High-performance cluster computing is widely used to perform long-term weighty calculations. It is well known that such calculations can be divided into separate computational parts, each of which can be performed on separate computers. To perform such computing tasks, computers have to exchange data with the appropriate frequency of their receiving. This approach is also used to obtain the integrated information related to the computing distribution on different computers, and for order of posting the appropriate data portion to implement the following computational steps. It should be added that in our time cluster components can provide an efficient environment for applications with intensive data processing on distributed platforms [1–4]. For this, the data should be organized in special structures, and all applications in such an environment should be developed to easily and skillfully operate with such data. To operate with such structures, the application is developed from a set of software components, which together with the computing resources play a leading role for flexibility and productivity optimization. In many intensive computing applications, the volume of data can be diffracted into sub-blocks of a specified byte volume that is beneficial for conveyor processing of them. It needs to note that in practice for the organization of such computing the processing and communication may overlap in order to improve the performance of such a system. In [5], it is shown that during the transmission process small data blocks lead to the improvement of the conveying and load balancing, which takes place in the communication practice. It is also noted that larger data blocks reduce the number of messages for transmission but stimulate an increase in system bandwidth and bring inconsistencies in the load, which reduces the conveyance for data processing. Applications written using a TCP/IP-based socket interface, along with their performance and data processing intensity, also put some other requirements such as compatibility with heterogeneous networks, as well as a guarantee of processing efficiency and scalability. To get an advantage in using high-performance protocols in cluster applications, some specially developed approaches were applied, including those involving high-performance socket levels at the user level via active protocols. These include the virtual interface architecture and IBA [5], the applications for which should be written with the account of the network productivity saving. During the individual software components reorgaINFLUENCE OF THE DIRECT MESSAGE SEARCH MECHANISM BASED ON THE TCP PROTOCOLS ON THE EXCHANGE PROCESS


Background: Non-adherence to prescribed medications represents an obstacle toward achieving treatment goals. This problem is more pronounced in patients with chronic illness. Objective: To identify the extent of adherence in Lebanese outpatients with chronic diseases, and to suggest possible predictors of non-adherence in this population. The secondary objective was to assess if medication adherence affects patients' quality of life. Methods: A questionnaire was administered face-to-face to a sample of Lebanese adults visiting the external clinics at two Tertiary Care Hospitals in Beirut. The level of adherence was assessed using the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale which was first validated. The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients was measured using the EQ-5D. Linear regression and logistic regression analyses examined possible predictors of adherence. Results: Out of the 148 patients included in this study, 42.6% were classified as adherent. In the univariate analyses, statistically significant predictors of high adherence included good physician-patient relationship *


The magnetic domain structure of a single crystal of Co (0001) and of polycrystalline AlNiCo was investigated in a photoelectron emission microscope making use of partial restriction of the electron beams. An external movable magnet was used for off-axis deflection of the electron trajectories in the microscope column such that parts of the trajectories are stopped by the apertures of the electron optical elements. As a result, the contrast caused by the stray fields of the magnetic domains is significantly enhanced. The distribution of the local magnetic fields at the surface is reconstructed from the image by means of a theory on the contrast mechanism.


SHORT BIO Janet Jarvis lectures both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Life Orientation Education in the School of Education at the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal. She supervises Honours, Masters, and PhD students. She is also the Cluster Leader for Social Sciences Education. She graduated cum laude with a MEd from Stellenbosch University. In 2013 she graduated with her PhD from the North West University (Potchefstroom). Her research interests lie particularly in teacher identity, Religion Education, and Human Rights Education. Ncamisile P. Mthiyane lectures both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Life Orientation Education, in the School of Education at the Univer-sity of KwaZuluNatal. She supervises Honours, Masters, and PhD students in the Psychology of Education Department. She graduated with her Masters in Psychology of Education at the former University of Durban Westville and her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of the Free State in 2015. Her research interests lie in adolescents' contextual-based psychosocial issues and career guidance, and counselling in schools.


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The paper presents original approach to concurrent optimization of the transmitting and receiving parts of adaptive communication systems (CS) with feedback channels. The results of research show a possibility and the way of designing the systems transmitting the signals with a bit rate equal to the capacity of the forward channel under given bit-error rate (BER). The results of work can be used for design of different classes of high-efficient low energy/size/cost CS, as well as allow further development and extension.


We study the properties of foreign exchange risk premia that can explain the forward bias puzzle { the tendency of high-interest rate currencies to appreciate rather than depreciate. These risk premia arise endogenously from the no-arbitrage condition we impose on the relation between the term structure of interest rates and exchange rates, and they compensate for both currency risk and interest rate risk. In our empirical analysis, we estimate risk premia using an ane multi-currency term structure model and


Resin concrete has been widely used in machine tool structures in order to improve the dynamic properties, reduce the lead time of production and reduce thermal deformation. It has been pointed out, however, that Young's modulus of concrete is about one-seventh that of cast iron and thus, that resin concrete is inferior to conventional materials in static stiffness. Therefore, in this paper, a new material referred to as ceramic resin concrete has been developed for use in precision machine tool structures. This material consists of epoxy resin and ceramics, i.e., alumina, silicon carbide, zirconia or a mixture of these. A practical manufacturing method for the ceramic resin concrete was established. It is concluded from the experimental results that the Young's modulus is three times and the compressive strength is two times that of conventional resin concrete.


A hybrid algorithm was presented to determine inter-class test order for integration testing of object-oriented software.It added local search into simple genetic algorithm to increase local search ability and used buffer pool to decrease running time.Experimental results show that its performance outperforms the other techniques.


A novel cadmium complex Cd(IPA)2(phen)2 (IPAH = isophthanic acid, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) was synthesized by hydrothermal methods and characterized structurally by X-ray diffraction. The complex possesses a monomeric molecular structure. Cd(IPA)2(phen)2 is orthorhombic, space group Aba2, with a = 14.670(7), b = 22.876(8), c = 9.473(6) Å, V = 3179(3) Å3, D c = 1.573 Mg m−3, Z = 4, F(000) = 1520, GOF = 1.027, R1 = 0.0299, wR2 = 0.0617. Photophysical properties (fluorescence excitation and emission spectra) are reported.


This essay explores the spread of Christianity in Vietnam over the first half of the 17th century and outlines the stages in a complex process of adoption of a new religion. The paper is particularly concentrated on the role of Alexandre de Rhodes, one of the most prominent missionaries of his time. While working in the missions in Vietnam, he made an essential contribution to the formation of an effectively functioning national Catholic Church both in the North and South of Vietnam.


The current stage is characterized by the intensification of integration processes and globalization processes, thereby causing high turbulence of the environment, which has a significant impact on the economy of the country and all its participants, respectively. This carries significant risks to small businesses, which is the main driver in the development of the economy. And these risks are mainly related to the financial component. Financial risks largely reflect market risks. They require competent and effective management, as well as minimizing the degree of possible negative impact. The purpose of the study is to study financial risk management in small businesses, which makes it necessary to study both theoretical approaches to understanding financial risks and practical approaches to risk management at the present stage. The object of the study is small business enterprises of different regions, but of the same field of activity. The main methods used in the article are the comparative method (used in comparing some indicators of different small businesses), the analytical method, the coefficient method (using accounting financial reporting data) and some others. Research results: an analysis of the financial risks of several enterprises related to small business entities was carried out, which gives an understanding of the current situation in the field of entrepreneurship, the ability of competent management and the need for support.


An R factor carrying resistant genes, ampicillin (amp), tetracycline (tet), chloramphenicol (cml), dihydrostreptomycin (sir), and sulfanilamide (sul), was analyzed by three genetic techniques: spontaneous segregation, transduction, and recombination. The R factor was stable in Shigella and Escherichia coli, but in Salmonella the (cml.str.sul) genes were spontaneously lost at a high frequency. Almost all of the transductants with Pl contained the five drug markers, but a very small number of them carried both tet and amp genes, or the (amp.cml.str.sul) genes. In conjugal transfer from a strain carrying a single type of R factor to R+ recipient, the recombination took place between the amp and tet, amp and cml, and between the cml and str genes, at a frequency of 23.5, 39.5, and 3.0%, respectively. Crossover between the amp and transfer (tra) loci was not observed. A circular genetic model is proposed in which the genes are arranged in the order –tet9–tet1-tra.amp–cml–str–.


The automotive sector is currently facing a drastic transformation—on a level that only happens once in a hundred years. This structural change is being referred to as CASE—connected, autonomous, shared, and electric— with electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous driving the central forces behind this change. As the number of electronic components increases in the quest towards autonomous driving, demand for countermeasures against noise from the operation of such components is also rising, particularly in eco-friendly vehicles. This is because eco-friendly vehicles do not possess conventional engines, the noise from which usually masks component noise. As such eco-friendly vehicles become more widespread, the level of quietness required by users is also rising. This demand is even extending to electric powertrains,*1 such as in a drive motor. Electric powertrains are expected to become progressively smaller in size and higher in output. Thus, the heat density in the powertrain will become higher and more efficient heat-dissipation technology will also be required. Sumitomo Riko Company Limited has already developed a magnetic induction foaming (MIF)(1)-(4) technology, a new way of forming a sound-absorbent polyurethane foam possessing high thermal conductivity. Utilizing this technology, we successfully commercialized a soundproof cover, which delivers both heat dissipation and acoustic insulation, to be used for in-vehicle compact motors that suffer from Joule heating. Based on this MIF foam's heat transfer structure, we then developed a technology that further improves thermal conductivity while reducing the weight of the foam. Moreover, we combined this technology with a metal plate with a view to actual commercial applications. This combined structural design created potential new value in this product as a soundproofing and cooling cover that offers both noise reduction and enhanced air cooling functions. This paper discusses the development process of the product.


This research was carried out to find out more deeply, and to analyze what factors affected the village community in relation to loan sharks so that in the future there would be no more village communities to deal with rentenier. But they are more likely to choose banks that are both conventional banks and Islamic banks. The research method used is by submitting direct interviews and by distributing questionnaires to village communities where researchers conduct their research. Data analysis techniques with multiple regression with SPSS Version 2.2 program. The results showed that the need factors, religious factors, guarantee factors and the ease of factors that had a significant effect on the community were related to rententir both partially and simultaneously.


Recent concerns about environmental issues led to global energy policies oriented to new energy sources less polluting and cheaper. Energy produced by photovoltaic technology is clean and renewable. The actual problem is that currently the price of photovoltaic systems is relatively high. Research in this field is now focused on improving the efficiency of electricity production using photovoltaic technology. For this each component of a photovoltaic system must enroll on this course. Solar battery chargers are an important component of photovoltaic systems that could bring significant efficiency improvements through technology. The paper proposes a study on the types of solar battery chargers from the simplest to the most cutting edge technology, chargers searching for the MPP (maximum power point). An MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) charger plays an important role in photovoltaic systems because it maximizes the power output of the photovoltaic panel array for different levels of irradiation and panel temperature leading to more energy harvested.


Fructone was synthesized using ethyl acetoacetate and glycol as raw materials and copper methanesulfonate as catalyst.Factors influencing the yield were examined by the orthogonal experiments.The optimum conditions are as follows∶(n(ethyl acetocetate))∶n(glycol) 1∶1.5,catalyst dosage(7.5 g),water carrying agent(7.5 mL),reaction under reflux condition for(3 h).The yield can achieve(88.2 %).


An indented nanostructure was formed on the surface of azobenzene-functionalized polyurethane thin films by the induced migration of polymer chains using the optical near field generated around polystyrene (PS) spheres. The PS spheres, which had a diameter ranging from 98 to 990 nm, were arranged on the surface of a photoresponsive polymer film using a self-organization process, and the films were then exposed to a linearly polarized Ar+ laser at 488 nm. A hexagonal array of indentations reflecting the original geometry and arrangement of the spheres was observed on the polyurethane surface by atomic force microscopy. The indented structure that was formed had a resolution of ∼95 nm. This structure was stable at room temperature and could be erased by heating the films above their glass transition temperature (Tg). The modification depth and diameter of the dents formed depended on the size of the original PS spheres. In particular, deeper dents were formed by using PS spheres with a diameter of over 505 ...


A method of forming an overlay mark is provided. A plurality of photoresist patterns are formed on a substrate. Each of the photoresist patterns includes a first strip and a plurality of second strips arranged in parallel. The first strip crosses the second strips to form a fence shape. Further, there is a space between two adjacent photoresist patterns, and the space is fence-shaped. A plurality of islands are formed in each of the spaces to form dot type strip patterns. The photoresist patterns are removed, and the dot type strip patterns serve as the overlay mark.


One of the most important issues in crisis management that has always been considered by responsible organizations is the site selection for temporary housing to be used by the population affected by disasters. In this research, district six of Shiraz city with high seismicity has been selected as a case study for positioning temporary housing after a probable earthquake. Moreover, by using analytical – descriptive method, after clarifying the effective criteria, the under reviewed criteria and indicators are weighted according to the ideas of crisis management experts and by using the Shannon entropy technique. Then based on TOPSIS model and Excel software, the possible places for temporary housing are ranked in terms of priority. According to the results the best places for temporary housing are parks and bare lands within the case study district, which confirm hypothesis of research.


Isolated brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) hearts were perfused with buffer containing either [U-14C]glucose or [U-14C]lactate and the rate of 14CO2 production monitored. Lactate oxidation rates were higher than glucose oxidation rates when either substrate was provided individually. When glucose and lactate were offered simultaneously glucose oxidation was markedly inhibited whereas there was only a minor inhibitory effect upon lactate oxidation. It appears that the fish heart preferentially utilizes lactate as a metabolic fuel under aerobic conditions.


This paper investigates the low temperature sintering of (Pb0.92Sr0.06)(Zr0.52Ti0.46Nb0.02)O3 (PZT-E) piezoelectric ceramics using low temperature melting oxides, mixture of Pb3O4 and V2O5 (Pb : V = 1 : 1) (EPV-1) and Pb2V2O7 compound (EPV-2) as the sintering aids. The low temperature sintering of this material is investigated for the purpose of using Ag-Pd electrodes in the co-fired ceramics with minimal Pd content. By using these modifiers, the sintering temperature of the PZT-E ceramics was reduced from 1423 K to 1273 K without deteriorating the piezoelectric properties. Further no significant difference in the magnitude of transversal piezoelectric constant (d31) was observed for the samples sintered with EPV-1 and EPV-2, providing a magnitude of -185 x 10 -12 mV -1 . This value was higher than that of PZT-E. The curie temperature (Tc) of the low temperature sintered ceramics with sintering aids was 593K.


Objective:To investigate clinical application of MR urography in the diagnosis of urologic disease. Methods: Sixty patients with urologic diseases were studied,14 had urinary tract malformation,18 urinary tract calculus,10 urinary tract tumor,8 inflammatory diseases and 10 others.MRI and MRU were performed in all patients.MRU was performed with heavy T 2 weighted fast spin echo pulse sequence. Postprocedure processing was performed with a maximum intersity projection (MIP) algorithm.Results:58 cases showed urinary tract obstruction on MRU,which demonstrated clearly the site and severity of the obstruction,especially in those cases not revealed by IVU. MRU can demonstrate the level of urinary obstruction in 100% of the cases,and evaluate correctly the nature of the disease in 80% of the cases if combined with ordinary MRI.Conclusion:MR urography is a facile and noninvasive technique without using contrast material. This technique is useful in diagnosis of many urologic diseases and especially useful in diagnosis of urinary tract obstruction.


Generating flow fields (such as pressure and velocity fields) in 3D space is a fundamental task in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with applications across a vast spectrum of science and engineering problems. An important class of fluid flow problems in CFD is multi-phase flow, where dispersed solid particles are present in the fluid flow. Despite recent developments in deep learning (DL) for CFD applications, current state-of-the-art is still unable to model 3D flow fields, especially in multi-phase flow settings. It is with this goal that we introduce PhyFlow, a novel physics-guided deep learning architecture for modeling 3D multi-phase fluid flows, designed to mimic the popular projection method for solving fluid flows in CFD simulations. We demonstrate that PhyFlow generates high quality flow fields and yields a 49.61% improvement over other state-of-the-art baselines. We also test the quality of PhyFlow based fields by employing them in downstream tasks like particle drag force prediction and demonstrate state-of-the-art results, improving upon the previous best models by 9.89%. Finally, we demonstrate the consistency of PhyFlow predictions with known underlying physics governing equations. Our source code and data are available online *.*tinyurl.com/mjkcrsdw


Disclosed are a clock synchronization method, a receiver, a transmitter and a system. The method comprises: acquiring a common reference clock signal; determining B t according to the common reference clock signal and Mr d (t-1); when C t obtained through calculation according to the Mr d (t-1) is less than or equal to a threshold value, determining that the Mr d (t-1) is a target Mr d , wherein C t = B t - A t , and A t is contained in an RTS packet sent by a transmitter and most recently received by a receiver; by taking the target Mr d as a frequency division coefficient, performing frequency division on the common reference clock signal to obtain a first clock signal; and performing frequency multiplication processing on the first clock signal to obtain a service clock signal. By means of the method of the present invention, when packet loss occurs in a receiver, a phase of a service clock signal can be rapidly adjusted to be consistent with a phase of a service clock signal of a transmitter, so as to avoid the random drifting of the phase.


Understanding the response of plant community to degradation is fundamentally important for grassland conservation and management. The objective of this study is to examine the changes in soil properties and plant characteristics along a degradation gradient in alpine steppe, and explore the potential mechanisms that biotic and abiotic controls regulate plant community variations. We chose seven sequent degrees of degradation, and conducted a field survey as well as soil and plant samplings in an alpine steppe in Northern Tibet. The results showed that soil water content (SWC), soil compaction (SCOM), soil total carbon (STC), and total nitrogen (STN) dramatically decreased along the degradation gradient. The species richness, overall aboveground biomass (AGB), and AGB of graminoids were apparently reduced with increasing degradation, while AGB of forbs slightly increased. The increasing degradation levels induced a significant increase in the trade-off value of AGB of forbs, which was negatively associated with SWC, SCOM, STC, STN, and soil available nitrogen. The mean root length of forbs was significantly longer than that of graminoids (P < 0.05). Moreover, the mean root diameter of the top 1/3 part of forbs was remarkably thicker than that of graminoids (P < 0.05). These findings indicate that the degradation-induced cohesionless soils with insufficient water and nutrients together with the divergent root morphological traits of graminoids and forbs determine the plant community structure shift with grassland degradation. This study can improve the understanding of community succession of grassland degradation, and provide guidance for the management of degraded alpine steppe on the Tibetan Plateau.


Abstract A new deoxyvasicine analog (9) was synthesized by condensation of 2-amino-5-bromovanillin (6) with 4-aminobutyraldehyde (7) in phosphate buffer (pH 5.8) followed by hydrogenation of the resulting quinazolinium complex (8) at 65[ddot]C in presence of 5% palladium-on-barium sulfate.


With the development of so-called "non-extraction"10 treatments in contemporary orthodontics, complications in the eruption of the second molars are becoming noticeably more prevalent in our practices ranging from a simple delay of eruption, to ectopic eruption, up to retention of the second molars caused by a mechanical obstruction. Using a retrospective study of some cases and a review of the literature, we are seeking to find new diagnostic approaches in order to choose the best treatment.


We present a method to identify and extract virus particle images from noisy spot-scan electron cryomicroscopy images. We use a template matching algorithm to identify virus particles. Due to the high spatial variation and low contrast of these images we employ a series of preprocessing operations before performing the template matching. These preprocessing operations detect and remove the black areas present in spot-scan images using spatial histogram operations and binary mathematical morphology. Following the detailed description of our method we discuss the consistency and accuracy of particle selection.


Motivated by the noise analysis in the feasibility study of gravitational wave (GW) detection with atom interferometry, the propagation of both massive and massless particles in a linearized GW background is investigated. The geodesic from the GW background is worked out, which shows that along the transverse direction, the trajectory of particles will be perturbed by the h(x) polarization of GWs. Fortunately, this kind of perturbation is far below the requirement on the pointing stability for the present GW detectors and proposals.


This study investigates the effects of vaccination and treatment on the spread of HIV/AIDS. The objectives are (i) to derive conditions for the success of vaccination and treatment programs and (ii) to derive threshold conditions for the existence and stability of equilibria in terms of the effective reproduction number R. It is found, firstly, that the success of a vaccination and treatment program is achieved when R0t 1 there exists a unique locally asymptotically stable endemic equilibrium point, and that the two equilibrium points coalesce at R=1. Lastly, it is concluded heuristically that the stable disease free equilibrium point exists when the conditions R0t


Objectives The aim of the present study was to assess the appropriate administration dose of non-steroidal anti-inflammation drugs to prevent pancreatitis after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Importantly, the 100 mg dose of diclofenac recommended in Western countries has not been permitted in Japan. Design A retrospective study. Settings A single centre in Japan. Participants This study enrolled patients who underwent ERCP at the Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka Saiseikai Senri Hospital, from April 2011 through June 2013, and who received either a 25 or a 50 mg dose of rectal diclofenac after ERCP. Primary outcome measure The occurrence of post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP). A multivariate regression model was used to assess the effect of the 50 mg dose (the 50 mg group) of rectal diclofenac and to compare it to the occurrence of PEP referring to the 25 mg group. Results A total of 155 eligible patients received either 25 mg (84 patients) or 50 mg (71 patients) doses of rectal diclofenac after ERCP to prevent PEP. The proportion of PEP was significantly lower in the 50 mg group than in the 25 mg group (15.5% (11/71) vs 33.3% (28/84), p=0.018). In a multivariate analysis, the occurrence of PEP was significantly lower in the 50 mg group than in the 25 mg group even after adjusting potential confounding factors (adjusted OR=0.27, 95% CI 0.11 to 0.70). Conclusions From this observation, the occurrence of PEP was significantly lower among ERCP patients with the 50 mg dose of rectal diclofenac than among those with the 25 mg dose.


Calendar for the year 1914 with a photograph of a woman and small child reading posted on each page. The calendars at the bottom of the page fold back to reveal the rest of the months of the year.


A carbon/silicon carbide composite with a silicon carbide coating was prepared by chemical vapor infiltration. Stressed oxidation testing was performed on the composites in a self-built high-temperature combustion environment. The gas in this environment contained oxygen, steam, carbon dioxide, and some nitrogen. Test conditions were controlled at temperatures of 1300°, 1500°, and 1800°C, and the stress was sustained at 40, 80, 120, 160, and 200 MPa. The effect of combustion environment and applied load on stress-oxidation behavior was discussed by analyzing the residual strength and weight loss. The morphology of the fracture surface of the tested specimens was observed by scanning electron microscopy. The high-temperature combustion environment and the high sustained stress above 80 MPa enhanced the material failure and led to strength reduction by determining crack openings and thus oxidation of fibers. However, sustained stress below 80 MPa resulted in no strength degradation after exposure for 10 min at 1500°C.


One of the key starting points for the new Indian government is to critically analyse its performance and achievements vis-à-vis the development of energy infrastructure in the country. Energy shortages in India have increased from about 7% in 2003/04 to nearly 12% in 2008/09, after nearly Rs 200 000 crores have been allotted to the power sector in the annual plans covered in this period. Not surprising, given that we have added a mere 6000–7000 MW a year in this period against the required capacity addition of 18 000–20 000 MW per year! The Hon'ble Minister for Power, Mr Sushilkumar Shinde, recently stated that under its rural electrification programme, the Ministry has brought electricity to over 61 000 villages against targeted 1.18 lakh villages. We have struggled with the definition of rural electrification for decades moving from defining electrification as the presence of an electricity pole at a certain distance from a village to a small percentage of households in a village being connected to the grid! Today too, unfortunately, we seem to be happy with measuring progress as the relatively-easier-to-achieve physical infrastructure extension rather than measuring ourselves against the actual delivery of services that need to flow through this physical infrastructure or the impact on alleviating the drudgery of rural poor. In the 2009/10 finance budget, the Government of India announced a major increase in the funding for the APDRP (Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme). The allocation for the APDRP saw a steep 160% increase over the budget for 2008/09. While this is a positive development, it is also essential that these financial resources are used most efficiently. The APDRP, launched in 2002/03 has so far released nearly Rs 10 000 crores to the states. The aggregated technical and commercial losses however still hover in the range of 33%–35%. Today, there is obviously a great emphasis on infrastructure development – both in recognition of its contribution to India's economic growth as well as the role it can play in creating a momentum for recovery from the financial crisis. With huge resources being earmarked for this purpose and concerted efforts towards accelerating the implementation of infrastructure projects, energy infrastructure projects in particular, India urgently needs to re-focus its metrics of performance and achievement to start making a real difference to the lives of people. So long, we have pursued a target-based approach to development, focusing on physical parameters with scant concern for quality of life issues. The Government, in its fresh lease of life, can make this quantum leap towards demonstrating its desire to bring real change instead of merely relying on statistical achievements.


It was reported the oviposition site selection by Locusta migratoria manilensis (Meyen) at the Nandagang reservior in the coastal locust areas by two years field investigation. The results indicated the preferable ranges of vegetation coverage, soil water content at 5 cm depth, and soil salinity for L. migratoria manilensis oviposition were 0~30%, 10.0%~20.0%, and 0.09%~1.99%, respectively. The site with vegetation coverage more than 70%, soil water content at 5 cm depth more than 30%, or soil salinity more than 3% is no longer suitable for L. migratoria manilensis oviposition. Soil organic matter and pH value were not main factors affecting the locust oviposition selection. Compared with the results in the 1950s, L. migratoria manilensis at present shows wider tolerance ranges to soil water content at 5 cm depth and salinity, and becomes more adaptable to the envorinment.


Many statistical applications require establishing central limit theorems for sums/integrals or for quadratic forms , where X t is a stationary process. A particularly important case is that of Appell polynomials h (X t ) = P m (X t ), h (X t ,X s ) = P m , n (X t ,X s ), since the "Appell expansion rank" determines typically the type of central limit theorem satisfied by the functionals S T (h ), Q T (h ). We review and extend here to multidimensional indices, along lines conjectured in [F. Avram and M.S. Taqqu, Lect. Notes Statist. 187 (2006) 259–286], a functional analysis approach to this problem proposed by [Avram and Brown, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 107 (1989) 687–695] based on the method of cumulants and on integrability assumptions in the spectral domain; several applications are presented as well.


In civil commercial practice, parties often need the deposition testimony of an organization, whether it be a private corporation, limited liability company or trust.1 Although some practitioners have resorted to PMK Deposition Notices, such depositions do not bind the corporation. To ensure that testimony is binding on the corporation, practitioners must resort to Rule 30(b)(6) of the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure and designate topics on which corporations must provide a designated representative with knowledge, but not necessarily personal knowledge. The previous "have knowledge" or personal knowledge requirement was eliminated for consistency with the federal rule.2 While Nevada precedent has not articulated the distinctions between a PMK Deposition and a Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition, our United States District Court for the District of Nevada has collected national precedent on the issue and provides ample authority concerning the use of Rule 30(b)(6) Depositions. Since "[f]ederal cases interpreting the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are strong persuasive authority because the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure are based in large part upon their federal counterparts,"3 commercial practitioners should turn to the federal interpretation of Rule 30(b)(6) for guidance.


The effects of alcohol on driving were examined as a function of time of day and driving experience. 28 volunteers operated a driving simulator for 90 min at 6 testing sessions. Participants attended 2 sessions at 12:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m., after consuming either 0.70 ml/kg alcohol or juice only. Driving performance and secondary reaction time were significantly impaired after alcohol consumption at all times of day. Levels of driving skill were highest at 11:00 p.m., despite the highest levels of subjective sleepiness and low motivation at this time. Both the practical and theoretical implications of these results are discussed.


Reflection is underexplored in Creativity Support Tool (CST) research, partly due to its ambiguous nature. We suggest that researchers could benefit from a measure of a CST's capacity to support reflection. To this end, we detail the first stages of development of the Reflection in Creative Experience Questionnaire (RiCE) – a lightweight questionnaire for differentiating between creative user experiences which exhibit more or less moments of reflection. We develop RiCE through i) an expert review of questionnaire items (n=10) and ii) an exploratory factor analysis (n=300) of the reviewed items. We also present a user study testing RiCE (n=58) across two time points (one week apart) with novel interfaces designed for creative writing and music making. Although we do not confirm validity, we identify four factors for RiCE which we suggest are interpretable in a conceptually meaningful way. Our formative studies contribute towards supporting future explorations on reflection with CSTs.


Dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced (DSC) MRI or perfusion-MRI plays an important role in the non-invasive assessment of tumor vascularity. However, the large number of images provided by the method makes display and interpretation of the results challenging. Current practice is to display the perfusion information as relative cerebral blood volume maps (rCBV). Color intensity projections (CIPs) provides a simple, intuitive display of the perfusion-MRI data so that regional perfusion characteristics are intrinsically integrated into the anatomy structure the T2 images. The ease of use and quick calculation time of CIPs should allow it to be easily integrated into current analysis and interpretation pipelines.


In this article, we argue that those who aspire to `critical' international relations would be well served by importing inspiration from Edward Said's work, particularly in drawing examples from his negotiation of intellectual paradoxes and tensions. While several scholars are sharply critical of Said for adopting apparently contradictory theoretical positions, we suggest, by contrast, that his negotiation of those apparent contradictions is one of the lasting contributions of his work, not least as a model that might productively `travel' to critical international relations. Specifically, we develop two features of his treatment of paradox. First is his `hermeneutic of "worldliness"', a spirit of `secular' criticism that is socially, politically, morally situated, self-ironic, free from service to any `God', any universal singularity, but expressive of a moral-political community. Second is an uncommon articulation of the postcolonial and the global, a suturing together of a global moment of humanism and a postcolonial moment of listening to and hearing—contrapuntally reading—the voices of/from alternative loci of enunciation. These should be constitutive principles for critical international relations, which currently often fails to acknowledge their importance.


Abstract Objective: This study was performed to explore the effects of probucol on contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CIAKI) in patients with coronary heart disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods: In total, 220 patients undergoing PCI were randomly assigned to either the control group (hydration from 12 hours before to 12 hours after contrast administration; n = 110) or the probucol group (hydration plus probucol 500 mg twice daily 1 day before and 3 days after the operation; n = 110). The primary endpoint was the occurrence of serum creatinine (Scr)-based CIAKI, defined as an absolute increase in Scr by 0.5 mg/dl (44.2 μmol/L) or a relative 25% increase from baseline within 48 to 72 hours after exposure to contrast medium. The secondary outcomes were composite variations in Scr, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine clearance rate (Ccr) within 48 to 72 hours, and major adverse events during hospitalization or the 7-day follow-up period after PCI. Results: The overall incidence of Scr-based CIAKI was 7.3% (16/220): 5.5% (6/110) in the control group and 9.1% (10/110) in the probucol group (χ2 = 1.078, P = .298). There were no significant differences in the occurrence rate of major adverse events during hospitalization or the 7-day follow-up period after PCI between the groups. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that probucol was not an independent protective factor for CIAKI (odds ratio, 1.825; 95% confidence interval, 0.639–5.212; P = .261). However, hydration was an independent protective factor (odds ratio, 0.997; 95% confidence interval, 0.995–0.999; P = .004). Conclusion: Probucol cannot effectively reduce the incidence of CIAKI through its anti-inflammatory and antioxidative stress effects.


The study identified practical skills possessed by woodwork graduates of Niger state technical colleges in using woodworking machines, hand tools and consumables. Three research questions were answered and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. A survey research design was adopted for the study. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data from one hundred and two respondents. Simple random sampling was applied to identify the study sample. Mean rating was used to answer research questions, t- test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. Cronbach Alpa Formula was used to determine reliability coefficient of the instrument. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was found to 0.81. The findings of the study showed that Woodwork graduates of technical colleges in Niger State used all the woodworking machines listed except band saw machine, tenoning machine, mortiser and thicknesser. They used all the hand tools such as hammer, screw driver, hand plane, electric jig saw, scraper, pincer, plier, try square and spanner. It was recommended that State Government should provide modern machines for improving practical skills of woodwork students and Woodwork teachers should teach students how to apply formica on wood surfaces.


Object-orientation has a long tradition at the Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, starting with Simula in the early seventies. For more than 20 years there have been courses in object-oriented programming, including BETA, Smalltalk, Self and others. Recently object-orientation has started to be integrated in other parts of the curriculum such as in software engineering, distributed systems and databases. In this paper we report on this approach to teaching object-orientation. One of the advantages of object-orientation is that it provides an integrating perspective on the various areas to be taught. Besides providing a common conceptual framework, it also makes it possible to use common languages and tools that have a profound influence on the integration. Especially in the software engineering course, it has been possible to let the students experience an iterative software development method where they make a number of iterations through analysis, design and implementation. To do these iterations, it is necessary with good development tools like a CASE tool that supports code generation and reverse engineering. The Mjølner BETA System is used in the various courses as a common platform, but the students are also introduced to other object-oriented environments like Smalltalk, Self, Eiffel, and C++. The Mjølner BETA System that is a software development environment for object-oriented development based on the BETA programming language.


Purpose . Development of the automatic excitation system with non-standard algorithm for controlling powerful synchronous drives of the mechanisms of the mining and metallurgical complex, which are characterized by periodic shock loads. Methodology. The positions of theory of electric machines, methods of automatic systems synthesis, mathematical modeling in the package Matlab were used for conducting researches. Findings. A variant of the model of the synchronous motor for cases of frequency control is proposed, on the basis of which the structure of the system of the automatic excitation control is synthesized, a correction coefficient for the calculation of the gain of the regulator integral part is obtained, and the algorithm of rational control of the synchronous motor is tested, the improved neutralization of the forces of destruction of the conductors insulation of the armature coils of the motor is provided. Originality. The original version of the dynamical model of the synchronous motor is proposed, which allows using the classical method of synthesis of the armature longitudinal current regulator stabilized by the magnetic flux of excitation, as well as the requirements for the implementation of a non-standard excitation control algorithm providing a significant reduction of the dynamic current of the armature at the moment of peak load action. Practical value. The use of the proposed methodology will allow the creation of an automatic system for exciting high-power synchronous motors, which can prevent accidents in the armature circuit of the motor and increase the inter-repair interval of the synchronous drive.


Municipal sewage biosolids(MSB) contain bacteria, heavy metals(HM) ,other organic and inorganic compounds which lead to ecological, soil, water, and human health risks potentially. MSB can provide a source of nutrients for plant growth and as soil conditioners it can enhance the physical and microbiological properties of soil. In 2006, there were 235 m3 MSB (76% water) each day in Xiamen City, China. To dispose so many biosolids safely, lots of experiments were carried out to determine biology effects on grapefruit fertilized by biosolids from municipal sewage treatment plant of Xiamen for 1 year: the growth of the grapefruit trees and the transfer and accumulation of HM in soil, leaves and fruits of grapefruit trees. Results showed that it was feasible for land application to dispose MSB. But nutriments of total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) must be appended, and concentrations of Ni, Cr and Cd must be controlled before MSB application. Concentration of Ni was a control factor. Zn in MSB could be used as a resource for land mending. MSB compost can not be used for edible leafage plants.


Terrorism is a scourge common to the international community and its threat to world peace and stability is severe and imminent. This paper evaluates the campaign against terrorism and the possible modalities of constructive cooperation between China and the United States in this fight. Technical cooperation can enhance Sino-U.S. security capabilities for dealing with the terrorist threat. This paper identifies specific bilateral cooperative activities that may benefit common interests. Focusing on protecting people, facilities, and infrastructure, Sino-U.S. cooperation may introduce protective technologies and training, including means of boosting port and border security, and detecting explosives or nuclear materials. Cooperation will not only enhance the global counterterrorism campaign, but also form a sound foundation for constructive and cooperative relations between the two countries.


As medical oncologists, we face making decisions every day about the choice of palliative chemotherapy for our patients with advanced malignancies. We are fortunate in esophagogastric cancer to have an increasing armamentarium of chemotherapy agents, including fluoropyrimidines, platinates, taxanes, anthracyclines, and topoisomerase I inhibitors. Targeted therapies affecting the vascular endothelial and the epidermal growth factor receptor pathways are now being screened in phase II and III trials. Despite a myriad of twoand three-drug chemotherapy regimens in the oncology literature, there is no consensus about the optimal chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer. In deciding which therapy to administer, we must carefully weigh cost, toxicity, and complexity of administration of therapy with the relative efficacy, quality of life (QOL), and tolerance in patients. This includes a careful assessment of the individual patient's performance status, burden of comorbid conditions, and age. When addressing these questions, I take inspiration from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan, whose main character is given the task of doling out the appropriate punishment for particular crimes, including either beheading or boiling in oil for the crime of flirtation. Fortunately for the protagonists and the audience, these punishments are never meted out during the course of the opera. With oncologic therapy having the significant potential to expose patients to toxic complications, what magnitude of benefit from treatment justifies what level of toxicity for patients to endure? Modest advances have clearly been made in the development of chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer. Single agents achieve responses in 10% to 20% of patients with a median survival time of 6 to 7 months, and the index regimen of cisplatin in combination with continuous-infusion fluorouracil (CF) increases response rates to 20% to 30% and median survival time to 7 to 8 months. Phase III trials that add a third agent to CF, including epirubicin plus CF (ECF) and docetaxel plus CF (DCF), report a 10% increase in response rate to 35% to 40% and a 1-month improvement in median survival time to 9 months but at the cost of increasing toxicity. How can we best evaluate and compare twoand three-drug regimens in gastric cancer to select the best therapy? In this issue, Roth et al report a randomized phase II trial comparing ECF, DCF, and the two-drug regimen of docetaxel and cisplatin (DC), with the end point of selecting the superior docetaxel regimen for further phase III evaluation. Also in this issue, Ajani et al present QOL and clinical benefit data from the pivotal V325 trial comparing DCF with CF. The V325 phase III trial of DCF in gastric cancer, which was recently reported by Van Cutsem et al, treated 445 patients with metastatic gastric cancer with either standard CF or DCF. This large and well-conducted trial represents a landmark accomplishment in this disease. Although described as a poor prognosis population, patients treated on V325 had a good performance status (99% had a Karnofsky performance status of 80% to 100%) and were relatively young (median age, 55 years). A significant response rate advantage was seen for DCF compared with CF (37% v 25%, respectively), as well as an improved time to tumor progression (5.6 v 3.7 months, respectively). Although only a modest 0.6month increase in median survival time was observed for DCF, both 1and 2-year survival rates were improved by 8% to 9%, with one of the highest 2-year survival rates (18%) ever reported for a chemotherapy trial in gastric cancer. However, the modest gains in this trial occurred at the cost of substantial toxicity. Rates of grade 3 to 4 stomatitis ranged from 21% to 27%, diarrhea ranged from 8% to 18%, neutropenia ranged from 57% to 82%, and febrile neutropenia ranged from 27% to 29%. Rates of hospitalization for these daunting toxicities were not reported by the authors, although deaths from therapy occurred in only 3% to 5% of patients treated. Fifty percent of patients receiving DCF were taken off therapy either because of adverse events from treatment or because of patient withdrawal of consent. With the advent of regulatory approval of docetaxel for the treatment of gastric cancer based on the V325 data, should we routinely use DCF as first-line treatment of patients? Will older patients with poorer performance status be able to tolerate the rigors of such therapy, and are the benefits worth the toxicity? Two studies reported by Ajani et al in this issue present QOL and clinical benefit data for patients treated on the V325 study and place the toxicity data in another context. DCF resulted in a longer time to 5% deterioration in global QOL measures compared with CF (6.5 v 4.2 months, respectively). Looking at individual QOL measures, time to deterioration was also significantly slower for DCF, with the exception of physical functioning. Although QOL assessment favored DCF over CF, neither regimen led to improvement in QOL, and the title of the paper, "Better Quality of Life. . ." for DCF should be restated as "Better Preservation of Quality of Life. . ." for DCF. In a second related article, Ajani et al evaluated the clinical benefit of DCF compared with CF in V325. The analyses JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY E D I T O R I A L VOLUME 25 NUMBER 22 AUGUST 1 2007


Problem statement: In this study, an analytical expression for predict ing mutually visible between Earth's satellites is developed. Approach: A relative satellite-satellite visibility function is developed in terms of orbital elements for two sate llites in the same orbital plane. Also, a simple computational algorithm is expressed to compute the visibility function. Results: This study presents a new and easy method to determine the visibility tim es between two satellites which are in the same orbital plane. Conclusion: The satellite-satellite visibility function is sol ved by an easy treatment.


INTRODUCTION
This study aimed to identify opportunities for clinical decision support targeting medication safety in remote primary care, by investigating the relationship between clinical workflows, health system priorities, cognitive tasks, and reasoning processes in the context of medicines used in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

METHODS
This qualitative study involved one-on-one, semistructured interviews. The participants were healthcare professionals employed in a clinical or managerial capacity with clinical work experience in a remote health setting for at least 1 year.

RESULTS
Twenty-five clinicians were interviewed. Of these, four were rural medical practitioners, nine were remote area nurses, eight were Aboriginal health practitioners, and four were pharmacists. Four major themes were identified from the interviews: (1) the need for a clinical decision support system to support a sustainable remote health workforce, as clinicians were "constantly stretched" and problems may "fall through the cracks"; (2) reliance on digital health technologies, as medical staff are often not physically available and clinicians-on-duty usually "flick an email and give a call so that I can actually talk it through to our GP"; (3) knowledge gaps, as "it takes a lot of mental space" to know each patient's renal function and their medication history, and clinicians believe "mistakes can be made"; and (4) multiple risk factors impacting CKD management, including clinical, social and behavioural determinants.

CONCLUSIONS
The high prevalence of CKD and reliance on digital health systems in remote primary health settings can make a clinical decision support system valuable for supporting clinicians who may not have extensive experience in managing medicines for people with CKD.


One of the most frustrating aspects of gas turbine engineering since the work of Whittle has been the inability of the designer and development engineer to see or visualise the behaviour of components within a jet engine on test.


Abstract Genome-Wide Association studies (GWAS) have brought a revolutionary change or paradigm shift in detecting novel variants for complex disorders and shifting the burden of finding the biological relevance of these newly discovered variants on biochemists and physiologists, hence it is a movement from forward to reverse genetics. Here we discuss the role of such studies with GWAS designs from anthropological perspective for conducting futuristic India specific GWAS.


The configurations of electrochemical silicon etch-stop are discussed in this paper. An electrochemical etching machine with software and hardware, which can control the etching process of silicon very well, is designed and fabricated bas don the theory of electrochemical etching. Accurate etching temperature is obtained by modified integral algorithm of PID presented in temperature control in software. With an algorithm presented in control of etch-stop, the tech-stop point can be detected according to the characteristics of p- n junction current-time in electrochemical etching. The machine with hardware including S/H, controller and actuator can adapt to all wet etching configurations such as poly- electrode electrochemical etch-stop.


Calpain belongs to the calcium-dependent non-lysosomal cysteine protease. Calpain-1 and calpain-2 expression are ubiquitous in mammals and an important mediator of the action of calcium. Specific substrate cleavage by calpain-1 and calpain-2 is critical for several calcium-dependent cellular pathways including neuronal function, muscle contraction, signal transduction, cell differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis.Research suggests that calpain-1 and calpain-2 perform similar functions due to their structurally highly similar isoforms. Increasing evidence suggests that calpain-1 and calpain-2 carry out their specific function in vivo. A recent paper published by Shinkai-Ouchi et al. (Bioscience Reports (2020) 40, https://doi.org/10.1042/BSR20200552) elucidated the mechanism to differentiate the function of each calpain in respect to the efficiency and longevity for proteolysis after activation. Further, the study represented that calpain-1 and calpain-2 do not synergistically perform their workin vitro. On the other hand, the activity of calpain-1 is reduced in presence of calpain-2. This insight establishes the platform for future studies to examine how calpain-2 regulates the calpain-1 for substrate proteolysis.


The need and importance of secure information communication, particularly text, image and video transmission has made cryptography to take a larger space in current research era. Improvement of pictorial information for betterment of human perception involves de-blurring, de-noising and safe transmission. These applications extend over several fields such as satellite imaging, medical imaging etc. Specifically we would like to elaborate our research on the significance of computational intelligence as one of the domains which finds application in cryptography and information security, and then the relevance of cryptography is indeed unavoidable. This paper deals with the study of the requirements for strong cryptography and various computational intelligence techniques that find use in cryptography. Cryptanalysis is a well-studied problem with many important applications in the areas of error-free and secure data transmission. In this paper, we have reviewed the improved algorithms used for cryptography optimization; the algorithms under reviews integrate genetic algorithms, immune computing, crossover and mutation operators and fuzzy systems to maintain the diversity and optimization of candidate objects. These computational intelligence techniques have seen to greatly improve the fitness levels of candidate groups in cryptography. Lastly, we make detailed comparison between these methods and those cryptography techniques without computational intelligence.


As human beings the poor people in informal settlements also have the right to live better like any other well-off people. Although the government regards them as illegal, they demonstrate great ingenuity in developing their residential neighborhoods. Public spaces are the living room for the people living in the informal settlements - the place where people come to enjoy their settlement. The strategy of sustainable development for informal settlements can be carried out well if the inhabitants are involved at the whole development process. In 2006 the population of Surabaya city was 2,716,971 people. An experience about urban upgrading in informal settlement along Wonokromo riverbank, Surabaya shows how the program implemented can improve the living quality of the inhabitants. With the program of Community Total Participation, the physical problems of the settlements can be reduced gradually. This paper will discuss the action research which tries to involve the inhabitants through total participatory strategy. The qualitative and quantitative data will be analyzed in order to find conclusions and to recommend alternative solutions.


The subject of this research is a set of legal norms that regulate relations in the sphere of challenging of transactions of the debtor, as well as the law enforcement practice. The object of this research is the social relations that develop in the context of challenging of transactions of the debtor in bankruptcy case. The article discusses the problems faced by the arbitration and financial executives at the stage of claim preparation for challenging of transactions of the debtor, i.e. formation of evidence, as well as at the stage of execution of the corresponding court ruling. The purpose goal of this article lies in articulation of the problem, substantiation of the need for legislative regulation, and formulation of recommendation for the improvement of current legislation on the subject matter. The scientific novelty consists in addressed the issues that have not previously become the subject of separate research; as well as in the author's conclusions and recommendations aimed at the improvement of the Federal Law No. 127-FZ of. October 26, 2002 "On Insolvency (Bankruptcy)" and other normative legal acts regulating this field. The acquired results can also be used in the Russian legal science for further elaboration on the issues related to the effectiveness of the mechanism for challenging of transactions of the debtor, and as well  as improvement of the current legislation of the Russian Federation and law enforcement practice that regulate this field.


Cyanide Poisoning. Blood from two cases of cyanide poisoning have been examined. The cyanide was taken orally and both patients survived. Both specimens of blood appeared to contain an abnormal pigment of bright reddish colour. Apart from visual observation, the pigment was not examined further. Cyanide was determined in whole blood and plasma by the method of Tompsett (1959) as modified by Curry (1964). It is recommended that standards should be limited to 2·5 and 5·0 micrograms HCN. Plasma thiocyanate was determined by the method of Bowler (1944).


Local economic development driven by innovation plays an important role in regional development and generating income. The critical mass of viable ventures is determined by the aspects of entrepreneurship, financing mechanism, and the market mechanism. The traditional commodity-based on production system approach has not looked fitted and tends to shift to a value chain system that is oriented to increase added value and competitiveness. The most important aspect that determines the success of this shifting is the entrepreneurial growth and the information stakeholder involved. These two aspects need to be analyzed simultaneously in an analytical framework with integrated analysis tools. The objectives of this study are to design a conceptual model of entrepreneurial growth and an assessment model for stakeholder involvement analysis by using a hybrid method. Entrepreneurial growth is indicated by entrepreneurial capability and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Entrepreneurial capability consists of entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial learning capacity, and individual resources. Entrepreneurial ecosystem consists of culture, policies and leadership, appropriate finance, quality human capital, markets for products, as well as institutional supports. The stakeholder involved that analyzed in entrepreneurial growth are local government, private sector, business-focused organizations, nongovernmental organization, research and development agency as well as educational institutions. A hybrid method is an analytical approach that used two techniques analysis in integrated model analysis: Analytical Hierarchy Process for weighting analysis, and Simple Additive Weighting for ranking analysis. The proposed model provides a basic assessment framework that can be used in formulating strategies for entrepreneurial-based economic development.


Based on the research results, it appears that the development of multimodal transportation system in Pangkep within the framework of logistik efficiency island communities to do with optimizing the utilization of large rivers that cross the territory Pangkep. The third river is the national road network services, in addition is located adjacent to the vertices of the other transport, such as road transport terminals, ports and railway station plan. The river dock location that is on one site with markets and shops will facilitate the transport of goods and facilitate the public to transact their catch in the territorial waters of the island. The development of multimodal transportation system in Pangkep is needed, in addition to the potential that surrounded him, also have barriers and problems faced by the island community. The high price of goods on the island due to the lack mode of transport that can be used by local communities in accordance with the movement of goods and capacity needs. Volume logistik needs of the island community based food standards, thus requiring facilities more adequate transport services through the provision of specialized vessels, ie vessels with a capacity of 350 DWT. This ship is a type of vessel that can be saved by the government as a ship pilot for remote areas and islands (promote the trade ships and ships follow the trade). The transport system development course provides broad direction of regional development that can improve the welfare of the people in the island territories Pangkep.


The rate enhancements relative to the monoketones, for base-catalyzed exo and endo hydrogen isotope exchange in 2,5-norbornanedione (2), 3,3-dimethyl-2,5-norbornanedione (3), and 1,3,3-trimethyl-2,...


The characteristics of cement bonded particleboards can be jeopardized by chemical incompatibility between some lignocellulosic materials and cement, which can inhibit the glue of this cement; however, this effect can be minimized with chemicals treatments of the materials. The different species of Eucalyptus can be promising as raw material in the production of these panels, mainly residues produced in form of barks. The objective of the work was to evaluate chemical compatibility of wood and barks (without and with chemical treatment) of Eucalyptus grandis with cement. The chemical treatment of barks was carried out with sodium hydroxide. Results showed that the Eucalyptus grandis wood presented a moderate aptitude with cement, the treated barks presented high aptitude and the untreated bark presented extremely low aptitude. It was verified positive influence of the chemical treatment in the barks, making possible, in the future, the incorporation of these elements in the manufacturing of cement-bonded particleboard.


The effect of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning on the topology of brain functional networks is unclear, especially in children whose brains are still developing.


Ample evidence suggests that the behavior of people with low self-esteem (LSEs) can lead to problems in close relationships. To the authors' knowledge, however, no research has investigated the role that perceptions of close others' self-esteem play in undermining beneficial relational processes. In this article, the authors propose that capitalization, a process associated with greater relationship quality, might be hindered by the friends, partners, or family members of LSEs. Across three experiments, the authors show that people are reluctant to disclose their positive experiences (i.e., capitalize) when they believe that the recipient has low self-esteem. Furthermore, the results suggest that people hold back from LSEs largely because they expect the interaction to go poorly for themselves, not because they are concerned about making LSEs feel inferior.


1. Introduction 2. Cell suspension culture of M. truncatula cv. R 108 1 initiated from leaf and root explants 3. Long-term embryogenic cell suspension cultures of Medicago truncatula cv. Jemalong line M9-10a 4. References 5. Figures and Tables 1. Introduction Somatic embryogenesis is the process by which the somatic cells give rise to bipolar structure, which develop to whole plants without gamete fusion. It is strongly depends on the plant genotype, type and physiological state of the explants, the composition of the culture medium and the conditions of cultivation. Somatic embryogenesis in Medicago truncatula is strongly genotype-dependent. The process could be direct when the embryogenic structures develop directly from the initial explant, or indirect through a callus stage. Regeneration via direct somatic embryogenesis in liquid media for M. truncatula line R 108 1 from leaf and root explant has been established (Iantcheva et al. 2001; Iantcheva et al. 2005). These procedures based on suspension culture for regeneration of this model species offer new advantages: omit callus stage that allow shortening of the process of somatic embryogenesis and provide basis for morphological, biochemical and molecular studies of the nature of somatic embryogenesis from single cell to whole plant.


"When someone we love – such as a beloved pet – dies, the loss often causes grief and intense sorrow. Memories allow your pets to live on in you." (American Veterinary Medical Association, 2018). This business plan has an international approach, which aims to satisfy our client's need by offering an innovative solution towards a difficult time, such as the loss of a pet. This is how BiosPet was born, an Ecuadorian brand dedicated market a biodegradable urn imported from Spain, using a traditional representation model. By means of cremation services, public hygienic and sanitary problems related infectious contamination are addressed with this memorial method. The underlying objective of this product is to be responsible with society and to help the environment. Currently, Quito has an estimated of 1 domesticated animal for every 4 habitants with an estimated of 640,000 companion animals (Metropolitan District of Quito, 2018). Within the business plan, the environment analysis carried out using PESTEL analysis and the five forces of Porter, showed that the company has more opportunities than threats. Being the main opportunity an international agreement model between Ecuador and the European Union generating benefits for both parties. The customer analysis was also conducted with expert interviews, a focus group and more than 50 individual surveys, proving that the project's target market are Quito's residents, who are between 20 to 54 years old and have a moderately high economic income, who mandatorily are pet owners. By showing acceptance and interest on the product, the opportunity presented is reaffirmed with a marketing mix aimed to the target population. Regarding better understanding, tastes and customer preferences the product's specification, price, place and promotion. For this reason, the advantage was found on building the company's philosophy to match the organizational structure, legal framework, import requirements and operations plan. Finally, a financial analysis was carried out where a viable profitability with an IRR of 26,39% and with an investment valued at 34.720,50 USD financed 75% through own capital as well as that of partners and 25% a bank loan.


Abstract : Four general-purpose automated verification systems (Affirm, Formal Development Methodology (Ina Jo), Gypsy, and Concurrent State Deltas) were applied to computer network protocols in order to evaluate the ability of such systems to provide significant results in formal protocol specification and verification. Each system had a particular strength: Affirm was most polished and flexible; FDM supported abstract machine specifications directly; Gypsy supported stateless I/O (Input/Output) history type specifications; CSD supported more automatic proof and timing properties. However, none of the systems had all necessary features or was powerful enough to fully handle complex protocols. The relative strengths of the systems are compared, detailed examples of their use are presented, and suggestions for further work are given. (Author)


Modern wireless systems operating in the millimetre waves bands are now to be used in complex confined media such as mining environment. System designs require that multipath, fading and diffraction effects be accounted for in a suitable model. This paper presents a new propagation prediction method that can be used in mine corridors, buildings, underground roads, galleries with rough surfaces and others complex sub‐surface installations. A method named cascade impedance method (CIM) is used in combination with the segmental statistic method (SSM) in mine tunnels having considerable wall roughness and bending forms. Two (2D)‐ and three (3D)‐dimensional profiles of the radio waves are simulated and compared with available measurements at 2.45 and 18 GHz. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


By adding a loop and properly adjusting the loop structure,an UWB TEM horn antenna with low-frequency compensation is designed.The S11 parameter,phase characteristic and bandwidth of TEM horns with different loop size are simulated and analyzed using FDTD.The designed antenna is capable of operating in a very wide bandwidth,defined by a-10 dB S11.The prototypes of the antenna is manufactured and tested.The simulation result is in good agreement with the result obtained by measurement,and the antenna is shown to have good fidelity.


Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in health systems in low- and middle-income countries, including South Africa. Bukhali is a CHW-delivered intervention as part of a randomised controlled trial, to improve the health trajectories of young women in Soweto, South Africa. This study aimed to qualitatively explore factors influencing implementation of the preconception and pregnancy phases of Bukhali, from the perspective of the CHWs (Health Helpers, HHs) delivering the intervention. As part of the Bukhali trial process evaluation, three focus group discussions were conducted with the 13 HHs employed by the trial. A thematic approach was used to analyse the data, drawing on elements of a reflexive thematic and codebook approach. The following six themes were developed, representing factors impacting implementation of the HH roles: interaction with the existing public healthcare sector; participant perceptions of health; health literacy and language barriers; participants socioeconomic constraints; family, partner, and community views of trial components; and the HH-participant relationship. HHs reported uses of several trial-based tools to overcome implementation challenges, increasing their ability to implement their roles as planned. The relationship of trust between the HH and participants seemed to function as one important mechanism for impact. The findings supported a number of adaptations to the implementation of Bukhali, such as intensified trial-based follow-up of referrals that do not receive management at clinics, continued HH training and community engagement parallel to trial implementation, with an increased emphasis on health-related stigma and education. HH perspectives on intervention implementation highlighted adaptations relevant to the Bukhali intervention, other CHW-delivered preconception and pregnancy trials, and real-world CHW roles, across three broad strategic areas: navigating and bridging healthcare systems, adaptability to individual participant needs, and navigating stigma around disease.


At the experimental field of VNIIMZ (Tver region, village Emmauss) laid a series of 8 soil sections. The first three sections of the southern slope are confined to the transit-accumulative, transit and eluvial-transit microlandscape with a complex of gleevate and gleev soils, which changes to an eluvial-accumulative flat-topped section and similar microlandscapes of the northern slope with slightly bent and gleevate sod-podzolic light loamy soils. In samples taken every 10 cm, the particle size distribution of soils was determined by laser diffraction and sieve (>0.25 mm) methods. The differential distribution curves of soil particles are dominated by fractions of fine sand with a maximum content of diameters of 100–150 µm and silt (1–50 µm). Three granulometrically homogeneous layers are distinguished in the soil profile: the upper one with an arable horizon (0–40 cm), medium (up to 70–80 cm) and super-moraine (up to 120 cm). In the middle part of the soil profile of the northern slope, silty fractions prevail; and in the soils of the southern part of the landscape, a relatively high content of the sandy fraction is observed (the fraction of fine sand, 50–250 µm, dominates, and followed by the coarse silt fraction, 10–50 µm), which, apparently associated with the historical processes of profiles development on binary deposits, erosion, and, possibly, with modern agrotechnological processes.


Accurate segmentation of the blood pool of left ventricle (LV) and myocardium (or left ventricular epicardium, MYO) from cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) can help doctors to quantify LV ejection fraction and myocardial deformation. To reduce doctor's burden of manual segmentation,
 in this study, we propose an automated and concurrent segmentation method of the LV and MYO. First, we employ a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to extract the region of interest (ROI) from short-axis cardiac cine MR images as a preprocessing step. Next, we present a multi-scale
 feature fusion (MSFF) CNN with a new weighted Dice index (WDI) loss function to get the concurrent segmentation of the LV and MYO. We use MSFF modules with three scales to extract different features, and then concatenate feature maps by the short and long skip connections in the encoder and
 decoder path to capture more complete context information and geometry structure for better segmentation. Finally, we compare the proposed method with Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) and U-Net on the combined cardiac datasets from MICCAI 2009 and ACDC 2017. Experimental results demonstrate
 that the proposed method could perform effectively on LV and MYOs segmentation in the combined datasets, indicating its potential for clinical application.


The article is about the implementation of isolation measures applied to juveniles, such as a placement in a youth educational centre or a correctional facility. Usually, this is the final stage of formal social control for the unlawful behaviour of children and young people because – due to the age in which they leave these institutions – they will be criminally liable as adults for any subsequent crimes they commit. Hence, work undertaken by educators in isolation institutions for their pupils seems extremely important. The educators of these institutions described how it looks, what is difficult about it, how they perceive their pupils (typical, difficult, or requiring treatment, currently versus ten years ago), and how they evaluate the effects and success of their work in research carried out at the Department of Criminology of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2018. The results of this study are presented in the article.


Scientific consensus states human civilization has had a profoundly negative effect on the environment, especially in the last two centuries. In addition to this, there an increasing concern for the psychological well-being of many members of our society. There is a theory known as biophilia that states humans have a natural affinity for things that are alive and in nature. Exposure to the environment has numerous benefits, including psychological, physiological, spiritual, and ethical improvements. This paper is a theoretical approach studying a potential positive relationship between the triggering of biophilia and prosocial behaviors. It is hypothesized that the existence of biophilia does promote prosocial sentiments and this should be taken advantage of for the improved well-being of humans as well as the rest of the planet.


For most of recorded history, the study of impotence fell under the purview of healers. This changed in the late nineteenth century, however, as the works of avant garde artists like the German dramatist and social critic Frank Wedekind ushered analyses of this malady into public discourse. In looking first at conditions in Europe during Wedekind's time and then tracing the history of impotence from the Ancient Chinese up to Wedekind's day, this article investigates how Wedekind's representations of impotence emblematized not only his own personal afflictions but a greater cultural malaise.


Abstract The research confirms that the irreversible transformation to spinel-like structure during orthorhombic LiMnO2 cycle is a gradual phase transformation process. A model for the structure change of orthorhombic LiMnO2 during the electrochemical cycle is presented. The model successfully clarified the fact that the 4 V voltage plateau does not exist for the first discharge. Because the LiMnO2 has 124 mAh g–1 of the first charge capacity, there are many Li ions containing the octahedral sites. The tetrahedral sites left by Mn ions migrating would be occupied by lithium ions containing the octahedral sites with further cycle, which make the 4 V voltage plateau developing. According to the model suggestion, the different variants of spinel LixMn2O4 will develop the nanodomain.


Physical principles of photovoltaic energy conversion technology of solar cell devices fundamental material parameters structural and electrical properties of lattice defects single crystal and polycrystalline silicon single crystal and epitaxial compound semiconductors thin-film compound semiconductors amorphous thin-film semiconductors.


Based on the analysis of twenty plans for a low carbon economy, adopted for implementation by the rural municipalities of typical agricultural character, representing various Polish regions, the evaluation of the role and effectiveness of these documents in the planning and coordination of activities in favor of a low carbon rural development was carried out. Evaluated among others are the scope and extent of regard for agriculture and rural areas in the diagnostic and programming parts of plans, sources of financing and monitoring indicators of individual actions. Both the advantages and disadvantages of these documents were pointed out and recommendations for drawing them up were formulated. The proposals can be a model solution for the recognition of agriculture and rural areas in a low carbon economy plans prepared by local government units.

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The features and legal consequences of the refusal of limited property rights to land plots are considered. The question of the formation and composition of property rights is investigated. The distinctive features of real rights to land plots have been determined from the standpoint of their influence on the authorities from them.


The DLR small satellite mission BIRD is dedicated to the remote sensing of hot spot events like vegetation fires, coal seam fires or active volcanoes from space. For these objectives a new generation of infrared array sensors are developed suitable for mall satellite missions. The demonstration of the performance of these sensors will be realized by the micro satellite mission BIRD. A lot of new small satellite technologies are developed to fulfil the high scientific requirements of the mission under the constraints of a micro satellite mission. That means the total mass of the complete spacecraft is 92 kg. The paper describes mission objectives, the payload, the spacecraft and the first results of the BIRD mission.


Performance is one of the most important issues for any company. It considered as an essential criteria to evaluate companies' ability to survive in the market or go out of it, especially in the context of a dynamic business environment which is characterized by uncertainty and is full of both changes and challenges. Both strategic flexibility and market orientation are considered mechanisms which enable companies to improve and enhance their performance; strategic flexibility enables companies to deal with uncertainty, and market orientation enables companies to focus on the market and take advantage of any available opportunities they find there. This study aimed to discuss how SF and MO affect the performance of pharmaceutical companies in Jordan. This research is a survey study, and a questionnaire was used for data collection. The sample of the study encompass all the pharmaceutical companies in Jordan (42 companies). The questionnaire designed based on Likert scale was forwarded to the managers at those companies to collect the data. The number of respondents was 021. Descriptive analysis, a reliability test, a correlation matrix and linear regression used to get the results by using SPSS 25. The results show that Jordanian Pharmaceutical Companies are market-oriented and they use strategic flexibility as a technique to react to uncertain situations. Both strategic flexibility and market orientation affect the performance of Jordanian Pharmaceutical Companies positively. Strategic flexibility interprets 43.0% of the variance in customer satisfaction and 34.8% of the change in the financial performance of those companies. Market orientation interprets 51.5% of the variance in customer satisfaction and 22.4 % of the variance in the financial performance of those companies. In this study some shortcuts will be used to express the variables, such as, MO: market orientation. SF: strategic flexibility. IG: intelligence generation. ID: intelligence dissemination. Res: responsiveness.


N methods, techniques, and systems for processing information are providing marketing decision makers with an ever-strengthening base for decisions. The expectation has been that the provision of better information should result in more effective marketing strategies. It was the intent of the research described in this paper to test the validity of this assumption for industrial advertisers. Industrial marketers have probably suffered more from a paucity of information about their markets and buyer behavior than consumer marketers. For this reason, it might be assumed that improvements in information processing would be of particular benefit to industrial marketers. Industrial advertisers, for example, traditionally have developed their strategy primarily on the basis of historic assumptions about industrial buyer behavior. With improved research in buyer behavior and the increasing availability of information to the advertising decision maker, are advertising strategies now based on better information about buyer motivation? In this study, four industrial market segments -consulting engineers, architects, electrical contrac~ors, and nonresidential building contractors -were selected and analyzed to determine their buying motives. These were compared against the motives that industrial advertisers in these fields perceived for their customers. The results were disconcerting, since the industrial advertising managers did not seem to understand the major considerations which influence the purchase of their products. This finding would indicate that industrial advertising managers are performing their tasks less effectively than they could.


Abstract: Free-riding is the biggest challenge to any P2P scheme. It inhibits effective machine functioning. As a consequence, several researchers suggested many methods to counteract the impact of free-riding in a P2P or network. We suggested the PPM mechanism here, which can prove very useful in this regard. This paper also suggests the blacklisting approach, which may also be helpful in mitigating free-riding behaviour. In our work, behaviour aspect is the most significant parameter to analyse free-riders' behaviour. The methodology we used here monitors the free-riding interaction and allows peers to be in the network. It forces colleagues to contribute rather than customers. Our work improves on several past methods. The findings reveal that the amount of free-riders in the network reduces as the number of nodes grows. It also shows that behaviour factor is implicitly proportional to blacklist counter, i.e., if a node's behaviour factor rises, the blacklist counter decreases and vice-versa. Future, we should introduce other mechanisms that might will the likelihood of blacklisted peers. Ultimately, this would entail a decrease in network free riding. This would also contribute to decreased server load. Our paper may be liberated from the central server concept. We should also try to increase the degree of collaboration among network peers so peers can function more together in the network. We may also enhance the network's protection aspect. Extensive system simulation may be performed to see its success in large-scale network.


LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER ACquiring Pira International, a U.K.-based supplier of services to the paper and packaging industries, Ciba Specialty Chemicals agreed to spend about $580 million to acquire paper chemicals specialist Raisio Chemicals. The unit is the chemicals arm of Finnish pulp and paper producer Raisio Group. The deal, expected to be wrapped up this fall, will bring Ciba about $515 million in annual sales of paper binding, sizing, and strengthening chemicals. Ciba already runs a water and paper treatment division with sales of just over $1 billion last year. The expanded division will contribute roughly 27% of the company's sales, up from 20% in 2003. For Ciba, the acquisition helps fulfill a goal of gaining a stronger geographical reach in the paper chemicals sector. It has been working to broaden its own activities in Asia and South America. Raisio, meanwhile, recently opened latex binder and specialty chemical plants in China. And the ...


This article describes how PrePass, the first commercially available weigh-station bypass service in the U.S., is expanding eastward. Plans are for PrePass, which is part of the Heavy Vehicle Electronic License Plate Program, to be operational along the-40 corridor providing a coast-to-coast network. The article also describes a new application for automate vehicle identification (AVI) using transponders that will be in the form of smart fueling systems. These systems will use nozzle-based readers to identify trucks and will include automated accounting.


The emergence of newer educational technologies provides opportunities for computer-assisted language learning practitioners and software developers to capitalize on the affordances for the second language (L2) learning purposes. This article explored and brought together the reported affordances and challenges of virtual reality to teach the L2 receptive and productive skills by reviewing seventy-five peer-reviewed articles published from 2010 to 2020. The results revealed an imbalanced trend of research on language skills learning by virtual reality tools and affordances in favor of listening and speaking skills compared to reading and writing skills. The obtained data were tabularized in terms of language skills. The results were visualized by hierarchical database formats. Pedagogical implications of the study inform teachers about affordances available to teach L2 skills in educational virtual reality environments toward a more digitally enhanced L2 pedagogy. Theoretical implications of the study inform researchers about the challenges that need to be addressed.


Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) from Candida parapsilosis CCTCCM203011 was purified to homogeneity within four steps, including DEAE-Sephacel, SuperdexG-75 and Cibacron Blue 3GA chromatography. The molecular weight and subunit weight estimated by HPLC and SDS-PAGE were 45 000 and 43 000 respectively, indicating that the ADH was a monomer. The maximal activity was obtained at 45 癈 and pH 8. 0. With the existence of Mg2+, the enzyme activity was increased. In the resolution reaction, the enzyme showed the high selectivity of (R)-1-phenyl-1, 2-ethanediol from racemate.


Synthesis and characterization of asymmetric ultrafiltration membrane made from polysulfone (PS), with an antioxidant 2,2′-methylenebis (6-tert-butyl-4-ethylphenol) (MBEP) as an additive, is reported in this work. The membrane was prepared by phase-inversion process from casting solution containing PS polymer, dichloromethane solvent, and antioxidant MBEP as an additive. Polyvinylpyrrolidone (2 wt% concentration) was added in the casting solution as pore former. The membrane was characterized in terms of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry, oxidative-induction time test, mechanical measurements and cross-flow filtration for milk concentration, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). From TGA, it is noted that volatilization of MBEP started before its boiling point (198°C), indicating that the antioxidant has interacted with the PS, and the results indicate that highest residual weight percentage was obtained for higher weight percent antioxidant filled membrane substantiating its higher thermal stability. From SEM images, it is observed that as MBEP content gets higher dispersion of particles in the membrane, the matrix becomes more homogeneous. The other results revealed that the addition of antioxidant MBEP produced a membrane with higher thermal stability. The presence of additive also affects the surface roughness, membrane morphology, and mechanical strength. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Adv Polym Technol 2014, 33, 21392; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/adv.21392


The relation of the geometry to the physical properties of 32 experimental raschel fabrics was studied. These fabrics were knit of 36/2 combed cotton yarns with the ordinary stitch, straight chaining, and lay-in in the following combinations: straight chaining with lay-in; ordinary with lay-in ; two-bar Atlas with skip entry; two-bar jersey with skip entry; straight chaining with ordinary; eyelet mesh with irregular entry. The effect of distortion on dimensional change in laundering, relaxation to remove distortion in order to prevent dimensional change, and the elastic behavior of the various construc tions were given special attention, since these properties largely determine the usefulness of the fabrics for specific purposes.


Horne's Guide to Wiiitbt. Profusely illustrated. Price Is., or paper cover 6d. (Whitby : Home and Son, 18, Bridge Street.) Whitby has long been an established favourite among those who look to a sojourn in bracing air to restore their tired faculties. The town itself affords all the amusements proper to seaside resorts and ample accommodation for visitors at reasonable rates, while in many of the surrounding villages


We study algorithmic and structural aspects of connectivity in hypergraphs. Given a hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ with $n = |V|$, $m = |E|$ and $p = \sum_{e \in E} |e|$ the best known algorithm to compute a global minimum cut in $H$ runs in time $O(np)$ for the uncapacitated case and in $O(np + n^2 \log n)$ time for the capacitated case. We show the following new results.
1. Given an uncapacitated hypergraph $H$ and an integer $k$ we describe an algorithm that runs in $O(p)$ time to find a subhypergraph $H'$ with sum of degrees $O(kn)$ that preserves all edge-connectivities up to $k$ (a $k$-sparsifier). This generalizes the corresponding result of Nagamochi and Ibaraki from graphs to hypergraphs. Using this sparsification we obtain an $O(p + \lambda n^2)$ time algorithm for computing a global minimum cut of $H$ where $\lambda$ is the minimum cut value.
2. We generalize Matula's argument for graphs to hypergraphs and obtain a $(2+\epsilon)$-approximation to the global minimum cut in a capacitated hypergraph in $O(\frac{1}{\epsilon} (p \log n + n \log^2 n))$ time.
3. We show that a hypercactus representation of all the global minimum cuts of a capacitated hypergraph can be computed in $O(np + n^2 \log n)$ time and $O(p)$ space.
We utilize vertex ordering based ideas to obtain our results. Unlike graphs we observe that there are several different orderings for hypergraphs which yield different insights.


Rapid and accurate identification type of ship is essential for situation assessment and combat decision.In order to identify ships,with Bayes network,a kind of identification model of "two-step method " is proposed,which makes use of character information of radar wave that return from ships.The experiment is carried out and the results coincide with the fact.This shows that the identification model is reasonable and effective.


This chapter distills leadership development programs into their critical components in the context of the rapid digital onslaught. Alignment between individual behavior and organizational behavior is necessary in advance of the implementation of any developmental intervention. This alignment is viewed as a necessary but not sufficient condition for change. Development is examined as a by-product of a dialectic that is constructed purposefully with both the organization and the individual in mind. Delivered in many forms, the dialectic serves as the fulcrum that brings transformational power to leadership development programs. Leadership development is recognized as a process incorporating experiences that are crafted to compel behavioral, emotional, and intellectual transformation to drive competitive value.