The company run in service related with service problem, therefore the most superior company currently is the company that is able to satisfy customer. To measure quality standard of service is difficult, because customer satisfaction is very subjective. This emerge different perception between customers with employee of cellular operator service. Therefore the research was conducted with purpose to find out the relation between service qualities of employee of customer service division with customer satisfaction. This was correlation research has purpose to find out the relation between service quality of
employee of customer service division with customer satisfaction. The population was Indosat customer. The research sample amount of 50 subjects and it used purposive sampling. Data collection method was 2 scale namely quality scale of employee service and customer satisfaction. Data analysis method was product moment correlation of Karl Pearson. The result of data analysis was there very significant positive relation between service quality of employee with customer satisfaction indicated by coefficient of correlation r = 0,492 and p = 0,000. Thus, there was very significant positive relation between service qualities of employee with customer satisfaction at Indosat gallery. This shows that service quality was
given by employee of customer service division was so high. Thus, customer expectation would be reached, so that customer satisfaction level to the service so high too. Moreover, if service quality of employee of customer service division was low, hope of customer wouldn't
be reached, so that customer satisfaction was low too. The result of data analysis found that coefficient determinant 24,4% (r2 = 0,242). It was known that service quality of employee gave effective contribution 24,2% toward service whereas the rest 75,8% was affected by others factor


In order to prevent soil erosion and promote reforestation on devastated bare slopes, the ecological new technology using MS (Mulching Sheet: nonwoven fabric sheet with two to four layer structures) and GB (Green Bag: made of MS containing plant seeds, fertilizers, vegetation base materials, and mycorrhizal fungi) has been applied to bare slopes not only in Japan but also in Korea, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Vietnam etc. since 1990. From the results of them, the following conclusions were obtained: (1) This technology was significantly effective in preventing soil erosion and promoting the early revegetation on bare slopes; (2) It was suggested that the initial reforestation period could be accelerated for about 50 years by this technology in the Temperate Zone by many field data obtained.


This study examines the beliefs of the two main French schools of thought, mainly the ideas of Paul Leroy-Beaulieu and Gaston Jèze, which sought to influence the management of public finances, and their impact on the financing of the First World War by the French government. It highlights debates during the war on the best approach to deal with the extraordinary financial demands of the war and the experiences and influence of foreign governments on French financial management practices. The last part examines how the war affected qualitatively the French public finances, the financial dogmas, and the scientific approach to public finance.


Abstract The technological interest for a given material depends very much on its thermal properties. The carbon nanotubes forming atoms a circular structure with a diameter of the order of 1 nm, but with a length which can be up to several hundred microns. This makes the carbon nanotubes to form an excellent model for one-dimensional systems. Much research has been devoted to the manufacture of carbon nanotubes, which are expected to represent the material that will be included in the next generation of heat exchangers components. Despite all the attention that carbon nanotubes have attracted from a scientific perspective, the theoretical understanding of them only developed relatively limited. Stability and performance of nano-device control plays a critical role in the heat conduction of nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are one-atom thick as small-sized materials are excellent conductors of heat. In this context, in the present study by the method of finite element mesh based thermal behavior of carbon nanotubes are examined. In this study the lattice thermal conductivity of nanotubes is to see the effect. Single-walled and multiwalled carbon nanotubes in the ANSYS simulation technique has been developed and implemented. This method is different in the lattice of the nanotubes was used to compare the heat conduction. The number of bonds is equal to the number of atoms and nanotubes are modeled. Lattice structure which is different armchair (5, 5) and zigzag (10, 0) nanotube thermal conductivity, were compared. The results presented, the proposed finite element model, to study the thermal behavior of carbon nanotubes, have shown an important method.


As it becomes a common need to support mobility in the Internet, there is a growing trend towards providing a general mobility management function in the protocol stack by resolving identifiers of mobile nodes to their locations. However, current mechanisms have drawbacks in both performance and functionality, especially when they are partially deployed. In this paper, we propose a Global Resolution Service (GRS) offered by Resolution Service Providers (RSP), which resolves identifiers in a flexible way according to diverse mobility scenarios. Simulation results show the advantages of our approach compared to existing solutions in terms of both flexibility and deployability.


A jitter correction system effectively corrects jitter in a television picture recorded and reproduced by a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus. The system comprises a first phase comparator means for comparing the phase of a synchronizing signal of a reproduced video signal with the phase of an outside synchronizing signal for the vertical synchronizing interval. A phase modulation of either the outside synchronizing signal or the reproduced video signal responsive to the output of the first phase comparator means represents a detected phase difference. A second phase comparator means compares the phase of the rest of the outside synchronizing signal and the reproduced video signal with the phase of the output signal of the phase modulator means, for the horizontal synchronizing interval. The output of the second phase comparator means represents a detected jitter component corresponding to the distortion of the reproduced television picture. This output is utilized for effecting a correction of the jitter of the reproduced television picture.


To determine whether skin autofluorescence can help to detect those who have previously had abnormal glucose levels among women referred for diabetes during pregnancy.


The objective of this investigation was to assess the impact of multinational oil companies' (MOCs) corporate social responsibility (CSR) interventions in female education programmes in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A total of 800 rural women were sampled across the region. The results from the logit model showed that rural women depended on CSR interventions of MOCs to address some of the logistical and cultural challenges associated with women's access to post-secondary education in local communities. However, despite the significant success in supporting education initiatives generally, none of the scholarships target females specifically, and compared to men, the low level of human capital in rural women has persisted. This implies that, if CSR interventions are not tailored to enhance gender diversity and promote economic opportunities for women alongside education, they may perpetuate the obstruction of women's participation in economic, political and social development. By extension, this could delay the reduction of poverty and attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Niger Delta region.


0. Poetzl's now famous experiment, in which he observed the effect upon dream formation of tachistoscopic exposure of pictures to subjects during waking hours, has in recent years been resurrected and verified (cf. the work of Charles Fisher, et al. The relationship between experimentally induced dream images and indirect vision. Psychol. Issues, 1960, 2,41-120). His main contention was that dream images are largely formed of the incompletely developed percepts arising in the peripheral field of vision and not of the refined percepts of central vision. While Poetzl's main finding has now received adequate substantiation, he propounded another concIusion to which little attention has been paid. It was his assertion that the data of infantile and remote memories appearing in dreams are released through their connection with visual percepts which are prevented from achieving full developmenr, and which therefore remain in a nascent and primitive state. This statement, if verifiable, is rich in clinical and rheorerical import. It is true that the two factors which Poetzl has brought into association with each other are always prominent in dreams, wiz., the distorted, incomplete visual images and hyperamnesia. It is rather surprising that Poetzl's juxtaposing of the two has remained neglected despite the fact that theories of memory function consistently lay stress on ics relation to perceptual processes. The proposition opens many avenues of new investigai o n . For instance, the amnestic syndrome of the Korsakow psychosis is not thought of as associated with defects of the special senses (although peripheral sensibility is often impaired); it may be that disrurbances of the development of percepts are present in this disorder. Psychoanalytic observation lends some confirmation to Poetzl's theory that infantile memories are released through a supply of primitive visual percepts. Thus, if psychoanalytic patients undergo some temporary impairment of visual acuity, as, for example, during the intentional mydriasis required for an ophthalmologic examination, their productions for one or two analytic sessions are likely to deal almost exclusively with infantile material. If patients postpone, through resistance, dealing with current problems of great emotional significance, they keep themselves in conditions where visual acuity is poor. When the resistance is overcome and these patients attempt to deal with the pressing problems of current life, they place themselves in conditions of bright illumination and good visual acuity. As they again endeavor to comprehend a traumatic infantile situation and to recover the relevant memories, they place themselves anew in conditions of poor visual acuity. There is need of further clinical and experimental verification for Poerzl's important conclusion that memories of past life are bound u p with primitive visual percepts and that the two interact.


Volcanic textures are strongly related to magma ascent histories. Degassing of a volatile‐rich magma can drive plagioclase microlite growth on eruptive timescales, but such growth can be inhibited when ascent is sufficiently fast. Thus, the absence of microlites is used to determine the minimum ascent rates. However, open‐system processes, such as magma recharge, prior to decompression can also suppress microlite growth, possibly extending the timescales for ascent. Here, we explore the trade‐offs between degassing‐driven growth and reheating‐driven suppression of microlite formation. We develop a quantitative model on the basis of the chemical affinity that accounts for disequilibrium driving crystal growth or dissolution. We test decompression scenarios to understand how net‐crystallization varies with different pressure‐temperature ascent histories for the 2008 Chaitén eruption. Degassing‐driven growth and reheating‐driven dissolution are balanced for ascent rates of 0.002–0.006 MPa/s (∼0.08–0.25 m/s) from 200 MPa storage depth and reheating by 50 °C–70 °C, significantly reducing the minimum ascent rates.


The Topological Active Volumes (TAV) model (Barreira and Penedo, 2005) is a general active model focused on 3D segmentation tasks. It can also be used for the surface reconstruction and the topological analysis of the inner side of the detected objects. As any other deformable model, it defines a mesh and several energy functions. The minimisation of the energy functions moves the mesh towards the objects in the scene. The breaking of connections causes topological changes directed to the achievement of specific adjustments. This way, as well as improving the adjustment, the model is able to find several objects in the image and delimit holes in the structures detected. The TAV model achieves accurate results but the computational cost of the segmentation procedure is high. To reduce it, this paper proposes an optimisation of the model. It consists in performing local energy minimisations after the connection breaking process. This way, the execution times are reduced and the accuracy of the results is increased.


: Robust product recommendation enables internet platforms to boost their business. However, in practice, the user–product rating matrix often has many missing entries. Social network information generates new insights about user behaviors. To fully use such information, we develop a novel approach, called MCNet, that combines the random dot product graph model and low-rank matrix completion to recover missing entries in a user–product rating matrix. Our algorithm improves the accuracy and the efficiency of recovering the incomplete matrices. We study the asymptotic properties of the estimator. Furthermore, we perform extensive simula-tions and show that MCNet outperforms existing approaches, especially when the data have small signals. Moreover, MCNet yields robust estimation under misspec-ified models. We apply MCNet and its competitors to predict the missing entries in the user–product rating matrices of the Yelp and Douban movie platforms. The results show that, in general, MCNet gives the smallest testing errors among the comparative methods.


Cytokines regulate immune responses and direct the maituration, activation, and migration of inflammatory cells. The potency of cytokines at nanomolar concentrations and thleir profound biological activity cause serious side effects, such as vascular leak syndrome, orthostatic hypotension and profound malaise, which are often associated with systemic cytokine administration [3, 41. Additionally, the rapid degradation or elimination of cytokines delivered systernically can decrease their effectiveness [5, 61. An alternative means of cytokine delivery is the transfection of the cytokine gene into tumor or carrier cells that will express the cytokine at the primary tumor site, thereby closdy mimicking cytokine release in vivo and eventually targeting the anti-tumor response with minimal side effects. Observations in animal models have shown that the local production of various cytokines by either direct injection or by gene therapy can induce a strong anti-tumor response that results in long-lived immunity and, occasionally, in the abrogation of established tumors (see [7] and references therein).


The hindered amine-induced decomposition of polypropylene hydroperoxide was studied in the solid state and in the presence of a liquid solvent and the polymer was compared with model hydroperoxides. The high reactivity of the macrohydroperoxides appears to be related to the adjacent, hydrogen-bonded hydroperoxide groups that occur in the polymer. The hindered amines are converted to nitroxides in the reaction via hydroxylamine intermediates. Amine-induced decomposition of polypropylene hydroperoxide is faster in the absence of a liquid solvent for the amine than in the presence of the solvent, probably because of the strong amine-hydroperoxide association that occurs in the solid state. The decomposition process in the solid state is sufficiently rapid for the reaction to contribute to the effectiveness of hindered amines in the light stabilization of polymers.


susceptible to toxicity from neuroleptics and/or lith ium (Addomzio et a!, 1986; West & Meltzer, 1979). Case one was also dehydrated with hypernatraemia —¿ a treatable concominant. Leukocytosis is a non specific finding that may reflect recent lithium usage, stress and/or infection. This patient remained afebrile throughout and was appropriately treated with rehydration. In addition, the patient was not reported to have rigidity in the case study, despite indications of rigidity in the discussion. It is often difficult to evaluate whether certain physiological states are secondary to NMS or specific triggering factors. Case two had confusion with increased levels of creatine phosphokinase. His pulse, blood pressure and temperature were monitored, but no baseline values were given, and no neurological abnormality reported at the time of symptomatic treatment. Case two, the only patient with documented rigid ity and fever, was treated with diazepam. This patient was a 61-year-old male who received a total of 15 mg of haloperidol (750mg of chlorpromazine equivalents). In addition, he had cardiac disease, apparent pre-renal azotemia secondary to dehy dration, electrolyte imbalance and was eventually successfully rehydrated. The physiological con comitants of ageing were not kept in mind and one may question the dosage of neuroleptic in this frail individual. We can speculate that his fever was a coincidental occurrence in a dehydrated patient. He simply had extrapyramidal side-effects that were precipitated by neuroleptics. The main emphasis is that specific criteria and a precise delineation for the diagnosis of NMS remains controversial with some question as to the existence of a specific disorder. It would be unfortunate if pre occupation with the beguiling designation †̃¿ incipient NMS' or even the full blown phenomenon of NMS sidetracks or distorts our perception of what is really going on —¿ that is, in most cases, the concomitants of physical illness and, most importantly neuroleptic induced rigidity possibly associated with akathisia that is inadequately treated.


SARS-Cov-2 has infected more than three million people worldwide.[1] Its mortality rate of 3.4% is driven by lower respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia, septic shock, multiorgan failure, and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the latter being the most prevalent.[2] With constantly evolving research regarding its pathophysiology, possible treatment regimens, and trials for potential vaccines in progress, the field of medicine is subjected to new data concerning the current global pandemic. Cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) consists of uncontrolled systemic inflammation, vascular instability, multi-organ failure, and death.[3] Despite usually occurring in a younger population, CSS affects all age groups in COVID-19.[4] Patients with severe COVID-19 may present with CSS and develop secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH), which causes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).[5] A study was conducted in Wuhan, China on 41 COVID19 patients with a median age of 49 years. All critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (n=14) including those who died, recorded high levels of cytokines in their plasma, suggestive of CSS.(4) CSS illustrates elevated levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines including interleukin IL-6, IL-8, tumor necrosis factor-α, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). A similar cytokine surge was also observed in previous SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV epidemics.[6] CSS manifests an increase in biomarkers including erythematosus sedimentation rate (ESR), serum ferritin, liver enzymes, D-dimers, C-reactive protein (CRP), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels, which serve as a basis for its diagnosis. Lymphocytopenia with reduced NK cells and T cells accompanied with splenic atrophy has also been reported in severe COVID-19. Proportionally increased cytokine levels with COVID-19 severity sheds light through a different perspective on the management and treatment of the disease.[7] Moreover, cytokine surge is mediated by Cytokine Storm Syndrome, a potential cause of death in COVID-19 patients


Data availability is one of the traditional obstacles confronting researchers carrying out international empirical studies in accounting. In recent years several databases have claimed to offer comprehensive coverage of accounting and financial data of firms worldwide. We analyse whether the choice of database has an effect on the results of empirical studies. We find that the results of a simple empirical adaptation of the Ohlson (1995) model for fourteen member states of the European Union change significantly depending on the database chosen (Datastream, Global Vantage, Company Analysis, Worldscope, Thomson Financial, Financials and BvD Osiris). These differences are mainly attributable to differences in the samples across databases. When we match observations across all databases the differences persist but are much less pronounced. Our main conclusion is that database choice matters, as it leads to different results when the same research design is used.


Few diseases are extensively diffused as influenza, but though flu pandemics occur with regularity throughout history the bibliography is dominated by the 1918-1919 "Spanish influenza" pandemic. This review argues that this preoccupation is largely a product of historical epidemiology and retrospective statistical analysis which has made the Spanish flu the reference point against which other modern respiratory pandemics, including COVID-19, are measured—hence the Spanish flu's importance for the 21st century pandemic imaginary. The review identifies six distinct thematic areas within the historiography of H1N1 Spanish influenza. These include medical writings which attempt to read the history of the Spanish flu backwards to "learn" public health "lessons" for the mitigation of future pandemics, and ecological writings in which influenza is seen as the paradigm of an emerging infectious disease and a model for the genesis of epidemics and pandemics from zoonotic reservoirs. Scholarship since 1997 also reflects a growing interdisciplinarity, one in which bioarchaeology and molecular dating techniques have furnished new insights into the history of influenza and the Spanish flu's evolutionary origins, bringing the life sciences into closer dialogue with the medical and environmental humanities. These scientific insights have spurred both academic and popular writings on the Spanish flu, rendering its characterization as the "forgotten pandemic" something of an oxymoron. Indeed, if anything, the centenary of the Spanish flu in 2018 and the 2019-2023 COVID pandemic have provoked renewed interest in several of the themes identified in this review: including, most particularly, the writings of social historians of medicine, cultural historians, and disease demographers.


Stability-featured dynamic multi-path routing (SDMR) based on the existing Traffic engineering eXplicit Control Protocol (TeXCP) is proposed and evaluated for traffic engineering in terrestrial networks. SDMR abandons the sophisticated stability maintenance mechanisms of TeXCP, whose load balancing scheme is also modified in the proposed mechanism. SDMR is proved to be able to converge to a unique equilibria state, which has been corroborated by the simulations. key words: traffic engineering, multi-path routing, non-additive path cost, equilibria


In order to solve the problem of data acquisition from discretely installed energy meters in the implementation of electric energy information acquisition system, this paper presents a scheme using wireless communication mode to replace the cable wiring between the discretely installed energy meters and the acquisition system RS485 bus. After comprehensive consideration of factors of requirement of DL/T 645 communication protocol, design cost, communication reliability and mutual interference etc., a design scheme has been proposed, the realization of this wireless RS485 repeater can greatly reduce the on-site implementing difficulty of the electricity information acquisition system, thus speeds up the construction of electric energy information acquisition system.


A reactive rf-sputtering method is used for depositing polycrystalline (NiZn)Fe2O4 films. The relations between the magnetic properties of the ferrite films and the sputtering conditions are examined in detail. The best condition of rf-sputtering, under which the magnetization of the films as well as the bulks is obtained and the initial relative permeabilities amount to 50∼100 even in the frequency region over the Snoek's limit, is found. Finally, the way to improve the preparation of the films is discussed.


Introduction: The molecular pathways underlying the proliferative activity of adult cardiac myocytes and stem/progenitors in response to heart damage remain elusive. Since perturbing nitroso-redox balance in mice by genetic deletion of GSNOR (GSNOR-/-) confers resilience to experimental myocardial infarction (MI), we investigated whether GSNOR knockout influences the proliferative activity of the post-MI heart. Hypothesis: Knockout of GSNOR in mice enhances the proliferative expansion of CMs and cKit+ cardiac stem cells (CSCs) in response to MI. Methods: Wild-type (WT) and GSNOR-/-mice (n=5/ group) underwent experimental MI. To assess proliferative activity, animals received intraperitoneal injections of 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) at selected time-points during the first 2 weeks post-MI. Immunnohistochemical evaluation was performed 1 month post-MI. Results: Confocal immunofluorescence revealed that GSNOR-/- hearts exhibited higher rates of BrdU incorporation in CSCs after MI (10.9%±4.99 of WT CSCs compar...


The objectives of ER-2 Meteorological Measurement System (MMS) are: (1) to measure the meteorological parameters (pressure, temperature, and the three dimensional wind vector) accurately; (2) to provide high resolution data on atmospheric state variables and aircraft flight track to ER-2 investigators on a timely basis; and (3) to conduct collaborative research in atmospheric dynamics and chemistry. A summary of progress and results are presented.


and dealing with specific problems incurred by individuals as a result of the closeness required in marriage. Appearing in these sections, much too often to be given justice in a review, are the concepts, thoughts, and arguments that are most stimulating to explore and consider. Because the views of almost every analyst tend to be contradicted by an equally well-qualified analyst elsewhere in the book, the reader has an unusual opportunity to examine or pull together his own experience and opinions. Regardless of the reader's orientation, I am sure that he will be greatly stimulated by this book-by passages that irritate because they are too pat (a few) or by passages that provide a specific help to a problem he is dealing with professionally. Because this book was written by competent, practicing analysts, there is preoccupation also with the therapist-patient relationship in dealing with the patient's difficulties in effecting close interpersonal ties. Ian Alger explores subtly what it means to share authority as a therapist in joint sessions (two patients, two therapists), as well as the pressure it places on the therapist to be aware of his role and value system in the interaction between marital partners. This theme is explored in a number of ways in the other chapters. Although some of the classical analysts struggle with the fear of becoming a referee, something that has long ceased to be a problem for members of other professions working with marital and family groups, part of the content goes meaningfully into aspects of the therapist's role and is very helpful. Personally and professionally, I liked this book very much.


The dielectric function of inhomogeneous materials is composed of linear and nonlinear responses which are sensitive to the film microstructure as well as the intrinsic properties of the materials. We have developed a method to self-consistently determine the linear and non-linear contributions to the dielectric function of films with random microstructure. This method is based upon a numerical solution of the general electrostatic equations and is applicable to arbitrary shapes and orientations of model defects. This method provides near exact solutions to the linear response of the dielectric function. We have shown that the nonlinear part of the dielectric function is extremely sensitive to the void shape and void fraction.


The soft x-ray transmission microscope XM-1 was used to examine the alkali-silica reaction, a deleterious reaction that produces expansion in some concrete structures. Reactions of silica gel in alkaline solutions (pH⩾12.4) in the presence of pore solution cations (Na+, Ca++) and a chemical additive (CaCl2) were observed, and the morphology of the reaction products were examined to investigate the mechanisms of expansion and expansion control. From the investigation of the effect of pore solution cations, it was found that reactive silica combined with alkalis present in the pore solution to produce a reaction gel capable of swelling, while the reaction of silica in the presence of calcium ions alone resulted in the formation of a nonswelling product—calcium silicate hydrate. Reaction of the silica gel in the presence of CaCl2 also resulted in the formation of calcium silicate hydrate.


A red-white coloring of a nontrivial connected graph G of diameter d is an assignment of red and white colors to the vertices of G where at least one vertex is colored red. Associated with each vertex v of G is a d-vector, called the code of v, whose ith coordinate is the number of red vertices at distance i from v. A red-white coloring of G for which distinct vertices have distinct codes is called an identification coloring or ID-coloring of G. A graph G possessing an ID-coloring is an ID-graph. The minimum number of red vertices among all ID-colorings of an ID-graph G is the identification number or ID-number of G. A caterpillar is a tree of order 3 or more, the removal of whose leaves produces a path. A caterpillar possessing an ID-coloring is an ID-caterpillar. In this note, we characterize all ID-caterpillars, determine all possible values of the ID-numbers of ID-caterpillars, and show that each value is realizable.


The Brazilian path to political emancipation that culminated two centuries ago was a rather peculiar one. After becoming the head of the Portuguese empire in 1808, Brazil became an independent country under the rule of the same royal family that governed the colony. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the Brazilian independence did not entail a delinking from Portugal, due to which the Brazilian Western identity was taken for granted. We will also discuss how this absence of delinking had consequences in the long run. Despite the Brazilian colonial past, several intellectuals and foreign policymakers assumed the Brazilian Western identity and made disdainful and hostile comments when writing on the Afro-Asian decolonization process.


The purpose of this research is to explore the structure and rationale of nurture groups currently running in secondary schools. Research in this area is limited and little is currently known about how these groups run. Thus this exploratory research examines the potentially highly varied approaches to nurture in Key Stage 3 in six schools across a large shire county in the south-east of England. A sequential mixed methods design was used to gather quantitative data about the structure of these groups and in-depth semi-structured interviews were carried out to gauge staff perception of the rationale behind them.
The findings indicate that all participating schools have developed their own NG model in response to the needs of their most vulnerable pupils and the needs of the school organisation leading to great variation in the NG approach. Despite differences between the approaches, some aspects of the structure and rationale of secondary school NGs were consistently raised by participants as important considerations. The more complex organisational structures and needs of adolescent pupils require a more flexible and age-appropriate approach to nurture at KS3 and beyond. Further development of an appropriate model is required with a particular focus on developing communication systems, selection and assessment processes to monitor impact and embedding the nurture approach within the wider school context.
This research has some potentially important implications for Educational Psychologists (EPs) with regard to supporting school transition work, delivery of training and implementation of appropriate intervention for pupils with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD) in mainstream settings.


Malware is the most critical threat among other cybersecurity threats because it could be a disaster for any organization, its resources, and operations. Due to non-compliance with adequate cybersecurity, SMEs are more vulnerable to malware attacks. Malware attacks can be known or unknown. SMEs must comply with adequate cybersecurity infrastructure to detect and mitigate these malware attacks. To the best of our knowledge, there is a limited study in the literature on finding the limitations of adopting cybersecurity infrastructure for malware detection and mitigation in Malaysian SMEs. In this paper, the factors have reviewed that influence the implementation of the cybersecurity infrastructure. These factors are further categorized into organizational, technical, and environmental challenges. A conceptual model for malware mitigation is designed based on the literature review findings. Furthermore, to design the proposed model, the most relevant theories, TOE (Technology, Organization, and Environment) and TAM (Technology Acceptance Model), are incorporated based on the literature review finding. This paper aims to propose a preliminary model for adopting technical cybersecurity infrastructure and mitigating malware threats in SMEs.


Herein, we describe the first transition metal-free catalytic carboalkoxylation of styrenes with aryldiazonium salts by Meerwein addition in the presence of a phenalenyl ligand (PLY) at room temperature without requiring any light stimulation. This three- component reaction allows facile di-functionalization of styrene derivatives with various alcohols (like 1°, 2° and 3°) as the source of alkoxy group during this transformation. The key intermediates and the transition states involved in this reaction path were unraveled by a series of control experiments coupled with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The full mechanistic investigations provide an understanding of the selectivity towards carboalkoxylation (Meerwein arylation addition-elemination) in presence of various alcohols over the simple arylation to multiple bond (Meerwein arylation elemination) reaction.


X-ray emission from a 2.3–5.3kJ Mather-type plasma focus [Phys. Fluids 7, 5 (1964)] employing copper, molybdenum, and tungsten anode tip is studied. Argon is used as a working gas. Characteristic CuKα and Mo K-series emission and their ratio to the continuous x-rays are determined. From the variation of the x-ray yield data with filling pressure at different charging voltages, scaling laws are obtained. X-ray pinhole images demonstrate that a significant amount of x-ray emission is from the anode tip. The comparison of the ratio of characteristic to continuum radiation for copper anode with typical x-ray tube data reveals that the contribution of very high energy electron beam from the focus region for x-ray generation through thick target bremsstrahlung mechanism is not significant. Rather, electrons with energy of the order of, or even less than, the charging voltage are responsible for bulk of the x-ray emission.


According to present dynamic simulation performance of 3D Graphics software which is not very prominent,the development of a 3D simulation software based on OpenGL and VC++ 6.0 in the platform of Windows is introduced.The three dimensional modeling is first established using Pro/E,then the STL document format is preserved,reread and line-face features rebuilt in the simulation software,and the STL document's read process is introduced in detail.Based on the idea of independence,a dynamic simulation method which is more real-time and fluent than the popular 3D design software is improved.At last a dynamic assembly simulation example is provided-reducer's dynamic assembly process introduced in the simulation software.


In the present paper, we report an extremely large change in a static dipole moment and polarizability observed in oriented J-aggregates of l,l'-diethyl-2,2'-quinocyanine bromide [pseudoisocyanine bromide (PIC-Br)] by electromodulation spectroscopy.<<ETX>>


The body cavity region contains organs and is an essential region for skeletal muscle segmentation. This study proposes a method to segment body cavity regions using U-Net with focus on the oblique abdominal muscles. The proposed method comprises two steps. First, the body cavity is segmented using U-Net. Subsequently, the abdominal muscles are identified using recognition techniques. This is achieved by removing the segmented body cavity region from the original computerized tomography (CT) images to obtain a simplified CT image for training. In this image, the visceral organ regions are masked by the body cavity; ensuring that the organs therein are excluded from the segmentation target in advance which has been a primary concern in the conventional method of skeletal muscle segmentation. The segmentation accuracies of the body cavity and oblique abdominal muscle in 16 cases were 98.50% and 84.89%, respectively, in terms of the average dice value. Furthermore, it was observed that body cavity information reduced the number of over-extracted pixels by 36.21% in the segmentation of the oblique abdominal muscles adjacent to the body cavity, improving the segmentation accuracy. In future studies, it could be beneficial to examine whether the proposed simplification of CT images by segmentation of body cavities is also effective for abdominal musculoskeletal muscles adjacent to body cavities divided by tendon ends, such as the rectus abdominis.


Ultrasensitive and accurate detection of tumor markers is of vital importance for the screening or diagnosis of cancers at their early stages and for monitoring cancer relapse after surgical resection. Inorganic lanthanide (Ln3+) nanoparticles (NPs), owing to their superior physicochemical characteristics, are regarded as a new generation of luminescent nano‐bioprobes in the field of cancer diagnosis and therapy. In this progress report, a focus is set on our recent efforts on the development of inorganic Ln3+‐NPs as efficient luminescent nano‐bioprobes for the ultrasensitive in vitro biodetection of tumor markers, with an emphasis on the dissolution‐enhanced luminescent bioassay (DELBA), an emerging technique recently developed toward practical medical applications.


STO-3G equilibrium geometries for methoxy ethene, 1–1-dimethoxy ethene, their thio analogs as well as for the corresponding C-protonated species are reported. The carbenium ion stabilizing abilities of methoxy and thiomethoxy groups are discussed in terms of calculated proton affinities.


This paper presents a model for simulating traffic operations on wide area planning networks. The model is capable of applying simulation models of varying fidelity to different parts of a single network. A high fidelity microscopic model, which requires more detailed input, greater care in data preparation and greater computational resources, can be applied to areas of particular interest while modeling their surrounding regions with less detail-oriented, more aggregate mesoscopic and macroscopic models. With such a hybrid approach to traffic simulation, a wide area network can be modeled in a way that balances the need for accuracy with the need for computational efficiency and timely application. A case study using a planning network for Las Vegas, Nevada, is conducted both to demonstrate the feasibility of the hybrid model and to identify trends in running time and output statistics between the various models. First, microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic models are applied individually to the network. Second, the network is simulated with a hybrid model application. The paper is concluded with a comparison of run times and various output statistics between the various models. This comparison shows that hybrid traffic simulation is a feasible and effective way of modeling wide area networks, but that the various methods of aggregating traffic flow in the models can have a profound impact on the simulated throughput. More specifically, the lower fidelity mesoscopic and macroscopic models tend to estimate significantly greater throughput and lower overall delay than does the microscopic model.


Forced and spontaneous imbibition of water is performed to displace oil from strongly water-wet Gray Berea (~130 mD) and Bentheimer (~1900 mD) sandstone core plugs. Two nonpolar oils (n-heptane and Marcol-82) were used as a non-wetting phase, with viscosities between 0.4 and 32 cP and brine (1 M NaCl) for the wetting phase with viscosity 1.1 cP. Recovery was measured for both imbibition modes, and pressure drop was measured during forced imbibition. Five forced imbibition tests were performed using low or high injection rates, using low or high oil viscosity. Seventeen spontaneous imbibition experiments were performed at four different oil viscosities. By varying the oil viscosity, the injection rate and imbibition modes, capillary and advective forces were allowed to dominate, giving trends that could be captured with modeling. Full numerical simulations matched the experimental observations consistently. The findings of this study provide better understanding of pressure and recovery behavior in strongly water-wet systems. A strong positive capillary pressure and a favorable mobility ratio resulting from low water relative permeability were main features explaining the observations. Complete oil recovery was achieved at water breakthrough during forced imbibition for low and high oil viscosity and the recovery curves were identical when plotted against the injected volume. Analytical solutions for forced imbibition indicate that the pressure drop changes linearly with time when capillary pressure is negligible. Positive capillary forces assist water imbibition, reducing the pressure drop needed to inject water, but yielding a jump in pressure drop when the front reaches the outlet. At a high injection rate, capillary forces are repressed and the linear trend between the end points was clearer than at a low rate for the experimental data. Increasing the oil viscosity by a factor of 80 only increased the spontaneous imbibition time scale by five, consistent with low water mobility constraining the imbibition rate. The time scale was predicted to be more sensitive to changes in water viscosity. At a higher oil-to-water mobility ratio, a higher part of the total recovery follows the square root of time. Our findings indicate that piston-like displacement of oil by water is a reasonable approximation for forced and spontaneous imbibition, unless the oil has a much higher viscosity than the water.


Abstract The use of a phase space transformation chopper for a new backscattering spectrometer, planned for the FRM II reactor in Munich, is discussed. It will be shown that a phase space transformation increases the neutron flux at the desired backscattering energy. The gain will be compared with a normal super mirrored neutron guide system.


textabstractAn overview will be presented about applications of stable isotopes in paediatric
research. Mass spectrometry has proven to be an essential tool for unravelling
kinetic studies in a large range of different research disciplines related to
intestinal diseases, obesities, severe cerebral palsy, oxidative stress and foetal
metabolism. Due to the diversity and complexity of the different metabolites
involved in these studies, there is a high demand on sophisticated mass
spectrometric instruments. Several new methods have been developed for measurement
of isotopic labelled compounds in body fluids. 13C isotopic glucose enrichment in
human plasma is analysed, using liquid chromatography isotope ratio mass
spectrometry (LC/IRMS). Also new methods were developed for measuring the
glutathione (GSH) fractional synthesis rate (FSR) in neonates after infusion of
[1-13C]glycine as a tracer. For measuring energy expenditure and total body water
composition in humans the doubly labelled water method is valuable technique. It
usually involves blood or urine sampling, which might be difficult in neonates and
children with cerebral palsy or other disabilities. We therefore aimed to validate a
method making use of saliva samples analyzed by automated thermal conversion
elemental analyzer in combination with isotope ratio mass spectrometry (TC/EA/IRMS).
The different types of mass spectrometric instruments will be discussed here as well
as several applications in paediatric research utilizing these techniques. The
applications cover amino acid metabolism and body composition, energy expenditure,
and the synthesis of specific proteins such as glutathione and albumin in different
groups of children and even in foetuses. Finally, the aims and outline of this
dissertation are covered.


The field test in well SH-1 fully demonstrated that the aerated drilling fluid treated with aluminum complex polymer compound possesses good cutting carrying and borehole wall stabilizing capacity and easily to be aerated and de-aerated.Compared with routine drilling technology,the drilling with aerated drilling fluid can increase penetration rate by 30%~50%.Meanwhile the simultaneous aerating and lighting was successfully realized that correctly responds the requirements of under-balance drilling technology.


Although the pathophysiology of migraines is multifactorial, one proposed strategy for new migraine medications is the use of drugs with a high


Since de early seventies a number of technical sanitation alternatives were proposed to clean the wastewaters of the Bogota River. However, mainly for economic reasons, they were not implemented. It was only until the early nineties that the administration of the city of Bogota decided to adopt a strategy for the sanitation of the River, and a concession contract for the construction and operation of a series of treatment plants was signed in 1994. However, the decision was not the result of judicious analysis and it ignored the results of previous technical studies and evaluations. The treatment plants began operations at the end of 2000. In 2003 the city´s administration decided, at a high cost for the city, to terminate that concession contract. This decision was justified based on the limited benefits and high costs of the sanitation project. This case study analyses how this project which was financially and technically indefensible was eventually be implemented. For this purpose the analytical framework of the WDR 2003 is used.


The purpose of this study was to determine whether the pathogenicity of Eimeria tenella (E. tenella) can be attenuated by formaldehyde and to determine the concentration of formaldehyde that is most effective for attenuation of E. tenella in featuring cecal macrocopic and microscopic (lesion score). Twenty five chickens at three weeks old were divided randomly into five treatment groups. The first group (P0) is chicken group was inoculated with 0% formaldehyde soaked E. tenella at 1 x 104 doses as a control, the four groups (P1; P2, P3 and P4) were inoculated 0.15%, 0.3%, 0.6% and 1.2% of formaldehyde soaked E. tenella at same doses, respectively. On the fifth day post infection, all chicken groups were sacrificed to observe featuring cecal macrocopic and microscopic. The results showed that formaldehyde can be used to attenuate E. tenella pathogenicity by featuring cecal macrocopic and microscopic (lesion score). There was significantly difference among formaldehyde concentrations in attenuation of E. tenella pathogenicity. The most effective formaldehyde concentration in attenuation of E. tenella pathogenicity was 1.2%.


Thulium (Tm)-doped fiber lasers, which operate at 1.9–2.1μm, are emerging as the latest revolution in high-power fiber laser technology.1 Although no laser is completely safe for for human eyes, this technology falls into the 'eye-safer' category, promising advantages over 1μm lasers for industrial and military directed-energy applications. The potential for scaling up the power in pulses is beginning to be realized, with peak powers now approaching 100kW without requiring excessively complicated fiber designs or sacrificing beam quality.2 Until recently, most advances in fiber laser technology focused on ytterbium (Yb)-doped fibers operating around 1μm. Two factors account for much of the success of these lasers. First, the materials can be very efficient because the transfer of energy between atomic energy levels can be very efficient (in other words, this materials system has a low quantum defect). Second, there are many high-brightness pump sources at 915–975nm. These factors allow high-efficiency operation and low thermal loading of the fiber. As a result, Yb-doped fiber lasers have now been scaled in power to above 3kW with near-diffraction-limited beam quality.3 Ytterbium-sensitized erbium (Er:Yb) fibers operating at ∼1.55μm have been the traditional choice for eye-safer fiber laser applications. Progression of the technology has been aided by the abundance of fiber components and test instruments at this wavelength, which were primarily developed for the telecommunications industry. Although the quantum defect for such a system indicates that efficiencies approaching 60% should be possible, very few demonstrations have topped 40%, and power scaling is hindered by an effect called back conversion.4 Figure 1 compares the progress of Yb-doped lasers at 1μm, Er:Yb-doped fibers at 1.5μm, and 2μm Tm-doped fiber laser technology. It shows that the power scaling of Tm-doped Figure 1. Comparison of power scaling from a single-fiber laser at various wavelengths. In the past 5 years, power output from ytterbium (Yb)-doped fiber lasers has increased dramatically. Improvements for thulium (Tm)-doped fiber are more recent. Er: Erbium.


Pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia of the breast is a rare benign disease, which was described by Vuitch in 1986. The etiology is not clear, but an hormon...


Introduction:  Smoking is the most important risk factor for morbidity and mortality in hospital patients. Patient contact with the healthcare system should include smoking cessation counselling. Emergency admissions are seldom given this opportunity.


University students' exam cheating is a global phenomenon that exists almost in every country. Its effect has been long-lasting and catastrophic in many instances and its impediment for growth is largely looming. This study attempted to investigate students' exam cheating Ambo University, Civics and Ethical Studies Department, second year students. The findings show that, out of the total of sixty students in the class ten of them did attempt to cheat on the observed exam. The attempts had different forms including trying to copy from others; referring to notes and texts through cell phones. However after intervention the level of cheating has significantly been reduced. Only two students were alleged to have attempted to cheat during the exam and one of them was caught, not because of credible evidence for his cheating, rather simply to deter other potential cheaters. Rightly so, no other student was observed while attempting to cheat after this alleged cheater was caught. ________________________________________________ Key terms: University students, Cheating on Examinations, Reducing Cheating


In Trujillo, a norther city from Peru, the number of fire hydrants is currently 497; only 10% are working out in the center of this city. Faced with this situation, the firefighters do not attend in optimum time the various emergencies happen, making possible the increase of material damages and victims due to the lack of water supply caused by the inoperativeness hydrants and also a non-optimum distribution. In this research, a network of hydrants was strategically located through the design and output of a genetic algorithm, GA. There are many solutions, and only one individual must be selected, the most efficient. It was evaluated by the fitness function about the length from a common point to others where the hydrants are, and the best solution was determined by applying genetic operators like crossover and mutation, which means the location points of the hydrants on the map of the city. The result shows a very good solution for a hydrant network; in addition, the number of hydrants that make up the network with the average distance of the network that reduce the time to attend an emergency. The result shows a very good solution for a hydrant network; the number of hydrants that make up the network with the average distance of the network reduces the time to attend an emergency. It will be useful to redistribute the hydrants for better locations.


American. Born in Kohlapur, India, August 2, 1863, to missionary parents, Royal Gould and Eliza Jane Wilder. In 1875 the family moved to Princeton, New Jersey, because of his father's poor health. After attending preparatory schools in New Jersey and Massachusetts, Robert entered the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1881, where he helped to organize the Princeton Foreign Missionary Society in 1883. Following graduation in 1886, he attended revivalist D. L. Moody's summer Bible conference at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, where one hundred students signed a pledge to become foreign missionaries. This event laid the ground-work for the rise of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and its famous motto, "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation."

Keywords:

Wilder, Robert Parmelee (1863–1938);
"the evangelization of the world in this generation";
the student volunteer movement for foreign missions


An advanced, general-purpose architecture has been employed in the design and implementation of a next-generation spectroscopy acquisition and analysis platform. The major design goals for the architecture were portability across multiple 'high-end' computing platforms, extensibility to new spectroscopy hardware and analysis/reporting applications, and seamless operation within a distributed network environment. By employing modern software engineering principles (e.g., adherence to industry standards, object-oriented design, etc.), the key design goals were achieved in an effective, high-performance, portable spectroscopy computing environment.<<ETX>>


To support the smooth running of a VM/370 installation, performance measurements of various types are desirable. This paper describes a range of measurement facilities that have been developed for VM/370 for use both on-line and off-line at the level of the user (general user, operation, and system analyst) and the installation management.


This paper evaluates the potential benefits of applying an object-based approach to hardware/software codesign. We analyse the support provided for the principles of object orientation by the PARSE codesign specification notation and the VHDL hardware synthesis notation. An algorithm which translates from PARSE to VHDL is then presented and then demonstrated through a mobile phone hand-set case study.


A power electronic inverter is developed for a high-frequency induction heating application. The application requires high power for induction melting process of the electric furnace. This power-frequency product represents a significant challenge for today's power semiconductor technology. Voltage source and current source inverters both using ZCS and ZVS are analyzed and compared. To attain the level of performance required, different resonant topologies will compare and analyze.


The use of user telemetry to gather player behavioral data on video games can be very beneficial to game developers with a certain business model. With the help of user telemetry in game development, it can provide access to data on user behavior from installed game clients platform such as Steam. These behavioral data can be used to find out the Steam user behavioral patterns on playtime distributions that can be studied by developers in order to have a deeper understanding of the behaviors of their players. In this study, the data are clustered using the k-prototypes algorithm, a combination of k-means and k-modes algorithm that can be used to cluster mixed attributes. The result shows that the clusters represent the types and preferences of the players.


Act No. 38 Year 2014 on Nursing explains many things related to Nursing Act, in which one of them is the nurse's duties and authorities. As a qualified nurse, understanding nurse's duties and authorities based on the Act No. 38 Year 2014 in conducting nursing practice are required to create and improve optimal services and health developments. This research aims to find out the vocational nurses' perception about nurse's duties and authorities based on the Law No.38 Year 2014 on Nursing. This research refers to quantitative research with descriptive study and cross-sectional approach. Sampling technique used in this research was proportional random sampling with total number of respondents 180 by using questionnaire. Questionnaire A had 8 questions and questionnaire B had 21 questions. The vocational nurses' understanding about nurse's duties based on the Act No.38 Year 2014 on nursing at RSUD Tugurejo in the poor category is 136 people (75.6%), and the understanding about nurse's authorities based on the Law No.38 Year 2014 on nursing at RSUD Tugurejo in the poor category is 110 people (61.1%). Based on the finding of the research, it is recommended for the nurses to provide more understanding and knowledge about their duties and authorities based on the Act No.38 Year 2014 on nursing act.
Key words: Nurse, Act, Duty, Authoritity, Vocational Nurse.
Bibliography: 49 (1998-2017)


INTRODUCTION Scoliosis is a disease of spinal deformity accompanied by deformation of costal bones. Some researchers[1] suppose that the difference between left and right costal bones lengths cause the scoliosis in some case of AIS (Adolescent Idiopathic scoliosis). This paper measured the lengths of left and right ribs of 5 scoliosis subjects and 3 healthy subjects. These geometrical data are gotten by 3-D reconstruction of CT images. CAD software executed the measurement of 3-D length of the ribs.


Usine d'Electricite de Metz (France) is currently involved in a vast telecontrol project for its high and medium voltage power networks. The originality of the operation lies in the overall approach to the problem, with the integration, during requirement analyses, of aspects relating to telecontrol, control support and maintenance, service quality management and network scheduling, so as to ensure that the information system will have maximum coherence and pertinence. The connection of oscilloperturbographs to the telecontrol system was envisaged during the functional study of control support (SCADA/DMS). (3 pages)


Quality, teaching and assessment in early childhood are often steeped in developmental logic and narrow understandings of teaching and learning. Pedagogy situated in agency and complexity disrupts these taken-for-granted narratives and offers multiple ways of teaching, learning and doing. In this article, the authors offer an example of these pedagogies through daily plans. Daily plans are a process of mark-making, deep listening and engagement with children's theories of their everyday worlds. Further, they illustrate a reciprocal relationship between child and teacher, co-participating in learning and teaching. Through daily plans, children engage as capable, pedagogical intentions are made visible, and the complexity of teaching and learning is realized.


This study investigates the theoretical-methodological construction of the curriculum, understanding itself as an essential item to the human education, and analyzing  how much it becomes weaponized by external euro-americanized dogmas and precepts, causing distortions and the erasing of the ones historically subordinated to the estabilishment thinking. It is a qualitative and theoretical-analytical research. In this perspective, the decolonial studies (BERNARDINO-COSTA AND GROSFOGUEL 2016), (QUIJANO, 2002), (BALLESTRIN, 2013), (QUINTERO et al, 2019), as well as those that refer to an educational curriculum, were  the basis of this research. Furthermore, in a curriculum post-critical view,  relying on the theorists (VEIGA NETO, 2002; 2005), (GOODSON, 2010), (MACEDO, 2012); in another theoretical instance, called critical interculturality, established in decolonial studies, WALSH (2009; 2009a; 2019), Candau (2008; 2010; 2011) were references. Furthermore, it has as its foundation on the following research problem: how did the theoretical-methodological construction of the knowledge field, called curriculum, accentuated the exclusion of subordinate subjects, relegating them to secondary plans, when it comes to education?


Abstract— One hour after MDL 72145 ((E)‐2‐(3′,4′‐dimethoxyphenyl)‐3‐fluoroallylamine) (2·5 mg kg−1) was given by intraperitoneal injection, the semicarbazide‐sensitive amine oxidase (SSAO) activity of rat aorta and brown adipose tissue measured in‐vitro was reduced by more than 95% of its control value, whereas the monoamine oxidase (MAO‐A) activity remained virtually unaffected. The action of this drug on amine oxidases in the liver at this dose was less selective. The in‐vitro effect of MDL 72145 on the soluble enzyme diamine oxidase from rat intestine was 100 fold less potent than that of semicarbazide but about equipotent with semicarbazide on sheep plasma amine oxidase. Overall MDL 72145 was selectively more active against membrane bound SSAO enzymes that deaminate primary monoamines. Although MDL 72145 does inhibit MAO‐B activity these results suggest that this compound may be used to study the effect of selective inhibition of SSAO activity on the pharmacological responses of appropriate preparations invitro.