depth of 8 cm does not affect the growing pattern of the weed, but it affects the number of leaves they produce, which decreases to less than a half of those produced at 1 cm.


This contribution presents the control of a hybrid water pumping system powered by a photovoltaic (PV) power source and a battery. This system comprises an induction motor (IM) and three static converters, including a boost converter, a bidirectional (BDC) buck-boost converter and a voltage source inverter (VSI). A maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller based on a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is designed to generate a variable step size reference current. Moreover, a sliding surface based on the current state variable is designed to force the boost inductor current to follow the reference current previously provided by the MPPT. The working principle of the bidirectional buck-boost converter is examined. Furthermore, two closed-loop proportional-integral (PI) controllers are designed for the power flow management between the DC-bus and the battery. Finally, the control scheme based on input-output linearization (IOL) is employed to control the induction motor. In order to assess the performances of the controlled three-stage hybrid water pumping system, a simulation is carried out using MATLABISimulink software, and the performances of the system are evaluated under sudden irradiance and speed changes.


The controversies on 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) appear to be gradually culminating in two divergent groups of workers. One group uses low doses of the drug administered weekly and the other group prefers h


The concept of fuzzy multiply positive BCC-ideals of BCC-algebras is introduced, and then some related results are obtained. Moreover, we introduce the concept of T-fuzzy multiply positive implicative BCC-ideals of BCC-algebras and investigate T-product of T-fuzzy multiply positive implicative BCC-ideals of BCC-algebras, examining its properties. Using a t-norm T, the direct product and T-product of T-fuzzy multiply positive implicative BCC-ideals of BCC-algebras are discussed and their properties are investigated.


Gas turbine engines for modern aircraft are efficient, environmentally friendly, safe and reliable in supplying thrust required for aircraft flight. These engines rely on many components to meet required performance standards expected by the commercial aviation industry. One of the primary component systems is the fan or open rotor system used to generate the preponderance of thrust generated by the engine. This chapter is intended to introduce several aspects related to the design of fan and open rotor systems. This includes how the fan defining parameters are established and subsequently a high-level review of how the systems are designed in terms of aerodynamic and structural performance, acoustics, materials, and manufacturing considerations. Included in the sections addressing each of these disciplines are some design paradigms for increased performance and efficiency. The bulk of the material discusses ducted fans that are common to modern turbofan engines but some material is included for open rotors (high-speed propellers also known as unducted fans or propfans). Throughout the chapter issues and challenges facing the fan designer of modern systems are noted and common design requirements and methods are covered to a limited extent.

Keywords:

commercial aircraft;
ducted fans;
gas turbine engines;
propfan technology;
turbofan engines;
turbomachinery