The secoond Decade of Epics in Book of Poetry tells a colourful myth,which is indeed the only case in the book.People,however,have invariably been trying to interpret it in the light of "humanity "and "general rule".As a result,people have invariably failed to gain correct understanding of its import,and it has been a myth people have failed to understand.The author of this essay has found that the import of the story will become clear to us if we bear in mind the point that it is a myth.In rdality,the actual birth of Hou Ji was "when the birds flew away";the process of "the birds warming it with their wings"was actually the process of the birds hatching the eggwhat Jiang Yuan had borne was only an egg.God,displeased whit Jiang's sacrifice,had her bear such an egg,and,again and again,tried to abandon it .This is what the first three chapters of the Second Decade of Epics rdally mean.


This paper expounds the necessity of self-created characteristic database in university library, expounds the principles that constructing the characteristic database should follow and the problem of subject selection, and advances some suggestions on creating the characteristic database in the future.


Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute and Einstein Institute for Aging Research, New York, NY, United States, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Einstein-Sinai Diabetes Research Center (ES-DRC), Fleischer Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism (FIDAM), Montefiore University Hospital, New York, NY, United States, 3 International Translational Research and Medical Education Academic Research Unit (ITME), Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, "Federico II" University, Naples, Italy, Center for Innovation and Stimulation of Drug Discovery (CISTIM), Leuven, Belgium, 5 Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Signaling, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 7 Advanced Center of Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas y Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Network for the Study of High-Lethality Cardiopulmonary Diseases (REECPAL), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Experimental Medicine, Laboratory for Technologies of Advanced Therapies (LTTA), University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care and Research, Cotignola, Italy


As a generalization of the notion of measure, valuations have long played a central role in the integral geometry of convex sets. In recent years there has been a series of striking developments. Several examples were presented at this meeting, e.g. the work of Bernig and Fu on the integral geometry of groups acting transitively on the unit sphere, that of Hug and Schneider on kinematic and Crofton formulas for tensor valued valuations and a series of results by Ludwig and Reitzner on classifications of affine invariant notions of surface areas and of convex body valued valuations. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 52B45, 52A22, 53C65. Introduction by the Organisers The workshop Valuations and Integral Geometry, organized by Semyon Alesker, Andreas Bernig, and Franz Schuster was held from January 17th to January 23rd, 2010. The meeting was attended by 16 participants working in different areas such as convex and differential geometry or geometric measure theory. The program involved 3 lecture series by Fu, Ludwig, and Reitzner as well as several one hour and shorter lectures built around them. Some highlights of the program will be described in the following. In a 3 hour lecture series, Joseph Fu presented intriguing recent results about the product and convolution structures on the space of continuous translation invariant valuations. This new algebraic machinery has been the key tool for a fuller understanding of the kinematic formulas for groups acting transitively on the unit sphere obtained by Alesker, Bernig, and Fu. Fu described in detail 142 Oberwolfach Report 04/2010 the hermitian case and presented a mysterious conjecture concerning the integral geometry in complex space forms. In a related vein, Judit Abardia presented her joint work with Eduardo Gallego and Gil Solanes on the integral geometry in complex space forms. Some starting points for an integral geometry in Hermitian symmetric spaces were discussed by Hiroyuki Tasaki. Daniel Hug gave a very clear talk about kinematic formulas for tensor valuations which he recently obtained in a joint work with Rolf Schneider. Rolf Schneider talked about zonoids and Crofton formulas in Minkowski spaces, and Wolfgang Weil about translative kinematic formulas. Closely related to these developments is a generalization of the notion of valuations to smooth manifolds which was explained by Semyon Alesker in an impromptu evening lecture. On a different line of research, Monika Ludwig gave an extremely interesting 3 hour lecture series about her characterizations of convex body valued valuations compatible with affine transformations. These results are deeply connected with the theory of isoperimetric inequalities. Here, the valuation point of view has shed new light on some classical affine isoperimetric inequalities which were shown to hold for larger classes of valuations by Haberl and Schuster. These inequalities have led to new affine Lp Sobolev inequalities and an affine symmetrization principle presented in a one hour lecture by Christoph Haberl. Matthias Reitzner gave a 3 hour lecture series on his joint work with Monika Ludwig concerning their breakthrough in the characterization of upper semicontinuous SL(n) invariant valuations. Their results classified both of the classical SL(n) invariant notions of affine surface area affine surface area and centro-affine surface area which date back to Blaschke's school of affine differential geometry. In fact, all of the Lp affine surface areas introduced by Lutwak in early 1990's were completely characterized. The program of the workshop also involved several excellent talks by young researchers. Thomas Wannerer spoke about his extension of Ludwig's characterization of the projection operator, one of the key concepts introduced by Minkowski for the study of projections of convex bodies. Andy Tsang gave a talk about his work on valuations defined on Lp function spaces, which presents a particularly exciting new area in the theory of valuations. Gautier Berck presented joint work with Juan-Carlos Alvarez on the use of Crofton formulas in the metrisability problem on Finsler manifolds. Gil Solanes spoke about Crofton and Gauss-Bonnet formulas which are invariant under the action of the Mobius group.


Freud used a spatial model of mental organization, derived from his explanation of aphasia, as an organizing framework for psychoanalytic theory. He introduced the ideas of representation and overdetermination to describe relationships of the contents of systems that were joined to form, first, a hierarchical nervous system, then, mental systems. Freud used his basic model to organize aspects of mental function and phenomena, of interpersonal and social phenomena and some kinds of biological phenomena. His accounts of "metapsychology" and clinical psychoanalysis are similar to his description of the basic aphasia/nervous system model. Across the boundaries of mental systems, translation of the contents of one system led to their being represented in another. Subsequent editing and translation account for many properties of the systems. Repeating these operations and combining relatively simple relationships led to mental complexity. Freud described a mind that was a hierarchical structure of agencies, functions and fantasy organizations. This model unifies the more abstract aspects of the theory and its clinical applications. The mind pictured by Freud's psychoanalysis is the self-reflecting mind and the mental activity of an analyst and of a patient in analysis. "We know two kinds of things about what we call our psyche (or mental life): firstly, its bodily organ and scene of action, the brain (or nervous system) and, on the other hand, our acts of consciousness, which are immediate data and cannot be further explained by any sort of description. Everything that lies between is unknown to us, and the data do not include any direct relation between these two terminal points of our knowledge." Freud, S. (1940a [1938], p. 144). 1 1. Earlier versions of this paper were presented to The Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, 12 March 1988; to the Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine as the Sandor Rado Lecture, 7 June 1988; to The Psychoanalytic Institute at New York University as the Maurice R. Friend Lecture, 12 October 1989. The author wishes to express his gratitude to the many thoughtful colleagues who have given discussions, criticisms and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. I am especially grateful to Drs. Gerald I. Fogel, Donald M. Kaplan and Roy Schafer for their patient, challenging and detailed responses to various drafts. In addition to his comments on the paper, Dr. Otto Kernberg helped to clarify the German texts. "There is a straight ladder from the atom to the grain of sand, and the only real mystery in physics is the missing rung. Below it, particle physics; above it, classical physics; but in between, metaphysics. All the mystery in life turns out to be this same mystery, the join between things which are distinct and yet continuous, body and mind, free will and fate, living cells and life itself; the moment before the foetus." Stoppard, T. (1989, p. 37). It is well-known that Freud's topographical theory in the Interpretation of Dreams (Freud, 1900) shows the influence of his neurological background. Less familiar until recently is the fact that many of his later clinical formulations retain both the structure and, at times, the language of his early work, On Aphasia (Freud, 1891). (See also, Edelheit, 1969, 1978; Stengel, 1954.) In that monograph, Freud discussed the way the periphery of the body is represented in the brain. He then elaborated and extended this idea to give a complex picture of the formation of words, objects and their associations. In this way, he created a model derived from the spatial or topographical arrangements of the nervous system which he used as one of the organizing frameworks of psychoanalytic theory. The schematic spatial arrangements of the nervous system were the source of Freud's spatial images of the mental apparatus, occasional diagrams and his diagrammable descriptions of mental relationships. Although Freud used other models and organizing concepts (see Grossman, 1986), and although there are aspects of psychoanalytic theory that do not fit neatly into this model, it seems to me to be a particularly important one. This model provides a thread of recurrently recognizable organization leading through a labyrinth of diverse conceptualizations. The fact that a basic model, with some variations, can be used to organize at least some aspects of mental function and phenomena, some aspects of interpersonal and social phenomena and some kinds of biological phenomena gives the theory cohesion and flexibility over a wide and complex range. In the discussion to follow, I shall try to show how the organization of mental function called "metapsychology" is derived from the basic aphasia/nervous system model. In Freud's On Aphasia, the model served to explain how sensory information is organized in the brain and then in mental functions. This framework provided the template for a later picture of mental organization that could be used eventually to fit the clinical theories about the minds of analyst and patient in the analytic situation. Freud's use of a single model was reflected in the use of the same term to refer to a series of related phenomena. This is one reason that Freud's terminology is imprecise, as critics have observed. Terms such as identification, narcissism, masochism, repression require the specifications of primary and secondary in an effort to deal with the ambiguities. The point is that the use of the same imprecise term for related, though different, concepts is one key to the system Freud was constructing. It indicates that essential properties were present in a number of different contexts. The meaning of general or ambiguous terms became more specific in each context. The use of a single term, like the use of metaphors and analogies, shows the inner relationship between different meanings in a domain of related phenomena. The term "transference" (Übertragung), for example, is used in a number of different senses, first in On Aphasia, then in the Interpretation of Dreams, and still later for different clinical phenomena. In all these cases, Freud's usage of a "transference" concept retained the idea of the substitution of one object for another (though not always in the psychoanalytic sense of object), the creation of a representative or representation, and a displacement of meaning and value. Substitutions of objects and displacements of meaning and value are, of course, necessarily related. Freud emphasized one or another of these elements when describing the relationship between conscious and unconscious fantasies and the way the mental apparatus develops. Although we naturally attempt to restrict our clinical concept of transference to distinguish it from other related processes, Freud used the same (German) term for many different processes involving the substitution of representations and shifts of meaning and value. In this way, he created a picture of the mind as a hierarchical structure of agencies, functions and fantasy organizations in which complexity resulted from the combination of relatively simple relationships and operations. This essay considers some aspects of Freud's theoretical accounts of metapsychology and clinical theory from the point of view of the core model first used in On Aphasia. The purpose of examining Freud's way of developing his imaginative description of the mind, based on this model, is to discover some essential features of the structure of mind in the picture he presented. Even though there have been obvious changes in psychoanalytic theory over time, his picture of the mind and ours are still closely related to a significant extent because of this underlying model. Exploring the way Freud constructs his account of mind leads readily to considering the relation between the structure of mind that Freud discloses and the structure of his way of explaining it. In many respects, the two structures are the same, so that, in effect, he both describes and demonstrates mind as he sees it. Other authors have shown that various formal properties of Freud's texts, as well as metaphors and rhetoric, are important vehicles for conveying his image of the mind (e.g., Derrida, 1978; Mahony, 1986, 1987). My purpose is to show that Freud presented a model by the use of rhetoric, analogies, metaphors, imprecise terminology and his reflections on theory-formation. Moreover, this model unifies the more abstract aspects of the theory and its clinical applications more than is generally appreciated. However, I do not intend to examine or argue the question of whether it is a good, adequate or desirable model. The aim is, first, to show convincingly that there is a latent model and, second, that when this model is recognized in Freud's work, the theory and the various stages of its development show a greater coherence. At the least, awareness of this basic model helps us in reading Freud and may, therefore, add clarity to discussions of Freud's ideas. This line of thought implies, too, that Freud's theory about mental life was also a description of the way he thought as a scientist, his creative process. For this reason, Freud's ideas about theory-formation are also of interest, since theory-formation is a model of thinking about experience as analysts and patients do it. Therefore, it is at least plausible to think of Freud's version of psychoanalytic theory as a picture or an account of a person observing his own mental processes and arriving at a picture of his mind and his world. That is, the mind described by Freud's psychoanalysis is the self-reflecting mind and the mental activity of an analyst and a patient in analysis. One of the goals of psychoanalytic theory is to explain how one person's mind can be used to understand another person's. For the purposes of this discussion, it is useful to think of Freud as trying to understand the workings of human i


Following the successful results of the test campaign on 2D configuration of the oscillatory blowing system in the flap gap of the INCAS F15 wind tunnel model, extensive evaluation of the 2.5D effects have been initiated in order to enable solid understanding of the fluidic integrations mechanisms and to validate this technology at a higher TRL level. Initial experiments on 2D configuration were based on work performed in AVERT EU FP6 project where the oscillatory flap gap blowing system was designed and tested on a INCAS F15 2D wing model. In 2.5D test cases this work has been extended so that the proposed system may be selected as a mature technology in the JTI Clean Sky, Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft ITD. New experimental setup was used and also updated electronics for the blowing system have been introduces. This was complemented by a new extension for the data acquisition system and visualization tools. Complex post-processing of the experimental data was mainly oriented towards system efficiency and TRL evaluation for this active technology.


In the cloud environment, the confidentiality of data is improved by protecting the cloud data from unauthorized user access. During data communication, the balancing of load across cloud servers helps to maintain the cloud service's reliability. Through intrusion detection, the performance of secured data communication is enhanced in a significant way. Some techniques were developed in the field of cloud computing to provide secure communication between the cloud server and cloud user. These developed techniques failed to improve the security and load balancing efficiency simultaneously during the data transmission on a cloud.  There is no sufficient algorithm in the present situation to detect the intrusions and to provide improved results in the load balancing. In this research work we propose a novel "Dynamic Certificateless Random Identity (DCRI)" algorithm for ensuring cloud security and a "Rank-Indexing (RI)" algorithm based on weightage for load balancing. Our proposed DCRI-RI hybrid method will ensure a better rate of intrusion detection with higher load balancing efficiency. The DCRI algorithm is relied on a cryptographic concept based on advanced encryption and decryption signature authentication process performed on both cloud server and user end to detect and remove the unauthorized users in a significant way.


The pathological anatomy and hemodynamic effects of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of the infradiaphragmatic type are reviewed in nine infants examined from 1940 to 1965 in the pathology department. Two infants underwent corrective surgery in the period; one operation was unsuccessful. The other infant had normal hemodynamics 6 months postoperatively and continues to do well 2 years after operation. Surgical principles are discussed. Some patients undergoing an anastomosis between the common pulmonary venous trunk and the left atrium will not require a second operation either to ligate the venous trunk or to close the atrial septal defect.


Abstract C–C Bond formation from direct C–H activation is now recognized as a powerful and straightforward strategy for the synthesis of complex molecules and especially for late-stage functionalization. Many of these reactions allow a streamlined route to bi(hetero)aryl compounds with applications in medicinal chemistry as well as in organic materials. Since high temperatures and long reaction times are often required for C–H activation, microwave irradiation has emerged as a suitable tool. This short review gives an overview of the metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization of heteroarenes since 2013 and highlights the benefits of microwave irradiation over traditional heating. 1 Introduction 2 Palladium-Catalyzed Direct Functionalization of sp2 C–H Bonds with Aryl Halides 3 Palladium-Catalyzed and Silver-Assisted Direct Arylation of sp2 C–H Bonds with Aryl Halides 4 Palladium-Catalyzed and Copper-Assisted Direct Arylation of sp2 C–H Bonds with Aryl Halides 5 Copper-Catalyzed sp3-sp2 C–C Bond Formation 6 Conclusion


The College of Business prepares students for successful careers in business and society through high-impact, student-focused educational experiences with face-to-face and online delivery. We conduct relevant and innovative research that contributes to business practice, enhanced educational opportunities, and business theory. We engage in value-added practices to serve the business and academic communities.


The growth and morphology of young chum salmon,raised in freshwater were measured.The results showed that the specific growth rate of young chum salmon was higher when fed with 2.5% volume of body weight daily;The relationship between body weight and body length was in line with the power function,and its equation was W = 0.661L2.1635;With the growth of young chum salmon,its relative fatness was increased slightly and slowly;The values of full length /body length,body length /head length and dorsal snout distance /dorsal tail distance were smaller than body length /body height,head length /snout length,head length /eyes interal and head length /horizontal diameter of eye;the ratio of dorsal snout distance /dorsal tail distance was close to1 in young Chum salmon,whereas the ratio was 1.13~1.31 in broodstock chum salmon.


The future costs of electric-drive vehicles, like those of any new technology, are uncertain. One method for forecasting cost reductions uses the concept of the 'experience' curve. Experience curves take into account sale economies, technological improvements in production processes, improvements in product design, and improved efficiency of workers and production management. Here we analyze the future manufacturing cost of a brushless permanent magnet electric vehicle drivetrain using experience curves and a Monte Carlo simulation technique. Our preliminary forecast is a drop in manufacturing cost from today's $13,000 (with about 2,000 units of cumulative production) to a cost of about $1200 when full scale economies and 'learning' have been realized. In an ongoing study at the University of California, Davis, experience curves are being integrated with a detailed vehicle cost model to develop more sophisticated cost forecasts for complete electric vehicles.


An impeller is composed of an axial hub and several blades attached along the hub. The hub and blades of an impeller are commonly machined in a 5-axis NC machine to obtain qualified surfaces. But, the impeller machining strategy or process plan can not be easily formalized due to the complex, overlapped and twisted shapes of impeller blades. Skillful machining process planners may generate appropriate machining strategies based on their experiences and floor data. However, in practice most shop floor data for the impeller machining is not well-structured such that it does not effectively provide a process planner with information for producing machining strategies and process plans. This paper addresses the development of a case-based machining strategy support system that employs CBR(case-based reasoning) to obtain the machining strategies of an impeller by using the existing machining strategies of the shop floor. This system generates impeller machining strategies through a stepwise reasoning process considering the similarities between the blade shapes and machining regions. It can provide a process planner with machining strategies such as tool specifications, machining area partitioning, and machining parameters considering machining history.


Christianity is often perceived in connection with Europe as a European or "W estern" religion, which played an essential role in the formation ofE uropean culture and life, and can be identified as an important and formative part of European civilisation. It is often forgotten that early Christianity became a source for diverse Christian traditions and at the time Christianity was spreading in Europe and was moulding the life and culture in different parts of the continent, at the same time or earlier, often long before the firm establishment of the Christian faith in many parts ofEurope, Christianity was a part o f life and society in Africa and distinctive African traditions of Christianity had emerged in Egypt, Nubia or Aksum. African Christianity is as old as Christianity itself, Africa had some of thc oldest forms of Christianity, which in Egypt, the Maghrib, Nubia and the Aksumite kingdom in the present-day Ethiopia pre dated Christianity in most of Europe. Also in the vast region east of Jerusalem, in the countries where Aramaic was the lingua franca Syria, Jordan, and Iraq, the majority of people had by then become Christians, and the new Christian faith was carried father east to ancient Persia and along the Silk Road into Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, reaching by the seventh century India and even China. This early or "Eastern " Christianity of


A study was undertaken to assess the production performances of native breeder chicken under intensive management system in three district of Tamil Nadu viz, Erode, Tiruppur and Coimbatore. A total of 45 farms, 15 farms from each district were selected for the study purpose by adopting simple random sampling and the data were collected through a semi-structured interview schedule as well as self observation. The selected farms were classified as small (15 farms), medium (15 farms) and large (15 farms) with the capacity ranged from up to 1500, 1501 to 3000 and above 3000 birds. The mean age and body weight at sexual maturity of native female parent was 170.96 ± 1.92 days and 1.83 ± 0.05 kg. The average daily feed intake per native female parent was 117.59 ± 1.95 gm. The amount of feed intake to produce a dozen egg and one kg egg mass in native breeder chicken was 5.44 ± 0.16 and 9.10 ± 0.32 kg respectively. The average egg weight and annual egg production of native female parent was 46.51 ± 0.91 gm and 101.83 ± 3.21 eggs per annum. The average number of settable egg was 97.65 ± 4.62 and hatchability rate per native breeder was 73.16 ± 1.05 per cent in Tamil Nadu.


Recently there has been an increasing demand for a rapid mission concept generation capability for CubeSats, NanoSats, and SmallSats at JPL and in the broader community in the Concept Maturity Level (CML) 2-5 range. To help address these needs, JPL's Innovation Foundry has extended its long-standing advanced concepts concurrent engineering team, Team X, with a new, agile, and collaborative design capability called Team Xc. This concurrent team-based approach provides rapid turnaround for small spacecraft mission and system early concept studies. The process is adaptable to a wide variety of CubeSat, NanoSat, and SmallSat customers and mission applications. Team Xc design and analysis services include feasibility assessments, trade space exploration studies, and point design studies, commensurate with the level of maturity of the mission concept. The team is assembled with experts experienced in designing, building, launching, and operating CubeSats; leaders in mission architecture, spacecraft design, and concurrent engineering methods; and subject matter experts tailored to the specific needs of each study and customer. The Team Xc capability has been applied to several studies and extended to cover a large breadth of missions spanning applications including Earth science, planetary science, astrophysics, and technology demonstration. Team Xc draws from Team X, JPL, and external subject matter experts to produce quick-turnaround reports targeted to each customer's needs.


This work aimed in modelling some physical and thermal properties of walnut kernel undergoing various drying techniques include microwave semi-industrial continuous drying (M-CD), microwave infrared-vacuum drying (M-IVD), and microwave infrared-fluidised bed drying methods. By using the verifications of experimental parameters, ten drying models for describing combined effects of independent variables were derived and the parameters of these models were determined by multiple regression analysis. In the case of the model, comprised of collective effects of drying independents, the Midilli model gave the best result in describing drying behaviour of walnut kernel in all experimental domains. Minimum values of shrinkage (6.53%) and colour change (5.54%) were obtained in the M-CD with the microwave power of 270 W, air temperature of 45 °C, and belt linear speed of 10.5 mm/s, however maximum shrinkage (14.65%) and colour change (18.28%) were related to the M-IVD with microwave power of 630 W, drying temperatu...


We follow ideas going back to Gromov's seminal article [Gr82] to show that the proportionality constant relating the simplicial volume and the volume of a closed, oriented, locally symmetric space M = Γ\G/K of noncompact type is equal to the Gromov norm of the volume form in the continuous cohomology of G. The proportionality constant thus becomes easier to compute. Furthermore, this method also gives a simple proof of the proportionality principle for arbitrary manifolds.


In this paper, the magnetic force actuator (MFA), a new type of actuator, is applied for long stroke driving with simple structure and high reliability. Ansys and Matlab are adopted to study its static and dynamic characteristics and conduct parameter design. The static simulation concludes static magnetic field, end shield material, structure size of permanent magnet and processing deviation of the actuator, which will impact the characteristics of the actuator in varying degrees. Then the state equations describing the dynamic characteristics of MFA are solved by four-order Runge-kutta method and finite-element method. Interactive interface of the APDL-file and M-file and Macrosoft Visual Basic (VB) is designed to combine Ansys and Matlab to realize optimization design of structure parameters, which simplifies the operation methods and enhances the efficiency. The dynamic simulation results show its good work performance compared with the experiment characteristics of practical 40.5kV SF6 circuit breaker with the spring mechanism.


Image Enhancement is one of the most powerful Techniques to process low level and high level images receive form various sources like remote sensing, medical image, local images. We Proposed Novel approach to Enhance the image using model cascading. Images that come from a variety of microscope technologies provide a wealth of information. The limited capacity of optical imaging instruments and the noise inherent in optical imaging make image enhancement desirable for many microscopic image processing application.


Today I'll be talking about identity and a sense of home. Before I start, let me briefly tell you a bit about myself. I am 1⁄4 Irish, 1⁄4 Italian, 1⁄4 German and 1⁄4 English. I don't know where my Irish, German or English relatives originated, but my Italian side of the family comes from Bergamo, Italy; I still have family there to this day. I was born in Weymouth Massachusetts, a suburb just south of Boston. I was raised and educated in Weymouth until high school, when I opted to go to a private school a few towns over. At that point I moved to Cohasset, MA to live with my dad. I currently live in Bellingham Washington. That is the place where I pay my taxes, have my truck registered and receive mail. The place that goes deepest inside of me and where I try to spend the most time is split between the ocean and the alpine reaches of mountains. For me, home is anywhere that I have good friends and family, where I feel a part of the culture and where ocean meets mountain.


Objective To make myeloperoxidase MPO staining m or e accurate,celerity,safety and credibility madifying the Pereira potassium iod ide KI-MPO staining.Methods Wright-Giemsa dye as a new color-developing a g ent insteaded of Leishman's dye was used in the Pereira MPO staining,meanwhile the Wright-Giemsa solution was pre-oxidized to maturation,so H 2 O 2 need not use in the next mixing operation.Results With WG-KI staining,th e positive products were deep red or black-blue granules and the stained nuclei were clear.The positive rate of the new method was nearly as same as that of Washburn MPO staining,which has no statistical difference(P0.05).Con-clusion With WG-KI MPO staining,the color contrast of the positive reacting i s sharp and easy to identify.The reagent is safety stable and credible;the op eration is simple with dyeing time short.It is ideal and promising.


It is demonstrated, that copper supported on MCM-48 efficiently catalyzes the reaction of aromatic amines, carbon disulfide, and esters or amides to form dithiocarbamates in short reaction times and under mild conditions.


Telecommunications in recent years has been undergoing a rapid growth all over the world. Prominent among the advancements of telecommunication is the evolution of modern converged network that provides the trio of data, voice and video network on a single network platform. The converged technology uses the internet as a medium to transmit data, voice and video packets using packet switching. This comes with numerous benefits by providing add-ons to both the service providers and users. The VoIP technology has been widely accepted and has received a boost in most western countries like the US and UK where users are now migrating from the legendry Public Switch Telephony Network (PSTN) to VoIP because of the numerous benefits it offers but unfortunately the business environment in Nigeria is yet to key into this promising technology. This study therefore focuses on introducing and implementing this technology in a converged network in Nigerian environment. It will also showcase VoIP's numerous advantages and look at issues likely to be encountered during its implementation. It is hoped that it will help to serve as a tool in decision making process by converging the VoIP network with the already available data network.


Native plants and animals can rapidly become superabundant and dominate ecosystems, leading some people to claim that native species are no less likely than alien species to cause environmental damage such as biodiversity loss. We compared how frequently alien species and native species have been implicated as drivers of recent extinctions in a comprehensive global database, the 2017 IUCN Red List. Alien species were considered to be a contributing cause of 25% of plant extinctions and 33% of animal extinctions, whereas native species were implicated in less than 3% and 5% of animal and plant extinctions, respectively. When listed as a putative driver of recent extinctions, native species were more often associated with co-occurring drivers than were alien species. Our results add a new line of evidence that the biogeographic origin (evolutionary history) of a species is a determining factor of its potential to cause disruptive environmental impacts.


This packet describes the Building Bridges Program at Illinois State University, which integrates the secondary preservice teacher education curriculum across English, history/social science, technology and business education. The goal of the program is to prepare preservice secondary teachers with experiences that promote their understanding of how to initiate, develop and deliver integrated instruction to teachers from divergent disciplines.The program allows secondary education students the opportunity to examine closely the tenets of curriculum integration and then learn through practice. Since 1992, 450 future teachers have been exposed to integrated curriculum development through this program. The packet contains a description of the program and a schedule of student presentations of integrated units from October 9, 1996 and October 12, 1995. Each session presentation includes a unit description with curricular links, rationale, and objectives for the unit. (EH) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** The Building Bridges Program: Connecting Secondary Teacher Preparation Programs to Foster Integrated Learning. by Michael K. Daugherty C. Regina Foehr Thomas S. Haynes Lawrence W. McBride to Itr Published: 96


Aim:To observe the effects of nicotine on LPS-induced primary rat cortical microglia activation and cytokine IL-6 expression and to explore the possible mechanism of nicotine in PD.Methods:Primary rat cortical glial cells were cultured and microglial cells were purified,with or without nicotine and/or LPS.The IL-6 secretion concentration of microglia at different time was detected by ELISA and the activation of microglia(Iba1 positive cells) was detected by immunocytochemical staining.Results:LPS induced activation of microglia,activated microglia increased the expression of activation marker Iba1.10 μg/L LPS induced the amount of cytokine IL-6 secretion of microglia at 4,8 and 24 h respectively were significantly higher than those of the control group(t=14.115,23.530,and 32.076,P0.05).The secretion of IL-6 had no significant difference between the amount at 4 and 8 h in microglia,which reached a peak;but pretreatment of cells with nicotine significantly inhibited microglia activation(F=13.418,P=0.006) and the LPS-induced IL-6 production(F=92.569,P0.001).Conclusion:Nicotine may has protective effect against LPS-induced inflammatory response.


It is impactful for a tourist destination in preserving and activating its local cultural heritage to support tourism development through art and design exhibition. The exhibition event preparation and implementing process, then become a robust aspect in activating the cultural heritage by engaging the stakeholders and delivered benefit to local society. This research examines that art and design exhibition plays a crucial role for the development and sustainability of local tourist destination area, especially that held at architectural heritage site. The method used for this research is collect literature data of local cultural heritage that potential to be explored, fieldwork survey and observation, case study, iterative design, prototyping and collaborative process with local community, MSMEs, and government. The result of this research is the new perspective in preserving the local cultural heritage by activating the architectural heritage site as the location of art and design exhibition. The exhibition itself is the new way of storytelling of the richness of local cultural heritage that expressed through curated collaborative creative products and entertainment of local community, designer and MSMEs in Siak Regency that deliver benefit for the product's competitiveness, cultural preservation, and community welfare that support the tourism development in Indonesia.


THE following experiments were carried out in order to test the relative efficiency of various insecticides and disinfecting fluids. No reasonable doubt exists as to the capability of the fluids used to destroy fleas in all stages, provided actual contact takes place, but, under the circumstanices in which insecticides are commonly used, actual contact with all the individual fleas in any building in their various stages is wildly improbable. It is doubtful whether any considerable number would be killed if contact were a necessary condition. These experiments were accordingly planned with a view to testing the effectiveness of the vapour under conditions permitting free access of air.


Coral reefs constitute the most dominant marine
benthic ecosystem of tropical seas. The complexity of.
the biotic and abiotic interactions, coupled with rich
biodiversity of reef dwelling and reef building fauna
and flora are comparable to those prevailing in tropical
rain forests. Several important problems related
to coral reefs all over the world, such as, biodiversity,
biogeochemical cycles, nutrient flux, environmental
degradation and ecological collapse, exploitation of
reef resources- their conservation and
management, have been addressed


This paper presents an FPGA implementation of a test port for interfacing and debugging ARM9 processors. The system included a communication interface for debugging the processor, together with the JTAG-based module that granted debugging capability to the selected ARM9 core. Also included was an application software debugger that readily shows the comparison of expected and gathered results from the processor core. The debugging system for the selected ARM9 processor was successfully implemented in a Virtex 5 FPGA development board and was tested using the supported data processing instructions. The latency measured was 0.3 ms per instruction for a baud rate of 4800.


ABSTRACT Studies in sport genetics have increased nowadays and the identification of genotype and allelic distributions of candidate genes in different athletes has provided important information to sports scientists. One of the candidate genes studied in sports genetics is the hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha (HIF1A) gene, which is associated with the endurance phenotype. In our study, we aimed to determine the genotypic and allelic distribution of HIF1A rs11549465 polymorphism in Turkish Elite Ski Runners. 34 (23 male, 11 female) athletes were included in the study, and 1 cc of blood samples taken for routine analysis after the approval of the ethics committee was used for DNA isolation. The commercial kit was used for DNA isolation and genotyping was performed by Real-time PCR method. The number and percentage of CC, CT and TT genotypes of the HIF1A rs11549465 polymorphism were 24 (72.72%), 8 (24.24%) and 1 (3.03), respectively. In male skiers CC, CT and TT genotype numbers and percentages were determined as 17 (55.51%), 4 (12.12%) and 1 (3.03%) respectively. In female, CC and TT genotypes were determined as 7 (21.21%) and 4 (12.12%). We detected no TT genotype in female athletes. When we look at allel numbers, C allele was determined as 56 (84.84%) and T allele was determined as 10 (15.15%). This is the first study on HIF1A rs11549465 polymorphism on Turkish elite ski runners. The higher prevalence of CC genotype and C allele in the athlete group is similar to the previous studies on different groups of athletes. We believe that this study will be an important reference for further studies.


The meat processing industry generates large quantities of waste water with high content of organic matter, which must be removed prior to being discharged.1,2 In order to improve water quality and ensure regulatory compliance, Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP) may be used in combination with other processes as pre or post treatment. It has been reported that Fenton process have removal efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand (COD) greater than 85%.3,4 In this work, we have used AOPs based on Fenton process in the depuration of the effluent of a slaughterhouse; in order to improve its quality. Fenton process is based on the oxidative action of free hydroxyl radicals, with a redox potential of 2.8 V5 produced by Fenton reaction in acid medium. This reaction must not be analyzed alone, because there are others occurring simultaneously, with different reaction constants, so Eq. 1 to 7 are the principal ones.6,7


Travel time is one of the most important types of information for drivers. However, a travel time can dynamically change according to traffic conditions such as traffic congestion and a traffic accident. It is therefore expected that additional information on travel time information, which shows whether a short future travel time will be increasing or decreasing is needed. In order to predict this travel time trend, the authors first try to define the travel time trend. Then, the authors construct a prediction model using the Support Vector Machine, which judges the travel time trend as "Increase", "Decrease" or "No change" based on traffic congestion length measured by vehicle occupancies on an urban expressway. As a result of applying the model to real data of Nagoya Expressway in Aichi, Japan, the travel time trend was predicted accurately. Furthermore, these predicted results are verified whether actual travel time of each driver accords with the predicted trend. Then, the authors attempt to predict the difference between the current and the future travel times directly. As a result, the differences can be also predicted accurately as same as the trend predictions.


The total number of watercourses in Pakistan is about 110,000 and particularly in Sindh it is about 46,699, out of which 7576 have been lined from 1977 to 1998 and from 2004 to 2015; 22,479 have been lined and the remaining 16,644 still require improvement. At the current rate of progress, the lining of remaining watercourses would further take about 21 years. As designed life of the improved watercourse is about 25 years. By the time of ending of many watercourse improvement programs, there will again require the rehabilitation on many of the earlier watercourse lining schemes. Generally two types of watercourse lining are practiced in Sindh i.e. Rectangular Lined Watercourses (with single and double brick walls) and Trapezoidal Concrete Lined Watercourses. Because of efficient, effectiveness, easy maintenance and repair work, the Rectangular Lined Watercourse is more frequently practiced in Sindh. It is now suggested that: to renovate the watercourses an accelerated program should be started and the system (with the sense of terms and conditions) for renovation of watercourses program should also be changed. The research work towards different types of lining materials for watercourse should be conducted. Looking to the brief review it is suggested that a fiber glass type plastic material with semi-circular or U-shaped, pre-cast fabricated RCC Trapezoidal or Parabolic in place of brick mortar and concrete could be used for watercourse lining. This methodology, proposed to be used, will enable us to determine cost-benefit ratio, life span and such other parameters for its feasibility under variable climatic conditions of Sindh (North Sindh being dry and hot, while South Sindh semi-humid and warm).


Leaf spotting and blight, a new disease of Michelia champaca caused by Rhizoctonia solani anamorph of Thanatephorus cucumeris is described and management of the disease outlined. The disease has been successfully controlled through an integrated approach involving measures such as sanitation and cultural practices. Raising of seedlings in polypots instead of beds is recommended as it minimises the incidence of the disease considerably.


Based on self-determination theory,the goal content theory maintains that intrinsic goals refer to the goals reflecting the trends of the individual intrinsic growth. Intrinsic goals include those for,self acceptance,affiliation and physical health. In contrast,extrinsic goals are primarily concerned with obtaining some reward or social praise. Financial success,image,and popularity are common extrinsic goals. A great number of studies show that intrinsic goals and extrinsic goals have different effects,and basic psychological needs (autonomy,competence,relatedness) are the psychological mechanism proved to explain the goals content effects. Future research should be more conducted on the psychological mechanism. What's more,more studies based on the Chinese culture are needed as they have important practical meaning in China.


Biallelic pathogenic variants in CBS gene cause the most common form of homocystinuria, the classical homocystinuria (HCU). The worldwide prevalence of HCU is estimated to be 0.82:100,000 [95% CI, 0.39–1.73:100,000] according to clinical records and 1.09:100,000 [95% CI, 0.34–3.55:100,000] by neonatal screening. In this study, we aimed to estimate the minimal worldwide incidence of HCU.


This study aims to identify the relationship between the obsessive-compulsive disorder and the personal dimensions of neuroticism and extra version for the medical staff amid of the covid 19 pandemic. To achieve the goals of the study, the descreptive approach was applied, and relying on some tools to get the practical data, such as: the observation, the interview, Eysanck personality questionnaire (kuwaiti version of Badr El Anssari), the list of symptoms of obsessive-compulsive of Ahmed Abd El Khalek. The study was done on the medical staff in El Hakim Okbi Hospital in Guelma city, a sample amounted to (102) among this staff on a stratified random the data has been statistically treated by SPSS program, and the following results were obtained: there is a positive correlative statistically significant between the obsessive-compulsive disorder and the neurotic dimension, no correlative relationship statistically significant between the obesissive-compulsive and the extraversion dimension, no statistically significant differences in the level of obsessive-compulsive disorder and the extraversion dimension due to the sex variable and the profession's variable, no differences in the level of neurotic dimension because of the sex variable, while there are differences in this level due to the proffession's variable. Keywords: Obsessive, Compulsive Personal Dimensions, Neuroticism, Extraversion The Medical Staff, The Covid 19


Kin groups comprising the descendants of an ancestor, who is the fixed point of reference, are now carefully distinguished by anthro? pologists from kin groups comprising the relatives of some one individual as point of reference. We have not yet agreed finally on what to call the two types, but we make the distinction. I myself prefer to refer to the former type as "descent groups," whether or not they are unilineal and whether or not actual membership as dis? tinct from the right of membership is ascribed at birth; and I prefer to reserve the term "kindred" exclusively for groups of the latter type. It is common for local groups to be organized as descent groups. (I prefer to think of them in this way rather than as descent groups which have been "localized.") Murdock (1949) has conceived of them as "compromise kin groups," seeing membership as based on descent for some individuals and on residence in marriage for others. One can also think of them as groups in which married couples (with their unmarried children), rather than individuals, are the constituents of membership, the couples being linked by descent principles. Local groups organized on the kindred model have, by com? parison, received relatively little attention. The most considered treatment of which I know is given in the account by Pehrson (1957) of the organization of Lapp bands. A group of close rela? tives?a father and sons, a set of brothers, two first cousins, a man and his brother-in-law?provide the nucleus of a Lapp band. Af? final and consanguineal kinsmen of individuals in this nucleus attach themselves to the band as more peripheral members. They are not in fact close relatives of everyone else in the band, but Lapp kinship terminology can be readily extended throughout the band, so that any two members are in some category of kin relationship to each other. The group, in effect, is one in which every member belongs to the kindred of every other member, although the kindred of any individual includes some people who are not members of the band. The local group thus represents an area of mutual overlap of all the personal kindreds of its several members, forming a kindred node. It is organized on this assumption, and kinship terminology provides enough extended categories (e.g., for relative of spouse


Interviews were conducted with therapists (N 12) nominated by peers as especially effective in working with clients with adult interpersonal problems. Open-ended questions asked how these therapists would approach 2 adult clients described in brief vignettes as having high attachment avoidance or anxiety. A coding team used a grounded theory approach to identify 8 higher order themes in the interviews: Conceptualization, Client Defenses, Managing Boundaries, Markers of Progress, Therapist Reactions, Targeted Interventions, Corrective Relational Patterns, and Internal Representations and Models. These themes were integrated into an inclusive theoretical model based on the core concept of therapists' strategic management of therapeutic distance. The distance necessary to engage clients initially is adjusted later in therapy to create a corrective attachment in the psychotherapy relationship that facilitates change. Therapists described how, after engagement, they gradually increase therapeutic distance for clients with attachment anxiety who must then manage resulting frustration while learning to function more autonomously. Therapists gradually insist on decreased therapeutic distance to help clients with attachment avoidance overcome their fears of intimacy. Therapists discussed the specific techniques they use to manage therapeutic distance.


In this paper, we give an upper bound for dominations of Steinhaus graphs, and the domination numbers of the bipartite Steinhaus graphs. Also, we give an upper bound for Nordhaus-Gaddum type result for the bipartite Steinhaus graphs.


ABSTRACT Objective: Report safety and clinical outcomes of percutaneous intradiscal decompression procedures in patients with discogenic pain that failed conservative treatment. Minimally invasive surgical treatments are a trend. Methods: A retrospective study describing the clinical outcomes of patients treated with Nucleoplasty TM and DeKompressor TM , with follow up of 5 years. Results: Thirty-four (n=34) patients un-derwent intradiscal decompression with a follow-up period of 5 years, 21 had resolution of pain, eight underwent lumbar interbody arthro-desis, one underwent surgical discectomy and 4 had residual back pain. There were no adverse events. Conclusion: It was demonstrated the same safety obtained in other studies that also evaluated the use of triangular safety zone for percutaneous procedures. The success rate with the percutaneous procedure is similar to other studies published in a recent meta-analysis. The comparative studies, prospective and controlled will be useful to better define the effectiveness of percutaneous procedures.Keywords: Intervertebral disc displacement; Decompression; Intervertebral disc; Low back pain.


It's necessary and important to inform the patients about the reason and method of medical and nursing measure,the environment and system of hospital,medical risk,the patient's disease status and self-care methods.The constitute of the informed consent for the patients reduce medical dissension,protect legitimate rights both of patients and nurses,enhance the realization of law for nurses and building a good patients and nurses relationship.In addition,setting up the supervisory nursing system of informing and being informed was essential quality of performing informed obligation and patients' informed consent.


The present paper studies the dynamics of submerged expanded elastic tubes due to postexpansion sudden mandrel release known as pop-out phenomenon. A mathematical model describing the dynamics of the borehole-fluid-tube system is presented. Coupling of the fluid-structure interaction and damping effects were taken into consideration. An analytical solution for the displacement, stress, and pressure wave propagation in the fluid-tube system was obtained. The developed model predicted localized critical regions where the structure might experience failure.


Yolk was fractionated by a low speed centrifugation into granules and plasma. The composition, solubility and emulsifying properties of granules and plasma were compared to those of industrial spray-dried yolk. Granules contained about half the lipids and cholesterol and about double the proteins of yolk and plasma. Yolk and granules required an ionic strength ≥ 0.3M sodium chloride to become solubilized at pH 7.0, whereas plasma was solubilized at any ionic strength. At about 80% solubility, yolk, granules and plasma had similar emulsifying activities and granules had the best emulsion stabilization. Results suggest that granules could be used as stabilizers in food emulsions.


It is not a gainsaying that challenges to both healthy living and the environment are the result of deteriorating environmental quality with the attendant effect on environmental sustainability. To provide a solution to the issue, our study uses long time-series data from 1960 to 2018, and employs an overlapping generational model, the Bayer–Hanck cointegration test, wavelet coherence, Fourier Toda–Yamamoto, and Breitung–Candelon frequency-domain spectral causality tests to investigate the causal relationships among carbon emissions (CO2), economic growth (GDP), and life expectancy (LE) in Turkey. Different from the literature, we find a positive co-movement between life expectancy and CO2 and a positive correlation between LE and GDP at different scales; CO2 has a causal relationship with LE and a bidirectional causal relationship between LE and GDP, as well as short, medium, and long-run causal relationships with LE; GDP has medium and long-run causal relationships with LE, and LE has short, medium, and long-run causal relationships with GDP. Our findings guide policymakers on their policy decision-making that will address the energy consumption, environmental degradation, human health, environmental hazards, and allocation to science and technology in Turkey with the aim of ensuring overall sustainable development.


As an essential part of current industrial society, electric power energy is contantaly increasing in pace with the development of science and technology. In order to meet the demand of electric power, power facilities which take care of the higher voltage and bigger capacity is required. To produce and supply electric power on a sound basis the electric facilities should operate with reliability. To prevent disasters in advance, the high quality facilities should be manufactured, and a constant management should be done. When the power facilities cause accidents, the result is huge national deficits. Since the power facilities play a pivotal role in the key industry of national infrastructures of they should operate for a long time in maintaining a stable state, and the accidents can be prevented in advance. The lifetime of a power cable is considered to be 30 years at the time of manufacture, but in real fields, accidents of cable occur 8-12 years from the start of operation, resulting in a heavy loss of properties. In this paper, we will show that we have found out the cause and process of the deterioration of 22kV cable systems in operation. The result is that the process of deterioration does not follow the Weibull distribution only ; but rather, after the heat deterioration the Weibull distributed deterioration comes, then the cable is destroyed due to the partial discharge resulting from the Weibull distributed deterioration.


Latex blend films were prepared from mixtures of two types of particles in dispersion, one composed of a high-T g polymer [poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA] ; the other a copolymer of butyl methacrylate and butyl acrylate [P(BMA-co-BA)] with T g ≤ 10 °C. Transparent films were obtained under air-drying conditions if the PMMA particles had diameters less than ∼250 nm and if the volume fraction of low-T g latex polymer exceeded a certain critical fraction Φ c . Values of Φ c varied over a narrow range (0.40-0.50) with P(BMA-co-BA) particle size, and were independent of the T g of the soft latex, ranging from ca. -35 to +10 °C. Film morphologies were examined by scanning electron microscopy and by freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy. In all films, the hard particles retain their original size and spherical shape. In the transparent films, they are uniformly distributed in a polymer matrix generated from deformed soft particles, whereas clustering of PMMA microspheres is observed in turbid films. Various factors, such as increasing the size ratio between the two types of particles, removing of surfactant in the systems, and annealing of the films after drying, disrupt the uniform particle packing required for transparent films.


Providing multimedia services in wireless networks is concerned about the performance of handoff algorithms because of the irretrievable property of real-time data delivery. To lessen unnecessary handoffs and handoff latencies which can cause media disruption perceived by users, we present in this paper a cross-layer handoff algorithm base on link quality. Neural networks are used to learn the cross-layer correlation between the link quality estimator such as packet success rate and the corresponding context metric indictors, e.g. the transmitting packet length, received signal strength, and signal to noise ratio. Based on a pre-processed learning of link quality profile, our approach makes handoff decisions intelligently and efficiently with the evaluations of link quality instead of the comparisons between relative signal strength. The experiment and simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms RSS-based handoff algorithms in a transmission scenario of VoIP applications.


Security is a key concept in international relations theory. The purpose of this article is to discuss the origin and development of the security concept, as well as the theoretical implications of this development and change. Over the past three decades, people have tried to develop the security concept by adding adjectives to "security." For instance, while "comprehensive" connotes that security is all-round and involves various fields, "common" means to share security with your perceived competitor or rival. While "cooperative" epitomizes the means to security as a goal, "human" emphasizes a new subject of building security. Those terms and ideas, plus China's "new conception of security", all strive to go beyond security dilemma and to enter into a new state of security and to achieve a new type of survival.


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * OUTPLACEMENT IS A PROCESS in which businesses engage experts--typically outplacement organizations or individual consultants--to offer support, personal assessments and training to employees losing jobs to clarify their career preferences and identify their strengths. Depending on circumstances, the service may counsel either groups or individuals. * EXPERTS WHO GET EMPLOYEES FOCUSED on the future, rather than dwelling on the past, can go a long way toward minimizing potential lawsuits. * OUTPLACEMENT CONSISTS OF FIVE BASIC PHASES: orientation, assessment and evaluation, resume writing and the job interview, targeting the job market and building your network, and landing the job. * TO IDENTIFY THEIR STRENGTHS and weaknesses and possibly discover new career affinities, job seekers take aptitude and psychological tests. CPAs can use the assessment phase to explore ways to widen their horizons. Some decide to do something completely different. * OUTPLACEMENT CAN TEACH JOB SEEKERS how to focus on their career highlights to create a strong resume and a favorable impression at an interview. Critiques of videotaped mock interviews can provide helpful feedback. * IT'S BEGINNING TO TAKE LONGER to land a job than was the case a year ago. For individuals with salaries over the $100,000 level, it may take up to six months to get a new job, experts say. Shop carefully for an outplacement consultant. It doesn't matter whether you call it a reduction in force, a layoff, a downsizing, a rightsizing or a reengineering. On the stress scale the loss of a job ranks third as one of life's great traumas, just behind death and divorce. Today most employees lose jobs as a result of a merger, acquisition or economic slowdown rather than their performance, and almost no field or industry has escaped the dramatic increase in downsizing--including banks, financial institutions and CPA firms. American Express, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase and PricewaterhouseCoopers all have announced the layoff of thousands of workers recently, and a major outplacement company says nearly half the individuals seeking its help have held positions in finance or accounting. Alas, knowing they're part of a trend and have plenty of company doesn't ease employees' sense of personal assault when an employer decides to say "so long." If change becomes a fact of life because of a merger or business downturn, outplacement and career-management counseling can play a vital role in helping displaced CPAs and financial managers make a soft landing. It also can help move a stalled career forward. IT PAYS OFF Outplacement is a term coined more than 30 years ago by Tom Hubbard, founder of Thinc, a New York-based career-consultancy pioneer. It's a process in which businesses engage experts--typically outplacement organizations or individual consultants--to offer support, personal assessments and job-skills and interviewing training to employees they're letting go. "Today job searches--especially those of professionals such as lawyers and CPAs--are more complex," and as a result "outplacement now includes total career management and coaching," says John Quirk, a director at Spherion, which does workforce consulting. National outplacement companies include Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Drake Beam Morin, Lee Hecht Harrison, Right Management Consultants and Spherion (see "Additional Resources," page 46). At the other end of the spectrum are hundreds of small "boutiques" and individuals, some of whom are certified by the International Association of Career Management Professionals (IACMP) or the International Board of Career Management Certification (IBCMC). All of them charge a fee for their services. Larger companies typically are paid directly by the business that is laying off staff while smaller entities and individual consultants are paid by either the business or the individual needing career-management services. …


The extraction of the liposolube and the alcohol soluble in the waste material of tobacco is explained, while the methods and conditions of it are discussed. Research shows that, when feeding at rate, the extracted material can be used as forage to promote the productivity of the growth of domestic fowls and of their eggs. This process provides a new economic way for reducing environmental pollution and a way of utilizing the residue of tobacco.


Objective To observe the influence of different parameters of ultrasound on its reversal effect in tumor multi-drug resistance,and select the optimal acoustic parameters.Methods A variety of frequency,duty cycle and acoustic intensity were employed to radiatc human hcpatoccllular ccll linc HcpG2 and its multi-durg resistant subline HepG2/R.Intake of Rhodamine 123 was determined by flow cytometry to evaluate the reversal effieiency of ultrasound on HepG2/R.Results Totally 4 kinds of frequencies were used,namely 0.4,0.6,0.8 and 1.7MHz among which 0.6MHz demonstrated the best result.Among a series of duty cycles(10%、20%、30%、40%、50%、60%、70%、80%、90%、100%),60% duty cycle exhibited a better reversal effect.Higher acoustic intensity worked better than did the lower ones.Conclusion The reversal efficacy of ultrasound on multi-drug resistant tumors cells does not correlate with frequency and duty cycle in a linear model.There are best frequency and duty cycle correspond to the ideal reversal effect.With regard to HepG2 cell line,0.8MHz frequency and 60% duty cycle are the optimal parameters.As to acoustic intensity,we recommend the higher one.


This paper has a study on the structural types of market and development trends of the bankcard industry of our country, with centralized rate of market and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index as measurable indicators. This paper has counted and calculated the CRn indexes and HHI of the number of bank card issuing and RMB deposit balance of bank cards of the bankcard industry of our country separately The results show that the structure of market of our bankcard industry belongs to the extremely high widowed taking type before 2000, while it is translating to highly centralized widowed taking type now. There are some behaviors of unrational competition China's bankcard industry. So we should encourage the market-based competition. The paper also has put forward the suggestion on the development of the bankcard industry of our country.


The thesis analyses the motivation of College Students'learning Taekwondo and Sanda by adapting the methods of looking up files,interviewing experts,questionnaire,mathematical analysis and logical analysis.And with the help of SPSS 16.0,it finds the difference in the motivation of learners of Taekwondo and Sanda.The difference is that Sanda is weak in ranking system,attractiveness and the culture.Therefore,the thesis proposes the following suggestions:popularizing Sanda's ranking system,reaching a larger audience through mass media and emphasizing its culture.


The Six Step Methods,which took the questions as guide,took pursuits as carrier,took improving teaching and researching manners as focal points,took promoting teachers' professional development as value choices,took improving education ecology and quality as goal,included six basic sectors:"question→plan→act→self-examine→follow→evaluate."It has the meanings of school-served teaching and research methodology.From the angles of cultural field,it has three characteristics:benefit,principle and research.


To attain quite a high level of availability and reliability, there should be a fault tolerant Mobile Grid Infrastructure. Job execution is affected fatally as a result of the failure of the availability of resources. It has to be a fault tolerant system so that it satisfies QoS requirements. An effective and reliable Mobile Grid is still a dream for the developers of the distributed computing systems. Mobility can be a major issue towards implementing a Mobile Grid platform. In this work we try to show that mobility is a matter of concern when dealing with wireless communication networks. The primary focus of this work will be on the effective data transfer between the mobile nodes which has some limiting factors due to the mobility of these nodes. We try to formulate an algorithm which can address one of the issues identified as "frequent location updates". These updates involve communicative messages occupying much of the bandwidth unnecessarily. With the proposed algorithm, we try to reduce those location updates making a better use of the bandwidth and thus improving the communication between the mobile nodes.


Regionally extensive parasequences in the upper McMurray Formation, Grouse Paleovalley, north‐east Alberta, Canada, preserve a shift in depositional processes in a paralic environment from tide domination, with notable fluvial influence, through to wave domination. Three stacked parasequences form the upper McMurray Formation and are separated by allogenic flooding surfaces. Sediments within the three parasequences are grouped into three facies associations: wave‐dominated/storm‐dominated deltas, storm‐affected shorefaces to sheltered bay‐margin and fluvio‐tidal brackish‐water channels. The two oldest parasequences comprise dominantly tide‐dominated, wave‐influenced/fluvial‐influenced, shoreface to bay‐margin deposits bisected by penecontemporaneous brackish‐water channels. Brackish‐water channels trend approximately north‐west/south‐east, which is perpendicular to the interpreted shoreline trend; this implies that the basinward and progradational direction was towards the north‐west during deposition of the upper McMurray Formation in Grouse Paleovalley. The youngest parasequence is interpreted as amalgamated wave‐dominated/storm‐dominated delta lobes. The transition from tide‐dominated deposition in the oldest two parasequences to wave‐dominated deposition in the youngest is attributed mainly to drowning of carbonate highlands to the north and north‐west of the study area, and potentially to relative changes in accommodation space and deposition rate. The sedimentological, ichnological and regional distribution of the three facies associations within each parasequence are compared to modern and Holocene analogues that have experienced similar shifts in process dominance. Through this comparison it is possible to consider how shifts in depositional processes are expressed in the rock record. In particular, this study provides one of few ancient examples of preservation of depositional process shifts and showcases how topography impacts the character and architecture of marginal‐marine systems.


Cracking the reverse-commuter travel market is like losing weight - everyone can suggest good ways to do it but success is elusive. Pace, the Chicago area suburban bus service has made a good start on designing successful reverse-commuter express bus routes linking city job-seekers with suburban employment. This paper examines the development of three city-to-suburb express routes and how their success has effected the reverse-commuter market.


In this paper, the milling experiments of the 7075 Aluminum alloy thin wall specimens are carried out. In the dry cutting under the experimental conditions, the hard alloy cutter the use of the 7075 Aluminum alloy milling can get better quality of the thin-walled specimens, machining, cutting and cutting edge burr and the source, the chip adhesion phenomenon, in the selection of cutting speed for variable conditions, with the increase of cutting speed, milling of thin-walled specimen deformation gradually becomes smaller the thin, the specimen surface residual stress gradually increase, in the selection of feed speed conditions within the range of variables, with the increase of feed speed, the 7075 Aluminum alloy milling of thin-walled specimens. The deformation degree increased, thin specimen surface residual stress decreases gradually, in the selection of cutting depth conditions the range of variables, with the increase of cutting depth, the 7075 Aluminum alloy test milling of thin-walled parts is the greater the degree of deformation, thin-walled specimen surface residual stress was gradually decreased, residual stress the hour gradually thin plate specimens deformation amount is small, the milling of thin-walled specimens after deformation is inevitable.


Introduction: International comparative analysis shows that health care costs per capita are increasing at a faster pace in the Netherlands than elsewhere in Europe [1]. In 2012, the Taskforce Healthcare Expenditures formulated three recommendations to slow down this cost growth: (a) care should 'go back to basic', with the general practitioner (GP) as a gatekeeper; (b) care should be provided at the 'right place', with more task substitution to primary care, and; (c) all parties should share a mutual responsibility for controlling healthcare costs [2]. Therefore the primary care organisation ZIO and the Academic Hospital Maastricht initiated the Primary Care Plus (PC+) pilot to investigate whether the Triple Aim principles [3] could be reached through substitution from hospital care to primary care. This PC+ pilot seeks to contribute to these points by introducing specialist consultations in general practice. Aims: The objective of this six months pilot study is to examine the effects of PC+ on referral patterns and experiences of stakeholders. Methods: In PC+ five medical specialties (neurology, orthopaedics, internal medicine, dermatology and cardiology) perform non-acute patient consultations within 10 General Practitioners' (GP) practices. Both qualitative (interviews, log-books and focus groups) and quantitative (electronic referral system, questionnaires for GP's, specialists and patients) data was collected in PC+ and 15 control practices.


The continuous formation in the education, it has generated interest in the pedagogic field, for the significance in the levels of bring up to date, preparation and the educational personnel's superación. In the bibliographical search related with the study of the antecedents in our country the prevalencia of the contributions of Fidel's thought Castro is appreciated around the necessity of the teacher's preparation. The carried out logical historical analysis, it corroborates that the problem is given by the teacher's theoretical-methodological inadequacies for the execution of the new tecno-social demands in the primary education, that which limits its professional acting. Aspects that generated the necessity to perfect the process of the teachers' continuous formation, assuming as paradigm the pedagogic thought of our unbeaten one major in boss. Which allowed to design a model of formation pedagogic tecno to guarantee this professional's permanent bring up to date.


"Queen's College, Galway, has sustained a heavy loss by the death of one of the most distinguished members of its teaching staff, John Fletcher Davies , Professor of Latin, which cook place yesterday at the age of 57 years. H e was in the front rank of classical scholarship. His editions of the Cheophorœ, Agamemnon, and Eumenides of iEschylus are widely known. H e was a frequent contributor to classical periodicals, and when attacked with his fatal i l lness he was engaged in supervising the publication of the late Dr. Henry's Commentary on Virgil's iEneid. H e obtained a scholarship in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1858, and graduated as gold medall ist in classics in 1859. Shortly after he became classical master of Kingstown School, a position which he retained unti l 1878, when he went to England, and remained there until 1880, when he was appointed Professor of Lat in at Galway College. H i s death will be lamented by a host of friends whom his talents or work attracted around h im."


This paper introduces the triple helix theory,makes the strategic analysis on the development of Chin'as low-carbon economy by using the triple helix theory,and puts forward some ideas for developing the low-carbon economy in China from the aspects of giving full play to the leading function of government in low-carbon economy,strengthening the social responsibility of enterprise,and bring the functions of university into full play in low-carbon economy.


PRELIMINARIES Notation and Abbreviations Basic Set Operations Cardinality of Sets - Finite, Countable, and Uncountable Sets Rings and Algebras of Sets LINEAR, METRIC, AND HILBERT SPACES Linear Spaces Subspaces Factor Spaces (Quotient Spaces) Linear Functionals Null Space (Kernel) of a Functional --Hyperplanes Geometric Interpretation of Linear Functions Normed Linear Spaces Metric Spaces Continuous Mappings Convergence Dense Subsets Closed Sets Open Sets Complex Metric Spaces Completion of Metric Spaces Norm-Induced Metric and Banach Spaces Euclidean Spaces Scalar Products, Orthogonality, and Bases Existence of an Orthogonal Basis Bessel's Inequality, Closed Orthogonal Systems Complete Euclidean Spaces, Riesz-Fischer Theorem Hilbert Spaces Subspaces, Orthogonal Complements, and Direct Sums Characterization of Euclidean Spaces INTEGRATION The Riemann Integral Upper and Lower Riemann Integrals Riemann Integration vs. Lebesgue Integration The Lebesgue Measure on R Measurable Functions Simple Functions Convergence of Measurable Functions Lebesgue Integration Some Properties of the Lebesgue Integral FOURIER ANALYSIS The Spaces L1(c? and L2(c) The Space L1(c? The Space L2(c? Fourier Series Fourier Series of Square Integrable Functions Fourier Series of Absolutely Integrable Functions The Convolution Product on L1(S1) Fourier Transforms Fourier Transforms of Functions in L2 (R) Fourier Transforms of Functions in L1(R) Poisson Summation Formula WAVELET ANALYSIS Time-Frequency Analysis and the Windowed Fourier Transform Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle The Integral Wavelet Transform The Discrete Wavelet Transform Multiresolution Analysis (MRA) of L2(R) Constructing an MRA from a Scaling Function Wavelet Decomposition and Reconstruction of Functions Multiresolution Decomposition and Reconstruction of Functions in L2 (R) The Fast Wavelet Algorithm CONSTRUCTION OF WAVELETS The Battle-Lemarie Family of Wavelets Cardinal B-Splines Cardinal B-Spline MRA of L2(R) Subband Filtering Schemes Bandlimited Functions Discrete Filtering Conjugate Quadrature Filter (CQF) CQFs Arising from MRAs Compactly Supported Orthonormal Wavelet Bases The Structure of M0 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Orthonormality The Cascade Algorithm Biorthogonal Wavelets Linear Phase FIR Filters Compactly Supported o.n. Wavelets are Asymmetric Dual FIR Filters with Exact Reconstruction Dual Scaling Functions and Wavelets Biorthogonal Riesz Bases of Wavelets and Associated MRAs Conditions for Biorthogonality Symmetry for m0 and "m0 Biorthogonal Spline Wavelets with Compact Support WAVELETS IN IMAGE PROCESSING The Burt-Adelson Pyramidal Decomposition Scheme The Smoothing Function H? Mallat's Wavelet-Based Pyramidal Decomposition Scheme The 1-D Fast Wavelet Algorithm An MRA of L2(R2) The Two-Dimensional Wavelet Algorithm Multiscale Edge Representation of Images The 1-D Dyadic Wavelet Algorithm Signal Reconstruction from its 1-D Dyadic Wavelet Transform Method of Alternate Projections The Dyadic Wavelet Transform of Images Image Reconstruction from its 2-D Dyadic Wavelet Transform Image Reconstruction from its 2-D Dyadic Wavelet Transform Method of Alternate Projections in 2-D The Discrete Finite Dyadic Wavelet Transform Double-Layered Image Encoding Multiscale Edge-Based Image Encoding Image Reconstruction from its 2-D Dyadic Wavelet Transform Texture-Based Image Encoding Appendix Index


New tools for the design of metamaterials with periodic microarchitectures are presented. Initially, a two‐scale material design approach is adopted. At the structure scale, the material effective properties and their spatial distribution are obtained through a Free Material Optimization technique. At the microstructure scale, the material microarchitecture is designed by appealing to a Topology Optimization Problem (TOP). The TOP is based on the topological derivative and the level set function. The new proposed tools are used to facilitate the search of the optimal microarchitecture configuration. They consist of the following: (i) a procedure to choose an adequate shape of the unit cell domain where the TOP is formulated and shapes of Voronoi cells associated with Bravais lattices are adopted and (ii) a procedure to choose an initial material distribution within the Voronoi cell being utilized as the initial configuration for the iterative TOP.


Research on intra-organizational evolution determined that variation results from the autonomous strategic behavior of the firm. We revisit this idea by examining a case of induced variation, where...


Some pharmacological effects of a series of indolylethylpyridines have been described. All of the compounds prolonged anesthesia induced in mice by hexobarbital and pentobarbital. With the exception of the 1-substituted indole derivative, the compounds exhibited potent antagonism to amphetamine-stimulated motor activity. These effects were evident in doses which had little or no effect on voluntary motor activity. In the monkey, the N-niethyl indole derivative exerted a calming effect without any evidence of sedation. The results of comparative tests indicate that. the indolvlethylpyridines posess some properties in common with chlorpromazine and meprobamate. The indole derivatives were considerably more potent than meprobamate and although, in general, they were not as potent as chlorpromazine, they appeared be more specific in that they did not exhibit the broad spectrum of depressant activity of chlorpromazine.


In the literature, very few publications are available that deal with the structural response of biocomposite plates with interlayer slips. Realistically, the bonding in the plates is rigid enough to make a significant contribution to the overall structural integrity of the plate, yet flexible enough to permit interlayer shear deformation. A closed-form solution for laminated biocomposite plates assembled with non-rigid bonding and subjected to edgewise loading is presented in this paper. The edgewise load can be uniaxial or biaxial; applied to the facings only, core only, or to both components. The solution satisfies the equilibrium equations of the layers, the compatibility equations of stresses and strains at the interfaces, and the boundary conditions. To investigate the effects of the finite values of bonding stiffness on the mechanical responses of the plates, numerical evaluations are conducted. The results obtained have shown that the adhesive stiffness has a strong effect on the plate mechanical response. Beyond a certain level of stiffness, the usual assumption of perfect bonding used in classical theories is acceptable. This could provide an answer to what constitutes perfect bonding in terms of the ratio of the inner layer stiffness to the bonding stiffness.


Customary arbitration is a concept founded on customary law. Customary laws are those generally accepted, primordial but dynamic rules binding on natives of a given community. They are primordial in the sense that they take their roots from ancient times; and dynamic, because they are susceptible to the vagaries of the time. They have become the mirror of the accepted usage. In Nigeria, the British met a body of these indigenous rules when they came. They chose not to throw away the baby with the bath water. The imperial regime recognised the premium, which the native placed on their customary arbitral rules. In their wisdom, they preserved those rules provided they met certain prescriptions. A custom, therefore, would be enforced where it was found not to be: Repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience; Incompatible, either directly or by implications, with any written law in force; and Contrary to public policy.


This paper aims to explore the potential application of advanced DM techniques for effective utilization of big building operational data. Case studies of mining the operational data of an institutional building for cooling load prediction and operation performance improvement is presented. Deep learning-based prediction techniques, decision tree and association rule mining are adopted to analyze the operational data. The results show that useful knowledge can be extracted for forecasting 24-hour ahead building cooling load profiles, identifying typical building operation patterns and spotting energy conservation opportunities.


Purpose To study the targeted distribution of magnetic drug carrier of iron-carbon composite particles in rabbit liver by application of external complex magnetic field and artery cannulation. Methods A new complex magnetic field combined permanent magnet with pulse magnetic emitter was developed and its magnetic induction curve was measured.Twelve NZW rabbits were randomly assigned to 3 groups,each group had 4 rabbits.①targeting group: Na99mTc O4 iron-carbon composite particles were injected into the left hepatic artery of rabbit and the external complex magnetic field was placed over the surface of the left liver.②Non-targeting group: Na99mTc O4 iron-carbon composite particles were injected into the left hepatic artery of rabbit without external magnetic field.③control group: Na99mTc O4 saline was directly injected into the left hepatic artery of rabbit.Each rabbit received SPECT scintigraphy at 15 min,30 min,1 h,2 h,3 h,4 h after injection.Each rabbit was sacrificed and its left liver was histologically studied after SPECT imaging. Results Complex magnetic field showed significantly improved property of magnetic induction.Targeting group had higher counts/pix of liver ROI than the other two groups in each time span,the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).Magnetic iron-carbon composite particles were distributed in rabbit′s liver cell plasma and matrix in targeting group,while they were only existed in liver sinusoid in non-targeting group. Conclusions Under the direction of external complex magnetic field,magnetic iron-carbon drug carrier can be effectively targeted at rabbit′s liver by interventional approach.


The Mid-Route South-North Water Transfer Project taks water from the Danjiangkou Reservoir to overcome the water shortage in the North China.Once the Reservoir is impounded,the normal water level of the reservoir would rise from the elevation of 157 mto 170 m,and the areas of water-levelfluctuating zone could increase from 232.0km2(between the elevation of 150-160m)to 285.7km2(160-172m).The soils of newly submerged area with different land uses may be a potential source to release nitrogen and phosphorus into the overlying water,causing a huge threat to the water quality of the reservoir.Based on the survey of the existing(between the elevation of 149 m-160 m)and newly increased(160m-172m)water-level-fluctuating zone in Dongkuwan and Caijiadu from northern bank of the Danjiangkou reservoir,several surface soil samples were collected from different land uses and the distribution characteristics of nitrogen,phosphorus under different land uses and elevations were analyzed.The results indicated that the surface soils of beach land and hybrid zone had a higher content of organic matter,with the values of 43.9g/kg-1 and 49.8g/kg-1,respectively,indicating organic matter can easily accumulate in the disturbance place and biodiversity area.The average contents of total phosphorus(TP)and nitorgen(TN)of the existing(between the elevation of 149m-160m)and newly increased(160m-172 m)showed no significant differences(p0.05).In both water-level-fluctuating zones,the soil of orchard had the maximum content and water-soluble phosphorus(WSP).The newly increased(160m-172m)water-level-fluctuating zone had a higher drop-out rate of phosphorus(0.564%)than the existing(between the elevation of 149m-160m)ones,indicating that it is necessary to take measures to prevent the risk of phosphorus loss in the newly increased water-level-fluctuating zone.The contents of TN and organic matter(OM)in the soils of the water-level-fluctuating zone had a significant correlation(p0.01).The TN content in the soil varied from 0.044% to 0.167%,and the farmland and orchard,strongly effected by artificial cultivation,had a relatively high TN contents.Some measures like returning farmland to forests or restoring the vegetation communities are needed to implemented to effectively reduce the loss of nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil of water-level-fluctuating zone.


Thebesian veins are microvascular connections from the coronary arterial supply directly into the heart chambers. While they play an important role in providing nourishment to the myocardium by maintaining adequate perfusion, they are also responsible for a physiologic right to left shunt in the body's circulation. We present a case report of this rare anatomic finding of extensive Thebesian veins causing acute coronary syndrome and Takostubo cardiomyopathy.


Since a few years, the terms of virtual, synthetic or digital actors have been extensively used in order to describe very different kinds of entities. The term "actor" is well-known in the world of cinema and everybody knows it. A Hollywood-like actor is first a human personality. In the context of software, an actor as introduced by Hewitt [1] in 1971 is essentially an object that can send or receive messages. According to Greif and Hewitt [2], actors are defined by their behavior, whatever their shape: a cube that is able to jump by itself and avoid obstacles without intervention of the animator may be also defined as a virtual actor, because it is virtual and because it is able to behave itself.


For the h-Chase (1972) decoding, we investigate some testing conditions that reduce the computational complexity without degradation of the error performance. We show a method for evaluating the testing conditions by reforming them into integer programming problems (IPPs). Some formulas for evaluating a few testing conditions are obtained by solving the IPPs.


Evaluation has a purpose, without it there is no clear basis for knowing how to carry it out. Knowing what the purpose is, it is important to bear in mind that there might be many ways to conduct an evaluation and it can be said that neither is better than the other. McDonough (1992) in Johnson & Johnson points out that a curriculum cannot be evaluated without reference to its context, aims and objectives, designers, managers, teachers and its resource base. This leads to questions such as: What is to be evaluated? Teachers, learners, programme design delivery materials? When is the evaluation to take place? At the end of the course, in the middle, several times? Who is/are the evaluators? Sponsors, teachers, ministry officials, senior staff, external consultants? Why is the evaluation necessary in this situation? It is for development, accountability, assessment purposes? How is the evaluation to be carried out? What is its methodology? After discussing the first four questions, the last one will be presented regarding the research paradigm debate between advocates of positivistic quantitative research methodology and advocates of naturalistic, qualitative research methodology. Lynch (1996: 39) says that rather than forcing a choice between the two he has argued for the "pragmatic stance of allowing the combination of methods from the two paradigms". The last point to discuss will be participatory evaluation and the importance it has for teachers who do not want anything externally imposed. It is possible to think that carrying out this type of evaluation, teachers, students and administrators will gain benefits from the changes proposed by them. As an introduction to this paper it is important to mention that although evaluation is an important part of education it was not until the 1960s that it was seriously taken into consideration. At present it has become of increasing interest to educators and curriculum instructional planners. What is going to be considered here is the background information of some of the evaluations of entire instructional programmes. The meaning of evaluation and its purpose is going to be given. Next the strengths and weaknesses of the quantitative and qualitative approaches will also be dealt with because of the


We study gauge theories on the world-volume of D3-branes probing singularities. Seiberg duality can be realized as a sequence of Picard-Lefschetz monodromies on 3-cycles in the mirror manifold. In previous work, the precise meaning of gauge theories obtained by monodromies that do not correspond to Seiberg duality was unclear. Recently, it was pointed out that these theories contain tachyons, suggesting that the collection of branes at the singularity is unstable. We address this problem using (p,q) web techniques. It is shown that theories with tachyons appear whenever the (p,q) web contains crossing legs. A recent study of these theories with tachyons using exceptional collections proposed the notion of ``well split condition.'' We show the equivalence between the well split condition and the absence of crossing legs in the (p,q) web. The (p,q) web has a natural resolution of crossing legs wich was first studied in the construction of five dimensional fixed points using branes. Exploiting this result, we develop a generic procedure which we propose determines the quiver that corresponds to the stable bound state of D-branes that live on the singularity after the monodromy. This set is generically larger than the original set, meaning that there are extra massless gauge fields and matter fields in the quiver. Alternatively, one can argue that since these gauge and matter fields are initially assumed to be absent, the theory exhibits tachyonic excitations. We illustrate our ideas in an explicit example for D3-branes on a complex cone over dP1, computing both the quiver and the superpotential.


This case is presented to outline a new technique of B‐mode scanning of the infant brain, utilizing the bone free open fontanelles and patent sutures, as well as taking advantage of the relatively thin frontal and parietal bones.


The most appropriate communication mechanism for transfer of packets from one source to another is multicast IPv6 communication. Nowadays, multicast communication plays a major role in a large number of communication applications. In this multicast communication, the message privacy attains a highest position. The members of multicast are dynamic so they permit the host members to enter and depart the cluster without the permission of remaining group members and, it can't provide any transfer without the interference of host, this may reduce the performance. For security enhancement in multicast communication Group Key Management (GKM) was introduced. There are three different approaches in GKM and they were mainly involved to overcome the issues of host mobility in multicast communication. The challenges that are encountered by these GKM approaches their requirements and challenges was also discussed in this paper. Finally, some questions and their explanations were provided along with it. These GKM approaches will improve the privacy of multicast communication. So, the packets can deliver to the group members without any interference.


Threshold logic, in which each input is weighted, has many theoretical advantages over the standard gate realization, such as reducing the number of gates, interconnections, and power dissipation. However, because of the difficult synthesis procedure and complicated circuit implementation, their use in the design of digital systems is almost nonexistant. In this study, three methods of NMOS realizations are discussed, and their advantages and shortcomings are explored. Also, the possibility of using the methods to realize multi-valued logic is examined.