Breeding through genetic transformation offers the possibility to add or modify single traits in cultivars without changing desirable characteristics. In grapevine this technology has been scarcely used, taking into account the economic importance of this crop. Up to now, the breeding of grapevine through genetic transformation has been mainly focused on biotic stress resistance, mainly to fungi and viruses. Among the factors that can explain the limited reports of success are the difficulty in regenerating transgenic plants, the availability of only a few characterized genes, and/or the quantitative character of the trait. Another influencing factor is the negative perception of consumers, mainly in Europe. In this review, we discuss the methodology and factors that have limited the success of grapevine transformation, as well as outlining  the attempts at breeding grapevine through genetic transformation reported so far.  It is expected that the use of transformation, a powerful tool for breeding plants, will increase in grapevine in the coming years as a consequence of the growing knowledge of the function and regulation of grapevine genes and promotors, and of technologies for gene editing.


Cioran, Noica, Eliade or Vulcǎnescu relate their discourse on history to the categories of some social ontology existing before the history itself. As well as Noica and Eliade (though both will concede to the historic reality a possible meaning retaken in philosophical knowledge), Cioran "avoids" history, not trusting its categories of dynamic, contradictory logic, through a skeptical discourse. For him, the creation does not have a historical fundament, being profoundly subjective, a result of a supra-stimulation offered by the time of prophecy.


Unmanned aerial system (UAS) traffic management (UTM) requires each UAS to communicate with each other and to other stakeholders involved in the operation. In practice, there are two types of wireless communication systems established in the UAS community: automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) and remote identification (Remote ID). In between these two systems, there is ADS-B-like communication which leverages using other types of communications available in the market for the purpose of UTM. This review aims to provide an insight into those three systems, based on the published standard documents and latest research development. It also suggests how to construct a feasible communication architecture. The integrative approach is used in this literature review. The review categorization includes definition, data format, technology used, and research applications, and any remaining issues are discussed. The similarities and differences of each system are elaborated, covering practical findings. In addition, the SWOT analysis is conducted based on the findings. Lastly, multi-channel communication for UTM is proposed as a feasible solution in the UTM operation.


This paper introduces the design of Fractional-Order PID controller for highly nonlinear dynamic pH neutralization process. pH control delivers an important role in a wide range of industrial applications. The pH process presents a difficult control problem due to its high nonlinear characteristic as well as uncertainty. A mathematical modeling of pH process is presented in this paper and on this basis classical PID and Fractional-order PID controllers have been designed using constraint based optimization in MATLAB/SIMULINK. The simulation results reflect that the better control quality enhancements and effective disturbance resistance is offered by Fractional-order PID controller as compared to classical PID controller.


Copyright © 2021. The Korean Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Implantology This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. OPEN ACCESS Bone augmentation should be performed to recover a sufficient amount of bone before implant placement at the site where a bone defect occurs due to bone resorption caused by tooth extraction or periodontitis. Currently, bone augmentation through guided bone regeneration is widely used at the site of bone defects. However, after guided bone regeneration, the bone cannot maintain its shape when the procedure is performed at the site of a vertical bone defect. In such a case, bone augmentation for the desired shape can be performed using a titanium-reinforced membrane or titanium mesh to maintain the space three-dimensionally and create a bone shape at the site of the vertical bone defect. Titanium mesh, with its superior mechanical properties, prevents the collapse of the shape at the bone transplantation site, and enhances the stabilization of the wound by maintaining the space, enhancing the effect of bone regeneration, and contributing to the morphological enhancement of the regenerated alveolar bone. In this case, after bone augmentation was performed using titanium mesh at the site where the bone defect was large or a vertical bone defect occurred, the implant was placed, which led to a good outcome.


This paper is based on original research at five Queensland Universities. It compared the teaching strategies of law, education and science academics in an attempt to discover any relationship between teaching strategies and subject matter. It also examined the teaching policy at each university, specifically university definitions of good teaching and its relationship to use of technology. The purpose of this research was to determine whether or not specific understandings of good teaching in the academy prevailed, and whether or not this (dis)advantaged certain faculties.

From an initial case study of QUT, the basic findings from our research were as follows:

• good teaching was found to have two central features: it was student centred and technologically innovative,
• irrespective of discipline, all lecturers espoused the importance of student centred learning as integral to good teaching, even though, in practice, teaching style appeared to be largely determined by subject matter,
• the most innovative and technological units were the least student centred

We conclude that what counts as good teaching is both contested and context bound. This has major implications for monolithic definitions of good teaching as espoused by university policy and teaching units. It also has clear ramifications for university measures of effective and innovative teaching and thus standardised procedures for both academic promotion and teaching practices across the university.


In this paper, the general structure, technical parameter, principle and design of main working parts of 1GL-80 horticulture-typed implement are introduced .It based on rotary tillage, and can hang to many farm implements to working, has advantages of simple construct, easy to turn, wide adaptability.


In this letter, we propose new digital audio watermarking methods using interval wavelet decomposition. We develop not only non-blind type method, but also blind one. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed methods give a watermarked audio clip of better quality and are robust against some attacks.


Radio astronomy observations of close approaches of the Solar system planets to compact radio sources as well as radio source occultations by planets may be of large interest for planetary sciences, dynamical astronomy, and testing gravity theories. In this paper, we present extended lists of occultations of astrometric radio sources observed in the framework of various astrometric and geodetic VLBI programs by planets, and close approaches of planets to radio sources expected in the nearest years. Computations are made making use of the EPOS software package.


This paper will examine the impacts of independent oversight on the development and implementation of radioactive waste management and disposal projects, programs, and facilities in the United States. Approaches used by federally commissioned or sponsored studies will be reviewed, as will oversight activities by public interest groups and professional scientific or technical organizations. The efficacy of these three oversight sources will be evaluated from the perspective of the scientific and technical merit of their recommendations, the consideration given to their concerns and suggestions by regulators or managing entities, and the mechanisms used to get their recommendations implemented. Specifically, independent oversight effectiveness for first-of-a-kind projects will be presented via a review of activities at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Throughout its history, independent oversight has been in evidence at WIPP: as a part of the planning process starting in the mid 1950s; intensifying in the 1970s and 1980s as location selection and layout became important; and continuing today with evaluations of operating procedures and requirements.


The data presented in this report demonstrate that antibodies directed against B-cell specific surface antigens can block different modes of B-cell activation. The anti-CD 19 antibody HD37 strongly blocks the stimulation of thymidine incorporation induced by anti-mu and MLR supernatant and also partially inhibits the growth of long-term EBV-transformed cell lines. The anti-CD20 antibody B1, on the other hand, has little effect on anti-mu activation but prevents the stimulation of thymidine incorporation and transformation by EBV. We conclude that different mechanisms operate during B-cell activation by anti-mu and EBV involving different B-cell surface molecules.


We present a short review of theories based on warped extra dimensions (motivated by the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model) which can accomodate a Higgs boson in the range suggested by the recent LHC results at 7 TeV. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence the Higgs is composite and can be described in the dual theory by a bound state of the 4D CFT. We have classified the theories in those with a scalar Higgs (5D SM) and those where the Higgs is the fifth component (gauge-Higgs unification) of a bulk gauge field.


Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the working length values of two different types of electronic apex locators (Propex II AND DentaPort ZX), and paralleling radiographic method in mandibular primary second molars of the children between the age group of 5 to 7 years. Material & Methods: A study was carried out on 150 root canals from 50 children in primary second molars indicated for pulpectomy in children of age 5-7 years attending Department of Pedodontics, Government Dental College & Hospital, Ahmedabad. The standard procedure for pulpectomy was carried out and the root canal length was clinically measured with the help of electronic apex locator (Propex II & DentaPort ZX) and paralleling radiographic method. The values were subjected to one-way ANOVA test. Results: In the current study, mean canal length by Propex II apex locator was 13.158, DentaPort ZX was 13.046 and paralleling radiography was 13.021 for MB (Mesio-buccal) canal respectively, for ML (Mesio-lingual) canal the values were 13.054, 13.08 and 13.066 respectively. For D (Distal) canal mean values were 13.546, 13.47 and 13.476 respectively by ProPex II, DentaPort ZX and paralleling radiographic method. The values were subjected to one-way ANOVA test and there is no significant difference in the mean root length measurements from the three techniques (P > 0.05) for all the three root canals. Conclusion: Hence to conclude, electronic apex locator is comparable to paralleling radiography in working length determination without radiation exposure in primary teeth.


The article reveals a specific important role of pagan generic semantics in a controversy about the Tsar's power in the texts of ancient Russia XV-XVI centuries. Describes the influence of pagan Mongol-Tatar symbols on the Russian symbolic system. Considered the idea of a symphony between secular and spiritual power.


The invention discloses an electric pumping silica-based MgxZn1-xO film ultraviolet random laser and a manufacturing method thereof. The random laser has a structure as follows: the MgxZn1-xO (x is more than 0 and less than or equal to 0.35) film, a dielectric film and an electrode are deposited on the front face of a silica substrate from bottom to top in sequence and an ohmic contact electrode is deposited on the back face of the silica substrate, wherein the dielectric is silicon oxide, aluminum oxide or silicon nitride. The silica-based random laser does not need a traditional laser cavity resonator and has simple preparation technique. In addition, equipment used is compatible with the prior mature planar technology of silica devices. Therefore, the silica-based random laser has potential application in respect of phoelectron integration and the like.


Due to the increase in life expectancy and therefore the prevalence of chronic pathologies, health services have required a change, as well as healthcare. One of these chronic pathologies is obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), which is a disorder characterized by an occlusion of the upper airway, an issue that causes an interruption of breathing inducing transient asphyxia. The treatment of this disease is based on continuous positive airway pressure devices (CPAP), but the main caregiver faces problems of adherence to this treatment, causing a deterioration both physically, socially, and psychologically. Therefore, the objective of this present work is to 1) identify the characteristics of OSAS, 2) describe adherence to treatment, and 3) detail the biopsychosocial deterioration of the main caregiver of this pathology in the elderly.


We investigate light wave propagation through a one-axis anisotropic medium layer with simultaneously non-unit dielectric and magnetic tensors. 4x4 - Δ▵(see manuscript) matrix is built. We consider the general case when the dielectric and magnetic permittivity tensor elements have both positive and negative sings. We obtained the dispersion equation and then built dispersion surfaces for a homogeneous anisotropic uniaxial material when the material is negative or positive (both with respect to the wave vector and Pointing's vector orientation of the refracted wave; the sign of the material is accordingly defined below.) Electromagnetic plane waves propagating inside the medium can exhibit dispersion surfaces in the form of ellipsoids of revolution, hyperboloids of one sheet, or hyperboloids of two sheets. The conditions of negative refraction with respect to the wave vector and Pointing's vector orientation are considered. We found wave nonreciprocity for the oblique incidence on the considered system and we showed that such a system can work as an alloptical diode.


The application of Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and some associated hydrostatic forces in civil engineering is discussed. The method for backfi lling of drainage structures using a fl owable fi ll is examined.


This study examines the teaching behavior of physical education (PE) teachers in teaching students with special needs and the factors that determine their teaching behaviour. An extended theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was utilised as the theoretical framework. Three secondary and two high school PE teachers participated in the study. Data collection consisted of systematic and non-participant observations of teaching behaviour of PE teachers, as well as semi-structured interviews on the factors that determine their behaviours. Results revealed that four of five participants interacted more verbally and less physically with students with special needs. Peer partners were used to enhance the learning of students with special needs. Only two teachers modified their instruction and equipment for students with special needs. Sometimes, teachers excluded this group of students from cooperative activities. Extended TPB components, including attitude, moral norm, affective beliefs, social norm, and perceived behaviour control, were identified to determine the intention of PE teachers to teach students with special needs and their inclusive teaching practice. The study has important implications for policy and practice of inclusive PE.


The various systems to collect and circulate information from the production machine to the palletisers are now integrated in the information structure of the factory and connected in a distributed process structure. The system developed by MSC is made of a mould number reader, a line supervisor computer which supplies vital information to the operator and a distributed information system to send data to the technical management. A terminal at the hot end, near the production machine, informs the operator in real time about fault-mould taken from the machine with rotative station as well as rejects which have been automatically programmed. The arrival of the mould number without rotation, the LNMP, on the camera inspection machine allows a strict association of the various defects with cavity number The production report can include the loss of production from the gobs to the palletiser on each machine for each hour of production and for every eight hour shift.


Experiments were conducted at three sites to examine effects of applying different nitrogen(N) fertilisers at 45kg N ha -1 , with and without phosphorus (P), potassium (K) and sulphur (S) on dairy pasture nutritive value and mineral content in autumn and spring. Pasture nutritive value was assessed by measures of crude protein (CP), metabolisable energy (ME), water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC) and neutral detergent fibre (NDF)). Pasture mineral content was assessed by estimates of the major minerals phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sulphur (S), sodium (Na), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), and trace minerals manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu) and zinc (Zc). Apart from some exceptions, applications of N, with and without additional P, K and S generally increased pasture CP and ME content in autumn and CP content in spring. Again with some exceptions, pasture WSC content was unaffected by fertiliser application in autumn, but was decreased by some treatments (containing N and N with P, K and S) in spring. Fertiliser treatments generally had no effect on pasture NDF content at Sites 1 and 3 during autumn and spring. At Site 2, some treatments (containing N and N with P, K and S) reduced pasture NDF content in autumn while during spring some treatments (containing N and N with P, K and S) increased pasture NDF content. Different N fertilisers applied at the same rate, with and without additional P, K and S, generally produced the same effect on pasture nutritive value. The application of P, K and S in the absence of N generally had no effect on pasture nutritive value. Apart from some exceptions, pasture P content was increased by fertiliser treatments including P, K and S, but N on its own did not influence pasture P content. Pasture K content was generally not influenced by treatment. At Site 1 during autumn and spring, and at Site 3 during spring, treatments containing P, K and S increased pasture S content while applications of N had no effect. At Site 2 during autumn, P, K and S increased pasture S content relative N only, while during spring pasture S content was generally increased by all treatments. At Site 3 during autumn, applications of N decreased pasture S content while P, K and S increased pasture S content relative to no fertiliser. Pasture Na and Ca content were generally not influenced by treatment. Pasture Mg content was not influenced by treatment at Sites 2 and 3. At Site 1 during autumn and spring, however, some treatments(containing N and N with P, K and S) increased pasture Mg content. Fertiliser treatments produced no consistent patterns or differences with respect to trace minerals (Mn, Fe, Cu and Zn). Keywords: Australia; autumn; botany; carbohydrates; crude protein; dairy pastures; fertilizer; Lolium perenne ; metabolisable energy; mineral content; neutral detergent fibre; nitrogen; nutritional value; pastures; phosphorus; potassium; spring; Trifolium repens ; Victoria; water-soluble carbohydrates; calcium; carbohydrate; copper; cu; effects; energy; fibre; iron; magnesium; manganese; minerals; mn; na; pasture; pasture nutritive value; pattern; protein; sodium; treatment; treatments; zinc; zn African Journal of Range & Forage Science , Vol. 15(3), pp. 109–116


Abstract 3662 The differential diagnosis among the commonest peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCLs) (i.e. PTCL not otherwise specified, NOS; angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, AITL; and anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALCL) is difficult, the morphologic and phenotypic features being largely overlapping. Noteworthy, recent international studies indicated significant differences in their clinical behavior as well as concerning the presence of potential therapeutic targets. We performed whole genome gene expression profiling (GEP) of PTCLs aiming to identify molecular signatures able to improve their diagnosis. We studied 95 PTCLs, including 73 PTCLs/NOS, 12 ALCLs (6 ALK+ and 6 ALK-), and 10 AITLs. All tissue samples were formalin-fixed and paraffin embedded (FFPE). GEP was performed by Illumina Whole Genome DASL Assay. First, we documented the efficiency of GEP from FFPE tissues by comparing the mRNA levels and the presence of the corresponding protein, including expressed (i.e. CD3) and not expressed (i.e. BCL10) molecules. Secondly, we tried to discriminate different PTCLs basing on their GEPs. By dividing a training (N=47) and a test set (N=48), we found 2 signatures able to differentiate PTCL/NOS vs. AITL and PTCL/NOS vs. ALCL ALK-. Specifically, in the test set the sensitivity (ST) and specificity (SP) of the assays were 100% – 80% (PTCL/NOS vs. AITL) and 100% – 100% (PTCL/NOS vs. ALK- ALCL) (Table 1). Accordingly, the positive (PPV) and negative (NPV) predicting values for the identification of PTCL/NOS were 0.92 and 1 (vs. AITL) and 1 and 1 (vs. ALK- ALCL) (Table 1). Interestingly, the identified genes represented relevant functional pathways differentially regulated in the 3 tumour types, including protein kinase cascade, proliferation, and cell cycle. When applied to the test set of cases, the assay correctly classified 37/40 PTCLs/NOS (92.5%), 5/5 AITLs, and 3/3 ALK- ALCLs. Finally, we tested our signatures on 133 independent PTCL cases (including 78 PTCL/NOS, 43 AITL, and 12 ALK- ALCL) for which GEP data were available on the GEO database and were originally obtained from fresh/frozen tissues. Interestingly, we could efficiently recognize PTCL/NOS cases vs. AITLs (ST, 85%; SP 86%; PPV 0.92; NPV 0.76) and vs. ALK- ALCLs (ST 96%; SP 73%; PPV 0.96; NPV 0.73). In conclusion, we successfully generated for the first time GEP from routinary FFPE PTCL samples, identifying molecular signatures potentially useful for the clinical practice and, specifically, for the differential diagnosis of PTCL types. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


The present study deals with the synthesis of new ligand N-(4-phenylthiazol-2-yl)-2(pyridin-2-yl-methylene) hydrazinecarboxamide and it's Cu (II), Co (II), Ni (II) and Zn (II) complexes and study their antimicrobial activity. The newly prepared compounds are characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, 1H NMR, mass, UV-visible and ESR spectral techniques. The elemental analysis data and spectral study indicates octahedral geometry for Cu (II), Co (II) and Ni (II) complexes and tetrahedral geometry for Zn (II) complex. All the compounds were tested for antimicrobial activity, the Cu (II) and Co (II) complexes showed good antimicrobial activity.


When it comes to buy a product, emotion plays a key role in making decision. Designers tend to stimulate desired emotions through design to push consumers to buy specific products more than others. Emotional responses of individuals are related to their culture. Therefore, many companies apply cultural features into their products to attract customers. Cultural features are elements that represents a specific culture. They can be divided into two kinds of features: visual and non-visual. Design patterns are considered one of visual cultural features. In this paper, we concentrate on studying Islamic design patterns and exploring consumers' emotional responses towards different kinds of Islamic design patterns. This paper fill the gap in the area of emotional measurement of cultural elements. This can help designers to develop designs that use the more emotional patterns. It also can help companies in marketing products in a more competing world.


The title wa wrw Spntjw is well known from 4th dynasty wall decoration. At that time, the bearer was functioned mainly as "the uniqueof great of the Spntjw". It has been an attested title since the oldKingdom. The wa wrw Spntjw is a person acting as a unique personfrom Wadi Natroun. Moreover, it was established that the importanceof that person depends on the administration employing him and thehierarchical level occupied. In this study, the author establishesthat this title can be employed according to a specific scheme inwhich the title refers to a person. Relying on all the reachableexamples, the author proves the ambivalence of the Spntjw, bothsubstitute and leader, and proposes to translate the term by "Truchsesse" in the cases corresponding to that scheme. His hypothesesare confirmed by the study of several particular cases. The aim ofthis paper is to examine the social standing of the wa wrw Spntjw byconcentrating on known tombs and objects of this title's bearers(e. g. the tomb of Ra-Htp), specifically tombs that contain a completelist of titles.


Information and communication technology is very influential in improving the quality of education administration to carry out tasks in accordance with the vision, mission and goals of the school. The importance of technology in improving the quality of education administration will affect the quality and quality of schools. The research method uses field research. Sources of data obtained through information and communication with SMA Negeri 1 Temanggung. The results of the study are 1) Through the process of developing information and communication technology at SMA N 1 Temanggung, it has developed and made a significant contribution. 2) The urgency of information and communication technology plays a role in improving the quality of education.


To acquire the substrate of high thermal conductivity, the technology for the growth of alumina film on aluminum substrates of high purity is investigated. The electric properties, temperature characteristic and surface topography of the aluminum substrates with alumina film are also analyzed. The results show that the substrates possess high thermal conductivity and excellent electric property, and meet the requirements of SMT.


Experiment is a research endeavor that examines the relationship between ENSO and other climate-related phenomena and human health, and explores the potential for using climate forecast information to provide early warning of conditions posing a public health threat. The project is coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and was initiated in 1997 as a result of the colloquium. The ENSO Experiment studied the 1997-1998 ENSO then underway; today, studies sponsored by several different agencies continue to track the human health aftermath of that phenomenon. Second, modeling studies must be undertaken to elucidate links between climate and infectious disease. According to the report, one of the primary goals of model building for research on weather-disease links is to be able to predict outbreaks of disease in response to particular climatic variables. The report says models are needed not only to organize and assess the new data that are being collected, but also to reassess data that are already available. Several new models are being developed, such as a model by Mercedes Pascual of the Center of Marine Biotechnology at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute in Baltimore, which will examine the predictability of cholera in endemic regions and its relationship to climate variability. Third, the report stresses the need for collaboration and communication among scientists, and between scientists and the public. The report calls for an international collabora-tive research effort and the establishment of new research centers specifically to study the relationship between climate, weather, and disease. The report also cites the need for increased and longer-term funding. Traditional research fund-J ing cycles run 2-3 years, j which is in sharp contrast to the 25 years recommended by the report for a comprehensive study documenting the weather-disease relationship. The report particularly stresses the need to develop new weather-disease databases, linked nationally and internationally , that are interdisciplinary in content and accessible to all interested researchers, and to link existing databases maintained by independent groups of scientists. The report points out that, while there are electronic data sets to be found all over the world, few of the existing databases are either coordinated or designed to be used in conjunction with others. Finally, the report calls for the drafting of a shared terminology to unite scientists separated by language and discipline, and for scientific journals to publish weather-disease articles that straddle traditional disciplinary boundaries. The report also urges graduate and …


TRADITIO!l:ALLY, THE PHARMACIST has played an essential part in safeguarding the public against the manifold dangers inherent in the development, production, and distribution of medicines. Developments in science and technology have radically changed the practice of pharmacy hut our aims remain the same. As Professor Shotton recently emphasized, pharmaceutics must have its roots in the basic sciences and apply the principles of pure science to the elucidation of the problems of formulation. In applying these principles we must always bear in mind that the end result of our labors is to produce medicines for human treatment. In the past, we have perhaps tended to overlook the influence of pharmaceutical formulation on the performance of the preparation in the human patient. This is a field of growing interest .. and it is one in which the hospital pharmacist can make a useful contribution by becoming a more effective link between the medical practitioner and his pharmaceutical colleagues in industry and academic pharmacy.


65 Thirty-five or so women, men, and children wearing costume and make-up — a considerable cast — have crowded onto a small stage to perform an allegorical tableau vivant. They are organized into a pyramid with a large base, at the apex of which stands Britannia, above the other figures, holding her characteristic trident and shield. Britannia is flanked by figures representing the forces of order : a Mountie to her left and a member of the military to her right, as well as a third, on the other side of the soldier, in blackface and wearing a costume that is indecipherable given the size, resolution, and lighting of the photograph. Right below them, three young women who represent England, Scotland, and Wales, and then more, but unreadable, personifications of countries to the left and right, some in blackface, men wearing Mountie and military uniforms, and some children sitting or reclining on the floor. Spectators watch the scene from loges to the left and right of the stage, while two rows of musicians can be seen in the pit. | fig. 1 | The title of the performance and circumstances of the event are given to us by an inscription at the bottom of the image — Tableau Representing Great Britain and Her Colonies at a Concert Given in Aid of the Widows and Orphans Created by the War with the Transvaal — which also informs us that the photo was taken by the duo Larss & Duclos at the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson, Yukon, on February 15, 1900. The inscription bears the number 2568, in keeping with the photographers' numbering system, as well as the information "Flash Light Photo," a detail that alerts us to the technical prowess involved in taking the photograph. It is difficult to ascertain from what exact spot in the theatre the photograph was taken. A photo of a concert held at the Palace Grand ca. 1898 in honour of George Washington's birthday shows the hall as rather vast, which suggests that the photographers might have stood on a contraption in the middle of the seating area built especially for the event in February 1900. | fig. 2 | The tableau vivant, by its very immobility, made it a perfect subject for such a photograph given the technical limitations of the medium at the time. Tableau Representing Great Britain and Her Colonies, which the photography historian Martha Langford has described as "a tour de force on any scale, photographic, political, or musical,"1 has yet to be examined in any detail. This article proposes one such study, specifically in relation to issues of colonialism and gender. What I will argue in this analysis of this dual object of study — the tableau vivant and the photograph of the tableau vivant — is that what might Le 15 février 1900 avait lieu à Dawson au Yukon un concert bénéfice pour venir en aide aux familles de soldats canadiens morts pendant la Guerre d'Afrique du Sud. Pendant ce concert fut présenté un tableau vivant mettant en scène environ trente-cinq femmes, hommes et enfants, costumés et en blackface, qui incarnaient la GrandeBretagne et ses colonies. Cet article propose une première lecture détaillée de ce tableau vivant pris en photo par le duo de photographes Larss et Duclos. L'analyse de ce double objet d'étude (le tableau vivant et la photo du tableau vivant) démontre que ce qui peut paraître à première vue comme une représentation anodine et quelque peu excentrique d'une performance amateure au Yukon au tournant du XXe siècle se révèle au contraire comme un marqueur et un vecteur des processus liés de la colonisation du nord-ouest du Canada et de la construction nationale du jeune pays, et que les femmes jouèrent un rôle central dans ces processus liés.


In order to reduce the adverse effect on the cluster course of unusual data, an improved method of Hierarchica1 C1uster of Minimum Variance to analyze sample data of investigation is used, which can discover varied characters of different groups of customers in Customer Relationship Management. Cluster course and relatively rational grouping result are directly perceived through the senses.


Significance Zinc is essential for animal life, and zinc levels are carefully regulated by homeostatic mechanisms. In the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, the HIZR-1 nuclear receptor directly binds zinc and mediates high zinc homeostasis by regulating transcription. Cadmium is structurally similar to zinc but is a prevalent environmental toxin. Here, we explore how animals respond to these similar metals. The results suggest that cadmium hijacks the high zinc homeostasis response by directly binding and activating HIZR-1. This is an example of cadmium functioning as an activating ligand for a zinc-regulated protein in contrast to the prevailing model that cadmium binding causes protein dysfunction. These results elucidate the interplay between these two metals and reveal an unexpected mechanism of cadmium transcriptional control. Cadmium is an environmental pollutant and significant health hazard that is similar to the physiological metal zinc. In Caenorhabditis elegans, high zinc homeostasis is regulated by the high zinc activated nuclear receptor (HIZR-1) transcription factor. To define relationships between the responses to high zinc and cadmium, we analyzed transcription. Many genes were activated by both high zinc and cadmium, and hizr-1 was necessary for activation of a subset of these genes; in addition, many genes activated by cadmium did not require hizr-1, indicating there are at least two mechanisms of cadmium-regulated transcription. Cadmium directly bound HIZR-1, promoted nuclear accumulation of HIZR-1 in intestinal cells, and activated HIZR-1–mediated transcription via the high zinc activation (HZA) enhancer. Thus, cadmium binding promotes HIZR-1 activity, indicating that cadmium acts as a zinc mimetic to hijack the high zinc response. To elucidate the relationships between high zinc and cadmium detoxification, we analyzed genes that function in three pathways: the pcs-1/phytochelatin pathway strongly promoted cadmium resistance but not high zinc resistance, the hizr-1/HZA pathway strongly promoted high zinc resistance but not cadmium resistance, and the mek-1/sek-1/kinase signaling pathway promoted resistance to high zinc and cadmium. These studies identify resistance pathways that are specific for high zinc and cadmium, as well as a shared pathway.


integration requires development of low thermal budget process modules. High-quality SiO2 interfacial layer (IL), obtained up to now only by high-temperature (≥850°C) oxidation or exposure, is crucial for pMOS NBTI reliability. In unannealed IL's grown at reduced temperatures, we show that unrelaxed interface strain induces high defect densities, with physics-based NBTI modeling suggesting excessive hydroxyl-E' defect formation due to Si-O bond stretch. Based on ab-initio theoretical insights, we demonstrate an atomic hydrogen treatment to passivate SiO2 defects at low temperatures (100-300°C), which is shown to be vastly more effective than high pressure molecular hydrogen exposure, and to yield an SiO2 quality and reliability surpassing a 900°C oxide.


In order to improve the ability of condition monitoring and fault diagnostic system, a fault diagnostic method based on interval value fuzzy neural networks for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of in large machinery is proposed. This method integrates different intelligent diagnostic techniques, includes knowledge sets, interval value fuzzy sets, fuzzy neural networks and fuzzy pattern recognition. By emulation test, the method has been applied to fault diagnosis in large machinery of some refinery.


This study, conducted by Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas examined the perceptions of 104 school administrators regarding the use of career advancement portfolios in the hiring process. The study occurred in rural, suburban, and urban school districts in the greater Houston, Texas area. Participants completed a four-question interview that examined: (1) the extent to which selected practicing administrators were familiar with the career advancement portfolio; (2) the extent to which individuals used career advancement portfolios in interviews; (3) expectations the administrators had for career advancement portfolios with regard to contents; and (4) administrators' recommendations regarding the use of career advancement portfolios during the interview process. Results indicated that 68 percent of the administrators were familiar with career advancement portfolios, though very few were familiar with their use among administrative candidates or hired administrative candidates who presented their portfolios during interviews. About half of the respondents would like to see evidence of conferences or workshops attended or presented in career advancement portfolios. Others wanted to see resumes and evaluations of past performance. Most administrators did not know how career advancement portfolios should be used during the interview process. Of those with suggestions, most recommended presenting them prior to the interview. (Contains 13 references.) (SM) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ******************************************************************************** Career Advancement Portfolio Running Head: CAREER ADVANCEMENT PORTFOLIOS Recent Developments in the Use of Career Advancement Portfolios for Administrators: Implications for Leadership Preparation Programs Genevieve Brown, Ed.D. Professor & Chair Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling Sam Houston State University Huntsville, Texas 77341 409-294-1144 e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


An X-ray Tomograph has been constructed to measure the mechanical accuracy of the ATLAS Muon chambers. Here we report on the choice of the measurement scheme, the global calibration procedure and practical aspects of the calibration. We reached for the measurement accuracy a value of 2 μm systematic and 2 μm statistical uncertainties in the horizontal and vertical directions. The measurement area is up to 220 cm (horizontal) by 60 cm (vertical).


A novel procedure employing moire interferometry has been successfully implemented for the accurate in-situ calibration of stress chips. Strains were measured by this accurate and extremely sensitive technique at the locations of the gauges and related to corresponding gauge-resistance changes. The approach is immune from many of the drawbacks of earlier calibration procedures and has eliminated the need to know the piezoresistive properties of the strain-gauge material, which constituted a major difficulty in properly interpreting gauge-resistance changes in terms of strains at the gauge locations. A characteristic gauge factor, S, for each type of strain gauge has been introduced and shown to be the only gauge character to be determined. It reflects how different gauge types react to the same strain. It is suggested that the strain gauges be designed such that the gauge factor is as high as possible, thereby minimizing sensitivity to measurement errors. In addition to being flexible and applicable to new and existing stress chips, the procedure is expected to spread the use of diffused-resistor strain gauges as a realistic monitor of chip strains in addressing reliability concerns.<<ETX>>


This paper describes a 200 Mbit/s multiservice optical local area network (LAN) using a synchronous TDM loop structure. The LAN consists of a central supervisory node and multiple service nodes connected by an optical fiber loop. Each service node supports communication channels which have access to allocated time slots in TDM frames continuously circulating on the loop. Multiple independent communication paths of various speeds up to 140 Mbits/s and various modes including point-to-point, ring, and multicast, can be provided between the channels on the loop. The ring will be useful to support ring networks, such as a token ring. The structure of this LAN is quite suitable for integration of multiple services, including video, image, data, and voice, since each service can independently choose its own speed, access method, and mode. In this development, various LSI-based high-speed hardware technologies including compact E/O and O/E modules, GaAs 4 × 4 matrix switch LSI's, and high-speed TDM-processor LSI's, which are versatilely applicable to high-speed LAN's ranging from 100 Mbits/s up to 560 Mbits/s, have been successfully introduced and compact LAN equipment has been obtained. This paper deals mainly with the system and hardware structure of this LAN, together with high-speed hardware technologies. An outline of firmware and network operation, and an application example are also described.


Purpose
The purpose of this study is to provide a review of the emergent literature to advance the current understanding of the business model (BM) concept in a context in which more than one actor is actively involved in the development and delivery of a joint offer based on information and communication technologies.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses a systematic literature review approach. The review is based on 25 systematically selected publications published from 2000 to 2018 and retrieved from bibliographic databases and through a process of snowballing.

Findings
The authors found several alternative conceptualizations of a BM at a network level, which highlighted different elements as core components. Based on this, authors' findings suggest the literature has a fragmented view of what the BM concept entails at a network level, and of which actors are relevant. Conversely, there is a consensus that a single-firm view is inadequate for describing and studying joint value architectures because of its inability to consider all involved actors and their activities and resources. Therefore, a network-oriented view, as a relational aggregator, is seen as a possible way forward.

Originality/value
The study contributes to the current understanding of a BM concept at a network level and suggests three viewpoints from which to interpret value architectures at different levels of analysis: single-firm view, dyadic-level view and network-oriented view. Furthermore, the authors highlight several gaps to be studied and provide avenues for future research opportunities for scholars.


The experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of rainfall and four nonionic surfactants on the imazethapyr efficacy in velvetleaf,Abutilon theophrasti. The results showed imazethapyr is a herbicide with excellent rainfastness. The differences of phytotoxicity of imazethapyr under simulated rainfall applied 4 h and 8 h after treatment or no any rainfall are not significant. The addition of nonionic surfactants increased imazethapyr efficacy significantly. Among 4 tested surfactants, AM100 increased the phytotoxicity of imazethapyr to the greatest extent, the second is PPJ15, and the last one is SDP. The function of adjuvants to enhance phytotoxicity is more significant with lower dosage of imazethapyr.


In recent years, the penalty costs involved in project failures have become a serious issue for the Public Administration budget. The reason of such escalation in contract management costs is twofold: first, the increased application complexity demands for systems with an underlying evolutionary technology; on the other side, the administrative procedures inertia fails to guarantee a sufficient preliminary investigation to design projects. The contract management mechanism adopted in the Public Administration is stiff and subject to strict procedures with bounded requirements. However, the effectiveness of such procedures limits to the extent of preliminary analysis by setting the rules for the competition notice. Very little control is left to the refinement of technical aspects after a tender for contracts has been entrusted. In order to respond to the increased complexity of today computing applications, we propose the introduction of an assessment procedure, which spans the project life cycle, as whole: from the very beginning, to the administrative inquiry, up to the official testing.


ABSTRACT Most scholarship on participatory budgeting (PB) has highlighted its impact on democratic processes and redistributive outcomes, but there is also an implicit argument associating it with citizenship learning processes at the individual and collective levels. As a mechanism for social interactions, it is often called a 'school of citizenship' nurturing the development of 'better citizens' who participate as agents and members of a political community. This relation is, however, more ambiguous in practice. The article looks at this relationship and at the rise of so-called participatory democratic citizenship. Drawing from surveys conducted among PB participants in two Brazilian cities in 2009 (Porto Alegre) and 2014 (Belo Horizonte), the article shows that, at the individual level, multiple trajectories of citizenship can emerge among participants and can coexist in participatory processes. Contrary to the common wisdom, the article brings to light the complexity of differentiated citizenship learning processes among individuals active in participatory mechanisms. These cases thus show that PB does not necessarily contribute to the creation of a civic community, that is, a durable and active form of social organization that fosters the rise of a participatory and democratic citizenship.


Objective To observe the changes of peripheral blood dendritic cell(DC) subgroup in amount in pulmonary tuberculosis patients.Methods DC1 and DC2 subgroups were detected in peripheral blood of 70 pulmonary tuberculosis patients by tricolor analytic method of flow cytometry.Results In active stage of pulmonary tuberculosis,DC1/PBMC,DC2/PBMC and the absolute quantity of DC1,DC2 in peripheral blood were significantly lower than healthy subjects(P0.05) and DC1/DC2 ratio was significantly higher(P0.05).In inactive stage of pulmonary tuberculosis,DC1/PBMC,DC2/PBMC and the absolute quantity of DC1,DC2,DC1/DC2 ratio in peripheral blood showed no significant difference with that of healthy subjects(P0.05);The absolute quantity of DC2 in active stage of pulmonary tuberculosis was obviously lower than that in inactive stage(P0.05).Conclusion The percentage and the absolute quantity of DC1 and DC2 subgroups in peripheral blood in active stage of pulmonary tuberculosis are lower than the healthy subjects,suggesting DC can reflect the immune function of pulmonary tuberculosis patients,the patients' condition and illuminate the immunopathogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis.


Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The energy around us 2. Molecular contacts 3. Diffusion and directed transport 4. Energy production 5. Force and movement 6. Load bearing 7. Fluid and air flow 8. Biophysical interfaces: surface tension and membrane structural properties 9. Membrane electrical properties 10. Agonist activation and analysis 11. Stability, complexity and non-linear systems Concluding remarks Index.


Thirty hybrids were mated by NCⅡ with 6 herbicide-resistant indica restorer lines as male and 5 popular sterile lines as female.The herbicide resistance of seedling and combining ability of main agronomic traits were analyzed in all these materials.The restorer lines and three-line hybrids showed completely resistant to herbicide,while two-line hybrids displayed over 90% resistant level.The significant difference of GCA(general combination ability) between female parents for all traits but PN(panicle number per plant),whereas between male parents for all traits were detected.The SCA(specific combining ability) of hybrids reached significant difference for YP(yield per plant),SSR(seed setting ratio),KGW(1000-grain weight) and DS(days from sowing to heading).Among the sterile lines,Jinke 1A had the highest GCA effect in traits such as YP,SSR and so on but the lowest VSCA(Variance of SCA);Guangzhan 63-4S showed the highest GCA and VSCA of KGW,most negative effect of GCA in DS;C815S showed the most negative effect of GCA and higher VSCA in PH(plant height).Among the restorer lines,Huakanghui 101 had the highest GCA and VSCA in PN;Huakanghui 104 had the highest GCA in PL(panicle length),the highest negative effect in DS;Huakanghui 105 had the highest GCA in YP,SSR and so on,and negative GCA effect in PH;Huakanghui 106 had the highest GCA and VSCA in KGW.Taken together,it is feasible to obtain herbicide-resistant hybrids with strong heterosis using herbicide-resistant restorer lines as male through comprehensive mating of parents with high GCA and VSCA.


This is work in progress, which presents the principles and some solutions to be implemented on the construction of a mobile app in a form of a digital museum for the Carnival Cultural Association Afro Krewe Ile Aiye. Based in Salvador -- Bahia -- Brazil, this Association develops several political-cultural and educational activities to combat racism through arts and music. In order to create this museum, we are transposing the chains of processes which characterise a museological institution, aiming at emphasizing the collaborative aspect on the management, diffusion of the acquis and memory of this Krewe with the intense participation of its audience through the experiences proportioned by the utilization of technology for the construction of mobile apps.


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Interactions of a modern rotor blade with concentrated tip vortices from the previou blades can have a significant influence on the airloads and the aeroacoustics of a


A programme of re-imagining the curriculum has been undertaken in a computing school at a UK university. The aim of the programme is to furnish students with the employability awareness and skills required by industry-ready graduates to sustain careers in the computer industry. Employability is being enhanced by more closely aligning the teaching environment, including pedagogy, assessments and workspace, with that of a typical IT workplace environment.


used for the solution with more complicated body shapes. An expression is derived for the height cleared, above an original supporting ground plane, in terms of the parameters that describe the body and its initial conditions. The maximization of this transcendental expression, subject to certain equality and inequality constraints on the variables, which arise naturally in the problem formulation, is necessarily accomplished numerically using nonlinear constrained optimization techniques. The parameter space of body descriptors in which the optimal solution (height cleared and the associated control variables that permit this) is presented, is shown to decompose into two regions in which the optimal solutions differ qualitatively. Introduction


a rural hospital 24 hours before trans¬ fer by air ambulance. The next morn¬ ing, although suffering from severe headache and vomiting, he was conscious. A spinal tap was performed and within a few minutes he became deeply comatose and apneic. Assisted respiration was instituted and im¬ mediate transfer was arranged. On admission approximately four hours later the patient had no spontaneous respirations. The pupils were dilated and fixed, and bilateral papilledema with fundal hemorrhages was evident. He was areflexic and no spontaneous movements could be elicited. The blood pressure was 88/60 and the pulse rate 130 per minute and regular. No abnormality was noted in the left ear. A vain attempt to resuscitate the patient was made by infusing mannitol and instituting ventricular drain¬ age, but spontaneous breathing did not return and the patient died the next morning while still on the respirator.


Traditionally, the performance of blind SIMO channel estimates has been characterized in a deterministic fashion, by identifying those channel realizations that are not blindly identifiable. In this paper, we focus instead on the performance of Zero-Forcing (ZF) Linear Equalizers (LEs) or Decision-Feedback Equalizers (DFEs) for fading channels when they are based on (semi-)blind channel estimates. Although it has been known that various (semi-)blind channel estimation techniques have a receiver counterpart that is matched in terms of symbol knowledge hypotheses, we show here that these (semi-)blind techniques and corresponding receivers also match in terms of diversity order: the channel becomes (semi-)blindly unidentifiable whenever its corresponding receiver structure goes in outage. In the case of mismatched receiver and (semi-blind) channel estimation technique, the lower diversity order dominates. Various cases of (semi-)blind channel estimation and corresponding receivers are considered in detail. To be complete however, the actual combination of receiver and (semi-)blind channel estimation lowers somewhat the diversity order w.r.t. the ideal picture.


1. Concentrations of nucleic acids and proteins, and the activity of aspartyl transcarbamylase of the thymus, spleen, liver and kidney have been studied in normal, leukemic and pyridoxine-deficient mice of AKR strain.2. There are significantly more RNA concentrations of the thymus, spleen and liver in leukemic mice than in the corresponding tissues in normal mice, whereas DNA concentration did not vary in the corresponding tissues. In pyridoxine-deficient mice, DNA was less in the thymus, spleen and liver than in normal mice, while RNA concentrations of the thymus in pyridoxinedeficient mice were drastically decreased than those of normal mice.3. Concentrations of proteins of the thymus, liver and kidney were less in pyridoxine-deficient mice than in normal mice.4. The activity of aspartyl transcarbamylase in the thymus and liver decreased in both leukemic and pyridoxine-deficient mice over normal control.


A 59-year-old man developed sudden onset of chest pain and was admitted to our hospital. Emergent contrast-enhanced CT showed the development of retrograde-type A aortic dissection (AD) with patent false lumen in the descending aorta and thrombosed false lumen in the ascending aorta (figure 1). The patient was treated with intensive drug therapy. We evaluated blood pressure (BP) variability by ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM), which revealed that the mean BP over 24 h was 150/75 mm Hg with a typical morning surge (figure 2B) despite a combination of several antihypertensive …


Purpose – Grieving resulting from the death of a loved one or someone familiar is a painful process and individuals invariably seek support to help them through this difficult period. In this study, the paper investigates the role microblogs play by exploring the types of messages following the death of a public figure, Michael Jackson, "the King of Pop".Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis was conducted using 50,000 tweets harvested from Twitter from the first 12 days after Michael Jackson's death. A coding instrument characterizing a set of categories that users posted about Jackson's death was inductively constructed, and then applied to the entire dataset of tweets.Findings – About 50 per cent of tweets fell into categories commonly associated with expressions of emotions or thoughts due to death. However, as the single largest category, Twitter was used primarily as a platform for sharing news and other information. Surprisingly, categories not normally associated with grieving, such as spr...


A field experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with six treatments including untreated control replicated four times. This crop was sown on 4th July 2010 in plot size of 25 square meter. In this experiment numbers of sucking pests were counted on the randomly selected five plants on which five leaves were taken three from upper and two from bottom in each plot. Observations were recorded 24 hours before the spraying of insecticides and after 24 hours, 3 days, 5 days, 7 days and 10 days of spraying of insecticides. Thiacloprid 240 SC, when applied as foliar spray at the rate of 180 g a.i./ ha was most effective against the sucking pests with minimum 1.8 insects/ plant, highest grain yield of 32.4 q /ha, 42% avoidable losses and 1.74:1 benefit cost ratio. It was followed by Thiacloprid 240 SC @ 150 g.a.i./ha.


NH3 Liq. allows electrochemical anodic treatments in a real water-free condition, excluding the formation of surface oxide. The main result of this work is that a passivating layer is formed on InP and GaAs after the anodic process. This finding is significant for the surface preparation of III-V semiconductors (SC) in microelectronics. In–situ comparisons of electrochemical measurements are performed on both semiconductors using current-potential, interfacial capacitance, and galvanostatic techniques. The study of the rest potential also gives access to the stability of the passivating layer. The (mono) layer film is very stable on n-InP, even after a cathodic polarization. A contrasted behavior is observed on n-GaAs for which a gradual decrease of the rest potential is detected after the anodic process. © 2011 The Electrochemical Society. [DOI: 10.1149/2.074202jes] All rights reserved.


The near Infrared (NIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum extends from the upper wavelength end of the visible region at about 770 nm to 2500 nm (13,000 to 4000 cm"). Absorption bands in this region are overtones or combinations of fundamental stretching vibrational bands that occur in the region of 3000 crnvto 1700 cm". The bonds involved are usually C-H, N-H and O_H'·2 Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) is an important tool in chemical analysis", It is a secondary technique to obtain primary patterns (a calibration set) to analyze substances" NIRS can be used in a laboratory for routine scanning of samples, but continual monitoring is necessary to ensure accurate results. This system for monitoring is detailed by Shenk et al". Traditionally, NIRS has been used to determine the composition of agricultural products, but today, it is also used in other areas, such as the oil industry, pharmaceuticals, polymers, food industry, and clinical


Based on the classical elastic thin shell theory,cylindrical shell's modal shape functions were expressed approximately with beam's modal shape functions under the same boundaries,and the dynamic response calculation methods for cylindrical shells with spherical dome under internal blast load were proposed. The simplified calculation method for the displacement of the shells was obtained by analyzing the influence of slenderness ratio on the cylindrical shells' vibration. Through calculation examples,the calculated results of the proposed method were compared with those of the existing methods. The rationality of the proposed method was validated,and the influences of dome on the structure vibration were analyzed. The results showed that using the calculation model of cylindrical shell with equivalent concentrated mass of spherical dome,the computing error of shell radial displacements of higher order modes caused by elastic hinge stiffness coefficient obtained under cylindrical shell internal static pressure can be reduced effectively; the calculation results of cylindrical shell modal vibration frequencies and dome radial displacements are smaller than those of the existing methods; the influences of spherical dome on the cylindrical shells' vibration decrease with increase in the slenderness ratio of the shells.


The main purpose of this paper is to present a new project of research called MOPS dedicated to the use of the GNSS signals for the oceanography and the sea surface monitoring.


Unsafe roadsides contribute to a significant number of crashes on Victorian roads. In the five years to 2009, well over half of all fatal and serious injury crashes in rural Victoria, nearly 5,000 crashes, resulted from vehicles running off the road or being involved in head-on crashes (VicRoads data, 2010). More importantly, around 60 per cent of these involved hitting a roadside object. Wire rope barriers, or flexible barriers, are considered one of the most effective means of preventing such collisions based on international evaluations, but at the time of the study, no comprehensive evaluation had been undertaken on the effectiveness of this barrier in reducing such crashes on Victorian roads. An evaluation was completed by Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) and included 100 km of wire rope barrier. Results indicate that the barriers are associated with significant reductions in the risk of both casualty and serious casualty crashes, of up to 87 per cent on an individual route. This paper presents and discusses the results of the evaluation.


With no doubt, conservation of groundwater resources is a contested process which demands for getting involved with social and political dimensions, rather than a single technical action. Thus, desirable state of the water governance can facilitate implementation of the groundwater conservation process, because governance system implies for a regulating structure of management processes such as water resource conservation. Presenting a framework for the assessment of the governance process based on the Contextual Interaction Theory, this paper aims to analyze and discuss the structural causes of failure in the groundwater conservation policies in Iran. In the framework, we assessed five elements of a governance system from the perspective of two general criteria of extent and coherence. These five elements are scales and levels, actors and networks, problem perspectives and goal ambitions, strategies and instruments, and finally the resources (financial, human, ...). Different sources of data are used in this research, including national documents, interviews and questionnaire. Semi-structured interviews are done with elites in Ministry of Energy, Ministry of JahadAgriculture, Department of Environment, and Management and Planning Organization. To gather the Parliament Members' opinions, a semi-structured questionnaire is used. The assessment results showed that not only the governance system suffers from the lack of comprehensiveness and development (extent) in all of the five governance elements, but also the relatedness and coordination (coherence) of the elements are in poor conditions for all five. This situation indicated that the current system of water governance has a poor capacity to support implementation of the conservation policies and therefore the main target for enhancing sustainability in the groundwater resources should shift towards amendment and improvement of the water governance structure.


A simple algebraic model for charged particle moving in two dimensional space under influence of singular magnetic field is given. The fundamental assumption for the model is that every charged particle coupled to the magnetic field is transformed into a system of quasiparticles. It is also assumed for simplicity that there is in average N fluxes per particle. If the number N of fluxes is even, then the system can be identified as composite fermions. If N is odd, then we obtain composite bosons. Quantization is described as gradation by certain abelian group G. Statistics is determined by a commutation factor on the grading group G. It is schown that for N = 2 there is a state for which the magnetic field is completely compensatad by the system of quasiparticles and for N = 3 the Landau levells are fractionally filled like in the fractional quantum Hall effect.


This paper analyzes the curve fitting of journey-to-work preference function in Sapporo using person trip data for 1972, 1983 and 1994. The curve fitting was examined in consideration of the correlation coefficient andthe residual of the observation value and the estimated value based on the characteristics of journey-to-work preference function. The quadratic curve improves the curve fitting in contrast with the logarithm curve from the correlation coefficient and the goodness measure in the case of Sapporo. Relationship between the estimated coefficients, the classifications of zonal travel behavior and relationship between the changes in preference function and the changes of zonal mean trip length are also analyzed based on the estimated coefficient of quadratic curve.


It has recently been found that the shape memory properties of Fe-Mn-Si-based alloys are notably improved by addition of small amounts of Nb and C elements. In these newly modified alloys, the so-called training process is replaced by a simpler thermomechanical treatment. For example, in an Fe-28Mn-6Si-5Cr-0.5NbC alloy (mass %), a combination of pre-rolling at 870 K followed by 10 min ageing at 1070 K results in a shape recovery of 90% for 4% initial strain and a shape recovery stress of 295 MPa for 4.5% initial strain. In this work, we present the shape memory properties of the samples pre-rolled up to 20% in Fe-28Mn-6Si-5Cr-0.5NbC, and atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations of the stress-induced martensite. Detailed discussion is made on the relations between the microstructures observed by AFM and TEM and the shape recovery and shape recovery stress, and the main factors responsible for drastic improvement of the shape memory properties in this alloy system are drawn.


A new ternary sulfide compound AgTaS3 has been prepared by a sealed silica tube method at 500 °C. The crystal structure has been determined by X-ray powder and electron diffraction. It was found that AgTaS3 crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, space group Cmc21 with unit cell dimensions of a = 3.3755 A, b = 14.0608 A, c = 7.7486 A.


Online learning is fast becoming a preferred medium of learning. It is estimated that 6 million college students took at least one online course last year. Online learning in technical education is primarily delivered through pre-recorded videos. We will discuss a virtual learning system in the context of electronics engineering education. This learning system models the circuits as well as the instruments that are typically used in the labs to allow students to carry out the experiments in a virtual environment. We have extended the concept further to allow students to carry out the experiments on the web-browsers and devices of their choice. The simulations themselves are carried out utilizing cloud computing infrastructure such as those provided by Amazon and Microsoft while the use focuses on putting the experiments.


As a result of growing globalization, the learning experience of second/foreign (L2/FL) language learners has been inextricably linked to complex social structures and networks. Through a sociolinguistic lens, this paper provides a critical review of L2/FL learning, identity negotiation, and community of practice in the face of incremental changes in linguistic systems and norms concomitant with gradual transformations in politics, society, and economics. In different social structures, identity emerges and is formed in complex social, cultural, and interactional phenomena. Due to the complicity of identity work, methods employed in identity and language learning entail both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including micro and macro analysis of language use, and ethnographic study on social and cultural practices. It is examined in this paper how identity has been conceptualized in sociocultural theories of language learning. Moreover, I probe into the context in which language learning takes place and discuss to what extent L2 and FL communities overlap and exchange. I argue for a perspective on the "circumstantiality" of language learning and communities of practice. At the end of this paper, reflections on identity work are offered and implications for language learning are discussed in the hope of relevant issues to be further explored.


Background. Bleeding in acquired hemophilia A patients with FVIII autoantibodies is often severe. The authors describe a successfuly acquired hemophilia A treatment with Feiba, glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide in three patients. Results. In a 66-year patient with chest hematoma and m. iliopsoas hematoma, APTT 50.1 s, FVIII 0.05 IU/mL and inhibitors FVIII (anti-FVIII) 22 BU/ml were found. After treatment of hemorrhages with Feiba, dexamethasone and cyclophosphamide, FVIII increased to 0.54 IU/mL and no inhibitors were found on day seventeen. In a 46-year patient with advanced AIDS, multiple hematomas and liver cirrhosis after HCV infection, the platelet count was 92 × 109/L, APTT 48.2 s, FVIII 0.05 IU/mL and anti-FVIII 1.7 BU/mL. The hemorrhages were treated with FEIBA and methylprednisolone therapy was started after 14 months. After 42 days FVIII increased to 0.56 IU/mL and no inhibitors were found. In a 69-year patient suffering from thyroiditis and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, extensive gluteal and chest hematomas were detected during the maintenance therapy with methylprednisolone 16 mg/day. The thrombocyte count was normal but APTT 48.8 s, FVIII 0.01 IU/mL and anti-FVIII 7.0 BU/mL was found. FVIII activity were 1.72 IU/mL and no inhibitors was noted after 330-days of treatment with cyclophosphamide. Conclusions. The treatment with FEIBA was effective in stopping the hemorrhages. The glucocorticoids were efficient in prompt decreasing of the inhibitor titer whereas the effect of cyclophosphamide was retarded.


Background: In some parts of the world, the incidence of postburn pathologic scars reaches 16%. One should understand reconstructive surgery techniques and prioritize scar prevention during burn wound treatment. Inadequate wound management affects scar tissue formation and may cause pathologic scarring. Optimal timing of skin restoration operations reduces the risk of postoperative complications.Objective: To demonstrate that the surgical removal of fibrotic dermis and granulation tissue is feasible to reduce the incidence of pathologic scarring.Materials and methods: We studied treatment results in 57 patients with deep burns who were divided into 2 groups based on surgical treatment types before autologous skin grafting. Group 1 underwent total excision of granulation tissue, removal of fibrotic dermis, and excision of wound edges on day 27–31 after the injury. On day 22–28 postburn, group 2 had tangential excision of granulation tissue, removal of the upper skin layers only (the fibrotic dermis preserved), and then autologous skin grafting. The patients were followed up postoperatively at 1, 6, 12 months. During the examinations we assessed the formed scar tissue and perfusion of the burn injuries. Types and features of the scar tissue were identified by histologic examination of biopsy tissues.Results: We identified statistically significant differences between the analyzed patient groups based on the perfusion values measured by laser Doppler flowmetry and found a relationship between surgical approaches, wound perfusion, and the incidence of pathologic scarring.Conclusions: When early debridement is unfeasible, the preferred surgical approach for deep burns is a staged wound cleansing from necrotic tissue followed by total removal of granulation tissue and fibrotic dermis, and finally autologous skin grafting. This approach prevents pathologic scarring.


Offshore storage capacity has been identified as an essential part of long-term Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) strategies. Transporting the CO2 from the source onshore to the offshore storage site will be a critical aspect of the technical and economic viability of offshore storage projects. Transport of CO2 will include all processes and equipment from the preparation of CO2 for transport at the source to the wellhead at the offshore storage site. This paper will review the technology required at each step, identify risks/key knowledge gaps specific to the offshore transport process, suggest steps to be taken to advance the technology, and provide an overview of cost/economics for each step in the process.
 The authors use existing literature, an analysis of analog industries (e.g., offshore natural gas transport), knowledge from CO2 onshore transport, and a technical review of the processes and equipment required for offshore CO2 transportation. This analysis is based on a hypothetical CO2 source and transport process, but will highlight some project and site-specific challenges and decisions for each step.
 Specific results from the review of offshore transport process include the following:
 Impact of CO2 source on transport processes, including purification and preparation for transport (e.g., dehydration/compression processes);
 Comparison of offshore pipeline specifications and costs to comparable onshore applications;
 Review of scenarios where alternate transportation methods (e.g., ship transport) may be considered;
 Technical review of wellhead and injection facility in the offshore CO2 application in comparison to onshore analogs;
 Review of the impact of CO2 utilization (e.g., enhanced oil recovery) of CO2 on transport processes;
 Tabulation of gaps in data or knowledge to guide further research or industry input.
 The limited experience with offshore CO2 transport projects leaves significant gaps in available data and information on these projects. By aggregating the available information on offshore CO2 transport projects, supplementing with knowledge and data from related processes (offshore natural gas transport, onshore CO2 transport), and performing a technical review of the offshore transport processes and infrastructure, some specific data needs and risks for offshore CO2 transport projects are identified.


The runtime of conventional SVM-MUD is too long to satisfy the requirement of real-time application.To solve this problem,a new algorithm based on online training of SVM for multiuser detection was proposed.The algorithm added one training sample every step and constructed current training set using KKT condition in order to adjust the maximal margin hyperplane dynamically.Simulation results illustrate that the algorithm has a smaller number of support vectors preserving the same quality of separating hyperplane and shows that it has an excellent effect on multiuser interference and noise suppression.The performance of the online-SVM detectors is much better than that of MMSE detectors.


Purpose – The present paper aims to describe an approach for building the Semantic Web rules for interoperation between heterogeneous learning objects, namely course outlines from different universities, and one of the rule uses: identifying (in)compatibilities between course descriptions.Design/methodology/approach – As proof of concept, a rule set is implemented using the rule markup language (RuleML), a member of XML‐based languages. This representation in RuleML allows the rule base to be platform‐independent, flexibly extensible and executable.Findings – The RuleML source representation is easily converted to other XML‐based languages (such as RDF, OWL and XMI) as well as incorporated into, and extracted from, existing XML‐based repositories (such as IEEE LOM and CanLOM) using XSL Transformations (XSLT).Practical implications – The RuleML facts and rules represented in the positional slotted language are used by the OO jDREW reasoning engine to detect and map between semantically equivalent component...


Some accurate and reasonable solution are use to solve the preload of the bolts connecting,equivalent elasticity coefficient of the bearing connect in a pull-press spring testing machine's ANSYS modeling,and in accordance with the results of finite element analysis to improve the structure,Its strength and stiffness have a large degree of improvement.In the final,using Guide-Weight optimization method,Under the invariable weight and allowable stress,the deflection of crossbeam structure in pull case and press case are reduced 78.9% and 37.8% respectively.


While data mining brings convenience to people, it also leads to the leakage of users' privacy. It is very meaningful to mine data while protecting user data privacy. The existing Naive Bayes classification algorithms based on differential privacy have low utility in classifying high-dimensional datasets. To solve this problem, we propose a differential privacy preserving Naive Bayes classification algorithm via wavelet transform. We perform wavelet transform on the original dataset. By retaining the approximate coefficients after wavelet transform, the purpose of data dimensionality reduction is achieved. Laplace noise is added to the dimensionality-reduced dataset, and then perform Naive Bayes classification on the noisy dataset. Experimental results show that the classification accuracy of our proposed algorithm for high-dimensional datasets is significantly better than the existing differential private Naive Bayes classification algorithm.


Human tick‐borne rickettsioses are caused by Rickettsia africae, Rickettsia massiliae, Rickettsia parkeri, Rickettsia philipi and Rickettsia rickettsii in the American continent. Rickettsia parkeri represents the second most important agent of eschar‐associated spotted fever throughout the American continent. In Mexico, the presence of three strains of this bacterium (Black Gap, Maculatum and Atlantic Rainforest) has recently been reported in four species of ticks from five states (Baja California, Campeche, Sonora, Tabasco and Veracruz) and rickettsaemia was demonstrated in a dog from the state of Yucatán. We report two human cases of R. parkeri‐rickettsiosis from Yucatan, Mexico. These findings have increased the interest in R. parkeri surveillance in the human population, due to the fluctuating regional Spotted Fever morbidity and mortality in the country.


OF DISSERTATION Orbital Stability Results for Soliton Solutions to Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with External Potentials For certain nonlinear Schrödinger equations there exist equilibrium solutions which are called solitary waves. Addition of a potential V changes the dynamics, but for small enough ||V ||L∞ we can still obtain stability (and approximately Newtonian motion of the solitary wave's center of mass) for soliton-like solutions up to a finite time that depends on the size and scale of the potential V . Our method is an adaptation of the well-known Lyapunov method. For the sake of completeness, we also prove long-time stability of traveling solitons in the case V = 0.


By documentation, mathematical statistics and study with material objects the quality, standard, circulation and sales volume of the memorial coins issued by the hosting countries of all previous Olympic Games were compared and analyzed. The characteristics of the laws and issue trends were fully revealed. It was shown that the issuing date, style and circulation of memorial coins were directly related to their sales volume. A great amount of funds can be raised for the hosting country through issuing Olympic memorial coins. The successful experiences of the countries issuing memorial coins are worth to use for reference.


This study was conducted to investigate the causes of burn and emergency cares taken on the spot for the burn patient. Study population included 161 burn patients admitted to 2 university hospitals and 1 general hospital in Taegu from November 1, 1987 to April 30, 1988. Patients or guardians were interviewed with a structured questionnare. Out of 161 burn patients 111(68.9%)were males and 50(31.1%) females. Preschool children of 1-4 years old accounted for 29.8% of the total patients. Burns of children under 15 years of age took place at home in 91.0%, while 48.3% of burns of adult (15 years and over)males occurred at the working place, and 68.0% of adult females occurred at the home. Out of total burns occurred at home 39.8% took place at kitchen/dining room and 24.1% in the room. The most common cause of burns in children was the boiling water or hot food (74.3%). In adults the common causes were electrical burn(22.4%), hot water or food(19.0%) and explosion(12.1%) for males, and hot water or food(32.0%) and explosion (20.0%) for females. Common emergency cares for the burn taken on the spot were undressing(64.6%), pouring Soju(liquor)(13.7%), and pouring cold water(5.0%). There were a few cases who applied ash, soy or salt. To prevent burn, it is recommended to remodel the traditional kitchen and coal-briquet hole, to strengthen the safety control of LP Gas and LN Gas supply, to educate the public for the handling method for such gases, to strengthen the occupational safety control, to improve the safety device for the electric wire and socket, and to limit the temperature of hot water at home and public baths.


The key feature that gives photonic crystals (PhCs) their ability to form a photonic band structure (PBS) is their translational symmetry. Structures that do not have translational symmetries also have a PBS. One explanation as to how these structures generate a PBS involves long-range interactions resulting in fractal dispersion relations (e.g. 1-D quasi-crystals, Fibonacci layers, etc.) However, long-range interactions do not fully explain why 2-D quasi-crystals structures also exhibit a PBS. This paper proposes an explanation for such results: by applying rotation operators from the SO(2) group to 1-D quasi-crystal dispersion relations. This process mimics the way electronic state amplitudes are calculated when such states have an angular dependence. Simulations results are presented in this paper.


With the rapid development of broadband networks and information technology,the separation of fixed line telephones,Internet and mobile networks can not meet the increasing requirements of enterprises.As a result,an unified communication technology for enterprise,which can integrate various communication manners and comprehensively manage various types of information data,is needed.On the other hand,with the maturation of short-range radio technology and wide deployment of wireless networks,there is also a need to include wireless networking in the unified communication platform.In this paper,base on analyzing the wireless communication technology,combining with sensor technology,we focus on the hardware design of VoIP access gateway and present the structure which includes the RF module,VoIP module,and PSTN module.Furthermore,we design the schematic and PCB of VoIP access gateway.


weaknesses being what they are, there can be little doubt that a night call several miles into the country is done less grudgingly and more efficiently if there is a commensurate reward. It is the all-important incentive that counts. For the future Health Service I strongly advocate a system of pro rata remuneration by the State on the lines of the familiar Form 1667, payment of civilian medical practitioners by the Service departments. The additional clerical work involved would in my opinion be more than worth it, and no doubt the Minister could devise some method of ensuring that all claims were bona fide.-I am, etc.,


The Second International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE2007), built on the success of previous conferences, the ICIKE2002 (Dalian China), is a major symposium for scientists, engineers and practitioners in China as well as the world to present their latest results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of fuzzy information and knowledge engineering. It aims to strengthen relations between industry research laboratories and universities, and to create a primary symposium for world scientists in fuzzy fields such as Fuzzy Information, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Engineering, Fuzzy Operation Research and Management, Artificial Intelligence, Rough Sets and Its Application, Application in Fuzzy Mathematics and Systems, etc.


In a fascinating study of the confluence of popular culture and urban policy and politics, Eric Avila illuminates the complex and often subtle interplay of conflict and consensus that helped shape the Los Angeles landscape and mindset of the twentieth century. Tracing the evolution of the spatial and racial divides of the city back to the Progressive Era, he argues that the period from 1940 to 1970 marked a watershed in Los Angeles history in which the heterosocial vision of New Deal liberalism was replaced by the homogeneous and privatized perspective of New Right conservatism. Such popular culture institutions as film noir, Disneyland, Dodger Stadium, and freeways-all of which came of age after the proliferation of the automobile-reflected and reinforced a racial and spatial order of "chocolate cities and vanilla suburbs" in which a "privatized, consumer-oriented subjectivity premised upon patriarchy, whiteness, and suburban home ownership" dominated urban policy making (pp. 4, 7). In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila adds the insight of cultural studies to our understanding of the history of the American city. He defines cultural history in its most simplistic manner-it is the amalgamation of the "stories that people tell about themselves and their world" (p. xiii). This broad definition allows historians to explore all levels of culture from art, literature and theater, to film, amusement parks, and baseball parks. Yet because twentieth century Americans were a predominantly urban people, culture, especially popular culture, studied outside of its urban context is limited in what it can tell us about ourselves. By exploring cultural forms in the context of space and time, Avila argues that culture encompasses "a struggle over the very identity of the city and its constituent social groups" (p. xiii). In the context of postwar suburbanization, popular culture in Los Angeles both reflected and enhanced a particular way of seeing the city that legitimized the political and economic domination of white, middle-class America.


For the music retrieval using query-by-humming, the correct segmentation of the humming note is an important guarantee to extract the effective music melody feature information. In this paper, a two-level note segmentation method based on double-threshold endpoint detection and fundamental frequency curve fluctuation measure is proposed, then melody is extracted after segmentation, and the humming music retrieval system with the improved dynamic time warping algorithm is constructed. Experiment results show the segmentation correct ratio reaches 90%, the retrieval correct rate is improved by 5% and the retrieval time is reduced by 12.6% compared with the existing traditional humming music retrieval system.


In her article on rabies prevention strategies for overseas travellers (CPD June 4), paediatric nurse specialist Jacqueline Pye writes: 'It is important that those travelling to rabies-endemic countries are aware of the risk of rabies transmission and the role of pre and post-exposure vaccination.'


In this paper, we propose a model reference learning control (MRLC) for nonlinear SISO plants where trials can do repeatedly from a same initial condition. It is step by step accomplished through off-line learning trials, not learning control input, but estimating optimal values of adjustable functions in feedback controller using input and output data. The only a priori information needed is the relative degree between input and output. Viability of the proposed control system is shown by a simple numerical simulation.<<ETX>>


The Man and His Tramways By Garry R. Ford (Read at a Meeting of the Society on 24 February 1977) The full titie of this paper, foseph Stillman Badger, the Brisbane Tramway Company Limited and Queensland, may appear an unusual choice, but after its reading I am sure you will agree that Badger's Tramway Company has influenced the lives of citizens today more than any other company. Despit importancee their . Badger and the Company have had little accurate history written about them. Badger's life was very secretive as I found out when compiling this biography. To commence, I must briefly re-iterate the history of tramways in Brisbane up till Badger's time. For more details I refer you to my paper, Development of the Horse Tramways of Brisbane, Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Vol. IX No. 5, Pp 115-137, RHSQ, 1974. After several years of struggle a private company, the Metropolitan Tramway and Investment Company, which included Sir Thomas McIUwraith, late Premier of Queensland, Charles Hardie Buzacott late Postmaster General and then managing director and editor of the Brisbane Courier, directors of the Queensland National Bank and others as directors, opened a horse tramway in Brisbane on 12 August 1885. The company was always in financial difficulties and never made a profit despite constant State Government and local authority help. Even the Tramways Act of 1882, written by Charles Hardie Buzacott himself and, described as being one of the most favourable tramway acts in the world so far as the operator was concerned, was not able to help. After considerable losses and delays in electrification plans caused by depression and the 1893 floods, the company resolved to sell out the tramways.


For a positive and relatively prime set A, let (A) denote the set of integers that are formed by taking nonnegative integer linear combinations of integers in A. Then there are finitely many positive integers that do not belong to (A). For A, let g(A) and n(A) denote the largest integer and the number of integers that do not belong to (A), respectively. We determine both g(A) and n(A) for two sets that arise naturally from the Fibonacci sequence and the Lucas sequence.


The successful development of a national economy is predetermined to the highest degree by the efficiency with which its individual economic industries function. The object of the present research is "Wholesale and retail trade" industry for the economies of the state-members of the European Union, and the subject of research is the efficiency with which the industry functions in the period 2010 – 2020. The main goal of the research is to trace and outline the main trends in the development of the industry and their comparison with the basic economic statements for the trends in economies worldwide.


Aerial survey engineering database and management information system can facilitate data sharing, data security and effective use of data. This paper introduces the organization of database and the storage management of data, as well as the structure and main functions of management information system. We maximally make use of the existing components when research and develop this system, and thereby we save a lot of time, and assure the reliability of software system.


Selective oxidation of cyclohexane and toluene to cyclohexanol, cyclohexanone and benzoic acid was performed over Al(OH) x-supported cobalt catalyst synthesized by sol-gel method. The effects of cobalt content, calcination temperature, reaction temperature, reaction time and pressure were investigated. In typical processes, 15.1% of conversion and 91.2% of selectivity for selective oxidation of cyclohexane, and 48.9% of conversion and 96.1% of selectivity for toluene selective oxidation were obtained. The results indicated that the catalytic activity of the catalyst for toluene oxidation was very sensitive to the calcination temperature while this phenomenon was not obvious for cyclohexane oxidation. Additionally, the catalyst could be reused after drying at 85 ℃ for 5 h.


1.78*; home care, 2.02*; surgery, 1.56*; specialist visits, 1.23; prescription drugs, 1.27. CONCLUSION: Heavy menstrual flow occurs in 13% of women over age 18, and is associated with increased use of emergency room visits and surgery, but not OBGYN or other specialist visits or prescription drugs. The results may be interpreted to mean that many women seek temporary solutions (ER visits) and may avoid certain types of care, including drugs.


In human-robot collaboration domains, augmented reality (AR) technologies have enabled people to visualize the state of robots. Current AR-based visualization policies are designed manually, which requires a lot of human efforts and domain knowledge. When too little information is visualized, human users find the AR interface not useful; when too much information is visualized, they find it difficult to process the visualized information. In this paper, we develop a framework, called VARIL, that enables AR agents to learn visualization policies (what to visualize, when, and how) from demonstrations. We created a Unity-based platform for simulating warehouse environments where human-robot teammates collaborate on delivery tasks. We have collected a dataset that includes demonstrations of visualizing robots' current and planned behaviors. Results from experiments with real human participants show that, compared with competitive baselines from the literature, our learned visualization strategies significantly increase the efficiency of human-robot teams, while reducing the distraction level of human users. VARIL has been demonstrated in a built-in-lab mock warehouse.


Segmentation of the contents of document images into text and non-text regions is an essential pre-processing step for applications such as document analysis and classification, as well as OCR. This paper presents a novel technique to segment the document image into text and non-text regions using a combination of Wavelet-based Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) features and K-means clustering. A comparison between the performances of different wavelets in document image segmentation is also performed and tabulated. The technique was tested on a number of scanned article images from the MediaTeam Document Database and results show a marked improvement over the already existing method based on GLCM features.


The consumption of alcohol and cigarette smoking is most common and serious problem, worldwide. Apart from various factors such as awakening, age, sex, left v/s right hand practice, number of stimuli, fasting and nutrition, reaction time is also affected by smoking and alcohol consumption. The aim of the present study is to measure and compare Auditory & Visual reaction time between study groups (smoker, alcoholic, smoker with alcoholic) and control group. The present study involves 360 subjects in the age group of 30-60 years, both smoker and alcoholic, recruited from medicine OPD from S.M.S Hospital, Jaipur (Rajasthan). Out of total 360 subjects: 90 were smoker, 90 were alcoholic, 90 were smoker with alcoholic and 90 were control subjects. Data were statistically analyzed by student's unpaired t test, one way ANOVAs and post hoc turkey test. Visual reaction time (sec.) for red and green light increased significantly (p < 0.05) in alcoholics and smoker with alcoholics when compared with controls with left hand and with right hand visual reaction time for red and green light increased significantly (p < 0.05) in smoker with alcoholics and smokers. Further, Auditory reaction time (sec.) (for low and high pitch) is highest in smoker with alcoholic group but non-significant, for low pitch with both left and right hand. Alcohol decreases processing of information and both smoking and alcohol consumption affects audio-visual reaction time by several ways.